To the Amazon /CO, BE, IR/ will bring the story of an Englishwoman who, after the tragic death of a daughter gave up everything to live in the Amazonian jungle, leaving her past – including her daughter: the director of the film – behind. The project Holy Cow /DE, AZE/, reveals the story of a simple man from a remote Azerbaidjian mountain village, who decides to bring home a European cow. However, the prejudices on the East towards the West are not any smaller than vice-versa and nobody would to buy the milk from the „stranger“ cow, back in his village.
The teenage dreams and ambitions of the worst cheerleading team in Finland are in the centre of the project Cheer The F**k Up /FI/, and Emergency Exit /BE/ portraits the normality of the life in a Kenyan refugee camp: when you spend all your life there, in the end, your camp might easily transform into one more rapidly growing cities of Africa.
Dreaming of Denmark /DK/ is a disturbing testimony about thousands of teenagers, who disappear every year from the western society. Being denied staying in Europe, they must either return to their country of origin or seek a life outside of society’s rules and norms. What in the West might become a statistic, in the Eastern Europe has suddenly become an urgent personal dilemma. To the picturesque world of the two smartest and the strongest guys in the village, the Ukrainian Sheriffs /LV, DE/, appointed to take care of the public order as "Sheriffs", comes the war. They don ́t change...But the whole country does.
In the end, after Europe, Asia, Africa and South America, the fifth continent brings 21x New York. Love Before The End Of The World /PL/, a documentary symphony, a collage of micro-portraits of humans meeting in the New York subway.
Shot for many years, from a very close relationship with their characters, the 2015 projects have all already an amazing film material in their editing rooms. Now, for half a year, they will work on their stories in order to be able to tell them in all the layers, and to bring them to as wide audience as possible. First workshop session takes place in 2 months in Czech Republic.
