Roqiye Tavakoli
Iran
2012 | 00:15:00

Fazed by the untimely death of her sister , a young girl Saba is urged to rear her sister’s childeren. In the meantime, her mother starts worrying over nonstop visits of her late daughter’s husband to the house. She is pressed into her sisters role more and more. She is attracted to a school teacher but cannot open her mind to him for children’s sake. In the burden of tradition she might have to accept her brother-in-law’s proposal. Saba’s conflicted emotions are impressed upon us as vividly as the aching beauty of the landscape and the vast wilderness she lives in.

Giorgos Efthimiou
Greece
2012 | 0:17:00

A violinist and mother goes through phases of craziness and fear, threatened by surreal visions, looking for her freedom

Gabriel Gauchet
Great Britain
2012 | 00:17:00

Richard, an unemployed 55-year-old, arrives 3 minutes late for his appointment at a job centre. An advisor, stifled by the limits of the system in which she works, has no choice but to penalise him for his tardiness. To avoid plunging further into destitution, Richard takes desperate measures. Inspired by the events surrounding the London Riots in 2011 and the subsequent infamous speech made by Prime Minister David Cameron, The Mass of Men gives harsh insight into the dangers of repression, disillusionment and apathy.

Éduard Moderne
France
2012 | 00:17:45

All around the world, strange phenomenons happen, mutations, medical curiosity. It seems that all the cases come from poor and working-class people…

Gabriel Mascaro
Brasil, Spain
2012 | 00:28:00

Rodrigo is a young deaf man from Recife, northeast Brazil who works installing car stereos in a small dealership on the outskirts of the town. Despite his deafness, sound penetrates his day-to-day life and he harnesses its vibrations, allowing it to pulse through his veins.