directed by Annie Silverstein/ Raised by a single mother on an isolated subdivision in rural Texas, fourteen-year-old Leila’s deepest connection is with her pack of rescued dogs. When her beloved pit bull is stolen by an aspiring dog fighter, Leila is forced to stand up for herself, at the cost of her own innocence. “I […]

directed by Atsuko Hirayanagi/ Rooked into taking over her niece’s English lessons, Setsuko, a fifty-five-year-old “office lady” in Tokyo, is at first taken aback by the blond wig and new identity as “Lucy” the unconventional teacher gives her — but being “Lucy” awakens desires Setsuko never knew she had. Oh Lucy! is a charmingly absurdist […]

directed by György Mór Kárpáti/ Otto works as a conveyor for a food store in Budapest. When his van breaks down during a countryside delivery, he finds himself on an archaeological excavation site. Otto spends one day on the excavation. “I wanted to make a film about archaeology, about an outsider man who encounters distant past […]

directed by Sergey Pikalov/ “Sonuncu” (“The last one”) is a short film about World War II veteran, who is the last alive person in the world. Lonely old man is lost in time, in space … He has been living in his own world for a long time, talking with a fridge, and hiding the […]

directed by Petra Szöcs/ 1990, Cluj, Romania. Three children re-enact Ceausescu’s execution. Who will be the victim? “The most important thing about the film is not the story, but the atmosphere. It follows three children who are playfully re-enacting the execution of the Romanian communist leader, Nicolae Ceaușescu and his wife, Elena, in the Romanian […]

directed by Daisy Jacobs/ Life-size animated characters tell the stark and darkly humorous tale of caring for an elderly parent. ‘You want to put her in a home; you tell her!’ hisses one brother to the other. But Mother won’t go, and their own lives unravel as she clings on. “I went to Central St […]

directed by Stefan Ivancic/ Before moving abroad, sixteen-year-old Isidora spends a few days at her childhood countryside house. Lost in the summer’s stillness, she fears the coming changes… “The main inspiration for this story was my own life experi- ence. The film deals with the story of a girl who is going to study abroad […]

directed by Simón Mesa Soto/ Leidi lives with her mom and her baby. Her boyfriend, Alexis, hasn’t shown up in days. That sunny morning, after she bathed her baby, Leidi was sent to buy plantains. Outiside, a guy tells her he has seen Alexis with another girl. Leidi won’t return home until she finds the […]

directed by Dea Kulumbegashvili/ A usual family morning begins to unravel when hidden tensions emerge. “I grew up in a really tiny place on the border of Azerbaijan with my grandparents during the civil war and collapse of the Soviet Union. We didn’t have electricity, so I actually never really got to watch films when […]

directed by Hallvar Witzø/ Four generations, each with a crisis, set in four different parts of Norway on the Norwegian Independence Day. “The reason I made this movie was to strip off and be totally naked, to do something artistically challenging that I had never done before, something that I couldn’t dodge in the editing […]