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- DirectorHugh DaviesHelen SpoonerIn the wake of a vicious anti-LGBT government crackdown in Azerbaijan in September 2017, this experimental documentary follows the plight of three young LGBT Azeris fearing for their lives.
- DirectorRaúl de la Fuente
- DirectorEric MonteagudoOrió PeñalverStarsAniezRina Ota
- DirectorÈrika SánchezStarsLaia CapdevilaRimé KopoboruLucrecia BuabailaJoana and Nina live trapped in the contradictions of female puberty in the first world. Both are women of their time and culture: social networks, immediacy and excesses. Today, Joana has decided to devise a game in which she will involve her friend Nina. That decisive moment of puberty will change something in each of them forever.
- DirectorJaime PuertasStarsJosé Daniel BrígidoÁngeles MorenoDulce RodríguezThese lands had a different name in years gone by. They were inhabited by other beings. It is said that those beings founded cities. The prophetic stones with which they were built possessed an ancient power. It is said that such dark power keeps us confined amidst a mirage which makes us believe that we truly exist. But no one remembers anymore.
- DirectorCamila KaterStarsHelena IgnezRachel PatricioLarissa RahalFive women, each in a different stage of their life, share experiences about their relationships to their bodies and how others perceive them.
- DirectorIon De SosaChema García IbarraStarsNuria Rey BurgosLaura Molano ChancalCarlos Lebrón LázaroPeople of all ages enjoy themselves at the pool in Montánchez. It's an almost utopian depiction of community, under the gaze of Our Lady of Consolation. While conflicts and aggression have a siesta, the villagers take a well-deserved break.
- DirectorAlex SardàStarsLaura WeissmahrIgor SzpakowskiÀlex MonnerGANG is a journey into group-mentality, impulse, and those experiences that men very often keep quiet, to the masculinity that devours us.
- DirectorMaria Riera Peris
- DirectorPablo García CangaStarsMaud Wyler
- DirectorAida BresolíAlba Bresolí
- DirectorGerard GilJana JubertStarsJan AubertElia MateuMax Megias
- DirectorMalena SolarzNicolás ZukerfeldStarsJaime Pena
- DirectorMarina EspinachStarsIrene BatistePablo CapuzAlicia La TroupeDuring the tediousness of late summer, Barbara faces an unknown world from somewhere between desire, strangeness and uncertainty.
- DirectorSalvador SunyerThe hands of a man try to reconstruct the history of his life with objects that he keeps in boxes. Each object refers to a moment. These remnants of things tell the story of his life, which in the end could also be ours. Restos de Cosas is a small film that deals with memory and the passage of time. Such a broad, universal and intergenerational theme will be treated from a minimal, intimate and personal thing: the objects that a man has been saving during his life. It will be these small units of memories that will guide the whole story until you can draw the life of the protagonist. This concrete experience results in a collective experience in which the viewer can find resonances and feel reflected.
- DirectorÁlvaro GagoStarsDiego AbadCris IglesiasFran PérezSaturday. It is nightfall. The ball moves quickly from side to side. The bodies try to get into the gaps left by the defense. Lucía, twenty-five years old, leaves handball training and goes to look for her brother on a motorcycle under the lights of a city that she thinks she knows.
- DirectorMarc FerrerStarsCarlos BallesterosMarta BassolsJordi BeltránJulia, Anna, Zaida and Marc are four friends who are looking for love in Barcelona. During the season of a popular film festival in the city, they share their adventures and misadventures.
- DirectorJonathan GlazerStarsJames AdamsStuart AndersonMcKinley BexA masked mob cruelly punish a lone masked man in this nightmarish short film.
- DirectorJeanne MayerStarsHenri MaokhanpioVichara PhulIres Sandjon
- DirectorZbigniew RybczynskiSubsequent characters appear in a poorly-decorated room, intertwining but never colliding, all possessed by never-ending rituals.
- DirectorStefanie KolkStarsFrieda BarnhardSinem KavusOlivia LonsdaleOn a drive back home in a dirty car, three young women talk about other people. Their conversation flows naturally, and takes them into uncharted territory.
- DirectorEfthimis Kosemund SanidisStarsThanasis BratosNikos GeorgakisVaggelis TsimpogiannisMen 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?
