On a school day, a seven year-old hustles strangers for money on the streets of New York City.
● Lloyd Lee Choi
● 17΄
● USA
Α 12-year-old girl prepares for her final test trying out for the traditionally all-boys Chinese youth Olympic weightlifting team.
● Johnson Cheng
● 11'
● USA
The boy’s family is hypnotized by the screens of their phones. They do not talk, laugh or have any interest in anything other than the lights of their screens/what the light on their screens brings. The boy tries to get his family back by building a machine that will take away their hypnotic phones: A big magnet
● Ilir Hasanaj
● 6΄
● Republic of Kosovo
Patterson was born on the same day as his best friend Raf, a giraffe. Because his grandfather is a zookeeper Patterson gets to spend a lot of time with Raf. They’re inseparable and share everything. That is, until Patterson goes to school for the first time and finds out that giraffes aren’t allowed at school.
● Barbara Bredero
● 75'
● Netherlands
This Is Your Captain Speaking is a short fiction film about ten-year-old Asare. To prevent his music teacher Seydou from being sent out of the country, he tries to adopt him.
● Idriss Nabil
● 24΄
● the Netherlands
A mosaic of small stories from all over the world, in which cows experience positive and negative moments, depicts the life of an animal in a global world and its relationship with humans. The visually colorful images portray the cow as a sensitive creature worthy of admiration. With its stylized poetry, playfulness and humor, the film gives hope for a better world.
● Pavla Baštanová
● 12΄
● Czech Republic
Tito is a shy 10-year-old boy who lives with his mother. Suddenly, an unusual epidemic starts to spread, making people sick whenever they get scared.
● Gustavo Steinberg, Gabriel Bitar, André Dias
● 73'
● Brazil
You are what you eat. In a world where people start to look like the thing they eat the most of, you can take this quite literally. When a newcomer prefers different eating habits, the visible consequences turn the world upside down.
● Chenglin Xie
● 7΄
● USA, China