Andaras Noas (New Paths)
Fradi miu
Simone Contu - Italy (20’)
Antonio is a shepherd who lives with his goat herd in the Sardinian mountains. The apparent calmness of his days will be upset when the opportunity to avenge his brother, killed many years ago in front of his own eyes, will present itself.
Memoir of a Veering Storm
Sofia Georgovassili - Greece (14’)
What happens to roe deer during their reproductive period? What does a young female body feel during and after an abortion? Can a cyclone break out only in our unconscious? It is a morning in September. A storm is about to break. Α mother drives a girl to school in the morning and picks up a woman at the end of the school day. Anna, a fifteen-year-old girl sneaks out of school, and with the help of her boyfriend, they visit a hospital. There, she has to face an event that will jolt her into adulthood.
Nostos
Mauro Zingarelli - Italy (20’)
In 2059, in a broken-down world, silicon has become the most precious material on the planet. A man and a girl barter transistors and microchips for a few larvae and some water. Their routine will be broken by the discovery of a forgotten heirloom, something that the man will not want to part with.
Rites
Damián Vondrášek - Czech Republic (15’)
A boy with a cleft lip has one afternoon to pass the initiation ritual to a street gang.
SOLO UN ENSAYO
Hugo Sanz - Spain (9’)
Two sisters, seven and eleven years old, are hiding inside a closet in a house. The little sister thinks they are rehearsing for a game but the older one knows that a terrible threat lurks outside.
Subtitles
David Barbieri - Italy (13’)
Soon after discovering that they are unaware protagonists of an ongoing film, two idle guys will have to put up a fight against a very particular film crew.
Time-Out
Bernabé Rico - Spain (12’)
100 yards of no-man's land, 25 bored men, 2 trenches of war and only 1 ball.