Claudiu Mitcu
Roumania
2013 | 0:18:00

Maria, an elderly woman, is dying in her bed. Around her sit other women watching carefully over her last breath, trying to provide her with whatever she might need. They talk to each other, recalling stories from Maria’s past. While all this is going on, life continues as well as some of the ladies start to giggle or have to leave and go home. Maria is a testimony to life’s most enduring strengths.

Vipin Vijay
India
2013 | 0:30:00

A video essay that looks into the contemporary simulation of the old relationship between sign and referent. A toxicologist, a convict, a herpetologist and a traditional healer ponder deeply to get closer to the reality of things.

Dilek Gökçin
Turkey
2013 | 1:00:00

Bûka Baranê, means The Bride of the Rain in Kurdish. It is the Kurdish phrase used for the rainbow. The documentary, begins with a photograph of primary school children taken in 1989 in the courtyard of their school in a kurdish village, in the Yüksekova district of Hakkari province. In a corner of the photograph it is possible to see the rainbow that comes out after every fall of rain in this region. 23 years after the photograph was taken, one of the students in the photograph (?rfan) returns to the village for a wedding. Following his journey towards the village, we also depart on a journey starting in 1989 with the 10 people in the photograph. As part of the village’s recent history, we follow the emergency rule period and the establishment of the position of village guardianship. The village gradually becomes a frequent stop both for PKK militants and the soldiers of the Turkish army. Detentions, oppression and beatings begin. They are followed by more and more young people of the village leaving for the mountains to join the PKK. We listen to the memoirs of the one-time students. This documentary is focusing on the experiences of children at a village primary school in the '90s under war conditions and their longing for peace.