2023
Fiction
| Place | Title | School | Country | Points |
| 1 | A CONSPIRACY MAN
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Details:TrailerLength: 20' Screenwriter: Valerio Ferrara, Alessandro Logli, Matteo Petecca Director: Valerio Ferrara Producer: Centro Sperimentale di Cinematografia Animator: n/a DOP: Andrea Pietro Munafò Sound: Giulio Maria Seren Editor: Diego Bellante Production Designer: Nike Paolucci Synopsis: In a lower class neighborhood in Rome there is a barber who believes to conspiracy theories. He is the laughing stock for his family and at work. Nobody takes him seriously until he gets arrested by the police. |
Centro Sperimentale di Cinematografia (CSC) | Italy | 81 |
| 2 | ALMOST HOME
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Details:TrailerLength: 30' Screenwriter: Nils Keller, Max Richert Director: Nils Keller Producer: Jonas Lembeck, BR Claudia Gladziejewski DOP: Georg Nikolaus Sound: Andrew Mottl, Nils Keller Editor: Jan von Stebut Production Designer: Nena Jägersberger, Pan Patellis Synopsis: Having lived aboard a cramped spaceship with his mother for two years, Jacob's dream of returning home is finally about to come true. But as they close in on Earth, they receive word of a great danger that could put the teenager in mortal peril. |
University of Television and Film Munich (HFF) | Germany | 80 |
| 3 | THANK YOU FOR YOUR PATIENCE!
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Details:TrailerLength: 17' Screenwriter: Simon van der Zande Director: Simon van der Zande Producer: Simon van der Zande Animator: n/a DOP: Matthee Van Holderbeke Sound: Michel Coquette Editor: Matthee Van Holderbeke Production Designer: Simon Dardenne Synopsis: From a fixed point of view, we witness a tense bus ride in Brussels, when Samuel – a Congolese immigrant – gets on to voice his discontent with Europe. |
Royal Academy of Fine Arts / University College Ghent (KASK) | Belgium | 64 |
| 4 | ANANSI
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Details:TrailerLength: 20' Screenwriter: Aude Forget Director: Aude Forget Producer: Etienne Lévêque, Enguerrand Déterville Animator: n/a DOP: Margot Besson Sound: Martin Peignier Editor: Lucas Marchina Production Designer: Lucie Guillaume Synopsis: Eden, an afro hairdresser, tries to overcome her recurrent stomach aches by taking it upon herself. Not heard by the medical profession, she tries to take care of herself. When her pains catch up with her, her daily life becomes unbearable. |
La Fémis | France | 47 |
| 5 | DRIFTING
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Details:TrailerLength: 14' Screenwriter: Marion Reymond Director: Marion Reymond Producer: ECAL & Imajack Animator: Tom Wahli DOP: Pierre Daendliker Sound: Massimo Del Gaudio, Marine Maye Editor: Mila Olivier Production Designer: n/a Synopsis: A young caregiver reverts to a fantasy world to cope with the grief of losing her mother and to escape from the drudgery of the care home where she works. |
Ecole Cantonale d'Art de Lausanne (ECAL) | Switzerland | 44 |
| 6 | FARXIYA
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Details:TrailerLength: 22' Screenwriter: Barudin Ga’ur Director: Barudin Ga’ur Producer: Marius Hallem Nysæter Animator: n/a DOP: Joshua Jakob Sound: Kim Wroldsen, Gabriel Tapia Editor: Eskil Kønig Production Designer: n/a Synopsis: The year is 1977. Sharif is a Somali citizen living in the Soviet Union with his Russian wife Anna and their daugther Farhiya. When an international war breaks out, all Somalis in the Soviet Union are forcibly deported. This leads Sharif on a long and dangerous journey where he must do everything in his power to keep the family together. The film is based on a true story. |
Westerdals Department of Film and Media School of Arts, Design and Media, Kristiania University College | Norway | 41 |
| 7 | ISTINA (TRUTH)
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Details:TrailerLength: 28' Screenwriter: David Lorenz Director: Tamara Denić Producer: Christian Siée (Creative Producer) Animator: n/a DOP: André Stahlmann Sound: Thekla Demelius, Studio Funk, Germany Editor: Michael Münch Production Designer: Philipp Bahr Synopsis: A committed photo journalist is threatened in Serbia, whereupon she flees to Germany with her daughter. But then she also experiences increasing hostility and violence in her new home due to her work... |
Hamburg Media School (HMS) | Germany | 39 |
| 8-9 | IT WILL RAIN
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Details:TrailerLength: 30' Screenwriter: Zeynep Dülger, Amir Zaza Director: Amir Zaza Producer: Aziza van den Berg, Ingmar Conjarts, Loes Lucker Animator: n/a DOP: Tonko Bossen Sound: Tauro ter Horst Editor: Marre Bonke Production Designer: Muhammed Zekeriya Berber Synopsis: When the two brothers, Nawras and Ward, are being wrongfully imprisoned in a horrific Syrian prison after they attended a protest, the end of their lives seems near. Miraculously, Nawras is released from prison. This makes him face a terrible dilemma: should he stay to fight against injustice in Syria or should he flee his homeland? |
Netherlands Film Academy (NFA) | Netherlands | 38 |
| 8-9 | WHITEBOY
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Details:TrailerLength: 20' Screenwriter: Matty Crawford Director: Matty Crawford Producer: Karima Sammout-Kanellopoulou Animator: n/a DOP: Jack Edwards Sound: Oliver Mapp Editor: Mira Thu Production Designer: n/a Synopsis: WHITEBOY’s first visit to his ‘home’ country of the Philippines takes a strange turn when he encounters a local spirit. |
National FIlm and Television School (NFTS) | United Kingdom | 38 |
| 10 | STATELESS
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Details:TrailerLength: 26' Screenwriter: Tawfik Sabouni Director: Tawfik Sabouni Producer: INSAS & ATELIER DE REALISATION Animator: n/a DOP: Charlie Nazmjou Sound: Lucas Lauwers Editor: Josephine Doublet Production Designer: Laure Stemmann Synopsis: When Salma, a Syrian refugee, gets her residence permit, she discovers that the Belgian authorities have withdrawn her nationality and that of her son. Salma then fights for the recognition of their lost nationality. |
INSAS | Belgium | 35 |
| 11-13 | MADE IN GERMANY
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Details:TrailerLength: 25' Screenwriter: Dario Haramustek Director: Simone Schneider Producer: Franziska Wieden Animator: n/a DOP: Martina Di Lorenzo Sound: n/a Editor: Tim Egner Production Designer: Jessica Kaczmarek, Clara Wanke Synopsis: A nearly finished construction site. The construction manager Thomas Zetzsche is proud of his achievement. But suddenly more and more defects appear and the opening date has to be postponed. Thomas must confront his own responsibility in this faulty system. |
ifs internationale filmschule köln | Germany | 34 |
| 11-13 | THROUGH GLOOM
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Details:TrailerLength: 17' Screenwriter: Arnas Balčiũnas, Augusté Perstinevičiũté Director: Arnas Balčiũnas Producer: Marija Kazlauskaité Animator: n/a DOP: Milda Juodvalkyté Sound: Agatas Savickis Editor: Antanas Skridaila Production Designer: Diana Tumenaité Synopsis: A talkative taxi driver roams the nightly streets. An apathetic girl enters his car. The two don't seem to connect, until she asks to make a stop with intent to cause harm. Does their shared trip even have a destination? |
Lithuanian Academy of Music and Theatre (LMTA) | Lithuania | 34 |
| 11-13 | TO THE DUST
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Details:TrailerLength: 29' Screenwriter: Sophia Youssef Director: Sophia Youssef Producer: Ella Chi Animator: n/a DOP: Tom Hernquist Sound: Paola Magrans Editor: Li Mary Ma Production Designer: Marc de Bertier de Sauvigny Synopsis: Living in the expanse of the Wild West, a disabled woman fights not only the elements but also her own grief when confronted with an unexpected loss. |
American Film Institute Conservatory (AFI) | United States | 34 |
| 14 | SUPERDUPERMEGAGIGASINGLE
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Details:TrailerLength: 29' Screenwriter: Sunniva Kviteberg Director: Håkon Anton Olavsen Producer: Louise Beyer Animator: n/a DOP: Anna Fabricius Sound: Jakob Bechmann Editor: Anna Løvlund Production Designer: Fredrik T. Skrattegård Synopsis: When Tyra returns to visit her family, on the 20th anniversary of her beloved father’s death, everything changes when her dad comes knocking on the door that same evening – forcing the family to examine what grief has done to them. |
The Norwegian Film School (NFS) | Norway | 33 |
| 15-16 | CHILD'S PLAY
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Details:TrailerLength: 13' Screenwriter: Silver Õun Director: Silver Õun Producer: Sander Lebreht Animator: n/a DOP: Fidelia Regina Randmäe Sound: Kaspar Kosk Editor: Villem Roosa Production Designer: Kätlin Loomets Synopsis: When dads leave their 6-year old sons unattended outside to chop the wood, an accident happens that no parents want to see. |
Baltic Film, Media and Arts School, Tallinn University | Estonia | 32 |
| 15-16 | DEVIL
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Details:TrailerLength: 19' Screenwriter: Jan Bujnowski Director: Jan Bujnowski Producer: Agata Golańska / The Polish National Film, Television and Theatre School in Lodz Animator: n/a DOP: Kasper Lorek Sound: Bogdan Klat Editor: Olga Bejm, Stanisław Frankowski Production Designer: Weronika Lipka Synopsis: According to researches made throughout 1990s by the Institute for Public Opinion Research (OBOP) approximately 95% of Poles identified themselves as a believers. At the same time unemployment rates reached record values. In times of crisis, when people sought spirituality, seemingly impossible events were possible... |
Polish National Film, Television and Theatre School in Lodz (PWSFTViT) | Poland | 32 |
| 17-18 | ISLAND OF FREEDOM
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Details:TrailerLength: 27' Screenwriter: Petr Januschka Director: Petr Januschka Producer: Tomas Bata University in Zlín / František eF. Horvát Animator: n/a DOP: Filip Blažek Sound: Ielyzaveta Nazarenko Editor: Josef Erla Production Designer: Alojz Vyšlan Synopsis: It’s 1981 in the communist Czechoslovakia. A young man named Jindřich (30) surprisingly meets his childhood love Eva (30) on board of a flight of Czechoslovak Airlines from Prague to Havana. They immediately strike up a conversation and are once again charmed by each other. |
Tomas Bata University in Zlín / Faculty of Multimedia Communications (TBU) | Czech Republic | 31 |
| 17-18 | SHITHEADS
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Details:TrailerLength: 17' Screenwriter: May Rash Director: May Rash Producer: Ayelet-Hashachar Friedland Animator: n/a DOP: Rotem Dimand Sound: Dana Maimon, Rotem Dror Editor: Ziko Ben Yakov Production Designer: n/a Synopsis: Thirteen years old Ben-Zur tells his friends stories about his fake girlfriend that lives in a faraway city. When they decide to go after him to her house, he will do everything to prove to them that he is a man. |
Sam Spiegel Film and Television School Jerusalem (JSFS) | Israel | 31 |
| 19 | NOT THE 80'S
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Details:TrailerLength: 17' Screenwriter: Ludwig Meck, Christine Duttlinger, Max Rauer, Marleen Valien Director: Marleen Valien Producer: Ludwig Meck, Markus Krojer, Lotta Schmelzer, Christine Duttlinger Animator: n/a DOP: Max Rauer Sound: Frederik Thomsen Editor: Vreni Sarnes Production Designer: Christina Mammes Synopsis: Lucy likes Anton and Anton likes Lucy. As both are having two "cool looking drinks," Anton reveals that he is HIV positive. Meanwhile Lucy has to realize that her HIV education is in pretty bad shape. |
Filmakademie Baden-Wuerttemberg (FABW) | Germany | 29 |
| 20 | PAO'S FORREST
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Details:TrailerLength: 20' Screenwriter: Pham Thanh Phuong, Nguyen Pham Thanh Dat Director: Nguyen Pham Thanh Dat Producer: Nguyen Pham Thanh Dat Animator: n/a DOP: Hieu Adi Sound: Hoang Thu Thuy Editor: Vu Hieu Trung, Nguyen Pham Thanh Dat Production Designer: Dong Quan Synopsis: Pao is forced into marriage at a young age due to the H'Mong's tradition at the age of 14. Turning 18, he meets Di, a young tourist, and falls in love for the first time. Although he likes Di, he does not dare to take one more step. All are just memories of Pao about Di, she had left since the last time they met, Pao was unable to express his feelings and make her stay. Finally, Pao returns to the village with his family, but the scenario of sitting in the car to come and find Di keeps playing in his mind. |
Hanoi Academy of Theatre and Cinema | Vietnam | 26 |
| 21-23 | CAMERA OBSCURA
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Details:TrailerLength: 13' Screenwriter: Côme Chatelain Director: Côme Chatelain Producer: HEAD GENEVE Animator: Côme Chatelain DOP: Arno Zhao Sound: Vuk Vukmanovic Editor: Jeanne Nicolet Production Designer: Côme Chatelain Synopsis: A film crew makes a film in an industrial area. Suddenly, a power outage occurs on the set. The filming technicians put the studio fuses back in place. Filming seems to be able to resume. But the power cut is renewed which produces a deafening noise. Lily who suffers from tinnitus leaves the studio to isolate herself from the noise. Hearing a dog barking in the distance, she decides to go and see. She then discovers the phenomenon which is at the origin of the blackouts, a field of antennas in overvoltage. |
Film Department/cinéma du réel - Geneva School of Art and Design (HEAD) | Switzerland | 22 |
| 21-23 | INN
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Details:TrailerLength: 20' Screenwriter: Pooya Badkoobeh Director: Pooya Badkoobeh Producer: Babak Badkoobeh Animator: n/a DOP: Ashkan Hosseini Sound: Peyman Vahedi Editor: Emad Khodabakhsh Production Designer: Pooria Akhavan Synopsis: Teheran-Iran 2022. An elderly couple is evicted from their apartment. They have no more means of paying the rent. The cheap, run-down hotel where they find shelter for a night cannot be a permanent solution. Could the solution they finally find solve their problem and ease their suffering? |
York University Department of Film - Fine Arts | Canada | 22 |
| 21-23 | LULLABY
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Details:TrailerLength: 21' Screenwriter: Magdalena Chmielewska, Andreas Schiessler Director: Magdalena Chmielewska Producer: Saskia Arth Animator: n/a DOP: Manuel Prett Sound: Lisa-Maria Hollaus Editor: Luzia Johow Production Designer: Tamara Kanfer, Rosay Dreyer Synopsis: In her desperate search for sleep seventeen-year-old Eva does everything to stay the night at other people’s houses where she watches others sleep. When Eva is awake at night, she takes us to the darker side of normal life while forcing her family and friends to develop a different perspective on what they consider "normal". |
Film Academy Vienna (UMDK) | Austria | 22 |
| 24 | THE ENHARMONIC NOTE
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Details:TrailerLength: 17' Screenwriter: Julian Magallon Director: Felipe Urtizberea Producer: Camiia Soledad Reyes Animator: n/a DOP: Tatiana Cibelli Sound: Francisco Polosecki Editor: Nicolas Passero Production Designer: Michelle Amoroso Synopsis: In a dystopian Buenos Aires, where the government is in charge of assigning couples to the population to increase productivity, an official from Ministry of Matchmaking breaks the only rule: falling in love. |
Escuela Nacional de Experimentación y Realización Cinematográfica (ENERC) | Argentina | 21 |
| 25-26 | MANAR
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Details:TrailerLength: 22' Screenwriter: Rachel Albert Director: Rachel Albert Producer: Rachel Albert, Elinor Cohen, Noa Sagi Animator: n/a DOP: Shaked Gorbatt Sound: Dana Mimon, Liav Bitan Editor: Inbar Banda Production Designer: Shahar Moshe Synopsis: Manar is held captive in a tin shed for refusing to consummate her marriage. Facing boiling days and cold nights, she tries to resist her captors and resourcefully attempt to escape. However, as time pass Manar learns the bounds of her body and what's the price she's willing to pay for her freedom. |
School of Audio & Visual Arts, Sapir College | Israel | 20 |
| 25-26 | VACUUM CLEANER SALESMAN
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Details:TrailerLength: 26' Screenwriter: Līva Polkmane Director: Līva Polkmane Producer: Alise Peniga Animator: n/a DOP: Ritvars Bluka Sound: Jevgeņijs Nacišs Editor: Krista Gabriela Roba Production Designer: Ieva Filatova Synopsis: Roberts is a struggling young actor who decides to try his luck as a door-to-door vacuum cleaner salesman. On his first day of work, he sets out to close at least two sales deals. However, when faced with the peculiar inhabitants in a block of apartments, his task no longer seems so simple. |
Latvian Academy of Culture (LAC) | Latvia | 20 |
| 27-28 | HIBERNATION
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Details:TrailerLength: 24' Screenwriter: Daniel Howells, Leandros Brown Director: Leandros Brown, Daniel Howells Producer: Leandros Brown, Daniel Howells Animator: n/a DOP: Dylan Marriott Sound: Nux Schwartz Editor: Leandros Brown Production Designer: Acacia Anthony Synopsis: An Afrikaans film. During a never-ending winter, an old man descends from a mountain into the valley of oblivion. There he stumbles upon two sisters who live amidst the ruin and search for any sign of salvation. |
South African School of Motion Picture Medium and Live Performance (AFDA) | South Africa | 19 |
| 27-28 | SONS OF ROISIN
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Details:TrailerLength: 10' Screenwriter: Conor Bradley, Cian McCarthy Director: Conor Bradley Producer: Ruairi Bradley, Hana Mohammed Animator: n/a DOP: Carlos Moguel Sound: Rory Sweeney Editor: Lauren Cullen Production Designer: Evelyn Hassett Synopsis: Padraig is an 18 year old painter with a hearing impairment. One month after the tragic loss of his best friend and brother Fionn, he visits an audiologist to learn that his hearing has deteriorated beyond repair. Recommended to begin preparing for alternative means of communicating, Padraig refuses help and hides his loss from those around him, including his job, friends and family. In the depths of his alienation, it is here where Padraig finds the comforting stillness of silence, where he finds the space to begin to grieve. |
National Film School / Institute of Art, Design and Technology (IADT) | Ireland | 19 |
| 29-30 | MON AMI
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Details:TrailerLength: 29' Screenwriter: Carina-Gabriela Dașoveanu Director: Carina-Gabriela Dașoveanu Producer: Daniel Nuță, Ela Gavrilă Animator: n/a DOP: Ștefan Aghițoaie Sound: Tijana Marjanović Editor: Ilinca Miroşanu Production Designer: Denisa Avram Synopsis: “Mon Ami” follows the story of a successful film director, Marius, during the casting process for his new project. Although Marius looks to have it all: a loving wife, a group of good friends and a blooming career, he comes to realise that he feels more and more miserable. The casting is not as it should be, his wife doesn’t really understand his needs and the group of friends has a very superficial approach over work. Marius feels lost until he meets Stelian, a 14 years old rroma boy, who makes him rediscover himself. |
National University of Theatre and Film (UNATC) | Romania | 17 |
| 29-30 | VINLAND
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Details:TrailerLength: 30' Screenwriter: Martin Kuba Director: Martin Kuba Producer: Tomáš Šimon (FAMU), Natálie Pavlove, Miloš Lochman (Moloko Film) Animator: n/a DOP: David Hofmann, Tomáš Kotas, Tomáš Šťastný Sound: Miroslav Chaloupka Editor: Michal Böhm Production Designer: n/a Synopsis: Daniil, a Georgian teacher, departs from his wife and kid for what should be a seasonal job only in Prague. His return home becomes uncertain, as he‘s driven into the strange new reality in the West. |
Film and Television School / Academy of Performing Arts in Prague (FAMU) | Czech Republic | 17 |
| 31-34 | 50 MOUSE STEPS
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Details:TrailerLength: 26' Screenwriter: Marina Tsoneva, Boyka Stefanova Director: Boyka Stefanova Producer: Prof. Dr. Stanislav Semerdjiev Animator: n/a DOP: Dimitur Yordanov Sound: Irina Ivanova Editor: Teodora Garbova Production Designer: Jessica Slavova Synopsis: Ognyan and Vera meet each other again after 10 years of separation. What brings them together is a "time capsule" buried by them when they were kids. The memories from childhood lead them to the beginning of a one-day adventure that may turn out to be their last one. |
National Academy for Theatre and Film Arts (NATFA) | Bulgaria | 15 |
| 31-34 | BETWEEN HER
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Details:TrailerLength: 30' Screenwriter: Bar Cohen Director: Bar Cohen Producer: Rotem Grossman Animator: n/a DOP: Mya Kaplan Sound: Tal Shimches Editor: Johnny Doov Production Designer: Gilli Cooper Synopsis: Aya is a young trans girl, frustrated by love life and men. But one evening, she meets a guy from the distant past. This meeting causes her to face her biggest fear, herself. |
The Steve Tisch School of Film and Television (TAU) | Israel | 15 |
| 31-34 | SAMMY, WITHOUT STRINGS
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Details:TrailerLength: 16' Screenwriter: Will Henderson, III; Ralph Parker, III Director: Ralph Parker, III Producer: Jenna Cusack; Grace Williamson Animator: n/a DOP: Ariano Treviño Angelone Sound: Daniel Christie, Kendall Best Editor: Kendall Best Production Designer: Grayson Fisher Synopsis: When a Black puppet named Sammy, performing at the hands of his malevolent Puppeteer, falls in love with a Woman in his audience, he sets his sights on freedom from his strings to live a life of dignity and humanity with her. |
University of North Carolina School of the Arts (UNCSA) | United States | 15 |
| 31-34 | VOILA
