Official Selection of Short Films
Special Screening: The Monk (2018)
The Remains (2018)
Dua2litet (2018)
Night talk with a hangman (2018)
Floating (2018)
Теа (2018)
Reality (2017)
A Young Girl (2018)
Night Portrait (2017)
Heilerijk (2018)
Valley of Unawareness (2018)
Poem 1 (2019)
Elena (2017)
In Dog Years I’m Dead (2019)
Monday (Segunda-Feira, 2018)
Sprain (2018)
The Beginning (2018)
Dolmen (2018)
When We Are Gone (2018)
Afternoon Clouds (2017)
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Special Screening: The Monk (2018)
13.05 (Monday), 18.03 h.
Cinematheque of N. Macedonia
Animated film, Macedonia, 12 min., B&W
Director & Screenplay: Zharko Ivanov
In a small monastery, hidden in the rocky mountains along a lake far from civilization, a lonesome young monk paints frescos of saints on the walls. On a quiet sunny day, while fishing in his small rowboat in the middle of the lake, he suddenly hears female voices. Is he being tempted? Is his conscience being tested? -
The Remains (2018)
13.05 (Monday), 18.03 h.
Cinematheque of N. Macedonia
Feature film, Nepal, 16 min., color
Director & Screenplay: Manoj Babu Panta
The last days of an old fisherman pass by the imaginary coast, carried by a river’s monotonous waves towards eternity. When faced with a fatal sense of universal transience, a drying stream of consciousness sinks headlong into a nostalgic and hallucinogenic experience. Minimalist meditative poetry in unadulterated film form. -
Dua2litet (2018)
13.05 (Monday), 18.30 h.
Cinematheque of N. Macedonia
Feature film, Spain, 5 min., color
Director & Screenplay: Rafael Montezuma
When the young artist Charlie ponders himself, he discovers a confusing identity structure. Internal voyage to the edge of the unconscious and a painful attempt at self-knowledge through the other-one inside. -
Night talk with a hangman (2018)
13.05 (Monday), 18.30 h.
Cinematheque of N. Macedonia
Feature film, Russia, 20 min., B&W Director: Yakov Sivchenko
Screenplay: Friedrich Durrenmatt
Inspired by the novella “The Judge and His Hangman” by the Swiss playwright Friedrich Durrenmatt, this dark drama with a twist of crime-fiction takes us on a night walk with our final, inevitable interlocutor. An unusual satire that raises existentialist questions. -
Floating (2018)
13.05 (Monday), 18.30 h.
Cinematheque of N. Macedonia
Feature film, Portugal, 13 min., color
Director & Screenplay: Artur Serra Araújo
As a group of friends plays cards on a balcony overlooking the beach by the ocean, two young women float over the banality of speech and the absurdity of their actions. A film that rejects making clear analogies in its stories and doesn’t pass judgement. -
Теа (2018)
13.05 (Monday), 18.30 h.
Cinematheque of N. Macedonia
Feature film, Uzbekistan, 15 min., color
Director & Screenplay: Shokir Kholikov
A warm Uzbek story of the travails of old age. The physical remains of a once strong man now lie feeble, mute and motionless in bed, yet still, there is enough left to bring out a smile. -
Reality (2017)
13.05 (Monday), 18.30 h.
Cinematheque of N. Macedonia
Feature film, Germany, 7 min., color
Director: Gian Suhner
Mustafa, a naturalized German driver, attempts to confront the rising right-wing populist rhetoric from behind the wheel of a limousine. A witty synthesis of the issue of perception of reality and the value of truth, in times when their antithesis seems ever more relevant and actual in the world. -
A Young Girl (2018)
13.05 (Monday), 18,30 h.
Cinematheque of N. Macedonia
Feature film, Belgium, 16 min., color
Director & Screenplay: Jeannice Adriaansens
After the sudden death of her husband, Ema must face her own sorrow and the financial troubles of her farm. In the mental confusion, she begins to lose touch with reality. Her son Geert is faced with a double dilemma – moral and social – to save his mother, or save his farm? Jeannice Andriaansen won the Audience Award for Best Short Film on the Philosophical Film Festival in 2017 with her previous short “Spring Flood”. -
Night Portrait (2017)
13.05 (Monday), 18,30 h.
Cinematheque of N. Macedonia
Feature film, South Korea, 16 min., color
Director & Screenplay: Jueon Woo
A restlessness creeps on the middle-aged Kangsu making him take a midnight stroll. His clumsy and a bit comedic nocturnal gymnastics reveal a deep subconscious fear: Does she still see me with the same love in her eyes? -
Heilerijk (2018)
13.05 (Monday), 18.30 h.
Cinematheque of N. Macedonia
Feature film, Belgium, 14 min., color
Director & Screenplay: Zoë Boogaerts
In a long, Rembrandtesque painted scene, light reveals a comforting, motherly embrace giving refuge from the demon entering the chamber. A gentle intuitive communication through a caressing hand as an allegory for human suffering, an ode to comfort and the philosophy of touch and tenderness, sorely lacking in many contemporary tractates. -
Valley of Unawareness (2018)
14.05 (Tuesday), 18.30 h.
