2013
Fiction
Place | Title | School | Country | Points |
1 | THE MASS OF MEN
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Details:TrailerLength: 17' Screenwriter: Gabriel Gauchet, Rungano Nyoni Director: Gabriel Gauchet Producer: Emily Morgan Animator: n/a DOP: Nick Cooke Sound: Ania Przygoda Editor: Alice Petit Production Designer: Will Houghton-Connell Synopsis: Richard, an unemployed 55-year-old, arrives 3 minutes late for his appointment at a job centre. An advisor, stifled by the limits of the system she works in, has no choice but to penalise htm for his tardiness. To avoid plunging further into destitution, Richard takes desperate measures. Inspired by the events surrounding the London Riots in 2011 and the subsequent infamous speech made by Prime Minister David Cameron, Mass of Men gives harsh insight into the dangers of repression, disillusionment and apathy. |
National FIlm and Television School (NFTS) | United Kingdom | 136 |
2 | THE SWING OF THE COFFIN MAKER
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Details:TrailerLength: 30' Screenwriter: Elmar Iman Director: Elmar Iman Producer: Eva Blondiau Animator: n/a DOP: Driss Azhari Sound: Jan Pusc Editor: Bastian Bot Production Designer: n/a Synopsis: Azerbaijan. Yagub has nothing left but beats for his disabled son Musa until a shattering message brings about a sudden turn. |
international film school cologne (ifs) | Germany | 89 |
3 | YOUR PLACE
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Details:TrailerLength: 29' Screenwriter: Sylvia Borges Director: Sylvia Borges Producer: Academy of Media Arts Animator: n/a DOP: Claire Jahn Sound: Moritz Minhöfer, Konstantin Faust Editor: Moritz Poth Production Designer: n/a Synopsis: Freya falls accidentally into the arms of Max, in a club. They start dancing. In the morning he asks her, "To my place or yours?" She makes him a strange offer: "What about you go to my place and I go to yours?" Freya and Max swap their keys and addresses. They'll realize it is not necessary to be physically close to feel closer. |
Academy of Media Arts Cologne (KHM) | Germany | 60 |
4 | PARVANEH
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Details:TrailerLength: 24' Screenwriter: Talkhon Hamzavi Director: Talkhon Hamzavi Producer: Master of Arts in Film Animator: n/a DOP: Stefan Dux Sound: Sergio Milliet Editor: Hannes Rüttimann Production Designer: n/a Synopsis: Parvaneh, a young, Afghan migrant is living in a transit centre for asylum in the Swiss mountains. After knowing about her father’s illness, she seeks the city to send money to her family. This is the starting point of various encounters. |
Zurich University of the Arts / Department of Performing Arts and Film (ZHdK) | Switzerland | 55 |
5 | CROSSROADS
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Details:TrailerLength: 29' Screenwriter: Wouter Bouvijn Director: Wouter Bouvijn Producer: RITS School of ARTS Animator: n/a DOP: Maximiliaan Dierickx Sound: Gedeon Depauw Editor: Pieter Smet Production Designer: Senne De Beul Synopsis: Maxime is faced with an uncertain future when his father dies from a genetic disease. He must choose: a genetic test or a leap into the unknown. |
Royal Institute for Theatre, Cinema and Sound (RITCS) | Belgium | 48 |
6 | ELEPHANT
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Details:TrailerLength: 9' Screenwriter: Pablo Larcuen Director: Pablo Larcuen Producer: Sergi Casamitjana Animator: n/a DOP: Daniel Fernández Abelló Sound: Pau Xandri Editor: Antonio Gómez-Pan Production Designer: Victor Santacana Synopsis: Manuel is a mid aged man with a very sad life: he has a boring job, his only friend hates him and his family seems to not care at all about him. Everything changes when Manuel is diagnosed with a very strange illness: he is going to become an elephant. |
Cinema and Audiovisual School of Catalonia (ESCAC) | Spain | 44 |
7 | MY FATHER`S TRUCK
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Details:TrailerLength: 16' Screenwriter: Mauricio Osaki Director: Mauricio Osaki Producer: Mauricio Osaki, Pierre de Kerchove Animator: n/a DOP: Pierre de Kerchove Sound: Amy Hartman, Russell Clark, Hoang Thuy Editor: Mauricio Osaki Production Designer: Son Tran Trung Synopsis: My Father's Truck is a part coming-of-age part road film about 10-year-old Mai Vy as she skips school one day to help her father with his passenger truck for hire. Set along the countryside of Northern Vietnam, Mai Vy is soon confronted with shades of morality and some harsh realities as she learns how things, outside the classroom, really are. |
New York University (NYU) | United States | 39 |
8-9 | HOW I KILLED RABIN
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Details:TrailerLength: 17' Screenwriter: Michael Alalu Director: Michael Alalu Producer: Eviatar Brunschtein Animator: n/a DOP: Ohad Oz Sound: n/a Editor: Rephael Levin Production Designer: n/a Synopsis: Itamar, a Jerusalem teenager, lives in the inner game world of "Rules and Fates”. It is 1995, and Itamar longs to reveal his love for Gali, a member of his youth movement. The journey to the peace rally in Tel Aviv on November 4th presents a window of opportunity, but the world of "Rules and Fate" has its own rules and fates. |
Sam Spiegel Film and Television School Jerusalem (JSFS) | Israel | 38 |
8-9 | MAGNESIUM
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Details:TrailerLength: 21' Screenwriter: Shady El-Hamus Director: Sam de Jong Producer: Beau van Assem, Marloes de Rijke, Alexander Van Damme Animator: n/a DOP: Paul Özgür Sound: Thijmen van der Poll Editor: Mieneke Kramer Production Designer: Sanne Schat Synopsis: Isabel, a young talented gymnast, stands in front of an important qualification tournament. A couple of days before she faces her last chance to reach the top, she discovers something that will change her life completely. Now she has to make a last effort to reach her final objective. |
Netherlands Film Academy (NFA) | Netherlands | 38 |
10 | THE MOST PRECIOUS
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Details:Length: 28'Screenwriter: Joseph (Soso) Bliadze Director: Joseph (Soso) Bliadze Producer: Joseph (Soso) Bliadze Animator: n/a DOP: Dito Dekanosidze Sound: Irakli Futkaradze, Sandro Nakashidze Editor: Joseph (Soso) Bliadze Production Designer: Mariam Chichiveishvili Synopsis: The film is about a beggar boy, who lives in non-functioning trolleybus. His regular begging place is opposite the laptop shop. Every day he stands there watching his beloved red laptop. His life changes when “he’s” notebook is bought by a young boy, as a present for his wife. |
Theatre and Film Georgia State University (TAFU) | Georgia | 37 |
11 | BEHIND THE DOOR
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Details:Length: 21'Screenwriter: Adham Elsherif Director: Adham Elsherif Producer: Adham Elsherif Animator: n/a DOP: Bassam Ibrahim Sound: Naser Shaaban Editor: Ahmed Gharib, Islam Amer Production Designer: n/a Synopsis: A five years old child left alone in the big house, trying to discover what is behind the door. |
High Cinema Institute, Egypt | Egypt | 34 |
12 | THOUGHTS ABOUT DYING
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Details:TrailerLength: 8' Screenwriter: Jani llomäki, Mikko Parttimaa, Salla Lehtik Director: Jani llomäki Producer: Julia Elomäki Animator: n/a DOP: Mikko Parttimaa Sound: Jesse Soini Editor: Jenny Priiki Production Designer: n/a Synopsis: A young boy thinks about dying. |
Tampere University of Applied Sciences (TUNI), Degree Programme in Media | Finland | 33 |
13 | RAZ AND RADJA
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Details:Length: 18'Screenwriter: Yona Rozenkier Director: Yona Rozenkier Producer: Yoel Rozenkier, Micha Rozenkier, Dolma Baron, Zohar Elmakias Animator: n/a DOP: Oded Ashkenazi Sound: Idan Beni Editor: Or Lee-Tal Production Designer: n/a Synopsis: Raz, a tired reserve soldier, is sent to guard a broken army truck and a Palestinian prisoner named Radja, who broke his curfew. As they wait for a rescue patrol, the two repeatedly attempt to jumpstart the truck while a curious donkey is wondering nearby. |
The Steve Tisch School of Film and Television (TAU) | Israel | 32 |
14-15 | LIQUIDATION
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Details:Length: 17'Screenwriter: Marie-Therese Thill Director: Matthias Zuder Producer: HMS, Annika Steffens (Creative Producer) Animator: n/a DOP: Thomas Forster Sound: Martin Gerigk Editor: Frank Schuhmacher Production Designer: Heidrun Schwantge Synopsis: Max is on the road with his pregnant girlfriend Lina. He suddenly gets a call from his grandfather who wants to meet with him shortly before he will be taken away. At the grandfather's home he offers Max an inheritance that jlasts apart any notion of 'family'. |
Hamburg Media School (HMS) | Germany | 31 |
14-15 | TO GUARD A MOUNTAIN
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Details:TrailerLength: 24' Screenwriter: Tor Hubro Stene Director: Izer Aliu Producer: Elisabeth Kvithyll Animator: n/a DOP: John-Erling Holmenes Fredriksen Sound: Jesper Miller Editor: Alline de Almeida Lande Production Designer: Ragnhild Juliane Sletta Synopsis: The only yearning 12-year-old Isa has for his father to perceive him as a man - and men don't cry. |
The Norwegian Film School (NFS) | Norway | 31 |
16 | MOTHER
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Details:TrailerLength: 20' Screenwriter: Liu Chia-Hsin Director: Liu Chia-Hsin Producer: Lin Shih-Ken Animator: n/a DOP: Chen Chun-Yu Sound: Thomas Foguenne Editor: Hsu Wei-Yoo Production Designer: n/a Synopsis: Seven years after the murder of a young girl, two women continue to struggle in the aftermath. Xiangyun, mother of the victim, and Chen Yuan, whose son is the girl's killer, and is being prepared for execution. The approach of Chen's death forces each of the mothers to face their buried grief. |
National Taiwan University of Arts (NTUA) | Taiwan | 26 |
17 | KANYE KANYE
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Details:TrailerLength: 24' Screenwriter: Miklas Manneke Director: Miklas Manneke Producer: Nelio Frade Da Silva Animator: Eric Barnfather DOP: Charles Hunter Ryder Sound: Alison Stevens Editor: Mpho Austin Malema Production Designer: n/a Synopsis: The film centre's itself in a small township, where many years ago, two best friends had a childish arguments about which apple is better, the red or the green. The argument lead to the great division within the town, everyone who believed that the red apple would live on the left of a big white line in red houses while everyone who thought green was better would live on right side in green houses. |
South African School of Motion Picture Medium and Live Performance (AFDA) | South Africa | 25 |
18 | REZA HASSANI GOES TO THE MALL
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Details:TrailerLength: 10' Screenwriter: Sara Zandieh Director: Sara Zandieh Producer: Michele De Caro, Mackenzie Luzzi, Andy Bryant Animator: n/a DOP: Fortunato Procopio Sound: Jean Souders Editor: Rogin Kim, Sara Zandieh Production Designer: Austin Lazek Synopsis: A recent immigrant journeys to the American cultural mecca that is the mall. |
Columbia University | United States | 23 |
19-21 | AUSCHWITS ON MY MIND
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Details:TrailerLength: 16' Screenwriter: Assaf Machnes Director: Assaf Machnes Producer: Assaf Machnes, Jakub Kubicki, Jonny Persey Animator: n/a DOP: Itay Gross Sound: Oni Elbar Editor: Guy Natanel Production Designer: n/a Synopsis: The Journey of Roy, a seventeen-year-old Israeli teenager, trying to win the affection of a girl from his class while they both travel in Poland with their school between Holocaust memorials and death camps. |
Met Film School (MFS) | United Kingdom | 22 |
19-21 | MOMO
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Details:TrailerLength: 30' Screenwriter: Teodor Kuhn Director: Teodor Kuhn Producer: FTF VŠMU Animator: n/a DOP: Denisa Buranová Sound: Miro Gazi Editor: Brano Gotthardt Production Designer: Michal Losonsky Synopsis: Momo is about the importance of having a father. A young boy has problems with self-control and finding a purpose in life, and even though they seem almost too hard to solve, they come from not feeling secure by himself. |
Academy of Performing Arts / Film and Television Faculty (VSMU) | Slovakia | 22 |
19-21 | TO REMAIN SILENT
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Details:TrailerLength: 16' Screenwriter: Tancrède Delvolvé, Matthias Couquet Director: Tancrède Delvolvé Producer: ESRA Animator: n/a DOP: Hugo Rossello Sound: Steeve Labeau, Kévin Ramassamy, Romain Jallud, Alexandre Coplin Editor: Elise Vernant Production Designer: n/a Synopsis: As every evening, Souleymane, an immigrant, without papers, cleans the offices of a company. Except that this day there, he is going to be confronted with a a very difficult situation. |
ESRA Group | France | 22 |
22-23 | BEHIND THE MIRRORS
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Details:TrailerLength: 12' Screenwriter: Julio O. Ramos Director: Julio O. Ramos Producer: Julio O. Ramos Animator: n/a DOP: Philip Klucsarits Sound: Omar Pareja Editor: Carlos Marques-Marcet Production Designer: Andrea Arce Duval Synopsis: A young husband, and soon-to-be father, manages a sleazy motel with his wife. When one of the night's customers leaves behind an unexpected mess, the husband's keen eye for opportunity and quick thinking may change their fortunes forever. |
University of California Los Angeles (UCLA) | United States | 20 |
22-23 | PICTURE PERFECT
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Details:TrailerLength: 24' Screenwriter: The Tao Twins Director: Winston Titus Tao Producer: Ngoc Ho, Bryan Barnes Animator: n/a DOP: Andrew Finch Sound: Tyler Payne Editor: Tiffany Melvin Production Designer: Eddie Lopes Synopsis: Russell Clayton enters his high school photography competition, to win money for his little sister. But his father sells his camera to local drug dealers. |
Chapman University / Dodge College of Film and Media Arts | United States | 20 |
24-26 | FALLEN
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Details:TrailerLength: 18' Screenwriter: Christoph Schuler, Lucia Scharbatke Director: Christoph Schuler Producer: Lucia Scharbatke Animator: n/a DOP: Fabio Stoll Sound: David Hernandez Editor: Maria Zimmermann Production Designer: Lucia Scharbatke Synopsis: The fighting continues… Upon returning home to Germany after their tour of duty in Afghanistan three friends attempt to adjust back to civilian life after losing their friend on the battlefield. What are they to do with all their guilt, fear and anxiety? Where are they to go with all their rage? |
University of Television and Film Munich (HFF) | Germany | 18 |
24-26 | HUNGRY MAN
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Details:Length: 18'Screenwriter: Jordan Prosser Director: Jordan Prosser Producer: Steven Mckinnon Animator: n/a DOP: David Rusanow Sound: Sound recordist: Gunay Demirci; Sound designer: Dane Cody Editor: Tom Wilson, Jordan Prosser Production Designer: Dane Naoum Synopsis: The story of a man, his tapeworm, and the girl who comes between them. |
VCA Film and Television | Australia | 18 |
24-26 | MAKS
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Details:Length: 16'Screenwriter: Sara Kern Director: Sara Kern Producer: Jožica Blatnik Animator: n/a DOP: Uroš Hočevar Sound: Peter Žerovnik Editor: Zlatjan Čučkov Production Designer: n/a Synopsis: MAKS: I'm going to grandma. I have decided. Good bye. |