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Details:TrailerLength: 30' Screenwriter: Gabriel Navarro Director: Gabriel Navarro Producer: Vincent Melilli Animator: n/a DOP: Mohammed Malik Sound: Reda Rouibaa Editor: Rym Ouartini Production Designer: Gabriel Navarro Synopsis: In a present-day Morocco, a young couple washing their laundry. Late at night, a dirty, empty, tacky, laundromat. He is a writer, she is a singer, he is neurotic, she is the vitality, he is sad, she is free. Together, they are young, broke, artists and in love, their destiny is uncertain, heads full of dreams. Voila tells the story of two marginal over a decade, of their 20's, times full of troubles and doubts, existential crisis, difficult for them to make ends meet every month. imperfect romance although passionate. |
Marrakech School of Visual Arts (ESAVM) | Morocco | 15 |
| 35-36 | LAMBLIKE
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Details:TrailerLength: 22' Screenwriter: Aleksandra Jovanovic, Jovan Dimoski Director: Jovan Dimoski Producer: Arsenije Milenkovic, Natalija Kidisevic, Tamara Tomasevic Animator: n/a DOP: Vladimir Djuric Sound: Jana Baljak, Natalija Strahinic Editor: Matija Djukanovic Production Designer: Matija Jovan Jokic, Vladimir Ciric Synopsis: On the last day of their summer holiday, right before they start high school, two best friends decide to finally meet the guy from their neighborhood they've been stalking for a while. |
Fakultet dramskih umetnosti | Serbia | 14 |
| 35-36 | THE LOAD
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Details:TrailerLength: 17' Screenwriter: Ilia Jibgashvili, Miranda Namicheishvili Director: Miranda Namicheishvili Producer: Dali Narimanidze Animator: n/a DOP: Davit Gujabidze Sound: Tamta Mandzulashvili Editor: Miranda Namicheishvili, Mindia Inasaridze Production Designer: Anano Dolidze Synopsis: The film tells the story of a 33-year-old man, Mate, who is trying to enter the United States of America illegally. In Turkey, Mate will be placed in a wooden box loaded with soft toys on a ship. Soon it turns out that in the container where Mate is placed, two more people - Ray from Congo and Mohammed from Tunisia - are traveling illegally. |
Theatre and Film Georgia State University (TAFU) | Georgia | 14 |
| 37-41 | ANIMAL BEHAVIOR
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Details:TrailerLength: 15' Screenwriter: Adrien Delcan Director: Adrien Delcan Producer: Rahul Alexander, Adrian Delcan Animator: n/a DOP: Raviteja Anumukonda Sound: Braden Swope Editor: Connor Simon Production Designer: Jen Ledbury Synopsis: A skilled wildlife foley artist has his methods challenged by a newcomer with an innate understanding of animal behavior. |
Chapman University / Dodge College of Film and Media Arts | United States | 12 |
| 37-41 | HUSSIES
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Details:TrailerLength: 29' Screenwriter: Kalliopi Arampatzi Director: Despina Mavridou Producer: Diana Kokozidou Animator: n/a DOP: Angelos Charalampous Sound: Elias Floudas, Enes Achmet Kechagia Editor: Photis Korosiadis Production Designer: Eva Kourelia, Eleni Sampri Synopsis: A coming of age story about two sisters leading their lives in pole positions, who are summoned to a night's call of decision making. In a frantic attempt to truffle out money, they come up against both a traumatic past, and a disturbing reality, realising how difficult it is for a family to make ends meet. |
School of Film, Aristotle University of Thessaloniki | Greece | 12 |
| 37-41 | MON EMIL
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Details:TrailerLength: 18' Screenwriter: Tamar Gefen Director: Tamar Gefen Producer: Manon Baravalle, Signe Wendrich DOP: Emma Theresa Jensen Sound: Hannah Faber Editor: August Schultz-Jørgensen Production Designer: Manon Baravelle, Signe Wendrich Synopsis: Young Zoé is on the run from an abusive relationship and replies to an au pair job posting in rural Denmark. |
European Film College (EFC) | Denmark | 12 |
| 37-41 | OLD ZHANG
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Details:TrailerLength: 30' Screenwriter: Zhang Guanyi Director: Zhang Guanyi Producer: Li Chen Animator: n/a DOP: Wu Zhenxu Sound: Wang Xinyi Editor: Zhang Guanyi Production Designer: Han Yingying Synopsis: Old Zhang, who had been divorced for half a year, adopted a stray dog. His ex-wife suddenly visited with her daughter, which distrupted Old Zhang's "quiet" life. He had to postpone meeting his girlfriend. Feeling anxious, Old Zhang lost his dog when he was in a daze in the yard. The arrival of his girlfriend put Old Zhang in an impossible place and not knowing what to do. Will Old Zhang continue to live in lies and avoidance? |
Beijing Film Academy (BFA) | China | 12 |
| 37-41 | THE SOURCE OF ALL BEAUTY
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Details:TrailerLength: 20' Screenwriter: Rachel Lévy Director: Rachel Lévy Producer: Yotam Deshe Animator: n/a DOP: Shaya Chesner Sound: Amit Ben Atar Editor: Noam Weizman Production Designer: Yotam Deshe Synopsis: Yaeli, an ultra-Orthodox Jewish young woman, carries a terrible secret - she is unable to bear children. David, a brilliant and eligible yeshiva student, seems interested in meeting Yaeli, but her father, in an attempt to protect her from the pain and humiliation of rejecton, refuses to give his permission for the two young people to meet. |
Ma'aleh School of Film, Television and the Arts (MAALE) | Israel | 12 |
| 42-45 | CARER
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Details:TrailerLength: 19' Screenwriter: Oliver Wicks Director: Oliver Wicks Producer: Oliver Wicks Animator: n/a DOP: Cameron Dunlop Sound: Brad Vaughan Editor: Oliver Wicks Production Designer: Rose Morgan Synopsis: A day in the life of Mitch, a kind but wayward disability support worker, and Connor, a charming and sensitive young man he works with. |
VCA Film and Television | Australia | 11 |
| 42-45 | INERT
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Details:TrailerLength: 18' Screenwriter: Tim Truyens Director: Tim Truyens Producer: RITCS Animator: n/a DOP: Kobe Van Gronsveld Sound: Jeroen Bollen Editor: Cato Kusters Production Designer: Jaap Van Veen Synopsis: INERT is a psychological slow-burn horror. After the death of his father, Casper is plagued by self-blame and post-traumatic stress. These feelings slowly but surely drive him into a corner and force him to face himself. |
Royal Institute for Theatre, Cinema and Sound (RITCS) | Belgium | 11 |
| 42-45 | LAST WINTER, BRUNA
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Details:TrailerLength: 18' Screenwriter: Marko Bičanić Director: Marko Bičanić Producer: Vid Oluić Animator: n/a DOP: Urh Pire Sound: Nina Ugrinović Editor: Marta Bregeš, Marko Bičanić Production Designer: n/a Synopsis: Bruna can't stand the Christmas season, but her girlfriend, Lea, makes it bearable. As Lea changes her mind about Bruna's plans to celebrate New Year's Eve together, doubt seeps in and the winter turns older. |
Academy of Dramatic Art Zagreb (ADU) | Croatia | 11 |
| 42-45 | MIRROR
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Details:TrailerLength: 18' Screenwriter: Meg Sueyoshi Director: YuChun Su Producer: Mei Xu , Ying Zhou Zhao Animator: None DOP: Jia Run Fei Sound: Shunta Namise Editor: XinYu Zhang Production Designer: ZiXuan Zhou Synopsis: Maverick Naomi appears before inmate Yuri in a facility where mirrors are forbidden. When Naomi hurts her finger, Yuri develops a wound on his own finger. Yuri starts sharing his consciousness with Naomi and is pained by returning frustrations. However, he converses with Naomi and their mutual understanding saves him. And then, Yuri meets his true self. |
Tokyo University of the Arts, Graduate School of Film and New Media | Japan | 11 |
| 46 | ONE LAST BREATH
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Details:TrailerLength: 24' Screenwriter: Carla Civalleri Director: Audrey Karras Producer: Jérôme Enrico Animator: n/a DOP: Alexandre Surun Sound: Amaury Duffaure Editor: Nicolas Berillon Production Designer: n/a Synopsis: Robyn, a 42-year-old actress has just lost her son. As she is about to give up on life, she hears a mysterious guitar tune coming through the wall. |
Ecole Supérieure d'études Cinématographiques (ESEC) | France | 10 |
| 47-51 | A BEACH STORY
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Details:TrailerLength: 10' Screenwriter: Balaresque Marie Director: Balaresque Marie Producer: ENSAV Animator: n/a DOP: Meunier Amanda, Peguy Floriane Sound: Besson Lorice Editor: Balaresque Marie Production Designer: n/a Synopsis: On a country side road, a little boy and his sailing boat are looking for the sea. |
ENSAV | France | 9 |
| 47-51 | A RIDE HOME
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Details:TrailerLength: 12' Screenwriter: Amin El Siwi Director: Amin El Siwi Producer: Saylor Madden Animator: n/a DOP: Marwan Mounir Sound: Bassam Farahat Editor: Amin El Siwi Production Designer: n/a Synopsis: A grieving mother finds comfort in the company of a stranger who reminds her of her own son. |
American University | United States | 9 |
| 47-51 | HE, BEHIND THE GUN
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Details:TrailerLength: 23' Screenwriter: Gabriel Esdras, Daniel Luna Director: Gabriel Esdras Producer: Gabriel Esdras, Salvador López Animator: n/a DOP: Francesca Volpi Sound: Sebastián Santana Editor: Samuel Baumbach, Gabriel Esdras Production Designer: Daniel Luna Synopsis: In the middle of the chaos of anti police riots, Marcos, an ex-tagger, now security guard, skips work to see his old friends one last night. |
University of Guadalajara / Image and Sound Department | Mexico | 9 |
| 47-51 | SELLOUT
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Details:TrailerLength: 14' Screenwriter: Adrian Blomqvist Director: Adrian Blomqvist Producer: Linnea Ahlstedt Animator: n/a DOP: Kristofer Söderström Sound: Ville Holmström Editor: Kristofer Söderström Production Designer: Kenneth Mattila Synopsis: A once best-selling crime fiction author has lost his creative touch. While working on the latest novel he is confronted by the protagonist in the series who demands changes to the story. |
ARCADA University of Applied Sciences Department of Culture and Communication / Media Culture Finland | Finland | 9 |
| 47-51 | WINDS OF SPRINGTIME
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Details:TrailerLength: 14' Screenwriter: Alberto Herrera Director: Carmen Pedrero Producer: Desiree Yi Peguero, Carlota Rodas Jimeno Animator: n/a DOP: Camila Monroy, Paula Romanillos Alía Sound: Pedro Cedenilla Bonet Editor: Enrique Bresca, Miguel García Otero Production Designer: n/a Synopsis: Amelia have been wearing a back brace for four years, and now is going to be removed, she would finally be able to wear trousers or go to the end-of-school trip. But the doctors bring bad news, she must keep wearing it. |
ECAM (The Madrid Film School) | Spain | 9 |
| 52-56 | 2030
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Details:TrailerLength: 15' Screenwriter: David Champaigne, Lev Mastnak Trobentar Director: David Champaigne Producer: The Academy of Theatre, Radio, Film and Television Animator: n/a DOP: Maja Štojs Sound: Jure Žigon Editor: Aljaž Zorko Production Designer: Žan Šabeder Synopsis: 2030. War across Europe and the World is spreading rapidly. As totalitarian leaders rise to power, the World is being split in two: the Allies and the Triade. Slovenia is being led by a totalitarian government. People are forbidden to enter and exit, the country. The close monitoring of each individual's life and curfews are justified by the ongoing war and extremely high growth in illegal migrations. |
University of Ljubljana / Academy of Theatre, Radio, Film and Television (AGRFT) | Slovenia | 8 |
| 52-56 | DURGA
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Details:TrailerLength: 15' Screenwriter: Abhishek Parasher Director: Abhishek Parasher Producer: Marco Alexiadis Animator: n/a DOP: Pete Moses Sound: Jayden Whitbread Editor: Amy Dunn Production Designer: Eleanor L’Estrange-Stranieri Synopsis: A young woman tries to fashion an escape from her volatile household, as her husband and sister-in-law demand more in dowry payments. |
Australian Film Television and Radio School (AFTRS) | Australia | 8 |
| 52-56 | EMBRACE
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Details:TrailerLength: 18' Screenwriter: Alicia Tremblay Director: Alicia Tremblay Producer: Romane Gagnon, Jérémy Gendron Animator: n/a DOP: Alexia Toman Sound: Amélie Richter Editor: Bastien Blanchot Production Designer: n/a Synopsis: Noah, a woman in her late twenties, in the aftermath of a no-strings-attached affair, finds herself pregnant and forced to make a heartbreaking decision. By turning to the tranquility of the countryside and the wisdom of her grandmother Beatrice, Noah will be able to move forward on her reflections. |
University of Québec Montréal / School of Media (UQAM) | Canada | 8 |
| 52-56 | PHANTOM PAINS
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Details:TrailerLength: 26' Screenwriter: Vyacheslav Belomestnykh Director: Vyacheslav Belomestnykh Producer: Ermakova Ekaterina Animator: n/a DOP: Maria Dodon Sound: Dmitryi German Editor: Vyacheslav Belomestnykh Production Designer: Yana Litvinova Synopsis: A woman appears at a tram depo, where everyone reminds her of her dead husband. A young guard desides to take advantage of this, but he doesn’t know how destructive her love can be. |
St. Petersburg State University of Film and Television (SPUFT) | Russia | 8 |
| 52-56 | UNFAMILIARS
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Details:TrailerLength: 16' Screenwriter: Chinh Van Tran Director: Lauri Elstela Producer: Nevena Semova / Kino Eyes The European Movie Masters Animator: n/a DOP: Jiali Liang Sound: Sangam Panta Editor: Hassan Akil Production Designer: n/a Synopsis: A human drama about a mother obsessed with documenting her dead son's apartment, a sister forced to inherit her dead brother's old belongings, and a son-in-law pretending to ignore a past affair with his dead lover. Together, they navigate familial tensions and secrets held from each other inside a house that is home to nobody. |
Universidade Lusófona / Film and Media Arts Department (ULHT) | Portugal | 8 |
| 57-62 | A GLIMPSE
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Details:TrailerLength: 15' Screenwriter: Aldana Santantonio, Emilia Tauil, Malena Schargrodsky Director: Aldana Santantonio Producer: Malena Schargrodsky Animator: n/a DOP: Karen Reich, Juana Molina Galmarini Sound: Diego Medrano Editor: Marcela Bravo Buitrago, Aldana Santantonio Production Designer: Emilia Tauil, Milagros Carbery Noriega, Marcela Bravo Buitrago Synopsis: Mariné lives silently and in the shadows in a house inherited from her grandmother, where a mysterious room remains permanently closed. After Lu’s unexpected visit, together they will figure out whether her grandmother’s ghost remains trapped there. |
Universidad de Buenos Aires / Diseño de Imagen y Sonido FADU (UBA) | Argentina | 7 |
| 57-62 | CRIMSON MOONLIGHT
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Details:TrailerLength: 10' Screenwriter: Sergio Saravia Director: Sergio Saravia Producer: Katherine Campos Animator: n/a DOP: Sebastián Morales Sound: Sergio Saravia Editor: Sebastián Morales Production Designer: n/a Synopsis: Two carshop mechanics fall in love, but must keep their love a secret. |
School of Image - Veritas University | Costa Rica | 7 |
| 57-62 | DIRTY LAUNDRY
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Details:TrailerLength: 19' Screenwriter: Kyaw Shoon Le Yee Director: Kyaw Shoon Le Yee Producer: Linnet Ong Animator: n/a DOP: Chua Xin Yun Sound: Angel Ho Miao Ying Editor: Ng Renee Production Designer: Muhammad Khairulameer Bin Ramlan Synopsis: In a society where women's clothes are considered dirty, Sandar hangs her skirt outside the house. A blunder that causes their fellow Burmese neighbours to criticize Sandar for her improper act and her parents for not teaching her right. Governed by traditions and rules that she does not agree with, Sandar seeks to escape. It's the only way. As tensions rise within the family, Sandar makes a bid for freedom from traditions that pin her down. |
Nanyang Technological University | Singapore | 7 |
| 57-62 | JERK
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Details:TrailerLength: 17' Screenwriter: Philémon Antoine Director: Philémon Antoine Producer: Médiadiffusion Animator: n/a DOP: Hugo Malidin Sound: Nathan Delporte Editor: Antoine Dognaux Production Designer: n/a Synopsis: Nemo spends the evening with friends. That evening, there is Ambre, the only girl invited by one of the boys of the group. |
Institut des Arts de Diffusion (IAD) | Belgium | 7 |
| 57-62 | PORTRAIT OF A NOISE
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Details:TrailerLength: 27' Screenwriter: Federico Sanchéz Director: Federico Sanchéz Producer: Juan Ignacio Ramos Animator: n/a DOP: Gianluca Costa Sound: Federico Dávila Editor: Paulina Perandones Production Designer: Garin Sarkissian Synopsis: A young man who is informed that he will lose his hearing, goes to work in a hotel to buy hearing aids, while his condition worsens. |
Film School of Uruguay (ECU) | Uruguay | 7 |
| 57-62 | THE SILENT ISLAND
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Details:TrailerLength: 30' Screenwriter: Ann Chan Director: WU Ruo Shi, Dorothy Producer: Mak Chun Kau Mike Animator: n/a DOP: Steven Huen Sound: Pang Ho Ling Gloria Editor: Ada Cheung Production Designer: N/A Synopsis: A 16-year-old girl, Yan, met a new sculpture teacher, Wah. After a while together, their relationship developed further during after-school tutoring. Since then, Yan began to use various methods to make herself closer to the particular and beautiful in Wah's eyes. However, Yan accidentally discovered Wah's secret, and she began to question whether it was true, or just her own fantasy... |
Hong Kong Academy for Performing Arts / School of Film and Television (HKAPA) | Hong Kong | 7 |
| 63-69 | BOXING DAY
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Details:TrailerLength: 15' Screenwriter: Leigh Schilling Director: Leigh Schilling Producer: Phillip Pitsillou Animator: n/a DOP: Miranda Wilson Sound: Christopher Lecnik Editor: Nickolas Sideris Production Designer: Kayleen Montalan Synopsis: In the height of an Australian summer, a fun-loving eight-year-old boy experiences loss for the first time as he struggles to come to terms with the disintegration of his family unit. |
Swinburne School of Film and Television (SSFT) | Australia | 6 |
| 63-69 | BREEZE
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Details:TrailerLength: 25' Screenwriter: Hamidreza Ghasemi Director: Hamidreza Ghasemi Producer: Hamidreza Ghasemi Animator: n/a DOP: Ali Hossienzadeh Sound: Hasan Mahdavi Editor: Hasan Kouchaki Production Designer: Hesam Hossieni Synopsis: An Iranian who grew up in a European country, after the death of his parents, goes to Iran, as it seems to him, to his homeland, but Iran turns out to be not the country he imagined, not the one his parents told him about. A collision with a harsh reality, a desire to return back - to the comfort zone - where everything is clear. He meets by chance with a prostitute - who - suddenly - helps him to sec another homeland - tender and passionate. |
Russian State University of Сinematography n.a. S.Gerasimov VGIK | Russia | 6 |
| 63-69 | FARMER
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Details:TrailerLength: 16' Screenwriter: Luz Vázquez Pérez Director: Diego I. Zendejas Producer: Emiliano Contreras Pérez Animator: n/a DOP: Iñaki Malvido Sound: Sajei Sánchez Editor: Kyara Muñiz Production Designer: Alejandra Malvido, Belén A. Martínez Synopsis: Campesino tells the story of Toño, a young farmer who lives in Yajalón, Chiapas. Toño lives with his sister, Rosa, who he is responsible for after the lost of their mom and the absence of their father. The young farmer works in a corn field, and because of his salary he can barely pay the bills. One day his father gets ill, and this situation, which seems to be out of his hands, ultimately, becomes a very personal issue that he ́ll have to overcome. |
Universidad Iberoamericana Mexico City (IBERO) | Mexico | 6 |
| 63-69 | FLORA
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Details:TrailerLength: 14' Screenwriter: Dolev Omer Director: Dolev Omer Producer: Shoval Harel Atia Animator: n/a DOP: Dolev Omer Sound: Sam Braverman, Guy Benami Editor: Dolev Omer Production Designer: Ron Robert Levi Synopsis: "Flora" follows three characters who are all in different stages of a mysterious and deadly disease caused by contact with flowery objects that fell to earth from the sky. |
Bezalel Academy of Arts and Design Jerusalem (BAAD) | Israel | 6 |
| 63-69 | IT DOESN'T HAVE TO BE TODAY
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Details:TrailerLength: 8' Screenwriter: Sophia Groening, Jan Bonny, Jan Eichberg Director: Sophia Groening Producer: Sophia Groening, Bazon Rosengarth Animator: n/a DOP: Jakob Berger Sound: Tarik Badaoui Editor: Sophia Groening Production Designer: Victoria Herzog Synopsis: Four friends are sitting at a square in Cologne Finkenberg, looking for the right words and punctuation marks for a text message to a girl that will never be sent. |
Academy of Media Arts Cologne (KHM) | Germany | 6 |
| 63-69 | KUNTA
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Details:TrailerLength: 13' Screenwriter: Arttu Järvinen Director: Arttu Järvinen Producer: Janita Sarpola Animator: n/a DOP: Sara Aaltio Sound: Eino Brusila Editor: Atte Liikanen Production Designer: Janita Sarpola Synopsis: A 24-year old young man tries to flee his small hometown that no one ever leaves. His school application to the city gets denied. That makes him really distressed, but other inhabitants of the town are glad. |
Tampere University of Applied Sciences (TUNI), Degree Programme in Media | Finland | 6 |
| 63-69 | REMEMBER OUR SISTER
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Details:TrailerLength: 29' Screenwriter: Jo Hayoung Director: Jo Hayoung Producer: Park Sojin Animator: n/a DOP: Lee Jae Hyuk Sound: Lee Dong Wook Editor: Lee Jae Hyuk Production Designer: Jung Sewon Synopsis: South Korea in the 1980s. The story unfolds in a military camp town built only for the entertainment of the U.S. soldiers. Hong (13/Girl) lives with her big sister who works here. She has fun days. But one day she witnesses her sister being killed by an American soldier. This is a film based on a true story. |
