Projects 2021|22
ACROSS THE WATERS
Viv Li
Germany / China
A quirky teenage girl discovers a glimpse of the outside world through a passing truck driver.
CAMPOLIVAR
Alicia Moncholi
Spain
After the unexpected death of my father in a diving accident two years ago, I set out to his house to rediscover my childhood through the traces that we left.
DVA
Alexandra Karelina
Russia
During the inexplicable state of emergency in Moscow, a lonely young man is trying to find his missing dog and to figure out what is truly going on.
HUN TUN
Magdalena Hejzlarová
Czech Republic
Magdalena loses her sleep. She wants her sleep back but nothing helps. Her life becomes a mess. The situation only changes once she gives the chaos its name: Hun Tun.
IMAGINARY NUMBERS
Jelica Jerinić
Serbia / Finland
Hoping to win her first national mathematics competition, a 12-year-old small-town girl Mirna travels with her father to the city.
MIDNIGHT SKIN
Manolis Mavris
Greece
Fanny, a young nurse working at a big public hospital, sinks into the same obsessive nightmare every night. She witnesses her own metamorphosis into a tree.
PENANCE
Sebastião Salgado
Portugal
When the caregiver is left with no one to take care of, she falls prey to her own compulsions.
SEA SALT
Leila Basma
Lebanon / Czech Republic
The summer is coming to an end soon and Nayla, a late teenager in the city of Tyre, Lebanon, has life-changing decisions to make.
THE ONE WHO KNOWS
Eglė Davidavičė
Lithuania / France
Ūla is taken on an unexpected adventure during her swimming practice. The anxious teenager must face her fears to learn to see her body anew.
THE PRIMAL FEAR
Frida Spång
Sweden
The Primal Fear is a mosaic of scenarios from surrealistic, haunting nightmares that together form the question of why we fear what we fear.
THE REPTILES
Kristina Spassovska
Bulgaria
Released after an attempt to flee the communist regime, Borislava prepares her wedding, struggling with the growing distrust within her family.