NORTEÑOS

Grandmas, 2018

Belgium, DOC, 8′

Encounters Short Film and Animation Festival Bristol – Audience Award 2020

Synopsis
Barry, a mild mannered fool from somewhere in the Northwest attempts to elicit the help of his ex-girlfriend after brutally murdering his grandmother with a hammer.

To Teach a Bird to Fly

Minna Raino, Mark Roberts, 2019

Finland, DOC/FIC, 20′

Tampere Film Festival – Audience Award 2020

Synopsis
A docufiction that tells the story of bird extinction from the point of view of the Northern Bald Ibis. This story explores bird extinction and climate change through a fictionalized story told from the perspective of the future. The film follows the Waldrapp project in Germany, where a young woman helps breed and hand-raise the birds. The hope is to teach them to migrate by following a light aircraft across the Alps to their wintering grounds in Tuscany, Italy.

Awards and Selections
2020 – Tampere Film Festival (Risto Jarva Prize)
2020 – European Cinematography Awards (Best Nature Travel Film)
2020 – New York Cinematography Awards (Best Documentary)

Revolvo

Francy Fabritz, 2019

Germany, FIC, 8′

Interfilm Berlin – International Short Film Festival – Audience Award 2019

Synopsis
Two middle-aged women enjoying a joyride in an expensive car while kidnapping a dubious right-wing politician. They find themselves caught up in the moment when a cop pulls them over. What seems like a supposedly harmless ride at first glance turns into a plan of revenge.

Awards and Selections
2019 – Internationale Hoferfilmtage (World Premiere)
2020 – QUEER-Streifen Regensburg (Jury Award – Best Short Film, Audience Award – Best Lesbian Short Film)
2022 – Schweinfurter Kurzfilmtage (Audience Award)

Mind My Mind

Floor Adams, 2019

The Netherlands/Belgium, ANI, 29′

Go Short International Short Film Festival Nijmegen – Audience Award 2019

Synopsis
When relying on social scripts to survive the social world, it’s not easy to go off-script. Especially if you’re obsessed with German dive bombers and just want to date a girl.

Awards and Selections
2019 – ANIMA – Brussels Animation Film Festival (Audience Award – Best Short Film)
2019 – Indy Shorts International Film Festival (Grand Prize)
2019 – CINANIMA – International Animation Festival (Best Animated Short Award)

Mémorable
(MEMORABLE)

Bruno Collet, 2019

France, ANI, 12′

Clermont-Ferrand International Short Film Festival – Audience Award 2020

Synopsis
Recently Louis, a painter, and his wife Michelle are experiencing strange events. The world around them seems to be mutating. Slowly, the furniture, objects and people are losing their realism.

Awards and Selections
2019 – Calgary International Film Festival (Audience Choice Award – Narrative Short / Live Action or Animated)
2020 – OSCARS® (Nominee – Best Animated Short Film)
2020 – European Film Awards (Nominee – Best

Manolo Montesco y Carmela Capuleto
(Manolo Montague and Carmela Capulet) 

María Jáimez, 2019

Spain, DOC, 30′

ALCINE – Alcalá de Henares Film Festival in the Community of Madrid – Audience Award 2019

Synopsis
What would happen in the life of Romeo and Juliet if they had not died adolescents? How would their days be at 90?

PLUS JEDEN
(Plus One)

Myroslava Klochko, 2019

Ukraine/Czechia, FIC, 23′

Lviv International Short Film Festival Wiz Art – Audience Award 2019

Synopsis
Happy newlyweds Ida and Jura are expecting a child. Ida suddenly finds out that the child will be special. She is unsure of how Jura will react when he learns the news, or what life with an extraordinary child will bring.

LES EXTRAORDINARAIRES MESAVENTURES DE LA JEUNE FILLE DE PIERRE
(THE MARVELOUS MISADVENTURES OF THE STONE LADY)

Gabriel Abrantes, 2019

France/Portugal, FIC/ANI, 20′

Curtas Vila do Conde – International Film Festival – Audience Award 2019

Synopsis
Tired of being a banal architectural ornament, a sculpture runs away from the Louvre to confront real life on the streets of Paris.