國際競賽－長片

Woman See Lot of Things

This film is an experimental documentary about three female ex-child combatants who were participants in the Liberian and Sierra Leonean civil wars of the 1990s. During these decade-long civil wars, numerous girls were abducted, raped and forcibly recruited. Others volunteered in order to find protection. They were used as fighters, sex-slaves and labourers by all parties to the conflicts...

Stroke

Katarina Peters loves Boris so much that when he had a STROKE her love and devotion was the main cure, turning to art as a means of survival. Through a series of impressionistic dream sequences, Peters recreates her tortured state of mind. Wildly cinematic, Stroke is an emotional tour de force. Elegy to love and creativity.

Still Life

Within an image, another one is always hiding. Using only archive footage and without words, Still Life aims to rediscover and delve into the opacity of images made during the 48 years (1926-1974) of Portuguese dictatorship (news, war footage, propaganda documentaries, photos of political prisoners and also previously never seen rushes) in order to foster new interpretations.

SHONENKO

An one-hour documentary, Shonenko reveals the unknown stories of Taiwanese child laborers, who built fighter planes in the Japanese naval arsenals during the Second World War. They left their families, homelands and childhood with the dream of receiving an education. But their dream was to be shattered – first by the war and again by cruel post-war politics in Taiwan, Japan and China.

Odessa... Odessa!

Odessa …Odessa embarks upon a journey from the Ukrainian city through ? Little Odessa ?, New York and Ashdod, Israel. The film brings together the story of a Jewish community, today spread around three continents that once populated the city. It follows a few exuberant characters, and portrays their hopes, illusions, dreams and wanderings. Traveling through time and place around the community, the film speaks the story of all the Diasporas.

My Grandmother's House

My Grandmother's House looks into the peculiar relationship between 6-year-old Marina and her 75-year-old grandmother. The antiquated upbringing imposed by the grandmother leads the girl to rebel against her and against everything she tries to correct in her behavior, although Marina?s attitude gradually evolves to become more mature and reflexive.

Mr. Pilipenko and His Submarine

What would you do with a pile of scrap metal, some old spare parts and 30 years to kill in the Ukrainian steppe? Vladimir Pilipenko built a submersible. Life size. And in the village lake, his submersible worked! But Vladimir has set his sights on something bigger than the local pond. The film explores the power of a lifelong ambition, fulfilled despite geographic obstacles and political upheavals.

Mother For Life

Mother for Life is a documentary about an extended family of three generations, followed for three decades. The social climb of a homeless family beginning in the 1970`s was only possible due to the binding power of “general mama”. Her motto “one for all and all for one” held and bound the family together. Still, things are not what they used to be. The family’s strength is weakening, mama is dying…

Moskatchka

Using tableau-like takes of different places of the Muscovite suburb (Moskatchka), the poor quarter of the Latvian capital Riga, the film shows fragments of the choreography of life and combines them to form a picture of reality. Without making any comments, the camera observes the people’s behaviour. Moskatchka is a sacral, poetic act of documentation which succeeds in grasping life in its shocking simplicity and continual fleetingness.

Jungle Rudy

Jungle Rudy tells the fascinating story of Rudy Truffino, the son of a Dutch banker who, at a young age, decides to move away from his environment, away from a secure, but unsatisfying future. As an explorer and adventurer he becomes a legendary man. This film is about pursuing ideals, about Rudy and his desire to escape from the world or, perhaps, his desire to escape from himself?