WOMEN SECTION – Best FIlm

Kid Heart

A grandpa that’s heartbroken, a mother that’s disappointed, and a granddaughter that’s not ready to give up on the family. A Japanese heartwarming musical!

SHORT – Best Film

Code of Silence

In September 2016, police shot and killed Hussam Hussein in Berlin; the case has still not been solved. Inspired by this incident, “Code of Silence” sheds light on the esprit de corps, here using the example of a German police duo.

While pursuing a suspect, police officer Thomas loses his service weapon in a scuffle with the fleeing suspect. His partner, and long-standing friend, Grebe sees no other way than to shoot at the suspect and kill him.
Thomas is not entirely convinced that Grebe’s actions were right, and now has to decide whether his moral obligation is to truth or to loyalty.

COSTUME DRAMA – Best Film

Bullets over Marseille

The film is based on a transcript from the trial assassins on the french Minister Louis Barthue and King Alexandar of Yugoslavia in Marseille 9. October 1934. The thesis of the film is that WWII start that day in Marseille and the first victim was the two European greatest peacemaker of that time.

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Livia, the Frescoed Lady

Birds are the bearers of omens in ancient Rome. When a chicken lands in Livia’s lap, she knows good things are coming her way. She marries the Emperor Augustus, lives the beautiful life hosting fabulous dinner parties, wearing elegant dresses, surrounded by great art, drinking wine, afternoons spent at the baths and all the while plotting to make her son, Tiberius, the next emperor. It is alleged that she poisoned a few people who stood between her son and the throne. That includes Augustus.
“Livia, the Frescoed Lady” is musical parody with lyrics inspired by “Lydia, the Tattooed Lady.” Utilizing an elastic sense of time, Livia charms all and we root for her to succeed. It’s politics, historical and hysterical.

No Expectations

A young singer tries to escape her working class background as her brother slips into a life of crime.

L’Chaim (with Spanish subtitles)

Aviva a starving Jewish woman is hiding alone in the forest. She witnesses a German farmer beating his son brutally with a stick. Aviva sets out to help him knowing the risks if caught

Bullets over Marseille

The film is based on a transcript from the trial assassins on the french Minister Louis Barthue and King Alexandar of Yugoslavia in Marseille 9. October 1934. The thesis of the film is that WWII start that day in Marseille and the first victim was the two European greatest peacemaker of that time.

Ofuda

This is a short horror story based on the motif of “ofuda,” which must not be peeled off.

The horror begins when a group of young people visit an abandoned village for a test of courage and bring back a “ofuda” that must not be peeled off.

One day, when studio photographer Yuta returns to his workplace, he finds that the president and his colleague Yuka are nowhere to be found. One of Yuka’s shoes is left undressed at the entrance, and the president’s phone is left inside, further vandalized…

A Home By Choice

Two youngsters fourth generation immigrant descendants living in Egyptian Alexandria, decades after their forefathers made it their home.Today,a massive changes have overcome the city over the years , will they remain ? What are the dreams , struggles and challenges they have to face?

A voyage into Kalashom

The film is an ethnographic study of an indigenous tribe living in Hindukash ranges of Pakistan. They are comprised of four thousand members only but they are committed to preserve their culture. This film is a visual journey into the valleys where they live and an effort on part of film maker to show their unique rituals. Some of the Decorum and ceremonies they follow is observed through camera .

Junu Ko Jutta (The Shoes of a Little Girl)

Junu, a 5-year-old girl who has trouble learning left from right is often asked by elders around her to wear her shoes correctly. After constantly trying she finally comes up with a new way to decode her confusion.

Dies

A moment does not exist in time, it is an artificial fraction extrapolated from a continuum. Art aims to grasp those moments and therefore, like in the creation of a sculpture, it reminds us that there was life and therefore it depicts as well, death. Dĭēs is a film that combines dance, music and sculpture in the Tempietto del Bramante, a temple that constitutes a masterpiece of the Renaissance in Rome. Entering a temple is to cross a threshold that symbolises the passage from the known to the unknown, from the light of consciousness to the darkness of the unconscious, a timeless dimension in which the dynamic creative forces of the individual reside.

Code of Silence

In September 2016, police shot and killed Hussam Hussein in Berlin; the case has still not been solved. Inspired by this incident, “Code of Silence” sheds light on the esprit de corps, here using the example of a German police duo.

While pursuing a suspect, police officer Thomas loses his service weapon in a scuffle with the fleeing suspect. His partner, and long-standing friend, Grebe sees no other way than to shoot at the suspect and kill him.
Thomas is not entirely convinced that Grebe’s actions were right, and now has to decide whether his moral obligation is to truth or to loyalty.