2020
Fiction
| Place | Title | School | Country | Points |
| 1 | NOVEMBER 1ST
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Details:TrailerLength: 25' Screenwriter: Charlie Manton Director: Charlie Manton Producer: Teodora Shaleva Animator: n/a DOP: Molly Manning-Walker Sound: Edward Guy Editor: Celina Øier Production Designer: Theo Boswell Synopsis: A mother and daughter travel across state to witness a long-overdue execution. |
National FIlm and Television School (NFTS) | United Kingdom | 117 |
| 2 | WELCOME BACK
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Details:TrailerLength: 20' Screenwriter: Tiffany Kontoyiannis Director: Tiffany Kontoyiannis Producer: Roy Arwas, Tiffany Kontoyiannis , Karly Perez-Arevalo Animator: n/a DOP: Becky Baihui Chen Sound: Lars Struck Editor: Roy Arwas Production Designer: Valeria Nicole Guevara Gomezjurado Synopsis: After being deported to dangerous and communist Venezuela, Rosa and her daughter must find a way to escape to a nearby town in Colombia. |
University of Southern California's School of Cinematic Arts (USC) | United States | 66 |
| 3 | FILIPIÑANA
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Details:TrailerLength: 24' Screenwriter: Rafael Mendoza Director: Rafael Mendoza Producer: Naomi Poltier-Mutal, Rafael Mendoza, Kyle Nieva, Kiko Meily Animator: n/a DOP: Xenia Guenther Sound: Manuel Colayco, Kenneth Tañola Editor: Rafael Mendoza Production Designer: Andrea Vigoni Synopsis: Isabel is a tee-girl. She spends the whole day sitting on a stool barely one foot above the dirt-ground teeing up golf balls for golfers to hit as they practice swinging their steel clubs just inches away from Isabel's face. |
London Film School (LFS) | United Kingdom | 64 |
| 4 | CASTING
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Details:TrailerLength: 28' Screenwriter: Sándor Csoma Director: Sándor Csoma Producer: Mónika Mécs / Inforg – M&M, Miklós Bosnyák / Univeristy of Theatre and Film Arts Budapest Animator: n/a DOP: Balázs István Balázs Sound: Bálint Zándoki, Simon Koch Editor: Dániel Márton Production Designer: Anna Nyitrai Synopsis: The 18-year-old Julia tries her luck at a model casting in the hope of starting a new life abroad. However during the casting it turns out that they are looking for porn actresses. Unexpectedly Julia finds herself in a situation where her decency is endangered. |
University of Theatre and Film Arts Budapest (SzFE) | Hungary | 55 |
| 5-6 | ADAM
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Details:Length: 20'Screenwriter: Shoki Lin Director: Shoki Lin Producer: Wan Murni Animator: n/a DOP: Ibrahim Zubir Sound: Natasha Jumari Editor: Al-Azmir Ibrahim Production Designer: Beaunice Toh Synopsis: Tired of his turbulent family life and caught between identities, Adam, a young multiracial boy seeks out an alternative arrangement in hopes of finding his place. |
Nanyang Technological University | Singapore | 39 |
| 5-6 | I WAS STILL THERE WHEN YOU LEFT ME
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Details:Length: 23'Screenwriter: Marie McCourt Director: Marie McCourt Producer: Media Diffusion Animator: n/a DOP: Mélanie Jacques Sound: Hugo Becker, Lewis Delssaux Editor: Lucie Floc'h Levi Production Designer: n/a Synopsis: A little girl is saved from a fire by her young neighbor. They take shelter in an apartment from where their tower burning. |
Institut des Arts de Diffusion (IAD) | Belgium | 39 |
| 7-8 | AUDREY AND THE ROCKET
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Details:Length: 20'Screenwriter: Michael Upson Director: Molly Bradbrook Producer: Michael Upson Animator: n/a DOP: Joseph Brunt Sound: Harry Moore Editor: Bianca Tuser Production Designer: Matilda Vidal Synopsis: Audrey thinks she has found an exciting alternative to a traditional funeral, but Bernard fears being left behind. |
Westminster Film BA / University of Westminster (WFS) | United Kingdom | 32 |
| 7-8 | BITTER HERB
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Details:Length: 16'Screenwriter: Maria Ornaf Director: Maria Ornaf Producer: Agata Golanska Animator: n/a DOP: Zuzanna Zachara Sound: Rafał Nowak Editor: Tomasz Kajetan Naruszewicz, Urszula Bucka Production Designer: Maciej Bieganski - Back To Front Synopsis: When wanting to stop breastfeeding a child, a mother in the old times would rub wormwood ointment into her bosom. Upon tasting the bitterness, the child would never desire for the mother’s milk again. |
Polish National Film, Television and Theatre School in Lodz (PWSFTViT) | Poland | 32 |
| 9 | IDOL
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Details:Length: 19'Screenwriter: Alex Wu Director: Alex Wu Producer: Jiapei Wu Animator: n/a DOP: Max Walter Sound: Dylan Morgan-Rose Editor: Alex Wu Production Designer: Canwen Zhao Synopsis: A young Chinese celebrity is called into an emergency meeting after a fan of his commits suicide. |
VCA Film and Television | Australia | 30 |
| 10-11 | GEFEN
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Details:Length: 18'Screenwriter: Noam Ellis Director: Noam Ellis Producer: Helli Hardi Animator: n/a DOP: Barak Itzkovitz Sound: Rotem Dror Editor: Or Lee-Tal Production Designer: Ayala Drori Synopsis: When an Israeli reserve unit evacuates from a small village in the desert, seven years old Gefen finds it hard to say good bye. |
The Steve Tisch School of Film and Television (TAU) | Israel | 27 |
| 10-11 | THE DRAGON WITH TWO HEADS
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Details:Length: 21'Screenwriter: Paris Cannes Director: Paris Cannes Producer: INSAS/Atelier de realisation - Vincent Canart Animator: n/a DOP: Charlotte Muller Sound: Alice Godart Editor: n/a Production Designer: Diego De Vigne Synopsis: To escape the homophobic reality of their homeland, two Brazilian twin brothers are now living in Europe: one lives in Brussels with legal status, the other is an illegal immigrant in Berlin... |
INSAS | Belgium | 27 |
| 12 | DRIFTING
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Details:Length: 16'Screenwriter: Hanxiong Bo Director: Hanxiong Bo Producer: Lisu Wu, Yirui Guan, Luxi Wang, Yilei Hao Animator: n/a DOP: Joewi Verhoeven Sound: Nathan Nuyle, Peiqi Duan Editor: Yinong Xia Production Designer: Qiyang Sun Synopsis: Disguised as a girl growing up during the time of one-child policy in China, Yan is now confused about his gender identity and struggles with the conservative world around him. Drifting his dad's old taxi becomes his way of expressing his feelings. |
University of California Los Angeles (UCLA) | United States | 26 |
| 13 | HOMEBOUND
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Details:Length: 19'Screenwriter: Ilona Ahti Director: Marika Harjusaari Producer: Paria Eskandari Animator: n/a DOP: Antti Ahokoivu Sound: Jani Nikander Editor: Stina Uusitalo Production Designer: Heidi Jokinen Synopsis: Homebound is a survival story set in one of the world´s biggest refugee camps. A bus is waiting to forcefully return refugees to their country of origin. Xidig, 8, is excited to go home, but his brother Saliim, 12, knows that a war- torn and dangerous place is no one´s home. |
Aalto University School of Arts, Design and Architecture / ELO Film School Helsinki | Finland | 25 |
| 14-15 | JUPITER
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Details:Length: 14'Screenwriter: Benjamin Pfohl Director: Benjamin Pfohl Producer: HFF München, DREIFILM, Maverick Film, BR/Arte Animator: n/a DOP: Tim Kuhn Sound: Andreas Goldbrunner Editor: Valesca Peters Production Designer: n/a Synopsis: As a comet passes Earth at a threatening distance, a shy teenage girl has to decide if to pursue her own path on Earth or to follow her parents, members of a cosmic cult, through a fatal procedure into a higher existence on Jupiter. |
University of Television and Film Munich (HFF) | Germany | 24 |
| 14-15 | SEPARATION OF LOVERS
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Details:Length: 23'Screenwriter: Ashokan Moorthy Director: Ashokan Moorthy Producer: Satyajit Ray Film & Television Institute Animator: n/a DOP: Gladwin John Sound: Mohit Shankar Editor: Sounak Roy Production Designer: n/a Synopsis: In a fishing village of southern India, a cyclone devastates the men at sea, claiming hundreds of lives. While the rest of the village mourns their demise, a young woman goes against all odds in belief that her loved one is on his way back to her. |
Satyajit Ray Film and Television Institute (SRFTI) | India | 24 |
| 16 | A THIEF DIED
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Details:Length: 29'Screenwriter: Chen Mingwang Director: Chen Mingwang Producer: Liang Wenxin Animator: n/a DOP: Deng Chunwei Sound: Xiong Yi Editor: Du Hongwei Production Designer: n/a Synopsis: New Year's eve, a thief was found dead in a quadrangle dwellings in southern China. The four families started to argue about which door should the body be carried through and therefore brought up some old conflicts. They all used Feng Shui as excuses to hide their private intentions. |
Central Academy of Drama (CAD) | China | 23 |
| 17-19 | PARADISE LOST
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Details:Length: 25'Screenwriter: Huang Zixuan, Zhang Yutong Director: Zhang Yutong Producer: Pan Mengqi Animator: n/a DOP: Wang Peng Sound: Zhang Yunhan Editor: n/a Production Designer: Zhang Mingshu, Fan Xiaowei Synopsis: A Gau, as the only son in his family, have always shouldered particular expectation from his mother. Meanwhile, he also shared a rebel life with his errant friends, and finally made a huge mistake the night before his coming-of-age ceremony. Knowing that he had deeply disappointed his mother, Jiu was so reluctant and desperate, and blamed it all to his absent father. In great shame and solitude, he got to know the real taste of life. |
Beijing Film Academy (BFA) | China | 22 |
| 17-19 | THE DROWNING GOAT
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Details:Length: 27'Screenwriter: Sebastian Johansson Micci Director: Sebastian Johansson Micci Producer: Erik Sundbiad, Sebastian Johansson Micci Animator: Ivan Gedin DOP: Jonathan Bjerstedt Sound: Simon Johansson, Jonas Kallstrand Editor: Sebastian Johansson Micci Production Designer: Emma Pål Brunzell, Oscar Häggström, Malin Englund Synopsis: Luca arrives by plane to visit his dad and his new family. Luca is eager to make a good impression and be accommodating, but the visit does not go as planned. |
HDK-Valand | Sweden | 22 |
| 17-19 | THE HOUSE OF THE ABSENT BIRDS
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Details:Length: 10'Screenwriter: Luis Fernando Paredes Jiménez Director: Luis Fernando Paredes Jiménez Producer: Hugo Horacio Herrera León Animator: n/a DOP: Gaspar Jovanni Martínez Mendoza Sound: Perla Ortega Santana Editor: Diego Armando Guareño Genesta Production Designer: Jesús Alejandro de la Torre López Synopsis: Bertha loses the only company she had left, a small canary her son gave her before he died. Looking desperately for her bird, she discovers the bright side of letting go. |
University of Guadalajara / Image and Sound Department | Mexico | 22 |
| 20-22 | 90%
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Details:Length: 14'Screenwriter: Florens Huhn Director: Jerry Hoffmann Producer: Giacomo Vernetti (Creative Producer) Animator: n/a DOP: Felix Tonnat Sound: Patrick Dadaczyski Editor: Alexander Kunz Production Designer: Birk Beese Synopsis: Anorexia is taking up more and more space in Jean’s life or as he would call it: the incredible feeling of absolute self-control. But then Lili enters his life. |
Hamburg Media School (HMS) | Germany | 20 |
| 20-22 | A MIXED BAG
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Details:Length: 19'Screenwriter: Helena Rakel, Logi Sigursveinsson Director: Helena Rakel Producer: Anna Karen Eyjólfsdóttir, Sigurgeir Jónsson, Elfar Þór, Þórður Helgi Guðjónsson Animator: n/a DOP: Þórður Helgi Guðjónsson Sound: Þórður Helgi Guðjónsson Editor: Ingibjörg Sara Sævarsdóttir Production Designer: Dagný Harðardóttir Synopsis: Fjóla, a prejudiced, old woman has her comfortable life challenged when a mother and her young son who are of foreign origin, move into her apartment building. While trying to find a way to get rid of them, she strikes an unlikely friendship with the boy. |
Icelandic Film School (IFS) | Iceland | 20 |
| 20-22 | CATDOG
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Details:Length: 20'Screenwriter: Ashmita Guha Neogi Director: Ashmita Guha Neogi Producer: Film and Television Institute of India, Pune Animator: n/a DOP: Prateek Pamecha Sound: Kushal Nerurkar Editor: Vinita Negi Production Designer: Neeraj Singh Synopsis: A pair of young siblings inhabit a fanciful world of their making, hidden from the eyes of their mother. When she finally catches a glimpse of their world, it faces the threat of crumbling. The two of them can either surrender or resist. |
Film and Television Institute of India (FTII) | India | 20 |
| 23 | AM CU CE - PRIDE
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Details:Length: 19'Screenwriter: Dominik Huber, Hannah Weissenborn Director: Hannah Weissenborn Producer: Christina Honig, Etienne Heimann Animator: n/a DOP: Christian Neuberger Sound: Thomas Rother Editor: Elena Schmidt Production Designer: Iris Zimmermann Synopsis: Romanian trucker Stancu has given his nephew Dragan a second driver card, that enables him to stretch his legal driving time. But when Dragan almost causes an accident due to micro sleep at the wheel, Stancu feels all of a sudden responsible and finds himself increasingly entangled in his own white lies. |
Filmakademie Baden-Wuerttemberg (FABW) | Germany | 19 |
| 24-25 | THE FOREIGN BODIES
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Details:Length: 12'Screenwriter: Daniela Gaviño Director: Samanta Bianucci Producer: Jeremías Caraballo Mandirola Animator: n/a DOP: Ivanna Alegre Gervasoni Sound: Assiz Alcaraz Baxter Editor: Catalina Ieraci Production Designer: Federico Baez Synopsis: A gynecologist is involved in a moral conflict, having to make decisions about her own body and the body of others... in silence. |
National School of Film Experimentation and Production (ENERC) | Argentina | 18 |
| 24-25 | YOU, ME & EVERYTHING IN BETWEEN
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Details:Length: 24'Screenwriter: Esther Jo Mbulawa Director: Esther Jo Mbulawa Producer: AFDA Animator: n/a DOP: Isma’eel Sallie Sound: Chad Grove Editor: Chadlee Skrikker Production Designer: Esther Jo Mbulawa, Elizma De Villiers Synopsis: Set in South Africa in 1970, Babalwa, a young anti-apartheid activist fights for the freedom. |
South African School of Motion Picture Medium and Live Performance (AFDA) | South Africa | 18 |
| 26-29 | PLAYING
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Details:Length: 22'Screenwriter: Lun Sevnik Director: Lun Sevnik Producer: Ondřej Šejnoha – Studio FAMU Animator: n/a DOP: Kryštof Melka Sound: Ondřej Rozum Editor: Maja Benc Production Designer: n/a Synopsis: Boris and Hugo, 16 years old friends bought a gun. They close themselves in Hugo's parents apartment and announce on internet live-stream video that in one hour they will commit suicide. |
Film and Television School / Academy of Performing Arts in Prague (FAMU) | Czech Republic | 17 |
| 26-29 | RAJAA, THE RETURN
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Details:Length: 21'Screenwriter: Charlie Kouka, Lamara Leprêtre Habib Director: Charlie Kouka Producer: Colin Destombe Animator: n/a DOP: Chloé Terren Sound: Emma Zimny Editor: Hafedh Laridhi Production Designer: Abir Mhadhbi Synopsis: Tarek is back to Tunisia after 7 years of clandestinity in Italy. He lives this return as a failure. He has to face his old friends, his old life and remain strong. He meets Khaled, a new neighbour. Khaled is all that Tarek isn’t: successful, handsome, able to help others… |
La Fémis | France | 17 |
| 26-29 | RIO
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Details:Length: 22'Screenwriter: Zhenia Kazankina Director: Zhenia Kazankina Producer: Dasha Dikarkina Animator: n/a DOP: Luda Kuropiatnikova Sound: Pavel Ambarnov Editor: Zhenia Kazankina Production Designer: Alyona Nebroeva Synopsis: Paulina lives and works in a small hotel in the northern town near the border. She and her friend Nadia dream of a different, paradise and exotic world. Once a stranger arrives at the hotel. |
Russian State University of Сinematography n.a. S.Gerasimov VGIK | Russia | 17 |
| 26-29 | WHEN TIME REMAINS
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Details:Length: 17'Screenwriter: Laura Van Passel Director: Laura Van Passel Producer: RITCS Animator: n/a DOP: Vince van der Pol Sound: Arne Tomas, Wim De Wilde Editor: Willem Van Hecke Production Designer: n/a Synopsis: Juliette and her father are fishing on a lake in their little boats, surrounded by nothing but water. Juliettes father has young-onset dementia and is going to die later that day. During their last hour together a game of beautiful and less beautiful moments occur. Finding each other one last time, saying goodbye in all its purity. |
Royal Institute for Theatre, Cinema and Sound (RITCS) | Belgium | 17 |
| 30-33 | MEZZO FORTE
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Details:Length: 22'Screenwriter: Eugen Dediu Director: Eugen Dediu Producer: UNATC I.L.CARAGIALE BUCHAREST - Dumitrana Lupu Animator: n/a DOP: Rares Dima Sound: Claudiu Marginean Editor: Sabin Filip Production Designer: Alina Caprian Synopsis: An aging teacher and a folkloric roma band are tasked with the reenactment of the Centennial celebration in their village- a celebration that never happened in the first place. |
National University of Theatre and Film (UNATC) | Romania | 16 |
| 30-33 | ONCE UPON A TIME IN THE EAST SLOVAKIA
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Details:Length: 30'Screenwriter: Denis Sater, Adam Šoltés Director: Adam Šoltés Producer: Tomas Bata University in Zlín, Klára Vašáková Animator: n/a DOP: Matúš Chovanec Sound: Michal Kolárik Editor: Daniel Krcha Production Designer: n/a Synopsis: A bitter comedy from Eastern Slovakia deals with a fortunate man living a happy life in the village of Vrchná Spodná, in a region where “nothing ever happens”. The main character, Jano Horák, starts his Praga V3S lorry nicknamed Anežka (Agnes) and sets on his day-long trip of neighbouring villages. |
Tomas Bata University in Zlín / Faculty of Multimedia Communications (TBU) | Czech Republic | 16 |
| 30-33 | STILL WORKING
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Details:Length: 17'Screenwriter: Julietta Korbel Director: Julietta Korbel Producer: ECAL - Lionel Baier Animator: n/a DOP: Carlos Tapia González Sound: Myriam Guyénard, Julietta Korbel Editor: Raphaël Lefèvre Production Designer: n/a Synopsis: The guardian of a factory doomed to be demolished is faced with the end of his universe... |
Ecole Cantonale d'Art de Lausanne (ECAL) | Switzerland | 16 |
| 30-33 | SUN DOG
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Details:Length: 20'Screenwriter: Dorian Jespers Director: Dorian Jespers Producer: Scum Pictures, KASK - School of Arts Gent, Belgium Animator: n/a DOP: Dorian Jespers, Arnaud Alberola Sound: Thomas Becka Editor: Omar Guzman Production Designer: n/a Synopsis: Fedor is a young locksmith in Murmansk, a frozen city in the obscurity of the Russian Arctic. Client after client, he roams through the alleys of concrete animated by a fantasy that isolates him from the city and its population. |
Royal Academy of Fine Arts / University College Ghent (KASK) | Belgium | 16 |
| 34-35 | COMPLEX SUBJECT
