Creative Solutions – 8 x 25’ – GER
Genre: Comedy / Dramatic Comedy
Written by Raquel Stern
Logline: When an undervalued employee witnesses her boss's fatal heart attack, she strikes a deal with his underestimated trophy wife: Hide the body, take his power, split the spoils... But the longer they keep him 'alive', the harder it gets to let him die.
I drepress you not – 8 x 25’ – GER
Genre: Drama / Comedy
Written by Katharina Dietl, Maren Heyn
Logline: When Lasse’s (44) life is quietly overtaken by depression, it not only alters his own life but also reshapes the world of his wife Yara (44) and their daughter Karlotta (7). As the Schulte family navigates birthdays, holidays, and vacations, they do everything they can to maintain a sense of normality. But perhaps they must accept that depression has moved in as a new member of the family - one that can no longer be ignored.
Melika Saving The World – 10 x 30’ – GBR
Genre: Comedy / Science Fiction
Written by Ed Wiles
Logline: When nuclear war breaks out in 2039, an irreverent immigrant cleaner at a secret NATO time-travel lab is sent back to 2019 to prevent it — but repeatedly sabotages the mission as she prioritises fixing her own life first.
OHUN – 6 x 45’ – GER / NGA / FRA
Genre: Sci-Fi Drama
Directed by Maja Costa (tbc)
Written by Maja Costa, Anne-Maryse Makon
Logline: Trapped between timelines after a lunar accident, a scientist discovers that an ancient instrument lost in space is accelerating the planet's collapse, and must decode its transmissions before a ruthless mogul uses them to auction off the future.
Paralegal – 10 x 30’ – CZE
Genre: Comedy / Fantasy
Produced by Iuliia Mamaeva for Echo Stories
Written by Lia Berger
Logline: After her parents are turned into zombies in Prague, a young lawyer seeks justice through the absurd and underregulated world of paranormal law.
The Call of the Fox Children – 6 x 30’ – AUS / GBR
Genre: Drama / Thriller
Written by Rebecca Ingram with Studio 21
Logline: When two fox cubs appear at the house where her children vanished three years earlier, Tessa Bainbridge becomes convinced they’re her missing children, returned home — as foxes. But her husband Steve fears she’s slipping further from reality, refusing to face the devastating truth the police have just uncovered.
The Shift – 5 x 45’ – GER
Genre: Drama / Coming of age
Directed by Susan Gordanshekan
Written by Susan Gordanshekan
Logline: ROYA and NASSIMA are best friends, but at the same time they are increasingly being excluded by other students in their class. One day, Roya portrays herself as the victim and Nassima as the perpetrator in order to regain her status in the class community.
VENUS – 6 x 45’ – AUT
Genre: Comedy
Written by Maria Hinterkoerner
Logline: Venus follows three former schoolmates who team up to heist the Venus of Willendorf from the State Museum. Along the way they must contend with the asswipe chief investigator, a handsome FBI agent, and a bunch of idiots, all while grappling with their own self-worth and general inaptitude for all things criminal.
Wonderful – 6 x 50’ – SRB
selected in cooperation with CineLink Industry Days
Genre: Drama
Directed by Isidora Veselinovic, Vladimir Tagic
Produced by Marija Stojanovic for Sense ProductionWritten by Katarina Mitrovic
Logline: Unsatisfied with how her life has turned out, a forty year old Divna magically starts waking up each morning to a new existence. Changing key life decisions, she takes alternate paths towards different lives that could have been.
EUROPEAN DREAMERS – 20 x 3’ – GER
selected in cooperation with Creative Writers Desk Hamburg
Genre: Dramedy
Written by Kerstin Hoeckel, Dunya Khayame, Mile Božičević, Marko Popović, Maria Hinterkoerner, Nikolaj Storgaard Mortensen, Stéphane Mitchell, Tua Harno, Nadine Gottmann, Thara Popoola
Logline: A young woman from abroad joins the crew of a European night train. As it glides through the dark – connecting Lisbon, Marseille, Berlin, Copenhagen and Budapest – strangers are thrown together in tight compartments, sharing secrets, absurdities and small crises. At the center is Abby, who has a knack for fixing what’s broken before dawn. Funny, poetic, wild and dreamlike, European Dreamers portrays Europe as a fragile idea you can still believe in.