Wings of the Spirit

Nominated for Best Comedy

Director: Albert Meisl

29' • Austria • 2019 • German

The failed Viennese musicologist Szabo works as an animal carer and house sitter for wealthy people. But when visited by his successful, younger ex-colleague Fitzthum, a rare parrot, which he should guard, escapes him. Szabo sees his already precarious life in shambles, but Fitzthum has a brilliant idea and together they go out in search of a doppelganger of the precious animal.

TANDEM

Nominated for Best Animated Film

Director: Vivian Altman

11' • Brazil • 2019 • Portuguese

The film invites us to share the intimacy of Hugo and Magda (a long standing couple) who are resigned to living out their fantasies independently of one another.

Two Farewells

Nominated for Best Drama Short

Director: Fabian Munsterhjelm

10' • Finland • 2020 • Swedish

Jocke, whose father has recently passed away, picks up his mother from the nursing home on his way to the funeral. Jocke is not only dealing with the sorrow of losing his father, he is also losing his mother to Alzheimer's disease. The movie deals with dementia with a respectful sense of humor.

Line 881

Nominated for Best Documentary Short

Director: Ron Goldin

29' • Israel • 2018 • Arabic, German, Kurdish

At first glance Dormagen is a perfect, green and pastoral town just a short distance from the big city. Its residents opened the gates of the city with love to the stream of refugees that filled Germany, but the warm welcome carries with it a hidden fear from the future. On one bus line that crosses the entire city you can see a social microcosm. From refugees who have just arrived to adult Germans, all are destined to travel in the metal pipe that creates forced intimacy. Through the stories of the passengers on this bus line, the whole story of Germany after the wave of immigration is told.

Andros

Nominated for Best Drama Short

Director: Doris Tääker

17' • United Kingdom • 2019 • English

A lonely teenager fakes her first menstruation to fit in with her same-age peers in a secluded women-only community.