Still: In the heart there is stone - Naomi Pacifique

Selected for the International Competition is Zuza Banasińska’s latest short Kontrewers*. It tells the story of the ghost of a possessed girl, trapped for centuries within a stone, encounters the director’s 102-year-old grandmother. It world premiered at Berlinale earlier this year and its successful festival run includes Reykjavík IFF,  Upsala SFF and Montreal Festival du Nouveau Cinema. Festival distribution is handled by Video Power. 

Also competing for the international award is I Am The Film Motherfucker, But I Am Real by MeowX2 a Dutch minority co-production that world premiered at IFFR.

Dutch-Swiss co-production In the heart there is stone*written and directed by Naomi Pacifique (prod. Idle Eye) is selected for the National Competition. In this short fiction, Naomi calls Matteo and compares him to the sun: how can you ask the sun to be anything but the sun, to do anything but shine? His answer is less enthusiastic, so she sets out to hear what the rocks, trees, and wind have to say about it all.

Dutch co-production Heaven Will Wait, graduation film by Dutch director Silver Tjepkema for LUCA School of the Arts Brussel, is part of the Sparks Competition. A group of young women wield their sexuality with confidence, yet their world brims with tension: caught between watching and being watched. Festival distribution is handled by Purple Ray Film.

Also included in diverse programs out of competition are Little Problems by Chris de Krijger (Hot Shorts), City of Poets* by Sara Rajaei (Focus on Iran) and Wander to Wonder* by Nina Gantz (Focus: For the Love of Cinema).

Read more about Internationale Kurzfilmtage Winterthur here.

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*Film is supported by the Netherlands Film Fund