Short Stories: Words of Wisdom, Words of Strife
Combined programme
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IFFR 2016
Four powerful stories about people painfully aware of the things beyond their reach. Be it through daydreaming, action or contemplation, political or otherwise, they all try to deal with the flawed reality around them.
In this combined programme
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Love Story Not
A compassionate double portrait of two young prostitutes, whose lives connect through Erik, a young man who charms them both for his own financial adv -
Meda
Welcome to the world of Romanian bureaucracy, where foster daughter Meda is immediately removed from home for administrative, irrelevant reasons. -
Nuestro mar
While a storm approaches Havana, Emilio and his neighbour Omara Portuondo talk about the past and dream of things out of reach. -
Kwassa Kwassa
The island of Mayotte, in the Indian Ocean, is the new outermost EU border. On its poor island neighbour, craftsmen are building a kwassa kwassa…