Not Olives | Jayden Bailey | DBS | 5' | DEU
Roommates set out to find a jar of very special olives. Meanwhile, their apartment is robbed.
At Dawn | Andrea Ruiz | EFTI | 7' | ECU
Cloe wakes up after a party and cannot remember a thing. During the morning, she realizes something is wrong and that her date acted without her consent. Cloe tries to get justice, but without proof or support.
Perrot's case | Rony Tanios | Le Fresnoy | 30' | FRA
Julien Perrot, a 16-year-old boy, shows up at his school totally naked. Yet no one seems to notice anything different about him, especially since Julien is behaving like every other day. Only today, a total solar eclipse is about to occur and excitement is in the air. Students are waiting for the bell to ring, to go down to the schoolyard.
Waithood | Louisiana Mees | Royal Academy of Fine Arts | 22' | BEL
'Waithood' is a portmanteau for 'waiting' and 'adulthood' In Athens in 2019 44% of youth are unemployed. A generation lost in no man’s land, wandering outside of the classroom in a labor market amid a booming sharing economy and growing gentrification. Five youngsters avoid waiting for an empty future by seeking entertainment in the luxurious Airbnb establishments that one of them is cleaning for a meager fee. On the rooftops they look out over a city in turmoil, daydreaming about a world of possibilities.
SALTO. | Henrique Guerreiro | Lusófona Lisboa | 11' | PRT
Fragments of life, depicting the last days of Carlos, before taking the leap into the sea, leaving everything behind. Salto. is a film that portrays death from the point of view of the departed and the consequences that will mark those who remain.
Levanta-te e Caminha | Soraia Antunes | ESTA | 21' | PRT
A patch is used to define an object of healing, a token of better times, a memento that completes us. Now the Clock ticks, and the last stand to repair the seams of the Unpatchable man ensues.
What Really Goes Through Our Minds: The Times They Are A-Changin | Gonçalo Nogueiro, Valentina Caetano | Universidade Católica | 7' | PRT
With the development of technology, we have unlimited access to information that past generations never had. If on the one hand, it is thanks to this technological advance that we arrived where we are today; on the other hand, the reverse of the currency can sometimes be very catastrophic. There are countless negative consequences of this technological development. In this film, one looks directly towards the banalization of violence. First, it portrays the content we see every day from on the television, the Internet, or any kind of media. In the second phase, it portrays what would happen if the dead could speak.