The competition consists of four sections:

The Legend of Psaltery
The Legend of Psaltery / Паданне пра гуслі

A brave heart and the magic power of music can stop the war. […]
Tatiana Koublitskaja

Interstate 8
Interstate 8

In the southern United States, two young women meet by chance in the back of a police car and, without saying a word, experience the injustice hovering above them. […]
Anne Thieme

Shadows of your childhood
Shadows of your childhood / Teni tvoego detstva

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

Shoe Shiner
Shoe Shiner / El Limpia Botas

International Youth Jury Award for Best Short Fiction Film Children’s Juries Award (over 13 years old) for Best Short Fiction Film Contextualized in Chile 1989, this film narrates the story of Diego, an 11 years old shoe shiner. It portrays his struggle to survive and the loss of his innocence. […]
Andrés Gallegos

o28
o28

In Lisbon, a German married couple is about to get aboard the legendary n°28 tramway. But how should you react when the brakes let go and embark you on a vertiginous race… with a baby on board. […]
Otalia Caussé
Geoffroy Collin
Louise Grardel
Antoine Marchand
Robin Merle
Fabien Meyran

Leaf
Leaf / Lístek

Huge sailor gets an autumn leaf from a small girl. It reminds him of his home. How long he has not been there? He runs to meet his old parents. What will he find there? […]
Aliona Baranova

A Fool God
A Fool God

Mesi’s mom just died. Her grandma blames it on the little girl who shouldn’t have performed a ritual reserved to men. Mesi decides to reinterpret a tale to prove her grandmother that whoever considers her guilty for trying her best is a fool – God included. […]
Hiwot Admasu Getaneh

Los Lobos
Los Lobos

International Jury Award for Best Direction in a Feature Film Hellenic parliament “Human Values” Award Along with their mother Lucia, the brothers Max and Leo have just crossed the border from Mexico into the United States in search of a better life. But it is not easy for them to gain a foothold in their […]
Samuel Kishi Leopo

Sandlines, the Story of History
Sandlines, the Story of History

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

The American Bull
The American Bull / Gave Amricaei

In a border village between Iran and Iraq, a group of villagers is doing animal husbandry. Saheb, the teenage boy who owns the only male American bull, is heavily dependent on his bull and earns money by its servicing for breeding. […]
Fatemeh Tousi