- DirectorSevgi EkerStarsSirin ErensoyYasemin ErensoyEdim UzunThe accidental crossing of uncrossable borders.
- DirectorLance EdmandsStarsSarah TihanyDavid CallPatrick M. WalshWhen a young couple encounters a strange old man wandering in a snowstorm, they must decide if he needs help, or if he has more sinister intentions.
- DirectorOskar LehemaaStarsSten KarpovInsecure and balding LEO (35) has closed himself in his apartment to try hair growth liquid for fixing up his looks. As Leo tries to get his bodily changes under control the evening quickly turns into chaos.
- DirectorPeter StricklandStarsJuli JakabMárton KristófMáté VáthThe repeated rituals of an online performer have a transfixing effect on her viewers, in this short exploration of sensual audio visual stimulation.
- DirectorMarcus SvanbergStarsLouise PeterhoffA woman gets overwhelmed by anxiety and does something she never thought herself capable of and once she's started, she can't seem to stop.
- DirectorThea HvistendahlStarsHelene BergsholmEmma BonesStella Valpuri NilsenTween girls make friends at a Christian summer camp. When a new girl, Erna, arrives, Louise and Maria are asked to take extra care of her, but they soon realize she is a bit different. They conclude she must be obsessed by Satan.
- DirectorSofia AlaouiStarsFouad OughaouMoha OughaouOumaïma OughaouAbdellah, a young shepherd living in the mountains, is forced to brave the snow blocking him in order to get food and save his cattle. Once he gets to the village, he faces a supernatural phenomenon.
- DirectorBruno ColletStarsDominique ReymondAndré WilmsAn aging painter and his wife struggle increasingly to cope with his advancing dementia.
- DirectorMauro HerceMen of different ages converge in an indeterminate room. We do not know much about them, whether it is day or night. Only some signs spread out along the footage will allow us to know something about their circumstance.
- DirectorVytautas KatkusStarsVygantas BachmackijArvydas DapsysJelena Juscenko-KirijevaIt is a story about a cold relationship between a father and his son. Their bond, plagued by indifference, disintegrates completely.
- DirectorCharles EamesRay EamesStarsPhilip MorrisonBeginning with a shot of a couple enjoying a picnic, then zooming out incrementally by powers of ten, the film offers a glimpse of everything from the edge of the known universe to the molecules on a person's hand.
- DirectorLisa ÖstbergStarsAnna GranathLudde HagbergKarin Franz KörlofWhen a class of Master's degree art students are given an unfair assignment by their self-absorbed professors, conflict in inevitable. This film questions authority and authorship while highlighting artist's working conditions. Based on real events.
- DirectorLasse LinderStarsChristian AmannKatjuschaMarmeladeNo mere viral cat video can compare with the feline-centric poignancy of Lasse Linder's astonishingly intimate study of one man's ardent longing to expand his multi-species household.
- DirectorAkosua Adoma OwusuStarsNana Saah Adwubi KeteWhite Afro employs an archival instructional video on how to offer curly perms or body waving services to their white clientele, ostensibly for financial gain.
- DirectorHenrique AmudLucas H. RossiStarsDermi AzevedoJournalist Dermi Azevedo has never stopped fighting for human rights and now, three decades after the end of the military dictatorship in Brazil, he's witnessing the return of those same practices.
- DirectorMahdi FleifelStarsReda Al-SalehMarie KortamMahdi FleifelA sociological meditation on the different exits that young Palestinians choose, in order to cope with life in the refugee camps.
- DirectorCorina Schwingruber IlicUnder the spell of mass entertainment on the high seas.
- DirectorAna VazIt addresses the genocide of the Waimiri-Atroari people in 1970s. Illustrations about the period, created by the indigenous population reveal a traumatic history, referring us to the present day.
- DirectorE. Caj CojocArisa dances every day and night to songs that tell of the struggles of her people. Her mother warns her not to make the same mistakes that she did as a young woman. Poetic and atmospheric, Liremu Barana subtly addresses themes of race and colonialism.
- DirectorPedro Neves MarquesStarsAna Flavia CavalcantiAlina DorzbacherKelner MacêdoScientists breeding genetically modified mosquitos to stop epidemy in Brasil. In paralel non traditional sexual relations taking place.
