Alfyia, a joyful young woman in 1960s Central Asia, is actively parachuting and studying to become a midwife, when she receives an extraordinary phone call from her granddaughter in 2022. She is worried about her grandmother’s safety amid the invasion of Ukraine. In this intergenerational conversation across time and space, the granddaughter tries to rethink family memory and her own ethnic identity, break the endless cycle of collective trauma and reflect on the meaning of human life.
Germany
Sweden (Schweden)
A printer won't stop printing, civil servants who constantly celebrate birthdays and a
fisherman who doesn't catch any fish. A man finds himself in an office and is confronted with
all these things. Involuntarily, he has to admit to himself that Sweden was nothing special
and that smoking is deadly.
No Time (Zeitlos)
Lia's life has always been a model worker, until one morning she suffers a time emergency and her life is thrown out of joint. She is no longer a productive member of the office community, which is why her superior has no choice but to transfer her to the home office. There she meets her rebellious neighbour Paula, who shows her the door to a new world and Lia has to make a decision: Does she dare to set off into chaos or does she try to restore order?
Baigal Nuur – Lake Baikal
The formation and history of Lake Baikal in Siberia are re-imagined with hand-made animation, featuring the voice of a Buryat woman who can still recall some words in her endangered Buryat-Mongolian language.
Calls from Moscow
Days before the invasion of Ukraine is announced, four young Cubans visit a Moscow apartment for a 24-hour stay. In their phone calls, the present and future coexist: their stories as queer and undocumented immigrants, and the exchanges with the film’s director after the outbreak of the war.
The Meaning of A Ritual
n empathic, young plant doctor gifted with extrasensory powers and an emotionally fragile, isolated artist, must rescue each other to rediscover the essence of living.
A coming of age story about two women from different generations, who have more in common than they are willing to admit.