The core of the final exams was the discussion about the last graduation films, which have been produced during the third year of studies and which are now completed and ready for the distribution.

Here is the list of the films and of our graduates:

ASPETTANDO LEOPOLDO
Michela Tomasi: director
Nikolaus von Schlebrügge: cinematographer
Agnese Blumtritt: editor
The Epiphany procession is the most important event in a small alpine village. Tradition requires that a donkey accompanies the three kings during the procession. Leopoldo is the only donkey in the village, but his owner, a good giant who lives with his old mother, is reluctant to give his donkey. A few days before the feast, the donkey disappears. There are those who look for him, those who intone chants and others who pray waiting for Leopoldo.

BEFORE I MET YOU
Zuzana Limova: director
Selina Becker: cinematographer
Morgana Tinebra: editor
It is not that long ago that hospitals were considered lifesaving. In Slovakian delivery rooms, however, the happiest day of one's life can easily turn to horror. In public hospitals, instead of trusting their intuition, women must face strict routine, loneliness and different forms of violence.
The film shows the clash between the intuitive, fragile, intimate world of mothers-to-be and the impersonal, systematised hospital environment.

HAPPY NEW YEAR
Désirée Marianne: director
Laura Cesarian: cinematographer
Michal Shanny: editor
Huge urbanization and consumerism in China is producing cities with high-rise buildings and huge shopping malls. Wuhan is one of these cities, filled with ten million inhabitants. Being part of the system is taken for granted by most of the people. It's common to say that Chinese people are all the same. Our movie is a portrait of a different young man, Maidian, who follows his anarchistic ideals and builds up his own world, in contrast with the glittering skyscrapers around him.

HIDDEN PHOTOS
Davide Grotta: director
Alexander Fontana: cinematographer
Gabriele Borghi: editor
Forty years after the Khmer rouge regime: Kim Hak, a young and talented Cambodian photographer looks for a new imaginary of his country. His career starts from some family pictures his mother hid underground before the war and retrieved just after the defeat of the Khmer rouge. Hak’s images will take us to a new Cambodia, far from stereotypes. Nhem Ein, as photographer enrolled in the Khemr rouge regime, took more than 14.000 mugshots of the Tuol Sleng prison victims. He’s trying to establish himself as entrepreneur of the socalled dark tourism. One of his ideas on how to profit from the thousands of genoside pictures will bitterly surprise us. Which image to choose to represent our own country? But, above all, what to do with it?

LA VASCA
Anna Bressanini: director
Stefanie Nirschl: cinematographer
Sonja Müller: editor
Jesolo, a notorious seaside city of the Italian Adriatic coast, in winter it seems to sink into a long hibernation. The solitude and calmness of this season, however, allows to discover the authentic sides of the place from the point of view of the city itself.

MOON EUROPA
Nuno Escudeiro: director
Bernadette Weber: cinematographer
Vikram Arora: editor
As winter takes over the European Arctic, it turns into an unrecognizable place, cold and dark. Through the polar night, the north feels removed from all human life, uninhabitable, just like the moon. And yet, is home to people born in faraway lands. What has brought them here? What keeps them here, immersed in darkness?

PER CHI VUOLE SPARARE
Pierluca Ditano: director
Giovanni Benini: cinematographer
Ylenia Busolli: editor
Striving for, fending for yourself. The dignity of struggling on, dealing with life. A story of hard work and arduos life in the shade of the largest open-air market in Europe.

THE DUSK CHORUS
Nika Saravanja: director
Alessandro D’Emilia: cinematographer / co-director
Otis Buri: editor
Follow the eco-acoustic composer David Monacchi on his quest to register a pure continuos 3D soundscape in the far away forgotten world of Ecuadorian primary rain-forests. A unique experience of listening to the imprints of the disappearing sonic heritage of millions of years of evolution.

THE GOOD INTENTIONS
Beatrice Segolini: director and editor
Maximilian Schlehuber: cinematographer
Two, now adult, brothers from a problematic family still face the weight of a traumatic past everyday, in their struggle to build their own peace. Confronting each other and the family over the past for the first time in their lifes, they’ll try to overcome their fears, and start building
a new relationship. And I, their younger sister, will make a film out of it.

VERGOT
Cecilia Bozza Wolf: director and cinematographer
Alex Grassi: cinematographer
Pierpaolo Filament: editor
Two brothers, an exuberant father and an invisible mother. A family of farmers from an Alpine valley where life is rude, as well as manners. The younger son, Gim, is discovering his homosexuality, but the world around him, especially his father, just can't accept that. So the elder son Alex is stuck in the middle, on one hand encouraging Gim to overcome all his fears, on the other trying to continue the tradition of the fathers. In such an exasperated context is hard to recognize the love hidden behind. Will they be able to keep on living together?