Films and Works in the Competition

BLACK MUD
Black Mud is a coming of age story about two orphaned brothers who travel cross country to the Alberta oil sands in search of a new life. Along the way, they learn to depend on one another, but tensions grow as money gets tight. On the brink of giving up, Alex, the older brother, meets Flora, a young drifter, who insists on coming with them in exchange for a place to stay in Alberta.
Adriano Trapani - Writing Credits
The Sleeper by the River / La dorMeuse Duval
In a village by the Meuse river, located near the French-Belgian border, a factory storekeeper named Basile Matrin leads a dreary life with his wife, Rose. The young Maryse Duval, who had just come back from Paris, has abandoned her dreams of becoming an actress. She will unwittingly turn their life upside down. Basile’s great friend and neighbour, who is a reporter for a local newspaper « Le
Manuel Sanchez
Manuel Sanchez, Alain Depardieu, Marylise Den Hollander, Jérémy Banster
Frog Hunters
Dealing with the frog hunting profession that is being passed on from generation to generation by Romani people in Edirne, the documentary film blends the cultural structure and aesthetics of the Romani neighbourhood and examines the details of frog hunting profession through the intimate relationship between fathers and sons. The film also tells hunters’ struggles against the factories which
Batuhan Kurt
Batuhan Kurt, Sait Kurtuluş
Bed Bug
Doubts are more cruel than the worst of truths. (Jean B. MoIiere) İdris and Hatice are the ordinary couple who live in a shantyhouse.Although Hatice is the woman who is frightened and bullied by her husband,İdris,she has a love affair with her husband’s co-worker,Cemal.İdris who is a gambler sells the television at his home to pay his gambling debt. This incident concurs with his stealing his
Tunahan Kurt
Kadraj Yapım & Visualfocus Film
Carpinti
When the man returns to home, he suspects that something's going wrong and finds some clues about his wife cheating on him. This unconvinced suspicion eats his soul day by day.
Cihan Tamtürk
İzzet Arpacı
Parting Shot
There is an incident at an otherwise very ordinary Turkish funeral. A man drops his phone inside the grave while throwing soil during the burial. He promptly interrupts the service to take his phone back. However someone in community denies this request because of religious beliefs. The Hodja who is leading the funeral, gets involved and an extraordinary discussion unfolds.
Özgür Cem Aksoy
Özgür Cem Aksoy
Feys: Another World
The film describes Saim Kemik, a scrap cardboard collector in Istanbul,efforts of entering Feys, a social networking platform.Saim Kemik arrives next to the rice cart he eats from every evening. At that moment, he overhears two well dressed men talking about Feys and he wonder what Feys is like, and tries to find out how to access to Feys.
Kaan Kurnaz
Batıkan Alkan
UNDO Divergent Film Awards film of the year 2019
The 2019 film of the Year at UNDO will be awarded in September, in Boston. The title will be screened at WFF.
Adam
In 1981 The Kurdilli Peninsula became an island as a result of the increase of the level of Caspian Sea. Those who live in two villages of the peninsula leave the island over time. But for Vitaly the island becomes the last destination. He did not want to leave the land where he buried his father and mother, where he spent his childhood and youth. In 2014, everyone on the entire island left
Emil Ali
Ali Araz, Qan Turalı
Other Borders
Three friends, who cannot prevent the civil war in Afghanistan from ruining their lives, come to Turkey at different times in pursuit of a new hope. After a long, dangerous journey and several borders crossed, the ‘other borders’, where they seek refuge in the hope that everything will be better, becomes the beginning of a new struggle and another tough war. The three friends, after the troubles
Turap Başel, Ahtam İbragimov
Ali Araz
Excuse Me, I’m Looking For The Ping-Pong Room And My Girlfriend
A film about a couple on a wellness trip, where one partner disappears and the other isn't sure whether he's looking for her or himself. Within the bizarre world of the alpine wellness resort, Aron begins a new chapter in his life.
Bernhard Wenger
Florian Bayer, Clara König, Bernhard Wenger
The Version of You
Right before Pera puts up the shutters of the coffee shop that she works as a waitress, meets an odd but cute customer. What Pera doesn't know is that this customer knows her very closely.
Ayşegül Okul
Eren Maçoro, Roy Kamhi, Ayşegül Okul
Obituary
Visual obituary of an old youngster.
Onur Keşaplı
Onur Keşaplı
Mishko
Angel, quiet and withdrawn boy, goes with his friend Mishko to pick apples, in order to sell them later. But, as the day passes, Angel is increasingly facing the cruelty of Mishko and his own parents.
Hanis Bagashov
Samir Ljuma
Daughter
What can a father do when his beloved daughter was so much hurt by someone that he finds her unconscious in the bathroom, lying in her own blood. What can he do when the system fails him standing in the way of justice? The film is a part of the social debate in the current context of the #MeToo campaign.
