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Winter Lake
Winter Lake / Talvinen järvi
Finland /
Color /
15' /
2019
Children’s Juries Award (up to 12 years old) for Best short & medium length documentary “My friends can’t believe I go camping in winter. They think it’s crazy”. But 13 year old Emika loves it. It’s just as beautiful as in summertime. “You just need a good tent and sleeping bag, and warm clothes”. Every […]
Petteri Saario
The Golden Buttons
The Golden Buttons / Золотые пуговицы
Russia /
Color /
20' /
2020
“Everyone can accomplish a heroic act in their life”, says the instructor. But such a destiny is prepared for volunteer teenagers in the presidential school of cadets that trains them to serve in the National Guard created by Putin in 2016. Alex Evstigneev captures these future heroes and reveals their extreme fragility on the verge […]
Alex Evstigneev
Tales from the Prison Cell
Tales from the Prison Cell / Mesék a zárkából
Croatia, Hungary, United Kingdom /
Color /
84' /
2020
Can the power of imagination amend challenged or broken relationships? Three imprisoned fathers write fairy tales that are turned into short films featuring their own family members.This creative attempt to reconnect and heal is bitter-sweet, but with an uncertain outcome.The film explores family relationships showing how being in jail can affect the lives of a […]
Abel Visky
Shadows of your childhood
Shadows of your childhood / Teni tvoego detstva
Russia /
Color /
22' /
2019
Our house becomes shrouded in the silence of night. It grows long shadows accentuated by the random sparks of the kerosene lamp. For little Stesha, the darkness becomes a way into another world that is both frightening and fascinating. Fragments of elusive memories, voices and shimmers of light–these are the flickering sensations of childhood, and […]
Mikhail Gorobchuk
Sandlines, the Story of History
Sandlines, the Story of History
Irak /
Color /
61' /
2020
Children’s Juries Award (over 13 years old) for Best Feature Documentary The children of a mountain village near Mosul reenact a century of Iraqi history, from the secret agreement of Sykes/Picot signed in 1916 to the realm of terror established by the Islamic State in 2016. The children revisit their past to understand their present. […]
Francis Alÿs
Pearl of the desert
Pearl of the desert / Maru Ro Moti
India, South Korea /
Color /
84' /
2019
Kids & Docs Jury Award for Best Feature Documentary Moti Kahn, a 12-year-old Indian boy, is talented in singing. He loves singing the Manganiyar songs, a big part of which has been the long-time tradition of artist-hereditary patron relationship.But Moti finds singing for their patrons humiliating as they are still treated lowly,and he aspires to […]
Pushpendra Singh
Our Island
Our Island / Ons Eiland
Netherlands /
Color /
16' /
2019
In an uninhabited island in the corner of the province of Noord-Holland, two sisters Shanna(11) and Mirte (14) go on adventure. Mirte has Down syndrome and cannot catch up with her younger sister. For Shanna, this is difficult to accept. While Shanna focuses on making new inventions, she realizes that she is outgrowing her older […]
Lennah Koster
Orchestra from the Land of Silence
Orchestra from the Land of Silence / Orchester z krajiny ticha
Slovakia /
Color /
30' /
2020
Zohra is the first all-female orchestra of Afghanistan. Girls are preparing for their journey to play a concert in Europe. We see their everyday reality in today’s Afghanistan through the eyes of a 16 year old girl, Marzia. After arriving in Europe an unexpected thing happens and four members of the orchestra decide to run […]
Lucia Kasova
My other son
My Other Son / Mi Otro Hijo
Argentina /
Color /
11' /
2019
Sometimes with the sons, it happens as with the drawing, they do not come out as you imagined. This is Gusti’s story. A father who goes through bewilderment and denial, to the most unconditional love for his new son, upon discovering that he has Down Syndrome. […]
Gustavo Alonso
Milady
Milady
Italy /
Color /
19' /
2019
Colombia, 1995. A baby girl named Milady is welcomed with open arms by her new parents,who change her name to Giulia. Rome, 2017, Giulia needs to start researching her own origins through the encounter with some young people who share her same experience. This is the story of Francesca, Ananth, Giulia and Francesco, each of […]
Giulia Tivelli
Flavia Scardini