- DirectorThessa Geertse MeijerStarsDaniël KolfFamke LouisePriscilla Da CostaDuring an extreme heat wave, a shy girl seeks refuge in an ice cream shop. But when she looks into the eyes of the charming vendor, she is on thin ice.
- DirectorKailee McGeeStarsKate AdamsWills BrewerKim D'Armond
- DirectorBálint SzentgyörgyiStarsFranciska TöröcsikZoltán MucsiPál MácsaiOn the day the Berlin Wall falls, a determined young actress has a job interview at the National Theater. But, while a world-order falls apart outside, she is confronted to an old family-secret that will change everything.
- DirectorAndrea Vinciguerra
- DirectorNadja AndrasevA betrayed wife starts to investigate her husband's mistresses. Her jealousy is gradually replaced by curiosity.
- DirectorMounia AklStarsDaad AasliGladys Abou SleimanAdel ChahineUnder the imminent threat of Lebanon's garbage crisis, Hala, a wild child inside of a woman, is the only one to refuse evacuation, clinging to whatever remains of home.
- DirectorKonstantinos AntonopoulosStarsAngeliki DimitrakopoulouGiorgos GallosIsavella AnagnostopoulouTrapped in a seemingly dull family vacation, Dimitra, Dimitris and their two daughters will have to find a way out of a secluded island in the Mediterranean, when confronted with the unexpected end of the world.
- DirectorTania NanavrakiSotiris PetridisStarsAlexandros KochNikos KolovosAnastasis RoilosBecause of a severe famine that affects the whole country, the government is allowing non-productive citizens to be eaten.
- DirectorDavid ValeroStarsAlejandro TousJulián GarcíaMarian Mayo
- DirectorKonstantin BronzitA mother deals with her son who is so determined to become a cosmonaut that he refuses to ever take of his space suit.
- DirectorVanessa del CampoStarsSaid AlharbiAstronauts in the desert of Oman. Or is it Mars? Bedouines, spaceships, desertships, two young omani girls passionate about space and a lost director reflecting about life in this Universe and the relation between exploration, nomadism, colonialism and freedom.
- DirectorAgustina San MartínStarsCamila DobruskyIsabella RapazzoMariali RubioGod is now a Power Plant. On a misty night cows escape, a child is chosen, and a teenager tries to find freedom.
- DirectorDorian JespersStarsDéni Oumar PitsaevAlexandr PronkinFedor is a young locksmith in Murmansk, a frozen city in the darkness of the Russian arctic. He wanders from client to client through the concrete alleyways driven by a fantasy that isolates him from the city and its inhabitants. His dreams erode his sense of reality, opening the door to a phantasmagorical universe: a second sun rises over the horizon.
- DirectorElpida StathatouStarsThemis BazakaAndreas KonstantinouElpida StathatouThe story of a young woman's struggle to separate from her religious and superstitious upbringing. As she battles her traumatic past she discovers exactly how far she will go to reconcile her internalised doubts.
- DirectorAnna SzöllösiStarsTamás JakabAnna Szöllösi"Helfer" is about a young woman who is struggling with anxiety and recurring nightmares that she wants to end. She is seeking a helper, who offers an alternative solution, but in the process she must confront her biggest fears.
- DirectorAria CovamonasStarsDick MillerVirginia LeithGeraldine FarnumEvery day is the same, but hideouser and hideouser.
- DirectorMaja GehrigDuring a PowerPoint presentation, statistical diagrams are breaking free from the strait-jacket of their coordinates. A trip into the sensual world of statistics begins. Pie charts are melting, arrow diagrams twisting, scatter plots, bar graphs and stock market curves join in a collective climax.
- DirectorAdrien MerigeauStarsNadia MoussaGeorgia CusackJina DjembaOne night, Reine, a young loner, sees the urban chaos as a mystical oneness that seems alive, like some sort of guide.
- DirectorSasha SvirskyStarsSasha SvirskyNadezhda SvirskaiaGood and evil, utopia and dystopia, narrative and post-narrative collide in a mortal battle to entertain the audience.
