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Mara comes back home from her boyfriend's funeral to experience a mind game full of guilt. Jake, her boyfriend, prepared a scavenger game and placed some notes around the house that lead to an anniversary present. Memories and guilt spin around her head as she plays the "game".

Savvas Christou

Amari Agee

Hard Sell

Things take a strange turn when a high-school cross country star tries to sell pies to a recently divorced millionaire with a cocaine habit.

Luke Slendebroek

Luke Slendebroek

Renee

Every great wine has a story to tell. This is the story of two people, their relationship and how their lives are forever changed by the wine they love.

Neil Watson

Michael Shenefelt

EJA ARO

A young woman who has been in a romantic long distance relationship for one year, is yet to set eyes on her boyfriend. when he decides to break it off, he is forced to reveal his true identity to her

Badewa Ajibade

Badewa Ajibade

Blueberry Spirits

Blueberry Spirits is a poetic movie about a Roma family that gathers Blueberrys for living. Every summer they come to a forest in Latvia and while they gather the fruits all the spirits and ghosts of their life are with them.

Astra Zoldnere

Kaspars Brakis

L'Indigestion

A family dinner is organized for the grandmother‘s birthday. This meal is an opportunity to see the distress, the fears, the wickedness of this family.

Mathilde Remy

Atelier de Production La Cambre ASBL

Bitchboy

Lukas, a young dedicated metal head, is visiting his recently departed grandfather at the hospital.

Måns Berthas

Filmuminati AB, Måns Berthas, Daniel Burman

Travelogue Tel Aviv

A young art student from Switzerland arrives for six months in Tel Aviv. Through drawing he will learn to analyse, understand and free himself to this contrasted environnement.

Samuel Patthey

Jürgen Haas

Augenblicke, A blink of an eye

A woman is going home at night. She’s alone and suddenly a stranger tries to rape her. They are fighting. The spectators are watching them from both sides of their view. It gets wilder and truth and perception becoming one blurry image.

Kiana Naghshineh

Kiana Naghshineh, Mareike Keller

SAVE

Dawns, a baby breaks silence.

Iván Sáinz-Pardo

Iván Sáinz-Pardo

The Valley

In an unknown ancient era, on an imaginary land, two opposite armies on conquest comes up against each other. But there is a deep valley separating them. For the commanders, this valley won’t going to stop the war. The battle must begin and the conquest must continue.

Can Erkan, Salih Toprak

Dünden Kalan

Umut hears from his father, who left the house for another woman years ago. In the house that he went to spill out his hatred, he finds out that his father has Alzheimer illness. Despite all the things they have been through, Umut feels responsible for his father. He decides to put him in the care home; but this would not be as easy as he expected. Father and son have to spend a day together as

Salih Toprak

Salih Toprak, Sezai Bulut

BASILICATA ADVENTURE

BASILICATADVENTURE is an incredible international showcase for the Lucanian territory and for young people intended to work in the world of the seventh art. It is a creative and innovative challenge that aims to the promotion of the Basilicata's locations in Italy and in the world. It is a dronevideo that offers a unique experience of its kind. Breathtaking natural landscapes and locations

Walter Nicoletti, David Cinnella

Voce e Spettacolo, Walter Nicoletti, Michele Valente, Vito Nicoletti

Hicap

The film is about a girl child and a man's compulsory marriage and a child bride problem. Kader is a 12-year-old girl, Mehmet is a man of 50 years old. The story takes place in an old house in the countryside where Kader plays with her toys when her husband is not at home and continues to live her childhood. Until her husband comes home ... Kader, noticing that her husband has come home with

Begüm Gülşah Aktaş

THE BORDER

Paolo Negro

Arimvideo, Paolo Negro and Alessio Partenopeo

I am Hitkoak

Hitkoak describes her youth: the food she ate, the toys she grew up with, and the values she learned from her elders. Now, she passes them on to the young people in her community. In 2017, Reel Youth visited Kugluktuk, NU for two weeks as part of the Moving Forward Together - Hivumut Aulaniq Atauttimut project. We facilitated two intergenerational programs on the land, where young people and

