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Who said finding yourself is easy in a world that seems determined to flip upside down? ‘My place in this world’ is a reflective and heartfelt programme that dives into the messy journey of self-discovery and acceptance at any given stage of life. Whether it’s the end of innocence, the struggle to redefine home, the bittersweet disconnection from the past self and the value of integration in a community, these films explore what it means to carve out your corner of the world, grow up and let go.
Playground
When Uri arrives at a rave in Montjuic, he can't quite find his place. It's his first time… But he'll end up finding a way. A short film about integration at a hardcore rhythm.
Raul Villalba
Shape of the Elephant
There was an elephant living in my house, but all the adults were avoiding it. The elephant kept changing its shape and grew up with me.
Sam Kuwa
The First Setting Sun of Summer
Summer, early 2000s. A young boy arrives at his grandparents’ house in a small seaside village. Summertime is finally on! Keeping him company during his carefree summer days, is the mysterious “witch”, a self-isolated elderly woman living in an old house by the sea. When one day the woman is no longer there, the boy will turn his gaze, for the first time, to the light of the setting sun.
Asteris Tziolas
The Man Who Couldn’t Clap
"The Man Who Couldn't Clap" is a short story of a man looking back on his life. Caught in a complicated affliction that makes it impossible for him to clap or put his hands together, he ultimately finds a way to live with it. A dance of acceptance, a silent applause to learning to live with what life hands us.
Hyunoh Chang, Josh S Rose
Waking up in Silence
Ukrainian children are confronted with their past as they explore their new home in Germany: a former Wehrmacht military barracks.
Mila Zhluktenko, Daniel Asadi Faezi
White Ant
Ashish, a middle-aged businessman, is called back to his now abandoned childhood home, where he is confronted with a colony of termites eating the house from the inside out. While trying to make arrangements over the days, he realises how disconnected he is from his old self, watching helplessly from the side-lines as the house caretaker and a termite exterminator deal with the infestation. White Ant poetically explores the drastic shift in values of a country as it modernises, the universal experience of watching the world change around us and the cultural and emotional disconnect a man experiences when being reminded of his past life.
Shalini Adnani