Four Walls
Home stands for security, love and comfort. But what if this place becomes fragile? Between tradition, motherhood, social reality and war, Four Walls asks: What‘s left when security breaks down, and what can emerge from it?
A year of marriage
Año de casados
1991: Ana María and Juan Manuel, a newlywed couple, receive a creature as a wedding gift. Will they be able to care for it for a year to preserve their marriage?
| Cast | Andrés Delgado |
| Mónica Dionne | |
| Ana Guzmán Quintero | |
| Cinematographer | Aarón Galán |
| Director | Pablo Camargo López |
| Editing | Pablo Camargo López |
| Screenplay | Pablo Camargo López |
| Sound Designer | Alejandro Díaz Sánchez |
| César González Cortés |
Silent
Sheket
Alina’s baby won’t stop crying. The older son Lior tries to keep the chaos at bay, keeping the household together and caring for his sister. When the silence Alina longs for never comes, the situation slowly spirals out of control.
| Executive Producer | Orit Azriyev |
| Art Director | Muriel Haddad |
| Camera | Damian Tsetskin |
| Cast | Liel Avadiyayev |
| Shay Avadiyayev | |
| Anna Dubrovitsk | |
| Omer Hanegbi | |
| Director | Moshe Yohananov |
| Editing | Dor Aviram |
| Film School | Sapir Academic College |
| Screenplay | Moshe Yohananov |
| Sound Designer | Tzvi Forer |
| Sound Mixer | Daniel Moalem |
Move like a girl
Bouge comme une fille
When Fatou’s mother comes to visit from Senegal, she brings clothes, memories, and the expectation that Fatou’s seven-year-old daughter will soon be made a woman. Caught between tradition and family, Fatou must find the courage to take her stand.
| Cast | Ndeye Ngoné Diouf Ep Gueye |
| Kathy Etoa | |
| Denise M’Baye | |
| Ataume Laura Amaya Tendeng | |
| Cinematographer | Céline Fournier |
| Composer | Jonas Schüsselin |
| Costume | Svea Pöstges |
| Decors | Kaya Kunert |
| Director | Leah Meinhof |
| Editing | Erik Braun |
| Lighting | Felice Bitzer |
| Producer | Anna Graf |
| Pascal Lehmann | |
| Screenplay | Clara-Louise Erhardt |
| Leah Meinhof | |
| Sound Designer | Julius Kaufmann |
| Story | Fatou Mandiang Diatta |
| Still | Clara Marnette |
Raining Porridge
Wenn’s Brei regnet
A GDR prefabricated building in Berlin-Mitte is set to make way for luxury apartments. Activists occupy the building to provide a home for 60 homeless people. But the utopia of the right to housing becomes a fierce struggle for dignity.
| Author | Philipp Baumeister |
| Robert Grünheit | |
| Cinematographer | Robert Grünheit |
| Editing | Dror Sadot |
Olm’s House
A woman seeks asylum in a secluded house, but to enter she must play a cruel game that tests fear, control and deception. With a conflicted conscience, she must decide whether to break the cycle or become part of it.
| Color Grading | Ben Neufeld |
| Art Director | Yueyi Zhang |
| Cast | Marykate Glenn |
| Joe Zhang | |
| Cinematographer | Riley Hanyue Shen |
| Composer | Ian Hassett |
| Costume | Bisheng Qian |
| Director | Yuhan Wang |
| Editing | Yuhan Wang |
| Film School | California Institute of the arts |
| First AD | Emi Wilks |
| Producer | Scarlett Yanli Feng |
| Yuhan Wang | |
| Production Designer | Xiyu Lin |
| Screenplay | Yuhan Wang |
| Sound Designer | Yuhan Wang |
| Sound Mixer | Alejandra Molina Rios |
| Still | Joe Zhang, Jamila Turner, David Lowe |
The Birds Are Silent
Just before the war began, director Leo Dzhyshyashvili documented his friends and their fears about the future in Kyiv. After the invasion, their lives changed abruptly, representing hundreds of others whose youth came to a sudden end.
| Camera | Ivan Baliuk |
| Leo Dzhyshyashvili | |
| Dmytro Makarov | |
| Director | Leo Dzhyshyashvili |
| Editing | Leo Dzhyshyashvili |
| Daria Penkova | |
| Music | Katya Chilly |
| Producer | Luisa Nöllke |