SECTION: Youth Film U18 Competition

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The films in the youth competition impressively tell us about young people's wild search for identity in the face of the rapidly changing world of the 21st century.

A German-Polish-Czech jury of students will choose the best film in the competition.

GARBURA

Josip Josip Žuvan
HR/RS / 2022 / 113 min

Explosions and friendship. Two neighbourhood boys about to hit puberty in a town on the Croatian Adriatic coast. They love mobile phones and blowing things up with the help of carbide (an explosive) whilst filming themselves in the process. The only ...

Erhart

Jan Březina
CZ / 2022 / 71 min

A grunge musician on the search for clues. 19-year-old Erhart wants to protect his mentally ill mother from the forced sale of her home. In attempting to do so he uncovers a scheme that reveals to him the secrets of his long-vanished father in a ...

Larry

Szilárd Bernath
HR / 2022 / 108 min

A shepherd-rapper drama that comes complete with a socio-political side swipe. Adam has a stammer and is therefore a sorrowful outsider. One day however he finds that his stuttering stops when he starts rapping in anger. With his scream-rapped and ...

Magdalena

Filip Gieldon
PL / 2021 / 100 min

A DJ at odds with her past. Torn between her passion as a DJ and her responsibility as a young mother, the mute Magdalena struggles through her precarious everyday existence. When she falls in love with the club manager Julia, she finally seems to be ...

Riders

JEZDECA

Dominik Mencej
SI / 2021 / 90 min

Easy Riders in the Wild Southeast. Tomaž and his buddy Tunc have seen Dennis Hopper's motorcycle classic on an old VHS cassette and now they themselves dream of leaving their Slovenian provincial backwater for the big, wide world on pimped-up ...

THE 9TH STEP

9-TAS ŽINGSNIS

Irma Pužauskaitė
LT/PL / 2022 / 93 min

A stirring coming-of-age portrait of two teenagers, one of whom, Linas, is already 40 and the father of the other. Linas is in the process of recovering from his alcohol addiction when his daughter Eve turns his life upside down whilst her friend ...

The Art Of Falling

ISKUSTVOTO DA PADASH

Orlin Milchev
BG / 2022 / 108 min

Sensitive coming of age cinema from Bulgaria. After 17-year-old Borislava, whom everyone just calls Bori, narrowly escapes being raped by boys her own age at school, her grandfather signs her up for judo and takes her out of school. Apart from her ...

Rock. Paper. Grenade

JA I FELIKS

Iryna Tsilyk
UA / 2022 / 93 min

A nostalgic coming-of-age film from Ukraine. In the midst of the post-Soviet nineties young Tymophiy makes the acquaintance of war veteran Felix. An unusual friendship full of ups and downs develops between the two. Soon however Tymophiy is faced ...

SECTION: Youth Film U18 Competition

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