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- A middle-class family spends the day together purchasing items in anticipation of the arrival of a new baby. We follow them into a consumerist dreamscape that soon dissolves into something nightmarish. Things take a violent turn when the patriarch of the family is confronted by a group of masked vigilantes.
- The United Nations selected Finland as the happiest country in the world twice in a row. Finns are still very skeptical about this recognition - they tend to see themselves as melancholic, pessimistic and dreary. Is this really the best possible life? A poetic documentary that plows deep into the nation's soul and visits places where these Nordic people can be found at their happiest.
- An inspiring creative documentary that follows the story of one of Uganda's unsung heroes - Robert Katende. Popularly known as 'Coach Robert', he was able to transform a little unknown slum in the outskirts of Kampala, into an internationally recognized army of Chess Champions.
- The appearance of people with albinism is often the basis for superstition, which extremely supports their social exclusion. This leads to bullying, discrimination and persecution. Zerozero tells the moving story of rapper and activist RobenX from Memphis, USA.
- Élie, an ambitious young teenager, finds himself torn between Enzo, a singular sixty-something whom he works for, and his own mother who suspects the man to be linked to organized crime. Only when a snowstorm hits the city will he finally make up his mind.
- After losing his family, Salem, an old nomad leaves Tindouf, the headquarters of Sahraoui separatists and embarks on a long walk to Laayoune on the Atlantic coast of Sahara. He is back to the «best country of the world»: his childhood. On his way, he meets Demba, a Senegalese refugee trying to reach his family in Casablanca, Morocco. Without judging each other, both men will share moments of emotion, fear, hope and doubts. In a no man's land, an amazing friendship will unite the two men, each one of them having his «own Morocco» in mind, often imaginary, sometimes nostalgic, magical, cruel, dreamy and timeless.
- A drama documentary recreating real-life painful experiences through the eyes of Philippos, a prisoner of war. The stories are facts told by life eyewitnesses in a diary/interview context. Philippos describes his own ordeal as a 17-year-old student who fought a war, was a prisoner of war, and a refugee of war. The feelings of angst and pain in captivity were the reason Philippos became a passionate renowned sculptor. Historians confirm the truth behind this never been told before story.
- Cinderella wishes to go to the palace, Ciderella must go to the palace. Cinderella's shoes are a gift, Ciderella's body cast is a burden. They both wear them with pride they both go to the dance. What is the palace? Whom do you want to be like? What are you gonna find there that you don't already have? Wake up Ciderella.
- Following behind the back of a paranoid, neurotic man named Terry as he wanders through the streets of Manhattan. His past memories and irrational inner thoughts soon plague his every move. By channeling a form of mental time travel, Terry attempts to overcome these past anxieties.
- Shadows of Endurance portraits two centuries of American history through stratified layers of time, comparing the lives of the people currently living in Harlan County with the huge amount of oral histories collected and recorded by Italian author, Alessandro Portelli, over 30 years of field research. The film is a journey through different times, each with their ghosts and voices, as a distant echo of a bygone age, re-emerging today in the places and faces explored by the camera.
- An exploration of the origins of the language, of emotions and human experience. By renouncing every familiar convention, the three performers create an intense performative landscape manifested through an idiosyncratic physical idiom, which seems to connect the members of a peculiar tribe. While going, both literally and metaphorically, in circles, the three characters are attempting to experience intimacy, first with themselves and then with each other.
- Two audiovisual and film basics - sound and image - are created by the same lines engraved directly on primary audiovisual medium - film track - in order to trigger the most harmonic relationship that is possible between them. In this film you can see the sound and hear the image.
- A story of a former child soldier Arnold Aganze from Congo who finds himself in Uganda. Arnold tries to integrate into the Ugandan community but discovers that he cannot. He is trying to come to terms with his past, a dark story from the time when the civil war in Congo had spilled over into his village in South Kivu. Arnold meets with a man from Kampala's Rasta community, a community that has lived through exclusion and isolation. Finally Arnold feels he has met his family.
- Images of migrants have become a daily occurrence for the local Brits; completely apathetic when a tragedy occurs, by their sheer indifference and minimization of the calamity.
- Abyss is a chain of 10,000 images found through Google's reverse image search. The visual development is based on the misunderstandings that happen in the AI's reading of the image material. The AI doesn't care about scale, emotions or context but is only interested in patterns, colors and correlations. We are watching a primal chaos before the creation of an artificial consciousness. And the awakening consciousness is looking back at us as a species.
- Delving into the beauty of life when the sun goes down, this documentary is an intimate portrait of the obsession with nightclubbing culture, amongst Britain's young generation, looking at notions of collective identities, performance and truth.