Dong-Ah Institute of Media and Arts (DIMA) | South Korea | 6 |
| 70-71 | AUGUST NIGHTS
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Details:TrailerLength: 10' Screenwriter: Alkisti Michalopoulou Director: Alkisti Michalopoulou Producer: Alkisti Michalopoulou, Manos Tzivakis Animator: Nikos Hatsios DOP: Michaela Savvidi Sound: Thanos Zarkalis Editor: Niki Innesto Production Designer: Evaggelos Nikolaoy Synopsis: Christos and Yannis, two teenage boys who spend their summer in the empty streets of Athens, begin to discover their repressed romantic feelings towards each other, in the context of their otherwise macho group of friends. |
Hellenic Cinema and Television School Stavrakos (HCTSS) | Greece | 5 |
| 70-71 | STANDING STILL
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Details:TrailerLength: 27' Screenwriter: Lucia Ditte, Monika Mahútová Director: Monika Mahútová Producer: Magdaléna Neved'alová, Academy of Performing Arts in Bratislava, Slovakia Animator: n/a DOP: Lucia Koval'ová Sound: Daniel Horňák Editor: Martin Piga Production Designer: n/a Synopsis: An adult daughter must defy her mother in order to find a way out from binding stereotype and search for her own freedom. |
Academy of Performing Arts / Film and Television Faculty (VSMU) | Slovakia | 5 |
| 72-79 | BEYOND THE SEA
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Details:TrailerLength: 15' Screenwriter: Melinda Delaloye, Diva Yaghi Director: Melinda Delaloye Producer: Lyne Khoury, Melinda Delaloye DOP: Melhem Abi Farah Sound: Elie Harb Editor: Melinda Delaloye Production Designer: Jessica Toubia Synopsis: Rebecca, a 24 years old woman, lives with her mother in Beirut. Single mother, she struggles to bond with her son, Elias. The day before his sixth birthday, Elias asks if she can take him to see the sunset by the sea. Reluctant, Rebecca is forced to face the memory of a traumatic event that has been haunting her for years. |
ALBA | Lebanon | 4 |
| 72-79 | CHILD IN WINTER
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Details:TrailerLength: 26' Screenwriter: Chang,Chuang-Ching Director: Chang,Chuang-Ching Producer: Chen,Hsiao-Hsuan Animator: n/a DOP: Nurhaci Junior Sound: Wang,Tzu-Jou, Liang,Hui-Hsuan Editor: Chang,Chuang-Ching Production Designer: n/a Synopsis: My sister and I went to grandma's house for a funeral when I was 10 years old. That was a special winter to me. Those days will be everlasting as our own memories. |
National Taiwan University of Arts (NTUA) | Taiwan | 4 |
| 72-79 | COVERED ONE
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Details:TrailerLength: 20' Screenwriter: Pedro Alegria Director: Rodrigo Rebello De Andrade Producer: Lisbon’s Film & Theatre School Animator: n/a DOP: Pedro Mineiro Sound: Rafael Pires Editor: Sérgio Viamonte Production Designer: Miguel Pinheiro Synopsis: Vargas is an undercover agent whose mission is to capture a group of robbers. After a conversation with Ricardo, one of the group's members, Vargas questions his view of the enemy, making the mission much more difficult. |
Lisbon Theatre and Film School (ESTC) | Portugal | 4 |
| 72-79 | KINGDOM OF STRANGERS
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Details:TrailerLength: 15' Screenwriter: Randa Ali Director: Randa Ali Producer: Randa Ali, Changhui Shi Animator: n/a DOP: Jackie Fang Sound: Sara Kaddouri Editor: Randa Ali Production Designer: n/a Synopsis: Ali, an Egyptian living in self-exile in Los Angeles is visited by a memory of an old friend. Together they try to make sense of a past haunted by trauma and a present that makes no sense. |
University of California Los Angeles (UCLA) | United States | 4 |
| 72-79 | MACIERZ
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Details:TrailerLength: 15' Screenwriter: Alicja Pahl, Stefania Burla Director: Stefania Burla Producer: Filippo Bonacci Animator: n/a DOP: Alicja Pahl Sound: Patrycja Pakiela Editor: Dorentina Imeri Production Designer: n/a Synopsis: Due to the current tense political situation in Poland, mother and daughter are travelling back. The two plan to turn their backs on their home country for good. They want to convince the grandmother to sell everything and come with them to Switzerland. However, the patriotic old woman refuses. Meanwhile, the youngest increasingly identifies with her roots. |
Zurich University of the Arts / Department of Performing Arts and Film (ZHdK) | Switzerland | 4 |
| 72-79 | PRAGMA
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Details:TrailerLength: 29' Screenwriter: Bianka Szelestey Director: Bianka Szelestey Producer: Attila Csáky Animator: n/a DOP: Ádám Polhodzik Sound: n/a Editor: n/a Production Designer: n/a Synopsis: Pragma is a mother-daughter story set in the course of a day, in which the repressed tension between Juli and Lili and the lack of real, attentive love that the girl would need from her mother is symbolised by the daughter's inability to eat her mother's cooking without being sick at their own birthday lunch. A drama with some absurd. At the core of the dysfunctional relationship dynamics is none other than the grandmother, who raised the mother in a very oppressive way, with difficulty expressing unconditional love. |
University of Theatre and Film Arts Budapest (SzFE) | Hungary | 4 |
| 72-79 | TALK TO ME
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Details:TrailerLength: 21' Screenwriter: Ribal Chedid Director: Ribal Chedid Producer: The Institute of Theater, Audiovisual and Cinematographic Studies (IESAV) of Saint-Joseph University of Beirut Animator: n/a DOP: Tony Keyrouz Sound: John Paul Jalwan Editor: Ribal Chedid Production Designer: Nadim El Khoury Synopsis: Farid works abroad to support his family. Since his return for a short visit, his 20-year-old son Rawad locks himself in his room regularly, and Farid suspects he is hiding something there. To find out what Rawad has been hiding, he decides to enter his son's room on the last day of his stay, and ends up locking himself there following a shocking discovery. Separated by a locked door, the dysfunctional dynamic between them intensifies, and the past resurfaces. |
Institut d'études scéniques, audiovisuelles et cinématographiques (IESAV) | Lebanon | 4 |
| 72-79 | WILD CHRYSANTHEMUMS BETWEEN PAGES OF MY AGENDA I PUT A FLOWER
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Details:TrailerLength: 17' Screenwriter: Valeria Díaz Director: Valeria Díaz Producer: Abraham Naquid Animator: n/a DOP: Isabela Ripoll Sound: Guillermo Bello González Editor: Raúl Padilla Nateras Production Designer: n/a Synopsis: Miranda is a college student who is writing a thesis about haiku, with an experimental twist that her advisor doesn't understand. The little communication between them becomes more difficult because she speaks all kinds of languages (without understanding them) except for Spanish (the only one she can understand). In the middile of the stressful moment she is having, Miranda buys a painting of the sea with a leak. |
National School of Film Arts / National Autonomous University of Mexico (ENAC/UNAM) | Mexico | 4 |
| 80-85 | ANGELO AND AJIT SMOKE FOR THE FIRST TIME
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Details:TrailerLength: 16' Screenwriter: Emanuele Tresca, Angelo Giordano Director: Marco Pacchiana Producer: Matteo Adriani Animator: n/a DOP: Federico Di Maria Sound: Andrea Rampini, Matteo Ferrario, Stefano Monticelli, Andrea Moleri Editor: Edwin J Tonin, Sara Canepari Production Designer: n/a Synopsis: Finding themselves inexplicably alone at a dinner with their classmates, Angelo and Ajit will deal with their disappointments by establishing a tender and genuine friendship. |
Milan City Film School Luchino Visconti (MCSC) | Italy | 3 |
| 80-85 | BAGGYSUIT
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Details:TrailerLength: 8' Screenwriter: Myles Flusser Director: Myles Flusser Producer: Myles Flusser Animator: n/a DOP: Alex Young Sound: Myles Fluser Editor: Myles Fluser Production Designer: Sonnie Skinner Synopsis: A struggling voice actor prepares for an audition. |
School of Film and Animation, College of Art and Design, Rochester Institute of Technology | United States | 3 |
| 80-85 | HOMO DEUS
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Details:TrailerLength: 17' Screenwriter: Loïc Matos, Alexandre Martins Director: Loïc Matos Producer: ENS Louis-Lumière Animator: n/a DOP: Guillaume Pradel Sound: Gautam Shukla Editor: Joshua Lac, Mathias Selou Production Designer: n/a Synopsis: … Soon in the future, the human race has been transferred into look alike machines called Homo Deus. David and Eve are two officiers required to transfer the last biological humans, like Richard, an old man, who they are about to come visit. |
ENS Louis-Lumière | France | 3 |
| 80-85 | MRIGHTRISHNA
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Details:TrailerLength: 21' Screenwriter: Madhav Taneja Director: Madhav Taneja Producer: Shakti Brar / Whistling Woods International Animator: n/a DOP: Keshav Madhav Sound: Asad Khan Editor: Namrata Hathiramani Production Designer: n/a Synopsis: A man in his early-twenties who struggles to choose between a nine-to-five job and his passion in an urban city. The film is about the loss of self that happens in an attempt to find oneself. |
Whistling Woods International (WWI) | India | 3 |
| 80-85 | SOLDIERS
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Details:TrailerLength: 30' Screenwriter: Zhaoshuai Wu Director: Zhaoshuai Wu Producer: Jinghao Lu Animator: n/a DOP: Guoqing Cai Sound: Yinfei Gong Editor: Zhiyi Zhu Production Designer: n/a Synopsis: An elderly man living alone, out of touch with modern life, keeps a young cockfight. One morning, he finds his best friend, who has shared weal and woe, dead at home. Meanwhile, his estranged son wants to send him to a nursing home. Having witnessed too much life and death, he began to think about finding his own way to die. |
Communication University of Zhejiang (CUZ) | China | 3 |
| 80-85 | TREMBLING EYES
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Details:TrailerLength: 20' Screenwriter: Leno Taborda Director: Leno Taborda Producer: Victor Stoll Animator: n/a DOP: Luiza Tomaz, Natalia Evangelista Sound: Lais Vallina Editor: Luiza Tomaz Production Designer: Daniel Torres Synopsis: Juliano is a young artist who lives a happy life with his boyfriend, Nuno, a 65-year-old man, until his relationship is shaken by the discovery that his partner has a degenerative disease. |
University of São Paulo / School of Communications and Arts / Department of Film, Radio and Television (USP) | Brazil | 3 |
| 86-92 | A SINGLE ROOM
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Details:TrailerLength: 16' Screenwriter: Nicolás Dolensky Director: Nicolás Dolensky Producer: Universidad del Cine Animator: n/a DOP: Joaquin Neira Sound: Jesica Suarez Editor: Francisco Noriega, Franca Malfatti Production Designer: Maira Juarez, Nicolás Dolensky Synopsis: In the absence of projects in which she can establish herself as an actress, Franca seeks unconventional alternatives to gain recognition. |
Universidad del Cine (UCINE) | Argentina | 2 |
| 86-92 | ALL RETURN FROM THERE
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Details:TrailerLength: 9' Screenwriter: German Han , Elizaveta Nemchinova Director: Galina Bigun Producer: Galina Bigun Animator: n/a DOP: Anton Mescheryakov Sound: Ilya Savelyev Editor: Ulyana Gerasimova Production Designer: Darya Soldatova Synopsis: Two souls in temporary bodies meet in the pre-trial detention cell and are conversing about their future reincarnation on the planet Earth as maximum-security prison. The senior soul having a very pessimistic view is trying to give a piece of advice to the younger one. How can they turn away from their destination? |
GITR FILM & TELEVISION SCHOOL | Russia | 2 |
| 86-92 | FOR MAGDA
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Details:TrailerLength: 15' Screenwriter: Hipatia Argüero Director: Carla Larrea Sánchez Producer: Carla Larrea Sánchez, Alegría Albán Animator: n/a DOP: Enrique G. Menéndez Sound: Gabriela Yánez, Emil Plonski Editor: Emmanuel Blanchard Production Designer: Sara Rojas Salvador Synopsis: Josefina and her daughter Magda take refuge in the Andean mountains to find a way to ensure a free future, despite the fact that this decision could land them in prison. |
Centro de Capacitación Cinematográfica, A.C. (CCC) | Mexico | 2 |
| 86-92 | LAY OF THE LAND
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Details:TrailerLength: 13' Screenwriter: Kristal Sum Director: Kristal Sum Producer: Jason Toh Jia Xian Animator: n/a DOP: Chow Hui Xian Sound: Seah Zi Keane Editor: Seah Zi Keane Production Designer: Ng Zi Hui Synopsis: Being forced by her mother to move overseas, Emily struggles to decide what is worth keeping and what she is willing to let go of. |
Ngee Ann Polytechnic / School of Film & Media Studies | Singapore | 2 |
| 86-92 | PEEP
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Details:TrailerLength: 21' Screenwriter: Margot Richalet Director: Margot Richalet Producer: CLCF Animator: Valentin Enee DOP: Gaelle Guerin Sound: : Mario Escandell Editor: Mikael Ory Production Designer: Fanny Lehongre Synopsis: Jules, a young journalist, has been given the task of going to the most mysterious cabaret in town to take photographs of the dancers. A matter of life or death is asked: Are you able of not looking? |
CLCF | France | 2 |
| 86-92 | RETURNING SOUTH
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Details:TrailerLength: 15' Screenwriter: n/a Director: Sofia Ayala Producer: Rike Lange Animator: n/a DOP: Hannes Schulze Sound: Elena Weihe Editor: Elena Weihe Production Designer: n/a Synopsis: Father is dead. Daughter and son carry his corpse south of the border. Despite the risk this journey entails, they set out to bury him at the place that used to be home. A migrant family story. |
German Film and Television Academy Berlin (DFFB) | Germany | 2 |
| 86-92 | STUFFED
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Details:TrailerLength: 13' Screenwriter: Basil Ayoub Director: Alex Power Producer: Brodie Leuba Animator: n/a DOP: Dasha Melnik Sound: Jake lsard Editor: Hamish Paterson Production Designer: Charlotte Bayly Synopsis: A couple are forced to confront their rocky marriage when their recently deceased friend presents them with a gift from beyond the grave; himself...stuffed. |
WA Screen Academy, Edith Cowan University | Australia | 2 |
| 93-95 | BE LIKE JOSE
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Details:TrailerLength: 13' Screenwriter: Leonardo Ortiz Director: Leonardo Ortiz Producer: Mabel Quizpi Animator: n/a DOP: Ana Belén Gonzalez Sound: Martin Sanchez Editor: Ana Belén Gonzalez, Leonardo Ortiz Production Designer: Erika Tenezaca Synopsis: In a famous program from the 60s, the protagonist "José" has to finish transcribing some documents to finish his day and go home. However, the narrator of the program becomes an impediment for José to fulfill his objective. For this, the narrator gives José a great gift. José, when he sees what is inside, reacts aggressively against the narrator and tries to leave. of the show but gets caught by the edges of the camera frame which are manipulated by the narrator. |
Advanced Institute of Film and Acting (INCINE) | Ecuador | 1 |
| 93-95 | CRINGE KID KYLE: THE MUSICAL
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Details:TrailerLength: 15' Screenwriter: Ian Severino Director: Ian Severino Producer: Apisak Max Chaisomkhun, Daniel Le Animator: n/a DOP: Mandy Sugihara Sound: Cameron Kaleipoʻokela Kalaukoa Editor: Karlyn Kaai Production Designer: Eric Wilkins Synopsis: Kyle, the humiliated face of a viral meme, invites his high school classmate, the hotshot gamer known as "Leethality808", to play a competitive match of Fortday together online hoping to impress her. However, if he wants to win her affection, he must find the courage to confess his cringey identity. |
University of Hawai‘i Mānoa, Academy for Creative Media | United States | 1 |
| 93-95 | RESPONSIBLE
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Details:TrailerLength: 15' Screenwriter: María Matthíasdóttir Director: María Matthíasdóttir Producer: María Matthíasdóttir Animator: n/a DOP: Leví Baltasar Jóhannesson Sound: María Matthíasdóttir Editor: María Matthíasdóttir Production Designer: María Matthíasdóttir, Arnheiður Diljá Benediktsdóttir Synopsis: Johanna, a 19-year-old woman, comes to terms with adulthood as she struggles with the unfortunate reality of domestic violence. As a result, Johanna has taken on a big responsibility for her mother and brother. The effects of her position and trauma are unpredictable. However, what happens next will change her life forever - but where does the responsibility lie? |
Icelandic Film School (IFS) | Iceland | 1 |
| 96-121 | A MAN I KNEW
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Details:TrailerLength: 12' Screenwriter: Noa Szatmari Director: Anca Radu Producer: Anna Ungureanu Animator: n/a DOP: Krystof Keszthelyi Sound: Joe Phillips, Cedric Wiegel Editor: Alice Sacco Production Designer: Mara Cracaleanu Synopsis: When a priest witnesses his seminary students on the verge of committing a grave mistake, he is pushed to relive the accident that tarnished his moral code. A contemplative short film about youthful sexual experimentation, collective guilt and the act of watching. |
Westminster Film BA / University of Westminster (WFS) | United Kingdom | 0 |
| 96-121 | BRAVE
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Details:TrailerLength: 12' Screenwriter: Lei Fan Director: Lei Fan Producer: Manlin He Animator: n/a DOP: Yufei (Jim) Zou Sound: Samual Pike Editor: Siyuan Lin Production Designer: Dai Shi Synopsis: Work and life pressure lead Xinyue to anxiety and depression. By chance she meets a young girl who gives her warmth and courage to ask for help. |
Sheridan College | Canada | 0 |
| 96-121 | CHOIRBOY
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Details:TrailerLength: 12' Screenwriter: James Fry Director: Mercer MacWilliam Hughes Producer: James Fry, Billy Cooke Animator: n/a DOP: Alice Tucker Sound: Elijah Oakes Editor: Alex Marshall Production Designer: Ugne Krisciunaite, Lindsay Potter Synopsis: 10 year old Jason’s tranquil existence is shaken after his choirgirl sister, Dawn, suddenly falls ill. With her now too ill to sing and hidden away in her room, Jason joins the church choir in a bid to keep his family together. |
Bournemouth Film School (AUB) | United Kingdom | 0 |
| 96-121 | GET A GRIP
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Details:TrailerLength: 7' Screenwriter: Miranda Tantlinger Director: Miranda Tantlinger Producer: Nathan Everett Animator: n/a DOP: Jacob Peterson Sound: Alejandro Flores Editor: Miranda Tantlinger Production Designer: Emilia Trejo Synopsis: A man who tries to do a good deed stumbles into the strange world of film production. |
University of Nevada Las Vegas (UNLV) | United States | 0 |
| 96-121 | GROUNDED
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Details:TrailerLength: 14' Screenwriter: Alexander Wedlock Director: Aidan Hawkins Producer: Gbemileke Otudeko Animator: n/a DOP: Geet Suri Sound: Leonardo D’Andrea Editor: Noora Lappalainen Production Designer: Gbemileke Otudeko Synopsis: When Nell is offered her dream job she’s faced with a daunting task: telling her family that she’ll have to relocate to Mars. |
Screen Academy Scotland (SAS) | United Kingdom | 0 |
| 96-121 | KEEP OFF THE GRASS
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Details:TrailerLength: 10' Screenwriter: Francis Rudd Director: Francis Rudd Producer: Tyla Sharp Animator: n/a DOP: Deen Goss Sound: Steven Li Editor: Claryn Chong Production Designer: Rachel Craddock Synopsis: Young amateur footballer Sunny Cooper struggles to come to terms with his sexuality and as the final game of the season approaches, tensions rise. He and Josh can't bring themselves to embrace their connection in this environment. Sunny has to fight for what he wants on and off the pitch. |
London College of Communication | United Kingdom | 0 |
| 96-121 | LIFEBOAT
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Details:TrailerLength: 17' Screenwriter: Çağan Çamlıbel, Öge Sözbaş Director: Çağan Çamlıbel Producer: Kutay Altunkaynak (Line Producer) Animator: n/a DOP: Eda Taşkın Sound: Kutay Altunkaynak Editor: Kutay Altunkaynak Production Designer: n/a Synopsis: When they get stuck in a car, Nihat and Kuzey cannot escape from each other. The improvement of the relationship between this father and son, who cannot get along, will be possible when someone else gets out of the way and this time the father truly becomes an adult. |
Yasar University Faculty of Communications | Turkey | 0 |
| 96-121 | NINA
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Details:TrailerLength: 18' Screenwriter: Chiara Toffoletto Director: Chiara Toffoletto Producer: ventura film I CISA Animator: n/a DOP: Antonino Mangiaracina Sound: : Massimo Mariani, Alberto Morelli Editor: Julie Kiihner Production Designer: Mattia Monticelli Synopsis: On a dreary day of spring, filled with games, cross-dressing and desires, Nina and her friends Cora and Bea decide to strike a deal. They have to find guys and have sexual intercourse for the first time. All three, the same day, at the same time. |
Academy of Audiovisual Sciences (CISA) | Switzerland | 0 |
| 96-121 | NINO
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Details:TrailerLength: 15' Screenwriter: Kiara Mezzina Director: Kiara Mezzina Producer: Lawrence Greene, Kiara Mezzina Animator: n/a DOP: Charlie Costin Sound: Darcy Grant Editor: Connor Wikaira Production Designer: Natasha Green Synopsis: When Cosi moves the family to Australia in hopes of a better life, his son Nino must deal with culture shock in a country whose language he cannot speak. Luckily for him, his cousin Salvo has been through this before. Reluctant at first, Nino, with Salvo’s guidance, navigates the contrasts of culture, language and lifestyle to overcome prejudice and alienation. |
Griffith Film School (GFS) | Australia | 0 |
| 96-121 | PAN
