Slovenia, Austria, Poland, Italy, Serbia 2024 — Directed by: Maja Doroteja Prelog — 87 min — Spoken language: Slovenian — Subtitles: English — Production Company: Cvinger Film — Coproduction Companies: Zena Film, Agresywna Banda, Wake Up Films
After surviving a terminal illness diagnosis, Blaž sets off to a grueling celebratory Giro d’Italia. With him is his partner, filmmaker Maja Doroteja Prelog, tasked with capturing the triumphant biking tour. What was initially planned as a ride from the Dolomites to Sicily to reclaim control of one’s own life and celebrate overcoming their greatest fear, soon becomes a journey of self-discovery for the couple. The focus shifted and now Maja’s experience and needs hold the lens. While the lens of the camera turns inward, the relationship unravels, revealing a brave examination of self and what it truly means to be together. An unfiltered testament to love and change in the midst of beautiful natural sceneries.
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.
North Macedonia 2024 — Directed by: Bojan Tanturovski — 74 min — Spoken language: Macedonian — Subtitles: English — Production Company: OXO Production — Producer: Ilija Tiričovski
After 35 years of gardening on an uninhabited public land near the river Vardar, the last urban guerilla gardeners in Skopje are faced with eviction. As the city expands, they are forced to seek another land.
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
Isabelle is a story of survival after a snatched motherhood, which confronts us with the protagonist’s routine, marked by an unexpected, abrupt and untimely absence. Motherhood, as a permanent and irreversible condition, opens the door to love, but also to suffering. Everyone has their own: it cannot be shared or explained, only soothed with wet towels and words of comfort. Parents who lose a child become ghosts: everyone feels them, even sees them, but they’re no longer there.
HIS PARENTS — Germany 2024 — Directed by: Katharina Köster, Katrin Nemec — 81 min — Spoken language: German — Subtitles: English — Producer: Isabelle Bertolone, David Armati Lechner, Trini Götze — Production Company: Trimafilm — Co-Production: ZDF Das kleine Fernsehspiel — Script: Katharina Köster, Katrin Nemec — Photography: Tobias Tempel — Editing: Miriam Märk — Sound: Björn Rothe — Music: Cico Beck
The media call their son the “patient killer.” He was given a life sentence for his numerous crimes. Life goes on for his parents Ulla and Didi Högel but nothing is the same as before. They must accept the bitter truth, figure out how to cope with everyday life and reposition themselves in relation to their child. A compelling, precisely observed film about parenthood and love.
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.
MANHOOD — Germany 2024 — Directed by: Tobit Kochanek — 71 min — Spoken language: German — Subtitles: English — Producers: Tobit Kochanek, Britt Abrecht — Production Company: Filmakademie Baden Württemberg — Script: Tobit Kochanek — Photography: Dennis Banemann — Editing: Tim Kraushaar — Sound: Rachel Oker — Music: Philipp Lust
A group of keen football players looking for fellowship meet every Monday evening on a pitch in Görlitzer Park, the drug dealers’ mecca. The “pack of men with the same mindset” reflect on masculinity, heartbreak and midlife crisis and seem so likeable that you want to go and cheer them on from the side-lines yourself.
I WOULD RATHER BE A STONE — Croatia 2024 — Directed by: Ana Hušman — 24 min — Spoken language: Croatian — Subtitles: English — Producer: Ana Hušman
Lika is a neglected and sparsely populated region in western Croatia, which was heavily affected during during World War II and was characterized by poverty and emigration. Today, 75 thousand tons of cement are being pressed into the landscape to build a reservoir. Through the voice of Little Jela, the film tells the story of the events that marked a generation and shaped the future of the landscape of Lika. The difficult living conditions impacted the personal lives of the people who lived there, their solitude, relationships, opportunities, apprehensions and hopes.
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.
THE GROUND WHERE WE STAND — Croatia 2024 — Directed by: Karla Crnčević — 64 min — Spoken language: Croatian — Subtitles: English — Production Company: Zagreb film — Producer: Vinko Brešan
In the interior of the island, a group of women coming from different ex-Yugoslavia countries live in an unusual community trying to create safe space for them and for generations to come. The islanders call them Witches of Brač. They do not believe in private property or hierarchy, and manage the community by direct democracy. They share the land and together try to build their own small self-sustaining oasis. Interpersonal relations and challenges brought by coexistence in nature, bring the survival of the community into question.
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.
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