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93: Stories Told Through a Piano
Lyzbeth Badaraco is a female pianist from Guayaquil trying to tell stories through melodies. Meanwhile, she has to fight against any artist's biggest fear: their art not being well appreciated. This film shows the process of recording her first full-length album, making her the first female jazz pianist in Ecuador to have a recording work. The documentary shows the history behind some of her compositions, and the origins of jazz in Ecuador. Lyzbeth demonstrates that the only way to fulfill your dreams is to overcome your fears.
Guido Bajaña Yude
9999: Florentine Memoirs (The story of the 9999 Group)
The story of the 9999 Group, one of the more influential and lesser known groups of the Radical Architecture movement.
Elettra Fiumi
A Punk Daydream
Indonesia, the country I shed my blood to defend. Left to fend for themselves on the fringes of a society and family that have stigmatized them, Jakarta’s young punks speak up. The conflict of teen punk Eka with his parents is driven by an intense quest for individual freedom. Meanwhile, not so far away, at one with the land and embracing similar ideals are the local traditional tribes, who have found freedom in perfect tune with nature, but struggle to maintain their identity.
Jimmy Hendrickx
A Reminiscence of Little China
A short documentary film About Afnantio Susantio, a descendants of the first generation of Chinese immigrants who moved to Little China in Indonesia, Who is a philatelist since the 1950’s.
Soca Ling Respati
AKA – Also Known As
What happens when you're about to meet the priest for a discussion about the Christening, and your husband wants to call your first child 'Jurgen' ?
david maybrick
Aquarium
Two human beings, far one from the other, meet: the first and carefree day at the swimming pool, the last and dramatic step of a massacre’s plan.
Lorenzo Puntoni
Athina – Stockholm
Anna studies and works as a 3D animator in Sweden. She stays in touch with her grandfather in Athens Greece, via daily Skype calls.Anna calls from her room and her grandfather from his friend΄s pharmacy. Two cities, three people connected to the web, a situation that is about to change.
Anastasia Sima
Born in Jerusalem and Still Alive
A dark romantic comedy following the life of Ronen Matalon who starts conducting tours of famous terror attack sites along Jerusalem's Jaffa Street.
Yossi Atia , David Ofek
Breath
An apartment flat in Ankara,whose closeness of death is inevitable,dour but a loved sick man. a young woman in search of life that is burdened with taking care of him,who defined life by death, in his own routine dull and expressionless caregiver… It's not a coincidence that unifies them; it's the desire to hold the life that comes with death. For some a given purpose, for whom fear of death and for other first love.
Ozkan Yilmaz
Burden Halved
Four dancers, each bearing their own burden, find comfort when their isolated experiences converge in a lush, emotionally intense exchange.
Cairene Dreams
Set in 1950’s Cairo, Kamal, an aspiring writer, in Cairo, works a mundane job in his uncle Naguib's pharmacy. Kamal is let go and as a parting gift, given an elixir that is purported to cure writer's block. Kamal goes on to find work with his best friend Bassem, in a struggling hotel. While writing, Kamal decides to drink the potion, and in the night has vivid dreams. Upon awakening he finds his characters have come to life. Once calming down from his initial shock| he has them appear as guests in the hotel to steer clear of trouble. He then realizes with the potion he can manifest many characters from his imagination. Kamal begins to connect with one of his characters, Amarna due to their shared longing for identity. Kamal abandons writing his novel, to use his talent to bring more characters to life to keep the hotel thriving. His plans seem to go well until he spills the elixir accidentally, preventing his ability to create more customers. Now he must find a way to get access to more of the potion before financial gains are lost. Meanwhile, a guest, Professor Donnelly, who seeks academic fame no matter the cost, along with his protégé Max, notice the strange and mystical happenings in the hotel and realize Kamal is the source. Donnelly has Max follow Kamal to uncover the mystery. Kamal seeks help from his uncle to get more elixir, but in order to do so, they must find a missing ingredient. They meet up with Rania, a tough and street-savvy shop owner, who knows the ins and outs of rare treasures in Cairo. Max, in his curiosity, ends up joining the group in their mission to find the missing ingredient, but before they start their journey, they learn the power of the elixir is coming to an end. Now the search becomes dire to save, a particular character, Amarna before she fades away. Rania brings the group to the slums of “Garbage City”, where they find a hidden tomb of an ancient Egyptian alchemist and in the process of gaining the missing ingredient, they are caught by an entity who has come to life from the elixir they're searching for. Fortunately, they escape by sheer luck with the elixir. Upon returning to the hotel they find Professor Donnelly who demands the elixir to advance his fame. Kamal then has to save his uncle, sacrificing the chance to save Amarna. Kamal learns a lesson from this journey: once one realizes their full potential| he becomes free to live his dreams.
