O Fabulă

In "Spaces #2", 7 internationally acclaimed directors shot, after commissioning by the Thessaloniki International Film Festival, a short film at home, making their own timely comment on the new reality that we live in. The project is inspired by the book "Species of Spaces" by the French novelist, filmmaker, documentalist, and essayist, Georges Perec and the days of quarantine. The idea is to create a film at home, using the environment, the people or the animals in that space. The only outdoor areas that may be used are outdoor living spaces, such as the terrace, the garden, the balcony and the stairwell. "A Fable" is Radu Jude's submission.

Two decades ago, Venezuela's power trio Dermis Tatú released their only album, "La violó, la mató y la picó" ("Raped her, killed her and cut her"). The band was an offspring from the separation of Sentimiento Muerto, and was formed by Carlos "Cayayo" Troconis (voice and guitar), Héctor Castillo (bass) and Sebastián Araujo (drums). The record is still considered by many as the most influential in the Venezuelan rock scene. Twenty years later, Castillo and Araujo remember the stories behind the recording, as a group of the current generation of Venezuelan rockers, not only explain its influence and impact, but also play all the songs from the album, making them their own.

Fairy tales do not always have the desired effect on children. A former detective, characterized by an unusual phobia for darkness, arrives in the city, finding himself involved in strange circumstances. The serial killer will lead him in a fairy tale nightmare.

In Havana, where economic difficulties are numerous, two young people try to find out if love and aspirations can survive in a city defined by adversity.

"Fabula" is an experimental film by Jordan Baseman that asks questions about our dreams and dream experiences during the coronavirus pandemic of 2020. The film is narrated by the Harvard Medical School Dream Researcher, Dr. Deirdre Barrett. We hear Dr. Barrett discuss various dreams that she has collected through her research into Pandemic Dreams, their collective commonality, their significance and meanings, and their relevance to our times. Dr. Barrett also comments on the uniqueness of the Pandemic and the unusual dreams that have arisen as a result. The film was recorded entirely in London during Lockdown, using 16mm film and 6k digital film cameras. Time-lapse footage of clouds, are super-imposed with footage of the Thames and threaded through, layered with various shots lit by infra-red light. Fabula muses on our relationships with ourselves, one another, our environments and the meanings of our dreams while living with Covid-19.

A young, grumpy bear does not get along well with other animals. Klaas Veel decides to teach him some wise life lessons. During an adventurous dream, the bear and a brave squirrel visit different habitats of other animals. Together they experience wonderful, hilarious, exciting and moving moments. This gives the bear more eye and even respect for other animals.

A fantasy tale based on the text "Ideas to Postpone the End of The World" by Ailton Krenak.

One summer afternoon, on the banks of a river, a boy and a girl are starting to get to know each other. The landscape and the distance are the scene of a possible beginning.

Fable is a film based on a poem by Jackson Hobert. It tells the story of a young woman in an undefined time and space playing with artefacts of humanity. The ever-changing scale of the objects challenges the perception of a viewer, pointing out the relativity of everything around us. The underlying message touches upon, and questions, the hard-to-accept leitmotif of Zen Buddhism - can one really only gain by letting go.

Fabula Rasa is a film about regenerative agriculture and a filmmaker’s search for identity. In the short film, documentarist Pieter-Jan Van Damme follows the year-round life of his farm. As the seasons change, there are changes in the vegetation, and the filmmaker contemplates his own relationship with his craft. On the journey into the secrets of ecological farming, Van Damme creates a serene and meditative space for the viewer’s own self-reflection.

Mexican feature film

A middle-aged musician speaks of various themes - innocence, friendship, seduction, fascination, love, death - immediately portrayed in paintings, which the actors interpret, in different situations from the character they embody. In the spotlight, a young photographer, a strange-looking dancer / model, a bullfighter who lives his dream, a retired old man ...

Orestes, a rich factory owner, falls for the beautiful Fulvia. They communicate using pigeons, to avoid being discovered by her husband.

Socialist musical comedy made in Cuba

Zahy Guajajara, 23, is one of the indigenous leaders of a village created next to Maracanã, in the old Museu do Índio, in Rio de Janeiro, threatened with demolition. In this video created with four hands with Felipe Bragança, Zahy, a shaman and storyteller from his village, takes a new look at the place where he lived and resisted.

Gisa has a hair full of life and spirit, but her classmates keep annoying her because of it. Sad and with low self esteem, she decide to look for Bruxa Lereira (Witchstylist), who changes her in someone that she's not and, because of it, Gisa almost lost the chance of meeting her mother again, the Queen Andrea. In this tale that blend reality with fantasy, told through inks and fabrics, Grandma Ita involves her granddaughter Gisele, showing her that beauty is in everybody, also, on her and in her identity.

After getting lost in a desert place, Julio must correctly answer 3 questions from The Death if he wants to stay alive.

In a popular auction that matches the sinister and colorful of a circus of phenomena, a couple adopts children in exchange for their belongings. The children there acquired, usually mutilated, are in their new home in order to prepare for access to the Peronist education program taught in only 10 state institutes.

In a roadside store, a man lives in peace with their pets. In the basement, the mice steal food, but not enough to hurt the business. The arrival of a stranger mouse ends the grocery harmony.

Chronicle of the contemporary era, and its parallelism with the intense 1930s, through a kaleidoscopic collage built with hundreds of images and sounds of all kinds: film clips, advertising spots, magazine covers, interviews with politicians...