LSFF 2019: New Shorts Competition International: En Masse

 

A selection of shorts pulling back from the individual and intimate to explore shared experience and collective memory of people en masse. While some, such as Iyabo Kwayana’s Practice taking in the aesthetic frenzy of martial arts training, find beauty in collective movement, in others the landscape is defined by the absence of people, lost to migration and genocide, such as Samuel Ishimwe’s hybrid documentary Imfura. 93 minutes.

 

Programme:

 

Adrian Paci, Interregnum, Albania, 17 min

 

Iyabo Kwayana, Practice, US/China, 10 min

 

Leonhard Müllner/Robin Klengel, Operation Jane Walk, Austria, 16 min

 

Samuel Ishimwe, Imfura, Rwanda, 36 min

 

Boris Labbé, The Fall, France, 14 min

 

Please note, this programme includes animated scenes of torture, death and religiously motivated violence.