AGNUS DEI

105'   Albania   2013   Drama

ased on a true story, Agnus Dei is a kind of Oedipus of our days. Peter must find this way to redemption. But the past will make itself known and fate sparingly gives mercy. Can he save himself, or even be saved at all?

Directed by:

Agim Sopi

Status: Nominee

EVERY NATION WORSHIPS THE PRACTICAL GOD

58'   Korea   2017   Musical Drama

Under a starry, quiet and peaceful night sky, a group of Christians earnestly awaiting the return of the Savior sing and dance to cheerful music. When they hear the joyful news “God has returned” and “God has uttered new words”, they are surprised and excited. They think: “God has returned? He has already appeared?!” With curiosity and uncertainty, one after another, they step into the journey of seeking God’s new words. In their arduous seeking, some people are questioning while others simply accept it. Some people look on without comment, while others make suggestions and search for answers in the Bible—they look but in the end it is fruitless…. Just when they become discouraged, a witness brings them a copy of the Age of Kingdom Bible, and they are deeply attracted to the words in the book. What kind of book is this really? Have they actually found the new words that God has uttered in that book? Have they welcomed the appearance of God?

Produced by:

The Church of Almighty God

Status: Nominee

LE GRAND DESTIN

(The Great Destiny)

75'   France   2017   Musical

The dawn of humanity rises over the nature of the world where the prehistoric man survived in the pangs of hunger, of fear and ignorance.

Nevertheless he fights with bravery against numerous sufferings which attack him from everywhere. He also knows the pain of lost love but he also gets celestial help from his deceased [...]

Directed by:

Patrick  Schneider

Paul Saint Hesse

Status: Nominee

EKAJ

80'   USA   2015   Drama

“Kids” meets “Midnight cowboy.”

A love story between two drifters, a naive teenager and a hustler. The film capture’s a runaway journey to New York City. Ekaj meets Mecca who takes him under his care. Mecca has AIDS and multiple problems of his own. He is high all day but still manages to be the only voice of reason in Ekaj’s hopeless world. They cruise the city together looking for money and places to stay. The core of the movie is Ekaj, who thinks he will become the lover of a rich man and be taken care of for life but ends up finding his dreams quickly shattered. Although he makes some money as a prostitute, he finds he is disposable, replaceable and lacking what it takes to survive in the city. Their relationship develops into true friendship and love as they lean on each other for survival.

Directed by:

Cati Gonzalez

Status: Nominee

HUELLAS DEL TIEMPO

(Tracks of Time)

62'   Argentina   2016   Drama

The new authorities of a mental hospital have a new method of treatments in freedom, far away from the confinement the patients were submitted, the old Toto takes his life back (Toto Amaya). A newcomer doctor from Buenos Aires (Juan Palomino) and the driver of the mobile of the Ministry of Health (Pablo Gianello) are in charge of take Toto to his home, with few data undertake a trip over inside of the province, trying to find his relatives, but happened more stuffs in the way, that makes the journey longer that they thought.

Directed by:

Martin Ferrari Freire

Status: Nominee

LOS CUATRO DE MR. M

(Mr. M Four)

48'   Spain   2017   Comedy

Mr. M, a questionable business man, decide to hire four men to settle a hanging account. Jota, Chino, Bruno and Toni are four professionals used to this kind of jobs, what make it happens that a different situation is a routine for their. Maybe they are going to reach Mr. M´s goal?

Directed by:

Juan Alcaraz Manzanares

Status: Nominee

EN MILLE MORCEAUX

(A Thousand Pieces)

122'   France   2017   Drama

Twenty-five years after the rape and assassination of her son Olivier in 1977, Nicole Parmentier decides to meet with Eric Gaubert who has just been released from jail after having served his time for these crimes. An explosive encounter behind closed doors between two damaged and fragile protagonists that destiny has forced together.

Directed by:

Véronique Mériadec

Status: Nominee

HUIDAS

(Escapes)

90'   Spain   2014   Drama

China in his flight he finds travelers who her help or they guide it but also moment lives terrible of that it recovers in a residence for battered women. There it knows Caddy Adzuba (the famous journalist of the Republic of the Congo) and discovers the unimaginable pain of other women who him will make mature and face the life otherwise.