- DirectorBeatrice MöllerEritrea, a small country in the Horn of Africa. The former Italian colony has been through a thirty-year war of liberation that has left its marks - on the people and their landscape. In 1993 Eritrea finally gained independence from Ethiopia. A celebrated new beginning, even if the reconstruction of the country has come to a standstill. However, the most important achievement of the colonial period was immediately put back into operation: the steam railway, which already a hundred years ago connected the capital Asmara in the highlands with the port city Massawa on the Red Sea. The notion of national unity is the long-awaited pride of a free Eritrea. Meanwhile it is quiet in the railway depot of Asmara. The wind sweeps through the cracks of the ailing outer walls and makes cobwebs float back and forth in the same spot. From time to time a railway worker walks over the rails. In this lethargic, semi-darkness we explore the microcosms of the railway company. We get to know Hinza, the young train driver, and Fezahatsion, the old chief mechanic who experienced the glorious times of the railway. Little by little, the poetic images intensify and draw a picture of today's Eritrea: a picture of standstill, a picture of passion for the ancient steam railway, a picture of rebellion against its decay, but above all a picture of deep friendship.
- DirectorTomer ShushanStarsDaniel GadDawit TekelaebReut AkkermanA man finds his stolen bicycle, which now belongs to a stranger. While attempting to retrieve it, he struggles to remain human.
- DirectorShunsaku HayashiThousands of them are packed in a bag. The hand dragging the bag has never been seen from their angle. The track on sand is easily erased by waves. Touching the surface of sea, they grow a new skin.
- DirectorSiegfried A. FruhaufIt is not surprising that a heart is beating in that cinematic machine reminiscent of the vaulted tunnel of Cern, in which light particles are accelerated and collide to fathom time and space.
- DirectorPedro CasavecchiaThe dark feelings that a boy has accumulated during his childhood suddenly and violently break out after his mother's death. An exploration of abuse and dysfunction within the family setup.
- DirectorManon CoubiaStarsZar Amir EbrahimiYoann ZimmerOne night. On the deserted ski slopes, the nocturnal outing of the snow-grooming machines is being prepared. Twenty-five-year-old Antoine meets up with his team. Right in the middle of the world the hypnotic ballet of the machines, which tirelessly shape the landscape, begins. The mountain rumbles suddenly. Immobilized in the night, Antoine begins a journey in the interval where the myths of a mountain, both feared and venerated, are embodied.
- DirectorArghavan HeydareslamStarsRoham HeydaraliMarjan SadeghiLeyla, a single mother viciously obsessed with the order and tidiness, losses control at a gathering where on of the guests brings her little boy unannounced, leaving him to mess with the house symmetry.
- DirectorMaja NovakovicStarsObrenija RadicVinka RadicBitter poetry of everyday life in the isolated hills of Eastern Bosnia shows the care and intimacy of two old women, both in their mutual relations and in relationship with nature.
- DirectorStephen IrwinDeep in the forest, a hunter encounters a strange creature he cannot kill.
- DirectorÖzgür AnilStarsMichael FuithZelal KapcikNazmi KirikAfter the verdict in a trial, a family tries to find their way back to normality but struggles between the expectations within their Turkish community and their own wish to continue a normal life.
- DirectorTessa Louise Pope
- DirectorNicolas FattouhGrandmother loses her five senses one after the other until she transforms into a wooden chair.
- DirectorChintis LundgrenDrasko IvezicToomas, an exemplary office worker, has to support his family after losing his job, without telling his wife that he also works as a gigolo.
- DirectorBen ReidStarsAlice LoweTommy JessopLaurence SpellmanWhen a worker falls to his death at a care home, it appears to be a terrible accident. But when a detective questions a young man with Down syndrome spotted at the scene, they uncover a crime more shocking than anyone imagined.
- DirectorHristo SimeonovStarsPlamena StefanovaMargita GoshevaBorislav Rusev-BiniNina, a 13-year-old pickpocket with a sharp and wise look, is checking the content of a man's wallet she has just stolen. She is staring at the unknown family pictures with curiosity and sadness - A little later, Nina is captured in her next attempt to steal. Surprisingly, the victim Yana refuses to surrender Nina to the police and decides to pay a little attention to the girl, taking her lunch.
