Films Archive
Two sisters, Anna and Melina spend the last days of the summer in their vacation house outside of Athens. Anna is having a party to celebrate her birthday and her passage to adulthood. Soon she will be off to college leaving her little sister behind. She has invited Maria, her crush, to spend the day with her by the pool and organise the party. Melina obsessively loves and admires her older sister and wants badly to be part of her world. She is not invited to the party. But she sets her mind to it, making this night for her sister a bloody night to remember.
● Maria Xatzakou
● 22’
● Greece
When a group of rowdy teenagers trek into an isolated forest, they discover peaceful mushroom creatures that turn out to be an unexpected force of nature.
● Matthew Luhn, Hjalti Hjalmarsson
● 10’
● the Netherlands
A young Solomon Islands teenager encounters bullying at school and takes fate into her own hands when she is visited by a guardian spirit of her family. This ancient ‘Hiama’ teaches her how to know her power, and shake up her world.
● Matasila Freshwater
● 13’
● New Zealand/Solomon Islands
13-year-old Ramin Mehdipour and his Iranian family have been living in a refugee centre in Finland. Just as Ramin starts to enjoy the school holidays, the family receives the terrible news their asylum application has been denied.
● Hamy Ramezan
● 82’
● Finland
An experimental short about our love-hate relationship with Instagram and our photo-editing mania.
● Céline Ufenast
● 4’
● UK
Is it okay to bend the rules to help the one you love? Helmer uploads cool videos all the time and gets many followers. But not everything is as it seems. Nora, his girlfriend, is hiding something. Inspired by the play A Doll`s house, we get to see a new take on Henrik Ibsen`s drama as the characters are played by twelve years olds and written to cast light over some of the issues kids struggle with today.
● Ola Martin Fjeld
● 14’
● Norway
A behind-the-scenes look behind the selfies brings the viewer in the rooms of four 15-year-old girls. Through powerful, observational scenes and intimate conversations, the film raises questions about the normalization of presenting oneself as an object.
● Rosie Morris
● 18’
● UK
This bystander story is told through the perspective of a 15-year old girl, Raquelle, who witnesses her classmate Noah being bullied. When doing the right thing transforms Raquelle from bystander to victim, she finds herself trapped in the same emotional quicksand of her peers.
● Ryan Cannon
● 9’
● USA
What would you do if you could imagine a place and go there with your magic shoes by clapping twice? In this short stop-motion animation, the main character ends up in a big adventure. One in which social media and the modern travel urge of modern society play the main role. From Venice to Cappadocia, the beautiful settings seem to matter less and less than the amount of likes.
● Leticia van Neerven
● 5’
● The Netherlands
Nearly seventeen years old, Laetitia navigates between her attachment disorder and her blatant need for love. In a world where image control is absolute, LOVE ME tells the story of the quest for the love with a capital L, through the various forms of self-representation.
● Romane Garant Chartrand
● 23’
● Canada
An immersive insight into the last hours of 13-year-old Sasha’s life in a boarding school for children deprived of parental care. He is one of the luckiest – an American family finally adopted him. Today he will move to another country forever but there’s something that doesn’t let him go.
● Olha Zhurba
● 19’
● Ukraine
Summer 2031, 104°. Saadia, 16, is oriented in mechanical school although the car industry is in crisis and there are only a few electric cars in circulation. Her friends, Charly and Titi, throw a joke to cheer her up: what if the car of the future was a horse? Against all odds, Saadia trades her scooter for a massive workhorse which she brings back to the heart of her housing project...
● Juliette Gilot
● 17΄
● France
Wide meadows, romping in the woods and building cabins. Leo (12) spends the autumn holidays with big sister Noémie and cousin Emil on Grandma Marlies' farm. However when Leo is surprised by what Grandma Marlies calls big news, Leo faces an identity crisis.
● Tajo Hurrle
● 17’
● Germany
