SYSTEM ERROR

International Short Film Competition SYSTEM ERROR

25.09 / 20.30 / KSUNS

BACKWARD RUN

Marche Arriere
Ayce Kartal
Animation / France / 2014 / 4’
June 2013. Demonstrators occupy
Istanbul’s Taksim Gezi park. While the
tension and police brutality rise in the
streets, the Turkish TV broadcasts documentaries about penguins. Backward
Runis a self-censored film criticizing
this press censorship.

SHIPWRECK
Morgan Knibbe
Documentary / Netherlands / 2014 /
14’57’
On October 3 2013, a boat carrying 500
Eritrean refugees sunk off the coast
of the Italian island Lampedusa. More
than 360 people drowned. Abraham,
one of the survivors, walks through a
graveyard of shipwrecks and vividly remembers the nightmarish experience.

#YA
Ygor & Florencia Gama & Rovlich
(Argentina, Čhile)
Experimental / Germany / 2015 / 15’
First it’s paint bombs, followed hard
by riots. Tweets proclaim what is to be
done. Resistance is everywhere. Something has to give. Two young activists
meet amid turbulent events. They
dance. The city belongs to them.

WITH JOY AND MERRINESS
Dans la joie et la bonne humeur
Jeanne Boukraa
Animation / Belgium / 2014 / 5’15’’
With Joy and Merrinessis an experimental documentary that observes
degeneration of the society where
technological breakthroughs make
the biggest dream of the humankind –
immortality attainable.

AHLEM (DREAMS) Ahlem (sogni)
Alessandra Pescetta
Fiction / Italy / 2014 / 18’30’’
Ahlem and Victoria are two teenagers
with far distant roots (Tunisia and
Poland) who have been growing up in
Sicily. “What’s your dream today?” they
often ask each other.

DINNER FOR FEW
Nassos Vakalis
Animation / Greece / 2014 / 10’08’’
Dinner For Fewis an allegorical depiction of our society. During dinner, “the
system” feeds the few who consume
all the resources while the rest survive
on scraps. Inevitably, the struggle for
what remains leads to catastrophic
change.

BEACH FLAGS
Sarah Saidan
Animation / France / 2014 / 13’39’’
Vida is a young Iranian lifeguard.
Popular on her team, she is determined
to fight in order to be the one to participate in an international competition in
Australia. However, when Sareh who
is as fast and talented as her, joins
the team, Vida will have to face an
unexpected situation.

IN THE DISTANCE
Florian Grolig
Animation / Germany / 2015 / 7’30’’
It’s calm and peaceful above the
clouds. But in the distance is war, and
night by night chaos advances.