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La dure vie des surdoués

Despite preconceived ideas, pupils with high intellectual potential are not always successful at school. At the end of the 1980s, the French Ministry of Education was first called to account for this paradox. Was there a link between intellectual ability and certain difficulties in adjustment? Over the course of a school year at the Georges Brassens state secondary school in the 19th arrondissement of Paris, where an integration scheme has been in place for these types of pupils for the past fifteen years, the narrator and the various protagonists look back over their lives to identify the nuances of this question, which has become a key issue in the public debate.

La dure vie des surdoués

NR 2023
Fade Away

A triptych portrait of life adrift in the post-industrial peripheries, Fade Away sketches out three seemingly disconnected moments on a day and a night in the deep south of London. A young man, off-the-grid, wanders the backstreets in search of something. Three girls reach their limit and act to break free. And a worker, far from home, finds herself something like a role in the city. Is it a prison? Fade Away is a vivid picture of isolation and the experience of feeling lost in a changing landscape.

Fade Away

NR 2023
Homoperspectives

During the UK Covid-19 lockdowns the artist kept a daily visual diary in the form of digital collages or GIFs. ‘HOMOPERSPECTIVES’ contains selected extracts from the visual diary. Each individual GIF reflects upon themes such as mental health, the virus, love, sex (be)longing, (in)visibility, (im)possibilities and the day-to-day. The male figures in this series were extracted from pre-1950s photography, vintage gay adult magazines and the works of Bob Mizer and Tom of Finland to name a few. What’s most notable about these works is how the function of the male figures function changes from the erotic(-objective) to a more emotive context.

Homoperspectives

NR 2023
Informe+. La Redención de Stanley Roberts

Stanley Roberts played for Real Madrid basketball in the 1990-199 season. The following year he played the first of his eight seasons that he played in the NBA. His former teammates and coaches sum up his potential in the phrase 'Stanley was better than Shaquille O'Neal, his teammate at Louisiana State.' However Stanley Roberts suffered several serious injuries and was expelled from the NBA in 1999 for drug use. The next news about him announced that he was broke and had gone to jail for cocaine possession. With no money and no hope, Stanley thought about suicide, but someone helped him.

Informe+. La Redención de Stanley Roberts

NR 2023
Ancestrale - Life and Art of Massinissa Askeur

Ancestral retraces the salient stages of Massinissa Askeur's life and career through the protagonist's own words but also, and above all, through the testimonies of the people who knew him on a personal, professional and artistic level. Weaving together suggestions and echoes of different stories and cultures, starting from Africa to the heart of Europe, the documentary offers a multifaceted and eclectic picture of the growth path and goals achieved by Askeur in the field of visual arts and design.

Ancestrale - Life and Art of Massinissa Askeur

NR 2023
grass grows from the middle – thinking like grass

The experimental short film is a fragmentary attempt to investigate the political potential of grasses, which in purely biological terms, in distinction to many other plants, do not grow from the root or from the tip, but from their own center. The short film does not fulfill expectations of a nature documentary, much more it explores the analogies to human and animal hair and thus dares a deconstructive attempt of diverse norms of beauty and design as well as ethics of use and exploitation that shape bodies and nature. The short film asks about the so-called "natural", about what is allowed to grow in our society and what is trimmed, shaved, cut and domesticated. The aesthetic breaks through the use of different media (Super 8 and Mini DV) and the "trimmed" screen not only takes a critical look at current reception habits, but also questions overarching norms and ideals, which is underlined by the song "mess it up" by catnapp and the integration of collected sounds.

grass grows from the middle – thinking like grass

NR 2023
Eren

EREN portrays a woman who has been fighting for fundamental rights and peace in Turkey for more than 30 years. As a lawyer and human rights defender, Eren Keskin is one of the main actors and plaintiffs for women’s, LGBT, and minority rights, opposing torture and sexualized violence. Her strong sense of justice knows no taboos, shaking even the foundations of the Turkish state. Now she has been designated an enemy of the state and has to defend herself. She faces a life sentence in more than a hundred criminal cases. How much time she has left in freedom, she doesn’t know. At any moment she could disappear behind bars forever.

Eren

NR 2023
Eterno

A tribute to the nearby mountain; the one behind the house. That of Monte Rosa and its southern slope which overlooks wild over Alagna. A journey written over time. The same one that goes into stories and in the mountains of men; in their homes. The time that lives in traditions, in an ancient Walser costume worn, as well as in the deep cracks of the highest glaciers. A short story in honor of the people who live in the mountains, in the mountains. So that I can continue to do so. Remembering that we are all passing through, but there is something eternal.

Eterno

NR 2023