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MusicStories

The short film anthology MusicStories brings classical music to life through the art of storytelling. MusicStories takes you on a cinematic journey through classical music. It draws on various genres and visual languages - from black-and-white silent films to historical melodramas and romantic comedies. Specially interpreted classics such as Beethoven's “Für Elise” and “In the Hall of the Mountain King” by Edvard Grieg serve as the film music. The format creates a new kind of access to the audience through the symbiosis of classical music and narrative film.

MusicStories

NR 2024
A Weather Report

18-year-old Hikaru has just graduated from high school and she has travelled alone from Niigata to Tokyo to meet the father she has never known without telling her mother. Her parents originally met in Shinjuku but after parting, her mother Mayumi left the city and gave birth to and raised Hikaru alone while her father Naohide stayed put and became a scriptwriter of a hit TV romance drama. Despite being able to imagine and write moving works of fiction, the reality of having an illegitimate child leaves him bewildered and, out of guilt, he tries to get involved in Hikaru’s life again while balancing responsibilities to his current girlfriend and avoiding upsetting Mayumi.

A Weather Report

NR 2024
Good Mourning

Ayanda is an 18 year-old high-school student from a middle class home in Joburg. Her father is absent and her mother might as well be because she is always busy climbing the corporate ladder. From the outside looking in, her life looks pretty normal, but deep inside, Ayanda is slowly self-destructing. Chaotic is the perfect word to describe her last year of Highschool. She is bullied, argues with her mother constantly and has absolutely no interest in school. The story plays out over 24hrs, on a scorching hot Friday.

Good Mourning

NR 2024
Por Todos Os Lugares Que Já Passei

Set in Goianinha, a small town in the Brazilian countryside, the film follows the journey of young people who feel out of place in their own land. As they question their identity and sense of belonging, they face challenges in an environment where gender, racial, and sexual diversity still encounters resistance. While navigating both internal and external conflicts, they realize that, despite the town’s limitations, certain memories can redefine their connection to it.

Por Todos Os Lugares Que Já Passei

NR 2024
A Star of Disgust

Mi-yeong loved dancing and singing as a child, and her dream was to become a musical actress. Because of her bigger physique, her dreams are often made fun of by her friends, and by her early 30s, she's living as an ordinary office worker who lost her dreams. One day, Mi-yeong's video of herself unintentionally becomes a symbol of misogyny. Her videos are increasingly getting viral on the Internet, and as to escape from all this, Mi-yeong sets off on a solo trip and meets Dae-hyeon at a guesthouse. Dae-hyeon, who had a complex about his thin physique, became a symbol of male hatred on the Internet. These two are hurt by becoming targets of hatred among various people gathered at the guesthouse, but they understand and comfort each other.

A Star of Disgust

6.0 2024