Films (A-Z) | Taoba

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#picoftheday: Italy, 2020, 19’
Directed by Andrea Beluto

Vittorio is the young resident of public housing in a suburban neighborhood. He lives his condition passively and he rather chooses to be narcotized by the ephemeral distractions of smartphones than reacting. The unexpected intervention of the legendary characters of Neapolitan folklore leads him towards a journey in mysterious places. He gets in contact with the most ancient traditions of a secret Naples and eventually he wakes up from his passive nightmare.
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24 Weeks: Germany, 2016, 102
Directed by Anne Zohra Berrached

24 Wochen tells the story of cabaret performer Astrid (Julia Jentsch), who six months pregnant learns that her unborn child will be severely disabled. She and her husband Marcus (Bjarne Maedel) have a choice, but little time… A strong nature with a witty answer to everything, Astrid now feels lost, on her own, impossible to continue her comedy routine.
Ultimately only she who is bearing the child can take this weighty decision. What will she do? Who decides whether the child will have a life worth living?
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8 Minutes: Georgia, 2017, 12’ 40”
Directed by Giorgi Gogichaishvili

After apocalyptic information leaks about the sun going out, meaning the earth will get dark in eight minutes, forever, chaos covers the whole world except for Gia – a single man under sixty with a boring, poor life. In this crazy moment, he calls his son to ask how is he handling this situation, despite having a rare and cold relationship with him for a long while. But during the phone call, Gia finds his son is at North Pole for an expedition with his fiancée, and not aware of the coming total blackout.
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A Degvil and a Rascat: Poland, 2018, 10’
Directed by Weronika Szyma

A young girl goes to a psychologist to tell him a story of her weird phobia of cats and dogs. A strange tale about bloody quadruped, cats that seem like tigers and dachshunds who are professional karate fighters seem a little unbelievable to the doctor. Will he help the girl?
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A Far Shore: Japan, 2022, 128’
Directed by Masaaki Kudo

Aoi has dropped out from high school and gives birth to a baby son with Masaya.They are born and live in Okinawa, a Southern island of Japan. To make ends meet, she starts working as a night-club hostess as Masaya loses his job and cannot deal with the family’s responsibilities. Their immaturity and dependence aggravate their relationship with continuous fights leading to a social downfall. Aoi’s bond for her son sets her on a path to find solutions.
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A Lucky Day: China, 2022, 14’
Directed by Siyuan Xu

In a Chinese city of commercial prosperity, Duoduo, a ten-year-old boy, wants his father to accompany him to buy an imported toy plane. The father ignores the request, only to hand Duoduo some cash. At the end of the day, will Duoduo still get what he wants?
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A Paris Education: France, 2018, 137’
Directed by Jean-Paul Civeyrac

Etienne comes to Paris to study filmmaking at the Sorbonne. He meets Mathias and Jean-Noël who share his passion for films. But as they spend the year studying, they have to face friendship and love challenges as well as choosing their artistic battles.
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A Roofless House: Iran, 2020, 19’
Directed by Shayan Shahverdi

During the night, an encounter takes place between a confident man and a confident woman, not knowing where the night will end.
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A Summer’s End Poem: China, Switzerland, Malaysia, 2024, 15’
Directed by Lam Can-Zhao

Shortly before the end of the summer holidays, a country boy spends his savings on his dream of a city hairstyle – with surprising results. A story about bidding farewell to childhood and the poetic end of a summer.
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A Typical Name for a Poor Child: Italy, 2019, 15’
Directed by Emanuele Aldrovandi

Unsatisfied with the attitude of the children during the previous holiday, a father decides to bring to the sea with the family even a poor child, Abdul. His intention is not to make him socialize with his children, but to use him as an example to teach them how are lucky to live “on the beautiful side of inequality”.
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A Voyage In The Sea: Georgia, 2023, 5:46’
Directed by Nino Tskhitishvili

A little boy’s love for sea is rivaled by his mother’s desire to turn him into a pianist.
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A Wide Awake World: USA, 2019, 6’
Directed by Charlie Blecker

Welcome to a world without sleep
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Against all Odds: Germany, 2022, 15’
Directed by Laurenz Otto

Fascination is glued to the strange but familiar father figure and mixed up with a growing longing for real intimacy. Cautiously testing and expanding boundaries, Younus is playing a risky game. When the tension finally unloads, he questions the deeper foundation of the fragile relationship.
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Aira: Georgia, 2023, 10’
Directed by Nia Jinelli

The film is based on the story “Tangerines” by Japanese writer Ryonusuke Akutagawa. Two strangers from di¹erent classes meet in a common third-class carriage. One small moment breaks the tension between them since the start of the journey.
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Alighting for Lola: Singapore, 2021, 18’
Directed by Kaizerin L. Tanzil

Amidst a series of riots in 1960s Singapore, 16-year-old Lola Chong tries to make sense of her place in life and the people it disadvantages as she comes across a retrenched bus worker.
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American Dream: USA, 2022, 3’
Directed by Renee Shi

This is a story of a young girl’s day at school, bright and cheerful until the sound of gunshots ring in her ears. She survives the shooting by playing dead, but her best friend is shot. She must endure the burden of walking through the tainted hallways of her school once again. This animation is dedicated to all the victims of school shooting tragedies.
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Angel: Iran, 2022, 12:27’
Directed by Sogol Jafari

A little girl who noticed her parents’ discrimination between her and her younger brother and this makes her sad and sensitive until she realizes something…
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Any Day Now: Finland, 2020, 85’
Directed by Hamy Ramezan

13 year old Ramin Mehdipour and his Iranian family have been living in a refugee centre in Finland. Just as Ramin starts to enjoy the school holidays, the family receives the terrible news their asylum application has been denied. The Mehdipours file a final appeal, and they continue with their everyday lives, trying to keep a positive attitude despite the looming danger of deportation. As Ramin starts the new school year, every moment, every friendship will be more precious than ever.
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Artur Rambo: France, 2018, 18’ 30”
Directed by Guillaume Levil

Alain is a little boy from the Reunion Island born on the wrong side of the tracks. To earn a few pennies, he recites Arthur Rimbaud’s poems to drivers stuck at the red light. One day, Alain is invited to Guillaume’s birthday who lives uptown.
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Aurora: Germany, 2017, 24’ 10”
Directed by Philip Escobar Jung

German Alps. After observing a spectacular shooting stars spectacle with her beloved father, 8-year-old Aurora must come to terms with an unexpected event that will forever change her inner world…
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Bad People: Georgia, 2019, 19′ 26″
Directed by Giorgi Tavartkiladze

Gia, a participant in the Georgian Civil War of the early 1990s, is looking for fever medicine for his ill son amidst the unrest and political chaos, as well as the economic and social hardship when he meets his beloved school friend from the enemy’s camp.
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Baradar: Italy, 2019, 15’
Directed by Beppe Tufarulo

When they are forced to separate, 10-year-old Ali and his 18-year-old brother Mohammed have already been travelling for a long time. Three years earlier, a bomb destroyed their home in Kabul and killed their parents. Suddenly alone and homeless, Alì and Mohammed crossed Afghanistan hidden on the roof of a van; spent nearly two years trapped in Iran as illegal migrants, and finally, without ever losing hope for a brighter future and faith in human kindness, made their way to Turkey, at the gates of Europe.
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Bauryna Salu: Kazakhstan, 2023, 113’
Directed by Askhat Kuchencherekov

Following an old nomadic tradition ‘bauryna salu’, Yersultan was given at birth to his grandmother so that she could raise him. He grew up with resentment and disconnection from his parents. When he turns 12, his grandmother dies and he has to move back with the family he barely knows. Yersultan’s coming of age process coincides with a very conflictive transformation and an attempt to restore the relationship between him and his parents, especially his father.
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Behind the Haystacks: Greece, Germany, North Macedonia, 2022, 118’
Directed by Asimina Proedrou

A middle-aged fisherman living on Greece’s northern border, who is drowning in debt, starts to smuggle migrants across the border lake, in exchange for a hefty fee. His wife, a housewife and devout churchgoer, is seeking the truth in God’s Word, while their daughter tries to define her own life within an oppressive environment. Until a tragic incident strikes the family, pushing the three heroes to face their own personal impasses and weaknesses, whilst having to consider, for the first time in their life, the price to pay for their actions.
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Blue Dog: France, 2018, 17’
Directed by Fanny Liatard, Jérémy Trouilh

