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Founded in 2017 by seven European film festivals, MIOB aims to promote, show and discuss European cinema in all its diversity, also to initiate change and to bring issues such as environmental and climate protection or diversity to the fore in programme curation.

In addition to FilmFestival Cottbus, MIOB includes: Crossing Europe Film Festival Linz/Austria, Seville European Film Festival/Spain, European Film Festival Palić/Serbia, Les Arcs Film Festival/France, European Film Forum Scanorama/Lithuania, Trieste Film Festival/Italy.

Every year, MIOB presents the MIOB New Vision Award, worth €3,000, which honours an artistically outstanding arthouse film by the new, young generation of directors, and the MIOB In Shorts Award (14 short films have been nominated and are available for "Watch & Vote" online streaming at home for one month before the winning film is awarded at the 34th FFC).

AS IT WAS

AS IT WAS

AS IT WAS

Damian Kocur, Anastasia Solonevych
PL/UA / 2023 / 15 min
After an argument with her boyfriend a young woman is driving home. There she plays the piano, celebrates, walks through the sunrise. Everything seems normal, but nothing is normal because her home is Kyiv.  A tender film about trying to live an ...
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ONE MORE DAY

ONE MORE DAY

JOŠ JEDAN DAN

Radivoje Bukvić
RS / 2024 / 15 min
Ninety-four-year-old grandma Smilja, struggling with loneliness, fills her worn-down country house with memories. Like most of the locals, her children and later her grandchildren, left the village long ago in search of a better life. Grandma ...
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27

27

27

Flóra Anna Buda
HU/FR / 2023 / 11 min
Alice is 27 years old today. Even though she is suffocating a bit, she still lives with her parents and tends to live in her dreams to escape her dreary everyday life. After a psychedelic party on a factory roof, she has a serious drunken bike ...
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LAND OF THE MOUNTAINS

LAND OF THE MOUNTAINS

LAND OF THE MOUNTAINS

Olga Kosanović
AT/DE / 2023 / 28 min
An insurance scam and the left thumb of the single father Vladimir find themselves in a low-key tragedy about the kafkaesque bureaucracy of Austrian immigration law. #short #diversity #generations
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LA PERRA

LA PERRA

LA PERRA

Carla Melo Gampert
FR / 2024 / 14 min
Being a daughter, being a mother, becoming a woman. In Bogota, a bird-girl leaves behind the family home, her domineering mother and faithful dog to go and explore her sexuality. #short #diversity #generations    
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ESPI

ESPI

ESPI

Ivan Grgur
HR / 2023 / 6 min
Gender transition is no different than any other human change. It has its ups and downs, scary, funny, strange, surprising, and frustrating little moments that are rarely talked about. This short film visually explores these moments through the eyes ...
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THE GHOSTS YOU DRAW ON MY BACK

THE GHOSTS YOU DRAW ON MY BACK

DUHOVI NA MOJIM LEĐIMA

Nikola Stojanović
RS/EE / 2023 / 14 min
Fruit juice on your lips, scabs on your skin, the sound of big machines in your ear and a hand digging into warm sand. An atmospherically dense puzzle about grief and the non-chronological timeliness of memory. #short #diversity #generations
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THE FAMILY PORTRAIT

THE FAMILY PORTRAIT

THE FAMILY PORTRAIT

Lea Vidaković
HR/FR/RS / 2023 / 15 min
As Austro-Hungary teeters on collapse, Andras and his daughter are taken aback by the visit from Andras' unpredictable brother, Zoltan, who comes accompanied by his large family. #short #diversity #generations
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MAURICE’S BAR

MAURICE’S BAR

MAURICE’S BAR

Tom Prezman & Tzor Edery
FR/IL / 2023 / 15 min
In 1942, on a train to nowhere, a former drag queen looks back on a night from her past in one of the first Parisian queer bars. Echoes of customer gossip tell the story of this legendary bar and its mysterious Jewish-Algerian owner. #short ...
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BETWEEN THE EDGES OF THE DAY

BETWEEN THE EDGES OF THE DAY

ÎNTRE MARGINILE ZILEI

Andreea Lăcătuș
RO / 2023 / 19 min
A taxi car enters Bucharest in the middle of the night, Mara and her mom seek refuge with relatives. As a curious passenger, Mara is observing the adults around her and starts doubting their reasoning. #short #diversity #generations
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PLICA POLONICA

PLICA POLONICA

PLICA POLONICA

Agata Tracevic
LT / 2023 / 7 min
Plica polonica is a disease people used to believe in that would make your hair uncombable. The main protagonist of the film- a severely tangled girl- goes on a search for a "cure". She seeks answers from the most tangled of them all- the infamous ...
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THE ROBBERS

THE ROBBERS

THE ROBBERS

Isa Schieche
AT / 2023 / 16 min
THE ROBBERS is a sociological analysis of male- and female-attributed behavior and traits, shaking up binary role models in a swirl of radicalism and activism. #short #diversity #generations
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