Young Directors Competition 4
01 Eyes wide open
Director(s)
Laura PASSALACQUA
Film info
Year of production: 2020
Country of production: France
Length: 05' 40''
Synopsis
During a very hot summer, the teen Emma is doomed to boredom at her grandparents’ house. She's dying for something to happen. At the edge of a pond, she hides to observe The Young Man. She develops a brief but intense obsession for this fantasized stranger.
02 Lesser of Two Evils
Director(s)
Máté HORESNYI
Film info
Year of production: 2021
Country of production: Hungary
Length: 09' 56''
Watch the trailerSynopsis
Raw and realistic events suddenly become absurd, and the series of accidents mixed with the characters’ constantly looking back into the past creates a dream-like atmosphere. The Eastern-Europian mentality and relations are exposed through Attila Hazai’s pen.
03 A Story for 2 Trumpets
Director(s)
Amandine MEYER
Film info
Year of production: 2022
Country of production: France
Length: 05' 26''
Synopsis
An initiatory and intimate story in which the author tells, in the form of a tale, the key stages of her construction as a woman and artist.
04 Graziano and the Giraffe
Director(s)
Fabio ORLANDO
Tommaso ZERBI
Film info
Year of production: 2022
Country of production: Italy
Length: 06' 35''
Synopsis
A man hungry for sausages buys a microwave oven that will drag him into the wild.
05 Golden Margarite
Director(s)
Keren KARASIK
Synopsis
The film follows the day of three young teens living in a neglected ghost town in Post-Soviet Europe
06 Love, Dad
Director(s)
Diana CAM VAN NGUYEN
Film info
Year of production: 2021
Country of production: Czech Republic
Length: 12' 46''
Synopsis
The author finds letters full of love her dad wrote her 15 years ago. Now she fights to get that love back.
07 No Shortcuts
Director(s)
Kadi SINK
Film info
Year of production: 2021
Country of production: Estonia
Length: 03' 22''
Watch the trailerSynopsis
A little dump of illegal rubbish brings great trouble upon the forest creatures and beyond.
08 Ashes
Director(s)
Joanna DUDEK
Film info
Year of production: 2020
Country of production: Poland
Length: 07' 49''
Synopsis
The letters from her husband are bringing Danuta back to the feelings she once had for the love of her life. She is revisiting places and reliving her youth.
09 The "Milky" Way
Director(s)
Patrik PENCZ
Natália NÉMETH
Film info
Year of production: 2022
Country of production: Hungary
Length: 08' 31''
Synopsis
The clandestine power is doing brainwashing actions using milk, as the demonstrators in the city claim. The farmer living in the countryside doesn’t care believing it to be nonsense. Then, one night one of his cows is stolen, so he must do something…
10 In the Upper Room
Director(s)
Alexander GRATZER
Film info
Year of production: 2022
Country of production: Hungary
Length: 08' 09''
Synopsis
Every season a young mole visits his blind grandfather, who lives deep underground in a comfortably decorated burrow. As the two grow older their relationship becomes more intense and important questions arise.
11 Zoon
Director(s)
Jonatan SCHWENK
Film info
Year of production: 2022
Country of production: Germany
Length: 04' 25''
Synopsis
Small shimmering animals are in heat. A two-legged forest dweller encounters the lustful group. He and his companions snack on the little creatures and soon a feast begins.