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Life Guidance

Director: Ruth Mader

Scriptwriter: Ruth Mader

Starring: Fritz Karl/Katharina Lorenz/Florian Teichtmeister

Category: Drama

Country: Austria

Language: German

Length: 101 min

The sun is shining, parents love their children. In autumn the leaves fall from the trees. Everything is normal, at first glance. And yet, Life Guidance leads us into a future that bears disturbing resemblance to the present day.

Our attention focuses in on the prevailing value system of tomorrow. Life Guidance is a dystopia of the future, extrapolated from current developments.

The horror it instills does not depend on the strangeness of Life Guidance, but rather its similarity to our world. Human freedom comes to an end within a framework that includes everything currently familiar: the liberal democracy of today, the financial capitalism of today, the technocratic elite of today. The conditions for Life Guidance have already been met. (By Ruth Mader)

Bloody Milk

Director: Hubert Charuel

Scriptwriter: Claude Le Pape/Hubert Charuel

Starring: Swann Arlaud/Sara Giraudeau/Bouli Lanners/Isabelle Candelie/Valentin Lespinasse/Clément Bresson/India Hair

Category: Drama

Country: France

Language: French

Length: 90min

Pierre is a 30-year-old farmer. His life revolves around the family farm he took over –– his cows, his veterinarian sister and his parents. When the first cases of an epidemic disease break out in France, Pierre finds out one of his animals is infected. Losing his cows is not an option for Pierre. He has nothing else and he will do whatever it takes to save them.