Dielli serves community service at a library while his father battles alcohol addiction. After a car accident, they make a promise to change. But when his father relapses, their relationship crumbles, testing Dielli’s dreams and loyalty. This poignant drama explores addiction, forgiveness, and the power of love, revealing the strength and fragility of family bonds. A heartfelt film of second chances, resilience, and hope in the face of adversity.
In Siegfried Fruhauf’s dream-like etude, human traces from an unimaginably distant past appear as an intensified vision of the origin of painting. Cave Painting leads us to real natural phenomena that have been shaped by civilization.
Death of a beloved pet is a difficult thing to deal with, and even though we try to prepare for it, it always seems to come too soon. This is the story of a boy and his dog Dede, who passes away suddenly and the boy is left alone with his grief. In the end, he finds out that just because Dede is dead doesn’t mean that she is completely gone.
Due to the war with Russia, 12-year-old Misha is uprooted from his home city of Kyiv and forced to flee to a small Polish town. Struggling to adjust to his new reality and desperate to hold on to the memories of his past life, Misha clings to his phone as a lifeline to his friends and the adventures they left behind.
16-year old Sebastian grew up in one of the most dangerous hoods in Coventry, where drugs and murder do hurt, but shock no one. A year ago, Sebastian, his younger sister and mom escaped from his abusive father and their neighborhood. Now, in a new place, Sebastian is planning his future: He is a talented rapper, but doesn't want to be famous. It's better to be a barber and have a safe, peaceful life.
András, a single parent, struggles to find a way to connect to her daughter, Anna as they are both occupied by the everyday challenges of their own individual lives.
Ania and Bartek, two stuttering teenagers undergoing speech therapy, are learning to like themselves and stop being afraid.
A staccato of light flashes breaks through the darkness of the night. For a brief moment, the past becomes visible.
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It grows slowly as an icicle, but one day it drops and crashes. Anka loves cats. And Jesus. In a winter silence the lagoon freezes and the unspoken resurfaces like crack on ice. Mosaic portrait of a small fisherman's village where human to human, human to animal, animal to animal interdepend on a delicate balance of warm tender care and cold emotional cruelty. An eerie story of loneliness and community narrated with magical realism.
Els is in her late-forties, divorced and in love again. For her, falling in love was not easy: it meant that she had to accept, she has a life even if her twenty-year-old daughter wants to die and has already asked for psychiatric euthanasia which her mother can do nothing about. In the storm of her own emotions, mixed with guilt, anger, fear and hope, love is what teaches Els to try stepping forward even if it seems impossible.
Dielli serves community service at a library while his father battles alcohol addiction. After a car accident, they make a promise to change. But when his father relapses, their relationship crumbles, testing Dielli’s dreams and loyalty. This poignant drama explores addiction, forgiveness, and the power of love, revealing the strength and fragility of family bonds. A heartfelt film of second chances, resilience, and hope in the face of adversity.
In Siegfried Fruhauf’s dream-like etude, human traces from an unimaginably distant past appear as an intensified vision of the origin of painting. Cave Painting leads us to real natural phenomena that have been shaped by civilization.
Death of a beloved pet is a difficult thing to deal with, and even though we try to prepare for it, it always seems to come too soon. This is the story of a boy and his dog Dede, who passes away suddenly and the boy is left alone with his grief. In the end, he finds out that just because Dede is dead doesn’t mean that she is completely gone.
Due to the war with Russia, 12-year-old Misha is uprooted from his home city of Kyiv and forced to flee to a small Polish town. Struggling to adjust to his new reality and desperate to hold on to the memories of his past life, Misha clings to his phone as a lifeline to his friends and the adventures they left behind.
16-year old Sebastian grew up in one of the most dangerous hoods in Coventry, where drugs and murder do hurt, but shock no one. A year ago, Sebastian, his younger sister and mom escaped from his abusive father and their neighborhood. Now, in a new place, Sebastian is planning his future: He is a talented rapper, but doesn't want to be famous. It's better to be a barber and have a safe, peaceful life.