Adine, Tabitha

Reel Youth

Darkslide

Damen Krow is a young musician with Asperger's syndrome who plays guitar and works at a sawmill. He has trouble making connections in his life, but desperately wants his band 'P.F.C.' to gain notoriety. One day, he meets a talented visual artist named Naomi Sinclair. Naomi completely disappears as Damen falls into a daze of drug use. Will Damen rise above his inner struggles? Or

Brendan Petersen

Eric Weller

Suburban Manifest

In the suburban neighborhood, a group of young people are struggling to live the neighborhood. Even if they have different parents, they are like the brothers of each other. Brotherhood is the most important thing, even from their mothers and fathers...

Egemen Özcan

Egemen Özcan

Toprak

Toprak, 8, translates for his parents who can’t speak French. Today, he goes to the hospital with them for his mother’s second trimester ultrasound. He will be the first one to know if the twin babies are brothers or sisters.

Onur Yağız

Pierre-Louis Garnon / Les Films Velvet (France) Hüseyin Aydın Gürsoy / Yuva Film (Turkey)

PLURIMA

Are we the sum of our emotions or those of others? The strongest journeys are those within us, sometimes unfinished, sometimes useful. The important thing is to get lost forgetting the departure. The important thing is feelings. Plurima hides to be visible. We watch, Plurima lives in its narrow, timeless space. Plurima remains unattainable to itself to discover itself infinite in its finiteness.

Martina Parretta, Umberto Cacia

THE SILENT OF JILL

Wild west, early 20th century. The quite life of Noel, an old bounty hunter who has retired, time ago, to dedicate himself to his property, is disturbed by the arrival of Sam and Amos, two fierce henchmen of a rich landowner named Logan. Logan convinced that under the land of Noel there is an oil field, is willing to do anything to convince him to sign the papers to give him the property. Sam and

Daniele Tullio

controluce

UGLY

An ugly cat struggles to coexist in a fragmented and broken world, eventually finding a soulmate in a mystical chief. Inspired by the internet story ‘Ugly the Cat’.

Nikita Diakur

Nikita Diakur

Sergam is a little boy. A refugee. His boat’s stranded on the coast. His mother didn’t survive. Instead, a young woman takes care of him and they both set off on their way through a nightmare. “01” is a lovingly drawn animation film by Katharina Potratz. Without pointing at anyone, she shows the emotional and moving story of a small refugee boy on his way into a new homeland. A homeland that is

Julian Silverscreen & Katharina Potratz

Julian Silverscreen & Katharina Potratz

CUBEMAN

An elderly man is unable to accept that he is made to retire and his life takes a dramatic turn, when he realises that he cannot finish the work of his life

Linda Dombrovszky

Ferenc Szohár, CINEMART KFT,

WINTER IN LVIV

Winter in Lviv“ is a short-documentary about the situation of four Ukrainian women, trying to get by in a country that is struggling with an escalating conflict on the Eastern border as well as a heavy economic crisis. The protagonists are: Nurse Olha Roman is 75 years old, but still working. Because the Ministry of Health Affairs stopped paying her salary, she works as a volunteer and lives from

Till Mayer, Pirmin Styrnol

Till Mayer

SPLENDID CASE OF DOUBT

A simple love story between a bored bumber car owner and a furry. Sometimes love makes us forget...

Daniel Moshel

Eugen Klim, Daniel Moshel, Philipp Hatzl

MANEKI NEKO

The unexpected encounter of two strangers and their agreement while waiting for a cab to share the cost of the ride, becomes the motive for the anatomy of a relationship. From the moment they enter the taxi, the driver reveals that they know eachother and they have a common past, leading the couple to the landscapes of desire.

