Spain 2024 — Directed by: Jesús Minchon, Marta Aguilella, Arnau Belloc — 20 min — Production: UAB- Máster Documental Creativo
Paquita is 85 years old and lives alone in a flat in Barcelona. She doesn't receive many visitors, but today her new flatmate, Temi the robot, is knocking at the door. Will Temi be able to put an end to Paquita's loneliness? One of the countless consequences of today’s reality is the loneliness that some elderly people suffer at home. Both private initiatives and public institutions are trying to find solutions to this problem, and Barcelona City Council has put forward a proposal which is as capable as it is ironic: can the problem of unwanted loneliness be solved with the resources that technology allows today? Temi is a robot designed for this purpose, and he believes that it is possible. After all, perhaps it doesn't take a person to solve the most human of problems.
TODAY IS TOMORROW'S YESTERDAY — Germany 2024 — Directed by: Jonas Neumann — 82 min — Spoken languages: German, Ukrainian, Hebrew — Subtitles: German, English — Producer: Michael Kalb — Production Company: Michael Kalb Filmproduktion — Photography: Pius Neumaier & Carla Muresan — Editing: Robert Vakily — Sound: Cornelia "Nelly" Böhm
Eight decades after the liberation of the Dachau concentration camp: The question of how to remember the Nazi terror is more urgent than ever before! How do the last survivors fight against forgetting? How can they and the memorial site combat increasing relativization and attacks from the far right? „Today is Tomorrow’s Yesterday“ shows the current every day struggle of this important institution.
Spain 2024 — Directed by: Paula Vélez — 12 min — Spoken language: Catalan — Subtitles: English — Production: Universitat Pompeu Fabra
Isabelle is a story of survival after a snatched motherhood, which confronts us with the protagonist’s routine, marked by an unexpected, abrupt and untimely absence. Motherhood, as a permanent and irreversible condition, opens the door to love, but also to suffering. Everyone has their own: it cannot be shared or explained, only soothed with wet towels and words of comfort. Parents who lose a child become ghosts: everyone feels them, even sees them, but they’re no longer there.
HIS PARENTS — Germany 2024 — Directed by: Katharina Köster, Katrin Nemec — 81 min — Spoken language: German — Subtitles: English — Producer: Isabelle Bertolone, David Armati Lechner, Trini Götze — Production Company: Trimafilm — Co-Production: ZDF Das kleine Fernsehspiel — Script: Katharina Köster, Katrin Nemec — Photography: Tobias Tempel — Editing: Miriam Märk — Sound: Björn Rothe — Music: Cico Beck
The media call their son the “patient killer.” He was given a life sentence for his numerous crimes. Life goes on for his parents Ulla and Didi Högel but nothing is the same as before. They must accept the bitter truth, figure out how to cope with everyday life and reposition themselves in relation to their child. A compelling, precisely observed film about parenthood and love.
Germany 2024 — Directed by: Denis Pavlovic — 90 min — Spoken languages: German, English, Spanish — Subtitles: German, English — Producers: Denis Pavlovic & Julia Meyer-Pavlovic — Production Companies: Filmakademie Baden-Württemberg & Glass Frog Films — Script: Denis Pavlovic — Photography: Michael 'Midge' Throne — Editing: Julia Meyer-Pavlovic — Sound: Max Hartstang, Marieke Czogalla — Music: Christian Bluthardt, Yvy Pop, Marvin Gerstmeier
An honest and unflinching portrait of the search for meaning in retirement. Jadranka and Aleksandar Pavlovic met almost 35 years ago on the Canary Islands. Upon retiring, they returned, separated, and now live as friends on two islands, five and a half hours apart. The film follows their new life in the decaying island paradise of Gran Canaria and Tenerife. In doing so, we observe the difficult struggle against boredom, illnesses, and the lost relationship. To escape the past, Jadranka immerses herself in work and has opened a bar, while Aleksandar grapples with doctor's visits, drunken friendships, and painful heartbreak.
Germany 2024 — Directed by: Sophie Lahusen — 15 min — Spoken languages: German, English — Subtitles: English — Producer: Nora Kilroy & Jonas Windgassen — Co-Production: HFF Munich — Production Company: headroom film — Script: Sophie Lahusen & Beatrix Rinke — Photography: Sophie Lahusen — Editing: Leila Fatima Keita — Sound: Xavier Fleming — Music: Jiro Yoshioka
"The silence of 600 million results" follows a young woman as she clicks, scrolls and chats her way from a positive pregnancy test to a decision.
