Austria 2022 — Directed by: Samira Ghahremani — 73 min — Spoken languages: German, English — Subtitles: English, German, Spanish — Producer: Gwendolyn Meisinger
Gerhard is physically handicapped and dependent on care. Nevertheless, he wants to leave and chooses Thailand. He wants to build a future with Amy, his new Thai girlfriend. Their relationship is accompanied by an unspoken agreement: financial support in exchange for a family idyll. But Amy cheats him out of most of his financial assets. With the help of two friends, he tries to rearrange his life because Amy has gone into hiding and with her the dream of a good life.
Hungary 2022 — Directed by: Erika Kapronczai — 86 min — Spoken language: Hungarian — Subtitles: English, French — Production Company: kArton Productions — Producer: Péter Kozma
Kim Corbisier was an enigmatic figure in Budapest. Ten years ago the director Erika Kapronczai approached her to make a short film but gave up on this idea when she had spent some time with Kim to instead document her battle against methadone addiction. When Kim committed suicide at the age of 27, she left behind a small but exquisite body of work.
France 2022 — Directed by: Noah Cohen — 26 min — Spoken language: English — Subtitles: English — Production Company: CINEFABRIQUE — Producer: Noah Cohen
Late 2000 in New York. My father, Michel Cohen, had been charged with 24 counts of fraud and was facing 30 years in prison. He went on the run with my mother, my sister and me. Twenty years later, I tell our story.
Germany 2022 — Directed by: Anahita Safarnejad — 22 min — Spoken language: Arabic — Subtitles: English — Production: Filmuniversität Babelsberg KONRAD WOLF — Producer: Anahita Safarnejad
A poetic exploration of a father-daughter relationship. Anahita grows up in front of her father's camera. A dreamy life fulfilled with love and poetry evolves into a nightmare in which she witnesses her identity get lost as her father dies of cancer. In her quest to understand death, she dives into a rollercoaster ride of unknown emotions and embarks on a voyage of acceptance. From death into an immortal world.
Until Death — Hungary 2022 — Directed by: Gergely Mózes — 46 min — Spoken language: Hungarian — Subtitles: English — Production Company: KREA-TV — Producer: Judit Ordódy
An animated historical documentary about the daring acts of a true hero, Catholic seminarian Tibor Baranski, and the atrocities caused by a bloodthirsty antihero, the Nazi monk, Father Kun. Their intertwining stories play out in the shadow of the 1944 siege of Budapest – the seminarian who saved lives and the monk who was a war criminal. Their stories offer many lessons for a modern local and global context heavily burdened with real problems and prejudices.
France 2022 — Directed by: Ondine Novarese — 20 min — Spoken languages: Hebrew, French — Subtitles: English — Production: La Fémis — Producer: Justine Riou
A Jewish family tries to keep her traditions alive in the modern world, despite of the succession of generations. From film to Zoom, we live a Pesach holiday with this family, through time.
Spain, Germany 2022 — Directed by: Anna Giralt — 79 min — Spoken languages: Catalan, Spanish, English — Subtitles: English, Spanish — Production Companies: GUSANOFILMS!, INDI FILM — Producers: Jorge Caballero, Arek Gielnik, Sonia Otto
An intimate thriller about Enric Duran, the Robin Hood of the 21st century. During the 2008 crisis, the Catalan activist stole half a million from the banks, gave it to social projects and announced it in the media to report the malpractices of the banking system. He was sentenced to prison but managed to escape and vanish. Where are the limits between legality and legitimacy?
France, Belgium 2022 — Directed by: Noé Reutenauer — 62 min — Spoken language: French — Subtitles: English — Production Companies: Helicotronc, Les Films de la Pépinière — Producers: Julie Esparbes, Raphaèle Dumas
My friend Kirill Patou, thirty-five years old, is looking for a soul mate but can't find one. To find the ideal romance, Kirill escapes into an imaginary life. Through his drawings, he becomes a valiant knight who declares his love for the princesses of his dreams. A confident rapper, in his bedroom, in front of his hordes of amorous fans. But Kirill has Down's syndrome, and reality always brings him back to his difference. As we talk, I accompany my friend on his quest friend on his quest for love and ideals, despite his "bump in the heart".
LAST CALL — France 2021 — Directed by: Inés Fabry Garcia — 21 min — Spoken language: French — Subtitles: English — Production: Université de Paris (ex Paris-Diderot)
Every day telephone operators of a legal advice service receive calls from prisoners. Soon, conversations escape from their primary function.
Spain, Bosnia and Herzegovina, North Macedonia 2021 — Directed by: Kumjana Novakova, Guillermo Carreras-Candi — 72 min — Spoken languages: Serbian, English — Subtitles: English — Producer: Kumjana Novakova
Nearly 8,000 Bosnian Muslims were massacred in Srebrenica in the summer of 1995. Kumjana Novakova and Guillermo Carreras-Candi have managed to get hold of archival footage that was shot at the time by the Serbian forces. Twenty years later, they confront these devastating images of the past with the current landscape of the former enclave, which still bears the scars of overwhelming collective grief.
THE WIND THAT MOVES US — Spain 2021 — Directed by: Pere Puigbert — 78 min — Spoken language: Catalan — Subtitles: English, Spanish — Production Company: DDM Visual — Producer: David Gimbernat
The wind that moves us penetrates deep il Empordà, an area in the northeastern tip of Catalonia in Spain. It allows us to take a poetic look at the daily life of some people who inhabit this windy land: an old woman and her great-grandson, a shepherd who spends most of his time tending his flock of sheep and a girl who cultivates apples. These main characters, each one living a different moment in life, share a daily reality which highlights a lively cultural heritage preserved through the legacy between family generations.
IT HAS PASSED, AND IT’S FINE — Hungary 2021 — Directed by: Debre Zsuzsa — 28 min — Spoken language: Hungarian — Subtitles: English — Production Company: Ethnic Talents — Producer: Zsuzsa Debre
Through thoughtful formal solutions, the use of archival footage, and the recording of intimate situations, the film displays the nostalgic relationship women who once worked in the Ózd Metallurgical Plants have with the past. Conversations in the hair salon reveal the everyday and community life of working families before the change of the regime, and a femininity rarely seen on film.
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