Manolis Mavris

Mando Stathi, Myrto Stathi, Manolis Kontarinis

BACKSTORY

As a young child our protagonist is left by his mother and has to live with his violent father. He fights his way through adolescence and falls in love with the woman of his dreams and just as everything seems to be finally working out for him, a sudden event changes the course of his life forever. A story about how everything we love, everything we learn, everything we build, everything we fear

Joschka Laukeninks

Benjamin Horstkotte, Tobias Wichura, The Marmalade Films Hamburg

STATE OF EMERGENCY

A movie about a society in fear. It is the story of two soldiers in the everyday life of Paris guarding an official building. An abandoned bag, curious passants and a crazy tramp move the situation into its climax. The lines between normality and real danger disappears.

arek Roehlinger

Marisa Meier, Filmakademie Baden-Wuerttemberg

THE INNER SIDE

Domi is a 33 years old autistic boy, who never speaks and lives with his mother and father. They try everything to cure him, but no effect. The mother cynically tells the story of their unlucky family, she is hopeless. Only the books bring happiness in Domi's life. He is obsessed by books. The family tries a new psychologist, Aliz, who soon realizes how important the books are for Domi. Now

Dániel Reich

FP Films, Péter Fülöp

8 June 1976

In a village of a few souls, in the deep south of Italy, during a hot day, in June ‘76, Luigi and Giuseppe, two brothers of 12 and 9 years old, leaving school, to return home. In Genoa, meanwhile, three armed men run through some alleys. Arrived in front of a staircase they shoot 26 bullets on two men. Not too far, a motorcycle approaches a parked car and two men open fire on the driver. Angela,

Gianni Saponara

SKMG Production

DEPARTURES

Ludovico accepted the difficult choice of his sick wife, helping her to end his suffering life. After some time, he finds the courage to reveal this secret to their daughter, through memories.

Nicolas Morganti Patrignani

REA production

HOT COFFE

Elena is 35 years old, she has a baby small and a stressful job. She constantly lives in a hurry, in an eternal tomorrow. She runs after a goal that is every day more and more distant. Maria lives the present cradling herself in the sweet memory of an old time. Their lives, their stories and their rhythms will collide in front of a cup of coffee, to give life to a fundamental but simple discovery

Luigi Pironaci

Panda Production

The Peculiar Abilities of Mr Mahler

East Germany, 1987: The special investigator Mahler is said to have paranormal abilities. The police assigns him to solve the case of the 6-year-old Henry Kiefer, who is missing for weeks now, before this issue leads to political tensions with the West. But then he brings something to light that makes this family tragedy especially political...

Paul Philipp

Moritz Helmes

Asphalt

Abraham and his pregnant wife Sarah are going to a hospital with a suspicion of miscarriage. They are sitting in the back seat of a taxi. The places the car passes by reflect the inner worlds of the couple, in a way these things the car passes by turn into their inner worlds: While they are going towards the hospital, the birth part of the birth-death cycle is seen outside. While they are coming

Süleyman Demirel

Süleyman Demirel

The Hip-Hop Kid

This Hip-Hop History Comedy was partially shot under Los Angeles’ famous (but now defunct) 14th Street Bridge former major motion picture filming location. There, Michael Douglas Goodman stars as a young, hungry, rambunctious, Hip-Hop hopeful seeking the tutelage of down-and-out old school, Hip-Hop great Kango - played by prolific SoCal actor Phillip E. Walker. But wanna be rapper Benji finds far

Ron Duncan

Ron Duncan, Nelson Estevez & Phillip E. Walker

Old Man In The Woods

Salih is a 10 year old boy. Because of his family having financial problems, he decides to go to the forest everyday to collect pine cones to sell pine nuts inside of them. One day he mets an old man in the forest. And the old man tells Salih a legend that supposed to happened in the forest. Although Salih doesn’t really believe in that legend he one day finds himself in it. Salih does what the

Kardelen Eren

Kardelen Eren

http://DarkroomMovie.net

Dubbed a Dysfunctional Family Thriller at its 70th Festival de Cannes 2017 Short Film Corner Worldwide Release plus screening on six (6) continents, in "Darkroom" an overbearing father finds his teenage son has transformed the basement of their New York townhouse into an amateur darkroom. There the boy develops gruesome and voyeuristic images from his late-night crime scene photography

David Schell

Walker Entertainer Academy

Written in Stone

This film by Iranian director Farhad Pakdel reflects on the intimate connections between today’s lives and the lives of those who have come before. From the present to the past, a young woman and her brother trace the history of their ancestors through traditional stone carving in Shiraz, Iran, in the center of the ancient Persian homeland. Their journey takes them to historic sites and