- A small Polish village. There is an ongoing mass wild boars hunt because of the spread of the African Swine Fever (ASF) virus, which is dangerous for pig farming. Kalina lives in a wooden cottage in the company of hens and a whining dog, which she keeps chained in the yard. One day the dog disappears. While searching for him, Kalina learns about liberty.
- On April 12, 1961, Soviet cosmonaut Yuri Gagarin becomes the first human to travel through space. After his triumphant return, he is given the title "Hero of the Soviet Union". However, he is deemed too valuable to ever travel to space again. Dream and reality blend in this poetic tribute to the first man in space. Created with found footage.
- 1973, San Francisco. Charles Bukowski, underground poet and punk ahead of his time, reads his poem Love in front of a wild audience who came to listen to the trash poet's provocations. But that day, instead of the punk, they found a broken man hungry for love.
- Panikos, a seventy-year-old Cypriot sculptor, lives in a jungle as he calls it. For the past 35 years, his workshop has become the place of help for people with disabilities but also a source of inspiration and absolute calm for many people.
- Set against the backdrop of ISIS' imposition of the "jizya" tax on non-Muslims in its territories, a Christian family devises a plan to protect its only daughter. However, their "perfect" solution might end up having more tragic consequences than intended.
- Nature is in us, in as much as it is in everything that surrounds us. Shot in the midst of nature and lush greenery- a rarity in Indian metros. Captured dancers in different busy urban spaces as well as in the contrasting juxtaposition of the wilderness and in the traffic collapse. The concept is a quest for a new terminology and a new grammar of thinking about contemporary art, to focus on a new meaning of vision and gender.
- A space-time traveler traverses dimensions of matter and energy, crossing parallel, unique realities. A dream trip through her memories, nightmares and fantasies. Novel or reality? Nothing is static, nothing is permanent. Everything disintegrates.
- In a remote rural village in Kyrgyzstan an unexpected visitor from the past suddenly bursts into the calm, measured life of the elderly Bermet and her husband Kanybek to reveal a past traumatic relationship of all three. In two days the fate of the characters will be revealed: their hopes, unrealized dreams, humility and fear, joy and despair. The whole palette of complex human relationships in a tiny space of a private courtyard in this remote, yet classic, love triangle.
- Vihren is a 12-year-old boy, who is called in the director's office, because he wrote a very sad story in his literature class. Despite the slow bureaucracy and the honest lack of interest from the teachers, Vihren reads his story. The audience witnesses what is sad about it.
- An experimental short film that shows an artistic view of the astronomical event called "Supernova".
- Longing for Wilderness takes you from the noisy city trough the slowly transforming forest to a wild and airy landscape. It seeks to express our desire to turn off everyday turbulences and experience nature in its rawest form - an opportunity getting increasingly rare these days.
- This film constitutes an attempt to interpret the art of Marios Loizides, an artist who sought to express the spirituality of the human existence through his painting, as well as the unbounded spirit of mankind, experienced through the faculty of vision.
- From the lights of skyscrapers against the curtain of the night sky, neon lights in the street, the headlights of trains and cars in motion, to the lights that fill each and every home. Fragments of the city float like stardust out of the darkness, leading to a new vision of the city of Tokyo with omnidirectional motion graphics.
- A dysfunctional society controlled by a toxic leader results in the reality of illiberalism and the sole autocratic EU member state is leading the way. Recently, an angular black hole appeared in the center of this nation's main square, which proved invisible to Hungarians. The analysis of this dark object offers a short glimpse at tyranny from the angle of anxiety.
- Three anonymous people reveal their emotional pain, loneliness and mental health struggles during the global pandemic of coronavirus. Their thoughts and feelings are expressed through monologues written and narrated by them in different languages - English, Italian and Greek-Cypriot. We are let in their internal world as they reflect on a painful 2020.
- LA Screen Memories captures the sound of real locations in Downtown Los Angeles and confronts them with their film history: Part 1 brings together 19 looped film scenes all shot at the 2nd and 3rd street tunnel - their soundtracks replaced by 19 field recordings from the same locations. The specific sound spectrums (tunnel acoustics) of the recordings have been amplified and emphasized. The result is a ghostly acoustical environment that reflects a blurred reality - and a lot of car traffic.
- The smell, sound and sight of nature; plants, animals, water and a human presence amongst and with them all. Motive tells the story of a woman, representative of any individual whose personal space is defined by what would be considered atypical for the majority.
- Marie Agnes created an ambitious musical show Pim Poum the little panda for a birthday party, hoping for the coming of a scheduler. Daniel plays the role of Pim Poum, Caro plays the mermaid and Lucie all the other roles. But an unforeseen set of circumstances will trigger a scenic slaughter between them, in the midst of the show.
