Brutally Honest – 20minmax Kurzfilmfestival

FUN-DO

We're in 2035, when the Eurovision Song Contest is celebrating its 80th birthday. Many countries seek to participate. At the audition, two guys present the Fun-Do Song. But who do they represent?

IT TURNS BLUE

In a moment of heat, a father slaps his 3 years old daughter in one of her weekly visits. He asks his older sister, Pari, to come to his house and figure out a way of hiding the incident and wounds from her ex-wife.

THE WAITING

Karen Lips is researcher and lives for several years in a tiny little shack in Costa Rica to observe frogs. When she leaves the cloud forest for a short time and returns, the frogs are gone. All of them. Karen sets out to find them

CROSS MY HEART AND HOPE TO DIE

Mila struggles as she remains unpaid at work and a love interest becomes a source of comfort through his constant phone calls. But a promise of hope may also lead to tragedy and sad love songs.

L’ÂGE ACROBATIQUE

Lucas, thirteen, takes part in an acrobatic rock workshop for the first time. In the gymnasium, bodies fly away, the risk of falling is permanent and the heart races. A big jump into adolescence.

HIGH TIDE

Hannah, an English immigrant, is separating from Jean, the father of her daughter Thea. On the surface, the divorce is going well. On the surface.