WHO I COULD POSSIBLY BE — Hungary 2023 — Directed by: Lia Lőrinczy — 29 min — Subtitles: English — Production Company: University of Theatre and Film Arts — Producer: Attila Csáky — Script: Lia Lőrinczy — Photography: Lola Bedécs — Editing: Krisztián Fábián — Sound: Péter Terner — Music: Péter Fancsikai
At first sight, Viki is an ordinary woman, a single mother, who does everything for her four children, but the apparent family harmony, the recordings of the playful moments in the Mothers’ Home (shelter) are covering a dramatic past. The actual setting of the family is the result of more than 10 years of Viki’s hard work. Viki was constantly abused as a child but her life changed forever when she was sold at 18 years old to a human trafficking business, She could only escape after long years of prostitution. She started a new life, got married, got four kids but that is when real struggles just started in her life. Two of her children stayed with their father, Viki’s youngest could stay with her, and her middle child was raised by foster parents until the age of seven. Viki never gave up on her children to be with them. This short documentary is a statement of hers, a story of facing difficulties when an exceptional survivor decised not to be in silence anymore.
Spain 2023 — Directed by: Dhanraj Barkote — 30 min — Spoken language: Nepali — Subtitles: English, Spanish — Production Company: ESCAC FILMS — Producer: Alberto Godoy
Dhanraj, a Nepalese filmmaker, decides to return to his hometown twenty years after the loss of his biological parents, with the desire to bring them back to life through film, and to reconnect with the people that are part of his roots.
ECHOES FROM BORDERLAND — Germany 2023 — Directed by: Lara Milena Brose — 70 min — Spoken language: English — Subtitles: English — Script: Lara Milena Brose — Producer: Lara Milena Brose — Production Company: University of Television and Film Munich (HFF Munich) — Photography: Natalia Mamaj, Lilly Rose Pongratz — Editing: Aora Helmzadeh, Lara Milena Brose, Boris Gavrilović — Sound: Hanna Hocker — Music: Ludovico Failla
Ferida, a Bosnian, lives within sight of the EU’s external border. Every day she witnesses refugees’ desperate attempts to reach the EU and her memories of violence and war come flooding back. Nahid is 15 years old and is stranded here after fleeing the Taliban. In this hypnotic narrative, the fading echoes of Ferida’s stories and Nahid’s voicemails intertwine.
Hungary, Belgium, Portugal 2023 — Directed by: Anna Gyimesi — 16 min — Spoken language: Hungarian — Subtitles: English — Production Company: Docnomads Joint Masters — Producer: Anna Gyimesi, Docnomads Joint Masters — Script: Anna Gyimesi — Photography: Anna Gyimesi — Editing: Anna Gyimesi — Sound: Anna Gyimesi
In her late forties, divorced, and in love again, Els struggles with the reality that her twenty-year-old daughter has requested psychiatric euthanasia. Torn by guilt, anger, and hope, she finds solace in love, which helps her step forward despite her impossible situation. She meets her daughter weekly, trying to maintain distance to live as an independent woman while waiting for the euthanasia decision. Falling is a lyrical, found footage-based film capturing a mother’s journey through the taboos of motherhood and an incredibly challenging personal crisis.
Spain 2023 — Directed by: Núria Ubach, Marta Codesido, Dubi Cano, Ulrika Andersson — 20 min — Spoken language: Catalan — Subtitles: English, Spanish — Production: Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona (UAB) — Producers: Marta Codesido, Núria Ubach
The daily walk of three grandmothers in Cabrianes is disrupted by the sudden death of one of them. But life goes on. In the meantime, party preparations are taking place for the oldest person in the village. A portrait that makes us reflect on the passage of time, our society’s aging population, and feeling closer to death.
Spain 2023 — Directed by: Aina Palomer — 24 min — Spoken language: Catalan — Subtitles: English, Spanish — Producer: Jane Claudine
L'art de l'antídot tells the story of Agus and his photography practice as a therapeutic art form after suffering an accident that changed his life and his relationship with his body. A short film that transports us through the streets of Barcelona and shows us a new perspective, reminding us of the importance of creation as a way to overcome obstacles.
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