SCREENING: URBAN SCENES AND SOUL
Official Film Selection
Cracked
Runtime: 5 min
A little girl lives in a village with her mother where water sources are dwindling by day. Drought effects her imagination, even her doodles and drawings. Not only people but the nature struggles with the unrelenting aridness. This little girl though, never loses hope. She tries to do as best she can, sacrificing from herself for her beloved nature.
Dancing With Rainbow
Dir. by Hassan Mokhtari , Iran, Islamic Republic of
Runtime: 6 min
"Woman, Life, Freedom" Wounds need healing while are accustomed to the wound you inflict every breath It treats like an ax on a doomed bud I suffer like a bud from an ax blow root me up! hand of a sledgehammer! accustomed to wounds is undoubtedly not a pleasure.
Elegy for a village
Dir. by Weipeng Huang , China
Runtime: 14 min
Weave a sentimental poem about time using fragments of true images about things in your hometown.
Hantush - a fairytale
Dir. by Alexia Tsouni , Greece
Runtime: 7 min
When Israeli bulldozers arrived at her Bedouin village to demolish her home, 14-year-old Palestine refugee girl Salha called on her flying lamb Hantush to take her somewhere far away...
Kahour
Dir. by Amir Masoud Soheili , Iran, Islamic Republic of
Runtime: 13 min
While searching for their village's identity in the poor border region of Iran, two teenage girls discover that cleanliness makes their village special.
reMemBer2.human
Dir. by Durim Klaiqi , Kosovo
Runtime: 6 min
In a fictional future, humanity is no longer a biological being. The new (digital) world is lived in the The Collective Memory. This new world is built on previous human memories, where every memory can be shared with each other. The ProBio movement threatens the stability of this new world. The old world is left behind untouched.
Suitcase
Dir. by Saman Hosseinpuor, Ako Zandkarimi , Iran, Islamic Republic of
Runtime: 14 min
Far from his own homeland, a Kurdish refugee lives in his suitcase. In it he carries memories of his family. When someone steals the suitcase in the tumult of the foreign city center, he loses his home a second time.
The lost guide
Dir. by Elad Mukades , Israel
Runtime: 4 min
When Gal, trying to find the group of tourists, for his first guide in the alleys of the Old City in Jerusalem - he had to deal with a higher than expected level of English; Internet reception problems; Passers-by who delay him, and above all - a difficult lack of orientation in navigation. The helplessness and the passing of time do not make the last phone call with Jackie, the representative of the group, to be particularly successful. 'The Lost Guide' is a comic-tragic sequence of obstacles that come in the way of someone who pretends to take on a role without proper training.
Traces of Rocco
Dir. by Marina Resta , Italy
Runtime: 17 min
Traces of Rocco is a journey across the Basilicata of the past and of the present, in search of the iconographical and metaphorical traces of Rocco Scotellaro. Developed as part of Zavattini Prize 2018/2019, it's a documentary short-film that juxtaposes heterogeneous audiovisual materials, -archival and shot ad hoc with observational style- generating a short-circuit among the past and the present.
Ukraine's Soul - A Tribute to Heroes
Dir. by Marcelle Abela , United States
Runtime: 13 min
Short documentary about Ukrainian heroes and others who keep making music, in the harshest conditions, to lift people's spirits during the 2022 war with Russia. Shot on location in Ukraine, Poland, and Russia in four languages.