Stranded Fish
Director: Michel Stolnicki
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United States
Peixe and Tiago live in the same neighborhood, share the same beach, surf the same waves, but are separated by their social class. Their paths cross following a series of events surrounding a silver necklace that was once owned by Tiago and is now in Peixe's possession. After a stand off they befriend each other and Tiago invites Peixe to come over. Peixe comes face to face with the consequences of his actions when Tiago mother’s arrive. Peixe has the chance to make it right. Will Tiago follow Peixe one more time?
The ineffable beauty of Nora Bovi
Director Massimiliano D'Angelo
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Italy
Northern Italy, 1956. Livio is a young and messy milkman who is passionate about american cinema. When he discovers his favorite actor, the person who values the most in his life, is coming to Italy to present his latest work, he begins to collect money for a ticket to Rome...
Ravage
Director: Nick Meunier
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Canada
When a virus outbreak threatens all of civilization, everyone is rushing to military run vaccination camps to secure immunization against the disease. A man, Ollie, and his son, TJ, end up trapped in a school building on their way to said camp, unable to escape due to the permanent threat of zombies. Along with a young infected girl, Marty, Ollie and TJ try to escape the school but things take a turn for the worse when Marty attacks TJ, causing him to quickly descend into zombie form. Ollie is forced to contemplate whether he's capable of shooting his son and ultimately makes a decision that alters his life forever.
WOLVES
Director Juliana Neuhuber
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Austria
A family displaced by war is travelling through the countryside when they are ambushed by highwaymen. The bloody encounter takes an unexpected turn when one of the robbers recognises the father as an old brother in arms, and forces his daughter into a life and death decision.
I SEE A DARKNESS
Director Jasmin Baumgartner
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Austria
What happens if you really need to decide once in life? If this decision changes everything forever? The clock is ticking in her stomach. Nobody knows about it. Maybe it's better like that, because we don't want to remember mistakes. Carmen is pregnant. Carmen is afraid. Carmen would like to abort. Her subconscious responds – and gives her the chance to question everything.
A 24-hours odyssey through the darkness begins – with coffee and cigarettes at mommy Patricia's on the balcony. She wants the best for Carmen without realizing what her daughter really needs. Jakob is Carmen’s friend. He takes her to the opera. Le nozze di Figaro. While Figaro comes closer to Susanne, Carmen becomes estranged from Jakob. Jakob can´t recognize her suffering either. Carmen is alone with her decision, until someone recognizes her in the darkness.
THE OLD MAN AND THE CAT
Director Damian Schipporeit
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Germany
Out of a profound longing for company and social contacts, an old, lonely man fantasises about a perfect world. Together with his imaginary cat he celebrates his 80th birthday. Suddenly the doorbell rings. His young, pretty neighbour is standing at the door.
Chaja & Mimi
Director Eric Esser
Germany
Chaja Florentin and Mimi Frons have been best friends for 83 years. Born and raised in Berlin, they had to escape to Palestine with their families in 1934. They talk about their complicated relationship with Berlin in a Tel Aviv café where they meet everyday. A film about friendship, homeland and identity.
MAYDAY RELAY
Director: Florian Tscharf
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Germany
A german sailor with his daughter, a sailing trip at night on the Mediterranean sea and a mayday-call.
When the german sailor Max and his daughter Emily receive a mayday-call on the Mediterranean sea, they act immediately: They change the course of the little sailing-boat and try to involve other ships. But then they understand, that there are over hundred people on board – and the damaged boat is only forty foot long…
A parable of the ongoing refugee crisis in front of Europe in the year 2016.
NEVERLAND NOW
Director Georg Pelzer
Germany
With her reckless behavior art student Kalina (21) provokes her fellow students, her teachers and sometimes even her only friend Ruth (24). Kalina convinces Ruth take a spontaneous trip to Portugal the next day and they euphorically head out to celebrate their plan. After a half-hearted attempt to steal a car they end up on a big student party. When Ruth voices doubts about the planned trip, the night takes an unexpected turn.
Sara Levy Cohen
Director: Zohar Melinek
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Israel
Sara Levy Cohen is 96 years old. She lived for 70 years in a modest apartment in Nahlaot in Jerusalem. Her Mothers' language, Ladino, is the way she used to communicate with her family and friends before immigrating to Israel.
