Kyiv in 2022. A car races at breakneck speed through the city at dawn. Filmed from a subjective camera angle in a single unedited shot, this film captures the emotions in a state of emergency caused by the war.

In her efforts to obtain accommodation and thus a residence permit in Austria, Marinela, an overburdened single Romanian mother, relies on her daughter Ilinca as a mediator and translator. The 8-year-old, however, has other plans.

Brigitta Kanyaro is a Romanian actress and filmmaker based in Vienna. After graduating from acting school, she worked in various positions both in front of and behind the camera. 2017 she produced her first short film "Liniste" which premiered at Transylvania IFF. In 2020 she was nominated for the "ROMY" young talent award for her first leading role in the national broadcaster ORF for the series "Last Will". In 2019, she made her directorial debut with the short film "Annamalai", which won the Austrian award at Linz ISFF. Kanyaro was selected for the 2021 artist residency "FEMART" in Bucharest with her debut feature film project, where she won the main prize.

Southern Slovakia, hot summer days, a family of three generations meets under one roof. An unexpected visit from Zoja, the granddaughter, stirs up the peaceful routine. Within a quiet presence of God and alcohol, the family untails it’s tragicomical past and a few (almost) unsaid secrets.

Alica Bednáriková (1999) comes from Žilina, Slovakia. She studied at a bilingual gymnasium in Sučany and afterwards pursued her film-directing studies at The Academy of Performing Arts. During this time, she has written and directed several short films, including Boredom which was screened at several festivals. She also writes poetry and short stories.

A single mother’s adventure by the seaside leads her to recognise her unnecessary martyrdom for her disabled teenage daughter.

Anna Gyimesi was born in 1985, in Budapest. After receiving her degree in medicine in 2011, she turned to filmmaking. She graduated from the film directing program of the University of Theater and Film Arts in 2019 and from documentary film directing in the Docnomads Erasmus Mundus Joint Master Course in 2021. Her interests are taboo social dilemmas represented through personal dramas, especially connected to motherhood, womanhood, and social marginalization. With Affricate she won Cinelink-award for the best pitch at Talent Sarajevo Pack&Pitch 2020 and took part in European Short Pitch Works-In-Progress Co-Production Forum in 2022. Recently she is developing her first feature.