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SUMMARY:Lonely drama times
DESCRIPTION:	Lonely Drama times
 Flow\, Fruzsina Eszes\, Hungary
 A young
  but lonely girl has to chose between her two lives.
  
 Round table di
 lemma\, Zhang wenzheng\, China
 The film employs an experimental approach
  to depict a family banquet I experienced. Beneath the surface of smooth t
 oasts and pleasantries\, I sensed the anxiety and unease emanating from my
  family. This discomfort made me desperately want to escape. However\, whe
 n I thought I had broken free from the confines of the round table\, I rea
 lized that life is filled with countless such round-table predicaments.
 
  
  Fly Away\, Clara Le Pivain\, France
 In this 5 minutes mixed media
  animation short\, two women tries to protect a group of child during a ni
 ght attack on a military base. From lies to fighting back\, they must act 
 quickly so the children stay safe. They don't suspect one of the kid will 
 take the lead to protect her friends in her own way.
  
 M. L’espéra
 nce\, Chantale Boulianne\, Canada
 A storm is brewing next door. Mr. L'es
 pérance hopes to breathe a little sweetness into her life by making her a
  gift. As he works\, the old man is assailed by a flood of resurfacing mem
 ories. Images and sounds jostle in his head\, deconstructing and amalgamat
 ing to form never-before-seen images. He relives snatches of his childhood
  as a sailor's son.
  
 Maya's Song\, Jayakrishnan Subramanian\, Franzi
 ska Schönenberger\, Germany
 Maya never feels alien in her family\, yet 
 questions about her 'white\, German parents' and her complexion are gettin
 g under her skin. To process the pain\, she writes a song for everyone to 
 hear.
  
 What Are Dolls Made Of?\, Ekatarina Iokavleva\, United Kingdo
 m
 What Are Dolls Made Of? A twisted and turbulent exploration of life.

   
 The Angel of Death\, Vasiliy Vasiliev\, Russian Federation
 In a be
 sieged Leningrad\, a girl accidentally loses her blockade bread ration dur
 ing a bombing. She is found by a strange old woman. This Old Woman turns 
 out to be Death with scissors\, which
 she cuts the threads of life of dy
 ing people in the city. But at the last moment Death saves the girl's life
 
  
 Adiós\, José Prats\, United Kingdom
 During a hunting day in ru
 ral United KingdomSpain\, a father struggles to accept that his adult son 
 is moving abroad\, dealing with the feelings of being left alone.
  
 F
 ishbones\, Amandine COPIN\, Amandine ROLAND\, Camille CHEUTIN\, Gaëlle JA
 RRIGE\, Mona PANNECOCKE\, Natacha JACKOWSKI\, France
 Sam\, a young woman
  living with an eating disorder represented by fish\, sinks in the sicknes
 s despite the support of her companion Finn.
  
 Together Apart\, Clair
 e Seckler\, United States\, United States
 An eight-year-old kid navigate
 s her life as a child of divorced parents.Claire Seckler
  
 Red Apple\
 , Worya Nick Manesh\, Maryam Hashemnezhad\, Iran\, Islamic Republic of
 A
  mother dresses her daughter to go to school\, but the little girl is relu
 ctant to go. The mother ignores her daughter's behavior and only thinks ab
 out sending her to school on time\, but...
  
 Southwest Monsoon\, Lea 
 Isabelle Skowasch\, Nishant Singh\, United Kingdom
  South-West Monsoon 
 is a short hybrid 2D-3D animated film. It follows Mira\, returning to her 
 hometown of Mumbai after many years abroad. As she revisits familiar place
 s and faces\, she struggles with a sense of disconnection\, feeling as tho
 ugh the city and the people she once knew\, have moved on without her. Thr
 ough a heartfelt and intimate conversation with her sister Isha\, who stay
 ed behind\, Mira begins to express her feelings of alienation and longing 
 for a sense of belonging. What begins as a visual journey through the plac
 es she remembered gradually reveals itself to be grounded in the quiet set
 ting of the two sister's shared bedroom\, where the conversation between t
 hem has been unfolding all along.
 The film is a gentle reflection on mem
 ory\, change\, and identity. It was intended to resonate with teenagers an
 d adult audiences who are familiar with the bittersweet emotions of return
 ing home after a long absence.
  
 Saturday Cleaning\, Mukhran Makharad
 ze\, Georgia
 In a capital city filled with daily chaos\, a humble garbag
 e can becomes the centerpiece of extraordinary events. Positioned in the c
 enter of the main avenue\, it becomes witness to a series of dramatic and 
 significant events. When the garbage can falls heroically on the battlefie
 ld\, an act is performed that consecrates it as a symbol of sacrifice and 
 honor. Its fall\, celebrated as a heroic gesture\, makes it an icon that w
 ill be remembered in the afterlife\, as if a simple object was capable of 
 ascending to a legendary figure. A story that mixes the surreal and the sy
 mbolic\, highlighting the importance of every small gesture\, even that of
  a simple garbage can.
  
 Biting the hands that feeds you\, Chantal Pe
 ten\, Belgium\, France
  The contest is called \"Payday\,\" and Chantal 
 is in a rush because she clearly has a lot to say on the subject. For once
 \, she ticks all the boxes: director\, woman... She's ready to start takin
 g notes\, drawing... But very quickly\, her everyday reality comes rushing
  back.
  
 Afterwards\, Márcio Andrade\, Brazil
 When Pedro and his m
 other receive the news that Raula will no longer be arriving\, they both f
 ind ways to cope with the loss.
  
 The Little Girl With The Apple\, Ro
 se Denis\, Belgium
 Ten-year-old Lou waits in the emergency room. Usually
 \, by this time\, she and her little sister have already eaten. Lou could
 
 really use a snack to forget the memories of the afternoon at the pool
  that keep unsettling her.
  
