Whole Wide World Competition set II

Forum Cinema, 5 Legionowa Street, admission free, 12.8.2022, 19:30

DOMAR
director: Alcibiade Cohen
director of photography: Antoine Vié
music: Maxence Dussère
France 2021, 14’26”

Maria, a young argentinian woman, evolves in a men’s world: rodeo. The day before qualifying for the famous “Jesus Maria” tournament, for the first time open to women, she must make a choice: speak or let fate decide for her…

MOTORCYCLIST’S HAPPINESS WON’T FIT INTO HIS SUIT
director: Gabriel Herrera
director of photography: Stefanie Reinhard
Mexico 2021, 10’

There he sits proudly on his beautiful motorbike which he would never loan to anyone. He is certain that he alone can explore the jungle. A playful re-enactment with reversed roles that takes aim at the hubris of the colonial conquerors.

IN THE JAM JAR
director: Colin Nixon
director of photography: Natan B. Foisy
music: Anaïs Larocque
Canada 2021, 12’53”

Film is an invitation to the intimacy of 81-year-old Joan’s final days, whose musings silently echo with Dan’s, her 50-year-old son. This fiction short-movie is a dive into death and grief, a tribute to maternal love comprised of nail clippings, aquarelle, strawberry jam and a ghost radar.

VO
director: Nicolas Gourault
directors of photography: Nicolas Gourault, Alan Guichaoua
France 2021, 19’

A sensory investigation about the role of human workers in the training of self-driving cars.

BESTIA
director: Hugo Covarrubias
director of photography: Hugo Covarrubias
Chile 2021, 15’

Based on true events, “Bestia” explores the life of a secret police agent during the military dictatorship in Chile. Her relationship with her dog, her body, her fears and frustrations reveals a grim fracture of her mind and of the country.

AN IMPOSSIBLE LOVE STORY
director: Javier Alonso Mardones
director of photography: Dante Godoy Bresky
Chile 2021, 26’14”

A teenager breaks into the house of a young man from his neighborhood who has recently died, as he still sees him wandering around. There he finds an old journal that envelopes him in an oneiric and hidden love story.