La voix des sirènes / La voce delle sirene / The Voice of the Sirens
Gianluigi Toccafondo (Miyu Productions/50N)
France, Italy, 2024, 19'45"
In the heart of the seabed, between rocks and corals, primitive seaweed ripples, cradled by the muffled sound of roiling currents. Up there, on the surface of the water, something extraordinary has just appeared: a voice. So soft and seductive that it's unlike anything we've heard before.
Linnud läinud / On Weary Wings Go By
Annu-Laura Tuttelberg (Fork Film/Art Shot/Moon Birds Studio)
Estonia, Lithuania, 2024, 10'35"
A wintery poem of the Nordic nature. The sun moves low, and days shorten. Birds fly South, porcelain animals and insects hide from the freezing wind and snow. Only a small porcelain girl wanders the abandoned landscape with no way out.
I Died in Irpin
Anastasiia Falileieva (Maur Film/Artichoke/Plastic Bag Films)
Czechia, Slovakia, Ukraine, 2024, 11'30"
On February 24th in the morning my boyfriend and I decided to go from Kyiv to Irpin to see his parents. It is hard for me to recall the chronology of those days, my mind blocks and minimizes all the memories, erases them, but the only thing I know for sure is that every day everything rapidly became worse.
The One Who Knows
Eglė Davidavičė (Art Shot/Tripode Productions)
Lithuania, France, 2024, 12'04"
Anxious teenager Ūla is taken on an unexpected adventure during her swimming practise, through which she grows-up and learns to see her body anew.
Z. O. – vzhodna cona / Z.O. / Z.O. - Eastern Zone
Loris G. Nese (Lapazio Film)
Italy, 2023, 13'50"
Baby Girl spends his days with Cookie and Banana in a soccer fans’ association. The discovery of a box full of firecrackers leads them to a stunt, behind which lies an order from upstairs: organized crime to which the three teenagers’ families are linked.
En Route / On the Way
Stefano Poggioni, Pietro Elisei (The Factory)
Italy, 2024, 4'40"
Every year, millions of people in Africa leave their homes in search of a better future. Often, they settle in neighbouring countries; all too often, they reach the Libyan coast and attempt the sea journey. But at that point, there is no turning back, only moving forward.
Dark Globe
Donato Sansone (Base Zero/Autour de Minuit)
Italy, France, 2024, 3'15"
Human beings have become a war machine, an unstoppable element of destruction of everything around them. Is there still hope for the future or are we in an endless nightmare?