  
 Scrolling\, Leandro Buglioni\, Facu
 ndo Perez Cardella\, Ignacio Espinosa\, Facundo Gambacorta\, Argentina
 A
  father walks alongside his son through a neighborhood\, but walking toget
 her doesn’t always mean staying close.
  
 A VOICE IN THE MIST\, Mar
 ía Cristina Sánchez de Toca Gómez\, Sara (Ru) Martín\, Spain
 After t
 he disappearance of her daughter in strange circumstances\, an old woman a
 nd her dog must prevent the same thing from happening to her granddaughter
 .
  
 Don't Look\, Bárbara González\, Yanis Pizarro\, Chile
 Nicolas
  argues with his mother due to the illness that keeps her bedridden\, push
 ing him to the brink of wanting to escape. But fate has other plans. Upon 
 leaving the room\, a creature with sinister intentions reveals itself befo
 re him. Prisoner of paranoia\, he decides to return\, encountering a revel
 ation that will take him to the depths of his emotions...
  
 Sunday\, 
 Elkie Leonie Hershberg\, Tom Kouris\, Hani Dombe
  At an old wooden tabl
 e in his small apartment in Notting Hill\, Richard Duncan McNulty (84) sit
 s down like every Sunday morning reading the newspaper peacefully from bac
 k to back\, sipping a warm cup of tea. But today is going to be different\
 , a knock on his door will threaten to shake his existence and change his 
 life forever.
  
 NUISIBLES\, Mélodie Charrier--Rangel\, France
 Two 
 little rats running one after the other: they're the kings of the junkyard
 !Two pre-teens\, a girl and a boy\, are hanging around after getting kicke
 d out of school. They're not very talkative. The boy smokes a cigarette to
  decompress.
 They don't seem to be playing in the same team. The need fo
 r adventure leads the boy to explore the horizon by climbing onto the roof
  of the bus against which they were leaning. He gives the lighter to his f
 riend\, while she remains on the ground in a desire to contemplate her sur
 roundings.
 A rat approaches the girl.
 Intrigued\, she extends her arm\
 , but the rat instinctively bites her finger. Taken by surprise\, the girl
  flinches and\, in one swift movement\, drops her friend's lighter.
 On t
 he ground\, the lighter ignites the car junkyard. Survival is all that's l
 eft. Everyone must flee danger\, rats and humans alike. They are overtaken
  by events. In the face of adversity\, the two friends must join forces.

   
 MATANZA\, Jules BONNASSIEUX\, France
 A Spanish bullfight offers us
  a brutal and bloody spectacle\, leaving man and bull to face the crucial 
 question to life and death.
  
 DOWN TO EARTH\, Benjamin DELABAYS\, Fra
 nce
 An old farmer\, deeply attached to his land\, is abandoned by his wo
 rker who was supposed to take over the farm. Despite his age and declining
  health\, he continues to work alone.
  
 Homo Fuge\, IRAN FILM PORT co
 .\, Mashaallah Mohammadi
  A man sells everything to buy a good pair of 
 shoes
  
 Children of Barzagh\, Ahmed Khattab\, United Arab Emirates
 
 In a war-torn Gaza\, Noor’s rescue of a dog becomes the guiding light on
  a journey where the barriers between life and death dissolve.
  
 Loop
 \, Eslam Ahmed Qotb\, Egypt
 stressed out girl from life pressure\, escap
 e reality with drugs\, and face consequences of what she does\, but will s
 he change?
  
 IN BETWEEN\, Nour EL ACHKAR \; Roxane DAVID \; Morgane C
 HAUVET \; Flora ROUVEL \; Lucie PERALES \; Cindy FANCHONNA \; Sacha MOREAU
 \, France
 When little Nora's parents split up\, the Earth splits in two.
  She now has to juggle between both hemispheres to visit them. Problem is\
 , the backpack she's carrying is getting heavier and heavier...
  
 Off
 -Time\, Nata Metlukh\, Japan\, Ukraine\, United States
 A data engineer r
 ushes through life\, believing multitasking saves time—but it only creat
 es chaos. Despite his strict control over time\, nothing gets done: his ho
 me is a mess\, work overflows\, and breakfast is always burnt. He discover
 s joy in life only when time breaks apart.
  
 MOTHER Ltd.\, Vendula Ve
 lísková\, Czech Republic
 An original pixilation short about a woman wh
 ose entire household gradually rebels against her during one sleepless nig
 ht. Drawing from her own experience\, the author presents a tale full of a
 bsurd situations that feel almost unbelievably familiar to anyone who has 
 ever tried to juggle household duties\, work\, and children all at once. T
 his film is dedicated to all mothers who work while on maternity or parent
 al leave.
  
 \"Serafima's Blockade Stories\" Animated Film\, Mila Khan
 zina\, Russian Federation
 One day\, Grandma told her grandchildren\, 'If
  you throw away bread or break a mirror\, war will begin.' But Serafima\, 
 who didn’t really believe in superstitions\, threw away a piece of unfin
 ished bread. And her little brother\, playing with a ball\, accidentally s
 hattered a large mirror. The next day\, war broke out\, and the children t
 hought they were to blame… Their father went off to the front.
 In the 
 freezing\, starving city of Leningrad\, Serafima creates and draws fairy t
 ales to keep herself and her brother alive\, bringing warmth to their hear
 ts. But one day\, driven by hunger\, her little brother eats all the paint
 …
 o keep herself and her brother alive\, bringing warmth to their hear
 ts. But one day\, driven by hunger\, her little brother eats all the paint
 …
LOCATION:Karnagio\, 8\, Πλατεία Γεωργίου Κατεχάκη\, 
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  of Crete\, 731 32\, Greece
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