Competition 2019

AIFVF 2019 Award Winners

Jury Members: Laura Harrison, Lynne Sachs, Chris Sullivan, Jodi Wille Documentary Short Award Stone Engravings and the Three-Colored Chickenpox Tale Director: Lucina , Vinícius Documentary, Brazil, 20 min. In the first evidences of mankind in the south of Brazil we

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While I Breathe, I Hope

Thursday, April 11, 1:15 PM While I Breathe, I Hope Director: Emily Harrold Documentary, USA, 75 min. What does it mean to be young, Black, and Democrat in the Southern Republican state of South Carolina? Through experiences of politician Bakari

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We Are Thankful

Monday, April 8, 1:15 PM We Are Thankful Director: Joshua Magor Narrative 134 minutes South Africa Siyabonga (english title: We Are Thankful), named after the film’s main character Siyabonga Majola, is a docu-fiction film set in the KwaZulu Natal region

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Waveforms

Wednesday, April 10, 9:00 PM Cuban Queens Director: Warren Bass Experimental, USA, 6 min. Hand-drawn animation as a structuralist and painterly art form. Variations on Leonard French Director: Paul W. Rankin Experimental, Australia, 14 min. An abstract created entirely from

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Vistas

Wednesday, April 10, 1:00 PM Fifty Feet Near Wendover (for Nancy Holt) Director: Kate Lain Experimental, USA, 4 min. An interplay of landscape, concrete, and light in homage to Nancy Holt. The Air of the Earth in Your Lungs Director:

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Under the Skin

Tuesday, April 9th, 3:15 PM Queen Director: Marianna Perianova, Ilina Perianova Experimental, Bulgaria, Germany, 5 min. A woman is floating through stars, asleep to her real nature. Pirate Boys Director: Pol Merchan Documentary, Germany, 14 min. A lens through which

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Under the Jazz. Circulation. Formation

Saturday, April 13, 9:00 PM Under the Jazz. Circulation. Formation Director: Priyanka Das Experimental, France, India, USA, 68 min. The journey unravels in three different hypnotic chapters. Three people from different backgrounds, cultures, ethnicities come together in a cosmopolitan set

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Under the Boot

Friday, April 12, 1:00 PM Immunity Not Limitation Director: Sara Kazemimanesh Experimental, USA, 3 min. A film about the experience of mandatory hijab and the creeping violence it caters to. This is Cairo Director: Ibraheem Youssef Experimental, Egypt, 8 min.

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Time Capsule

Tuesday, April 9th, 5:00 PM The Stained Club Director: Mélanie Lopez, Simon Boucly, Marie Ciesielski, Alice Jaunet, Chan Stéphie Peang, Béatrice Viguier Animation, France, 7 min. Finn has stains on his skin. One day, he meets a group of cool

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These Ways I Transgress

Saturday, April 13, 1:00 PM These Ways I Transgress Director: Jeremy Moss Experimental, Brazil, Sweden, UK, USA, 62 min. A fantasia of post-indoctrination, immigration, and iconography. A pageant of wanderers and searchers. A pilgrimage of memory, history, ancestry, and place.

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