Finland 2023, 71 min, D.: Markku Hakala, Mari Käki
Somewhere up north at the age of peak modern there is a man longing for connection but unable to break loose, and a woman feeling alien to the world, which has everything figured out for her, without her. They make their best to fit in and fulfill their roles but struggle to connect with the world, themselves and others. Something important is missing. As if the whole world was drained of love, chugging along on mere duties and bureaucratic inertia, passing over the baggage of the generations. During the family trip back to the past everything starts to break apart. For how long is it possible to resist the force of life?
Short Films
Una mañana del 2030
Argentina 2023, 13 min, D.: Natalia Villegas
You are in bed with the person you love, on a morning in 2030.
The sun shines through the window, sending your brain the signal to start the operating system of your life.
You open your eyes and wake up.
El viaje
Spain 2022, 9 min, D.: Trovador
A tourist trip to London. A couple in love. The hastily packed suitcases, the screams of the day before. The wound between them is deepening. However, there is a chance for reconciliation: he is wearing work clothes.
In the Mix
USA 2024, 2:41 min, D.: John Dawson
An experimental film made by Colorado artist and filmmaker John Dawson in 2024. This short film is 100% hand made by drawing, painting and scratching directly onto 16mm film stock. It is paint with a pulse, abstraction that moves and comes alive. I am taking an old school technique and trying to do something modern and current with it.
Cupid’s Fever
Canada 2021, 16 min, D.: MiruFiyu
Child hunters look through scope-cam rifles to aim for the heart in a found-footage portrait of love told through YouTube vlogs of relationship breakups and psycho exes.
Cupid’s Fever is part of the anthology “I Went to a Party Alone” in which YouTube vlogs of random daily life are recast as scenes imbued with mythic allusions. When the hard cuts and juxtapositions reveal a landscape of oppressive social control, the vloggers’ mundane normal soon gives way to the surreal. Seemingly innocuous recordings are fraught with foreboding as the vloggers who yearn for freedom, love and self-expression find themselves unable to escape society’s haunting bondage.
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Under Berlin Film Festival 2024
2.+3. November
The long-anticipated second edition of the Under Berlin Film Festival, Berlin’s international festival of unconventional, experimental, and avant-garde cinema, will be hosted for the first time at Lichtblick-Kino!
Focusing on the diffusion of innovative cinematographies, its eclectic program includes feature films, short fiction, animation, and documentary films from across the globe, including Argentina, Brazil, Canada, Cuba, France, Germany, Italy, Japan, the Netherlands, Romania, the Philippines, Slovenia, Switzerland, Taiwan, the United Kingdom, Finland, Norway, and the USA. All films will be screened in their original language with English subtitles.
This edition will feature 38 films, including the World Premiere of the Dutch film Tori: Book 1 by Roy Rezaäli, who will also be present for a Q&A following the screening.
New to this year’s festival are three exciting sections: Under the Light, with a special focus on Argentine Cinema, Non Humans, dedicated to exploring new technologies in audiovisuals, particularly AI, and Underline, a parallel section showcasing experimental short films inspired by literature, which will be continuously screened from 4 to 9 November at Andenbuch KulturRaum (Tempelhof-Kreuzberg).
UBFF is part of the UNDER Transterritorial Film Network, which is celebrating its 20th edition this year. The primary aim of this networked festival is to showcase films that take risks—whether in terms of production, subject matter, or aesthetics—that often leave them on the margins of traditional exhibition circuits.
Direction and General Production: Peri Azar / 8A-110 Collective
Programming: Marcelo Páez / Peri Azar
Collaborators: Sofía Fontenla, Sören Schubert and Randolfo Camarotto.
