Eleven-year-old Nejc witnesses peer violence. He befriends Timi, a victim of violence.
● Martin Turk
● 13’
● Σλοβενία
A fragmented portrait of a moment, a person, and a place, seen through the subjective memories of a young Black girl, Imani, and a rookie police officer, David, who both have wildly different recollections of the same faithful moment in a corner store that will leave their lives altered forever.
● Robert-Jonathan Koeyers
● 15’
● the Netherlands
Camouflage is about the impact of an unsafe home on fourteen-year-old Deniz. The film shows how it affects the relationship with his mother, the interaction with his friends and his behavior at school.
● Bregt Verhagen
● 16’
● the Netherlands
Architect A is an architect who builds a house in a very special way. He builds a house that resembles the way that person has lived by collecting materials from the client's life. However, he gives up on architecture after an unexpected accident.
● Jonghoon Lee
● 25΄
● Republic of Korea
Kees wants to roam far away from home, but her mother doesn’t seem ready to let her go yet. In light of the complexity and ambivalence of their close relationship, a joint road trip develops into an emotional tour de force.
● Emma Branderhorst
● 19΄
● the Netherlands
Madden tells a story about relating to your herd. About duty versus longing. About high-heeled shoes stepping in dung and heavy animal bodies thundering across a Scandinavian landscape. A forest of tall tree trunks between our protagonist and the outside world.
● Malin Ingrid Johansson
● 13΄
● Sweden
A musical drama about two young soldiers across enemy lines who fall in love and find escape from their oppressive environments through music.
● Savvas Stavrou
● 22΄
● Cyprus, UK
Ruben and Asïr, two great friends, meet every afternoon to play soccer in a car scrapyard. One day like any other, Ruben waits for his friend, with the surprise that he has been beaten up because of racism. The unconditional support that Rubén offers to Asïr reflects the purest friendship, although the worst is yet to come.
● Miguel Angel Ferrer
● 8΄
● Spain
Edgar’s ordinary life is disrupted by a newborn calf he sees on a tourist trip to a slaughterhouse. He takes it home after finding out that the calf would become a schnitzel
● Filip Diviak
● 8΄
● Czech Republic
On a school day, a seven year-old hustles strangers for money on the streets of New York City.
● Lloyd Lee Choi
● 17΄
● USA
The boy’s family is hypnotized by the screens of their phones. They do not talk, laugh or have any interest in anything other than the lights of their screens/what the light on their screens brings. The boy tries to get his family back by building a machine that will take away their hypnotic phones: A big magnet
● Ilir Hasanaj
● 6΄
● Republic of Kosovo
This Is Your Captain Speaking is a short fiction film about ten-year-old Asare. To prevent his music teacher Seydou from being sent out of the country, he tries to adopt him.
● Idriss Nabil
● 24΄
● the Netherlands
A mosaic of small stories from all over the world, in which cows experience positive and negative moments, depicts the life of an animal in a global world and its relationship with humans. The visually colorful images portray the cow as a sensitive creature worthy of admiration. With its stylized poetry, playfulness and humor, the film gives hope for a better world.
● Pavla Baštanová
● 12΄
● Czech Republic
