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Georgia | 2017 | 13’
After apocalyptic information leaks about the sun going out, meaning the earth will get dark in eight minutes, forever, chaos covers the whole world except for Gia - a single man under sixty with a boring, poor life. In this crazy moment he calls his son to ask how is he handling this situation, despite having a rare and cold relationship with him for a long while. But during the phone call Gia finds his son is in north pole for an expedition with his fiancée, and not aware of the coming total black out. Father hesitates to tell his son how the world is about to end and hangs up the phone. But he can’t just sit and do nothing about it.
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Israel | 2016 | 18’
Uri returns to Mika’s house for his wallet, and is confronted with devastating, yet not so shocking news. An odd relationship is tested by circumstance, as they fumble their words in search of true meaning and an honest connection.
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Belgium | 2017 | 11’
After his life has been turned upside down, Paul decides to fight back methodically. But his moral compass seems to been challenged as he progresses through his plan, his checklist. How far will it lead him to?
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Russia | 2017 | 11’
Cortisol is one of the steroid hormones and is made in the adrenal glands. Under stressful conditions, cortisol provides the body with glucose by tapping into protein stores via gluconeogenesis in the liver. Long-term stress and elevated cortisol may also be linked to insomnia, chronic fatigue syndrome, thyroid disorders, dementia, depression.
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France | 2017 | 15’
Harri is a lieutenant colonel in the Estonian army. Divorced, he only sees his 10-year old son during school holidays. Harri decides to make up for lost time by going to an adventurous father-son winter trip to an island. Missing the last ferry, Harri decides to take a local ice road over the frozen sea. On the vast snowy desert past memories collide with the present.
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“Bulgaria, Germany | 2017 | 24’
Hidden behind a telescope, Lone, a modern-day hermit falls in love with a quirky woman from the building opposite. He has to cross the threshold to finally meet her… Maybe tomorrow.
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Iran | 2017 | 20’
Maryam’s husband died in front of her eyes and she just watches until he dies.
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Bulgaria | 2017 | 15’
Hristo, a 30-year old well educated man, is living off the grid for a while. His sister arranges a job interview for him. The meeting with the boss turns out really interesting for both of them.
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Macedonia | 2017 | 19’
A young teacher is sent to a remote village in the mountains to teach the children who live there. The winter is cold and long, and the children never seem to come. Instead, the young teacher meets an old lady who used to work in the school and who promises her that the children will come once she learns how to light a fire.
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Russia | 2017 | 23’
This is a story of son and his father. They have many secrets from each other. Soon they will recognize them.
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Australia | 2017 | 17’
Two different cultures, two different sets of values, clash unexpectedly. An Iranian immi-grant finds himself in a physical altercation with two Australian youths on a public bus after challenging their antisocial behaviour.
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Sweden | 2017 | 8’
A woman in a tattered wedding gown wakes in the forest to the sound of a deafening car horn. She finds her husband in the crashed car nearby. He’s in bad shape but alive. In the wrecked interior, they start to talk about their relationship, which soon seems to be as demolished as their Saab.
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Iran | 2016 | 11’
The movie is the story of human life in the sewage systems in which people from upper floors make their social environment dirty.
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France | 2017 | 14’
Françoise is a company director. She is under the perverse psychological influence of her superior. But is it real or is it an hallucination caused by her anguish?
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Greece | 2016 | 20’
A woman, her doctor, a piano student, a man, his wife and a cat. What connects these people? What separates them? Who is Helga? Where is Lund?
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Italy | 2017 | 15’
Inspired by the last days of the Marchesa of Mantua, a key figure of the Italian Renaissance, tells the imaginary encounter between Isabella d’Este and her son’s lover, Isabella Boschet-ti. The clash / confrontation between two women of age, extraction and culture different but in love, each one in their own way, of the same man.
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Finland | 2017 | 15’
Falling down due to a personal tragedy may save a person from themselves. Matti has drifted into a double life, unable of taking responsibility for his actions and their effects on those close to him.
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France | 2016 | 7’
In a bar in Tokyo, a man arrives at the counter. He notices a woman and decides to approach her.
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Russia | 2017 | 13’
he young woman gets the last chance to please her mom. She just has not to spoil her funeral.
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France | 2016 | 18’
Christophe, in his thirties, black, passes a job interview in the company where his girlfriend, Emma, works. The same night, convinced he got the job, the couple celebrates the event. But in the heat of the moment, Christophe asks himself if he will be chosen for his skills or if he received special treatment. The evening has only just begun...
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Spain | 2016 | 20’
A screenwriter contacts a prostitute to research a character of his new script.
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Australia | 2016 | 20’
A married couple is woken in the dead of night by a mysterious phone call. Unable to sleep, they are drawn into an unsettling examination of their fears and desires.
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Iran | 2017 | 15’
A man who wants to pass the border hunts a ram and decides to escape disguised as the animal.
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France | 2016 | 18’
It is early morning, back from a fishing trip. Lounes comes along with a jerrican of petrol in his hand. Right there, in the middle of the shacks, he’s going to try to set himself alight. Up in the surrounding mountains, Rachid, a clandestine cab driver, is taking Ounissa, a young village girl to Tizi-Ouzou-sur-mer, along with a huge frozen fish. Quick! It’s getting hot already this morning, the countdown’s begun. In the evening, as our fish has reached the shore at last… Miracle! It’s coming...
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Serbia | 2016 | 24’
A family of three are packing to emigrate to Canada from Belgrade. When Fluffy, a gigantic prize teddy bear turns up at the door, the parents must decide whether or not they have room for their daughter’s new friend.
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France | 2017 | 20’
After their wedding, a young couple has to discover love for the first time. The weight of tradition makes the first step painful, frightening, exciting and violent. Clashes involving impulses, traditions and feelings are expressed only by body language.
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Spain | 2016 | 19’
After the death of their son, David and Elena try to keep the enthusiasm of living, even though they have to go to Lithuania.
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Bulgaria, Croatia | 2017 | 21’
In a small village, a bus stops at the only intersection, where the traffic light is stuck on red. The bus driver, refuses to move forward which provokes a conflict with the passengers and the local law enforcement. A story about the funny side of apathy, selfishness, and loneliness in a world where following the rules is a misunderstanding.
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Israel | 2017 | 26’
Synopsis Leah works as a maid in the hotel during the day, while Meital, her daughter, sings at the hotel’s lobby at night. They live trapped in their relationship, surrounded by the Dead Sea.
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France | 2016 | 9’
Three sisters go about their everyday life in New Orleans in the absence of their missing brother.
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France | 2016 | 14’
Tom, a Flemish comedian used to doing cartoon character’s voices, replaces offhand a dou-bler friend. He finds himself in the studio of a pornographic french speaking film. Catherine, an experienced actress, will be his partn.
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Romania, Italy | 2017 | 11’
A black and white short mute film, that underlines how ironical life can be when you don’t see what lies right in front of you.
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France | 2017 | 18’
Two graphic designers at work, by mistake, start playing with an empty scanner’s possibilities. They venture into assumptions, eventually open up to each other, and let go of the strange images, until they let go of themselves.
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