WHOLE WIDE WORLD Competition set II

4.12., 21:00
Kino Forum, 5 Legionowa St
admission free

PUNTER
director: Jason Adam Maselle
director of cinematography: William Douglas
South Africa, USA 2024, 14′

Brett must navigate the underbelly of the Johannesburg gambling world as a seemingly harmless horse-racing bet jeopardizes the surprise he’s prepared for his father’s birthday.

400 CASSETTES

director: Thelyia Petraki
director of cinematography: Tudor Vladimir Panduru
music: Alive She Died
Greece/Grecja 2024, 14’

After a lesson about cosmic archaeologists and a water fight in the schoolyard, Elly steals Faye’s soul and Faye gives Elly a rare birthday present. But then, under a sky full of stars, a song from the past will remind the girls that nothing really lasts forever.

FURIA
RAGE

directors: Fran Moreno Blanco, Santi Pujol Amat
director of cinematography: Fran Moreno Blanco, Santi Pujol Amat
Spain 2025, 18’42”

Eric lives in a juvenile center. He tries to rebuild his relationship with his mother so he can live with her again when he turns 18. When she doesn’t show up to visit him, he runs away to go to her house. There, he discovers she has a new family and that she has moved on with her life without him.

AT HOME I FEEL LIKE LEAVING

director: Simon Maria Kubiena
director of cinematography: Dennis Banemann
music: Moritz Klock
Germany, Austria 2025, 20’

A young woman returns to her home village after her childlike father had gone missing in the surrounding woods. Throughout her day back home, she is torn between feeling responsible and a deep longing for connection and ease.

ASTRO

director: Tim Ewalts
director of cinematography: Katja van den Broeke
music: Sjeng Muermans, Tim Ewalts
Netherlands 2024, 16’

Emily just started her job as a telephone psychic for a morally ambiguous spiritual callcenter. Emily herself isn’t a particularly spiritual person. Her readings follow a carefully thought out script and are vague at best. In a series of conversations with callers from varying walks of life, she discovers that perhaps there is something spiritual inside or around her after all.