Lady (29min.)

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Director: Fabian Jansen

Language: English,
Dutch

Original title: Lady

Production countries: The Netherlands

Year: 2018

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When Lady, an 18-year-old Ethiopian refugee, hears that she has to leave the country in four days, she flees the city to make a choice between disappearing into illegality or returning to her home country. She meets an old, homeless guy called Wander and a special friendship develops. Together they wander through the city where she has never had anything and he has lost everything. The film was fully shot in Leeuwarden.

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Ég (15min.)

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Director: Vala Ómarsdóttir,
Hallfríður Þóra Tryggvadóttir

Subtitle: English

Language: Icelandic

Original title: Ég

Production countries: Iceland,
Lithuania

Year: 2018

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Svanur is a young trans person living in the Icelandic countryside. Searching for the freedom to be themself, Svanur travels to the city for a doctor's appointment to begin gender reassignment process. When the interview does not turn out the way Svanur had hoped for, a friend convinces them to take matters into their own hands. Although hesitant at first, Svanur decides it is time to return home, and stop hiding their true self.

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To Plant a Flag (15min.)

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Director: Bobbie Peers

Original title: To Plant a Flag

Production countries: Norway,
Iceland

Year: 2018

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In preparation for the moon landing in 1969, NASA sent a team of astronauts to the lunar landscape of Iceland. Their hi-tech training mission soon discovers what obstacles one can meet when facing an Icelandic sheep farmer.

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5% Heimat (15min.)

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Director: Johann Schultz

Subtitle: English

Language: German

Original title: 5% Heimat

Production countries: Germany

Year: 2017

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Young astronaut Anne Koch is the sole survivor of an unsuccessful space expedition. Back on earth, she is put into quarantine and finds herself questioned about her time in space and her personal story. After all there are a few irritating discrepancies. Director Johann Schultz, born in Schwerin in 1987, has made fifteen short films and one feature. Producer and protagonist Hille Norden is also an upcoming film director from Kiel.

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Mann auf Blau (12min.)

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Director: Friedrich Tiedke

Subtitle: English

Language: German

Original title: Mann auf Blau

Production countries: Germany

Year: 2018

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From student filmmaker Friedrich Tiedke comes this short German documentary about Henri Haake from Lübeck, who has recently graduated with a master class student degree at the Berlin University of the Arts. Now he is trying to find his place in the superficial art industry. He’s temping for a living while intensely working on a blue painting. This impressive presentation makes real life look like a narrative film.

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Koekoek! (7min.)

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Director: Jörgen Scholtens

Subtitle: None

Language: Dutch

Original title: Koekoek!

Year: 2019

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Every hour the lonely man that lives in the cuckoo clock buckles himself in his launch chair and shoots out through the doors to shout "Cuckoo! Cuckoo!" at exactly the right time. His work is of vital importance, because the old lady sitting under the clock has to punctually take her medication every hour. When the man gets the chance to win a large sum of money in a radio quiz, he faces an unexpected dilemma. This absurd comedy is the directing debut of the Frisian actor and director Jörgen Scholtens, in cooperation with Videoland and DOXY films.

Lady (29min.)

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Ég (15min.)

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To Plant a Flag (15min.)

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5% Heimat (15min.)

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Mann auf Blau (12min.)

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Koekoek! (7min.)

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8 November

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Lady

Ég

To Plant a Flag

5% Heimat

Mann auf Blau

Koekoek!

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