THE MELUSINA AT THE EDGE OF THE RIVER — Portugal, Luxembourg 2023 — Directed by: Melanie Pereira — 84 min — Spoken language: Portuguese — Subtitles: English — Production Company: Red Desert — Producer: Pedro Neves
In search of the legendary Melusina, a filmmaker journeys through Luxembourg, uncovering fragmented identities and the blurred lines between belonging and otherness.
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: Dhanraj Barkote — 30 min — Spoken language: Nepali — Subtitles: English, Spanish — Production Company: ESCAC FILMS — Producer: Alberto Godoy
Dhanraj, a Nepalese filmmaker, decides to return to his hometown twenty years after the loss of his biological parents, with the desire to bring them back to life through film, and to reconnect with the people that are part of his roots.
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.
ECHOES FROM BORDERLAND — Germany 2023 — Directed by: Lara Milena Brose — 70 min — Spoken language: English — Subtitles: English — Script: Lara Milena Brose — Producer: Lara Milena Brose — Production Company: University of Television and Film Munich (HFF Munich) — Photography: Natalia Mamaj, Lilly Rose Pongratz — Editing: Aora Helmzadeh, Lara Milena Brose, Boris Gavrilović — Sound: Hanna Hocker — Music: Ludovico Failla
Ferida, a Bosnian, lives within sight of the EU’s external border. Every day she witnesses refugees’ desperate attempts to reach the EU and her memories of violence and war come flooding back. Nahid is 15 years old and is stranded here after fleeing the Taliban. In this hypnotic narrative, the fading echoes of Ferida’s stories and Nahid’s voicemails intertwine.
Hungary 2023 — Directed by: Gergö Somogyvári — 83 min — Spoken language: Hungarian — Subtitles: English — Script: Zsolt Pocsai, Gergö Somogyvári — Editing: Judit Feszt — Sound: Marius Leftãrache, Florin Tabacaru — Music: Viktor Bátki — Production: New Retina Productions — Producer: Nora Somogyvari
At first glance, Fanni and Laci’s life really doesn’t seem like much of a fairytale: Fanni, 19, is trans and totally consumed by her transition; Laci, 60, ekes out a living through seasonal work. They live together as outcasts from Hungarian society in a self-built forest cabin. A close up look at two lives – full of hardness, cantankerous honesty and an unequal bond.
Hungary, Belgium, Portugal 2023 — Directed by: Anna Gyimesi — 16 min — Spoken language: Hungarian — Subtitles: English — Production Company: Docnomads Joint Masters — Producer: Anna Gyimesi, Docnomads Joint Masters — Script: Anna Gyimesi — Photography: Anna Gyimesi — Editing: Anna Gyimesi — Sound: Anna Gyimesi
As her daughter awaits a decision on psychiatric euthanasia, Els navigates love, guilt, and grief — a lyrical portrait of a mother caught between letting go and holding on.
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.
HOW DID I GET THERE — Hungary 2023 — Directed by: Dorottya Márton — 30 min — Production: University of Theater and Film Arts — Producers: Atilla Csáky
After her grandmother gifts her a lifetime of Olympus photographs, a filmmaker returns to Eger to reconstruct a childhood she barely remembers and to reconnect with the two women who raised her while her parents built a life in the United States.
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