That’s All, Folks
Thursday, 2 September, 18:45 - 20:06 / Kijkhuis 2
Friday, 3 September, 22:20 - 23:41 / Kijkhuis 2
Beliefs are shattered in the face of impending doom. These last two years, the ongoing pandemic has frequently been compared to an upcoming apocalypse. Imagined before the pandemic, these films explore the way humanity faces the end of the world. Sometimes eerily familiar, in other moments beyond imagination, things coming to an end might not be as bad as it seems.
Duration
81 min.
High in the Atlas Mountains, the young shepherd Abdellah and his father are hemmed in by snow at their goat pen. Their animals are wasting away. Abdellah must go to find supplies at a market village more than a day's walk away.
August 22, This Year is a meditation on death, a collective acceptance of mortality and a warm embrace for the present.
A few hours before the world ends, two men have an unexpected encounter, while a strange pink fog is spreading throughout the city. Their romantic affair will only last for a day.
Fedor is a young locksmith in Murmansk, a frozen city in the obscurity of the Russian Arctic. Client after client, he roams through the alleys of concrete animated by a fantasy that isolates him from the city and its population.