A JOKER (I THOUGHT I WOULD CHANGE THE WORLD)
Ahmed Dahroug (Egypt)
Adam gets out of the mental hospital, lives back with his parents and his girlfriend breaks up with him. To make it as an actor is the only thing left for him to do.
ALPHA HOTEL
Yenni Lee (Norway)
EMELIE (35) participates in a sadistic casting workshop for a film at The Alpha Hotel on a remote island for 12 days.
BEAU-TOX BEYROUTH
Konstantin Bock (Germany)
Former star-designer Riccardo Pugnetti arrives in Beirut for the first time in his life, on a short and lucrative mission: to meet Madame Cherfane, the wife of a high-ranking politician, who has commissioned him to make a dress for her.
BEFORE THE SUMMER
Nikola Kupresanin and Anja Matkovic (Croatia)
A love story between two ‘helpless’ people in the whirlwind of local handymen, cafe´ owners, eco-friendly marijuana breeders, famished wild cows, all bathed in sun and sea and the smell of the upcoming summer.
CHEAPER THAN STEALING
Pedro Collantes and Victor Alonso Berbel (Spain and France)
JAREK, a young Uber driver struggling to sustain his family in Paris, finds out that a photo of him and his grandmother is used without permission in an offensive advertising campaign.
CHILI LOVE
Ninni Saajola and Solina Riekkola (Finland)
Love is easy. Growing chili peppers is not.
CONFUSIA
Roberto Cavallini and Cecilia Bozza Wolf (Italy)
In a village in the Alps, three Drag Queens find themselves blackmailed to participate in a Lumberjacks’ contest to rise the women’s quota. Only a series of mysterious murders will help them to find their own purpose in life.
FOREIGNERS’ CLUB
Sofija Sztepanov (Hungary)
Five misfits, determined to resolve their inner struggles, take a cross-country road trip in Iceland to the event of the year – an alleged UFO landing.
HEAVENGLOW
Anna Mellin (Finland)
Unemployed Katri accidentally finds a new meaning to her life by building wings with local market meat.
JIGGELYPOPS
Matilda Bayley and Lena Vurma (UK)
An increasingly fickle teenager from South London struggles to lay claim to her selfhood amid the chaos of her home life with her autistic brother.
K-POPS
Josh Kim and Pornmanus Rattanavich (USA)
A flamboyant Thai cop and a jaded Korean detective must team together to stop a serial killer on the loose in the streets of Bangkok.
MONTY INCARNATE
Vanessa Caswill and Mike Smith (UK)
Seven-year-old Maggie recruits her cynical Uncle Harry to help her investigate her past-life memories as a man called ‘Monty’, taking them on a transatlantic quest.
RAGE AGAINST TIME
Emily Lucienne (UK)
Two friends tormented by their body clocks fly to Barcelona to freeze their eggs and chase the last of summer.
RAVE-BROADWAY
Anastasia Ivaniuk (Ukraine)
To maintain his position, the director of the children's theater stages the capture of himself as a hostage to set up his main competitor.
SURGES
Birgit Stauber (Austria)
A woman ´s rape trauma is brought back to light 20 years later. On her journey to heal she stumbles through passionate sex, painful realizations and funny encounters.
THE BRAZILWOOD WOMEN
Thais de Almeida Prado (Brazil)
Thais, Nathalia, Julia and Tetembua decide to open a "Men’s Escort Company” as a solution to women's desires in search of casual sex.
THE KING WHO HAD A DAUGHTER
Amelia Eloisa Martìnez and Ana Karen Guzmàn (Mexico)
Soco is an unmarried woman in charge of taking care of her demanding father with Alzheimer’s. When she gets the opportunity to work as a costume designer for a high school dance troupe, she must hide the truth from her family and deal with her new double life.
THE LITTLE DIFFERENCE
Fanny Nussbaumer and Rajko Jazbe (Switzerland)
Remy wants a successful life thanks to a leg extension. But at the clinic he falls in love with the cheerful trans woman Lea, who doesn‘t fit into his classic world view at all.
THE SAD LIFE OF HAPPY PIG!
Christy Whaibe and Christelle Younes (Lebanon)
When Chady, 35 years-old, recognizes the assassin of his father, he decides to get revenge with his “Happy Pig” costume.
WHEN I GROW UP, I WANNA BE AN ALCOHOLIC
Anastasia Vorotniuk (Ukraine)
"Most seven-year-olds want to be policemen, firemen or astronauts, when they grow up. Lola, our protagonist, is also seven, but she wants to be an alcoholic. Should all kids follow their dreams?"