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- DirectorUrte SabutyteStarsLaima AkstinaiteKarolis KasperaviciusAuguste SimulynaiteAleksandra, a young prosecutor, is handling a human trafficking case.
- DirectorYotam Ben-DavidStarsAdrian DragoiDaniel MantaVladut MantaAn eight-year-old boy finds a dead man's body at the top of a mountain. As he knocks on the doors of the village, trying to solve the mystery, a portrait of a village is revealed - a place in transition between the traditions of the past and the violence of contemporary reality.
- DirectorJoder von RotzWhen the opportunity arises, Little Miss Fate slips into the role of the world leader. She unintentionally creates a monster that greedily wants to suck up all the love of the world.
- DirectorNaïla GuiguetStarsDustin MuchuvitzFélix MaritaudRaya MartignyFollows the events of DJ Dustin over the course of one wild night at a warehouse party and the morning that follows.
- DirectorOlga TorricoStarsClaudio CollovàOlga TorricoGabriele ZapparataAlice works at a gas station. She doesn't play anymore and she buried her fire for music deep inside. On a sultry summer day, her old music teacher shows up. And Alice starts wondering if she has stayed without her fuel for too long.
- DirectorMarko DjeskaWhile transitioning from male gender to female, Matia struggles with finding a sincere intimate relationship with a heterosexual male.
- DirectorAylin GökmenOn a volcanic island, inhabitants are caught in an unending cycle: the threat of impending eruptions and earthquakes, and the burden of past traumas loom over them. Some draw upon myth and religious beliefs to interpret their precarious situation, while others demonstrate resilience, rebuilding their villages from the volcanic rocks. Mirroring the ethereal atmosphere of the island's landscapes, the film gradually takes on the appearance of the stories it recounts.
- DirectorEva GioloFilmed after the lockdown caused by COVID-19, Flowers blooming in our throats is an intimate, poetic portrait of the fragile balances that govern everyday life in a domestic setting. The artist films a group of her friends in their own homes, performing various small actions in accordance with her instructions. Giolo chooses to walk a shifting line where gestures remain ambiguous, expressing a kind of violence that is not immediately recognisable.
- DirectorDomas PetronisVytautas PlukasStarsJudita UrnikyteMan tries to recreate himself by how he views himself, but this broken reflection only gets lost in the uncanny valley.
- DirectorJaume Claret MuxartStarsMathieu HonoratTristan HonoratMariona MartinGemma (23) lives in Greece in a small studio where she lives and paints. Queralt (56), also a painter, tries to talk by phone with her daughter from Barcelona, but she doesn't succeed. A film with the paintings of Roser Agell and Paulina Muxart Agell.
- DirectorGabor UlrichStarsIrone SingletonThe sounds as witnesses. They blur into memories, half-dreams, it is undecided if they are real or not. Fluctuation between imagination and reality. Rocking pictures in the mind, pulsating dark emotions.
- DirectorSaule BliuvaiteWhile driving around in limousines, groups of people from different generations struggle to find the best way to have fun they desire.
- DirectorIsmaël Joffroy ChandoutisStarsMarcel GonzalezSabine is looking for a missing image: an incident that has left an indelible mark, one that everyone else remembers but her. But maybe this absence will allow her to move forward in life?
- DirectorAne Hjort GuttuStarsYamile CalderonMaiken HåvarsteinTerje NicolaisenNewly migrated into a university and an open-plan campus building, an art school feels cornered by a suffocating culture of surveillance and administration. Staff and students find ways to subvert control through secret operations. Drawing on her own experiences as an art teacher, Oslo-based Ane Hjort Guttu explores what you trade away when creativity is replaced by order, and provides us with action plans for how to be the playful rebel.
- DirectorDenise FernandesStarsYaya CorreiaMaria SanchesLourença SemedoAfter 14 years away from her homeland, Salomé is forced to return to Cape Verde to see her dying brother. During her stopover at Lisbon airport, Águeda, a cleaning lady, recognizes Salomé as "Mila", her childhood friend. Águeda invites Salomé to leave the airport and spend the stopover at her home, with the women of her family. The neighborhood transports her on a spiritual journey, whose destination unfurls a painful bond with her homeland.
- DirectorNicolas KeppensStarsVictor PolsterRik VerheyeJason dreams of having his own mountain bike.
- DirectorVytautas KatkusStarsVygantas BachmackijKarolis KasperaviciusEmilija RuzgaiteTwo childhood friends are spending their last days in the places where they grew up, trying to postpone their farewell to the district, which is changing.
- DirectorLoïc HobiStarsHubert GirardUser LonerWolf58 is part of the incel community. They consider themselves as involuntary celibate. His videos have been reported for violent and terrorist content. I have to make him disappear from the net.
- DirectorSophie LittmanStarsMillie AshfordEsme Creed-MilesSam SpruellMia takes her sister Squeeze to walk their dog near their home. The landscape begins to morph around them, plunging them into a powerless limbo of grief and introducing Mia to a strange man lurking at the edge of a dark wood.
- DirectorElsa RosengrenStarsRamses Komuro BoubakerEllen EdmarMaria KalachWhilst awaiting a long-distance friend, a lonely young woman navigates a Berlin neighborhood populated by talkative souls whose existences are often dominated by memories of their past lives.
- DirectorTereza HalamováStarsKarolína LipowskáAnezka PithartováEva is 14. Her older brother takes her to the lake with him and his friends. There, she feels a great closeness to the older teenagers and her curiosity leads her to discover human physicality for the first time.
