Blue Boy
Director: Manuel Abramovich, Argentina/Germany, 2019
Young men from all over the world have been meeting at the Blue Boy Bar in Berlin for forty years. According to their website, this is where the city’s lonely hearts, business people and tourists go. One after another, several young men take a seat at the bar, look into the camera and listen to themselves. READ MORE…
Entropia
Director: Anna Flóra Buda, Hungary, 2018
Three women, three lives in parallel worlds, until the moment a fly causes a bug in the system. The universe collapses, sex is in the air, bras are overrated and the stars twinkle! READ MORE…
Four Quartets
Director: Marco Alessi, United Kingdom, 2018
He waves his arms in the air while his lithe body soaks up the beat and transfers it to his legs. Raf literally breathes in the music. At the same time he is constantly scanning the room. READ MORE…
Héctor
Director: Victoria Giesen Carvajal, Chile, 2019
A fishing cove on an island fallen out of time and space, almost like the rocky island in Michelangelo Antonionis L’Avventura (1960). Nature is not merely decoration, but an active force of events. READ MORE…
Lidérc úr (Mr. Mare)
Director: Luca Tóth, Hungary/France, 2019
The nipple is the power button that gets the ‘cinema of the mind’ rolling – or is it in fact a reality? An X-ray reveals it quite clearly: a little man nestled between the rib bones. There he lies and sleeps. READ MORE…
Parsi
Director: Eduardo Williams, Argentina/Switzerland, 2018
“No es” (It isn’t) is a cumulative poem by Mariano Blatt, which is constantly written over the course of a lifetime. The text of the poem, a list of “what seems to be but isn’t”, to which verses are added over days, months, and years, can cover anything: images, people, memories, landscapes, phrases, ideas. READ MORE…
Vivir en junio con la lengua afuera (To Live in June with Your Tongue Hanging out)
Director: Coco Fusco, USA/Cuba, 2018
Though he first supported the Cuban revolution as a young man, Reinaldo Arenas spent much of his adult life on the island as a persona non grata because of his open homosexuality and politically dissident views. While his work was banned inside the country, his manuscripts were smuggled out by friends and won prizes abroad. READ MORE…
Yulia & Juliet
Director: Zara Dwinger, Netherlands, 2018
At first it seems like Yulia and Juliet are meeting in the school corridor, but then we notice the ventilation grilles in the image, through which the two lovers have to talk to each other. Yulia and Juliet are in prison. Worse still, Juliet will soon be released. But what will happen to Yulia? READ MORE…