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Found&Lost – Director: Reza Rasouli · Austria · 17 min · Arabic (OmeU)

Tamim, a janitor at a club in Vienna, likes to take matters into his own hands. As a 70-year-old immigrant, he’s used to doing things that way from his past life. When he finds a wallet and attempts to return it to its owner in person, his good intentions put more than his integrity at risk.

Engine of love – Director: Mira-Belle Rose Bryld · Germany · 24 min · German (OmeU)

Asta is a young singer who is prone to eccentric behavior. She only sees her eight-year-old daughter on weekends. Sometimes she takes her to the bar where she sings and works. She wants to be a good mother, even though she’ll never live up to the expectations of her stuffy ex-partner and his new wife.

Sounds Of Cicadas – Director: Filip Dučić · Poland, Croatia · 16 min · Croatian (OmeU)

Emir and Gabriel would rather be spending this beautiful summer day at the beach. But the visas of this Bosnian worker and his son expire today. Do they have all the necessary documents? Lost in the bureaucratic jungle, fraught with obstacles, they embark on a frustrating race against time.

Garden Of Edie – Director: Miri Klischat · Germany · 20 min · English (OF)

When Edie was little, she wanted to be a writer. Twenty years later, she writes a letter to her younger self and tells her how she made her dream come true: in order to have enough time and money to write, she became a part-time sex worker. But to do that, she first had to free herself from the voices in her head.

Trance – Director: Jona Schloßer · Germany · 22 min · German (OmeU)

Exhausted, Yasmin struggles through her shift as a paramedic. She juggles critical emergency calls and the pressure of being her family’s sole breadwinner. When she has no alternative but to secretly take her little sister along in the ambulance, she finds herself on the verge of losing control.