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9-MONTH CONTRACT
As an orphan, for Jana, motherhood has always been priceless. When years later, she is raising a kid, single and homeless, Jana becomes a surrogate to offer her daughter the life she never had. Nine months and 14,000 USD. Is it that simple and priceless?
Ketevan Vashagashvili / 1991 Productions / Georgia
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CINEMA
A FOX UNDER A PINK MOON
When the world is struggling against Covid-19, the Taliban and ISIS, and all the borders are closed to emigrants, Soraya, a 18-year-old sculptor and painter from Afghanistan starts her journey to illegally immigrate and join her mother in Austria.
Mehrdad Oskouei / Oskouei Films / Iran
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CHANGE
BLUEBERRY DREAMS
In Samegrelo, a Georgian region bordering the de facto state Abkhazia, tensions have been maintained since the 1992 conflict. A family has staked its future on cultivating a blueberry field, but their young sons have dreams beyond this uncertain land.
Elene Mikaberidze / Parachute Films / Georgia, France
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CINEMA
BODY PARTS
Body Parts explores the making of American 'sex' scenes, revealing movie magic processes and exploring the toll on those involved. What if women speak up, shed light, and demand an entertainment industry that takes its responsibility to heart?
Kristy Guevara-Flanagan / Chuparosa Films / United States
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F:ACT
BREAKING SOCIAL
The social contract: the rules we follow - and some don’t. Breaking Social uncovers the pattern of corruption and kleptocracy erasing the social tissue, followed by social uprisings. In Chile a new turn is taken, with young women in the lead.
Fredrik Gertten / WG Film AB / Sweden
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FICTIONONFICTION
CELLULOID DREAMS
A projected image, a video, a glimpse on a small screen, a window to another world or to a better life. Five different parts of the world, five staggering stories of courage and wonder, show us how movies can change us and sometimes, the world.
Ilinca Calugareanu / Vernon Films / United Kingdom, Germany
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SCIENCE
CLIMATE IN THERAPY
What will happen if a group of climate scientists, who usually don’t allow themselves to express their emotions about climate change, get a chance to process their feelings in group therapy?
Nathan Grossman / B-Reel Films / Sweden
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CINEMA
COPA '71
Mexico ’71: international teams join forces for a sell-out Women’s World Cup. Unauthorised & unapproved, Copa ’71 is one of the most groundbreaking moments in footballing history but you’ve probably never heard of it, erased from the books until now.
Rachel Ramsay, James Erskine / New Black Films / United Kingdom
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CHANGE
EVER SINCE I KNEW MYSELF
I, the daughter of a Georgian tiger mother, travel around classrooms and observe children to help portray my childhood. I juxtapose these images with my mother's letters, reflecting her attempt to transform me from a restive child into a model citizen.
Maka Gogaladze / Formo Production / Georgia
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CINEMA
GIRLS OF TOMORROW
Anta, Evy, Lila and Talia were 20 in 2015 and studied at all-female Barnard College in New York. 2015 - 2045: 30 years and 3 films to see how they will shape the world from the inside out, becoming women on a fast changing planet.
Nora Philippe / Point du Jour - Les films du balibari / France
Ibrahim Mohamed / Jouzour Film Production / Germany
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CHANGE
HOMEMADE MULBERRY VODKA
A filmmaker and a soldier, who both experienced the war in Nagorno-Karabakh, set off on a road trip to overcome their survivor’s guilt. They are returning to the war-torn areas in search of a renewed, mulberry-infused taste of life.
Anzhela Frangyan / DoKino / Armenia, France
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ART
ILOVERUSS
20 years ago a Hollywood extra met a budding filmmaker. She honed her directorial skills and he practised lines. Years later, a film which was never supposed to be had already been shot. Neither reality nor fiction, but both at the same time.
Tova Mozard / Picky Pictures / Sweden
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CHANGE
LIVING AGAINST THE ODDS
Susanna is the director of the Art School of Togh, a village occupied during the 2020 war opposing Armenia to Azerbaijan. Supported by the faculty, she tries to bring education back in the midst of a fragile peace.
