Saved By The Barn

The following group of films highlights the major environmental problems facing our planet today. In particular they focus on waste, pollution and energy use.

A man owes his life to a marketplace melon.

One guardian angel has got a difficult ward, completely unwilling to take care of himself. He practically throws himself under the wheels of a car while crossing the road in the wrong place, and then drinks exorbitant amounts of alcohol. The heavenly protector drives the man home, holding and protecting him. But should not the person himself think about his future sometimes?

A dark comedy about three sisters who take matters into their own hands when bureaucratic chaos prevents them from doing what's right for their father.

In France, the name Kevin is associated with a bad reputation and the film aims to change that.

Lisa is a young, Christian woman. Bobby, her boyfriend, however, is a street hoodlum. Lisa prays constantly that Bobby will accept God in his life. She soon gets what she wants, but discovers that Bobby's conversion means that she has to get her life in order as well. As a result, she is forced to resolve not only her relationship with Bobby, but with everyone in her life.

The moment Carrie and her friends gather to start a fun concert to make our own special memories, an uninvited villain appears and begins to mess up the concert hall! "It's okay. If we're with our precious friends, we won't lose." They tried to start the concert again with their strengths despite the villain's interference! Our most precious friend, Cola, is gone?! Will Carrie and her friends be able to save Cola from the villain and finish our own concert safely?!

An outsider from England, the well-known photographer Richard Davies, enters this mysterious and vast region of the Russian North with the hope of documenting both the glory and the tragic demise of its rapidly disappearing Wooden Churches. Along the way, Davies finds himself putting aside his camera and joining local efforts to bring back to life an almost forgotten tiny community and its 300 year-old church.

After watching his favorite TV program, Medical Emergency, Alberto (8) asks he father, Félix (50) to play with him. Alberto, trying to ask and bug his father to play with him, provokes his drunk and nearly unconcious father to try to hit him. However, when Félix gets up, he falls under his own weight and hits his head. Alberto attempts to save his dad by following the step by step directions of the medical TV show.

Directed by multi-award winner Nir Bergman (Broken Wings), Saving Neta tells the stories of four women whose lives change after their brief encounter with a man called Neta. Humour, drama, love and hope, a powerful and moving portrait of family relationships and parenthood in modern life.

Chenxiang is a boy who lives in a small village at the foot of Mount Hua, his mother is a goddess named Sanshengmu, who was imprisoned under Mount Hua for marrying her father and giving birth to a boy, violating divine laws. Knowing this, Chenxiang decides to rescue his mother at all costs...

The golden-haired Rat Spirit guarding the Buddha's lamp begins to issue its orders as those of the Buddha's. The inhabitants of Heaven are ready to obey his orders, but not the Monkey King

Gligor, a young misfit from a countryside becomes marked by his instinctive need to deal with irregularities which a time-storm imposes. He is recalling the dramatic scenes of the past - from rattle games, from delicate moments with Marija, from the foreign mockery and from the pointless heroism - he finally comes across an absurd ring like a new purified and transformed man devoted to his native hearth and God's salvation.

In a nearby dystopian Spain ruled by the far right, Carlos hatches a plan to save his mother, who needs urgent medical assistance.

Another classic film from Shanghai Animation Film Studio, "Saving Mother" was one of the most popular animations in China. The story is based on the traditional Chinese folklore about a boy named Chen Xiang. His mother was a goddess and his father a mortal. His uncle, Erlang Shen, punished Chen Xiang's parents because their marriage was against the rules of the heavens. Chen Xiang's mother was locked in a mountain until her son split the mountain and saved her.

FRAGMENT | Who murdered the film star? The director is accused, the motive is jealousy, but the film is the alibi. As film director Franz declares his love for Ilse, his star actress, she bluntly rejects him. Movie star Ferdinand overhears the private exchange of words and can’t resist a few well-meaning jokes which infuriate Franz. When Ferdinand is found murdered the following morning, Franz thus becomes the prime suspect. Ilse is the only one who believes that Franz is innocent. And she might know a film reel that can prove it. (Stumfilm.dk)

In order to better understand the origins of pollution in the Alps, Nicolas Plain turned his paraglider into a flying laboratory to draw conclusions with scientists from the Grenoble Alpes University. He will then go on to meet the people who act in the field and try to change the situation. Amongst them, Audrey Tcherkoff, co-founder of the positive cinema week, decided to take to the sky in order to present this unique event as well as the films taking part in the competition to us !

The issue of protecting the Russian emperor was very delicate. The tradition provided for a special attitude of the people to the person of the anointed of God, who personified the greatness of the country. And yet the life of the monarch was often in mortal danger…

The picture of youth, love and betrayal, the eternal problem of fathers and children. The main actors are teenagers living in a small provincial town. Their parents — decent people who are used to making money in an honest way - do not have the opportunity to help their children. The difficulties that teenagers face at home, once pushing them to steal. What is the moral law in our lives, what is today the place of eternal values — such as love, family, loyalty? What does money mean in the modern world? Where and when does a person cross the line beyond which there is no way back?..

In the long nights of the city, Julia remembers her love story with Lucia, a girl who, after traveling the world and living in Paris, ended up staying in her heart. However, when the relationship begins to wither, a tragic accident ends Lucía's life, plunging Julia into a spiral of pain, guilt and self-destruction. Until one of those nights full of memories, Julia rebels against the fate that has separated them, and decides to reunite with her, whatever the cost.