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Before I die

Nakul Dev
Sur une petite île du lac Victoria au Kenya, les pêcheurs pensent que tout leur est dû. Pendant ce temps, les femmes et les filles portent le poids des secrets et des silences. Au cours d’un voyage intime dans ses souvenirs d’enfance, une jeune femme décide de nous raconter son histoire pour alléger son fardeau et retrouver (...)
Visual Comunicacion - Espagne

Impardonable

Marlén Viñayo
Geovanny est un tueur sans pitié du 18e, un gang de rue. Il purge sa peine dans une cellule isolée du Salvador. Mais en prison, Geovanny n’est pas coupable que de meurtres mais d’une maladie impardonnable pour Dieu et son gang : Il est homosexuel.
Carlos Martínez, Marlén Viñayo - Salvador

Stolen fish    (Prix de la FOL décerné au meilleur court-métrage de la sélection internationale)

Gosia Juszczak
En Gambie, le plus petit pays d’Afrique continentale, le poisson est maintenant réduit en poudre par des entreprises chinoises. Exportée massivement vers l’Europe ou la Chine, cette farine de poisson est destinée à nourrir les animaux de l’élevage industriel. Privée de sa principale source de protéines, la population locale lutte pour sa survie tandis que la surpêche appauvrit les (...)
Gosia Juszczak - Royaume-Uni


El Oro de Cajamarca

Alexandre Regol
Balade dans les vertes montagnes du Tolima, à la rencontre des paysans de la vallée de Cajamarca, dans les Andes colombiennes. À la surface, une vie agricole paisible, des paysages arborés et fertiles. Dessous, un immense gisement minier convoité par les multinationales.
Alexandre Regol - Colombie

In a Lion    (Prix de la FOL décerné au meilleur court-métrage de la sélection internationale)

Karol Lindholm
Dans un zoo danois, un dimanche d’hiver, une attraction met en scène un jeune lion. Les animaux sont aussi beaux à l’intérieur qu’à l’extérieur... mais certains spectateurs ne succombent pas à la magie du spectacle.
Munk Studio, Polish Filmmakers Association - Pologne

Ligne noire

Francesca Scalisi, Mark Olexa
Une femme qui pêche dans des eaux troubles, une nature dévastée et le chant d’un muezzin, unis par une subtile ligne noire.
DOK MOBILE - Suisse

One Breath Around The World

Julie Gautier, Guillaume Néry
Guillaume Néry, double champion du monde d’apnée, prend une inspiration sur une plage niçoise, en France, avant de plonger. Le voilà parti pour un voyage aux quatre coins du monde en apnée, à la rencontre des cachalots de l’île Maurice, à la découverte d’une cité sous-marine de Yonaguni au Japon ou dans le lac gelé de Päijänne en (...)
Almo Film - France

Tungrus

Rishi Chandna
Dans un appartement de la banlieue de Mumbai comme il en existe des milliers, se déroule un drame tragi-comique dont le protagoniste n’est autre qu’un jeune coq. Recueilli par un excentrique patriarche pour servir de distraction aux chats de la famille, le poussin a survécu, grandi et impose désormais à chacun son encombrante présence, tyrannisant la maisonnée (...)
Rishi Chandna - Inde



Blueberry Spirits

Astra Zoldnere
En Lettonie, une famille de Roms passe tous ses étés dans la forêt, à cueillir des myrtilles pour gagner de quoi vivre. Tout en récoltant les fruits, ils se racontent des légendes de fantômes, de bandits ou de créatures étranges, reflets de leur identité collective et de leur histoire.
Fly For Film - Lettonie

Close Ties

Zofia Kowalewska
Barbara et Zdzislaw vont bientôt fêter leur quarante-cinquième anniversaire de mariage. Cela aurait pu être une belle fête, si seulement ce dernier ne l’avait pas quittée il y a huit ans pour une autre femme. Aujourd’hui, le vieux couple est à nouveau ensemble... mais aux dires de Barbara, c’est uniquement à cause de son handicap que Zdzislaw n’est pas encore en train de courir tous (...)
Munk Studio – Polish Filmmakers Association - Pologne