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Details:Length: 26'Screenwriter: Georgy Menshikov Director: Olesya Yakovleva Producer: Danila Yakovlev Animator: n/a DOP: Vadim Ivanov Sound: Anatoly Nikulin Editor: Olesya Yakovleva, Yulya LIitinskaya Production Designer: Xenia Belyaeva, Veronica Roth Synopsis: A mysterious teacher comes to a provincial town to work in the local school. The teacher doesn’t look like a teacher, and his views are too pretentious and innovative. But the city likes him. He has actually no idea how much. |
St. Petersburg State University of Film and Television (SPUFT) | Russia | 14 |
| 34-35 | FOREIGNER
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Details:Length: 15'Screenwriter: Moreetsi Gabang Director: Moreetsi Gabang Producer: Rita Noronha Santos Animator: n/a DOP: Yang Meng-jun Sound: Jay Kevin Composta, Robert Griffin Editor: Zhang Qui-si Production Designer: Zhou Shu-lei Synopsis: Motswakwa is the story of a father and a daughter who are refugees from Kenya seeking asylum in the UK, and shows what motivates someone to go to extreme lengths in order to achieve their dreams and help those they love. |
London College of Communication | United Kingdom | 14 |
| 36-37 | PORFOTTO
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Details:Length: 29'Screenwriter: Bodil Matheeuwsen Director: Edson da Conceicao Producer: Yasmin van Dorp, Tessel Jonkers, Nicky Onstenk Animator: n/a DOP: Jeroen Klokgieters Sound: Sofie van der Meer Editor: Jip Walther Boer Production Designer: Mijs de Wit Synopsis: The three friends Em, Moreno and Kyon have raided a local money laundering practice in Rotterdam. They feel like kings and go home with a good feeling. In one night they find out that money is not enough to solve their problems. |
Netherlands Film Academy (NFA) | Netherlands | 13 |
| 36-37 | SHE FOLLOWS CLOSE BEHIND
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Details:Length: 21'Screenwriter: Aidan Weaver Director: Aidan Weaver Producer: Katie Sanderson Animator: n/a DOP: Jared Freeman Sound: John Rizzi Editor: John Machado Production Designer: Riley Patterson Synopsis: A woman seeking closure questions an old man about unsolved mystery from her past. |
University of North Carolina School of the Arts (UNCSA) | United States | 13 |
| 38-41 | A FOXES MOON
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Details:Length: 17'Screenwriter: Yossi Medved, Danna Levy Director: Yossi Medved Producer: Adva Odaya Ogen Animator: n/a DOP: Gil Ramon Sound: Slava Pogorelsky, Mor Machlev Editor: Ronny Feldman Production Designer: n/a Synopsis: On the eve of his best friend’s engagement party, Daniel, a religious student from Jerusalem tries to meet Ronnie, a secular girl from Tel Aviv. But as the night progresses meeting her becomes almost impossible, he slowly realizes the gap between their worlds, and is forced to decide where he belongs. |
School of Audio & Visual Arts, Sapir College | Israel | 12 |
| 38-41 | ENE MENE
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Details:Length: 17'Screenwriter: Raphaela Schmid Director: Raphaela Schmid Producer: Alisa Frischholz, Raphaela Schmid Animator: n/a DOP: Simone Hart Sound: Berhard Zorzi, Rudolf Pototschnig Editor: Andreas Moser Production Designer: Andrea Reitbauer Synopsis: Little Paula accidentally pushes her sister Anna's hamster out of the window while trying to feed it. She desperately wants to bring it back to life with spells and magic. Meanwhile her mother, Isabella, is constantly trying to reconstruct Anna's birthday cake from last year. |
Film Academy Vienna (UMDK) | Austria | 12 |
| 38-41 | GET TOUGH
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Details:Length: 17'Screenwriter: Janar Saaron Director: Teresa Väli Producer: Mirjam Korsten Animator: n/a DOP: Rasmus Kosseson Sound: Siim Skepast, Anna-Maria Jams Editor: Kaupo Muuli Production Designer: n/a Synopsis: It’s 1996. The forbidden friendship between Andrus, from the west side of a gigantic apartment building and Zanna, from the east side of the building is tested in a war of gangs. When homemade weapons and knowledge from popular films come to play, not only life will be at stake. |
Baltic Film, Media and Arts School, Tallinn University | Estonia | 12 |
| 38-41 | TWO PAPER NIGHTINGALES
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Details:Length: 17'Screenwriter: Kaylin George Director: Kaylin George Producer: Jeffrey Haskell, Georgia Franklin-Willis Animator: n/a DOP: Arin Meyer Sound: Eli Weiss Editor: Hayley Stablow Production Designer: Noah Dains Synopsis: Two princesses who are torn apart by prejudice when the young princess fraternize with a warring state. To be reunited, the women will have to discover that which is universal to the human experience and to adopt acceptance of all peoples. |
Chapman University / Dodge College of Film and Media Arts | United States | 12 |
| 42 | WHILE YOU'RE SLEEPING
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Details:Length: 22'Screenwriter: Mattia Ghiselli, Federico Melia Director: Francesca Giuffrida Producer: Irene Cotroneo Animator: n/a DOP: Filippo Attanasio Sound: Tommaso Manni, Maria Sarzilla, Davide Scurto Editor: Alessandro Valenti, Lorenzo De Mari Production Designer: n/a Synopsis: Sometimes we have to choose between dreams and life. |
Milan City Film School Luchino Visconti (MCSC) | Italy | 11 |
| 43-45 | IF YOU ONLY KNEW
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Details:Length: 15'Screenwriter: Einat Gaulan Director: Einat Gaulan Producer: Anat Bartur, Harel Ben Melech Animator: n/a DOP: Nehara Malkin Sound: Neal Gibbs Editor: Mattan Kedem Production Designer: n/a Synopsis: The excited anticipation of her pregnancy is cut short after Ellie’s ultrasound reveals that there is no heartbeat. Shocked and in a daze, she wanders around the mall and into a nail salon where she finds both confusion and comfort. |
Sam Spiegel Film and Television School Jerusalem (JSFS) | Israel | 10 |
| 43-45 | JACK AND ANNA
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Details:Length: 15'Screenwriter: Savannah Oakes, Ksenia Ivanova Director: Ksenia Ivanova Producer: Eve Herndon, Mika Santiaguel Animator: n/a DOP: Madelyn Momano Sound: Erin Horne Editor: Geoffrey B. Foote Production Designer: Warren DeCastro, Charlotte Walters Synopsis: Jack and Anna is based on true events that happened in the early 1900s in Colorado. It tells a story about a young couple who live a happy life on their farm when suddenly a man from the past reveals Jack’s biggest secret – that he is, in fact, a woman named Helen. After the revelation, Helen is put on trial for cross-dressing and same-sex marriage. |
Columbia College Chicago (CCC) | United States | 10 |
| 43-45 | WORTH
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Details:Length: 14'Screenwriter: Meelad Moaphi Director: Meelad Moaphi Producer: Meelad Moaphi Animator: n/a DOP: Ali Sattar Sound: James M. Findlay Editor: Daniel Montiel Production Designer: Seyhr Qayum Synopsis: A single father struggles with the heart-wrenching decision to give up his newborn son in exchange for money so he can take his daughter to safety across the border. |
York University Department of Film - Fine Arts | Canada | 10 |
| 46-51 | CARMEN ASLEEP, CARMEN AWAKE
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Details:Length: 15'Screenwriter: Kuba Tarasicwicz, Ernesto Grimaldi Director: Antonio Llamas Producer: ECAM Animator: n/a DOP: Ignacio Pinela Almendro Sound: Luis Ortega Editor: Antonio Tuya Production Designer: Laura Sánchez, Uxío Fernández Corbelle Synopsis: Carmen asleep, Carmen awake is an intimate and emotional journey through the modern city. How to inhabit places in which someone always feels like an estrange. We have to transit the pain. |
ECAM (The Madrid Film School) | Spain | 9 |
| 46-51 | GRANDMOTHER’S SMALL TALK
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Details:Length: 25'Screenwriter: Lin Shih-ching Director: Lin Shih-ching Producer: Chris CHIANG Nai-Yun Animator: Lin Shih-ching DOP: Tu Chen-ting Sound: LI Chun-Yi Editor: Lin Shih-ching Production Designer: Chris CHIANG Nai-Yun Synopsis: The story is about a tradition Taiwanese woman, always obeys destiny, only when she misses her child is her own truly moment. |
National Taiwan University of Arts (NTUA) | Taiwan | 9 |
| 46-51 | OUR TIME
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Details:Length: 17'Screenwriter: Francesca Guerriero, Giulia Magda Martinez, Sofia Petraroia, Veronica Spedicati Director: Veronica Spedicati Producer: Centro Sperimentale di Cinematografia Production Animator: n/a DOP: Jacopo Giordano Cottarelli Sound: Valentino Antinolfi, Riccardo Gruppuso, Chiara Santella Editor: Luigi Caggiano Production Designer: Francesco D. Rossano, Greta Spinapollice Synopsis: Roberta is a nine year old girl who wants to enjoy the last days of summer on the beach playing with her friends, while her father Donato forces her to stay at home to help with household chores. The distance between the two seems unbridgeable, but the discovery that Donato is much more fragile than it seems, will lead them to restore value to their time together. |
Centro Sperimentale di Cinematografia (CSC) | Italy | 9 |
| 46-51 | SHERBET
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Details:Length: 19'Screenwriter: Nadja Petrovic Director: Nikola Stojanovic Producer: Tijana Savic, Stefan Momic, Nikola Stojanovic, Jovan Sibinovic, Mladen Teofilovic Animator: n/a DOP: Mladen Teofilovic Sound: Pavle Gajic Editor: Nikola Stojanovic Production Designer: Nikola Stojanovic, Nadja Petrovic Synopsis: Ena and Sale – both of them destructive and hungry for life – meet. As they are trying to interpret their feelings, the two are pressured by the burdens of their past and haunted by their fears. Through acts of aggression on the outskirts of a dirty city, they test the limits of their love. |
Faculty of Dramatic Arts (FDU) | Serbia | 9 |
| 46-51 | SUN
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Details:Length: 8'Screenwriter: Nona Edery Director: Hai-Anh Producer: ESEC Animator: n/a DOP: Valentin Guyard Sound: Mercedes Romero Dutschmann Editor: Adrien Vatel Production Designer: n/a Synopsis: Calais, two years after the dismantling of the migrant camp, Clara, a young student, is doing a documentary about her home town. On set, she meets Sun, a young refugee whose brother disappeared at the last stop before England. |
Ecole Supérieure d'études Cinématographiques (ESEC) | France | 9 |
| 46-51 | THE PACK OF THREE
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Details:Length: 22'Screenwriter: Kevin Zayat Director: Kevin Zayat Producer: Universidad die Cine Animator: n/a DOP: Agustín Barrutia Sound: Mercedes Gaviria Editor: Lucas Casolo Production Designer: Clara Miani Synopsis: Gabriel, Nestor, Oscar and Ricardo are four friends between 18 and 20 years' old who live outside of the military activity of the 1980s in Argentina. After being notified of their selection to attend military service and, possibly going to war, they will try through unconventional methods to avoid going to the service and thus be able to continue with their life. |
Universidad del Cine (UCINE) | Argentina | 9 |
| 52-54 | MARIA COBRA PRETA
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Details:Length: 27'Screenwriter: Erika Nieva da Cunha Director: Erika Nieva da Cunha Producer: HEAD, Geneva, Switzerland, AKKA FILMS, Palmyre Badinier Animator: n/a DOP: Leo Brezot Sound: Soraya Lutangu Editor: Olivia Frey Production Designer: n/a Synopsis: In a Lisbon neighborhood worn by gentrification, young rapper Maria and her old neighbors expect expulsion. Through her songs and by digging in the trauma of her origins, she finds the strength to face the present. |
Film Department/cinéma du réel - Geneva School of Art and Design (HEAD) | Switzerland | 8 |
| 52-54 | THE PUNISHMENT
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Details:Length: 12'Screenwriter: Chris Sexton Fletcher Director: Chris Sexton Fletcher Producer: Reece Cargan Animator: n/a DOP: Alkistis Terzi Sound: Petros Tsaftaridis Editor: Alex Dunford Production Designer: Ana Cristina Santos Synopsis: A grief-stricken father hunts down the boy responsible for the events that led to his son’s murder but finds himself unable to escape the consequences of his own violent actions. |
Screen Academy Scotland (SAS) | United Kingdom | 8 |
| 52-54 | WILD GARLIC
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Details:Length: 25'Screenwriter: Chris Zahariev Director: Chris Zahariev Producer: NATFA, Bulgaria- Prof. Dr Stanislav Semerdjiev Animator: n/a DOP: Anastas Shipkov Sound: Chris Zahariev, Ben Howard Editor: Danail Kolev Production Designer: Elis Vely Synopsis: To kill or get killed? That’s the decision Angel has to make. And make it quick. Grown up on the streets in Bulgaria, Eastern Europe, Angel now survives by working for a crime organization. When he fails his boss in a money deal, he is given one last chance for redemption. Will Angel finish his mission - commit a murder of a rival drug dealer and what’s going to happen when in his mess he cross roads with a lost elderly woman, who is trying to go back home? “Wild Garlic” is a film about unexpected meetings, which reminds us that somewhere deep down we all have power for a new beginning. |
National Academy for Theatre and Film Arts (NATFA) | Bulgaria | 8 |
| 55-61 | BRIDGE OF THE MISCHIEVOUS CHILDREN
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Details:Length: 17'Screenwriter: Fabián León López Director: Fabián León López Producer: Christian De La Luz Animator: n/a DOP: Diego Cruz Cilveti Sound: Fabián León López, Carlos San Juan Juanchi Editor: Fabián León López, Nancy Cruz, Bastián Pascal Production Designer: Christian De La Luz Synopsis: Jhony’s summer passes slowly as he watches his older brother’s life, who wastes his time along with his friends, obsessed with alcohol, pornography and different women whom they take into the maternal bedroom. One day, La Misha arrives in the neighborhood, fracturing their monotony. Nobody knows about her, they call her that because of her green eyes, like those of cats. |
National School of Film Arts / National Autonomous University of Mexico (ENAC/UNAM) | Mexico | 7 |
| 55-61 | CRUCIFIXION
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Details:Length: 25'Screenwriter: Danielius Minkevičius, Kristina Abromaitytè Director: Danielius Minkevičius Producer: Adolfina Kunčiũte; Rũta Pasukonyte Animator: n/a DOP: Oskaras Abramavičius Sound: Aurimas Stačenka, Kazimieras Čejauskas Editor: Karolis Kirijenko Production Designer: Aldona Majakovaitè Synopsis: A secretive men's inner thoughts confronts against the reality. |
Lithuanian Academy of Music and Theatre (LMTA) | Lithuania | 7 |
| 55-61 | DOWNFALL
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Details:Length: 3'Screenwriter: Matias Heker, Stephen Moroz, Bradley Cocksedge Director: Matias Heker, Stephen Moroz, Bradley Cocksedge Producer: University of Hertfordshire Animator: Matias Heker, Stephen Moroz, Bradley Cocksedge DOP: Matias Heker, Stephen Moroz, Bradley Cocksedge Sound: Molly Isaac, Philip Moroz, Ciaran Smith, Ruth Sullivan Editor: Matias Heker, Stephen Moroz, Bradley Cocksedge Production Designer: Laith Shewayish, Elpida Kyriakou, Maria Tsianti Synopsis: A couple of astronauts exploring an alien world encounter a creature that is utterly terrifying. |
University of Hertfordshire | United Kingdom | 7 |
| 55-61 | LEARN TO SWIM
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Details:Length: 17'Screenwriter: Gaya von Schwarze, Mirko Rachor, Josephine Oleak Director: Gaya von Schwarze Producer: Ibrahim Utku- Erdogan, Leonie Schafer Animator: n/a DOP: Raban Jakob Friedrich Sound: Anika Danielle Wagner Editor: Gaya von Schwarze Production Designer: n/a Synopsis: A mother sets off through the German province to look for her son while making unexpected discoveries along the way. |
German Film and Television Academy Berlin (DFFB) | Germany | 7 |
| 55-61 | STRIKING A CHORD
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Details:Length: 30'Screenwriter: Pierre Fourchard Director: Pierre Fourchard Producer: ENSAV, Bastien Viera Animator: n/a DOP: Baptiste Charlier Sound: Matéo Rousson Editor: Pierre Fourchard Production Designer: n/a Synopsis: Inès tries to turn her recent break-up with her boyfriend into an opportunity to meet other people. |
ENSAV | France | 7 |
| 55-61 | THE END, THE BEGINNING
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Details:Length: 15'Screenwriter: Samuel Herriman Director: Archie Chew Producer: Alicia Easaw-Mamutil Animator: n/a DOP: Nick Najdov Sound: Nathan Turnbull Editor: Xanthe Dobbie Production Designer: Courtney Westbrooke, Ara Nuri Steel Aracourt Synopsis: In the picture-book Australian town of Collector, a young girl and her gang of rogue environmentalists are trying to stop the end of the world. The main target of their rebellion...the girl's very own father. |
Australian Film Television and Radio School (AFTRS) | Australia | 7 |
| 55-61 | TRANSPONDER
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Details:Length: 14'Screenwriter: Thomas Verijke Director: Thomas Verijke Producer: Thomas Verijke / Luca School Of Arts Animator: n/a DOP: Natasja Saerens Sound: Thomas Verijke Editor: Thomas Verijke Production Designer: n/a Synopsis: Feeling that his life is running away from him, photographer Wim tries to freeze time with every click of his camera. |
LUCA School of Arts (LUCA) | Belgium | 7 |
| 62-63 | MOTHER TONGUE
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Details:Length: 12'Screenwriter: Jessica Li Director: Jessica Li Producer: Heshi Wijerathna & Samantha Kwan Animator: n/a DOP: Francis Healy Wood Sound: Jennifer Aldred Editor: Samantha Kwan Production Designer: Kasia Silva Synopsis: 17-year-old Jane begins to embrace her background and rekindle her relationship with her mother when she becomes immersed in Chinese culture at her younger sister’s new language school. |
Swinburne School of Film and Television (SSFT) | Australia | 6 |
| 62-63 | THE END OF THE BEGINNING
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Details:Length: 23'Screenwriter: Tania Claudia Castillo Director: Tania Claudia Castillo Producer: Carlos Hernández Vázquez, Marla Arreola Animator: n/a DOP: Claudia Becerril Bulos Sound: Milton Aceves M. Editor: Tania Claudia Castillo, Mónica Ortega Sánchez Production Designer: Carlos Hernández Vázquez, Marla Arreola Synopsis: Nadia is a lonely, hard-working professional diver. She’s preparing for the last competition of her career when she endures a big disappointment with her partner. This event pulls her emotional world apart. This is a portrait of a woman going thru the subtle and hurtful disenchantment of her first adult relationship. |
Centro de Capacitación Cinematográfica, A.C. (CCC) | Mexico | 6 |
| 64-69 | DAILY BREATH
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Details:Length: 25'Screenwriter: Anna Spacio Director: Anna Spacio Producer: CISA - Conservatorio Internazionale di Scienze Audiovisive Animator: n/a DOP: Anna Spacio Sound: Salva Tinajero Editor: Anna Spacio Production Designer: Anna Spacio Synopsis: Stuck in the loneliness of the mountains, a girl lives with her sick mother, taking care of her every day and struggling between what's right and what she desires. |
Academy of Audiovisual Sciences (CISA) | Switzerland | 5 |
| 64-69 | EVERYTHING YOU WANT TO SAY