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Details:TrailerLength: 16' Screenwriter: Mariana Salek Director: Mariana Salek Producer: Soroosh Mougahi, Mariana Salek Animator: n/a DOP: Joshua Esteban Sound: Stephen Pryke Editor: Joshua Esteban Production Designer: Mariana Salek Synopsis: A twenty-year-old girl moves to a foreign country to study and ends up experiencing something totally different from what she had planned. |
University of Hertfordshire | United Kingdom | 0 |
| 96-121 | PRIMA BALLERINA
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Details:TrailerLength: 30' Screenwriter: Ayanda Hlatshwayo Director: Kagiso Selepe, Mbulelo Katise, Shadrack Mashaba Producer: Kgahlisho Shokwe, Ayanda Hlatshwayo Animator: Marco Coetzee DOP: Dexter Verveen Sound: Shadrack Mashaba Editor: Lilian Mgwenya, Christian du Toit Production Designer: Fiola Seruba, Antoinette Myutu Synopsis: Horror and drama at a prestigious ballet school turns a young ballerina’s biggest dream into her worst nightmare when her deceased best friend (and lover)’s spirit returns on the anniversary of her death. |
Tshwane University of Technology | South Africa | 0 |
| 96-121 | SHADOW
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Details:TrailerLength: 11' Screenwriter: Gemma Bonfoglioli Director: Gemma Bonfoglioli Producer: EICAR Animator: n/a DOP: Woody Wu Sound: Leon Delaunayv Editor: Rickard Boström Production Designer: Goa Chubing Synopsis: When a disturbed violent man tries to turn over the leaf, he is hunted by a dark force until he is forced to face with deepest fears. |
EICAR, The International Film & TV School | France | 0 |
| 96-121 | SHEEPLE
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Details:TrailerLength: 13' Screenwriter: Laura Bailey Director: Laura Bailey Producer: Hannah Rady Animator: n/a DOP: Zosia Fanka Sound: Idan Kotzen Editor: Tommy Tran Production Designer: Nabilah Parsons Synopsis: In an abstract world of half sheep half people, a young couple are torn between their relationship and truth as seeds of doubt are planted by an ominous radio host. |
University of Technology, Sydney | Australia | 0 |
| 96-121 | SOL
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Details:TrailerLength: 12' Screenwriter: Taylor Leigh Aguilar Director: Taylor Leigh Aguilar Producer: Taylor Leigh Aguilar, DeZELL Lathon, Rio Johnson, Kenneth Walter, Addison Woodside Animator: n/a DOP: Sophie Gemelas Sound: Rachel Corrales Editor: Pamela Cressall Production Designer: Miles Bergman Synopsis: Appalled at the idea of taking her mother to a father-daughter dance, 16-year-old Solana "Sol" Vigil cuts school to meet her biological father for the first time behind her mom's back. |
Loyola Marymount University / School of Film and Television (LMU) | United States | 0 |
| 96-121 | SOME FILM BY GURU DUTT
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Details:TrailerLength: 30' Screenwriter: Himanshu Tomar Director: Himanshu Tomar Producer: SRFTI Animator: n/a DOP: Aakash Choudhary Sound: Eemon Ray Editor: Sohini Das Production Designer: Vivek Alankar Synopsis: Inspired by Tennessee Williams' short story "Something by Tolstoi," this movie is about a cinema projectionist whose wife decides to leave him so she can become a well-known actress in the movie business. The projectionist had been rewriting the happy endings of Bollywood tragedy films since he was a young boy. He was a closet writer. Despite his talent, he lacked the confidence to survive outside his movie theatre. The projectionist loses all control as he creates a variety of happy endings for his love tale in an effort to win back his wife. After a decade, fate steps in and brings his wife back. However, he has forgotten who she is and what he has been looking forward to for all these years. |
Satyajit Ray Film and Television Institute (SRFTI) | India | 0 |
| 96-121 | SOUK
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Details:TrailerLength: 10' Screenwriter: Wendkoagnda Gaston Bonkoungou Director: Abdoul Latif Keita Producer: ISIS-SE/UNICEF Burkina Animator: n/a DOP: n/a Sound: Severin Kabore Editor: Cyrille Ouedraogo Production Designer: n/a Synopsis: Burkina Faso faces several regular and permanent terrorist attacks. Binta, a 7-year-old girl lost her father in her attacks. She lives in an IDP camp with her mother and 6-month-old baby brother, but she thinks her dad is still alive. There is a lack of water in the region and the thirst is intensifying. She travels miles every day to find water Binta has one passion: drawing. |
ISIS | Burkina Faso | 0 |
| 96-121 | TENEBROUS
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Details:TrailerLength: 17' Screenwriter: Danny Lavin Director: Charles Pears Producer: Charles Pears Animator: n/a DOP: Oliver Ridehalgh Sound: Alex Dixon Editor: Robyn Kitley Production Designer: Emilia Lester Synopsis: An introspective experimental drama: Lost in a place he knows all too well, a man finds himself stuck in a way he can’t quite explain. He longs for release, to know what is happening, but first he must know and accept where he has come from. |
Northern Film School / Leeds Beckett University (NFS/LBU) | United Kingdom | 0 |
| 96-121 | TERMS & CONDITIONS
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Details:TrailerLength: 7' Screenwriter: Teidi Domi Director: Teidi Domi Producer: Eol Çashku Animator: n/a DOP: Fabio Trifoni Sound: Marjel Shima Editor: Teidi Domi Production Designer: n/a Synopsis: Devli, a guy in his twenties wakes up and starts a routine day. All the people he keeps meeting during the day keep acting strange and follow him in everything he does. How will Devli cope with this? |
Academy of Film and Multimedia Marubi (AFMM) | Albania | 0 |
| 96-121 | THE COCKROACH
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Details:TrailerLength: 24' Screenwriter: Ju Hyeon Director: Ju Hyeon Producer: Oh Semi Animator: n/a DOP: Kim JeHo Sound: Lee Yein Editor: Park Sumin Production Designer: Kim Yeonjin Synopsis: Tae-soo, who stops Su-yeon from trying to kill herself, seems to have another plan. |
KUMA | South Korea | 0 |
| 96-121 | THE EXHIBITION
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Details:TrailerLength: 15' Screenwriter: Emir Aktel Director: Emir Aktel Producer: Emir Aktel, Ali Yiğit Pekyener Animator: n/a DOP: Emir Aktel Sound: Şimal Sanlı Editor: Emir Aktel Production Designer: Selen Başman, İrem İmre Synopsis: While the artist attended his eagerly awaited exhibition, his mysterious past jeopardizes the auction. |
Istanbul Kultur University (IKU) | Turkey | 0 |
| 96-121 | THE FUGUE
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Details:TrailerLength: 20' Screenwriter: Can Baran, Koray Al Director: Can Baran Producer: Defne Yaramanoğlu Animator: n/a DOP: Ege Demirağ Sound: Yamaç İbanoğlu Editor: Can Baran Production Designer: Koray Al Synopsis: Benyamin, a senior violin student, wants to complete the cello sonata left unfinished by his mother to mourn her death. On the other hand, he has to qo on the path full of ambitions drawn by his despotic father. Benyamin has to choose between his passions or his ambitions. |
Bilkent University | Turkey | 0 |
| 96-121 | THE RIDE
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Details:TrailerLength: 2' Screenwriter: Nomfundo Shabangu Director: Nomfundo Shabangu Producer: Kagata Mamabolo Animator: Khanyi Mgquba DOP: Okgonne Tshesejane Sound: Kagata Mamabolo Editor: Khanyi Mgquba Production Designer: Okgonne Tshesejane Synopsis: Two young woman request a ride with a driver who seems to have his own ulterior motives, as the ride goes on he tries to reach for his weapon, but the two girls strangle him to death. |
Wits School of Arts / Division of Film & Television (WSOA) | South Africa | 0 |
| 96-121 | THE SUNLIGHT FROM YOUR TONGUE
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Details:TrailerLength: 13' Screenwriter: M. Ceren Arslan Director: M. Ceren Arslan Producer: Shannon Sutherland Animator: n/a DOP: Madilyn Witherspoon Sound: M. Ceren Arslan Editor: Aaron Kudja Production Designer: Sydney Hendrix Synopsis: Wanting to help her depressed lover, a woman agrees to be present while her partner commits suicide, accepting a tragedy that will ruin her forever. |
Florida State University / College of Motion Picture Arts (FSU) | United States | 0 |
| 96-121 | UNBOUND
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Details:TrailerLength: 16' Screenwriter: Ankur Abhishek Director: Ankur Abhishek Producer: Film & Television Institute Of India, Pune, India Animator: n/a DOP: Shubham Kilari Sound: Caster Rinoy Gomez Editor: Navtika Sharma Production Designer: n/a Synopsis: The film is set in a world which has no source of fire left, thus the humans are adopting to live without fire. The film explore the journey of a father whose child is not able to adapt to these new condition and is thus dying because of cold and hunger, for he is not able to eat raw meat (vegetation has become poisonous). The father takes the journey to find the fire which his wife believes is still present in the form of a fire God who is cursed. |
Film and Television Institute of India (FTII) | India | 0 |
| 96-121 | VULPES
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Details:TrailerLength: 7' Screenwriter: n/a Director: Laura Hoffheimer Producer: Laura Hoffheimer Animator: n/a DOP: n/a Sound: n/a Editor: n/a Production Designer: n/a Synopsis: After many years of conjuring the idea of 'man' and what it means to be human, a sly nimble fox spirit becomes a human to learn their ways. |
Emerson College | United States | 0 |
| 96-121 | WISH UPON A DISCO BALL
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Details:TrailerLength: 19' Screenwriter: Anabel Iñigo Director: Anabel Iñigo Producer: Rachel Allen, Alissa Nguyen, Danielle Mullins Animator: n/a DOP: Matt Wilder Sound: Lai Jiang, Bunthoeun Real Editor: Julian Stern Production Designer: Oscar Lujan Synopsis: With teenage sisters Olivia and Juliana growing apart after their dad's death, Olivia asks Juliana to go to a disco. Juliana's boyfriend Leo is against it, so Olivia wishes on her dad's disco ball that they would break up. Olivia is surprised to find that her wish comes true - Juliana and Olivia hang out without Leo and go to the disco together. only to have Leo show up too. As Juliana talks to him, a hurt Olivia remembers how their dad united her and Juliana using disco. In a disco dance, the two sisters apologize: Olivia for wishing that Juliana and Leo would break up, and Juliana for not spending enough time with Olivia. |
University of Southern California's School of Cinematic Arts (USC) | United States | 0 |
Documentary
| Place | Title | School | Country | Points |
| 1 | BEFORE BEDTIME
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Details:Length: 27'Screenwriter: Fábio Zilberman Luchno Director: Fábio Zilberman Luchno Producer: Lev Orlov Animator: n/a DOP: Fábio Zilberman Luchno Sound: Neal Gibbs Editor: Rachel Schatz, May Resh Production Designer : n/a Synopsis: 3 years after receiving a terminal ALS diagnosis, 47-year-old Michal lost everything she was, except for being a mother. Trying to live her last months to the fullest, she and her 7-year-old son Naveh discover a common love for trails, wilderness and the forces of nature. Michal hopes to be remembered as a functioning mother, while Naveh tries by himself to understand what no one dares to explain to him. |
Sam Spiegel Film and Television School Jerusalem (JSFS) | Israel | 61 |
| 2 | FATHER.SON
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Details:Length: 18'Screenwriter: n/a Director: Jakub Gomółka Producer: Agata Golańska / The Polish National Film, Television and Theatre School in Lodz Animator: n/a DOP: Nikodem Marek Sound: Grzegorz Maciąg, Rafał Nowak Editor: Celina Przyklęk, Jakub Gomółka Production Designer : n/a Synopsis: After leaving prison, Mariusz and his son attempt to adapt to reality, interweaving the habits of jail with the struggle of everyday life. The protagonists' sensitivity contrasts with the heartless reality that leaves a scar on former prisoners excluding them from being a valuable members of the society. |
Polish National Film, Television and Theatre School in Lodz (PWSFTViT) | Poland | 60 |
| 3 | REQUIEM FOR A WHALE
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Details:Length: 15'Screenwriter: Ido Weisman, Alex Khosid Director: Ido Weisman Producer: Ido Weisman Animator: n/a DOP: Ido Weisman Sound: Dan Ben Haim Editor: Alex Khosid Production Designer : n/a Synopsis: On a stormy night in early 2021, a whale’s body washed ashore at Nitzanim beach in Israel. Over the documentation of the encounter between people and the carcass, we hear the voices of several witnesses who were present at the rare occurrence. From the fabric of responses, a collective experience shines, regarding the dialogue between life and death. |
The Steve Tisch School of Film and Television (TAU) | Israel | 54 |
| 4 | BITTER SEPTEMBER
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Details:Length: 26'Screenwriter: Sophia Farantatou Director: Sophia Farantatou Producer: HEAD GENEVE Animator: Sophia Farantatou DOP: Sophia Farantatou Sound: Lenny Moreau Editor: Olivia Frey Production Designer : Sophia Farantatou Synopsis: After the murder of Greek activist Zak Kostopoulos, his childhood friend, Sophia Farantatou, finds herself in the middle of an impasse, between the media storytelling and her own archive footage she had shot with him. Only time can give her the space to mourn and confront the absence of her friend. |
Film Department/cinéma du réel - Geneva School of Art and Design (HEAD) | Switzerland | 53 |
| 5 | LOUDER! SO I CAN HEAR YOU
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Details:Length: 30'Screenwriter: n/a Director: Laura Bokhoven Producer: Patou ten Cate, Marie-Louise Keur Animator: n/a DOP: Thomas Weber Sound: Zoé Beekes Editor: Laura Helbing Production Designer : n/a Synopsis: In this documentary road movie, a hidden story about the filmmaker's deceased father sets off a journey in the present. Along the way, the landscape mingles with a poetic dialogue between father and daughter, and passers-by serve as counselors in the grieving process and the search for her father's past. |
Netherlands Film Academy (NFA) | Netherlands | 49 |
| 6 | EVERYTHING'S FINE, POTATOES IN LINE
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Details:Length: 14'Screenwriter: Piotr Jasiński Director: Piotr Jasiński Producer: Tomáš Šimon (FAMU), Amélie Kostelková Animator: n/a DOP: Vojtěch Lukeš Sound: Vojtěch Vilém Cibulka Editor: Oleksandr Veremeyenko Production Designer : n/a Synopsis: During the political conflict between Poland and Czech Republic around "Turow" coal mine, Teresa (50 years old, Poland) decides to fight with "the enemy" ...In the potato salad contest. |
Film and Television School / Academy of Performing Arts in Prague (FAMU) | Czech Republic | 48 |
| 7-8 | REGARD SILENCE
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Details:Length: 30'Screenwriter: n/a Director: Santiago Zermeño Producer: Andrea Juárez, Lau Charles, Santiago Zermeno Animator: n/a DOP: Angel Jara Taboada Sound: Jorge Leal Carrera Editor: Santiago Zermeño Production Designer : n/a Synopsis: A group of deaf people explore the Mexican Sign Language through a scenic lab of poetic creation. Regard Silence shows this unique creative process, while attempting to make explicit the distance from which we listeners (the audience) connect to the sensations proper to Deafness: almost always failing to recognize them as a different way of naming and inhabiting the world. |
Centro de Capacitación Cinematográfica, A.C. (CCC) | Mexico | 37 |
| 7-8 | THE DAUGHTERS
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Details:Length: 14'Screenwriter: Pedro Greco Director: Joaquin Echevarria, Juan Martin Torres Producer: Maximiliano Di Napoli Animator: n/a DOP: Tomas Regidor Sound: Hernan Puga Editor: Sofia Caivieiio Production Designer : David Mendoza Synopsis: Former students of an orphanage return every year to celebrate their birthdays. They wander around the building looking to answer what brings them back and, at the same time, face the ghosts of their shared past. |
Escuela Nacional de Experimentación y Realización Cinematográfica (ENERC) | Argentina | 37 |
| 9 | MOON
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Details:Length: 13'Screenwriter: Zineb Wakrim Director: Zineb Wakrim Producer: Esav Marrakech Animator: n/a DOP: Amine Berrada Sound: Mehdi Jaouhari Editor: Pierre Bael Production Designer : n/a Synopsis: A poetic film about two Moroccan and Amazigh moon children, Hasna and Samad, 14 years old. Art and painting help them to resist and catch the light in the middle of the darkness. The film is inspired by Persian poems of Farrokhzad and it's in the Berber language. |
Marrakech School of Visual Arts (ESAVM) | Morocco | 33 |
| 10 | ADRIA
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Details:Length: 30'Screenwriter: Alessandro Garbuio Director: Alessandro Garbuio Producer: ventura film I CISA Animator: n/a DOP: Antonino Mangiaracina , Ares Barella Sound: Alberto Morelli, Davide Londero, Reto Gelshorn Editor: Sophie Jean-Richard, Alessandro Garbuio Production Designer : Mattia Monticelli Synopsis: Adria is a place that can be many things. You only need to move one's gaze beyond the banks of the river Dora Baltea, in the shadow of the castle and the factories, to see an industrial town, an ancient village, and a land of small merchants emerge. Here, where a Utopia now faded in time and where the dream of a community was shattered, shadows remain that no longer have coordinates. |
Academy of Audiovisual Sciences (CISA) | Switzerland | 32 |
| 11 | THE VIOLENCE BETWEEN US
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Details:Length: 24'Screenwriter: n/a Director: Camila Guerreiro Producer: Alex Handschuh Animator: n/a DOP: Carol Quintanilha, Loiro Cunha Sound: Jan Sigsworth Editor: Mira Thu Production Designer : n/a Synopsis: In Salvador, Brazil there's a hidden war being fought. Every hour a woman is killed by someone she’s close to. To combat the violence, the police have trained a special team of officers. But they don’t just tackle the aggressors - they also spend time with the women, offering them confidence and protection. And the results are remarkable. |
National FIlm and Television School (NFTS) | United Kingdom | 31 |
| 12-13 | THE UNICORN IN SNOWPANTS SUDDENLY RAN OFF
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Details:Length: 18'Screenwriter: n/a Director: Philipp Schaeffer Producer: Fabian Leonhardt Animator: n/a DOP: Leon Hörtrich Sound: Frederic Hellmann Editor: Jan Wollenschläger Production Designer : n/a Synopsis: „The Unicorn in Snowpants Suddenly Ran Off" explores the clash between blind children's fantasy worlds and the reality they live in. The film draws us into the worlds of three confident children, for whom blindness is not a disability but rather a different kind of normal. Larks, telephones and short stories each play a role. |
Filmakademie Baden-Wuerttemberg (FABW) | Germany | 29 |
| 12-13 | TILL THE END
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Details:Length: 24'Screenwriter: Beatrice Perego Director: Beatrice Perego Producer: Centro Sperimentale di Cinematografia Animator: n/a DOP: Beatrice Perego Sound: Luca Rinaudo Editor: Beatrice Perego Production Designer : n/a Synopsis: Martina often thinks about death and every year she rewrites her will. This year she has decided to organize her funeral. By watching her, the director finds the courage to face a painful loss and to recreate the last goodbye to someone who has recently disappeared. |
Centro Sperimentale di Cinematografia (CSC) | Italy | 29 |
| 14 | LAZARE
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Details:Length: 23'Screenwriter: Levan Chkonia Director: Levan Chkonia Producer: Levan Chkonia Animator: n/a DOP: Levan Chkonia Sound: Irakli Margishvili, Saba Padiurashvili Editor: Levan Chkonia, Giga Japaridze Production Designer : n/a Synopsis: Several days in life of a 9-year-old boy. |
Theatre and Film Georgia State University (TAFU) | Georgia | 27 |
| 15 | ON ITS WAY DOWN
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Details:Length: 23'Screenwriter: Sebastian Schaevers, Joren Peeters Director: Sebastian Schaevers Producer: Sebastian Schaevers Animator: n/a DOP: Sebastian Schaevers Sound: Sebastian Schaevers, Raf Enckels Editor: Sebastian Schaevers Production Designer : n/a Synopsis: Even when a paraglider mysteriously falls from the sky, the people of Zinal don’t seem to be bothered. The small town in the Swiss Alps looks straight up toward the melting glaciers of the Couronne Impériale. But what to do? |
Royal Academy of Fine Arts / University College Ghent (KASK) | Belgium | 25 |
| 16-17 | BAD HOMBREWOOD
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Details:Length: 24'Screenwriter: Guillermo Casarin Director: Guillermo Casarin Producer: Marian Cook, Santos Herrera Animator: n/a DOP: Cory D. Ewig Sound: Naixin Fan, Federico Arboleda Editor: Sergio Ortiz, Blaine Morris Production Designer : n/a Synopsis: For decades, the film industry has confined minorities to stereotypical characters. Now, filmmakers fight to change the Latinx role in Hollywood. Guillermo Casarin, embarks on a quest to answer the question, "Do I have a place in Hollywood?" Through compelling interviews and archival footage, Bad Hombrewood reveals the dark side of Hollywood's history, the war stories of casting, and the challenges each filmmaker encounters trying to succeed in the entertainment industry. Latinx filmmakers and allies coming together and answering the question, "How can we create a place for us in Hollywood?" |
University of Southern California's School of Cinematic Arts (USC) | United States | 24 |
| 16-17 | FLOWERS IN A HAILSTORM
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Details:Length: 30'Screenwriter: Maharshi Kashyap Director: Maharshi Kashyap Producer: SRFTI Animator: n/a DOP: Nandan Kumar Sound: Arnab Borah Editor: Sharmistha Chakrabartty Production Designer : Sagar Mahindra Synopsis: While trying to craft a film on deserted abandoned in houses, I was forced to confront my deep-rooted abandonment issues and, eventually, come face to face with my dead self. Incidentally, my lover Susmita can magically ignite and enliven the soul of the dead. |