Campesinos
A glimpse into the secluded lives of Patagonian cowboys (Gauchos) living at the end of the world in isolation. A stunning portrait of sacrifice, tradition and endurance in extreme conditions, uncovering what it truly means to be alone.
Matias Bolla
Cinema Pameer
"Cinema Pameer" uses a slice of everyday life in Kabul as a looking glass into Afghanistan today. The main focus is the cinema itself and the characters surrounding it| however the underlying reality surfaces time and again through everyday life. The war, a society in ruins and the pursuit and hope for something more. Something better.
Martin von Krogh
F20
“F20” is a psychological thriller about a young girl, Martina who stays in the city during summer, forced to work in her father’s pizzeria to deliver pizza though she daydreams about going to the Party Beach. She starts a relationship with a young man, Filip, who spends most of his time at home playing videogames and ordering pizza. When Martina’s best friend goes to have fun over the weekend| her strict father forbids her to go, so Martina uses Filip to circumvent her father’s ban. However, instead of her dreams coming true, Martina’s reality quickly turns into a bloody nightmare.
Arsen Anton Ostojic
Frangipani Rising
Frangipani Rising is a modern fairy tale set on a beautiful island where the moon and nature seem to have a strange power over the inhabitants. Nyoman, our hero, is the loneliest person he knows and has given up on the idea of ever finding love. Not even the moonlit escapades with his friends, nor the beauty that surrounds him can seem to lift his spirits. Until one night, pushed by despair| he curses at the moon and blames her for his fate. The next morning, Nyoman discovers his house has been shaken by an earthquake, and something unthinkable has grown in his garden…
Andrea Hachuel
Ghost of a Chance
Ghost of a Chance is a snapshot into the relationship of a young working class American couple. Two individuals bonded together through the expectance of a newborn baby, yet with different priorities – racing through their lives, we question whether one man’s childhood dream is more important than three people’s reality.
Manes Duerr
Gold
Experimental/Horror. Five kids are approached by a stranger to play Russian Roulette with a twist.
Gi Gonzales
Good luck
What happened to Helene last night? She remembers nothing. When Patrick tries to explain, it only leads to misunderstandings that quickly turn into suspicions.
Mattis Ohana Goksøyr
Growth
A young woman copes with chronic pain via unconventional means while searching for a cure, but the cure presents a new and gruesome reality.
Allison Miller
He Hangs Brightly
Two young men move through the joys| heartbreaks, and complexities of falling in love and trying to be together in three different lifetimes – during the Golden Age of Hollywood, at the height of the AIDS crisis in New York City, and at the ocean's edge near Monterey Bay in the present.
Imperfect Age
Camilla has seventeen, well-mannered, gets good grades and has a dream: to become a ballet dancer. Camilla and Sara (friend of Camilla and ballerina too) tried out for an important audition. Sara pass it, not Camilla. Camilla blames Sara. Nothing is as it seems, and the plot spirals into disconcerting and tense situations.
Ulisse Lendaro
In Your Hands
A priest, racked with guilt, takes refuge in a hermitage set in the mountains in order to escape the vindictive anger of a father.
Indimenticabile
The story of Luna and Angel is an unusual story of love, which goes beyond the cages and the judgment of others.
Gianluca Santoni
Isa
Set in an abandoned mine in the countryside of Bosnia, a group of young boys get immersed in a game of war. As the game looses its innocence, the moral dilemmas of war-torn country resurface.
Christian Prener, Jens Langkjaer
Jester’s Calendar
Oleg, a 60-year-old actor/clown/illusionist, and Dato, a Spiderman, are a two-men-circus troupe. They travel to remote villages performing for the local schoolchildren. At some point, Oleg, willing to pass his knowledge to a younger generation, decides to find and raise an apprentice. The idea is strongly opposed by his wife Anaida, who thinks it is a futile undertaking.
