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  • Black Wagon

    Adilet Karzhoev Kyrgyzstan, Documentary, 23'37''

    A crew of miners digs coal 500 meters underground. Miners must fulfill the daily plan. But with each hit with the pick, it becomes more and more difficult to get to the coal in the safe zone. The foreman decides to take risks and dig coal in the danger zone.

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  • Lou's Neighbour

    Victoria Lafaurie, Hector Albouker France, Fiction, 18'00''

    Vladimir, 17-years-old, is secretly in love with his neighbour Lou.

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  • The Business of Pleasure

    Goce Cvetanovski North Macedonia, Fiction, 97''00

    A journalist undercover investigation into a sex trafficking network spirals down with unforeseen complications.

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  • Crack of dawn

    Anna Llargués Spain, Fiction, 28'23''

    The farmhouse of a rural family is declared unfit for habitation. While part of the family fights to save the space their ancestors built, the younger ones imagine where they could go.

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  • Dog - Apartment

    Priit Tender Estonia, Animation, 14'14''

    Absurdist drama about a decayed male ballet dancer and his barking apartment.

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  • Holy Slut

    Fred Mascaras France, Documentary, 8'24''

    Young graffiti woman who was sexually abused at the age of 13, wanders alone through the locked-down streets of Albi.

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  • My eyes

    Tommaso Acquarone Italy, Fiction, 20'00''

    A woman finds a familiar face whilst driving in the rain and offers him a ride home: a journey that could change their lives forever.

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  • Rootless

    Stefani Doychinova Bulgaria, Fiction, 30'

    Nikolay and Deliya lives all alone with their horse - Maria, in a small ranch outside the city.

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  • Wall Piano

    Asma Ghanem Christopher Marianetti Alexia Webster State of Palestine, Experimental, 3'00

    Daydream of a young girl who lives under the shadow of a separation wall.

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  • Other Half

    Lina Kalcheva United Kingdom, Animation, 13'20''

    As an Individual Being in a world comprised of Merged Couples, Ren longs to find his other half and become complete.

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  • How to Bury a Dragon

    Martin Markov Bulgaria, Fiction, 30'00''

    In a small Bulgarian town an aging homophobic wood-carver receives a tragic news which awakens his buried shame and anger.

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  • Black Hole

    Tristan Aymon Switzerland, Fiction, 29'00''

    When young skateboarder Vincent meets a vulnerable animal at the bottom of a hole, the encounter will get him to confront his own fears of the unknown.

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  • Good Night, Lily

    Peter Vulchev Bulgaria, Fiction, 24'24''

    Will their love conquer time and space or will the black hole of everyday life engulf it?

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  • Mutha & The Death of Ham-Ma-Fuku

    Daniel Suberviola Spain, Documentary, 25'00''

    Mutha searches for antipersonnel mines in the Western Sahara Desert.

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  • The Night Shatters my Shadows

    Luis Esguerra Cifuentes Colombia, Experimental, 20'00''

    THE NIGHT SHATTERS MY SHADOWS intends to build, first and foremost, a diary of trips and dreams.

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  • ONDINE

    Tomasz Sliwinski Poland, Fiction, 39'39''

    It is dedicated to director's son, Leo, and all people suffering from CCHS and their friends and families.

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  • The Dress

    Tadeusz Łysiak Poland, Fiction, 29'59''

    Lust, sexuality and physicality. These are the deepest desires virgin Julia suppresses while working at a wayside motel.

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  • Sticker

    Georgi M. Unkovski North Macedonia, Fiction, 18'45''

    After an unsuccessful attempt to renew his car registration, Dejan (37) falls in a bureaucratic trap that tests his determination to be a responsible father.

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  • Danielle

    Gareth Warland Sweden, Documentary, 15'18''

    Danielle is a film that chooses not to focus on the disease itself but instead on the person who has the disease, their life and how they choose to live it, despite the obstacles.

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  • Where is Lotte?

    Petra Zopnek Austria, Experimental, 9'04''

    This experimental film is a memorial leap. Underwater models stand in for Lotte, or rather: They jump in for her. They jump into the Old Danube and go searching, in a state of floating, before they rise again, transformated, in the Red Sea.

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  • The Lost Scot

    Julien Cornwall United Kingdom, Fiction, 14'30''

    After a clay shoot goes wrong, a miserable cynic, an alcoholic and an accountant find themselves lost in the Scottish Moorlands with the body of a gamekeeper.

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  • The Night Shift

    Yordan Petkov, Eddy Schwartz Bulgaria, France, Belgium, Fiction, 29'32''

    Single, unemployed and with nothing to lose, Anton begins work in an illegal coal-mine, where nights are long, friendships last short, and the price of getting out is high.

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  • My Galactic Twin Galaction

    Sasha Svirsky Russia, Animation, 6'33''

    Good and evil, utopia and dystopia, narrative, and post narrative collide in a mortal battle to entertain the audience.

