Lola is a transsexual girl
who has just turned eighteen. She has moved away from her family
since two years and is now living in Brussels where she shares
a flat with her friend Antoine. She has decided to undergo sex reassignment surgery but her mother’s death forces her to come into contact again with her father. The two set off for a car trip to fulfil the deceased woman’s last wishes and they soon are cast into a conflict.
‘Lola’ is a road movie that explores
the dimension of time through the claustrophobic dimension of space. It looks into the deep chasm and ups and downs leading the protagonist to rise again from her own ashes.

Anita, a teenager, plays the drums to cover the noise of the world outside her room. After her mother died of leukemia, she lived with her father Jacopo who became ill with the same pathology. The urgent need for a transplant and the fear of losing also her other parent drove the sixteen-year-old girl to contact
her uncle Gaetano, the only potential donor of bone marrow.
Jacopo and Gaetano have not spoken to each other for years and only Anita will be able to convince him to do the necessary tests.
Set in Sardinia, the drama directed by Piredda unveils a polluted and patriarchal land.
The lamb of the title, who is orphan of the mother and does not have many chances of surviving long, is probably
the transposition of the main character, who, on the contrary, is going to fight with all her strength so that life can triumph over death.

In 1941, a Lithuanian man kills
Isaac, his Jewish neighbor, during the infamous Lietukis garage massacre,
one of the first acts of the Holocaust carried out not by Germans but by Lithuanians. Twenty-five years later, in Soviet Lithuania, the director Gediminas Gutauskas returns from the United States with a new script for a film describing in detail the massacre of the Lietukis garage and in particular the killing of the Jewish man Isaac. The script later came to the attention of the KGB, which started investigating.
Based on the novel by Antanas Škėma, the film of the emerging director Jurgis Matulevičius explores the post-war sense of guilt, war traumas and experiences of the exile in an engaging film rich of surprises.

For years, the black Christ of Siculiana,
a town near Agrigento in Sicily, has been carried in a procession by local aristocrats chosen on
a hereditary base. This time it is the nineteen-year-old Edward from Ghana who
of the porters. This offer shakes up the community and fuels a heated debate which upsets the identity of one of the most deeply felt and ritualised religious celebrations
in the whole Mediterranean area.
A Black Jesus is a group work of a Sicilian author who has been working in Germany for years and manages to look at his land with an open mind, without a local approach. He therefore takes on a disruptive standpoint aimed
at challenging the very idea of border.