Here and Here
- KOREA / 2017 / Korean / Color / 20 min
Director: Jimbo Yoshimasa
Cast: Heo Rynn, Heo Minkyung, Lee Yoonsun, Lee Haesoon
Mina, a magazine copywriter in her seventh month of pregnancy, walks the streets of Busan and interviews citizens about their first memory. The interviews seem to be going well, but Mina has a “certain thought” that she had never revealed. It seems to be related to the first memory of her life and the new life soon to be born.
Breathe
ODDECH- POLAND / 2019 / Polish / Color / 25 min
Director, Script, Editing: Daria Kasperek
Photography: MichaŁ Modlinger
Sound: Marek Knaga, Krzysztof Stasiak
Production: The Film School in Lodz
The film simply shows us casual, everyday scenes of residents of an apartment complex who like to gather in the courtyard and park. People sitting on benches talking, walking their dogs, working out on the park’s fitness equipment—these are scenes we can see “everywhere” in the world. This “everywhere” is what ties this film to every town in any part of the world today.
Colaholic
- POLAND / 2018 / Polish / Color / 11 min
Director, Script, Editing: Marcin Podolec
Music: Rafał Samborski, Piotr Markowicz
Producers: Marcin Podolec, Wiktoria Podolec
The protagonist (the author) who has become addicted to cola narrates his real-life experiences. The curse of needing that fix is the same darkness that haunts everyone who lives in modern society. The film is an excellent depiction of such loneliness and anxiety which is embodied in the protagonist’s mental landscape. This is a personal documentary that uses animation techniques to its best advantage.
Fruits and Vegetables
Warzywa i Owoce- POLAND / 2021 / Polish / Color / 26 min
Director, Script: Maciej Jankowski
Photography: Edgar Grishchuk
Producer: Agata Golańska
Production: The Film School in Lodz
A day in the life of a rebellious boy and his mother who runs a grocery store all by herself. In this drama based on a true story, something crucial happens when the son gets into a fight with a classmate at school. The familiar story of conflict and reconciliation between mother and son is enhanced by the filmmaker’s warm supportive gaze.
Boja
- BOSNIA AND HERZEGOVINA, SPAIN, UK / 2022 / Bosnian / Color / 15 min
Director, Script, Photography, Editing: Anna Fernandez De Paco
Sound: Zlatan Hadžifejzović
Sound Designer, Mixing: Nenad Kovaceić
A man is yelling at Boja for being slow at milking the goats. Is the woman watching them the man’s wife? The relationship between the three characters remains unclear, but there’s a intensifying air of foreboding. The unsettling atmosphere is finally brought to a cinematic catharsis with the echo of their singing.