International competition: Neon Black. Premiere

16:30–18:00Garage Auditorium

Sin Cielo

A man nicknamed Uncle Juan and his wife organize parties in a poor neighborhood of a Mexican city. The adults know that their activities are illegal, but Memo and Chango—two teenagers who run errands for Juan—are completely unaware. The realization of the truth comes too late—when Memo’s flame Delia goes missing. The heart-wrenching coming-of-age story is set against a reality of the slave trade and femicide.

Sin Cielo
Director: Jianna Maarten Saada
USA, France, 2019. 25 min. 16+

Animals

A disclaimer at the start alerts the viewer that the film features “scenes of violence and sex and stroboscopic effects. Enjoy!” A ride on the underground turns into a nightmare when nine passengers, including a pregnant woman, a homeless man, and a scared boy, are stuck in one carriage. Each of them wants to survive, no matter what.

Animals
Director: Tue Sanggaard
France, 2019. 7 min. 18+

Cru

Working on a particularly sophisticated dish, Jeanne hurts her wrist and leaves to put a bandage on it. Her boss—a merciless chef with twelve years of work in the kitchen behind her, demands that Anna returns to work. In this culinary thriller, the fanciest dishes bring to mind Bryan fuller’s series Hannibal.

Cru
Director: David Oesch
Switzerland, 2019, 10 min. 18+

Traces

Selma is jealous of her little brother, who seems to be their mother’s favorite. Feeding his fascination with the woods, she tells him of huge bears that live in the forest and which only the bravest man can fight. One night her brother sneaks out of the house to fight the bears.

Traces
Director: Ingvild Søderlind
Norway, 2019. 10 min. 16+

Ghost Eye

The psychedelic animated neo-noir soaked in alcohol and sex consists of three stories from the life of Johnny—an anthropomorphic rabbit taxi driver, who speaks in a low smoker’s voice. Johnny remembers his schoolmate nicknamed Ghost Eye, who had her brutal revenge on the PE teacher who harassed her; a passenger who lost his arm and got a limb of a young girl instead; and the story of his neighbor—a stripper who murdered a man with burning eyes with a brick.

Ghost Eye
Directors: Wouter Sel, Thijs De Cloedt
Belgium, 2019 min. 18+

Cuckoo! 

An eccentric cat man lives inside a cuckoo clock in a care home. Every hour he jumps out of the clock and shouts ‘Cuckoo!’ His repetitive job is vital for the retired lady who lives in the room with the clock. The man cuckoos diligently until one day, he gets distracted by a radio quiz.

Cuckoo! 
Director: Jörgen Scholtens
Netherlands, 2019. 7 min. 16+