Lera has been living in Berlin for almost a year since the outbreak of the full scale invasion in Ukraine. Lera does not feel well in Berlin and makes an impulsive decision to go back to Kyiv for the first time since the war started. On her way, Lera finds out that her family is not in Kyiv and won't arrive until the next day. So she meets her friend Kyrylo, with whom she spends the day, just like before the war. Next morning, Lera meets her mother and sister. She finally feels at home, but still doubts whether she will stay in Kyiv or go back to Berlin.
A tribute to grandparents and an apartment on the top floor of a Bratislava apartment block overlooking the Danube and Austria takes the form of an intimate dialogue. Between generations, past and present, East and West. The apartment in which the filmmaker’s grandparents lived through totalitarian regime and its change until the near present time. In this space, through family experiences and traumas, the author's identity was also formed.
It's an ordinary day in the game Grand Theft Auto V: The streets are crowded with cars; people follow their routines, barbecue in their gardens or sunbath on the beach. And yet the game world is marked by a grave absence: a missing future that was suspended out of safety concerns. Unable to name the void, protagonist Edgar follows the traces of what is missing in the algorithm of his reality. Exploring the uncanniness of his normality, he rediscovers a beautiful yet nightmarish world.
Zuzia, a very sensitive and artistically gifted teenager, struggles with drug addiction. Her brother, who is also the director of the film, tries to find out what happened in the whole family life that Zuzia fell into addiction.
Enchanted by the vibrant Slovak folk culture, Japanese animation artist Kaoru Furuko and Swedish musician Christian Wellbo embarked on an artistic journey into its folklore, folktale, and music, which turned out to be years of exploration. Their shared cultural expedition coalesced as the audiovisual journal, "Tapping Black Boots". Kaoru wove the visual tapestry by collaging her captured inspiration, sketches, animations, journals, and video documentation, which she crafted and accumulated through her journey. Intertwined with this visual narrative, echoes of old Slovak folk songs reimagined in Christian's techno beats. This is like a musical picture book, a journey of two artists following the alluring invitation by the magic of the land.
András, a single parent, struggles to find a way to connect to her daughter, Anna as they are both occupied by the everyday challenges of their own individual lives.
Ania and Bartek, two stuttering teenagers undergoing speech therapy, are learning to like themselves and stop being afraid.
A staccato of light flashes breaks through the darkness of the night. For a brief moment, the past becomes visible.
It grows slowly as an icicle, but one day it drops and crashes. Anka loves cats. And Jesus. In a winter silence the lagoon freezes and the unspoken resurfaces like crack on ice. Mosaic portrait of a small fisherman's village where human to human, human to animal, animal to animal interdepend on a delicate balance of warm tender care and cold emotional cruelty. An eerie story of loneliness and community narrated with magical realism.
Els is in her late-forties, divorced and in love again. For her, falling in love was not easy: it meant that she had to accept, she has a life even if her twenty-year-old daughter wants to die and has already asked for psychiatric euthanasia which her mother can do nothing about. In the storm of her own emotions, mixed with guilt, anger, fear and hope, love is what teaches Els to try stepping forward even if it seems impossible.
Lera has been living in Berlin for almost a year since the outbreak of the full scale invasion in Ukraine. Lera does not feel well in Berlin and makes an impulsive decision to go back to Kyiv for the first time since the war started. On her way, Lera finds out that her family is not in Kyiv and won't arrive until the next day. So she meets her friend Kyrylo, with whom she spends the day, just like before the war. Next morning, Lera meets her mother and sister. She finally feels at home, but still doubts whether she will stay in Kyiv or go back to Berlin.
A tribute to grandparents and an apartment on the top floor of a Bratislava apartment block overlooking the Danube and Austria takes the form of an intimate dialogue. Between generations, past and present, East and West. The apartment in which the filmmaker’s grandparents lived through totalitarian regime and its change until the near present time. In this space, through family experiences and traumas, the author's identity was also formed.
