Laura Marie Wayne
Canada, Cuba
2015 / 0:25:00

Most of Us Don’t Live There is a memoir, both visually stunning and heartbreakingly sincere; a young woman wanders the landscapes of her childhood and explores a life coloured by bipolar depression. Set in the powerful Canadian Rockies, the film draws a link between nature and the human mind and calls for a re-visioning of what we understand as mental illness.

Guido Hendrikx
Netherlands
2014 / 0:24:00

Three self- conscious, high-educated paedophiles give a mercilessly insight in their experiences. How do you cope with a sexual orientation that’s considered morbid by society and by yourself?

Matthias Wermke, Lutz Henke, Mischa Leinkauf
Germany
2015 / 0:15:00

Poetry or threat? An act of surrender or perhaps art? These were the theories that New York puzzled over last summer. How can one incident be interpreted in so many ways? By means of press reports, Symbolic Threats allows the public at large to express their extreme disparity of interpretation. Inspired by the heated debate over the two „White American Flags“ that suddenly appeared on the towers of New York City’s iconic Brooklyn Bridge, the film asks what kind of societal scope art has in the present day. What happens when threatened freedom reinstates art with the element of danger? Who or what makes it into a threat? Are we safe in the city? What is next?

Loïc Darses
Canada
2015 / 0:18:00

On 31 December 2003, Lucie Tremblay decided to write to the man who abused her between ages eight and twelve. She is determined to personally deliver the letter. She films her journey to gain closure for the trauma that has haunted her whole life. When her son finds the footage well over a decade later, he decides to turn it into a film. An intimate homage to the courage of an exceptional woman who decided to stand up for herself and a savage condemnation of the bastards who abuse the innocence of others and think they can get away with it.

Adnan Jetto
Syria
2014 / 0:04:30

When our normal daily life vanishes all out of the sudden against our will because of something falling from sky, or because of a moving plane in the sky. The spirit of that life we had reincarnates in little small details we used to live everyday, and got very used till we took it for granted. These little details become more than a scent of something we had in our past, and a picture wouldn’t only present a moment we captured in time, it recreates that time for us, it becomes alive again, present and constant.

Francesca Scalisi, Mark Olexa
Switzerland
2015 / 0:12:00

Somewhere in rural Bangladesh, a teenage girl rubs a toothbrush on her face and then leaves a darkened room. Something’s wrong with Moriom, but what is it? Talking to her counselor, with a camera pointed at her, she alleges that her parents torture her and keep her chained up. “Put them in prison,” she cries. But then it’s her parents’ turn and they have a completely different story, one that has to do with a major trauma. In the meantime, Moriom lives in a fantasy world of revenge: “I came from Heaven. I came to destroy all bad things in the world. I'm a flower angel. I got a job at the police station. I will punish them. I will put them in jail.” The majority of crimes against women and girls in Bangladesh are not reported and the rape figures that appear on-screen at the end are shocking. This acutely observed film is dedicated to Moriom.