Levan Adamia
Let’s Get Lost
Ozzy, beset on all sides by the eccentricities of the artists around her, escapes her jazz club to go on an adventure with Jack- a talented and mysterious urban forest-sprite singer.
Sam Stillman
Long Day Tomorrow
In Jeevodaya, there is an educational and therapeutic centre for lepers and their families. Helena Pyz came here from Poland thirty years ago to help sick and hungry children. Over the years, she has begun to feel her weakness more and more acutely but the strength of her character does not allow her to surrender to her own illness. A long-lasting documentary observation helps to understand what was the unique role of the doctor. Surrounded by reckless people, doctor Helena seems to be the only person who can see the significance of the center.
Pawel Wysoczanski
Morte Et Dabo: Gift of Death
Morte et Dabo holds two meanings in Latin. ‘Gift of Death’ describes a sacrifice, for the sake of humanity. "Death, I give you" conveys an act of mercy, to end the suffering.
Rubén Möller
Moving Libraries – with Antonio La Cava in Ferrandina
In southern Italy, we encounter Antonio La Cava, a former teacher who has been traveling across the country with his Bibliomotocarro for many years now and encouraging children to read books. When the small, sky-blue Ape – a mobile library with a tiled roof and a chimney – arrives in the remote villages of the Basilicata, it becomes clear time and again just how important books and reading are for children.
Michael Bernstein, Anja Schürenberg
My Sister
Elif is ten years old| her sister Ayşe is 13. It’s a sticky summer in mid-1980’s, Istanbul. They live in a neighbourhood of lower middle class families. Elif freely plays on the street with her friends or alone, finding still green areas left between construction areas. Ayşe is on the thin border between childhood and puberty. She falls and injures herself while trying to see her newly emerging breasts in the small bathroom mirror. So she spends the summer lying on the couch in the small living room, irritated and depressed. Meanwhile, Elif listens to a song trying to decipher its lyrics, when she’s not running wildly on the streets. She drives Ayşe mad, for reasons she can’t quite grasp. Her older sister seems out of reach. Before summer ends, Elif’s mother takes them to a public beach with a neighbour lady and her daughter, Sermin. Ayşe behaves as if she’s there alone, putting on her headphones. Elif feels shut out of her sister’s life, physically and emotionally. As she plays silly games with Sermin, a boy on the beach catches her eye. She secretly observes and admires him as he plays football on the sand. When she catches him talking to Ayşe, Elif feels heartbroken, disappointed and humiliated. But all her feelings suddenly turn to guilt when Ayşe disappears under the waves and Elif is unexpectedly confronted with the possibility of loss.
Burcu Aykar
Olma Djon
OLMA DJON tells the journey of BOLOT, a father who, despite his efforts, doesn’t succeed to communicate with his daughter SHOLPAN (7) who refuses to speak, as a result of communication problems in their family: He is desperate when a Shaman Woman comes to help. Seduced by her gentle singing| he goes over the fence of his own yard. He finds himself in a snowy apple tree orchard| his secret garden, frozen for so many years. Following the singing shamanic voice, BOLOT crosses his own unconsciousness| he meets his ancestors and finally| his Mother who is waiting for him under the Apple Tree. This reconciliation gives him the capacity to communicate to his Daugher – Love.
Victoria Yakubov
Opeka
Pedro Opeka declined an opportunity to play professional soccer in his native Buenos Aires. He chose instead to become a missionary and live in one of the poorest countries in the world. The son of a bricklayer| he convinced destitute families living in Madagascar’s largest landfill that he could teach them how to build their own houses and, in the process, build their dignity. After 30 years of construction, fighting increasing poverty and political instability, Opeka has created a highly functional city within this dysfunctional African nation. His mission is to prepare the children he saves to one day save their own country.
Cam Cowan
Overgrown
Overgrown chronicles the lives of twin sisters, from birth to death, as they experience family upheavals and tragedies.
Person
An unidentified individual, dominated by his daily pounding routine, is pushed beyond the limits of his own identity.
Lorenzo Puntoni
Phoenix
Felix is an ambitious and extravagant fashion-student who is traveling back from the Randstad to his parent’s place in the south of Limburg. His mother, Debbie| has been manic-depressed for a long time. In an attempt to give her life an upgrade, Felix decides to give her old past as a regional carnival singer a revival. But in order to get her on the stage| he has to deal with her emotional switches that become a rollercoaster on their own.