Satyajit Ray Film and Television Institute (SRFTI) | India | 24 |
| 18 | STATE OF ANXIETY
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Details:Length: 22'Screenwriter: Quynh Le Nguyen Director: Quynh Le Nguyen Producer: Stella Deborah Traub Animator: n/a DOP: Rita Hajjar Sound: Philip Hutter Editor: Narges Kalhor Production Designer : Philip Hutter Synopsis: “What if they think I’m stupid?” Four young people portray their inner states - what does it mean to suffer from social phobia? |
University of Television and Film Munich (HFF) | Germany | 23 |
| 19 | AFTER THE STORM
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Details:Length: 6'Screenwriter: Jovanni Mendoza, Andoeni Padilla Director: Jovanni Mendoza Producer: Jovanni Mendoza, Andoeni Padilla Animator: n/a DOP: Jovanni Mendoza Sound: Andoeni Padilla Editor: Jovanni Mendoza Production Designer : n/a Synopsis: Gloria is a very important textile artisan in her town in Oaxaca, however, she stopped weaving 5 years ago due to breast cancer, she lives with her sister María, who is also a fine loom artisan, today in day due to this event their relationship as sisters has strengthened. |
University of Guadalajara / Image and Sound Department | Mexico | 22 |
| 20 | ALPHA KINGS
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Details:Length: 15'Screenwriter: Faye Tsakas, Enrique Pedraza Botero Director: Faye Tsakas, Enrique Pedraza Botero Producer: Faye Tsakas, Enrique Pedraza Botero Animator: n/a DOP: Faye Tsakas, Enrique Pedraza Botero Sound: Dan Olmsted Editor: Faye Tsakas, Enrique Pedraza Botero Production Designer : n/a Synopsis: From a rented mansion in suburban Texas, a group of young men sell a hyperbolic, alpha-male version of themselves on the internet. |
Stanford University | United States | 20 |
| 21 | TRAPPED IN HIS OWN MOVIE
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Details:Length: 29'Screenwriter: n/a Director: Alexandru Oiță Producer: Alexandru Oiță Animator: n/a DOP: Alexandru Buliga Sound: Alexandru Buliga Editor: Rareș Marinoiu Production Designer : n/a Synopsis: Andrei Cătălin Băleanu, the living ghost of the Romanian cinema of the '70s, presented through the eyes of a young director at the beginning of the road. |
National University of Theatre and Film (UNATC) | Romania | 19 |
| 22-23 | LIMBO
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Details:Length: 30'Screenwriter: Alexandar Handzhiev Director: Julia Pastrakova Producer: Prof. Dr. Stanislav Semerdjiev Animator: n/a DOP: Nikolay Yamarlаkov, Sarah Morfova Sound: Simeon Stefanov Editor: Vasilena Lakova Production Designer : n/a Synopsis: Dementia is a neurological disorder, which, in severe cases, renders an affected person incapable of self-care. In specialised care centres, the efforts for the accommodated are tiring, their treatment - impossible, and the caretakers’ work - futile. Deadlock. What is such a person feeling? Is he fighting or has he already lost the battle? |
National Academy for Theatre and Film Arts (NATFA) | Bulgaria | 18 |
| 22-23 | LOOKING AT ANIMALS
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Details:Length: 22'Screenwriter: n/a Director: Anna Weltner Producer: Anna Weltner Animator: n/a DOP: Fergus Hatton Sound: n/a Editor: Anna Weltner Production Designer : n/a Synopsis: Inspired by John Berger’s 1980 essay “Why Look at Animals?” this observational film in five acts explores the urban spaces that exist for the purpose of, well, looking at animals. |
Northern Film School / Leeds Beckett University (NFS/LBU) | United Kingdom | 18 |
| 24-26 | NO ELEMENTS
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Details:Length: 25'Screenwriter: Barbara Vojtašáková, Ema Nemčovičová Director: Barbara Vojtašáková Producer: Patrícia Alexia Pošová, Academy of Performing Arts in Bratislava, Slovakia Animator: n/a DOP: Hugo Činčala Sound: Maroš Olah Editor: Petra Vrbová Production Designer : n/a Synopsis: No Elements is a story of young people Michal and Tereza who explore the reason for their break-up and the difference of their inner worlds. |
Academy of Performing Arts / Film and Television Faculty (VSMU) | Slovakia | 17 |
| 24-26 | POEM FROM THE BORDERS
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Details:Length: 16'Screenwriter: n/a Director: Janne Vasarainen Producer: Janne Vasarainen & Baltic Film Media and Arts School Animator: n/a DOP: Janne Vasarainen Sound: Seppo Vanhatalo Editor: Janne Vasarainen Production Designer : n/a Synopsis: The smallest denominator of war is often a child. This smallest piece of the puzzle is unable to understand the entire reality of which it is a part of. The film tries to depict what goes around in the heads of these children, as we follow through the lens a bus full of Ukrainian refugees fleeing towards Finland. |
Baltic Film, Media and Arts School, Tallinn University | Estonia | 17 |
| 24-26 | THERE IS SOMETHING DIFFERENT WITH MY GRANDMOTHER
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Details:Length: 6'Screenwriter: Pedro Balderama Macedo, Rimai Sojo Patiño Director: Pedro Balderama Macedo, Rimai Sojo Patiño Producer: Universidad del Cine Animator: n/a DOP: Pedro Balderama Macedo, Rimai Sojo Patiño Sound: Pedro Balderama Macedo, Rimai Sojo Patiño Editor: Pedro Balderama Macedo, Rimai Sojo Patiño Production Designer : Pedro Balderama Macedo, Rimai Sojo Patiño Synopsis: As a result of a domestic accident, my grandmother started being monitored at home. Day and night cameras record her movements, interfering with her privacy. After some time observing, I began to notice something different with her. |
Universidad del Cine (UCINE) | Argentina | 17 |
| 27-29 | AN OATH
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Details:Length: 24'Screenwriter: Nanu Tlisov Director: Nanu Tlisov Producer: Elizaveta Koniakina Animator: Computer Graphics Diana Molchanova DOP: Roman Malyshev Sound: Varvara Bykova Editor: Arina Proshina, Nanu Tlisov Production Designer : n/a Synopsis: For more than 10 years "Society of Supreme Truth" has been headed by a fragile girl Elena, a holder of the Wisdom dan. Over half a century of its existence karate has secured itself a solid position among Eastern martial arts and invariably attracts huge numbers of spectators. The film tells the story of the junior sports school "Yamate" in Cherkessk which teaches one of the most difficult and rough karate styles Kyokushinkai. |
Russian State University of Сinematography n.a. S.Gerasimov VGIK | Russia | 16 |
| 27-29 | ANDI, ANDREA AND THE ALPS
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Details:Length: 14'Screenwriter: n/a Director: Nicolas Flood Producer: York University Animator: n/a DOP: Nicolas Flood Sound: Adelaide Berardi Editor: Marcus Bassett, NIcolas Flood Production Designer : n/a Synopsis: The Austrian Alps are a beautiful yet harsh environment with fewer people living within them daily, but Andi and Andrea decided to make them their home. |
York University Department of Film - Fine Arts | Canada | 16 |
| 27-29 | WATER
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Details:Length: 24'Screenwriter: Nicholas Sithole Director: Nicholas Sithole Producer: Nicholas Sithole Animator: n/a DOP: Angel Zulu Sound: Nicholas Sithole, Nkosinathi Sithole Editor: Nicholas Sithole Production Designer : n/a Synopsis: Mati (2022) is a personal experience of a mother and her first-born son, an experience of living in poverty-stricken Ivory Park where the very same Water that lives as a spiritual symbol of purity, life and hope to them became a destructive force of nature through the floods that wrecked their humble home. |
Tshwane University of Technology | South Africa | 16 |
| 30-32 | CALL IT ANYTHING
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Details:Length: 16'Screenwriter: Melvin Kwong Director: Melvin Kwong Producer: Melvin Kwong Animator: n/a DOP: Jesse Phillips Sound: Samuel Turner Editor: Izzat Nadeem Production Designer : n/a Synopsis: Unable to find the words that are in his heart, a son enlists three musicians to translate into music the letters he wishes to write to his mother, hoping to give himself peace of mind. |
Australian Film Television and Radio School (AFTRS) | Australia | 15 |
| 30-32 | LISTEN TO MY VOICE
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Details:Length: 26'Screenwriter: Zohar Orian Cohen Director: Zohar Orian Cohen Producer: Zohar Orian Cohen Animator: n/a DOP: Zohar Orian Cohen Sound: Yuval Bar On, Gal Lazar Shiloach Editor: Zohar Orian Cohen Production Designer : n/a Synopsis: Mother and daughter try to renew a relationship that was broken in the shadow of childhood trauma. Armed with a camera, the director returns to her childhood home in search of recognition. Between bags of clothes, the generation and memory gaps revealed. Despite the geographical and mental distance between them, they share a common demand for love and closeness. |
School of Audio & Visual Arts, Sapir College | Israel | 15 |
| 30-32 | THEY KILLED US FOR EXISTING
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Details:Length: 10'Screenwriter: Meghan O’Shaughnessy Director: Meghan O’Shaughnessy Producer: Meghan O’Shaughnessy Animator: n/a DOP: Naoise Kettle Sound: Meghan O’Shaughnessy Editor: Meghan O’Shaughnessy Production Designer : n/a Synopsis: A Short Documentary that tackles gendered violence against women in Ireland. |
National Film School / Institute of Art, Design and Technology (IADT) | Ireland | 15 |
| 33-36 | ABOVE WATER
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Details:Length: 17'Screenwriter: Alex Walton Director: Alex Walton Producer: Sam Hewison Animator: Peeled Productions – Maximillian Isobe, Jon Dinapoli, Harrison Ritchie-Jones DOP: Alex Walton, Ainsley Halbmeijer Sound: Josh Peters Editor: Alex Walton Production Designer : n/a Synopsis: Above Water follows the stories of seafarers around the world, as they ask the world to pay attention to the human rights crisis unfolding on international waters. |
VCA Film and Television | Australia | 14 |
| 33-36 | THE SONGS WE SING IN A DIFFERENT LAND
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Details:Length: 26'Screenwriter: Inshallah Montero Director: Inshallah Montero Producer: DocNomads EMJMD Animator: n/a DOP: Shaheen Ahmed, Inshallah Montero Sound: Margaryta Kulichova, Tarun Madupu Editor: Inshallah Monter, Isabela Monteiro de Castro Production Designer : n/a Synopsis: This film is about an intimate friendship shared by a community of Filipina women working hard as overseas Filipino workers or OFW’s. They are mostly cleaning ladies, all around house maids or nannies to children. The only time they could get together with fellow Filipinos is on their day-off during Sundays to talk about living abroad, their work, far away families in the Philippines. These conversations open up various socio-political issues that our country has been facing for many years. |
Universidade Lusófona / Film and Media Arts Department (ULHT) | Portugal | 14 |
| 33-36 | TO BE A FATHER
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Details:Length: 14'Screenwriter: Blaž Andrašek Director: Blaž Andrašek Producer: The Academy of Theatre, Radio, Film and Television Animator: n/a DOP: Maja Krvina Sound: Gregor Bajc Editor: Varja Lorger Production Designer : n/a Synopsis: A poetic documentary in which invisible protagonists share personal stories about life with an absent father, raising the question of what does it even mean to be a father? |
University of Ljubljana / Academy of Theatre, Radio, Film and Television (AGRFT) | Slovenia | 14 |
| 33-36 | TO WRITE FROM MEMORY
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Details:Length: 18'Screenwriter: Emory Chao Johnson Director: Emory Chao Johnson Producer: Emory Chao Johnson Animator: n/a DOP: Farrah Su Sound: Jackie Zhou, Torin Geller Editor: Emory Chao Johnson Production Designer : n/a Synopsis: A young person's transition is moving forward, despite a history of objections. Deeply intimate yet distant, the film reflects upon how the past continues to be shaped in the present, evolving and unfolding as we move through different chapters of our lives. |
University of California Los Angeles (UCLA) | United States | 14 |
| 37 | WALLS THAT SCREAM
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Details:Length: 12'Screenwriter: Evi Cats Director: Evi Cats Producer: RITCS Animator: n/a DOP: Lukas Gevaert Sound: Jeroen Bollen, Efe Otike Editor: Cato Kusters Production Designer : n/a Synopsis: His name is written on all the walls in Cureghem: Adil. The letters capture something. They are part of the street scene, come into contact with wind and rain and make something visible that is too invisible. While his name is painted on the walls there, as static as it is transitory, life rushes past - cyclists in one direction, cars in another. Time advances. |
Royal Institute for Theatre, Cinema and Sound (RITCS) | Belgium | 13 |
| 38-40 | A LIFE IN BOXES
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Details:Length: 20'Screenwriter: n/a Director: Tayton T. Troidl Producer: Tayton T. Troidl Animator: n/a DOP: Tayton T. Troidl, Tim Davis Sound: Tayton T. Troidl, Austin Keck Editor: Tayton T. Troidl, Tyler Lucey Production Designer : n/a Synopsis: As a son uncovers the multiple lives of a father he barely knew, his father's life choices reveal a complex truth that echoes throughout a grieving family; peeling back the layers of who Darryl Tarrance truly was. |
School of Film and Animation, College of Art and Design, Rochester Institute of Technology | United States | 12 |
| 38-40 | GUND KWOK
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Details:Length: 19'Screenwriter: n/a Director: Xudong Liu Producer: Xudong Liu Animator: n/a DOP: n/a Sound: n/a Editor: n/a Production Designer : n/a Synopsis: The Lion Dance is a folk dance from Asia that was performed exclusively by men in the past. “Gund Kwok” is the first women’s Lion Dance troupe in the U.S. Founded by Cheng Imm Tan, she and fifteen Asian women strive to break lingering stereotypes about Asian women. |
Emerson College | United States | 12 |
| 38-40 | PHILHARMONIC
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Details:Length: 12'Screenwriter: Anastasia Korabelnikova Director: Anastasia Korabelnikova Producer: Anna Ivanova Animator: n/a DOP: Sergei Sokolov, Vlad Shapovalov Sound: Daria Gegeshko Editor: n/a Production Designer : Gleb Anikeychik Synopsis: The film "Philharmonia" explores the influence of classical music on a 21st century person via examples of students of the D.D. Shostakovich St. Petersburg Academic Philharmonia. It shows the dialogue between the musician and the listener through their emotions, reactions, gestures. "Philharmonia" is another attempt to understand a person. |
St. Petersburg State University of Film and Television (SPUFT) | Russia | 12 |
| 41-45 | DARE TO DREAM
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Details:Length: 14'Screenwriter: Alan Chambers Director: Alan Chambers Producer: Emma Jackson Animator: n/a DOP: Dasha Melnik Sound: Aref Rashidan Editor: Alan Chambers Production Designer : n/a Synopsis: Things aren't looking too good for Geoff. But his son has a plan. Dare to Dream is the tale of a father and son determined to have one last go at reclaiming life. |
WA Screen Academy, Edith Cowan University | Australia | 11 |
| 41-45 | RADIADIO
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Details:Length: 20'Screenwriter: Ondine Novarese Director: Ondine Novarese Producer: Justine Riou Animator: n/a DOP: Hugo Malidin Sound: Lou Jullien Editor: Gabrielle Stemmer, Charly Cancel Production Designer : n/a Synopsis: A Jewish family tries to keep her traditions alive in the modern world, despite of the succession of generations. From film to Zoom, we live a Pesach holiday with this family, through time. |
La Fémis | France | 11 |
| 41-45 | THE OCEAN AROUND MILAN - CONVERSATIONS WITH MILO DE ANGELIS
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Details:Length: 21'Screenwriter: Giulia Oglialoro Director: Samuele Fassina, Cosimo iannunzio, Giulia Oglialoro, Hedda Paljak Director of Photography: Samuele Fassina, Cosimo iannunzio, Giulia Oglialoro, Hedda Paljak Producer: Bianca Burini Animator: n/a DOP: Samuele Fassina, Cosimo iannunzio, Giulia Oglialoro, Hedda Paljak Sound: Samuele Fassina, Cosimo iannunzio, Giulia Oglialoro, Hedda Paljak Editor: Samuele Fassina, Cosimo iannunzio, Giulia Oglialoro, Hedda Paljak Production Designer : n/a Synopsis: What if memories didn’t belong to us, but instead to places? Milo De Angelis, a poet from Milan, entrusts his memories to a recorder, recalling the years of teaching in jail, the long everyday to his lessons, and the meeting with two unforgettable inmates. |
Milan City Film School Luchino Visconti (MCSC) | Italy | 11 |
| 41-45 | TIME
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Details:Length: 12'Screenwriter: Teague O´Hea Flores Director: Teague O´Hea Flores Producer: Teague O´Hea Flores Animator: n/a DOP: Rene Villaseñor Garcia Sound: Teague O´Hea Flores Editor: Teague O´Hea Flores Production Designer : Vanessa Navari Virchez Synopsis: More than proposing answers, Time (El Tiempo) seeks to generate questions. In this documentary proposal, an analysis of the incompressibility of time is carried out considering the physical definitions that science has developed, the psychological and corporal dimension that the human being experiences and technology. |
Universidad Iberoamericana Mexico City (IBERO) | Mexico | 11 |
| 41-45 | TRAUMA DOLL
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Details:Length: 21'Screenwriter: Barque Julien Director: Barque Julien Producer: ENSAV Animator: n/a DOP: Barque Julien Sound: Barque Julien Editor: Barque Julien Production Designer : n/a Synopsis: Following a medical error, Caroline underwent a thoracotomy in 2010. When she was discharged from hospital, the doctors prescribed an opioid to help her cope with the pain. More than 10 years of this treatment have had serious consequences for Caroline. She is trying to wean herself off the drug, which will succeed during this film. |
ENSAV | France | 11 |
| 46-48 | ASHES BY MAN IS NAME
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Details:Length: 20'Screenwriter: n/a Director: Ewelina Rosinska Producer: Ewelina Rosinska, Roxana Richters Animator: n/a DOP: Ewelina Rosinska Sound: Ewelina Rosinska Editor: Ewelina Rosinska Production Designer : n/a Synopsis: Krakow in Poland and Lviv in Ukraine form the geographical setting of "Ashes by name is man". The images of the surroundings are interwoven with footage from the world of my grandparents, both of whom are over 80 years old. |
German Film and Television Academy Berlin (DFFB) | Germany | 10 |
| 46-48 | HOME
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Details:Length: 9'Screenwriter: Jiwoo Lee Director: Jiwoo Lee Producer: Jiwoo Lee Animator: Jiwoo Lee DOP: Yixiao Qin Sound: Jiwoo Lee Editor: Jiwoo Lee Production Designer : Jiwoo Lee Synopsis: HOME explores the variety of relationship between people and wild chicken in Hawaii. People are trying to protect their community, but wild chickens become a huge part of it. Now we need to find a home for wild chickens, if it’s not already taken over by humans. |
University of Hawai‘i Mānoa, Academy for Creative Media | United States | 10 |
| 46-48 | NUMBER ONE
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Details:Length: 15'Screenwriter: n/a Director: Milda Augustaityté Producer: Ingrida Danilovaité, Milda Augustaityté Animator: n/a DOP: Dominika Pieczulis Sound: Agatas Savickis Editor: Milda Augustaityté Production Designer : n/a Synopsis: Twelve-year-old Arianas is preparing for the Lithuanian Championship of Standard and Latin American dances with his partner. The couple must understand the world of adults - learn to demonstrate masculinity, feminine seduction and self-selling. But is that enough to win the championship? |
Lithuanian Academy of Music and Theatre (LMTA) | Lithuania | 10 |
| 49-52 | MY NEIGHBOUR KILLED MY CAT
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Details:Length: 18'Screenwriter: Reinis Ūbelis Director: Reinis Ūbelis Producer: Loreta Līva Lazdiņa Animator: n/a DOP: Reinis Ūbelis Sound: Pēteris Pāss Editor: Reinis Ūbelis Production Designer : n/a Synopsis: “My Neighbour Killed My Cat” is an experimental documentary film, which focuses on director’s realtionship with his hometown – Bauska, a small province town in Latvia. While the film portrays the town and its inhabitants, its main goal is an attempt to visualise a stream of consciousness and private memories. |
Latvian Academy of Culture (LAC) | Latvia | 9 |
| 49-52 | MY OWN PRIVATE REFUGEE CAMP
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Details:Length: 5'Screenwriter: Petar Lakic Director: Petar Lakic Producer: Petar Lakic Animator: n/a DOP: Cedo Lakic, Petar Lakic Sound: Jovana Andrijasevic Editor: Jovana Andrijasevic Production Designer : n/a Synopsis: A portrait of a family made from achive footage of life in a refugee camp. |
Fakultet dramskih umetnosti | Serbia | 9 |
| 49-52 | THE SEA FOREST
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Details:Length: 3'Screenwriter: Sung-ryong Hong Director: Sung-ryong Hong, Seol-a Chae Producer: Jae-mo Koo (Professor) Animator: n/a DOP: Seol-a Chae, Hyun-gil Lee; Underwater Cinematography: Sung-Ryong Hong, Hyun-gil Lee Sound: n/a Editor: Ye-jin Lee, Hyun-gil Lee Production Designer : n/a Synopsis: Carbon neutrality refers to reducing carbon dioxide emissions to zero by absorbing the same amount of carbon dioxide that is emitted. Protecting the marine environment is the most effective way in the zero-carbon movement to absorb carbon dioxide exhaled by humans. |
KUMA | South Korea | 9 |
| 49-52 | YOU ARE MY FATHER, MY FRIEND
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Details:Length: 17'Screenwriter: Estelle Sträng Director: Estelle Sträng Producer: Estelle Sträng Animator: n/a DOP: Estelle Sträng Sound: Estelle Sträng Editor: Estelle Sträng Production Designer : n/a Synopsis: A young girl spends a few days with her father, and together they investigate his life and their mutual relationship. |
European Film College (EFC) | Denmark | 9 |
| 53-58 | DAUGHTERS OF THE SEA
