![International Competition 4: The way to myself](https://www.itfs.de/wp-content/uploads/2024/03/AFCA01D2-A6A0-4033-8CD5-7DA1F854A092.jpg)
We show the best current short films from all over the world, powerful films by young women, modern male perspectives, and confront life’s big questions. Socially relevant and personal topics innovatively visualised, without filters or taboos.
Denial, escape, or suppression: there are numerous strategies for hiding from conflict. But what to do when it’s your own self that haunts you? In captivating stories, strong protagonists reveal their individual and courageous journeys towards self-acceptance and the fight against their own fears.
![Eeva](https://www.itfs.de/wp-content/uploads/events/2024/F9417EA0-4B8B-7049-8DD5-CFEE0864DCE8.jpg)
There is a funeral. Rain is pouring down as tears flow mixed with too much wine. The sounds of woodpeckers echo the scene as some dreams escape and fill in the silent gaps left behind in the noise.
![GIGI](https://www.itfs.de/wp-content/uploads/events/2024/1C157C57-2523-FE48-8736-DEAF03C7F931.jpg)
From the tormented little mermaid to the fulfilled woman she is today, Gigi tells us about her gender transition with humor and sensitivity.
![La saison pourpre](https://www.itfs.de/wp-content/uploads/events/2024/6144AB89-7740-6E48-A755-130A0C809470.jpg)
On the edge of a mangrove, a group of girls live their lives according to the rhythm of the climate and the wild geese around them. They see each other live and grow up at different ages. As time passes, tensions arise and rivalries develop.
![What Time Is It?](https://www.itfs.de/wp-content/uploads/events/2024/83253239-3872-734A-9131-3D4097C4680C.jpg)
He travels back in time ten years to meet his younger self and give him a message. A message that is of tremendous importance for his future life!
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![Un trou dans la poitrine](https://www.itfs.de/wp-content/uploads/events/2024/F38BEA2E-F0DC-2A49-981A-5132931D7D66.jpg)
In a run-down neighborhood, Zoe and her little brother Theo are left to fend for themselves. A young adolescent, Zoe is a ball of anger haunted by an intimate terror. Theo, still a child, flees reality into a fantastical world. During a scorching summer day, the two children will have to burst the abscess of their relationship so as not to lose each other.
![D’une peinture… à l](https://www.itfs.de/wp-content/uploads/events/2024/109BE3CD-F881-7C45-89DF-5A8FB2731F82.jpg)
This short film is an introspective into the world of art. It explores themes of contents and context through putting two paintings in conversation that portray the same subject matter but were created half a century apart from one another.
![Le sexe de ma mère](https://www.itfs.de/wp-content/uploads/events/2024/A54EA5BC-26B9-DC41-A9C4-E29FA60DDD64.jpg)
Fifty-year-old Eli takes care of is elderly mother. Despite her age she is still intrusive and lustful as she reminisces about her wild youth. It becomes clear that her relationship to sex is obsessive.
![27](https://www.itfs.de/wp-content/uploads/events/2024/2FEDDD09-7732-F04F-AE5E-3EC0BD059F33.jpg)
Today Alice is 27 years old and her life is suffocating her. She still lives with her parents and escapes into her dreams rather than facing her dreary everyday life. After a psychedelic party on a factory roof she gets into a serious accident. Could this be the sign for her to finally muster up the courage to become an adult?