PIG • 2019

DIRECTOR: Franco Verdoia

COUNTRY: Argentina

RUNTIME: '97

SYNOPSIS: In the middle of family holidays, Pablo lives an unexpected reencounter that brings back a trauma from childhood. Confronted with the irony of life, he starts a distubring return to the landscape of his childhood, in a process with his partner Rachel and his son João. Pablo decides to stay there, recovering the bond with his past to amend a memory that has conditioned his entire life.

NOMINATIONS:
• Best Feature Film

FEATURE FILMS

IN THE FIRST PERSON • 2019

DIRECTOR: Han Xiaojun

COUNTRY: China

RUNTIME: '106

SYNOPSIS: An award ceremony with five path-crossing encounters, during two days, troubles arrive one after another, everyone's struggling with their own problems, with those endless trivial matters.

NOMINATIONS:
• Best Feature Film

THE STRAWMAN • 2019

DIRECTOR: Jonathan Safir

COUNTRY: France

RUNTIME: '88

SYNOPSIS: Ruben is like everyone else. A simple and calm young man faces the ups and downs of his existence. But here, in the family, the "lame duck" is his brother. He was caught in a high-risk business by a gang of thugs. After being beaten in a beating, he finds himself between life and death. Fatally invested in fraternal duty, Ruben will find the gangsters to try to get them out of his "brother" and put an end to this story.

NOMINATIONS:
• Best Feature Film