University of Ljubljana / Academy of Theatre, Radio, Film and Television (AGRFT) | Slovenia | 18 |
27-29 | JERUSALEM
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Details:Length: 29'Screenwriter: Nave Antopolsky Director: Nave Antopolsky Producer: Nave Antopolsky Animator: n/a DOP: Barak Brinker Sound: Maya Antopolsky Editor: Vadim Tyutyunin, Nave Antopolsky Production Designer: Rotem Gur Synopsis: There is a divine quality in Jerusalem, which transcends the holy sites. I look at Jerusalem as a place of encounter. A place where one is faced the most profound questions of life as well as strangers from various backgrounds and beliefs. To look at a stranger and recognize oneself. |
Bezalel Academy of Arts and Design Jerusalem (BAAD) | Israel | 17 |
27-29 | ONE SONG
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Details:TrailerLength: 30' Screenwriter: Catalina Molina Director: Catalina Molina Producer: David Bohun Animator: n/a DOP: Klemens Hufnagl Sound: Laura Endres Editor: Matthias Halibrand Production Designer: Nina Salak, Laura Nasmyth Synopsis: Father by day and musician by night; as a single parent, Coni barely gets by. A faded photograph is the only reminder of his daughter's mother. But one day, shortly after Coni seems to be over her, she shows up again. |
Film Academy Vienna (UMDK) | Austria | 17 |
27-29 | POINT OF NO RETURN
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Details:Length: 15'Screenwriter: Stephanie Olthoff Director: Stephanie Olthoff Producer: Daniela Hofele Animator: n/a DOP: Francesco Luggeri Sound: Ina Spang Editor: Ulrike Tortora Production Designer: n/a Synopsis: Late one night in Munich, Germany. Sara Felber (27) enters a police station. She wants to press charges. But still while the policeman is reporting her testimony, the tide is turning... |
Macromedia University of Applied Science | Germany | 17 |
30-31 | ECHO
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Details:TrailerLength: 14' Screenwriter: Ela Gas Director: Ela Gas Producer: Shane Kelly, Amber Miles Animator: n/a DOP: Ela Gas, Colum O' Dwyer Sound: Niall Conroy Editor: Mike Heneghan Production Designer: Amber Miles Synopsis: Young Emily enjoys the magic of her childhood: until one day she becomes aware of her grandmothers aging body and is confronted with anxious thoughts of morality. |
National Film School / Institute of Art, Design and Technology (IADT) | Ireland | 16 |
30-31 | THE MOTHER
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Details:TrailerLength: 16' Screenwriter: Ernesto Martínez Bucio Director: Ernesto Martínez Bucio Producer: Dalia Rocío Reyes Campos Animator: n/a DOP: Odei Zabaleta Imaz Sound: Erick Ruiz Editor: Ernesto Martínez Bucio Production Designer: Enriqueta Dávila Synopsis: Javier and Elisa have committed murder. Maria, Javier's mother, must decide if she should help her son. |
Centro de Capacitación Cinematográfica, A.C. (CCC) | Mexico | 16 |
32-33 | CHLORINE
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Details:TrailerLength: 12' Screenwriter: Laura Plebani, Dario Bonamin, Eleonora Cimpanelli, Marta Pallagrosi Director: Laura Plebani Producer: Centro Sperimentale di Cinematografia Production Animator: n/a DOP: Sammy Paravan Sound: Paolo Spigno Editor: Andrea Campajola Production Designer: Laura Inglese Synopsis: The locker room of a swimming pool. Chiara and Futura are like two peas in a pod: they wear the same costume, the same eye-shadow on their adolescent faces. What they are about to face is no normal competition. They're growing up and the pool isn't big enough for the both of them. |
Centro Sperimentale di Cinematografia (CSC) | Italy | 15 |
32-33 | SEREGA
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Details:Length: 16'Screenwriter: Aleksei Borodachev, Irina Basenko Director: Irina Basenko Producer: Mariya Boicova Animator: n/a DOP: Eekaterina Orlovskaya Sound: Yekaterina Ivanova Editor: Irina Basenko, Alexander Fechadi Production Designer: Mariya Ponikarova Synopsis: Serega is a botcher and a hoodlum, he lives with a disabled father and a degraded mother. Once his uncle invited him to celebrate his birthday. At the height of the party he finds a photo of a young beautiful woman in whom he recognizes his mother. |
Russian State University of Сinematography n.a. S.Gerasimov VGIK | Russia | 15 |
34 | THE OWL
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Details:TrailerLength: 30' Screenwriter: Marta Karwowska Director: Marta Karwowska Producer: Anna Wereda, Daniel Wozbinski Animator: n/a DOP: Jakub Giza Sound: Krzysztof Salawa Editor: Barbara Fronc Production Designer: n/a Synopsis: Last days of summer holidays. Owl is eight years old. She has a secret plan - to get to the desolate island. Although the pontoon is leaky, and her parents are busy, she almost makes it. |
Polish National Film, Television and Theatre School in Lodz (PWSFTViT) | Poland | 14 |
35-37 | COULD SEE A PUMA
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Details:TrailerLength: 17' Screenwriter: Eduardo Williams Director: Eduardo Williams Producer: n/a Animator: n/a DOP: Manuel Bascoy Sound: Milton Rodríguez Editor: Eduardo Williams Production Designer: n/a Synopsis: The accident leads a group of young boys from the high roofs of their neighborhood, passing through its destruction, to the deepest of the earth. |
Universidad del Cine (UCINE) | Argentina | 13 |
35-37 | FREE WORLD
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Details:Length: 23'Screenwriter: Anna Hints Director: Anna Hints Producer: Kaspar Ainelo Animator: n/a DOP: Tõnis Tuuga Sound: Ann Reimann Editor: Marion Koppel Production Designer: Anni Lindal Synopsis: Eastern Europe is free again. After 50 years of darkness Western light is flowing over the ruins of the Berlin wall. Former refugees are returning to their homeland, which for a long time has existed but as a traumatic memory. There they meet with those who once stayed behind in the dark. |
Baltic Film, Media and Arts School, Tallinn University | Estonia | 13 |
35-37 | WAITING FOR THE THAW
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Details:TrailerLength: 20' Screenwriter: Sarah Hirtt Director: Sarah Hirtt Producer: INSAS — Atelier de Realisation Animator: n/a DOP: Léonidas Arvanitis Sound: Paul Gautier Editor: Anna Brunstein Production Designer: n/a Synopsis: Long divided siblings meet for the moving of one of them. The atmosphere is tense. Valery, Victor and Vincianne take the road, not knowing that the trip will be hazardous... Waiting for the Thaw is questioning the development of family disagreements in a context of a critical and incongruous situation. |
Institut National Supérieur des Arts du Spectacle et Techniques de Diffusion (INSAS) | Belgium | 13 |
38 | NICE TO MEET YOU
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Details:TrailerLength: 24' Screenwriter: Diego Aparicio Director: Diego Aparicio Producer: Bernardo Séré Animator: n/a DOP: Benjamín Delgado Sound: Hernán Alvarado Editor: Diego Aparicio Production Designer: n/a Synopsis: Martin meets nine years, and hopes to meet his grandfather who does not know a family feud of the past. Nevertheless, Leonardo does get a gift to the family. |
Universidad de Buenos Aires / Diseño de Imagen y Sonido FADU (UBA) | Argentina | 12 |
39-41 | BUSKING
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Details:TrailerLength: 30' Screenwriter: Natalia Alexandrova, Georgi Merdzhanov Director: Plamena Hristova Producer: National Academy for Theatre & Film Arts (NATFA) “Krustyo Sarafov”, Bulgaria Animator: Zdravko Keremedchiev DOP: Plamen Zheliazkov - Flambo Sound: Daniel Prinov Editor: Valeria Usheva Production Designer: n/a Synopsis: Literally, Busking means performing street music not only for money but for one's pleasure as well. Busking also stands for an opportunity to live out your life the way you want, to be great not in the eyes of others but in your own eyes. Busking is having the courage to admit to ourselves that cars, money and expensive things don't make people happy but are just substitutes for our real needs - love, freedom and...the music in our soul. The kind of music which an over satisfied business woman learns to truly hear at a time when her whole world is falling to pieces right before her eyes. |
National Academy for Theatre and Film Arts (NATFA) | Bulgaria | 11 |
39-41 | PSYKOPOESIS
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Details:TrailerLength: 20' Screenwriter: Petri Eksymä Director: Jarno Elonen Producer: Matti Kajander Animator: n/a DOP: Hans Barck Sound: Ville Katajala Editor: Heikki-Pekka Vaara Production Designer: n/a Synopsis: Joel attempts to tackle his personality problems using lucid dream therapy and a baseball bat. |
Aalto University School of Arts, Design and Architecture / ELO Film School Helsinki | Finland | 11 |
39-41 | THE DEER
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Details:TrailerLength: 14' Screenwriter: Rémi Michel, Serge-Olivier Rondeau Director: Rémi Michel Producer: École des Medias de UQAM Animator: n/a DOP: Serge-Olivier Rondeau Sound: Mathieu Robinet Editor: Samuel Gagnon Thibodeau Production Designer: n/a Synopsis: In a small village, Marc's family is getting prepared for their dad's funeral. The hearse's driver being sick, Marc gonna have to replace him but his lack of serious brings him on a slippery slope. |
University of Québec Montréal / School of Media (UQAM) | Canada | 11 |
42-43 | AFTERGLOW
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Details:TrailerLength: 19' Screenwriter: Kaushal Oza Director: Kaushal Oza Producer: Kaushal Oza Animator: n/a DOP: Manesh Madhavan Sound: Tanmoy Basu Editor: Monisha R Baldawa Production Designer: Pallavi Bagga, Ramcharantej Labani Synopsis: Today is the tenth day after Minocher Mirza's death. And while his widow Meher is trying to come to terms with her personal grief, friends and relatives, according to Parsi customs, make their condolence visits and offer mock sympathy. |
Film and Television Institute of India (FTII) | India | 10 |
42-43 | LET’S NOT CAUSE TROUBLE
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Details:Length: 28'Screenwriter: Julie Debiton Director: Julie Debiton Producer: Marthe Lamy Animator: n/a DOP: Quentin Guichard Sound: Alexis Meynet Editor: Julie Borvon Production Designer: n/a Synopsis: Maybe Maud shouldn't have read the words Elisa couldn't stop herself from writing. Words that create bonds and words that destroy them. The last words. |
La Fémis | France | 10 |
44-48 | ANNALYN
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Details:TrailerLength: 30' Screenwriter: Vanja Torp Director: Maria Eriksson Producer: Erik Lundqvist, Malin Idevall Animator: n/a DOP: Annika Busch Sound: Andreas Andersson Editor: Alexandra Liten Production Designer: n/a Synopsis: Agnes is not satisfied with her life. She wants a change, but her relationship with her single parent father and dominant girlfriend inhibit her to do something about it. When the father introduces his new wife, Annalyn, everything changes. The same-aged Filipino stepmother helps Agnes see a new path. Soon emerges something that no one could have foreseen. |
Stockholm Academy of Dramatic Arts / Stockholm University of the Arts (SADA) | Sweden | 9 |
44-48 | DON'T TOUCH THE GROUND
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Details:TrailerLength: 30' Screenwriter: Stefanie Schmitz, Mia Spengler Director: Mia Spengler Producer: Rebecca Schröder Animator: n/a DOP: Jan-Marcello Kahl Sound: n/a Editor: Philipp Ostermann Production Designer: n/a Synopsis: Fila is load and wild. She wants to be seen. But the only person who realises her beauty below her make-up is Artur. |
Filmakademie Baden-Wuerttemberg (FABW) | Germany | 9 |
44-48 | I HOPE THIS MATCH NEVER ENDS
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Details:Length: 30'Screenwriter: NG Chun Mr, LUK Man Hon Mr, MA Ho Kiu Ms Director: NG Chun Mr Producer: TANG Heng Mr Animator: n/a DOP: CHUNG Po Wang Mr Sound: LUK Man Hon Mr Editor: CHONG Shuk Fong Ms Production Designer: n/a Synopsis: Big head’s parents have divorced for a long time. Since then, he has been living with his mother and stepfather in harmony. His father is a stunt man in the film industry and has been coping his living with an unstable income. Big Head always finds it uneasy to see his father in messy situations and financial insecurity. Having to leave for Australia for his study very soon, he tries very hard and finally succeeds in getting a job for his father as a security guard. But all ends up in frustration: his father is totally uninterested in the job and almost gets fired. Father and son start blaming each other until each sees his own childishness and inadequacies. |
Hong Kong Academy for Performing Arts / School of Film and Television (HKAPA) | Hong Kong | 9 |
44-48 | THE BLACK SHEEP
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Details:TrailerLength: 14' Screenwriter: Marine Chaillan Director: Camille L'Heritier Producer: Céline Michelant Animator: n/a DOP: Christophe Perraudin Sound: Quentin Spiess, Lucas Fellous Editor: Arthur Muller, Damien Delannoy Production Designer: Céline Michelant, Pierre Legendre Synopsis: After several years far from his family, Simon comes back home for a particular matter: the burial of his brother. He meets his parents and other three brothers, but things don't go as he likes. |
International Institute of Image and Sound (3IS) | France | 9 |
44-48 | THE MURMURS
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Details:TrailerLength: 18' Screenwriter: Gastón Andrade Juárez Director: Gastón Andrade Juárez Producer: Ángel Linares Animator: n/a DOP: Esteban Arrangoiz Sound: Juan José Rovirosa Editor: Gastón Andrade Juárez Production Designer: n/a Synopsis: "A hundred meters, above the clouds. More, far beyond everything. You're hiding you, Susan. Hidden in the vastness of God. Where I cannot reach you or see you and where my words cannot reach"- Pedro Paramo by Juan Rulfo. |
National School of Film Arts / National Autonomous University of Mexico (ENAC/UNAM) | Mexico | 9 |
49-51 | 47 ORCHARD STREET
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Details:TrailerLength: 20' Screenwriter: Louis Lloyd Pack Director: Reuben McNaughton Producer: Marie-Elena Dyche Animator: n/a DOP: James McLaughlin Sound: Matthew Stuart Palmer Editor: George Oringunola Production Designer: Jessica Esmond Synopsis: New York, 1929. Craving forgiveness from the brother he cannot forgive, Hirsch is haunted by a sense of guilt that extends far beyond the four walls of his tenement apartment. |
Westminster Film BA / University of Westminster (WFS) | United Kingdom | 8 |
49-51 | SOUL FOOD
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Details:Length: 20'Screenwriter: Davide Fortunati Director: Federico Rodelli Producer: Milano Scuola di Cinema е Televisione Animator: n/a DOP: Carlo Pastaccini, Federico Pagani Sound: Giulia Paggiarin, Diego Colombo Editor: Marco Circosta Garcia Production Designer: n/a Synopsis: Said is a young Moroccan boy who has recently moved to Italy, where he's experiencing the hardness of life, torn between his brother's arrogance and the street life rules. All this starts changing the moment he meets Carmen, a middle aged chef. |
Milan City Film School Luchino Visconti (MCSC) | Italy | 8 |
49-51 | YELLOW CARS
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Details:Length: 26'Screenwriter: Mei Hanawa Director: Mei Hanawa Producer: Mei Hanawa, Hiroaki Takeda, Shintaro Kasahara Animator: n/a DOP: Hiroaki Takeda Sound: Shintaro Kasahara Editor: Mei Hanawa Production Designer: n/a Synopsis: Sachiko has a sense of inferiority in her face and her life. She would know the secrets of the people around by some freak coincidence. Suddenly, her life began to run in it. |