Émile is afraid of the world. He no longer goes outside and paints everything blue. One night, his son Yoan encounters Soraya, a teenage fan of Tamil dance. She will help him find the right color.
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Body of Water: United Kingdom, 2020, 92’
Directed by Lucy Brydon

Nineteen-year-old Léo dreams of only one thing: to be the coxswain onboard the Huit, the leading boat of Stephanie (Siân Brooke) is discharged from treatment for anorexia. Stephanie is determined to stay well for her 15-year-old daughter Pearl (Fabienne Piolini-Castle), who lives with grandmother Susan (Amanda Burton). Pearl, angry and full of resentment, is refusing to talk to her mother. Susan is planning her wedding to Annette (Kazia Pelka). Stephanie’s nurse Shaun (Nick Blood) visits regularly to check up on her. Susan is supportive but exhausted by her daughter’s illness. Pearl is angry and facing her own self esteem issues. Stephanie slips back into old ways, visiting supermarkets causes panic attacks, therapy is pointless. The big day arrives. Stephanie gives a moving from-the-heart speech, but Susan drinks too much & lashes out opening old wounds. rowing world. But he is far from the only person wanting this position. To convince the inflexible coach, Léo must surpass himself for his last bout of training.
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Boomerang: Germany, Iran, 2024, 83’
Directed by Shahab Fotouhi

Tired of her marriage to Behzad, Sima is looking for a new home for herself and her teenage daughter Minoo, without telling him. Meanwhile, we see Behzad arranging a chance meeting with his ex-girlfriend in the hope of rekindling their intimacy. At the same time, the film follows Minoo, who casually takes the initiative at a traffic light and begins a flirt with Keyvan. As if by magic, she knows his name and the two begin to share their innermost thoughts.
Over the course of a week, the film paints a sociological snapshot of modern Tehran. As the marriage of two people from a seemingly hopeless and defeated generation comes to an end, a young romance is beginning to emerge in a generation that is discovering the city and its political realities in a new way
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Bravo Virtuoso: France, Armenia, Belgium, 2017, 90’
Directed by Lévon Minasian

Alik, 25, an orphan, has been raised by his grandfather, conductor of a renowned classical orchestra in post-Soviet Armenia where cultural institutions are failing and oligarchs allied with the mafia hold power. Alik, a clarinetist, is the virtuoso in this orchestra whose existence is seriously threatened when its key sponsor is murdered. Alik has to make serious decisions, But Alik is a virtuoso musician, not a killer…
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Children Left-behind: China, 2022, 7’
Directed by Alan Fung

Xiaoyue is a left-behind child, after hearing her parents left without saying goodbye after the Chinese New Year, she chases after the motorcycle traces, and along the way, she travels to different fairy tales and ” collide ” with their characters.
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Chlorine: Greece, 2022, 19:30’
Directed by Thanos Psichogios

The 9-year-old girl spends the day swimming in the pool. Her eyes sting from the chlorine in the water. The man’s eyes are red too although he spends the day in the bedroom. The sun is shining. The house is clean and tidy. A father and a daughter keep hiding from each other.
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Cloves & Carnations: Turkey, 2022 103’
Directed by Bekir Bülbül

An old refugee MUSA intended to carry the corpse of his deceased wife to her homeland and bury there. He has to bring HALİME with him, who lost her speech ability. Musa tries to complete this journey by hitchhiking as he doesn’t have enough money. However, the buses and trucks do not want to help these two refugees carrying a coffin. Compulsorily, they go on foot. However, the coÁn couldn’t stand these road conditions, so it began to crack and break. From now on, they will have to carry the corpse in a cardboard box. Their efforts to clutch onto the life during this journey will help to break down walls between them and make them build a stronger connection with each other…
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Crippled: Iran, 2022, 14:37’
Directed by Ali Ahmadi

Four years ago, while practicing wrestling, Ibrahim unintentionally made one of his students paralyzed and was sent to prison. Now The student’s father bailed him out and he is out for a while. He went to his student’s house to ask for forgiveness to free himself. They offered him one condition only and that was to kill their crippled son to end the torturing situation. Ibrahim had to choose between saving his life or his student’s life.
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Da Yie: Ghana, Belgium, 2019, 20’
Directed by Anthony Nti

In Ghana, a foreigner is tasked by his gang to recruit children for a dangerous mission which must take place that very evening. After finding Prince and Matilda, two adorable kids, he plans to deliver them to the gang. But after a day spent with them, he is overcome by doubt.
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Damien veut changer le monde: France, 2019, 99’
Directed by Xavier de Choudens

Damien is a pawn in a primary school, and leads a quiet life. To rescue one of his young students, Bahzad, and his mother from imminent expulsion from the land, Damien reconnects with his parents’ militant past and convinces his sister Mélanie, who has become a formidable business lawyer, her best friend Rudy and a bunch of unlikely pals to accompany him in his new fight. Together, they will break the law by solidarity. And very quickly to be completely exceeded.
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Degas and Me: France, 2019, 20’
Directed by Arnaud Des Pallieres

Surrounding himself with Michael Lonsdale and Bastien Vivès, Arnaud des Pallières is devoting a short film to Edgar Degas which mixes dance and drawing and lifts the veil on the shadow side of the artist.
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Delgma: Georgia, 2017, 14’
Directed by Ana Kvichidze

Nano, is arriving at her countryside family house first time since childhood. The village welcomes her with Downpour – unstoppable rains. Her neighbor, grandma Fatso and the village girls of her age are praying for the sun while sending the spells to the clouds. Nano can’t be aware that she is bound to share the part of the spells…
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Demo Reel: France, 2018, 13’ 25”
Directed by Benoît Lelong

Samir is a Belgian comedian, resourceful, good talker, but accustomed to complications. He gives himself every means to achieve his ends, as when he manages to get this appointment with an agent. But things get complicated when the latter asks him to bring his demo tape…
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Depressed Fish: South Korea, 2022, 30’
Directed by Junhyeok Seong

Little mermaid the Hikikomori had become alone. The little mermaid was filled withdepression and decided to die. The time when she attempted to suicide, a goldfishcame out from her mouth. Hikikomori tries to kill a goldfish because she wants tokill herself.
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Downstairs: Iran, 2022, 16’
Directed by Mahdyar Shahrisvand

It’s a film about class distinction. A 30 years old girl tries to satisfy her parents and to do everything in her power to leave the country and migrate. But they face something unusual…
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Eger, 1552: Hungary, 2022, 17′
Directed by Attila Szasz

Two sixth-graders lose their way on a school trip and find themselves in the middle of the siege of Eger in 1552, on the exact day the Ottoman Army unleashes the final attack on the iconic Hungarian castle
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Eight: France, 2018, 11’
Directed by Mathieu Mouterde

Nineteen-year-old Léo dreams of only one thing: to be the coxswain onboard the Huit, the leading boat of the rowing world. But he is far from the only person wanting this position. To convince the inflexible coach, Léo must surpass himself for his last bout of training.
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El Conquistador: France, 2021, 20’
Directed by Mathilde Bayle

Fanny has become infatuated with the handsome, womanizing Diego, for whom her heart aches. One evening, at a party, she tries to make him jealous by letting a random man hit on her… It works. But now starts another story of this “random man”, Victorino, a Peruvian photographer.
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Elephantbird: Iran, 2019, 15
Directed by Amir Masoud Soheili

A mini-bus is on a journey across the mountains to Kabul. Each person on the bus has a reason to take this journey. An old man is traveling to give a turkey to his grandchild, as his last wish before dying. However, the main road is blocked by insurgents. They decide to use an alternative road, which is not very secure, and there is still the possibility of getting caught by insurgents.
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Elodie: France, 2018, 6’ 10”
Directed by Stéphane Bouche

Under the stroboscopes and in the smoke, among the crowd, a boy and a girl cross their eyes.
From now on, they will never be alone again.
This film is a Prayer.
This film is about Love.
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End of August: Greece, 2023, 17’
Directed by Angelika Katsa

That summer, Amelia discovers her mother’s secret love affair, and, refusing to believe what she saw, she will run away from home with Epaminondas, her first love. They will go on an adventure, testing themselves and everyone they meet along the way.
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Eraser: Georgia, 2018, 10′ 45″
Directed by Davit Pirtskhalava

„A man stole some wood
To warm his child,
Akaki flew up to the God,
God asked him: What are you doing here?!”
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Fack Ju Göhte: Germany, 2013, 118’
Directed by Bora Dagtekin