Directed by:

Mecedes Gaspar Salvo

Status: Nominee

AFTER MIDNIGHT IN THE ASPHALT JUNGLE

4'   UK   2017   Animation

In the freezing winter of the 1950s, a detective on the case tries to gain the trust of the frightened daughter whose found hiding at the crime scene having witnessed the death of her parents.

Being set in an anthropomorphic world it’s able to desensitize the minor acts of violence, whilst adding a unique style and flair to the on-screen characters.

The backgrounds were created in a [...]

Directed by:

William Charles

Status: Nominee

AS ALMAS DO FENTAL

(The souls of Fental)

11'   Spain   2013   Drama

The villages of the interior of Galicia are disappearing, O Fental has hours left ...

Directed by:

David Vazquez Vazquez

Status: Nominee

CUERDAS

11'   Spain   2014   Animation

María’s routine at school is altered by the arrival of a very special child. Soon, they become close friends.

Directed by:

Pedro Solís García

Status: Nominee

GUASARE

20'   Venezuela   2016

In 1912, a drought took place in Paraguaná, ravaging crops, animals and many of its inhabitants. People from the more remote villages began to emigrate to the city of Coro. Vicenta (14) and Paito (16) live in these remote villages. Together, they will embark on the path that many have taken.

Directed by:

Orangel Manuel Lugo Valles

Status: Nominee

是我

(It's me)

28'   China   2017   Art

To a north drift migrant worker named Xinghua, being addicted to fleshly pleasures and lost in material desires may be his daily routine. His life would never be changed if the little girl, Tingting, did not show up. Tingting was born in south，being abandoned between her relatives because she is an illegitimate and left-behind child. She has been suffering from great [...]

Directed by:

Ting Li

Status: Nominee

MON POUSSIN

(Sweetheart)

17'   France   2017

Overtaken by his childhood memories, a teenager finds out the emotional gap that séparâtes him from his mother, who has never showed any sign of affection towards him. Closer to his

father, he fears his own mother, who for him is responsible for the stormy climate present in the family. Step by step, he will realize that his parents are not quite those he has imagined.

Directed by:

Jérémie Seguin

Status: Nominee

REVERS

(Reverse)

4'   Norway   2017   Drama

A man lies dead at a deserted place. How he got there and how it happened is dramatized in reverse.

Directed by:

Thomas Bechmann

Status: Nominee

TURQUOISE

15'   Iran   2017   Mystery

The discovery of a mysterious black box in a small remote village in Iran causes turmoil among the villagers. According to a public announcement, it is promised to make the finder of the box prosperous.

Directed by:

Rozbeh Missaghi

Status: Nominee

WISHFUL THINKING

10'   Netherlands   2017   Drama

Time disappears when you dream, you feel like you’ve been in your fantasy world for hours, but reality toke only a couple of minutes. Imagine that after your final breath, you glide in your final dream and you biggest wish becomes true. And that dream lasts forever. What would your dream be? Did you ever think about that? The old Walter did, he knows very wel. He cherished his dream since 1961. This film worshipper and owner of his own old-fashioned filmtheater urges for decades after that one meeting, that one caress, huge, kiss and sleep… with the unreachable love of his live: Marilyn Monroe. One night his heart gives up, shall his dearest wish become true?

Directed by:

Dennis Nap

Status: Nominee

AMMA MERI

(Mother)

20'   India   2017   Drama

BALRAM, a villager is endowed with more plight as his father's last ritual commences. His father's death not just made him fatherless, but a lone shoulder with dependability and burden. DEVKI RANI, the old mother with a declining body and falling eye sight has very meager to offer. The banker's reminder about the fixed deposit and persuading Balram to become the sole nominee, seems most favourable. Considering a suitable groom for daughter Rashmi and setting up the dairy business again, ignites more to the occasion. The appetite of an exceeding interest rate and confiscating all the money after his mother's death, makes Balram THINK.

Directed by:

Tarun Jain

Status: Nominee

CINDERELLA 3.0

8'   Germany   2011   Comedy

The film is about the neverending struggle to find your place in the world. In the past, people wanted to be prince or princess. Nowadays they create virtual characters because the real ones doesn´t fit anymore (or at all) and have plastic surgery and other thinghs, just to be liked.

