SKIN- Guy Nattiv (USA, 2018) 20’
A small supermarket in a blue collar town, a black man smiles at a 10 year old white boy across the checkout aisle. This innocuous moment sends two gangs into a ruthless war that ends with a shocking backlash. Best Live Action Short – Oscars 2019 Director – Guy Nattiv
ALL THE FIRES THE FIRE – Efthimis Kosemund Sanidis (Greece, 2019) 24′
Men set birds free on the mountains. Two grieving, estranged brothers try their marksmanship together with their sons. It’ s the hunting season. Can a bird’ s heart stop in the sky with no bullets coming through its body? Locarno 2019 Director – Efthimis Kosemund Sanidis
MASSACRE – Maïté Sonnet (France, 2020) 26’30”
Two sisters, aged 10 and 12, are about to leave their beloved island, which became too expensive for their family. Their sadness turns into rage towards those forcing them to leave : tourists. This last summer will be dark, deadly, as toxic as the seaweeds swarming all over the beaches. Prix de la meilleure musique […]
ALL INCLUSIVE – Teemu Nikki (Finland, 2019) 15’
Kalervo has felt powerless all his life, unable to fight back, until Annukka—a woman who loves him—gives Kalervo a life altering gift. Like with many of director Nikki’s works, All Inclusive can be interpreted in many ways, but at the core it’s a film about power, love and change. If you could right the wrongs […]
SO WHAT IF THE GOATS DIE – Sofia Alaoui (France, 2019) 20′
High in the Atlas Mountains, the young shepherd Abdellah and his father are hemmed in by snow at their goat pen. Their animals are wasting away. Abdellah must go to find supplies at a market village more than a day’s walk away. When he arrives with his mule, he finds the village abandoned due to […]
DOG EAT DOG – Rikke Gregersen (Norway, 2018) 25’
Silje wants to leave her boyfriend, but when she finds him in a half-hearted attempt to hang himself she has to reconsider, in fear of acting reckless. Silver Medal – Student Academy Awards 2019, Special Jury Prize – BAFTA 2019 Director – Rikke Gregersen
HEADER – Mark Kuhlmann (Germany, 2020) 13’
When Lars (13) gets further and further behind in the initially still funny duel with his brother Kai (11) and thus also threatens to lose the love of his mother, he is faced with a decision: Will he fight against his unfairly playing brother or will he give up? Director
INES – Élodie Dermange (Switzerland, 2019) 4′
Inès is facing a difficult choice, this evening she thinks a last time about the decision that she will make. Annecy 2020, Sundance 2020 Director – Elodie Dermange
ENTROPIA – Flóra Anna Buda (Hungary, 2019) 10’
Entopia is a container of three parallel universes where three girls are living in different circumstances. One of them represents the animalistic side of human nature, one of them is a consumer fulfilled with her own frustrations, and the third one is living in a futuristic room where she has to run to keep the […]
THE MANDARIN TREE – Cengiz Akaygün (Germany, 2018) 18′
After her father is arrested for political reasons by the Turkish government, little Sirin is finally allowed to visit him in prison for the first time. When a prison official interprets her painting of a bird as an anarchistic symbol and confiscates it, the girl is devastated, but her father encourages her to believe in […]
