Sad

by Panni Gyulai

A story of a lonely young child growing up in an isolated family from where she digs into her inner fantasy world. The adults who surround her doesn’t do anything to solve the unbearable life they are living, everybody is resigned. The mother hides behind her cigarette smoke, the grandmother is covered with her plants and the little girl tries to alleviate her depressing circumstances with her fantasy world. But as she dives deeper and deeper into herself, she realizes that everything that surrounds her is a part of her life, that she can not escape or hide from.

• Drama
• Experimental
• Abstract

by Zuzana Žiaková

Brother and sister live peacefully in a cottage at the edge of a forest until their life is disrupted by the arrival of mistress Death.

• Drama
• Fantasy
• Experimental

by Volker Schlecht, Alexander Lahl

Based on interviews of former inmates, this is a glimpse into the most notorious women’s prison in East Germany. An account of political imprisonment, forced labour and enormous profits.

• Drama
• Documentary
• Tragedy

by Harriet Francis Croucher

Emergency Service person talks about the realities of Post Traumatic Stress Disorder, and its impact on their lives and their families.

• Documentary
• Experimental

by Diyala Muir

In an abstract journey about grief and denial a woman tries to escape the ghosts of her past, but they catch up to her on a night-bus to Nowhere.

• Drama
• Experimental
• Non-narrative

by Rosalie Benevello

In the middle of mountains, in a glass cube live quietly a father and his son. A scabious sheep arrives and turns around the cube. Exhausted the sheep falls down. A door apears on the glass wall.

• Drama
• Experimental

by Bori Mészáros, Zsuzsanna Rádóczy

Exhausted by urban office life, the protagonist faces obstacles on his way out – until a daring decision changes everything.

• Drama
• Tragicomedy
• Abstract
• Experimental

by Ayçe Kartal

A baby bird startles his parents when one day he starts barking like a dog.

• Drama
• Tragicomedy
• Abstract
• Experimental

by Tamás Börönte, Zoltán Debreczeni, Emi Farmosi & others

Two friends decide to break out from the isolated, crumbling and cursed place they’ve been living in, and experience the unknown. Their friendship will be tested right at the beginning…

• Drama
• Experimental
• Non-narrative

by Alberto Vázquez, Pedro Rivero

A terrible industrial accident changes little Dinki’s life forever. Now Dinki’s fate may ride on the wings of her eccentric friend Birdboy, a misfit who hides in the Dead Forest lost in his fantasies…

• Drama
• Tragedy
• Fantasy
• Experimental

by Chen Heifetz

Waitress in a café experiences the world outside through objects left behind by the patrons.

• Drama
• Experimental
• Non-narrative

by Rui Fan Wang

When all life is drained and vacuumed, all that’s left is sand. For a very long time, I was sand and I was drowned. An exhausted girl travels across an endless desert to look for new hope, while trying to deal with her erratic tempered anteater.

• Drama
• Fantasy
• Abstract
• Experimental
• Non-narrative

by David Feliu, Varun Nair, Juliana de Lucca & others

In a near future, a lonely man is addicted to a product called ‘’Best Friend” which offers him perfect virtual friends.

• Drama
• Sci-Fi
• Tragicomedy

by Elli Vuorinen, Jasmiini Ottelin, Pinja Partanen

A lonesome xylophone player finds a viciously growing tumor under his arm. In his attempts to get rid of the tumor he discovers that it has some unconventional qualities.

• Drama
• Experimental

by Daphna Awadish

A short animated documentary on immigrants who left their home and crossed borders for love.

• Drama
• Documentary
• Experimental
• Making of

by Derek Roczen

A woman and a bear live peacefully in the woods. But a cub will grow and what was nice and cuddly today might become a menace tomorrow as sure as seasons will change. A film about disproportionate love.

• Drama
• Fantasy
• Romance
• Experimental

by Fiorella Spitzer

A story of an old fisherman and his dog about life, death and transition to another existence.

• Drama
• Fantasy
• Experimental
• Non-narrative

by Dávid Dell’Edera

In the hot midday sun, the street in a downtown apartment block is completely quiet. A few young boys play with a ball in a shady yard. The people inside their homes are busy with their daily tasks — until something unexpected happens.

• Drama
• Experimental
• Tragicomedy

by Iván Tamás

Musical animation to the poem of Noémi László, focusing on the theme of bad weather from children’s point of view.

• Drama
• Fantasy
• Family

by Sophia Twigt

Rob takes a drag on a neighbor’s crack pipe, his bills start piling up and one day, a letter arrives: his house is going to be repossessed. He packs a tent, gets on his bike and starts cycling.

• Drama
• Documentary
• Tragicomedy