BRIDGES 2020 Online Program

Films 2020

Synopsis: This is a documentary film about people all around the world living with Ehlers-Danlos syndrome. The Ehlers-Danlos syndromes are...

August 6, 2021

Synopsis: The film is a feature documentary exploring the fifty years of artistic contribution of the daring Syrian auteur Muhammad...

August 5, 2021

Synopsis: Sam is a boy with epilepsy so desperate to feel like a normal kid, he goes to prom knowing...

August 6, 2021

Synopsis:The project is divided into three parts, which are composed of three non-existent towers. The first one is Famensi tower,...

August 9, 2021

Synopsis: Daniel Balima is a senior horticulturist from Tenkodogo, a small Sub-Saharan African town in Burkina Faso, where he lives...

August 6, 2021

Synopsis:A lonely postman secretly recreates postcards for a woman on his postal route when her boyfriend’s homemade postcards stop arriving...

August 4, 2021

Synopsis: A young woman travels to find a part of herself she felt was missing only to realize she was...

August 5, 2021

Synopsis: A woman encounters a chair with strange properties, but can’t decide if the experience is exciting or annoying.https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pvSToLm4UmA

August 5, 2021

Synopsis:An evocative and endearing story of a compassionate young boy and his mother, who tries to shield him from learning...

August 4, 2021

Synopsis: The story of two women who, at first, seem to have nothing in common: the young and restless Clairy...

August 5, 2021

Synopsis: Nerves are frayed after an all-night drive when Nate, Kyle, Wendy and Lily spot “Elle’s Kountry Kitchen” in the...

August 5, 2021

Synopsis: One steppe man is living far from the cities closely communicating with the nature. His father teaches him all...

August 5, 2021

Anke Ames’ attitude towards life is loving: people, music, ideas. That was the way, the violist, author and drawing artist...

August 19, 2021

Synopsis: This is a story of a Finnish woman entrepreneur Melina Holmberg who leaves her home farm and moves with...

August 5, 2021

Synopsis: A man works overtime to meet his company’s daily demands during the coronavirus lockdown. Caught up in the routine...

August 6, 2021

Synopsis:Paralympic athletes are seldom in the focus of the media, they and their successes are rarely reported on. We accompany...

August 4, 2021

Synopsis: When faced with life’s challenges, Ste-Adeline’s community has always stuck together. But this time, a scandal sends shockwaves through...

August 5, 2021

Synopsis: A short documentary which will give a short glimpse of the intercultural relationship between Homer’s myth and the musical...

August 6, 2021

Synopsis: The film focuses on the psychological effects that a large percentage of people have due to the universal exclusion...

August 6, 2021

Synopsis: The story is a gathering of casual events which happened to a young lady, who has a study abroad...

August 6, 2021

Synopsis: Nakam means hopeless. This is the artistic name chosen by a Kurdish artist who grew up in Iraq and...

August 6, 2021

Synopsis: A 91-year-old master wood sculptor’s artistic vision remains fueled by love for his wife, now suffering from Alzheimer’s.  Alone...

August 5, 2021

Synopsis: A 10 year old boy experiences the loss of his Grandfather. The Grandson wanders around the city recalling memories...

August 4, 2021

Synopsis: Early December, New York City, and everyone is on the hunt for love. Why? Because they haven’t found it...

August 4, 2021

Synopsis: The film is about five Polish women living in Norway. The story begins from the decision to move to...

August 5, 2021

Synopsis: The film explores the impact of a cultural phenomenon that annually brings together thousands of young people from seven...

August 5, 2021

Synopsis: Ariadne, a member of an anti-government covert resistance group, is captured and interrogated by an intelligence agent. As Ariadne...

August 4, 2021

Synopsis: This is a sound+video concept that brings the point of view of Artificial Intelligence (the Machine) being grateful to...

August 5, 2021

Synopsis:A struggling singer and her manager husband travel from show to show, falling in and out of love as they...

August 4, 2021

Alena TsygankovaΡωσία/Russia20192’18” https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qBmhd8dQ8gA&t=1s

August 19, 2021

A fictional city grapples with an inexplicable, complete loss of hair. Posited both as an extension and the boundary of...