Directed by:

Sebastian Harrer

Status: Nominee

DEUX DOLLARS

(Two Dollars)

10'   France   2016   Comedy

After a week of leave, Sylvie is back at the Quebec company where she has been an exemplary employee for more than 15 years. She is then requested to attend a bizarre meeting.

Directed by:

Emmanuel Tenenbaum

Status: Nominee

HAY ALGO EN LA OSCURIDAD

14'   Spain   2017   Horror

Veronica is a 6 year old girl who is trying to overcome her fear of the dark. Helped by her mum, she has managed to sleep with nearly all of her lights off. Nevertheless, she still goes to bed with her torch, which makes her feel safe and sound.

Every night, her mum gets her to sleep with the reading of her favorite story. However, this time something is different…this time there is [...]

Directed by:

Fran Casanova

Status: Nominee

LIEBESBRIEF

(Love Note)

5'   Germany   2017   Adventure

Will we forget, how to write letters? Will we avoid going outdoor, if there is no more need to, when everything can easily be done from home?

One of the ‚Vermächtnisstudie‘ core results says: the younger the germans are, the more important real human connections are to them. Analogue contact as a re-invention.

The moment of encounter is LOVE NOTE’s climax. A real human connection, empathy, tangency. Magic that can only happen by eye contact. So rare and fugitive. To have this moment as intense and real as possible, the rest of the film is quite over the top. Dark kitsch reminding of Tim Burton drags us into a magic fairy tale world. Cut off from the outside world. The melancholy of hungry fish in a digital fish tank. A strange plush-nightmare oversubscribing the return to analogue as a challenge to find relief in a real human kiss.

Directed by:

Marcus Hanisch

Status: Nominee

MOUSSE

35'   Sweden   2013

What could be easier than robbing a small bookie place on the outskirts of town? It’s during the year’s biggest horse race event and the betting center Washington’s Tobacco looks like the ultimate hit for some fast cash. Mousse is a man of pride and principles and is fed up with living as a second-class citizen. But what happens when he faces principles different to his own?

Directed by:

John Hellberg

Status: Nominee

THANKS FOR EVERYTHING

30'   Norway   2017

After a series of coincidences two strangers happen to meet on a deserted bridge at night. They have little in common but they do share one thing.

Directed by:

Frank Aron Gårdsø

Status: Nominee

UN REGARD DANS LA NUIT

(Eyes in the night)

19'   France   2017   Drama

The night. Marc, about forty, drives a freight train as he made it hundreds of times. But this night, a woman stands in the middle of the way, only, without moving. He crosses his look and eventually engages the brake of his machine. The braking lasts an eternity for Marc. Too late. Under the shock, Marc goes to see his victim on ways. By the radio, he indicates to the regulator of the [...]

Directed by:

Christophe Gand

Status: Nominee

ANGUSTIA

20'   Germany   2010   Comedy

A rainy night. A lonesome motel. Two strangers are sharing a room. But what does the dark Tom Parker hide in his suitcase? The Police is searching for a killer, so backpacker Hans decides to find it out...

A grass-green-beige carpet, a double bed in rustic oak, a Jesus-kitsch-picture and a padded s.

Directed by:

Sebastian Harrer

Status: Nominee

CUCKOLD PICASSO

5'   USA   2016   Horror

Pablo Picasso's "1971 Harlequin Head", thought forever lost in a Romanian fire, is found vividly alive in the disturbed psyche of a tortured man's soul.

Although grizzly, the action and title are just strong metaphors about our need to deal with internal fears, and internal terror. It is necessary to open a third eye; necessary to dare to look straight on at the things we need to face. In doing so, we free ourselves to embrace and learn from the things we are prone to unnecessarily fear the most.

Directed by:

Lance Larson

Status: Nominee

FILS

(Son)

15'   Luxembourg   2016   Thriller

Sébastien, who cannot come to terms with his son being in a coma, begins to question his reality.

