Nominees for Best Film 2020
AURORA
Director: Philip Escobar Jung
Country: Germany
Duration: 24:14
Synopsis: 1979. Aurora, ein kleines Mädchen, das in den Bayrischen Alpen lebt, macht mit ihrem Vater Valentin einen Ausflug in die Berge, um einen Sternschnuppenregen zu beobachten. Aurora und Valentin machen von dem Ereignis Fotos, die Aurora am nächsten Tag ihrer Mutter Sylvia zeigen will. Doch beim Abstieg passiert etwas Unerwartetes, dass für Auroras innere Welt eine große Herausforderung sein wird…
Miss Barton’s Famous Cakes
Director: Jared Hirsch, Nelson Vicens
Country: United States
Duration: 12:59
Synopsis: A dark comedy disguised as a thriller about a famed baker and the mysterious allure of her cakes.
Over the Wall
Director: Roy Zafrani
Country: Israel
Duration: 12:22
Synopsis: A coincidental meeting between an Israeli boy and a Palestinian boy leads them to discover that reality is different than what they have been told.
The Yellow Jacket
Director: Andreas Mortensen
Country: Sweden
Duration: 29:00
Synopsis: Tova is alone, until she finds herself in a young woman named Agnes through some old home videos. When the videos doesn’t end the way Tova anticipated, she tries to fix it by rearranging the events from Agnes’ life.
Aio Zitelli
Director: Jean-Marie Antonini
Country: France
Duration: 20:00
Synopsis: In the midst of the trench warfare, the Corsican soldier Lucien Casalta is called urgently at the back of the lines by a court of the country as a translator. Upon his arrival, he is surprised to see that the young soldier tried for desertion is none other than his compatriot and friend, Joseph…
TALK
Director: Boulanger Romuald
Country: France
Duration: 24:50
Synopsis: In a Los Angeles radio station. The host of an emblematic night talk show (William Baldwin) gives advice to live callers. One call will destroy his career, his family, his life …
Skin
Director: Guy Nattiv
Country: United States
Duration: 20:00
Synopsis: A small supermarket in a blue collar town, a black man smiles at a 10 year old white boy across the checkout aisle. This innocuous moment sends two gangs into a ruthless war that ends with a shocking backlash.
Black Forest
Director: Jean-Marc E.Roy, Philippe David Gagné
Country: France
Duration: 19:47
Synopsis: Jura, in France. A judge asks for a reconstruction of a crime scene to shed light on all the unresolved questions of a murder. The accused, a family of three Quebecois, have to strictly recreate the crime’s day in front of Justice.
Touch
Director: Nir Berger
Country: Israel
Duration: 25:00
Synopsis: A dark romantic comedy in the age of social media. The film features no spoken dialogue, as its protagonist communicates solely through text messages. Adele is an aggressive, self-conscious 17-year-old girl who spends most of her time “trolling” (i.e insulting) her classmates online. When she is hit on by another internet troll, Uri, they flirt until he urges her to send a picture in which she is actually visible. But instead of sending her own picture, Adele sends Uri a picture of a random pretty girl from Syria – sparking another unexpected relationship.
Backwater
Director: Brendan McCallion
Country: Ireland
Duration: 24:00
Synopsis: In the depths of rural Ireland, Tommy has done everything to look after his sick father, succumbing to a life of isolation in the process. However, letting go proves to be more difficult than he had ever imagined.
NOVEMBER 1ST
Director: Charlie Manton
Country: United Kingdom
Duration: 24:41
Synopsis: Traveling to witness the execution of her son’s murder, a mother is torn between retaliation and reconnecting with her estranged daughter.
Akam
Director: Hossein Mirzamohammadi
Country: Iran, Islamic Republic of
Duration: 16:07
Synopsis: Akam is a 10 years old Kurdish boy, who lives in a village far from city. On a day of his sister’s wdding , he is told by his father to go beyond the village to bring him some bricks to fix the main pool in village for the wedding ceremony. So, Akam leaves the village and, when he gets back, he faces a disaster. He finds everyone dead exept his mother, who is deaf and, doesn’t have any idea of what happened when Akam was gone.