Orizzonti in short

FUORI CONCORSO

F II – LO STUPORE DEL MONDO
Alessandro Rak (Italy, 6’)
A few minutes of rhymes and music is all it takes for Alessandro Rak to tell us everything about four times-excommunicated and all-around intellectual Holy Roman Emperor Frederick II.

CONCORSO

WHO LOVES THE SUN
Arshia Shakiba (Canada, 19’)
As the situation in northern Syria deteriorates due to the civil war, the population tries to make it through as it can. With the oil industry collapsed, Mahmood will be forced into backbreaking labour and complex power balances.

MINHA MÃE É UMA VACA (MY MOTHER IS A COW)
Moara Passoni (Brazil, 15’)
Called a “Latin-American western”, the short sees Mia, a girl deprived of motherly love, facing the unknown together with a murderous jaguar and her first desire.

THREE KEENINGS
Oliver McGoldrick (UK, Irlanda, USA, 10’)
Hired to visibly mourn at funerals, as per ancient Celtic tradition, Ian begins a journey through Northern Irish countryside that will allow him to take off his mask of apathy for good, and be able to feel again..

SHADOWS
Rand Beiruty (France, Giordania, 12’)
Ahlam is a fourteen-year-old mother. She ploughs through a crowded airport and reflects on the journey that will allow her to take life back in her own hands, far from her family and the only city she ever knew–Baghdad.

JAMES
Andres Rodríguez (Guatemala, Mexico, 20’)
Young indigenous Mexican James finds city life oppressing. The frenzied rhythm of the metropolis makes him wonder if the only way to find his path is by crushing someone else’s.

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Rúnar Rúnarsson (Iceland, Sweden, 20’)
The poignant, poetic story of a vulnerable man trying to accomplish an apparently easy task, only to learn that the biggest hurdle lies within himself.

Immagine in evidenza: Minha Mãe é Uma Vaca (My Mother Is a Cow), Moara Passoni