Totalitarian Tones

Tones indicate or are indicated, express or make impressive. These five films illustrate very unmistakable feelings by not only telling the fate of oppression and quiet rebellion, but making them clearly perceptible.

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Available from December 18th 2020, 4 p.m., until December 21st 2020, 11.59 p.m.

Il fagotto

The Load

Fiction Italy 2019
15 minutes

direction: Giulia Giapponesi

Because of decline of the birth rate, the government comes up with an idea similar to the one child policy, but reversed.

Ich armer Mensch

I, Wretched Man

Fiction Austria 2019
17 minutes

direction: Bastian Wilplinger

One does not simply take care of everyday life while being a sinful man the same time. A prose about the bonds of pious ideals.

Exam

Fiction Iran 2019
15 minutes

direction: Sonia K. Hadad

A teenage girl gets involved in the process of delivering a pack of cocaine to its client, and she gets stuck in a weird cycle of occurrences.

The Umbrella

Fiction Hong Kong 2018
22 minutes

direction: Hing Weng Eric Tsang

Hong Kong is rocked by the tumultuous events in October 2014. But instead of watching the protests, the camera shows us its effects on some people's life in the university hall.

Kids

Animation Switzerland 2019
9 minutes

direction: Michael Frei

An animated short exploring group dynamics. How do we define ourselves when we are all equal?