2017

Synopsis
Eleven parables relay histories of settlement, removal, technological breakthrough, violence, messianism and resistance, all occurring somewhere in the state of Illinois. The state is a convenient structural ruse, allowing its histories to become allegories that explore how we’re shaped by conviction and ideology.

Synopsis
Peter Pix is reading the newspaper and eating breakfast. When he spills coffee on the tablecloth, the tablecloth suddenly turns against him...

Producers Nina Lyng, Eva Juel Hammerich
Production Company Nepenthe Film
Language No Dialogue

Synopsis
Peter Pix enters with a letter. He smells it and is excited, opens it and a red paper heart appears. The heart beats while he looks at a picture of his sweetheart. He starts to get ready for a date. He tries on different shirts, brushes his hair and looks in the mirror. Is something missing? Oh, a beard! He then tries different beards and "paints" them on his face with his fingers.

Synopsis
A young Armenian bride's relationship with her husband is put to the test on their first day of marriage when her mother-in-law interferes.

Producer Ophelia Harutyunyan
Production company
Zinahar Films
E-mail: [email protected]

Synopsis
Peter Pix wants to eat an egg for breakfast, when suddenly, the egg jumps from the eggcup and runs away. The egg hunt begins!

Producers Nina Lyng, Eva Juel Hammerich
Production Company Nepenthe Film
Language No Dialogue

Synopsis
The film starts at the beginning of the Senegalese presidential campaign in 2012, when Abdoulaye Wade corrupted the Constitutional Council in order to be eligible as candidate. As a reaction to the violation of the Senegalese Constitution and the failure of the socialist opposition, three friends, Thiat, Kilifeu and Gadiaga, created the Y’EN A MARRE movement, with some other musicians, journalists and friends.

Synopsis
Peter Pix has lots of books to tidy up, so he enters the living room with a stack of moving boxes, which he tries to assemble. He reads the instruction drawings and begins to fold. Suddenly he has formed an airplane, then the Eiffel Tower and in the end a crocodile. Peter Pix feeds it with books and is done tidying up very quickly.

Synopsis
Peter Pix enters the room with a delicious cake on a plate. The table is very messy so he hoovers it to make room for his cake. Peter Pix then sits down to enjoy his treat, but just as he is about to bite into the lovely cake, he hears a sound. The vacuum cleaner appears just behind his shoulders - it is alive!

Synopsis
Under the imminent threat of Lebanon’s garbage crisis, Hala, a wild child inside of a woman, is the only one to refuse evacuation, clinging to whatever remains of home.