The Cinema Perpetuum Mobile Festival 7th edition | April 2018 Cinema Perpetuum Mobile (CPM for short) is an annual international short film festival founded in 2011. Self-described as an event that promotes independent film-making throughout the world, and searches for new forms and solutions in cinematograph y, the Belarusian short film (and animation) festival , published on their Facebook page a “Mobile Manifesto”. It states that the audience is now getting bored at the cinemas, which have become commodity centres - and compete with the more obvious commodity attractions of department stores. Mounting criticism on a pathetic post-modern reality , which works as a circus society, the festival goes on to lament the ‘false consciousness’ view of what happiness is. Cinema Perpetuum Mobile Fest works as platform for both short film, experimental filmmaking, and includes a separate animation competition. In its 2018 edition (28 Apr - 1 May), it also included a competition secti