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Radical Fiction


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It’s a Long Way from Amphioxus

An old woman turns to the young man with the yellow book sitting next to her and asks, “What are they distributing here?” “Numbers”, he replies. In Berlin’s waiting rooms, where metal and wooden seats are nailed to the floor, people arrive after emerging from the seas. Here they wait. IT’S A LONG WAY FROM AMPHIOUXUS collapses time, questioning the meaning of life in a system in which humanity is reduced to a number and the value of one’s future is measured in terms of applications in grey hallways. Step into this black hole where bones and flesh have become numbers in a queuing system.… >>>

  • Duration: 15 Min.
  • Director: Kamal Aljafari

Kajsa Athena

Kajsa Athena is a young woman, an artist and a traveller, searching for her future. The journey begins in Athens. There, by chance, she meets Maria and Mohammed. Both are not only able to predict her personal life, but also the storyline of the film that she had planned to make. KAJSA ATHENA is a depiction of how the future unfolds in the present.… >>>

  • Duration: 25 Min.
  • Director: Tanita Olbrich

The Light Falls

Somewhere in the suburbs of Paris in a near future. The working class no longer exists. A man and his son leave the factory, they set the world to rights. Venus is moving closer to Earth.… >>>

  • Duration: 9 Min.
  • Director: Soufiane Adel

Elephantfish

We find ourselves aboard of a cargo ship, drifting in an endless sea. This vast emptiness in time and space is something the sailors cope within their own ways. The only escape from this confinement is by thinking and dreaming. Imagination comes up from beneath the surface and gradually takes over.… >>>

  • Duration: 27 Min.
  • Nominated: Goldener Key
    • Director: Meltse Van Coillie