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Ice Merchants and Warsha

Aphonia (Country: Poland; Year: 2022; Director: Marta Z Nowak)

The daily routine of a boarding school for Deaf children is disturbed by the arrival of a new student. He cannot sign, he does not speak and feels alienated. A Deaf girl helps him find his way into the new world. Their special friendship will soon be put to the test.

Backflip (Country: Germany; Year: 2022; Director: Nikita Diakur)

Attempting a backflip is not safe. You can break your neck, or land on your head, or land badly on your wrists. None of that is nice, so my avatar does the trick. It practices on a 6-core processor with the help of Machine Learning. The processor is not the newest but still calculates 6 jumps per iteration.

Bellsmyre Caledonia (Country: UK; Year: 2022; Director: Jack Guariento)

A consideration of the way in which the time opened up by lockdown presented an opportunity for expanded critical thought.

Corrupted (Country: Chile; Year: 2022; Director: Juan Cifuentes Mera)

After losing her memory to electroshock therapy, Andrea tries to reconstruct her past as she searches for her former self.

Ice Merchants (Country: Portugal, UK, France; Year: 2022; Director: João Gonzalez; Writer: João Gonzalez)

Every day, a father and his son jump with a parachute from their vertiginous cold house, attached to a cliff, to go to the village on the ground, far away where they sell the ice they produce daily.

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Warsha (Country: Lebanon, France; Year: 2021; Director: Dania Bdeir)

Mohammad is a crane operator working in Beirut. One morning he volunteers to take on one of the tallest and notoriously most dangerous cranes in Lebanon. Away from everyone’s eyes, he is able to live out his secret passion and find freedom.