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​AQUERONTE
by Manuel Muñoz Rivas

On board a ferry, a series of passengers cross a river from one riverbank to the other.
Some of the travelers wrap themselves in silence and observe the unfamiliar fellow travelers or contemplate the scenery.

Spain 26',  2023
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​POWER SIGNAL
by Oscar Boyson

While trying to navigate a city that won’t provide him a bathroom, a delivery worker discovers an unearthly presence infecting women all over New York.
USA, 20',  2023

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​NOW, I ALSO, AM HERE (NÅ ER JEG HER, JEG OGSÅ)
by Camilla Figenschou

I see a woman say it’s fantastic when she lets go of control. I see the sea, and the children on the rocks. In the rabbit forest the wolf child howls, they run after her. I see big rough hands in the soil.
Norway, 18',  2023



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THE STORM (YU BU ZHONG RI)
by ​Wendi Tang
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In late September 2008, Xiaomin, class president in her elementary school graduating class, is reported by her classmates to have been seen consorting with street hooligans outside the school.
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China/USA, 17',  2022

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​48 HOURS
by ​Azadeh Moussavi
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After three years in prison, Nader is given a furlough to go home.
​He has 48 hours to become a father to his four years old daughter.

Iran, 20',  2022

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MY GIRL FRIEND (SAHBETY)
by ​Kawthar Younis
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Desperate for intimacy, Ali follows his girlfriend’s suggestion that puts their relationship to the test. The plan unfolds unexpectedly when gender roles become blurred.
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Egypt, 17',  2022

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RITES (RITUÁLY)
by ​Damián Vondrásek
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A boy with a cleft lip has one afternoon to pass the initiation ritual to a street gang.
Czech Republic, 16',  2022

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BERGIE
by ​Dian Weys
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A law enforcement officer has to remove people that are homeless in order to make way for a 10km fun-run.
South Africa, 7',  2022

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ABOUT ME (OVER MIJ)
by ​Ali Asgari
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Young Fatima holds a secret that could change her fate; she must place her trust in a doctor to make a tough decision between cultural tradition and medical ethics.
Netherlands, 15',  2022

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TODO INCLUIDO (ALL-INCLUSIVE)
by ​Duván Duque Vargas
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Eleven-year-old Fer travels with his family to a countryside resort a few hours outside Bogotá. Although Fer’s father will be doing business, he has promised to make time for family fun, something that has been missing from their lives for a while.
Colombia/France, 20',  2022

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FILE (PARVANDEH)
by ​Sonia K. Hadad

A 6-year-old mute boy attends a pre-school health screening with his mother.
At the test, he makes a decision that changes everything.

Iran, 20',  2022

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TRIA (TRIA - DEL SENTIMENTO DEL TRADIRE)
by ​Giulia Grandinetti

In a dystopian Rome, a law is enforced which doesn’t allow immigrant families to have more than three children. If a fourth is to be expected, he or she must be born, however, one of them must then be killed, giving the females priority for sacrifice.
​Zoe, Iris and Clio are three sisters, but one of them will soon be killed…
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Italy, 17’, 2022

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AFFRICATE (AFFRIKÁTA)
by ​Anna Gyimesi 

A single mother’s adventure by the seaside leads her to recognise her unnecessary martyrdom for her disabled teenage daughter.
Hungary, 26’, 2022


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SILLAGE: PORTRAIT OF AN ONLOOKER
by Farhad Delaram
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A reserved practical nurse moonlights as an Uber driver only to encapsulate his female passengers' scent.
Germany/Iran, 23’, 2022

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UOGOS (CHERRIES)
by Vytautas Katkus

A recently retired father invites his son to help him with the cherry picking in the garden.
Lithuania, 15', 2022

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DANG WO WANG XIANG NI DE SHI HOU 
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(WILL YOU LOOK AT ME)
by Shuli Huang

As a young Chinese filmmaker returns to his hometown in search for himself, a long due conversation with his mother dives the two of them into a quest for acceptance and love.
China, 20', 2022

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PŁOT (THE FENCE)
by Tomasz Wolski

Arrival of an unusual couple disrupts the life of a village.
​Can these two men protect their relationship from onlookers’ glances
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Poland, 15', 2022

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ZARZAL
by Sebastián Valencia Muñoz

1990. William and his son Jacobo go out to the nearest pool. Colombian villages and public pools are full of ordinary people who enjoy the sunny Sundays. Jacobo's innocent astonishment presages the death hidden at the end of a happy day. 
Colombia, 18’, 2022

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ROMPENTE (SEABREAKER)
by Eloy Domínguez Serén

Santi is a teenage father who lives in a small coastal town.
During the day he has a job as a fisherman, while at night he smuggles seafood. 

