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Precious

Director: Irfan Avdic

Category: Short

Genres: Drama

Year: 2018

Country: Bosnia and Herzegovina

Runtime: 15 minutes

Production Budget: 4,000 USD

Upon learning that a planned school trip was postponed due to financial constraints, high-school student Alem – an orphan who lives with his grandmother – decides to take matters into his own hands and secure the money for the trip in whatever way possible. Alem’s manliness and credibility are put to test when his criminal role model Paze suggests robbing a supermarket.

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In Principio

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The Boat

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Vinilici

Director: Fulvio Iannucci

Category: Feature

Genres: Documentary

Year: 2018

Country: Italy

Runtime: 1 hour 10 minutes

Production Budget: --

Exactly seventy years after the birth of the vinyl record, "Vinilici - perché il vinile ama la musica" is the first completely Italian film dedicated to this wonderful support. The docufilm starts from Naples, the original capital of music and disc in Italy, and it is no coincidence: the Phono type Record, founded in Naples at the beginning of the '900 is among the first record companies in the world to have an independent factory for the manufacture of disks.

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Alganesh

Director: Lia Beltrami, Marianna Beltrami

Category: Feature

Genres: Documentary

Year: 2018

Country: Italy

Runtime: 1 hour

Production Budget: --

'I didn't believe it until I saw it'. A sign on a wall says this, as a hundred Eritrean refugees arrive in Endabaguna collection centre in the Tigray region in Ethiopia, after traveling in an airless truck for four days. Why do people run away? What happens before the infamous images we are shown in the West of refugees crossing the sea? An intense journey through four refugee camps for Eritreans in Ethiopia, amongst unaccompanied children, persecuted Kunamas, people who have been there for as long as 17 years.
This journey will follow Dr Alganesh Fessah's work, and her commitment in securing refugee's rights and liberating kidnapped and tortured prisoners in the Sinai desert.
Three protagonists: refugees; Ethiopia, a welcoming land; and Alganesh who, among despair, will tell us her hopes on the horizon.

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Il Dominio della Lacrima – Lacrymosa

Director: Manuel Koch

Category: Feature

Genres: Thriller, Fantasy

Year: 2018

Country: Italy

Runtime: 2 hours 3 minutes

Production Budget: 10,000 EUR

Daniel Montenovo is a young "shy hedonist", a University student about to graduate with the wise and mysterious professor Petrovicz as advisor. Daniel enshrines an intimate wish in his heart. In a desolate wood, inside the house of a old hermit, he will discover a creature that allows people to experience their deepest desire in an illusory yet vivid form. In front of such a possibility, Daniel will find himself at an existential crossroads: the boy will have to choose wether to continue living an authentic yet unhappy life, or to lose himself in a marvelous and eternal dream, but stopping to live an actual life.

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Angel of Anywhere

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Joy of Wolf

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Sinking

Director: Hans Montelius

Category: Feature

Genres: Drama, Comedy

Year: 2018

Country: Sweden

Runtime: 1 hour 30 minutes

Production Budget: 100,000 USD

Who is trying to kill Mark? Mark drinks too much and tries his best just
to stay above the surface, literally. He lies passed out in a jacuzzi
and someone enters the room and starts to fill the jacuzzi with water.
Who is it? Is it one of the women he and his producer has harassed? Is
it his producer, who has filmed in secret in order to get more likes on
his video blog? Or is it the producers ex wife, who he has filmed having
sex?

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Through the Mirrors

Director: Kathy Kasic

Category: Short

Genres: Experimental, Music Video

Year: 2017

Country: United States

Runtime: 9 minutes 8 seconds

Production Budget: --

“Through the Mirrors” is a poetic film about the fate of love in the
face of time, inspired by the poem “As I Walked Out One Evening”, by WH
Auden. Although it uses no spoken word, the film has three voices: a
narrator-pianist (Julien Brocal), an elderly woman (Susan Heyneman), and
Time. As the woman remembers her love, the pianist performs the tone and
rhythm of her memory in a room filled with mirrors, while projections of
her life play back into the mirrors. The music that the pianist performs
is by Ravel "Miroirs: La Vallée des Cloches” and Mompou “La Fuente y La
Campana”; both compositions relate to the passing of time.