Mizaru was the thesis film by Sudarshan Suresh, awarded Best Film at Columbia University School of the Arts’ last year, and this film happens to be one of the strongest contenders in Dokufest’ s International Short Film Competition.
Last year’s Locarno contender which is currently screening in the International Shorts Competition at Dokufest, is a sickening story of violence “provoked” by a young woman’s reaction on catcalling and insults.
Shot analogue on 16mm and interestingly framed in the vast terminal space whose modern architecture gets as much significance in the story-plotting as the titular character’s indecisiveness, Allamand’s drama is a visual stunner.
Erenik Beqiri wrote a sharp as a knife script about a family of two men who are ready to do anything for one another, but acting on their own impulse, they are actually doing a disservice to each other.
Elder’s Corner, a documentary by London-born Nigerian Siji Awoyinka, not only gathers many of the surviving greats of Nigerian music to re-record their lost songs, but weaves their individual stories within the broader picture of Nigeria as it raced through the second half of the twentieth century.
The winner of the Austrian Music Video Award -is Rupert Höller for his black & white, 4 minutes long video “Über Nacht” for the band Oehl
In his debut, Johannes Magnus Aule turns Beethovens “Symphony N°9” into a wild drug-fuelled rave party, with an endless wave of arms swaying to its rythm.
Q’s Barbershop is a chamber piece whose story evolves between mirrors and walls painted bright red. Each haircut brings a unique story forward, with Qasim as a moderator who never loses a smile on his face.
Anbessa is a story about Asaif, a boy who lives with his mother in a mud house amidst the growing block of houses in the expanding suburb of Addis Ababa.