Mariam Ohanyan / Liza Production / Armenia
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CINEMA
LOOK INTO MY EYES
Look Into My Eyes is a poetic exploration of the oldest and most popular form of therapy: psychic readings. Intimate sessions with psychics and clients from diverse backgrounds interweave to paint a kaleidoscopic portrait of anxiety and hope.
Lana Wilson / Drifting Cloud Productions / United States
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FICTIONONFICTION
MEGAHEARTZ
Megaheartz is a hybrid documentary about 5 women who want to start over. The film begins with an acutely real escape from a destructive boyfriend and continues in a flow of fantasies and fragments of love, pain and desire.
Emily Norling / Story AB / Sweden
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WIP
NASRIN'S VOICE
Kurdish child bride Nasrin becomes independent in Finland against her husband’s will. The punishment is harsh. But Nasrin doesn’t give up. She wants to win the battle for her rights.
Kaisa Rastimo / Image Club Oy / Finland
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PIK-NIK
Through a series of cinematic tableau vivant Pik-Nik documents the annual theatrical spectacle of picnic culture of East Indian winters, providing new visions of the complex shifting environmental, social and political realities of present-day India.
Arko Datto / Good Kids / Hungary, India, United Kingdom
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CINEMA
PORTRAIT OF A CONFUSED FATHER
A macho middle-aged control freak of a father is trying to connect with his uncontrollable wild son. It does not go according to plan.
Gunnar Hall Jensen / UpNorth Film / Norway, France
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WIP
PROJECT X [wt]
A political thriller that reveals the race to bring about the Armageddon prophecy.
Tonje Hessen Schei / UpNorth Film / Norway, Germany, Sweden, Finland
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CINEMA
QUEENDOM
Young queer artist Gena is redefining beauty by turning her childhood traumas into mesmerising and fearless performances that become more political and dangerous as she fights for the right to be herself in a deeply conservative Russian society.
Agniia Galdanova / Sopka Films / Russia
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WIP
RESORTS
At the south tip of Gran Canaria, the sun is always shining. Resorts warmly captures the easy and complicated lives, of 6 tourists that never left their holiday.
Mette Carla Albrechtsen / Bullitt Film ApS / Denmark, Sweden
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CHANGE
SILENT FLOOD
A moving story about a closed religious community in Ukraine living away from the modern world and in harmony with nature. Their society is divided between those who respect its traditions and those facing its limits and questioning this way of life.
Dmytro Sukholytkyy-Sobchuck / Tabor / Ukraine
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F:ACT
SINK OR $WIM
While world leaders debate how to stop climate change, the world’s wealthiest are amassing and hoarding the proverbial high ground as the waters rise. And a growing legion of corporations, high-stakes gamblers and entrepreneurs are cashing in.
Carl Deal, Tia Lessin / Elsewhere Films / United States
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F:ACT
SO CALLED SISTERHOOD [wt]
Margot, Łania and Lu fight as a queer collective against oppressive norms in today’s Poland. The courageous women succeed in bringing about positive change, but the attention to their actions has a price.
Hanka Nobis / First Hand Films / Switzerland, Poland
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WIP
STAYERS
A tight-knit crabbing community in the U.S. fights to rescue their island from the sea. Despite not believing in man-made climate change, they engage in conversations with three climate activist filmmakers. Can they traverse the oceans between them?
Hannah Jayanti, Julia Dahr, Julie Lunde Lillesæter / Differ Media / Norway, United States
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CINEMA
THE END OF QUIET
In a remote, isolated area, one of the largest telescopes on earth is used to unlock the mysteries of the universe, while the locals live without cell phones and WiFi, cutting themselves off from the world.
Mikael Lypinski, Kasper Bisgaard / Sonntag Pictures / Denmark
Christian Sønderby Jepsen / Moving Documentary / Denmark
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F:ACT
THE FIRST PLANTATION
Outcry erupts when Barbados’ Drax Hall, the oldest continuously-operated sugar plantation in the Americas, is inherited by one of Britain’s wealthiest politicians, a descendant from the slave master who first built it.
Jason Fitzroy Jeffers / Gusto Moving Pictures / United States
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ART
THE GOSPEL ACCORDING TO MATTHEW
When Jesus returns as a Congolese plantation worker, the question arises who will be crucified: Jesus or the producers of the film?
