International Competition

In Libya, a brother and sister invested heart and soul for their country during the 2011 revolution, but each from a different side of the front: he supported Qaddafi, she fought for the "rebels." Now she belongs to the ruling class and fights to defend the oppressed and rehabilitate people like her brother. The consequences of the revolution are far from over, and brother and sister continue their fight for the country they love, but when they both receive threats from all sides, they decide to flee to Tunisia. There they observe the repercussions of war and the fragility of democracy as their disillusionment grows. When your country has been destroyed, how can you rebuild from the rubble?

Danusia and her daughter Basia live far away from the modern world, in tune with the rhythm and laws of nature, among animals and the spirits of the dead. Their enclave brings peace and a sense of security, but also builds within them a longing for contact with other people. Bucolic is a parable about people living in a different way, an affectionate observation that invites curiosity about their world and a desire for a closer look.

Szani, Tina and Emese are three misfit girls who call themselves “Divas”, but they are actually insecure millennials with very different personalities. Szani is particularly vocal, very invested in her looks, lives alone and works in a karaoke bar. Tina is more quiet and spiritual, she’s vegan and practices yoga. Emese is probably the most restless and the least confident of the three. Throughout the process until their final exams, they let director Máté Kőrösi in with his camera, to take a look of what’s behind their perfect make-up. Meanwhile, the girls prepare themselves to move on to their adulthood.

The Moscow metro is one of the ten largest subways in the world. It covers more than 400 km and welcomes 7 million passengers a day. Many stations resemble exhibition halls or cathedrals, with the dramatic history of Soviet Russia depicted on its walls. Nowadays, the underground reality of the subway reflects the reality of the world above. This is a road movie encapsulated in the Moscow metro system and filmed over the course of one year: a documentary film that observes cultural and social issues in modern Russia. It is a study with elements of absurdist tragicomedy, with no central characters; instead, it is a wide-angle portrait of society with all the joys and challenges that it entails.

Nastya was six years old, when three missiles fired by the Russian army hit her house on New Year's Eve. She survived but lost her father, childhood and faith in life. For those like her, the war has become a daily reality, the landscape outside the window. Yet Nastya has dreams. Like every girl, she longs for a new house and a dog and keeps on writing letters to Santa asking him to bring her father back.

The incredible life story of a Tatar Soviet soldier who was captured by the Germans Nazis during World War II and sent to one of Stalin’s brutal camps where the love for an unknown girl becomes his salvation. Today, his daughter Sana traces the path of her silent father and tries to understand what made him the man she knew as a child, through his diaries and public archives. The filmmaker accompanies the daughter in her journey to find traces of those millions of Soviet soldiers left out of the narrative of the global war. She “re-appropriates” the archival footage through mixed techniques of double pass, zoom-in and colorization looking for the soul of the image. Softly but determinately, the film starts breaking sixty years of silence.

After the death of his grandmother Emma, Robin and his mother Claudie find a collection of letters sent to Emma by a girl named Marcelle. Marcelle and Emma met and secretly loved each other in the 1920s during they adolescence, before their ways separated. From the sanatorium where she was hospitalized to treat tuberculosis, Marcelle wrote Emma letters that still burn with passion. At the sanatorium, rebellious Marcelle, nicknamed ‘Ultraviolette’, led a group of three young sick women. Through Marcelle’s suggestive letters, the film breaks down the barriers of time combining archive footages, avant-garde films, and music to create a sensuous, poetic atmosphere of absolute love, the profile of a courageous woman, ahead of her time.