Elli spends a lonely summer, feeling detached from the rest of the world, while her parents are breaking up. Her only company is her cat, Molly. When the cat runs off, she starts looking for the only source of affection she still had.
● Stella Serefoglou
● 14’
● Greece
Two girls waiting to meet friends on Halloween night encounter a stalker only to discover there may be something scarier.
● Eddie Frente
● 6'
● U.S.A.
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