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Keren is a social worker in the welfare department in Haifa. The corridor is packed with struggling mothers, abused woman and children at risk and everyone is suffering. But today it’s Keren’s 40th birthday and she is the one who needs comforting. She is waiting for a phone call from the man she loves, but he doesn’t call her, and everything falls apart.

Anat Schwartz

A Circle Line Train

Seduced by the social pressure of sucsess, the aspiring and disciplined young woman Zarah tries her best to make her way in the city of london. after doubts being trapped in the treadmill of societal values, Zarah decides to take control of her own life and attempts to escape the hectic city life. After a phase of confrontation and living throughout a tremendous internal conflict, it seems as if she creates the jump and determines her life from now on……until she wake up from her thoughts.

Martin Venier

A Glimpse of Happiness

Ben is a suicidal and depressed man. After a new attempt to kill himself| he meets Jean-Pierre, a former butcher who has become a serial killer since he got diagnosed with cancer. Both of them are going to change, for the best.

Raffaël Enault

A Handful of Water

KONRAD (85) has plenty of reasons for being grumpy. His wife died recently and now his only daughter even talks about adopting her girlfriend's kids! He doesn't approve.​ THURBA (12) has a very different set of problems. In order to avoid deportation as a Dublin-Case she must jump from the second floor and run. But now she's alone, out on the streets, in October… At night, Konrad hears something from the basement, arms himself with a nail gun and fires into the dark. He shoots little Thurba, who cries out in pain. Konrad is completely jumbled, this can’t be happening! Somehow this girl gets to him, touches long lost feelings of his own past and makes him dependent on somebody else's luck again. Thurba needs to get to England. So she proposes a deal…

Jakob Zapf

A Youth

Peyman and his friends are a group of Afghan teenagers on the cusp of adulthood, who find themselves stuck in Athens. In limbo but armed with a new-found freedom, they kill time by aimlessly strolling around the city, sharing jokes, rap battles, stories of the past and dreams of the future. As Peyman awaits for news that could shake his false state of harmony| he looks for answers amongst his friends and family, trying to make sense of the world around him through his music and poetry.

Giorgio Bosisio

Alina – 2020

As Nazis separate children from their parents in the Warsaw Ghetto, a gang of women risks everything to smuggle their friend's three-month-old baby to safety. Inspired by true events. Starring Alia Shawkat (ARRESTED DEVELOPMENT, SEARCH PARTY), Edin Gali (MAD MEN), Dorota Puzio, Rebeca Robles (BETTER THINGS), Erika Soto (VIDA), and Mark McCullough (LOGAN LUCKY).

Rami Kodeih

Animals

Harry loves animals. During the day| he works at the Valenzuela brothers’ farm. By night| he becomes an animal thief at the same place. A debt he holds with a corrupt policeman gets him into trouble. Harry becomes the prey.

Carlos Tampe

Askesis

Two imprisoned brothers, with no dreams or realities, seek a bit of air to breathe.

Lucas Giordano

Beauty Boys

In a small village, Leo, 17 years-old| has a strong taste for make-up. His big brother, Jules, who fears to be laughed at, stands against this passion. On the night of the open stage, Leo shows up in full drag…

Florent Gouelou

Better Half

After 40-years of codependent marriage, a husband makes a life changing decision to ensure that he will never have to endure another waking moment with his wife.

Pete Johnson, Adam Jones

Cream

The love of Dora’s life broke up with her, even worse: he married another woman. She starts a pastry shop where she makes unfulfilled love sweet by selling pastries named after famous unfulfilled love couples from film history. When her pastry shop appears to be lost too she makes up her mind to get her love and her pastry shop back, even if she has to lie to do it. On her way, she meets other families as well as her ex-boyfriend and his new wife. These meetings make her realise the love she hangs on to has no basis in reality. Dora stops living in a state of romantic self-pity, ends the lying and opens up to the possibility of a new, real relationship.

Nóra Lakos

Cronos

After his son’s birth, Mus (Werner Kolf) is plagued by panic attacks. The solution turns out to be his biggest fear. He has to confront the monster from his own youth: his father.

