Shorts: To the End

Programme

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  The Bus of Broken Hearts

  Many of the thousands of participants in the world’s biggest cross-country ski race don’t make it to the finish. Through its gleefully mischievous observations, this short, tragicomic portrait of humanity— so fallible, yet utterly undaunted—shows how failure itself can be an art form.

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  The Revolution Against Death

  At a once-sparkling resort, a conference is being held against a universal enemy: death. Gurus preach, snake oil salesmen sell false promises. A fascinating meditation on the pursuit of immortality, from the director of The Act of Killing.

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  Always Wanted to Be God, Never Wanted to Do Good

  The legal conviction of a mountain guide who in protest sawed down three crosses high in the Swiss mountains, prompts more debate about the presence of Christian symbolism in the public space.