fiction, eng subtitles, 16+
Community Gardens / Kolektyviniai sodai by Vytautas Katkus (Lithuania, 2019, 15 min)
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Patriarchal masculinity seems to catch its last breath in the sun. A story about a cold relationship between a father and his son. Their bond, plagued by indifference, disintegrates completely.
2019 Cannes FF (Critics’ Week)
Is That, Like, Your Real Job? by Gintare Parulyte (Luxembourg, Lithuania, 2019, 17 min)
A witty comedy about Ramune, an aspiring Lithuanian actress in Luxembourg, enduring a series of humiliating encounters at the hands of an industry that benefits from making her feel insignificant.
WORLD PREMIERE - in the presence of the director Gintare Parulyte and other members of the film crew.
Mama by Vladimir Kott (Estonia, Russia, 2018, 19 min)
Two young social workers are taking a runaway child back to his mother by ferry. But in the middle of the icy Baltic Sea, something goes wrong.
2019 Clermont-Ferrand ISFF (competition)
Loved Ones / Bliscy by Zofia Kowalewska (Poland, 2018, 14 min)
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Olga’s teenage daughter suddenly goes to the hospital. The mother needs to face not only the child’s disease, but also her ex-husband, whom she has not contacted for years.
One Hundred and Twenty-eight Thousand / Sto dvacet osm tisíc by Ondřej Erban (Czech Republic, 2018, 16 min)
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Right now almost one in ten Czechs over the age of 15 are facing some form of distraint, under which their property is seized to obtain money they owe. Every day more and more people are falling into the debt trap, but Karel is on the other side of the barricade - it is his job to collect their debts.
Tremors / Drżenia by Dawid Bodzak (Poland, 2018, 21 min)
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Imagine that you are in the forest. It is dark, quiet, empty. You do not know why you are there. You suddenly hear a howl. You feel you do not want to be there. You are afraid. You see a wolf and a second one and a third. They come closer and closer to you and surround you. What are you doing now?
2019 Clermont-Ferrand ISFF (Grand Prix)
2019 Prague Short FF (Best Short Film)
2018 Guanajuato IFF (Best International Short Fiction Film)
2018 Kyiv ISFF (Special Mention)
2018 IndieLisboa FF (Schools Award)
Weightlifter / Shtangist by Dmytro Sukholytkyy-Sobchuk (Ukraine, Poland, 2018, 30 min)
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Petro, a professional weightlifter, is preparing for an important competition when he receives tragic news. The hard decision lays upon his shoulders. His inner conflict makes Petro into something more than just a mechanical bundle of muscles.
2018 Warsaw IFF (Short Grand Prix)
Why So Sirius? by Karel Šindelář (Czech Republic, 2018, 15 min)
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No help anywhere, no signal. Too far to reach anywhere on foot. Two scared women, one of which ran over the husband of the other, will sooner or later have to deal with a situation in which no tested procedures apply. No natural patterns of behaviour. A black comedy about the absurdity of human interaction. About life and death. About cars, misunderstanding and a little bit about LARP.