TRADITION

Soso Bliadze

Germany, Georgia / 2019, 22 min

Two German tourists, Christian(32) and Daniel(35) are visiting Georgia as a tourists. They are searching for a food in a village and suddenly they are invited on a Georgian wedding. Their real adventures starts here.

Contacts: Eva Blondiau (Color of May)
blondiau@colorofmay.com

THE BITE

Pedro Neves Marques

Portugal / 2019, 26 min

Between a house in the Atlantic forest and a genetically-modified mosquito factory near São Paulo, a polyamorous, non-binary relationship struggles to survive an epidemic spreading across Brazil.

Contacts: Filipa Henriques, distributor Portugal Film pf@portugalfilm.org

MATRIOCHKAS

Bérangère McNeese

Belgium / 2019, 24 min

Anna is 16, lives with her young mother. It's the end of a summer defined by her mom's flings and conquests, but during which Anna begins to discover her own sexuality. As Anna learns she's pregnant, she finds support where she least expects it.

Contacts: Anne-Françoise Reynders (HELICOTRONC) anne-francoise@helicotronc.com production@helicotronc.com

SUPPORTER

Sergey Nayda

Ukraine / 2019, 7 min

By delivering cultural values from other dimension the courier-soldier finds himself in Ukrainian reality.

Contacts: likethismessage@gmail.com

SURROGATE

Stas Santimov

Ukraine / 2020, 6 min

A man destroys the nest of an unknown creepy creature. But it's not the most horrible creature he will meet tonight.

Contacts: santimov.art@gmail.com

TILIA

Tetiana Usova

Ukraine / 2020, 18 min

Can we trust our memory? When almost all the photos are long lost, only the tilia blossom keeps the memories of your close one.

Contacts: taniausowa@gmail.com

KACHALKA

Gar O’Rourke

Іreland, Ukraine / 2019, 9 min

(OUT OF COMPETITION)

A cinematic portrait of Kyiv’s Soviet scrap metal ‘Kachalka' gym — the world's most hardcore gym.

Contacts: gar@ruff.studio

METAWORK

Vasyl Lyah

Ukraine / 2019, 25 min

Ihor works from home in a taxi answering service. He seems to be imprisoned in his room in a depressing apartment block opposite the pompous Orthodox cathedral. To escape the hopelessness, Ihor tries to interpret his precarious daily life as creatively as possible. Growing sunflowers on his balcony and creating rotoscoping animation on an out-of-date black&white printer become important rituals of resistance.

Contacts: vashilyah@gmail.com, freefilmers.ua@gmail.com

CIRQUE

Max Ksjonda

Ukraine / 2019, 11 min

9-year-old Svetka, a curious schoolgirl, is on the way to the local circus with her mother. She notices things that adults do not pay attention to whatsoever. Overwhelmed by her observations, Svetka loses her interest in the circus itself, while her mother enjoys it like a child.

Contacts: Jeanna Koba, producer j.koba@essehouse.com

HOW TO DISAPPEAR

Robin Klengel, Leonhard Müllner, Michael Stumpf

Austria / 2020, 21 min

Is it possible to desert in a shooter game? Along this question, "How to Disappear" reflects on war and game, discipline and disobedience. For the history of defiance is as old as the history of war - and yet the act of desertion goes beyond the game's space of action.

Contacts: Marija Milovanovic, distributor marija@refreshingfilms.com

YANDERE

William Laboury

France / 2019, 21 min

Maïko is Tommy’s tiny holographic girlfriend. Her love for him knows no bounds. But when Tommy breaks up with her for another girl, a real one, Maïko experiences an intense new feeling and discovers the taste of her tears. Those tears will transform her flesh and give her a taste for blood…

Contacts: Camille Fréret (KAZAK Productions) festival@kazakproductions.fr

KASITERIT

Riar Rizaldi

Indonesia / 2019, 18 min

Natasha, a solar-powered A.I. voice machine, traces its genealogy and the truth of its origin. This investigation leads Natasha to meet its ancestor: the inorganic tin extracted from Bangka Island.

Contacts: Riar Rizaldi, rizaldiriar@gmail.com

ON A MOUNTAIN

Pier-Luc Latulippe

Canada / 2019, 12 min

Returning from a party, as the day dawns, two young men cross a rich neighborhood, discussing its architecture with its facades without imperfections and their own desires.

Contacts: Serge Abiaad (La Distributrice de films) serge@ladistributrice.ca

MATERNITÉ

Natali Ilchuk

Ukraine, France / 2019, 17 min

A film about the fatigue of a mother of two kids who lives constantly in a state of physical and emotional exhaustion.

Contacts: natalia.ilchuck@gmail.com

CIRCULATION

Oleksiy Radynski

Ukraine / 2020, 11 min

Three-years-long observation of Kyiv's moving landscape, condensed into 10 minutes of screen time.

Contacts: lyubzja.knorozok@gmail.com

SAVE ME, DOCTOR!

Dmytro Hreshko

Ukraine / 2019, 19 min

SAVE ME, DOCTOR! tells a story of an ambulance crew that works in Kyiv during on New Year's Eve. The film revolves around three main characters — a doctor, a paramedic and a driver, as well as their patients, whom they encounter during the work shift.

Contacts: jetpeks@gmail.com

UNTIL IT TURNS BLACK

Anastasiia Falileieva

Ukraine / 2019, 7 min

When the truth hurts and nothing can be changed, it seems like escape to the world of dreams is the only way out. Fantasy could relieve the pain, but is that a magic pill?

fContacts: anasyafa@gmail.com

THE CARPET

Natasha Kyselova

Ukraine / 2019, 20 min

Tolik is a teenager, who lives with his mother in a front line village. Each day she askes him to clean on the carpet, but Tolik doesn't care: he and his friends have a buiseness — they sale a fish. Besides, he fals in love with a young woman and helps her with a baby. There through all of the vital difficulties, nobody notices how the war comes...

Contacts: kiselnat96@gmail.com

ELECTRIC SWAN

Konstantina Kotzamani

France, Greece / 2019, 39 min

Buildings are not supposed to move. But on Avenida Libertador 2050 , a building moves and the ceiling shivers, causing a strange nausea that devours its residents. Those who live on the top are afraid they'll fall - the ones who live beneath are afraid they'll drown.

Contacts: Anaïs Gagliardi (Ecce Films)

distribution@eccefilms.fr

ЮНАК [JUˈNɅK]

Georgi Stamenov

Bulgaria / 2019, 8 min

Юнак без рана не може.
А brave fellow is bound to have wounds.

Contacts: Georgi Stamenov

georgi.stamenov@network.rca.ac.uk

STAY AWAKE, BE READY

Pham Thien An

Vietnam / 2019, 14 min

A motorbike crash happening before the street stalls on a street corner was embedded in the mysterious story of three young men.

Contacts: Salvo Cutaia

lightsonteam@gmail.com

HUNTSVILLE STATION

Jamie Meltzer, Chris Filippone

USA / 2020, 13 min

Every weekday, dozens of inmates are released on parole from Huntsville State Penitentiary, the largest prison release centre in Texas. With a bus ticket voucher and a $100 release cheque, most of them take in their first moments out of prison with phone calls, cigarettes and quiet reflection at the Greyhound station up the block. In this pivotal moment between incarceration and freedom, a myriad of complicated emotions arise before the bus arrives to take them home. A tender observation.

Contacts: chris.a.filippone@gmail.com

jmelt@stanford.edu

songpoemcd@yahoo.com