August 19, 2021

Synopsis: Gutter, sewage – you hear the word the visuals of dirty, filthy water running through the tunnels, underground the...

August 5, 2021

Synopsis: A lot of times we are wondering what kind of person is the one living next door. The delivery...

August 5, 2021

Synopsis:Dustin Clark is a musician, an artist, and a man who sees challenges as possibilities. Diagnosed with Muscular Dystrophy at...

August 4, 2021

Synopsis:Stones in children’s toys, the stones in my baggage, the stones fortress and stairs for Heaven. A poetic approach to...

August 5, 2021

Synopsis:A doctor travels to the refugee camps near Duhok, Kurdistan in order to help with the medical need there. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UtU-LwUt72A...

August 5, 2021

Synopsis: While transporting packaged souls to the afterlife, Persephone discovers that true friends can be found even in the damnedest...

August 6, 2021

De-Eschatology is a physical manifestation of the claustrophobic conditions created by the COVID-19 crisis and the yearning to break free...

August 19, 2021

Synopsis: Lucy’s life spirals out of control when her own mind turns against her and her nightmares become her daymares....

August 5, 2021

Synopsis:The village of Islampura hasn’t seen rain in five years and water had never been so scarce in its lifetime....

August 5, 2021

Synopsis:The famous holster Calamity Jane must face the local sheriff, Rubio, head of the gang of criminals known as “La...

August 4, 2021

Synopsis: A young woman’s unfulfilled obsession with having a child leads her to insanity. When she understands that the child...

August 5, 2021

Synopsis: Blue Film is an essay experimental short-film that criticizes the monetization of the color blue. Why is blue identic...

August 4, 2021

Synopsis: Salma, a widely known presenter, is filming a poetry show about Tarfa, the pre-Islamic poet. With a sand storm...

August 6, 2021

Synopsis:The odyssey of a woman (40 years old) on the almost hopeless search for a life that does not seem...

August 4, 2021

With the rapid development of cities in modern society, the scope of nature is shrinking.The film is about when nature...

August 19, 2021

Synopsis: The fulfillment of a last wish leads Filippo to a retrospection from the mountains of Epirus to the recent...

August 4, 2021

Synopsis: As Nazis separate children from their parents in the Warsaw Ghetto, a gang of women risks everything to smuggle...

August 6, 2021

Synopsis: Fifteen years after a psychotic event on the South China Sea flipped his life upside down, Alex, a sensitive,...

August 6, 2021

Synopsis: This is the story of Aine a magical, feisty young girl with Down syndrome. Title: ÁineDirector: Alexandria Cree, Kristen...

August 6, 2021

Synopsis:In the 1950’s communist Serbia, a little girl awaits the return of her grandmother while leaning on the fence of...

August 4, 2021

Synopsis: A misogynic photographer discovers for the first time in his life the joys of loving a woman, this one...

August 5, 2021

Synopsis: A youth’s life falls into chaos following the breaking of his beloved lighter: his lover leaves him and he...

August 6, 2021

Synopsis: Set during the turbulent 1960’s, in segregated Alabama and based on a lamentably sadistic racist incident in American history–an...

August 6, 2021

Synopsis: Sarah faces discrimination in her workplace and is subject to her boyfriend’s fetishistic obsession. She needs to break free...

August 5, 2021

Synopsis:The film follows four NGOs throughout Southeast Asia as they fight to affect change and end human sex trafficking. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WvhqGNL7Nq0...

August 4, 2021

Synopsis: A video dance that explores vulnerability using movement and natural light.https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6I27IMoX3Tc Title: SkinDirector: Andrea MychaelsProducer: Andrea Mychaels

August 6, 2021

Synopsis: While gliding through still photographs and live action, sounds and silence, black and white and color, spoken word and...

August 5, 2021

Synopsis: October 1949: Supposedly the Greek Civil War is over but still the people have to live with the consequences...

August 5, 2021

Synopsis: When Minseo leaves work Rose goes to work. A story of 5th generation of Chinese decent Minseo and Rose...

August 4, 2021

Synopsis: In the suffocating ambiance of being in quaratine for months in an apartment alone in New York City (Covid-19)...