Mara Tamkovich
Warszawska Szkoła Filmowa
Sister
A woman who 50 has a life story from Black Sea to Istanbul.Hatice Akgün is beginning adventure of Track driving with take support from her father. She never give in, in spite of obstacles. She driving truck as a job now. In the dominant male society she look after her 6 children alone when doing truck driving.
Kenan Diler
Give Me A Lighter
The Dumlupinar Submarine collides with a Swedish ship while cruising on the Dardanelles. It sinks into depths of the sea within seconds. The soldiers trapped inside the submarine wait for days, hoping to be rescued.
Gökhan Kaya
Gökhan Kaya
Soil
Conceived through the division of the screen into nine cinematic frames, the film "Soil" narrates the journey of a young man carrying a handful of soil into the grave of a deceased soldier who happens to be burying his own dead body. With the form integrated into narrative, it is possible to watch every phase of his journey synchronically. Wherever he goes the smell of the soil remains
Alican Durbaş
Neslihan Oskay
A Hard Day In The Empire
Cansu (26) works as an art department assistant on the set of an Ottoman period soap opera. On a difficult day, she cannot fulfill the extreme requests of the director. Challenging conditions, various caprices and endless requests bring her to an irreversible moment.
Sezen Kayhan
Beste Yamalıoğlu
Living Like Heta
Heta lives with her pet seal in her highly peculiar house full of curious rooms and endless corridors. Her entire life consists of carefully planned and conducted routines. When the latter get thrown into disarray, Heta‘s world begins to crumble, until she feels compelled to make an irreversible decision.
Bianca Caderas, Isabella Luu, Kerstin Zemp
Hochschule Luzern – Design & Kunst / Animation, Jürgen Haas
Blue Tomorrow
A man who lives alone on his island goes on an unknown journey caused by rising ocean. After witnessing a catastrophe on the way, he finds hope again with other people.But when the ocean rises again this time he makes an unexpected decision to an another unknown.
Numan Ayaz
Numan Ayaz
Closed
The customer girl, who comes to Kenan's workshop on an ordinary day, is actually won't be an ordinary person for Kenan. The girl makes an invitation which encourages him to get out of his closed life and faces him with a tough decision.
Kerem Altın
Kerem Altın
Celebration
Five year old Leyla who has deep emotional connections with nature lives with her family in a country house. Only a few days left for Eid el Adha (Muslim feast for sacrifice) and there is a feast rush in the house. Sheep which is bought to be sacrificed for the feast lives in the hut next to house for several days. But Leyla, who visits the sheep occasionally to slop it, has a smart idea to
Elif Sözen
Mesut Tasasız
The Guest
An Imam (the person who leads the Muslim congregation in the mosque) who lives alone in the free quarter of the mosque.. In a cold night, his doorbell rings and the visitor asks him something simple. The decision that the Imam shall make, would affect the rest of his life.
Selim Şahintürk
Emre Konuk
FERRUCCIO story of a (little) robot
Mr. Duccio engages with a technological challenge that might improve his life. While trying to fix his old TV in his home workshop something magical happens: the screen shows a stylised ...
STEFANO DE FELICI
ANTONINO VALVO, ENRICO BONINO, CATERINA TEOLDI
A Believer
At sunset, in a dark art gallery, one painting, two men. Or maybe just one. A film based upon a short story by George Loring Frost.
Kenta Crisà
Stefano Demarie, Robin Studio
The Vates
Gabriele D’Annunzio, 70 years old, sick and exiled in the Vittoriale household, answers to an ex-soldier letter in which he reminds the promise made by the poet: the revolution and the dream of a nation founded on art and beauty. D’Annunzio, haunted by regret, writes the answer in a letter he won’t ever send, in which he asks for forgiveness and remembers the time when he used to believe his
Kenta Crisà
Stefano Demarie, Robin Studio
Accidental LAX Outlaw
A Malaysian female published author throws caution to the wind and follows her gut instincts and lands in New York, the Big Apple. A survivor of the deadly dengue fever, clinical depression and decades of domestic violence propelled Jasemin to carve a new life in the New World. Armed with her 3 books, personal story and a never-say-die attitude she is determined to turn her books into films and
Postcards From Ukraine
After touring in Ukraine with his band, Sieva moved to Kiev where gets involved in Maidan Revolution. Fascinated by young people questioning the old soviet values and embracing new ones, he decides to follow fve youngsters coming from diferent cities and social backgrounds. The characters lead him into unexpected places: from the separatists camps in Lugansk and the Maidan Square protests in Kiev
Sieva Diamantakos
Alberto Dandolo, Kordula Hildebrandt
Mechanika
Young scientist Alexey Romanovich invites all his colleagues interested in his experiment. 
Among the guests are collector, the member of the Scientific Council, also we see the father and son, who are devoted to science, 
but, clearly, have different intentions for the Alexey Romanov's experiment.
