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NAVIGATE is a film program focused on student short films from the Polish National Film School in Łódź (Lodz Film School), German Film and Television Academy in Berlin (DFFB) and The Kyiv National I. K. Karpenko-Kary Theatre, Cinema and Television University. Each school has a rather academic approach to studies and within the program you can see a variety of genres, style & authors visions in a form of experiments while moving through the learning process over the courses. All the selected films show the earlier students works of young directors which made it to international festivals.
Tola is working on a children's book about animal behaviour. Her main inspiration is a domestic hen with which she talks to with help from an internet animal communicator. Things get out of control when her boyfriend tries to sabotage her work, animal communicator gets involved with her private live and the hen tries to escape. „Hen” is a short satire about students live in Poland. And everywhere else.
Morning. Woman wakes up, goes to the window and, to her surprise, notices her boyfriend kissing another woman on the street. Disoriented, she runs out of the apartment to confront him, but the man is not there anymore. She embarks on a lonely journey throughout the city, which with each subsequent street becomes more stifling and unsympathetic.
The film tells a story of elderly woman Halina, who makes a difficult decision and stands up for justice and her own dignity. Settling the score is an attempt to address the problem of marginalization of elderly people's needs and their quality of life.
At first glance, it seems that SQUARE lives among chaos and endless changes. But next, we can notice that the systems in which he functions, are constantly repeated, introduce a routine, hypnotize without allowing any movement. Once, a new element sneaks into the pattern, which for a moment will allow SQUARE to look a little differently at reality.
Olga's teenage daughter suddenly goes to the hospital. The mother needs to face not only the child's disease, but also her ex-husband, whom she have not contacted for years.