August 6, 2021

Synopsis: The film tackles a very personal yet universal story about tradition, family heritage and adaptability. It is a tale...

August 6, 2021

Synopsis: On the 28th July 2008 the Grand Pier at Weston-super-Mare in Great Britain was utterly destroyed by a catastrophic...

August 6, 2021

Synopsis: How does arrogance, honesty and a chessboard connect? What defines the true and what defines reality? Title: OutDirector: MEGHDAD...

August 6, 2021

Synopsis:The film explores loneliness, anonymity, and the nature of romantic love with that one person you’ve always wanted, but could...

August 5, 2021

Synopsis: The film is based on a real incident that happened in Hong Kong. Like any other regular people, Dak...

August 6, 2021

Synopsis: The grandfather decides to go to barber shop in order to get a new haircut for next day’s chorus...

August 6, 2021

Synopsis: A professional cellist has an encounter with a stranger on the subway which has unexpected and far-reaching ramifications…

August 4, 2021

Synopsis: The film is an upbeat story about a woman who thinks her life is over when her daughter leaves...

August 6, 2021

Synopsis: A poetic love letter, written during a pandemic lockdown. Α true story. Title: My dear Anna Director: Panos Anestis...

August 4, 2021

Synopsis: This short film documentary is about a collaboration and what it takes to step outside of the norm. Process,...

August 6, 2021

Synopsis: In the early years of China’s opening to the world, my father embarked on a construction aid project in...

August 6, 2021

Synopsis: Paul and Vanessa have just had sex. It’s unlikely they’ll meet again. She’s funny, pretty and witty. He’s still...

August 5, 2021

Synopsis: Iris, awaits the death of her Aunt Adelaida. As Aunt Adelaide slowly withers away in hospice, Iris continues her...

August 5, 2021

Synopsis: The film is a journey amid families with children suffering from rare genetic conditions and doctors who take care...

August 5, 2021

Synopsis: The film is an emotional portrait of a volatile and challenging mother-daughter relationship, explored through dance and motion. Mother...

August 6, 2021

Synopsis: Chen Xun was born in the countryside, young in the county, middle-aged in the city. At the beginning of...

August 5, 2021

Synopsis: At any moment of any day, every female is either fertile – or not fertile. Whether she is, or...

August 6, 2021

Synopsis: Recently transferred from Dečani near Monica, after 28 years living as a monk, Father Arsenie, Belgradian, a cult figure...

August 5, 2021

Synopsis: Ana is a young woman who reflects on the meaning of the verb eat and what we are and...

August 4, 2021

Synopsis: Glasgow Glam Rock Dialogues channel the spirits of David Bowie, Suzi Quatro and Karl Mark to debate the life...

August 5, 2021

Synopsis: The film is a social-impact documentary that centers on problems with the U.S. health care system and offers solutions...

August 5, 2021

Synopsis:Nancy goes to a job interview.But sometimes interviews are not what you expect.Especiially when the dark falls. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zW2Fvs6vixQ Title: Dark...

August 5, 2021

Synopsis: As a mummy portrait of Fayum, the gaze of the Poet who “brought to Art” “things half glimpsed, faces...

August 6, 2021

Synopsis: The film is based on a Chinese novel ”Deng Dai”. Xia Tian transfers her job back to her hometown...

August 5, 2021

Synopsis: A young composer who moves to New York after graduation feels insecure about singing in public. When a former...

August 6, 2021

Synopsis:The film is a dance film that presents two radically different dance forms: ballet and pole dance. Starring Californian born...

August 4, 2021

Synopsis: Sezim, 19 years old, wants to fulfil her dream of studying in the Kyrgyz capital when she gets kidnapped...

August 6, 2021

Synopsis: The story takes place on a Greek island in the Aegean Sea, which receives thousands of refugees every day....

August 6, 2021

Synopsis: The film is a short film drama about a wife whose husband suffers from Alzheimer’s. One fall afternoon, she...

August 5, 2021

Synopsis: When plans collapse things start to get interesting… Welcome aboard the Ural 650! A charming yet moody motorcycle which...

August 6, 2021