BE SOMEBODY

Director: Michał Toczek
Country: Poland
Duration: 26 minutes

Wiktor is an ordinary guy, an electrician, who moves into a new flat with his family. Soon the protagonists find out that the flat used to belong to Lech Wałęsa. Wiktor’s wife, Sylwia, decides to turn their new home into a museum and her husband into a re-enactor of the former president. Her obsession forces Wiktor to confront the legend of Lech Wałęsa - first democratically elected president of Poland.

TIGER SOUP

Director: Kacper Świtalski
Country: Poland
Duration: 36 minutes

The film tells the story of Stasiek, a welder from communist Poland who emigrated to the USA in the 1970s to work in the world's largest traveling circus – “Ringling Bros. and Barnum & Bailey”. Having one goal in mind – earning a better living for his family, Stasiek is forced to leave his wife and daughters for three years. These are three long years of living in a cramped train car, facing the hardships of emigration and longing for a family. With the first money he earns, Stasiek decides to buy a photo camera and a movie camera to document his time in the US. "Tiger Soup" not only presents the exciting adventures of our main character in the US but also outlines a universal picture of emigration.

A BEAUTIFUL WILDFLOWER MEADOW

Director: Emi Buchwald
Country: Poland
Duration: 30 minutes

Landscape architect Emil is fighting an unequal battle against a world of people uninterested in the beauty of nature. Because of his neurotic stubbornness, he plunges into a spiral of absurd events, while still trying to be a good father.

SUCH MIRACLES DO HAPPEN

Director: Barbara Rupik
Country: Poland
Duration: 14 minutes

One day, all the statues in the area come to life. They leave the roadside shrines and pedestals and calmly set off straight ahead, all in the same direction. They do not even stop for a moment. People watch the phenomenon with growing anxiety.

MAGIC MOMENTS

Director: Martina Buchelová
Country: Slovakia
Duration: 20 minutes

Parents struggle to earn money, so sisters basically take care of each other alone.
- Why we walk on the grass?
- So that we step into shit and are lucky.
Thanks to the bond they have, they might have already won over life's shit.

ANA

Director: Romana Candráková
Country: Slovakia
Duration: 7 minutes

A story abstractly describing the struggle of a young girl with an eating disorder. Drowning in remorse, fragments of her past are revealed, which is intertwined with a struggle with obsessive control, helplessness and fear. The fear of the continuation of this cycle is justified, because the disease takes a little bit of Ana herself with each denied bite.

BOREDOM

Director: Alica Bednáriková
Country: Slovakia
Duration: 19 minutes

An absurd tragicomedy depicting the life of Greta, a pathological liar who deceives everyone within her reach.

DINNER FOR 2 -
BREAKFAST FOR 1

Director: Kristína Žilinčárová
Country: Slovakia
Duration: 4 minutes

A young woman who craves for more recounts the story of a special dinner. A film about eating and female desire that genre-wise oscillates between fashion film, horror, video clip, and drama.

DONNA BELLA

Director: Emma Virág Csuport
Country: Slovakia
Duration: 3 minute

She feels dirty. Bella wakes up, showers, shaves her legs and when she looks into the mirror the only thing there is her tired aging face. You can wash clothes to get rid of the physical dirt but you cannot do the same with your souls. Or can you?

LUCIA

Director: Mikulas Krispin Izdinsky
Country: Slovakia
Duration: 24 minutes

An actress turning 50 with a phone-addicted daughter and a martial arts fanatic husband suddenly realises “I don’t have to worry about what people think of me.” Time for new things. ‘Lucia’ has a lovely light touch and oozes charm.

ЗА БОРТОМ!

Режисер_ки: Барбора Валецька,
Філіп Пошивач
Країни: Чехія, Словаччина
Хронометраж: 12

ПЛОДИ ХМАРИНОК

Режисер: Катеріна Карганкова
Країни: Чехія
Хронометраж: 10

МАЛЕНЬКИЙ КУСТО

Режисер: Якуб Коуржил
Країни: Чехія
Хронометраж: 8

Короткометражний анімаційний фільм про маленького хлопчика, який мріє про підводні пригоди у засніженому місті. Омаж Жаку-Іву Кусто.

ЗВУКИ ПОМІЖ ГІЛЛЯ

Режисер: Філіп Дівʼяк
Країни: Чехія
Хронометраж: 15

Фільм про безпритульного музиканта, якого випроторили з міста, коли королева побачила його обличчя. І навіть коли вартові розтрощили його інструмент, він не втратив надію його полагодити.

THEA & TUVA

Director: Kristian B. Walters
Duration: 23 minutes

Sisters Thea (14) and Tuva (12) spend their days in town to get away from their alcoholic mother and her partying friends. One day they spot a five year old girl alone in a shopping centre and take her with them.

FAIRPLAY

Director: Zoel Aeschbacher
Duration: 17 minutes

A teenager in search of recognition, a worker ready to do anything to hit the jackpot, a senior executive at the end of his career who wants to prove to himself that he is still alive. Three characters who are losing their way on the competition highway.

LOVE, DAD

Director: Diana Van Cam Nguyen
Duration: 13 minutes

A short film about ties and gaps between a child and a parent. The author rediscovers letters, her dad wrote to her from prison. That love seems to be gone now. She decides to write back in hope to find the connection again. She puts in writing what could not be said, blaming her father for the family´s break-up but also trying to understand him.

CATCAVE HYSTERIA

Director: Angelika Abramovitch
Duration: 20 minutes

A friendship is at stake when love comes in the way. A hurtful conversation is overheard. The bond between two sisters breaks when a bloody secret is revealed. The girls’ bathroom is a place full of conflict that forces the truth to the surface. But it is at the same time forgiving and accepting.

YEAH, I'M GOOD, THANKS

Director: Hannah Lau-Walker
Duration: 2 minutes

Whilst messaging online a woman contemplates being honest about how she’s been doing..

THE BATH

Director: Daniel Nagy
Country: Hungary
Duration: 12 minutes

Set on a lazy, lukewarm summer afternoon, the story of a young but jaded Feri and a disintegrating group of friends in a lakeside holiday village.

PANTRY

Director: Sára Perecz
Country: Hungary
Duration: 12 minutes

Lotti dreams of her parents and her childhood. The next day, her boyfriend, Karcsi, and her get ready for the visit of his parents. Lotti is haunted again and again by memories of the day that was in her dream.

HUNGER

Director: Tibor Kapas
Country: Hungary
Duration: 13 minutes

Tenger and Aida, a 30-something couple, return home in a rather bitter mood after a disastrous vacation. The music playing on the radio reminds Tenger of a mischievous childhood memory of stealing some bread from a small bakery with his friend. Aida decides that for Tenger to rediscover himself, he needs to steal something once again, but this time with her.

I HATE MONDAY

Director: Barnabás Peszleg
Country: Hungary
Duration: 8 minutes

A little boy goes to the swimming pool.

THE DUEL

Director: Emil Maróthy
Country: Hungary
Duration: 5 minutes

Gergő is not satisfied with the car drifting in front of his apartment. He takes matters into his own hands to restore peace to the suburbs, but not everything turns out as he had imagined.