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.
Mexico 2022 — Directed by: Natalia García Clark — 20 min — Spoken language: Spanish — Subtitles: English — Production: Elías Querejeta Zine Eskola
Discussions on social networks give life to the statues on Paseo de la Reforma in Mexico City. The social climate alternates between cycles of chaos and order, expression and censorship, memory and oblivion. A new decolonial and feminist era has arrived. Realities emerge from the changes that modify the city's public space and its symbols.
Spain 2022 — Directed by: Lucía Silvestre — 17 min — Spoken language: Spanish — Subtitles: English, Spanish — Producer: Marina González
A bus returning to Navarra. The filmmaker meets María, a woman who begins to tell her about her experiences as miles go by. And from there, a series of connections between the come up. Maria, the protagonist of the documentary, becomes a channel to reflect on the filmmaker's origins, memory and absences. A metaphorical journey back home.
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.
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.
HERITAGE — Belgium, Hungary, Portugal 2021 — Directed by: Anna Gyimesi — 11 min — Spoken language: Hungarian — Subtitles: English — Production: DocNomads, Luca School of Arts, Brussels — Producers: Anna Gyimesi, Frederik Nicolai
For a long time, I knew that I wanted to do something with my grandfather's inherited family videos. When I faced the fact that I saw a happy family, a fundamental question appeared in my mind: how is it possible to continue to exist seemingly joyful as a Holocaust survivor? My Heritage is not just a bunch of travel videos, capturing family holidays. It is a deeply personal confession of mine as well, through which I can purely ask whether it is possible to choose life after a traumatic past, whether happiness is a choice, and whether, as a third-generation Holocaust survivor, I have the right to smile.
Spain 2021 — Directed by: Artur-Pol Camprubí — 18 min — Spoken languages: Catalan, Spanish, Romanian — Subtitles: English, Spanish, Catalan — Production Company: 15L Films — Producer: Carlota Coloma
A lamppost that marks the boundary of a town in Franja de Ponent lights up at dusk. We follow Angelica, a woman of Romanian origin. As if it were a story by Carson McCullers, the piece moves between the dream and the real world of the protagonist and in the in-between nature that implies her sense of belonging.
Switzerland 2021 — Directed by: Lesia Kordonets — 102 min — Spoken languages: Ukrainian, English — Subtitles: English — Production Company: DSCHOINT VENTSCHR FILMPRODUKTION — Producer: Karin Koch
PUSHING BOUNDARIES accompanies athletes from the Ukrainian Paralympic National Team who have lost their training base in Crimea due to the Russian annexation. They try to adapt to the new historic conditions in their private as well as in their professional lives and to qualify for the next games. The film shows people who grow beyond their physical limits on a daily basis while around them political boundaries are pushed back and forth. And the country they represent at international competitions is rendered invalid by the amputation of its territories.
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