Nihon University | Japan | 8 |
52-55 | CLOSED CIRCUIT
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Details:TrailerLength: 15' Screenwriter: Richard Dantas Director: Nicol Alexander Producer: Caio Gonçalves Animator: n/a DOP: Richard Dantas Sound: Ivan Costa, Alexandre Scarpelli Editor: Alan Zilli Production Designer: Tatiane Takahashi Synopsis: Shot exclusively by the point of view of a robbed camera, Close Circuit tells the story of this very camera, going from drug dealers to corrupt policemen, receivers of stolen goods and filmmakers, in a cycle of violence from where the characters can’t escape. |
University of São Paulo / School of Communications and Arts / Department of Film, Radio and Television (USP) | Brazil | 7 |
52-55 | DONG
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Details:TrailerLength: 25' Screenwriter: LI Yushan Director: LI Yushan Producer: SHI Yanfang, LI Wenkai Animator: n/a DOP: CHEN Shufan, LUO Yuanhao Sound: LI Shimao Editor: LI Yushan Production Designer: n/a Synopsis: Yang Dong, 12, and Nuannuan, 12, are classmates in a Peking Opera school, starting to learn about and anticipate love. Nuannuan likes Dong, yet Dong is having a curious feeling towards Nuannuan's auntie. Name it affection, love. After several meetings with Nuannuan's auntie, he dreams of his deceased mother. This unreal event brings Dong closer to auntie. |
Academy of Film / Hong Kong Baptist University (HKBU) | Hong Kong | 7 |
52-55 | DUET DANCE
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Details:Length: 21'Screenwriter: Hong Ling Director: Hong Ling Producer: Peng Xu Animator: n/a DOP: Kong Weizitong Sound: Shi Piao Editor: Hong Ling Production Designer: n/a Synopsis: Zheng Mingming is a 14-year-old girl, taking courses in a ballet school, who is so addicted into a boy from the same grade named Fan Tian. She attempts to confess to Tian but failed for times. At the same time, she notices that her breasts are growing unconsciously which annoys her day and night. Mingming is shamed on her growing breasts, and afraid of Tian`s mock. Hence, she endeavoured to efface them, but unfortunately it works ineffectively. Once Mingming and Fan Tian are sharing a course of “Dance for Two”, they fall on the floor accidentally and Tian just touches her breasts! And then, Fan Tian just crashes on Mingming when she feels her own deep inside ugliness was revealed… |
Beijing Film Academy (BFA) | China | 7 |
52-55 | THE HAULIER
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Details:Length: 27'Screenwriter: Marina Uzelac, Nevena Stanic Director: Marina Uzelac Producer: Dusan Djokovic Animator: n/a DOP: Uros Milutinovic Sound: Branislav Gelevski Editor: Milorad Citic Production Designer: n/a Synopsis: ''The Haulier'' was based on a model of Charon, the carrier of Greek mythology who ferried the dead to the gates of Hades. The haulier is benign and problematic old man who drives an old Volvo, loves movies and his best friend and companion is turtle Flash. |
Akademija Umetnosti | Serbia | 7 |
56-59 | B-DAY
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Details:Length: 4'Screenwriter: Olaf Held Director: Olaf Held, Karl-Hagen-Stotze Producer: Catarina Jentzsch Animator: n/a DOP: Johannes Praus Sound: Patrick Pilz Editor: David J. Rauschning Production Designer: n/a Synopsis: A birthday party in the Normandy. |
Film University Babelsberg KONRAD WOLF | Germany | 6 |
56-59 | LE SOUFFLE COURT
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Details:TrailerLength: 21' Screenwriter: Guillaume Legrand Director: Guillaume Legrand Producer: Léo Vilarem Animator: n/a DOP: Guihem Touzery Sound: Ben Huff Editor: Alexandre Donot Production Designer: Clara Malapa Synopsis: Léa loves Arnaud. The young, carefree couple lives in an abandoned school. Didier, a small-time crook, offered this shelter in exchange for their help trafficking a child. Faced with this situation, the young woman hesitates. However, Léa loves Arnaud. |
CalArts School of Film/Video (CALARTS) | United States | 6 |
56-59 | MONIKA
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Details:Length: 11'Screenwriter: Erpur Sigurðarson, Guðrún Helga Sváfnisdóttir Director: Guðrún Helga Sváfnisdóttir Producer: Hrefna Hagalín, Guðrún Helga Sváfnisdóttir Animator: n/a DOP: Atli Kristófer Pétursson Sound: Atli Kristófer Pétursson Editor: Atli Kristófer Pétursson Production Designer: n/a Synopsis: Monika has always been a model citizen, daughter, wife, student and employee. But she fights it when the perfection seems complete. She realises that everything up to this point has been valued on a dull scale, grades, other peoples opinion, pay checks. She starts on a tough spiritual journey, but in the end it is worth it. |
Icelandic Film School (IFS) | Iceland | 6 |
56-59 | TANGO IN THREE SPACES AND THREE CHARACTERS
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Details:TrailerLength: 19' Screenwriter: Strahinja Savić Director: Strahinja Savić Producer: Nevena Pavlović, Vladimir Dudar Animator: n/a DOP: Aleksandra Martinović Sound: Sofija Jovanov Editor: Sara Santini Production Designer: n/a Synopsis: A film student has a task to make a film with three characters in three spaces, with maximum duration of 15 minutes. Looking for inspiration, he ends up in the Cinematheque, at the screening of "The Last Tango in Paris" and there meets a girl who attracts his attention. From then on, the student begins to direct their relationship, both in his imagination and in reality, as a creative response to the task he's trying to solve. |
FDU - Fakultet Dramskih Umetnosti | Serbia | 6 |
60-61 | JUANA
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Details:TrailerLength: 9' Screenwriter: Angela Prince Director: Angela Prince Producer: Teresa Bayardo Animator: n/a DOP: Sebastián Sariñana Sound: Juan Méndez Editor: Hector Estrada Production Designer: n/a Synopsis: Juana is a 22 years old woman who has had a rough life. She have two children and because his husband mistreated her, she ran away from her house. A social organization help her; they give her a work and take care of her children while she works, but Juana decides to run away. |
Universidad Iberoamericana Mexico City (IBERO) | Mexico | 5 |
60-61 | THE CAMP IN RAZOARE
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Details:TrailerLength: 22' Screenwriter: Cristi Iftime Director: Cristi Iftime Producer: National University of Theatre and Film "I.L. Caragiale" Bucharest Animator: n/a DOP: George Chiper Lillemark Sound: Dan-Ştefan Rucăreanu, Alexandru Radu, loan Filip Editor: Alexandru Radu Production Designer: n/a Synopsis: It's the last day of a summer camp. Alex insists on going to the mountain with Vera although he feels a weird pain on the right side of his belly. |
National University of Theatre and Film (UNATC) | Romania | 5 |
62-68 | DOUBLE HAPPINESS
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Details:TrailerLength: 18' Screenwriter: Wu Linfeng Director: Wu Linfeng Producer: Song Ying Animator: n/a DOP: Gui Shan Shan Sound: Jesmen Tan Editor: Song Ying Production Designer: n/a Synopsis: Chu Chu, a Chinese girl who was adopted by a Chinese couple when she was three, comes to Singapore looking for her biological mother. After being fired by her boss, she locates her biological mother working as a crier at a funeral. Just at this particular moment, Chu Chu is informed that her foster mother has passed away. |
Puttnam School of Film & Animation / LASALLE College of the Arts (LCA) | Singapore | 4 |
62-68 | EAT
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Details:Length: 7'Screenwriter: Moritz Krämer Director: Patrick Jasim Producer: Ines Berwing Animator: n/a DOP: Moritz Krämer Sound: Schreiber, Jana Klinge Editor: Alberto Sanchez, Luciana Bass Vanessa Production Designer: n/a Synopsis: A photo shoot. The model, Helen, feels uneasy. Back in the changing room she makes a surprising discovery. Everything around her is edible - the chair, the TV, the walls... |
German Film and Television Academy Berlin (DFFB) | Germany | 4 |
62-68 | ECLIPSE
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Details:Length: 19'Screenwriter: Hakim Mastour Director: Hakim Mastour Producer: Nina Kennel, Thomas Ammann Animator: n/a DOP: Anne-Lise Morin Sound: Aida Merghoub Editor: Aurore Vervaeke Production Designer: n/a Synopsis: And what if the sun were to disappear, due to a love affair between whoever guides its path and the beautiful shepherdess? But in these desert landscapes of Tunisia, that love is impossible, which merely imparts more beauty to this poetically realistic tale. |
Film Department/cinéma du réel - Geneva School of Art and Design (HEAD) | Switzerland | 4 |
62-68 | EVERY GIRL BUT ME
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Details:TrailerLength: 13' Screenwriter: Julia Kirszman Director: Natalia Dolensky Producer: Georgina Baisch, Cecilia Salim Animator: n/a DOP: Aylén López Sound: Estanislao López Editor: Lucio Rodríguez Muñoz Production Designer: Constanza Gatti Synopsis: Marina, a young woman constantly harassed by her multiple personalities, had a fight with her boyfriend, Ruben. She wants to forget, but her multiple personalities convince her to return to him. |
National School of Film Experimentation and Production (ENERC) | Argentina | 4 |
62-68 | HAVEN
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Details:Length: 21'Screenwriter: Inês Teixeira, Joana Magalhães, Luís Nunes Director: Luís Nunes Producer: Manuel Guerra Animator: n/a DOP: Leone Niel Sound: Nuno Pontes Editor: Manuel Guerra, Miguel Cravo Production Designer: n/a Synopsis: “Haven” is the story of Rocío, a young girl who at the summer returns to the fishing village where she was born, a place she didn’t visited since the tragedy that made her leave. |
Lisbon Theatre and Film School (ESTC) | Portugal | 4 |
62-68 | MY HEART
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Details:Length: 9'Screenwriter: Cariveri Flora Director: Cariveri Flora Producer: ESAV Animator: n/a DOP: Gary Emmanuelle Sound: Masseron Elsa Editor: Cariveri Flora Production Designer: n/a Synopsis: In her childhood's attic, exposed in front of a mirror, a young woman remembers... She opens up her heart to clear the wound. |
ENSAV | France | 4 |
62-68 | OPEN CALL
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Details:TrailerLength: 16' Screenwriter: Jiri Volek Director: Jiri Volek Producer: Tomas Smrcek, Oldrich Havelka Animator: n/a DOP: Marek Dvorak Sound: Adam Lanci Editor: Lenka Hojkova Production Designer: n/a Synopsis: Film about emotional isolation of two young girlfriends. To the town is coming modeling agency looking for new faces. Last chance to escape from the boredom of everyday life. |
Film and Television School / Academy of Performing Arts in Prague (FAMU) | Czech Republic | 4 |
69-76 | BEATITUDES
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Details:TrailerLength: 16' Screenwriter: Aristotelis Maragkos, Tom Floyd Director: Aristotelis Maragkos Producer: Aristotelis Maragkos Animator: n/a DOP: Giorgos Kokkalis Sound: Vasilis Demkas, Giorgos Papgeorgiou Editor: Aristotelis Maragkos Production Designer: Rebecca E. Marshall Synopsis: A doctor on his last day of retirement - his children have migrated to another country and everyone in Athens is preoccupied with the violent riots on the streets. He shelters in discussions with dead friends and family who comment on his life as he tries to make choices about his future. |
London Film School (LFS) | United Kingdom | 3 |
69-76 | DRIFTING BOAT
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Details:Length: 27'Screenwriter: Rohitaswa Mukherjee Director: Rohitaswa Mukherjee Producer: Sanjaya Pattanayak Animator: n/a DOP: Ramanuj Dutta Sound: Nilotpal Editor: Avik Mondal Production Designer: n/a Synopsis: A fairytale about a small coastal village and the people living there. It has a linear documentation of their day to day monotonous life with the help of few subtle abstractions. With those subtle abstractions, every character of this fairytale gives birth of freedom to their internal wings of desire …and life goes on. |
Satyajit Ray Film and Television Institute (SRFTI) | India | 3 |
69-76 | FAIR FIGHT
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Details:Length: 18'Screenwriter: Ortal Sharvit Director: Ortal Sharvit Producer: Hadas Dissen Animator: n/a DOP: Eli Zinger Sound: Daniel Thein Editor: Reut Katei Production Designer: n/a Synopsis: Dog fights, a brother who gambles, debt, and violence threaten the life of a young boy and his dog trying to survive the harshness of working class poverty. |
Ma'aleh School of Film, Television and the Arts (MAALE) | Israel | 3 |
69-76 | MURA
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Details:TrailerLength: 15' Screenwriter: Ben Pace Director: Ben Pace Producer: Katri H Vanhatalo Animator: n/a DOP: Julian Schwanitz Sound: Walter Rindone Editor: Ben Pace, Umberto Denaro Production Designer: n/a Synopsis: Nino is a retiring mafia boss isolated from the world in a small attic. A family stumbles upon the mafia bosses hiding place trying to find a new house to squat without knowing that they have a cohabitant. |
Screen Academy Scotland (SAS) | United Kingdom | 3 |
69-76 | MY DEAR
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Details:TrailerLength: 7' Screenwriter: A. Baturay Tavkul Director: A. Baturay Tavkul Producer: A. Baturay Tavkul, Jak Yahya Animator: n/a DOP: A. Baturay Tavkul Sound: Bariş Kirimşelioğlu Editor: A. Baturay Tavkul Production Designer: n/a Synopsis: How much warmth can you put in a photo? And what if you lose "it"? A story of a middle aged homeless longing. |
Istanbul Kultur University (IKU) | Turkey | 3 |
69-76 | ORDINARY THURSDAY
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Details:Length: 14'Screenwriter: Jela Rodoni Director: Jela Rodoni Producer: Akademia e Filmit dhe Multimedias Marubi / Eol Çashku Animator: n/a DOP: Ermir Begeja Sound: Nardi Beqiri Editor: Nardi Beqiri, Jela Rodoni Production Designer: n/a Synopsis: Accidentally on a Thursday, while playing, Egla finds out that she lives in a very aggressive city. |
Academy of Film and Multimedia Marubi (AFMM) | Albania | 3 |
69-76 | SNOW
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Details:TrailerLength: 27' Screenwriter: Josip Žuvan Director: Josip Žuvan Producer: Marko Sušac Animator: n/a DOP: Vedran Rapo Sound: Daniel Pejić, Martin Semenčić, Borna Buljević Editor: Borna Buljević Production Designer: Sandra Hrenar Synopsis: When his daughter finds a job at an Internet portal, Ante visits her, carrying a bagful of food, so that she could treat her colleagues at work. Instead of the expected get-together with his daughter, he ends up enjoying night life with his friend, a taxi driver. |
Academy of Dramatic Art Zagreb (ADU) | Croatia | 3 |
69-76 | THE CHAUFFEUR
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Details:TrailerLength: 2' Screenwriter: Perttu Inkilä, Tuomas Kohvakka Director: Perttu Inkilä Producer: Swati Goyal Animator: n/a DOP: Tuomas Kohvakka Sound: Jani Hietanen Editor: Perttu Inkilä Production Designer: n/a Synopsis: Set in 1960s Helsinki, The Chauffeur tells the humorous and poignant story of a driver on his way to pick up an important passenger - and his idol - Bob Dylan. |
Metropolia University of Applied Sciences (MUAS) | Finland | 3 |
77-81 | CHANGE?
