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Lander CAMARERO
Spain | 2014 | 30’
Nizar Rawi, director of the Iraq Short Film Festival, tired of never receiving comedies at his festival, decides to try and encourage the production of this genre in his country and change the idea outsiders have of the Iraqi people.
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Sahim OMAR KALIFA
Belgium, UAE, Iraq | 2014 | 14’
Young man BAHOZ goes hunting in rural Kurdistan. He witnesses the rape of a young woman by an older man. He chases the man away and helps the woman to mend her clothes so she can conceal the rape from her family. That evening, Bahoz receives an unexpected visit…
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Artur GORISHTI
Albania | 2015 | 15’
The BOY is a sensitive seven-year-old, fragile and impressionable. His FATHER is a sure presence, his actions shaped by habit. When the father gives the son a first fishing lesson, it leads to larger life lessons for the boy, who is preparing to become a man. There is no female figure in this film, and yet life itself seems to be holding the little boy in its embrace, as though to convince him that compromises must be made, with no turning back.
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Spiros CHARALAMBOUS
Greece | 2014 | 21’25’’
On the last night in August, Nikos will make love for the first time. When September dawns, Maria will start her new life.
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Panagiotis FAFOUTIS
Greece | 2015 | 9’15’’
Joanna goes to the local port daily in search of love. Inspired by an urban myth, one woman’s story, becomes an allegory for a country’s tale.
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Derya DURMAZ
Turkey | 2015 | 7’15’’
A white ceiling, with a long white florescent light that keeps flickering, takes a young woman down memory lane… She recalls her old habit, laughing when nervous. Sitting right across the young woman is her loving and protective mother. But when an unexpected truth about the young woman is revealed to the mother, will this caring relationship remain pure and untainted?
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Suela BAKO
Albania | 2015 | 14’17’’
Xhilda ( 30 ), a former dancer, and Martin ( 45 ), antique merchant, are spending a few days in a hotel of a province . They are not married. Xhilda is pregnant and does not want to carry her child. Martin tries to stop her aborting. Xhilda’s looking through the window , an other couple ( 25 &
30 ) sitting in a strange space, downstairs the hotel. The young couple and what’s going on with them, seems to be a promoter of Martini and Xhilda’s decision.
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Asier ALTUNA
Spain | 2014 | 15’39’’
Arid soil, sun, wind. A procession crosses the landscape. The echoes of their prayers bring the rain.
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Barney FRYDMAN
Belgium | 2015 | 20’46’’
Steve et Karim sont deux jeunes garcons de 17 ans issus d’un milieu social défavorisé. Un soir, alors qu’ils accumulent les petits délits, ils commettent la bêtise de trop en causant accidentellement la mort d’une femme…
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Emre KAYIŞ
UK | 2014 | 23’
Yusuf, a shy, sensitive Syrian refugee boy who lives in an exile in a remote Turkish border town is chosen for his newfound power but he has to experience how to use it, at the cost of his innocence.
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Kira Richard HAMEN
Italy, Albania | 2015 | 19’46’’
“Rodløs”/”Wayward” is a coming-of-age story about a 14-year-old girl, who works at a car mechanic’s and hangs out with her friends. She challenges boundaries in her search for identity, but her behaviour has repercussions that force her to acknowledge new aspects of who she is.
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Shahir ZAG
United Arab Emirates | 2015 | 18’35’’
The last traditional fisherman of Fujairah fishes illegally in a marine reserve to keep a promise he made 65 years earlier.
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Serkan ERTEKIN
Turkey | 2015 | 30’
Kaan has always been looking for a meaning in his life. Gizem and Bengi were in love but the city didn’t welcome much girls like them. Fuat had spent his life as a homeless in the streets of Istanbul. There has been a belief that an old spiritual ship once got stuck in Istanbul. A ship that would only be visible to the ones who would belong to it, who would need it in their lives. A ship that would take them to where they belong to.
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Måns BERTHAS
Sweden | 2015 | 19’24’’
Harsh midwinter. A frozen marriage in a remote cabin. An man from the past returns to seek revenge, and long lost feelings come alive. A wordless battle begins and the eternal triangle finally comes to an end.
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Jalal SAEDPANAH
Iran | 2015 | 14’50’’
Perhaps the old man knows better than anyone how water droplets, it picks the strings of his life tied to the yard organisms spin cycle.
