27th European First Film Festival - European student films

Two brothers whose ageing mother is dying, struggle to care for her.

Onno is stuck. He's lost. Many questions. Few answers. And on top of that there's this strange feeling. This feeling that he knows, but doesn't understand.

When Sven provokes a fight after an evening out in Amsterdam his best friend ends up in a coma, and nothing is the same as before.

Antonin and Leonor are hunting the lark. He is as submissive as his sister is voracious. One day, a dog attacks them.

Roman and Linda are a couple who have long since ceased to have anything in common, apart from the Bloody Marys they like to drink. One day, they set off for a bicycle ride in the Swiss mountains, with Roman, despite not feeling very well, on a traditional bike, while Linda has an electric model. Their trip soon hits unforeseen complications, and this couple in a dying relationship find themselves forced to react and take action.

What is the value of energy invested into friendship? How can you defend yourself when there is no one to stick up for you? Our heroines find a way out of a complicated situation by continuing poetic life and by avoiding objective reasoning, proofs of innocence, condemnation and the need to win.

Ottó works as a conveyor for a food store in Budapest. When his van breaks down during a countryside delivery, he finds himself on an archaeological excavation site. Ottó spends one day on the excavation.

Elena, a Polish teenage girl living in Belgium, has to go with her parents to the family planning center, so that she can translate for them. But what she thought to be a simple formality soon confronts her to the harsh side of adulthood.

Anita is the story of a complex and interdependent relationship between a mother and daughter. They have difficulties living together and have never been able to express their love for each other. Joana has dwarfism, and Maria, a beautiful, elegant and sophisticated woman, has never accepted her daughter's condition. The silenced taboos between the two women will echo more than ever when they get the house ready for Juan's visit, the son and brother who lives far away.

A year in the life of Imane. A fictional process in which we are both filming. Her with his mobile phone, me with a camera.

Julius can not sleep. To get his head empty he decides to go on a roadtrip, but somehow he can not manage to leave. A hand drawn film about failure, insomnia, a red motorbike, pretty bargirls, the desolateness of Berlin (even in summer) and waterproof socks.

Athens 2014. Between bereaved desires and lost hopes, a film diary bangs against the walls of the city. The daily life of a country in crisis, the inertia of revolution, the individual issues that confront the political, questions of survival that confront ideals. Can we still ask the simplest questions?

In the midst of this world where every person, every action must be held accountable a young man must prove his worth.

A short film about a wife who suspects her husband is having an affair.

Before moving abroad, 16-year-old Isidora spends a few days at her childhood countryside house. Lost in the summer's stillness, she fears the coming changes.

Narges and her friend have just a few hours to find someone to take care of her baby.

The chicken is slaughtered, the song is sung, the lake is crossed and the female hitchhiker never knew where she was heading in the first place. One thing is for certain: It's no easy task to try and understand other people.

In the North of England, two adolescent brothers set out to attend an EDL street protest against radical Islam - but will the boys be convinced by the causes far-right beliefs?