Spain 2024 — Directed by: Jesús Minchon, Marta Aguilella, Arnau Belloc — 20 min — Production: UAB- Máster Documental Creativo
Paquita is 85 years old and lives alone in a flat in Barcelona. She doesn't receive many visitors, but today her new flatmate, Temi the robot, is knocking at the door. Will Temi be able to put an end to Paquita's loneliness? One of the countless consequences of today’s reality is the loneliness that some elderly people suffer at home. Both private initiatives and public institutions are trying to find solutions to this problem, and Barcelona City Council has put forward a proposal which is as capable as it is ironic: can the problem of unwanted loneliness be solved with the resources that technology allows today? Temi is a robot designed for this purpose, and he believes that it is possible. After all, perhaps it doesn't take a person to solve the most human of problems.
TODAY IS TOMORROW'S YESTERDAY — Germany 2024 — Directed by: Jonas Neumann — 82 min — Spoken languages: German, Ukrainian, Hebrew — Subtitles: German, English — Producer: Michael Kalb — Production Company: Michael Kalb Filmproduktion — Photography: Pius Neumaier & Carla Muresan — Editing: Robert Vakily — Sound: Cornelia "Nelly" Böhm
Eight decades after the liberation of the Dachau concentration camp: The question of how to remember the Nazi terror is more urgent than ever before! How do the last survivors fight against forgetting? How can they and the memorial site combat increasing relativization and attacks from the far right? „Today is Tomorrow’s Yesterday“ shows the current every day struggle of this important institution.
Spain 2024 — Directed by: Paula Vélez — 12 min — Spoken language: Catalan — Subtitles: English — Production: Universitat Pompeu Fabra
Germany 2024 — Directed by: Denis Pavlovic — 90 min — Spoken languages: German, English, Spanish — Subtitles: German, English — Producers: Denis Pavlovic & Julia Meyer-Pavlovic — Production Companies: Filmakademie Baden-Württemberg & Glass Frog Films — Script: Denis Pavlovic — Photography: Michael 'Midge' Throne — Editing: Julia Meyer-Pavlovic — Sound: Max Hartstang, Marieke Czogalla — Music: Christian Bluthardt, Yvy Pop, Marvin Gerstmeier
An honest and unflinching portrait of the search for meaning in retirement. Jadranka and Aleksandar Pavlovic met almost 35 years ago on the Canary Islands. Upon retiring, they returned, separated, and now live as friends on two islands, five and a half hours apart. The film follows their new life in the decaying island paradise of Gran Canaria and Tenerife. In doing so, we observe the difficult struggle against boredom, illnesses, and the lost relationship. To escape the past, Jadranka immerses herself in work and has opened a bar, while Aleksandar grapples with doctor's visits, drunken friendships, and painful heartbreak.
Germany 2024 — Directed by: Sophie Lahusen — 15 min — Spoken languages: German, English — Subtitles: English — Producer: Nora Kilroy & Jonas Windgassen — Co-Production: HFF Munich — Production Company: headroom film — Script: Sophie Lahusen & Beatrix Rinke — Photography: Sophie Lahusen — Editing: Leila Fatima Keita — Sound: Xavier Fleming — Music: Jiro Yoshioka
"The silence of 600 million results" follows a young woman as she clicks, scrolls and chats her way from a positive pregnancy test to a decision.
Austria 2023 — Directed by: Matteo Sanders — 16 min — Spoken languages: German, Italian — Subtitles: English — Producer: Matteo Sanders — Production Company: Filmakademie Wien — Script: Matteo Sanders — Photography: Konrad Milan — Editing: Lisa Isabella Grabner — Sound: Andreas Moser — Music: Ornella Vanoni, Lucio Dalla, Niklas Paschburg
The 33-year-old director uses the portrait of his 66-year-old father as an opportunity to talk about the past and the differences between the two generations, until a shared experience arises that has had a decisive influence on their relationship.
Germany, Serbia 2023 — Directed by: Dragana Jovanovic — 61 min — Production Company: DOK 33 — Producer: Dragana Jovanovic
What happens when beauty falls asleep? Aurora’s Dream explores the collective unconscious during a period of contemporary crisis. Individual participants share their most vivid and personal dreams. The subconscious narratives visually intertwine with the turbulence of our present era, bringing archetypes and motifs from the Sleeping Beauty fairytale to the fore.
Spain 2023 — Directed by: Dhanraj Barkote — 30 min — Spoken language: Nepali — Subtitles: English, Spanish — Production Company: ESCAC FILMS — Producer: Alberto Godoy
Dhanraj, a Nepalese filmmaker, decides to return to his hometown twenty years after the loss of his biological parents, with the desire to bring them back to life through film, and to reconnect with the people that are part of his roots.
Switzerland 2023 — Directed by: Nathalie Berger — 62 min — Spoken language: English — Subtitles: English — Production: ZHDK Zürich — Producer: Filippo Bonacci
The sun shines every day in Chagrin Valley, USA. Frozen in a 1950s-inspired artificial decor, this assisted living facility for people who suffer from dementia is home to fragile and ageing residents. Here, everyday life drags on slowly. Florence and her companions dream of an elusive elsewhere during their days punctuated by confusion, fleeting conflicts and overdue family visits. The caregivers – as kind as they are exhausted – run the show in this pastel-coloured, sanitised social theatre. Between two shifts, they confess their desire for a better future; one that is not so different from that of the residents, after all.
Serbia 2023 — Directed by: Eluned Zoë Aiano, Alesandra Tatić — 77 min — Production Companies: Servia Film, Wild Pear Arts — Producers: Greta Rauleac, Miloš Ljubomirović
In Eastern Serbia, in a town with a dual identity divided between magic and industry, a family whose destiny is intrinsically linked with both does their best to ensure the survival of their traditions and their future generations. Desa is the widow of the union leader who is trying to continue his legacy by ensuring the rights of fellow mine-worker families. Meanwhile, her brother Dragan Markovic is the last in a line of dragon hunters, but it’s hard to continue now even the dragons are being driven away.
LIGHT OF LIGHT — Greece 2023 — Directed by: Neritan Zinxhiria — 13 min — Production Company: Reconstructing Memories — Producer: Efijeni Kokedhima
Before his death in 1932, a monk created his own camera in one of the most isolated places in the world. Nearly a century later, a filmmaker discovers and reconstructs the 3000 preserved photographic plates, blending them with his own evocative Super 8, crafting a cinematic pilgrimage, where the past interlaces seamlessly with the present, in a spellbinding visual narrative that defies the constraints of time itself.
I Feel Your Silence — Germany 2023 — Directed by: Laura Heinig — 17 min — Spoken language: German — Subtitles: English — Production: Filmakademie B-W — Producer: Laura Heinig
Every sentence about grandma is like a loss. She didn't talk much - certainly not about what moved her. It is only after her death that I use this film to search for how war and violence affect relationships and create silence. In everyday life, in the household and in the family. A tender portrait that takes us back to that time, which still resonates with us today.
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