Oct 30, 2021
A New World by Slav Velkov (Bulgaria)
A working-class man has to choose between staying in the room where he lived all his life or defying the mysterious figure that holds him captive.
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A New World by Slav Velkov (Bulgaria)
A working-class man has to choose between staying in the room where he lived all his life or defying the mysterious figure that holds him captive.
The New World: Variations on Stay-home Activities by Hong Ning, Zhao Xiaofeng (China)
In 2020, most residents on the planet were forced to live indoors for days and months due to the epidemic, which has influenced our usual work and life to some extent. In this isolation, people tend to create ways of self-entertainment and take limited exercise at home. As a result, a large amount of ordinary people emerged on the Internet and started to show the interesting bits of living indoors in their own way. They straddled the differences in time and space, and built vast webs of data in live form, in which they connected and influenced each other.
Home Along the Rails by Justin Leyba (USA)
A Filipino daughter hopes to make up for any time lost when she gets a visit from her distant mother.
Port Lands by Zachary Finkelstein (Canada)
Port Lands presents Toronto’s industrial waterfront as a complex landscape in which past, present, and future geographies transition and converge. Using archival aerial photographs, microscopic videography and Lidar data mapping, this work documents how aquatic life has persisted despite intense industrialization.
An Ordinary Day by Anas Zawahri (Syrian Arab Republic)
Summer 2018 in Damascus, An ordinary day to "Abu Firas" who is a taxi driver, suffers from various pressures. In this day, many customers from different ages and social classes take his car. And with every customer who gets in it, "Abu Firas" tries to win his sympathy by making some painful stories about himself, to make more money from them. And each time his customers' reactions differ according to their backgrounds. Until this method cause to "Abu Firas" a strong shock at the end of his day.
CAN I TAKE YOUR PICTURE? by Imri Agmon (Israel)
Real moments in the lives of Israel's ordinary people.
Drive, Come On by Nikita Ilyashenko (Russian Federation)
Victor, giving a lift for Nina to a jail, meets a strange man on a lonely road. The man wants Victor to drive through him.
Liwanag by Noah del Rosario, Rian Simon Magtaan (Philippines)
Filmed during Metro Manila’s enhanced community quarantine due to Covid-19 virus, Sasa, a young woman who has experienced a deep and painful loss seeks comfort from her past while challenging the notion of space, movement and sound.