OFFICIAL LINEUP 2023

SUMMER ADRIFT

Driven by a profound crisis of human values, a very old panhandler competes with a little girl who’s also begging in the street. He then tries to remove her from the world. This all takes place in a sparkling blue summer that seems to be unfolding aimlessly.

Black Quixotes

One black Quijote and one Sancho, alienated Latin American dreamers, compete for the love of a queen and a princess from Spain, whose identities they do not know: unintentionally, they enter a space previously denied them due to their ethnic and social condition. The dominant political status quo is scandalized. The outcome is regrettable. But […]

Family Gone

When a man embarks on a mystery behind his current financial losses, he uncovers an aching truth about his tortured relationships and mental instability.

Skádja

A powerful meeting between two women brings their inner forces and desires to the surface. Can they overcome their traumas? Skádja is an exploration of nature, spirituality, passion and movement. An indigenous lesbian story from Sápmi about reclaiming one’s inner witch.

COUNTRYMAN

Yugi, an Indigenous Croatian Australian artist from the desert meets Peter, an Australian Croatian from coastal Sydney. Together they discover a shared ancestry, values and explore relationships to Country.

Sukoon (Addiction of Silence)

A couple goes through the experience of all the doubts and heartbreak that exist, bringing in a violent, tragic & imaginary incident.

Shoveling Pixie Dust: a Memoir

From producing an audacious short film, to becoming a Hollywood refugee, to building a Magic Kingdom, follow Tim’s adventures and struggles as he deals with the challenges of making magic. Enjoy a heartfelt memoir about the making of a Disney Imagineer, covering the entire working career of artist Tim Landry, from film school through to […]

Unblinded

Emma who is struggling with depression gets embroiled in a passionate relationship with Mark, an egocentric pop star. Her vulnerability and his recklessness reach a climax one evening when Emma finds the strength to resist. Starring Frida Gustavsson (Netflix Vikings:Valhalla).

The Eight – TV pilot

An in depth look into the lives of these late-model race car drivers as they run ‘The Eight’ a fast paced daredevil competition that pits drivers and machines against the treacherous figure eight.

TSU

“TSU”is a coming-of-age story centered on Yuki, a high school student living in rural Japan. As his graduation date looms, expectations transform into frustrations. As the pressure from his challenging university entrance exams and complicated relationship with his family reaches a breaking point, he runs away from it all into the mountains where he finds […]

OUT OF COMPETITION

HANS IM PECH – (HAPLESS HANS)

The grumpy factory employee Hans Himmelreich has to travel behind the Iron Curtain into a profoundly communist Czechoslovakia of the sixties to have his deceased grandmother buried. Despite prejudice he unexpectedly finds happiness in this Sudeten German province.

HEWNO BERENG

Being surrounded by the dark political events in Kurdistan of Turkey at 1990’s as a child, Mirza cannot escape from being a victim of those devastating events that have been in existence for a long time. He is overclouded with deep misery and after his mother’s death, Mirza becomes a passive and introverted child who […]

PHALLUS MALUS

While she appears inconsolable from her dad’s death, a young girl wakes up one morning with a strange appendix between her legs…

ROOD

The film takes place in the universe of H.P. lovecraft. A museum director tries to find out the secret of an old door. “The Book was written by the man benhind the door. But if you just have the book, you can not see him anymore. And if you just have the door, without the […]

TATTOO

The young Iranian woman had not been expecting this kind of examination. She only wanted to renew her driver’s license, but when the officials noticed a scar on her wrist and her tattoo, they began looking at her with suspicion. Suddenly she is trapped, forced to answer personal questions and exposed to insinuations. The camera […]

WALL OF DEATH

Brankica was the central attraction at country-fairs, when she was just 10 years old. Her big brothers were star acrobats on the wall of death, legends in former Yugoslavia, she was the princess on the wall. Now, her brothers are long gone, she is the only one left behind. A 43-year-old grandmother of six grandchildren, […]

HURRY SLOWLY – (SKYND DEG SAKTE)

Hurry Slowly is a warm slice-of-life film about Fiona and her younger brother Tom, whom she takes care of. We follow Fiona over a few life-changining summer months on the north-western coast of Norway, where she juggle the care of her brother, her job at the local ferry and her interest in music.

MAKE ALIENS DANCE

Gillingham, UK, 2018. Mike, a music producer in free fall, Dan, a sound engineer who is tired of his job, Murphy, the autistic brother with his headphones fixed to his ears, and, Lilli, the mother, are going through a rough time in their lives. Mazzy, the youngest sibling, a singer with a superb voice, has […]

THIS NO LAND


BEST FILM

Lisa Lelieur BEST ACTRESS

Category
Short, Drama, Western
Director
Alexander Decommere
Year
2018
Country
Belgium
Runtime
00:16:22
Budget
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An old cowboy mourns at a little girl’s grave. He returns to his pickup, to take a seat next to 8 year old Laura. He promises her to take her to Disneyland. It’s the beginning of a peculiar journey where they come across two couples in a gas station shop. But all is not what it seems …

O MÀ !


Marc Riso BEST ACTOR

Vincent Launay-Franceschini BEST DIRECTOR

Category
Short, Drama
Director
Vincent Launay-Franceschini
Year
2020
Country
France
Runtime
00:24:16
Budget
76.000 EUR

Ange-Marie is a 45 years old fisherman in Cap Corse in Corsica. He lives with his brother and his old mother in a secluded place, where women are becoming scarce. One day, on returning from fishing, Ange-Marie finds himself alone on the “cow beach” and sees three beautiful swimmers. The image of these women then haunts him and draws him out to sea.