SPECIAL PROGRAMME - Fractured Minds
ARTIS SMALL HALL
Thursday, 21 August 2025
9:20 PM – 10:45 PM
85 minutes
Madness creeps in — it’s too much to take. You feel yourself breaking, losing grip, slipping deeper into chaos. Blood, sweat, fear. Police are shooting, organs lie on the floor. In the heat or in the extreme cold, everything you thought you were is gone. It’s not pretty. It’s survival.
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Films will be screened in the original language with English subtitles.
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MORE ABOUT THE FILMS:
Grenfell Adrift on an Iceberg
Director: John Hollands
Year: 2024
Length: 10 min 1 sec
Country: Canada
Production: John Hollands
Doctor Wilfred Grenfell and his sled dogs struggle for survival lost at sea on an iceberg.
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Humanity
Director: Tereza Kovandova
Year: 2024
Length: 7 min 45 sec
Country: Czech Republic
Production: Cinepoint, FAMU, DIVIZE animace s.r.o.
Dark comedy about something we all do - we hate other people for trivial reasons. Life is hard even without having to tolerate other people's annoying habits. The problem is you can't kill somebody just because they chew too loudly. But in this animated world, you can make all your dark visions of fatal revenge a reality.
Treiler: https://vimeo.com/1024651252
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I'm Leaving
Director: Michelle Brand
Year: 2023
Length: 3 min 33 sec
Country: Germany, France
Production: KINEMUS
As the night comes, the journey begins. Running rushing, racing. Unbound from time and swept away by the night’s surreal cascade of lights, we leave day-life behind.
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Ideal
Director: Mathilde Nicolas, Axel Raffensdorfer, Élise Ruamps, Jade Billy, Lucie Maugnié and Anthony Bartholet
Year: 2023
Length: 11 min 42 sec
Country: France
Production: Pôle 3D
"You gave me mud and I created gold." - Les Fleurs du Mal, Charles Baudelaire.
Trailer: https://vimeo.com/850720782
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In The Open
Director: Alex Demiere
Year: 2024
Length: 4 min 46 sec
Country: France
Production: Alex Demiere
The wind blows. José wanders on his horse. Suddenly, a gunshot rings out. Time falters. Faced with the shock, the peaceful mountains call out to José.
His memories, intertwining, flash by. In a final glance, he finds peace at last, hidden in the folds of the landscape.
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Indigestion
Director: Hyeon-ji Han
Year: 2025
Length: 9 min 31 sec
Country: South Korea
Production: Korean Academy of Film Arts
Eun-sang, a no-name artist, creates art that features a fly. She is eating convenience food as usual when she senses a strange texture and learns that it was a fly. Soon, she is plagued by anxiety from believing that the fly is living in her stomach and makes all kinds of efforts to digest the fly.
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My Organs Lying on the Ground
Director: Shinobu Soejima
Year: 2024
Length: 11 min
Country: Japan
Production: SOEJIMA STUDIO
In a cave it awakes. This is a space of connection, between life and afterlife, death and life. There, the boundaries between organism and matter dissolve, and outer and inner worlds are continually inverted. As it comes into contact with insects, animals, grass, grain, and all other things in the surrounding world, it absorbs vitality and gradually becomes alive. As the boundaries between itself and others are blent, it realises the cycle of life and death.
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The Mole
Director: Alexey Sukhov
Year: 2023
Length: 13 min 42 sec
Country: Russia
Production: Alexey Sukhov
Victor, at the request of his wife, goes for a pipe cleaning liquid “The Mole”. On the way, he reflects and philosophizes, but a sudden incident leads him to a memory loss. Thus, a series of events is launched in which the hero is forced to try on different essences of the word Mole.
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The Song of the Sheep
Director: Jules Marcel, Anaïs Castro de Angel, Juliette Bigo, Evan Lambert, Alex Le Ruyet, Jeanne Bigo and Anaïs Ledoux
Year: 2024
Length: 7 min 48 sec
Country: France
Production: Supinfocom Rubika
At dawn, in the Alps, Frank wakes up drunk. There's only one cure for the headache: a drink. But misfortune strikes! His cellar has been emptied overnight. Who could this mysterious thief be? Hervé, the talking sheep, may have the answer…
Treiler: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sR5l8v4grzU
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Tinnitus#3
Director: Michele Bernardi
Year: 2025
Length: 4 min 40 sec
Country: Italy
Production: Michele Bernardi
TINNITUS#3 is an introspective journey into troubled thoughts. A sleep always interrupted in search of a breath of peace, a whisper to life that has the eyes of death in front of a mirror.