6-10.12.2023 / Białystok

Eastward Window Competition – set I

Rozpoczęcie: 7 December 2019 20:30
Zakończenie: 7 December 2019 22:00
Lokalizacja: Forum Cinema

Eastward Window Competition – set I

Eastward Window Competition – set I

December 7, 20:30
FORUM cinema, 5 Legionowa St.

admission free

Screening schedule (91′), 16+

Symbiosis
director: Nadja Andrasev
music: Mads Vadsholt
Hungary, France 2019, 13’

A betrayed wife starts to investigate her husband’s mistresses. Her jealousy is gradually replaced by curiosity.

 

Modrá četa / Blue Squad
director: Ondřej Nuslauer
director of photography: Tomáš Uhlík
music: Jakub Šponer
Czech Republic 2018, 16’

Darkness and heavy air. Routine mission of a mining rescue service portrays an unprecedented and physically demanding journey to the injured. A young member of the rescue team will experience first hand all the challenges common to this line of work.

 

Dcera / Daughter
director: Daria Kashscheeva
director of photography: Daria Kashscheeva
music: Petr Vrba
Czech Republic 2019, 15’

In a hospital room, the Daughter recalls a childhood moment when as a little girl she tried to share her experience with an injured bird with her Father. A moment of misunderstanding and a lost embrace has stretched into many years all the way to this hospital room, until the moment when a window pane breaks under the impact of a little bird.

 

Maja
director: Marijana Jankovic
director of photography: Manuel Alberto Claro
Denmark, Serbia 2018, 22’

Maja, a six year old Serbian girl gets dropped off at the kindergarten by her parents. They have only been in Denmark for a short period of time. Meaning everything is new in their eyes, especially the language, which makes it difficult for Maja to interact with other kids, and she often ends up being misunderstood. After a long and lonesome day, her parents come to pick her up, and just as you think her day is about to come to an end, we realise its just about to begin.

 

Spolu sami / Apart
director: Diana Cam Van Nguyen
director of photography: Kryštof Melka
music: Viera Marinová
Czech Republic 2018, 10’

This short film about life after the loss of a loved one deals with a difficult topic, using techniques of both live-action and animated film. Real experiences of the narrators are combined with animated sequences reconstructing painful situations, looking into the thoughts of three young people untimely exposed to death.

 

Kolektyviniai sodai / Community Gardens
director: Vytautas Katkus
director of photography: Vytautas Katkus
Lithuania 2019, 15’

Patriarchal masculinity seems to catch its last breath in the sun. A story about a cold relationship between a father and his son. Their bond, plagued by indifference, disintegrates completely.