International Competition #2
Lviv International Film Festival invites you to the screening of the second selection of the International Competition!
Screening date: September 24, 6:30 P
Screening location: Lviv Art Palace, 17 Kopernyka str.
The project is supported by the Ukrainian Cultural Foundation. Festival partners: ZMIN Foundation, Ukrainian State Film Agency, M-Rental, Morshynska, America House Lviv, Lviv City Council, Megogo, Morshynska, Lviv Film Hub, Suspilne Culture, Sebto Media, Zaxid.Net
Films in the programme
6 films · 80 min
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01
PITHEAD
In a freezing, dreamlike landscape, a woman braves the blizzard to take refuge in a Black Metal bar, before discovering a penguin stranded in a nearby tree, separated from its colony.
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02
BECAUSE TODAY IS SATURDAY
It's Saturday, and a woman struggles to reconcile her home life with her need to escape.
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03
NO GOD NO FATHER
No God No Father is a documentary/fiction that explores the intimate relationship a young man has with the Internet. In the absence of a father figure, he turns to Google as an unexpected mentor.
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04
TAPEWORM ALEXIS & THE OPERA DIVA
How the tapeworm Alexis helped the opera diva Maria Callas achieve fame and allowed her to spend a turbulent life with her until the bitter end.
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05
ASTRONAUT
Audely, 39, works as a lumberjack in the Guatemalan jungle. At home, his daughter Carol, 11, dreams of entering that same forest. Audely thinks about it, then goes to the moon.
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06
THE BODY OF CHRIST
With an unacknowledged mental disorder, Adela seeks answers in popular rituals. She feels that something is watching and harming her, and only religion seems to understand her. During a visit to a healer, she confesses the disturbing origin of her suffering.
