The short films:

Jasmin's Two Homes

  • Year: 2022
  • Country: Finland
  • Director: Hanna Karppinen, Inka Achte
  • Duration: 13min

Finnish Jasmin returns to her father's homeland, Somaliland. It takes some getting used to because the streets are not paved, people eat without cutlery, camels roam the streets....But no one stares at her because she looks different like in Finland!

MODOU LIGHTHOUSE

  • Year: 2022
  • Country: Belgium
  • Director: Pape Mbaye DIOP
  • Duration: 14min

Modou, a 10-year-old boy from Senegal, has never known his father. He lives alone with his mother Seynabou. To avoid upsetting her son, she does not talk about his father who left Spain in a canoe. Modou suspects something and goes on a search for his father!

Ice Merchants

  • Year: 2022
  • Country: Portugal
  • Director: João Gonzalez
  • Duration: 14min

Every day, a father and his son parachute out of their cold house, tethered to a cliff. Down in the village, they sell the ice they produce daily. Stunning animation about the harsh living conditions of a resourceful family!

Things Unheard Of

  • Year: 2023
  • Country: Turkey
  • Director: Ramazan Kilic
  • Duration: 15min

A little Kurdish girl tries to put a smile back on her grandmother’s face after the disappearance of her television, her only window into the world.

The kid, the sea and the whales

  • Year: 2022
  • Country: Colombia
  • Director: Juan Pablo Bedoya
  • Duration: 12min

Jerónimo lives with his mother on the Colombian coast to which he has been forcibly displaced. After her death, he hears a legend in which people turn into whales after death. With the help of his friends, he undertakes a dangerous journey to find his mother!