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Details:TrailerLength: 12' Screenwriter: Glenn Saitch Director: Luke Wright Producer: Andy Gallanders Animator: n/a DOP: Theo Hall Sound: Tudor Gillham Editor: James Rogers Production Designer: Tammy Greenland, Lucy May, Jamie Shakespeare Synopsis: Lisa, goes into care after her Mother passes away, but soon finds herself isolated and alone. Mouse, a young homeless man, inspires Lisa to drastically break free from the shackles of her situation. However, homelessness soon exacts its price, and Lisa is further alienated from society and in greater danger. |
University of South Wales | United Kingdom | 2 |
77-81 | DEMONS
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Details:TrailerLength: 13' Screenwriter: Sara Cano, Elfas Espinosa Director: Miguel Azurmendi Producer: Thamar Cármenes Animator: n/a DOP: Carlos de Miguel Sound: Sergio Gonzalez Editor: Vicky Lammers Production Designer: n/a Synopsis: Javi, Fer and Miguel are three friends who roam the city looking for fun. Tonight they have prepared something special. |
ECAM (The Madrid Film School) | Spain | 2 |
77-81 | THE VIEWERS
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Details:TrailerLength: 18' Screenwriter: Pierre-Loup Docteur Director: Pierre-Loup Docteur Producer: Michel Coteret Animator: n/a DOP: The students of ens louis-lumiere - cinema department - class 2013 Sound: Charlie Cabocel Editor: Christian Billette Production Designer: n/a Synopsis: The Viewers is a movie about a young photographer and an actress on the decline, separated by a two way mirror, and the weird relationship that grows between them... |
ENS Louis-Lumière | France | 2 |
77-81 | TO DREAM AWAY
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Details:Length: 5'Screenwriter: Tan Si En Director: Tan Si En Producer: Tan Si En, Adam Choong Animator: n/a DOP: Adam Choong Sound: Adam Choong Editor: Tan Si En, Adam Choong Production Designer: n/a Synopsis: An ordinary office worker grows disillusioned with his tedious life. The ocean offers a metaphysical release that tempts him. |
Ngee Ann Polytechnic / School of Film & Media Studies | Singapore | 2 |
77-81 | YELLOW ROSE
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Details:TrailerLength: 12' Screenwriter: Adélia Jeveaux Director: Adélia Jeveaux Producer: Juliana Sá, Rafael Bokor Animator: n/a DOP: Lucas Stirling Sound: Pedro Saboya Burgos, Luanne Araújo Editor: Raquel Gandra Production Designer: n/a Synopsis: A posthumous dream of a boy who dies in his school’s pool and tries to understand what happened. |
PUC-Rio Department of Social Communication - Cinema | Brazil | 2 |
82 | UNSETTLED
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Details:Length: 18'Screenwriter: Joselito Seldera Director: Joselito Seldera Producer: Christopher Pratola Animator: n/a DOP: Jonathan Barenboim Sound: Evan Muehlbauer Editor: Mark Newman Production Designer: Adri Siriwatt Synopsis: A middle-aged high school art teacher who hates his life tries to help his student get the girl he likes but ends up learning a thing or two about courage and taking chances. |
University of Southern California's School of Cinematic Arts (USC) | United States | 1 |
83-99 | APART
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Details:Length: 9'Screenwriter: Sarah Nelson Director: Sarah Nelson Producer: Erin Wukitsch Animator: n/a DOP: Kate Johnson Sound: Jordan Miller Editor: Sarah Nelson Production Designer: n/a Synopsis: An experimental/abstract short film about the experience and emotional journey of facing your own death at the age of 21. The themes of death, shock, denial, anger, validation and eventual catharsis are explored through the use of color, sound and symbolic imagery. |
American University | United States | 0 |
83-99 | BAWDI
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Details:TrailerLength: 20' Screenwriter: Vivek Soni Director: Vivek Soni Producer: Whistling Woods International Animator: n/a DOP: Aakash Raj Sound: Rahul Badwelkar Editor: P.V.Ram Prasaanth Production Designer: n/a Synopsis: In a drought-ridden village, a cold drink plant squeezes the available ground water. Women have to walk miles to fetch water, which has made villagers prefer their daughters getting married outside the village. A young couple victimized by the circumstances struggle to get married. |
Whistling Woods International (WWI) | India | 0 |
83-99 | BLACKBIRD
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Details:Length: 20'Screenwriter: Andrew Dena Director: Andrew Dena Producer: Clare Kosinski Animator: n/a DOP: Corey Benson Powers Sound: Jenna Timmerman Editor: Jason Robert Becker Production Designer: Chesney Gregorie Synopsis: DAWN, an aspiring young artist longs to escape her small town life. A product of a broken home, she finds outlets, both positive and self-destructive, to channel her anguish. A life-changing day ends with a late night encounter that forces Dawn to rethink her perceptions of the past. |
Columbia College Chicago (CCC) | United States | 0 |
83-99 | BLIND MICE
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Details:Length: 15'Screenwriter: Walter Lawry Director: Walter Lawry Producer: Walter Lawry Animator: n/a DOP: Joe Lawry Sound: Nigel Foster, Denby Strange Editor: Walter Lawry Production Designer: n/a Synopsis: In the small Auckland drug scene, a young woman, Jules, finds her life complicated by an unwanted pregnancy. By oscillating between two drug dealers; a younger buyer, Ollie, and her older lover and supplier, Chase, she looks for a male figure to support her. |
University of Auckland (UoA) | New Zealand | 0 |
83-99 | BOOMERANG
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Details:Length: 26'Screenwriter: Jovania d'Almeida, Sylvana Houessou, Imelda Boko Director: Jovania d'Almeida Producer: ISMA Animator: n/a DOP: Aurel Adomou Sound: Jeffrey Gomez Editor: Fruidacher Bidiafou Production Designer: n/a Synopsis: Aisha, 17 years old Muslim girl wants to know her real father, but her mother did not give her the chance. She harassed raped and enceintes by her teacher turns out to be her real father. |
Higher Institute of Audiovisual Training (ISMA) | Benin | 0 |
83-99 | CHAMELEON
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Details:Length: 14'Screenwriter: Julia Ingo Director: Julia Ingo Producer: Vera Sui Animator: n/a DOP: Mikael Gustafsson Sound: Irene Poutanen Editor: Julia Ingo Production Designer: n/a Synopsis: A story about two friends, who have drifted apart for a few years. One summer day they meet again, to confront their relationship and to see if there is a way back to friendship. |
ARCADA University of Applied Sciences Department of Culture and Communication / Media Culture Finland | Finland | 0 |
83-99 | COUNTERFEITERS
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Details:TrailerLength: 11' Screenwriter: Bryce Hirschberg Director: Bryce Hirschberg Producer: Bryce Hirschberg, Catherine Wolf Animator: n/a DOP: William Carnahan Sound: Bryce Hirschberg Editor: Bryce Hirschberg Production Designer: Christy Lussenden, Sarah Franke Synopsis: "Counterfeiters" is about a group of college dropouts who come up with a simple way of counterfeiting money. But when they get too greedy, they learn there are no shortcuts in life. |
Loyola Marymount University / School of Film and Television (LMU) | United States | 0 |
83-99 | DEEP BREATH
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Details:Length: 11'Screenwriter: Claudia Kovàcs Director: Claudia Kovàcs Producer: Anna Udvardy, Miklòs Bosnyàk Animator: n/a DOP: Claudia Kovàcs Sound: Jòzsef Pòtàri Editor: Lili Makk Production Designer: Lörinc Boros Synopsis: Have you ever found yourself in an unknown medium? Have you already felt that suddenly you were left no legs to stand on? That the time has come to open your curiosity and leave behind everything accustomed? Then you focus all your energies to take a deep breath and make a move into the unknown. |
University of Theatre and Film Arts Budapest (SzFE) | Hungary | 0 |
83-99 | FREDDY
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Details:Length: 5'Screenwriter: Anastasia Molchanova Director: Anastasia Molchanova Producer: Anastasia Molchanova Animator: n/a DOP: Anastasia Molchanova Sound: Jury Mokienko Editor: Anastasia Molchanova Production Designer: n/a Synopsis: He came to kill. |
St. Petersburg State University of Film and Television (SPUFT) | Russia | 0 |
83-99 | HANKIKANTO
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Details:TrailerLength: 20' Screenwriter: Katja Niemi Director: Katja Niemi Producer: Risto Hypponen Animator: n/a DOP: Eemi Lehto Sound: Aleksi Tegel Editor: Rami Airola Production Designer: n/a Synopsis: Film tells about the sorrow and regret after the wrong and irrevocable choice. |
Turku University of Applied Sciences (TUAS) Arts Academy / Degree Programme in Film and Media | Finland | 0 |
83-99 | IN VITRO
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Details:Length: 12'Screenwriter: Avgoustidis Nikolaos Director: Avgoustidis Nikolaos Producer: n/a Animator: n/a DOP: Andreas Margiolas, Konstandina Doykata Sound: Vassilis Vassilakis Editor: Avgoustidis Nikolaos Production Designer: n/a Synopsis: An essay on Leonardo`s Da Vinci “Last supper”. |
Hellenic Cinema and Television School Stavrakos (HCTSS) | Greece | 0 |
83-99 | MARIA
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Details:TrailerLength: 16' Screenwriter: Mariana Marques Director: Mariana Marques Producer: Simon Bolton-Gabrielson Animator: n/a DOP: Tomaso Aramani Sound: Álvaro Melo Editor: James Gover Production Designer: n/a Synopsis: In an environment of traditions and taboos newlywed Maria tries to deal with love and loss at the same time she tries to find her own voice. |
Northern Film School / Leeds Beckett University (NFS/LBU) | United Kingdom | 0 |
83-99 | MOLLY UNDER THE MOON
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Details:TrailerLength: 16' Screenwriter: Blake Engel, Zach Strum Director: Zach Strum Producer: Nick Hoisington Animator: n/a DOP: Preller Chambers Sound: Alex Nomick, Tom Hauser Editor: Gen Liu Production Designer: Jenny Ford Synopsis: Hidden deep in a forest, a sculptor waits amongst his statues for his girlfriend, Molly. Their rendezvous is cut short when the statues come to life by the light of the moon and the sculptor has to decide whether his passion lies in his work or in his love. |
University of North Carolina School of the Arts (UNCSA) | United States | 0 |
83-99 | OFF TO THE RACES
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Details:TrailerLength: 16' Screenwriter: Megan Lovallo Director: Megan Lovallo Producer: Gaby Grossman, Megan Lovallo Animator: n/a DOP: Michelle Simunovic Sound: Rill Causey Editor: Rill Causey Production Designer: n/a Synopsis: Forced to spend the night together because of an inattentive mother, two siblings learn to become friends through a series of misadventures. |
Boston University / Department of Film and Television | United States | 0 |
83-99 | STUDIO BEYROUTH
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Details:TrailerLength: 15' Screenwriter: Mokhtar Beyrouth Director: Mokhtar Beyrouth Producer: n/a Animator: n/a DOP: Elie Kamal Sound: Nada Toutounji Editor: Tina Zaccour Production Designer: n/a Synopsis: Toufic just inherited a photography shop called studio Beyrouth. This is the story of his adventures with a competing photo booth. |
Institut d'études scéniques, audiovisuelles et cinématographiques (IESAV) | Lebanon | 0 |
83-99 | THE NEEDLE OF THE BUTTERFLY
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Details:Length: 15'Screenwriter: Gonzalo Lugo Director: Gonzalo Lugo Producer: Gabriela Priori Animator: n/a DOP: Cchima Lediva Sound: Hernán Montemuiño Editor: Gonzalo Lugo Production Designer: n/a Synopsis: Post-apocalyptic future, a couple is caught in a voluntary confinement. The man has been transformed into an automaton, a slave to the logic and try to follow his wife pair in its evolution. |
Film School of Uruguay (ECU) | Uruguay | 0 |
83-99 | THE SECRET ACCORDING ANTONIO BOTTO
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Details:TrailerLength: 12' Screenwriter: Rita Filipe, Maria João Freitas, João Rebelo Pinto Director: Rita Filipe, Maria Azevedo Producer: Ana Armas, Daniella Bessa Animator: n/a DOP: Miguel Reis, André Mendes Sound: André Mendes, Leonardo Mascarenhas Editor: Cátia Mendes Production Designer: Mariana Neto Synopsis: Two poets Antonio Botto and Fernando Pessoa, exchange fictitious love letters. Fernando writes beneath his own heteronym, Manuel de Andrade, while Botto writes down his own behalf. But the letters display a different path. |
Universidade Lusófona / Film and Media Arts Department (ULHT) | Portugal | 0 |
Documentary
Place | Title | School | Country | Points |
1 | AFTER
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Details:Length: 7'Screenwriter: n/a Director: Lukasz Konopa Producer: Lukasz Konopa Animator: n/a DOP: Pawel Chorzepa Sound: Filipe Paszkiewicz Editor: Carmela landoli Production Designer : n/a Synopsis: After is a film about contemporary life in Auschwitz. In an observation from dusk till dawn, it portrays the theatre of everyday life around the grim confines and captures the energies and activities of a world fascinated by this former concentration camp. |
National FIlm and Television School (NFTS) | United Kingdom | 55 |
2 | MEETING MY FATHER KASPER HOJHAT
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Details:Length: 29'Screenwriter: Lea Glob, Tone Mygind Rostbøll Director: Lea Glob Producer: Mikkel Jersin N. Animator: n/a DOP: Nadim Carlsen Sound: Bo Asdal Editor: Thor Ochsner Production Designer : n/a Synopsis: I never met my father. All I knew was that he was a handsom man with a red beard and a big ship tattooed on his chest. One day, I was told that he had died. He committed suicide after 14 years in prison. This is the film about my father, a bank robber and magician, and about how I got to know him backwards. |
National Film School of Denmark (DDF) | Denmark | 33 |
3-4 | PREVIOUS SCENES
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Details:Length: 29'Screenwriter: Aleksandra Maciuszek Director: Aleksandra Maciuszek Producer: Kenia Salas Animator: n/a DOP: Javier Labrador Sound: Raymel Casamayor Editor: Lorenzo Mora Production Designer : Ivette Liang Synopsis: Chronicle of the daily life in an old house, where a grandfather has to take care of his small grandson and it self. One week passes and anything is same again. |
International School of Film and TV (EICTV) | Cuba | 32 |
3-4 | THE FIVE ELEMENTS
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Details:Length: 15'Screenwriter: n/a Director: Mohan K. Valasala Producer: Sanjaya Pattanayak Animator: n/a DOP: Sunny Lahiri Sound: Iman Chakraborty Editor: Charitra Raj Gupta Production Designer : Prosenjit Ghosh, Subhash Chandra Jha Synopsis: The permanence of elements defines the basic character of any space. A space may have a tendency towards being incoherent for the average human perception. In contrast, for everyday inhabitants the seemingly uninhabitable space becomes a part of their accustomed daily life. The presence of elements coupled with the routine of the inhabitants from the crux of ‘Panchabhuta’. |
Satyajit Ray Film and Television Institute (SRFTI) | India | 32 |
5 | FEMME DE LA RUE
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Details:Length: 24'Screenwriter: Sofie Peeters Director: Sofie Peeters Producer: RITS School of ARTS Animator: n/a DOP: Sofie Peeters, Steve Thielemans Sound: SD Willems Editor: Frank Nieuwenhuis, Steve Thielemans Production Designer : n/a Synopsis: Two years ago, Sofie Peeters moved to Brussels. She was faced with a very frustrating phenomenon. On a daily basis, she was treated with disregard by strange men in the streets: cheap attempts to flirt, sexist roaring, intimidating persecutions,... Sofie decided to make a film about this. She caught the sexism on tape,confronted the offenders and questioned women about how they deal with this problem. The result: 'Femme de la rue'. |
Royal Institute for Theatre, Cinema and Sound (RITCS) | Belgium | 30 |
6 | TASTES LIKE CHICKEN?