- A story about the displacement of a people, and more specifically the journey of a young Ugandan woman who has grown up in exile looking for a place to call home. She finds solace through communicating with a Ugandan childhood friend who was her first love and is presently incarcerated in the United States.
- The film is set against the backdrop of the severance of an intimate and joyous family relationship between an only brother (narrator) and his sister (Maria). Their relationship is torn apart by schizophrenia. The onset of the disease results in the debilitation of Maria, taking with it her personality. This leaves him stranded, angry, confused and terribly sad. The inability to understand what has happened leads to attempts to escape until finally to the realization that there is no escape. After several body blows from a merciless world, what follows is an understanding that there is no way out but to return to face his demons. To find a way to come to terms with this loss. From the debris of the ravages of the disease he attempts to pick the pieces together. How will he come to terms with a condition that seems to be irreversible? How does he restore and achieve peace?
- The magic between 'frames' acts on clay, the table becomes a contradictory object that can be soft and hard. Some people get into it, but others are not. There is no differentiation between superior and inferior or right or wrong in this place, but how we face the world.
- Titan is spaceart work representing the seas of the moon Titan. The idea originally came from the observation of peculiar chemical/physical phenomena at high magnification. It was also influenced by the reading of Kurt Vonnegut Jr.'s novel, 'The Sirens of Titan. The result is a dreamlike scenario which interpretation vacillates between a cosmic and a biological point of view, until it evolves into a symbolic birth that also recalls the OM.
- Sofía is putting up search posters of her missing boyfriend Luis all over town. Copies of his picture surround her. Luis is one of the more than 80,000 missing persons in Mexico. At night Sofía faces a recurring dream: little by little her world transforms into paper. First the birds, then the ground, her room, until even death is made of paper. Papel tells this Mexican story of mourning and hope in black and white still images.
- A day within a life, re-lived through fragmented memories. Loneliness, abandonment and regret are prevailing themes within cycles of reflection, jest and contradiction. A short documentary examining the consequence of time within the fragility of memory, exposing a sense of self, trapped within materiality and fantasy.
- Hatzil the Gazlan (ice cream car driver) gets lodged with his ice cream car in the middle of the desert. John, a Sudanese refugee, arrives to the place; he is tired and thirsty after running away from the Israeli border. The meeting between the two, leads them to a short relationship that, despite being based on lack of trust, will abate their loneliness.
- Markos is a young and desperate single man who is struggling to create the ideal profile on social media, in an attempt to gain popularity and attract the opposite sex. His daily life takes an unexpected turn when his personal profile acquires its own personality, invading his life and offering him all he ever dreamed of, but at a price. When his increasing demands get out of hand, Markos is forced to confront his own Profile, which has other plans.
- Everyday life presents us with new options. Every moment we are making new choices that we are often unaware of. We have learned to be the creators of our own lives in the decisions that we make, and often we take this for granted. The human mind bares the ability to think freely but what if, all of a sudden, we forfeit our ability to choose?
- Epoch is a visual representation of our connection to earth and its vulnerable glory. Our time here is esoteric, limited and intangible. The fragility, which exists in all aspects of life, is one thing that is certain. We are brittle, and so is Mother Earth.
- The Fairs is a 2-channel video documentary, presenting the story of two villages separated by the borderline between Albania and Greece. But the villages of Ayia Marina and Kossovitsa used to be a single village before the creation of the border, which separated them for about 60 years. The video illustrates the story of this separation through the summer fairs that have been unifying, since 1990, the inhabitants of both villages in a revelry.
- From all directions gravity pulls on the shards of a breaking dinner plate. While the pieces of the plate expand into space, elastic strings try to bring them back together. Even though the expansion appears to be never ending, the new connections suggest a virtual unification.
- The sheik of a village in Afghanistan marries a woman whose ex-husband has died in an accident in Iran many years ago. The first husband, however, returns after a few years and, according to the laws of some Islamic sects, the woman must return to the first husband, and she will be forbidden to the second one even if the first husband dies.
- Haïti Chérie is a response to the 2010 earthquake in Haiti. A few weeks after the catastrophe, Huber carries out a performance over the snowy, seemingly endless, frozen sea in Finland, waters carrying on to reach the coasts of Haiti. Snow angels drawn by Huber's body symbolize sorrow and lives lost, but also solidarity and hope.
- Although Mr. Mueller is a quadriplegic who lost his ability to speak and move almost 20 years ago, he and his wife have not lost their enthusiasm for talking to each other. They have lively discussions through blinking and show that true lovers always find a common language.
- Holiday season. Two friends, Diana and Katy, meet in Caffe Cerutti after not having seen each other for a while. Diana is spontaneous, enthusiastic and ready to hear her friend's news. However, their meeting is about to have an unexpected twist when the cafe's interior decoration causes strange reactions to Katy.