Friday Night Flop, 16min., UK
Directed by Simon Friedberg, Elliott Gerner
A mother tries desperately to reconnect with her estranged daughter.

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DESERTION, 30min., Luxembourg
Directed by Chantal Lorang
After World War II, a military chaplain remembers the young soldiers who lost their nerve and ran away on the Eastern Front. In military prison he also had to look after Josy Lorang, a Luxembourger who had been forcibly recruited. Josy could no longer endure the Wehrmacht's atrocities at the front and the attacks on the civilian population, deserted and was recaptured and sentenced to death by a court martial. During the last weeks of his life, he regularly wrote to his young wife and parents from prison, confided in the military chaplain and sought strength in his faith.

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Where Is Wind Stranded, 21min., China
Directed by Ushio
*Two train tickets curl into cocoons in my palm
Rails gnaw through night, grinding old vows to dust
Empty seats sprout thorns
Piercing all dusks that never embarked*

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PETRIFIED, 10min., Finland
Directed by Minna Maria Parkkinen
In the silent film “Hymytyttö”, beautifully frosted pictures disguise a hidden past of trauma and childhood sexual violence. The Smile Statue, awarded to the kindest children in the class, becomes a symbol of something darker. A hummed melody conveys emotions indescribable by words, as images of snow and ice give way to flowing water and wings carrying.

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Wild Goose, 26min., China
Directed by Huiting Kang
Wild Goose is a story that profoundly portrays the emotional entanglements and self-discovery of the characters in a northeastern county. The story begins when Cheng Si'an receives the news of her father's sudden death. She returns to the northeastern county where she has lived for many years and meets Xu Yan, her father's girlfriend, which sets off a discussion about family, love, kinship and life choices.

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