Michael Middelkoop

Dear Child

A documentary which follows the lives of children recovering from their involvement with the drug war in Brazil

Luca Ammendola

Essence

Denis has spent his life traveling by Vespa with his friends and the love of his life. When his wife dies, a bond breaks with his grandson Raphaël. Denis is now suffering from an incurable disease| he will reconnect with Raphaël around a final repair for a final trip.

Baptiste Chabot

Fireflies

The night side of a modernist icon. The fauna and flora of Roberto Burle Marx's gardens inhabited by visitors to Parque do Flamengo while the city of Rio de Janeiro falls asleep.

Léo Bittencourt

If We Smarten Up

After the sale of the family flat, live-in maid Maria finds herself homeless and stranded. Making the most of a desperate situation, she decides to declare the broom cupboard, located on the same floor as her former flat| her new home. Her neighbours however are everything but pleased by this solution. They start to see the elderly maid as an intrusion into their lives, devaluing their properties, stealing their doormats, and can’t help but wonder how they could get rid of her. Inspired by real events.

Larisa Faber

It´s Gonna be Fine

At Christmas dinner undertaker Karsten is confronted with his parents' plan to commit suicide. He may be used to death, but still he does everything in his powers to stop his beloved mother Marion and his Parkison-suffering father Theodor. But while all his efforts seem doomed to fail he might at least find a new outlook to his own life.

Christian Werner

Landry

Boxer Landry Kore moved from the Ivory Coast to Denmark when he was a child in hopes of a better life. But what happens when you move to a culture that is so different from your own at such a pivotal stage in life? Landry talks about the challenges he faced when he was suddenly on his own, far away from family and friends and familiarity, in a place that felt completely foreign to him. He talks about how he eventually felt a sense of belonging when he got into boxing and found something to feel attached to after a period of feeling detached from everything, It is a story of transition, passion and perseverance but it is also a story of a man who is reflecting on the life he once had, the importance of the deep connection he feels to his roots, the pride and encouragement he feels when he visits the Ivory Coast – and lastly how dreams may wary depending on your life situation.

Meeto Worre Kronborg Grevsen

Lasagne

Hector and Betty's marriage is on the rocks. To make matters worse, it's lasagne for dinner – again.

Hannah Hill

Like an Egg in the Radiator

The story of how an omelette is made. Valentino, an aspiring actor, can't wait to leave with his girlfriend Anna for their first trip together. Unfortunately, the car they are about to hit the road with belongs to her father, Carlo, a slightly gruff sixty-year-old man with a great passion for motors and whom Valentino has not yet met. The boy cannot escape it| he must meet him before taking away his precious car and his more precious daughter. The only problem: he will have to “pass an exam” on his motors’ skills, a subject completely unknown to him. But Valentino, as a good actor, knows how to play a part. Proving his talent, and thanks to Anna's providential complicity, the young man finds the right words to duel with Carlo. But things never go as planned.

Davide Maria Valsecchi

Lotus

The Lotus flower is regarded in many cultures as a symbol of rebirth, growth and transformation. This film is an expression of that process. Inspired by Angelika´s near death experience we immersed underwater in the sacred Mayan Cenotes to tell her story of growth from pain, anxiety, fear to surrender, coherence| harmony & flow. Just like the lotus seed grows from dark waters to become the most beautiful flower, we too have the ability to grow to our full potential. This film is an invitation to dive deep within, reconnect with the soul and experience the profound power of life.

Angelika Fürstler, Austin Ahlborg

Naufrágio

A study about memory, an example of obsession or a prison in itself. Rodrigo chooses to submerge himself in a memory, regardless of what got him there or what might happen. Within this dream Rodrigo is happy. When confronted by the memory itself we are left with a question, is this a cry of victory, or the acclamation of defeat?

Sebastião Varela

Nine Shots

Ah Fei, a Vietnamese who left home to work in Taiwan, escapes from his Taiwanese employer in hope to earn more money to send back home to his father. One day| he runs into Ah Hai, a police patrol officer, at the beach. Ah Hai sees Ah Fei in possession of syringes and uses the baton on him without giving him a chance to explain. By the beach, nine shots were eventually fired at Ah Fei. It’s the first time Ah Fei’s father is travelling out of Vietnam, only to be bringing home his son’s lifeless body.

