How much do we care about those left behind? This program block brings stories from the margins – those abandoned and alone – In an effort to make them visible to someone, at least.

A solar eclipse, as a dark omen, illuminates the lives of invisible people through the excessive deforestation of a small impoverished jungle village in Argentina, in the mystical fiction film Our Shadows (Argentina, Germany, dir. Agustina Sánchez Gavier). The documentary Run, Monnie, Run (Poland, dir. Karolina Biesiacka) tells the story of a young athlete with fetal alcohol syndrome whose running career has hit a dead end: despite her will, strength, and determination, the modest socioeconomic circumstances she lives in are too far removed from her goals. In the fiction film Til Tomorrow (Slovakia, dir. Hannah Dale), two brothers are left to quietly rescue their mother, who struggles with addiction – so the neighbors won’t hear. In the animated film Supreme Domain (Belgium, dir. Hasan Pastaci), our essence is as complex as a pomegranate fruit. Like a lonely but warm light in the darkness of a borderland, the protagonist of the documentary Dry Goods (Croatia, dir. Toni Jelenić) does her best to care for migrants who cross the nearby border illegally.