Panorama of European Film

PANORAMA 1

 

The Benefactors / Les Bienfaiteurs /

Switzerland, 2022, 08.49

Director: Christophe Lopez-Huici

Production: Nadasdy Film

A weary young man thinks he found the perfect patrons for his rickshaw tours, but he soon finds out that his new customers can be very demanding.

 

Whatever moves is alive / Ce qui bouge est vivant /

Belgium, 2022, 11.05

Director: Noémie Marsily

Production: Zorobabel

While slugs wander across the kitchen floor, Noémie draws up her self-portrait, shifting and fragmented, on the edge between the intimate and the hubbub of the world.

 

The Sausage Run

Germany, 2021, 09.45

Director: Thomas Stellmach

Production: Thomas Stellmach Animation, EPEIOS Productions

The roles of the humans and animals are exchanged. The human characters in the film are depicted as anthropomorphous animals. The animal in the story, the big bad wolf, is here a human being.

 

Terra Incognita

Denmark, 2021, 20.00

Director: Pernille Kjaer, Adrian Dexter

Production: Ikki Films, Insolence Productions, Sun Creature

Terra Incognita follows life on a mysterious island, inhabited by immortal beings that live in an unbroken chain of eternity, but eternity is a simple illusion broken only by death, nothing changes until....it does.

 

PANORAMA 2

 

Letters to Parkkimäentie / Kirjeitä Parkkimäentielle /

Finland, 2022, 08.15

Director: Mika Koskinen

Production: Mika Koskinen

And the greatest of these is love. Director's grandparents letters and grandmother's diaries have a dialogue throughout centuries. Same emotions which we all go through are present also in old letters…

 

Salvation Has No Name

United Kingdom, 2022, 16.45

Director: Joseph Wallace

Production: Delaval Film

A troupe of clowns gather to perform a story about a Priest and a refugee but as their misguided tale unfolds, the boundaries between fiction and reality begin to fray.

 

The Days that (never) Were / LOS DÍAS QUE (NUNCA) FUERON /

Spain, 2022, 11.33

Director: Pedro Rivero, Kevin Iglesias Rodríguez

Production: Abrakam, Amania Films, Media Attack, ECPV

Three characters are about to have the best time of their lives ... until a strange phenomenon appears to interrupt everything.

 

Death and the Winemaker / Le Vigneron et la Mort /

Switzerland, 2021, 18.59

Director: Victor Jaquier

Production: Imaginastudio, RTS (Radio Télévision Suisse)

A young winemaker devotes himself to creating the best wine in the world, to win the hand of his beloved Mathilde – the daughter of his rich neighbour. He creates a wine so exquisite, that even Death demands to taste it. As he learns the awful truth about Mathilde’s fate, he captures Death in a barrel, ignoring the consequences on the natural order of things.