FOOD FIRST – Pol Ponsarnau (Germany, 2016) 10’52”

Director: Pol Ponsarnau; Writer: Sergi Portabella; Producer: Pol Ponsarnau;  Key Cast: Milton Welsh, Carrie Getman, Martina Schöne-Redunski, Daniel Steiner   Food first, then morals! A comedy about two couples in a stylish Berlin Tapas restaurant. Tension grows with each dish. All seems lost when the question “who waters your plants?” comes on the table.   […]

APPARITION – Denis Dobrovoda (France, 2016) 12’10”

Director: Denis Dobrovoda; Writer: Denis Dobrovoda; Producer: Artus Thomas;  Key Cast: Henri Rizik, Julia Lozano, Serghei Philippenko     A lonely bank clark discovers a mysterious stain on his bedroom wall, which the local religious community considers to be an apparition of the Virgin Mary. His life turns upside down as he is forced to […]

20 METERS OF LOVE IN MONTMARTRE – Pierre Gaffié (France, 2014) 4’40”

Director: Pierre Gaffié;  Writer: Pierre Gaffié; Producer: Marilia Deloison; Key Cast: Marie Neplaz, Katherina Marx. Valerie Even, Myriam David     4 lonely women in Paris find a secret connection between them, through their hearts and through their arts…     Directed 5 shorts including : -“The dolphin skin city” (2014) : best foreign film […]

COUP DE GRACE – Pascal Glatz (Switzerland, 2015) 8’14”

Director: Pascal Glatz;  Writer: André Kϋttel, Pascal Glatz; Producer: Michael Steiger, Corinne Steiner; Key Cast: Thomas U. Hostettler, Mathis Kϋnzler, Fabian Guggisberg     At a remote mountain lake a bound man with cement shoes is being dragged to the water. His request for a coup de graces escalates into an absurd clash.     Pascal […]

ATOTÔ – Bruno Laet (Brazil, 2015) 15’49”

Director: Bruno Laet; Writer: André Miguéis; Bruno Laet; Producer: Janaina Diniz Guerra;  Key Cast: Sergio Miranda, Paulinho Andrade, Miguel Aredes     Born Wladimir, son of Valdemar, a modest gravedigger. The father sends his son to the strange craft, family tradition, to dig his own grave that will serve his tombstone. In fulfilling that spiritual value, […]

ASPHYXIA – Pol Ponsarnau (Germany, 2016) 10’

Director: Pol Ponsarnau; Writer: Simone Geißler;  Producer:  Simone Geißler;  Key Cast: Aaron Thiesse, Max Hoppe, Monika Oschek, Simone Geißler     Gloria struggles after the sudden and unexpected loss of her boyfriend with deep pain. Her life is falling apart and she is sinking into depression. It seems impossible to let go of what happened. […]

TOUCH – Noel Harris (Canada, 2016) 15’

Director: Noel Harris, Writer: Noel Harris; Producer: Mark O’Neill; Key Cast: Darryl Hopkins, Krystin Pellerin, Jorja King     When a single mom, facing eviction, is offered a night’s work, she unsuccessfully seeks a babysitter for her two small children. Desperate, she reaches out to the last person she wants to ask for a favour. […]

CADILLAC – Pauline Roque (Belgium, 2015) 27’24”

Director: Pauline Roque; Writer: Pauline Roque, Raphael Venin; Producer: Bénédicte Lescalier; Key Cast: Alexia Depicker, Laurent Caron     Billie is a garage owner in a village of Wallonia. Isolated and put into debt, she has to, for a weekend long, face Wilhem, her creditor, and welcome Lou, her handicaped brother…     After studies of contemporary […]

THE RETURN OF ERKIN – Maria Guskova (Russia, 2015) 29’

Director: Maria Guskova; Writer: Maria Guskova; Producer: Dennis Guskov, Maria Guskova, Rinat Muslimov; Key Cast: Kakhramanzhon Mamasaliev     Erkin gets out of prison and wants to return to his former life. But everything has changed and he does not know if he can live as a free man.     Maria Guskova was born […]

NAPPS – MEMOIRE OF AN INVISIBLE MAN – Tami Liberman (Germany, 2014) 30’

Director: Tami Liberman; Writer: Tami Liberman, Mr. X; Producer: Markus Kaatsch, Visual and media Anthropology. Freie Universität Berlin; Key Cast: Mr. X, Mr.X’s landlady, Christian Bodler     This film tells the story of Mr. X, but his identity, and his face, are never revealed in it. Mr. X is a West-African asylum seeker living […]