INTERNATIONAL COMPETITION
International Competition I (85’10”)
BAKYT
Meerim Dogdurbekova, Kyrgyzstan, 2017, 13’
BAKYT
The film tells a story of a relationship between horse and a 10-year old boy. Bakyt is son of a village roughrider. After school, he spends time with his horse. Both him and his friend like the same girl. His dad is training Bakyt for the races. But the night before the races, his horse gets stolen. He can’t get over it, because he and his horse are a whole.
KAPITALISTIS
Pablo Muñoz Gomez, Belgium, France, 2017,14’40’’
KAPITALISTIS
Santa is a capitalist. He offers toys to rich kids and sweat shirts to the poor ones.
APENAS O QUE VOCÊ PRECISA SABER SOBRE MIM
Maria Augusta V. Nunes, Brazil, 2018, 15’
ONLY WHAT YOU NEED TO KNOW ABOUT ME
Teenagers Laura and Fabio meet at a skate park and their friendship blossoms into something deeper. But when Laura disappears without a word, Fabio tracks her down to uncover the reason why.
DANS L’ARMOIRE
Sebastien Carfora, France, 2017, 27’
INSIDE THE WARDROBE
In a world where appearance is more important than what’s inside, Frank lost everything and now lives in the street. To survive and reintegrate into society, he can only count on his abilities to adapt, his incredible imagination, his suit and his closet…
CÂM LẶNG
Pham Thien An, Vietnam, USA 2018, 15’
THE MUTE
A girl tries to find the answer about love before her big day, in a rainy night.
International Competition II (82’01’)
SHADOWS
Victoria Karakoleva, Bulgaria, 2018, 27’
SHADOWS
Can you love without a single kiss? Among the sea and the wind. Lea meets Val in the middle of nowhere. But the only thing he needs is her patience.
خمسة عشر/ KHAMASTASHAR
Sameh Alaa, Egypt, 2017, 10’
FIFTEEN
On a hot summer day, a taciturn teen boy makes his way through the hustle of Cairo – with a baby in tow. His arrival at a hospital reveals the turmoil beneath his muted expression, in this stark and compassionate examination of trauma.
100% PUR PORC
Emilie Janin, France, 2018, 17’
100% PURE PORK
Blandine works in a salting factory and makes sausages. To avoid monotony, she dreams a fantasy world where she attends idled sausages. After a meeting with her boss, her world collapses.
EL SOL DE IPANEMA
Victor Vicente Villavicencio Potella, Spain, 2018, 15’
THE SUN OF IPANEMA
A family visit to the supermarket, in a sunny afternoon. But the hallway of the supermarket is very different from the hallway where Luis hangs around. Everything seems to be fine. But an unexpected object forces Nieves to confront the reality and problems of their marriage.
BOTANICA
Noël Loozen, Netherlands, 2017, 13’01’’
BOTANICA
A garden-center employee fears his possible infertility. While the pregnancy wish of the love of his life is growing, shame starts to take a hold on him. He senses them growing apart. Nourished by the artificial arena he makes a very unusual decision and swallows his pride, in order to let their love overcome.
International Competition III (88’30”)
DEREVO
Hava Mukhiyeva, Chechnya, Russia, 2018, 21’42’’
THE TREE
North Caucasus, 1994. Hava and Adam live next door and are friends, like their parents. The children write letters to each other and pass them hiding them in a tree hollow. They love the tree and confide their secrets to it. They are dreamers living in their fantasy. Aslan, Adam’s farther, runs business in town and comes back to the village one day. Sultan, Hava’s farther, like many other of their neighbours, is happy for his success and celebrates his coming home. Unfortunately, not all of the villagers share these feelings…
SAMBHAVTAHA
Gaurav Madan, India, 2017, 23’
PROBABLY
The government is acquiring thousands of hectares of farmland to build a highway. Farmers are questioning the need. Most are agitating quietly, but some are threatening to commit suicide. This is the story of a farmer, Vinoba, who decides to take an extreme action, but not take his own life. There is a rebellion brewing in his subconscious. Will it come to the fore?
VELVET
Paula Hopf, Mexico, 2018, 14’
VELVET
On that short period between puberty and adolescence, Ale witnesses, along with her best friend Rubén, an equally brief phenomenon: Velvet’s comet sighting through Mexico City’s impressive buildings. This celestial body’s filming captures a glimpse of the fragility in Ale and Rubén’s friendship, making their encounters increasingly occasional and their reencounters much more strange, forcing the main character to face her own reality, with or without a screen in between.
PÖÖRIPÄEV
Kaspar Ainelo, Estonia, 2018, 10’
THE VERGING
In a slightly ragged Estonian village life circle’s centrifuge is at its full swing. There is a need to spin along in order to survive. One autumn day father leads his son to the heart of the centrifuge where childhood comes at a crossroads with the mysterious path to manhood.
I AM THE DOORWAY
Simon Pearce, United Kingdom, 2017, 19’48’’
I AM THE DOORWAY
After a journey to investigate desolate Pluto, astronaut Arthur returns home a shattered man. He sees eyes forcing their way through the skin of his hands, eyes that distort his friends and the landscape itself into monstrous visions. Believing himself the doorway to alien invasion and gruesome murder, he must take desperate action.
International Competition IV (82′)
THEY COME FROM THE CENTER OF THE WORLD
Dina Duma, Macedonia, 2017, 16’
THEY COME FROM THE CENTER OF THE WORLD
I dream about the beast that lives at the bottom of the lake. Only few people have seen it. The air freezes when it’s near you, because its heart is too cold. They say you should not look it in the eyes, because your heart will freeze as well. Only one woman has looked the beast in the eyes, but her heart is sad and frozen long time ago.
KEZA LYN
Philbert Aimé Mbabazi, Switzerland, Rwanda, 2018, 27’
KEZA LYN
Keza Lyn lives with her cousin Dudu, and works as a waitress in a bar, where she secretly records customers’ conversations with her dictaphone… A world around her inhabited by a feeling of rootlessness.
TIMMY
Lyubo Yonchev, Bulgaria, Germany, Belgium, 2018, 15’
TIMMY
Is it possible to leave your child… twice? When an alienated mother returns to Bulgaria to abduct her own 12-year-old son, she learns that it is not always easy to avoid making the same mistakes. She is determined not to leave her son again.
MA KARA YALDA? TAVU LACH HASFINOT ?
Ella Khon, Israel, 2017, 24’
WHO SANK YOUR SHIPS?
Yuli, a petite military photographer, is in love with Michael. Michael has a girlfriend. One night, Yuli witnesses a fight between them and decides to follow Michael. Through Yuli’s dreamy eyes, a dreary military night becomes magical.