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Film blockShort film competition "IN THE HEART OF EUROPE"
18:00
14. Mar
85 min.
Dielli
Director(s): Dritero MehmetajXK, CZ20 min.2023

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.

Cave Painting
Director(s): Siegfried A. FruhaufAT14 min.2023

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.

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Deniska umřela
Director(s): Philippe KastnerCZ8 min.2023

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.

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Say ”Cześć”
Director(s): Veronika Shuster, Nata OnyshUA16 min.2023

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.

Swaggiest of the Swaggiest
Director(s): Martina Buchelová, Debora PastirčákováSK27 min.2023

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.

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Film blockShort film competition "IN THE HEART OF EUROPE"
15:45
15. Mar
Metronóm
Director(s): Péter Lehr JuhászHU18 min.2024

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.

Echo
Director(s): Emi BuchwaldPL20 min.2023

Ania and Bartek, two stuttering teenagers undergoing speech therapy, are learning to like themselves and stop being afraid.

Prelude
Director(s): Kanter EginhartzAT, DE3 min.2022

A staccato of light flashes breaks through the darkness of the night. For a brief moment, the past becomes visible.

Zima
Director(s): Tomek Popakul, Kasumi OzekiPL26 min.2023

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.

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Falling
Director(s): Anna GyimesiHU, BE, PT16 min.2023

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.

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Film was already screened
Film blockShort film competition "IN THE HEART OF EUROPE"
20:15
15. Mar
Dielli
Director(s): Dritero MehmetajXK, CZ20 min.2023

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.

Cave Painting
Director(s): Siegfried A. FruhaufAT14 min.2023

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.

trailer
Deniska umřela
Director(s): Philippe KastnerCZ8 min.2023

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.

trailer
Say ”Cześć”
Director(s): Veronika Shuster, Nata OnyshUA16 min.2023

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.

Swaggiest of the Swaggiest
Director(s): Martina Buchelová, Debora PastirčákováSK27 min.2023

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.

Film was already screened
Film blockShort film competition "IN THE HEART OF EUROPE"
18:30
16. Mar
As it was
Director(s): Anastasiia Solonevych, Damian KocurPL, UA15 min.2023

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.

Konštanta - rozlúčka s bytom
Director(s): Paula ĎurinováSK, DE16 min.2023

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.

Kinderfilm
Director(s): Total Refusal (Robin Klengel, Leonhard Müllner, Michael Stumpf)AT11 min.2023

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.

Moja siostra
Director(s): Mariusz RusińskiPL30 min.2023

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.

Tapping Black Boots
Director(s): Christian Wellbo, Kaoru FurukoSK, SE11 min.2023

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.

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Film was already screened
Film blockShort film competition "IN THE HEART OF EUROPE"
21:00
16. Mar
Metronóm
Director(s): Péter Lehr JuhászHU18 min.2024

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.

Echo
Director(s): Emi BuchwaldPL20 min.2023

Ania and Bartek, two stuttering teenagers undergoing speech therapy, are learning to like themselves and stop being afraid.

Prelude
Director(s): Kanter EginhartzAT, DE3 min.2022

A staccato of light flashes breaks through the darkness of the night. For a brief moment, the past becomes visible.

Zima
Director(s): Tomek Popakul, Kasumi OzekiPL26 min.2023

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.

trailer
Falling
Director(s): Anna GyimesiHU, BE, PT16 min.2023

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.

trailer
Film was already screened
Film blockShort film competition "IN THE HEART OF EUROPE"
15:30
17. Mar
As it was
Director(s): Anastasiia Solonevych, Damian KocurPL, UA15 min.2023

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.

Konštanta - rozlúčka s bytom
Director(s): Paula ĎurinováSK, DE16 min.2023

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.

Kinderfilm
Director(s): Total Refusal (Robin Klengel, Leonhard Müllner, Michael Stumpf)AT11 min.2023

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.

Moja siostra
Director(s): Mariusz RusińskiPL30 min.2023

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.

Tapping Black Boots
Director(s): Christian Wellbo, Kaoru FurukoSK, SE11 min.2023

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.

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Film was already screened
Film blockShort film competition "IN THE HEART OF EUROPE"
18:15
17. Mar
Oči plné piesku
Director(s): Juraj JanišSK, CZ30 min.2023

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.

Calls
Director(s): Ming-Wei ChiangPL18 min.2022

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.

Afterlives
Director(s): Michael HeindlAT, TZ3 min.2022

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.

Three Windows on South West
Director(s): Mariia PonomarovaUA, NL8 min.2023

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.

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Soeder
Director(s): Raoul BruckAT26 min.2024

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.

Film was already screened
Film blockShort film competition "IN THE HEART OF EUROPE"
15:45
18. Mar
Oči plné piesku
Director(s): Juraj JanišSK, CZ30 min.2023

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.

Calls
Director(s): Ming-Wei ChiangPL18 min.2022

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.

Afterlives
Director(s): Michael HeindlAT, TZ3 min.2022

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.

Three Windows on South West
Director(s): Mariia PonomarovaUA, NL8 min.2023

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.

trailer
Soeder
Director(s): Raoul BruckAT26 min.2024

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.

Film was already screened