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- DirectorSarah Noa BozenhardtDaniel Abate TilahunIn the village of Megendi in Ethiopia, maternity care is changing. Caught in the midst of the shift, a community of women explore how best to provide for expectant mothers. At the center, a 25-year-old woman weighs what is expected of her against what she needs, bringing past pain to the surface. Working through her discomfort, she finds solace in her fellow women and the godfather of her child. As the story unfolds, she uncovers her true wishes and with them, an unshakeable desire to remain loyal to her heart.
- DirectorVirpi SuutariStarsJani LaineSatu LaineAmanda LaineEntrepreneurs get a bad name nowadays. Some of them deserve it. But there are exceptions to the rule. By portraying two entirely different Finish family enterprises with warmth and sympathy, the film gives an insight into new ways of doing business (with or without meat!), but also juxtaposes two different ways of living and surviving in the broader context of the post-modern neo-liberal capitalist society.
- DirectorVirpi SuutariA carnivalesque portrayal of the Finnish landscape of the soul and abode. The short film is based on the iconic YLE programme "People's Radio", and its visual material has been created by the road movie method of driving across summery Finland. The film paints a panorama of what Finland looks like today. Its narration progresses through humour into civic anarchy, ultimately also towards the longing for human connection.
- DirectorSean WangSean Ali WangStarsMarie-Eve DufresneFinja EbelingAndreas ErotokritouWith a light touch and wry humor, A Marble Travelogue portrays the Greek and Chinese marble production chain. We see complex connections and highlights the European aspirations of the Chinese middle class in a visually seductive style.
- DirectorIdo GlassYoav KleinmanThe Dead Sea - the lowest place on earth and one of the wonders of the world - is dying. Three historic enemies join forces on a heroic journey to stop this catastrophe and save the Dead Sea from disappearing.
- DirectorMichael GlawoggerA look at the people who live precariously, but with an unusual level of resourcefulness and imagination, in four gigantic urban agglomerations: Mumbai, New York City, Moscow and Mexico City.
- DirectorMaurice O'BrienThe unlikely story of a Glaswegian visual artist, Stephen Skrynka, and his dangerous life-long obsession with riding the 'Wall of Death', the traditional fairground motorbike attraction.
- DirectorHanna HeilbornStarsDijana PavlovicLicia BreidicAldo DeragnaA Roma family and their loving struggle for the rights of their children over the course of six years in an Italy where the winds of fascism are blowing again.
- DirectorAhsen NadeemAfter decades of living a secret life, a filmmaker travels to a strict Japanese monastery in search of guidance but the only monk who will help him prefers ice cream and heavy metal over meditation.
- DirectorAngelos RallisStarsAfrin KhanomBonna AkterFeroza BegumIn the desolate wilderness of the disappearing islands along the Brahmaputra river, 12-year-old orphan Afrin is coming of age. When heavy rainfalls and flood waters ravage Afrin's island, she refuses to surrender to its deadly tides. Afrin rows herself in a wooden boat toward the teeming metropolis of Dhaka to find her estranged father among the millions of climate refugees. Forced to grow up fast, Afrin must confront the mysteries of a sinking world.
- DirectorTalal DerkiHeba KhaledAli WajeehIn Damascus, a collective of young female actors comes together to research the topic. They plan to use the moving anonymous statements of countless women to create a stage play that will break taboos.
- DirectorBrodie PooleFor millennia the remote arid deserts of Western Australia lay undisturbed. On the 14th of June 1893 European prospectors discovered 'The Golden Mile' on what was the traditional lands of the local Indigenous people. In little over a hundred years a natural landscape has transformed into the industrial hellscape of Kalgoorlie-Boulder. As the incumbent Mayor of Kalgoorlie-Boulder, John Bowler, starts his campaign for a second term, independent prospector John 'General Hercules' Katahanas, decides to run against him on a ticket of anti-corruption. What starts out as a quirky David v Goliath political battle, unravels into a portrait of a man, a town and a country, sent mad by the timeless cycles of exploitation, racism and greed.