Promoter
EGEAC, Empresa de Gestão de Equipamentos e Animação Cultural
Synopsis
Tell Me a Fairy Tale
Ji min re çîrokek beje
Ebrû Avci • 2025 • Turkey • 37’ • DCP
World Premiere
Eligible for Short Film Award
Synopsis
Yusuf travels through Kurdish villages, collecting fading folktales to publish in a book. The film takes us on that journey. We witness his bond with Kurdish women, elders and children, and we see the family pressure, social taboos and financial struggles he faces. In spite of everything, he keeps going, even when he feels like giving up.
B for Bartleby
B wie Bartleby
Angela Summereder • 2025 • Austria • 72’ • DCP
World Premiere
Synopsis
Melville’s short story is the starting point. “I would prefer not to,” Bartleby’s notorious line, runs like a common thread through the essayistic montage. It connects sequences from Straub and Huillet’s History Lessons (1972) with dialogue between Benedikt Zulauf, who appeared in the Brecht adaptation, and the filmmaker. The making of B for Bartleby fulfils a long-held wish of her late partner, who was terminally ill at the time of production. As ‘essay’ means roughly ‘rehearsal’ in Spanish, B for Bartleby is a reflection on retelling and appropriation of literary material.
