499<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n The year 2021 marks the 500th anniversary of the Spanish Conquest of Mexico. To commemorate the historic occasion, director Rodrigo Reyes offers a bold, hybrid cinema experience that mixes non-fiction and performative elements with components of a road movie. Through the eyes of a ghostly conquistador, Reyes recreates Hern\u00e1n Cortez\u2019s epic journey from the coasts of Veracruz to the Aztec capital of Tenochtitlan, the site of contemporary Mexico City. As the anachronistic fictional character interacts with real victims and subjects of Mexico\u2019s failed drug wars, the filmmaker portrays the country\u2019s current humanitarian crisis as part of a brutal and unfinished colonial project, still in motion 499 years later.<\/p>\n Director: <\/strong>Rodrigo Reyes \n ALTERED STATES OF CONSCIOUSNESS<\/span> Altered States of Consciousness<\/em> is a film about the possibilities of our brain. A poetic journey deep into the world of thoughts of people with autism and Asperger\u2019s Syndrome. Where do the boundaries of our minds lie, and how much does culture confine or even extinguish our creativity in everyday life and even in love? In the film, we meet people of various ages who experience autism to differing degrees on the spectrum of the illness. With some, there is practically no contact at all, whereas others at first glance give the appearance of being \u201chealthy.\u201d Each of our subjects is a separate world and a unique means of seeking his or her own path in life.<\/p>\n Original title: <\/strong>Odmienne stany \u015bwiadomo\u015bci \n BITTER LOVE<\/span> A lovesick misfit, a mysterious beauty, a retired civil servant, a randy fortune teller, and a doubtful young couple meet in late summer on a Russian river cruise on the Volga. As do many other passengers, they board the ship with broken hearts and shattered illusions, but hoping for a change for the better, seeking peace and the space to come to terms with the meaning of their lives. What does fate have in store for them?<\/p>\n Original title:<\/strong> Gorzka mi\u0142o\u015b\u0107 \n IL MIO CORPO<\/span> Oscar, not quite a child anymore, scavenges for scrap metal for his father. He spends his life in improvised landfills among remains and leftovers. Worlds apart, yet close by, there is Stanley. He tidies the church in exchange for monetised hospitality, picks fruits, and herds sheep \u2013 anything that keeps his foreign body busy. Oscar, the young Sicilian, and Stanley, the Nigerian, don\u2019t seem to have much in common, except for the feeling of being thrown into the world to suffer the same refusal, the same overwhelming wave of choices imposed on them by others.<\/p>\n Director:<\/strong> Michele Pennetta \n MEANWHILE ON EARTH<\/span> Meanwhile on Earth<\/em> is a film about death that speaks about life. Constructed as a collage of scenes and situations \u2013 each a tableau \u2013 the film investigates the human relationship with death in our society, based on the people that have made death part of their everyday lives. We meet a variety of people who work with death, in parallel with encountering a man who is an involuntary visitor in this industry, as he is about to lose his mother. Meanwhile on Earth<\/em> is a study of the human nature: her fears, her insecurities, and her relationship with the definitive end.<\/p>\n Director:<\/strong> Carl Olsson \n MIRADOR (LOOKOUT)<\/span> Pablo is a 34-year-old blind man who lives by himself in a house on the remote Uruguayan coast. While working on his craft liquors, he records his thoughts on a cassette player and sometimes returns to his own old stories. Valeria and \u00d3scar are his friends, also blind, with whom he goes camping at the seaside and enjoys rock ‘n’ roll music and concerts. Together they transport us to a sensory world that transcends the image. Original title: <\/strong>Mirador \n REASON I JUMP, THE<\/span> Based on the best-selling book by Naoki Higashida, The Reason I Jump<\/em> is an immersive cinematic exploration of neurodiversity through the experiences of nonspeaking autistic people from around the world. The film blends Higashida\u2019s revelatory insights into autism, written when he was just 13, with intimate portraits of five remarkable young people. It opens a window for audiences into an intense and overwhelming, but often joyful, sensory universe. Moments in the lives of each of the characters are linked by the journey of a young Japanese boy through an epic landscape. Narrated passages from Naoki\u2019s writing reflect on what his autism means to him and others, how his perception of the world differs, and why he acts in the way he does: the reason he jumps. The film distils these elements into a sensually rich tapestry that leads us to Naoki\u2019s core message: not being able to speak does not mean there is nothing to say.<\/p>\n Director:<\/strong> Jerry Rothwell SIDIK AND THE PANTHER<\/span> For 25 long years, Sidik has been searching for a snow leopard in the war-scarred mountains of Kurdistan in northern Iraq. Once, there were many leopards here. If they return, Sidik believes his people and his homeland will survive. If he can capture one of the magical creatures on film, the region will be declared a national park, and bombs will never fall again. Sidik has still not found his leopard, but he refuses to give up hope. As he travels through the Kurdish mountains, he meets animals, rivers, plants, and people, and their memories and stories mesh with his own.<\/p>\n Original title: <\/strong>Sidik en de panter![\"\"](\"https:\/\/archive.camerimage.pl\/assets\/uploads\/2020\/10\/499_Still_10.jpg\")
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\n Cinematographer:<\/strong> Alejandro Mejia
\n Produced by:<\/strong> La Maroma Producciones, RR Cinema
\n Country and year:<\/strong> Mexico, USA, 2019<\/p>\n
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\n Director:<\/strong> Piotr Stasik
\n Cinematographer:<\/strong> Piotr Stasik
\n Produced by:<\/strong> Running Rabbit Films
\n Country and year:<\/strong> Poland, 2020<\/p>\n
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\n Director:<\/strong> Jerzy \u015aladkowski
\n Cinematographer:<\/strong> Wojciech Staro\u0144
\n Produced by:<\/strong> Ginestra Film, Ragusa Film
\n Country and year:<\/strong> Sweden, Finland, Poland, 2020<\/p>\n
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\n Cinematographer:<\/strong> Paolo Ferrari
\n Produced by:<\/strong> Close Up Films
\n Country and year:<\/strong> Switzerland, Italy, 2020<\/p>\n
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\n Cinematographers: <\/strong>Mathias D\u00f8cker Petersen, Jonathan Guldberg Elsborg
\n Produced by:<\/strong> De Andra Film
\n Country and year:<\/strong> Sweden, Denmark, Estonia, 2020<\/p>\n
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\n Director:<\/strong> Ant\u00f3n Terni
\n Cinematographer: <\/strong>Ant\u00f3n Terni
\n Produced by:<\/strong> Amplitud, Halo Cine
\n Country and year:<\/strong> Uruguay, 2019<\/p>\n
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\n Cinematographer:<\/strong> Ruben Woodin-Dechamps
\n Produced by:<\/strong> MetFilm Production
\n Country and year:<\/strong> UK, 2019<\/p>\n
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\n Director:<\/strong> Reber Dosky
\n Cinematographer:<\/strong> Roy van Egmond
\n Produced by:<\/strong> Dieptescherpte BV \/ Deepfocus Productions
\n Country and year:<\/strong> Netherlands, 2019<\/p>\n