International Shorts 3: Documentary
Wise words on filmmaking, on marriage, on expressing yourself in a restrictive regime. And horses!
All international documentary shorts are eligible for the Grand Prix Documentary Award
FRIEDL
Christiana Perschon | Austria | 2023 | 3 mins
A portrait of ithe great documentarian Friedl vom Gröller as part of Christiana Perschon's series about older female artists living in Vienna.
SOUTHERN BRIDES (LAS NOVIAS DEL SUR)
Elena López Riera | Spain, Switzerland | 2024 | 40 mins
In this deeply moving film, mature women talk about their wedding, their first time, their intimate relationship with sex. In examining these age-old rituals through surprisingly free testimonies, the director questions her own condition as an unmarried woman with no children, and therefore the end of a mother-daughter chain-relationship.
RAZEH-DEL
Maryam Tafakory | Iran, Italy, United Kingdom | 2024 | 28 mins
In 1998, two schoolgirls sent a letter to Iran's first-ever women’s newspaper. While they waited to be published, they considered making an impossible film.
NO HORSES ON MARS
Bea de Visser | Netherlands | 2024 | 15 mins
We experience a trailer ride on the highway and wake up from anaesthesia in a veterinary clinic. No Horses on Mars is practically a road film, whose POVs from the horse is the most effective element of the film. The horse appears as the galloping mind that resides in all domesticated horses. The human being is introduced as a screen viewer who follows the horse, wants to measure, records and knows her as an object. Ultimately, from the human perspective in the film, there seems to be a glimmer of recognition for the individuality of the horse.
International premieres: Eligible for Grand Prix International Short Award and Grand Prix Documentary Short Award.