Selection 2013

Ashley Briggs | 2012 | 12′ | UK

A poet awakens needing inspiration. Observing, a divine couple debate. Will the poet find inspiration?

Janez Lapajne | 2012 | 12′ | Slovenia

A multicultural triangle between a shepherd boy and two officers from the opposite sides in a sensual and emotional Alpine story of two tunes and one whistle.

Nicolas Engel | 2011 | 30′ | France

Samuel works in a bookshop. Frustrated that no one reads his writings, he publishes his own book under a pseudonym and puts it in the store.

Ruslan Magomadov | 2012 | 26′ | Russia (Chechen Republic)

Grozny city. This is a story about a man, who has been left behind in the destroyed city at war. He is lonely and he has nowhere to go. All he is left with is his home.

Moritz Krämer | 2012 | 7′ | Germany

A photoshoot. The model Helen is unnerved. Back in the changing room she makes a surprising discovery.

Omar Robert Hamilton | 2013 | 13′ | Egypt

Martin Guggisberg | 2012 | 18′ | Switzerland

Encounters in the hallway of a Swiss housing estate lead to a neighbourly invitation.

Chema García Ibarra | 2013 | 12′ | Spain

They say that if you put your ear to the back of his neck, you can hear the Virgin talk.

Diego Samuele Leone | 2012 | 20′ | Italy

Caterina is a 45 year old Italian woman who has been without a job for months and cannot find another one. So she accepts to work as a carer for Gheorghe, an elderly lively Romanian stuck to a wheelchair.

Yashim Bahamonde & Nelson Mendoza | 2011 | 19′ | Peru

Luca is a jobless guy forced to earn money fast when is threatened of being kicked out his house.

Simon Filliot | 2012 | 10′ | France

There’s nothing easy about mending a bungled child.

Dennis Stein-Schomburg | 2011 | 5′ | Germany

One child is different than the others.

Nicolai Troshinsky | 2013 | 4′ | Spain

A boy, having lost his glasses, can only see one thing in focus at a time.

Gottfried Mentor | 2012 | 7′ | Germany

Two flocks of sheep are searching for companionship. But their shepherds, being at odds with each other, do everything to keep them separated.

Emma De Swaef & Marc James Roels | 2011 | 17′ | Belgium

Forced to return to his naturist roots, Willy bungles his way into noble savagery.

Roger Gómez & Dani Resines | 2011 | 10′ | Spain

Fourteen little kids go over an unsolved football mystery, and they end up teaching an unexpected life lesson to grown-ups.

Benedetta Panisson | 2012 | 20′ | Italy

A scream, but more on the silent side. It’s the voice of venetians, of those who live the city, of its lanes, of its sea.

Frank Müller | 2012 | 22′ | Germany

“House or boat”? With this question Kurt Schultz confronts his family of six in 1957.

Paul Gallasch | 2011 | 29′ | Australia

After Paul’s long-term girlfriend Anna asked him to move out of their home, he has found himself wishing that she had instead died in a tragic accident

Matthew VanDyke | 2013 | 14′ | USA

The story of the Syrian struggle for freedom.

Vito Palmieri | 2013 | 10′ | Italy

Matilde seems to be not quite of this world. Because of her noisy classmates she can barely follow the lessons.

Ali Asgari | 2013 | 15′ | Iran

It’s 3 AM, a boy and a girl are wandering in the city.They are looking for a hospital to cure the girl, but it’s much harder than they thought.

Antonello Murgia | 2012 | 20′ | Italy

The piercing sound of the bar-code scanner punctuates the life of Cynthia, a discontented supermarket cashier.

Angelo Cretella | 2013 | 15′ | Italy

Emilio, a guy as good as its 200 kg, frequently travels, on his tiny scooter, country roads leading to the farm where there is Alida, a prostitute.

David Moreno | 2012 | 13′ | Spain

If your grandfather does not remember anything, cannot do anything on his own, there is an emptiness behind his eyes and he has almost forgotten how to talk … he is a zombie right?

Ewa Brykalska | 2012 | 23′ | Belgium

With the departure of one of its last teachers, the bell tolls for a once glorious music academy. Right in the midst of this apocalyptic environment, two women still find a way to share a moment of grace.

Muriel D’Asembourg | 2012 | 24′ | UK

Two teenage girls find themselves pushed to extremes on the streets of London. Giving mixed signals to the men they meet the boundaries between innocent play and dangerous seduction start to blur.

Nelson Fernandes | 2012 | 3′ | Portugal

Lisa, a lonely girl, has been punished by her mother and she confined herself to her bedroom, where she feeds with her own tears her only friend, a plant.

Neritan Zinxhiria | 2012 | 15′ | Greece

She is alone. The land of the living is far away, while the world of the dead smells like chamomile.

Sylvie Ballyot | 2012 | 30′ | France

Ismail is lonely. His father is missing and even unconditional love that binds him to his mother does not change anything. Ismail wants to become great and have a child.