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.
BLACK FIELD — France 2024 — Directed by: Stéphane Kikena — 18 min — Spoken language: Ukrainian — Subtitles: English — Production: La Fémis, Ecole nationale supérieure des métiers de l'image et du son — Producer: Nicolas Urban
On a night-time soccer field turned inner battleground, faces and bodies awaken, exposing wounds that remain unhealed.
Austria 2023 — Directed by: Matteo Sanders — 16 min — Spoken languages: German, Italian — Subtitles: English — Producer: Matteo Sanders — Production Company: Filmakademie Wien — Script: Matteo Sanders — Photography: Konrad Milan — Editing: Lisa Isabella Grabner — Sound: Andreas Moser — Music: Ornella Vanoni, Lucio Dalla, Niklas Paschburg
A 33-year-old filmmaker turns the lens on his 66-year-old father, uncovering generational divides—until a shared experience reshapes their bond.
Albania 2023 — Directed by: Eneos Carka — 82 min — Spoken languages: Albanian, Italian — Subtitles: English — Production Company: SCRB & NKNB — Producers: Joni Shanaj, Eneos Carka
Two migrant street artists watch their long-held friendship fracture as past traumas, art, and survival slowly pull their lives onto separate paths.
Germany, Serbia 2023 — Directed by: Dragana Jovanovic — 61 min — Production Company: DOK 33 — Producer: Dragana Jovanovic
In a world in crisis, Aurora’s Dream weaves personal dreams with the myth of Sleeping Beauty, revealing our deepest fears and desires.
Spain 2023 — Directed by: Guillem Cabra, Mar Clapés — 80 min — Spoken language: Catalan — Subtitles: English — Production Company: La Manchester — Producer: Guillem Cabra
A chamber play set in a kitchen: how Francesc and Francina have held their own at work and in private for 50 years.
CAPTURES — Romania 2023 — Directed by: Ana Gurdiș — 22 min — Spoken language: Romanian — Subtitles: English — Producer: Larisa Crunțeanu
An incomplete family album and a series of street-found photographs lead the author on an introspective journey, unveiling the way her passion for cinematography is passed down from father to daughter.
Switzerland 2023 — Directed by: Nathalie Berger — 62 min — Spoken language: English — Subtitles: English — Production: ZHDK Zürich — Producer: Filippo Bonacci
In the pastel stillness of a dementia care home in Chagrin Valley, residents and caregivers drift through days of routine, memory loss, and quiet longing — a tender portrait of lives suspended between nostalgia and the search for something more.
France, Lebanon 2023 — Directed by: Diala Al Hindaoui — 15 min — Spoken language: French — Subtitles: English — Production Company: La cinéfabrique — Producer: Timothé Perrier — Script: Diala Al Hindaoui — Photography: Maïssa Elydja Olivier, Cléo Miquel Delhon — Editing: Hugo Pichon-Martin, Lili Cazals — Sound: Plume Languille And Margot Delaunay — Music: Plume Languille
In a roadside tent in Lebanon, 11-year-old Fatmé defies gender norms and expectations, determined to become the strongest—no matter what others say.
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.
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