5th Moscow International Experimental Film Festival MIEFF. International Competition

DESCRIPTION

The program of the international competition is divided into six parts and includes 29 shorts from 21 countries, including Armenia, Brazil, Hong Kong, Indonesia, Lebanon, Russia, and Thailand. While representing a wide range of artistic strategies, the festival also strives to be gender balanced, featuring 16 female and 18 male filmmakers in this year’s program.

Winners of the international competition will be announced on August 25 at Garage Screen summer cinema. The winning filmmakers will receive prizes from Garage Museum of Contemporary Art and Kodak.

International competition curators: Vladimir Nadein, Rita Sokolovskaya, Kirill Rozhentsov.

tickets

Standard: 350 rubles
Student: 250 rubles*

Tickets for seniors, veterans, large families, under 18s, and visitors with disabilities (with one carer): 175 RUB**

We recommend that you buy tickets in advance. All ticket categories are available online.

* Students aged 18–25 on production of relevant ID
** Please show proof of eligibility at the cinema entrance

Schedule

International Competition. Program 1

Program 1 features four films: a video by Laure Prouvost created for the French Pavilion at the 58th Venice Biennale; Portuguese Pedro Neves Marques’s sensual dystopia depicting polygamy against the backdrop of an epidemic in São Paolo; Rosa Barba’s 35mm journey toward a melting glacier in the Andes; and Rotterdam Festival’s favorite, a short by the Belgian Dorian Jespers filmed in Murmansk.

Date
Wednesday, August 19
Time
20:00–22:00

International Competition. Program 2

Program 2 features five films: Heidrun Holzfeind’s lyrical portrait of the Japanese music duo IRO; a bold visual study of images of holes by the artist Jaakko Pallasvuo; a diary film documenting director Miko Revereza’s exile and return; Lei Lei’s deeply intimate animated collage made using Maoist-era found imagery; and the international premiere of a nostalgic landscape shot on film by the Russian artist Alexandra Karelina. The screening will be followed by a public talk with Alexandra Karelina.

Date
Thursday, August 20
Time
20:00–22:00

International Competition. Program 3

Program 3 is composed of five films: a structural movie about the Mediterranean Sea and its ghosts by the Lebanese artist Nour Ouayda; a political research project by Nina Fisher and Maroan el Sani exploring the phenomenon of the Germans’ frightening self-identification with Native Americans; Ukrit Sa-nguanhai’s film tracing a series of mysterious deaths in a small Thai town; Deborah Stratman’s homage to the pioneer of avant-garde queer cinema Barbara Hammer; and a journey along the mythical river Styx by Belarusian artists Darya Golova and Sasha Kulak.

Date
Friday, August 21
Time
20:00–22:00

International Competition. Program 4

Program 4 features five pictures: Maïder Fortuné and Annie Macdonnell’s elegant performance film about mutual influences and art; wild and absurd animation by the Hong Kong-based Wong Ping; Riar Rizaldi’s ironic essay on the materiality of the digital world; a tender piece shot on film by Jodie Mack; and queer dances straight from the Brazilian Pavilion at the 58th Venice Biennale by Bárbara Wagner and Benjamin de Burca.

Date
Saturday, August 22
Time
22:15–00:00

International Competition. Program 5

Program 5 includes five pictures: artist Ismail Bahri’s poetic cinematic commentary on Tunisian Independence Day; the story of the famous Taiwanese Siamese twins reimagined by Hsu Che-Yu; an impeccable tactile video essay by Antoinette Zwirchmayr; a film by Anya Tsirlina based on Soviet propaganda found footage celebrating equality of the sexes; and Graeme Arnfield’s stroboscopic trip into the future.

Date
Sunday, August 23
Time
22:15–23:40

International Competition. Program 6

Program 6 features five films: an installation film by the Lawrence Aby Hamdan about the Lebanese war trauma; an experimental investigation into the border areas in Southern Armenia by Pejvak; Cyprien Gaillard’s journey through Soviet underground stations; Ana Vaz’s film immersing the viewer into an archive of drawings made by the indigenous peoples of the Brazilian Amazon; and Russian director Kirill Khacaturov’s witty animation piece.

Date
Monday, August 24
Time
20:00–21:40