The real reason of the scientific project's presentation is the mentor of Alexei
Nikolay Lupanov
Kristian Davydenko
Start the Buzz
Start the Buzz is the latest film commissioned by Camera Nazionale della Moda Italiana (Italian Fashion Council) to celebrate Milano Fashion Week A/W 2018/19. The film is directed by the award-winning Milan-based creative production company The Blink Fish. As a way to support and provide visibility to the emerging generation of young Italian designers, Start The Buzz features only emerging talent
Giacomo Boeri, Matteo Grimaldi
The Blink Fish
PYOTR495
'Set one evening in present day Moscow, 16 year-old Pyotr is baited by an ultranationalist group known for their violent abductions and anti-gay attacks bolstered by Russia’s LGBT propaganda law, but Pyotr has a dangerous secret his attackers could never have accounted for.'
Blake Mawson
Sasha Fisher, Natalie Novak, Cam McLauchlin
Monetochka - Zaporozhets
This is our answer to Elon Musk, by launching a domestic car into space. But the story doesn't end there. The plot is based on the story of a great big love, and a sad pilot-samurai, who will not stop at nothing, in order to find his lost love in the corners of the vast universe.
Dmitry Maseykin
OQJAV — Каблучки (Heels)
Music video for a Russian group
Anton Reva
Alyona Makarenko
THE TESSERACT
Travel through the minds of two dancers at the BOLSHOI Ballet in Moscow, as they journey from rehearsal to the stage.
Pierce Jackson, Dianna Mesion
Dianna Mesion
QUIET
Grandpa and grandma bought the house just near the forest to make it more quiet.
Maxim Kulikov
Irina Sneghinskaya, Georgiy Negashev
The Dead Man Speaks
A dead man's thoughts about his current state.
Marcos Mereles
Marcos Mereles
Son Lux // The Fool You Need
Jean-Paul Frenay
Geoffroy Rouffiange
Voice for the Voiceless
This film follows three generations of Ugandans in their fight to bring quality education to their village. Enid, her son Martin and her adopted son Titus have all spent their lives in Kikobero. This is a hard-to-reach village with poor quality roads, lack of basic amenities and a lack of good schooling. Martin and his parents are committed to bringing a quality school to the village so that
Bex Kearon-Wiles
Scandal
This animation made of 2500 paintings tells the story of a man who tries to run away from his fate. He is seeking for success, fame, happiness and love... But the city is too strong and he can't win. Sadly, he becomes a powerless witness of his own fall, just like a bee trapped in a spiderweb.
Pablo Mengin-Lecreulx
LAC PRODUCTION
Synched
In the chaos, a man flees to the other side of the world only to find out that there is no escape.
Cassie shao
Telephone
"Telephone" is a journey into the world of sound. The sense of meaning sounds can imbue and the memory of sound in the face of silence. Set around Barentsburg, Svalbard. The film follows Viktor, a miner with a tender soul, on the verge of losing his hearing. Lost among the unforgiving white of the arctic his reality melts into only one urge - connection. He must try to contact his son,
Alistair Cheyne
Natalia Valtanen
With my own two hands
The life of a man through his hands and the ones around him...
Michaël Barocas
Michaël Barocas
Motion Pictures
A boys love of action movies becomes his only outlet after facing a far more difficult battle in reality.
Matthew Incontri
Breathless
A committed synchronized swimmer tries to win the championship and heart of the coach.
Oleksii Sobolev, Phil Lee
Patterns of Restlessness
Suffocation. Time suspended. The things holding us back. The weakness, inadequacy, the frustration. The patterns of our restlessness.
Damien Vignaux
Produced with the help of DOITY and ARRI Berlin
Goodbye, America
A young Cuban of Russian origin Ivan returns to his historical homeland and immediately becomes involved in a cycle of events that put him in front of a serious choice. The soundtrack of the film was a cult Russian song “Goodbye, America!”
Ivan Sosnin
Igor Kuznetsov, Yana Shmailova, Danil Golovanov, Helen Chigvintseva
Voice of the Sea
The main hero – Ivan loses his hearing aid in the sea and becomes deaf. After that he falls in love with a singer from a coastal café. He plays lottery to win money, buy a new hearing aid and hear her singing.
Ivan Sosnin
Yana Shmailova, Danil Golovanov, Igor Kuznetsov, Helen Chigvintseva
Alice in Paris - Season 2
When Alice comes to Paris, she thinks she has everything figured out. But Her absolute taste and her theoretical perfect knowledge of Paris will soon come short. Between her sister love affairs, her inability to keep a job for more than a day and the mysteries of Paris, she will soon realizes that life is not as simple as a kitchen recipe.
Thibaud Paul Martin
Story Tailors
Hoppi Tales: The sprinkled sprinklers
omewhere in the very center of the World there is a quiet, serine valley, the Hoppies live and work there. Hoppiland is a multicultural town you can find Hoppies with all different nationalities. While everyone is busily running about, the Hoppies making sure that after the busy days there are holidays for everyone. Birthdays, Christmas, carnivals, Halloween, Thanksgiving or Hanukkah and of
Ferenc Rófusz
Tamás Salusinszky

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