Not Fully Human

ONCE UPON A SCREEN: EXPLOSIVE PARADOX

Taking as it's starting a memory of watching “Platoon” for the first time, in a cinema that doesn’t exist anymore, this piece of docu-videographic essay discusses the chasm between remembering and reenacting; between sheer shock upon seeing violence on screen versus turning it into something prosaic.

THE SAME DREAM

Vlad Petri | Durata 29 min.

The traumatic fiber of war soldiers is often sealed with images. One of them is this one. We’re in Afghanistan. A Romanian soldier driving an armed vehicle sees a wounded child. His recurrent nightmare is gazing over her olive eyes asking for help yet doing nothing to save her.

IN FLOW OF WORDS

Eliane Esther Bots | Durata 22 min.

There are rare cases when the lack of intervention could save lives. The protagonists of this film have to detach from their human empathy day by day, when they are asked to mediate between victim and aggressor. The interpreters can’t step into any of the sides, can’t walk into their shoes, and this dissolving task often festers wounds.

THIS DAY WON’T LAST

Mouaad El Salem | Durata 25 min.

An ode brought to the joie de vivre, constantly threatened to be unraveled. In Tunis, a homosexual could be sentenced to three years of prison. In his four-wall den, Mouaad films his surroundings with eagerness, tenderness, spontaneity. He sings James Blunt songs, dances, chats with his cat; is there any hope for another day tomorrow?