1. Mirko Ivan Stopar, "Blokka" (Norway)
Co - Wr Erlend Loe
Pr: Christian Frederick Martin, FRILAND AS
The story about an ordinary apartment building in Oslo where one day the inhabitants are kidnapped by desperate clones and brought to an identical apartment building in a parallel world.
2. Anne Kjersti Bjorn, "The Shadow Princess" (Norway)
Co -Wr. Anne Helene Soyseth
Pr. Sirin Eide, SCHERPAFILM A/S
The Shadow Princess is a story about a little girl, Saga, who grows up in a big town theatre longing to reach her mother. Her mother is, however, more interested in pursuing her career as an actress. She doesn’t really see her daughter, and Saga remains in her shadow. She develops an ability to see theatre shadows, the longings, the desires and the threats behind the curtain, so to speak. When her mother disappears, Saga knows that she is the only one to understand what danger she is in, and sets after her. Finally, she wins a mother she has never had and always missed.
3. Ingo Haeb, "Sohnemänner" (Germany)
Pr: Peter Rommel, Rommel Film
"Sohnemänner" is a story about a difficult father-and-son-relationship and about a family reunion under unusual conditions.
4. Melanie Andernach "They call, but they don’t love you" (Germany)
Dir/Wr: Andreas Köhler
Pr: Knut Losen, Made in Germany Filmproduktion
Marius is old, very old and endangered to fall ill with senile dementia. When the young Arab Nima becomes his medical carer he takes a weighty decision. With his help he wants to turn the society’s attention to his destiny and to those of thousands dementia affected persons: he applies for suicide bombing.
5. Jacqueline Surchat, "Three sisters and a body" (Switzerland)
Pr. Elda Guidinetti, Ventura Films
Three sisters facing the murder of one’s husband with a terrible question: which one of them killed him? The answer change forever the way they look at each other.
6. Niklaus Hilber, "Soulstealers" (Switzerland)
Co-wr Olivier Keidel
Pr. Christian Davi, Hugofilm Productions
Based on true events SOULSTEALERS tells the dramatic story of the young Lea Laasner who spends most of her childhood in a sect, until, at the age of 21, she finally manages to escape the vicious circle of dependency, sexual abuse and psychological terror.
7. Anna Wash, "Porcelain girl" (Netherlands)
Pr. Esther Wouda
An unworldly young woman, locked up by her overprotective mother for years, is found and taken to a mental institution where she fights against the attempts of an ambitious therapist to make her integrate into a world she does not want to be in.
8. Jon Croker, "Time's Fool" (Great Britain)
Co-wr. Glyn Maxwell
Pr Andrew Surry
Edmund, 17, is cursed to ride a train for all time, returning home only once every 7 years on Christmas Eve. To lift the curse, his high-school sweetheart must pledge her love to him. But as Edmund stays 17, his sweetheart grows older. This is their love story – from 1970 to 2019.
9. Marcin Wrona, "Air-craft" (Poland)
Co-wr Marek Stokowski
The outskirts of Warsaw in 1970. A teenage boy Marcin desperately wishes to liberate himself from the world of oppressive grown-ups that is the dirty and depressing world of communism. The only escape from humiliations and constant fear seems to be the wonderful world of airplanes.
10. Michal Otłowski, "An unusually cold april" (Poland)
Pr. Michał Otłowski
"An Unusually Cold April" is the story of Eryk Ozdoba, a thirty year-old man, well-worn by life's hardships. Hovering at the brink of society, Eryk clutches at his work, passion and will to turn ill fortune around. But his past does not cease to haunt him. Life drags him again and again through the same mistakes, and his dreams and hopes rely on strange and uncertain influences.
11. Michał Rogalski, "Solstice" (Poland)
Pr. Jan Dworak, Prasa i film
It is 1943. Polish province. The War lasts for 4 years already. The German army enlists younger and younger boys. Guido, a sensitive teenager from Hamburg, is one of them. At the same time Romek, a Polish boy, who lost his father during the war, works at the railroad in order to help his mother. During the accidental meeting of Midsummer Eve, none of the boys senses that their apparently stable world shall turn into ruins pretty soon.
