France, Martinique 2023 — Directed by: Aliha Thalien — 23 min — Spoken language: French — Subtitles: English — Production Company: Le Fresnoy — national studio — Producer: Bruno Morat — Script: Aliha Thalien — Photography: Nino Defontaine, Nicolaos Zafiriou — Editing: Eva Studzinski — Sound: Alexandre Pastel
In Martinique, a curse upon men leads to their disappearance. A group of young friends meet and talk about their relationship to the island.
Алое, фікус, авокадо і 6 драцен — France, Ukraine 2023 — Directed by: Marta Smerechynska — 8 min — Subtitles: English — Production Company: La Fémis — Producer: Julie Tingaud — Script: Marta Smerechynska, Kateryna Babkina — Photography: Asma Benazouz, Sarp Uzunoglu — Editing: Marta Smerechynska — Sound: Karina Rezhevska — Music: Marusya Chuprinenko — Co-Production: Marta Smerechynska, Ukraine
What to take, what to leave? How important are material possessions when you’re trying to save your life? Packages from Ukraine – filled with everything and nothing – wait patiently under a bridge to be found, while a voice stirs memories of frivolous and treasured personal effects, in an apparent heart-breaking farewell letter to Kyiv.
Switzerland 2023 — Directed by: Urša Kastelic, Shannet Clemmings — 13 min — Spoken language: English — Subtitles: German, English — Producer: Zurich University of Arts — Production Company: Zurich University of Arts — Script: Urša Kastelic & Shannet Clemmings — Photography: Alvaro Kreyden — Editing: Manuel Viktor Troxler — Sound: Marin Valentin Wolf & Jonathan Descombes & Zoë Bayer — Music: tracy september
Shannet's voice echoes in the darkness. She is lost. The night scenery of a modern city opens up. She remembers it was a sunny summer day. As she wanders the empty streets, memories begin to haunt her. The cold concrete and a threatening stream of thoughts pull Shannet into an endless tunnel. Trapped in the horrifying reminiscences, the noise transforms into music. She is playing the violin; she is alive. It is a sunny summer day. Shannet finds herself in front of a motionless carousel, waiting. She smiles as her friends join her. Together with them, Shannet stands still in silence.
Croatia, Italy 2023 — Directed by: Tea Vidović Dalipi — 75 min — Spoken languages: Croatian, Albanian, English — Subtitles: English — Production Company: Restart — Producer: Oliver Sertić
Just married Croatian-Roma couple, Tea and Mirsad, are trying to live together, suspended between expectations from families and communities in culturally irreconcilable backgrounds that do not accept diversities.
France 2022 — Directed by: Elina Kastler — 16 min — Spoken languages: French, Arabic — Subtitles: English — Production: Le Fresnoy - Studio national des arts contemporains — Producer: François Bonenfant
This summer, Kabylie, a region in Algeria, has burned. At the center of this tragedy, women are singing. Her song, Achewiq, sublimates the suffering. With simplicity, the daily life of the Sahel’s inhabitants is revealed. Through laughs and joy, they overcome all these sorrows. The earth’s ashes are becoming the new sprouts to bloom.
Germany 2022 — Directed by: Afraa Batous — 80 min — Spoken language: Arabic — Subtitles: German, English — Production Company: Tondowski Films — Producers: Alex Tondowski, Ira Tondowski
To cope with the daily trauma of a lost home, Syrian filmmaker Afraa Batous and her friends embark on their first road trip ever. It’s been eight years since their homes in Syria were blown to pieces. To fight back against how life has unfolded for them, Afraa makes a film about their dreams and fears and her friends being happy.
AFTER THE RED — France 2022 — Directed by: Marie Sizorn — 14 min — Spoken language: French — Subtitles: English — Production: GREC / IUT de Corse — Producer: Anne Luthaud
In Corsica, the inhabitants of a village witnessed a gigantic fire. A memory leads the filmmaker to this event that changed the course of their lives and left its mark.
Hungary 2022 — Directed by: Zsófia Paczolay — 24 min — Spoken language: Hungarian — Subtitles: English — Production: DocNomads — Producer: Zsófia Paczolay, Bálint Bíró
József works at the largest still-operational grain silo in Budapest. He’s been doing this work for more than 30 years, and lives in a container home next to the structure, where trucks and trains rumble past his window. When he is lowered into the ten-story-deep silos to clean them, he looks like a scuba diver at work. It’s dangerous work for József, not least because he has been exposed to crop dust for many years now. The growing threat to his health could even lead to his death. But he can’t escape it. In fact he seems to have become an integral part of his environment.
Spain 2022 — Directed by: Clara Teper, Paul Pirritano — 72 min — Production Company: NOVANIMA — Producer: Marc Faye
Lens, northern France. Chaylla, 23, is trying to free herself from an abusive marriage. She is ready to fight - to obtain custody of her children, to prove what she has suffered. But on the inside, she still hopes to form a family again with her ex-partner. Both a legal battle and an intimate struggle, Chaylla is the story of four years in the life of a young woman whose attempts at emancipation and desire for justice collide with the clutch of dependence.
THREE WOMEN — Germany 2022 — Directed by: Maksym Melnik — 85 min — Spoken languages: Ukrainian, German — Subtitles: English, German — Production: Film University Babelsberg
A priest who blesses cars; a post office without stamps; a piglet as a gift: everyday scenes in Stuzhytsia in Ukraine. It is a village with a tough climate and tough people – or so it seems at first. As the film crew follows three women, a farmer, postal worker and a biologist, they are taken in by their joie de vivre and humour and soon feel more and more at home.
This cannot be atoned for — Hungary 2022 — Directed by: László Halász — 42 min — Spoken language: Hungarian — Subtitles: English — Producers: Anita Bozóki, László Halász
Vilmos was released from prison in 2005 after serving 20 years for manslaughter. He still can't recall what led to the murder, but everyday, he carries the weight of his crime. After his release, he initially lived homeless but over the years he managed to find housing on the outskirts of Budapest. Here, he lives with his animals, whom he considers family. His daily life is complicated by various physical maladies. The film follows Vilmos after he is diagnosed with gastric cancer. It is then that he decides to try to come to terms with the events of his past, with the help of a team of social workers.
MAY THE EARTH BECOME THE SKY — Portugal, Romania, Belgium, Hungary 2022 — Directed by: Ana Vîjdea — 15 min — Production Company: Remora Films — Producer: Ana Vîjdea
Maria, a 50-something member of an Orthodox parish in Lisbon, divides her time between prayer and daily tasks such as olive picking. She faces a dilemma: become an ascetic, or reconnect with her two sons. Ana Vijdea paints a sensitive portrait of a woman in the midst of existential doubt, in a film where images are mightier than words.
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