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Details:Length: 12'Screenwriter: Edward Mines Director: Edward Mines Producer: Sean M. Cullen, Edward Mines Animator: Elmoatasem Bellah Ragab, Miguel Fernandez DOP: Jordan Batchelor Sound: Jessie Liu Editor: Zach Roth Production Designer: Taya Tummon Synopsis: A socially-challenged man struggles for control of his voice when an A.I. speech inhibitor jeopardizes his already fragile relationships. |
Sheridan College | Canada | 5 |
| 64-69 | MUTE FIRE
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Details:Length: 12'Screenwriter: Agustina Sánchez Gavier Director: Agustina Sánchez Gavier Producer: Luisa Strieker Animator: Deniz Bazan DOP: Mahmoud Belakhel Sound: Tomás Sánchez Gavier Editor: Agustina Sánchez Gavier Production Designer: Luisa Strieker Synopsis: A mother leaves the city by car and goes into the woods with her son. The mixed feelings about her motherhood lead her to flee in search of herself. |
Academy of Media Arts Cologne (KHM) | Germany | 5 |
| 64-69 | PEOPLE AND PETS
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Details:Length: 19'Screenwriter: Vilde Wingerei Hylleseth, Anna Regine Slyngstad Director: Vilde Wingerei Hylleseth Producer: Tyra Sætre Grønsund Animator: n/a DOP: Leif Karlsen Sound: Frida Leknes, Therese Søiland Editor: Ali Nas Production Designer: n/a Synopsis: Synne looses her childhood when her family drives over their cat. The family now faces a task they must solve together; how to bury their beloved pet. |
Westerdals Department of Film and Media School of Arts, Design and Media, Kristiania University College | Norway | 5 |
| 64-69 | ROUND THREE
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Details:Length: 20'Screenwriter: Shahar Shamay, Osnat Friedman, Hadas Klein Director: Shahar Shamay Producer: Moran Levy Animator: n/a DOP: Vitali Agronov Sound: Michael Roytih Editor: Ariel Guetta Production Designer: Vera Grinblat Synopsis: Ofira (67). a recently retired teacher, refuses to become a victim of routine life and decides to revive an old dream - to become a painter. With no support from her family, Ofira faces the white canvas, when in fact she is facing herself, to paint the rest of her life. |
Beit Berl College / Faculty of Arts (Beit Berl) | Israel | 5 |
| 64-69 | STARRY NIGHT
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Details:Length: 14'Screenwriter: Rachel Moloney, Emma Smith Director: Emma Smith Producer: Caoilinn Handley Animator: n/a DOP: Anna Heisterkamp Sound: Laura Bohan Editor: Lori Stacey Production Designer: Saoirse Daly-McManus Synopsis: With her future hanging in the balance, Cara has a choice to make – abandon her sisters, and pursue her dream in London? Or sacrifice herself, so that one day they too might stand a chance? |
National Film School / Institute of Art, Design and Technology (IADT) | Ireland | 5 |
| 70-79 | BE YOURSELF
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Details:Length: 24'Screenwriter: Charles-Antoine Olivier Director: Charles-Antoine Olivier Producer: Université du Québec à Montréal Animator: n/a DOP: Cloé Lafortune Sound: Antoine Frenette Editor: Marc-Antoine Sauriol Production Designer: Philomene Sennechael, Gabriella Quesnel-Olivo Synopsis: Craig, a 19 years old young man, is offered to play the main role of a script written by his new friend, Jacques, a weirdo who is trying to embody the stories he wrote in the real world. |
University of Québec Montréal / School of Media (UQAM) | Canada | 4 |
| 70-79 | CARRY ON
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Details:Length: 17'Screenwriter: Yoojeong Lee Director: Yoojeong Lee Producer: Sojin Park Animator: n/a DOP: Hyungseok Yang Sound: Eunho Park Editor: Yoojeong Lee Production Designer: Seunga Kim, Byengjun Yoon Synopsis: She has taken care of her husband with dementia for many years. She reads poems recording her voice on the cassette tapes. Her husband listens to them while she is at work. One day she finds someone else's voice is recorded in one of the tapes... |
Dong-Ah Institute of Media and Arts (DIMA) | South Korea | 4 |
| 70-79 | DISCHARGE
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Details:Length: 18'Screenwriter: Roger Helou Director: Roger Helou Producer: Roger Helou Animator: n/a DOP: Lea Skayem Sound: Roger Helou Editor: Roger Helou Production Designer: Carla Noujeim, Roger Helou Synopsis: Wadef, a man in his 20s is stuck at home with his half deaf bad tempered father, his OCD uncle and his delusional grandmother, due to his extreme fear of going to bathroom outside of his home. |
Lebanese Academy for Fine Arts / School of Cinema / University of Balamand (ALBA) | Lebanon | 4 |
| 70-79 | HOLIDAY
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Details:Length: 10'Screenwriter: Toby Matthews Director: Toby Matthews Producer: Amy Lindley Animator: n/a DOP: Charles Power Sound: George Brabham Editor: Toby Matthews Production Designer: George Magee Synopsis: A French holidaymaker arrives in a sleepy Cornish seaside village in search of its famed ice-cream ... where he accidentally (but good-naturedly) causes havoc. |
Falmouth University | United Kingdom | 4 |
| 70-79 | THE BARTENDER
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Details:Length: 11'Screenwriter: Joe Apatow Director: Travis Newsad Producer: Lelai Givens Animator: n/a DOP: Darian Stansbury Sound: Rebecca MArti Editor: Nick Sweetser Production Designer: Bingxuan Cheng, Claire Whitney, Xiaoyi Zhao Synopsis: The bartender at a high-class lounge fights against time and her own past to stop a businesswoman from leaving with a powerful investor-or suffer devastating consequences. |
Boston University / Department of Film and Television | United States | 4 |
| 70-79 | THE KNOT
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Details:Length: 19'Screenwriter: Larissa Curi Director: Andres Losada Producer: Noorahaya Lahtee Animator: n/a DOP: Jacopo Meneghin Sound: Hisham Sharafeddine Editor: Mariana Nunes Gomes Production Designer: Liisa Maria Lai, Katharina Kuusemets Synopsis: Anton is a fragile 12-year-old who is afraid of the shed in his backyard. He decides to follow his brother Markus and some bully friends in exploring an abandoned prison. When the bullies turn on the brothers and Markus is humiliated, Anton is forced to face his fear, which is revealed to be related to a family trauma that he can’t escape. |
Universidade Lusófona / Film and Media Arts Department (ULHT) | Portugal | 4 |
| 70-79 | THE SMOKE THAT BLINDS US
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Details:Length: 30'Screenwriter: Chen Junan Director: Lai Yu man Producer: Chu Wanqi Animator: Liu Chang DOP: Wu Pengyu Sound: Li Ao Editor: Lai Yu man, Chen Junan Production Designer: Liu Chang Synopsis: “Be patient, recovery takes time.” Is a phase that Anna always says to her patients. Physical injuries might be easy to recover but what if something deeply hurt inside? She could not accept the death of her firstborn and meanwhile the little one, Alex is burning up his brother’s belongings causing greater pain as she saw. With all the dead ends Anna had tried, she tried to get help from a religious group. On the holy mountain in Japan, can the ritual fire melt the ice between the two of them who still live… |
Hong Kong Academy for Performing Arts / School of Film and Television (HKAPA) | Hong Kong | 4 |
| 70-79 | UNTRANSLATABLE DECISION
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Details:Length: 13'Screenwriter: Agnon Flora Dongbehounde Director: Agnon Flora Dongbehounde Producer: Institut Superieur des Metiers de I'Audiovisuel (ISMA) Benin Animator: n/a DOP: Lariaus Honvo Sound: Ernest Liga Editor: Blaise-Pascal Boulingui Production Designer: Ineck Houngbedji Synopsis: An oncologist surgeon finds herself in front of a patient who turns out to be her rapist. |
Higher Institute of Audiovisual Training (ISMA) | Benin | 4 |
| 70-79 | WEDDING NIGHT
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Details:Length: 7'Screenwriter: Fanni Mikkonen Director: Fanni Mikkonen Producer: Saara Oksanen Animator: n/a DOP: Elis Lindfors Sound: Eelis Lähteenaro Editor: Elis Lindfors Production Designer: Annikaisa Siponen Synopsis: Emilia and Aada’s magical barbie wedding devastates Emilia’s mum and Emilia loses her best friend. |
Metropolia University of Applied Sciences (MUAS) | Finland | 4 |
| 70-79 | WHO WANTS TO BE A HERO?
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Details:Length: 22'Screenwriter: Martina Buchelová, Lukáš Obermajer Director: Martina Buchelová Producer: FTF VŠMU Animator: n/a DOP: Radka Šišuláková Sound: Igor Jedinák Editor: Katarína Pavelková Production Designer: Michaela Kaliská Synopsis: "God, I know, you don´t exist, but if you do, please don´t try my courage, because I have none. Thank you." Our protagonist is just moments before mental collapse, while working for a TV reality show and he really, really doesn´t want to be a hero. |
Academy of Performing Arts / Film and Television Faculty (VSMU) | Slovakia | 4 |
| 80-82 | FARAH
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Details:Length: 18'Screenwriter: Muhd Syamim Ameen, Koh Timothy Bryan Director: Pavithran Nathan Producer: Fong Sue May Animator: n/a DOP: Koh Timothy Bryan Sound: Muhd Syamim Ameen Editor: Jan Jerusalem Production Designer: Praveena Ravin Synopsis: A semi-retired seamstress attempts to mend the relationship with her daughter when strange phenomena start to occur in her house. |
Puttnam School of Film & Animation / LASALLE College of the Arts (LCA) | Singapore | 3 |
| 80-82 | FAREWELL MY WEDDING
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Details:Length: 15'Screenwriter: Zhao Tonghuan, Huang Haowen, Yang Baoyi, Zhao Yiming Director: Zhao Tonghuan, Huang Haowen Producer: OuYang Han, Qiu Yao Animator: n/a DOP: Xiao Heng Sound: Zhao Honghan Editor: Huang Haowen Production Designer: Li Suyang Synopsis: Under the pressure of family in China, a gay needed to married a lesbian. Something happened between them and their real partners. |
Communication University of China (CUC) | China | 3 |
| 80-82 | WHEN THE CRICKETS SING
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Details:Length: 11'Screenwriter: Carolina Nussbaum, Dana Reiss Director: Carolina Nussbaum, Dana Reiss Producer: Paula Eliceo Animator: n/a DOP: Paula Provenzano, Brenda Hanna Sound: Daniela Capano Editor: Brenda Hanna, Dana Reiss Production Designer: Milagros Unamuno Synopsis: Clara, a teenager from Santa Lucía, a little town on the outskirts of Buenos Aires, has new feelings towards her new arrival neighbor. |
Universidad de Buenos Aires / Diseño de Imagen y Sonido FADU (UBA) | Argentina | 3 |
| 83-91 | A SEPARATION
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Details:Length: 15'Screenwriter: Yalan Hu Director: Yalan Hu Producer: Chavez Caley Animator: n/a DOP: Shuaihua Liu Sound: Yalan Hu Editor: Yue Zhao Production Designer: Josh Little Synopsis: On a warm autumn day in 1990, Huixian, a young Chinese woman, arrives in Florida to reunite with her PhD husband, after a four-year separation. Filled with blossoming hope and desire, she is introduced to another side of American life. |
Florida State University / College of Motion Picture Arts (FSU) | United States | 2 |
| 83-91 | ARDHVIRAAM
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Details:Length: 20'Screenwriter: Abhishek Gowda Director: Abhishek Gowda Producer: Aachman Sehgal C/O Whistling Woods International Animator: n/a DOP: Abhishek Srivastava Sound: Haridas Soni Editor: Mayank Sharma Production Designer: Rahul Mandal Synopsis: Khalid, a schizophrenic writer during Indian partition, struggling to write an epic end to his most ambitious novel amid growing communal tension outside and absolute chaos within his own mind. |
Whistling Woods International (WWI) | India | 2 |
| 83-91 | COMME CI, COMME ÇA
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Details:Length: 5'Screenwriter: Rose Nordberg Director: George Mentchoukov Producer: George Mentchoukov Animator: n/a DOP: Patrick Stocking Sound: Keyon Kelp Editor: Tiffanie Rose Ignacio Production Designer: Alondra Del Torro Synopsis: An artist comes to terms with the limitations of his creations. |
University of Nevada Las Vegas (UNLV) | United States | 2 |
| 83-91 | HY_BRAIN
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Details:Length: 10'Screenwriter: Naoimh Healy Director: Jessica Russell Producer: Peter Williams Animator: Emir Salameh DOP: Adam Piercy Sound: Haresh Chandra Editor: Emir Salameh Production Designer: Steve Browne Synopsis: A woman’s search for love in a technological future has dire consequences. |
WA Screen Academy, Edith Cowan University | Australia | 2 |
| 83-91 | KEBELAKANG PUSING
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Details:Length: 11'Screenwriter: Gerard Dominic Nagulendran Director: Gerard Dominic Nagulendran Producer: Yulis Lam Yuning Animator: n/a DOP: Shawn Yeo Xin Quan Sound: n/a Editor: Tan Jia Chuan Production Designer: n/a Synopsis: As part of a Total Defence Day exercise in Singapore, three teenage members of the National Cadet Corps are assigned to role play as Japanese Occupation soldiers - but when pushed to the edge, their leader decides to take matters into his own hands. |
Ngee Ann Polytechnic / School of Film & Media Studies | Singapore | 2 |
| 83-91 | NOBODY SAID I HAVE TO LOVE YOU
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Details:Length: 18'Screenwriter: Matjaž Jamnik, Gaja Naja Rojec Director: Matjaž Jamnik Producer: Nina Robnik (UL AGRFT) Animator: n/a DOP: Gaja Naja Rojec Sound: Samo Jurca Editor: Kristian Božak Kavčič Production Designer: Matjaž Pavlovec Synopsis: Aleksander is a man with a successful career. He is on his way to take his eleven year old son Jan to music school, but Jan doesn`t wait for his father where he is supposed to. Instead he is taking a shower, still dirty from playing football. It soon becomes clear that Jan will refuse to go to music school no matter what, while Aleksander gets increasingly impatient. |
AGRFT | Slovenia | 2 |
| 83-91 | SOMETHING LIKE ESCAPISM
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Details:Length: 11'Screenwriter: Zoe Hagen Director: Alisa Kolosova Producer: Luisa Groß Animator: n/a DOP: Ann-Katrin Pauly Sound: Lukas Sydney Loßdörfer Editor: Lukas Sydney Loßdörfer Production Designer: Maren Buchholz Synopsis: Hannah's is overwhelmed by her emotions. She is afraid of the new and afraid to let go. So she throws herself into fantasy worlds full of dancing, singing and without any heartache. In the musical world she can express her inner struggle - in the musical world everything seems possible. |
ifs internationale filmschule köln | Germany | 2 |
| 83-91 | THE CITY
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Details:Length: 30'Screenwriter: Haaron Ndambuki Director: Jefflings Kagechu, Paul Atenya Producer: James Mugo Animator: n/a DOP: Erick Kinungi Sound: Oluh Saye Editor: Joel Wachira Production Designer: Paul Atenya Synopsis: Compelled by circumstances, three young people travel to the city in a bid to find jobs. In the city, they are culture-shocked right from the onset, subsequently enmeshed in a web of criminal activities. Their lives take variant paths and ultimately cross towards the end of the scintillating drama. |
Kenyatta University | Kenya | 2 |
| 83-91 | THE PURIFIED
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Details:Length: 19'Screenwriter: Yiğit Erkol Director: Yiğit Erkol Producer: Umut Köse-Yiğit Erkol Animator: n/a DOP: Oğuz Sevsel Sound: Oğuz Sevsel-Yiğit Erkol Editor: Oğuz Sevsel-Yiğit Erkol Production Designer: Umut Köse Synopsis: In the middle of the night, in a society which art is banned, a woman who works for government hears a sound and awakes from sleep. Maybe for the first time in her life, she is in the dilemma. She has to make decision between her life and the freedom. |
Yasar University Faculty of Communications | Turkey | 2 |
| 92-96 | A LUCID DREAM
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Details:Length: 15'Screenwriter: HO Yik Yeung Director: HO Yik Yeung Producer: Francis KO Animator: NG Tsz Ying, WONG Ho Nam DOP: TANG Yu Ching Sound: CHENG Cho Yiu Editor: YU Yan Wing Production Designer: CHAN Ka Ying Tiffany, CHAN Ka Yue, FAN King Ying, LING Yee Ching Synopsis: Shing Hei has been selling offerings for years. He helped people through his superpower, by gathering them with their family dreams. He lost his ability after his wife, Yan's death. A young widower comes to the store sharing a tragic story of his wife and child. Shing Hei starts to reflect his life after Yan's death. |
Academy of Film / Hong Kong Baptist University (HKBU) | Hong Kong | 1 |
| 92-96 | CRUZ
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Details:Length: 14'Screenwriter: José Garrido, Andrea Rosales Director: Andrea Rosales Producer: Rafael Trejo Animator: n/a DOP: Jacobo Salamé Sound: Ana Paola Amaya Editor: Jacobo Salamé Production Designer: Valeria Rebatet Synopsis: A young boy from Oaxaca travels to the coast looking for different opportunities. However, leaving home will not bring anything new, the degraded environment is found in each step he takes, making it clear that his reality does not allow aspirations. |
Universidad Iberoamericana Mexico City (IBERO) | Mexico | 1 |
| 92-96 | MORGAN
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Details:Length: 13'Screenwriter: Eleanor Williams Director: Eleanor Williams Producer: Robert Stewart Animator: n/a DOP: Alex Stagg Sound: Frankie Maiden Editor: Heather Sides Production Designer: Declan Parker Synopsis: In this screendance drama, a twenty-year-old woman confronted by societal pressures surrounding contraception struggles to protect her bodily integrity while dealing with the consequences of a sexual relationship. |
Northern Film School / Leeds Beckett University (NFS/LBU) | United Kingdom | 1 |
| 92-96 | RESIDUAL NOISE
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Details:Length: 15'Screenwriter: Tova Dorfman Director: Tova Dorfman Producer: Bezalel Academy of Arts & Design Animator: n/a DOP: Tova Dorfman Sound: Noam Tamir Editor: Tova Dorfman, Omer Shterenberg Production Designer: n/a Synopsis: A young woman's life is forever changed as a result of a traumatic event. She loses control of her life, and begins to lose distinction between reality and illusion, until she reaches a breaking point, looking down and trying to decide whether to jump or continue living with her scars. |
Bezalel Academy of Arts and Design Jerusalem (BAAD) | Israel | 1 |
| 92-96 | SCENE
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Details:Length: 20'Screenwriter: Tomás Piriz Director: Tomás Piriz Producer: Ana Clara Dovat Animator: n/a DOP: Nicolás Oromí Sound: Facundo Alcarráz Editor: Diego Bertolini Production Designer: Martín Armand Ugon Synopsis: Juana rehearses a play where the limits between reality and fiction starts to blur. |
Film School of Uruguay (ECU) | Uruguay | 1 |
| 97-118 | FRAGILE
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Details:Length: 23'Screenwriter: Tomislav Šoban Director: Tomislav Šoban Producer: Adrijana Prugovečki Animator: n/a DOP: Magdalena Ptiček Sound: Luka Gamulin Editor: Ivana Perčinilić Production Designer: n/a Synopsis: Alma, a young, recently graduated actress, goes through a series of acting rehearsals and projects as she looks for an apartment, while her best friend moves away to Belgium. |
Academy of Dramatic Art Zagreb (ADU) | Croatia | 0 |
| 97-118 | BABY YOU’RE A RICH GIRL
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Details:Length: 16'Screenwriter: Reuben Van Hoeve Director: Reuben Van Hoeve Producer: Camille Howard Animator: n/a DOP: Michael Tellup Sound: Alex Gilroy Editor: Reuben Van Hoeve Production Designer: Karson Bates Synopsis: Set over the course of one night, a destitute young couple struggles with the conflation of their dreams and their stark reality. |