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Details:Length: 15'Screenwriter: Ana Durães, Quico Meirelles Director: Quico Meirelles Producer: Eduardo Prado Animator: Carol Meirelles, Marcelo Souza DOP: Cauê Laratta Sound: Alan Zilli Editor: Alison Zago Production Designer : n/a Synopsis: In a factory farm a chicken has a vision: she becomes aware of the wheels that rule her life and destiny. Even cloistered among millions of chickens who don´t share her anguish, she believes a different life is possible. |
University of São Paulo / School of Communications and Arts / Department of Film, Radio and Television (USP) | Brazil | 29 |
7 | THE HIGH PRICE OF GOLD
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Details:Length: 17'Screenwriter: Diane Taylor, Ross Domoney Director: Ross Domoney Producer: Ross Domoney, Diane Taylor Animator: n/a DOP: Ross Domoney Sound: Ross Domoney Editor: Ross Domoney, Diane Taylor Production Designer : n/a Synopsis: The Democratic Republic of Congo - is the most dangerous place on earth to be a woman, an estimated 48 women are raped every hour. These women give powerful testimonies as we discover many of them working in mines. |
Met Film School (MFS) | United Kingdom | 26 |
8 | JUST AS I REMEMBER
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Details:Length: 17'Screenwriter: n/a Director: Andrew Moir Producer: Andrew Moir Animator: n/a DOP: Andrew Jeffrey Sound: Emily Goode Editor: Rachel McParland Production Designer : n/a Synopsis: Filmmaker Andrew Moir juxtaposes the experience of two men with ALS – Brad, a father of three men in early stages of the disease and his own father, who is almost completely paralyzed. The result is a compassionate but unsentimental meditation on parenting – specifically, how the desire to look after and protect one’s children can survive even the most diminished physical capabilities. |
Toronto Metropolitan University | Canada | 25 |
9 | THE RABBI`S DAUGHTER
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Details:Length: 30'Screenwriter: n/a Director: Racheli Vasserman Producer: Racheli Vasserman Animator: n/a DOP: Racheli Vasserman, Yonatan Zaid Sound: Yonatan Bar Giora Editor: Reut Katei Production Designer : n/a Synopsis: The story of three daughters of rabbis, directed by the daughter of a rabbi. The four women have chosen a different path to that of their parents, and now they face inner dilemma, communal censure and the sacrifices that have to be made. |
Ma'aleh School of Film, Television and the Arts (MAALE) | Israel | 20 |
10 | CLOWN MEDICINE
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Details:Length: 21'Screenwriter: n/a Director: Ida Lindgren Producer: Ida Lindgren Animator: n/a DOP: Ida Lindgren, Annika Busch Sound: Calle Budde Roos Editor: Julian Antell Production Designer : n/a Synopsis: At Astrid Lindgrens Children's Hospital we meet three children whose lives are all about examinations, treatment, and surgery. But there is also another world...the hospital clown's world. The clowns live in hidden rooms below the hospital. In encountering the children much laughter, imagination and dreams come alive. |
Stockholm Academy of Dramatic Arts / Stockholm University of the Arts (SADA) | Sweden | 18 |
11-12 | CRUMBS
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Details:Length: 22'Screenwriter: Dante Greeff, Richard Gregory Director: Dante Greeff, Richard Gregory Producer: Mauritz Grundlingh, Cisca Meyer, Tristram Atkins Animator: n/a DOP: Nicola Geldenhuys Sound: Nicola Geldenhuys Editor: Donald Leitch Production Designer : n/a Synopsis: Crumbs is the, David versus Goliath story of Imraahn Mukaddam; a bread reseller who blew the whistle on bread price-fixing in South Africa. The documentary explores the turmoil Imraahn faces taking on the corporate food machine in the quest for social justice. |
South African School of Motion Picture Medium and Live Performance (AFDA) | South Africa | 16 |
11-12 | ROGALIK
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Details:Length: 18'Screenwriter: Paweł Ziemilski Director: Paweł Ziemilski Producer: Magdalena Kondrakowicz Animator: n/a DOP: Maciej Twardowski Sound: Bogdan Klat Editor: Ireneusz Grzyb Production Designer : n/a Synopsis: Traveling among people and objects we discover a world usually considered as ugly and unattractive. This dream-like journey is not a dream. Who are the people in this „big aquarium"? And what is our position towards them? |
Polish National Film, Television and Theatre School in Lodz (PWSFTViT) | Poland | 16 |
13 | DAY OF KNOWLEDGE
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Details:Length: 20'Screenwriter: Evelina Gokinayeva Director: Evelina Gokinayeva Producer: Evelina Gokinayeva Animator: n/a DOP: Chris Behn Sound: Evelina Gokinayeva Editor: Evelina Gokinayeva Production Designer : n/a Synopsis: On September 1st, 2004, armed Chechen and Ingush terrorists attacked a school in the small Russian town of Beslan. They held over 1,000 children, parents and teachers hostage, without food or water, for three days. In this social documentary, four survivors share their accounts of the tragic three-day ordeal. |
School of Visual Arts | United States | 12 |
14 | BAKING ALASKA
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Details:Length: 30'Screenwriter: n/a Director: Kari Barber Producer: Kari Barber Animator: n/a DOP: Kari Barber Sound: Tom Fish Editor: Tom Fish, Nico Colombant, Kari Barber Production Designer : n/a Synopsis: After their father's death two American sisters from the South pursue a dream of opening a bakery in Alaska. Kathy and Jackie, in their fifties, leave behind their office jobs to take on this quest with their widowed mother. They'll face the challenges of chilly locals and working with family. |
American University | United States | 11 |
15 | A TWIST IN THE FABRIC OF SPACE
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Details:Length: 27'Screenwriter: n/a Director: Morgan Knibbe Producer: Beau van Assem, Alexander Van Damme Animator: n/a DOP: David Boudestein Sound: Vincent Sinceretti Editor: Xander Nijsten Production Designer : n/a Synopsis: After our birth we try to get a grip on life and collectively create a prison of complex structures. Deep inside, primitive urges want to break loose. |
Netherlands Film Academy (NFA) | Netherlands | 9 |
16-20 | A DAY OF LIFE
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Details:Length: 16'Screenwriter: Jan Látal Director: Jan Látal Producer: FAMU Animator: n/a DOP: Jan Látal Sound: Jan Látal Editor: David Mencel Production Designer : n/a Synopsis: Portrait of man through all things he owns. |
Film and Television School / Academy of Performing Arts in Prague (FAMU) | Czech Republic | 8 |
16-20 | COSMOS
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Details:Length: 24'Screenwriter: n/a Director: Heli Tetlov Producer: Heli Tetlov Animator: n/a DOP: Arvo Vilu, Tanel Tero Sound: Ekke Vastrik Editor: Heli Tetlov Production Designer : n/a Synopsis: Legendary cosmonauts Alexey Leonov and Georgy Grechko take a nostalgic trip back to Poltsamaa, the small Estonian town, formerly known as the 'the capital of Tubes" where the space food for the Soviet cosmonauts was produced in the 60s. Their visit inspires a group of ladies, who run the art association in Poltsamaa, to surprise the worldwide famous space heroes with an exhibition on the cosmos. |
Baltic Film, Media and Arts School, Tallinn University | Estonia | 8 |
16-20 | IN STEP WITH THE TIME
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Details:Length: 14'Screenwriter: Anton Partalev Director: Anton Partalev Producer: National Academy for Theatre & Film Arts (NATFA) “Krustyo Sarafov” Animator: n/a DOP: Milen Kolev Sound: Anton Partalev Editor: Anton Partalev Production Designer : n/a Synopsis: The monument of the Soviet Army in the centre of Sofia divides the society since it has been built. For some it is a monument celebrating a liberating army, for others one of an invader. One morning the city woke up to a monument covered in American super heroes. And in an instant the old illusion was erased and a new one was revealed. Embodiment of the Bulgarian politics, that claims to be “in step with the time”. |
National Academy for Theatre and Film Arts (NATFA) | Bulgaria | 8 |
16-20 | NO CLOSET ISSUE
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Details:Length: 25'Screenwriter: Katarína Hlinčíková Director: Katarína Hlinčíková Producer: FTF VŠMU Animator: n/a DOP: Denisa Buranová Sound: Ján Hanušovský Editor: Peter Morávek Production Designer : Martina Čerňáková, Viliam Štrelinger Synopsis: If we want to get to know the country and the mentality of people, we travel. We see the land, its state. How people and bureaucracy behave to the environment shows a lot about the level of culture. |
Academy of Performing Arts / Film and Television Faculty (VSMU) | Slovakia | 8 |
16-20 | THE CASTAWAYS
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Details:Length: 23'Screenwriter: François Abdelnour Director: François Abdelnour Producer: Mark Zaidelson Animator: n/a DOP: Antonin Desse Sound: Renaud Bajeux, Francois Abdelnour Editor: Vincent Gaudin, Vincent Le Port Production Designer : n/a Synopsis: A group of men that we know nothing and that nobody understands a train which cuts through the cold night. A trip to a mysterious quest. |
La Fémis | France | 8 |
21-22 | BOUCHBENNERSCH OTTO-HOW TO TREAT DIFFERENTNESS
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Details:Length: 30'Screenwriter: Janina Jung Director: Janina Jung Producer: Academy of Media Arts Animator: n/a DOP: Janina Jung Sound: Janina Jung Editor: Quimu Casalprim i Suarez Production Designer : n/a Synopsis: Bouchbennersch Otto was born as Otto Mueller in Emmerichenhain, Germany in 1907. He witnessed two world wars, was trained as a bookbinder and later became a police-servant for the community. He announced news in Emmerichenhain and the surrounding villages with a bell. Otto was known all over town. And he was different. Unlike all the others ... |
Academy of Media Arts Cologne (KHM) | Germany | 7 |
21-22 | MONTECILFONE (CB)
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Details:Length: 21'Screenwriter: C.Salvi, P.Maffio, L.Apolli Director: C.Salvi, P.Maffio, L.Apolli Producer: Milano Scuola di Cinema е Televisione Animator: n/a DOP: Claudio Salvi, Lorenzo Apolli Sound: Pietro Maffio, Lorenzo Apolli Editor: Claudio Salvi, Lorenzo Apolli Production Designer : n/a Synopsis: A journey diary inside the everyday life of a small village, an Arbresh enclave in Italy. Wandering around without a plan, the film directors discover that despite the transformations taking over in the community's life, the need of storytelling and of experience exchanges is still alive. |
Milan City Film School Luchino Visconti (MCSC) | Italy | 7 |
23-30 | BRONSKY
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Details:Length: 26'Screenwriter: Konstantin Selin Director: Konstantin Selin Producer: n/a Animator: n/a DOP: Konstantin Selin Sound: Aleksander Dudarev Editor: Konstantin Selin Production Designer : n/a Synopsis: The film is a portrait of a young writer Alexander Sarapov (pen name Bronsky) from a small closed city Zelenogorsk of Krasnoyarsk region. His creativity had a great impact on his family and aroused interest in leading figures of cinema and literature. |
St. Petersburg State University of Film and Television (SPUFT) | Russia | 6 |
23-30 | CONSTITUCIÓN
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Details:Length: 28'Screenwriter: Natalia Ardissone, Jimena Cantero Director: Natalia Ardissone, Jimena Cantero Producer: Natalia Ardissone, Jimena Cantero Animator: n/a DOP: Axel Rosito, Ardissone, Jimena Cantero Sound: Jeremias Sosa Editor: Natalia Ardissone, Jimena Cantero Production Designer : n/a Synopsis: Constitution, a slum in the city of Buenos Aires, is portrayed from characters who came from very different points. The meeting places are Dominican hair salons and a boxing gym located under the train station. In this daily live underground, trainers, amateurs and professionals. A few blocks away, a new wave of Dominican immigrants settled the neighbourhood hair salon. Among scissors, curlers and meticulous cuts share their customs and nostalgia for the homeland. This mixture of trades and dreams, characters, daily build their identity. |
Universidad de Buenos Aires / Diseño de Imagen y Sonido FADU (UBA) | Argentina | 6 |
23-30 | IF I WASN`T BORN
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Details:Length: 7'Screenwriter: n/a Director: Hendrik Schäfer Producer: Charles Eric Breitkreuz, Hendrik Schafer Animator: Hendrik Schäfer DOP: Hendrik Schäfer Sound: Ferdinand Engender, Jonathan Schorr Editor: Hendrik Schäfer Production Designer : n/a Synopsis: "If I wasn't born" takes a deep look into the film makers' photographic album. It's a journey through personal years during the last years of the GDR and Fall of the Wall. The film asks about life's possibilities and those of a young mother without a son. |
Filmakademie Baden-Wuerttemberg (FABW) | Germany | 6 |
23-30 | IN REAL LIFE
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Details:Length: 16'Screenwriter: n/a Director: Juri Mazumdar Producer: Heidi Gronauer, Lorenzo Paccagnella Animator: n/a DOP: Lucia Alessi Sound: Juri Mazumdar Editor: Juri Mazumdar Production Designer : n/a Synopsis: I.R.L. - in real life is an Essay on Online-Gaming-Addiction. Via a chatinterview, the obscure main character "plumpudding" takes us on a short and intense journey through her world, juggling between reality and virtuality. The film is based on a real skype-chat. |
ZeLIG - School for Documentary, Television and New Media | Italy | 6 |
23-30 | MEN AT SEA
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Details:Length: 19'Screenwriter: Félix Lamarche Director: Félix Lamarche Producer: École des Medias de UQAM Animator: n/a DOP: Luis Seijas Sound: Samuel Gagnon Thibodeau Editor: Sophie B. Sylvestre Production Designer : n/a Synopsis: An endless sea, a world in which sails hopes, solitude, distance, dreams and fear of exiled men. A modern port, where iron giants hide them, found in Montreal when the day comes to its end. |
University of Québec Montréal / School of Media (UQAM) | Canada | 6 |
23-30 | SAM HUI YAT
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Details:Length: 22'Screenwriter: n/a Director: HO Chung Ken Mr Producer: YAU Hawk Sau Mr Animator: n/a DOP: CHAU Nim Wa Mr Sound: LUI Shi Pang Mr Editor: SO Ka Ue Ms Production Designer : n/a Synopsis: Sam Hui Yat is an old-fashioned Chinese Dim Sum Restaurant located in the Western district. Inside Sam Hui Yat, historical decoration is still preserved. The owners of Sam Hui Yat are the main and only staffs working in the restaurant. Besides, the old customers find the restaurant a relaxing place and they enjoy chatting with somebody sitting beside even they do not know each other. The documentary captures the old good pals in Sam Hui Yat in a day. |
Hong Kong Academy for Performing Arts / School of Film and Television (HKAPA) | Hong Kong | 6 |
23-30 | TAILINGS
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Details:Length: 12'Screenwriter: Sam Price-Waldman Director: Sam Price-Waldman Producer: Sam Price-Waldman Animator: Joe Sill DOP: Chris Cresci, Sam Price-Waldman Sound: Sam Price-Waldman Editor: Sam Price-Waldman Production Designer : n/a Synopsis: Outside the snowy town of grants, New Mexico, is a 22 million ton pile of highly radioactive uranium waste, known as tailings. |
Chapman University / Dodge College of Film and Media Arts | United States | 6 |
23-30 | THE CLOWN`S SON
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Details:Length: 17'Screenwriter: n/a Director: Matthew Musson Producer: Undine Buka Animator: n/a DOP: Alina Budina Sound: Takashi Yoshida Editor: Audinga Kuckinskaite Production Designer : n/a Synopsis: Thirteen-year-old Jake finds himself caught between the homes of his mother and his professional clown father. He must adapt to two very different lives, but how much juggling can one boy take? |
Westminster Film BA / University of Westminster (WFS) | United Kingdom | 6 |
31 | BENJAMIN
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Details:Length: 29'Screenwriter: Katarina Morano Director: Katarina Morano Producer: Jožica Blatnik Animator: n/a DOP: Maksimiljan Sušnik Sound: Tristan Peloz Editor: Jan Lovše Production Designer : n/a Synopsis: The Documentary follows 12-year-old autist named Benjamin. He isn't trapped in social norms and learned behavioral patterns, so his guidance in life is through what he feels. Benjamin is authentic and direct, but people quite often misunderstand him. He loves trains and numbers so he spends lots of time at the Ljubljana train station with his mother Maja. Maja drives the city bus, which is not only her work, but also relaxation. She is the link between Benjamin and his brother Tadej, who loves Benjamin, but has hard times with him too. |
University of Ljubljana / Academy of Theatre, Radio, Film and Television (AGRFT) | Slovenia | 5 |
32-37 | OMA RANDA
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Details:Length: 13'Screenwriter: Natalia Silukova Director: Natalia Silukova Producer: Tanya Nelson Animator: n/a DOP: Sasha Kallistova Sound: Ilya Flyarkovskiy Editor: Sasha Kallistova Production Designer : n/a Synopsis: The film represents the life of a hidden from extraneous eyes karelian-tverskaya village where people share one desire – preserve their culture. They are gathering for a feast in this half-abandoned village. |
GITR FILM & TELEVISION SCHOOL | Russia | 4 |
32-37 | ONCE YOUNG AND SLENDER
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Details:Length: 2'Screenwriter: Salla Lehtikangas Director: Salla Lehtikangas Producer: Salla Lehtikangas Animator: n/a DOP: Jari A. Juvani Sound: Salla Lehtikangas Editor: Salla Lehtikangas Production Designer : n/a Synopsis: A small, big film on self-confidence and the body-image of women. |
Tampere University of Applied Sciences (TUNI), Degree Programme in Media | Finland | 4 |
32-37 | SINGLE PLAYER
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Details:Length: 22'Screenwriter: Noga Bash Director: Noga Bash Producer: Noga Bash, Produced in association with: Tel-Aviv University Film &TV Dept. Animator: n/a DOP: Noga Bash Sound: Yuval Bar Editor: Shay Zaarur Production Designer : n/a Synopsis: "Single Player" is a recorded diary of 26-year-old gamer who lives in his mother's house and hardly leaves his room, His consistent struggle to get up in morning time and find a job fails but his online affair with an American gamer who lives in Saudi Arabia keeps his spirit up. |
The Steve Tisch School of Film and Television (TAU) | Israel | 4 |
32-37 | THE BATTLE OF THE JAZZ GUITARIST
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Details:Length: 7'Screenwriter: Mark Columbus Director: Mark Columbus Producer: Mark Columbus Animator: n/a DOP: Alejandro Salinas - Albrecht Sound: Mark Columbus Editor: Mark Columbus Production Designer : n/a Synopsis: Meet Maxwell Columbus, the Jimi Hendrix of Fiji! Filmmaker son Mark Columbus does battle with dad`s rocking guitar solo, in this tribute to rock star dreams and disappointments. |
University of California Los Angeles (UCLA) | United States | 4 |
32-37 | THE COST OF LIVING
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Details:Length: 29'Screenwriter: Qiu Ping Director: Qiu Ping Producer: Ji Yuan Animator: n/a DOP: Lin Xiaodong, Qiu Ping Sound: Fan Lingling Editor: Qiu Ping Production Designer : n/a Synopsis: Chinese girl Manli has married French man Shawei for a few years. By chance, Manli fell in love with belly dance and went to Egypt to study dancing. In 2008, she opened an Egyptian Dance Studio in Beijing, which was very profitable. But she was very upset because of separation from her husband. Marriage or career, which one will she choose? |
Beijing Film Academy (BFA) | China | 4 |
32-37 | TRACK BY TRACK
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Details:Length: 16'Screenwriter: Anna Moot-Levin Director: Anna Moot-Levin Producer: Anna Moot-Levin Animator: n/a DOP: Anna Moot-Levin Sound: Anna Moot-Levin Editor: Anna Moot-Levin Production Designer : n/a Synopsis: A young sketch artist with autism journeys from the world of his imagination into adulthood. |
Stanford University | United States | 4 |
38-42 | DARK SHADES OF SHADOW
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Details:Length: 21'Screenwriter: Harel Ben-Nun Director: Harel Ben-Nun Producer: Shira Itzhaki Animator: n/a DOP: Harel Ben-Nun, Yaron Ben-Nun, Maayan Oren Sound: Ophir Lokay Editor: Harel Ben-Nun, Renana Neuman, Alona Goldberg Production Designer : n/a Synopsis: "The Skies. The Limit" is a documentary about a son who tries to understand the influence of his relationship with his father (an Israeli myth) on his life and choices. |
Bezalel Academy of Arts and Design Jerusalem (BAAD) | Israel | 3 |
38-42 | FIRE!
