Films directly from young people
The international #youngfilmmaker program brings the latest films by young filmmakers to the big screen. The programme is divided into three distinct screenings, featuring the winning works of the Just Film scholarship competition, the best of local film festivals, and gems from around the world.
Scholarship Call Supportes
Elisa
On her journey toward healing, Säde is guided by nature therapist Kristi Raava, who leads both Säde and the viewer away from the city noise, the digital world, the fast pace of life, and daily responsibilities. Walks along forest trails, a gentle breeze caressing the cheeks, and lying on the moss reveal how simple life truly is, yet how complicated we make it ourselves.
In the short animated film LAB RATZ by Fedja Petrović, created at the Ljubljana High School of Design and Photography, we follow the process of creating medical grade drugs from their conception to them hitting pharmacy shelves but with a slight twist. The film depicts the roles of humans and animals reversed, thus showing the cruelty that still takes place in the laboratories of major medical and cosmetic companies today and asks us whether what we are doing is really moral.
The girl's mother teaches her to hide every bruise; the boy's family teaches him to bury his feelings. When their relationship turns toxic, their forced proposal becomes a performance of everything wrong in their world. Only when a younger sibling mirrors the truth back, they realize they can stop repeating the patterns they were born into. On the night that should define them, they choose honesty instead.
A young woman hears three knocks at her door. When she opens it, no one is there, only a mysterious cardboard box. Inside are puzzle pieces. Curious, she begins putting them together.
Mari enters a dining place for the first time, where she discovers something unprecedented both on her plate and within herself.
A story about burnout, a longing for freedom, and the thin line between reality and what takes shape in our minds when we’ve had enough.
A young girl is looking for a thing that she still doesn't have. But will she find the thing?