Nocturnal Tale | Gianluca Granocchia | Centro Sperimentale di Cinematografia | 15' | ITA
Lost in life and suffering from severe eczema, which turns her skin into fish scales, Sarah travels to see her father whom she hardly knows and who is incapable of helping her. While on a boat trip together out at sea, Sarah dives into the water, resolving to become a fish.

 

Book of Hours | Suzan Noesen | HGB Leipzig | 25' | LUX

Book of Hours portrays the day-to-day cohabitation of the artist Suzan and her grandmother Bomi in a village and is based on their real-life interaction. The film’s aesthetic serves as a metaphor to depict their different identities and lifestyles, based on the evolution of the status of women and the difference between artist and farmer's wive's work. The film is divided into four chapters, each one approaching the structuring of life from a different angle with its own narrative style.

 

Nest | María Cánovas | ESCAC | 11' | ESP

After studying in Germany for a year, Nuria comes back home to her mother, Ana, in Spain. However, contrary to what Ana thinks, Nuria has no intention of staying in the family home. Thus, when Ana abruptly realizes that Nuria wants to leave her side, the daughter will have to make her mother understand that she has to move on and let her live her life.

 

Bitten | Helena Oborska | Lodz Film School | 24' | POL

Zofia is spending her summer holidays in a holistic center far from civilization. It is supposed to be a purifying week, but she starts feeling strange...Suddenly, a man from her past appears in the hotel. Zofia recognizes his face, but he acts as if he is seeing her for the very first time. The water in the shower is burning, the cicadas are calling and the heat becomes unbearable. He is there and he is watching. The past and present begin to blur.

 

Berço | Inês Luís | ESTC | 15' | PRT

The relationship between mother and son living on a sailboat is disturbed by the arrival of a group of teens partying in an adjacent boat. She realizes her son sees in them a call for never-before-lived adolescence and hesitates to let go for the first time.

 

Catarse | Margarida Roxo Neves, Tiago Gomes | Lusofona Lisboa | 2' | PRT

Exploration of a cathartic drawing from details to the general picture.

 

The checklist | Lucas Dutra | Middlesex University | 7' | GBR

In The Checklist we get to know Geo Perez and what has tormented him since his childhood: his mother's enigmatic death.

 

Body | Catarina Mendes | UBI | 13' | PRT

In a small rural village, a woman deals with the loss of someone close to her. Between mourning and loneliness, she wanders, lost, through uninhabited places.