Breedbeeld – Competition films 4

4937 KILOWATTS A YEAR (Ellie Delvaux & Madeleine Faburel-Dumail, 23′)
In a call centre in Marrakesh, employees make call after call to France to sell energy contracts. Their calls are often met with silence, rejection and a distance that no ‘script’ can bridge. In this place where communication has stalled, could these voices find another way to resonate, and be heard?

THE LIFESPAN OF THE AVERAGE MEMORY (Flor Bijtebier, 4′)
A moth lives in my bathroom. I think I know him, and he knows me. And while I eat the creature, the creature eats my memory. Because only when you have nothing left can everything grow.

FIELD REPORTS (JON BEATON, 8′)
An autistic documentary maker studies two neurotypical people and tries to understand their shared way of being through objects, language and small social gestures. As the day goes on, his sense of alienation slowly rises to the surface.

MAMA MIST (Davey Snoek, 7′)
A lonely woman in a house full of ghosts from the past, toys and lasagne. Listen to her story.

ETHAN (Ines Boughdadi-Larsen & Arthur Reculez, 15′)
At an underground concert, fifteen-year-old Ethan searches for his place in a world of adults. When he suddenly finds himself alone with Mila, the image he has built of himself slowly crumbles through his youthful awkwardness and his lies.