Daniel

Anastazja Dabrowska
Daniel passe son été dans un camp de vacance spécialisé pour les personnes atteintes du syndrome de Down. Avec ses copains, il se pose beaucoup de questions sur les filles : "Comment les approcher ?", "Quelle est la bonne manière d’exprimer son amour ?" Des réponses qui n’intéressent pas seulement les (...)
Krzysztof Kieślowski Faculty of Radio and Television, University of Silesia - Pologne

Koropa

Laura Henno
Naviguant de nuit au large des Comores, Patron, un jeune orphelin, suit silencieusement l’apprentissage de son père "adoptif" pour devenir "Commandant". D’ici peu, il emmènera en vedette ses premiers voyageurs clandestins vers Mayotte. C’est l’une des parades qu’ont élaborées les passeurs pour limiter les risques face aux déploiements de la Police Aux Frontières et développer leur (...)
Spectre Productions - France

Oh Brother Octopus    (Prix de la FOL décerné au meilleur court-métrage de la sélection internationale)

Florian Kunert
En Indonésie, pour les nomades des mers, la légende veut que chaque nouveau né ait un jumeau aquatique, sous la forme d’un bébé poulpe. Ils font des rituels pour apaiser ce frère jumeau et pour se prévenir des mauvais sorts. Pour certains de ces nomades venus chercher du travail, Djakarta, mégalopole déshumanisée, incarne la punition des frères (...)
Highway Spirit, Academy of Media Arts, Cologne - Allemagne

You Can’t Hide From The Truth

A.a.V. Amasi
20 ans plus tôt, le musicien aveugle Daniel Gonora était le leader du plus célèbre groupe du Zimbabwe : Jairos Jiri band. Aujourd’hui, lui et son fils Isaac luttent pour joindre les deux bouts. Chaque jour, ils s’installent dans la rue avec leurs instruments de fortune et jouent ensemble. Lorsque l’on propose à Daniel d’enregistrer en studio, c’est peut être l’occasion pour Isaac (...)
National Film And Television School - Royaume-Unis, Zimbabwe


Bard

Hamid Jafari
In southern Iran, in the middle of a stark mineral lanscape, a woman breaks rock off a cliff over and over again. Like an epic hero, she relives the same routine day after day, relentlessly.
Fatemeh Frouzan ala, Hamid Jafari - Iran

Black Sheep    (Prix de la FOL décerné au meilleur court-métrage de la sélection internationale)

Christian Cerami
Black Sheep follows two brothers from the North of England and their adolescent curiosity for the EDL - a right-wing street protest movement against radical Islam in Britain. This observational documentary portrays the working class youth culture in the North and the impact that the EDL has on these impressionable young (...)
Alex Sedgley, Christian Cerami - Royaume-Uni

Camrex

Mark Chapman
Camrex House is a hostel for homeless that has upheld a fearsome reputation for forty years. Based on interviews with hostel residents, the documentary reveals a hidden world of untold stories...
Mark Chapman - Royaume-Uni

Matière première

Jean-François Reverdy
This is the story of a journey across a desert region in Mauritania. We board the world’s longest train and follow the iron ore all the way from open-pit mines in Zouérate to the ocean. The documentary has been filmed with a pin hold camera to offer a unique perception on the desert.
Les films de l’œil sauvage - France

Medanit

Sarah Noa Bozenhardt
Twenty-three year old Aster Assefa is a visually impaired mother who lives in Addis Ababa, in Ethiopia. When Aster is confronted with her daughter’s wish to see a photograph of her father, she draws on a wealth of folklore, songs and stories and decides to rename her Medanit, the Amharic word for medicine and (...)
Sarah Noa Bozenhardt, Emily Carr University of Art + Design - Canada/Éthiopie/Allemagne

Om Amira

Naji Ismail
Halima Mohamed Ahmed, aka Om Amira, lives with her family in Cairo. At night, in the streets near Tahrir Square, she sells home-made fried potatoes to support her family. Amira, her oldest daughter, suffers from a serious heart condition and needs constant care.
Rahala Production & Distribution - Égypte/Allemagne

