Little Boxes
Natalie Lamb
Germany. 2023. 8.30 min
The call centre agent Ines cannot afford to lose yet another customer. Alwin, the fortune cookie writer, suffers from writer’s block and wants to cancel his phone contract. Through a strange turn of events, the two strangers will help each other.
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Julius Gintaras Blum
Germany. 2023. 19 min
13-year-old Linus, the son of success-oriented German-Lithuanian parents, begins to question the values of the adult world when he meets the fisherman Arūnas during a holiday in Lithuania.
JULIUS GINTARAS BLUM
Julius Gintaras Blum was born in Dresden in 1995. Following professional education as a media designer for film and sound, he worked as a freelance director and DoP on documentaries, short films and commissioned work. Since 2019 he has been studying directing documentary film at the Filmakademie Baden-Württemberg.
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Granica
Joshua Neubert
Germany. 2023. 20 min
In the exclusion zone between Poland and Belarus, Oliwia’s decision to help a stranger in need turns into a tragic struggle for humanity.
JOSHUA NEUBERT
Born 1994 in Germany, he spent 10 years of his childhood in Tanzania. After shooting his first short films during his studies in audiovisual media, he worked as an assistant director on feature film and TV productions in Berlin. Since 2020 he has been studying film directing at the Filmakademie Baden-Württemberg.
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Melody
Behrouz Sebt Rasoul
Iran/Tajikistan. 2023. 85 min
Melody teaches music at a centre for cancerous children. The thirty children are having a party at the end of autumn and ask Melody to compose a piece using the sounds of thirty different birds. She goes to her home village to record the birdsong and is helped by the mute caretaker of the family home, Mango. When they find just 20 birds, Mango makes Melody understand that only the old village singer knows where the other birds are, but bird hunters have forced him out of the village. Melody sets out to find both him and the missing birds.
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Lana Gogoberidze
Georgia/France. 2023. 89 min
It is 1930. A bitterly crying two-years-old child is seeing her mother off on her way to a film shooting. An elderly man turns to the mother and asks her where she was going to and whether it was worth the child’s tears.
The film is an attempt to answer this question.
The woman leaving for film shooting is Nutsa Gogoberidze – the first woman filmmaker in Georgia and one among the first in the Soviet Union.
Two years old child is me — Lana Gogoberidze. Today 95 years old film maker. In the 30s Nutsa shot two films immediately banned by the Soviet censorship. In 1937, during the times of Great Terror, she was arrested and exiled for 10 years.
Premkator
Debroop Basu
India. 2023. 16 min
A secret love story between Diganta, a laundryman for the Sen family and Sneha, a nurse at the Sen house becomes complicated when Sneha is accused of stealing something.
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Jatin Parveen
India. 2023. 22 min
Set against the backdrop of NRC and CAA, the film navigates the life of an old man who is forced into early retirement as he fails to produce proper documents.
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Stephen Alexander
India. 2023. 90 min
Prodigal daughter returns home for a family wedding only to discover they are hiding the fact that one of their members is possessed by a demon, and unless he is kept fed he spews a gas that causes one to hallucinate. As things begin to take a turn for the worse people find their thoughts trapped in the bad old days.
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Ana María Vico
Spain. 2024. 15 min
For some time now, Inma has felt something strange when she is with Manuel, when she sees him open a beer, when he picks up his guitar, when a song plays… One given night, Inma thinks about changing this situation when she looks back. Remembering the moment in which she met Manuel and wanted to be by his side.
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Markus Toivo
Spain. 2022. 22 min
A glimpse in the day of a son visiting his sick father. The film follows the son as he helps his father with his daily routines, while trying to create a connection with the distant figure.
MARKUS TOIVO
Filmmaker from Finland who has studied cinema in Helsinki and Tallinn, and recently graduated from ECAM in Madrid, majoring in film direction. He works both in documentaries and fiction. In his opinion, often one inspires the other. Markus is interested in telling intimate stories that explore the struggle and coexistence of beauty and ugliness. The documentary Wanha Markku (Under Construction) is Markus’ first feature length film.
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