BEST INTERNATIONAL FILM
Winner
Finalist
The Librarian
Genre: Drama
Run Time: 20 minutes 43 seconds
SYNOPSIS
Mazhar, who works in a library and is so fond of books and languages that he knows the location of all the books in the library by heart, lives alone with his parrot, but cannot be at work on time the next morning because he reads until late.
Determined to read even the poet Federico Garcia Lorca in Spanish, Mazhar feels “stuck” by the arabesque culture around him and the discomford created by the Arabic signs and another lanquage that has entered his life. There is another person who will listen to the character of Mazhar, who cannot tell his troubles to anyone and is alienated, and who is shaken by the tragic news of the refugees he encounters in the media, and that is the other Mazhar who often comes across him. After losing his job, he will not only look for a new job, but will make an inner journey that he will not say ‘yes’ to the result, but that he must accept involuntarily.
ANNA MAGDALENA BACH: TWO WOMEN
Genre: Drama/Biopic
Run Time: 25 minutes 19 seconds
SYNOPSIS
A poetic portrait of the music and singer Anna Magdalena Wilcke, second wife of Johann Sebastian Bach, which explores her inner search through an imaginary mirror in which the girl and the woman look at each other face to face, observe each other with mutual respect and, finally, speak to each other considering their lives through the music that flows through them like an unexpected stream, although sought out and translated on the stave as immortal notes; this music is responsible for their moods: sadness, melancholy and joy overflow equally through the seasons ridden with memories.
