Best Of International 4 – 2019

Untravel

A film about (local) patriotism, tourism and emigration. The girl lives in a gray, isolated country, enclosed by a huge wall. She has never travelled anywhere, but all her life she has dreamt of leaving forever for a perfect world called “Abroad”.
AUSTRALIAN PREMIERE

Le Champ De Mais (The Field)

A poor agricultural labourer leads a double life in the villa’s last remaining cornfield but the harvest is approaching.
AUSTRALIAN PREMIERE

The Atlas

A remote, and a bit crazy, psychiatric hospital receives a curious patient — he doesn’t move nor speak but spends his days standing with his hands up. The only thing known is his nickname — “The Atlas”. In a word, he is a riddle and a riveting one at that.
INTERNATIONAL PREMIERE

Dead Birds

A failing teenage badminton player at a Catholic Girls School is visited by a Saint – who agrees to help her if she’ll complete three tasks for him. Dead Birds is a twisted Super Natural Black Comedy about competitive mother daughter relationships, losing your religion and learning how far you’d go to get what you want.
AUSTRALIAN PREMIERE

El Destetado (The Foreign Body)

EL DESTETADO (THE FOREIGN BODY)
Venezuela, France / 18min / 2018

WRI/DIR/PROD: Héctor Silva Núñez
PROD: Eva Chillón, Marco Olmos

Jairo is a native young man from Venezuela who was born with no nipples. Distanced from the customs of his people, he explores in the city a male ideal to belong to.

AUSTRALIAN PREMIERE

Piggy

Sara is an overweight teen that lives in the shadow of a clique of cool girls holidaying in her village. Not even her childhood friend, Claudia, defends her when she’s bullied at the local pool in front of a unknown man. Her clothes are stolen and Sara must get home wearing nothing but her bikini. The long walk home will mark the rest of her life.
AUSTRALIAN PREMIERE

Sister

A man remembers his childhood memory of growing up with an annoying little sister in 1990s China. How would his life have been if things had gone differently?
AUSTRALIAN PREMIERE