It’s not the fear of death, it’s a different kind of fear. This is a fear you live through. It’s the fear of action. It’s the fear of the unknown future up until the death. It shakes man’s soul, tries to wake him up, and warns him. Only he who understands the warning and wakes up can save himself.
In the category of Fears, you witness if you are afraid or not, and the dissensions created by the unknown future and fun waiting for you after you’ve made your decision. If you’re not afraid…

Butterflies in Berlin

Director: Monica Manganelli
Country: Italy, Germany
Language: English (Az and En subtitles)
Age limit: 0+

Alex moves to Berlin in 1933, during the Weimar Republic period. Looking for his place in the world and his sexual identity, he becomes the first out-of-surgery transsexual in History. That happens unfortunately during the NationalSocialism rise, a social disruption that turned the capital of sexual freedom in the most repressed country of all times.

Histories of Wolves

Director: Agnes Meng
Country: Portugal
Language: Portuguese (Az and En subtitles)
Age limit: 0+

This film portrays a collection of chilling tales about encounters with wolves in a village in northern Portugal. At nightfall hour, shepherds used to gather and tell stories. Myth, death, killings... Things might or might not happen but inspired by aboriginal battles between human and the wild. The tellers' eccentricities blur fact and fiction, which lead to a world that seems lost in time.

Snake

Director: Hanna Hovitie
Country: Hungary, Finland
Language: Hungarian (Az and En subtitles)
Age limit: 0+

In peaceful swampland, a solitary man wades through long grass, crawling carefully through the water. Unable to fit in with the world of humans, Misu prefers to spend his time with cold-blooded reptiles, caring for them with extraordinary empathy. Solitude is his way of survival but also his biggest enemy.

Shooting Stars

Director: Magda Jaroszewicz
Country: Germany, Poland
Language: no dialogue (Az and En subtitles)
Age limit: 0+

The viewer is an observer of one night at one street. He sees only what he can imagine, and he hears what he wants to hear. The distant eye is getting closer and makes the images sharper but the interpretation stays inside the observer's head. What one makes out of that night is his own story. One can discuss the content accordingly to his own experience, conscious how his point of view shifts due to media manipulation and external factors. The starting point is an image provided by the observing eye. The eye is a guide. The viewer gives the night a meaning.