International Competition Program 2020

22:47 LINE 34 10’ Michael Karrer Switzerland 2019

It’s 10:47 pm on a bus somewhere in a city. A few teenagers are listening to music and talking loudly. The other passengers look languidly out the window or at their cell phones. A drunk man gets in and joins the teenagers; the mood starts to shift…

THE VISIT 14’ Azadeh Moussavi Iran 2020

After six months, Elaheh is finally allowed to visit her husband, who is a political prisoner. Elaheh and her little daughter Tara have one single day to prepare for this important meeting.

PLAYING 22’ Lun Sevnik Czech Republic 2019

Boris and Hugo, 16 years old friends, bought a gun. They close themselves in Hugo’s parents apartment and announce on Internet livestream video that in one hour they will commit suicide.

PAST PERFECT 24’ Jorge Jácome Portugal 2019

Many cities or countries have a distinct malaise. They are places that could be Portugal, so sunk in a painful longing of the past, and where each tension of the present is only the tip of an iceberg that is explained in successive retreats that can go straight until origin of the species, at least.

FOLLOW ME 11’ Elena Kairytė Lithuania 2019

Four friends get together for a spirituality day camp. For one of the girls, this practice seems suspicious, but the other girls convinced her to try to adopt the teacher’s methods and blend in with nature.

SHOOTING MS. RENA’S FILM! 12’ Elvin Adigozel Azerbaijan 2019

Inside a bazaar located in the outskirts of Baku, a young film team tries to shoot a film scene with a well-known actress.

WATERMELON JUICE 22’ Irene Moray Spain 2019

Barbara and Pol spend a few days on holiday with a group of friends in a house surrounded by nature. With the support of Pol, in the midst of nature, between tears and laughter, Barbara will heal old wounds and redefine her sexuality.

KACHALKA 9’ Gar O’Rourke Ireland 2019

A journey into the heart of what is widely considered the world’s most hardcore gym – Kiev’s enormous open-air “Kachalka” gym.

THE LEGEND 11’ Manon Eyriey France 2019

From the opposite building, two girlfriends are spying on “the Legend”, the most handsome guy in the neighbourhood. One of them is getting ready: tonight, she knows it, she’s going to spend the night with him. Her first night of love.

DUMMY 13’ Laurynas Bareiša Lithuania 2020

Using a faceless doll a criminal reenacts his brutal crime. Suprisingly he is not the one being judged.

BUTTERFLIES 8’ Yona Rozenkier Israel 2019

Another Sunday in April. A kibbutz in the North of Israel. A natural phenomenon. A family on an impromptu ride, maybe the last one…

STAY AWAKE, BE READY 14’ Phạm Thiên Ân Viet Nam 2019

A motorbike crash happening before the street stalls on a street corner was embedded in the mysterious story of three young men.

SUN DOG 20’ Dorian Jespers Belgium 2020

Fedor is a young locksmith in Murmansk, a frozen city in the obscurity of the Russian Arctic. Client after client, he roams through the alleys of concrete animated by a fantasy that isolates him from the city and its population. His dreams corrode his relation to reality and open the door to a phantasmagoric universe; a second sun is rising above the Russian Arctic.

AUSTRAL FEVER 21’ Thomas Woodroffe Chile 2019

Amanda, a complaisant and lonely woman in her mid-fourties, lives with Daniel, her sixteen-year-old son, in the mountains of southern Chile. Octavio, a friend of Daniel, is accidentally injured while hunting in the forest. Amanda takes over the healing sessions, developing an intimate bond between them. They discover that the contact with the wound produces an addictive pleasure.

IN THE COMPANY OF INSECTS 11’ Duncan Cowles UK 2020

Prompted by the death of his grandfather, a filmmaker comes to terms with his feelings of loss by focussing on something smaller.

TRADITION  23’ Ioseb “Soso” Bliadze Germany, Georgia 2019

Two German tourists, Christian and Daniel are visiting Georgia as a tourists. They are searching for a food in a village and suddenly they are invited on a Georgian wedding. Their real adventures starts here.

BLACK BUS STOP 10’ Kevin Jerome Everson USA 2019

Students reclaim a popular gathering spot on the campus of the University of Virginia.

HOW TO DISAPPEAR 20’ Robin Klengel, Leonhard Müllner Austria 2020

Is it possible to desert in a shooter game? Along this question, “How to Disappear” reflects on war and game, discipline and disobedience. For the history of defiance is as old as the history of war – and yet the act of desertion goes beyond the game’s space of action.