EDGING (Verbal) - Solo(2023)

Today We Start Our Love(ja)

Hibino Tsubaki is a shy, kind, and slightly old-fashioned girl who has always been the top student in her class. She always did everything her parents wanted her to do. She loved to do other girls' hair in trendy and cute styles, despite always wearing plain braids herself. On her first day of high school at the opening ceremony, she is astonished to see that the top student giving the opening speech is not only somebody else, but also the rudest boy she has ever seen. This delinquent turns out to be her new classmate, Kyouta Tsubaki. Kyouta teases Hibino, drawing attention to their similar last names. The two are both top of their class, but are different in every other way. Even though it seems that they cannot stand each other, fate has something else in store for them…

Nachtarbeiter - Von Fledermäusen und anderem Nachtgetier(de)

A cinematic foray into nocturnal nature, where numerous nocturnal animals are in search of prey: From midnight to 4 a.m., the camera observes bats and other nocturnal creatures.

It Happened Again Last Night(en)

Paige must choose between love and fear before she has no choices left to make.

The Dream Machine(en)

A 16mm anthology of experimental super 8 films by Derek Jarman, Michael Kostiff, Cerith Wyn Evans and John Maybury, with framing footage by Tim Burke of Brion Gysin using a dream machine. Jarman's contribution is a version of his 1977 Art and the Pose (aka Arty the Pose), refilmed at 3fps, with a musical soundtrack. Jarman planned The Dream Machine as a commemoration of William Burroughs and Gysin's 1982 visit to the UK, and received initial funding from the Arts Council in 1983, then rethought the project as a portmanteau film featuring Gysin alone. The production remained in limbo until 1986, when James Mackay obtained completion funding from the British Film Institute. (Since this film was released on VHS accompanied by Jarman's Broken English: Three Songs by Marianne Faithfull, T.G.: Psychic Rally in Heaven and Pirate Tape under the umbrella title The Dream Machine, synopses of this film have often muddled up its details with those of the earlier films. )

Wild Beach(en)

Documentary from Barbara Bialowąs.

9000 Laps(fr)

Routine(hu)

An experimental half-documentary half-fiction about a young person’s routine of getting to sleep and waking up.

Circles(sv)

After a 9 month mission as a doctor in war-torn Central African Republic, Susanna returns to Sweden only to find she no longer can call it her home.

Last Day for Videos(en)

A short documentary capturing the experiences and feelings of staff at a Family Video rental store in Kalamazoo, Michigan on their last day of operation following the steady rise of streaming services and the final blow dealt by the pandemic.

Along the Road(sv)

Truck drivers Ronny and Micke have a secret relationship. They meet up at rest areas along the road, where no one can see them.

F is for Freezing(es)

A young woman, with a very strange way of loving, finds her last missing object.

Is This the Right Place for Us?(en)

A short experimental documentary that interrogates how the modernization of parks and playgrounds in Long Branch (a neighbourhood in South Etobicoke in Toronto, Canada) both reflects and contributes to the overall rise in the cost of living in the area by exploring children's relationships to the community spaces around them. The film includes footage from four local parks and playgrounds, personal archival materials, interviews with five South Etobicoke locals, and an art-based workshop at a local junior middle school.

A Curtain Raiser(fr)

Bruno, a young Frenchman, is frustrated by his girlfriend's constant lack of punctuality. He decides to end their relationship the next time she is late again.

Beautiful Stranger(fr)

Romain, in his thirties, has just been dumped by his boyfriend. Lonely and romantic, he tries a dating app and will make two surprising encounters in a two-star hotel.

Sisak(en)

This short film follows the story of two gay men in Mumbai who meet and fall in love in regular train journeys. Burdened with the larger social (and legal) scorn the two are unable to say anything to each other.

Shadowlands(sv)

Shadowlands is an animated short film about darkness that won't let go. About the constant fear that something terrible might happen. It describes a journey into the inner world and psyche of a young person in distress, a world far from "normal".

Metrotopia(xx)

A brief visual journey through the subways of major world cities. Without narration, Marker captures anonymous gestures, repetitive rhythms, and the unique atmosphere of underground urban spaces. A sensory meditation on modern life, the homogenization of environments, and the quiet beauty of places in transit.

Coffee(bs)

April, 2015. Tradition is the ground on which we walk, the solid, impenetrable and tired. The method has remained almost the same or not?

My Biker 2(th)

Over break, Gentle and Motor grow close—but once school resumes, Motor pulls away, leaving Gentle hurt and their fragile new relationship at risk.

The Fascinator(en)

The Man is bound in an endless loop of fascination with a woman who haunts his thoughts. On the brink of a breakdown he desperately tries to break free before he is consumed.