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ANCHOR WOMAN

GREECE

DIRECTOR - IOANNIS MONASTIROPAULOS

An ambitious reporter follows a dark path towards success. Unknown to her, this path leads to her a life changing confrontation with her grandma. This film explores the mass media system and how it affects our life through the eyes of two women who served and nurtured the system.

MAMA

SPAIN

DIRECTOR - EDUARDO VIEITEZ

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Life can change in a blink of an eye, a thin line separates heaven from hell. You may never know when you have to leave your safe zone until you get the hit and everything used to be there, is gone in next minute. Now, it is your time to keep breathing until you feel alive again. This is the story of a Syrian refugee girl, who crossed that thin line and everything in her life changed suddenly.

I NEVER LEFT YOU ALONE

SPAIN

DIRECTOR - MIREIA NOGUERA

Claudia, a teenager who has always felt a strange aversion towards her mother, accompanies her to clean up their old family home, where they used to spend the summers. Once there, Claudia is haunted by ghosts of her past, seeing no other option but to face the truth from which she has been running all her life.

KAYANTAR

INDIA

DIRECTOR - RAJDEEP KAUL & SARMISTHA MAITY

Aasia belongs to a clan of Bahurupis – indigenous street cosplay performers - who dress up as Hindu deities despite being Muslims by birth. Despite poverty and hardship the small family lives freely in the fringes of the village society in the lap of nature influenced by the religious syncretism of the Baul-Fakir mystics, tolerated by both Hindus and Muslims. But a sudden surge of religious fundamentalism is raising a storm in the society that will transform their lives forever.

A CLOUD ON FIRE

GERMANY

DIRECTOR - JULIE GASTON

Anxiety is keenly felt within today’s hyperreal world. Increasingly, humans are disconnected. A Cloud On Fire is an experimental reflection on the subjective sensation of anxiety, its different dimensions, and absurd proportions.

ASRA

BRAZIL

DIRECTOR - CAIO CORTONESI

A religious and traditionalist man, defeated by an incurable degenerative disease, decides to end with his own suffering. He entrusts his son Omar, with whom he has a difficult relationship, with the task of finding someone to end his pain.

PORTRAIT
KYRZISTAN
DIRECTOR - AZAT MAMUNOV

A young man sees a beautiful stranger in his dream and falls in love with her. He asks an artist friend to recreate a portrait of the girl from his dream and begins his quest for her.

VAAVTAL

INDIA

DIRECTOR - SURAJ UDBHAB MADHALE

Started working as the driver of a big industrialist, who likes to flaunt his luxurious BMW car. He sends the driver in that car to deliver something to a client. On the way back the driver makes a detour to visit his grandma in the village, where a playful child makes a scratch on the body of the car. The story beautifully portrays the dilemma, class division and the inner shades of human psychology as well through a few simple occurrences in a day.

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MAYANMAR
DIRECTOR - MINMIN HEIN

A docu-fiction portrait of revolutionary artist Chaw Ei Then. Exiled from her homeland of Myanmar, she uses visually striking and emotionally unsettling performance art and artwork as a means of dissent, both to express her political views and to give voice to her victimized experience and inner struggles.

ON THE THE LOOKOUT

BELGIUM

DIRECTOR - ANAIS DEBUS

August 1914. Germany invades Belgium and terrorizes the population. Despite being pregnant, Louise is taking care of the farm, her young boy and the crops. While the front rumbles a few kilometers away from her home, a man turns up at the farm in the middle of the night...

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BANGLADESH

DIRECTOR - CHAITALI SAMADDAR & SAYFUL AKBAR KHAN

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