Cinematheque of N. Macedonia
Feature film, Poland, 15 min., color
Director & Screenplay: Mikołaj Borowy
Science-fiction drama set in the near future. Thanks to the technological advancements, lonely Helen can replace her partner with an artificial replica. But the intelligent machine refuses to be just a physical double, and the consequences can be tragic. -
Poem 1 (2019)
14.05 (Tuesday), 18.30 h.
Cinematheque of N. Macedonia
Feature film, USA, Poland, Germany, 6 min., color
Director & Screenplay: Daniel Sauermilch
World-weary, with an antsy heart and a lack of calcium, she retreats to a rehabilitation center in the countryside, trying to reconstruct her own intimate mosaic. Poetic escapism trying to find a formula to alleviate the indignities of modern life. -
Elena (2017)
14.05 (Tuesday), 18.30 h.
Cinematheque of N. Macedonia
Feature film, Costa Rica, the Dominican Republic, Portugal, Spain, 20 min., color
Director & Screenplay: Ayerim Villanueva
Elena is a 17-year-old teenager who quite unsure of herself, slowly conquers a fear helped by a new, strange emotion waking inside. A poetic drama about the delicate topic of female freedom to explore and realize her own sexuality in the midst of conservative surroundings. -
In Dog Years I’m Dead (2019)
14.05 (Tuesday), 18.30 h.
Cinematheque of N. Macedonia
Feature film, Germany, 13 min., color
Director & Screenplay: Kenji Ouellet
Young and ambitious dancers in a high-performance passionate battle for artistic identity. An unusual view on the contradictions between the ideal and the reality, the physical strain reaching the limits of the physical and the heights of the mind. A philosophical ‘ballet’ flight set to Bruckner’s music. -
Monday (Segunda-Feira, 2018)
14.05 (Tuesday), 18.30 h.
Cinematheque of N. Macedonia
Feature film, Portugal, 15 min., color
Director & Screenplay: Sebastião Salgado
Helena is a beautiful, educated, successful woman, who, besides being surrounded by the beauty and harmony of her surroundings, sinks deep in the cold inside of her. “Ipse mihi theatrum” (“in my theatre”) – she’s caught between the worlds of the living and the dead, completely autistic socially. Will the young Valentina manage to “bring her grandmother back”? Salgado’s “Everything’s OK” was part of the Philosophical Film Festival’s Official Selection of Short Films in 2018. -
Sprain (2018)
14.05 (Tuesday), 18.30 h.
Cinematheque of N. Macedonia
Feature film, France, 6 min., color
Director: Pierre-Louis Umdenstock, Samir Hadjazi, Célia Kirche, Koya Kamura Screenplay: Samir Hadjazi, Célia Kirche, Koya Kamura, Pierre-Louis Umdenstock
For Geraldin, this is just a regular day at the office, where a rigorous bureaucratic procedure gets to decide who can integrate in the present. A dystopic film étude about the problems which dramatically interact with our times: climate change, human rights, and immigration. -
The Beginning (2018)
14.05 (Tuesday), 18.30 h.
Cinematheque of N. Macedonia
Feature film, Macedonia, 13 min., color
Director & Screenplay: Agim Abdula
An everyday, inane situation refuses to comply with any reasonable contextualization, so doubts of the ability to make a clear distinction of the real from the imaginary grow and turn into a radical existential skepticism. -
Dolmen (2018)
14.05 (Tuesday), 18.30 h.
Cinematheque of N. Macedonia
Feature film, Russia, 11 min., color
Director: Oksana Belousova
The search for the ancient megalithic structures known as dolmens used to be joyful opportunities for Kostya and Nastya to spend time in the untouched, wild beauty of the mountains. For Kostya, the journey through the mysterious forest now becomes a somnambulistic archeology through the mazes of his own memory, where the lines between the real and the unreal are increasingly transparent. Is Kostya strong enough to leave his precious memories in the past and again get a sense of his own spatiality? -
When We Are Gone (2018)
14.05 (Tuesday), 18.30 h.
Cinematheque of N. Macedonia
Feature film, Macedonia, 19 min., color
Director & Screenplay: Stefan Palitov
Subtle and nuanced take on the atmosphere of a family shaken to the core by an unexpected death. The sorrow and desolation in the hearts of those left behind gives a way to confusion, anger and undefined guilt inevitably leading to a silent confrontation. Will the father and the daughter manage to overcome their fears? -
Afternoon Clouds (2017)
14.05 (Tuesday), 18.30 h.
Cinematheque of N. Macedonia
Feature film, India, 13 min., color
Director & Screenplay: Payal Kapadia
A silent afternoon in the house of a 70-year old widow living with her servant Malti, a Nepalese migrant. The two women reveal the stories that weigh them down like afternoon clouds. A sober, Hinduist meditative narration that creates a oneiric atmosphere.