Laurens Zautsen
Quantic Love
"Quantic Love" is a film with three parallel narratives, involving the same woman, without the existence of a clear chronological order.
Paulo Furtado
Radio From The American Sector
A story about love, oppression, and the unflinching power of music. A young Stasi recruit monitors bugged spaces around Berlin, while his long-time girlfriend faces the reality of being trapped behind the Wall. Set in 1964, Radio From The American Sector is a German-language short film that will also serve as proof of concept for a larger television series.
Karyn Barnett-Day
Rooftop Refugee
ROOFTOP REFUGEE is a satirical comedy that follows Martha as she attends her daughter's primary school performance. A young refugee boy threatening to jump from the school rooftop throws the event into chaos. The adults try to save the boy and use the opportunity to spread their views on the world.
Alexandra Brodski
Roots
Stefan visits his adult daughter who lives in another city. He meets her new boyfriend on the spot. This one| however, does not appeal to him at all.
Kuba Gryżewski
Roulette
Five Strangers meet for a game of Russian Roulette, with a different set of rules.
Rumori
Visually exploring the emotional complexity of a breakup, Rumori has at its core how the lack of understanding and communication between two people can destroy a relationship. Introspective, subtle and beautifully melancholic, the short film stands as a summary of the endless conversations and sleepless nights experienced as two people gradually drift apart and disappear from each other's minds. Set in a house in the Italian countryside, we find the characters in the film, played by Andrea Arcangeli and Matilda De Angelis, stuck in a loop of internal arguments. They share the same space, yet they are unable to see and perceive one another. They live for each other, yet they are blind to each other's needs. Feeling trapped and alone within this space, the house becomes a metaphor for their stagnant and decaying relationship. As a true reflection of our world, Rumori argues that to stand still is to disappear. The only way out of a toxic dynamic is to embrace change, transform and move forward.
Samen
Sickboy
Every day that passes in New York City, Jeff finds a way to get through it. Maybe he’s driven to find love. Maybe he’s driven to find a connection. Or maybe he’s just driven to do what he has to do to survive| however erratic or unforgivable it might be.
Julian Muller
Sunshine
The 7-year-old girl, Solvej, lives alone with her mentally ill mother in a messy apartment. Her mother is sick, but Solvej cannot see why, because the sickness is inside her mothers head. Solvej eats canned food and goes to school in her dirty clothes. Amidst all the mess, Solvej dreams herself away in her drawings, which come alive to take her away from the world, she's been placed in. In her troubled daily life, there are only small beams of hope. When her mothers mental illness worsens, it is up to Solvej to fight and accept the terms, she and her mother are faced with.
Carla Malling Agger
Talking to the Wind
A Voices Unheard Films banner in association with Akshaya Sawant presents a unique creative documentary depicting a profound look at the direct human impact of global warming. Globally farmers are being impacted and in some countries, the rate of suicides is highest in this community that serves us with the most basic human need – Food. The film focuses on the villages in the state of Maharashtra , India which on one hand has the neo-rich of Bollywood in metro cities like Mumbai and in others this stark contrast & human pain of poverty. Relevant in the current times wherein the deep realization has set in of the critical importance of basic needs like food and nature . Intimate and eye-opening, Talking To The Wind shows the social and psychological effects of climate change as it impacts identity, the idea of masculinity, and the pressures of social structure.
Akshaya Sawant
Taxi
Sandro is a taxi driver in Rome. He is coming home in the night after having finished his work. A young pregnant woman, Nina, asks him a ride and he puts her in the car. While they are conversing we find that Sandro has got many racial biases and Nina has a complicated relationship with her boyfriend. Along the way their two lives will get close but…
Matteo Vicino
The Bachelor House
Seven Kurdish workers, who share a flat in Istanbul, are driven by the desire to improve their lives. One is Ikram, who has spent 12 years in prison for political reasons. He wants to leave Turkey for Europe. Miro, another, faces a forced marriage back home. But he has fallen in love with a woman in Istanbul. One day, Miro is handed a precious cat from his home province. The breed is famous for its snow-white coat and two different eye colors. By giving the cat to Suzan, Miro hopes to win her heart. The film portrays a traditional way of brotherhood called "Bachelor House" in Turkish.