Somebody built a goddamn school gym directly over the stolen cash his table-dancing girlfriend Charlie buried for him. And now, ex-con Zeki Müller has no choice but to pass himself off as a substitute teacher at the Goethe Comprehensive School, thus providing the educational system with one more problem, i.e. the craziest teacher of all time. At night, Zeki digs secretly for his loot: during the day, he uses drastic yet effective methods to bring the unruly kids of class 10B back on track. Although his prim and proper fellow teacher Lisi Schnabelstedt condemns the unorthodox pedagogical approach taken by her new “colleague”, she nevertheless finds herself falling in love with Zeki and even helps him dig up something more valuable than cash, namely the remains of his own moral integrity.
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Fade: Iran, 2017, 3’
Directed by Mahbube Tamaskani

A boy who lost his family and friends in the war, but does not let them go dreams. He is dying in a way to forget or keep it.
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Far Away Portrait of a Woman: Iran, 2021, 21’
Directed by Hossein Khami

The action takes place in Tehran. The main character is a photographer who tries to fulfill his professional duty while an unknown soldier knocks on his door. The movie is all about history repeating itself. The more things change, the more they stay the same
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Farewell in Nanchang: China, 2018, 21’ 50”
Directed by Fanghao Tang

KaiKai’s grandmother passed away, he did not believe in it, so he decided to go on a trip to find his grandma. On the road he met another boy, they teamed up and continued their journey
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Fatih the Conqueror: Turkey, 2023, 15’
Directed by Onur Yagiz

This Saturday is a Turkish wedding day at Espace Venise. Huddled in a car in theparling lot, Fatih, 21, wants to get married. He has set his sights on Ipek, Recep’ssister. But neither Murat, his best friend, nor even Ipek are aware of this yet.
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Franzy’s Soup-Kitchen: Georgia, 2022, 9’
Directed by Ana Chubinidze

Lonely alien Chef Franzy discovers that her special pink soup is not just delicious, but also magical, when she shares it with starving creatures living on a strange planet.
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Giuli – It Was A Dream: Germany, 2022, 14:29’
Directed by Meri Gelagutashvili

This short film is about the current life of jazz singer Giuli Chokheli. Already from thebeginning the viewer notices that Giuli is in financial diÁculties after she can’t evena¹ord to pay the full taxi ride and grabs a cocktail from a stranger’s table as shepasses by in the jazz club. The focus of the film is Giuli’s loneliness and how societyhas forgotten about her. A statue that only exists in Giuli’s head and accompaniesher acts as a symbol of her solitude.
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Go to the Woods: France, 2022, 25’
Directed by Lucie Prost

In the French mountains, Maria, (15) spends her life either taking care of her father’s sled dogs or watching videos of teenagers skateboarding in L.A. One evening, she secretly follows Vincent – the guy in charge of redoing the wood shingles on the front of her house – to the trailer where he lives. She finds herself mixed up in strange traffic…
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Good Girl: Finland, 2019, 12’
Directed by Merja Maijanen

After being awarded for being a good girl, a naive little girl learns what it really means to be one.
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Goodbye, Soviet Union: Estonia, Finland, 2020, 91’
Directed by Lauri Randla

Johannes has an interesting life. His single mother gave him birth at a very young age, while the Soviet Union was at the edge of collapse. The destiny of Johannes is very alike to that – he always separates from his loved ones and everyone perceives him as an outsider. But in his heart, there still is a place for love, love for a Chechen girl.
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Greenhouse: Greece, 2023, 18’
Directed by George Georgakopoulos

Sali, a young man of Albanian origin, has dropped out of school and works at greenhouses. He wants to save enough money to go through the tryout process at the Juventus Academy. But to make his dream come true, he must first overcome a series of hurdles in his harsh daily life.
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Hanging Gardens: Iraq, Palestine, Saudi Arabia, UK, 2022, 117’
Directed by Ahmed Yassin Al Daradji

Brothers As’ad (12) and Taha (28) work as rubbish pickers in ‘Hanging Gardens’. Then one day, As’ad discovers an American sex doll. When he brings the taboo item home Taha assaults him for ruining their reputation. As’ad retreats to Hanging Gardens, when As’ad and his friend discover the doll can speak. They teach her the language of seduction in Arabic and set her to work. Business rockets, raising their profile lucratively with local teens and dangerously with the local patriarch’s enforcers. Soon enough, the patriarch has As’ad and Amir kidnapped so that he can exact his own cruel and humiliating punishments. As’ad survives to complete the journey he began and reconcile himself to the choices he’s made on his own terms.
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Holly: France, Belgium, Luxembourg, Netherlands, 2023, 103’
Directed by Fien Troch

15-year-old Holly calls her school to say she is staying home for the day. Soon after, a fire breaks out at the school, killing several students. With everyone touched by the tragedy, the community comes together, trying to heal. Anna, a teacher, intrigued by Holly and her strange premonition, invites her to join the volunteering group she runs. Holly’s presence seem to bring peace of mind, warmth, and hope to those she encounters. But soon, people begin to seek out Holly and her cathartic energy, demanding more and more from the young girl.
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Hollywood Nights: United Kingdom, 2023, 19’
Directed by Liam Sanderson

Nick Hollywood is a young schoolboy who works at his Uncle’s video shop. He pirates the tapes and sells them at school to staff and fellow pupils. When one of his customers turns up dead and another disappears, Nick finds himself at the center of a murder mystery with a starring role.
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Homeward Journey: China, 2022, 26’
Directed by Youyang kong

Yingying has been working in a Martian pharmaceutical company for more than four years but hasn’t returned home out of dissatisfaction with her absent mother’s rigid plans for her future. Right before the Spring Festival and on the eve of a major career advancement, she learns that her beloved grandmother is on her deathbed, forcing her to choose between work and family.
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Honored Students: Poland, 2021, 20’
Directed by Jędrzej Gorski

Bartek and Karol are true friends. During the lessons at the pool, they have a fight, which ends with Bartek’s chin being cut. Both Karol’s parents and Bartek’s mother go to the parent-teacher conference to defend their child. But this isn’t the end of the story.
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I Come From The Sea: Lebanon, 2023, 22’
Directed by Feyrouz Serhal

Samar, Jude, and Imad, 11-year-old school friends, skip school and venture into their city Tripoli. Their encounter with the city creates magic at every corner.
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Ibiza: France, 2021, 20’
Directed by Hélène Rosselet-Ruiz, Marie Rosselet-Ruiz

Sonia, 18, is about to go on holiday with her friends for the first time in her life. But her mother buys a second-hand jacuzzi with the money she was planning to use. Sonia’s not letting her get away with it… not this time.
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Ibn El Ballad (Firas Fits In): Qatar, Jordan, Lebanon, Canada, 2022, 12:15’
Directed by Tony El Ghazal

Firas, a Jordanian-Lebanese nine-year-old visits Jordan for the first time in nine years to renew his passport. After constantly feeling like a stranger in Lebanon,(where he lived all his life) he is convinced that he’d finally feel at home in Jordan. Through a series of dramatic events, it becomes clear that the two neighboring countries are worlds apart. Determined to fit in, Firas must go to extreme lengths to prove that he can finally belong.
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Ice Break: Czech Republic, 2023, 20’
Directed by Elvira Dulskaia

Teenage Alex is the only girl in a boys’ ice-hockey team, coached by her father Michal. She is a tough player, rather than a young woman or a daughter, and her surroundings treat her accordingly. But it starts bothering her, as she is in love with one of her teammates.
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If You Close Your Eyes Really Tight: Ukraine, 2021, 10’
Directed by Arseniy Prylipka

Little Leo dreams of being given a camera for his birthday and he is looking forward to this event. But when he accidentally sees his mother with another man during the celebration, his desire changes.
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In Dog Years I’m Dead: Germany, 2018, 13’ 10”
Directed by Kenji Ouellet

Young ballet dancers – not necessarily the typical poster children of ballet school – comment their training with quotes from known personalities ranging from Kim Kardashian or Therese of Avila to Mikhail Baryschnikov. Taking the body politics and the fate of children in ballet as a starting point, the film raises issues going beyond the dance world.
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Incurable: Iran, 2021, 17’
Directed by Bahareh Nikjoo

In a southern region of Iran, a girl has been lost. Her brother and sister start looking for her. They visit the nearest law station. But the case has a mystery behind.
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Istina (Truth): Germany, Serbia, 2022, 28:25’
Directed by Tamara Denić

Jelena is a photojournalist on an investigative editorial team in Belgrade. But the atmosphere around her has been threatening for some time. When one day, the editorial office is violently attacked, and shortly afterward, her daughter Lara is threatened, Jelena decides to leave the country for the time being.
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It Builds a Life: Iran, 2021, 13’
Directed by Mehdi Parizad