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Details:Length: 17'Screenwriter: Laura Esteban Director: Laura Esteban Producer: Laura Esteban Animator: n/a DOP: Laura Esteban Sound: Laura Esteban Editor: Laura Esteban Production Designer : n/a Synopsis: Jacqueline, Maria and Tomasa work among the Atlantic waves in Galicia, Spain. The relentless sea is the cornerstone of the identity of these women, instilling in them the bravery to face harsh working conditions and constant sexist discrimination that each of them has suffered from uncles, employees and even parents. |
London College of Communication | United Kingdom | 8 |
| 53-58 | JOURNEY TO LIFE
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Details:Length: 29'Screenwriter: Menippos Arapis Director: Menippos Arapis Producer: Menippos Arapis Animator: n/a DOP: Menippos Arapis, Giorgos Kapetanikolas Sound: Dimitra Margaritidou Editor: Pavlos Papadopoulos Production Designer : Magda Theodorouda, Despina Davoudani Synopsis: About 12 centimeters. This is the distance we travel during the first and hardest journey of our life that we don’t even remember. It takes 40 weeks of preparation and even more months of adjustment after it. Little Katerina is offering her guidance to her newborn baby brother through his journey to life. |
School of Film, Aristotle University of Thessaloniki | Greece | 8 |
| 53-58 | STATION TO STATION
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Details:Length: 26'Screenwriter: Po-Yen, Ho Director: Po-Yen, Ho Producer: Po-Yen, Ho Animator: n/a DOP: Po-Yen, Ho Sound: Wanda Xsiao Editor: Po-Yen, Ho Production Designer : n/a Synopsis: From living in An-Kung Community in Taipei to embarking on a trip to China, with conflicting emotions and identity engraved during that time, I was lost among the meanings of home and hometown. |
National Taiwan University of Arts (NTUA) | Taiwan | 8 |
| 53-58 | TO YOU(TH)
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Details:Length: 18'Screenwriter: Mira Merheb Director: Mira Merheb Producer: The Institute of Theater, Audiovisual and Cinematographic Studies (IESAV) of Saint-Joseph University of Beirut Animator: n/a DOP: Mira Merheb, Alain El Feghaly Sound: Anthony Ghazel Editor: Mira Merheb Production Designer : Mira Merheb, Alain El Feghaly Synopsis: Alain and Mira, a couple that has been together for five years, decide to have a heart-to-heart about life. They plunge into a thought-provoking conversation in which they question their own relationship and its destiny, while simultaneously reflecting on their collapsed homeland, Lebanon. They seek freedom and happiness, but would they truly reach that by escaping their country? Among all this instability and destruction surrounding them, will love alone be enough to keep them afloat? |
Institut d'études scéniques, audiovisuelles et cinématographiques (IESAV) | Lebanon | 8 |
| 53-58 | TWO GIANTS THAT EXIST HERE - A GERMAN FAIRY TALE
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Details:Length: 21'Screenwriter: Gianna Scholten Director: Gianna Scholten Producer: Gianna Scholten Animator: n/a DOP: Julia von dem Berge Sound: Gianna Scholten Editor: Gianna Scholten Production Designer : Gianna Scholten Synopsis: With the corona pandemic, a right-wing spiritual movement grew in Germany. At least it became visible. We see a bit of Germany and Grimm's Hänsel and Gretel. We hear the terrifyingly short path from naive belief in dwarfs to the anti-Semitic world conspiracy. |
Academy of Media Arts Cologne (KHM) | Germany | 8 |
| 53-58 | YISRAEL IS LOVESICK
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Details:Length: 15'Screenwriter: Yisrael Rohn Rigler Director: Yisrael Rohn Rigler Producer: Yisrael Rohn Rigler Animator: n/a DOP: Shaya Chesner Sound: Mazkeka Studios, Ori Kadishay Editor: Shiri Klas Production Designer : n/a Synopsis: Yisrael was born into a loving American ultra-Orthodox family from Jerusalem. As he grew up and discovered his attraction to men, everything changed. Suddenly, the whole future he imagined disappeared and in its place remained confusion and uncertainty. He is now 28 years old and through this film he is trying to figure out what he is really looking for. |
Ma'aleh School of Film, Television and the Arts (MAALE) | Israel | 8 |
| 59-64 | 20 SOMETHING
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Details:Length: 11'Screenwriter: Gaoretelelo Mogokonyane, Tshegofatso Makwase, Jeanett Ramphekoa Director: Thabiso Moholho, Gaoretelelo Mogokonyane, Tshegofatso Makwase, J Producer: AFDA, Reitumetse Molefe, Nompumelelo Mlangeni Animator: n/a DOP: Nompumelelo Mlangeni, Grace Kleb Sound: Tinemi Tsivama, Reitumetse Molefe, Lesedi Mabe, Tshepang Legabe Editor: Tshepang Legabe, Thabiso Moholho, Lesedi Mabe Production Designer : Nompumelelo Mlangeni, Grace Kleb Synopsis: 20 Something is a relatable and character-driven exploration of young adulthood and through the use of real people with real stories, breaks down the existence of the idealized 20s and aims to leave viewers with a hopeful and optimistic sentiment. |
South African School of Motion Picture Medium and Live Performance (AFDA) | South Africa | 7 |
| 59-64 | FOREIGNER
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Details:Length: 27'Screenwriter: Thales Pessoa Director: Thales Pessoa Producer: Thales Pessoa Animator: n/a DOP: Thales Pessoa Sound: Andrés Perugini Editor: Thales Pessoa, Sofia Bensadon, Gabriela Albuquerque Production Designer : n/a Synopsis: Three men walk through the night in the center of a strange city. Separated, they move unnoticed between streets and highways, while the memories of their stories take them along uncertain paths that at times seem to cross. |
Universidad de Buenos Aires / Diseño de Imagen y Sonido FADU (UBA) | Argentina | 7 |
| 59-64 | NO CONOZCO LA HISTORIA DEL FUEGO
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Details:Length: 26'Screenwriter: Luis Morla, Sara Domínguez Lopez, Alberto Ruiz Director: Sara Domínguez López, Luis Morla, Alberto Ruiz Producer: Sara Domínguez Lopez Animator: n/a DOP: Sara Monge, Alvaro De Siria Sound: Ángel Rojas Editor: Miguel Ariza Production Designer : n/a Synopsis: When time seems suspended, young people meet in the forest. |
ECAM (The Madrid Film School) | Spain | 7 |
| 59-64 | SEE YOU TOMORROW
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Details:Length: 20'Screenwriter: Kevin Biele, Mattea Steffens Director: Kevin Biele Producer: Anna Weber Animator: n/a DOP: Kim Hausner Sound: Mattea Steffens Editor: Mattea Steffens Production Designer : n/a Synopsis: Nick and Michi are inseparable friends. As they roam the streets and meadows of their neighborhood every day, they take in their surroundings, talk about school and memories, and keep silent. But when Michi surprises Nick with unexpected news, they try to suppress it in their own way. |
ifs internationale filmschule köln | Germany | 7 |
| 59-64 | TEENAGER PARTY
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Details:Length: 17'Screenwriter: Violetta Vigh Director: Violetta Vigh Producer: Violetta Vigh Animator: n/a DOP: Violetta Vigh Sound: Violetta Vigh Editor: Violetta Vigh Production Designer : n/a Synopsis: The film tells the story and cultural impact of the famous music programme called Teenager Party, which was broadcasted by Radio Free Europe (RFE) from München to young people living behind the Iron Curtain. Young Hungarians requested different songs via letter, from disc-jockey László Cseke. |
Moholy-Nagy University of Art and Design (MOME) | Hungary | 7 |
| 59-64 | THE WET, THE WILD AND THE WONDROUS
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Details:Length: 17'Screenwriter: Brandon Raeburn Josh Director: Brandon Raeburn Josh Producer: Toh Yi Shien Animator: Sheryl Chua, Dion Chew DOP: Kuek Ying Ting Sophia Sound: Lim Wen Fang Christel Editor: Lim Wen Fang Christel Production Designer : n/a Synopsis: What makes wet markets — seemingly mundane grocery shopping venues — so important to Singapore's national identity? The Wet, the Wild and the Wondrous is a multi-sensory journey through these special spaces that seeks to uncover the answer to this question. Through a granular exploration of the architectural, sociological, economic facets of wet markets, the film draws attention to hidden and often-missed details that give wet markets their unique character. The Wet, the Wild and the Wondrous is also a love letter to the colourful individuals who breathe life into the wet markets that they call home. |
Nanyang Technological University | Singapore | 7 |
| 65-68 | EAST OF THE RIVER
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Details:Length: 12'Screenwriter: Phil Bouknight and Amin El Siwi Director: Amin El Siwi and Phil Bouknight Producer: Phil Bouknight and Amin El Siwi Animator: n/a DOP: Amin El Siwi Sound: Amin El Siwi Editor: Amin El Siwi Production Designer : n/a Synopsis: East of the River tells the story of Kenilworth Park, in northeast Washington DC, which starts with the tragic death of a seven-year-old boy named Kelvin Mock whose sacrifice shaped the future of the Kenilworth Community. |
American University | United States | 6 |
| 65-68 | P IS FOR PARADISE
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Details:Length: 15'Screenwriter: n/a Director: Nina Caprice Producer: Rosie Wright Animator: Amy Glazer DOP: Elison Bartolomeu Sound: Cee J Ward, Chris Sharland Editor: Craig Schwartz Production Designer : n/a Synopsis: A father and a daughter embark on a journey to the past, eager to relive the now fading memories after a life threatening diagnosis. A documentary about fear of loss and the director's family experience with it. |
Bournemouth Film School (AUB) | United Kingdom | 6 |
| 65-68 | THE PICTURES INSIDE MY MIND
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Details:Length: 10'Screenwriter: Beatriz Amado, Matthew Houston-Oakley Director: Beatriz Amado Producer: Michaela Whittle Animator: n/a DOP: Matthew Houston-Oakley Sound: Cristóvão Marques Editor: Matthew Houston-Oakley Production Designer : n/a Synopsis: A short documentary about an institutionalised man with schizophrenia who uses filmmaking to manage his delusions. |
University of Hertfordshire | United Kingdom | 6 |
| 65-68 | THE WONDERFUL PAIN OF THE WILD BROOM
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Details:Length: 22'Screenwriter: Olivia G. Calcaterra Director: Olivia G. Calcaterra Producer: : ECAL & PicFilm Animator: n/a DOP: Loris Theurillat Sound: Vittorio Castellano Editor: Atef Maslah Production Designer : n/a Synopsis: In the desert of southern Spain, a film designed to bring together animal and human emotions through the trauma of abandonment. |
Ecole Cantonale d'Art de Lausanne (ECAL) | Switzerland | 6 |
| 69-74 | BETWEEN THE EARTH AND THE STARS
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Details:Length: 20'Screenwriter: Adheep Das Director: Adheep Das Producer: Film & Television Institute Of India, Pune, India Animator: n/a DOP: Prasad Vedvikhyat Sound: Shivpal Singh Kang Editor: Nawas Ali Production Designer : n/a Synopsis: A film about an investigation of knowledge through the Earth, the Sky, and the people living between them. A 3 part film, exploring what is up, what is down, and what is in-between. A combination of textural, animated, and live action sequences attempting to place a human being in between the sky and the earth. |
Film and Television Institute of India (FTII) | India | 5 |
| 69-74 | DISTANT STUDENTS
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Details:Length: 5'Screenwriter: Genco Güney lzmirli Director: Genco Güney lzmirli Producer: Genco Güney lzmirli Animator: Genco Güney lzmirli DOP: Genco Güney lzmirli Sound: Genco Güney lzmirli Editor: Genco Güney lzmirli Production Designer : Genco Güney lzmirli Synopsis: The documentary tells about the housing problems experienced by the students coming from outside the city to study at the University in Turkey. |
Istanbul Kultur University (IKU) | Turkey | 5 |
| 69-74 | GUARDIANS
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Details:Length: 6'Screenwriter: Minerva Navasca Director: Minerva Navasca Producer: Brianne Harvey Animator: n/a DOP: Samantha Stevenson Sound: Madison Bolton, Jesse Thompson Editor: Eric Genier Production Designer : n/a Synopsis: On a dark walk home, a girl calls her loved ones to protect her from potential perils she grew up fearing. |
Sheridan College | Canada | 5 |
| 69-74 | ON MOTHERS AND DAUGHTERS IN TIMES OF INJUSTICE
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Details:Length: 29'Screenwriter: Talia Jawitz Director: Talia Jawitz Producer: Médiadiffusion Animator: n/a DOP: n/a Sound: Guillaume Lion Editor: Talia Jawitz Production Designer : n/a Synopsis: Through an epistolary exchange, Merle revisits her past as an anti-Apartheid activist that separated her from her mother forever. Today, from her privileged life in South Africa, she tries to maintain links with her own daughter. |
Institut des Arts de Diffusion (IAD) | Belgium | 5 |
| 69-74 | PERO
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Details:Length: 15'Screenwriter: Sara Alavanić Director: Sara Alavanić Producer: Noa Nikolić Animator: n/a DOP: lvor Pondelak, Eva šustar, Luka Stjepanović Sound: Stjepan Hren Editor: Stjepan Hren Production Designer : n/a Synopsis: 30-year-old Pero goes from garage to garage and tries to go drifting. Even with his mom, he has nothing else to talk about. Pero spends his days trying to live his dream - fry tires. |
Academy of Dramatic Art Zagreb (ADU) | Croatia | 5 |
| 69-74 | THE NIGHT RAVENS
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Details:Length: 14'Screenwriter: n/a Director: Anna De Wit Producer: Ingrid Bakke Animator: n/a DOP: Marcus Brochmann Sound: Aydin Yilmaz Editor: Eirik Nilsen Production Designer : n/a Synopsis: A portrait of The Night ravens and their work in the streets of Oslo. |
Westerdals Department of Film and Media School of Arts, Design and Media, Kristiania University College | Norway | 5 |
| 75-77 | KICKING OFF THE JAM
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Details:Length: 14'Screenwriter: Isabella Poynter-Symonds Director: Isabella Poynter-Symonds Producer: Isabella Poynter-Symonds Animator: n/a DOP: Ian Tamawidjaja Sound: Seth Li Editor: Isabella Poynter-Symonds Production Designer : Matilda Poynter-Symonds Synopsis: In a world where sport has become the focus of the gender identity debate, this short documentary, featuring players from Sydney’s thriving Roller Derby scene, examines how this fast moving, aggressive full contact sport has fostered inclusiveness and become unlikely safe space for women and queer identifying people. |
University of Technology, Sydney | Australia | 4 |
| 75-77 | MY MOTHER’S DAUGHTER
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Details:Length: 12'Screenwriter: n/a Director: Flo Singer Producer: Flo Singer Animator: Ben Kieda DOP: Emma Barda Sound: Michael Cullen Editor: Flo Singer Production Designer : n/a Synopsis: Two half-siblings meet for the first time in adulthood after years of separation. |
Chapman University / Dodge College of Film and Media Arts | United States | 4 |
| 75-77 | WHERE ARE YOU NOW
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Details:Length: 19'Screenwriter: Schuyler Tan Jun Kai Director: Tai Binquan, Lim Hok Lye Producer: Tan En Dian Animator: n/a DOP: Hazman Syahmi B Sukarji Sound: Teng Wei Heng, Mario Editor: Teng Wei Heng, Mario Production Designer : Casey Lim Yu Xuan Synopsis: The lives of a father and his three boys are thrown into disarray after their mother suffers a stroke. As the family struggles to cope with the sudden tragedy, they hope against all hope for her recovery. |
Ngee Ann Polytechnic / School of Film & Media Studies | Singapore | 4 |
| 78-82 | BENTUGUESE
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Details:Length: 16'Screenwriter: Sofia da Costa Director: Daniel Borga Producer: Ivone Gradim Animator: n/a DOP: Inês Seabra Sound: Guilherme Capa, Ana Meneses Editor: Catarina Fonseca Production Designer : n/a Synopsis: After school, a group of children talk about their dreams, while time-travelling to them. In the meantime, they play and grow in the headquarters of a community outreach project. |
Lisbon Theatre and Film School (ESTC) | Portugal | 3 |
| 78-82 | OUR LANGUAGE
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Details:Length: 15'Screenwriter: N/A Director: Mila Lewis Producer: Mila Lewis Animator: n/a DOP: Mila Lewis Sound: N/A Editor: Sommer Parry Production Designer : n/a Synopsis: The film is a documentary about a family living around Autism Spectrum Disorder. |
Falmouth University | United Kingdom | 3 |
| 78-82 | OUT OF THE DARKNESS
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Details:Length: 13'Screenwriter: Nabih Ghani, Matthew Le, Kavya Mohan Director: n/a Producer: Brett Levner Animator: n/a DOP: Ahmad abu-Shamma, Aaron Butwinick, Andrew DeNatale, Bryanna Grijalva-Enriquez, Katerina Koytecheva Sound: Adrian Montenegro, Tanvi Bhagat Editor: Treyvon Burch, Faith Nordstrom, Courtney Parkinson Production Designer : Emilia Trejo Synopsis: The story of artists and musicians who kept hope alive in NYC after the 9/11 tragedy. |
University of Nevada Las Vegas (UNLV) | United States | 3 |
| 78-82 | RIGS TO REEFS
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Details:Length: 12'Screenwriter: n/a Director: Callie Mejia Producer: Callie Mejia Animator: Abbey Wineglass DOP: Justin Whittingham Sound: Callie Mejia Editor: Henry Van Zytveld Production Designer : n/a Synopsis: Two marine biologists share their research surrounding the underwater ecosystems growing and living on the offshore oil rigs in California. |
Loyola Marymount University / School of Film and Television (LMU) | United States | 3 |
| 78-82 | TIME MACHINE
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Details:Length: 13'Screenwriter: Omri Morin Director: Omri Morin Producer: Omri Morin Animator: n/a DOP: Omri Morin Sound: n/a Editor: Omri Morin Production Designer : Omri Morin Synopsis: This is an essay film that fallows the life of Tzipora David, a photographer and my grandfather's grandmother. Through the story of her life I search for a reason to continue photographing in a world that in a few keystrokes I can create as I wish. |
Bezalel Academy of Arts and Design Jerusalem (BAAD) | Israel | 3 |
| 83-88 | FLATLAND VERTIGO
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Details:Length: 24'Screenwriter: Moana Son et Hugo Willocq Director: Moana Son et Hugo Willocq Producer: INSAS Animator: n/a DOP: Hugo Willocq Sound: Louis Rieu Editor: Louis Rieu Production Designer : n/a Synopsis: A priest and an 80-year-old German woman carry on with their lives amidst the ruins of rural northern Czechia - a land violently bereft of its faith and Germanic population in the wake of WW2. |
INSAS | Belgium | 2 |
| 83-88 | GONE WITH THE WINDMILL
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Details:Length: 17'Screenwriter: Sılanur Şenol Director: Sılanur Şenol Producer: Mert Cümert (Line Producer) Animator: n/a DOP: Çağlar Atav Sound: Çağlar Atav Editor: Çağlar Atav Production Designer : n/a Synopsis: Windmills split a village inhabitants into two parts and unrest reigns. |
Yasar University Faculty of Communications | Turkey | 2 |
| 83-88 | I DON'T CARE
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Details:Length: 5'Screenwriter: Marinela Prifti Director: Marinela Prifti Producer: Eol Çashku Animator: n/a DOP: Kristi Çifçi Sound: Artur Mançia, Emiljano Hajdari Editor: Sandrino Hadëri, Kristi Çifçi Production Designer : n/a Synopsis: Nikol, 19 years-old, uploads videos online in which she tries to teach how to do common stuff using only one hand. Her videos always receive negative comments which really affect her but she tries her best to brush them off. |
Academy of Film and Multimedia Marubi (AFMM) | Albania | 2 |
| 83-88 | NOTES ON PERSEVERANCE
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Details:Length: 5'Screenwriter: n/a Director: Neo Monyamane Producer: Lemi Mwaniki, Khaya Thambisa Animator: n/a DOP: Khaya Thambisa, Neo Monyamane Sound: Lemi Mwaniki Editor: Neo Monyamane , Shannon-Leigh Moses , Bogoshi Rabatseta Production Designer : n/a Synopsis: A reflective township journey through a day in the life of Ma’ Vilikazi ,a street vendor from Kagiso South Africa. |
Wits School of Arts / Division of Film & Television (WSOA) | South Africa | 2 |
| 83-88 | SCAR TISSUE
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Details:Length: 11'Screenwriter: n/a Director: Sam Dobedoe Producer: Jo Prescott DOP: Sam Dobedoe Sound: Chloe Parfitt Editor: Sam Dobedoe Production Designer : n/a Synopsis: As a child, Jonathan had major verbal incapabilities, was diagnosed with ADHD and bullied for it. Now he’s a Personal Trainer, has a 27k Tik-Tok following, and is looking for salvation in the boxing ring and in God. |
University of South Wales | United Kingdom | 2 |
| 83-88 | THE BULL
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Details:Length: 24Screenwriter: Helga Dís Halfdanardóttir Director: Helga Dís Halfdanardóttir Producer: Helga Dís Halfdanardóttir, Sigurður I. Björnsson Animator: n/a DOP: Helga Dís Halfdanardóttir Halldór Gunnar Halfdansson Sound: Helga Dís Halfdanardóttir Editor: Helga Dís Halfdanardóttir Production Designer : n/a Synopsis: Tarfurinn is a portrait documentary about Vidir Tarfur Porgeirsson "The Bull" who is a founding member of Outlaws MC in Iceland. The Bull gives us a glimpse into his story, his upbringing and numerous adventures in life and where he stands today. |
Icelandic Film School (IFS) | Iceland | 2 |
| 89-91 | AT TIMES, IT IS BETTER NOT TO MOVE
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Details:Length: 30'Screenwriter: Grecit Juliana Uribe Gamboa Director: Grecit Juliana Uribe Gamboa Producer: Grecit Juliana Uribe Gamboa Animator: Colour Designer: Jonathan Beltran Herrera. DOP: Grecit Juliana Uribe Gamboa Sound: Alejandra Bernal Editor: Grecit Juliana Uribe Gamboa Production Designer : n/a Synopsis: My family’s photo albums recorded how my father progressively disappeared from our lives as I began to appear. The impossibility of a journey and the need to build the image of someone absent are the scenario in which I undertake my journey of searching through memory. |