Directed by:

Cyrus Neshvad

Status: Nominee

INÉGALITE DES CHANCES

(Unnatural Selection)

15'   France   2017   Comedy

Late for work, Julie, 35, gets harassed in the street by Karim, 25. Finally arrived in the company she works for, Julie discovers that the candidate with whom she must hold a job interview is none other than Karim. Determined to take revenge, she will show him what unnatural selection is...

Directed by:

Geneviève Delouche

Status: Nominee

MON AMOUR

21'   Austria   2017   Drama

A man is working on a love song. Drawn into memories that develop their own lives, he feels more and more threatened by the women who surround him. In the end, however, there is one woman left who brings everything back on track. "Mon Amour" is a film about relationships, about the image we have of ourselves, of the other and of love.

Directed by:

Daniella Marxer

Status: Nominee

PAPIERS, S'IL VOUS PLAît!

(I want to see some I.D.!)

14'   France   2013   Comedy

What can one do without a valid ID? Based on true events, the journey of our hero begins when he tries to get back a parcel at the post office, without any valid ID, facing the strict rules of the post office department and ends within the walls of the police precinct, dealing with dirty cops.

Directed by:

Daniel Jenny

Status: Nominee

THE LUCKY BIRD

24'   Afghanistan   2017

Adam is a naive young man who fights with everyone. After losing his job, he seeks a solution from a wise man. The sage sends him to the desert and gives him forty days to hunt down the bird that brings good luck.

Film is based on this quote of Rumi:

“Do you know what you are?

You are a manuscript oƒ a divine letter.

You are a mirror reflecting a noble face.

This universe is not outside of you.

Look inside yourself;

everything that you want,

you are already that.”

― Jalaluddin Rumi,

Directed by:

Sadam Wahidi

Status: Nominee

UNA FAMILIA DE VERDAD

(A real Family)

17'   Spain   2017   Drama

2023. A middle age woman decides to become a single mother and buys sperm through an Internet company to get pregnant. During her pregnancy she finds out that some additional services were also offered.

Directed by:

Israel Medrano Pérez

Status: Nominee

EL ALMA DE TACANDE

105'   Spain   2017

Clara, a Cuban girl of about 30 years, arrives in La Palma, looking for some land, which her grandfather spoke to her in Cuba, arrives on the island and finds them, but not only finds what she expected, she also finds death. Chance ...? Destiny? ... fortuitous? Collective neurosis? ... and is immersed in a legend of the seventeenth century where Andres, a young man of about 25 years, after [...]

Directed by:

Antonio Manuel Fernandez Lorenzo

Status: Nominee

NEMICO DELL'ISLAM? UN INCONTRO CON NOURI BOUZID

(Enemy of Islam? A meeting with Nouri Bouzid)

72'   Italy/Tunisia   2015

Nouri Bouzid is the most important Tunisian film director. He has shown in his films everything that seems impossible to show inside an Arab country: homophobia, torture, political repression, patriarchy, religious fanaticism, antisemitism, sexual pathology. He has neglected nothing while remembering that in the cinema (as in real life) style is the most important thing: you must tell the stories that you dearly want to tell in the most prodigious way possible so that the spectators do not want to listen to anything else.

Directed by:

Stefano Grossi

Status: Nominee

PATRIA DULCE

(Sweet Homeland)

41'   Chile   2017

Since the military dictatorship in Chile and after 20 years of the left party in the government, for the very first time a right-party president is elected by democratic way. At the same time the country faces an explosion of social protests; strikes, frustration, demonstration, division, reforms, negotiations and repression face each other on the streets, in the labor unions and the parliament.

Directed by:

Juan Carlos Soto Martínez

Status: Nominee

INTE HELT 100

(Grumpy Old Skaters)

57'   Sweden   2015

2 dudes have known each other for 35 years. Their lives and friendship has circulated around skateboarding. At the age of 50 while still searching for new spots to sk8 old stuff from the past surfaces and threatens their friendship. Will it survive?

Directed by:

Klas Hjertberg

Status: Nominee

PARA ALÉM DA CURVA DA ESTRADA

(Beyond the curve of the road)

76'   Brazil   2017

"Beyond the curve of the road". For 50 days we followed the life of truck driver Jorge Lisboa, an emblematic character, along the roads of Brazil. The film richly shows the universe of Brazilian roads, from the truck driver's point of view. The storyline for the movie lies in the passion for these roads, the harsh reality and the stories lived by these professionals traveling through thousands of miles. Emotional stories that show the plurality and diversity of this continental country. A current film, which portrays the social and cultural reality of our Brazil today.

