In a tribal country where the family name and status are very significant, Aisha, a 27 years old psychology graduate was abandoned by her parents at the age of months and raised in the orphanage.
Aisha addresses parts of her childhood in those shelters that have left her the person she is today; those abusive milestones.
Arabic with English subtitles
★The director will be present (Q & A)
Jumana Manna (1987) is a Palestinian artist working primarily with film and sculpture. Her work explores how power is articulated through relationships, often focusing on the body and materiality in relation to narratives of nationalism, and histories of place.
As a present for her 6th birthday, Selma gets a live chicken. When she realises the creature is going to be killed to feed the family she decides to set it free, unaware of the dangerous consequences such action will lead to... It is Sarajevo, year running 1993.
(Shorts 1)
Bosnian with English subtitles
Una Gunjak was born in Sarajevo, Bosnia and Herzegovina. She studied film editing at the National Film and TV School in UK, where she is based and has worked as film editor before making her short film The Chicken. The film went on to screen 130 festivals world wide and win 26 awards.
George Ovashvili graduate from the film department of the Georgian State Institute of Cinema and Theatre (1996) and the course of filmmaking of The New York Film Academy at Universal Studios in Hollywood (2006). He has directed a number of poignant
The Inguri River forms a natural border dividing Georgia from Abkhazia. One of the spring floods has created a little island in the middle of the river, as if made for the cultivation of corn. At least, this is the belief of an old peasant, whose sunburned face resembles the landscape he has trodden for dozens of years.
Abkhazian with English subtitles
George Ovashvili graduate from the film department of the Georgian State Institute of Cinema and Theatre (1996) and the course of filmmaking of The New York Film Academy at Universal Studios in Hollywood (2006). He has directed a number of poignant
Under the sun, the heavenly beauty of grasslands will soon be covered by the raging dust of mines. Facing the ashes and noises caused by heavy mining, the herdsmen have no choice but to leave as the meadow areas dwindle. In the moonlight, iron mines are brightly lit throughout the night. Workers who operate the drilling machines must stay awake. The fight is tortuous, against the machine and against themselves. Wearing a coal-dust mask, they become ghostlike creatures
Chinese with English subtitles