35th International Short Film Festival Berlin 2019
5 - 10 November 2019

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INTERNATIONAL COMPETITION

IC 01 Animated 1- Squaring the Circle

For the ancient Greeks, the art of squaring the circle lay in achieving the feat using only a pencil, compass, and ruler. It took 2000 years to prove the unsolvable nature of this task. Still, this paring down to the most minimal of means leads not infrequently to unfathomed creativity. SQUARING THE CIRCLE is therefore not only about impossibilities – it’s also about taking life’s measure with the tools of animation. Is a black circle all that’s necessary to create tension? And how many pencil or brush strokes does it take to describe and sense an entire city?

07.11.19, 17:30h, Babylon 1

09.11.19, 15:30h, Babylon 1

10.11.19, 20:00h, Babylon 3

Animated 1- Squaring the Circle
11 films
Kwadratura kola

Kwadratura kola

Squaring the circle

Karolina Specht // Poland // 2018 // 04:50 min

Animation

This veritably cubist romance satisfies the incarnate human longing to successfully square the circle.

Kids

Kids

Michael Frei // Switzerland // 2019 // 09:00 min

Animation

Human crowds as animal herds, a slow crescendo of order and chaos, individuals and groups.

Travelogue Tel Aviv

Travelogue Tel Aviv

Samuel Patthey // Switzerland // 2017 // 06:00 min

Animation, Documentary

Snap shots and observations from a pulsing metropolis that is home to a full third of Israel’s total population.

Oncle Thomas

Oncle Thomas

Regina Pessoa // Portugal, France, Canada // 2019 // 13:00 min

Animation

Melancholy reminiscing about an extraordinary uncle as enigmatic as he was inspiring.

Autour de l'escalier

Autour de l'escalier

Around the Stairway

Die Wimmelgruppe (collective) // Switzerland // 2019 // 05:00 min

Animation, Experimental

This sonorous tour through a surreal city passes through the absurd and ends with the infinite.

Intermission Expedition

Intermission Expedition

Wiep Teeuwisse // Netherlands // 2019 // 08:20 min

Animation

An outing into nature begins within a rigorous structure. As it unfolds uncontrollably, the experience soon tears the group out of their reality.

Orpheus

Orpheus

Orpheus

Priit Tender // Estonia // 2019 // 12:45 min

Animation

What begins with the creation of humankind and subsequently passes through a phase of wild celebration becomes a thoroughly uninhibited journey into the underworld.

Castle

Castle

Ryotaro Miyajima // Japan // 2019 // 05:00 min

Animation

It is only far removed from hostile battlefields, over a cup of tea, that humanity can be regained.

Briljantsuse Demonstratsioon Neljas Vaatuses

Briljantsuse Demonstratsioon Neljas Vaatuses

A Demonstration of Brilliance in Four Acts

Morten Tšinakov / Lucija Mrzljak // Estonia, Croatia // 2018 // 15:00 min

Animation

The chosen one, a lady with a hat, an unequal twin, a scooter driver, an exhibitionist, and a bored group of bystanders get tangled up in absurdity.

The Opposites Game

The Opposites Game

Anna Samo / Lisa LaBracio // United States // 2019 // 04:45 min

Animation

A teacher asks his class a tricky question, triggering a heavily symbolic dispute about who has the right to impose their interpretation on others.

Grand Bassin

Grand Bassin

Héloïse Courtois / Chloé Plat / Victori Jalabert / Adèle Raigneau // France // 2018 // 06:40 min

Animation

The local swimming pool lends itself to surreptitious body watching. It’s a convivial sort of togetherness – until the boundaries between dream and reality start to blur.