Lorena Sopi
Albania, Korsovo
2018 | 00:29:30

On the ninth birthday, during the 1999 war, Rreze Abdullahu has written the Diary of Fear. In that significant day, she didn’t except any gifts or any birthday-party. She had only one wish: She didn’t want to die. That day, Ray went towards the Serbian soldier who was guarded the area and said to him: Today, it is my birthday, and I don’t want to die!...I just want to be alive. The soldier began to cry. Rreze got stoned, she thought the soldiers never cry. Eighteen years later, upon the ruins of the past, Rreze appears in desperation with the world that doesn’t appear to be any better. This film has been based upon the true Diary of Rreze Adbullahu.

Roshan Thakuri
Nepal
2017 | 0:15:00

The film based on a true incident occurred in Gandaki region of Nepal during Maoist insurgency about social discrimination in regard to existing caste and gender in general and about so called “unusual relation” between a Dalit boy and a Brahamin girl, their struggle to succeed for a new lease of life and post union effort for a baby in the time when the entire community was under the threat of terror from both the Maoist and the government in particular.

Sarah Veltmeyer
Netherlands
2017 | 0:14:00

Andi is so obsessed with getting his hands on a phone so he can watch 5 minutes of free porn, that he doesn’t notice that his brother is trying to say goodbye.

Nicolas Boone
France
2018 | 0:29:00

Las Cruces is a poor neighborhood of Bogotá. By following some of these inhabitants, we plunge with them into an intense world where violence meets hope and joy. Las Cruces est un quartier défavorisé de Bogotá. En suivant certains de ces habitants, on plonge avec eux dans un monde intense où la violence côtoie l’espoir et la joie.

Stijn Bouma
Bosnia-Herzegovina
2017 | 00:21:55

Lejla is a young woman from Sarajevo who feels stuck in her life, working in a fast food restaurant and taking care of her elderly father. One day she meets Vedad and they fall in love. Vedad offers her the possibility of leaving together with him, but she is unsure about what's best for her future.