Jonas Bruun

Cucumber

Shintaro lives in extreme social withdrawal. One day he receives a homegrown cucumber from the older lady next door, which makes his crippling anxiety falsely convince him that he must reciprocate the gesture.

Something Better to Come

Right outside of Moscow – home to the highest number of billionaires pr. capita – you’ll find the largest junkyard in the world: The Svalka. It’s a hard place run by the Russian mafia. And it's where Yula lives with her mother, her friends and many other people. Life is tough in the Svalka, but it’s also a place where beauty and humanity can arise from the most unlikely conditions. It is from this place that Yula dreams of escaping and changing her life, even if it seems impossible. Oscar-nominated director Hanna Polak followed Yula for 14 years, bringing us along on Yula's journey to achieve this dream.

Machines

Everything goes to hell for a single mom working as a cleaner, when she takes an extra shift to afford a special present for her son on his 14th birthday.