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A weary magician with an uncontrollable power must make a redemptive choice when confronted with the deepest secret of his past.

PAULONIUS FILM Presents: Naomi's Birthday

When a young girl loses her mother right before a game, it takes her teammates to help her pull through.

Mikaela has undergone gender reassignment and is now a woman. One night at a bar, she meets a guy and takes him back to her place.

When fourteen- year- old Chris is sent across the city to deliver a tonic to his sick grandfather, his journey becomes a chilling trip of self-discovery as he strays from the path into domain of the Black Dog.

An experimental docu-fiction short from hours of collected material shot by the director. Different scenes, from drunk parties with friends to shots of the Dutch landscape during a train ride, are cut together to see if a narrative story can be constructed from nothing but randomly shot footage.

The centre of Athens. Surrounded by a world in crisis and generalised destruction, a small group of characters resist the end towards which they seem inevitably to be heading. The film looks at fraternity and the desire not to throw in the towel.

Tucked away in a forgotten and isolated motel, a 'lad' meets a returning soldier coping with post-traumatic stress disorder. The brief encounter is a soft collision of two characters both lost and trying to find themselves within each other.

The movie depicts the story of goalkeepers Lovisa and Elin which are fighting for the last place in the starting line-up on the U23 Swedish football national team. Since Mette, the new national team’s goalkeeping trainer, has headhunted the girls, they are both fighting to be the best in the country and earn their spot. They are spending more and more time on the field together with Mette which gives both Elin and Lovisa a whole new understanding of their sport. With Mette’s coaching they of course become better and better, but at what price?

A man battling drug addiction is stalked by an ominous masked photographer.

Twenty-five films from twenty-five European countries by twenty-five European directors.