School of Film and Animation, College of Art and Design, Rochester Institute of Technology | United States | 0 |
| 97-118 | BLUE CUP CAFÉ
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Details:Length: 15'Screenwriter: Shantal Director: Shantal Producer: Luiza Dacol Animator: Lohan Costa, Shantal, Brunna Cunha DOP: Luis Felipe da Costa Sound: Drimpê Pajé Editor: Shantal Costa, Lohan Costa Production Designer: Clara Torres, Julia Gandolpho Synopsis: Short fiction based on the book Blue Cup Café. Ordinary and sweet stories that take place in a cafeteria through the eyes of Aurora, the waitress who lives in a ludic and dreamy way. Aurora's imagination has many universal issues of art, love, encounters and misunderstandings through poetry and dreams. |
PUC-Rio Department of Social Communication - Cinema | Brazil | 0 |
| 97-118 | CHINESE NEW YEAR VISITING
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Details:Length: 3'Screenwriter: Yeo Hui Zhen, Bevlyn Lai Qi Wen Director: Bevlyn Lai Qi Wen Producer: Sean Chew Chwen Yih, Tan Tian Shou Michael Animator: n/a DOP: Tan Tian Shou Michael, Sean Chew Chwen Yih Sound: Tan Tian Shou Michael Editor: Bryant Tham Zhi Hua, Jeremy Tarm Yi Kiat Production Designer: Bevlyn Lai Qi Wen Synopsis: A man struggling with estrangement from his only son gets an unexpected visit on Chinese New Year. |
Nanyang Polytechnic / School of Design and Media (SDM) | Singapore | 0 |
| 97-118 | FORGOTTEN NAMES
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Details:Length: 30'Screenwriter: Phumi Mbanda Director: Murena E Netshitangani Producer: Leandra Enslin Animator: n/a DOP: Temitope Ajileye Sound: Andrew Tolmay Editor: Temitope Ajileye Production Designer: n/a Synopsis: Two boys attempt to survive and escape after being abducted to serve as sex slaves. |
Tshwane University of Technology | South Africa | 0 |
| 97-118 | GANDIK
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Details:Length: 16'Screenwriter: Gendi Yarihan Nugrananda Director: Noprian Rauhul Producer: Bara Pahlawan, Haikal Damara Animator: n/a DOP: Dwicky Wikwok Sound: Faisal Rifsanni Editor: Noprian Rauhul Production Designer: Muhammad Reza Synopsis: A middle-age woman feels that she can take care of her husband anymore, because she is sick. Her husband who really loves her, never leaves her side and takes care of her 24 hours. One day, the wife says that she doesn't need the husband anymore and asks him to leave her. |
Jakarta Institute of the Art / FFTV (IKJ) | Indonesia | 0 |
| 97-118 | GIRL WITH A PARASOL
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Details:Length: 30'Screenwriter: Konishi Mayu Director: Liao Jiekai Producer: WO YUE QI / Shirakawa Masahiko Animator: n/a DOP: Shirakawa Yukihiko Sound: Watanabe Daiki Editor: Wei Yao Yao Production Designer: Sun Yi Synopsis: Tsukahara is a famous Japanese artist. He has long desired to express supreme beauty through Japanese painting, but he despairs because his work doesnʼt go as he hopes. Yukiko has run off with her boyfriend, and one day she shows up as a servant at the inn where Tsukahara is staying. Overwhelmed by her unusual magnetism, he forces Yukiko to model so he can finish his painting of a beautiful woman. But, he loses his mind when faced with the magical powers of his own work. |
Tokyo University of the Arts, Graduate School of Film and New Media | Japan | 0 |
| 97-118 | HUNCHED HEART
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Details:Length: 15'Screenwriter: Emre Özerden Director: Emre Özerden Producer: Emre Özerden Animator: n/a DOP: Emre Köktaş Sound: Eren Dönmez Editor: Kübra Kaytan Production Designer: Emre Özerden Synopsis: All is left alone in the modem city life. He broke up with his lover and he is fired from job. He'll trying to make a new life under difficult conditions. His life will change when he never expects. |
Maltepe University | Turkey | 0 |
| 97-118 | I AM GOD
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Details:Length: 20'Screenwriter: Uthkarsha Balaram Director: Uthkarsha Balaram Producer: Annapurna College of Film and Media Animator: n/a DOP: Devdeep Kundu Sound: Manicka Prabhu Editor: Preetham Production Designer: Sanath Sathyamurty Synopsis: In a tale of an ancient spirit worship ritual, an insecure man's doubts grow serious when he decides to hypnotize himself into a spirit to tackle the fight between reality and belief. |
Annapurna College of Film and Media | India | 0 |
| 97-118 | IN LINE
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Details:Length: 7'Screenwriter: Vuslat Vurucu Director: Vuslat Vurucu Producer: İrden Bölükbaş Animator: n/a DOP: Yağız Demirel Sound: n/a Editor: Mustafa Yavuz Production Designer: n/a Synopsis: In this life where the limits of our patience are regularly tested, connecting to a customer representative is the simplest test we face. The wait only gets better when we know what is at the end of it. While waiting to connect to a customer representative, our protagonist experiences an unusual event, his imagination runs wild and he finds himself in two different worlds. Are the experiences have any connections to reality? |
Istanbul Kultur University (IKU) | Turkey | 0 |
| 97-118 | INTO THE NIGHT
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Details:Length: 19'Screenwriter: Gabriel Pais Director: Nuno do Lago Producer: Benedita Matalonga Animator: n/a DOP: Mariana Santana Sound: Ricardo Marques Editor: Mateus Ribeiro Gomes Production Designer: Daniela Manaças Synopsis: On the day of his arrival, Joao wanders the streets of an indifferent Lisbon while his flatmate Beatriz, a young medical student, becomes intrigued by a locked travelling bag he left behind. Although the city seems distant, their loneliness will bring them closer as the night falls on the apartment. |
Lisbon Theatre and Film School (ESTC) | Portugal | 0 |
| 97-118 | JALASJÄRVI NAIL ART
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Details:Length: 11'Screenwriter: Hanna-Leena Köykkä Director: Hanna-Leena Köykkä Producer: Ada Pajari, Mikko Syrjänen Animator: n/a DOP: Laura Seppälä Sound: Eemeli Siekkinen Editor: Ada Pajari Production Designer: n/a Synopsis: A life long friendship between Sannis and Nena takes a hit when Sannis receives a letter from Manchester University. Excited about her own future Sannis now needs to tell her best friend that their paths are about to diverge. It is not easy, but are break ups ever? |
Tampere University of Applied Sciences (TUNI), Degree Programme in Media | Finland | 0 |
| 97-118 | PARASITE!
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Details:Length: 15'Screenwriter: Colectivo Parásito Director: Kevin Sosa Producer: Ana Saavedra Animator: Kevin Sosa DOP: Camilo Arismendy Sound: Nicolás Garcés, Kevin Sosa Editor: Ana Saavedra, Camilo Arismendy Production Designer: Mariana Castiblanco, Nacor Andrade Synopsis: Antonia falls goes mad when she moves into a new apartment: she’s got the idea of having a parasite in her stomach and seeing a man that chases her everywhere, finally she kills herself in a panic attack. |
Escuela de Cine y Televisión / UNAL (ECYTV) | Colombia | 0 |
| 97-118 | PATROL
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Details:Length: 25'Screenwriter: Mauricio Battistuci, Francisco Miguez Director: Mauricio Battistuci, Francisco Miguez Producer: CTR-ECA-USP/Tarsila Varallo Animator: n/a DOP: Caio Antônio Sound: Jonas Amâncio Editor: Luisa Noriko Production Designer: Joana Lorenzetti Synopsis: Helio, an unemployed security guard, spirals through a series of strange encounters in Sao Paulo. As he makes promises to his companion who still hasn't come to the capital, he begins to patrol the city, aimlessly, searching for his post. |
University of São Paulo / School of Communications and Arts / Department of Film, Radio and Television (USP) | Brazil | 0 |
| 97-118 | SANCTUARY
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Details:Length: 14'Screenwriter: Sebastián Garro Director: Sebastián Garro Producer: Gabriel Jiménez Animator: n/a DOP: Toby Levi Sound: Fernando Esquivel Editor: Sebastián Garro Production Designer: Yanteé Hernández Synopsis: Nicolas relives the memory of his wife and children who are no longer with him, it's a sanctuary of their love. |
School of Image - Veritas University | Costa Rica | 0 |
| 97-118 | SISTER OF MINE
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Details:Length: 15'Screenwriter: Laura Malinen Director: Laura Malinen Producer: Leila Åkerlund Animator: n/a DOP: Veera Hyvärinen Sound: Samir Hellal Editor: Sanna Liinamaa Production Designer: Miska Varis Synopsis: 18-year-old Jonna is estranged from her family. She gets invited to visit her mother, but she is left alone with her little sister Milja when their mother goes out to drink. Jonna has to face the fact that nothing has changed. However, now instead of Jonna it's Milja who has to take care of their mother. |
Turku University of Applied Sciences (TUAS) Arts Academy / Degree Programme in Film and Media | Finland | 0 |
| 97-118 | SUNNY DAY AFTER THE RAIN
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Details:Length: 19'Screenwriter: Shota Meskhadze, David Chkhaidze, Soso Chkhaidze Director: Shota Meskhadze Producer: Giorgi Ninikashvili Animator: David Chkhaidze DOP: David Chkhaidze Sound: Giorgi Sujashvili, Irakli Lomsadze Editor: David Chkhaidze, Shota Meskhadze Production Designer: Soso Chkhaidze Synopsis: Deprived from attention by her parents, Nini spends most of her time by the window, from where she overlooks the outside world. Her attention is caught by an elderly man, who is sitting across the street on a bench, by whom she realizes, that time flows by and brings changes. |
Theatre and Film Georgia State University (TAFU) | Georgia | 0 |
| 97-118 | TO ALMIGHTY GOD
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Details:Length: 16'Screenwriter: Sebastián Vallejo, Daniel Gutiérrez Director: Sebastián Vallejo Producer: Shigue E. Joe Animator: n/a DOP: Julio Esquivel Sound: Mauricio Acosta Editor: Sebastián Vallejo, Daniel Gutiérrez Production Designer: Joy Ortiz Synopsis: Father Andres, a Catholic priest faces a trial against him for the crime of rape against a minor. Despite all the evidence that incriminates him, he is defended by Francisco, a lawyer with whom he shares a past and has a very close relationship. Francisco believes in the innocence of his client, until the evidence against the priest turns out to be more difficult to refute. From there, they face each other in search of the truth. |
Advanced Institute of Film and Acting (INCINE) | Ecuador | 0 |
| 97-118 | TO WHAT WE USED TO BE
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Details:Length: 30'Screenwriter: Thibault Pastierik and the actors Director: Thibault Pastierik Producer: Christine Aubry Animator: n/a DOP: Léo Brezot Sound: Gaëtan Ricciuti Editor: Hugo Orts Production Designer: n/a Synopsis: Four longstanding friends meet again to spend the night together. They gradually reconnect with each other and everything is for the best when an unexpected announcement occurs. The gap between the four friends is widening again, as they obviously no longer have much in common. |
ENS Louis-Lumière | France | 0 |
| 97-118 | TREATMENT AREA
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Details:Length: 16'Screenwriter: Avital Goldberg Director: Avital Goldberg Producer: Shachar Auman, Shira Hayat Animator: n/a DOP: Clelia Bretrand Sound: Idan Rawed Editor: Rinat Sharabi Production Designer: Shir Eldad Synopsis: Due to social pressure from other young women, Tahel, a young religious girl, undergoes laser treatment for the first time in her life. The treatment is much more invasive and painful than she expects. |
Ma'aleh School of Film, Television and the Arts (MAALE) | Israel | 0 |
| 97-118 | VIKTOR
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Details:Length: 28'Screenwriter: Oresti Zeneli Director: Oresti Zeneli Producer: Eol Çashku Animator: n/a DOP: Engjëll Reçica Sound: n/a Editor: Oresti Zeneli Production Designer: n/a Synopsis: Viktor is a 27 years paraplegic, who lives with his brother Skerdi, 35 years old. Skerdi has lost his job and decides to stay home to take care of Viktor. But Skerdi invites his girlfriend Sara over, who brings along her friend, Greta. During the evening, the young men lose control, turning everything into a nightmare. |
Academy of Film and Multimedia Marubi (AFMM) | Albania | 0 |
| 97-118 | VOID CHRONICLE
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Details:Length: 23'Screenwriter: Nour Yazbeck Director: Nour Yazbeck Producer: Joseph Matar Animator: n/a DOP: François Yazbeck Sound: François Yazbeck Editor: Nour Yazbeck Production Designer: Hana' Ojeil Synopsis: An 18 year old young man prepares his suicide. |
Institut d'études scéniques, audiovisuelles et cinématographiques (IESAV) | Lebanon | 0 |
Documentary
| Place | Title | School | Country | Points |
| 1 | CLEAN WITH ME (AFTER DARK)
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Details:Length: 21'Screenwriter: Gabrielle Stemmer Director: Gabrielle Stemmer Producer: Eliott Animator: n/a DOP: n/a Sound: Emma Zimny Editor: Gabrielle Stemmer Production Designer : n/a Synopsis: On YouTube, hundreds of women are filming themselves cleaning their homes. |
La Fémis | France | 64 |
| 2 | FAMILY²
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Details:Length: 25'Screenwriter: Yifan Sun Director: Yifan Sun Producer: Agata Golanska Animator: n/a DOP: Alicia Devaux Sound: Ewa Bogusz Editor: Dorota Ros Production Designer : n/a Synopsis: Lola was adopted into a Belgian family eleven years ago when she was an infant. Over the years, she has been imagining the reunion with her birth family in China. This summer, her dream finally comes true. When Lola's two families finally meet for the first time, how will they spend the time together? What will Lola's birth parents tell her? |
Polish National Film, Television and Theatre School in Lodz (PWSFTViT) | Poland | 54 |
| 3 | FAREWELL, FAREWELL, FAREWELL
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Details:Length: 30'Screenwriter: Ricardo Castro Director: Ricardo Castro Producer: Daina Jurkšaitis, Ricardo Castro Animator: n/a DOP: Alejandro Chávez Sound: Ricardo Castro Editor: Ricardo Castro Production Designer : Luz Abril Castro Synopsis: The autobiographical journey of Ricardo Castro and his family of 17, who built their home in a secret forest., They lived there an utopia dream until a tragedy shattered their perfect microcosm. |
Centro de Capacitación Cinematográfica, A.C. (CCC) | Mexico | 51 |
| 4 | WITH SLIGHT STEPS
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Details:Length: 29'Screenwriter: Guy Hodes Director: Guy Hodes Producer: Inbar Hodes Avgar Animator: n/a DOP: Yuval Nitzan, Yuval Berger Sound: Tal Samhes Editor: Yuval Nitzan Production Designer : n/a Synopsis: 97 year old Tirza, the high-priestess of Israeli folk dancing, has for years been jetting between Israel and her home in Germany, where she continues to teach Israeli folk dancing. |
Sam Spiegel Film and Television School Jerusalem (JSFS) | Israel | 46 |
| 5 | A ROOM IN POLAND
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Details:Length: 11'Screenwriter: Pablo Guarise Director: Pablo Guarise Producer: INSAS/Atelier de realisation - Vincent Canart Animator: n/a DOP: Alexi Hennecker Sound: Justin MacKenzie Peers Editor: n/a Production Designer : n/a Synopsis: An attempt to resolve a question that, to all appearances, seems easy, but which, ultimately, is not: where am I? |
INSAS | Belgium | 44 |
| 6 | FOR EUNICE
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Details:Length: 30'Screenwriter: Jaan Stevens Director: Jaan Stevens Producer: RITCS Animator: n/a DOP: Jaan Stevens Sound: Gillis Van Der Wee Editor: Arnaud Callens Production Designer : n/a Synopsis: Eunice (7) grows up with her sister Tarma (9) in a disadvantaged environment. Playful childishness must soon give way to the harsh realities that force themselves into their concrete playground. |
Royal Institute for Theatre, Cinema and Sound (RITCS) | Belgium | 43 |
| 7 | LADYLIKE
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Details:Length: 20'Screenwriter: n/a Director: Rachel Bickert, Emily Tapanes Producer: Rachel Bickert, Emily Tapanes , Lidieth Arevalo Animator: n/a DOP: Rachel Bickert, Emily Tapanes Sound: Paul Hollman Editor: Emma Wang Production Designer : n/a Synopsis: A young queer woman in the American South comes to terms with her sexuality, shattering her deep-rooted religious beliefs and the cultural stereotypes within her conservative community and family, and self. |
Chapman University / Dodge College of Film and Media Arts | United States | 36 |
| 8 | SAUDADE
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Details:Length: 30'Screenwriter: Denize Galiao Director: Denize Galiao Producer: HFF Munchen, Michael Kalb Filmproduktion Animator: n/a DOP: Dino Osmanovic Sound: Andreas Goldbrunner Editor: Valeria Valenzuela Production Designer : n/a Synopsis: When Afro-Brazilian filmmaker Denize Galiao starts feeling that sorrow of loss again, her father sighs and says, "Forget about saudade and carry on." An old Brazilian legend says that the African gods created the feeling of saudade to remind people where they come from and where they are. And that's just what she's suffering from. Twenty years ago Galiao emigrated to Germany, where her dream of becoming a filmmaker came true. But the papayas there never taste as good as in Brazil. |
University of Television and Film Munich (HFF) | Germany | 34 |
| 9 | LIKE A MOUNTAIN
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Details:Length: 14'Screenwriter: Manolo Diaz Rämö Director: Manolo Diaz Rämö Producer: Beatrice Pourbagher Garcia Animator: n/a DOP: Love Oijens Sound: Eduardo Rodriguez ( external) Editor: Anneli Ossiander (alumn) Production Designer : n/a Synopsis: From a module house in a desolate winter city, Ali tries to call his family. Four years have passed since they last saw each other, and time goes by slowly while waiting for an approval to their family reunification request. One day his friend Lallo visits, and suddenly Ali’s days become a little less lonely. ‘Like a mountain’ is a poetic depiction of life waiting to be lived. |
Stockholm Academy of Dramatic Arts / Stockholm University of the Arts (SADA) | Sweden | 32 |
| 10-12 | DEAD WAITING FOR REBIRTH
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Details:Length: 19'Screenwriter: Waleed Talal Almadani Director: Waleed Talal Almadani Producer: DocNomads EMJMD Animator: n/a DOP: Waleed Talal Almadani Sound: António Porém Pires, Garreth Chan, Waleed Almadani Editor: Waleed Talal Almadani, Isabela Monteiro de Castro Production Designer : n/a Synopsis: Wael is a Syrian citizen arrested arbitrarily for being from Al-Moadamyeh, a town in Damascus known to be against the Syrian regime. Imprisoned under the conviction of no return to the outside world, Wael takes us with him into solitary confinement and torture in one of Al-Assad’s political detention centers. |
Universidade Lusófona / Film and Media Arts Department (ULHT) | Portugal | 31 |
| 10-12 | IMMACULATE CONCEPTION - BIRTH OF LOVE IN A LAND OF WAR
