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Official Selection 3: WHO'S THE BOSS?
Who doesn't have control issues? An athlete, an empty-nester, siblings and lovers all struggle to gain the upper hand by any means necessary - dramatic power plays, comedic push-pulls, and a few out-and-out battles of the (s)exes.
| Jean François |
| A massive champion swimmer competes against an undertow of childhood memories. No medal can rival the riptide of nostalgia that takes him back to the sea, his father, and the buoy just out of reach. |
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| Swimming Lesson |
| A mother is not quite ready for her daughter to leave the nest, fretting and postponing the drive to the airport as long as possible. Everyone learns the hard way that letting go is just another way of holding on. |
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| Don't Walk Out That Door |
| The apartment is in shambles - the result of a childish, yet passionate, battle of wills between a pair of lovers. A physical comedy about breakups, make-ups and the emotional buttons we love to push. |
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| Winter's Beginning (Le début de l'hiver) |
| On a winter's morning, a young boy hitches a ride home with a stranger. A powerful realist drama that exposes a reprehensible abuse of power, and challenges notions of consent and passive protest. |
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| The Orange |
| Suddenly, a humble citrus fruit is granted absolute power over the universe. A deliciously animated slice of political satire. |
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| Bus |
| A voiceover pastiche of bus route directions, service complaints and transportation horror stories provide verbal traffic for this novel documentary that shows the daily grind of Palestinian-Israeli border crossings. A look at a transit system so deficient, freedom of movement may as well not exist. |
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| Painting Paradise |
| A Shiite quarter in Baghdad is literally painted over with beautiful landscapes to resemble an exotic vacation destination, while soldiers are covered-up to pass as civilians. A tour-de-force animated experiment that uses trompe l’oeil to obscure and reveal humanity on both sides of the conflict. |
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| Drop Dead! (Val Dood!) |
| On a 50th birthday tandem skydive, one man unwittingly gets strapped into a comedic free-fall of infidelity and revenge. Laughs abound at 5000 feet. |
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| Over The Fence (Viiko ennen vappua) |
| Tomi tries to protect and steer his younger sister away from repeating their mother's terrible choices. Slowly, he realizes he can't control his sis and must own up to his dream's and finally live for himself. |
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