Su Che Hsien

Pearl Of The Desert

Moti Kahn, a 12-year-old Indian boy, is talented in singing. He loves singing the Manganiyar songs, a big part of which has been the long-time tradition of artist-hereditary patron relationship.But Moti finds singing for their patrons humiliating as they are still treated lowly, and he aspires to earn respect from the world through music. He sets on a journey to the bigger world-will he be able to keep the spirit of Manganiyars?

Pushpendra Singh

Pick

In order to take care of his eight-year-old son and a teenage punk girl, who suddenly appears on his doorstep, a grief-stricken widower must find the will to live again.

Senior Citizen

Theoharis, an elderly and lonely man, takes refuge in the hospital every evening to spend the night. He sleeps on the benches and chairs of the outpatients’ wing because he is afraid to be alone. Every morning he returns to his house, where his only companion is his cat and his memories. One night he is discovered by a young nurse, Evgenia, who tries to learn more about him. Theoharis is initially skeptical and refuses to give her any information. Gradually| however, a relationship of trust between the two begins to be built and Evgenia tries to help him.

Marinos Kartikkis

Shadow Flowers

A North Korean woman struggles to go back to her family in Pyongyang, North Korea, but the political absurdity hinders her journey back to her loved ones.

Seung-jun Yi

Sòne

Forty years ago 2000 people lived there, today Pietrapaola, in Calabria, is home to 200 people. I was born there, the son of two Germans who ended up there, who knows how, I didn’t come back for twenty years. Where are the others? And the stories? A journey to the origins, in search of lost time. My imagination and a man from my past, guardian of memory, of music, guide me. A tale in which symbols and reality meet and I see the art of living, the “tranquillitudine”.

Daniel Kemény

Terminal

An 80 year old woman spends her time at a bus station. She's waiting for the right moment to leave this place forever.

Kim Allamand

The Cut

Recovering from a cesarean section, Emma finally meets her newborn son. As she overcomes her unfamiliarity and slowly falls in love with him, The Cut explores the complexity of the bond between mother and child.

Chloé Cinq-Mars

The Devil’s Point

A man goes looking for his love in the Scottish wilderness with a private search team and uncovers the nightmarish truth about the infamous Devil’s Point.

The Good Death

Janette is terminally ill and wants to die in a dignified way but British laws do not allow it. She gets in touch with Dr. Erika in Switzerland, who is willing to help her. Muscular dystrophy, the illness that Janette suffers from| has affected her family for generations. Janette must plan her journey to Switzerland before her rapidly advancing disease makes it impossible. With inner peace Janette organizes her departure while her loved ones go through an emotional storm. Her son Simon has also inherited this illness and, therefore| has much more sympathy regarding her decision than his sister Bridget. The relationship drama escalates as death comes closer. Do we own our life or does it own us?

Tomas Krupa

The Picturesque Beast

The Picturesque Beast is a multi-narrative film that follows an anthropomorphic wolf-like figure whose purpose is to capture the sublime nature. Set in the early danish golden age (romantic era) and as well in a parallel not so distant future.

Theodor Nymark

The Secret of Sinchanee

An industrial tow truck driver suffering from insomnia returns to his childhood home after the untimely death of his father, to discover that a paranormal presence has been living in the house and haunting the sacred land it was built on.

Steven Grayhm

The Severing

An emotional dance film by Mark Pellington, exploring the movements and internal language of the body, as experienced through relationships, love and grief. Choreographed by Nina McNeely. Created by Mark Pellington , McNeely, and DP Ann Evelin Lawford.

Mark Pellington

To Sonny

Set in the American South just before the 2016 presidential elections, 'To Sonny' follows a vending machine loader on his daily, lonely route.

Federico Spiazzi, Maggie Briggs

Where Do We Go from Here

A woman's lifeless body is lying on a room's floor. A shocked man is staring at it. Beyond the closed door, someone is quietly trying to get in: he's a 9 years old child. These three are a family. Or what's left.

Antonello Schioppa

Wild is the Spring

Through a series of vignettes from the ancient and war-torn Levant, WILD IS THE SPRING captures moments in the lives of diverse ethnic communities who struggle to survive when life descends into chaos.

Adla Massoud