The movie starts with a very special decision of a man who buys a crane. The crane was supposed to build a life, not ruin it.
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Jim Button and the Wild 13: Germany, 2021, 109’
Directed by Dennis Gansel

Dark clouds are gathering over the tranquil island of Morrowland, the home of twelve-year old Jim and his best friend, the engine driver Luke: the notorious pirate gang “The Wild 13” has learned that the dragon Mrs Grindtooth has been conquered by Jim and Luke and now swears revenge! To protect Morrowland from another threat, the two of them set off with their steam engines Emma and Molly on a dangerous journey where Jim’s most fervent wish might also come true: he wants at last to find out the truth about his mysterious origins.
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Kalev: Estonia, 2022, 95’
Directed by Ove Musting

Inspired by a true story
It’s the summer of 1990. The Soviet Union is on the verge of collapse and the small Baltic nations struggle to regain their independence, just as the Soviet Union’s basketball championship is about to begin. The Estonian team Kalev faces a momentous decision, because public opinion opposes the Estonian team’s participation in the USSR championship. As professional athletes, the team makes the unpopular choice: to play ball. Against all odds, Kalev makes it to the finals only to find their battle had suddenly become much larger, as both the Estonian tricolor and red Soviet flags are unfurled…
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Kato’s Dreams: Georgia, 2022, 10’
Directed by Tsotne Rusishvili

3 years old Kato tells her father about a Spooky dreams, this real voiceover became a foundation for a short animated film.
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Kipkemboi: Canada, Kenya, 2023, 90’
Directed by Charles Uwagbai

Kipkemboi, a teenaged Kenyan math genius, creates an equation to play the stock market. Trading from a cobbled-together computer and broadcasting from a mud hut, the algorithm turns out to be a success generating millions of dollars and attracting the attention of international financial kingpins, local police and the elders of his own village. When they all collide at Kipkemboi’s mud hut, the resulting clash forces Kipkemboi and his girlfriend to flee as they are chased across the African countryside.
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Kreuzweg: Germany, 2014, 107’
Directed by Dietrich Brüggemann

Maria finds herself caught between two worlds. At school this 14-year-old girl has all the typical teenage interests, but when she’s at home with her family she follows the traditionalist interpretation of Catholicism. She lives in constant fear of committing some misconduct. Whilst Maria’s mother takes a tough line in compelling her daughter to stay on the path of righteousness. Suddenly, at school conflict begins between teachers and doctors. Desperate to please everyone, Maria soon finds herself trapped in the crossfire.
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La regina si addormenta dove vuole: Croatia, 2019, 19’
Directed by Lorenzo Tiberia

Rebecca is a four year old girl, pushed by the umpteenth argument of her parents, escapes from her bedroom and hides in a nursing home garden. There, she will find her kingdom and her Queen: an old lady living in this structure. The woman is a victim of violence by nurses, but there is no evil in this place, at least not for the girl. It’s a corner of her imagination. There is an insurmountable limit to enter , it’s her own world. And so she starts drawing to keep herself attached to this world and not to let it go: the old lady is the Queen and the nurse is the servant. In an intertwining between reality and fantasy, the girl will receive a precious gift that will help her to contrast the reality that surrounds her.
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Lazare: Georgia, 2021, 23’
Directed by Levan Chkonia

A few days from the life of a 10-year-old boy trying to gain independence from his mother.
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Listen: Greece, Bulgaria, 2022, 108’
Directed by Maria Douza

When deaf teenager Valmira comes to live at her father’s island away from her special Athens school, she faces the possibility of prejudice and discrimination. Aris, a Bulgarian immigrant boy, bullied at school, o¹ers to become her friend and ally. But his status as “other” makes him unwanted company for Valmira. Misjudging Aris, also because of her impairment, Valmira looks down at him and mixes up with his worst enemy, bullies’ leader Marios, deeply hurting Aris and triggering conflict between the boys. When an unexpected turn of events changes the odds for all, Valmira, at long last, is compelled to “listen” – not necessarily with her ears – to the truth of those around her as much as that of her own self.
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Long Pants: Singapore, 2019, 30’
Directed by Jackson Ho

A tale of tenacity and resilience based on a true-life account. A teenage boy finds himself in a struggle for strength and courage amidst life’s trials. In the face of adversity, Yang must pass his school promotional exams in order to fulfill his dying father wish of seeing him in the school long pants.
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Mahrokh’s Doll: Iran, 2023, 10’
Directed by Mojtaba Zare, Maryam Javaheri

Masoud, who is dreaming of winning the championship and choosing a friend on the football field, is confronted by the bullying of Yahya, who owns the soccer ball and his father owns the playground.
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Mariela: UK, Argentina, 2017, 9’ 30
Directed by Victoria Romero

A young woman remembers the tragic story of the woman that was her nanny.
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Medium: Greece, Bulgaria, 2023, 100’
Directed by Christina Ioakeimidi

16-year-old Eleftheria — a stranger in a strange world — meets mysterious neighbor Angelos, who invites her into his fascinating grown-up world. Roaming the streets of the scorching hot city in August on his bike, she will embark on a journey to discover herself through the ferocity of first love.
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Melanie: The Netherlands, 2021, 17’
Directed by Reinout Hellenthal

Letting go of youth shelter and reuniting with her mother turns out to be more difficult than expected for 17-year-old Melanie.
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Melodi: Singapore, 2017, 12’
Directed by Michael Kam

An awkward, lonely boy is infatuated with his new neighbor, a young caregiver. In his own way, he reaches out to her…
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Meow: Russia, 2021, 10’
Directed by Vasily Sherbakov

Niko can’t get rid of his brother’s attacks. His mother ignores it because is more busy looking for the solution to her misfortune. Niko commits a sin, which helps to solve the problem.
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MIKADO (Marocco): Romania, Czech Republic, 2021, 96’
Directed by: Emanuel Parvu

One day, teenager Magda offers her expensive necklace to a sick child in the hospital she volunteers for. Her father knows she is lying again. When she proves her innocence, he is ashamed and guilty but still does not admit he is wrong. Relationships are now broken and in chaos, and past decisions have an irreversible outcome. This is the second feature film by its director.
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Moja Vesna: Slovenia, Australia, 2022, 80’
Directed by Sara Kern

Moja has a void in her life. 10 years old she has already faced the loss of a mother. After that, her father became a living ghost. She also has an older sister, Vesna, a pregnant teenage girl who writes poetry and reads poems out loud to Moja. In a family with various problems, Moja is the only bright spot to try and fix them.
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Monte Clerigo: Portugal, 2023, 27’
Directed by Luis Campos

A teenager does a forced summer job on a forest watchtower, indifferent to the immigrant workers in the surrounding greenhouses. While searching for his lost watch, he finds himself on the side of the ‘invisible ones’.
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My Birthday Party: Iran, 2019, 11’
Directed by Sara Farhangdoost

It’s Mitra’s birthday. Her parents are packing up their luggage. They have let Mitra takes care of her friend’s dog for a few days until they get back. But no one has yet come to take it. They have to hand over the empty house to the landlord tomorrow morning. Mitra has to live with her aunt for an unknown time. Mitra doesn’t know that her parents are separated and they are supposed to live in different countries.
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My end of the world: France, 2018, 5′ 15″
Directed by Yurok Jang

Jean, a 10-year-old boy, is in love with Elise in his class, but does not dare tell her. One day, Jean is surprised by her by making a “some gesture”, what a shame! For him, it’s the end of the world. This is a film shot with children protected, who are endangered by domestic, economic or psychological reasons.
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My First Phone: Armenia, 2024, 7’
Directed by Baghdasar Atchemyan

Eight-year-old Sargis’ father returns home and gives a present to Sargis his dream phone. On the same day, Sargis learns that his father has returned to break up with his mother.
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My Sister: Italy, 2019, 15’
Directed by Saverio Cappiello

A flurry of knuckle punches links Vanni and Cosimo, two inseparable brothers passionate about Muay Thai. The day of the fight is close, but that night something goes wrong. Cosimo has a new girlfriend, and Vanni cannot handle it.
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Negative Numbers: Georgia, France, Italy, 2020, 110’
Directed by Uta Beria

Rugby training is introduced in the juvenile detention center of Georgia, which, in agreement with the administration, is run by the prisoners, according to the criminal laws. Rugby, along with physical improvement, causes mental changes too, and the main character is facing a dilemma. He needs to make a choice between authoritarian power and inner freedom.
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Never Good: Poland, 2019, 18’
Directed by Paweł Powolny