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  • Un Diable Dans La Poche

    Antoine Bonnet, Mathilde Loubes France, Animation, 05'38''

    A group of children witnesses a crime and is forced to remain silent. Auguste, the youngest, finds the burden too heavy and decides to reveal this secret. To punish this treason, the rest of the kids plan to get rid of him.

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  • Brotherhood

    Meryam Joobeur Canada, Fiction, 24'57''

    Mohamed is a hardened shepherd living in rural Tunisia with his wife and two sons. Mohamed is deeply shaken when his oldest son Malik returns home after a long journey with a mysterious new wife. Tension between father and son rises over three days until reaching a breaking point.

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  • Lifeboat

    Skye Fitzgerald USA, Documentary, 34'00''

    LIFEBOAT showcases the crisis of refugees desperate enough to risk their lives in rubber boats leaving Libya in the middle of the night and pushing off into the unknown, despite a high probability of drowning.

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  • He Can't Live Without Cosmos

    Konstantin Bronzit Russia, Animation, 16'00''

    This is the story of mother and son. It is also about love and destiny

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  • Task of The Day

    Petya Zlateva Bulgaria, Animation, 05'00''

    A short visual poem based on the poem Daily Tasks by Stefan Ivanov, where the protagonist strives to escape from solitude into her daily chores only to face madness and chaos.

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  • Buzz Riot

    Rudi van der Marwe Switzerland, Experimental, 7'56''

    Buzz Riot takes inspiration from the internet, particularly the way in which it enables us to consume information.

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  • The Kite

    Martin Smatana Czech Republic, Poland, Slovakia, Animation, 13'07''

    The Kite deals with the issue of death, but it does so in a simple metaphorical and symbolic way using the relationship between the little boy and his grandpa. It explains that none of us are here forever and that all living creatures must die, but also shows that death doesn’t mean the end of our journey.

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  • Bango Vasil

    Milen Vitanov, Vera Trajanova Bulgaria, Germany, Fiction, 8'30''

    On the afternoon of January 14th a girl claims, that it is the New Year's eve! Is it true?
    This is the story of one unexpected and different New Year's Eve, the journey of two kids on the shoulder of a giant and the beginning of a beautiful friendship.

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  • Shadows

    Victoria Karakoleva Bulgaria, Fiction, 27'00''

    Among the sea and the wind. Lea meets Val in the middle of nowhere. But the only thing he needs is her patience.

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  • Wave

    Benjamin Cleary, TJ O'Grady Peyto Ireland, Fiction, 13'45''

    A man wakes from a coma speaking a fully formed but unrecognizable language, baffling linguistic experts from around the globe.

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  • The Sandman

    Lauren Knapp USA, Documentary, 18'45''

    A doctor walks the line of his own morality as he participates in executions, while personally opposing capital punishment.

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  • Confino

    Nico Bonomolo Italy, Animation, 11’

    The power of art redeems an artist from the confinement imposed by the fascist dictatorship in Italy.

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  • Rakijada- Distillated Village Tales

    NIKOLA ILIC Switzerland, Serbia, Documentary, 16'00''

    A portrait of a sleepy village that shines a new light on a serbian soul, while never losing sight of a typical humour of the Balkans.

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  • An Ordinary Life

    Sonia Rolland France, Fiction, 20'26''

    Nadia, 15 years old, has to take care of the education  of her 11 years old brother, of home maintenance and studies, her mother being in training at the other end of France. She will have to face her mother and make choices.

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  • Woolen Cogwheels

    Bartosz Kedzierski Poland, Animation, 13'54''

    An ageing couple Aniela and Konstanty lead a quiet life together. She gives herself over to knitting while he eagerly works on some invention. Although their everyday life seems extremely well-organized there is something deeply lacking.

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  • Nobody Dies Here

    Simon Panay France, Documentary, 23'30''

    Perma gold mine, Benin. Some dream to find something, others realized there was nothing to be found. Some dig relentlessly hoping to become rich, others died in the process. And a few of them say that here, nobody dies.

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  • Maybe Tommorow

    Martin Iliev Bulgaria, Germany, Fiction, 23'31''

    Hidden behind a telescope, Lone, a modern-day hermit falls in love with a quirky woman from the building opposite. He has to cross the threshold to finally meet her. Maybe tomorrow.

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  • Solo Rex

    François Bierry Belgium, Fiction, 22'42''

    Erik is a solitary woodcutter. Kevin is the young conductor of the village cycling brass band. erik never goes out without his old mare. Kevin is keen on the clarinetist. The clarinetist is crazy about horses. But erik does not know how to give. and Kevin does not know how to flirt. They are both going to have to learn.