Directed by:

Guilherme Azevedo

Status: Nominee

UN DÉCOR NATUREL

(On Location)

57'   Switzerland   2015

ON LOCATION is the story of a village and its people, the portrait of a rural community living in a world of tradition and modernity.

Running around the local theatre troupe's rehearsals for their new play, this village chronicle takes you for a journey in a place where time follows its own pace.

A universe where the contemporary challenges are expressed in a peculiar way, as it is in [...]

Directed by:

Jp Fuenzalida Lorca

Status: Nominee

JÖKULLINN LOGAR

(Inside a Volcano)

86'   Iceland   2016

Ever since they were kids practicing in the snow in Iceland, they were told they would never play in a major football tournament. This is a true underdog story of how a nation of only 330.000 defied the odds with attitude and a new head coach. The filmmakers had unlimited access to the Icelandic national team from the beginning of their journey to their ultimate childhood dreams - Euro Cup 2016.

Produced by:

Solvi Tryggvason

Status: Nominee

SHOMERET NEGIYA

(When I Measure the Distance)

45'   Israel   2016

The documentary unfolds a story about the special relationships between an eldest sister and her twelve siblings, and also of the charged and extreme dynamics between her and her parents – all members of an Ultra-Orthodox Jewish community in Israel. It is a story about mixed feelings and strong ambivalence, as the film-maker is a secular, feminist, queer woman. The circumstances reveal the love that they have for each other, alongside the difficulties and challenges that they all face in light of their very different life styles and beliefs – the love, care, compassion, repulsion, anger and much more are present in the film. The wide range of emotions and stances are unfolded in a humorous and intriguing manner through dialogue and various domestic circumstances.

Directed by:

Liat Daudi

Status: Nominee

ZIBAIE-E NASHENAKHTEH

(Unknown Beauty)

47'   Iran   2014

"Unknown Beauty" is a moving documentary which portrays the lives of three girls in Iran who try to live independently and escape isolation. Despite their daily struggles in a country that offers them meager services, these Iranian girls embrace their disabilities and work hard to practice their artistic talents.

Directed by:

Mahboubeh Honarian

Status: Nominee

A COUNTRY REBORN

6'   USA   2017

Filmed through the lens of a tourist, we get a glimpse into the life & culture of black South Africa. The film showcases both how far the country has come since Apartheid, and the long road ahead in it's long-term fight against poverty.

Directed by:

Mendel Katz

Status: Nominee

CHARKPEN

(Hope)

14'   Spain   2017

In the language of the indigenous Selk’nam people of the Isla Grande of Tierra del Fuego “Charkpen” literally means “hoping for something”. For us it simply means HOPE.

“Charkpen” is a short documentary film shot within Argentina and Chile with the minimum materials and with a prominently photographic spirit but using real images.

Corruption, wars, terrorism, environmental destruction, chaos. This is the reality of the “first world”.

On the other hand, the indigenous villages and the legendary figures of the “gauchos” (South American cowboys) live directly in contact with nature, fighting to maintain their languages, customs and their way of life.

Both of these groups act as critical observers of the harsh reality and their penetrating gaze threatens all of the rest of us to follow their example and to become aware as soon as possible in order to change things.

Through the evocative images of cities and landscapes, the document tries to symbolise this journey from today’s “chaos” to this old-new way of life.

Directed by:

Paulino Cadórniga

Status: Nominee

PERSON OF THE FOREST

17'   USA   2017

In the vanishing lowland rainforests of Borneo, research is underway to uncover and understand the unique cultural behaviors in wild orangutans. There, photographer Tim Laman, researcher Cheryl Knott, and young explorer Robert Suro shed new light on the similarities between ourselves and our ancient ancestors, before it's too late.