Who can help, if not the grandpa? Marta and Michał are expecting a child. They would like to live together, not with parents, who’s flat is too small, or housemates, who are too loud. They have no money, vague prospects for the future, the delivery is expected anytime soon and the grandfather has been living alone since his wife’s death. How will Wiesław, a former policeman hiding a gun in the cupboard, react to the unexpected idea of his granddaughter who has not seen him much so far?
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Night Duty Doctor: Georgia, 2018, 22′ 15″
Directed by Grigol Janashia, Nato Gabunia

A patient dies in a small remote hospital under questionable circumstances. The police arrive at the scene to start the investigation. They look for night duty doctor Nino (38) for an interrogation since she was in charge of supervising the deceased woman. The investigation makes it clear that the death of the patient may not be an accident, but the police have no sufficient evidence to prove the murder.
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Nine Billion Names of God: France, 2018, 14′ 30
Directed by Dominique Filhol

New York 1950, a Tibetan monk comes to the meeting of Doctor Wagner to buy a computer to carry out a prediction consisting in finding the 9 billion God Georges and Chuck’s names are sent in the Tibet to install the machine of strange phenomena are then going to occur. How to lead in a modern and poetic way to open his spirit and its heart to the sense and to the main part? How be connected in his roots, in the Spirit which livens up anything, in the mysteries of the existence?
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Normal: France, 2023, 87’
Directed by: OLIVIER BABINET

14-year-old Lucie is a resourceful teenager who takes care of her loving yet unreliable father, William, who has multiple sclerosis. Whilst William hangs out in his bathrobe and devises pranks and jokes to make his daughter smile, Lucie tries her best at school while juggling a job in a sandwich shop and all the chores at home. Her vividly imaginative mind and the novel she is writing are her only distractions. But when a social worker is appointed to visit them, Lucie and William elaborate a complex plan to make social services believe they live a perfectly normal life.
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On My Father’s Grave: France, 2022, 24’
Directed by Jawahine Zentar

A car drives to a Moroccan village. On board, Maïne and her family surround thefather’s coÁn. Tomorrow, the men will bury him and the women will wait at home.But the young girl takes a very dim view on it and intends to lead with her father tohis final resting place.
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One of Us: Iran, 2021, 14’
Directed by Hossein Iraji

It’s the story of a teenager who has been engaged to an old man and she gets pregnant. The film highlights the problems of underaged marriage.
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Otava: Slovenia, 2021, 14’
Directed by Lana Bregar

An adolescent girl tries to dream about memories of Mother while having to be physically present in the surrounding farm with grandmother.
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P.D.O. (Protected Designation of Origin): France, 2021, 18’
Directed by Samy Sidali

Advised by an administration full of good intentions, Latefa and her two children Walid and Ptissam Frenchize their first names at the same time as they acquire French nationality. They face this unique ordeal with humor and lightness, just before the start of the school year.
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Padrenostro: Italy, 2020, 121’
Directed by Claudio Noce

Rome, 1976. Valerio (Mattia Garaci) is 10 yo kid with a fervent imagination. His life is turned upside down when he witnesses a terrorist commando attempting his father Alfonso (Pierfrancesco Favino). From that moment, fear and a sense of vulnerability mark the feelings of the whole family. During those dramatic days Valerio meets Christian (Francesco Gheghi), a compelling boy slightly older than him. Lonely, rebellious and cheeky, Christian seems to come from nowhere. That encounter, in a summer full of discoveries, will change their lives forever.
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Paper Plane: Georgia, 2023, 7’
Directed by Tata Managadze

Childhood memory like tale of a single paper plane, hanging from the ceiling in the room, dreaming a big dream – to fly.
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Patients: France, 2016, 110′
Directed by Grand Corps Malade, Mehdi Idir

Washing, dressing oneself, walking, playing basketball, this is what Ben can no longer do when he arrives in physical therapy center after a serious accident. His new friends are tetraplegics, paraplegics, or suffer from cranial trauma… In short, the cream of the crop of the disabled. Together they will learn to be patient. They’ll resist, boast, argue, and seduce each other, but above all, will find enough energy to learn how to live again.
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Paula´s Eternity: Venezuela, 2018, 10’ 45”
Directed by Dayana Gauthier

Liana, a 5-year-old girl and her family face a fierce drought. While the mother packs to emigrate. The girl has an unexpected encounter that will change the destiny of all.
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Perhaps Today…: Lebanon, 2017, 8’ 25”
Directed by Nadine Asmar

The film shows one day of the life of a 60-year-old Beiruti lady. Every week, Oum Karim relives the same day, which marks a certain event in her life, and does the same ritual: she goes to a local bakery where she prepares Lahm Bi Ajin (Lebanese ham pie), hoping that her longtime ritual will come to an end.student but Naghmeh’s older sister. Or in other words as a family member.
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Pool Party: Germany, 2023, 6′
Directed by Masha Mollenhauer

Visiting a public pool and presenting her half-naked body to other people? Sounds like an absolute nightmare for Maya, who seems to only notice the flaws in her appearance. But then the imaginative 15-year old encounters a group of older women who’s aging bodies and imperfect shapes make her question the relationship to her own body.
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Proof Of Love: Italy, 2024, 10’
Directed by Denis Nazzari

A mature man prepares the breakfast.
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Rain Rain Run Away: France, 2018, 15′
Directed by Clementine Carrie

Late August. One afternoon, seven-year-old Boubou gets bored at her family’s campground. It’s a scorching day and everyone’s having a nap. Her parents are making their love in the caravan. She heads off to the nearby scrubland, taking Dany along with her to play in the storm.
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Rest In Peace: Germany, France, Qatar, 2021, 09:35’
Directed by: Antoine Antabi

Midyan decides to run away from his war-torn home, and he takes only one bag withhim, which is filled with memorable objects. Soon he is starving and resorts to eating the objects he has packed. Eventually, he arrives half-dead on the other shoreof the sea and eats the most precious of his objects: a family portrait. This gives himthe strength to finish his journey.
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Riad: France, 2022, 14:38’
Directed by: Yann Verburgh

Riad, a former legionnaire su¹ering from a post-traumatic stress disorder that destroyed his family, gets back to his son Mehdi after months of separation, in a socialcenter for family meetings.
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Rites: Czechia, 2022, 16′
Directed by Damián Vondrášek

Twelve-year-old Michal was born with a cleft lip. He feels inadequate because of his deformed face. His only friend Ondra convinces him to join a street gang to finally break free from a position of an outsider. Two friends have one afternoon to show they have what it takes to pass the admission to the gang. Michal desperately wants to prove he is good enough, but the tempting adventure suddenly turns into an initiation ritual into adulthood.
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ROM: Turkey, 2018, 3′ 30″
Directed by Ilker Ergün

The film of ROM contains the subheadings of discrimination conceptually of Romany. It shows us many differentiation attitudes to Romany previous times and nowadays. Focusing on the big picture in a concept of discrimination; the ROM film allows us to face with bitter of Romany (“Gypsy”).
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S.O.S.: France, 2021, 12’
Directed by Sarah Hafner

Pollution. Global warming. Overpopulation. For Jean-Claude and Maddy, there is only one solution to these problems: to leave the Earth and ask for help from extraterrestrials. But when a little green man comes along to save them, things go quite unplanned.
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Samaia: Georgia, 2020, 6’
Directed by Levan Shubashvili

After a typical everyday routine fight with her husband an offended woman takes a photo of her childhood with a broken frame from the floor and stares at it. In the photo she is with her parents. The photo takes us in the past. She recalls witnessing her parents’ fight as a child. The next scene returns us back to the present. A girl runs in to the room and hugs her mother. The girl like her mother is the witness of her father’s violating of her mother.
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Schwimmen: Germany, 2018, 101’
Directed by Luzie Loose

“Schwimmen” is the story of Elisa and Anthea, two most different girls, whose friendship gives them orientation and stability in the most difficult time of their young lives. But their relationship soon turns into something unexpected. To maintain their cohesion, they develop a game – which turns them from victims to offenders.
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Scrapper: UK, 2023, 84’
Directed by Charlotte Regan

Georgie is a dreamy 12-year-old girl who lives alone in her London flat, filling it with magic after her mother’s passing. When her estranged father Jason arrives, she’s forced to confront reality, but does so on her own terms. As they adjust to their new circumstances, Georgie and Jason find that both father and daughter still have a lot of growing up to do.
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SH’HAB: Qatar, 2018, 13’
Directed by Amal Al-Muftah

