Tudo o que imagino All I Imagine
Portugal, 2017
directed by Leonor Noivo
screenplay Leonor Noivo, André Simões
cinematograpy Vasco Viana
cast André Simões, Alba Baptista, André Marques
running time 32'
André is a charmer, and this helps him get his way. He’s got the moves and the girls, yet there is something recognisably fragile in this boy not yet ready to take the next step in life. A kindhearted, beautifully acted docu-fiction.
Celica The Box
Slovenia, 2017
directed by Dušan Kastelic
screenplay Dušan Kastelic
animation Dušan Kastelic
running time 12'
A small cage is brimming with curious creatures with flat heads, spending their days in bored slumber. One day, a very different creature sprouts from a tiny sapling, full of life and energy! While growing up, its mischief is making the neighbours more and more nervous. Until one day it literally grows over their heads.
Matria Matria
Spain, 2017
directed by Álvaro Gago Díaz
screenplay Álvaro Gago Díaz
cinematograpy Lucía C. Pan
cast Francisca Iglesias Bouzón
running time 21'
Ramona lives with her husband, with whom she barely speaks, and works in a cannery run by a despotic manager. Faced with the challenges of her daily routine, Ramona tries to take refuge in the relationship that unites her with her daughter and granddaughter.
Doppelgänger Doppelgänger
Germany, 2017
directed by Michaela Taschek
screenplay Michaela Taschek
cinematograpy Michaela Taschek
running time 20'
An essayistic search for a father who vanished many years before his actual death in 2014. With the help of photos and films from the family archive, Michaela Taschek tries to figure where things went wrong and why the man was replaced by a doppelgänger.
Wave
Ireland, 2017
directed by Benjamin Cleary, TJ O'Grady Peyton
screenplay Benjamin Cleary
cinematograpy Burschi Wojner
cast Daniel Reardon, Caoimhe O'Malley, Barry Kinsella, TJ O'Grady Peyton, Tiny James Huldvar, Emmet Kirwan, Danny Kehoe
running time 14'
A man wakes from a coma speaking a fully formed but unrecognisable language baffling linguistic experts from around the globe.