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Details:Length: 24'Screenwriter: n/a Director: Tonći Gaćina Producer: Tonći Gaćina, Anita Bastašić Animator: n/a DOP: Tonći Gaćina Sound: Višeslav Laboš Editor: Bojan Perić Production Designer : n/a Synopsis: Another summer starts for the firefighters of Dalmatian Zagora. The camera merely witnesses their ordinary daily routines while fire follows them trough their lives: it brings food on their tables, they relate to it in different ways and they fight it... |
Academy of Dramatic Art Zagreb (ADU) | Croatia | 3 |
38-42 | FROM MONDAY TO MONDAY
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Details:Length: 30'Screenwriter: Vakhtang Jajanidze Director: Vakhtang Jajanidze Producer: Dato Janelidze Animator: n/a DOP: Vakhtang Jajanidze Sound: Nino Tevdorashvili Editor: Sandro Khutsishvili Production Designer : n/a Synopsis: Story of a lady, teaching in one of the schools of Tbilisi. Issues and challenges of her daily life in Georgian reality. |
Theatre and Film Georgia State University (TAFU) | Georgia | 3 |
38-42 | OUT INTO THE WOODS
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Details:Length: 13'Screenwriter: Jussi Lehtomäki Director: Jussi Lehtomäki Producer: Mikko Peltonen Animator: n/a DOP: Hannu Käki Sound: Tuukka Nikkilä Editor: Niina Vornanen Production Designer : n/a Synopsis: Once upon a time a poor woodcutter lived with his wife and two children in a small cottage next to a great forest. The boy was called Hansel and the girl Gretel. Do you know this old story by the brothers of Grimm? Out into the Woods takes the audience in the middle of a storytelling moment, and sends the viewer on a journey into the dark woods. |
Aalto University School of Arts, Design and Architecture / ELO Film School Helsinki | Finland | 3 |
38-42 | THROUGH THE LENS OF INKEDKENNY
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Details:Length: 14'Screenwriter: n/a Director: Denize Galiao, Marie Elisa Scheidt Producer: Claudia Gama Animator: n/a DOP: Jerome Hof Sound: Oliver Leger Editor: Volker Giitlein Production Designer : n/a Synopsis: InkedKenny is a photographer who has a special point of view on his models. He shapes the universe of homosexual Bear Community of Montreal by taking pictures of muscular men who embody a certain ideal of beauty. Those photos underline their masculinity. What appears at first glance to be a pure body cult is a source of strength in a extraordinary fate. |
University of Television and Film Munich (HFF) | Germany | 3 |
43-45 | HOME
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Details:Length: 11'Screenwriter: n/a Director: Matthew Kennedy Producer: Matthew Kennedy Animator: n/a DOP: Matthew Kennedy Sound: Matthew Kennedy Editor: Matthew Kennedy Production Designer : n/a Synopsis: Home, a journey through the subconscious exploring place and memory from the perspective of a newly landed Chinese immigrant in Canada. This short alternative documentary follows Chun Yan as she travels both physically and metaphorically from her past into the present. From China to Canada, Chun Yan reflects on what she has given up while struggling to understand her place in the new world. |
York University Department of Film - Fine Arts | Canada | 2 |
43-45 | JOZI: NO BRAKES
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Details:Length: 24'Screenwriter: Amanda Mannström Director: Lara Gildenhuys, Vera Twumasi Producer: Larney de Swardt Animator: n/a DOP: Pietari Syväjärvi Sound: Tomas Blomstedt Editor: Aliki Saragas Production Designer : n/a Synopsis: Jozi: No brakes is a documentary of friendship in Johannesburg, South Africa. Nathi finds himself torn between two worlds: his own neighbourhood and his friends who look up to him as a bmx-rider on one side, and the adult riders and his dreams of being a professional bmx-rider. |
ARCADA University of Applied Sciences Department of Culture and Communication / Media Culture Finland | Finland | 2 |
43-45 | TIME AND MEMORY
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Details:Length: 22'Screenwriter: Santiago Torres Director: Santiago Torres Producer: Jerónimo Barriga Animator: n/a DOP: Santiago Torres, Sebastián Delón Sound: Gabriel Herrera, Santiago Torres Editor: Gabriel Herrera, Santiago Torres Production Designer : Gabriel Herrera Synopsis: Film essay that explores the relationship between cinema and memory. Taking into account personal memory of filmmaker. |
National School of Film Arts / National Autonomous University of Mexico (ENAC/UNAM) | Mexico | 2 |
46-51 | BLUSH
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Details:Length: 14'Screenwriter: n/a Director: Luciana Botelho Bodnar Producer: Ateliers VARAN Animator: n/a DOP: Luciana Botelho Bodnar Sound: n/a Editor: Isabelle Gaulon Production Designer : n/a Synopsis: At 26, Nicolas is a young man in perfect harmony with his time : discreet, sporty, trendy. in his small apartment in Paris we find two simple boxes contain a secret. |
Ateliers Varan | France | 1 |
46-51 | BOXER
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Details:Length: 18'Screenwriter: Dositej Tomašević Director: Dositej Tomašević Producer: Dušan Đoković Animator: n/a DOP: Dositej Tomašević Sound: Marko Bastic Editor: Nikola Tomic Production Designer : n/a Synopsis: This is the story about a young man, Dejan Marinkovic, who found a way to rise from the ashes. Growing up in a neighborhood in which most of young people are drug abusers, our hero has always been exposed to problems. Fights, problems at school. With the help of his godfather, he was able to get off the streets and start practicing martial arts. Now he is 24 years old. |
Akademija Umetnosti | Serbia | 1 |
46-51 | LIVES
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Details:Length: 18'Screenwriter: Santeri Mäkinen Director: Santeri Mäkinen Producer: Sebastian Kesäniemi Animator: n/a DOP: Otso Ahosola Sound: Aki Silventoinen Editor: Eero Lehtinen Production Designer : n/a Synopsis: The death of Elvis Presley has many unanswered mysteries that this documentary attempts to unravel. Is Elvis alive? |
Metropolia University of Applied Sciences (MUAS) | Finland | 1 |
46-51 | PEOPLE ON THE HILL
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Details:Length: 15'Screenwriter: Gleb Klishevich Director: Gleb Klishevich Producer: Gleb Klishevich Animator: n/a DOP: Danila Goryunkov Sound: Mikhail Kesarev Editor: Gleb Klishevich Production Designer : n/a Synopsis: Massive landscape fires have wiped out the traditional Russian village and everyone has to face the disaster alone. The confused people do not understand what can unite them. Who will remain on the land even if it has been burnt down? |
Russian State University of Сinematography n.a. S.Gerasimov VGIK | Russia | 1 |
46-51 | SOLILOQUOY
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Details:Length: 14'Screenwriter: n/a Director: Magda Dragan Producer: Magda Dragan Animator: n/a DOP: Shaun Glowa Sound: Shaun Glowa, Magda Dragan Editor: Magda Dragan Production Designer : n/a Synopsis: Forty years ago a young composer called Michael Garrett was on the trajectory to success. But the audacious and defiant artist drifted away from the establishment to pursue a journey of self-volition. Can the pursuit of art be enough for an artist to sacrifice financial stability, recognition or even love? |
Screen Academy Scotland (SAS) | United Kingdom | 1 |
46-51 | THAT`S WICKED
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Details:Length: 10'Screenwriter: Joy Lee Director: Joy Lee Producer: Chermin Teo Animator: Mads K. Baekkevold, Vincent Ow DOP: Valentin Milou Sound: Naveen Varma Editor: Joy Lee Production Designer : n/a Synopsis: Unknown to many Singaporeans, Dharni Ng, the pioneer of beatbox in Singapore, is crowned fifth in a world championship held in the year 2010. There are many more beatboxers in our local scene who are struggling to have their talent recognised by Singaporeans who dismiss beatboxing as 'noise'. That's WICKED!, a docu-film, features 15 year old, Martin Tang, among many other beatboxing enthusiasts. At a young age, most people are amazed at his flair for his craft. |
Puttnam School of Film & Animation / LASALLE College of the Arts (LCA) | Singapore | 1 |
52-62 | AFTERMATH
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Details:Length: 17'Screenwriter: n/a Director: Wissam Tanios Producer: IESAV- USJ Animator: n/a DOP: Elias Daaboul Sound: Marielynn Nasrallah Editor: Perla Kherlakian Production Designer : n/a Synopsis: When a young woman passes away, her loved ones are torn apart: Some decide to move on, while others can't escape the tragedy and get stuck in time, until someone comes and breaks the silence. "Aftermath" is a conflict between past and present, guilt and hope. |
Institut d'études scéniques, audiovisuelles et cinématographiques (IESAV) | Lebanon | 0 |
52-62 | BEDROOM LIVE
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Details:Length: 26'Screenwriter: n/a Director: Josh Bennett Producer: Josh Bennett, Josh Price Animator: n/a DOP: Josh Bennett, Richard Starkey, Tom Brooks, Steve Evans, Adam Scott, Henry Powell Sound: Josh Bennett, Ben Morriss Editor: Josh Bennett Production Designer : n/a Synopsis: A quirky and cosy lo- fi live music documentary designed for the 21st centuries facebook generation. Bedroom live gives both emerging and established acts a chance to reach the widest possible audience. Acts perform in one of the most intimate venues imaginable: a student`s bedroom in Wales. |
University of South Wales | United Kingdom | 0 |
52-62 | GIL
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Details:Length: 10'Screenwriter: Daniel Nolasco, Marcella Coppo Director: Daniel Nolasco, Marcella Coppo Producer: Daniel Nolasco, Marcella Coppo Animator: n/a DOP: Jorge Polo Sound: Daniel Abib Editor: Daniel Abib Production Designer : n/a Synopsis: Mother and son. |
Universidade Federal Fluminense | Brazil | 0 |
52-62 | INTERVENTION HERE
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Details:Length: 15'Screenwriter: Sidney Dore Director: Sidney Dore Producer: Manoela Pádua, Stephania Imperial Animator: n/a DOP: Sidney Dore Sound: Igor Leão Editor: Marcelo Veloso, Marco Abreu Production Designer : n/a Synopsis: The intervention on the street is a response to the chaos of the city? Exploring the walls of Rio de Janeiro and chatting with street performers, we seek the factor that drives the visual interference of our urban space – graffiti, stencil and all kinds of urban art - so embedded in everyday that often go unnoticed by the residents of city. When the paper is small for the size of the message, the walls appear colored. |
PUC-Rio Department of Social Communication - Cinema | Brazil | 0 |
52-62 | MAMMOTH, TIGER, WOLF
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Details:Length: 14'Screenwriter: n/a Director: Irem Schwarz Producer: Elena M. Martinez Animator: n/a DOP: Annegret Sachse Sound: Jerome Huber Editor: Irem Schwarz Production Designer : n/a Synopsis: In the last ten years, we've observed the development of a new subculture with a strong focus on the 60s and 70s. Formed in 2010, the members of Kadavar look as if they were taken directly from that time period. The film offers a glimpse into the everyday lives of these three successful musicians at the beginning of their carriers. |
Film University Babelsberg KONRAD WOLF | Germany | 0 |
52-62 | PDL-LIS (PONTA DELGADA-LISBON)
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Details:Length: 28'Screenwriter: Diogo Lima Director: Diogo Lima Producer: Diogo Lima Animator: n/a DOP: Diogo Lima Sound: Diogo Lima Editor: Diogo Lima Production Designer : n/a Synopsis: What happens when we return home to the place we once abandoned? A young man studying in Lisbon, Portugal goes back to S. Miguel - an island in the middle of the Atlantic Ocean - in order to discover the relation with his homeland, a relation increasingly separated by distance and time. |
Universidade Lusófona / Film and Media Arts Department (ULHT) | Portugal | 0 |
52-62 | RESIGHT
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Details:Length: 11'Screenwriter: Sama Waham Director: Sama Waham Producer: Sama Waham Animator: n/a DOP: Sama Waham Sound: Bashar Abdrabbo, Patrick Mainville Editor: Robin Hunter Production Designer : n/a Synopsis: While exposing the wonders of darkness, and observing the relativity of seeing through the eyes of a visually impaired artist, 'Resight' is a tale of a painting, pride, purity and incorruptibility of a color that refuses to be tagged or labeled. |
Sheridan College | Canada | 0 |
52-62 | ROSETTA
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Details:Length: 14'Screenwriter: n/a Director: Scott Oiler Producer: Scott Oiler Animator: n/a DOP: Brennan Barsell, Scott Oiler Sound: Tristan Berger Editor: Scott Oiler Production Designer : n/a Synopsis: This film tells the story of the Long Now Foundation's efforts to archive all of the world’s languages for the long term. From the microscopic scale to the broad expanses of the solar system, this language project is one like no other. |
Loyola Marymount University / School of Film and Television (LMU) | United States | 0 |
52-62 | THE VERONICA`S ARTIST
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Details:Length: 25'Screenwriter: Oswaldo Toledano Director: Oswaldo Toledano Producer: Efraín Avila Animator: n/a DOP: Jaiziel Hernández Sound: Daniel Touron, Ernesto Estivil Editor: Virginia Arau Production Designer : n/a Synopsis: Nobody photographed Jesus of Nazareth, apart from the spectral face printed by the sweat and blood on the Veronica's robe. His name was his destiny. Veronica,vere ikon, the true picture. Julian Pablo is a passionate artist who seems to discover in Christ's face the mystery of his divinity, and does so with the talent of the filmmaker, the vocation of the priest and the aesthetics of the painter. |
Centro de Capacitación Cinematográfica, A.C. (CCC) | Mexico | 0 |
52-62 | VITOSHA MOUNTAIN
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Details:Length: 7'Screenwriter: n/a Director: Tunay Kökden Producer: CILECT Animator: n/a DOP: Semlh Güzey Sound: Röyksopt Editor: Yoldaş Arda Production Designer : n/a Synopsis: Vitosha Mountain, with a population of less quiet beautiful views of the capital Sofia, with a view of the most frequented place. Nice with nature is one of the most beautiful places that might be. |
