Panorama 2023
In the four “Panorama” programmes, we showcase current short films that are not being screened in competition. They may provoke you, but they will also prompt you to reflect, dream and laugh.
Breaking away from the norm is the focus of the films in “Panorama I: Breaking Out”. In “Her Dress for the Final”, an elderly woman couldn’t care less about convention as she flaunts her body. “Hardly Working”, directed by the collective Total Refusal, offers us a revealing glimpse behind the facade of a game. “Shape of the Elephant”, “Spring” and “Pentola” are all about sexual upheaval, and Noémie Marsily explores identity and motherhood in “Whatever moves is alive”.
The films in “Panorama II: Relations, Myths & Avatars” analyse relationships and the associated rollercoasters of emotion (“Above the Clouds”, “Eeva”), transport us to mystical worlds (“Compound Eyes of Tropical”, “Pockets Full of Water”, “Ikimono-san: Turtle”) and explore digital spaces (“Backflip” by Nikita Diakur).
In “Panorama III: Lost Senses”, we are confronted with inner and outer demons. Protagonists are haunted by addictions, loss of reality and hallucinations (“Scale”, “Amok”).
A girl discovers the secret of a mountain demon (“A Night With Moosina”), and in a seemingly perfect world, life revolves around earning and spending money (“Money and Happiness”).
The films in “Panorama Teens” are aimed at young people between 12 and 16. They deal with themes such as identity (“Accompanied”) and intense emotions (“La vita nuova”), but also loss (“Dede Is Dead”), migration (“Pickles”) and Black Lives Matter (“It’s Nice in Here”). New life emerges from decay in the experimental film “Aria in Vanitas”, while things become surreal and dreamy or humorously exaggerated in “A Story for 2 Trumpets” and “Birds, by the Way”. (Ivana Kvesić, Saskia von Virág)