ISFF13
Film Selection 2020
Film Selection 2020
26 features / 58 shorts / 30 countries
Premieres:
11 World Premieres / 25 United States / 4 East Coast /8 New York
Premieres:
11 World Premieres / 25 United States / 4 East Coast /8 New York
Science New Wave
(SN) Science New Wave - Feature films in competition that propose bold, singular and oftentimes hybrid ways to communicate science. These films are considered to be visionary and outside of the (science) box.
(IN COMPETITION)
(IN COMPETITION)
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Air Conditioner | Fradique, Angola, 72 min., 2020 - U.S. Premiere
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As Above So Below | Sarah Francis, Lebanon, 70 min., 2020 - U.S. Premiere
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At the Bottom of the Sea | Karsten Krause / Dan Boehl, Germany, 49 min., 2020 - U.S. Premiere
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Bile | Ira Goryainova, Belgium, 63 min., 2019 - U.S. Premiere
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The Colony | Anna Lindemann, USA, 60 min., 2020, World Premiere
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Earth | Nikolaus Geyrhalter, Austria, 115 min., 2019
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Empty Horses | Péter Lichter, Hungary, 67 min., 2019 - U.S. Premiere
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Her Name Was Europa | Anja Dornieden / Juan David Gonzalez Monroy, Germany, 76 min., 2020
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Homo Botanicus | Guillermo Quintero, Colombia, 78 min., 2018 - U.S. Premiere
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Lapsis | Noah Hutton, USA, 108 min., 2020
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Phases of Matter | Deniz Tortum, Turkey, 71 min., 2020 - U.S. Premiere
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Semina il vento (Sow the wind) | Danilo Caputo, Italy, 91 min., 2020
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Tóxico | Ariel Martínez Herrera, Argentina, 71 min., 2020 - U.S. Premiere
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The World of Thinking | Misha Wessel / Thomas Blom, Netherlands, 57 min., 2020 - U.S. Premiere
SPOTLIGHT
(SP) Spotlight - Feature films in competition that are timely and topical, not shying away from controversial matters while providing a well-balanced state-of-matters related to scientific issues and societies at-large.
(IN COMPETITION)
(IN COMPETITION)
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Coded Bias | Shalini Kantayya, USA, 90 min., 2020
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Coronation | Ai Weiwei, China, 113 min., 2020 - U.S. Premiere
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The Great Green Wall | Jared P. Scott, USA, 91 min., 2020
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Jozi Gold | Fredrik Gertten / Sylvia Vollenhaven, South Africa, 74 min., 2019 - U.S. Premiere
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Nan Ren He Ta De Hai (Whale Island) | Chia-Chun Huang, Taiwan, 108 min., 2020 - New York Premiere
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Picture A Scientist | Sharon Shattuck / Ian Cheney, USA, 97 min., 2020
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Once You Know (Une fois que tu sais) | Emmanuel Cappellin, France, 104 min., 2020 - East Coast Premiere
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The Story of Plastic | Deia Schlosberg, USA, 89 min., 2020
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Ticket to the Moon | Veronika Janatkova, Czech Republic, 68 min., 2020 - U.S. Premiere
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Wake Up on Mars | Dea Gjinovci, Switzerland, France, 68 min., 2020
RETROACTIVE
(RA) Retroactive - Films evoking the past that are far from being outdated and resonate with the present and future tenses
(NOT IN COMPETITION)
(NOT IN COMPETITION)
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La Cordillera de los Sueños (The Cordillera of Dreams) | Patricio Guzmán, Chile, 85 min., 2020
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The Last Artifact | Jaime Jacobsen / Ed Watkins, USA, 57 min., 2020 - World Premiere
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Space Dogs | Elsa Kremser / Levin Peter, Austria, 91 min., 2019
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Speak So I Can See You | Marija Stojnić, Serbia, Croatia, Qatar, 73 min., 2019
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Tune Into the Future | Eric Schockmel, Luxembourg, 62 min., 2020 - U.S. Premiere
SHORTS
(SH) Our shorts films - from documentary to fiction to animation to lab footage
(IN COMPETITION)
(IN COMPETITION)
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A Demonstration | Sasha Litvintseva / Beny Wagner, Germany, 24 min., 2020 - U.S. Premiere
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Aggregate State of Matters | Rosa Barba, Peru / Germany, 18 min., 2019 - U.S. Premiere
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At Home But Not At Home | Suneil Sanzgiri, USA / India, 10 min., 2020 - New York Premiere
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The Atomic Adventure | Loïc Barché, France, 25 min., 2019 - New York Premiere
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Average Happiness | Maja Gehrig, Switzerland, 7 min., 2019 - East Coast Premiere
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Baba | Sarah Blok / Lisa Konno, Netherlands, 13 min., 2020 - U.S. Premiere
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Bend or Break | Isaac Kerlow, Singapore, 3 min., 2019, U.S. Premiere
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Bye Little Block! | Éva Darabos, Hungary, 9 min., 2020, U.S. Premiere
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The Circadian Cycle | Garry Stewart, Australia, 16 min., 2019
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Clebs (Mutts) | Halima Ouardiri, Canada, 18 min., 2020
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The Cloud House | Elias Heuninck, Belgium, 5 min., 2019 - U.S. Premiere