Istanbul Kultur University (IKU) | Turkey | 0 |
52-62 | YOU KNOW WHAT? I LOVE YOU
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Details:Length: 10'Screenwriter: Natalie Cunningham Director: Natalie Cunningham Producer: Steve Thomas & Shannon Owen Animator: n/a DOP: Oliver Toleman Sound: Peter Jacobsen Editor: Natalie Cunningham Production Designer : n/a Synopsis: Anna lives alone, tending to her garden, chickens, and memories. |
VCA Film and Television | Australia | 0 |
Animation
Place | Title | School | Country | Points |
1 | HEAD OVER HEELS
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Details:Length: 10'Screenwriter: n/a Director: Tim Reckart Producer: Tim Reckart Animation: Timothy Reckart, Sam Turner, Jake Hovell DOP: Chloe Thomson Sound: Axle Kith Cheeng Editor: James Taylor Production Designer : Eléonore Cremonese Synopsis: A husband and wife have grown apart over the years. He lives on the floor, she lives on the ceiling, and the marriage hangs in the balance. |
National FIlm and Television School (NFTS) | United Kingdom | 94 |
2-3 | I AM TOM MOODY
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Details:Length: 7'Screenwriter: Ainslie Henderson Director: Ainslie Henderson Producer: Ainslie Henderson Animation: Ainslie Henderson DOP: n/a Sound: Joe Achison, Ainslie Henderson Editor: n/a Production Designer : n/a Synopsis: A surreal trip through the subconscious of a stifled musician as he struggles to sing. |
Screen Academy Scotland (SAS) | United Kingdom | 32 |
2-3 | JOSEPHINE AND THE ROACH
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Details:Length: 15'Screenwriter: Jonathan Langager, Joe Swanson Director: Jonathan Langager Producer: Christie Hagenburger, Damon Stea, Josh Tate Animation: Roach by Lino Stavole DOP: Damian Horan Sound: Bethany Sparks Editor: Thomas Krueger Production Designer : Giao-Chau Ly Synopsis: A woman. A cockroach. The course of true love never did crawl smooth. |
University of Southern California's School of Cinematic Arts (USC) | United States | 32 |
4 | THE ROBBERY
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Details:Length: 2'Screenwriter: Jan Saska Director: Jan Saska Producer: FAMU Animation: Jan Saska DOP: Jan Saska Sound: Jan Saska Editor: Jan Saska Production Designer : n/a Synopsis: A short animation grotesque about badly done bank robbery. |
Film and Television School / Academy of Performing Arts in Prague (FAMU) | Czech Republic | 31 |
5 | ABDULLAH
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Details:Length: 9'Screenwriter: n/a Director: Jakob Besuch Producer: Holger Lochau Animation: Jakob Besuch DOP: n/a Sound: Middendorff Julius Editor: n/a Production Designer : n/a Synopsis: Abdullah is growing up as the son of a migrated family. Connecting with i:he music scene he starts increasing his consumption of marijuana until he laces a psychosis. In hospital he feels recognized by a psycofogist who supports his way back to life. Today Abdullah owns a store for glasses and wants to help people being noticed. |
Film University Babelsberg KONRAD WOLF | Germany | 25 |
6 | KELLERKIND
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Details:Length: 9'Screenwriter: Julia Ocker Director: Julia Ocker Producer: Anna Matacz Animation: Julia Ocker, Simone Ciller DOP: n/a Sound: Andreas Mühlschlegel Editor: n/a Production Designer : n/a Synopsis: A woman lives all alone outside of a village. And all alone she gives birth to a child. But then she realizes that this child seems to be different. |
Filmakademie Baden-Wuerttemberg (FABW) | Germany | 23 |
7 | WHAT IS ANIMATION?
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Details:Length: 3'Screenwriter: Alex Searle Director: Alex Searle Producer: Alex Searle, NUA animation staff Animation: Alex Searle DOP: Alex Searle Sound: Alex Searle Editor: Alex Searle Production Designer : n/a Synopsis: A mixed media animation that uses vox pops as a sonic basis for lipsynch and other comic interpretation, the theme being people trying to describe animation, and not really succeeding. |
National Association for Higher Education in the Moving Image (NAHEMI) | United Kingdom | 17 |
8-9 | GREEN ACRES
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Details:Length: 6'Screenwriter: James Beck Director: James Beck Producer: James Beck Animation: James Beck DOP: James Beck Sound: Michael Lee Cullen Editor: James Beck Production Designer : n/a Synopsis: A parched tortoise wanders through a vast desert in search of water. He comes across an oasis only to find that trespassers are unwelcome. |
Chapman University / Dodge College of Film and Media Arts | United States | 16 |
8-9 | THINKING ABOUT IT
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Details:Length: 7'Screenwriter: Valentina Sutti Director: Valentina Sutti Producer: Cortisonici Lab 2012 Animation: Guido Orlandi, Andrea Carenzi, Ramona Mismetti DOP: Luca Sabbioni Sound: Daniel Covi Editor: Valentina Sutti Production Designer : n/a Synopsis: The thoughts of a little girl flows fluently among sounds and animations. Emotions and reflections chasse each other through childish drawings. Little by little animations give room to a reality, which, while we're cradled by the sound of nature, we will discover to be bitter and moving. |
Milan City Film School Luchino Visconti (MCSC) | Italy | 16 |
10 | REBIRD
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Details:Length: 5'Screenwriter: Koen De Gussem Director: Koen De Gussem Producer: Koen De Gussem Animation: Koen De Gussem DOP: Koen De Gussem Sound: Jolien Wuyts Editor: Koen De Gussem Production Designer : n/a Synopsis: A lonely ill prisoner spends his days in a cold dark cel.One day a dark mysterious passenger brings a present... |
Royal Institute for Theatre, Cinema and Sound (RITCS) | Belgium | 15 |
11-12 | CONTEMPORARY TALE
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Details:Length: 11'Screenwriter: Anna Milusheva Director: Anna Milusheva Producer: National Academy for Theatre & Film Arts (NATFA) “Krustyo Sarafov” Animation: Anna Milusheva DOP: Anna Milusheva Sound: Anna Milusheva, Chavdar Kolarov Editor: Anna Milusheva Production Designer : n/a Synopsis: A film about the contemporary reality in which children grow and its twisted essence: A society which takes the violence for natural and fun. The theme is presented by a fairy tale with unforeseen ending. |
National Academy for Theatre and Film Arts (NATFA) | Bulgaria | 13 |
11-12 | EMILE
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Details:Length: 5'Screenwriter: Charlie Aufroy, Renaud Deloupy, Benjamin Fenouil, Robin Geille, Alisson Guyot, Tristan Lebas, Célia Prou, Adrien Sibi Director: Charlie Aufroy, Renaud Deloupy, Benjamin Fenouil, Robin Geille, Alisson Guyot, Tristan Lebas, Célia Prou, Adrien Sibi Producer: ESRA Animation: Charlie Aufroy, Renaud Deloupy, Benjamin Fenouil, Robin Geille, Alisson Guyot, Tristan Lebas, Célia Prou, Adrien Sibi DOP: n/a Sound: Loic Berthelon, Guillaume Brémond, Nils Descoings, Florent Welsing, Valentin Esteban Ferran Trotot, Thibault Guillen, Karl Schaeffler Editor: n/a Production Designer : n/a Synopsis: Emile confides to his psychiatrist a terrible secret: he sees monsters which hide themselves under a human shape. He thinks then of getting a gun ... |
ESRA Group | France | 13 |
13 | THE FAIRY-TALE COOKERY CHRONICAL
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Details:Length: 6'Screenwriter: Kamil Jaworek Director: Kamil Jaworek Producer: Marcin Malatyński Animation: Kamil Jaworek DOP: Kamil Jaworek Sound: Slawomir Walczyk, Wieslaw Nowak Editor: Kamil Jaworek Production Designer : n/a Synopsis: "It is well known that wolves feed on naughty children. It has resulted in mass poisonings of these profitable inhabitants of the forest.[....]". The Fairy-Tale Cookery Chronicle 3D is full of warm irony and tells us about friendship, and unusual eating habits ... |
Polish National Film, Television and Theatre School in Lodz (PWSFTViT) | Poland | 12 |
14 | WHEN ONE STOPS
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Details:Length: 7'Screenwriter: Jenny Rahkonen Director: Jenny Rahkonen Producer: Eija Saarinen Animation: Jenny Rahkonen DOP: Jenny Rahkonen Sound: Jenni Rahkonen, Heta Bilaletdin Editor: Jenny Rahkonen Production Designer : n/a Synopsis: The world won't stop turning even when one stops turning with it. |
Turku University of Applied Sciences (TUAS) Arts Academy / Degree Programme in Film and Media | Finland | 11 |
15-19 | ARAIGNEE
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Details:Length: 2'Screenwriter: Jeremy Jensen Director: Jeremy Jensen Producer: Jeremy Jensen Animation: Jeremy Jensen DOP: Jeremy Jensen Sound: Andre Miranda Editor: Jeremy Jensen Production Designer : n/a Synopsis: A story about two spiders in Paris. |
New York University (NYU) | United States | 10 |
15-19 | FLUORESCENT
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Details:Length: 12'Screenwriter: Eyal Oren, Tim Razumovsky Director: Eyal Oren, Tim Razumovsky Producer: Eyal Oren, Tim Razumovsky Animation: Eyal Oren, Tim Razumovsky DOP: n/a Sound: Gil Landau, Yaeli Cohen Editor: n/a Production Designer : n/a Synopsis: "That which is crooked cannot be made straight; and that which is wanting cannot be numbered." Ecclesiastes:1,15 A stranger asks to leave reality behind and embark on a sincere journey through the depths of modern Israeli society. Vision facing reality, significance facing recognition, the boundaries become blurry. |
Bezalel Academy of Arts and Design Jerusalem (BAAD) | Israel | 10 |
15-19 | LIGHTA
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Details:Length: 11'Screenwriter: Peter Gašparík, Andrej Gregorčok Director: Andrej Gregorčok Producer: FTF VŠMU Animation: Andrej Gregorčok DOP: Andrej Gregorčok Sound: Martin Zvonár Editor: Miloš Jakubík Production Designer : Martina Čerňáková Synopsis: A small light bulb Lighta is the only source of light in the room until one day a new rival appears. |
Academy of Performing Arts / Film and Television Faculty (VSMU) | Slovakia | 10 |
15-19 | NANA BOBO
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Details:Length: 5'Screenwriter: Character design and color script: Francesco Nicolò Mereu Director: Andrea Cristofaro, Valentina Del Miglio, Francesco Nicolò Mereu, Lucas Wild do Val Producer: Centro Sperimentale di Cinematografia - Dept. Animation Piemonte Animation: Animation.compositing, VFX: Lucas Wild do Vale, Andrea Cristofaro, Francesco Nicolò Mereu, Valentina Delmiglio DOP: n/a Sound: Vincenzo Schiavo Editor: n/a Production Designer : n/a Synopsis: A young gentleman arrives the tropical city he's used to spend his lonely holidays. He wanders around, relaxes himself in the sun, enjoys a drink on the beach. But there's something unsetting in this man who gathers up toys. |
Centro Sperimentale di Cinematografia (CSC) | Italy | 10 |
15-19 | THE BUNGLED CHILD
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Details:Length: 10'Screenwriter: Simon Filliot Director: Simon Filliot Producer: Bélinda Leduc Animation: Chloé Chevalier, Simon Filliot, Paul Guilhaume, Samuel Yal DOP: Simon Filliot Sound: Daniel Capeille Editor: Suzanne Van Boxsom Production Designer : n/a Synopsis: There’s nothing easy about mending a bungled child. |
La Fémis | France | 10 |
20 | I THINK THIS IS THE CLOSEST TO HOW THE FOOTAGE LOOKED
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Details:Length: 9'Screenwriter: Yuval Hameiri Director: Yuval Hameiri Producer: n/a Animation: Yuval Hameiri DOP: Elina Margolin Sound: Yiftach Kedem Editor: Yuval Hameiri, Yair Asher Production Designer : n/a Synopsis: A man recreates, with poor means, a lost memory, a memory of the last day with his Mom. Objects comes to life, in a desperate struggle, to produce one moment that was gone. |
The Steve Tisch School of Film and Television (TAU) | Israel | 9 |
21-23 | SMALL CHIMERAS
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Details:Length: 3'Screenwriter: Gabriel Gauthier, Philippe Grenier,Edith Jorisch, Jean-Françoic Sauvé, Antoine Turcotte Director: Gabriel Gauthier, Philippe Grenier,Edith Jorisch, Jean-Françoic Sauvé, Antoine Turcotte Producer: École des Medias de UQAM Animation: Gabriel Gauthier, Philippe Grenier,Edith Jorisch, Jean-Françoic Sauvé, Antoine Turcotte DOP: Gabriel Gauthier, Philippe Grenier,Edith Jorisch, Jean-Françoic Sauvé, Antoine Turcotte Sound: Gabriel Gauthier, Philippe Grenier,Edith Jorisch, Jean-Françoic Sauvé, Antoine Turcotte Editor: Gabriel Gauthier, Philippe Grenier,Edith Jorisch, Jean-Françoic Sauvé, Antoine Turcotte Production Designer : n/a Synopsis: In an old house, a young woman suddenly becomes the target of strange phenomena. |
University of Québec Montréal / School of Media (UQAM) | Canada | 7 |
21-23 | THE CAPTAIN
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Details:Length: 13'Screenwriter: Marisol Morin Ramirez, Nicole Vanden Broeck, Paola Enriquez Director: Nicole Vanden Broeck Producer: Marisol Morin Ramirez Animation: Gustavo E. Estudillo Madrigal DOP: Alejandro Zamora Reynaud Sound: Juan Carlos Aguirre Editor: Nicole Vanden Broeck Production Designer : Paola Enriquez Synopsis: Thomas, an elderly man who lives in a retirement home, constantly breaks the monotony of the place narrating his adventures as captain of a ship. Everyone who listens to him is transported by his stories except Marcelo, a young nurse of the retirement home. One day, Thomas asks Marcelo to take him to the sea. |
Universidad Iberoamericana Mexico City (IBERO) | Mexico | 7 |
21-23 | THE PIRATE OF LOVE
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Details:Length: 10'Screenwriter: n/a Director: Sara Gunnarsdóttir Producer: Sara Gunnarsdóttir Animation: Sara Gunnarsdóttir DOP: Sara Gunnarsdóttir Sound: Sara Gunnarsdóttir, Baldvin Þór Magnússon Editor: Sara Gunnarsdóttir Production Designer : n/a Synopsis: A story about doomed love, vanished man and loneliness. Daniel C, a lonely truck driver, has written a full CD of love songs to a girl he calls Sherry. This is an oral story that follows this man's soulful songs of love, pride and loneliness. |
