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The Chicken by Una Gunjak

Una Gunjak

Pays Duitsland, Germany
Genre Fiction
2013 @en, 2014 - 15' - Couleur
As a present for her 6th birthday, Selma gets a live chicken. When she realises the creature is going to be killed to feed the family she decides to set it free, unaware of the dangerous consequences such action will lead to... It is Sarajevo, year running 1993.

Fal (Wall) by Simon Szabó

Simon Szabó

Pays Hungary
Genre Fiction
2013 @en - 10' - Couleur
Laci is a 16-year old gypsy boy, who lives off casual jobs. One day, he gets picked up from the streets along with a small group of workers for a construction job. He has to participate in the completion of a wall, that surrounds a series of tenement buildings. The film follows the various stages of the construction as Laci helps out the other workers. In the end, Laci is asked to complete the work. He now takes his first look beyond the wall, which holds an unusual revelation for him.

Taprobana by Gabriel Abrantes

Gabriel Abrantes

Pays Denmark, Portugal, Sri Lanka
Genre Fiction
2014 - 24' - Couleur
In this short comedy, Luis Vaz de Camões, the greatest Portuguese renaissance poet, struggles creatively while engaging in a hedonistic, coprophagic, and drug addled lifestyle. Taprobana follows the poet, and his lover Dinamene, as he writes his masterpiece, the epic poem Os Lusiadas. He travels from the cacophony of the Indic jungles, surrounded by allegorical elephants and rhyming macaques, to the frontier of Heaven and Hell, where he is confronted by his fantasy: fame and immortality.

Hätäkutsu (Emergency Calls) by Hannes Vartiainen & Pekka Veikkolainen

Hannes Vartiainen, Pekka Veikkolainen

Pays Finland
Genre Documentary
2013 @en - 15' - Couleur
Being human is a fragile and fleeting opportunity to experience life and the universe around us. In the face of overwhelming darkness all we can do is to rely on and find solace in one another. The film is based on authentic emergency calls and radio traffic.