PFAUNENINSEL - PEACOCK ISLAND

Miklos Gaál

39 min | 2019 | Netherlands/Germany | US Premiere

An essayistic narration about a garden island in Berlin with a peacock population founded in 1793. Pfaueninsel is looked upon through the peacock, its present-day audience and the transition of spring season. The story is a composition of precise observations of the peacock, natural phenomena, and of passages of historical literature from its day. The arresting peacock displaced from its natural habitat reflects age-old ideas about pristine nature, while the storyline gradually reinterprets eighteenth-century philosophical concerns linked to habitual separations of culture and nature, and the sacred and the secular.

ANNA

Dekel Berenson

16 min | 2019 | UK/Ukraine | East Coast Premiere

Living in war-torn Eastern Ukraine, Anna is an aging single mother who is desperate for a change. Lured by a radio advertisement, she goes to party with a group of American men who are touring the country, searching for love.

WAY BACK

Per Kasch

4 min | 2019 | S. Africa | New England Premiere

It is a coincidental discovery that tears a broken private detective out of his daily routine and turns his life upside down. He embarks on a search into the past to change his future.

SELKINCHEK - THE SWING

Samara Sagynbaeva

20 min | 2019 | Kyrgyzstan | US Premiere

An elderly and honest Bolot works as a heating man at a village school. When the coal in his house finishes, his wife persuades him to steal coal from the school, despite the school’s small supply.