CalArts School of Film/Video (CALARTS) | United States | 7 |
24-26 | 120 HOURS
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Details:Length: 8'Screenwriter: Dmitriy Bulgakov Director: Dmitriy Bulgakov Producer: Dmitriy Bulgakov Animation: Dmitriy Bulgakov DOP: Vladimir Kuleshov Sound: Alexander Zubkov Editor: Dmitriy Bulgakov Production Designer : n/a Synopsis: The protagonist of the film «120 hours» is an artist who missed all the deadlines and is forced to finish his project without rest and sleep while trying to cope with his personal problems. But when the fatigue becomes unbearable the border between the real and animated worlds starts to vanish. |
Russian State University of Сinematography n.a. S.Gerasimov VGIK | Russia | 6 |
24-26 | DOME
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Details:Length: 7'Screenwriter: Jody Barker-Rockett Director: Liam O’ Brien Producer: National Film School at IADT, Ireland Animation: Liam O’ Brien DOP: Liam O’ Brien Sound: Kevin O’ Brien, Keith Murphy Editor: Liam O’ Brien Production Designer : n/a Synopsis: A man’s lifelong quest to right the wrongs of his father’s generation. |
National Film School / Institute of Art, Design and Technology (IADT) | Ireland | 6 |
24-26 | DON’T` DIE WONDERING
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Details:Length: 5'Screenwriter: Karl Bretschneider Director: Karl Bretschneider Producer: Yael Salomonowitz Animation: Karl Bretschneider DOP: Michael Schindegger Sound: Cardiochaos Editor: Karl Bretschneider Production Designer : n/a Synopsis: In a young girl`s room, puppets come to life. |
Film Academy Vienna (UMDK) | Austria | 6 |
27-28 | LIKE CLOCKWORK
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Details:Length: 10'Screenwriter: Chantre Crafford Director: Chantre Crafford Producer: Nicola Gowing Animation: Chantre Crafford DOP: Claudia Ramos Sound: Joanie Ludik Editor: Martin Flatmoen Production Designer : Chantre Crafford Synopsis: A story about a teenage robot forced to leave the comfort of her home and find her place in the world. Meeting and interacting with humans she finds herself experiencing the overwhelming power of emotion. |
South African School of Motion Picture Medium and Live Performance (AFDA) | South Africa | 5 |
27-28 | THE LEGEND OF MANGUP’S SON
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Details:Length: 9'Screenwriter: Lisa Astretsova, Olga Kotsareva Director: Lisa Astretsova Producer: Kseniya Kosenko Animation: Lisa Astretsova DOP: Lisa Astretsova Sound: Nikolay Khitruk Editor: Lisa Astretsova Production Designer : n/a Synopsis: Medieval legend about the little Byzantine prince who was put before a choice: to rescue the family or to protect the people. |
GITR FILM & TELEVISION SCHOOL | Russia | 5 |
29-32 | BARBOUILLAGEVILLE
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Details:Length: 6'Screenwriter: Connor Johnston, Declan Byrne Director: Declan Byrne Producer: Declan Byrne Animation: Declan Byrne, Connor Johnston DOP: Caitlin Bennett, Connor Johnston, Declan Byrne Sound: Zander Hulme Editor: n/a Production Designer : n/a Synopsis: Two rival painters - one blue, one yellow - compete to paint the hiterto white city of Barbouillageville. |
Griffith Film School (GFS) | Australia | 4 |
29-32 | MIRAGE
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Details:Length: 4'Screenwriter: Allan Kiev Rodrigues, Goutham Reddy, Shriya Mukherjee, Tenzing DhukarTashi Director: Allan Kiev Rodrigues, Goutham Reddy, Shriya Mukherjee, Tenzing DhukarTashi Producer: Whistling Woods International Animation: Allan Kiev Rodrigues, Goutham Reddy, Shriya Mukherjee DOP: n/a Sound: Rachit Malhotra Editor: Allan Kiev Rodrigues, Goutham Reddy, Shriya Mukherjee, Tenzing DhukarTashi Production Designer : n/a Synopsis: A student film about how modern times have left us forgetting what is truly important to us and the reasons why we live our lives. The story revolves around a young man to whom is job is of the utmost importance, a young girl's need for love and her want to help him realize what he has forgotten. |
Whistling Woods International (WWI) | India | 4 |
29-32 | THE ELEVATOR
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Details:Length: 5'Screenwriter: Umut Mert Canel, Mertkan Doğruel, Tunay Kökden Director: Umut Mert Canel, Mertkan Doğruel, Tunay Kökden Producer: Semlh Güzey, Tunay Kökden Animation: 3D: Mertkan Doğruel DOP: Semih Güzey Sound: Büyük Ev Abluka Editor: Tunay Kökden, Semi'h Güzey, Mertkan Doğruel Production Designer : n/a Synopsis: Imagine an elevator different from what you would normally imagine. An elevator that takes you to unknown places. There are three floors: a hell, a heaven and somewhere in limbo... |
Istanbul Kultur University (IKU) | Turkey | 4 |
29-32 | WAREHOUSE
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Details:Length: 6'Screenwriter: Jakob Weiss Director: Jakob Weiss Producer: Academy of Media Arts Animation: Jakob Weiss DOP: Jakob Weiss Sound: Kai Holzkämper, Hannes Marget Editor: Jakob Weiss Production Designer : n/a Synopsis: In search of her son, the mother of little Jacob is lost in a maze of corridors and goods shelves - always followed by the energetic announcements of the Kiddy Corral. |
Academy of Media Arts Cologne (KHM) | Germany | 4 |
33-38 | ARTI AND THE CATERPILLAR
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Details:Length: 4'Screenwriter: n/a Director: Jude Gayan Perera Producer: Jude Gayan Perera Animation: Jude Gayan Perera DOP: n/a Sound: n/a Editor: n/a Production Designer : n/a Synopsis: The story is about a little robot called Arti who step out of the line to help a caterpillar to find food. |
Puttnam School of Film & Animation / LASALLE College of the Arts (LCA) | Singapore | 3 |
33-38 | CLOSE CALL
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Details:Length: 4'Screenwriter: Assar Tallinger Director: Assar Tallinger Producer: Assar Tallinger Animation: Assar Tallinger DOP: Assar Tallinger Sound: Assar Tallinger Editor: Assar Tallinger Production Designer : n/a Synopsis: A vast space demon tries to eat the earth by turning it to a giant lollipop. Before the transportation succeeds a turquoise demon devil with pink horns summons a hero who averts the end of the world. |
Stockholm Academy of Dramatic Arts / Stockholm University of the Arts (SADA) | Sweden | 3 |
33-38 | CONCRETE JUNGLE
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Details:Length: 5'Screenwriter: Steven Cartoccio Director: Steven Cartoccio Producer: Steven Cartoccio Animation: Steven Cartoccio DOP: Steven Cartoccio Sound: Steven Cartoccio Editor: Steven Cartoccio Production Designer : n/a Synopsis: Concrete Jungle is a stop-motion comedy about humans and animals coexisting in New York City. |
School of Visual Arts | United States | 3 |
33-38 | DAVID
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Details:Length: 4'Screenwriter: Stephen Craner Director: Stephen Craner Producer: Caroline Parsons Animation: Stephen Craner DOP: n/a Sound: Stephen Craner Editor: Stephen Craner Production Designer : n/a Synopsis: David reveals the complicated relationship - at once fearful and tender - between a young boy and an abusive alcoholic father. |
University of South Wales | United Kingdom | 3 |
33-38 | HOME
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Details:Length: 5'Screenwriter: Jessica Harris Director: Jessica Harris Producer: Paul Fletcher & Robert Stephenson Animation: Jessica Harris DOP: Jessica Harris Sound: Jessica Harris Editor: Jessica Harris Production Designer : n/a Synopsis: A young boy is separated from his mother in the city and befriends a homeless man. |
VCA Film and Television | Australia | 3 |
33-38 | MUM`S GUARDIAN ANGEL
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Details:Length: 7'Screenwriter: LI Shimeng Director: LI Shimeng Producer: LI Shimeng Animation: LI Shimeng DOP: n/a Sound: CHAN Chi Yeung Editor: LI Shimeng Production Designer : n/a Synopsis: Little boy Jack went out to buy medicine for his sick mother. He needed to go through a park, which looks dark and terrified in the evenings, to the pharmacy. A few butterflies flew over and they reminded Jack of the love of his father. He made up his mind to be like his father who contributed protection and warning to his family. |
Academy of Film / Hong Kong Baptist University (HKBU) | Hong Kong | 3 |
39-40 | IN THE KITCHEN
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Details:Length: 3'Screenwriter: Filipe Fonseca Director: Filipe Fonseca Producer: Filipe Fonseca Animation: Filipe Fonseca DOP: Filipe Fonseca Sound: Filipe Fonseca Editor: Filipe Fonseca Production Designer : n/a Synopsis: A love story between a lamp and a fan. |
Universidade Lusófona / Film and Media Arts Department (ULHT) | Portugal | 2 |
39-40 | THE FOX
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Details:Length: 3'Screenwriter: Zhang Mengyu Director: Zhang Mengyu Producer: Zhang Mengyu Animation: Zhang Mengyu DOP: n/a Sound: Liu Xiaoyao Editor: Zhang Mengyu Production Designer : n/a Synopsis: A young man was trying to catch a fox which escaped from his paper. |
Beijing Film Academy (BFA) | China | 2 |
41 | BABIOLE
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Details:Length: 7'Screenwriter: Christina Brehove Director: Kimberly Breister, Christina Brehove, Breeana Trachy Producer: Christina Brehove Animation: Christina Brehove, Breeana Trachy DOP: n/a Sound: Sedrick Moore II, Gavin Finn, Cullan Shewfelt Editor: n/a Production Designer : n/a Synopsis: A princess turned into a monkey at birth must discover her true self. |
Loyola Marymount University / School of Film and Television (LMU) | United States | 1 |
42-48 | A GAME
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Details:Length: 3'Screenwriter: Vallez Sarah Director: Vallez Sarah Producer: ESAV Animation: Vallez Sarah DOP: Vallez Sarah Sound: Vallez Sarah Editor: Vallez Sarah Production Designer : n/a Synopsis: A lonely boy is carried away by his imagination in a perilous adventure.... |
ENSAV | France | 0 |
42-48 | A TOUGH NUT
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Details:Length: 3'Screenwriter: Philipp Roger Director: Philipp Roger Producer: Prof. Dr.-lng. Wolfgang Hohl Animation: Character Rig: Josh Burton, David Andrade, Bryan Evert DOP: Philipp Roger Sound: Sebastian Kobler / IMA Score Editor: Philipp Roger Production Designer : n/a Synopsis: This movie was produced in the course of the Bachelors thesis of Philipp Roger in summer term 2011. The task was to apply and to integrate match moving techniques in an computer animated movie and to optimize the usual and common workflow using these techniques. 3D-Modeling, Texturing, Lighting and Rendering with Maya and Mental Ray, Matchmoving / Tracking with Autodesk Matchmover, Compositing with After Effects and Premiere Pro. |
Macromedia University of Applied Science | Germany | 0 |
42-48 | ADVERTISMENT FOR LIPTON ICE TEA LEMON
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Details:Length: 1'Screenwriter: Patricia El Khawly Director: Patricia El Khawly Producer: IESAV- USJ Animation: Patricia El Khawly DOP: n/a Sound: Fabio El Khoury (music) Editor: Patricia El Khawly Production Designer : n/a Synopsis: Advertisement for Lipton Ice Tea Lemon - final project for course in TV advertisements. |
Institut d'études scéniques, audiovisuelles et cinématographiques (IESAV) | Lebanon | 0 |
42-48 | STAR-CROSSED
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Details:Length: 9'Screenwriter: Katie Aldworth Director: Katie Aldworth Producer: John Wikstrom Animation: Katie Aldworth DOP: Lauren Brinkman Sound: Katie Aldworth Editor: Michael Bennett Smith Production Designer : Adam Ruckersfeldt Synopsis: Young love isn't bound by gravity, but for Scout and Gideon, finding each other will be harder than crossing the galaxies between them. |
Florida State University / College of Motion Picture Arts (FSU) | United States | 0 |
42-48 | THE OTHER SIDE
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Details:Length: 6'Screenwriter: n/a Director: Rachel Russakoff, Beth Zwolski Producer: Rachael Russakoff, Yoshimi Nakamura Animation: Rachel Russakoff, Beth Zwolski, Yoshimi Nakamura, Branick Green, Victoria Thomas, Jamie Marcelle, Jacob Hornbarger, Emily Peters, Ethan Polte, Marian Streeter DOP: n/a Sound: Pick Bickmore, Lauren Bronston Editor: Yoshimi Nakamura Production Designer : n/a Synopsis: When two handicapped senior citizens vie for the final seat at a Bingo competition they find that a busy intersection is there biggest obstacle. This hilarious animated short combines traditional and computer generated animation to pit one man using a walker against another riding an electric scooter. Who will get to the Other Side first? |
Columbia College Chicago (CCC) | United States | 0 |
42-48 | TO THE FAIREST
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Details:Length: 3'Screenwriter: Yangzi She Director: Yangzi She Producer: n/a Animation: Yangzi She DOP: n/a Sound: Jiaojiao Zhou, Yangzi She Editor: Yangzi She Production Designer : n/a Synopsis: Beauties compete each other to get an apple 'to the fairest'. All of the girls stand for ideal beauty image of their culture and all of them tortured themselves (by corset, feet-binding, neck-ring and calories-counting.) to achieve that. None of them get the apple at last. |
University of California Los Angeles (UCLA) | United States | 0 |
42-48 | TUCÁN
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Details:Length: 7'Screenwriter: Daniel Enrique Chávez Ontiveros Director: Daniel Enrique Chávez Ontiveros Producer: Fernando Méndez Arroyo Animation: Alexia Alonso, Perla Moreno, Iris Guadarrama DOP: Mauricio Celis Monterrubio Sound: Carlos Eligio, San Juan Juanchi Editor: Yazmín Núñez, Daniel Enrique Chávez Ontiveros Production Designer : n/a Synopsis: A child looks at a shop to a toucan for sale. The image of the caged animal haunts him in his dreams and follows him to the end of his life. Soon he feels the need to free the bird trying to free himself, but he will notice that the animal has lost its wild nature. |
National School of Film Arts / National Autonomous University of Mexico (ENAC/UNAM) | Mexico | 0 |