PERLA AND THE HUMANS — France 2024 — Directed by: Tara Lepleux — 15 min — Production Company: DEMC (documentaire : écriture du monde contemporain) — Producer: Caroline Zeau
A day in the life of Sylvie, a french groomer.
SIMPLY DIVINE — France 2024 — Directed by: Melody Boulissere, Bogdan Stamatin — 15 min — Spoken language: Romanian — Subtitles: English — Production Company: Novanima Productions — Producer: Marc Faye
91-year-old Nușa recalls a lost wartime love in this tenderly animated reflection on memory and longing.
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.
LION'S WRINKLE AND CROW'S FEET — Belgium 2024 — Directed by: Juliette Leonard — 24 min — Spoken language: French — Subtitles: English, Spanish — Producers: Manon Ledune & Vincent Canart — Production Companies: INSAS & L'atelier de réalisation
Growing old as a woman is a tragedy. Without realising it that's what I've always thought and what I've always been taught.
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.
LORD, TAKE ME SOON — Spain, France 2024 — Directed by: Guillermo F. Flórez — 70 min — Spoken language: Spanish — Subtitles: English — Production Companies: Flórez Films SL (Spain) La Société du Sensible (France) — Producers: Guillermo F. Flórez, Nadège Labé
Carmen’s life has always been a Quixotesque comedy. Living through a civil war, being a nun, building a new life, divorcing in a conservative society, having several lovers and most of all, never following orders. Now, after 86 years of adventures, Carmen is planning her suicide.
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, 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.
VESTIGE — Spain 2024 — Directed by: Esther Ji — 13 min — Spoken language: Chinese (Mandarin) — Subtitles: Spanish, English, Catalan — Producer: Esther Ji
A journey to the origins in Fangshan, Qingtian, China, during the Chinese New Year. Through a visual autoethnography, a young woman from Barcelona portrays her grandparents’ homeland, transformed by migration. The generational void is evident in an empty school, deserted streets, and the family home. An intimate reflection that questions the village’s uncertain future.
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