I WOULD RATHER BE A STONE — Croatia 2024 — Directed by: Ana Hušman — 24 min — Spoken language: Croatian — Subtitles: English — Producer: Ana Hušman
In Croatia’s remote region of Lika, where war, poverty, and emigration have long shaped the land and its people, a massive reservoir project transforms the landscape once more—told through the voice of Little Jela, echoing a generation’s memories, struggles, and hopes.
Italy 2024 — Directed by: Valerio Lo Muzio, Michael Petrolini — 72 min — Spoken language: Italian — Subtitles: English — Producer: Emiliano Trovati, Daniele Barbiero — Production Company: Fase 3 società cooperativa
An engaging journey into the life of the protagonist, a young Ecuadorian woman who, amidst the various challenges of her existence, navigates complex family dynamics in the peripheral context of the city of Bologna.
Bulgaria, Germany 2024 — Directed by: Eliza Petkova — 95 min — Spoken language: Bulgarian — Subtitles: English — Production Company: Wood Water Films GmbH — Producer: Veselka Kiryakova, Jasper Ph. Mielke, Arto Sebastian, Karoline Henkel — Co-Producers: Eliza Petkova, Constanze Schmitt
Animals observe a Bulgarian village: an experimental look at disappearing traditions.
Italy, Romania 2024 — Directed by: Ettore Mengozzi — 64 min — Spoken languages: Italian, Romanian — Subtitles: English — Production Companies: Bloom Media House srl (Italia), East Movies (Romania) — Producer: Francesca Cimolai, Marco Chiappa, Cristina Iordache
While mothers like Natalia and Corina leave their children behind to work abroad, their sacrifice turns into silent suffering. A tender portrait of how an unjust system breeds illness in both the women and their families.
LIFE IS LIKE THAT AND NOT OTHERWISE. — Germany 2024 — Directed by: Lenia Friedrich — 13 min — Production: Kunsthochschule für Medien Köln — Producer: Lenia Friedrich
An animated documentary for a very old neighbour – a cinematic declaration of love.
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.
Germany, Tanzania, United Republic of 2024 — Directed by: Kokutekeleza Musebeni — 29 min — Production: University of Television and Film Munich (HFF) — Producer: Seren Şahin
In an Afrofuturistic future free from wars and discriminations, a young black woman receives memories from our present and must decide whether to inherit or erase the trauma of her ancestors. A hybrid film journey between an Afrofuturistic future and a documentary-style narrative of the director's life, as the child of a German and a Tanzanian.
A TREE GROWS IN MY DREAMS EVERY NIGHT — Slovenia 2024 — Directed by: Vid Hajnšek — 56 min — Spoken language: Slovenian — Subtitles: English — Production Company: Film Factory — Producer: Mojca Pernat — Co-Productions: Mali film
Following a photographer through the wine-growing hills of Haloze, the film weaves together daily life, poetry, song and memory to reveal a community rooted deeply in its landscape.
Germany 2024 — Directed by: Matthäus Wörle — 82 min — Spoken language: Romanian — Subtitles: German, English — Producer: Fidelis Mager, Oliver Gernstl — Production Company: megaherz GmbH — Script: Matthäus Wörle — Photography: Moritz Dehler, Max Kölbl — Editing: Mätthäus Wörle, Felicitas Sonvilla — Sound: Matthäus Wörle — Music: Giuliano Loli — Co-production: University of Television and Film Munich
Long ago, Geamăna was a Romanian village in the Apuseni Mountains, home to about 1000 people. Today, only the church spire rises from the poisonous mud of a neighbouring copper mine. Almost all the houses have sunk and their inhabitants fled. On the edge of the past, Valeria Praţa strives for her present - and is threatened by the future.
Egypt, Fiji, Germany, Netherlands, United Kingdom, United States, Vanuatu 2024 — Directed by: Felix Golenko — 90 min — Subtitles: English — Production Company: MSZ Production & Consulting — Producer: Mark Szilagyi
The South Pacific faces rising sea levels. Three students and an ace up their sleeves.
THE GROUND WHERE WE STAND — Croatia 2024 — Directed by: Karla Crnčević — 64 min — Spoken language: Croatian — Subtitles: English — Production Company: Zagreb film — Producer: Vinko Brešan
On the Croatian island of Brač, a group of women from across former Yugoslavia build a self-sustaining, egalitarian community—dismissed by locals as “witches”—as they struggle with the challenges of coexistence, nature, and the fragile dream of a shared future.
HOME IS 1117KM AWAY — Hungary, Ukraine, Portugal, Belgium 2024 — Directed by: Marta Smerechynska — 14 min — Spoken language: Ukrainian — Subtitles: English — Production Company: Docnomads Joint Masters — Producer: Marta Smerechynska
A Ukrainian refugee’s search for a roommate becomes an unexpected encounter with loneliness, belonging, and the unspoken wounds of war.
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