- DirectorLola Halifa-LegrandMarie JacoteyStarsClémence BoisnardPauline ChalametEsther GarrelA couple on the roads of Provence. Nils is driving Flora to his parents for the first time when they get ambushed. Whilst she's made prisoner, he flees. During a night in the pinewood, she has to face her doubts.
- DirectorKlementas DavidaviciusStarsDainius GavenonisJonas KriviciusIndre PatkauskaiteIn eastern Europe, a middle-aged blue-collar worker rents a room in his flat to a young single mother and her son. One night, the man returns home with the hope of getting closer to her.
- DirectorGhita SkaliStarsOmar RadiA worn-out floor, the hole underneath, a political activist, and the Ouled Sbita tribe are the protagonists in this political satire. For 23 years, the director's chair at an international art institute scratched the wooden floor. This 102cm x 120cm floor section is cut out and sent to an expropriated piece of land in Morocco. In The Hole's Journey, Ghita Skali uses sharp wit, personal stories and playful editing to touch on specific power dynamics and freedom of choice.
- DirectorMirabelle FrévilleIn 1946, eight months after the atomic bombings, an American army film team made a feature documentary in Japan. Several reels are shot in Hiroshima and Nagasaki including the "11004". "The reel 11004" explores the 19 minutes of a reel of these rushes and reveals, frame by frame, the first censorship of nuclear history.
- DirectorLeonardo Van DijlStarsSofie DecleirStefan GotaBenjamin RamonAfter winning her first international title, an 11-year-old gymnast experiences both new pressures and a new degree of self-awareness. The more recognition she gets, the more she realizes that the game only has begun.
- DirectorLaura RantanenOn the basis of anonymous telephone calls made to a helpline for teenagers, On Hold makes us hear a dissonant speech. Recounted here by older people, these testimonies are the occasion to question the construction of masculinity and its generational heritage. Between humour and dread, the film unveils what remains unsaid in a sick society.
- DirectorGunhild EngerStarsFalk FalkDaniel Kanye VatsvågEndre HauklandA gaming company makes a video game for kids about the EU. You play a national bird needing to breed and nest across borders, but you can fly only where you have a visa. Two game designers transform the European Union into pixel graphics to make Schengen catchy for young people. Is it possible?
- DirectorMayan EngelmanEliran PeledStarsMaisa Abd ElhadiTsahi HaleviRotem EisnerIn a divided city, two kids from rival sides meet at Cinema Rex. He speaks only Hebrew, and she speaks only Arabic. They will manage to form a true friendship based on one magical language, the cinema.
- DirectorAliona SaskováStarsJirí GráfAliona Sasková
- DirectorLena von DöhrenIt is springtime and The Little Bird is taking care of the first leaves on the tree. Then the blossoms open up one by one, and the bees coming buzzing along. The Little Bird follows them, but a fox is in pursuit.
- DirectorIgor DimitriStarsEstarlyn AcostaTony RafaelJannik MioduckiA Dominican hairdresser's in Buenos Aires serves as a meeting place for all sorts of people. A place where music links them, from reggaeton to modern electronic music, and where dancing expresses freedom and joie de vivre - even for the very youngest.
- DirectorJulie CatyStarsMarc FraizeDany, a rich heir who faces existential emptiness, meets Karl Marx who asks him to destroy capitalism in order to save the humankind.
- DirectorZachary ZezimaStarsAntonia de RendingerLoïc GuingandIsaac KesslerA young man is sexually assaulted and subdues, punishes, then befriends his own attacker while confronting his past and the ambiguities of sexuality. Part fiction, part non-fiction, part autobiography and part dream, Friend of a Friend attempts to broaden the conversation around abuse and its motivations and implications, as well as the survivor vs. assailant dynamic and results of ostracism.
- DirectorSaulius BaradinskasStarsBilly BoydPaulius CizinauskasKestutis CicenasDriven to the edge by a huge debt and his impending divorce, a poetic accountant decides to kill himself but is rescued by a heart attack.
- DirectorThelyia PetrakiStarsElena TopalidouNikos KourisElena MengreliGreece 1986-1987, a little before the fall of State Socialism and just at the end of the Cold War. In front of Anthi's eyes the country is changing, the world is changing and with them Christos seems to be changing too.
- DirectorLinda Ibbari4 women share their life with their pets. What are they to them ? This is where humanity and animality work together in an infatuation love story between bodies and cries.
- DirectorDorota Migas-MazurThe story of a woman from Chechnya, Raisa, who has fled with her children to Poland to escape her difficult past. By taking the decision to leave, she breaks away from the traditional system there. Only in this way can she show her objection to the oppressive rules in her home country and the harm she has suffered. She shares her life story with her Polish language teacher in this film about female strength, determination and the struggle for dignity and independence.
- DirectorElena KairyteWhere the last house faded away in the wheat, there lived a little girl, who walked at night out in the fields, with a bucket of water to mirror the moon. It's a true story based on Tonino Guerra's poem, about a girl who lives in a remote Lithuanian village. This single farm holds her entire world: family, beloved animals, and the watchful moon.
- DirectorRaphaela SchmidStarsRoman BinderJulia Franz RichterAn unusual farewell ritual in a Chinese restaurant frames the meeting of two siblings who feel guilty after the death of their mother.
- DirectorNora StrbováStarsKaterina CisarovaJan StrejcovskýAlan SýsA multi-textured animated exploration of memory as a container of identity, based on the personal story of the filmmaker and her brother who was diagnosed with a brain tumor.