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"Silver Lynx" competition returns with 50+ short films
09.09.2021

This year's selection of short films in competition for the Silver Lynx award returns to Espinho with 50+ films, split between the usual Fiction, Documentary, Animation and Experimental section, celebrating the best batch of 2021's international cinema.

In the Fiction category, we highlight Naila Guiguet's Dustin, one of the most talked about films to compete in Cannes; Closing Time, Italian Tommaso Santambrogio's most recent work, is a funny portrait of a marital discussion where the audience finds itself forced to witness the moment from the most brilliant voyeuristic way possible; Greek director Irene Ganteri's Eva and Jane and croatian filmmaker Sara Grgurić presents us different visions of couples trapped at home, and the different ways they dealt with the situation. Last but not least, we highlight the return of Kasper Møller Rask, who after competing at FEST '19, is now back with Eja Okay, a provoking look at the impact of social media in a teenager's life.

The Documentary section also welcomes back Finnish director Laura Rantanen, winner of Best Documentary at FEST '19, who now presents an experimental work about masculinity. Maalbeek, from Ismaël Joffroy Chandoutis, another selection from Cannes, has a radically different approach, but not less impressing: a study about the impact of the Islamic terrorist attacks in Bruxels in 2016.

It's also vital to celebrate a very important return in the Animation category: the polish Tomek Popakul, last year's winner with Acid Rain, now presents Moon, a delicious digression with his characteristic visual style. A couple more highlights are Blue Fear, from French filmmakers Marie Jacotey and Lola Halifa-Legrand, which will certainly leave FEST's audience impressed with its provoking feminist perspective.

Lastly, the experimental section is the most complete ever, with two different exhibitions, which include One Thousand and One Attempts to Be an Ocean, directed by French-Chinese Wang Yuyan, an hallucinatory experience that turned Berlinale's competition on its head, and the most recent visual essay by Irish filmmaker Patrick Hough, The Black River of Herself, a work that has a lot to teach us about the ecologic memory of the landscape of a planet undergoing a climate transformation.

 

Find a list below of the announced films, and more info about the full program here.

SILVER LYNX FICTION

22:47 Linie 34, Michael Karrer, Switzerland, 10'

Summer Planning, Alexandru Mironescu, Romania, 26'

Autoquartz, Nicolas Cambier, France, 20'

Sunrise in My Mind, Danech San, Cambodia, 14'

Zonder Meer, Meltse Van Coillie, Belgium, 14'

Umbilical, Elpida Stathatou, Greece, 3'

Home, Guust Mulder, Netherlands, 13'

Rebel, Pier-Philippe Chevigny, Canada, 15'

Dustin, Naïla Guiguet, France, 20'

Harmonia, Thom Lunshof, Netherlands, 25'

We Won't Forget, Lucas Elliot Eberl, Edgar Morais, United States/Portugal, 14'

Intercom15, Andrei Epure, Romania, 21'

Sabbatical, David David, Colombia, 12'

Closing Time, Tommaso Santambrogio, Italy, 20'

Eja Okay, Kasper Møller Rask, Denmark, 27'

Dummy, Laurynas Bareisa, Lithuania, 13'

Shakwa, Farah Shaer, Lebanon, 14'

Eva and Jane, Irene Ganteri, Greece, 15'

Nesting, Siiri Halko, Finland, 20'

In the woods, Sara Grgurić, Croatia, 17'

Bleiches Glimmen, Theresa Weidmann, Germany, 16'

Mountain Cat, Lkhagvadulam Purev-Ochir, Mongolia, 14'

Good thanks, you?, Molly Manning Walker, United Kingdom, 13'

Good luck, Mattis Ohana Goksøyr, Norway, 14'

 

SILVER LYNX DOCUMENTARY

Silence, Saara Hakkarainen, Finland, 15'

Still Processing, Sophy Romvari, Canada, 17'

Haeberli, Moritz Mueller-Preisser, Germany, 29'

Under the Sky, Marta Skiba, Poland, 13'

Podesta Island, Stéphanie Roland, Micronesia/France, 23'

On Hold, Laura Rantanen, Finland, 20'

Attention all passengers, Marek Moučka, Slovakia, 19'

Maalbeek, Ismaël Joffroy Chandoutis, France, 16'

Mundo, Ana Edwards, Chile, 19'

Men are hungry too, Francesco Lorusso, Gabriele Licchelli, Andrea Settembrini, Italy, 20'

Home Constructors, Nitzan Rozen, Israel, 5'

 

SILVER LYNX ANIMATION

The Moon, Tomek Popakul, Poland, 12'

My Fat Arse and I, Yelyzaveta Pysmak, Poland, 10'

Souvenir Souvenir, Bastien Dubois, France, 15'

Salmon Men, Veronica L. Montaño, Manuela Leuenberger, Joel Hofmann, Switzerland, 6'

Funeral, Thịnh Nguyễn, Denmark, 7'

A Barefoot Buddha, Xue Feng, China, 9'

Easter Eggs, Nicolas Keppens, Belgium, 14'

Reduction, Réka Anna Szakály, Hungary, 11'

Mud Chronicles, Vuk Palibrk, Serbia, 10'

Little Miss Fate, Joder von Rotz, Switzerland, 8'

Blue Fear, Marie Jacotey, Lola Halifa-Legrand, France, 10'

The night shatters my shadows, Luis Esguerra Cifuentes, Colombia, 21'

From My Desert, Veneta Androva, Germany, 14'

 

SILVER LYNX EXPERIMENTAL

One Thousand and One Attempts to Be an Ocean, Wang Yuyan, France, 12'

The Black River of Herself, Patrick Hough, Ireland, 27'

Widow's End, Jil Guyon, United States, 5'

Fly Away With Me, Maude Matton, Amina Mohamed, Nikki Shaffeeullah, Canada, 10'

lap dogs, Danila Lipatov, Germany, 9'

Tricot, Jacopo Greco d'Alceo, France, 20'

Copacabana Madureira, Leonardo Martinelli, Brazil, 18'

Salidas, Michael Fetter Nathansky, Germany, 10'

Scum Mutation, Ov, France, 10'

The Bearers of Memories, Miglė Križinauskaitė-Bernotienė, Lithuania, 13'

Anticline, João Gil, Portugal, 13'

S p a c e s, Nora Štrbová, Czech Republic, 8'

Las Hadas, Lorenzo Pallotta, Italy, 13'