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Cosmonaut | Kaspar Jancis, Estonia, 12 min., 2019, U.S. Premiere
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Decorum | Lorenzo Monti, Australia, 10 min., 2019
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Earth's Answer | Giulia Grossmann, France 20 min., 2020, World Premiere
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Earthbound | Normand Rajotte, Canada, 10 min., 2020, U.S. Premiere
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The eclipse which revolutionized physics | Renata Druck / Bruno Horowicz, Brazil, 2 min., 2019
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Endless Forms Most Beautiful | Meredith Binnette, USA, 5 min., 2020, U.S. Premiere
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The End of Suffering (a proposal) | Jacqueline Lentzou, Greece, 14 min., 2020
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Exilio | Maria Espinoza Stransky, Cuba, 11 min., 2019, World Premiere
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The eyes in the woods and the taste in the water | Luciana Mazeto, Vinícius Lopes, Brazil, 37 min., 2020
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Fat Kathy | Julia Pelka, Poland, 14 min., 2019
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FREYA | Camille Hollett-French, Canada, 17 min., 2020, U.S. Premiere
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Gravedad | Matisse Gonzalez, Germany, 10 min., 2019
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Helfer | Anna Szöllősi, Hungary, 9 min., 2020 - U.S. Premiere
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Here and There | Melisa Liebenthal, Argentina, 21 min., 2019
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I Love My Wife... | Ian Tierney, UK, 5 min., 2020 - New York Premiere
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The Institute | Alexander Glandien, Germany / Austria, 13 min., 2020, U.S. Premiere
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In Vitro | Larissa Sansour / Søren Lind, Palestine, 27 min., 2019
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Janus 2155 - The last archive | Stéfane Perraud, France, 13 min., 2020
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It's Going to Be Beautiful | Luis Gutiérrez Arias / John Henry Theisen, Mexico, 8 min., 2019
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La Bobine 11004 | Mirabelle Fréville, France, 20 min., 2020
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Lichen | Lisa Jackson, Canada, 11 min., 2020 - New York Premiere
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Material Bodies | Dorothy Allen-Pickard, UK, 4 min., 2020 -World Premiere
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Metamorphoses | Julia Popławska, Poland, 12 min., 2020 -World Premiere
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Mirror Test | Duncan Marquiss, UK, 6 min., 2019 - East Coast Premiere
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Nitrate | Yousra Benziane, Canada, 14 min., 2019
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Now I Am An Axolotl | Alejandra Medellín Equihua, Mexico, 10 min., 2019 - U.S. Premiere
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Obscura | Hannah Jordan / Emily Jordan, Australia, 8 min., 2019 - U.S. Premiere
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Of the Basin | Keely Kernan, USA, 25 min., 2020 - East Coast Premiere
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Pripyat Piano | Eliška Cílková, Czech Republic, 18 min., 2020 - U.S. Premiere
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The Quiet | Radheya Jegatheva, Australia, 10min., 2019, New York Premiere
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The Shoreline (Rivages) | Sophie Racine, France, 8 min., 2020
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Smiles | Steven Bednar, USA, 11 min., 2019
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Something to Remember | Niki Lindroth von Bahr, Sweden, 5 min., 2019 - New York Premiere
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Story | Jolanta Bankowska, Poland, 5 min., 2019
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Synthesis of ATP | Dr Drew Berry, Australia, 2 min., 2020 - World Premiere
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TESTFILM #1 | Telcosystems, Croatia, 14 min., 2020 -U.S. Premiere
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TX Reverse | Martin Reinhart, Virgil Widrich , Austria, 5 min., 2019, New York Premiere
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The Universe Within | Valentina Cruz Collins, Chile, 6 min., 2020, U.S. Premiere
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Voices of Genetic Counsellors: So Much More Than Just a Test | Anna Middleton, UK, 3min., 2020 - East Cost Premiere
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Wade | Kalp Sanghvi / Upamanyu Bhattacharyya, India, 11 min., 2019
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Watchmaker At Time's End | Shaheen Sheriff, India, 5 min., 2020
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The Whelming Sea | Sean Hanley , USA, 29 min., 2020, World Premiere
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where we used to swim | Daniel Asadi Faezi, Germany, 7 min., 2019 - U.S. Premiere
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You Play Here | Inés Vogelfang, USA, 17 min., 2019 -World Premiere
FOCUS
Films that are part of special programs organized in partnership with like-minded organizations
(NOT IN COMPETITION)
(NOT IN COMPETITION)
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Glory At Sea! | Benh Zeitlin, USA, 25 min., 2008 - in partnership with Zayed University & Al Sidr Environmental Film Festival
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The Last Days of the Man of Tomorrow | Fadi Baki, Germany/Lebanon, 29 min., 2017 - in partnership with Zayed University & Al Sidr Environmental Film Festival
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Spanish Flu: The Forgotten Fallen | Justin Hardy, United Kingdom, 60 min., 2009
