國際短片競賽

Deva, well-known for its castle, its poverty and Nadia Comäneci. Nat many things really changed in the years that Nadia left the famous gymnastic school. The training is still rough, the trainers pitiless but the girls' dreams huge. THE SECRET OF DEVA tells the story of two very talented girls who represent the gymnastics’ future and Rumania’s hope for gold.

It would be hard to find someone who has never heard of Van Gogh, but are great painters' names still relevant? The portrait of contemporary painter Sam Dillemans, aims to answer that question. To him, Van Gogh, Picasso or Goya are not painters of the past but of the present. They inspire him every day and their overwhelming genius sometimes even depresses him.

The film follows a mother and her 5-year-old daughter, who live on the border between Israel and the Palestinian Authority. An intimate and surprising story of a mother and daughter, they raise each other in their barbed wired fenced house, in spite of Israeli helicopters soaring above their heads, and Palestinian rockets falling in their yard.

Hristina is invisible. Quiet and unnoticed, she cleans houses. She is a Bulgarian living in Amsterdam. Contact with her employers takes place mainly through notes. To come to terms with her life, she takes photographs of the interiors of 'her' houses. Together these photos from the house she inhabits in the Netherlands. A house that holds her prisoner.

This film is about growing up in an idyllic country neighboring Germany. An uneasy silence reveals itself as the absence of truth about my Scandinavian culture's involvement with the incomprehensible evil that stems from trying to "purify" other cultures. Following the tale of two Auschwitz survivors we are led into a devastating past that leads straight into our future.