Slovo/Farewell
Leon Vidmar (ZVVIKS)
Slovenia, 2016, digital, 5'51”
Lovro is tired and sad. He fills the bathtub with water, looking at droplets dripping from the tap. As one hits the water surface, Lovro is reminded of the day he first went fishing with his grandpa. His thoughts take him to the fish pond, and the bathroom sounds and objects bring back memories of that day. Memory and reality merge into one.
Petrova šuma/Peter's Forest
Martina Meštrović (Kreativni sindikat)
Croatia, 2016, digital, 8'25”
A universal parable about differences, told in three colours. A story about the natural and the excluded, the normal and the uncommon; a duel between learned binary oppositions. The film reflects on an important issue: If our nature isn't a threat to anyone, then who or what prevents us from living our life – possibly the only one we have – to the fullest?
Tühi ruum/Empty Space
Ülo Pikkov (OÜ Nukufilm)
Estonia, 2016, digital, 10'17”
A 10-year old girl longed for a puppy as a birthday present. When instead of a puppy she got the father she had no idea was still alive, her disappointment was huge.
A documentary-based animation about a dream that eventually comes true in a film.
Die Brücke über den Fluss/The Bridge over the River
Jadwiga Kowalska (Jadwiga Kowalska)
Switzerland, 2016, digital, 5'45”
A man on a bridge, separated from the love of his life. Wanting to be with her one last time, he decides to go and seek her in the hereafter.
Lo Steinway/The Steinway
Massimo Ottoni (Istituto Luce Cinecittà)
Italy, 2016, digital, 17'30”
During the Great War a group of Austrian soldiers on the Italian front find a piano in a ruin. The instrument catalyses the soldiers’ most human feelings in a fragile understanding, but the meaningless barbarity they’re trying to forget is always ready to burst.
BeeBoy
Sadko Hadžihasanović, Hanna Jovin (Sadko Hadžihasanović)
Bosnia and Herzegovina, Canada, 2016, digital, 0'45”
A little boy is walking briskly away from the viewer, heading confidently—perhaps over-confidently—to a waiting chair (and a not very stable-looking chair at that) and beginning to clamber up onto it—a climb made up of equal parts uncertainty and determination. Bees come from nowhere and gradually cover the boy’s face.
Analysis Paralysis
Anete Melece (Virage Film)
Switzerland, 2016, digital, 9'04”
Anton is lost in his own head until one day a yellow boot brings him to an exit.
Love
Réka Bucsi (Passion Pictures Paris/Boddah)
France, Hungary, 2016, digital, 14'30”
3D
A short film describing affection in three different chapters, through an impact on a distant solar system. Abstract haiku-like situations reveal the change in atmosphere on one planet, caused by the change of gravity and light. This pulsing planet makes the inhabitants become one with each other in various ways.