Germany, Serbia 2023 — Directed by: Dragana Jovanovic — 61 min — Production Company: DOK 33 — Producer: Dragana Jovanovic
What happens when beauty falls asleep? Aurora’s Dream explores the collective unconscious during a period of contemporary crisis. Individual participants share their most vivid and personal dreams. The subconscious narratives visually intertwine with the turbulence of our present era, bringing archetypes and motifs from the Sleeping Beauty fairytale to the fore.
Switzerland 2023 — Directed by: Nathalie Berger — 62 min — Spoken language: English — Subtitles: English — Production: ZHDK Zürich — Producer: Filippo Bonacci
The sun shines every day in Chagrin Valley, USA. Frozen in a 1950s-inspired artificial decor, this assisted living facility for people who suffer from dementia is home to fragile and ageing residents. Here, everyday life drags on slowly. Florence and her companions dream of an elusive elsewhere during their days punctuated by confusion, fleeting conflicts and overdue family visits. The caregivers – as kind as they are exhausted – run the show in this pastel-coloured, sanitised social theatre. Between two shifts, they confess their desire for a better future; one that is not so different from that of the residents, after all.
Serbia 2023 — Directed by: Eluned Zoë Aiano, Alesandra Tatić — 77 min — Production Companies: Servia Film, Wild Pear Arts — Producers: Greta Rauleac, Miloš Ljubomirović
In Eastern Serbia, in a town with a dual identity divided between magic and industry, a family whose destiny is intrinsically linked with both does their best to ensure the survival of their traditions and their future generations. Desa is the widow of the union leader who is trying to continue his legacy by ensuring the rights of fellow mine-worker families. Meanwhile, her brother Dragan Markovic is the last in a line of dragon hunters, but it’s hard to continue now even the dragons are being driven away.
LIGHT OF LIGHT — Greece 2023 — Directed by: Neritan Zinxhiria — 13 min — Production Company: Reconstructing Memories — Producer: Efijeni Kokedhima
Before his death in 1932, a monk created his own camera in one of the most isolated places in the world. Nearly a century later, a filmmaker discovers and reconstructs the 3000 preserved photographic plates, blending them with his own evocative Super 8, crafting a cinematic pilgrimage, where the past interlaces seamlessly with the present, in a spellbinding visual narrative that defies the constraints of time itself.
Croatia, Italy 2023 — Directed by: Tea Vidović Dalipi — 75 min — Spoken languages: Croatian, Albanian, English — Subtitles: English — Production Company: Restart — Producer: Oliver Sertić
Just married Croatian-Roma couple, Tea and Mirsad, are trying to live together, suspended between expectations from families and communities in culturally irreconcilable backgrounds that do not accept diversities.
France 2022 — Directed by: Elina Kastler — 16 min — Spoken languages: French, Arabic — Subtitles: English — Production: Le Fresnoy - Studio national des arts contemporains — Producer: François Bonenfant
This summer, Kabylie, a region in Algeria, has burned. At the center of this tragedy, women are singing. Her song, Achewiq, sublimates the suffering. With simplicity, the daily life of the Sahel’s inhabitants is revealed. Through laughs and joy, they overcome all these sorrows. The earth’s ashes are becoming the new sprouts to bloom.
Germany 2022 — Directed by: Afraa Batous — 80 min — Spoken language: Arabic — Subtitles: German, English — Production Company: Tondowski Films — Producers: Alex Tondowski, Ira Tondowski
To cope with the daily trauma of a lost home, Syrian filmmaker Afraa Batous and her friends embark on their first road trip ever. It’s been eight years since their homes in Syria were blown to pieces. To fight back against how life has unfolded for them, Afraa makes a film about their dreams and fears and her friends being happy.
AFTER THE RED — France 2022 — Directed by: Marie Sizorn — 14 min — Spoken language: French — Subtitles: English — Production: GREC / IUT de Corse — Producer: Anne Luthaud
In Corsica, the inhabitants of a village witnessed a gigantic fire. A memory leads the filmmaker to this event that changed the course of their lives and left its mark.
Hungary 2022 — Directed by: Zsófia Paczolay — 24 min — Spoken language: Hungarian — Subtitles: English — Production: DocNomads — Producer: Zsófia Paczolay, Bálint Bíró
József works at the largest still-operational grain silo in Budapest. He’s been doing this work for more than 30 years, and lives in a container home next to the structure, where trucks and trains rumble past his window. When he is lowered into the ten-story-deep silos to clean them, he looks like a scuba diver at work. It’s dangerous work for József, not least because he has been exposed to crop dust for many years now. The growing threat to his health could even lead to his death. But he can’t escape it. In fact he seems to have become an integral part of his environment.
Spain 2022 — Directed by: Clara Teper, Paul Pirritano — 72 min — Production Company: NOVANIMA — Producer: Marc Faye
Lens, northern France. Chaylla, 23, is trying to free herself from an abusive marriage. She is ready to fight - to obtain custody of her children, to prove what she has suffered. But on the inside, she still hopes to form a family again with her ex-partner. Both a legal battle and an intimate struggle, Chaylla is the story of four years in the life of a young woman whose attempts at emancipation and desire for justice collide with the clutch of dependence.
THREE WOMEN — Germany 2022 — Directed by: Maksym Melnik — 85 min — Spoken languages: Ukrainian, German — Subtitles: English, German — Production: Film University Babelsberg
A priest who blesses cars; a post office without stamps; a piglet as a gift: everyday scenes in Stuzhytsia in Ukraine. It is a village with a tough climate and tough people – or so it seems at first. As the film crew follows three women, a farmer, postal worker and a biologist, they are taken in by their joie de vivre and humour and soon feel more and more at home.
This cannot be atoned for — Hungary 2022 — Directed by: László Halász — 42 min — Spoken language: Hungarian — Subtitles: English — Producers: Anita Bozóki, László Halász
Vilmos was released from prison in 2005 after serving 20 years for manslaughter. He still can't recall what led to the murder, but everyday, he carries the weight of his crime. After his release, he initially lived homeless but over the years he managed to find housing on the outskirts of Budapest. Here, he lives with his animals, whom he considers family. His daily life is complicated by various physical maladies. The film follows Vilmos after he is diagnosed with gastric cancer. It is then that he decides to try to come to terms with the events of his past, with the help of a team of social workers.
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