Directed by:

Melissa Lesh

Status: Nominee

ASEXUAL

20'   UK   2017

A short documentary on what it means to identify as asexual. This explorative film is not meant to define nor generalize the experience of asexuality in the contemporary world, but rather reveal the wide range of definitions and lived experiences of those who self-identify as Ace. These accounts range from aromanticism to gray areas, from how asexuality can elucidate on what it means to be intimate in a relationship to the level of stigma and bullying suffered by asexuals, including even from those within LGBT+ communities.

Directed by:

Oli Isaac Smith

Status: Nominee

DETROIT'S RIVERA

36'   USA   2017

A documentary on the process of production of Diego Rivera´s Detroit Industry Frescos (1932-3) and the murals´ agitated social context during the years of the Great Depression. The documentary´s remarkable archival montage explores the links between industrial labor, public art, and industrial cinema under the exigencies of Fordism. The treatment of Rivera´s murals and Frida Kahlo´s paintings in the documentary provide novel grounds for a discussion of their art´s diverging approaches to the ecological and human effects of industrial technologies and extractivism.

Directed by:

Julio Ramos

Status: Nominee

UM JARDIM SINGULAR

(A Singular Garden)

15'   Brazil   2017

The documentary aims to act as an expressive space and representation of a historic garden, stage of various actions of reality over time and expression of desires and imaginaries, weaving personal, social and political interrelations.

As a historical garden, it is considered as a monument, and it is up to the documentary to reflect on its aesthetic, spatial and temporal dimensions of [...]

Directed by:

Monica Klemz

Status: Nominee

BECAUSE THEY ARE THERE

21'   Switzerland   2015

BECAUSE THEY ARE THERE takes you for a journey into a mountaineer's mind where memories, reality and dreams collide in a poetic vision of what the chase for a summit can be.

Far away from all the extreme "go-pro" like video productions, the main focus tries to describe the inner experience and the complexity of the relationship between men and mountains.

Efforts, success and dramas are [...]

Directed by:

Jp Fuenzalida Lorca

Status: Nominee

MARAM

6'   Lebanon   2017

Very often we walk the streets of Hamra and avoid looking or interacting with the street kids. Maram is a short documentary about a young Syrian refugee girl who sells flowers on the streets of Hamra. Through this documentary we get to know her and her aspirations in life.

Directed by:

Samer Beyhum

Status: Nominee

A LOGO CREATION

1'   Spain   2016   Art

A logo is created.

Directed by:

Adolfo Ruiz Mendes

Status: Nominee

FAT CAT

3'   Switzerland   2017   Art

What could happen when an oversized cat and a jazz band meet by the French Riviera?

Directed by:

Jp Fuenzalida Lorca

Status: Nominee

N.O. S.U.G.A.R.

13'   Greece   2017   Human Rights

This film, entitled “N.O. S.U.G.A.R.”, is about a New Order Soundless Undercover Genteel Active Respectable homeless… Greece… available “for rent”, and/or, about a Solidarity Urgent GREEK / GLOBAL Arising Revolution (?).

Directed by:

Eirini Polydorou

Status: Nominee

THE LITTLE DEATH

87'   Spain   2017   Sci-Fi/Horror

Reflected in the mirror we see the bride (Rocío Molina). A braid picks up her hair and she wears a beautiful dress. But her glance reveals the impossibility of bearing the weight of the feminine ideal she represents. It is said that a person's life passes before their eyes before they die. "La petite mort" is the succession of these images, those women who throughout their lives, and almost [...]

Directed by:

Borja Segarra Bueno

Status: Nominee

BECOME A PIRATE

5'   France   2017   Advertising/Action

A man decides to take the road, away from his boring life, because the sea calls him.

Directed by:

Oualid Dayan David

Finalteri Luc

Status: Nominee

JANAXPACHA

15'   Bolivia/Brazil   2016   Art

Janaxpacha, a 2D and 3D shortfilm, narrates, through dance, the story of Inti, a tormented traveller who ventures into the desert to find his guardian Thunupa. During his journey, Thunupa challenges Inti by transforming him in a new man. Devoid of memory, Inti has to rescue his identity. An invitation to wander through the universe of Dali and Magritte, in a reflection about recognition within human relationships, as well as the origin and destiny of humans in search of evolution.