It's an ordinary day in the game Grand Theft Auto V: The streets are crowded with cars; people follow their routines, barbecue in their gardens or sunbath on the beach. And yet the game world is marked by a grave absence: a missing future that was suspended out of safety concerns. Unable to name the void, protagonist Edgar follows the traces of what is missing in the algorithm of his reality. Exploring the uncanniness of his normality, he rediscovers a beautiful yet nightmarish world.
Zuzia, a very sensitive and artistically gifted teenager, struggles with drug addiction. Her brother, who is also the director of the film, tries to find out what happened in the whole family life that Zuzia fell into addiction.
Enchanted by the vibrant Slovak folk culture, Japanese animation artist Kaoru Furuko and Swedish musician Christian Wellbo embarked on an artistic journey into its folklore, folktale, and music, which turned out to be years of exploration. Their shared cultural expedition coalesced as the audiovisual journal, "Tapping Black Boots". Kaoru wove the visual tapestry by collaging her captured inspiration, sketches, animations, journals, and video documentation, which she crafted and accumulated through her journey. Intertwined with this visual narrative, echoes of old Slovak folk songs reimagined in Christian's techno beats. This is like a musical picture book, a journey of two artists following the alluring invitation by the magic of the land.
Mino doesn't need much from life: a bit of cash, a liCle weed and someone to love. Mostly, he hangs out with his big brother Rado and his girl Mona whom he has secretly crush on. They make a living from peCy theKs and live day by day, unLl one fateful evening when Mino's life changes forever.
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The emergency call center 112 receives numerous phone calls every day. The operators take care of and connect with various outside situations as well as within the office, meanwhile setting boundaries and dealing with their own emotions.
The sound of the sea, waves – and a yellow plastic stick floating in them. An image that now seems like an allegorical commonplace of the Anthropocene forms the prelude to Michael Heindl’s Afterlives. It is about the afterlife of all sorts of plastic objects that, when withdrawn from the consumption process, often travel long distances before finally ending up in the sea. In this case, the director has collected the remains of rubbish washed up on the coast of Tanzania, mostly high-quality and still intact plastic, in order to take them back to their fictitious places of origin. In Afterlives, these are partly inconspicuous, partly cleverly prepared everyday contexts in the urban space of Vienna, which here stands pars pro toto for the West’s wasteful, throwaway society.
Starting from a picture of her apartment in Kyiv, filmmaker Mariia Ponomarova remembers the life she has lived there. In three conversations with her mother and her friends, they reminisce about sleepovers, the view from the window and drunken nights on the rooftop. Through these memories, she begins to reclaim the image of her home.
In order to get rid of her useless husband during a weekend trip to the lake, Kerstin hires a hitman named Soeder on the dark net. But this strange and mysterious young man is not what he seems.
Mino doesn't need much from life: a bit of cash, a liCle weed and someone to love. Mostly, he hangs out with his big brother Rado and his girl Mona whom he has secretly crush on. They make a living from peCy theKs and live day by day, unLl one fateful evening when Mino's life changes forever.
The emergency call center 112 receives numerous phone calls every day. The operators take care of and connect with various outside situations as well as within the office, meanwhile setting boundaries and dealing with their own emotions.
The sound of the sea, waves – and a yellow plastic stick floating in them. An image that now seems like an allegorical commonplace of the Anthropocene forms the prelude to Michael Heindl’s Afterlives. It is about the afterlife of all sorts of plastic objects that, when withdrawn from the consumption process, often travel long distances before finally ending up in the sea. In this case, the director has collected the remains of rubbish washed up on the coast of Tanzania, mostly high-quality and still intact plastic, in order to take them back to their fictitious places of origin. In Afterlives, these are partly inconspicuous, partly cleverly prepared everyday contexts in the urban space of Vienna, which here stands pars pro toto for the West’s wasteful, throwaway society.
Starting from a picture of her apartment in Kyiv, filmmaker Mariia Ponomarova remembers the life she has lived there. In three conversations with her mother and her friends, they reminisce about sleepovers, the view from the window and drunken nights on the rooftop. Through these memories, she begins to reclaim the image of her home.
In order to get rid of her useless husband during a weekend trip to the lake, Kerstin hires a hitman named Soeder on the dark net. But this strange and mysterious young man is not what he seems.