Documentary Full-length (official selection 15'th)
69 MINUTES OF 86 DAYS

Norway | 2017 | 69’

In the middle of a crowd of people on the run, a 3-year-old Lean slowly emerges. She takes in her surroundings between hundreds of adult trouser legs. Aware of the situation she and her family find themselves in, with childlike wonder she continues her journey and with every step, she is closer to her grandfather in Sweden.

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MR. GAY SYRIA

Turkey | 2017 | 84’

Mr. Gay Syria follows two gay Syrian refugees who are trying to rebuild their lives. Husein is a barber in Istanbul living a double life between his conservative family and his gay identity. Mahmoud is the founder of Syria’s LGBTI movement and is a refugee in Berlin. What brings them together is a dream: to participate in an international beauty contest as an escape from their trapped lives and an answer to their invisibility.

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TONINO

Italy | 2017 | 78’

Is a documentary film dedicated to Tonino Guerra an internationally renowned Italian, poet, artist, novelist, screenwriter and genius, who collaborated with Federico Fellini, Michelangelo Antonioni, Francesco Rosi, Andrei Tarkovsky, Theo Angelopoulos and other greats of Italian and world cinema, writing film as “Amarcord”, “Ginger and Fred” , “Blow-Up”, “Red Desert” ,“Zabriskie Point” and “Nostalghia”. One of the greatest writers of our time. 

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BLOOD AND THE MOON

Italy, Yemen | 2017 | 82’

Child marriage around the region of Al-Qaeda. What can happen in the mind of a child bride who is hampered the possibility of a healthy mental and physical development. And what can happen in the mind of a frail child suffering and silent abandoned to itself?

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SIBERIAN LOVE

Germany | 2016 | 80’

What does a woman need to be happy and fulfilled? After 20 years of living in Berlin, the director Olga Delane goes back to her roots in a small Siberian village, where she is confronted with traditional views of relationships, life and love.

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JEFFREY

Dominican Republic, France | 2017 | 78’

Twelve-year-old Jeffrey has the responsibilities of an adult, working as a windshield washer on the busy streets of Santo Domingo to help his mom make ends meet at home. But he has big plans to become a reggaeton singer. In collaboration with his older brother Jeyson, he composes and records songs about his neighbourhood, his way of life, and his dreams for the future.

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THE CHARRO OF TOLUQUILLA

Mexico | 2016 | 90’

The Charro of Toluquilla is a mariachi singer that became a braggart and a womanizer, fascinated by the chauvinistic vintage Mexican movie characters with one difference: he got AIDS.

He must choose between keeping this fantasy lifestyle or raising his little daughter, who was miraculously born without the virus.

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