Section: School Screening

Testudo Hermanni, dir. G. Anthony Svatek, Austria, USA 2023, 7 min, 10+ VENUE | DATE | TIME Salzburg at dusk. The city church bells drown out classical music playing inside a house. Unlike the white winter landscape shown on the calendar hanging on the wall, the Alpine mountains are barely covered in snow. Fields shine with lush greenery, much like…

dir. Dòmhnall Eòghainn MacKinnon, Great Britain 2022, 14 min., 10+, film with Polish voiceover VENUE | DATE | TIME Aonghas lives in Scotland and regularly explores tidal pools located near his home. He searches for marine creatures – large and small, strange and wonderful. Sea lemons, sea slugs, and bristle worms: these have already been discovered by him.…

dir. Maarten de Schutter, Netherlands 2023, 16 min., 10+, film with Polish voiceover VENUE | DATE | TIME Duuk and Maarten can only speculate about who their biological fathers are. They were born thanks to sperm donors. What does that actually mean? An animated watercolor sequence helps unravel this mystery, illustrating how artificial insemination works. The film’s…

dir. Sebastian Mulder, Netherlands 2023, 21 min., 10+ KINOTEKA | MARCH 24 | 9:00-11:00 AM At the end of the year in the Netherlands, as in many other countries, millions of euros worth of fireworks explode with a loud bang, lighting up the night sky. For animals, this New Year’s celebration is a true nightmare. How does this visual and auditory spectacle appear from their perspective?…