Of the 12 films,10 are from debuting directors and two are from directors making the second feature film. The films come from Poland, Slovakia, Saudi Arabia, Uruguay, Sweden, SUA, Germany, Denmark, The Netherlands, India, and Japan.
Slovakia is represented by Made in Ash/ Až do mesta Aš by Iveta Grófová, a documentary-style debut film and Slovakia's Oscar entry that has had a strong festival career. Poland sends Tomasz Wasilewski’s In a Bedroom/ W Sypialni, a psychological drama about a 40 year old prostitute, which screened in 2012 at Karlovy Vary.
The jury members are Romanian director Cristi Puiu, t Hungarian filmmaker György Pálfi (Taxidermia, 2006), actress Franziska Petri, Tribeca fest director Frederic Boyer, and British producer Lynda Myles.
The complete list of competition films follows:
Made in Ash/ Až do mesta Aš by Iveta Grófová (Slovakia), Production: Protos Productions www.protos.sk
In a Bedroom/ W Sypialni by Tomasz Wasilewski (Poland), I Q Art Film www.iqartivists.pl
Wadjda by Haifaa Al-Mansour (Saudi Arabia)
Ship of Theseusby Anand Gandhi (India)
Call Girl by Mikael Marcimain (Sweden)
Breaking Horizons/ Am himmel der tag by Pola Beck (Germany)
It Felt like Loveby Eliza Hitman (USA)
Tanta agua/ So Much Water by Ana Guevara and Leticia Jorge (Uruguay),
I Catch a Terrible Cat / Koppidoi neko by Rikiya Imaizumi (Japan)
The Deflowering of Eva van End by Michiel ten Horn (The Netherlands)
A Hijacking / Kapringen by Tobias Lindholm (Denmark)
Northwest/ Nordvest by Michael Noer (Denmark).