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Details:Length: 30'Screenwriter: n/a Director: Guo Yifei Producer: Guo Yifei Animator: n/a DOP: Guo Yifei Sound: n/a Editor: Guo Yifei Production Designer : n/a Synopsis: In the Palestinian-Israeli region, more than a million Palestinian have served their sentences in Israeli prisons, facing 20 years or more of life imprisonment. In Palestine, many children have been born through "sperm smuggling". The prisoner delivers sperm from prison to his wife in a special way， reproduces their offspring through artificial insemination. This is a land long shrouded by war, where every day we can see the struggle for dignity. It is more like a war without weapons. They strive to overcome all difficulties in order to regain their right to continue the life. |
Beijing Film Academy (BFA) | China | 31 |
| 10-12 | TANDA
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Details:Length: 23'Screenwriter: Teodora-Kosara Popova, Pavla Kotova Director: Teodora-Kosara Popova Producer: NATFA “Kr.Sarafov” - Prof. Dr. Stanislav Semerdjiev Animator: n/a DOP: Rebecca Naydenova Sound: Hristo Georgiev Editor: Denislav Marinov Production Designer : Teodora Tsanova Synopsis: During a milonga (a social event where tango is danced) we hear the stories of four peculiar people. Silviya – an old lady working as a surgeon, that does not believe in love; An Italian man living abroad who’s only job is teaching tango, a blind girl looking for love and one very short man that describes how tango reflects the relation between men and women. |
National Academy for Theatre and Film Arts (NATFA) | Bulgaria | 31 |
| 13 | RAVENS
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Details:Length: 26'Screenwriter: n/a Director: Karl Forchhammer Producer: Ludovico Zanette Animator: n/a DOP: Karl Forchhammer Sound: Adam Shuttleworth Editor: Francesco Cibati Production Designer : n/a Synopsis: "Ravens" is an intimate journey in the life of a modern feminist who has never stopped being a hopeless romantic. It is a reflection on the nature of love, sex, relationships, and gender roles for a generation in Poland, that having freed itself from the chains of tradition, is still struggling to find a new way to organize their lives. |
National FIlm and Television School (NFTS) | United Kingdom | 30 |
| 14 | THE SUNNY SIDE UP
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Details:Length: 10'Screenwriter: n/a Director: Peter Kilmartin Producer: Cian O’Connor Animator: n/a DOP: Nathanael MacDonald Sound: Stephen Drennan Editor: Barney Cousley Production Designer : n/a Synopsis: PETER PRINGLE, and SUNNY JACOBS both served years in prison for crimes they did not commit. After being exonerated, what are the chances the both met and fell in love? This film explores how love can prevail, and hearts can keep beating when a soul is dragged through so much. |
National Film School / Institute of Art, Design and Technology (IADT) | Ireland | 26 |
| 15 | ABRIDGED
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Details:Length: 20'Screenwriter: Gaurav Puri Director: Gaurav Puri Producer: Satyajit Ray Film & Television Institute Animator: n/a DOP: Sukhan Saar Singh Sound: Sourabh Saha Editor: Pritam Mandal Production Designer : n/a Synopsis: Many flyovers have caved in in the recent past in Kolkata, taking lives unaccounted. As many fall those many are made, many continue to live under these bridges that act like vulnerable roofs with cracks big enough for sparrows to built nests. As we roam over and under these shaky structures, Abridged observes the lives of the bridges/flyovers through the eyes of those who continue to sleep, eat and work under them. |
Satyajit Ray Film and Television Institute (SRFTI) | India | 25 |
| 16-18 | AN INVISIBLE SINGER
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Details:Length: 27'Screenwriter: n/a Director: Hannah van Tassel Producer: Hester Breunissen, Yasmin van Dorp Animator: n/a DOP: Jeroen Klokgieters Sound: Sofie van der Meer Editor: Eva Plompen Production Designer : n/a Synopsis: About 130 days a year, the unpredictable and cold mistral races through the Provence. He disrupts, challenges, torments, inspires. In search of the mark that this notorious wind leaves in the landscape and in the lives of a number of local residents, the tangible gradually merges with the intangible. |
Netherlands Film Academy (NFA) | Netherlands | 24 |
| 16-18 | BEHIND CLOSED DOORS
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Details:Length: 10'Screenwriter: Amelia de Weger Director: Amelia de Weger Producer: Josh Nadler Animator: n/a DOP: Djy Roelfsema Sound: Elise Wensley Editor: Simon Garrett Production Designer : n/a Synopsis: 'Behind Closed Doors' explores the experiences of Stephen de Weger, who has overcome clergy/professional sexual misconduct as both a child and an adult. The documentary follows the journey of Stephen and other victims as they deal with the damage daily, and attempt to bring the topic into the public eye. |
Griffith Film School (GFS) | Australia | 24 |
| 16-18 | DAILY MANURE
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Details:Length: 24'Screenwriter: Nikola Krutilová Director: Nikola Krutilová Producer: Ondřej Šejnoha – Studio FAMU Animator: n/a DOP: Šimon Havel Sound: Viera Marinová Editor: Lucie Hecht Production Designer : n/a Synopsis: The film poem captures the events at the bio-gas station during four seasons. A cemetery where leftovers devour the leftovers. The never ending cycle of crest ion and demise. |
Film and Television School / Academy of Performing Arts in Prague (FAMU) | Czech Republic | 24 |
| 19-20 | IMAGE OF VICTORY
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Details:Length: 29'Screenwriter: Adi Mishnayot Director: Adi Mishnayot Producer: Adi Mishnayot Animator: n/a DOP: Adi Mishnayot, Ze'ev Girsh Sound: Keren Or Biton Editor: Ido Chen Production Designer : Yoav Weinfeld Synopsis: 2014. Israel is at war in Gaza again. Inside an Israeli hospital, hundreds gather to boost national morale and Uri, a wounded Israeli soldier, finds himself unwillingly turned into a war hero. One family hardship turned public spectacle offers an inside look into Israeli society and the glorification of war. |
The Steve Tisch School of Film and Television (TAU) | Israel | 23 |
| 19-20 | POWERLESS
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Details:Length: 9'Screenwriter: Shahar Kerub, Nitzan Weiner, Ziva Jacobovici, Sahar Habanv, Nitzan Paz, Tamar Chetzroni Director: Shahar Kerub, Nitzan Weiner, Ziva Jacobovici, Sahar Habanv, Nitzan Paz, Tamar Chetzroni Producer: Tamar Chetzroni Animator: Shahar Kerub, Nitzan Weiner, Ziva Jacobovici, Sahar Habanv, Nitzan Paz, Tamar Chetzroni DOP: n/a Sound: Dror H Shiman Editor: n/a Production Designer : n/a Synopsis: This Animation documentary project deals with different social using animated tools. This year we chose to talk about bullying: the students chose from anonymous posts of teens over the web, and gave them life in short animated films. Put together, they show the brutal world that hides within the web. |
School of Audio & Visual Arts, Sapir College | Israel | 23 |
| 21-23 | HH
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Details:Length: 19'Screenwriter: Julian Setton Director: Julian Setton Producer: Universidad del Cine Animator: n/a DOP: Camila Lopez Pozner Sound: Mercedes Gaviria Editor: Lautaro Garcia Candeia Production Designer : Clara Miani Synopsis: In 1977, the military government kidnapped Juan Herman in Bariloche. In 1985, Carlos Echeverria shot "Juan as if nothing had happened" it's a film that investigated the disappearance. Horacio -Juan's brother- worked on the film but his testimony wasn't part of it. 30 years later, I traveled to meet him. |
Universidad del Cine (UCINE) | Argentina | 22 |
| 21-23 | SHETANI
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Details:Length: 19'Screenwriter: n/a Director: Niva Ehrlich Producer: Zakaria Rahmani Animator: n/a DOP: Leander Büge Sound: n/a Editor: Maria Hartig, Max Bell Production Designer : n/a Synopsis: 40 years ago, Mboro was commissioned to search for the head of the Tanzanian resistance fighter Mangi Meli in Germany and return it to his home country. Meli was hanged by German colonialists in 1900. Subsequently, they shipped his head to Germany for "racial research". |
ifs internationale filmschule köln | Germany | 22 |
| 21-23 | SOMEWHERE.
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Details:Length: 18'Screenwriter: Joy Maurits Director: Joy Maurits Producer: Joy Maurits / Luca School Of Arts Animator: n/a DOP: Thomas Verijke Sound: Igor Van De Putte Editor: Joy Maurits Production Designer : n/a Synopsis: somewhere. in a sports center in Bazel, young people not only learn to walk within the lines but also to explore these boundaries. A portrait about the open-mindedness of girls and boys who, each within their own world, come together in this microcosm and search for connection. |
LUCA School of Arts (LUCA) | Belgium | 22 |
| 24-25 | CUTTIN' WELL
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Details:Length: 12'Screenwriter: n/a Director: Oscar Wicken Producer: Oscar Wicken Animator: n/a DOP: Joachim Magnussen Sound: Sander Simonsen Brustad Editor: Henrik Ruud Production Designer : n/a Synopsis: Meet Ellie Louise Woodgate Hackney a little girl in Clones, a rural border town in Irland. What does she think about Brexit? |
Westerdals Department of Film and Media School of Arts, Design and Media, Kristiania University College | Norway | 21 |
| 24-25 | ERPE - MERE
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Details:Length: 21'Screenwriter: Noemi Osselaer Director: Noemi Osselaer Producer: KASK - School of Arts Gent, Belgium Animator: n/a DOP: Noemi Osselaer Sound: Noemi Osselaer Editor: Noemi Osselaer, Elias Grootaers Production Designer : n/a Synopsis: Surrounded by the sound of nocturnal animals, a girl falls into a deep sleep. Gradually we are drawn into her dream, which unfolds into a cosmic journey through the meadows of Erpe-Mere, a rural community in Belgium. |
Royal Academy of Fine Arts / University College Ghent (KASK) | Belgium | 21 |
| 26 | WIND'S HERITAGE
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Details:Length: 17'Screenwriter: Cesar Camacho, Alejandra Retana, César Hernández Director: Cesar Camacho, Alejandra Retana, César Hernández Producer: Gabriela Ruvalcaba Animator: n/a DOP: Cesar Camacho Sound: César Hernández Editor: Cesar Camacho, Alejandra Retana Production Designer : n/a Synopsis: Juan works in the field ever since he remembers. Within his 40 years, he´s developed a strong connection with the land and a gratitude towards what agriculture has taught him, accentuating what this activity has meant over the years for Mexico. Everyday he looks for a way to care for his plants with the same values with which he cares for his family and his children´s growth. He transmits this ideology with his workers, his town and somehow, also with the people that receive his crop. |
University of Guadalajara / Image and Sound Department | Mexico | 20 |
| 27 | 25TH HOUR
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Details:Length: 21'Screenwriter: Juho Reinikainen Director: Juho Reinikainen Producer: Jenni Ripatti, Maarit Laaksoharju Animator: n/a DOP: Aake Kivalo Sound: Janne Masalin Editor: Sofia Bonds Production Designer : n/a Synopsis: 25th hour follows crossing paths in a sleeping city. The soft spoken host of the Night Radio keeps company for the ones who are awake. |
Aalto University School of Arts, Design and Architecture / ELO Film School Helsinki | Finland | 19 |
| 28-29 | SPARROW: REVIVE AN OLD WORLD
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Details:Length: 18'Screenwriter: Somapriya Bose Director: Somapriya Bose Producer: Annapurna College of Film and Media Animator: n/a DOP: Ajay Nag Sound: Manicka Prabhu Editor: Shabadpreet Singh Production Designer : Shirin Lavanya Synopsis: The film seeks to explore the reasons of decline of HOUSE SPARROWS in India (in General) and Hyderabad (in specific) and the consequences of this decline as an indicator of overall degenerating environmental health and the little efforts we as citizens of the world can take for the sake of humanity. |
Annapurna College of Film and Media | India | 18 |
| 28-29 | THE WINDOW AND THE TV
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Details:Length: 20'Screenwriter: Masha Voronkova Director: Masha Voronkova Producer: n/a Animator: n/a DOP: Masha Voronkova Sound: Kirill Shmakovich Editor: Masha Voronkova Production Designer : n/a Synopsis: There are three of them. Mother, daughter and telly. But one of these threesome breaks down and the remaining two heroines have to search for a language of mutual understanding with each other, whilst spreading the light on their relationships and searching for answers about life and being. |
Russian State University of Сinematography n.a. S.Gerasimov VGIK | Russia | 18 |
| 30-31 | HE LOVES MY EYES
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Details:Length: 23'Screenwriter: Enxhi Rista Director: Enxhi Rista Producer: UNATC I.L.CARAGIALE BUCHAREST - Enxhi Rista Animator: n/a DOP: Jakob Reinhardt Sound: Andrei Schwartz Editor: Roxana lorgulescu Production Designer : n/a Synopsis: Tican, the story between the man and the wicked. A documentary about love, dance and music, freedom and prison. |
National University of Theatre and Film (UNATC) | Romania | 17 |
| 30-31 | I THOUGHT I WAS A SUPERMAN
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Details:Length: 21'Screenwriter: Rabbe Sandström, Nele Aunap Director: Rabbe Sandström, Nele Aunap Producer: Rabbe Sandström, Nele Aunap Animator: n/a DOP: Nele Aunap Sound: Arbo Maran Editor: Rabbe Sandström Production Designer : n/a Synopsis: Evgeny is a Ukrainian born family man and taxi driver in Tallinn. He drives around the city sharing about his relationship with his wife Tanya and three adopted children. For Evgeny, driving is both an escape from the commitments of family life and a chance to step back and reflect. |
Baltic Film, Media and Arts School, Tallinn University | Estonia | 17 |
| 32 | PIGEON GIRL
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Details:Length: 11'Screenwriter: n/a Director: Whitney Legge Producer: Whitney Legge Animator: n/a DOP: Whitney Legge Sound: Whitney Legge Editor: Whitney Legge Production Designer : n/a Synopsis: Maryam is a 10-year old girl with a love that borders on obsession. In this coming of age story, she embarks on a mission to protect and save injured pigeons. |
Stanford University | United States | 16 |
| 33 | ARRAN
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Details:Length: 17'Screenwriter: Laura Bossicart Director: Laura Bossicart Producer: Media Diffusion Animator: n/a DOP: n/a Sound: n/a Editor: Marie-Gabrielle Balland Production Designer : n/a Synopsis: I met a man here. He helped me find the place where you spent your summers. |
Institut des Arts de Diffusion (IAD) | Belgium | 15 |
| 34 | ALZHEIMER CAFÉ
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Details:Length: 18'Screenwriter: Martin Draksler Director: Martin Draksler Producer: Jožica Blatnik (UL AGRFT) Animator: n/a DOP: Timon Hozo Sound: Tristan Peloz Editor: Vida Ajdnik Production Designer : n/a Synopsis: Married couple Ivan and Jožica, had to move to the retirements home. Despite all the challenges of aging, they continue living together in a new environment. Memories fade, love remains. |
AGRFT | Slovenia | 14 |
| 35 | FIRE DEVOURED US
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Details:Length: 13'Screenwriter: Juan Franco Siri Director: Lucía Granda Producer: Lucila Kraefft Animator: n/a DOP: Javier Ruiz Tissot Sound: Fabricio Gambatese Editor: Franca Malfatti Production Designer : n/a Synopsis: Past and present coexist in an abandoned house: between stillness and silence, memories chaotically arise. A place, crossed by a voiceless narration, leads us into a sensory journey. |
National School of Film Experimentation and Production (ENERC) | Argentina | 13 |
| 36-38 | 9000 TOURS
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Details:Length: 10'Screenwriter: Julien Falardeau Director: Julien Falardeau Producer: Université du Québec à Montréal Animator: n/a DOP: Gabrielle Simard Sound: Zoé Guèvremont Editor: Zoé Guèvremont Production Designer : Alexe Laroche Synopsis: Passionate people share a simple and playful love for racing at the Autodrome St-Eustache; where a cyclical force drives fanatics into the mechanical waltz of cars.... |
University of Québec Montréal / School of Media (UQAM) | Canada | 12 |
| 36-38 | A COLOURFUL RED
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Details:Length: 12'Screenwriter: Costa Karalis, Jack Owen Director: Costa Karalis, Jack Owen Producer: Costa Karalis Animator: n/a DOP: Jack Owen Sound: Costa Karalis, Jack Owen Editor: Costa Karalis, Jack Owen Production Designer : n/a Synopsis: Accepting a job for a high-profile client, an amateur photographer travels to Indonesia and becomes part of a plot affecting hundreds in the freelance industry. |
Florida State University / College of Motion Picture Arts (FSU) | United States | 12 |
| 36-38 | CLOUD KINGDOM
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Details:Length: 14'Screenwriter: n/a Director: Nady Afiqah Producer: Natasha Emir Animator: n/a DOP: Ong Wen Jing Sound: Kessa Chop Editor: Kessa Chop Production Designer : n/a Synopsis: The Cloud Forest of Mount Brinchanq is facing attacks by the people it shelters. Excessive use of pesticides by farmers pollutes its micro climate and water reserves, and commercial deforestation damages its ecological structure. If this continues, this 200 million-year-old forest will soon see its end, and with it. Cameron Highlands. |
Nanyang Technological University | Singapore | 12 |
| 39-41 | MANACILLO
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Details:Length: 30'Screenwriter: Nicolás Garcés Director: Nicolás Garcés Producer: Carlos Arias Animator: n/a DOP: Nicolás Garcés Sound: Nicolás Garcés Editor: Nicolás Garcés Production Designer : n/a Synopsis: Through the exploration of the figure of the “manacillo”, a trip is made around Holy Week in the village of San José on the Yurumanguí River. This festivity contains a strong African heritage while re-signifying the catholic faith. |
Escuela de Cine y Televisión / UNAL (ECYTV) | Colombia | 11 |
| 39-41 | SAVE OUR SOUL
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Details:Length: 7'Screenwriter: Sally Cattle, Chloë Beckley Director: Chloë Beckley Producer: Chloë Beckley, Matthew Bunin Animator: n/a DOP: Julian Pertout Sound: Yathi Kidambi Editor: Yathi Kidambi Production Designer : Ruby Langsworth Synopsis: June has been arrested five times protesting for climate justice. June has walked over 10,000 kilometers raising awareness. June is also an eighty year old great grandmother.'Save Our Soul' investigates the sacrifices and triumphs of an elderly activist desperately trying to save the Great Barrier Reef. |
Australian Film Television and Radio School (AFTRS) | Australia | 11 |
| 39-41 | THE SALT FROM DJÈGBADJI
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Details:Length: 13'Screenwriter: Christiana de Souza Director: Christiana de Souza Producer: Institut Superieur des Metiers de I'Audiovisuel (ISMA) Benin Animator: n/a DOP: Geff Atindegla Sound: Janvier Tadagbé Gnonlonfoun Editor: Olivier Kpossa Production Designer : n/a Synopsis: The salt from Djegbadji has existed since the dawn of time. It is found in lake Toho. When it is taken from its bed, it doesn't come home anymore because the gods who live with him grab him and a great journey is imposed on him. |
Higher Institute of Audiovisual Training (ISMA) | Benin | 11 |
| 42-43 | NOCTURNAL
