OFFICIAL SELECTION 2019

Barbara and Pol spend a few days on holiday with a group of friends in a house surrounded by nature. They want to have a good time and find a peaceful space where they can enjoy their intimacy. With the support of Pol, in the midst of nature, between tears and laughter, Barbara will heal old wounds and redefine her sexuality.

Ziad, a Palestinian day laborer, is denied entry into Israel for work that day. Not wanting to return home empty handed after promising his daughter meat for dinner, he needs to get creative. A poetic and tragic reflection on the everyday struggle of Palestinian breadwinners.

The Van finally stops, the doors open and Ben comes out alive. A few more fights and he will be able to pay his way out of Albania, and hopefully, take his father with him.

A small supermarket in a blue collar town, a black man smiles at a 10 year old white boy across the checkout aisle. This innocuous moment sends two gangs into a ruthless war that ends with a shocking backlash.

Yanni’s mum is on her way to audition for a role as Shakespeare’s Viola, when she discovers that her son has been left home alone. Through a series of phone calls, she fights to balance the most important roles of her life, whilst walking in the most controversial area of central Athens: Patision Avenue.

Dushan and Laza are traveling through Eastern Serbia to Belgrade. Terminally ill, Dushan has to find a new home for his son Laza, to whom Dushan is all he has.

An adolescent boy attempts to untangle his memories of a mysterious infestation, the unravelling of his father, and the little creatures inside us all.'

It all starts with an accident. Little Paula pushes her sister Annas hamster out of the window while trying to feed it. She desperately wants to bring it back to life with spells and magic. Meanwhile her mother, Isabella, is constantly trying to reconstruct Anna's birthday cake from last year.

A family of four live in a wrecking yard in Iran, suburban or Tehran. Mother and father both work at the same yard, dismantling and wrecking old cars. The two kids, a twelve year boy (Nima) and a four year girl (Tara), spend their time playing around the yard, and specially in an old emptied car which they have painted and decorated for themselves...

In the Madrid of the 80s, Ivan, a five-year-old boy, is confronted with the birth of a new brother. His sister is dad´s favorite, the newborn is mom's favorite. Which place does he take in this new situation? What if He could fly and escape?

Anna, a middle-aged single mother, lives in a small industrial town in war-torn Eastern Ukraine. She works in a meat processing plant, lives in a rundown apartment and dreams for a better life for herself and her 16-year-old daughter. Desperate for a change, she is lured by a radio advertisement to attend a party organized for foreign men who are touring the country, searching for love.

BUNNY is a drama about Buckley, a young man with rabbit ears who is challenged by disruptive outsiders to face up to his delusion, and risks losing the final bond to his dead mother. Winner of the Celtic Media Festival Torc Award for Best Short Drama 2019.

A young girl with a dark secret tries to relieve her heavy heart by taking a walk in the city. She visits places and meets people she doesn’t want to to find her redemption.

A man consumed by guilt because he did not dare to defend his mother, plays the role of a murderer and forces his ten-year-old self to face his original trauma...

This is the story of Alex Carlo Delgado, a man who had everything and lost it all.

A psychological film against man's violence against women: a new way of looking at this terrible social phenomenon, ever more diffused and transversal in modern society, in which the protagonist is a man. Woman becomes the "distorted mirror" of a fragile, contradictory, violent man ...

In the Island of Corsica, Jeanne's everyday life flows more or less quietly since Lucien, her lover, has been murdered, three years ago.

In a border village, a Chinese teenager of Korean roots aspires to join South Korea. He tries by all means to realize his dream.

An intellectual dress style man is shopping at the supermarket. After he bought the essential goods, he moves toward the refrigerated section to choose the yogurt to buy. The man realizes with amazement that each one of the yogurt cups has stamped on it the name of a religion instead of the yogurt brand...

A young father gives into the whims of his son by allowing him to wear a skirt to school. After getting complaints, him and his ex-wife have to deal with the pre-schooler's hostile parents.

An Eastern Europe Dark comedy from Czech Republic. No help anywhere, no signal. Too far to reach anywhere on foot. Two scared women, one of which ran over the husband of the other, will sooner or later have to deal with a situation in which no tested procedures apply. No natural patterns of behaviour. A black comedy about the absurdity of human interaction. About life and death. About cars, misunderstanding and a little bit about LARP.

A man with a hidden face, is looking for an essential response between memories and doubts intrinsic of a surrealist vision.

Captured with a mobile phone, we see a group of three friends gathering at a ski lodge. Daniel is about to propose to his girlfriend and his friend films the whole thing to remember the best day of their lives.