european short debuts - fictions 2

Poetry unfolding in the silence, on the crumbling walls, amongst the pieces of shattered glass. Dupire and Richeux said: We go there to blow on the dusty sound of the machines, to stir the memory of old Bulgarian factories, left abandoned for many years.

An off-beat portrait of kids living in East London: an Essex boy sings a country and western love song, Carmen with her singing dog, two strange boys living in a caravan on a farm. These portraits hang on the central story of Danielle, a young girl who attempts suicide but finds solace in the animals of her local farm.

Robert and his daughter Ioana leave on Christmas Eve morning from Tulcea train station to Bucharest. Robert lives off this trade with caviar. This time, he takes Ioana with him too, as it is the girl’s first time in Bucharest and she really wants a puppy, a Maltese. The father has to take a jar of black caviar to Mrs. Zina, a rich lady, the owner of a modeling agency, who lives in a luxury neighbourhood in the capital.

Tomas is a boy so shy that is not capable of saying a word to nobody. With the arrival of Andy (his invisible friend) he'll start to think how his life would it be if he was able to communicate with the people that is around him.

Children often ask the Three Kings for impossible. Last year Laura asked for a pony. This time Laura asks for a grandfather.

An astronaut has been navigating alone through space for 13 years, 7 months, 2 days, 5 hours and 2 minutes. His mission is to find and investigate new intelligent life forms. However, he has not found anyone so far.

A story of a man who travels from east to west. The story is based on fragments of literature, from Arabic and Islamic countries, describing cities and countries of the West. “Rihla means” travel in search of wisdom and knowledge.