Farhad Pakdel

Davoud Samavati

Still Turning

The art of making the Lanzhou Waterwheel in China was all but lost in the 21st century, until Duan Yicun, a 20th-generation descendent of Duan Xu, a scholar of the Ming Dynasty, took it upon himself to study and learn the craft. Now 74 years old, Duan Yicun finds the waterwheel market chaotic and competitive. Looking to his apprentice and future generations to inherit the craft of waterwheel

Jesse Pickett

Shirley Gu

Marovo Carver

Tasiro is a wood carver who expertly creates traditional sculptures, which represent the Solomon Islands culture and reflect the natural beauty of the environment that surrounds him. Dedicated to his craft, Tasiro uses carving as a means of supporting his family. Set in an island paradise and narrated exclusively in the Marovo language (with English subtitles), this is a gentle and uplifting

Elliot Spencer

Elliot Spencer

Vikings: Warriors from the North, Giants of the Sea

Long before the Viking Age, Scandinavia was already settled. Its population descended from ancient Germanic peoples, with whom they shared the origins of their mythology, language and culture. The inhabitants of present-day Denmark, Sweden and Norway were trading and had contact with numerous surrounding countries and societies. In the 8th century the contact and the purpose of these

Gustavo Vilchez

Gustavo Vilchez

Good Earth: Awakening the Silent City

This film presents the fascinating story of the Good Earth at Blood Run historical and cultural site as told by a Native American grandfather to his grandchildren. Good Earth was the ancestral home of the Omaha, Ponca, Ioway, and Otoe tribes for more than two hundred years. Produced in 4K by Emmy-nominated documentary filmmakers Kelly and Tammy Rundle of Fourth Wall Films, the documentary

Kelly Rundle

Kelly Rundle

C.O.D.

C.O.D. The film confronts him in the ongoing routine of Foucault's "Normal Human Fiction", which is one of the smallest cogs of the trapped system trapped in the capital system he has lived and has become the product of the system by living with a barcode. Devastation is inevitable for our hero who realizes that he does not belong in his "colorful dreams" promised to work

Onur Doğan

Onur Doğan

Lütfi

Lütfi who has been waiting for the Azrael for 12 years decided to end his life on his own, but he couldn't manage to commit suicide. He found out that the janitor working in his building murdered someone for a reason, and asked the janitor to execute the task. They agreed. After the agreement Lütfi's life perception changes drastically when his death from anothers hand becomes certain.

Cahit Kaya Demir

Eyüp Demir, Yasemin Demir

I, Loneliness Gadget

I,Loneliness Gadget tackles how consumption society patterns redefine the concepts of 'human' and 'product' through the relationship between Hasan Ali and Pet Human.

Can Eren

Beste Yamalıoğlu

The All Seeing Blind

The golds of Saddam, the last booties of the Iraqi war, are smuggled into Turkey by hidden in the cotton. Blind workers are used to pick the gold from the cotton. The smugglers try to prevent any possible thefts by telling the workers that it is rock they are picking from the cotton. They don’t know that there’s a seeing eye among the blind workers.

Nuri Cihan Özdoğan

Nuri Cihan Özdoğan, Osman Tekin

Fear

After The Great War, Payan had to grown herself in a shelter.

Cem Göksoy

Damla Sel, Saygın Soylu

Counting

In 1951, Violet and Milly make a love promise over a penny. In 2015, the promise comes due, and Violet must face a heartbreaking reality.

Dan Pal

David Zak, Dan Pal

On the Banks of the Tigris: the Hidden Story of Iraqi music

"When Majid Shokor escaped from Iraq he discovered that the songs he loved as a child in Baghdad have a hidden history. Saddam’s regime purged Iraqi music of its origins, but Majid learns the truth as he travels the world to meet exiled Iraqi musicians – Jewish, Muslim and Christian - who still sing and play these songs. They are reunited in a joyful concert at London’s Barbican Centre,

Marsha Emerman

Marsha Emerman

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