Escuela de Cine y Televisión / UNAL (ECYTV) | Colombia | 1 |
| 89-91 | DEAR ZANNI
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Details:Length: 29'Screenwriter: Thomas Marciano Director: Thomas Marciano Producer: Ivet Castelo Animator: n/a DOP: Benjamin Pieber Sound: Alessio Bertoldi Editor: Melanie Schmidt Production Designer : n/a Synopsis: Zanni suffers from memory loss. Many things disappear into oblivion. With the support of his seven siblings and Blaza, his caregiver, he lives life one thought at a time. Moments get lost, but feelings remain, even if he can't remember them. |
Film Academy Vienna (UMDK) | Austria | 1 |
| 89-91 | DIGGIN'
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Details:Length: 17'Screenwriter: Antoine Morency-Duplantie Director: Antoine Morency-Duplantie Producer: Jonathan De Aguas Animator: n/a DOP: Jérémie Ekker-Lambert Sound: Bastien Blanche Editor: Hugo Leblanc Production Designer : n/a Synopsis: Amidst the clutter and dust of a warehouse owned by a mysterious Russian, Diggin' tells the story of three vinyl collectors who are on the hunt for rare gems. |
University of Québec Montréal / School of Media (UQAM) | Canada | 1 |
| 92-99 | ANATOMY OF HYPOMANIA
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Details:Length: 30'Screenwriter: Mina Vavan Director: Mina Vavan Producer: Les Ateliers Varan Animator: n/a DOP: Mina Vavan Sound: n/a Editor: Goran Mijić Production Designer : n/a Synopsis: The portrait of a retired professor of anatomy, who has dedicated his life to his work, between his research on the brain and the daily problems of life in a laboratory. |
Ateliers Varan | France | 0 |
| 92-99 | BENEDIKSYON//BENDICION
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Details:Length: 8'Screenwriter: Paolo Cesti Director: Paolo Cesti Producer: Paolo Cesti Animator: n/a DOP: Amber Perez Sound: Paolo Cesti Editor: Paolo Cesti Production Designer : n/a Synopsis: Two immigrant men reflect on their religious beliefs, past experiences and memories, from displacement in their native countries to finding home in America through religion. |
Florida State University / College of Motion Picture Arts (FSU) | United States | 0 |
| 92-99 | BONDS OF FREEDOM
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Details:Length: 24'Screenwriter: Tomáš Kubeček Director: Tomáš Kubeček Producer: Tomas Bata University in Zlín / Jana Mlčochová Animator: n/a DOP: Filip Neřold Sound: Anna-Marie Müllerová Editor: Martin Pekárik Production Designer : n/a Synopsis: Bonds of Freedom is an anthropological reflection on the various forms of the bonds of society. Through this lens, time-lapse montage and visual metaphors, the film explores the milieu of mushers, dog sled riders. |
Tomas Bata University in Zlín / Faculty of Multimedia Communications (TBU) | Czech Republic | 0 |
| 92-99 | MARTYR, WITNESSED
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Details:Length: 15'Screenwriter: Tara Khazen Director: Tara Khazen Producer: Tara Khazen Animator: n/a DOP: Tara Khazen Sound: Wadih Tohme, Charbel Habr, Fadi Tabbal Editor: Tadeo Boustany Production Designer : n/a Synopsis: In the midst of a city's relentless movement, one may struggle to preserve a constancy of personal identity. Tara is a young filmmaker living in the vibrant city of Beirut. Struggling to define her identity, she takes to the streets and attempts reaffirm her unique and collective identity with captured sceneries and conversations with her parents and strangers. |
ALBA | Lebanon | 0 |
| 92-99 | PANAME PAPERS
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Details:Length: 12'Screenwriter: n/a Director: Julie Songhi Deguine, Manel Mkadi, Bainan Li, Hadrien Jail, Valentin Peyrolle Producer: Jérôme Enrico Animator: n/a DOP: n/a Sound: Chadi Hjij Editor: Hannah Louise Magimem Production Designer : n/a Synopsis: We follow Xi Wei, Chinese immigrant in Paris, who struggle with the administrative formalities to get a resident permit. |
Ecole Supérieure d'études Cinématographiques (ESEC) | France | 0 |
| 92-99 | SPECIAL PEOPLE
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Details:Length: 12'Screenwriter: Ulyana Gerasimova Director: Ulyana Gerasimova Producer: Polina Tolcheeva Animator: n/a DOP: Zarina Davletshina Sound: n/a Editor: Ulyana Gerasimova Production Designer : n/a Synopsis: The story of a Dutchman who devoted his life to creating a whole village for special people in the Smolensk region. Remco Van der Plaat helps the wards to live a full life, and reveals their features from a completely different side. |
GITR FILM & TELEVISION SCHOOL | Russia | 0 |
| 92-99 | THE LAND SPEAKS
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Details:Length: 20'Screenwriter: Gaia Mitting Director: Gaia Mitting Producer: Harriett Bothroyd Animator: n/a DOP: Erin McMahon Sound: Gaia Mitting, Erin McMahon Editor: Gaia Mitting Production Designer : n/a Synopsis: Pairrebeene/Trawlwoolway artist Lisa Kennedy and Environmentalist/Educator Bryan Watterson unpack their feelings of connection to their property in Toora, South Gippsland which they have been listening to and returning to a state of biodiversity for the past 20 years. |
Swinburne School of Film and Television (SSFT) | Australia | 0 |
| 92-99 | THROUGN THE GAZE OF THE COCKFIGHTER
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Details:Length: 8'Screenwriter: Iván Horton Director: Iván Horton Producer: Sergio Saravia Animator: n/a DOP: Sebastián Morales Sound: Juan Antonio Fallas Editor: Sebastián Morales Production Designer : n/a Synopsis: In Costa Rica, cockfighting is considered a crime and has been banned fot 99 years. We will get to know the other side of the coin Through the eyes of the Cockfighter. |
School of Image - Veritas University | Costa Rica | 0 |
Animation
| Place | Title | School | Country | Points |
| 1 | FRIENDLY FIRE
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Details:Length: 6'Screenwriter: Tom Koryto Blumen Director: Tom Koryto Blumen Producer: Tom Koryto Blumen Animation: Tom Koryto Blumen DOP: Tom Koryto Blumen Sound: Nitzan Posti Rom, Danny Koryto Editor: Tom Koryto Blumen Production Designer : Tom Koryto Blumen Synopsis: Next to the West Bank barrier, a soccer game between an Israeli soldier and a Palestinian boy deteriorates into an unequal battle. Each frame was physically painted on the wall. |
Bezalel Academy of Arts and Design Jerusalem (BAAD) | Israel | 106 |
| 2 | CURIOSA
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Details:Length: 10'Screenwriter: Tessa Moult-Milewska, Matthew Dicky Director: Tessa Moult-Milewska Producer: Sychelle Kristina-Yanda Animation: Ollie Griffiths DOP: Rob O’Kelly Sound: Alexander Huebner Editor: Giorgia Zarantonello Production Designer : Sehar Kidwai Synopsis: Overly curious Mary climbs into her boyfriend's head in search of answers. |
National FIlm and Television School (NFTS) | United Kingdom | 100 |
| 3 | THE MOST BORING GRANNY IN THE WHOLE WORLD
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Details:Length: 7'Screenwriter: Manuel Ostwald Director: Damaris Zielke Producer: Jiayan Chen Animation: Ferdinand Ehrhardt, Tanja Gruber, Patrik Knittel, Sarah Schulz, Laura Staab, Lukas von Berg, Damaris Zielke DOP: Michael Throne Sound: Maximilian Hartstang, Marieke Czogalla Editor: Damaris Zielke Production Designer : Anna Vehres Synopsis: Greta has the most boring grandma in the whole world. When she falls asleep on the sofa, Greta gets the idea, to play funeral with her grandma. This confronts them with some questions they didn’t ask themselves before. |
Filmakademie Baden-Wuerttemberg (FABW) | Germany | 88 |
| 4 | CARP XMASS
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Details:Length: 8'Screenwriter: Anna Heribanová Director: Anna Heribanová Producer: Tomáš Šimon (FAMU), Anika Homolová Animation: Anna Heribanová DOP: Martin Šafus, Tomáš Kotas Sound: Martin Khun Editor: Anna Heribanová, Martin Šafus Production Designer : Anna Heribanová Synopsis: Once upon a time in a small village in a far-away, carps are preparing for the Christmas eve - peaceful and happy as required by the traditions. But Christmas has failed to meet these values long time ago. They have become the peak of the year-round consumption and there are some who may lose their lives in the honor of these sacred days. |
Film and Television School / Academy of Performing Arts in Prague (FAMU) | Czech Republic | 85 |
| 5 | PENTOLA
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Details:Length: 7'Screenwriter: Leo Černic Director: Leo Černic Producer: Centro Sperimentale di Cinematografia Animation: Leo Černic DOP: n/a Sound: ZeroDB Studio Editor: Leo Černic Production Designer : Leo Černic Synopsis: “It’s not so easy to be a hero. But you, Pentola... You are my superhero.” |
Centro Sperimentale di Cinematografia (CSC) | Italy | 64 |
| 6 | ASHES OF TIME
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Details:Length: 8'Screenwriter: He Xinpeng Director: He Xinpeng Producer: He Xinpeng, Li Minghao, Yang Xiaoting, Wang Kaicheng, Liu Bowen, Li Jiahang Animation: He Xinpeng, Li Minghao, Yang Xiaoting DOP: Guo Ruoxi Sound: Gao Bichan, Han Yang Editor: Wang Kaicheng, He Xinpeng Production Designer : He Xinpeng Synopsis: Xiao Zhong returns to the old house that is about to be demolished, and accidentally finds a notebook used by his father before his death, which actually carries the warmest memories in the heart of his father who suffered from Alzheimer's disease. |
Beijing Film Academy (BFA) | China | 56 |
| 7-8 | THIS WILL NOT BE A FESTIVAL FILM
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Details:Length: 8'Screenwriter: Julia Orlik Director: Julia Orlik Producer: Agata Golańska / The Polish National Film, Television and Theatre School in Lodz Animation: Julia Orlik DOP: Julia Orlik Sound: Bogdan Klat Editor: Aleksandra Rosset Production Designer : Julia Orlik Synopsis: A tale of a girl who studied animation and spent four years without a day of holidays. An animated short about a film school student who is working on her graduation film. |
Polish National Film, Television and Theatre School in Lodz (PWSFTViT) | Poland | 47 |
| 7-8 | VISIONER
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Details:Length: 9'Screenwriter: Bulavkin Vsevolod Director: Bulavkin Vsevolod Producer: Bulavkin Vsevolod Animation: Alina Krasnovskaya, Vitaly Abramovsky DOP: n/a Sound: Gleb Bespoyasny Editor: n/a Production Designer : n/a Synopsis: Once a man living in the medieval Netherlands discovers that he is possessed. Will Hieronymus have the strength to fight the delusion or will he succumb to the hellish temptation? |
Russian State University of Сinematography n.a. S.Gerasimov VGIK | Russia | 47 |
| 9 | CLEAN AID
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Details:Length: 4'Screenwriter: Valentin Dittlmann, Hannes Werner, Felix Zachau Director: Valentin Dittlmann, Hannes Werner, Felix Zachau Producer: Katharina Hein Animation: Valentin Dittlmann, Hannes Werner, Felix Zachau DOP: Valentin Dittlmann, Hannes Werner, Felix Zachau Sound: Andreas Goldbrunner, Rodolfo Anes Silveira Editor: Valentin Dittlmann, Hannes Werner, Felix Zachau Production Designer : Valentin Dittlmann, Hannes Werner, Felix Zachau Synopsis: A garbage-collecting robot on two wheels rolls through the city streets at night. It is controlled by an elderly woman who, during her dull work, is reminded of her youthful ease by a unexpected encounter. |
University of Television and Film Munich (HFF) | Germany | 42 |
| 10 | FROM THE CORNER OF MY EYES
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Details:Length: 6'Screenwriter: Domonkos Erhardt Director: Domonkos Erhardt Producer: József Fülöp Animation: Ádám Molnár, Ádám Virágh, Bálint Halasi, Domonkos Erhardt, Dániel Bárány, Kornél Pittmann, Péter Bogyó, Zoltán Reindl DOP: n/a Sound: Mátyás Tóth Editor: Judit Czakó Production Designer : n/a Synopsis: The short-film depicts the moment when two strangers’ lives entangle for a brief second when their eyes meet. |
Moholy-Nagy University of Art and Design (MOME) | Hungary | 37 |
| 11 | WATER
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Details:Length: 7'Screenwriter: Triparna Maity Director: Triparna Maity Producer: SRFTI Animation: Triparna Maity DOP: n/a Sound: Triparna Maity Editor: n/a Production Designer : Triparna Maity Synopsis: It is a story of a demon named Neerbhukhi who wishes to live like a human. But the villagers believe that their village, Barreshire is cursed with dearth of water due to Neerbhukhi, and outcast her. While she sadly longs to befriend them, she witnesses her effigy burnt as part of a sacrificing ritual. In one such ritual, as the villagers’ parade to pray for water, a fairy appears out of the darkness. She plays flute and enchants the whole forest with her melodious music until her fairy mask falls off and the disguised Neerbhukhi gets revealed. Chased and humiliated, Neerbhukhi hides in a dry, abandoned well where she weeps her heart out. Her tears flood the well and gush out into waterfalls flooding the rivers. Ever since the village has been blessed with water while it is believed that the demon is still crying inside the well. |
Satyajit Ray Film and Television Institute (SRFTI) | India | 35 |
| 12 | I WAS ATTACKED
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Details:Length: 4'Screenwriter: Sara Massieu Director: Sara Massieu Producer: Sara Massieu Animation: Sara Massieu DOP: n/a Sound: Niru Editor: Sara Massieu Production Designer : n/a Synopsis: No matter who we are or where we are from, we are not safe, we have been attacked. Gender-based violence is still a world wide contemporary problem. Women’s voices need to be heard. But really, why? |
London College of Communication | United Kingdom | 33 |
| 13 | THE LEAK
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Details:Length: 8'Screenwriter: Paola Cubillos Director: Paola Cubillos Producer: Paola Cubillos Animation: Paola Cubillos DOP: Paola Cubillos Sound: Arzu Saglam Editor: Paola Cubillos Production Designer : Paola Cubillos Synopsis: Teresa lives in an apartment, a closed space that absorbs her as much as it shelters her. She is occupied with domestic chores that she performs in a conscious and meticulous manner. The quietness seems imperiled as the sound of a leak irrupts in the apartment leading her to a necessary encounter. |
Royal Academy of Fine Arts / University College Ghent (KASK) | Belgium | 30 |
| 14 | PIROUETTE
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Details:Length: 3'Screenwriter: Ciara Borgards Director: Ciara Borgards Producer: Ciara Borgards Animation: Niklas Lipski DOP: Niklas Lipski Sound: Niklas Lipski Editor: Niklas Lipski Production Designer : n/a Synopsis: A metal ballerina is standing on a turning platform supported by a frame inside a music box. But suddenly her support breaks, her music box closes and the ballerina finds herself in a strange world. |
ifs internationale filmschule köln | Germany | 24 |
| 15 | THE SMALL MAKINGS OF THE STORM
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Details:Length: 5'Screenwriter: Avery Angle Director: Avery Angle Producer: IADT Animation: Avery Angle DOP: n/a Sound: Avery Angle Editor: Avery Angle Production Designer : n/a Synopsis: From the rising mists to billowing clouds, water weaves its way through every environment leaving an impression on even the smallest of creatures. Expanding to loftier heights, these drops of water begin to transform into something far more commanding – a force of nature. |
National Film School / Institute of Art, Design and Technology (IADT) | Ireland | 23 |
| 16 | STUCK IN AISLE 5
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Details:Length: 4'Screenwriter: Yean Chong, Madelaine Habil Director: Yean Chong, Madelaine Habil Producer: Yean Chong, Madelaine Habil Animation: Yean Chong, Madelaine Habil DOP: Yean Chong, Madelaine Habil Sound: Jordan Shue Editor: Yean Chong, Madelaine Habil Production Designer : Yean Chong, Madelaine Habil Synopsis: Long into the day, Rory works hard to survive another shift in the department store. But when a clumsy frog pushes her to the point of exhaustion, she is taught to stop and appreciate the small moments in life. |
University of Technology, Sydney | Australia | 22 |
| 17 | REGENERATE
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Details:Length: 3'Screenwriter: Ana Eugenia Pacheco Castro Director: Brenda Solano Quirós Producer: Ana Eugenia Pacheco Castro Animation: Ana Eugenia Pacheco Castro y Brenda Solano Quirós DOP: n/a Sound: Eve Chaves Cordero Editor: n/a Production Designer : Felipe Vargas Blanco Synopsis: A clay doll likes to dance ballet but she compares herself with a stylized ballerina. She discovers that a candle flame softens her, for which reason she remodels herself to look like the ballerina but, she is never satisfied with her appearance and will end up melting in her attempt. |
School of Image - Veritas University | Costa Rica | 20 |
| 18-19 | COSMIC SHIT
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Details:Length: 9'Screenwriter: Elias Cheyroux Director: Elias Cheyroux Producer: Jose Revault, Nathalie Curutchet Animation: Camille Corbel DOP: n/a Sound: n/a Editor: Axel Chemin Production Designer : Camille Corbel Synopsis: A surreal tale about a world threatened with extinction by a giant turd. |
La Fémis | France | 16 |
| 18-19 | IN THE MIDDLE OF NOWHERE
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Details:Length: 9'Screenwriter: Chen, Yi Shiuan Director: Chen, Yi Shiuan Producer: Chen, Yi Shiuan Animation: Chen, Yi Shiuan, LI, Cheng DOP: Chen, Yi Shiuan Sound: Hei-Shaun Liang, Gaun-Yu Chen Editor: Chen, Yi Shiuan Production Designer : Chen, Yi Shiuan Synopsis: In the year of 2066, the nuclear apocalypse has brought humankind to the brink of extinction. However, in this isolated town, unaware of what has happened to the world, it seems to be the utmost priority to protect the sacrificial old hen. |
National Taiwan University of Arts (NTUA) | Taiwan | 16 |
| 20-21 | SONATA
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Details:Length: 7'Screenwriter: Madison Crisp, Hailey Hudson Director: Madison Crisp, Abby Davenport, Fern Singleton, Vic Sosa Producer: Robert Mageau, Hailey Hudson Animation: Madison Crisp, Abby Davenport, Fern Singleton, Vic Sosa DOP: n/a Sound: Lyric Abbott Editor: Lyric Abbott Production Designer : n/a Synopsis: When a blackout derails a young man’s plans for the perfect first date, he must navigate his nerves, the heat, and a mischievous gang of shadows if he has any hope of connecting with the girl of his dreams. |
University of North Carolina School of the Arts (UNCSA) | United States | 15 |
| 20-21 | VOLK
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Details:Length: 9'Screenwriter: De Boisseuil, Malo Director: De Boisseuil, Malo Producer: ENSAV Animation: Charbel Taouk DOP: De Boisseuil, Malo Sound: Nesprias Eneko Editor: Pagotto Adrien Production Designer : n/a Synopsis: ...A lonely old Hunter is convinced that the Wolf wants him dead. |
ENSAV | France | 15 |
| 22-23 | DYING TO DEFROST
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Details:Length: 4'Screenwriter: Heather Ann Abeyasekera Director: Heather Ann Abeyasekera Producer: Heather Ann Abeyasekera Animation: Heather Ann Abeyasekera DOP: Heather Ann Abeyasekera Sound: Jonas Schusselin Editor: Heather Ann Abeyasekera Production Designer : Heather Ann Abeyasekera Synopsis: An old vampire, who is tired of the cold, seeks the warmth of being a human, and so gets ready to progress into the final stage of her life. |
Nanyang Technological University | Singapore | 14 |
| 22-23 | HLX CNFLGRTN
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Details:Length: 8'Screenwriter: Bonnie B. (Julian Sandoval) Director: Bonnie B. (Julian Sandoval) Producer: Bonnie B. (Julian Sandoval) Animation: Bonnie B. (Julian Sandoval), NaN (Camilo Molina) DOP: Bonnie B. (Julian Sandoval) Sound: Bonnie B. (Julian Sandoval) Editor: Bonnie B. (Julian Sandoval) Production Designer : Bonnie B. (Julian Sandoval) Synopsis: N HLX, JST CNFLGRTN is an experimental animation that aims for a reinterpretation of Film expressionism as a medium for transmitting emotional tension before ideas. the film is inspired by the violent strikes that took place in Colombia in april of 2021. |
Escuela de Cine y Televisión / UNAL (ECYTV) | Colombia | 14 |
| 24-27 | PETE & DAVE TO THE RESCUE
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Details:Length: 17'Screenwriter: Teng Wei Heng, Mario Director: Teng Wei Heng, Mario, Tan En Dian Producer: Tan En Dian Animation: Tan En Dian, Schuyler Tan Jun Kai DOP: Lim Hok Lye Sound: Schuyler Tan Jun Kai Editor: Hazman Syahmi Production Designer : Casey Lim Yu Xuan Synopsis: In a galaxy far, far away, a village idiot and his reluctant buddy embark on a foolhardy quest to rescue a workplace crush before she falls into enemy hands. |
Ngee Ann Polytechnic / School of Film & Media Studies | Singapore | 13 |
| 24-27 | THE THRESOLD
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Details:Length: 4'Screenwriter: Nicolò Tonani Director: Nicolò Tonani, Simone Colombo, Sofia Gasparetti Producer: Nicolò Tonani Animation: Nicolò Tonani, Simone Colombo, Sofia Gasparetti DOP: Federico Di Maria Sound: Nicolò Cristiani Editor: Nicolò Tonani Production Designer : n/a Synopsis: A serial killer, taking refuge in a hotel after being identified by the police, faces his inner demon, a bloodthirsty snake who reclaims a new victim. The tempting reptile try to persuade the man to reap another soul making him faces the trauma that made him a ruthless killer. An unpredictable outcomes’ fight blows up. |
Milan City Film School Luchino Visconti (MCSC) | Italy | 13 |
| 24-27 | WALD
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Details:Length: 9'Screenwriter: Jeremy Scheidt Director: Christian Groen Producer: Mark Arditi Animation: Christian Groen DOP: n/a Sound: Ethan Hammock Editor: n/a Production Designer : n/a Synopsis: Wald, a monk who lives in the distant future, whilst scavenging in the desolate wastelands gains and loses his first friend. Facing the endless cycle of rebirth and destruction. |
Chapman University / Dodge College of Film and Media Arts | United States | 13 |
| 24-27 | WHY DO I LOOK AT THE SKY?
