Silver Lynx | Fiction

For the selection of fiction, the intention was to integrate some more popular options, such as "A Gentle Night" by Yang Qiu, winner of the Palme d'Or in the Cannes competition of 2017, and some more unforeseen, let's call them wonders yet to be discovered, such as Bernhard Wenger's "Excuse Me, I'm Looking For the Ping-Pong Room and My Girlfriend".

 

A Drowning Man

Mahdi Fleifel | DNK, GBR, GRC | 15’

 

A Gentle Night

Qiu Yang | CHN | 15’

 

A Month

Zgjim Terziqi | XKX | 26’

 

Amor

Isabel Lamberti | NLD | 23'

 

Aria

Myrsini Aristidou | CYP | 14’

 

Blind Audition

Andreas Kessler | DEU | 18’

 

Cavy World Cup

Maria Philips | NLD | 11’

 

Chanel

Humberto Vallejo | DOM | 11’

 

Excuse Me, I'm Looking For the Ping-pong Room and My Girlfriend

Bernhard Wenger | AUT | 24’

 

Fifo

Sacha Ferbus, Jeremy Puffet | BEL | 12’

 

Harbour

Stefanie Kolk | NLD | 13’

 

Heimat

Emi Buchwald | POL | 24’

 

Kampung Tapir

Aw See Wee | MYS | 17'

 

Morning Person

Özgür Anil | AUT | 5’

 

Natia

Anna Parcerisas | GBR | 16’

 

Pola

Edyta Rembała | POL | 20’

 

Snake

Titas Laucius | LTU | 17’

 

The Beep Test

Maxime Aubert | CAN | 17’

 

The Last Virgin

Bàrbara Farré | ESP | 18’

 

The Treehouse

Juan Sebastián Quebrada | COL | 16’

 

Thick Skin

Erlendur Sveinsson | ISL | 12’

 

Toni Air

Tero Peltoniemi | FIN | 3’

 

Ysée

Noémie Vanier | FRA | 34’

 

Silver Lynx | Documentary

Within the documentary format, we kept our interest in hybrid and experimental cinema, visible in shorts like "El Manguito" by Laurentia Genske and "Black Dog" by Tomas Faiman. In the same way, we looked for movies that showed more humor and energy, such as "Connection" by Horizoe Garcia Miranda and "Euphoria" by Natalia Pietsch.

 

Black Dog

Tomas Faiman | ARG | 15’

 

Connection

Horizoe Garcia Miranda | CUB | 16’

 

Dust

Jakub Radej | POL | 25’

 

El Manguito

Laurentia Genske | DEU | 19’

 

Euphoria

Natalia Pietsch | POL | 17’

 

Five Mermaids in the Balkans

Grant Gulczynski | GBR | 18’

 

Men With No Name

Nuruzzaman Khan | BEL | 12’

 

Street of Death

Karam Ghossein | DEU | 22’

 

The Kitman

Andres Cornejo | ECU | 25’

 

Silver Lynx | Animation

The selection within animation is one of the most complete ever, covering a wide variety of styles and presenting fantastic works like "A Cat's Consciousness" (Andrea Guizar) and the already very popular "Sog" (Jonatan Schwenk).

 

A Cat's Consciousness

Andrea Guizar | MEX, POL | 14’

 

A Love Letter To the One I Made Up

Rachel Gutgarts | ISR | 6’

 

Death of a Father

Somnath Pal | IND | 10’

 

Incarnation

Barbara Rupik | POL | 5’

 

Mermaids and Rhinos

Viktoria Traub | HUN | 15

 

Oh Mother!

Paulina Ziolkowska | POL | 12’

 

Overrun

Pierre Ropars, Antonin Derory, Diane Thirault, Jérémie Cottard, Matthieu Druaud, Adrien Zumbihl | FRA | 8’

 

Sog

Jonatan Schwenk | DEU | 10’

 

Spacedogs

Sophia Schönborn | DEU | 6’

 

With or Without Sun

Jean-Guillaume Bastien | CAN | 3’

 

Silver Lynx | Experimental

In a genre more difficult to objectively define, we have sought to integrate various techniques and aesthetics of what is the experimental. Including Sarah Friedland's "Home Exercises", a film of unique vision about movement, and Elinor Nechemya's "Everlasting Mom", seemingly a simple narrative but full of subliminal messages.

 

Balancé

Inês Oliveira | GBR | 9’

 

Comments

Jannis Alexander Kiefer | DEU | 5’

 

Everlasting Mom

Elinor Nechemya | ISR | 14’

 

Home Exercises

Sarah Friedland | USA | 22’

 

Lasting Beast

Nagi Gianni, Raphaëlle Mueller | CHE | 18’

 

Sail

Heurtier Manzanares Lysa, Perrais Agnès | FRA | 13’

 

Portuguese Grand Prix

In one of the most recent sections of FEST - New Directors | New Films Festival, only 2 years old, we once again turn the spotlights to national productions.

To more popular short films, such as "Fidalga" by Flávio Ferreira, the much talked about participant of several festivals in the international circuit, or "Delphine Imprisoned" by Ricardo Pinto de Magalhães, winner of the last edition of Curtas Vila do Conde.

But also to the not-so-obvious options, of filmmakers who are taking their first steps or who embark on a more experimental path, something increasingly common within the national discourse that we try to cultivate. Like "The Voyager" by João Gonzalez, who will be playing the soundtrack live during the film exhibition.

 

An Ant

João Veloso | PRT | 14’

 

António and Catarina

Cristina Hanes | PRT | 40'

 

Blue Cigarette

Ricardo Vieira | PRT | 2’

 

Breath

Rúben Sevivas | PRT | 15’

 

Brthr

Inma Veiga | PRT, ESP | 8’

 

Casas Caiadas

Kyle Sousa | PRT | 16’

 

Delphine Imprisoned

Ricardo Pinto de Magalhães | PRT | 6’

 

Drop by Drop

Laura Gonçalves, Alexandra Ramires (Xá) | PRT | 9’

 

Fidalga

Flávio Ferreira | PRT | 19'

 

Fled. Lay. Fell.

Bruno Carnide | PRT | 3’

 

Inhabited

Daniela Fortuna | PRT | 2’

 

Inner Body

Sara Sousa | PRT | 3’

 

N

Carolina Coelho | PRT | 7'

 

The Voyager

João Gonzalez | PRT | 5’