Shorts: Other Islands

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Across distance and time, these four cinematic visions speak of things in and out of place. They move between disconnection and connection. An isolated Arctic village; a man seeking voices on the radio waves; the journeys of an ancient image, and a woman seeking to commune with her ancestors.
Valerija
Sara Jurinčić / Croatia / 2023 / 15 / World Premiere
A filmmaker travels to the island where her grandmother is buried. This experimental journey takes us back through her lineage of female ancestors.

Y arquitectura un sueño de palmera
Patxi Burillo Nuin / Spain / 2023 / 14 / International Premiere
Inspired by frescoes in a simple 10th-century Spanish dwelling, this film weaves thoughtful and unexpected threads between a hermitage, a museum and a spa.
 
Echo
Ross McClean / Ireland, UK / 2023 / 13 / European Premiere
In Northern Ireland, a man with damaged vocal cords seeks connection across the air waves.
 
Piblokto
Пиблокто
Anastasia Shubina, Timofey Glinin / Russia, USA / 2023 / 38 / UK Premiere
In an isolated village in the Arctic Circle, life is often brutal. Hunting walruses and whales, this community live in close relation to death.

In this show

Film Intro
5 mins
Valerija
15 mins
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Y arquitectura un sueño de palmera
14 mins
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Echo
13 mins
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Piblokto
38 mins
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Film Q&A
30 mins

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Shorts: Other Islands + Q&A
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Showroom - Screen 1
Q&A with the directors Sara Jurinčić, Patxi Burillo Nuin, Ross McClean, Anastasia Shubina, and Timofey Glinin. Moderated by Jamie Allan.
Shorts: Other Islands + Q&A
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Showroom - Bertha DocHouse Screen 3
Q&A with the directors Sara Jurinčić, Patxi Burillo Nuin, Ross McClean, Anastasia Shubina, and Timofey Glinin. Moderated by Frances Byrnes.

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