International Feature Film Competition

THE LIFE AND STRANGE SURPRISING ADVENTURES OF ROBINSON CRUSOE WHO LIVED FOR TWENTY AND EIGHT YEARS ALL ALONE ON AN INHABITED ISLAND AND SAID IT WAS HIS

An incisive, singular decolonisation of the Robinson Crusoe myth, in which a goat will capture your heart.

HOME INVASION

A nightmarish essay film on the history of the doorbell, tracing its invention and constant reinventions through 19th century labor struggles, the nascent years of narrative cinema, and contemporary surveillance cultures.

DE FACTO

Selma Doborac | Duration 130 min.

How can cinema engage with complicity in crimes against humanity and extreme violence without conniving in it? De Facto finds answers to these questions in a meticulously directed play of two actors, a precisely compiled film script and a deliberately reduced setting.

THE HUMAN SURGE 3

Eduardo Williams | Duration 161 min.

Three different groups of friends wander in a rainy, windy, dark world. They spend time together, trying to get away from their depressing jobs, meandering constantly towards the mystery of new possibilities.

MONISME

Riar Rizaldi | Duration 115 min.

Repressed by state-sponsored violence, a mystic is determined to stay in his land in the foothills of Mount Merapi and keep practicing his belief of being one with the mountain. On the other side of the mountain, a volcanologist keeps insisting that the end of the world is near.

LA PALISIADA

Philip Sotnychenko | Duration 100 min.

Ukraine, 1996. 5 months before the moratorium on capital punishment, two old friends, a police detective and a forensic psychiatrist, investigate a murder of their colleague. Long time ago, both of them were in love with the widow of the deceased.

THE FACE OF THE JELLYFISH

Melisa Liebenthal | Duration 76 min.

One morning, Marina, a woman in her thirties, wakes up with a different face. Who is she now? The Face of the Jellyfish is a playful research about visages, both human and animal, and their central importance in defining our identity and relationships. Who are we beyond our faces, our images?