European Audience Award 2019. Best of Eight

The selection includes the best shorts chosen by viewers of eight European film festivals. Global problems of humanity —  corporate schemes, worldwide races, excessive urbanization, escape to parallel worlds — nothing will prevent homo sapiens from staying human.

Eight short films will be screened in 2 programs

21st of August at 6.30 pm

  • BETWEEN THE SHADOWS 13′ Mónica Santos, Alice Guimarães Portugal 2018
  • VIHTA 21′ François Bierry Belgium 2018
  • DREGS 28′ Kordian Kadziela Poland 2017
  • NEFTA FOOTBALL CLUB 17′ Yves Piat France 2018

21st of August 8 pm

  • UNTITLED (BURNED RUBBER ON ASPHALT) 21′ Tinja Ruusuvuori Finland 2018
  • MIA DONNA 17′ Pavlo Ostrikov Ukraine 2018
  • HOMO LUDENS 27′ Sanne Rovers Netherlands 2018
  • BAD LESBIAN 12′ Irene Moray Spain 2018

You can also buy festival pass to all the events

More Information on the Nominees 

BETWEEN THE SHADOWS 13′ Mónica Santos, Alice Guimarães Portugal 2018

To free herself from a tedious job, Natália goes in search of a stolen heart. In a world where hearts can be deposited in a bank, she faces the dilemma of giving her heart away or keeping it for herself.

 

VIHTA 21′ François Bierry Belgium 2018

Serge and his four colleagues are employees in a small company, which has recently been bought out by a large group. As a welcome gift, they are invited by their new employer to a relaxing day in a spa.

 

DREGS 28′ Kordian Kadziela Poland 2017

Beata’s life is not a bed of roses. She’s lonely, lives in a tiny, cluttered flat and is addicted to gambling. However, it doesn’t stop her from advising other people on what to do as she’s a telephone fortune teller. Her life changes drastically, when one of her readings almost leads to a tragedy.

 

NEFTA FOOTBALL CLUB 17′ Yves Piat France 2018

In Southern Tunisia, near the Algerian border, two young brothers come across a donkey with headphones on his ears.

 

UNTITLED (BURNED RUBBER ON ASPHALT) 21′ Tinja Ruusuvuori Finland 2018

In a remote Norwegian village the weaving roads have become the subject of controversy. The documentary investigates the bewildering phenomena of car skid marks and their mysterious appearance.

 

MIA DONNA 17′ Pavlo Ostrikov Ukraine 2018

The life of forty-six-year-old Oksana changes when her husband Tolik turns into a seven-year-old boy. Doctors are powerless and nobody can take him back. Oksana clings to her old life, but the problem turns out to be more serious than she thought.

 

HOMO LUDENS 27′ Sanne Rovers Netherlands 2018

Dressing up as a Viking or racing through mud pools – the playing human, actually engages in one universal game.

 

BAD LESBIAN 12′ Irene Moray Spain 2018

Rita masturbates thinking about her ex and then cries for half an hour. That is how the night starts for our heroin, a young woman in a cosmopolitan Berlin. With large doses of humour and sarcasm, we will see how difficult it can be for her to fit in a new place.

 

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