Live action shorts seen

Two ten year-old boys are detained by police under suspicion of abducting and murdering a toddler. A true story based on interview transcripts and records from the James Bulger case, which shocked the world in 1993.

Set in a surface mine, two boys sink into a seemingly innocent power game with Mother Nature as the sole observer.

An aging woman and her nurse develop a friendship that inspires her to unearth unacknowledged longing and thus help her make peace with her past.

While at home in her apartment with her own mother in Spain, a woman gets a phone call from her six-year-old son, who's on holiday in France with his father. Every parent's nightmare ensues.

In a small supermarket in a blue collar town, a black man smiles at a 10-year-old white boy across the checkout aisle. This innocuous moment sends two gangs into a ruthless war that ends with a shocking backlash.

Gives an insight to the rising Portuguese boxer Juliana Rocha through a series of interviews and glances at her training.

Still haunted by the pain left by his lover's departure, a young trumpet player plays his sorrows away by a street corner in New York. But when he can no longer find the motivation to make new music, he decides to get rid of his trumpet. His only hope comes in the form of a mysterious stripper who spends her cigarette breaks by the street corner, listening to the young man's sad tunes.

He is a professional hitman. She is married to the country's most powerful mobster. They both seek a way out from a life with no salvation.

After a long stay at the hospital Peter Sanders comes home to die. 'Homecoming' follows Peter's last days and his troubled relationship with Joanne, an adulterous wife who desperately tries to reach to him, and Lindsay, his nine-year-old daughter who tries to cure him with love and Bob Dylan songs. Peter soon realizes that he's not fighting the inevitability of death but his own fears and frustrations.

It's Sunday, and Pablo, 8 years old, has an invitation to a very special but also forbidden birthday party. It's Sunday, and for the first time, Pablo is going on a door-to-door preaching with his mother. It's Sunday, and behind each door, there is a challenge, a test, a surprise. It's Sunday.

In the Portuguese countryside, Gu, a smooth talking romantic, steals a bike from a pair of bullies to go meet his girlfriend in the city; but Gu can only run so long before the bullies - and the truth - catch up with him.

Dane thought he left his demons and his drug addiction behind him, but his first day out of prison challenges both his promise to go clean and his very survival.

Isa is a young outreach worker who uses forum theatre as a tool to promote awareness and discussion of social issues. The gulf between theory and practice widens when her work is mirrored by her reality.

Two characters of a Portuguese film question their brief existence.

Y0U is a love story, that happens in a moment when the last thing you want to do is to fall in love, but falling in love is the only way you have to go on with your live.

A night. A car. Alie is in danger. To get by she must make the most important phone call of her life.

It tells the story of a middle aged woman with small children whose life is shaken up when two free-spirited twenty-somethings move in across the street.

SARIA explores the unimaginable hardships faced by young female orphans at the Virgen de La Asuncion Safe Home in Guatemala, leading up to the tragic fire which claimed 41 of their lives in 2017. We follow the story of two inseparable orphaned sisters - Saria 12, and her sister Ximena 14, as they fight against mounting daily physical abuse at the very institution designed to protect them. In the sisters' desperation for survival, they devise a daring plan of escape for all the orphans to find freedom in America.

In a Tunisian village, children are playing football on a wasteland. Meanwhile, Abdallah and Mohammed come across a donkey with headphones on his ears and bags full of a white powder on his back. The two young brothers decide to bring those bags back to their village.

Mohamed is deeply shaken when his oldest son Malik returns home after a long journey with a mysterious new wife.