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.
MEN´S COOKING — Spain 2021 — Directed by: Silvia Subirós — 95 min — Spoken language: Spanish — Subtitles: English, Spanish, Catalan — Production Company: Cornelius Films — Producer: Mikel Mas
My grandfather was a well-known chef and created the Motel, the restaurant where I grew up. My father and siblings have continued his legacy, but neither I nor any of the women in my family have worked as cooks.
THE PLATANES' WALTZ — Spain 2021 — Directed by: Laurie Pinon, Bertrand Amiot — 64 min — Spoken language: French — Subtitles: English — Production Company: Girelle Production — Producer: Christophe Camoirano
Along the N10 road, in France, remains a timeless family-run truck stop, Les Platanes, a true landmark for truckers. On this island set in the middle of miles of tarmac, François and Patricia have welcomed for over twenty years the sailors of the road. Now approaching retirement, they decided to put their business for sale and, in a difficult economic context, are looking for a buyer.
Belgium 2021 — Directed by: Florent Remy — 18 min — Spoken language: French — Subtitles: English — Production Company: APACH asbl — Producer: Sébastien Andres
Osman has reached the heights of his art: Thai boxing. But he’s too old, his career is over. Now a stepfather, he will pass on his knowledge and tenacity to Gabriel, both in boxing and in his studies.
Spain, Serbia, Norway 2021 — Directed by: Patricia Franquesa — 60 min — Spoken languages: Persian, English, Catalan — Subtitles: Catalan, Spanish, English — Production Companies: Gadea Films, Gulu Gulu Presenta, Substans Film — Producers: Patricia Franquesa, Laia Zanon, Filip Martinovic, Alice Tillet, Kristian Mosvold
A moving portrait of Sara, Afghanistan's first female taxi driver. Filmmaker Patricia Franquesa captures the strength of a powerful woman who breaks through the barriers of a highly patriarchal society. Sara's bright eyes convey her tireless defense of women's rights and fight to achieve what seemed impossible. An inspiring story of friendship between two women who are full of life, an ode to empathy and dialogue between cultures. The circular tale of Sara's life story turns from fear to love and from love to fear. A testimony of a reality that no longer exists.
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.
North Macedonia, United Kingdom 2021 — Directed by: Matthew Somerville — 74 min — Spoken languages: Croatian, Slovenian, Serbian — Subtitles: English, Spanish, Croatian — Production Company: Sava Films Ltd — Producer: Matthew Somerville
SAVA is a river movie, a documentary film and a 990 km journey downstream. Her flow connects and divides, a shared thread through young nations and the hard border between them. SAVA acts as a vehicle for wandering the complex world of post-Yugoslavia - exploring a human relationship with nature, identity and nationhood. Her voice (Mira Furlan) connects the memories and dreams of 14 souls who share their stories on her banks. As rivers flow on, nations change, politics fluctuate and in a time of great division SAVA offers a compassionate, connected perspective of our complex world and all who live in it
SORRY COMRADE — Germany 2021 — Directed by: Vera Brückner — 94 min — Spoken language: German — Subtitles: English — Production Company: NORDPOLARIS — Producers: Fabian Halbig, Florian Kamhuber
Ex-East, ex-West, the Cold War and a great love affair. How was it? How did it feel? There are films that rely on images and archive and then there are the films that simply recreate everything without further ado in playful detail. A film that crosses borders, with tongue in cheek humour that is one thing above all: a great love story.
France 2021 — Directed by: Joachim Michaux — 34 min — Spoken language: French — Subtitles: English — Production Company: Le Fresnoy - Studio national des arts contemporains — Producer: François Bonenfant
Lebanon, August 2020. The explosion in the Beirut harbor compels Yasmeen and her father to face the unspoken truths of their past. A search for reconstruction that will redefine their relation to violence and to the troubled history of their country.
Spain, United Kingdom 2021 — Directed by: Alba Sotorra Clua — 87 min — Spoken languages: English, Arabic — Subtitles: English, Spanish, Catalan — Production Company: AlbaSotorra — Producer: Alba Sotorra Clua, Vesna Cudic
A unique access portrait of a group of Western women who devoted their young lives to ISIS, but who now want to be given the chance to start over back home in the West. Among them, probably the most famous British recruit Shamima Begum, who fled the country when she was 15, and Hoda Muthana from USA who allegedly incited her followers on Twitter to support the Islamic State. Universally reviled by the media, these women now tell their stories for the very first time.
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