France, Martinique 2023 — Directed by: Aliha Thalien — 23 min — Spoken language: French — Subtitles: English — Production Company: Le Fresnoy — national studio — Producer: Bruno Morat — Script: Aliha Thalien — Photography: Nino Defontaine, Nicolaos Zafiriou — Editing: Eva Studzinski — Sound: Alexandre Pastel
In Martinique, a curse upon men leads to their disappearance. A group of young friends meet and talk about their relationship to the island.
Алое, фікус, авокадо і 6 драцен — France, Ukraine 2023 — Directed by: Marta Smerechynska — 8 min — Subtitles: English — Production Company: La Fémis — Producer: Julie Tingaud — Script: Marta Smerechynska, Kateryna Babkina — Photography: Asma Benazouz, Sarp Uzunoglu — Editing: Marta Smerechynska — Sound: Karina Rezhevska — Music: Marusya Chuprinenko — Co-Production: Marta Smerechynska, Ukraine
What to take, what to leave? How important are material possessions when you’re trying to save your life? Packages from Ukraine – filled with everything and nothing – wait patiently under a bridge to be found, while a voice stirs memories of frivolous and treasured personal effects, in an apparent heart-breaking farewell letter to Kyiv.
Spain 2023 — Directed by: Lucija Stojević — 80 min — Spoken language: Spanish — Subtitles: English, Spanish, Catalan — Producer: Andrés Bartos Amory — Producer: Lucija Stojević — Producer: Deirdre Towers — Pruduction Company: Noon Films
Viennese Holocaust survivor Peter "Pepi" Perez and his musician friend Alfred embark on a European road trip in search of music. Haunted by a fandango melody from his childhood in the Rivesaltes concentration camp, where he heard Spanish Roma children sing to their families, Pepi travels to Paterna, Spain, to compose his own. Struggling to capture the song, he returns to Rivesaltes for the first time since his youth, confronting the ghosts of his past in a place forever changed.
When we meet — Spain 2023 — Directed by: Group of young people from diverse backgrounds — 26 min — Production: Cinema en curs (amb estudiants d’EMAV, ERAM, UB i ESCAC)
"We met at the beginning of winter. It’s now April. To start this letter, we want to show you the city we have gotten to know and filmed together." This is how the film opens, created collectively by a group of young people aged between 16 and 23, some recently arrived in Barcelona from Gambia, Guinea Bissau, Guinea Conakry, Senegal, Cambodia, Albania; others born in the city or who have lived there since childhood. Based on the portrait and experiences of six people who migrated to the city a long time ago, the group of filmmakers invite us on a journey that is external, poetic and introspective through the city, the trees and the moon. A celebration of cinema and the possibility of sharing life and making the world bigger.
Germany 2023 — Directed by: Gudrun Gruber — 72 min — Spoken language: English — Subtitles: English — Production Company: NeoSolaris Film - Gudrun Gruber Filmproduktion — Producer: Gudrun Gruber — Script: Gudrun Gruber and Sabrina Banks — Photography: Bernd Effenberger — Editing: Sophie Oldenbourg — Sound: Andrew Mottl — Music: Dominik Giesriegl — Co-production: University of Television and Film Munich
More than a decade after a sexual assault in her teen years, Detroit resident Sabrina struggles to get by. Non-epileptic seizures and other post-traumatic symptoms deprive her of her mobility and her freedom. Her father, Darnell, who owns an auto repair shop in the city, is one of her closest confidants. Every day he makes himself available to drive his daughter where she needs to go. Together with her husband Tim, the two men form a cocoon around the young woman, but questions of guilt surrounding the past and her illness dominate family life. The vacant house of Sabrina’s godmother, a source of her wounding, becomes the focal point in her need to confront that awful night. Sabrina decides to return to both – her trauma place and her own voice as a writer and speaker – to come to terms with her violent past. A film about post-traumatic growth and self restoration.
Croatia, Italy 2023 — Directed by: Tea Vidović Dalipi — 75 min — Spoken languages: Croatian, Albanian, English — Subtitles: English — Production Company: Restart — Producer: Oliver Sertić
Just married Croatian-Roma couple, Tea and Mirsad, are trying to live together, suspended between expectations from families and communities in culturally irreconcilable backgrounds that do not accept diversities.
Spain, United Kingdom 2023 — Directed by: Priya Woods — 8 min — Production: OTOXO Productions
Through the use of an interview and film footage, the film contrasts between the warm chaos of some old family tapes and the harsh reality of the present. A Christmas tape from 2002, of the director's family preparing for Santa's arrival. The camera suddenly cuts to today, in the same house, now empty. When her father goes to the pub, she decides to ask him some questions about the past. While drinking a beer, they reminisce about a life that once was, before everything changed when the mother died of a cancer.
ONLY THE DEVIL REMEMBERS — Spain 2023 — Directed by: Dani Iglesias — 5 min — Production: Universidad de Vigo
There are barely 200 metres between the entrance and exit signs of Nadal. Located between provinces, in this small village with no more than 20 houses the director's maternal family lived for a large part of their lives. For the director it meant visiting his great-grandmother, the stew, being with Leon and the cats, his grandfather's vegetable garden, picking blackberries in the surrounding forests... But now these are only vague memories. What remains are photos, stories remembered by his grandmother and mother, some paintings, street view images. Has anything really changed?
Germany 2022 — Directed by: Afraa Batous — 80 min — Spoken language: Arabic — Subtitles: German, English — Production Company: Tondowski Films — Producers: Alex Tondowski, Ira Tondowski
To cope with the daily trauma of a lost home, Syrian filmmaker Afraa Batous and her friends embark on their first road trip ever. It’s been eight years since their homes in Syria were blown to pieces. To fight back against how life has unfolded for them, Afraa makes a film about their dreams and fears and her friends being happy.
AFTER THE RED — France 2022 — Directed by: Marie Sizorn — 14 min — Spoken language: French — Subtitles: English — Production: GREC / IUT de Corse — Producer: Anne Luthaud
In Corsica, the inhabitants of a village witnessed a gigantic fire. A memory leads the filmmaker to this event that changed the course of their lives and left its mark.
Hungary 2022 — Directed by: Zsófia Paczolay — 24 min — Spoken language: Hungarian — Subtitles: English — Production: DocNomads — Producer: Zsófia Paczolay, Bálint Bíró
József works at the largest still-operational grain silo in Budapest. He’s been doing this work for more than 30 years, and lives in a container home next to the structure, where trucks and trains rumble past his window. When he is lowered into the ten-story-deep silos to clean them, he looks like a scuba diver at work. It’s dangerous work for József, not least because he has been exposed to crop dust for many years now. The growing threat to his health could even lead to his death. But he can’t escape it. In fact he seems to have become an integral part of his environment.
Spain 2022 — Directed by: Clara Teper, Paul Pirritano — 72 min — Production Company: NOVANIMA — Producer: Marc Faye
Lens, northern France. Chaylla, 23, is trying to free herself from an abusive marriage. She is ready to fight - to obtain custody of her children, to prove what she has suffered. But on the inside, she still hopes to form a family again with her ex-partner. Both a legal battle and an intimate struggle, Chaylla is the story of four years in the life of a young woman whose attempts at emancipation and desire for justice collide with the clutch of dependence.
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