Orbis

Simon Wood
Orbis takes you on a mesmeric journey through Umlazi, one of South Africa’s largest townships, where people lives are shaped by the proximity to Africa’s busiest harbour - Durban.
Paul Egan - Afrique du Sud

Shujayya

Mohammed Almughanni
In Gaza, members of a typical family are thrown into disarray after a series of bombing attacks destroyed their home, killed some of the occupants and left others seriously injured.
National Film School in Łódź - Pologne, Palestine

The Learning Alliance

Muhammad Umar Saeed
In the region of Lahore, in Pakistan, three brothers collect and sell garbage to pay for their school fees. They are all committed to the same challenges : struggling to survive, change their future and fullfill their dreams.
Merci Films - Pakistan


BiciTown

Sendoa Cardoso
Coming from Senegal, Modou arrived in Bilbao many years ago in the hope of a better life. He has become so passionate about his small business of bicycle repair that he would never leave his second hometown.
ESEENEDE Visual - Cuba/Espagne

CottonDreams

Sandeep Rampal Balhara
The side effects of a sustained economic growth and extensive use of biotechnology pushed Indian farmers into the world’s greatest agrarian crisis. "CottonDreams" takes us into the life of one such family and recounts a powerful drama of love and sacrifices against the backdrop of rural India and its terrible living (...)
The Polish National Film School in Lodz - Pologne/Inde

La casona

Juliette Touin
Several pregnant women requiring particular attention live in the Cuban Maternal Waiting Home known as "The Big House". Yudi, a fifteen-year-old girl, is one of these expectant mothers : she tries, just as the others, to cope with a distant and inherently dysfunctional relationship with the father of her future (...)
Quilombo Films - Cuba

La fille du rail

Eva Sehet and Maxime Caperan
Alima, one of the only two railway women in West Africa, travels across Mali in her locomotive. In a man’s environment, we gradually discover an uncommon character. Back in Bamako, Alima considers mariage.
La Fémis - France

Suspendu à la nuit

Eva Tourrent
Every winter night, Guillaume crosses the ski runs and the mountain to repack the snow. Alone in his cabin, he is at one with his machine in a balance composed of ceaselessly repeated comings and goings. He has to cling to the night and its grey areas, always reinventing his path.
Survivance - France

The Length    (Prix de la FOL décerné au meilleur court-métrage de la sélection internationale)

Ivan Torres Hdez
Ted Curson is one of the last jazz legends alive. As his time is coming to an end, countless tours, never-ending delays and shadows of the past prove to be a burden too heavy to carry at this point of time.
Mouka Filmi, Yle Finland - Finlande

To tylko marzenia

Jakub Michnikowski
Jan lives on the outskirts of the city of Lodz in a dilapidated timber house of no great size. Days come and go with his two dogs and his little mouse... not to mention his most precious dreams.
Munk Studio, Polish Filmmakers Association - Pologne

Yaar

Simon Gillard
In the heart of the bush where the gravel is hollowed, a stubborn civilisation hunts out its future below the earth’s surface. Blind, or perhaps all too seeing, they dig away, night and day, spurred on by the madness that drives man to his death.
INSAS - Belgique


A City without Dreams

Alfonso Moral
One million Syrian refugees live in Lebanon, many of whom in camps. The Syrian diaspora includes an invisible generation of young artists and entrepreneurs whose future expectations were destroyed in their own country. “A City without Dreams” depicts the disillusion of a whole Syrian generation torn between Beirut, Lebanon and Aleppo, in (...)
Alfonso Moral - Espagne

Alba de un recuerdo

Camila Rodríguez Triana
Now that she is living on her own, seventy-five year old Alba can only remember the moments she spent with her daughter Alai. Immersing herself in those memories, she finds a sense of joy.
Heka Films - Colombie

Buenos días resistencia

Adrían Orr
Follow David, a father of three, getting organised for his morning run to school. Will the family make it on time ?
Hugo Herrera et Fernando Franco - Espagne

