Nina Schiena
Germany
2015 | 00:13:15

Do you fear death? Don´t be frightened...´ A boy spends hours on a busy holiday-beach. His impressions and thoughts intertwine to a current perception, that is concerned with transience. The cinematic essay `Memento Mori´ aims to understand life and death as a unit and questions the fear of death.

Jeremih Mosese
Lesotho, Germany
2015 / 0:13:00

An itinerant preacher proclaims to people that their god is in the very coffin he is dragging along.

Werner Biedermann
Germany
2016 / 0:04:00

The found-footage film „Jamais-vu“ shows archetypical situations which, in this new montage, are perceived as different and strange. This panorama presents a gamut of emotional sensory impressions focussing on cinema as the means of expressing the condition of a culture. All about heart, skin and brains, eyes and genitalia, consciousness and sub-consciousness, in short, all about cinemastory – cinema stories: or, all about life, from birth to death.

Andréa Prado
Brasilien
2015 / 0:13:00

The leopard shall lie down with the goat. The wolves shall live with the lambs. And the young boy will lead them. Mother and daughter share their routines with love on a deserted beach. The adolescence comes to the daughter with a confusion of feelings of loss and fear in this new phase of life.

Fisnik Maxhuni
Switzerland
2016 / 0:29:00

To pay his debts, Emir, a husband and father, works for the local mafia, engaged in smuggling between Serbia and Hungary. One day, he gets to know Hana, who is fleeing Kosovo and an arranged marriage, and who asks him to help her cross the border. But Ince, Emir’s gang boss, sees this as an opportunity to make money by selling her into prostitution.

Dechen Roder
Bhutan
2015 0:20:00

The “Three Years and three Months Retreat” or “Lo-Sum-Choe-Sum” is a Buddhist practice used to reach a higher state of clarity by removing oneself from the world. Will Lhamo, a young and wounded woman, be able to find her own form of retreat and redemption?