In the old village of AlWakrah, a mischievous 8-year-old girl would do anything to stay out of the kitchen and spend time with her father and older brother at sea. Her mother shares with her the most elaborate mythological tales about falling stars to keep her in the kitchen, not realising that it’s stirring her curiosity. When night falls on AlWakrah, she sneaks out alone to search for a fallen star but her adventure comes to a halt when she encounters a Jinn. She wakes up to a nightmare the next morning as her parents scold her brother for leaving the house at night. Defeated, she spends her morning at the kitchen with her mother when her mother mentions that she saw a falling star the night before. Later that night, Amal climbs on a boat with the help of her brother, where she sees for the first time in her life, a falling star. She grabs the paddles and sets off to chase her dream.
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SHERA: India, 2022, 19:30’
Directed by Arun Fulara

When Monu’s parents decide to migrate from their remote Himalayan village to the city, he realizes that he may never be able to see Shera, the elusive leopard that lives in the forests around his village. Everyone in the village seems to have seen him but Monu. As the day of departure nears, Monu grows despondent but his best friend Raju is determined to give him the best parting gift he can think of – a view of Shera.
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Shooting Watermelons: Italy, 2023, 20’
Directed by Antonio Donato

Federico is on holiday with his father and brother in a summer residence in Sardinia. Their father, Aurelio, is a severe and overtly masculine man who makes Federico feel anxious and inadequate. When a wealthy foreign family invites them to dinner, Federico discovers he is not so different from his father.
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Silent Roar: United Kingdom, 2023, 90’
Directed by Johnny Barrington

On the Isle of Lewis in Scotland, Dondo, a young surfer, refuses to accept the death of his fisherman dad, despite the fact he has been missing at sea for over a year. Unlike quiet and dreamy Dondo, his clever classmate Sas is never afraid of rubbing people the wrong way. Dondo and Sas’s unlikely bond will help them find their path in their rural community, through waves, beliefs, and hellfire.
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Silver: Iran, 2022, 17’
Directed by Hamid Saberi

Mrs. Tavakoli works as a charity inspector who checks families and identifies their need of getting help. After Mrs. Tavakolli visits another family she finds out something new that changes her idea.
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Six Weeks: Hungary, 2022, 96’
Directed by Noémi Veronika Szakonyi

Zsófi, the rebellious teenager lives in a tiny flat with her little sister Mesi, and her unstable mother, Bea. Zsófi discovered late that she was pregnant and decided to give up her baby through open adoption to a couple. Bea cannot accept her daughter’s decision, but she does not realize that neither her, nor the circumstances are suitable to welcome a newborn. Zsófi always had to behave like a grownup, working and making sensible decisions instead of her mother and for her sister. She is still at high school and her only vantage point is her table tennis career for which she works assiduously. She plans the adoption thoroughly with the help of a social worker. Following the birth, she is given six weeks by law to change her mind and ask for her child back. She seems to be able to control her feelings ruthlessly and continue towards the goals she set. At the same time, her maternal feelings intensify, doubts arise, and she slowly begins to question her own decisions.
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Slaughter: Iran, 2019, 13’
Directed by Samko Brothers

Ghasem is forced to sell his cow to spend a hard winter with his family in their village, but his son fled out the cow.
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Sons: Denmark, Sweden, 2024, 100’
Directed by Gustav Möller

The idealistic prison guard Eva faces the dilemma of her lifetime when a young man from her past is transferred to the prison where she works. Without revealing her secret, she asks to be moved to his block, the toughest and most violent in the prison. And so begins an unsettling psychological thriller in which Eva’s sense of justice puts her morality and her future at stake.
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Space Station Village Ep8: Miss You To The Stars: Taiwan, 2023, 13’
Directed by Yi-Feng Kao

The story of the episode “Missing You to the Stars” is about the belief that is still alive in Taiwanese indigenous culture and how a Bunon older man deals with the pain after the death of a loved one by playing a traditional instrument for the deceased in a space station on a rainy night.
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Sphinx: Iran, 2022, 15’
Directed by Hamid Yousefi

Arman is a nine year old boy in a religious family. His camcorder never separatesfrom him because his greatest fun is peeping people specially women. He has aserious curiosity about women and of course the beautiful woman in front of theirneighbourhood. But one day during the peeping the beautiful woman, he is exposedand she sees him. From that moment his stress and nightmares begin. He tries showhimself innocent. His life turns to a misery until one day his mother send him to thatwoman house to do something and the boy imagines that woman surely wants tohurt him and gets revenge.
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Steps of Love: Italy, 2019, 15’
Directed by Fabio Matacchiera

This is the story of Alice, played by the young dancer Fabiana Laneve, and of her resurgence: an example of strength, tenacity and willingness to pursue her dreams, despite everything and despite her disability after an accident.
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Summer Time: France, 2020, 15’
Directed by Andra Tévy

A summer Sunday on a café terrace near the Mediterranean coast. Everyone can’t help but notice their seemingly peaceful neighbors at the other tables. Subjective and distorted perceptions, the ensuing comparisons and criticisms trigger a crisis at their own tables.
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Synthesis: Iran, 2021, 15’
Directed by Mohammad Towrivarian

A poor family has a child with a disability, Due to his inability to pay for medical expenses, the father and his brother decide to kill their child. The father tries to do his job at night, but the mother, who is suspected of his behavior, goes to the road with them.
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Takleef: Iran, 2018, 20’
Directed by Ali Farahani

During a ritual ceremony in a multi grade school, Pardis, a high school student, is obligated to accompany an elementary student called Naghmeh. To maintain the order of the ceremony in front of the higher officials, the head master of the school is forced to put Pardis in charge and by doing so, introduce her not as a student but Naghmeh’s older sister. Or in other words as a family member.
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Test: Iran, 2023, 15’
Directed by Mikaeil Dayani

Ali is a working child who participated in the initial stage of the football talent test and was accepted and is supposed to go to the final stage, but on the day of the match, his employer finds out about this…
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Thank You, Guys!: Italy, 2022, 116’
Directed by Riccardo Milani

Faced with a lack of job o¹ers, Antonio takes a job as a teacher for a drama class in a penitentiary. He finds talent among the unlikely company of inmates and this ignites again his passion and desire for theatre. Antonio decides to stage “Waiting for Godot”, the celebrated comedy by Samuel Beckett, in a real theatre. As days go by, the inmates surrender to Antonio’s resolution and let themselves go, discovering the liberating power of art and its ability to give purpose and hope beyond waiting
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The Crimson Mercedes: France, 2022, 23’
Directed by Marine Levéel

Annie carries a weight, which is as heavy as a secret. This winter, even the dune inwhich she confides doesn’t contain it anymore. On the sand’s surface, the reedsgrew and began to sing… The worst for Annie would be that her daughter Natachasu¹ered from this chant.
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The Day We Died: Denmark, 2020, 106’
Directed by Ole Christian Madsen

In an icy cold Europe, people are slowly moving on after the shocking terrorist attack on Charlie Hebdo. In Copenhagen, the newly released criminal Omar has his agenda. Meanwhile, filmmaker Finn, Jewish watchman Dan and the worn-out action force officer Rico live their various everyday lives unaware of their common destiny. They are all affected by a rapidly changing world while trying to make sense of their own. All too late they realise that life changes in an instant, fast and merciless, leaving only one of them left to tell the story about the tragic attack that forever changed the country
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The Discrete Way: France, 2019, 20’
Directed by Ho Lam

Wai, a young Asian man in his twenties, lives at his aunt and uncle’s. He works for them as a delivery man. Trapped in a tedious life conditioned by work and a withdrawn community, he meets a solitary man. This encounter will move him deeply.
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The Duck Hunting: Georgia, 2023, 20’
Directed by Giorgi Kobalia

During hunting a tragic incident puts two brothers in a dilemma: Should they tell the truth or hide the crime?
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The Eight Mountains: Italy, Belgium, France, 2021, 147’
Directed by Charlotte Vandermeersch, Felix Van Groeningen

The Eight Mountains is the story of friendship. Of children becoming men who try to erase the footprints of their fathers, but who, through the twists and turns they take, always end up returning home. Pietro is a boy from the city, Bruno is the last child of a forgotten mountain village. Over the years Bruno remains faithful to his mountain, while Pietro is the one who comes and goes. Their encounters introduce them to love and loss, reminding them of their origins, letting their destinies unfold, as Pietro and Bruno discover what it means to be true friends for life.
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The Forbidden Door: United Kingdom, 2017, 4’
Directed by Carol Van Hemelrijck