Feeding 500

Rafed Alharthi
For the past fifteen years, contract worker Sidhiq Ali has spent all his spare time and money to feed five hundred stray cats in the streets of Abu Dhabi instead of sending his salary back to his family in India.
Jessy Chalfoun - Émirats arabes unis

La larme du bourreau    (Prix de la FOL décerné au meilleur court-métrage de la sélection internationale)

Layth Abdulamir
As Egypt’s official executioner, Ashmawi is convinced of being God’s hand on earth. While he is a meticulous and skilled legal murderer, sentenced persons share their pain and their nerve-wrecking conditions on death row.
OROK Films - France

Love and Rubbish

Hanna Polak
An estimated five million people are homeless in Russia, and one million of them are children. Showing the hardships they face and the dreams they hold on to, this film takes an uncompromising look at a group of children surviving in a garbage dump outside of Moscow.
Hanna Polak, Jan Rofekamp et Anne Dillon - Russie/Pologne

Sexy Shopping

Antonio Benedetto et Adam Selo
Miah, a Bengali immigrant, decides to tell his wife about his hard life in Italy. Using a hidden camera, he starts filming his little shop...the “Sexy Shopping”.
Elenfant Film - Italie

The Barrel

Anabel Cristina Rodríguez Ríos
Luis David lives in Congo Mirador, on the shore of Lake Maracaibo, where houses are built on stilts. This is also Venezuela’s largest oil field. Adults move around using motorboats while children can only swim, but some of them use old barrels as makeshift crafts.
Sometimes, children organize barrel races : Luis David is dying to take part in one of them, but he needs to (...)
Spiraleye Productions - Royaume-Uni/Venezuela

Zostanie tylko pragnienie

Eri Mizutani
Kinga habite chez son petit-ami. Face à la caméra, elle brosse le portrait sensoriel de Jarek, son compFrom her boyfriend’s home, Kinga recalls key moments she spent with Jarek and shares memorabilia to draw up a passionate tribute to her dead companion.agnon disparu.
Eri Mizutani - Pologne


Warmth

Victor Asliuk
This was quite a unique place, warm even in the middle of winter. Men and women were half-dressed yet they were not cold. Their movements were perfect : fast and fluid like a dance. The continuous humming of machinery sounded like music. People working in this factory in Smolevichi, not far from Minsk, the capital city of Belarus, produced felt boots that were sold all (...)
RUE «Belarusian Video Center» - Biélorussie,

Vakha & Magomed

Marta Prus
Vakha took care of little Magomed every minute of the day. They were both Chechen refugees who had found asylum in Warsaw and every gesture, every glance they exchanged suggested that they were bound by a strong tie. We could easily imagine that they share a tragic past, but the film focuses entirely on the present : a present made of peace, of a few daily certainties and (...)
Polish National Film et School in Lodz - Pologne

Spiriti

Yukai Ebisuno & Raffaella Mantegazza
There was a place in Honduras where rituals and prayers punctuated the time that elapsed. An elderly woman walked barefoot in the mountain, a man died accompanied by an angel, spirits were the voices of the ancestors. Welcome to this small indigenous community that would prefer to take care of the Earth than sell (...)
Yukai Ebisuno & Raffaella Mantegazza - Honduras / Italie

Reality 2.0

Victor Orozco Ramirez
Viva Mexico ! The unadulterated fiesta of drugs in Mexico led to a wave of violence similar to bullfighting and this documentary reflects on violence associated with drug trafficking in a country where human body parts roll down the streets. Using animation, the film aims at depicting an authentic representation of the ruthless practices of drug lords in one of the world’s (...)
Victor Orozco Ramirez - Allemagne / Mexique

Machine Man

Roser Corella et Alfonso Moral
Machine Man reflects on modernity and global development, involving men as much as machines, particularly questioning the use of human physical force to undertake work in the 21st century. The film takes place in Dakha, the capital city of Bangladesh, where « machine men » perform a wide range of physical works, turning million of people into the driving force of the (...)
Roser Corella - Espagne