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Details:Length: 20'Screenwriter: Giulio Pettenò Director: Giulio Pettenò Producer: CISA - Conservatorio Internazionale di Scienze Audiovisive Animator: n/a DOP: Giada Cappa Sound: Tommaso Barbaro Editor: Giulia Debartolomei Production Designer : Marco Moschini Synopsis: A long night before the day comes. A path between dark and light, through doors and windows, which guides us inside waiting, in places in which this takes place and in direct contact with the people are experiencing it. |
Academy of Audiovisual Sciences (CISA) | Switzerland | 10 |
| 42-43 | SILVER LINING
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Details:Length: 20'Screenwriter: n/a Director: Ran Li Producer: Jiapei Wu Animator: n/a DOP: Ran Li Sound: n/a Editor: Ran Li Production Designer : n/a Synopsis: A Chinese female immigrant tries to survive in Melbourne after the death of her husband. |
VCA Film and Television | Australia | 10 |
| 44-47 | ANNA CONDA - FEMALE FIGHT CLUB BERLIN
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Details:Length: 12'Screenwriter: n/a Director: Till Gerstenberger Producer: Till Gerstenberger Animator: n/a DOP: Konstantin Minnich Sound: Alexander Eckhardt Editor: Felix Schmerbeck Production Designer : n/a Synopsis: ,Anna Konda' empowers female. Head of the FFCB - Female Fight Club Berlin and notorious female fighter herself, she pushes her girls' to build inner strength and courage against all social norms through combat. She is a wanted specialist for a certain kind of job in the Berlin underground. |
German Film and Television Academy Berlin (DFFB) | Germany | 9 |
| 44-47 | AS BRIGHT AS NIGHT
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Details:Length: 14'Screenwriter: n/a Director: Julius Schmitt Producer: Max Baumeister, Marlene Meyer Animator: n/a DOP: Arkadiy Kreslov Sound: William Amsler Editor: Martin Mikosch Production Designer : n/a Synopsis: When most people close their eyes, some alarm clocks ring. Night workers - from dusk till dawn. This short film follows three night workers through their shifts. |
Filmakademie Baden-Wuerttemberg (FABW) | Germany | 9 |
| 44-47 | FINDING FISH STEW / FINDING DAUGHTER
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Details:Length: 29'Screenwriter: Ritu Pillai Director: Ritu Pillai Producer: Rajeev Ramakrishna Animator: n/a DOP: Ritu Pillai Sound: Ritu Pillai Editor: Ritu Pillai Production Designer : n/a Synopsis: With a perspective on Kerala heavily inspired by Arundathi Roy’s God of Small Things, Ritu returns to her native land on a quest to explore the prominence of fish in the Malayali Culture and in the process to find her idea of being Malayali. |
Whistling Woods International (WWI) | India | 9 |
| 44-47 | SHANTABAI
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Details:Length: 12'Screenwriter: Pratiik Gupta Director: Pratiik Gupta Producer: Film and Television Institute of India, Pune Animator: n/a DOP: Ashwin B. Chide Sound: Devraj Bhaumik Editor: Divyajot Singh Production Designer : n/a Synopsis: The Documentary is an exposure to the life of an 85 year old woman who belongs to Dombari Community, a community that performs juggling acts on street. |
Film and Television Institute of India (FTII) | India | 9 |
| 48-52 | BELLA
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Details:Length: 7'Screenwriter: Dumi Maishinini, Naoimh Healy Director: Caleb Whitehurst Producer: Dumi Maishinini, Naoimh Healy Animator: n/a DOP: Haresh Chandra, Caleb Whitehurst Sound: Meghan Offe Editor: Meghan Offe Production Designer : n/a Synopsis: A refugee from Burundi struggles with her inner demons, and dreams of reconnecting with her African home and culture. |
WA Screen Academy, Edith Cowan University | Australia | 8 |
| 48-52 | CONVIVENCE
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Details:Length: 12'Screenwriter: n/a Director: Malena Ichkhanian, Lucia Molina Carpi, Mara Tatiana Lanosa Alonso, Ailín Kertesz Producer: Lucía Molina Carpi Animator: n/a DOP: Malena Ichkhanian Sound: Mara Tatiana Lanosa Alonso Editor: Ailín Kertesz Production Designer : Lucia Molina Carpi Synopsis: Women living in a maternal home. Stories that come from different routes, converge in the same space. Being a teenager and mother at the same time, at what point being a teenager is abandoned, to take on the responsibilities of an adult? |
Universidad de Buenos Aires / Diseño de Imagen y Sonido FADU (UBA) | Argentina | 8 |
| 48-52 | PRÓXIMA CENTAURI II
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Details:Length: 21'Screenwriter: Pedro Muñoz-Calero Franco Director: Blanca Martín Secades, Jaime Sánchez Camacho, Pedro Muñoz-Calero Franco, Zuhaitz Silva García Producer: ECAM Animator: n/a DOP: Jaime Sánchez Camacho Sound: Eduardo Rosa, Neus Romera Casas, Miguel Salas Editor: Paulo Garcia Seco Production Designer : Blanca Martín Secades Synopsis: Experience the ultimate space adventure. Explore the amazing world of Próxima Centauri, survive countless dangers, enjoy the most realistic combat system. Feel the incredible vibrations of a bus line, fight the dream every morning, clean your apartment, enjoy the anonymous life you always wanted. |
ECAM (The Madrid Film School) | Spain | 8 |
| 48-52 | THE HOUSE WHERE WE LIVED
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Details:Length: 23'Screenwriter: Kristina Khabarova Director: Kristina Khabarova Producer: Ekaterina Kachanova Animator: n/a DOP: Evelina Zakirina Sound: Yluana Voronistaya, Denis Ostromouhov Editor: Kristina Khabarova Production Designer : n/a Synopsis: Georgian choreographer made a difficult choice that radically changed the fate of his family. |
St. Petersburg State University of Film and Television (SPUFT) | Russia | 8 |
| 48-52 | THREE THINGS LOST
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Details:Length: 14'Screenwriter: Naama Shohet Director: Naama Shohet Producer: Bezalel Academy of Arts & Design Animator: Naama Shohet DOP: Naama Shohet Sound: Aviram Spies Editor: Naama Shohet Production Designer : n/a Synopsis: Home, bond and faith. These are the three things lost from the life of Iraqi-Israeli writer Issac Bar-Moshe, the director's grandfather. A journey between text and visual images generates a miracle and the three things are discovered again. |
Bezalel Academy of Arts and Design Jerusalem (BAAD) | Israel | 8 |
| 53-57 | LIVING WITH A SCHOOL
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Details:Length: 30'Screenwriter: Erdem Kaya Director: Erdem Kaya Producer: Engin Doğan, Erdem Kaya Animator: n/a DOP: Erdem Kaya Sound: n/a Editor: Erdem Kaya, Efe Keser Production Designer : n/a Synopsis: The documentary focuses on the life of a janitor living in the basement of a high school and tries to shed light on the difficulties he faces while trying to fulfill the requirements of having a family, as well as all kinds of work related to school such as cleaning, maintenance, repair and security. |
Istanbul Kultur University (IKU) | Turkey | 7 |
| 53-57 | NAFTALAN
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Details:Length: 14'Screenwriter: Ljubica Kotromanović Director: Ljubica Kotromanović Producer: Ljubica Kotromanović Animator: n/a DOP: Mateja llijašev Sound: Filip Zadro Editor: Ivana Percinilić Production Designer : n/a Synopsis: Grandma is being treated in hospital Naftalan and is eagerly waiting for her husband to pick her up so she can go home. |
Academy of Dramatic Art Zagreb (ADU) | Croatia | 7 |
| 53-57 | THE BLOCK THEATRE
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Details:Length: 15'Screenwriter: Joni Pietiläinen Director: Joni Pietiläinen Producer: Markus Hatakka, Anna Saario Animator: n/a DOP: Veera Hyvärinen Sound: Joni Pietiläinen Editor: Joni Pietiläinen Production Designer : n/a Synopsis: A Finnish puppeteer Roosa Halme introduces us to the world of the Block Theatre, where people find a way to express their hopes and anxieties by creating structures from small wooden pieces. Watch the abstract objects come to life through the power of your own imagination. |
Turku University of Applied Sciences (TUAS) Arts Academy / Degree Programme in Film and Media | Finland | 7 |
| 53-57 | THE WALK
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Details:Length: 12'Screenwriter: Michael Jung Director: Michael Jung Producer: Michael Jung Animator: n/a DOP: Michael Jung Sound: n/a Editor: Michael Jung Production Designer : n/a Synopsis: Werner survived World War II buried in the rubble as a child but he found a way to manage the traumatic experience with the help of a horse. |
Northern Film School / Leeds Beckett University (NFS/LBU) | United Kingdom | 7 |
| 53-57 | VOVAN
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Details:Length: 13'Screenwriter: Alexandra Zaytseva Director: Alexandra Zaytseva Producer: Irina Glebova Animator: n/a DOP: Daniil Bolotnikov Sound: Alice Ivata Editor: Alexandra Zaytseva Production Designer : n/a Synopsis: Vladimir Kolokoltsev, a senior sergeant in Fire Department No. 42, risks his life every day to save people from the fire, despite his family's disapproval. |
GITR FILM & TELEVISION SCHOOL | Russia | 7 |
| 58-63 | 1 m2
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Details:Length: 30'Screenwriter: Cenk Oğurtanı Director: Cenk Oğurtanı Producer: Cenk Oğurtanı Animator: Hacı Elmas DOP: Cenk Oğurtanı, Hacı Elmas Sound: Burak Erseçgen Editor: Cenk Oğurtanı Production Designer : Cenk Oğurtanı Synopsis: A photographer, who misses the nature and the creatures which live freely in there, abandons the borders of the chaotic city. Then, he reaches a green area and prepares his equipment for shooting. Firstly, he starts recording the moving images of honey bees and a ladybug. The camera does not stop there and moves from branch to branch, leaf to leaf, insect to insect and tells heart touching short stories from life of many different species of this micro world. The happiness of this nature lover, who observes the life with pleasure, will not last very long of course and the destructive intervention of man, which exploits the nature, will not be delayed too much again to show his brutal face. |
Maltepe University | Turkey | 6 |
| 58-63 | BY THE PEOPLE, FOR THE PEOPLE
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Details:Length: 25'Screenwriter: n/a Director: Clara Dias, Pedro Petriche Producer: Pedro Petriche Animator: n/a DOP: Lucas Véspero Sound: Amanda Araújo, Pedro Rossi Editor: Lucas Véspero, Pedro Petriche Production Designer : n/a Synopsis: Observes the dubious relation between the soccer club Corinthians and part of it`s fans after the construction of the team`s new stadium. |
University of São Paulo / School of Communications and Arts / Department of Film, Radio and Television (USP) | Brazil | 6 |
| 58-63 | MINÖR
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Details:Length: 30'Screenwriter: Matteo Bontempi, Giacomo Mantovani, Andrea Panni, Pietro Repisti Director: Matteo Bontempi, Giacomo Mantovani, Andrea Panni, Pietro Repisti Producer: n/a Animator: n/a DOP: Matteo Bontempi, Giacomo Mantovani, Andrea Panni, Pietro Repisti Sound: Matteo Bontempi, Giacomo Mantovani, Andrea Panni, Pietro Repisti Editor: Matteo Bontempi, Giacomo Mantovani, Andrea Panni, Pietro Repisti Production Designer : n/a Synopsis: The history of Frontale a village in Northern Italy is told through its workers: the miners. |
Milan City Film School Luchino Visconti (MCSC) | Italy | 6 |
| 58-63 | MUDDLED
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Details:Length: 30'Screenwriter: n/a Director: Štěpán Uždil Producer: Tomas Bata University in Zlín, Kamila Martincová Animator: n/a DOP: Adam Černich Sound: Erik Snopko Editor: Natália Bučková Production Designer : n/a Synopsis: The Muddled is a documentary probe into the creative environment and life of the painter Jiří Bakala. As a part of three years observation, a film crew authentically captures creative and personal crisis of this previously recognized regional painter. |
Tomas Bata University in Zlín / Faculty of Multimedia Communications (TBU) | Czech Republic | 6 |
| 58-63 | THEY
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Details:Length: 12'Screenwriter: n/a Director: Louisa Rechenbach Producer: Louisa Rechenbach Animator: n/a DOP: Zachariah Brown Sound: Stefania Fantini Editor: Nicky Chue Production Designer : n/a Synopsis: An intimate portrait of a couple who have decided to raise their one-year-old child gender neutrally. In order to prevent people from making gender-related assumptions, they are keeping the biological sex of their baby a secret. |
London College of Communication | United Kingdom | 6 |
| 58-63 | VIOLETTE
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Details:Length: 23'Screenwriter: Joy Azoury Director: Joy Azoury Producer: Joy Azoury Animator: n/a DOP: Joy Azoury, Georges Arbane Sound: Joy Azoury Editor: Joy Azoury, Hady Abou Ghazaly Production Designer : Roy El Khawand Synopsis: A fragmented family is revealed through personal interviews. |
Institut d'études scéniques, audiovisuelles et cinématographiques (IESAV) | Lebanon | 6 |
| 64-67 | BACK UP
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Details:Length: 20'Screenwriter: Wawan Lelono Suwanto, Haikal Damara Director: Wawan Lelono Suwanto Producer: Bambang Arianto Animator: n/a DOP: Dwicky Wikwok Sound: Thoersi Argeswara, Indra Anugrah Widjaja Editor: Wawan Lelono Suwanto Production Designer : Fairuz Nugraha Synopsis: Sentot Sahid is a senior Indonesian film editor. He has to deal with the transition from celluloid to digital format. |
Jakarta Institute of the Art / FFTV (IKJ) | Indonesia | 5 |
| 64-67 | SILENT STORM
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Details:Length: 13'Screenwriter: Anaïs Moog Director: Anaïs Moog Producer: GoldenEgg Production, Haute Ecole d'Art et de Design - Genève Animator: n/a DOP: Anaïs Moog Sound: Ahmed Maalaoui, Björn Cornelius Editor: Pierre Schlesser Production Designer : Philippe Ciompi Synopsis: From the shores of the Atlantic to those of the Mediterranean, the director meets the women whose faces and voices bear witness to the loss of loved ones and ruined hopes. The mourning and hopeless waiting of the bodies find in the incessant movement of the waves a dimension of painful meditation. |
Film Department/cinéma du réel - Geneva School of Art and Design (HEAD) | Switzerland | 5 |
| 64-67 | VIVIR
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Details:Length: 20'Screenwriter: Rex Córdova, Camila Quintanilla Director: Rex Córdova, Camila Quintanilla Producer: Rex Córdova, Camila Quintanilla Animator: n/a DOP: Rex Córdova Sound: Tizoc Rodríguez Editor: Rex Córdova Production Designer : n/a Synopsis: Viviana Santibáñez is a Mexican transsexual woman, who due to different hostilities in her context, has been forced to emigrate to Canada, taking nomadism as a way of life. |
Universidad Iberoamericana Mexico City (IBERO) | Mexico | 5 |
| 64-67 | WHAT YOU'RE GOING THROUGH
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Details:Length: 21'Screenwriter: Binyamin Haneman Director: Binyamin Haneman Producer: Binyamin Haneman Animator: n/a DOP: Binyamin Haneman Sound: Mitch Clyman Editor: David Tauber Production Designer : n/a Synopsis: Gidi my big brother is hearing impaired, obsessive-compulsive and has communication problems. When he was little my Dad filmed him often, and now after 27 years, I am the one with the camera, filming the three of us to try and gain new insights into the triangle of our relationship. |
Ma'aleh School of Film, Television and the Arts (MAALE) | Israel | 5 |
| 68-69 | TRANSPLANT
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Details:Length: 22'Screenwriter: Zheyu Liang Director: Zheyu Liang Producer: Zheyu Liang Animator: n/a DOP: Zheyu Liang Sound: David Long Editor: Zheyu Liang Production Designer : n/a Synopsis: What does it feel like to be a stranger in a country that you've lived in for twenty years? Two rootless and tenacious Chinese immigrants, Quan and Fen, try to find a home in each other on foreign soil. |
University of California Los Angeles (UCLA) | United States | 4 |
| 68-69 | YVONNE'S KITCHEN
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Details:Length: 16'Screenwriter: A. Camille Howard Director: A. Camille Howard Producer: n/a Animator: n/a DOP: Nate Bellavia Sound: Megan Admunsen Editor: Camille Howard Production Designer : n/a Synopsis: Yvonne Hylton has been living with Parkinson's Disease for the last 11 years. In this portrait, we get a window into her lifestyle, and the way she takes care of herself and the members of her community. |
School of Film and Animation, College of Art and Design, Rochester Institute of Technology | United States | 4 |
| 70-76 | AH MA FLIPPA BALL
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Details:Length: 7'Screenwriter: Pamela Lee Director: Pamela Lee Producer: Sherlyn Sim Animator: n/a DOP: Chan Wen Sound: n/a Editor: Heidi Lau Production Designer : n/a Synopsis: This documentary highlights active ageing in Singapore through the eyes and perspectives of three elderly women from Ah Ma Flippa Ball, a local female-only elderly water polo team. |
Ngee Ann Polytechnic / School of Film & Media Studies | Singapore | 3 |
| 70-76 | CARCASSE
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Details:Length: 17'Screenwriter: Gagné Robin, Le Cleac'h Balthazar, Penthier Titouan, Pitet Sarah, Révillon Lou Director: Gagné Robin, Le Cleac'h Balthazar, Penthier Titouan, Pitet Sarah, Révillon Lou Producer: ESEC Animator: n/a DOP: Gagné Robin, Le Cleac'h Balthazar, Penthier Titouan, Pitet Sarah, Révillon Lou Sound: Leroy Baptiste, Tristant Simon Editor: Calabrese Paul, Gagné Robin, Le Cleac'h Balthazar, Penthier Titouan, Pitet Sarah, Révillon Lou Production Designer : n/a Synopsis: Every night, Daniel takes his broken truck to reach Lorient fishing harbor and embark on the Miyabi, his boat. Line after line all around Belle Isle bay, he fills his crates with fishes, killed with the Japanese respectful technique of ikejime. Silence and preciseness, until the day comes to his end and he can come home to his wife and two daughters. Since Daniel lost a friend on a trawler, and realized he did not want to empty the sea anymore with such equipment, the thirty-year-old young man always try to do things his own way, even if it means getting away from others. |
Ecole Supérieure d'études Cinématographiques (ESEC) | France | 3 |
| 70-76 | COSMO
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Details:Length: 12'Screenwriter: Brandon Bellon, Michael Towers, Jordan Wong Director: Sarah Goyea Producer: Sarah Goyea Animator: n/a DOP: Zach Roth Sound: Jon Woodburn Editor: Ashlee Bishop Production Designer : n/a Synopsis: A person with enough perseverance will not only stand resilient in the face of adversity but will thrive despite it. |
Sheridan College | Canada | 3 |
| 70-76 | LOOKING FOR AN ELEPHANT FOOTPRINT
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Details:Length: 13'Screenwriter: Katarína Jonisová Director: Katarína Jonisová Producer: FTF VŠMU Animator: n/a DOP: Marek Moučka Sound: Jaroslav Pešek Editor: Katarína Koniarová Production Designer : n/a Synopsis: What does it mean to be an observer? Karol and Thomas, travelers from the old world, explore urban wilderness meeting various remarkable phenomena. |
Academy of Performing Arts / Film and Television Faculty (VSMU) | Slovakia | 3 |
| 70-76 | NATALIJA
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Details:Length: 8'Screenwriter: Petras Kuneika Director: Petras Kuneika Producer: Petras Kuneika, Martynas Gucevičius Animator: n/a DOP: Vytautas Plukas Sound: Rũta Girnytè Editor: Petras Kuneika Production Designer : n/a Synopsis: Natalija is preparing herself for fitness competition. She is doing her test to become the greatest version of herself. However, life does not always follow the plan which was structured in advance. |
