The competition consists of four sections:
The Legend of Psaltery
The Legend of Psaltery / Паданне пра гуслі
Belarus /
Color /
10' /
2019
A brave heart and the magic power of music can stop the war. […]
Tatiana Koublitskaja
Interstate 8
Interstate 8
Germany, USA /
Color /
15' /
2019
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
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
Shoe Shiner
Shoe Shiner / El Limpia Botas
Chile /
Color /
17' /
2018
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
France /
Color /
6' /
2019
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
Belarus, Czech Republic /
Color /
6' /
2020
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
France /
Color /
18' /
2019
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
Mexico /
Color /
94' /
2019
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
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
The American Bull
The American Bull / Gave Amricaei
Iran /
Color /
15' /
2019
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