“Allen Sunshine” tells the story of a former music mogul who retreats to an isolated lake-side home to grieve his famous wife’s suicide.  He copes by composing ambient-electronic music and by nurturing an unexpected friendship with two young boys whom he meets on the lake fishing.  Throughout the course of his stages of grief, Allen encounters characters that remind him of what he’s lost and forgotten, and what he hopes to gain and reconcile.

Kosovo, 1990: After a series of unfortunate events, Era and her family are forced to move from Pristina to the village of her grandmother. She will need to leave behind her friends, her boyfriend, her life as she knows it and at the same time to comply with the village’s rules. As she tries to adapt to the new reality, the dynamics in her life change, redefining her relationship with her parents, her youth, her future. Things change when she meets Fatos, whose job is to help people escape the country illegally. For Era, he seems like a way out, but is he? What she really wants is to fight for her own voice.

Slovenia, Italy, Croatia, Norway, Serbia
Director: Sonja Prosenc
Producer: Rok Sečen
Company: Monoo

When a young stranger enters a seemingly perfect family, the idyllic bubble they had been living in bursts, and the chaos of the outside world infiltrates their lives, revealing their flaws, deepest fears, and dreams.

The Netherlands, The Philippines, Belgium
Director: Morgan Knibbe
Producers: Frank Hoeve and Armi Rae Cacanindin
Company: Baldr Film

In the stormy slums of bustling Manila, eleven-year-old street urchin, Ginto, dreams of escaping his scavenger life to become a gangster, while grappling with his blossoming sexuality. Meanwhile, Dutch tourist Michael’s world crumbles when he discovers he’s been deceived by his online Filipino girlfriend, leading him into the underbelly of the city’s red light district, where desire meets sinister demand. As their paths converge, Western wealth and postcolonial poverty collide, creating a brutal and cinematically stunning venture into the garden of earthly delights.

Marek (13) films socially themed videos, making him an outsider among classmates. At home, his mother’s new acquaintance disrupts their idyllic relationship. In the most sensitive phase of life, Tereza (12) enters his path. Despite their social differences, they develop a liking for each other. Teenage games spiral out of control with a simulated kidnapping, culminating in a runaway from home. They board a train heading farthest. After a series of small adventures, they get lost in a labyrinth of endless freedom. The attraction of desperation turns into the taste of loneliness and fear of the unknown, and emotional outbursts begin to drown in the loss of illusions.

During her secret mission in the middle of the tropical forest, Irene (50), a lonely ornithologist, feels the effects that the full exuberance of this place provokes on her body and mind. When the true purpose of her mission is revealed, it brings to the surface the ambiguity between her desires and her duty in the face of the illegal trafficking of wild birds that threatens that paradise. She starts to question her new sanctuary that may also be her own abyss.

A young film director, Tamás is invited to a village to lead a summer art workshop for kids. He quickly discovers that the village is overrun with corruption and exploitation. He starts an investigation into the abusive mayor and exposes him by shooting a documentary, but his good intentions threaten everyone involved. The mayor finds out about Tamás’ new mission, the locals turn against each other, and what began as an easygoing summer adventure results in disaster.
Martin Boross’ feature debut is a critical reflection on the filmmakers’ responsibility and harmful activism in an all-too-familiar microcosm of oppression.

Miguel, a 7-year-old boy, lives with three generations of estranged women in an old house. Among them his mother who, adrift with the trauma of her divorce, distances herself from the boy. Miguel takes refuge in Carmen, an enigmatic Venezuelan immigrant who works as a maid for his Brazilian family. Carmen becomes an ambiguous mother figure for the boy and develops an intimate and unusual bond with him by triggering his inner world and introducing him to a universe in which the real and the imaginary intertwine