THE HONORARY PATRONAGE OF THE PRESIDENT OF THE REPUBLIC OF POLAND ANDRZEJ DUDA
CO-FINANCED BY: THE MINISTRY OF CULTURE AND NATIONAL HERITAGE OF THE REPUBLIC OF POLAND, THE CITY OF TORUŃ AND KUJAWSKO-POMORSKIE REGION
Documentary Shorts Competition
Before I Die
Director: Iker Esteibarlanda
Cinematographer: Iker Esteibarlanda
Country: Spain
Year: 2020
On a small island in Lake Victoria, Kenya, fishermen believe that they are entitled to everything. Meanwhile, women and girls...
Blood Rider
Director: Jon Kasbe
Cinematographer: David Bolen, Jon Kasbe
Country: Nigeria, USA
Year: 2019
Amidst a blood shortage crisis and near-constant standstill traffic in Nigeria, it can take over 24 hours to transport blood...
By the River
Director: Dan Braga
Cinematographer: Caleb Ware
Country: Australia, India
Year: 2019
Stretching along the River Ganges rests Varanasi, the holiest of India’s seven sacred cities, and a place where devout Hindus...
Daughter Of…, The
Director: Joakim Demmer, Verena Kuri
Cinematographer: Joakim Demmer
Country: Germany
Year: 2019
When Mica was three years old, her mother was kidnapped and disappeared. As the police ignored the case, Mica´s grandmother...
Elsa In-Between
Director: Katharina Pethke
Cinematographer: Christoph Rohrscheidt
Country: Germany
Year: 2019
Elsa is 20 and graduated from high school last summer. She spends her days sleeping, reading, and thinking. Everyone else...
Hearing Eagles
Director: Marco Lledó Escartín
Cinematographer: María Santolaria, Pau Colomina
Country: Spain
Year: 2019
“Hearing Eagles” is an experimental short film in the form of a documentary trip about the creative process and everything...
Hollie’s Dress
Director: Annie Sakkab
Cinematographer: Annie Sakkab
Country: Canada
Year: 2020
As 14-year-old Hollie sews her first dress with her mother, she faces the decision all Mennonite girls must make when...
Horse Has More Blood Than a Human, A
Director: Abolfazl Talooni
Cinematographer: Mehdi Azadi
Country: Iran, UK
Year: 2020
An older Azeri couple leave Tehran and return to their idyllic home town on the Turkish border, but their dreams...
Invisible Monster, The
Director: Guillermo Fesser Perez De Petinto, Javier Fesser Perez
Cinematographer: Jairo Iglesias
Country: Spain
Year: 2019
Aminodin’s father always smiles because he says, “happy people live longer”. That’s why, at eight years old, Aminodin puts his...
Loose Fish
Director: Francisco Canton, Pato Martinez
Cinematographer: Matthew Ballard
Country: Argentina
Year: 2020
“Loose Fish” portrays a few days in the life of Ismail, a boy growing up in a port town in...
My Brother’s Keeper
Director: Laurence Topham
Cinematographer: Laurence Topham, Tom Silverstone
Country: UK
Year: 2020
“My Brother’s Keeper” is about the remarkable friendship between former Guantánamo detainee, Mohamedou Ould Salahi, and his one-time American prison...
Shadows of Your Childhood
Director: Mikhail Gorobchuk
Cinematographer: Mikhail Gorobchuk
Country: Russia
Year: 2019
The house becomes shrouded in the silence of night. It grows long shadows, accentuated by the random flickers of the...
