ANVIL (Brasil)
Márcio Venturi (Author, Writer)
The teenager Matyáš is determined to uncover why his father and grandfather haven’t spoken to each other for over a decade. In the next 24 hours, the three generaDons will comprehend they can’t change who they are but they can decide who they want to become.
CORUPÁ (Brasil)
Mayra Faour Auad (Producer), Bruna Linzmeyer (Author, Writer, Director)
Ano Bom lives with a tiny fish in her bloodstream, but her encounter with Lia leads her to question how far she wants to keep it alive inside her.
CUTTING DAISIES (Australia)
Taylor Venter (Writer, Director)
A young Australian woman on holiday in Italy becomes entangled in a group of American entrepreneurs.
DRIFTING (Belgium)
Jotie Groenwals (Producer), Charlotte De Cort (Writer, Director)
After a reckless motocross accident, leaving his best friend Mikolaj with severe brain damage, 17-year old Raf is drowning in guilt and rejection. Impulsively, he takes Miko on a road trip, hoping to relive their once shared dream.
GIFT GIRL (UK)
Kyla Simone Bruce (Writer, Director)
Hiding in the countryside a5er a failed robbery, a teenage girl yearns to reunite with her boyfriend, only to uncover painful truths and manipulation.
GRACELAND (Greece)
Faidon Gkretsikos (Writer, Director), Panos Tragos (Co-writer)
A bittersweet road comedy about a struggling musician and two unlikely friendships he forms on a cross-country journey.
HOLI WOMB (Canada)
Maja Jacob (Producer), Anouk Whissel (Writer, Director)
Faced with an unplanned pregnancy that shatters her career ambitions, a distressed Grace travels to Poland to an exclusive retreat for expectant mothers, only to uncover the spa’s horrifying past and must battle for her own survival.
HOPE AND DESPAIR (Lebanon)
Elyssa Skaff (Writer, Director)
Not able to give life, she wished to die.
HUNT (Brasil)
Gabriela Poester (Writer, Director)
Through footage from camera traps, intern biologist Cibele must prove the existence of the last jaguar in the southernmost Americas to stop the construction of a hydroelectric dam that threatens its survival. But as the hunt unfolds, the lines between prey and predator, Cibele and the jaguar, begin to blur - until there’s no turning back.
KISS THE RAIN (Singapore)
Dewi Tan (Writer, Director)
It rains every day at 4 pm. A high school student gets in trouble stealing a supermarket trolley while her grandmother finds herself on a path of romantic redemption.
LAST RITES FOR A DOLL (Vietnam)
Chinh Tran (Writer), Eric Romero (Co-Writer)
A professional cleaner who clears the homes of those who died A professional cleaner who clears the homes of those who died alone becomes obsessed with fulfilling his dying mother’s last task.
MERMAID INC (Brasil) - project selected thanks to the partnership with BrLab / Projeto Paradiso
Ana Julia Travia (Director), Duda de Almeida (Co-writer)
If the opportunity makes the thief, the lack of it makes the scammer.
MOON DUST (Egypt)
David Ikeata (Writer, Producer), Ahmed Essam (Writer, Director)
In a polluted neighborhood of Alexandria, a religious couple struggling with infertility are torn between unbearable choices after the wife is assaulted.
MOUTH OF A SHARK (Germany)
Hong Anh Nguyen (Writer, Director)
When her estranged mother fakes an accident to lure her home, Ni, a self-absorbed photographer begins unraveling the mystery of her vanished uncle – forcing her reconcile with her fractured family.
MY VOICE, MY VOID (Guatemala) - project selected thanks to the partnership with IEFTA
Kim Munsamy (Writer, Director), Alberto Ródriguez Collìía (Producer)
At the heart of the contemporary and historic migratory waves of the Garifuna, there is a story of exile and the search for a place called home. Numalali weaves together dreams, myth, history and the experiences of two generations of Garifuna artists living in New York and Guatemala, representing how people become moving maps, each person an island and a continent.
PARDON (Brasil)
Cassiano Prado (Writer, Director), Mayra Faour Auad (Producer)
Granted a 24-hour Christmas pardon, a young man convicted of murder uses his brief freedom to visit his victim’s family and seek forgiveness.
SUMMER OF JESUS (France)
Tatiana Delaunay (Writer, Director), Abel Robsahm (Writer)
A 33 year-old Norwegian environmentalist with saviour syndrome returns after a decade to the Apulian summer house of her childhood, now packed with her elderly relatives, in order to give her grandmother a last goodbye.
THE DISSERTATION (Italy)
Giulia Mucci (Writer, Director), Elle Nash (Co-writer)
Obsessed by the goal of the perfect dissertation, a young psychology student decides to traumatise the girl she babysits, in order to study the supernatural consequences of her experiment.
THE LISBON SYNDROME (Canada, Venezuela)
Rodrigo Michelangeli (Writer, Director), Eduardo Sánchez Rugeles (Co-writer)
A sudden natural catastrophe occurs in Europe. Across the globe, in a Latin American cit, Fernando and his theater students brace to perform their controversial last pla.
WHERE IN THE SEA ROSE AN ISLAND (Brasil)
Mariana Thome (Writer, Director)
A stagnant journalist embarks on an adventure in search of a mysterious woman she finds featured in hundreds of old photographs discarded in the trash.