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Massimiliano D’AGOSTINO, Gaspare RUSSO
Italy | 2015 | 16’31’’
A Labour Ministry officer, Miss Guerra, and her assistant go to a city kennels for an inspection. Gioda, the kennels watch man, will guide them during the visit. The cages don’t host animals, but human beings. Although Miss Guerra isused to this routine somethin gun predictable is going to happen, something that will change her absolute certainties.
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Thanasis NEOFOTISTOS
Greece | 2015 | 9’15’’
In Dimitri’s high school, Vassilis and his friends, a gang of bullies, terrorize him. When he learns that it’s his turn to say the morning prayer in front
of the entire school, Vassilis becomes the only thing he can think about. But, what’s going to happen when the time comes and he stands in front of the whole school and mainly in front of him? While seeking their identity, through violence, they will inevitably test each other’s boundaries.
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Nicola RAGONE
Italy | 2015 | 19’10’’
A train, a trip, a destination. Two strangers start to look each other while travelling in a couch of a train. Cold, pain, farewell. Arrived at the destination one of them is chosen to be a labourer of the Death in a Nazi concentration camp, a Sonderkommando.
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Yll ÇITAKU, Alban UKAJ
Kosova | 2014 | 14’20’’
October 1st, 1997. Students turn out on the streets of Prishtina to protest for their rights, against the repressive regime. Among them, three teenage friends also attend the protest, finding themselves in unimaginable situations.
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Nathan HUGHES-BERRY
UK | 2015 | 23’06’’
A young teacher takes a job at an unusual private school where she soon discovers that the boys have a sinister power over the girls. As the boys behaviour becomes increasingly threatening she uncovers the source of the girls fear; an ominous locked door at the back of the classroom.
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Karolina ZALESZCZUK
Poland | 2015 | 23’27’’
Teenaged Justyna trying to escape her mom’s life falls into a fascination with the new neighbour. A random and innocent relationship will push her to grow up quickly.
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Michael SCHMIDT-OLSEN
Denmark | 2015 | 7’
An emotional little drama about the young boy Mikkel who in the attempt to gain the respect of his older brother, risks it all!
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Michal WAWZRZECKI
Poland | 2014 | 18’45’’
„Bittersweet” – their wedding night, night in the hotel, night on the street, night at the back couch of the car, in bakery and restaurant, night with the rifle which have to shoot. One couple, one night, two robberies.
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Adrian SITARU
Romania | 2014 | 19’28’’
Following a TV News which announces the landing of aliens in Romania, Eugen (9) steals a camera from the shop where his father works, starts filming his everyday life and then suddenly disappears.
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Javi NAVARRO
Spain | 2014 | 7’25’’
Irene is eight years old and she just had a nightmare. In the dream she becomes a girl of another race, with a very difficult reality, full of responsibilities and problems. Is it just a dream?
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Igor KAGRAMANOV
Russia | 2014 | 26’
A small town, far from the lights of big cities. Mashka and her 2 little brothers are facing survival. Their mother - dead, and their father has no use for his children. Life goes on, but fate has yet to force its greatest dire challenge upon the family…
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Aitor ARREGI
Spain | 2014 | 15’39’’
Often, when Miren goes to order her coffee, someone jumps the queue. But the day she realises that a blouse has been stolen from her shop she decides to put her foot down.
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Miki POLONSKI
Israel | 2015 | 25’
A four storey building in the midst of a city. A bridge runs above it, busy with heavy traffic and passing trucks. Behind the leſtmost window on the fourth floor is the residence of two brothers, a mother and a father. A family, who perhaps, have never had the right to exist.
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Alexey NUZHNY
Russia | 2015 | 21’
After the death of Anya’s lover she has no reason to live. Suddenly she comes across a rooster who is a spitting image of her late lover. She decides to build a serious romantic relationship with the rooster in spite of everything and everyone being against it.
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Neritan ZINXHIRIA
Italy, Albania | 2015 | 19’46’’
In the mountains of Northern Albania, a young man seeks revenge for his father’s death. Kanun, the Albanian law of revenge, does not allow a man to kill a child until his 16th birthday. He waits.
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David Cervera SANCHEZ
Spain | 2014 | 4’34’’
A space to find your place in the world. Or what remains of it.
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