Finding that comfort zone in life’s great swirl of uncertainty.

SUCH SMALL HANDS Maria Martinez Bayona

At the girls' orphanage, the group’s unchecked pack mentality alienates a new arrival. To swing the balance of power, she invents a manipulative night game.

FADING SNOW Ania Morawiec

Mania leaves her safe place - the theatre - and sets off to find her way back home in the broken city of Warsaw.

AUGUST SKY Jasmin Tenucci

As the Amazon burns for the seventeenth day, a nurse in Sao Paulo finds herself drawn to a neo-Pentecostal church.

AL-SIT Suzannah Mirghani

An arranged marriage in a cotton-farming village in Sudan. Does 15-year-old Nafisa have a choice?

THERE IS EXACTLY ENOUGH TIME (ES IST GENAU GENUG ZEIT) Oskar Salomonowitz, Virgil Widrich

Oskar Salomonowitz, the twelve-year-old son of the filmmakers Anja Salomonowitz and Virgil Widrich, had already drawn 206 pictures for a flip book when he died in an accident. An irrational end that his father opposed with a small but logical continuation.

All films eligible for Grand Prix International Short Award