FESTinha sub16

TUE 24 JUN | 10:45 | CASINO

FESTinha sub16

Duration: 67 min

Ben's Birthday | Robert Decani | DEU | 11’

Ben is nine years old today. Thus, his father lets him choose three sweets on a trip to the supermarket. His innocence is clouded when he observes his father being accosted by a stranger at the supermarket checkout shortly afterwards. Little Ben doesn't understand much from a distance, but his father's ethnicity seems to play a role. Ben doesn't know exactly what has happened, but for the first time he realizes that something has.

Passarinho | Natalia García Agraz | MEX | 13’

Olivia and Laura, two 13-year-old teenagers, have a plan to get the autograph of Passarinho, a Brazilian soccer idol, but before they can put the plan into action, Olivia has her first period.

AMARELA | André Hayato Saito | BRA | 15’

On the day of the World Cup final between Brazil and France, Erika Oguihara, a Japanese-Brazilian teenager who rejects her family traditions, experiences a violence that seems invisible and plunges into a painful sea of emotions.

Dream on Nykvarn | Vera Hamnebo, Sofia Edén | SWE | 11’

There will be no other end | Piotr Milczarek | POL | 9’

Gravity | Robotina | ITA | 8’

"Gravity tells the story of an ordinary individual in a dystopian world, in which gravity is inverted.
We are in the year two thousandSomething. The Earth is a boundless bare and desolate expanse.
It seems undergone an inexorable apocalypse, but the real reason is that the force of gravity has decided to change direction: instead of pointing to the ground, it pushes toward the sky. Along a paved road, X (30, non-binary, tall, long-faced, long-necked, dark circles under their eyes) seems to take no notice. The deep dark circles under their eyes and the trickle of drool that protrudes to the sky are evidence of how much more they could sleep, but the alarm clock on their smartphone reminds them that he cannot afford to.
So, after one last yawn, they laboriously move their legs – one after the other – along the street.
With a disinterested gaze and dogged determination, X covers miles of distance.
X has only one goal in their head, and no one will stop them."