Dirk Schäfer
The Dormouse King
The film The Dormouse King tells about Frank who set out to learn to behave unreasonably. And on his way he finds Recep, music and words. Frank (24) is a trainee biology and maths teacher. He is disciplined and pretty uptight. When his girlfriend Luisa tells him about her being pregnant he doubts that he is the father. Luisa leaves him. Frank meets her by chance on the streets a few weeks later. She is obviously pregnant now and out with another guy. That encounter leaves him confused. He starts to lose his grip on things a bit and goes wandering through the city. Then one day he is caught up in the middle of a dispute between two of his neighbours. Frank takes the side of one of them. His name is Recep. He is much older than Frank and works as a cook. What's more he plays the trumpet. Meeting Recep awakens a hunger for music in Frank. Slowly a friendship develops between Recep, a political guy who left Turkey in the eighties, and Frank, the nature-loving loner.
Marie Henin
The Jacket
After her son's favorite jacket gets stained in a fight, a Roma woman is determined to find a dry cleaner that will not turn her away.
Aleksandra Nestorov
The Last Trip to the Seaside
Six passengers are traveling to the seaside in a train compartment. After a while, a suspicion makes some of them lose their composure and the remainder of the trip goes terribly wrong.
Adi Voicu
The Man Who Traveled Nowhere in Time
Through the eyes of Eytan, a man who only exists in the dreams and unconscious minds of others, we question what is “real”, what isn't, and how we each perceive time differently.
Vincent René-Lortie
The Marriage Project
Encourage the patients from a mental hospital to form relationships with each other, get married and live as a family. That’s the bold new idea of the head of Ehsan House in Southern Tehran. For the past 20 years, its 480 patients have lived in separate male and female units with no hope of ever leaving or of having meaningful sexual relationships. But in 2017, the head of the centre secured the money to build a new unit of marital facilities. Despite strong opposition| he was convinced the patients would benefit from being in a couple. As a selection committee begins evaluating patients| hidden affections come to the surface. Finally, the team selects two patients to form the first couple. Are these two patients capable of having a relationship that leads to marriage? What do their families think? And what about the patients who weren’t selected but still crave human relationships?
Atieh Attarzadeh Firozabad| hesam Eslami
The Price of Progress
The Price of Progress is the portrait of decision making of the Food Industry. What is more important and what is the price to get it. Within the context of urgence that determines most of the debates around the next agriculture in the European Union, the film explores the intrigues, fears, emotions, political pressures and arguments of key players like corporate lobbies, politicians, renowned scientists and investigative journalists related to the international Food Industry. What is at stake in Food dilemmas? Power, money or health?
Victor Luengo
The Shadow of the Sun
7 years ago Boaz has cut all ties with his parents, brother & sister| his friends, and his previous world. The film tracks the story of his disappearance and embarks in a surreal journey into the memories he left with his family.
Ido Hartmann
The sound of the bell
A veteran boxer loses his hearing after an arranged fight. He struggles to overcome this situation while abandoned by his manager. The desperate effort to find him, the loneliness and the stabbing silence drag him to a hostile fight outside the ring.
Augusto Sinay
When Mom is Gone
“When Mom is Gone” is the story of a father and his six children trying to hold on to life. Mohammed is left alone with his six children, the oldest of whom is 11 and the youngest is 2, in the mountain village of Sumara, in the city of Bamyan in Afghanistan. 9-year old Masume has quit school and is trying to be a mother to her siblings. 11-year old Jumahan, the eldest son, is working far away from his family. What has happened to leave Mohammed and his children in this condition? Why is Masume taking care of her siblings? Why is Jumahan working as a shepherd at a distant village away from his siblings? Yes, a father and his six little children in Afghanistan have to struggle hard. Filmed in 35 days, the documentary demonstrates the micro-scale reflections of the devastation caused by the war in Afghanistan that has been going on for a decade.
Zeynep Gulru Kececiler
Wolfdogs
Armed solely with the French writer La Fontaine's famous fable "The Dog and the Wolf", a resourceful actor spends six months in a working class neighborhood teaching elementary school students the meaning of freedom.
Dominic Leclerc