european short debuts - fictions 3

Dimitri is an 8 year old child whose parents recently split up. Every day when his father goes off to work, leaving him home alone, Dimitri goes off in his own imaginative world to keep him company. Between the wonderful world he creates and his reality, Dimitri finds an own way of dealing with his parents’ divorce.

A man travels to a tropical island where he gets to attend at a funeral ceremony called “the turning of the bones”. This new experience will deeply affect his perception and dreams. He sets out on a journey and rediscovers his forgotten lightness of being.

A comedy of missing teeth, unrequited love and one dog's potential to shape the fortunes of couple destined never to be together.

After a shipwreck, Frank goes ashore on a desolate island. He seeks refuge in the only place that is lit up, Café Manitoba. Unfortunately, the café is not the safe haven he had expected it to be.

Rita is ten years old and blind since birth. The claustrophobic world of her home is suddenly breached by a wounded boy. Thanks to him, or perhaps thanks only to her imagination and courage, Rita escapes from home and goes to the beach, where she lives an intense moment of freedom.

The protagonist is on a trip around the world, to make her dreams come true, with perseverance and fervor as a compass, to show that anything is possible if you put forth all your effort.