Renzo Martens / Topkapi Films / Netherlands, Denmark, Germany
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F:ACT
THE GREAT ART $WINDLE [wt]
A Swiss art dealer and a Russian Oligarch caught in a web of secrets, lies and mad money. The inside story of an international billion dollar game where power is the ultimate currency.
Andreas Dalsgaard / Elk Film / Denmark, France
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SCIENCE
THE HUMAN RACE
In his relentless attempt to build a library of the complete genetic blueprint of the human race, a famous professor gets swirled into the political, ethical and existential tangle his work creates.
Simon Lec / Move Copenhagen / Denmark
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ART
THE HUMAN SURGE 3
Different groups of people wander in a rainy, windy, dark world. They spend time together, trying to get away from their depressing jobs, meandering constantly towards a disturbing surreal queer fantasy.
Eduardo Williams / UN PUMA CINE / Argentina, Portugal, China, France
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CINEMA
THE LAST NOMADS
A tumultuous family drama unfolds as Gara (59) and Nada (13) defend their land set to become a military polygon, revealing layers of complexity that bond mother and daughter. The story of violence against women echoes in the violence against nature.
Biljana Tutorov, Petar Glomazić / Wake Up Films Les Films de l'oeil sauvage / Serbia, Montenegro, Croatia, Belgium, France
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FICTIONONFICTION
THE MEN IN GRAY
The 1970s children’s fantasy novel Momo - about a little girl who prevents the theft of human time, will be adapted as a documentary exploring contemporary acceleration of social time, and how it affects people’s lives, culture and politics.
Ra'anan Alexandrowicz / Ma.ja.de. Filmproduktion / United States, Germany
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F:ACT
THE TOTAL TRUST [wt]
By exploring the relationship between the watched and the watching, our film uncovers the trauma and hope engendered by an all-surveilling state and lends a voice to those that stand in resilient defiance of such blatant abuse of power.
Jialing Zhang / Filmtank GmbH / Germany, Netherlands
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SCIENCE
THE WHALE MYSTERY
Why do thousands of whales commit collective suicide every year? A deep-sea diver thinks he has the answer.
Klaus Thymann / Wingman Media / Denmark, Norway, Iceland
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CHANGE
THE WIFE OF
An act of resistance itself, this film tells the story of three courageous women, their fight to free their husbands from jail and their country from a brutal dictatorship.
Volia Chajkouskaya / Allfilm / Estonia, France, United States
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UNCONVENTIONAL GARDENERS
In an ancient valley devastated by a hurricane caused by climate change, a scientist listens carefully to the 'genius loci' of the wounded forest, in search of a close encounter between humans and trees. Will intelligence of plants change our future?
Alessandro Bernard, Paolo Ceretto / Zenit Arti Audiovisive / Italy
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UNTITLED MISTRESS DISPELLER PROJECT
Teacher Wang works as a 'mistress dispeller' in China, hired to break up affairs by any means necessary. Through one of her cases, we explore the ways class, capital, and culture collide to shape romantic relationships in contemporary China.
Elizabeth Lo / After Argos Films, LLC / United States, China
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VINTERSAGA
Vintersaga, is a song-structured homage to the Swedish melancholy. Through 24 stanzas the film observes a mosaic of situations and individuals, each with their own doubts, memories and dreams, shaping a picture of a land tinged by the bitter cold wind.
Carl Olsson / Ginestra Film / Sweden
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F:ACT
WHITEWASH
Illegal funds travelling from Russia through Estonia into every corner of the world. Whitewash is the inside story of the gigantic money laundering case of Danske and other Nordic banks.
Andrei Nekrasov / Piraya Film AS / Norway
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CINEMA
WOMEN OF MY LIFE
Born in the home of a Baghdad midwife, actor/director Zahraa witnessed violence against women from early on. Now she’s pointing the camera in search for a lost girl and to confront lifelong shame and fear alongside three exceptional women in her life.
Zahraa Ghandour / Dschoint Ventschr Filmproduktion / Iraq, Switzerland
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