After being told not to, Julia and Alex dream about what’s hidden behind the forbidden door. Will they dare to open it?
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The Fortress: Italy, 2018, 20′
Directed by Stefano Russo

“The Fortress”, entirely shot on the island of Ischia, is the story of Vito, the estranged father of ten-year-old Sebastiano. With the help of Vito’s partner, Lucia, father and son will try to rebuild the broken bond between them.
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The Last Children: France, 2020, 10’
Directed by Fu LE

The school merging consists in concentrating isolated primary schools in centralized educational institutes. In 2019, 400 French schools are concerned by this reform. The Last Children is a choreographic film made in single-shot with the children of a school on the eve of its closure. Through a metaphorical fable, it bears witness to the achievement of the desertification in the rural world and the death of its villages.
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The Life Apart: Italy, 2024, 114’
Directed by Marco Tullio Giordana

In Vicenza, a beautiful Italian art city, a young wealthy couple joyfully welcomes the birth of a long-awaited daughter in the early 1980s. But the child’s face is disfigured by a red birthmark that covers half of her face. This spot haunts the mother to the point that she rejects her responsibilities as a mother. The child’s aunt, a famous concert pianist, takes over her education, thus discovering her exceptional musical talent.
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The Little Fish and the Crocodile: Germany, Republic of Congo, 2018, 15’ 50”
Directed by Stefanie Plattner

Tales of Us: “The little Fish and the Crocodile” is a fable from the rainforest in the Odzala National Park in the Republic of Congo told by the children of the Sanza Mobimba Kindergarten. Encouraging local kids to draw from the elements of nature, they have created interesting characters with which to tell their stories
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The Little Things: Italy, 2019, 15’
Directed by Emiliano Galigani

A summer night in Tuscany. Giorgia, a twelve-year-old girl, is waiting for her clumsy friend Fulvio: Giorgia has a mission to secretly sabotage and damage a car so it won’t start the day after. Everything seems to be perfectly planned, but all of a sudden things turn in to a complete disaster.
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The Load: Georgia, 2020, 16:34’
Directed by Miranda Namicheishvili

The film tells the story of Mate, who is trying to enter the United States of America illegally. In Turkey, Mate will be placed in a wooden box loaded with soft toys on a ship, where two more people – Ray and Mohammed – are traveling illegally. In the end, Mate and Muhammad discover that Ray has died. Both experience this as the death of a family member.
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The New Me: France, 2021, 17’
Directed by Arnaud Valois

After Christmas break, Hedi, 17, learns that he must change his family name for administrative reasons. The news shakes him up and makes him wonder: Changing his name is the same as changing his identity? Do you become someone else? That is what Hedi has to figure out.
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The Penguin’s Flight: Greece, 2021, 14:41’
Directed by Stella Serefoglou

Elli spends a lonely summer, feeling detached from the rest of the world, while herparents are breaking up. Her only company is the cat, Molly. When the cat runs o¹,she starts looking for the only source of a¹ection she still has.
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The Real Truth about the Fight: Croatia, 2023, 14′
Directed by Andrea Slaviček

Between school trouble, mean girl drama, catchy lyrics, and a mysterious blue car, teenage Lena, sometimes distracted or interrupted, tells us the real story behind The Big Fight. But what isn’t she telling us?
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The Remigrant: Kosovo, Austria, 2017, 20′
Directed by Astrit Alihajdaraj

The Remigrant tells a story about Bashkim and his son Besnik. They both had to leave their homes at their young age. The father had to flee to Austria because of the war in Kosovo and his son has to go back to Kosovo at the request of the father. The return to Kosovo after seventeen years in Vienna is a hard growing up test for both of them. The strong desire for the place of childhood connects and separates father and son at the same time.
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The Ribbon: USA, 2020, 04:25’
Directed by: Polla-Ilariya Kozino

A young girl suddenly finds herself in a beautiful imaginary world. As she exploresthis enchanting place, the long ribbon of her dress gets caught, holding her back.As she pulls on the ribbon to break free, a completely unexpected journey begins.
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The Rooms We Share: Germany, 2023, 13′
Directed by Nadiia Kathymlianska

Hannah expected it would feel different to host a refugee. She makes a great effort to provide a safe place for Yulia from the war in Ukraine. However, Yulia’s worries leave no space for new friendships. They need to talk.
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The Route of Swallow: Georgia, 2023, 27’
Directed by: Levan Shubashvili

The beginning of the career of a girl who came to Tbilisi from Ozurgeti. A fragment of the difficult and interesting path of a young football referee, Mzeko Sharashenidze.
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The Saverini Widow: France, 2020, 19’
Directed by Loïc Gaillard

Bonifacio 1883, extreme south of Corsica. The widow of the late Saverini lives in an isolated house near the cliffs, with her only son Antoine, and her dog. One night her son is killed in a clash. The murderer flees to Sardinia. Her world falls to pieces…
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The School Bus: Turkey, 2019, 14’
Directed by: Ramazan Kılıç

Nebahat, a teacher in her 20s, has just been appointed to a rural village school in Anatolia. She realizes that her students are struggling to arrive at school, hitchhiking tractors, using whatever means they can find. She asks the Ministry of Education for a shuttle, but without a driver, the vehicle is useless. So, she decides to be the bus driver for her students but she does not know how to drive!
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The Song of Flying Leaves: Armenia, Iran, 2023, 12:37’
Directed by: Armine Anda

A journey to a dream through an encounter between Suna, a twelveyear-old girlwho uses leaves as a blanket, and an old man who possesses secret knowledge. Areflection on friendship between a father and a daughter, a teacher and a student,an adult and a child, and the path that can turn the impossible into possible… Theinvented letters are inspired by the old Armenian symbols.
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The Stamp: Croatia, 2019, 19’
Directed by Lovro Mrdjen

The clock is ticking for a foreigner, an immigrant faced with the coldblooded bureaucracy of a foreign country, as he tries to prove he is related to his younger sister and prevent them from separation. Nobody hears their voices, lost in translation.
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The Station: Iran, 2023 , 6’
Directed by Ahmed Noormohammadi

An aloof and introverted man sees a young girl at a taxi station who catches his eye, but he can’t connect with her until a thief tries to steal her.
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The Stolen Ride: Germany, 2023, 13’
Directed by Masha Mollenhauer

After receiving a bike as a birthday present from her older brother 14-year-old Alicia finds herself accused of theft at school. Confronted with a moral dilemma she must decide whether to betray her brother who already has a criminal record or take the blame for a crime she did not commit.
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The Storm: China, USA, 2022, 16’
Directed by Wendi Tang

In late September 2008, Xiaomin, class president in her elementary school graduating class, is reported by her classmates to have been seen consorting with street hooligans outside the school.
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The Tendency: Iran, 2022, 12’
Directed by Mobin Pekand

The movie tells a story of a young girl who struggles in her country. She fights and tries to find ways out – out from her homeland to immigration. But unfortunately, all she could find is an illegal way to leave Iran.
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The Wake Up Chirp: Sweden, 2023, 14’
Directed by Kaan Orgunmat

An introverted 10-year-old boy who feels emotionally suffocated at his authoritarian grandfather’s summerhouse accidentally discovers that the crickets around the house communicate with him in morse code. As the boy cracks the mysterious code, he gains strength in his self-discovery and independence.
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The Watchers: Georgia, 2021 26’
Directed by Sandro Souladzé

While the father has gone to another village, two little brothers have to stay alone in their remote hut, to protect it from the obscure threat, while also dealing with their own fears and fantasy.
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The Window’s Muse: Senegal, 2020, 13’
Directed by Mamadou Diop

A painter who lacks inspiration, Moussa cannot understand her neighbor from across the street. In the day she appears to him veiled, and in the night, she reveals herself completely. But she may well be his new muse.
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The Worst Ones: France, 2021, 99’
Directed by: Lise AKOKA, Romane GUERET

A film shooting will take place at the cité Picasso, in the suburbs of Boulogne-SurMer, in the north of France. During the casting, four teenagers, Lily, Ryan, Maylis andJessy are chosen to play in the film. Everyone in the neighborhood is surprised: why only take the “worst ones”?
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The Writing Box: UK, 2020, 29’
Directed by Tijana Mamula

England, 1939. Grace, a manipulative schoolgirl, spends her days sneaking out to the cinema and writing plaintive letters to her parents in a bid to join them in India. When her ploy works only in part, she finds herself marooned in their colonial villa, with just her ayah, Raissa, and a strange British cook for company. Beset by the unfamiliarity of these new surroundings, as well as by her own fantasies about them, Grace begins to act out against her reality with increasing hostility and violence.
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There Will Be Snow: Kyrgyzstan, 2023, 22’
Directed by Seiit Ryskulov, Elnura Zhigitalieva

