SECTION: MIOB

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Founded in 2017 by seven European film festivals, MIOB aims to promote, show and discuss European cinema in all its diversity, also to initiate change and to bring issues such as environmental and climate protection or diversity to the fore in programme curation.

In addition to FilmFestival Cottbus, MIOB includes: Crossing Europe Film Festival Linz/Austria, Seville European Film Festival/Spain, European Film Festival Palić/Serbia, Les Arcs Film Festival/France, European Film Forum Scanorama/Lithuania, Trieste Film Festival/Italy.

Since 2020, MIOB has been funded by the Creative Europe - MEDIA Programme of the European Union.

Every year, MIOB presents the MIOB New Vision Award, worth €3,000, which honours an artistically outstanding arthouse film by the new, young generation of directors, and the MIOB In Shorts Award (15 short films have been nominated and are available for "Watch & Vote" online streaming at home for one month before the winning film is awarded at the 33rd FFC).

AMYGDALA

AMYGDALI

Maria Hatzakou
GR / 2021 / 22 min

The two sisters Anna and Melina spend the last days of summer in their vacation home outside Athens. One hot summer night, their relationship is put to the test during a party.

NESTING

HAIKARA

Siiri Halko
FI / 2020 / min

Veikka (20) wants to leave his job, a construction site of Kari (50) to start a new life in the big city. Veikka thinks that the parting will go smoothly, but then something strange happens: there is a baby in the crane.

ANATOMY OF A CZECH AFTERNOON

ANATOMIE ČESKÉHO ODPOLEDNE

Adam Martinec
CZ / 2020 / 22 min

In a crowded lido, a mother searches for her children. While some begin to comprehend the unimaginable, others continue to lie in the shade and enjoy the summer tragedy, or is it still a laughing matter?

BEYOND IS THE DAY

DALEJ JEST DZIEŃ

Damian Kocur
PL / 2020 / 25 min

Somewhere in Europe, somewhere in Poland lives Pawel - a simple man working on a small river ferry close to his village. He spends most of his day taking the villagers to the other side of the river. Every day looks the same, but one day he notices ...

WHAT A FAMILY CAN DO

WAS EINE FAMILIE LEISTEN KANN

Sybille Bauer
AT / 2021 / 30 min

"I am Sybille. I've been going to psychotherapy for six years. How can I talk about my childhood when I remember little about it?" The filmmaker approaches this challenge by describing the events of the early years of her life in the form of a school ...

ALIZAVA

Andrius Žemaitis
LT / 2021 / 39 min

The orphan girl Alizava begins a childlike ritual. A silent dialogue between the girl and her unknown father summons others. Who are they?

ENDLESS HEAT

CALOR INFINITO

Joaquín León
ES / 2021 / 18 min

Lola and Aurelio's mother has just died.died, but her body is lost on thebottom of the sea. With their ownritual, they have to say goodbye, even thoughthey no longer have anything in common.

FAMILY VACATION

PORODIČNI ODMOR

Katarina Koljević
/ / min

Milena and Marko are together but they are not a couple, and they go on a vacation, that is not really a vacation, both with hidden agenda. By the end of it, she realizes that Marko is not who she thought he is.

APOCALYPSE BABY, WE ADVERTISE THE END OF THE WORLD

Camille Tricaud / Franziska Unger,
HU / 2021 / 19 min

"Apocalypse Baby" is a home shopping show in which the fear of climate change is used to seduce viewers into greater consumption.

MEMORIES

Minnen

Kristin Johannessen
SE / 2020 / 14 min

In this personal documentary filmwe follow Kristin Johannessen as she uses her old digital camerasher old digital cameras to look back on her overcoming mental illness. Inmemories of loneliness, fear and strange thoughts are woven together in ...

WE DIDN’T START THE FIRE

MI NISMO POKRENULI VATRU

Senka Domanović
RS / 2021 / 18 min

After a random meeting, two old acquaintances decide to spend a weekend together. Slowly, caution and resistance turn into a silent alliance.

THROUGH THE HAZE

NOITE TURVA

Diogo Salgado
PT / 2020 / 14 min

Birds fly over two children playing by the lakeplaying. The disappearance of one darkens the night of the other.

PENALTY SHOT

Rok Biček
HR/SI/AT / 2021 / 15 min

While playing soccer, two best friends dream of getting into the local soccer team. When a group of older boys interrupts their game, one sees it as an opportunity while the other senses something more sinister is at play.

SISTERS

SESTRE

Katarina Rešek (Kukla)
/ 2020 / 24 min

Three best friends, sworn virgins, get into a fight with local boys.