International Competition: Documentary films

8 full-length and 11 short documentary films from across the world. As part of the unique International Competition programme of the 30^th Message to Man, they compete on equal terms with fiction and animated short films.

BROTHERS – A FAMILY FILM

Director: Valentin Merz Tanören

Switzerland, 2020

Duration: 17 min.

Clebs

Director: Halima Ouardiri

Canada / Morocco, 2019

Duration: 18 min.

Huntsville Station

Director: Jamie Meltzer, Chris Filippone

USA, 2019

Duration: 14 min.

I have nothing to add

Director: Tatiana Stephanenko

Russia, 2020

Duration: 11 min.

INVISIBLE HERO

Director: Cristèle Aves Meira

France/Portugal, 2019

Duration: 28 min.

Maalbeek

Director: Ismaël Joffroy Chandoutis

France, 2020

Duration: 15 min.

TERRARIA

Director: Hanna Hovitie

Hungary/ Belgium / Portugal / Finland, 2019

Duration: 17 min.

THE FANTASTIC

Director: Maija Blåfield

Finland, 2020

Duration: 30 min.

THIS MEANS MORE

Director: Nicolas Gourault

France, 2019

Duration: 23 min.

Acasă, My Home

Director: Radu Ciorniciuc

Romania, 2020

Duration: 1 h. 26 min.

AS LONG AS YOU STILL HAVE ARMS

Director: Luisa Bäde

Germany, 2019

Duration: 1 h. 32 min.

Kiosk

Director: Alexandra Pianelli

France, 2020

Duration: 1 h. 18 min.

La Mami

Director: Laura Herrero Garvín

Spain, 2019

Duration: 1 h. 22 min.

Little Samedi

Director: Paloma Sermon-Daï

Belgium, 2020

Duration: 1 h. 15 min.

Sonny

Director: Paweł Chorzępa

Poland, 2019

Duration: 41 min.

LA ESPERA

Director: Danilo do Carmo & Jakob Krese

Germany / Brazil / The Netherlands, 2020

Duration: 14 min.

SHĀNZHÀI SCREENS

Director: Paul Heintz

France, 2020

Duration: 23 min.

THE LEGEND OF SIEGFRIED

Director: Svetlana Strelnikova

Russia / Czech Republic, 2020

Duration: 1 h. 15 min.

FAITH

Director: Valentina Pedicini

Italy, 2019

Duration: 1 h. 33 min.