A tiny Kyrgyz village. New Year’s Eve. 15-year-old Zhakshylyk comes home from boarding school for the holidays to his grandfather. His father is in prison, his mother is working abroad, and his grandfather is the only close relative the boy has around. The boy gets into serious trouble at school. Now, through awkward conversations and silence, the grandfather needs to figure out what happened to his grandson and how to help him.
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There’s Still Tomorrow: Italy, 2023, 118’
Directed by Paola Cortellesi

Delia lives in a working-class community in Rome in the late 1940s – a city divided between the positive thrust of liberation and the miseries of the war that has just ended – with her domineering husband, Ivano, their three children, and father-in-law.
She rises above the daily challenges of family life; has a best friend with whom to share moments of levity, and dreams for her daughter Marcella to one day have a better life. Delia accepts her fate – the good with the bad – until one day a mysterious letter arrives.
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Things Unheard Of: Turkey, 2023, 15’
Directed by Ramazan Kılıç

A little Kurdish girl tries to put a smile back on her grandmother’s face after the disappearance of her television, her only window into the world.
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Tiburtina 63: Italy, 2018, 25′
Directed by Gianpiero Alicchio

Tommaso, Cate, Rigazzi, Brino and Greta share an apartment in Via Tiburtina 63. At home only one rule reigns supreme: it is strictly forbidden to weave sentimental relationships between roommates, on pain of paying five months of bills for everyone. One evening, the apartment swoops in the dark due to a blackout. The electronic lock of the entrance door is blocked, so, prisoners in the house until the next morning, the boys decide to indulge themselves a few slices of the “magic” cake prepared by Tommaso. Only the light of day will reveal that perhaps someone has violated the rule during the night. Who? and why?
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Till the End of the World: The Netherlands, 2018, 26′ 30″
Directed by Florence Bouvy

The eight-year-old Marie lives with her father Boudewijn in a small house at the edge of the city. Their world is full of play and imagination, and Boudwijn teaches her to dream. However, Marie has become aware of the unpredictability of her father. Because of his addiction, the warm, dreamy man of the day can suddenly turn into a pair of empty eyes that don’t seem to see her. A man who is not her father. As Marie tries to fight this feeling of unsafety, the two seem to spiral out of control. A story about the strength of a child fighting for the unconditional love of her father.
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Till the Music Stops: France, 2021, 23’
Directed by Emilie de Monsabert

Witness at her best friend’s wedding, Pauline hopes to enjoy this extraordinary dayand to get closer to the handsome Raphael. But it will be hard for her to take hereyes o¹ her disabled daughter Emma, whom she could not bring herself to let keep.
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Time to Lose: Iran, 2021, 18’
Directed by Mohammadreza Beheshti

Life is a videotape. Videotape plays, goes back to the past, forward, and stops at some point. The film tells a story about the importance of memories.
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To the Seventh: Greece, 2020, 4’
Directed by Konstantina Papadopoulou

Two 10 year olds, a boy and a girl, meet for the first time in an elevator, going to the 4th floor, to another kid’s party. The parents, who are also on the elevator, talk all the time about the kids and their everyday activities. The girl listens to music in her earphones all the time, until…
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Too far Away (Zu Weit Weg): Germany, 2020, 89’
Directed by Sarah Winkenstette

With the last game-deciding goal that the eleven-year-old Ben manages to score for his football club, it is over. His family is relocating because an energy company is soon going to raze Ben’s home village in West Rhineland, including the football field, to make way for a lignite strip mine. The family of the same-aged Tariq is from Aleppo, whence they fled to Germany because of the Syrian civil war. For the boys, it is a new beginning in an unfamiliar city: both are now the suspiciously-eyed “newbies” in the class and both like to play football – and at the club, they’re competitors for the position of front striker. But their initial rivalry gradually grows into a close friendship, and an adventurous trip to Ben’s now-deserted home village on the edge of the pit welds them even more together! The “big” themes of climate change and migration form the background of the sensitive, exciting and entertainingly-told narrative of the debut director, Sarah Winkenstette. A movie about what it’s like to find your place in a new and foreign place, the universally applicable narrative deals with deracination, friendship, and the difficulties and opportunities of new beginnings.
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Toy Story: Iran, 2023, 9’
Directed by Reza Gharehgozli

In a poor neighborhood, a group distributes toys among underprivileged children, but one of the children does not get a toy…
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Trapped: USA, 2018, 2’ 40”
Directed by Mohamed Maged

Trapped in the same place, same time, same loop. Don’t know why, don’t know what to do… maybe need a hand, or maybe… just a karma.
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Tree of Eternal Love: Estonia, 2021, 82’
Directed by Meel Paliale, Urmet Piiling

Kiik, a young car mechanic stuck between the gears of life, finds out that his girlfriend’s heart has been won over by a new handsome guy. To free himself from the pain haunting his soul, Kiik asks his best friend to join him on an adventure to cutdown the Tree of Eternal Love. The journey to the mystical tree becomes thorny, melodic, and even criminal.
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Troublemaker: Nigeria, 2019, 11’
Directed by Olive Nwosu

On a hot summer day, a boy learns that every action has its consequences.
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Victoria: Germany, 2015, 138’
Directed by Sebastian Schipper

Victoria (Laia Costa), a young woman from Madrid, meets four local guys outside a nightclub in the early hours of the morning. Sonne (Frederick Lau) and his friends are Berliners who promise to show her the real side of the city. Striking up a friendship, they take to a nearby rooftop to continue the night. But when the group are suddenly forced to repay a debt to a member of the city’s criminal underworld, the night quickly spirals out of control.
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Viewpoint: Iran, 2020, 5’
Directed by Mohsen Mohammadi

A young, not married couple went out on a date and both of them got carried away by a neon title in an advertisement board and a challenge grew heated. Both read it as something new and every time they see it as well, they keep playing this game until the word on the board doesn’t even matter to them and they’re trying to make a collective mind which Sticks both of their minds together. Finally they agree on a false and not existence matter and the word is something else.
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What Did You Dream?: South Africa, 2019, 20’
Directed by Karabo Lediga

It’s the summer holidays in 1990 South Africa and 11-year-old Boipelo is back at her grandmother’s house. As the holidays come to an end, she becomes consumed by the fact that, unlike her two cousins, she can no longer remember her dreams and therefore can’t help her granny play the local Chinese lottery.
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When A Rocket Sits On The Launch Pad: China, USA, 2023, 12’
Directed by Bohao Liu

At the basketball camp, 15-year-old Fang talks about her dreams. But life never stops, it moves too fast. Her phone fell into the water. There are too many stairs to climb. The adults seem to decide her future. And the rocket keeps being launched every month.
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White Lie: Israel, 2021, 11’
Directed by Eyal Elisha

Three teenage friends, who have just come out of a late Friday night movie, have noway to get back home. Rani has no money left and he has to decide whether to ordera taxi for everyone or confront the two worlds he’s been trying so hard to separate- his friends and his family.
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Witchfairy: Belgium, Bulgaria, 2022, 15’
Directed by Cedric Igodt, David Van de Weyer

Rosemary, a young fairy leads a boring life at the fairytale castle. She’d rather be a witch and get really messy. Unfortunately, her mother strongly disagrees, so Rosemary decides to run off to the mysterious witch forest.
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Without a Promise: Georgia, 2019, 13’
Directed by Tati Baramia

The film takes place in 2008, in Tbilisi, Georgia. A young immigrant returns to her homeland and gets entangled with her former love interest and his current family affair. On the other hand, the country is under armed conflict.
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World Cup: Iran, 2021, 18’
Directed by Maryam Khodabakhsh

A Migrant couple spends an evening with a kid. On the screen of a TV, the world cup of football is in the middle of the action. Something happens, and then a secret is revealed… This film is about the process of losing hope and regaining it.
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You Got Somewhere Else: Georgia, 2023, 8’
Directed by Elene Sheklashvili

Story about one day in a girl’s life, who calls random strangers and asks them for aid but is unsure of what she needs.
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Your Turn: Hungary, 2019, 11’
Directed by Patrik Rosanics

While celebrating his grandmother’s 77th birthday, young Peti and his mother argue about whether he should join the rest of the family to play dominoes. Peti would rather be alone, playing video games instead, something his mom is not very fond of.
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