Asil is a young Syrian refugee awaiting documents in Turkey while processing the trauma of losing her home and family. Her story gives voice to a charming gigantic puppet named Amal, who represents millions of migrant and displaced children in a walk from the Syrian border in Turkey all the way across Europe. Escorted and animated by a group of puppeteers who are themselves refugees, Amal’s epic journey is one of compassion and discovery.
Inspired by the COVID 19 pandemics, a worried husband and father invents a professional family board game so he can strengthen the bonds of families in times of pandemics, but instead, he ends up locking his family members in separate rooms and creates “a board game for one”.
An emotional film about the profundity of what’s right in front of us, and the meaning we can draw from our connection to the land and each other as we age.
The prolonged economic uncertainty forced even the local funeral service workers to explore various shortcuts to get more work for their parlors, which sometimes includes maintaining dubious connections with the local hospital staff. Zoki, one of the funeral parlour workers in Shtip (mid-size town in Macedonia), a charming and positive family man, is faced with many challenges while getting work for his company. But, the increased disloyal and dishonest competition started breaking Zoki’s spirit and have left him wondering if money is everything in life, after all?
Vedran thinks bringing a ton of ice cream to a mother and her daughter will relieve him of his guilt, but the treat melts along with his hope for redemption.
