Again and again, people face challenges that life throws at them. They have to deal with destiny, often following a long path to self-realisation or finding a new place in the world. Filmmakers recount all this in their visual narratives. Sometimes, their approach is direct, almost taken from life – as if in a documentary – but it is also exciting, with self-confrontation in inner monologues as well as idiosyncratic formal experiments.
Direction: Niccolò Castelli (Switzerland, Belgium, Italy 2021)
Direction: Alfonso Quijada (Canada, El Salvador, Colombia 2021)
Direction: Lukas Röder (Germany 2021)
Direction: Donato Rotunno (Luxembourg, Germany, Italy, Belgium 2020)
Direction: Rachel Lang, Marine Dorville (France, Belgium 2021)
Direction: Hugo Santa Cruz (United Kingdom 2021)
Direction: Oliver Kracht (Germany 2021)
Direction: Nina Vukovic (Germany 2021)
Direction: David Preute (Germany 2021)
Direction: Alexej Hermann, Eike Weinreich (Germany 2021)
Direction: Timo Jacobs (Germany 2021)
Direction: Florian Anders (Germany 2020)
Direction: Olivier Peyon (France 2021)
Direction: Tony Gatlif (France 2021)
Direction: Mika’Ela Fisher (France, Germany, Austria 2021)
Direction: Rosa von Praunheim (Germany 2021)
Direction: Nick Hartnagel (Germany 2021)
Direction: Jean-Christophe Meurisse (France 2021)
Direction: Danielle Arbid (France, Belgium 2020)
Direction: Sabine Hiebler, Gerhard Ertl (Austria 2021)