Short Films Competition

Primary School

Le Départ by Saïd Hamich

It’s 2004, and little Adil enjoys a carefree summer playing with his friends all day, following his idol’s races at the Olympics, and waiting for his father and brother’s holiday visit from France where they live. Now the summer is ending, the new season is coming and his life will change forever.

Astel by Ramata-Toulaye Sy

Everyday Astel helps his father graze his cows. Their affection and complicity is about to change forever, as the little girl is now a young woman to the eyes of her father and the whole society.

Chitana by Amel Guellaty

Sofia è una ragazza ribelle e le sta stretto il ruolo che la vede costretta ad aiutare in casa mentre i coetanei maschi giocano liberamente. Così un giorno convince sua sorella minore Eya ad intraprendere insieme a lei una pericolosa avventura nel bosco.
Short films competition

Secondary School

Hot Sun by Joash Omondi

A domestic worker lives in the multicultural and colorful city of Nairobi. She enters on tiptoe in rich people’s houses to clean them, and she also keeps their secrets without prejudice. The film presents a slice of her life in harmony with modern Kenyian society, showing how it’s built on the hard work of common people.

CAI-BER by Ahmed Abdelsalam

A few hours before her departure from Germany, young girl Nour finds out that she’s lost her passport. She starts a desperate quest to find it. The patriarchal society and the generational gap will make it very hard for her to get through, and she’ll be forced to confess to her boyfriend.

Qu’importe si les Bêtes Meurent di Sofia Alaoui

A devoted and respectful pastor lives in isolated pastures with his father. One day he goes to the city to buy grain for his livestock, but he finds out that the world is thrown upside down by an incredible and unexpected event.

On the Surface by Fan Sissoko

A heart-felt letter from a film director to her daughter. An animated and symbolic monologue full of love and thoughts about the past, the present and the future.

Angle Mort by Lotfi Achour

Kamel Matmati is a young Tunisian islamic extremist. He speaks about his arrest, the tortures he had to bear, and his own death by the violence of law-enforcement agents. His homicide will be kept secret for 27 years under Ben Ali’s regime.

Feature Film Competition

Secondary school

Children of the Mist by Ha Le Diem

The 13 years old Di lives in a misty village within the mountains of Vietnam. She leaves it to go to school with her peers, growing her knowledge about the outside world, gaining awareness of her rights, mixing traditions with modern lifestyle. Yet in her village marriage by abduction is still a customary practice, and she fears that this may put an end to her youth, her studies and the start of a new subjugated life as an adult woman.

El àrbol Rojo by Joan Gomez Endara

When her father dies, Eliécer suddenly becomes her little sister Esperanza’s tutor, and she didn’t even know about her existence before. She reluctantly accepts to bring her to Bogotà where her mother abandoned her at birth. A young kid joins them, he dreams to become a Boxe champion. The journey ahead will be harder than expected and the small group will have to face many surprises on their path.

Neighbours by Mano Khalil

In the eighties, a small village on the Turkish-Syrian border is the microcosm where peaceful dwellers live while everything around them crumbles in the name of war. A small Kurdish boy, Sero, aged 6, is going to school for the first time. In a world becoming more and more cruel, Sero will try to make sense out of what he sees, trying to keep the magic feeling of childhood alive.

Children of the Sun by Prasanna Vithanage

During the nineteenth century, in the so-called Ceylon, the British domain has a harder time imposing itself than expected, generating conflicts arise against the realm of Kandy. A noble woman is stripped of her title and forced to marry to a pariah. This is the start of her struggle for dignity, as she resists her fate.