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  • Daewit

    David Jansen Germany, Animation, 15'00''

    Daewit is rescued from his violent father and grows up far away from his family among wolves. embarking on a mysterious journey to find his own identity, he encounters great hardship but ultimately finds peace in forgiveness.

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  • Invisible

    Zofia Pregowska Poland, Documentary, 22'00''

    90-year-old Krystyna, lives in the tiny apartment surrounded by books and writing pads. That is remarkable in itself since Krystyna is almost blind, but that does not stop this still vital woman from writing passionate and eloquent poetry that celebrates life.

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  • Patarei Prison

    Ricard Carbonell Estonia, Experimental, 3'00

    Patarei, a former barracks and tsarist army coastal battery, became a Prison, one of the major centers of Soviet repression in Tallinn (estonia) as it was run by the KGB. In the Second World War, the Nazi army detained about a thousand Jews in this place. Today you can visit the lonely rooms.

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  • Parking

    Ivaylo Minov Bulgaria, Fiction, 18'56''

    Irina is under pressure. She has something very important to attend to, but she is running out of time. rushing to do her groceries, she will have to put an end to a love affar and survive a car accident.

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  • Such a Landscape

    Jagoda Szelc Poland, Fiction, 23'00''

    Lacking a traditional plot the film follows the path of emotions and sensations. Based on actual events the film shows five acts - Miracle, Atonement, Regret, Prayer, Forgiveness - that might help us overcome the fear of death

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  • What I Forgot to Say

    Patrick Buhr Germany, Animation, 8'45''

    A flaneur tries to explain what purposeless walking is about and how he became what he is. As time goes on he realises that he talks like he walks and reaches a conclusion

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  • Retracing

    Merja Hannikainen Germany, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Documentary, 25'14''

    Retracing tells about a person, who was born in Mostar, Bosnia and came with her parents as a refugee to Sweden in 1993. She does not have memories of her childhood prior to Sweden. In the film family and friends tell their stories about the child.

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  • The Revolution Hunter

    Margarida Rego Portugal, Experimental, 10'56''

    It all started with a picture taken in 1974 in Lisbon, just after the Portuguese Revolution. She, the Revolution Hunter, tries to enter in that picture as if she could enter into a time she did not belong and finally understand what it means to be part of a revolution or what it means to fight for a country.

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  • Bandit and the Ram

    Alberto Iordanov Bulgaria, United Kingdom, Documentary, 24'40''

    Doycho is the last person inhabiting a remote village in the heart of the Balkan mountains, where his neighbours are animals and best friend is a Ram. This film transcends the idyllic vision of rural life and challenges the meaning of isolation.

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  • Belinda Beauiful

    Marianne Blicher Denmark, Fiction, 23'09''

    BELINDA BEAUTIFUL IS A STORY ABOUT A 14 YEAR OLD GIRL WHO RISKS HER ONLY FRIENDSHIP WITH THE YOUNGER FREDERIC IN HER LONGING FOR LOVE AND EXPLORATION OF HER OWN BOUNDARIES.

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  • Choir Tour

    Edmunds Jansons Latvia, Animation, 05'00''

    A WORLD-FAMOUS BOYS CHOIR GOES ON A TOUR. IN THE HANDS OF THEIR SEVERE CONDUCTOR THEY ARE AN OBEDIENT MUSICAL INSTRUMENT. BUT LEFT ALONE WITHOUT SUPERVISION, THEY ARE JUST PLAYFUL CHILDREN

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  • The Visit

    Matej Bobrik Poland, Documentary, 11’

    IN A CARE HOME SURROUNDED BY MAGICAL FOREST DEEP IN THE MIDDLE OF NOWHERE, THE RESIDENTS LEAD QUIET, UNRUFFLED LIVES. ONLY SUNDAYS SEEM TO BRING ANY VARIETY. FOR SUNDAY IS VISITING DAY.

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  • Stereo Love

    Martin Iliev Bulgaria, Fiction, 9'

    A YOUNG COUPLE HAS LOST THE SPARK AND SUNK INTO ROUTINE. NOW THEIR RELATIONSHIP IS RUN BY A MECHANICAL VOICE COMING THROUGH THE STEREO. IT SHOULD REKINDLE THEIR SEX LIFE, BUT SOMETHING GOES TERRIBLY WRONG.

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  • Butter Lamp

    Hu Wei France, China, Experimental, 15'00''

    A YOUNG PHOTOGRAPHER AND HIS ASSISTANT SUGGEST TO TIBETAN NOMADS TO TAKE THEIR PICTURE. AGAINST DIVERSE AND MORE OR LESS EXOTIC BACKGROUNDS, FAMILIES APPEAR TO THE PHOTOGRAPHER. THROUGH THESE SHOTS, THE PHOTOGRAPHER WILL WEAVE UNIQUE LINKS WITH EACH OF THE VARIOUS VILLAGERS.

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