SECTION: Youth Film U18 Competition

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Rebellion and escalation meet in search of identity and freedom. Whether in an idealised family home in Slovakia, a Georgian ghetto or a religious boarding school in Turkey - young people question their roles and fight against the expectations placed on them by their environment. They conjure up political scandals and seek refuge in magical worlds. Everyday life becomes a battlefield of toxic friendships. Incorporating the many facets of youth, young people this year fight, love and dream as if there were no tomorrow!

Adaptation

Adaptacja

Bartosz Kruhlik
Poland / 2015 / 25 min

Michał's brother Marcin has died in a car accident, a fact he now has to come to terms with in the knowledge that it was he who encouraged Marcin to get behind the wheel.

In your dreams!

Ani ve snu!

Petr Oukropec
Czech Republic, Slovakia, Bulgaria / 2016 / 76 min

Laura's biggest passion is parkour, though she's unable to wholly dedicate her attentions to the discipline, busy as she is dealing with parents, caring for her best friend and trying to understand what the big deal with boys is. And beyond all of ...

Baby Bump

Kuba Czekaj
Poland / 2015 / 90 min

Coming of age can be a difficult period of life: you have to deal with constant unexpected changes to your body. Add to that the incessant attentions of an overbearing mother, to whom you'll always be her “little man”, and there soon comes a ...

Waves

Fale

Grzegorz Zariczny
Poland / 2015 / 78 min

Kasia and Ania are apprentices at a hairdresser's and not only have to prepare for an impending exam, but also deal with wearisome parents. Fortunately they are able to provide each other with mutual support in overcoming both hurdles.

Storm Cells

Gewitterzellen

Jakob Schmidt
Germany / 2015 / 31 min

When Jana brings her new boyfriend Jonas home she has no inkling of the fact that Jonas and her mother are bound by a long-kept secret. Thus she sets in motion a psychodrama in which the safety of the secret constantly remains on a knife-edge.

Center of My World

Die Mitte der Welt

Jakob M. Erwa
Germany, Austria / 2016 / 115 min

The life of seventeen-year-old Phil is coming to be characterised by an ever greater whirlwind of emotions: there's a tense atmosphere at home, with his mother and sister unwilling to talk to one another, and then a certain Nicolas turns up at ...

Road-Movie

Martin Jelínek
Czech Republic / 2015 / 88 min

Jakub returns to his home town for a family celebration, where he encounters Ilona, an old school friend. On the spur of the moment the two resolve to set off on a road trip, during which they speak about God and the world, and come to the conclusion ...

Viktoria

Mónica Lima
Germany / 2015 / 31 min

Wheelchair user Viktoria is training for the Paralympics. When, slowly but surely, she appears to be able to feel her legs again, she is unsure as to how to proceed; is the recovery of her ability to walk valuable enough for her to give up on her ...