COURAGE

In the course of the presidential elections in Belarus in the summer of 2020, three actors from an under- ground theatre in Minsk get caught up in the maelstrom of mass protests. They are drawn to the wide streets of Minsk to protest vociferously for freedom of speech and the long-awaited change of power. But the people‘s voice is brutally crushed by the regime‘s security apparatus. Members of the theatre group and many other people get arrested. The country is on the brink of civil war. COURAGE accompanies the courageous and peaceful resistance of Maryna, Pavel and Denis before and during the protests. The film takes a very personal look at the events and thus provides a close and gripping insight into the lives of people in today‘s Belarus who are fighting for their freedom and the right to democracy.

LAKE OF HAPPINESS

In a small Belarussian village where time seems to stand still, Jasja, a nine-year-old girl, has to deal with her mother's death. Her father decides to send her to an orphanage. But one day she decides to run away and go back home.

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Selected Festivals:

CLERMONT-FERRAND Festival du court Métrage - Int. competition

25. Palm Springs International Short Fest

19. Nevada City Film Festival - Best of the Fest Award, Best Narrative Short Award

44. Odense International Film Festival

12. International Short Film Festival Bueu - Jury Prize, Best Actress, Best Art Direction Awards

25. Drama International Short Film Festival - Best Director Award

53. Internationalen Hofer Filmtagen

26. Minsk International Film Festival Listapad

36. Kassel Documentary Film and Video Festival

49. Alcine – Festival de cine de Alcalá de Henares - „Alcine“ Award

64. Cork Film Festival

33. Leeds International Film Festival

24. International Short Film Festival of Dijon

25. Leuven International Short Film Festival - Candidate to European Film Awards 2020

12. Küstendorf Film and Music Festival - Silber EGG Award

31. Trieste Film Festival - Best Short Film

32. Dresden International Short Film Festival

Candidate to European Film Awards 2020

HESSEN FILM AWARDS 2019 - Best Short Film

nominated to German Short Film Award 2019

ALL WRAPPED UP

Three sisters growing up in today's Germany.

Nora is living on the streets as a punk.

Lisa locked herself into her room.

Hannah wants to save them and endangers their lives.

Selected Festivals:

World Premiere at the 66. INTERNATIONAL FILMFESTIVAL MANNHEIM - HEIDELBERG

9th Cinalfama Lisbon International Film Awards - Lisbon, Portugal.

- Prize for best medium or feature film

ALL ABOUT PEOPLE

ALL ABOUT PEOPLE is a film about the first poem and the last hope, the first love and the last breath, the first conversation with the sun and the last thanks to her.

Selected Festivals:

12th International Film Festival Gibara, Cuba

8th Comedy Cluj - International Film Festival, Romania

10th International Children's Film Festival, Bangladesh

4th ARFECINE International Film Festival, Buenos Aires

10th LICHTER Filmfest International, Frankfurt

7th Philosophical Film Festival Skopje "Golden Owl" Jury Award, Audience Award

TICKET FROM THE PAST

Little boy Frieder grew up in the late 1930ies in Germany close to a railway station where he fell in love with locomotives. The war destroyed his hometown, but till today Friedrich Weissbach kept his passion and collects railway treasures to build a museum - up to an original placed in his garden.

Director and Author:

Miriam Steen

Editor:

Behrooz Karamizade

Documentary HD - 20 min

Sound: Stereo

Screeningformat: DCP

Selected Festivals:

13th International Ethno Film Festival Đakovo - Croatia

27th International Festival of Archaeological Film Rovereto - Italy

4th AegeanDocs International Documentary Film Festival Mytilene - Greece

25th International Festival of Ethnological Film Belgrad  - Serbia

9th International Jahorina Film Festival Pale - Bosnia and Herzegovina

19th Int. Documentary Film Festival "Meetings in Siberia" Novosibirsk - Russian Federation

4th Arkhaios Film Festival Hilton Head Island/South Carolina - United States

El FestiMal de Ojo - Festival de Cine Etnográfico Quito - Ecuador

18th International Festival of Archaeological Film Belgrad - Serbia

19th Ismailia International Film Festival Ismailia - Egypt

4 Festival Internacional de Cine y Arquitectura Mexico City - Mexico

5th Zlatna International Ethnographic Film Festival Zlatna - Romania

ULTRAcinema Puebla-Cholula - Mexico