Directed by:

Katherina Tsirakis

Dimitre Lucho

Status: Nominee

THE OTHER WOMAN,

ZIZI'S DREAM

16'   Ireland   2016   Art

In Zizi's dream, like in any dream, the logic of time and action as well as cultural censorship is abolished. Bizarre, senseless actions occur simultaneously to 'normal' ones and no one in the dream is taking notice. Repressed sexual desire can go wild and no guilt or shame about it is felt. Thus focus of the film «the Other woman» is on the return of the repressed in its disguised form, on what does not make sense in the dream. The latter can be located in the tension between the superficiality of the luxurious perfectionism of the bourgeoisie and the real, the impossible, the unbearable to look at. In the film, this tension or agony manifests itself on the body of the woman, which is marked by the scars of the contemporary self-mutilation and an outdated ecstatic fit of the 19/20th century, both reasons for young women for being committed to psychiatric hospital. The message of the acting outs, ecstasy and scarification is and was the same: to catch the gaze of the other, to break with the indifference of the household tribe. Thus in the film both actions are interchangeable, they follow one another and respond to each other, the ecstasy being like the stage that entails the visible body marks. The sound of the film refers to the « psyché », which in Greek ψυχή means breath of life or soul. Only in her deep sleep the woman’s heart beats in sync with her breath, otherwise the heartbeats relate to her excitement. Thus, the breathing background guides and enables the viewer to access the psyché of the dreamer. The installation «the cage» symbolizes the imprisonment in the fantasy about the significant Other, about his Otherness, in the film about the Other woman who has what the woman cannot have, but «does she want it?», or «what is it that she wants?». The image of Jesus cannot serve as a sublimation because the position of her body during the ecstatic fit points to him, the man, who is still the sole object of her sexual desire. This force of passion is emphasized by the sound of the winds. This impossible desire and its repercussions reveal themselves in the film. Today, these ecstatic fits are still diagnosed in cultures in which women’s emancipation is impossible.

Directed by:

Adolfo Ruiz Mendes

Status: Nominee

COAST 2 COAST

2'   Germany   2016   Advertising/Sport

This is a declaration of love to the sport of basketball.

Directed by:

Pascal Heiduk

Status: Nominee

MA SE GHE PENSO

5'   Italy   2017   Music

Francess & Carlo Felice Symphonic Orchestra - Ma se ghe Penso.

Directed by:

Paolo Micai

Status: Nominee

TA TANTE ET TOI

(Your aunt and you)

3'   Spain   2017   Romantic

A man falls in love with his aunt and it seems it won't work.

Directed by:

Adolfo Ruiz Mendes

Status: Nominee

NIJINSKY.

MARRIAGE WITH GOD.

113'   Spain   2017

NIJINSKY. MARRIAGE WITH GOD, about the difficult life of the famous and enigmatic Russian dancer at the beginning of the 20th century, Vatzlav Nijinsky, who went from being admired and applauded by czars, kings and the best of European society, to being forgotten and abandoned after various adverse circumstances, ending with his falling into madness.

Throughout his career, antagonized by Diaghilev, the Russian impresario who made him a myth and brought the Russian Ballets to world fame, he only had the moral support of his wife, who shared a very intense and emotional relationship with him. The story takes place from 1908 to 1919 in different countries where Nijinsky lived and danced: Russia, France, Switzerland, Hungary, Italy, England, Spain and USA.

Written by:

José Luis Cubillo

Status: Nominee

ROGUE HUNTER

21'   USA   2017

A cyborg detective confronts his dark past after facing an android who claims to be a human.

Written by:

Selvir Katich

Status: Nominee

THE PATIENT

7'   Russia   2017

The story of The Patient unfolds in the office of the veterinary doctor. His unexpected client believes that he was bitten by a woman-werewolf while mushroom picking in the forest. Will a vet be his only chance?

Written by:

Andrey Chevazhevsky

Status: Nominee

MURDER, SHE PRAYED

(Working title: Rest in Peaceminster)

93'   UK   2014

In a series of mishaps, an alcoholic Vicar accidentally kills her adversaries and when she tries to cover it up, she discovers there’s a real killer stalking their small town.

Written by:

Chris Brannick

Status: Nominee