International Feature Film Competition
Jonathan Katz strongly believes that candidate Bernie Sanders is the only hope for the United States of America threatened by Donald Trump. Sanders is a voice outside the establishment and has put new...
International Feature Film Competition
A man leaves Brazil and a red clay quarry that saturates all the surrounding nature to board a cargo ship. He is accompanying the “mountain” that has been extracted from the Brazilian forest and will...
International Feature Film Competition
“A tree moans and moans but never breaks. A strong tree tips over and is gone.” Embracing a fabric of places, times and stories—the Sweden of the 1930s, a Siberian work camp, and contemporary Ukraine—...
International Feature Film Competition
Lech Kowalski returns to Utica, where he grew up, in a multicultural district inhabited by the descendants of migrants from the European continent, into which “white proles” are also crammed. The town...
International Feature Film Competition
There is a new mayor in Messina, Sicily. A Buddhist one. Old politicians have lost for once, and there is an outpouring of new hopes and energies. People around the newly elected mayor try to reshape...
International Feature Film Competition
The “gaucho” tradition is observed through the story of an elderly couple who lives in the hills of Northern Argentina. Beginning their daily routine, gestures endlessly repeated throughout their...
International Feature Film Competition
At the point at which Singapore is preparing to celebrate its independence, a time capsule is filled with present-day objects, to then be buried and offer gifts to posterity. At the same time,...
International Feature Film Competition
The Siberian city of Norilsk, above the Arctic Circle, was established here for the nickel and other metal deposits. Built under Stalin by Gulag prisoners—who numbered some 650,000 between 1930 and...
International Feature Film Competition
In 2009, the bodies of dozens of migrants, who had been trying to reach Europe via the Canary Islands, were washed up by ocean currents onto a beach in Mauritania. Among these bodies was that of a...
International Feature Film Competition
Sight, like other senses, is as much a matter of personal experience as of the absence of possible comparisons. How can we know what others see and in what way? How can we describe when our reference...
International Feature Film Competition
Tuxpan, a town located in the State of Veracruz, is the closest commercial port to Mexico City. It is home not only to several wheats, corn, and soya import-export activities, but also to several...
International Feature Film Competition
Easter Island is the second-most remote island from a continent in the world, after the Tristan da Cunha archipelago. It is located in the Pacific Ocean 3,601 kilometres away from Chile (of which it...
International Feature Film Competition
We watch from behind as a person with a sling bag walks through the night, before melting among her peers in a refuge, in Mexico, welcoming those women and men who are fleeing a political situation,...
International Feature Film Competition
Every summer, when the major football teams fly their star athletes to training grounds in expensive and sunny locations, some other players meet on a football field in Duisburg. Even though there are...
International Feature Film Competition
Tao and Dong promised each other they'd return to the village where the latter grew up, in Inner Mongolia, before following his family, who left to find better fortune in a large city in Southern...
International Feature Film Competition
Located on the île de la Cité, in the middle of the Seine, the Paris Law Court looks like an impenetrable fortress. Like Kafka's castle, it guards its secrets well. It is the place of power. The...
International Feature Film Competition
In Beirut, Syrian construction workers are building a skyscraper while at the same time their own houses at home are being shelled. The Lebanese war is over but the Syrian one still rages on. The...
International Feature Film Competition
Human beings who have experienced such a strong shock that they are no longer even afraid of death (as it often happens to genocide survivors) sometimes fall into what is known as a feeling or a...
International Feature Film Competition
Due to the war that has laid waste on Syria, the Kurdish city of Kobane, located in the Rojava region, at the frontier with Turkey, has been under the siege of Daesh militias (the so-called Isis)....