FRIDAY, 4 OCTOBER 2024 / 20:00
This screening session features 3 (short) films.
All films are in English and/or have English subtitles.
@ Velvet Room, Alpacastraat 29, 9000 Ghent, Belgium
Entry is free and includes a drink!
The Obskuur Ghent Film Festival is often referred to as Europe's most obscure film festival. An island oasis for art amidst a sea of commercialism. Sure, it's modest in form, as we mainly focus on screening films and less on the glitter and glamour. The festival focuses on contemporary cinema and video art and places its films where they belong – within the vibrant context of other art forms.
The source of a river, a night stream (Spain) by Javier Calvo de Cabrera
A woman slowly fades into darkness waiting for her son to appear one last time. Resisting their inevitable separation, they will both remain tenuously united through a fragile but persistent daydream.
Running time: 00:27:30
Leben (Poland) by Ania Plonka
A grotesque reflection on life on a Polish housing estate from a perspective of chaotic and slightly depressed student Olga, who moves into a flat inherited from her grandma. Initially, she feels hopeless, her roommate annoys her, and the area she remembered from her childhood seems like a depressive pit. A random visit to Astoria bar and meeting her childhood friends makes her realize the fascinating oddity of the local community and gives her hope for true settling in.
Running time: 00:29:07
Dva (Russia) by Alexandra Karelina
During the inexplicable state of emergency in Moscow, a lonely young man is trying to find his missing dog and to figure out what is truly going on. Eventually, he finds himself in a parallel world where the dead and the living are inseparable, but the word "death" is strictly prohibited
Running time: 00:33:00
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