Spain, 26’, 2022

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DATSUN
by Mark Albiston

A fourteen-year-old boy, whose Mum plans on selling his deceased Dad’s Datsun, decides to take his best friend and little brother on one last joyride.to face an event that will jolt her into adulthood. 
New Zealand, 15’, 2021

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MEMOIR OF A VEERING STORM
by Sofia Georgovassili

It is a morning in September. A storm is about to break. Anna, a fifteen-year-old girl sneaks out of school. She has to face an event that will jolt her into adulthood. 
Greece, 14’, 2022

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TO VANCOUVER
by Artemis Anastasiadou​

Two siblings, one spell, wounded landscapes and an inevitable departure. "To Vancouver" is a short chronicle of a disappearing act in the times of the new Depression.
Greece, 24’, 2021

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FURTHER AND FURTHER AWAY (CHHNGAI DACH ALAI)
​​​by Polen Ly
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A young indigenous Bunong woman and her older brother spend one last day in their rural village in northeastern Cambodia, before an impending move to the capital city in search of a more prosperous life.
Cambodia, 24', 2022

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EL SEMBRADOR DE ESTRELLAS (THE SOWER OF STARS)
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​​by Lois Patiño
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Distant lights draw the city. Shining ships arrive with sleeping people and the night turns liquid. 
Spain, 25', 2022





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FOUR NIGHTS
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by Deepak Rauniyar
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Ram and Maya move thousands of miles from their home in Nepal in hopes of realizing their dream in New York City.
USA/Nepal, 16', 2021


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INVISIBLES
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by Esteban Garcia Garzon
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Azen, a 9-year-old boy, begins to see strange beings in the jungle.
He must decide whether to accept to enter his magical world or allow the jungle to continue filling with corpses from the armed conflict.

Colombia, 21', 2022

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NORTH POLE (SEVEREN POL)
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by Marija Apcevska
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Misty field, crowded locker room. Margo belongs to neither. Maybe if she loses her virginity, she will finally find her place.
Macedonia/Serbia, 15', 2021

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CORPO E ARIA (HOLY CARE)
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by Cristian Patanè

Gaia works in her family funeral home and takes care of the bodies while the soul is leaving. But one day, something unexpected happens.
Italy, 15', 2021

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KHADIGA
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by Morad Mostafa

Khadiga, a young mother of 18 lives alone with her baby after her husband left for work in a remote city. In an ordinary day she makes her way through the hustle of Cairo streets to do some visits where she feels uncomfortable with the surroundings.
Egypt/France, 20', 2021
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MOTINOS (MOTHERS)
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by Birutė Kapustinskaitė

It’s a story of two mothers who have to let go of each other in order to grow.
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Lithuania, 15', 2021


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FIGLIO SANTO (HOLY SON)
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by Aliosha Massine

The daily routine of a young couple is disturbed by some shocking news. 
A strange dream appears to herald a terrible and, at the same time, wonderful truth.

​Italy, 20', 2021

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SOMLENG REATREY (SOUND OF THE NIGHT)
by Chanrado Sok and Kongkea Vann

Vibol and his brother Kea sell noodles on a motorized cart every night on the streets of Phnom Penh. They often face troublesome threats from gangsters and thieves, even if these very people are their only customers.
Cambodia, 20', 2021

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DESCENTE (4AM)
by Mehdi Fikri

France, November 2015. After the Paris terror attacks, the state of emergency is proclaimed to facilitate the work of police forces.
4 AM. A policewoman helps colleagues to conduct a search, but soon finds out that things aren’t going the way they’re supposed to.

France, 11', 2021


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TECHNO, MAMA
by Saulius Baradinskas

Nikita loves to listen techno music and dreams to go to Berlin and visit the famous club “Berghain”. His mother Irena doesn’t know about his son’s dreams and soon enough their mutual expectations will clash.
Lithuania, 18', 2021

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TOU SHENG, JI DAN, ZUO YE BEN
​(HAIR TIE
, EGG, HOMEWORK BOOKS)

by Luo Runxiao
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As a model student in her elementary school, 11-year-old Lin Yuqi is assigned to give a speech about her family at the Parent's Meeting tonight.
China, 15', 2021



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SAFE
by Ian Barling

On a winter night in Atlantic City, the manager of a defunct casino must reckon with his parental failures when his unruly son needs help out of an illicit bind.
USA, 16’, 2021

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YOU CAN'T AUTOMATE ME
by Katarina Jazbec
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Encounters of tattooed port workers, poetic movement and stowaway animals in the vast automated expanse of the Rotterdam harbour.
Netherlands/Slovenia, 20’, 2021 

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BRANKA
by Ákos K. Kovács

Yugoslavia, 1991. Far away from the war zones, Branka gets a job at a maternity ward of a state hospital. The young woman is all alone, but it turns out loneliness is not the hardest burden Branka has to carry. Newborns are disappearing from the hospital.
Hungary, 20’, 2021

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THE CRIMINALS (LES CRIMINELS)
by Serhat Karaaslan
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Late at night in a small Turkish town, a young couple tries to find a hotel room to spend the night together.
France/Romania/Turkey,  2021, 24'

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GOLDEN MINUTES (AUKSINĖS MINUTĖS)
by Saulius Baradinskas

Driven to the edge by a huge debt and his impending divorce, a poetic accountant decides to kill himself but is rescued by a heart attack.
Lithuania,  2019, 10'

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KOLEKTYVINIAI SODAI (COMMUNITY GARDENS)
by Vytautas Katkus
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Patriarchal masculinity seems to catch its last breath in the sun. A story about a cold relationship between a father and his son.
​Their bond, plagued by indifference, disintegrates completely.

Lithuania, 2019, 15'

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