Projects 2020
APNEA
Sonia Ladidà Schiavone
Italy
Oddny is only 18, but she can hold her breath like a creature of the sea. While training as an apnea swimmer, an accident will bring to the surface her doubts about the future.
BARBETTE
Paul Marques Duarte
France
1937. Barbette, a trapeze artist and the world’s first drag queen, is about to fall.
DOGWOMAN
Rozália Szeleczki
Hungary
Tragicomic story of a middle-aged cleaning lady, who feels so much treated as a dog, that eventually she turns into one.
DUTY FREE
Hilke Rönnfeldt
Germany
The shop manager of a floating duty-free container cuts the chains to shore to save the universe of love that she has created inside.
GRASSHOPPERS
Hanis Bagashov
North Macedonia / France
Nora, a mute girl, escapes the family gathering to meet her secret admirer Amir, and make love for the first time.
ICE-HOLE
Anastasiya Gruba
Ukraine
A young girl wants to commit suicide in an ice-hole, but a Fisherman saves her. He does not let her drown in his ice-hole — she does not let him fish in it.
IF YOU WERE ALIVE
Abdulrazzaq Al-jewari
Finland
Anwar takes us on a journey between his conflicting feelings, reality and imagination, on the night of Finnish Independence Day festival.
LOOSE
Paula Skelin
Croatia
Unaware that she and her mother are facing eviction, Antonija, a 6-year-old girl, will find a way to deal with her loose tooth and their troubles in one move.
ROOFTOP VIEW
Anna Zača
Latvia
Finding the perfect family home is not easy - finding just a little bit of space to herself within that home turns out to be impossible.
STICK TOGETHER
Laura Vandewynckel
Belgium
13 employees of an international corporation gather for a team building session… Or is it a selection procedure? How to compete for the title of best cooperator?
MY BROTHER, MY BROTHER
Saad Dnewar & Abdelrahman Dnewar
Germany / Egypt
An autofiction animation film that explores the complexities of a past shared by two identical twins. A split narrative retells the two sides of their memories – blurring the lines between their identities, reality and fiction, present and past.
UNORTHODOX
Konstantinos Antonopoulos
Greece
Forgotten by the Byzantine authorities while locked in a medieval pillory, gentle heretic Prodromos seeks the kindness of strangers to help him survive.