In Israel she had to abandon her former language and adapt to the Hebrew language as a part of her new national status. Before she immigrated, Sarah lived in Turkey, Syria and Romania. She sang traditional songs in Ladino, underground, without the knowledge of her religious father. Sarah and her mothers' language, fading with the time, reveal a story of cultural identity in constant motion.
THE BOX
Director Sascha Zimmermann
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Germany
Hannah, a young woman, wakes up locked in a dark wooden box. She has no clue how she got there. She pleads for her freedom. All she wants is out of the box until she watches through a small crack while a gruesome surgery takes place just feet away. When she notices a number in her box and it suggests she is 'next' she panics. She begs and pleads to no avail. For what happens outside of the box, determines her fate.
The Box is a dark twisted tale of capture for profit.
Yom Kippur
Director Kim Hays
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United States
This is a public service announcement-style video illustrating the meaning of Yom Kippur. This film was made in conjunction with the Jewish Studies class at TVT aka (Tarbut V'Torah)
A Present
Director: Muhammed Seyyid Yıldız
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Kurdistan and Turkey
One day, a small girl sets out to buy a present for her guests. She comes back to her home but she doesn’t buy a present like she wants exactly. She goes to the corner which she waits for her guests; but there is a change, anymore she is older.
ON THE BEACH
Director Nele Mueller-Stöfen
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Germany
Laura (34) and Clemens (36) spend their holidays at the sea in Northern Germany. Laura is bored and invents a game: She pretends to be blind. Over the course of a few days the couple gets entangled in their lie, revealing the emptiness of their relationship. In the end we see two young adults who will have to find a new way.
FOOD FIRST
Director Pol Ponsarnau
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Germany
Food first, then morals! A comedy about two couples in a stylish Berlin Tapas restaurant. Tension grows with each dish. All seems lost when the question “who waters your plants?” comes on the table.
THE TREATMENT
Director Marvin Meiendresch
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Germany
„The Treatment“ tells the story of isolated patient Linus. More and more a rigid routine consisting of meals, exercise, lulling music, irritating smoke and examinations by his only attachment figure Dr. Frei causes him suffering. One day Linus notices the massive door to his room has been left ajar and he takes the chance to escape. What he sees outside makes him question: Is he really who he believes he is?
Daughter of an Ocean
Director: Kintan Chauhan
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United States
By remembering the story of a fish told by her mother, Daughter 'Suni' realizes that the story was not just about little fish who wanted to live freely, but was meant for her to understand that she should live her life with freedom, as her mother never did.
Nadezhda
Director: Genoveva Krumova
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Bulgaria
Andrei is in love with Nadezhda (Hope), but is afraid to share his feelings. He helps her overcome her fear of carousels, and under the disguise of a joke he confesses his love. The surrounding chirm makes it difficult for her to hear his words, and she tries to figure out if it is him or the noise of the wind. She falls in love and tries to get to the truth. Will it be easy for Andrei to overcome the fear of sharing his feelings and to sidestep the obstacles of the time they live in?
A story based on Anton Pavlovich Chekhov’s short story “Joke”, about the courage to take the path of our dreams or to abandon the desired
Love Thy Job
Director: Pedro Elias
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Brazil
The saw rises and dives into the patient plaster cast. Matias loves his job, there is nothing in this world that he appreciates more than the sensation of splitting open an orthopedic cast with his bare hands, feeling it cracking and giving in to his strength. His days revolve around his job in the orthopedic center. But when the patients stop coming, he doesn’t know what to do with his empty afternoons.
All Beautiful Things
Directors Dafna Englander Rafi Yaniger
Israel
A young woman struggles to fend off the water entering her house. The tide rises and falls as the water flows in and out of the house and the reflections in the water reveal a different world.
The reflection of the woman takes off on her own into the other world, and ends up returning to a changed reality.
Selfie Stick
Hiran Matheus Silva de Araújo
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Brazil
The first film known to be made with a selfie stick. An experiment of the self-portrait and a flirtation with the romantic melodrama.
Clash of Stars
Director Jana Žjak
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Slovakia
Short documentary film about hockey all-stars game between European University Hockey League and ACHA D3 from USA which was held in Bratislava, Slovakia.
PACO
Director: Catalina Jordan Alvarez
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United States
He catcalls strangers and regulars to bounce on his lap.
Thinker
Director: Alexandra Hargreaves
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New Zealand
In a world where it's discovered that if you think about someone, they can't die, "Thinkers" are bred to take on this task. Only the rich can afford such a thing. With this new knowledge what lengths will the poor go to, in order to keep their loved ones alive?