- DirectorUpamanyu BhattacharyyaKalp SanghviIn a version of Kolkata, India rendered unliveable by sea level rise, things take a dark turn when a family of climate change refugees are ambushed by a tiger on the flooded streets.
- DirectorShoko HaraStarsEva ClaytonThree women contemplate their relationship with convicted serial killer Richard Ramirez.
- DirectorDusty MancinelliMadeleine Sims-FewerStarsMaya HarmanHeather AllinDeragh CampbellA ten-year-old girl struggles with the residual trauma of her sexual abuse.
- DirectorEluned Zoe AianoAnna BennerStarsLioba Grunow
- DirectorMads KoudalStarsGhita NørbyJeanne RasmussenCharlotte FichA woman's lifelong relationship with her disabled daughter is changed forever when she receives an unwanted letter.
- DirectorMaija BlåfieldStarsMaija BlåfieldTaedeog GhimSolha KimNorth Korean exiles reminisce their first impressions of watching forbidden foreign films.
- DirectorSuela BakoStarsSuela BakoMarilda FurxhiKaltrin ZallaDetermined to find the thieves who stole her wallet in the bus, Sonila, asks for the police's help.
- DirectorMarta RodríguezTo Be Born Again offers a moving portrait of two indigent seventy-year old, who must somehow get on with their lives after having lost everything in the landslides and floods triggered by the eruption of the Ruiz Volcano in 1985.
- DirectorOlga BoladzStarsJulia KuzkaAgnieszka SuchoraGrzegorz PrasalskiA story of fast growing up, which Alice - the main character does not want to decide on. It is a story about how the problem cuts you off from reality, because it is so hard that it is unreal. Together with the protagonist, we move into a fantasy world where it is beautiful and scary. As in a fairy tale, it is full of symbols and hidden meanings. But this is the only place where Alice deals with the problem in her own way. It's about abortion - a difficult topic for which there is no one answer, and probably none is right. It all depends on the man and his decisions. But can it be independent?
- DirectorTomek Ducki
- DirectorLasse HoldhusStarsMarlen LeteztkiMajor Luna jumps towards the moon. In a swimming pool she explores her fantasy to float weightlessly in space.
- DirectorMichelle BurakowskiAljoscha Ramon BöhnertStarsMarek ErhardtOle JacobsenInés SassA short film about three people who sell or buy breast milk.
- DirectorYana UgrekhelidzeStarsGiorgi GedevanidzeRicard LiepinsAnastasia SchweglerIn the 1993 Abkhazian civil war, Georgian children and their families are forced to flee their home town, Sokhumi. Escaping war, they head into the unknown.
- DirectorFelix HerrmannStarsHassan AkkouchAmelle SchwerkSüheyla ÜnlüTwo friends, young German Muslims, live together. They observe the culture, the church, dating, relationships and each other. One thinks pragmatically, the other thinks romantically.
- DirectorAndreas FischerIn 1950 in Paris, two shop mannequins in a newly reopened fashion boutique come magically to life. Due to their limited range of movement there is always a distance between them. Nevertheless their affection for one another blossoms into love.
- DirectorMichael KranzStarsShukry AlturkUday AlturkSobi DarcalmyForder's joyFence, a kind of personal border wall - practical and mobile for everyday use - offers protection against everything we don't want to appear in our reality. The product the world has been waiting for.
- DirectorJonas RiemerStarsYannick FischerJörg MoukaddamCornelia IvancanA car crash thrusts Francis, the dreamy film projectionist, into the world of the ruthless gangster Mascarpone.
- DirectorArne HectorSara LehnMinze TummescheitStarsLola GoellerUwe HectorChristian Diaz OrejarenaA detached human hand found after a bomb attack takes us into the abyss of the German intelligence apparatus.
- DirectorBenjamin PfohlStarsGreta BohacekCosima ShawKai Ivo BaulitzTravelling to a remote cabin in the Alps, a shy teenage girl has to decide whether to pursue her own path on Earth, or to follow her parents-members of a cosmic cult, through a fatal procedure into a higher existence on Jupiter.
- DirectorSonja RohlederA slightly naive paradise bird is going out of his way to attract a mate.