Best Director Finalists: Mercury / Tickle My Pickle / Luisa

Mercury, F 2018, R: Pierre Edelmann,  47 Min, OmeU

Year 2098, a strange incident got Mercury closer to Earth. Cosmic radiations caused by Mercury's presence hit the surface of Earth slowly killing everybody. Jess finds herself obligated to harvest fresh resilient blood to survive.

Tickle My Pickle, Lithuania 2019, Director: Greta Griniute

"Tickle My Pickle" explores the sexual fantasies of a teenage girl in her hot-pink bedroom! Accompanied by a jar of pickles and a banging soundtrack, Emily shows her primal emotions toward her milkman.

Luisa, Austria 2018, Director: Daniela Jud, OmeU Vienna 1929. Luisa is a young Prostitute who kills people that want to die. Suddenly her actions are no longer a secret anymore and she gets faced with bifocal perspectives. Luisa tries to show people the thin line between murder and euthanasia but she doesn`t get much sympathy and becomes sentenced to Death.