Afterschool - Dir. Antonio Campos
Robert’s parents have enrolled him at an expensive top-notch boarding school on the east coast of America. This is a where the children of influential parents grow up, children with the kind of parents who are far too busy to take care of their own offspring. The atmosphere at the school is cold and unsympathetic. Grin and bear it is the unwritten law within these walls and if that doesn’t help there’s always drugs – which are easy to obtain here. Robert keeps all of this at arm’s length. He hardly has any friends and prefers to spend all his time online, watching porn and scenes of violence. He derives so much pleasure from watching the world around him from a distance that he decides to join a video course. When two female fellow-pupils die of an overdose in front of his camera’s gaze, Robert is forced to engage with the real world in which his parents have abandoned him.
A kis Valentinó - Dir. András Jeles
An agricultural cooperative just outside Budapest, 20-year-old László, who works as a co-driver, accompanies an older colleague to the post office, where a large sum of money is to be paid in. The branch is completely rammed with people and time is getting on. László gets in the queue but soon gives up in the chaos. When he comes out of the branch though, his colleague is already driving away in the delivery van. The amount of money that László now has in his pockets soon makes his good intentions evaporate. He drifts around and starts extravagantly spending money which doesn’t belong to him. He buys a pair of sunglasses, takes a taxi into Budapest and watches passers-by. He treats himself to a slap-up meal in a luxury hotel and watches a documentary about Las Vegas at the cinema. Later on, he meets a friend who works as a taxi driver and is soon to be married. The two of them reminisce together as they drive to Lake Velence near Budapest. At a resort restaurant, the waiters think that the two young men must be fraudsters, with a fistfight ensuing. László is abandoned by his friend and flees the scene. But the strange pull that the day has been exerting on László is not done with him yet. He ends up spending the rest of the money in an amusement park before turning himself in to the police.
Empire Of Silver - Dir. Christina Yao
Director Christina Yao’s opulent feature film is a dynastic saga; it is also a passionate love story and a moral tale, based on historical events. The story of the Kangs, a family of bankers, and their banking empire on China’s ‘Wall Street’ spans a period from the Boxer Uprising to the Chinese Revolution and the founding of the People’s Republic in 1949. The film begins in 1899. A carefree, hedonistic young man is next in line to inherit a banking empire which has hitherto meant very little to him. However, following a tragic abduction, of which his sister-in-law was the victim, this ‘third man’ reluctantly bows to his authoritative father’s iron will. Keen to prepare his offspring for the time when he will take over his financial conglomerate, this powerful banker, Kang, is determined to turn his son into as ruthless a businessman as himself. However, his idealistic son has always called into question his father’s high-handed style of leadership and hard-nosed business principles. The tense relationship between the two men is put under additional strain on account of Kang junior’s undying love for his beautiful young step-mother. She was the first and only love of his life – before his father stole her from him. It is time for him to decide whether he will take the path his father trod before him or whether he will make his own way in life …
a Mango tree in the front yard - Dir. Raveendran Pradeepan
This film was inspired by the dreams of a generation that have been dashed by the barbaric oppression of the Sri Lankan government and a 25-year-old struggle for liberation, the aims of which have evolved into a disguised form of fascism. “In just a few spare images, Raveendran Pradeepan manages to provide an oppressive account of this bleak situation.” (Maike Mia Höhne)
Dish - Dir. Brian Harris Krinsky
Two emos in eastern Los Angeles chat about the sexual escapades of others. After Israel has found out everything from Louie, innocent Israel decides it’s about time he knew first hand what it’s all about. The proviso is that the hair has to stay in place.
Laitue - Dir. Nicholas Brooks
A hand-drawn animation film that describes a short journey of loss and reunification. Two characters find themselves separated by space and time. Nonetheless there are moments of overlap which evolve into a choreography of anticipation and restlessness. This is the micro-level of time and event explored in the film.
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