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Director: Anaïs-Tohé Commaret

Country: France

Category: Fiction

Length: 22’36”

Synopsis:

In suburban housing estates in France, young people are wishing for money and success. Their dreams clog up the air conditioning ducts until everything begins to drip. What might happen if you swallow light?

Captive | Captif

Director: Lika Nadir

Country: France/Ukraine

Category: Fiction

Length: 15’0″

Synopsis:

Savva is working as a security in the strip club. He lives a simple life, where his only friends it’s the TV with propaganda of the war. Is Savva ready to kill anyone?

Frosting | Cukormáz

Director: Hunor Demeter

Country: Hungary

Category: Fiction

Length: 14’32”

Synopsis:

The pastry cook mother and a father, who considers himself as an inventor, raise their disabled child together, while they seek a way out of cyclical hopelessness through cakes and homemade orthoses.

This Is Not a Character, This Is Betrayal | 
Das ist keine Figur, das ist Verrat

Director: Romina Küper

Country: Germany

Category: Fiction

Length: 13’20”

Synopsis:

An acclaimed debut novel. A reading at the Stuttgart Literaturhaus. A car ride through the Ruhr region into the Swabian province. A mother and her son, separated by the shame of their origins, that actually unites them.

Tennis, Oranges

Director: Sean Pecknold

Country: United States

Category: Animation

Length: 10’54”

Synopsis:

A robotic vacuum suffering from burnout quits its job at a hospital and sets out to find community and a greater purpose on a quiet street where two lonely rabbits are stuck in perpetual loops.

Gnomes

Director: Ruwan Suresh Heggelman

Country: The Netherlands

Category: Experimental

Length: 5’35”

Synopsis:

Unknowingly, a girl enters the habitat of a tribe of killer gnomes during her daily run. Lured by mysterious glowing mushrooms, she’ll soon wish she’d stayed on her usual tracks…