​​​​​​​​​​NNFestival

VUJA DE

Director   Joby Varghese
India
Runtime   17:35
Completion Date: September 12, 2017
Experimental, Short

The changes brought by time in human relations. The dissonances in such changes..And journey of a man that transcends place and time, seeking a solution for those dissonances...

1000 Smiles Per Hour

Director  Fabian Altenried
Germany
Runtime  15:00
Completion Date: January 8, 2017

Drifting across the outer edges of a concrete landscape, a twilight meeting engenders a precious moment of connection for the melancholy performer, amid the coldly apathetic city limits.

 

The Princess in the Alleyway

Director  Kurt Shaw, Rita de Cácia Oenning da Silva
Brazil
Runtime  1 hr 27 min 54 sec
Completion Date: Jul 2016
1ST TIME FILMMAKER

In the favela, you find many dragons... but you also find the heroes who fight them.

 

Chronicles of Religious Persecution in China -The Church of Almighty God

Director Jason Jia
Republic of Korea
Runtime  01:00:22
Completion Date: July 13, 2017

Since it came to power in Mainland China in 1949, the Chinese Communist Party has been unceasing in its persecution of religious faith. It has frantically arrested and murdered Christians, expelled and abused missionaries operating in China, confiscated and burned countless copies of the Bible, sealed up and demolished church buildings, and tried to eradicate all house churches. Recent years have also seen the CCP government’s wide-scale introduction of policies aimed at the "Sinification" of Christianity. Thousands of church crosses have been demolished, many church buildings have been knocked down, and a great number of Christians in house churches have been arrested and persecuted. Christian churches in China suffer cruel and bloody persecution …
This documentary faithfully and objectively reproduces the persecution suffered by Chinese Christians at the hands of the CCP government, and focuses on describing the real experiences of two Christians who were persecuted to death by the CCP because of their belief in God. The Christians persecuted in the film are people from different sects and denominations who searched for the truth, and who heard the voice of God and thus returned to Almighty God. They walked the right path of life, yet were frantically arrested by the CCP government, tortured, and ultimately died from their mistreatment. The families of these martyrs were also monitored, threatened, and terrified by the CCP. They were not only unable to get justice for the deceased, but were thrown into disarray by the CCP's persecution. This exquisitely-shot documentary attempts to recreate what really happened at the time, and provides a profound reflection of the flagrant encroachment of the religious beliefs and human rights of Chinese Christians.
It is a window to understanding the true lives of Chinese Christians and Christian families, as well as a reflection—rarely seen in recent years—of the experiences and emotions of Chinese Christians who have been persecuted as a result of their faith.

 

QUELQUES PLANCHES

Director  MARIJKE DE BELIE
Belgium
Runtime  3:00
Completion Date: 2016 - June

QUELQUES PLANCHES is an autonomous visual work in which Marijke De Belie works constructively with an
image in decline. The result refers to entropy: in time all physical systems fall apart. Everything turns to
disorder. For this she uses the direct animationfilm technique. With a black aquarel pencil on a white plank of
wood she registers the drawing process itself

Sophie Taeuber-Arp's Vanishing Lines

Director  Myriam Thyes
Germany
Runtime 10:10
Completion Date: July 6, 2015

In what is, prima facie, a mesh of abstract lines, no few of the works that Sophie Taeuber-Arp completed between 1940 and 1942 in her exile in southern France manifest a symbolism of war, persecution and flight. The compositions of lively, curved lines have, in part, something lost, floating, broken, irrational about them, which, in all Taeuber-Arp's earlier works, would have been wholly uncharacteristic. In Taeuber-Arp's cycle of works entitled 'Lignes...', an aspect of DADA re-emerges – the (meaning-denying) art of refugees from war. The animation, which combines eight of her works from the 'Lignes' series with photographs from WW2, shows the connection and the discrepancy between Taeuber-Arp's artistic activity and the world of war and persecution. The video thereby highlights a dilemma facing artists to this day, of making art in a time of injustice and violence. There is good reason to animate Sophie Taeuber-Arp's compositions, as she developed a striking number of variations out of the same basic elements for her series and because dance, movement and rhythm play an important role throughout her œuvre

 

Creme Noir

​Director  Magdalena Płaneta
Poland
Runtime 51:31
Completion Date: May 18, 2017
First-time Filmmaker

"This is fascinating material - in its very obscurity, much life…"
Joyce Carol Oates
MOLOLO is a series of open air performances including poetry, street theater, music and dance, which takes place on Molo in Sopot, Poland during summer season ("quick theater by the fountain").
In 2016 shows under the title of "Crème Noir" (French: black cream) were inspired by poems from the acclaimed American writer - Joyce Carol Oates.
These performances were recorded for the movie, which is rather a new artistic expression than a documentary of events.
Crème Noir means the black cream.
This noteworthy street triptych is a story about a sophisticated feminine world. The main character begins a multidimensional, metaphorical journey from maturity through childhood (even prenatal period!) and adolescence to the beginnings of her parents’ relationship.
She tries to build the conscience of woman's nature. But during this trip she finds codes hard to decrypt, habits hard to break and wounds that heal over shallow and with suffering – all inside of her. Deliberately or not, during the whole life she’s been putting on the black cream.
It’s dark and raw. Something between a documentary and a feature film. Maybe a street musical?
A quaint cinematic experience.

Mononykus crest

Director  Isa Roche
Japan
Runtime 01:19:35
Completion Date: May 15, 2016
First-time Filmmaker


Installation of movie-like art.
Through communicating topics modern society are expressed by a positive irony.
Omnibus of 4 themes
at New Caledonia, London, Singapore, Hiroshima and Tokyo.
New Caledonia boys, an Argentine, an Indian, an African and several Japanese participate.
SNS and homosexuality. Two big topics which are 2010 's both. However developed will those be in the future from now on?
I want people to bear a child. But when the mankind ends, the beautiful earth is revived.

Hot Afternoons Have Been in Montana

Director  Ken Kimmelman
U S A
Runtime 14 min 38 sec
Completion Date: Mar 2006


Hot Afternoons Have Been in Montana is a short film based on the Nation prize-winning poem written in 1924 by Eli Siegel. Recorded by the poet, the film takes on a wonderful and meaningful odyssey throughout the universe--the world of all time and space. It's so visual, and the relations so surprising and fitting-- made so musically--I knew it had to be made into a film. 'Hot Afternoons' is a colorful montage combining still photographs, computer art, and live-action to show how a hot afternoon in Montana is related to the whole world--people, places, things, events. It makes the past--the feelings of people--alive!