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Screenplay: Beatričė Bankauskaitė
Director: Beatričė Bankauskaitė
Producer: Akvile Zilionyte
Country of Production: Lithuania
Estimated length: 15 min
Participant: Beatričė Bankauskaitė (Lithuania)

Logline: In rural Lithuania, young people struggling to find their place gather at a therapeutic farm, where they slowly learn to be together.

Poetry By Heart

Screenplay: Fern Scott
Director: Fern Scott
Producer: Fern Scott, Verity Wislocki
Country of Production: England
Estimated length: 90 minutes
Participant: Fern Scott (United Kingdom)

Logline: When Lily who wants to be invisible befriends a boy who wants to be famous, their unlikely friendship pushes her toward the one thing she fears most: reciting poetry in front of thousands at Shakespeare’s Globe.

Hunting Season

Screenplay: Lucas Weglinski
Director: Lucas Weglinski
Producer: Alice Chiappetta, Heloisa Jinzenji
Country of Production: Brazil
Estimated length: 80 minutes
Participant: Lucas Weglinski (Brazil)

Logline: In the summer of 1987, the brutal murder of Brazilian theatrical genius, Luis Antonio, by a young surfer from Ipanema, whom he had cast to play Jack The Ripper, sparked a historic outcry from the artistic-community against homophobia. This documentary reveals, for the first time, how this crime was not an isolated case, but part of an epidemic of violence linking Rio and São Paulo, where serial killers reenacted scenes from the controversial Hollywood film Cruising, while the State turned a blind eye to an ongoing genocide.

Twice Stolen

Director: Hannah Skolnick
Producer: Ariela Braunschweig
Countries of Production: UK, USA, Switerzerland, Croatia, Serbia
Estimated length: N/A
Participant: Hannah Skolnick (United Kingdom)

Logline: Ante Topic Mimara was a man with many identities: a painter, a collector, an art dealer and restorer, a forger, a spy, and a thief. Groundbreaking research is now uncovering his crimes and rediscovering the provenance of the works he stole.

Palestinians in WWII

Director: Taghreed Saadeh
Participant: Taghreed Saadeh (Canada)

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