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Details:Length: 10'Screenwriter: Rocío Milagros Collazo Director: Rocío Milagros Collazo Producer: Rocío Milagros Collazo Animation: Rocío Milagros Collazo DOP: Rocío Milagros Collazo Sound: Rocío Milagros Collazo Editor: Rocío Milagros Collazo Production Designer : Rocío Milagros Collazo Synopsis: A 9-year-old girl, exploring the sky with a peculiar telescope, finds an unknown planet where dead people end up, including her beloved grandpa, who recently passed away. |
Universidad de Buenos Aires / Diseño de Imagen y Sonido FADU (UBA) | Argentina | 13 |
| 28-29 | CLOUDED
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Details:Length: 7'Screenwriter: Molemo Moalosi, Nkosingiphile Ndelu. Director: Molemo Moalosi, Nkosingiphile Ndelu. Producer: Imké Megan Arries Animation: Molemo Moalosi, Nkosingiphile Ndelu DOP: Molemo Moalosi, Nkosingiphile Ndelu Sound: Lonwabo Meko Editor: Onkabetswe Mpye Production Designer : Molemo Moalosi, Nkosingiphile Ndelu Synopsis: A therapist experiencing loss, inadequacy, and grief encounters his younger self, the source of all his suffering. They attend therapy together and go on a mind-bending journey. They ultimately close their therapy session by realizing that the will to live is based not just on them but also on the ones they leave behind |
South African School of Motion Picture Medium and Live Performance (AFDA) | South Africa | 12 |
| 28-29 | SUNSET SINGERS
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Details:Length: 11'Screenwriter: Jessica Poon Director: Jessica Poon Producer: Jessica Poon Animation: Jessica Poon, Jiha Jeon, Dian Liang, Sangeun Song, Daniele Piscitello, Sylwia Szkiladz, Jane Kim, Bela Bulgakova, Eunjin Park, Qimeng Sun, Zilai Feng DOP: Jessica Poon Sound: Hui-Cheng Chung/ Lan-Ting Hsu Editor: Jessica Poon Production Designer : Jessica Poon, Sylwia Szkiladz, Zilai Feng Synopsis: The retired Hong Kong couple, Long and Sophie, are amateur singers. While Sophie arrives early at the performance and gets herself prepared, Long is caught up in the subway by an unexpected circumstance. |
Academy of Media Arts Cologne (KHM) | Germany | 12 |
| 30 | PARACHUTIST
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Details:Length: 8'Screenwriter: Daniel Ambaya Director: Daniel Ambaya Producer: Itzik Rivkin Animation: Daniel Ambaya DOP: Shani Steiner Sound: Omri Cohen Editor: Daniel Ambaya Production Designer : Ofir Gandelman Synopsis: The film depicts the life of a downtrodden Ethiopian immigrant family through the eyes of the young boy Eli, who tries to live out his dream of becoming a parachutist by playing with plastic bags. |
School of Audio & Visual Arts, Sapir College | Israel | 10 |
| 31-33 | GOING POTATO
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Details:Length: 5'Screenwriter: Jonas Callebert Director: Jonas Callebert Producer: RITCS Animation: Jonas Callebert DOP: Jonas Callebert Sound: Benjamin De Laet Editor: Jonas Callebert Production Designer : Jonas Callebert Synopsis: Hammie, an adorable hamster, finds himself in a pink nursery where there is really nothing to do. He embarks on an escape from his cage, but suddenly in the door is a strange, mismatched fattening man from another world. This one eventually helps hammie escape in a much more spectacular, violent and unnecessary way using a screen and an ecological music video. |
Royal Institute for Theatre, Cinema and Sound (RITCS) | Belgium | 8 |
| 31-33 | PERFECT CITY: THE MOTHER
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Details:Length: 7'Screenwriter: Shengwei Zhou Director: Shengwei Zhou Producer: Lei Wang, Shengwei Zhou Animation: Shengwei Zhou DOP: Shengwei Zhou, Xiaoqian Zhu Sound: Runqi Wang Editor: Shengwei Zhou Production Designer : Shengwei Zhou Synopsis: A wooden mother tries to carve her root baby into perfect human doll under the lure from Perfect product. |
University of Southern California's School of Cinematic Arts (USC) | United States | 8 |
| 31-33 | UNFAMILIAR MEMORIES
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Details:Length: 6'Screenwriter: Serhat Şen Director: Serhat Şen Producer: Serhat Şen Animation: Serhat Şen DOP: Serhat Şen Sound: Serhat Şen Editor: Serhat Şen Production Designer : Serhat Şen Synopsis: A little girl finds herself in a completely dark room, except for the spotlight that follows her. Parts of the room lit up when she interacts with certain objects. With each part of the room uncovering, she starts learning about the person living in it and also herself. |
Maltepe University - Faculty of Fine Arts | Turkey | 8 |
| 34-36 | DELIVERY BOX
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Details:Length: 5'Screenwriter: Emily Li Director: Emily Li Producer: Andrew Listiandi Juwono Animation: Gabriele Green, Alana Goldab, Rachel O’Donovan DOP: n/a Sound: Josh Hall, Paul Van Nimwegen Editor: n/a Production Designer : Ashish Rana, Alana Goldab, Rachel O’Donovan, Stella Sutan Lie Synopsis: A man leaves his mundane life behind and embarks on a life-changing adventure after a magical delivery box arrives on his doorstep. |
Swinburne School of Film and Television (SSFT) | Australia | 7 |
| 34-36 | DROPLET
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Details:Length: 5'Screenwriter: Hayrettin Söker Director: Hayrettin Söker Producer: Hayrettin Söker Animation: Hayrettin Söker DOP: Hayrettin Söker Sound: Hayrettin Söker Editor: Hayrettin Söker Production Designer : Hayrettin Söker Synopsis: A droplet falls on the train and comes to life. He meets another droplet. After some events in the train , one of the droplets falls from the train, and the other one jumps after her. They fall into the fire and evaporate , then rise together as steam towards the sky. |
Istanbul Kultur University (IKU) | Turkey | 7 |
| 34-36 | EXISTENCE
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Details:Length: 2'Screenwriter: Niko Mlynarčík Director: Niko Mlynarčík Producer: Tomas Bata University in Zlín Animation: Niko Mlynarčík DOP: Niko Mlynarčík Sound: Niko Mlynarčík Editor: Niko Mlynarčík Production Designer : n/a Synopsis: Animated philosophical essay about existence, which exists thanks to a recording by a local philosopher Antonín Dolák. |
Tomas Bata University in Zlín / Faculty of Multimedia Communications (TBU) | Czech Republic | 7 |
| 37-41 | ANA
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Details:Length: 7'Screenwriter: Romana Candráková Director: Romana Candráková Producer: Academy of Performing Arts in Bratislava, Slovakia Animation: Romana Candráková DOP: Romana Candráková Sound: Norbert Kuki Editor: Samuel Alex Jasaň Production Designer : n/a Synopsis: A story abstractly describing the struggle of a young girl with an eating disorder. |
Academy of Performing Arts / Film and Television Faculty (VSMU) | Slovakia | 6 |
| 37-41 | ANEURYSM
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Details:Length: 11'Screenwriter: n/a Director: Sofia Telo Producer: n/a Animation: Installation Props: Felipe Luz, João Cabral, João Aguiar DOP: Interactive System: João Cabral Sound: Sofia Telo, João Cabral Editor: n/a Production Designer : n/a Synopsis: A mother tries to talk to her daughter by telephone without success. The messages left on the answering machine reveal the relationship between them. |
Universidade Lusófona / Film and Media Arts Department (ULHT) | Portugal | 6 |
| 37-41 | SNOWFALL
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Details:Length: 1'Screenwriter: Rita Cruz Director: Rita Cruz Producer: University of Hertfordshire Animation: Rita Cruz DOP: Rita Cruz Sound: Ross Probert, Jack Topham Editor: Rita Cruz Production Designer : Rita Cruz Synopsis: A lonely woman is forced to make a new life, somewhere in a European city in the 1920s. She is about to meet a new companion that will change her existence forever. |
University of Hertfordshire | United Kingdom | 6 |
| 37-41 | SOUNDS OF LEEDS
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Details:Length: 3'Screenwriter: n/a Director: n/a Producer: n/a Animation: Jacob Robbins DOP: n/a Sound: Luca Procopio Editor: n/a Production Designer : n/a Synopsis: A psychedelic animation exploring the vibrant sounds and spaces in the city of Leeds. |
Northern Film School / Leeds Beckett University (NFS/LBU) | United Kingdom | 6 |
| 37-41 | THE FOX AND DUCKS
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Details:Length: 2'Screenwriter: Petre Tomadze Director: Petre Tomadze Producer: n/a Animation: Petre Tomadze DOP: Petre Tomadze Sound: Petre Tomadze Editor: Petre Tomadze Production Designer : Petre Tomadze Synopsis: Story about three ducks and the fox. |
Theatre and Film Georgia State University (TAFU) | Georgia | 6 |
| 42-43 | A PLACE FAR FROM HERE
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Details:Length: 3'Screenwriter: César Carrera Director: César Carrera, Saraí Adán Producer: José Gutiérrez Razura Animation: César Carrera, Saraí Adán DOP: Saraí Adán, César Carrera Sound: Saraí Adán Editor: César Carrera, Saraí Adán Production Designer : Saraí Adán Synopsis: Music brings color to a girl´s violent domestic life, but fear remains unavoidable. |
Universidad Iberoamericana Mexico City (IBERO) | Mexico | 5 |
| 42-43 | MOBIUS
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Details:Length: 4'Screenwriter: Andy Cepollina Director: Andy Cepollina Producer: Andy Cepollina Animation: Andy Cepollina DOP: n/a Sound: Anahit Momjian Editor: Andy Cepollina Production Designer : Andy Cepollina Synopsis: A fateful encounter with a cockroach leads to a journey of transformation and the end of the world. |
Loyola Marymount University / School of Film and Television (LMU) | United States | 5 |
| 44-46 | DRAIN
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Details:Length: 7'Screenwriter: Moira McMahon Director: Moira McMahon Producer: Moira McMahon Animation: Moira McMahon DOP: n/a Sound: Moira McMahon Editor: Moira McMahon Production Designer : n/a Synopsis: A scrawny beast named Cower heads north through the husk of a dead city while struggling to manage an abscess on her head. |
VCA Film and Television | Australia | 4 |
| 44-46 | ONE OF THE VERSIONS
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Details:Length: 11'Screenwriter: Michael Shenhav Director: Michael Shenhav Producer: Michael Shenhav Animation: Michael Shenhav (Stop motion) DOP: Michael Shenhav Sound: Michael Shenhav Editor: Michael Shenhav Production Designer : Michael Shenhav Synopsis: My commander in the military called me to his office in the middle of the night. He took out a hand gun from his drawer, loaded it and placed it between us on the table. He ordered me to shoot my own head. By using animation I recreated that night. |
Ma'aleh School of Film, Television and the Arts (MAALE) | Israel | 4 |
| 44-46 | WAKE UP
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Details:Length: 6'Screenwriter: Marie Bracke, Gaston Herbaut Director: Marie Bracke, Gaston Herbaut Producer: Médiadiffusion Animation: Marie Bracke, Gaston Herbaut DOP: Syivain Mansion Sound: Florent Gailly Editor: Marie Bracke, Gaston Herbaut Production Designer : n/a Synopsis: A young girl with a penchant for over-consumption is confronted with the problems associated with her iifestyie. |
Institut des Arts de Diffusion (IAD) | Belgium | 4 |
| 47-48 | SEA SMOKE
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Details:Length: 4'Screenwriter: Piper Charron Director: Piper Charron Producer: Piper Charron Animation: Piper Charron DOP: Piper Charron Sound: Peter Benson Editor: Piper Charron Production Designer : Piper Charron Synopsis: A winter storm blows through a small island town. |
School of Film and Animation, College of Art and Design, Rochester Institute of Technology | United States | 2 |
| 47-48 | THE TRANSPARENT ILLUSION
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Details:Length: 11'Screenwriter: Edgar Rafael Rodríguez Lara Director: Edgar Rafael Rodríguez Lara Producer: Sebastián Hernández Álvarez Animation: Edgar Rafael Rodríguez Lara DOP: Dení Martha López Dellamary Sound: Luis Emilio Cuéllar Cruz, Omeyolotl Raya Editor: Edgar Rafael Rodríguez Lara Production Designer : Irma Goretti Castellanos Cisneros Synopsis: Gerardo and Joselyn are two teens that hang out on the internet, where they imagine themselves as their ideal versions in a fantastic world. But everything changes for Gerardo when, a few days from his birthday, Joselyn proposes they meet in person. |
University of Guadalajara / Image and Sound Department | Mexico | 2 |
| 49-52 | BLANKA'S STORY
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Details:Length: 4'Screenwriter: Isaac Artus, Anna Burrlein Director: Marta Gensler Producer: Anna Burrlein Animation: Marta Gensler, Anna Burrlein, Cordelia Chown, Isaac Artus DOP: Marta Gensler Sound: Jessica Gallimore Editor: Jessica Gallimore Production Designer : Anna Burrlein Synopsis: The serene life of a Jewish family is disrupted by the start of World War II and the Nazi occupation of Poland. Violence rips the family apart, but hope and tradition perseveres with the two surviving daughters. |
Falmouth University | United Kingdom | 1 |
| 49-52 | FALSE IDOL
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Details:Length: 3'Screenwriter: Nico Weaver Director: Nico Weaver Producer: Nico Weaver Animation: Cameron Banker DOP: Amber Perez Sound: Paolo Cesti Editor: Paolo Cesti Production Designer : n/a Synopsis: When a 1930s adventurer breaks into an ancient Himalayan temple, she must weigh her life against her bounty when she awakens the beast inside. |
Florida State University / College of Motion Picture Arts (FSU) | United States | 1 |
| 49-52 | MEMENTO MORI
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Details:Length: 6'Screenwriter: Chantal Smith Moraga, Rachel O’Brien Director: Chantal Smith Moraga Producer: Rachel O’Brien Animation: Chantal Smith Moraga, Ella Roberts, Josh Mateo, Lois Van Der Ark, Ellen Moore, Rachel O’Brien, Jessica Carroll, Ella Roberts DOP: n/a Sound: Bernard Hobson Editor: Ella Roberts, Rachel O’Brien, Wade Connolly Production Designer : n/a Synopsis: A journey through the five stages of grief told through experimental stop-motion animation. Memento Mori is an experimental stop-motion film that follows Charlie through his surreal journey through the five stages of grief. After losing his partner, Charlie becomes imprisoned by denial, haunted by the past in bargaining, rampages in anger and sinks into the dark depth of depression. However, Charlie is able to prevail over these trials and emerge on the other side accepting and coming to terms with his loss. |
Griffith Film School (GFS) | Australia | 1 |
| 49-52 | NUNA
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Details:Length: 5'Screenwriter: Nahomi Heredia, Alex Cayambe Director: Alex Cayambe Producer: Nahomi Heredia Animation: Gilsson Seraquive, Johan Agual, Mabel Yanchatipán, Alex Cayambe, Kevin Sanguña, Nahomi Heredia, Alisson Chévez, Génesis Yugcha, Eric Orbe Rig: Johan Agual, Mabel Yanchatipán, Génesis Yugcha, Nahomi Heredia DOP: Johan Agual, Alex Cayambe, Kevin Sanguña Sound: Mateo Maila Editor: Gilsson Seraquive, Johan Agual, Mabel Yanchatipán, Alex Cayambe, Kevin Sanguña, Nahomi Heredia, Alisson Chévez, Génesis Yugcha, Eric Orbe Rig: Johan Agual, Mabel Yanchatipán, Génesis Yugcha, Nahomi Heredia Production Designer : Génesis Yugcha Synopsis: A young man insecure of himself seeks to carry out a marriage proposal to the woman he loves, however, he will need much more than just courage to carry out his mission. |
Advanced Institute of Film and Acting (INCINE) | Ecuador | 1 |
| 53-57 | DIYA
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Details:Length: 4'Screenwriter: Aroon Khiani Director: Aroon Khiani Producer: Sheridan College Animation: Aroona Khiani DOP: Aroon Khiani Sound: Composer:Zak McNeil Editor: Aroon Khiani Production Designer : Aroona Khiani Synopsis: Indian Canadian girl lights a diya (oil lamp) while visiting her family's home town, but the flame runs away because the girl is too ashamed of its unusual colour to let it shine. The film explores themes of belonging, cultural identity and guilt while showing off the richness and vibrance an Indian festival. Canadian girl lights a diya (oil lamp) while visiting her family's home town, but the flame runs away because the girl is too ashamed of its unusual colour to let it shine. The film explores themes of belonging, cultural identity and guilt while showing off the richness and vibrance an Indian festival. |
Sheridan College | Canada | 0 |
| 53-57 | FLOW OF THOUGHT
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Details:Length: 1'Screenwriter: Jelisaveta Nikolic Director: Jelisaveta Nikolic Producer: Jelisaveta Nikolic Animation: Jelisaveta Nikolic DOP: Jelisaveta Nikolic Sound: Jelisaveta Nikolic Editor: Jelisaveta Nikolic Production Designer : n/a Synopsis: An abstract representation of a changing thought, made possible thanks to pen, paper, scanner and insomnia. |
Fakultet dramskih umetnosti | Serbia | 0 |
| 53-57 | HEADLANDS
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Details:Length: 5'Screenwriter: Cecelia Clare Meade Director: n/a Producer: Cecelia Clare Meade Animation: n/a DOP: n/a Sound: n/a Editor: n/a Production Designer : n/a Synopsis: An old woman grieving the loss of her childhood visits the coast to complete her labyrinth. In the process, she is mesmerized by the waves and is greeted by her childhood within them. After this journey, she goes back to her home alone, knowing she can’t rewind time. |
Emerson College | United States | 0 |
| 53-57 | ISOLATION
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Details:Length: 9'Screenwriter: Georgy Zobov, Egor Merlyak Director: Georgy Zobov Producer: CG & Design dept Animation: Georgy Zobov DOP: n/a Sound: Grigory Lukyanov Editor: Georgy Zobov Production Designer : Georgy Zobov Synopsis: …Surrealistic animated sketch about perception of life and how it should be appreciated as a gift, no matter how hard it may seem. The action takes place in typical dormitory districts of a big Russian city, with its panel houses, roads and endless rows of street lamps illuminating them… |
St. Petersburg State University of Film and Television (SPUFT) | Russia | 0 |
| 53-57 | TRIXES
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Details:Length: 11'Screenwriter: Ioanna Digenaki Director: Ioanna Digenaki Producer: Ioanna Digenaki Animation: Ioanna Digenaki DOP: Ioanna Digenaki Sound: Eleni Kavouki Editor: Ioanna Digenaki Production Designer : Ioanna Digenaki Synopsis: A rainy day finds you in a hair salon. Now you will have to decide wether to cut your hair or not. Will a haircut cure your melancholy? |
School of Film, Aristotle University of Thessaloniki | Greece | 0 |
