Friday, January 29 – Thursday, March 3, 2016

Ave Maria (Palestine, France & Germany/15 min./2015)
Dir. Basil Khalil
The silent routine of five Palestinian nuns living in the West Bank wilderness is disturbed when an Israeli settler family breaks down right outside the convent just as the Sabbath comes into effect.

Shok (Kosovo & UK/20 min./2015)
Dir. Jamie Donoughue
The friendship of two boys is tested to its limits as they battle for survival during the Kosovo war.

Alles Wird Gut (Everything Will Be Okay) (Germany & Austria/30 min./2015)
Dir. Patrick Vollrath
A divorced father picks up his eight-year-old daughter Lea. It seems pretty much like every second weekend, but after a while Lea can‘t help feeling that something isn’t right. So begins a fateful journey.

Stutterer (UK & Ireland/12 min./2015)
Dir. Benjamin Cleary
Apart from his aging father, Greenwood has only one connection to the external world in the form of an online relationship. Every night, often for hours at a time, he exchanges messages with Ellie. On the eve of their six-month anniversary, Ellie messages Greenwood and tells him that she has traveled to London to surprise him. She asks if he would like to take things “offline” and meet in person for the first time.

Day One (USA/25 min./2014)
Dir. Henry Hughes
Inspired by a true story, DAY ONE depicts a new translator’s first day accompanying a US Army unit as it searches for a local terrorist. As she quickly discovers, her job will bring up brutal complexities as gender and religious barriers emerge with lives hanging in the balance.