Narrative Shorts: Global Musings
Films with glimpses into life from global perspectives. Many films in this block are subtitled.
Al fresco
Directed by Ignacio Rodó
8:00 • Spain
Large room in a dream apartment. Unbeatable location. Plenty of light. (Ad possibly too good to be true.)
Silent Night
Directed by Michał Cygan
10:54 • United Kingdom
At Christmas time, Grace, who is deaf, feels especially isolated from her hearing coworkers.
The culprit
Directed by María Guerra
10:00 • Spain
Virginia Lopez-Medina, a woman who has quietly dedicated her whole life to the world of cinema, talks about her work in a very eventful interview that proves the importance of her position.
Gyopo
Directed by Christina YR Lim
18:00 • United States
Seoul, 1995. A family goes to great lengths to protect a 10-year-old violin prodigy from discovering the truth about her father and musical hero.
Ya Hanouni
Directed by Lyna Tadount, Sofian Chouaib
3:00 • France
While new parents try to put their baby to sleep, a competition arises between them only to be interrupted.
The Perfect Tomato
Directed by Cristobal Abugaber
18:21 • United States
An aging farmer refuses to leave his longstanding way of life behind at the risk of losing what truly matters to him.
Neither Donkey Nor Horse
Directed by Robin Wang
28:29 • United States
Amidst the outbreak of the 1910 Manchurian Plague, a young Chinese doctor must defy prejudices of both the East and the West to champion his groundbreaking theory of the disease and seek the truth that will heal it.