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.
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.
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.
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
Behind the laughter in a shelter for mothers, Viki’s story unfolds — a survivor of abuse and trafficking who fought for over a decade to rebuild her life and reunite with her children. A powerful portrait of resilience, love, and the courage to speak out.
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.
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