36th International Short Film Festival Berlin 2020
11 November - 13 December 2020

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GREEN FILM - ENVIROMENTAL COMPETITION

ECO 01 Breathe!

Drought, deforestation, animal species on the brink of extinction, dwindling resources, air and water pollution: environmental threats dot the map far and wide and come in all shapes and sizes. As much as they represent a global phenomenon, their effects initially make themselves felt at the local level. For this reason, we are rarely aware of their true spread and global impact. When filmmakers document conditions first-hand, they establish a shared context for the local and global, creating a space for action in the process.

23.11.20, 00:00h, online: interfilm.de/sooner (Nov 23 - 29)

Breathe!
13 films
Apocalypse Airlines

Apocalypse Airlines

Camille Tricaud / Franziska Unger // Germany // 2019 // 03:00 min

Animation, Live Action

The perfect airline for everyone that wants to travel, discover the world, be free, consume and totally wreck the planet.

Machini

Machini

Tétshim Tétshim / Frank Mukunday // Belgium, Congo // 2019 // 10:00 min

Animation, Experimental

Steel, rust, stone and chalk. Image upon image, a green cloud creeps through this reddish brown mining animation. The soils of the DR Congo are rich in raw materials, their extraction drives people relentlessly forward, like a machine. But the profits are collected by others, yesterday and today.

Breathe!

Breathe!

Matthias Kreter / Max Breuer // Germany // 2018 // 09:10 min

Live Action

A luxuriously decadent time at the table turns out to be a game of life and death. The younger generation searches for a way out of the situation.

Plasticnic

Plasticnic

Fiona Tinwei Lam // Canada // 2018 // 01:15 min

Animation

An outdoor picnic gradually escalates into an unimaginable piling up of plastic.

Le Silence de la rue

Le Silence de la rue

Marie Opron // France // 2020 // 03:38 min

Animation

The abundance of the city harbours an empty space: absent nature allows a marginal figure to disappear in the crowds.

Human Nature

Human Nature

Sverre Fredriksen // Netherlands // 2019 // 02:15 min

Animation

Human beings are peculiar animals. Still, the relationship between humans and animals is not quite right. Which one treats the other better, and which is actually the more peculiar?

Where we used to swim

Where we used to swim

Daniel Asadi Faezi // Germany // 2019 // 07:39 min

Documentary, Experimental

Lake Urmia is Iran’s largest inland body of water. Alas, industry and climate change have seen it shrink today to a mere 5% of its original size.

Dry Sea

Dry Sea

Bart Bossaert / Yves Bex // Belgium // 2020 // 11:00 min

Animation

A fisherman without a sea, paterfamilias without a family, he passes the days alone on his stranded boat. Can a colossal sandstorm bring movement to his life once again?

Pas Totalement Par Hasard

Pas Totalement Par Hasard

Total

Aurelien Thibault // France // 2019 // 03:45 min

Live Action

A gas station attendant clashes with the driver of an electric car.

Sad Beauty

Sad Beauty

Arjan Brentjes // Netherlands // 2020 // 09:50 min

Animation

In a heavily polluted world, a young woman mourns the disappearance of animal species. When she falls ill, she starts to hallucinate that nature is trying to send her a message.

Rutina: La Prohibición

Rutina: La Prohibición

Routine: The Prohibition

Sam Orti // Spain // 2020 // 08:15 min

Animation

Welcome to the post-apocalyptic age! Oxygen is in short supply, yet the old routines of abuse of power and religious fanaticism are still intact.

Rewild

Rewild

Nicholas Chin / Ernest Zacharevic // Indonesia // 2019 // 04:03 min

Documentary, Experimental

More than 40% of the forest on Sumatra has been clear-cut in less than two decades. Time for a reversal.

400 Mph

400 Mph

Paul-Eugène Dannaud / Alice Lefort / Julia Chaix / Natacha Pianeti / Lorraine Desserre / Quentin Tireloque // France // 2019 // 04:50 min

Animation

Until the early 1960s, the upper speed limit of 400 mph for land vehicles seemed unsurpassable. Ikarus, a very special driver, did everything in his power to change that.