Lithuanian Academy of Music and Theatre (LMTA) | Lithuania | 3 |
| 70-76 | SPIN THAT THING
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Details:Length: 13'Screenwriter: Samuel Chagonda, Avuyile Ndobo Director: Paballo Seletisha Producer: Siphelele Ngcobo Animator: n/a DOP: Muziwethu Mofutsanyana, Bongiwe Ndzimandze Sound: Nkululeko Cele, Polite Seheri, Jordan Van Der Westhuizen Editor: Simnikiwe Xolo Production Designer : n/a Synopsis: SPINA DAAI DENG is a documentary film that uncovers the story of Vaaijie Kunene, an unexpected hero and rising star in the spinning ranks. |
South African School of Motion Picture Medium and Live Performance (AFDA) | South Africa | 3 |
| 70-76 | THE LAST ONE
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Details:Length: 15'Screenwriter: Nikita Merlini Director: Nikita Merlini Producer: ECAL - Lionel Baier Animator: n/a DOP: Nikita Merlini Sound: Davide Briccola, Nikita Merlini Editor: Nikita Merlini Production Designer : n/a Synopsis: After her brother announces he's leaving home, Elena finds herself being the last one at home with their mother. For her it's not the :me to leave yet, but the discussions she has with her friends reveal a desire that is growing day by day in her eyes. |
Ecole Cantonale d'Art de Lausanne (ECAL) | Switzerland | 3 |
| 77-80 | AN END
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Details:Length: 21'Screenwriter: n/a Director: Chan Tsz Yan Producer: Chan Pik Ki, Lam King Fung Animator: n/a DOP: Cliff Leung Sound: Woody Cho, Lam King Fung Editor: Chan Tsz Yan Production Designer : n/a Synopsis: Land is money in Hong Kong. The redevelopment of Yue Man Square is the last phase of a massive project to clear one of the poorer areas of the city. All shopkeepers and residents have to leave by February 2019. This film charts this upheaval, through the story of a street hawker. |
Falmouth University | United Kingdom | 2 |
| 77-80 | I LOVE YOU, SORRY, THANK YOU, AND PLEASE FORGIVE ME
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Details:Length: 30'Screenwriter: WONG Wing Fung Director: WONG Wing Fung Producer: Yimin CHEN Animator: n/a DOP: WONG Wing Fung Sound: WONG Wing Fung Editor: WONG Wing Fung Production Designer : n/a Synopsis: Since my parent divorced, I have been living with my mum but we seldom talk. Through documenting our daily life, I attempt to find out how the bonding between me and my family shapes my identity and also, to break down the wall that stands between me and my mother for the past 20 years. |
Academy of Film / Hong Kong Baptist University (HKBU) | Hong Kong | 2 |
| 77-80 | OH ME LADS
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Details:Length: 24'Screenwriter: n/a Director: Ralph Sansum Producer: Ben Douglass Animator: n/a DOP: Ben Holt Sound: Louis Holder Editor: Kristof Szenasi Production Designer : n/a Synopsis: An optimistic Geordie is determined to re-ignite pride in the people of Newcastle Upon Tyne. But is his idea of a mass sing-along going to be enough to spark change, and reconcile those with different views? |
Westminster Film BA / University of Westminster (WFS) | United Kingdom | 2 |
| 77-80 | PIGEON HOLE
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Details:Length: 16'Screenwriter: n/a Director: Lim Mei Fong Producer: Chiam Shu Yun Animator: n/a DOP: Haakon Teo Sound: Chuan Wei Yee Samantha Editor: Samuel Li Production Designer : n/a Synopsis: An isolated senior citizen in Singapore finally secures another tenant for her one-room rental flat. However, over time, several issues surface and sour their relationship. |
Puttnam School of Film & Animation / LASALLE College of the Arts (LCA) | Singapore | 2 |
| 81-84 | A KILLER IN A WHEELCHAIR
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Details:Length: 30'Screenwriter: Lau Kin Kwan Director: Lai Wai Lam Producer: Law Ho Pui, Leung Tsz Him Animator: n/a DOP: Lai Wai Lam Sound: Cheng Lok Sun Editor: Law Ho Pui Production Designer : n/a Synopsis: Ah Wah, a winner in the game of life, hits rock bottom when an accident befalls him. The radiance of the long-awaited sunrise seems to shine on his life when he meets a student director Ah Kwong. However, they are deemed to go through an ordeal given by the God of Film and witness their own downfalls. In a world where truths are intertwined with fabrications, this film explores the limits of exploitation and manipulation in film making. Starring Hong Kong Film Award nominee Lam Sen. |
Hong Kong Academy for Performing Arts / School of Film and Television (HKAPA) | Hong Kong | 1 |
| 81-84 | I EXIST
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Details:Length: 11'Screenwriter: n/a Director: Alyson Arsen, Jemsen Yumico Bollozos Producer: Alyson Arsen, Jemsen Yumico Bollozos Animator: n/a DOP: Sean Singer Sound: Al Almero Editor: Jemsen Yumico Bollozos Production Designer : n/a Synopsis: A Las Vegas transgender teen shares her journey toward acceptance and activism. |
University of Nevada Las Vegas (UNLV) | United States | 1 |
| 81-84 | LIFE ON THE BOAT
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Details:Length: 6'Screenwriter: Peter Šíma Director: Peter Šíma Producer: Maxmilián Nový Animator: n/a DOP: Jáchym Novotný Sound: n/a Editor: Peter Šíma Production Designer : Marketa Melicharova Synopsis: Leslie Willis (74) is a member of Weston Super-Mare yacht club. He likes to sail for days without worrying about what time he has to be home. |
University of South Wales | United Kingdom | 1 |
| 81-84 | PROTECT OUR MOTHER NATURE FROM PLASTIC
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Details:Length: 3'Screenwriter: n/a Director: Roh Yun Taek Producer: Roh Yun Taek Animator: n/a DOP: Sumi Yat Noe Sound: n/a Editor: Roh Yun Taek Production Designer : n/a Synopsis: We are destroying the environment for the convenience and development of our lives. Now, it is necessary to preserve and protect our nature by paying attention to the polluted environment. |
KUMA | South Korea | 1 |
| 85-99 | ASCONA
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Details:Length: 15'Screenwriter: n/a Director: Julius Dommer Producer: Julius Dommer, Academy of Media Arts Cologne Animator: n/a DOP: Julius Dommer Sound: Tim Gorinski Editor: Julius Dommer, Rita Schwarze Production Designer : n/a Synopsis: ASCONA shows a place that seems to have fallen out of time, that has not changed since the 1950s but still exists. A miniature golf course becomes a social analysis analogy. |
Academy of Media Arts Cologne (KHM) | Germany | 0 |
| 85-99 | ECLECTIC CITY
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Details:Length: 17'Screenwriter: n/a Director: Luisa Cruz Producer: Luisa Cruz Animator: n/a DOP: Joel Rodriguez Sound: Martin Czachor Editor: Joel Rodriguez Production Designer : n/a Synopsis: Rodrigo is a young man who grew up in Eclectic City, a small religious commune in the heart of Brazil. Ahamed, his best friend, is a recent newcomer to the city. They both discuss their belonging to the commune and the contrasts between the two of them. |
York University Department of Film - Fine Arts | Canada | 0 |
| 85-99 | FLOATING
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Details:Length: 13'Screenwriter: Roberta Braz Director: Roberta Braz Producer: Luiza Dacol Animator: Lohan Costa DOP: Tainá Cavalieri Sound: Drimpê Pajé Editor: Shantal, Lohan Costa Production Designer : Jessica Cirino Synopsis: Short documentary that portrays the relationship between body and pole dance. Through reports, among instructors and students of the modality, it seeks to understand the connection of the activity with the hyper sexualization of the body, the stereotyped representation of women and the prejudice with the activity and with the practitioner. |
PUC-Rio Department of Social Communication - Cinema | Brazil | 0 |
| 85-99 | FROM HOME
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Details:Length: 11'Screenwriter: Jaime Abrahams Director: Jaime Abrahams Producer: Fabiana Heredia Animator: n/a DOP: Alejandro Ochoa Sound: Daniel Villalobos Editor: Meysi Rodriguez Production Designer : n/a Synopsis: A poetic point of view of colon city in panama, the beauty of the "guetto" a story of live and death from it's citizens. |
School of Image - Veritas University | Costa Rica | 0 |
| 85-99 | GOODFLESH
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Details:Length: 30'Screenwriter: n/a Director: Agnese Giovanardi Producer: Centro Sperimentale di Cinematografia sede Sicilia Italia Animator: n/a DOP: Agnese Giovanardi Sound: Cristiano Nasta Editor: Agnese Giovanardi Production Designer : Francesco Di Gesù Synopsis: Paolo, a 14 years old guy, is searching for his own identity. While exploring his inner world, he increases the knowing of his suburban neighborhood, peopled by many different young guys. |
Centro Sperimentale di Cinematografia (CSC) | Italy | 0 |
| 85-99 | GRANDMA ABOUT THE OTHER SIDE
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Details:Length: 14'Screenwriter: n/a Director: Jakab Erdely Producer: János Szirtes Animator: n/a DOP: Jakab Erdely Sound: Jakab Erdely Editor: Jakab Erdely Production Designer : Jakab Erdely Synopsis: My grandmother and I are talking about how she sees the Other Side. |
Moholy-Nagy University of Art and Design (MOME) | Hungary | 0 |
| 85-99 | HÉLOÏSE IN THE MIROR
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Details:Length: 18'Screenwriter: Jeanne Lorne Director: Jeanne Lorne Producer: ENSAV Animator: n/a DOP: Jeanne Lorne Sound: Jeanne Lorne Editor: Jeanne Lorne Production Designer : Jeanne Lorne Synopsis: Héloïse in the mirror is beautiful as the way that drives her to the sea. |
ENSAV | France | 0 |
| 85-99 | LAURIE RUBIN
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Details:Length: 9'Screenwriter: n/a Director: Justin Kimata Producer: Justin Kimata Animator: n/a DOP: Joshua Lopez Sound: Justin Kimata Editor: Justin Kimata Production Designer : n/a Synopsis: A renown opera singer journeys through the struggles of blindness. A universal story of resilience and love. |
University of Hawai‘i Mānoa, Academy for Creative Media | United States | 0 |
| 85-99 | LUIS RESTO: AT THE HEART OF DETROIT MUSIC
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Details:Length: 14'Screenwriter: n/a Director: Evan Gulock Producer: Evan Gulock Animator: n/a DOP: Calvin Brown, Evan Gulock Sound: Vikas Deo Editor: Vikas Deo Production Designer : n/a Synopsis: Luis Resto is a Detroit-based musician with a humble spirit and an affinity for giving back to his community. He has collaborated with a diverse collection of accomplished artists, from Eminem to Willie Nelson. This is his story behind making soul-driven music and living a heart-driven life. |
Columbia College Chicago (CCC) | United States | 0 |
| 85-99 | MY PRECIOUS, BROKEN FAMILY
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Details:Length: 13'Screenwriter: Krista Moisio, Elvi Sinilaakso Director: Krista Moisio, Elvi Sinilaakso Producer: Elvi Sinilaakso Animator: n/a DOP: Krista Moisio, Elvi Sinilaakso Sound: Niilo Luhtanen Editor: Krista Moisio Production Designer : n/a Synopsis: Sweet moments captured on VHS -tapes are now the only memory of family happiness - of the dream that came true and one day shattered to pieces. These memories are now a part of a story that tears open those wounds that have been covered up for so long. |
Metropolia University of Applied Sciences (MUAS) | Finland | 0 |
| 85-99 | NIGHTLY, DAILY
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Details:Length: 22'Screenwriter: Audrey Lejeune Director: Audrey Lejeune Producer: Les Ateliers Varan Animator: n/a DOP: Audrey Lejeune Sound: n/a Editor: Jean-Pierre Bloc Production Designer : n/a Synopsis: Every night, from 1AM until the break of dawn, Ange and Jean-Pierre visit village after village, working a job that is going extinct. Belonging to the last generation of newspaper deliverymen before the complete digitization of the local daily, they deliver to a loyal but aging clientele. |
Ateliers Varan | France | 0 |
| 85-99 | REHEARSAL AT 1000 METERES ABOVE SEA LEVEL
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Details:Length: 12'Screenwriter: Natia Sharmiashvili Director: Natia Sharmiashvili Producer: TAFU Animator: n/a DOP: Natia Sharmiashvili Sound: Irakli Putkaradze Editor: Giga Japaridze Production Designer : Temur Qotolashvili Synopsis: The rehearsal is held in the theatre, which is located 2nd highest place in the world. |
Theatre and Film Georgia State University (TAFU) | Georgia | 0 |
| 85-99 | THE ISLAND THAT JUMPED OFF A BRIDGE
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Details:Length: 14'Screenwriter: Mathéo Palma, Carlo Sibony Director: Mathéo Palma, Carlo Sibony Producer: David Faroult Animator: n/a DOP: Léo Brezot Sound: Thibault Haas Editor: Matheo Palma, Carlo Sibony Production Designer : n/a Synopsis: During its deliveries, a man crosses a suspended highway every day. Tired of a monotonous daily life, his gaze focused today on the fleeting image of a tomb below. Attracted, he decides to stop on the island that hosts it. Below, bridges seem to judge from their height a dry land, with past glory, which has become an open-air dormitory in spite of itself. He wanders for hours, a notebook in hand welcoming a few notes, while the Sun sets. |
ENS Louis-Lumière | France | 0 |
| 85-99 | THE MICHAEL ROBERTSON SHOW
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Details:Length: 5'Screenwriter: Katleho Shabalala Director: Karabelo Shirinde Producer: Lucia Tempel Animator: n/a DOP: Lucia Tempel Sound: Russell McChallaghan Editor: Russell McChallaghan Production Designer : n/a Synopsis: A quirky biographical documentary on the journey of Michael Robertson as animator and entrepreneur. |
Tshwane University of Technology | South Africa | 0 |
| 85-99 | THE TREES
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Details:Length: 10'Screenwriter: Martín Armand Ugon Director: Martín Armand Ugon Producer: Martín Armand Ugon Animator: n/a DOP: Martín Armand Ugon Sound: Martín Armand Ugon Editor: Martín Armand Ugon Production Designer : Martín Armand Ugon Synopsis: The land and nature of the director's memory. From childhood to life as an adult. |
Film School of Uruguay (ECU) | Uruguay | 0 |
Animation
| Place | Title | School | Country | Points |
| 1 | DAUGHTER
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Details:Length: 15'Screenwriter: Daria Kashcheeva Director: Daria Kashcheeva Producer: Ondřej Šejnoha – Studio FAMU Animation: Daria Kashcheeva DOP: Daria Kashcheeva Sound: Daria Kashcheeva, Miroslav Chaloupka Editor: Alexander Kashcheev Production Designer : n/a Synopsis: In a hospital room, the Daughter recalls a childhood moment when as a little girl she tried to share her experience with an injured bird with her Father. A moment of misunderstanding and a lost embrace has stretched into many years all the way to this hospital room, until the moment when a window pane breaks under the impact of a little bird. |
Film and Television School / Academy of Performing Arts in Prague (FAMU) | Czech Republic | 153 |
| 2 | THE BEAUTY
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Details:Length: 4'Screenwriter: n/a Director: Pascal Schelbli Producer: Tina Vest, Aleksandra Todorovic Animation: Noel Winzen DOP: Underwater Cinematography: David Iskender Dinçer Sound: Robin Harff Editor: Pascal Schelbli Production Designer : n/a Synopsis: „The Beauty“ is a poetic journey through a fascinating underwater world, where plastic and nature become one. For one breath our concerns and feelings of guilt dissolve between eerily beautiful coral reefs and the mysterious depths of the ocean. |
Filmakademie Baden-Wuerttemberg (FABW) | Germany | 76 |
| 3 | HEATWAVE
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Details:Length: 7'Screenwriter: Fokion Xenos Director: Fokion Xenos Producer: Priya K. Dosanjh Animation: Fokion Xenos DOP: Brendan Freedman Sound: Kevin Langhamer Editor: Stella Heath Keir Production Designer : Antonio Niculae Synopsis: ... In the midst of a heatwave of insanity, two children find a way to cool everyone down! |
National FIlm and Television School (NFTS) | United Kingdom | 71 |
| 4 | THE FOX & THE PIGEON
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Details:Length: 6'Screenwriter: Michelle Chua, Aileen Dewhurst, Sharon Gabriella, Viktor Ivanovski, Sang Lee, Tyler Pacana, Sikyung Kevin Sung, Morgan Thompson, Chelsea van Tol, Matt Walton, Steven Wang Director: Michelle Chua, Aileen Dewhurst, Sharon Gabriella, Viktor Ivanovski, Sang Lee, Tyler Pacana, Sikyung Kevin Sung, Morgan Thompson, Chelsea van Tol, Matt Walton, Steven Wang Producer: Sheridan College Animation: Michelle Chua, Aileen Dewhurst, Sharon Gabriella, Viktor Ivanovski, Sang Lee, Tyler Pacana, Sikyung Kevin Sung, Morgan Thompson, Chelsea van Tol, Matt Walton, Steven Wang DOP: Michelle Chua, Aileen Dewhurst, Sharon Gabriella, Viktor Ivanovski, Sang Lee, Tyler Pacana, Sikyung Kevin Sung, Morgan Thompson, Chelsea van Tol, Matt Walton, Steven Wang Sound: Chelsea van Tol, Viktor Ivanovski, Emiliano Paternostro Editor: Tyler Pacana, Chelsea van Tol Production Designer : Michelle Chua, Aileen Dewhurst, Sharon Gabriella, Viktor Ivanovski, Sang Lee, Tyler Pacana, Sikyung Kevin Sung, Morgan Thompson, Chelsea van Tol, Matt Walton, Steven Wang Synopsis: “The Fox & The Pigeon” is a short film about a fox who must save his ice cream from a pigeon with a sweet tooth and a narrator with a wild imagination. |
Sheridan College | Canada | 61 |
| 5 | THE LITTLE SOUL
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Details:Length: 9'Screenwriter: Barbara Rupik Director: Barbara Rupik Producer: Agata Golanska Animation: Barbara Rupik DOP: Barbara Rupik Sound: Barbara Rupik Editor: Barbara Rupik Production Designer : n/a Synopsis: A dead body became stuck by a river bank. Its decaying insides still hide a human soul - a miniature of the deceased. Rotting organs part and a tiny creature gets out. Standing on the river bank, it says goodbye to the corpse and sets off on a journey through the post-mortem land. |
Polish National Film, Television and Theatre School in Lodz (PWSFTViT) | Poland | 51 |
| 6 | CLOUDY
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Details:Length: 5'Screenwriter: Zuzana Čupová, Filip Diviak Director: Zuzana Čupová, Filip Diviak Producer: Tomas Bata University in Zlín Animation: Filip Diviak DOP: n/a Sound: Noemi Valentíny Editor: Filip Diviak Production Designer : n/a Synopsis: Mr. Gnome is sunbathing in his garden when suddenly little cloud hides the sun. Mr. Gnome is pretty annoyed but fortunately, he knows precisely what to do with such clouds. |
Tomas Bata University in Zlín / Faculty of Multimedia Communications (TBU) | Czech Republic | 43 |
| 7 | TAMOU
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Details:Length: 10'Screenwriter: Tom Prezman, Tzor Edery Director: Tom Prezman, Tzor Edery Producer: Bezalel Academy of Arts & Design Animation: Tom Prezman, Tzor Edery DOP: Tom Prezman, Tzor Edery Sound: Tzor Edery Editor: Tom Prezman, Tzor Edery Production Designer : Tom Prezman, Tzor Edery Synopsis: Tamou, a lonely housewife, plunges into an internal exploration of gender and sexuality in 20th century Morocco. Surrounded by the prying eyes of a patriarchal society, her - his true identity as a trans man begins to unfold. |
Bezalel Academy of Arts and Design Jerusalem (BAAD) | Israel | 41 |
| 8 | BYE LITTLE BLOCK!
