Official Section 2017

6th Nature and Cinema Exhibition ForadCamp 2017

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Chyrak (A lamp), Asel Zhuraeva (Kyrgyzstan, 2016, 10 min)

Chyrak, by Asel Zhuraeva

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The life of Zalkarbek and his mother Kalbu, who live without electricity, 15 km far from the state capital city, Bishkek.

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E.B.C. 5300 m., Léonard Kohli (Switzerland, 2015, 15 min)

E.B.C. 5300 m

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«E.B.C. 5300m » portrays the Everest Base Camp. The camp, set on a glacier, is assembled and dismantled every year for a period of 2 months. Between guides, cooks, government officials and guests, it houses a little bit less than 1,000 people.

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Fajr, Lois Patiño (Spain, 2016, 12 min)

Fajr, by Lois Patiño

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In the Moroccan desert, night dilutes forms and silence slides through sand. Dawn starts to draw silhouettes of dunes while motionless figures punctuate landscape. From night´s abstraction, light returns its dimension to space and their volume to bodies. Stillness concentrates gaze and duration densifies it. The adhan –call to pray– sounds and immobility, that was condensing, begins to irradiate. And now the bodies dissolve into the desert.

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Grapevines, Luka Papić (Serbia, Germany, 2016, 19 min)

Grapevines

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Sale is a 12 years old boy who spends summer in Vrbas with his uncle, a karate coach and a hunter. Everybody in town wants to teach him something about life. But for Sale present is simple: nature is still, parents are absent, people talk, animals are in the fields and karate is a Soutine.

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Tales from Rabassada, Ferran Romeu (Spain, 2016, 28 min)

Historias de la Rabassada

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The films portrays the old casino of La Rabassada through the eyes of its current tenant, a globetrotter named Andrei, who introduces us to the remains of what it was the great dream of the Catalan bourgeoisie of the early twentieth century.

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Jellyfish weather, Katinka Baehr, Stefanie Visjager (Netherlands, 2016, 2 min)

Jellyfish weather

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Jesper (11 years) enjoys a nice day at the beach with his sister. Because of the weather, there are a lot of jellyfish. ‘You can feel they don’t want you there’, says Jesper. ‘They want the sea for themselves’.

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La pesca, Pablo Álvarez Mesa, Fernando López Escrivá (Colombia-Canada, 2017, 22 min)

La pesca

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La pesca portrays a day in the life of a family of fishermen in Colombia. With poetry and sensorial richness, the film captures the gestures of these men as they weave nets, cook, and play dominoes, all the while waiting for the fish to come so that they can recommence anew.

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My cat in me, Katinka Baehr, Stefanie Visjager (Netherlands, 2016, 2 min)

My cat in me

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Lieuwe, a 11 year old girl, has recently lost her cat. She reflects on the cycle of nature, and believes that there is a distant possibility of finding her pet.

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Nature: all rights reserved, Sebastian Mulder (Netherlands, 2016, 22 min)

Nature: all rights reserved

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In a world where the original nature is widely disappearing, there seems to be a new form of nature: artificial nature. The film examines the context, experience and various forms of this simulated nature in a experimental way.

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Pezcal, Pablo Briones (Cuba-Colombia, Switzerland, 2016, 11 min)

Pezcal, by Pablo Briones

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To train pigeons, to search for worms, to go fishing… The film portrays a day in the life of Leonel and Antuán, two young friends of the Cuban countryside.

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Pulse, Robin Petré (Hungary, Belgium, Portugal, 2015, 26 min)

Pulse

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The film takes place on one of Europe’s largest deer farms, home to 1,500 deers. The animals were first caught in the forest 25 years ago, and are essentially still wild. Pulse looks at human-animal relations and the way we co-exist with nature.

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Through the looking glass, Yi Cui (China, 2017, 14 min)

Through the looking glass, by Yi Cui

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On a high-land Tibetan pasture, a screening event unfolds quietly. Monks, herdsmen and their families gather by the screen to observe life captured through their own lenses.

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Ur Artean (In the middle of water), Íñigo Jimenez, Jesús María Palacios (Spain, 2015, 26 min)

Ur Artean

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The film deals with the figures of the lighthouse-keeper José Manuel Andoin and his mother, Maria Torralbo, who lived for more than twenty years in the Island of Santa Clara, just 500 meters away from San Sebastián city, but isolated of society. Ur Artean is the story of the enigmatic relationship between a strong character mother and a complacent son with a parallel life that turned him into a forgotten Olympic figure.
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Valentina, Ben Guez (United States of America, Mexico, 2017, 17 min)

Valentina, by Ben Guez

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A magical-realism documentary inspired by the writing of Juan Rulfo about a shepherd and his wife living in a Mexican ghost town.

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