La crociera delle bucce di banana

Salvo Manzone
Aimée was an elderly French woman who lived on Stromboli, an island in the Aeolian archipelago off the north-east coast of Sicily. For years she had been struggling against the local administration to promote appropriate waste management. The goodwill of citizens such as Aimée could allow waste sorting and home composting, but politicians preferred not to address the waste (...)
Epinoia - Italie, France

Cha Fang    (Prix de la FOL décerné au meilleur court-métrage de la sélection internationale)

Zhu Rikun
« On 24 July 2012, I went to a city to support three human right activists. We quickly found out that we were tailed. Around midnight, a group of policemen arrived to conduct a thorough inspection of our hotel room. »
Fanhall Films - China

Arekara    (Prix de la FOL décerné au meilleur court-métrage de la sélection internationale)

Momoko Seto
« Last February, I went to Ishinomaki, a town North of Tokyo which was partially destroyed by the tsunami of 11 March 2011, to meet the victims who now live in temporary housing. I spent several days there, listening to people talking candidly about what they had lived through, telling their own stories with no media as an intermediary. Their account were terrifying, but at (...)
Ecce Films - Japan


Nos jours absolument doivent-être illuminés

Gabriel Périot
Orléans, 28 May 2011. Prisoners singing inside a prison ; neither the cameras nor the eyes of other people are allowed in. On the other side of the wall, people are listening. Carried away by the music, the faces of the listeners light up and tell the camera their stories. On one side, the voices, on the other, the faces : feelings emerge from the space (...)
Alter Ego Production, Mixar - France

Godnashistorier fra ondskabens akse    (Prix de la FOL décerné au meilleur court-métrage de la sélection internationale)

Vibeke Bryld
“The Axis of Evil” happened in the aftermath of September 11th when George Bush gave a speech where he named a string of countries thought to be homes of terror. In the film we visit a family in Iraq, Iran, and North Korea as night falls. Through childlike cardboard cities we enter into a space between the strange logic of political agitation and fairytales. The stories are (...)
Upfront films - Danemark

Framing the other

Ilia kok et Willem Timmers
The Mursi tribe lives in the south of the east African state of Ethiopia. The women are known for placing large plates in their lower lips and wearing enormous, richly decorated earrings. Every year hundreds of Western tourists come to see the unusually adorned natives ; posing for camera-toting visitors has become the main source of income for the (...)
I camera you productions / Ethiopian Film Initiative co-production - Nouvelle-Zélande, Ethiopie

E-Wasteland

David Fedele
Almost 50 million tonnes of e-waste (electronic waste) are generated worldwide every year. A large volume of second-hand and condemned electronic goods arrive in developing countries from the “developed” world, with a significant quantity arriving as e-waste, exported illegally as second hand goods. Without dialogue, this film presents a visual portrait of unregulated (...)
David Fedele - Australie

Dusty night

Ali Hazara
In a car’s headlights or in the pale light of a petrol pump, in the shadows, the night sweepers of Kabul shift the thick layer of dust lying along an avenue. Images torn from the dust and the night, telling a significant story about the state of the country.
Les Ateliers Varan - Afganistan, France

Murmurs and Rumours

Arlais & Raphael Rialland
The fruit of a personal approach based on questions and experiments around the theme of prejudice, this film could be defined as a creative documentary. Based on interviews with two researchers, ‘Murmurs and Rumours’ takes a sensitive look at the mechanism of prejudice that colours our perceptions of (...)
La Cimade - France

Trois tristes tigres

David Munoz
Migration is a significant livelihood option and a major development issue for Bangladesh. Yet the social welfare of workers is not a major concern at any level. Labor abuses, dishonored contracts and forced returns has generated tens of thousands of broken families, created poverty and destroyed the hopes of many. This film tells the story of three men from the rural (...)
Hibrida et Six oranges - Espagne


Guanape sur

János Richter
A barren rock island off the coast of Peru. No soil, no water, but hundreds of thousands of birds. For a period of ten years, only two guards may live on Guañape Sur. In the eleventh year though, hundreds of workers arrive to harvest the Guano, the birds’ excrement that can be used as a fertilizer or for producing (...)
ZeLIG - School for documentary, television and new media - Italie


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