COMPETITION
A E I O U – A QUICK ALPHABET OF LOVE by Nicolette Krebitz
She thought it would never happen to her again. He didn’t even know such a thing existed. A woman, a boy and another impossible love story.
Sophie Rois (THREE), Udo Kier and newcomer Milan Herms star in WILD director Nicolette Krebitz’s ode to unconventional love, hope and the spirit of adventure in cynical times.
A PIECE OF SKY (Drii winter) by Michael Koch
In a remote mountain village, Anna tries to preserve her young love for Marco, against all odds.
Stunning cinematography envelops this story of love and loss set against the beautiful backdrop of the changing seasons and a symbiotic relationship with animals and nature, high up in the Swiss mountains at the edge of civilization. Michael Koch marks himself as a director to watch with this tale of love and community, at the crossroads of primeval forces of nature and modern life.
PANORAMA
BEAUTIFUL BEINGS (Berdreymi) by Gudmundur Arnar Gudmundsson
When a teenage boy adopts a bullied misfit into his gang of outsiders, he begins to experience a series of dreamlike visions.
Gudmundsson follows up his award-winning debut HEARTSTONE with this penetrating story of complex masculinity and the ways our youth shapes us. A darkly gripping, edge of your seat vision of fraternity and camaraderie among Icelandic wasted youth gone wild – on the edge of poverty and the ever constant threat of serious violence.
CONCERNED CITIZEN by Idan Haguel
A liberal gay man tries to improve his neighbourhood in the slums of south Tel-Aviv by planting a tree on his street. But this triggers a sequence of events that results in the brutal police arrest of an immigrant.
Idan Haguel tackles complex contemporary problems head-on through the lens of social satire in this darkly comic look at the insidious power of racism, white guilt and the unstoppable creep of gentrification.
