ED AWARD for Central European short film
CENTRAL 2 - short films
5. 9. 2024
10:00
Ještěrka
Lera has been living in Berlin for almost a year since the outbreak of the war in Ukraine. One day she decides to go back to Kyiv. On her way, she finds out that her family is not in Kyiv and will arrive only the next day. She meets her friend Kyrylo, with whom she spends the day.
Poland, Ukraine; 15 minutes
Els is in her late-forties, divorced and in love again. Her twenty-year-old daughter wants to die and has already asked for psychiatric euthanasia. In the storm of her own emotions, mixed with guilt, anger, fear and hope, love is what teaches Els to try stepping forward even if it seems impossible.
Hungary; 16 minutes
Viki, Sára, and Kiki, three inseparable friends since childhood, are dreaming about leaving their hometown, but only one of them will get the chance. The others might be willing to support her, if only their anger, sadness, and envy weren’t so powerful…
Czechia; 23 minutes
In Agbogbloshie is one of the world's largest e-waste recycling sites in the middle of Accra. A contact zone of complex global economic, social, power-political and technological processes, questioning all this from a spiritual perspective.
Germany, Taiwan, Togo; 16 minutes
A nuclear power plant worker obsessed with counting has set a maximum limit on how much electricity he wants to consume. But the energy that should have lasted him for the rest of his life is slowly running out, forcing him to decide on its final use.
Czechia; 12 minutes
