Projects 2021|22

ACROSS THE WATERS

Viv Li
Germany / China

A teenage wife discovers a glimpse of the outside world in a stolen walkman.

CAMPOLIVAR

Alicia Moncholi
Spain

After the unexpected death of my father in a diving accident two years ago, I set out to his house to rediscover my childhood through the traces that we left.

DVA

Alexandra Karelina
Russia

During the inexplicable state of emergency in Moscow, a lonely young man is trying to find his missing dog and to figure out what is truly going on.

FIND THE BOY

Paulin·e Goasmat
France

Who do we belong to after we die?

HUN TUN

Magdalena Hejzlarová
Czech Republic

Magdalena loses her sleep. She wants her sleep back but nothing helps. Her life becomes a mess. The situation only changes once she gives the chaos its name: Hun Tun.

IMAGINARY NUMBERS

Jelica Jerinić
Serbia / Finland

Hoping to win her first national mathematics competition, a 12-year-old small-town girl Mirna travels with her father to the city.

MIDNIGHT SKIN

Manolis Mavris
Greece

Fanny, a young nurse working at a big public hospital, sinks into the same obsessive nightmare every night. She witnesses her own metamorphosis into a tree.

PENANCE

Sebastião Salgado
Portugal

When the caregiver is left with no one to take care of, she falls prey to her own compulsions.

SEA SALT

Leila Basma
Lebanon / Czech Republic

The summer is coming to an end soon and Nayla, a late teenager in the city of Tyre, Lebanon, has life-changing decisions to make.

THE ONE WHO KNOWS

Eglė Davidavičė
Lithuania / France

Ūla is taken on an unexpected adventure during her swimming practice. The anxious teenager must face her fears to learn to see her body anew.

THE PRIMAL FEAR

Frida Spång
Sweden

The Primal Fear is a mosaic of scenarios from surrealistic, haunting nightmares that together form the question of why we fear what we fear.

THE REPTILES

Kristina Spassovska
Bulgaria

Released after an attempt to flee the communist regime, Borislava prepares her wedding, struggling with the growing distrust within her family.