“Tierra Calcinada” delves into one of the darkest eras in Spain: Francoism. Through the testimony of victims and experts, attempts are made to answer questions like: Who financed the coup? What methods were used to win the war and maintain the power? How did it get a docile population and a large number of followers? Why have we reached this state of indifference? Scorched Land tries understand both the current state and the complexity of Francoism and how it turned a population sometimes participant, victim or just indifferent.

Antonio Ferre - Writer/Director

roject Title (Original Language): Tierra calcinada

Project Type: Genres: Historical, Memory, War

Runtime: 1 hour 10 minutes

Country of Origin: Spain

The story of “The Rainbow”, the artistic installation at the Saviour Square in Warsaw, entangled into ideological conflict, and other rainbow references and interactions, that have stirred emotions, sparked debates and even caused acts of violence.

Wojtek Jankowski - Writer/Director

Project Title (Original Language):Punkt zapalny

Runtime: 1 hour 24 minutes

Country of Origin: Poland

At the frenzy of the Space Race almost 100.000 people on both sides of the Iron Curtain signed up to fly to the Moon at the PanAm‘s First Moon Flights Club. World was split to two realities of the East and the West, but there was just one Moon, for everybody.

Following the filmmaker´s grandfather, one of the fellow club members, TICKET TO THE MOON asks what did the mere thought and imagination of a trip to the Moon mean to these potential space travellers – on both sides of the Iron Curtain? What were they imagining to find? And how is this relevant for us now?

Veronika Janatkova - Writer/Director

Project Title (Original Language): Lístek na Měsíc

Runtime: 1 hour 8 minutes

Country of Origin: Czech Republic

Language: Czech, English

In the early 2000's, Tel Avivian Journalist and Musician Boaz Goldberg began to document his friend Gabi Abudraham - a dreamy young man from the Beit She'an periphery, with an obsession for Elvis, a fascination for mystical teachings and virtuoso musical abilities. The shy Abudraham creates an eccentric character named Charlie Megira, embarking on a stormy musical journey and reaching large stages in the United States. Together with his struggle for worldwide artistic recognition, Abudraham was forced to deal constantly with the inner demons that he tried to silence with the larger than life figure he created. Meanwhile, Goldberg struggles to eliminate his personal demons in order to finish the film, moving along a timeline of nearly two decades and examining what happens when an artist crosses the boundaries he has set for himself.

Boaz Goldberg - Writer/Director

Eyal Datz - Writer

Project Title (Original Language):מחר כבר עבר

Project Type:Documentary, Feature, Other

Genres:Music Documentary, Rock-N-Roll Film, Memoir

Runtime: 1 hour 9 minutes

Country of Origin: Israel

The Last People of Chernobyl is an emotional documentary showing the lives of samosely - people who still live in the Chernobyl Exclusion Zone, created after the 1986 nuclear power plant disaster. In their abandoned villages, there is no running water or stores, often no electricity. Many of them are fighting the hardships of old age. Despite three decades spent almost alone, they show a picture of humanity forgotten in the developed world.

"There is no month without death here," they say, adding that every now and then someone dies and that it will soon come for them as well. Today, there are no more than 50 of them left and probably almost all of them will be gone in the next few years. That is why they are the last people of Chernobyl.

Amadeusz Kocan - writer/director

Project Title (Original Language):Ostatni ludzie Czarnobyla

Project Type:Documentary, Feature

Genres:Social, Historical

Runtime:1 hour 6 minutes 10 seconds

Country of Origin :Poland

Country of Filming: Ukraine

The documentary “Capabilities” describes the activities that are carried out daily in ATIADIM, an Argentinian NGO that provides disabled people with work, housing and containment. The effort and dedication lead us to think about the social and labor inclusion of people with disabilities.

Director Biography - Gerardo Panero

Project Type :Documentary

Genres:Disability, human rights, social inclusion, work

Runtime: 1 hour 6 minutes

Country of Origin: Argentina

The train named El Chepe crosses the northwest of Mexico. He's going from sea to the desert. In the middle lies the grandiose Sierra Tarahumara. El Chepe is our portal towards that isolated world. Those who live there - Raramuri and Yoreme - hold to their vision of the world and their ways of life. Surprisingly this place is also the hideout of an European religious community longtime forgotten, Mennonites. How to approach them, when you're a foreigner? How should you travel, when you want to open trails and leave footprints?

Director Biography - Miguel Coelho

Project Title (Original Language): El tren de los pies ligeros

Runtime: 1 hour 16 minutes

Country of Origin: France

Country of Filming: Mexico

25 years after its birth as a democratic country, South Africa remains the most unequal society in the world according to the World Bank. A country once considered a symbol of global progress and human possibility has become a cynical and divided nation, where today, South Africans carry extremes views that dominate mainstream thought. With protests frequently tearing through the city streets where thousands do everything they can to make their disillusionment felt. The rich enjoy the hills and peaks, the best that country has to offer, while poor people remain concentrated in apartheid ghettos.

Sifiso Khanyile - Director

Project Type: Documentary

Runtime: 60 minutes

Country of Origin: South Africa

Country of Filming: South Africa

Elian Chali is an Argentinian artist who has created works of art in over 30 countries.

The documentary aims to portray the protagonist while exposing different areas in which he performs. The film not only accompanies him during the creation of murals, exhibits and curatorships in several countries, but also challenges the established social parameters since Elian, who was born with dissident body, has lived and lives outside both ideological and physical norms.

Director - Julián Lona

Project Type: Documentary, Feature

Genres: Art, culture, street, muralism, gender, diversity, disability

Runtime: 52 minutes

Country of Origin: Argentina

Language: Spanish

Janette is terminally ill and she would like to die a dignified death, however, this is not possible in her home in the United Kingdom. Determined to see her decision through, Janette opts for physician-assisted suicide. She gets in touch with Dr. Erika in Switzerland, who is willing to help her. Janette must plan her final departure from the UK before her illness prevents her from doing so. Simon has also inherited his mother's illness and, therefore, has much more sympathy regarding her decision than sister Bridget. Nevertheless, both children try to convince Janette that she still has enough time to make a decision.

Director - Tomáš Krupa

Project Type: Documentary

Genres: death, human rights, society

Runtime: 1 hour 32 minutes

Country of Origin: Slovakia

Country of Filming: Switzerland

Language: English

A trip to the market becomes more complicated than usual during the COVID-19 pandemic. Lee describes the changes to New York City and new racial tensions from the perspective of a Chinese-immigrant.

Vicky Lee - Director

Yew Lee Key - Cast

Runtime : 5 minutes 13 seconds

Country of Filming:United States

Language:Chinese