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Details:Length: 9'Screenwriter: Éva Darabos Director: Éva Darabos Producer: József Fülöp Animation: Éva Darabos, Domonkos Erhardt, Bálint Halasi, Vivien Hárshegyi, Bence Hlavay, Melinda Kádár, Katalin Sárdi DOP: n/a Sound: Dávid Bodnár Vajda Editor: Judit Czakó Production Designer : n/a Synopsis: The protagonist learns that soon she will have to leave her blockhouse flat for good. After receiving the upsetting news she is overwhelmed with emotions. Her teardrop of farewell grows into a concrete monolith. When the drop hits the ground a surreal panorama of the block - she used to call home - unfolds. |
Moholy-Nagy University of Art and Design (MOME) | Hungary | 37 |
| 9 | RED EARTH
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Details:Length: 5'Screenwriter: Michael Kenny Director: Michael Kenny Producer: Michael Kenny Animation: Tonia Ciccone, Michael Kenny DOP: Michael Kenny Sound: Oisìn Halpin Editor: Michael Kenny Production Designer : Brittany Holmes Synopsis: A wallaby searches for food and water in the Australian wilderness, but comes across a mass grave of dead animals and one sole survivor – a delirious kookaburra – who unleashes an unnatural bush fire. The Wallaby can only run for so long…. |
Swinburne School of Film and Television (SSFT) | Australia | 33 |
| 10 | THE BEST ORCHESTRA IN THE WORLD
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Details:Length: 14'Screenwriter: Rafael Haider, Henning Backhaus, Albert Meisl Director: Henning Backhaus Producer: Lukas Rosatti Animation: Lisa Vogt, Felix Pichler, Valerie Wollner, Mariana Fabre, Alejandra Murillo, Pia Wolkenstein, Florian Griinberger, Judith Selenko, Matthias Halibrand DOP: Matthias Halibrand Sound: Nora Czamler Editor: Jana Libnik Production Designer : Andrea Meschik Synopsis: Ingbert, the sock, is applying for a contrabassist at the Wiener Staatskapelle. Stupid Idea. |
Film Academy Vienna (UMDK) | Austria | 31 |
| 11 | TENT 113, IDOMÉNI
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Details:Length: 18'Screenwriter: Agir Aldi, Henri Marbacher Director: Henri Marbacher Producer: HEAD Geneva Animation: Arnaud Dousse, Leo Marbacher, Eric Buche DOP: Henri Marbacher, Leo Marbacher Sound: Henri Marbacher, Sebastian Friedmann Editor: Henri Marbacher Production Designer : Arnaud Dousse Synopsis: This is the story of a journey from Syria to Switzerland that spans several years, rushing from boats to buses, lingering from huts to mosques, crossing camps and borders. From this chaotic construction emerges a fragmented, uneven narrative. |
Film Department/cinéma du réel - Geneva School of Art and Design (HEAD) | Switzerland | 29 |
| 12 | BORDER/LINE
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Details:Length: 3'Screenwriter: Megan Earls Director: Megan Earls Producer: UCA Farnham, Lesley Adams Animation: Megan Earls DOP: n/a Sound: Megan Earls Editor: Megan Earls Production Designer : n/a Synopsis: A film about the unfortunate journey to the mainland which some Northern Irish women are forced to embark on. |
University for the Creative Arts | United Kingdom | 25 |
| 13-15 | BUBBLES
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Details:Length: 3'Screenwriter: Rachel Fitzgerald Director: Rachel Fitzgerald Producer: Rachel Fitzgerald Animation: Rachel Fitzgerald, Paul Browne DOP: n/a Sound: Lucrezia Gnagni Editor: Rachel Fitzgerald Production Designer : Rachel Fitzgerald Synopsis: A puppet grows frustrated with her puppeteer’s bad habits. |
National Film School / Institute of Art, Design and Technology (IADT) | Ireland | 24 |
| 13-15 | GODERDZI
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Details:Length: 7'Screenwriter: Petre Tomadze Director: Petre Tomadze Producer: Zurab Diasamigdze (TAFU) Animation: Petre Tomadze DOP: n/a Sound: George Mutgulia Editor: Petre Tomadze Production Designer : Mishiko Sulakauri Synopsis: The film is telling about some strange gathering of two grave diggers and a weeping widow in a terrible midday heat of deserted cemetery. |
Theatre and Film Georgia State University (TAFU) | Georgia | 24 |
| 13-15 | STRAWBERRY CANDY
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Details:Length: 7'Screenwriter: Nianze Li Director: Nianze Li Producer: Koji Yamamura Animation: Nianze Li DOP: n/a Sound: n/a Editor: Nianze Li Production Designer : n/a Synopsis: It is an unspeakable secret, and the memory is gradually getting thin. The little girl begins to not know that is a real thing or a dream. |
Tokyo University of the Arts, Graduate School of Film and New Media | Japan | 24 |
| 16-18 | KIERAT. THE HORSE MILL
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Details:Length: 6'Screenwriter: Daria Melnikova Director: Daria Melnikova Producer: n/a Animation: Daria Melnikova DOP: n/a Sound: Aleksandr Vanukov Editor: n/a Production Designer : n/a Synopsis: One beautiful morning wild horses come running to a field. Who or what can violate this idyll? It is a curious foal. Running away from his mother, he discovers an incredibly huge structure. It awakens from sleep and enslaves all the horses from the field to revive its mechanisms. |
St. Petersburg State University of Film and Television (SPUFT) | Russia | 23 |
| 16-18 | PACK
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Details:Length: 9'Screenwriter: Alina Natakhina Director: Alina Natakhina Producer: Ksenia Vakulova, Victoria Leshchenko, Vladimir Malyshev, Fedor Popov Animation: Alina Natakhina, Kristina Poplavskaya, Alexander Panov DOP: n/a Sound: Anton Levkin Editor: Alina Natakhina Production Designer : Alina Natakhina Synopsis: The story of a wolf cub rescued by a man from a trap based on the story «Maga leads away the pack». |
Russian State University of Сinematography n.a. S.Gerasimov VGIK | Russia | 23 |
| 16-18 | ROADKILL
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Details:Length: 7'Screenwriter: Leszek Mozga Director: Leszek Mozga Producer: Leszek Mozga Animation: Leszek Mozga DOP: Leszek Mozga Sound: Leszek Mozga, Stefano Luongo Editor: Leszek Mozga, Michael Ho Production Designer : Alicja Mozga (art direction and puppet design) Synopsis: A stop-motion animated thriller set in a world where deer are the dominant species. An alpha male deer goes for an evening car ride and has an unfortunate accident, triggering a chain of events with dire consequences for the victim. |
London College of Communication | United Kingdom | 23 |
| 19 | DUTCHGARIA
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Details:Length: 12'Screenwriter: Capucine Muller Director: Capucine Muller Producer: KASK - School of Arts Gent, Belgium Animation: Capucine Muller DOP: Capucine Muller Sound: Patrik Berx, Capucine Muller Editor: Capucine Muller Production Designer : n/a Synopsis: In her difficulties with an unknown language and her struggles with the locals, please follow the adventures of a French girl who just moved to a weird country called Dutchgaria. |
Royal Academy of Fine Arts / University College Ghent (KASK) | Belgium | 21 |
| 20 | CLEAR CONSCIENCE
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Details:Length: 7'Screenwriter: Francesco Corrado Director: Francesco Corrado, Sara Binetti, Francesca De Toni, Simone Stassano Producer: Centro Sperimentale di Cinematografia Piemonte, Dip.to Animazione (National Film School) Animation: Sara Binetti, Francesco Corrado, Francesca De Toni, Simone Stassano DOP: n/a Sound: Paolo Armao, Vito Martinelli Editor: n/a Production Designer : n/a Synopsis: Claudio is a technician working for Clean Conscience ltd, a company specialized in the suppression of guilt. He dutifully carries out his work, but one day he will have to question himself if all the consciences deserve to be cleaned up. |
Centro Sperimentale di Cinematografia (CSC) | Italy | 20 |
| 21-23 | BALANCE
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Details:Length: 7'Screenwriter: Timothee Crabbe Director: Timothee Crabbe Producer: Timothee Crabbe / Luca School Of Arts Animation: Timothee Crabbe DOP: Timothee Crabbe Sound: Timothee Crabbe, Frederik Van De Moortel Editor: Timothee Crabbe Production Designer : n/a Synopsis: An accident forces acrobats Alec and Theo to find a new dynamic in their relationship. |
LUCA School of Arts (LUCA) | Belgium | 19 |
| 21-23 | MC FREEMAN'S HAPPY BARN
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Details:Length: 5'Screenwriter: Anna Häggström Director: Anna Häggström Producer: Anna Häggström Animation: Anna Häggström DOP: Anna Häggström Sound: Anna Häggström Editor: Anna Häggström Production Designer : Anna Häggström Synopsis: In a reality where women are kept trapped and their menstrual blood is taken for consumption, we follow one of these women, L. But what happens when L no longer can produce blood? Mc Freeman’s Happy Barn is an animated short film set in an alternate universe exploring issues of human morality. |
Stockholm Academy of Dramatic Arts / Stockholm University of the Arts (SADA) | Sweden | 19 |
| 21-23 | MODERN BABEL
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Details:Length: 12'Screenwriter: Zhao Lin Director: Zhao Lin Producer: Han Shuqiao, Wang Hunqi Animation: Cai Siqi, Zhao Lin DOP: n/a Sound: n/a Editor: Zhao Lin Production Designer : n/a Synopsis: In a morning, an ordinary home in a noisy city, a housewife who is doing housework finds the refrigerator empty, so she drives to supermarket. To her surprise, the whole town’s people flock to the supermarket and get ready for shopping spree because there is a big promotion that day. The housewife can hardly compete with the over-excited people. She is pushed into a corner. Seeing the chaos from the corner, she is like being brainwashed. She gets up soon and joins the competition of snapping up. |
Beijing Film Academy (BFA) | China | 19 |
| 24-25 | ANOTHER YOU
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Details:Length: 5'Screenwriter: Yiran Qiao Director: Yiran Qiao Producer: Rochester Institute of Technology Animation: Yiran Qiao DOP: Yiran Qiao Sound: Quinn Huang, Celia Clark, Quin Stocks Editor: Yiran Qiao Production Designer : Yiran Qiao Synopsis: A housewife was trying to escape from her daily life, but she was failed. |
School of Film and Animation, College of Art and Design, Rochester Institute of Technology | United States | 14 |
| 24-25 | NOT SO GRIM
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Details:Length: 5'Screenwriter: Narissa Amies Director: Narissa Amies Producer: Kasey Lee Animation: Narissa Amies, Roxy Chown, Jack Lane, Kylie Lovan, Joyce Mekonnen, Janna Misa, Mathanael Moore, Ray Pilley, Aidan Pojuha, Cindy can der Kreek, Maya Westbury DOP: n/a Sound: Tae Young Editor: n/a Production Designer : n/a Synopsis: When the Grim Geaper’s child, Rei, befriends an accident-prone crow, he makes it his mission to keep the crow alive at all costs! But when the crow drowns, the only way that Rei thinks to save him is by refilling the crow’s ‘Hourglass of life’ with dirt – instead of life-giving sand. However, when Grim catches Rei in the act, he has a slightly ‘grimmer’ solution to Rei and Crow’s dilemma. |
Griffith Film School (GFS) | Australia | 14 |
| 26 | MY LITTLE DOLL
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Details:Length: 7'Screenwriter: Ashitha Nair Director: Ashitha Nair Producer: Satyajit Ray Film & Television Institute Animation: Ashitha Nair DOP: n/a Sound: Diksha Mishra Editor: n/a Production Designer : n/a Synopsis: An elder sister who came to see her new born sister in the hospital upon finding her parents not paying her any attention, wants to test their love for her. She runs away only to get lost in her own insecurities. During the time she encounters the feeling of jealousy for the very first time in the form of her doll that she was supposed to gift her little sister. As door after door shows the glimpse of how her life will be with her sister in it, her little doll gets bigger and get better control over her eventually taking control of her life till something happens to her sister and she is brought back to reality. Even though she is relieved to be back from the dream and smiles at the new born baby, she holds back the toy she wanted to give the baby. |
Satyajit Ray Film and Television Institute (SRFTI) | India | 12 |
| 27-30 | CLOCKWORKERS
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Details:Length: 4'Screenwriter: Nelson Dean Director: Nelson Dean Producer: n/a Animation: Nelson Dean DOP: n/a Sound: n/a Editor: Nelson Dean Production Designer : n/a Synopsis: Clockworkers is a stop-motion animation by Nelson Dean. It depicts the growth of a clockwork hive, and one worker's fight for change. |
VCA Film and Television | Australia | 11 |
| 27-30 | DEVIL'S CHAPEL
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Details:Length: 8'Screenwriter: Nicolás de Bórtoli Director: Nicolás de Bórtoli Producer: Nicolás de Bórtoli Animation: Nicolás de Bórtoli DOP: Nicolás de Bórtoli Sound: Nicolás de Bórtoli Editor: Nicolás de Bórtoli Production Designer : Nicolás de Bórtoli, Nina Lamarque Synopsis: After finishing building his Chapel, Lorenzo suffers a depression and is locked in it for three years. When he opens the doors he calls his children to show what he did: good and evil. |
Universidad de Buenos Aires / Diseño de Imagen y Sonido FADU (UBA) | Argentina | 11 |
| 27-30 | THE CALVES
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Details:Length: 11'Screenwriter: Bela Bulgakova Director: Bela Bulgakova Producer: Bela Bulgakova Animation: Bela Bulgakova DOP: Musashi Shimamura Sound: Mikhail Gavrilov Editor: Bela Bulgakova Production Designer : Bela Bulgakova Synopsis: A story about two calves looking for their disappeared mother. |
Academy of Media Arts Cologne (KHM) | Germany | 11 |
| 27-30 | WAR MACHINE
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Details:Length: 7'Screenwriter: Vladislav Budinov Director: Iva Dimanova Producer: NATFA, Bulgaria - Prof. Dr. Stanislav Semerdjiev Animation: Iva Dimanova DOP: Iva Dimanova Sound: Iva Dimanova, Yavor Pachovski Editor: Iva Dimanova Production Designer : Iva Dimanova Synopsis: In time of war there is no place for humanity. Instead soldiers are being turned into machines. War machines. |
National Academy for Theatre and Film Arts (NATFA) | Bulgaria | 11 |
| 31 | A HOLE
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Details:Length: 10'Screenwriter: Molly Murphy Director: Molly Murphy Producer: Molly Murphy Animation: Bob Yong, Leon Cruz, Molly Murphy DOP: n/a Sound: Giovanni Betancourt Editor: n/a Production Designer : n/a Synopsis: In a black hole apocalypse, one man holds the answer. His name? Rob Bilford. |
University of Southern California's School of Cinematic Arts (USC) | United States | 10 |
| 32-34 | OLD BOYS
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Details:Length: 7'Screenwriter: Carla Geagea, Heidi Hellsten, Karoliina Nick Director: Carla Geagea Producer: Carla Geagea Animation: Airi Kervinen, Anniina Lehikoinen, Carla Geagea, Elise Heersink, Heidi Hellsten, Sina Aho, Karoliina Nick, Nina Nylander DOP: n/a Sound: Aurora Solala, Jaanis Hållman, Kati Rolamo Editor: Airi Kervinen, Anniina Lehikoinen, Carla Geagea, Elise Heersink, Heidi Hellsten, Sina Aho, Karoliina Nick, Nina Nylander Production Designer : n/a Synopsis: Nestori is a cynical old man who doesn’t pay mind to the surrounding nature in Saimaa, Finland. He is content living his solitary lifestyle fueled by alcohol. One day when fishing, his net is heavier than usual… |
Metropolia University of Applied Sciences (MUAS) | Finland | 9 |
| 32-34 | TRi
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Details:Length: 3'Screenwriter: Michael Dämmig Director: Michael Dämmig Producer: Michael Dämmig Animation: Michael Dämmig DOP: Michael Dämmig Sound: Marius Schaaf Editor: Michael Dämmig Production Designer : n/a Synopsis: A mysterious creature is fishing on an island in the middle of nowhere for another orange tetraeder. But he only seems to get blue ones and keeps on fishing tenaciously. Suddenly, the orange tetraeder goes out and his color and energy go with it. |
ifs internationale filmschule köln | Germany | 9 |
| 32-34 | WINGS
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Details:Length: 3'Screenwriter: Lisa Mae Evans, Chris Fryer, James Goodey, Jansen Mccord, Giorgio Pennisi, Elisa Sanguin Director: Lisa Mae Evans, Chris Fryer, James Goodey, Jansen Mccord, Giorgio Pennisi, Elisa Sanguin Producer: University of Hertfordshire Animation: Ajay Arunan, Fred Austin, Muniza Faisal, Laura Karbauskaite, Sam Mowforth, Niau Meeteck, Jack Plummer, Marco Privitera, Alex Selby, Piers Shepherd-Rose, Kirstie Scarlett-Bruff, Maya Storm Shrestha, Marcus Taylor, Adrian Teoh, Joshua Treadgold, Amy Wright DOP: Elisa Sanguin Sound: Gabriel Ness Editor: Elisa Sanguin Production Designer : Elisa Sanguin Synopsis: A charming tale of a bat who wished he was as beautiful as a butterfly, however he discovers that beauty is more than a fancy pair of wings. |
University of Hertfordshire | United Kingdom | 9 |
| 35-36 | STACK
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Details:Length: 6'Screenwriter: Linn Marie Fiksdal Lundh Director: Asbjørn Lote Producer: Simon Samdal Animation: Asbjørn Lote DOP: n/a Sound: Magnus Møller Bakke Editor: n/a Production Designer : n/a Synopsis: This is the story of Push, a two-wheeled self-balancing robot. His patience is put to the test when he discovers that he is not alone. Can he balance his structures and a new friendship? |
Westerdals Department of Film and Media School of Arts, Design and Media, Kristiania University College | Norway | 7 |
| 35-36 | TALISMAN
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Details:Length: 5'Screenwriter: Raine Sarens Director: Raine Sarens Producer: RITCS Animation: Raine Sarens DOP: n/a Sound: Brecht Vander Plaetse, Aster Vanhaverbeke Editor: n/a Production Designer : n/a Synopsis: Two fighter pilots continue their battle on the ground. When they see that the opponent wears a talisman, they realize that they're both in the same situation. |
Royal Institute for Theatre, Cinema and Sound (RITCS) | