Monday October 23rd, 2023
Wei Li is the product manager of an Internet delivery company. His mundane life is carved up by excessive overtime and all-nighters. His wife operates a dance studio, and his adolescent daughter is busy preparing for the high school entrance exam. This seemingly rather peaceful life has been shattered by a sudden accident…
An old woman has taken a vow of silence and talks to no one. She only has one big objective; to receive the government's permission to enter the island. Someone is waiting for her there. But after thirteen years, entry permit was not granted to her. She’s searching for a way until…
Luis, an 18-year-old boy with Indigenous roots, enters the Heroic Military College in hopes of ensuring a better future. There, he encounters a rigid and institutionally violent system designed to turn him into a perfect soldier.
Jordan, nowadays. After the sudden death of her husband, Nawal, in her 30s, has to fight for her part of inheritance in order to save her daughter and home in a society where having a son would be a game changer.
During the colonization and man-made famine of the 1930s in Kazakh ASSR, a gravedigger Isatai picks up the bodies on his cart and takes them to the mass grave - a huge, gaping hole in the ground. Every day he brings new bodies of women, children and men. The head of the village hopes to get some provision from Sarkand and sends Isatai to deliver a message. Trying to protect his younger brother, Isatai takes him on the road.
One night, a 14-year-old boy collecting cicadas in the forest with other villagers disappears and cannot be found anywhere. There is a rumour that an alleged group of child kidnappers is prowling around the village at night. The villagers believe these kidnappers are trained and sent by the big hospitals in the city for a human organ transplant business. As the villagers are not sure whether the missing boy has been kidnaped by the prowlers or by the forest nymph, they organize a Village Defence Party to guard the village at night.
photo by Bernd SpaukeSisi has reached the last half of her life. Countess Irma finds her in an aristocratic women-only commune in Greece, a whole universe away from the strict etiquette of Austria-Hungary´s court. Sisi lives in absolute freedom, in which neither her children nor her husband Emperor Franz Joseph play any sort of role. The only important thing is that no one should ever be bored and that the empress herself decides the rules of the game.
Rocío returns to her hometown to reunite with her mother, who for a long time she thought was dead. What unfolds is a story of maternal love that struggles to rebuild itself amidst an atmosphere of tension and anguish that begins to creep back into the town and the lives of its inhabitants.
FINANCED BY THE MINISTRY OF CULTURE AND NATIONAL HERITAGE OF THE REPUBLIC OF POLAND AS PART OF THE TASK: CO-ORGANIZATION OF THE INTERNATIONAL FILM FESTIVAL OF THE ART OF CINEMATOGRAPHY EnergaCAMERIMAGE 2024
CO-FINANCED BY: THE CITY OF TORUŃ AND KUJAWSKO-POMORSKIE REGION
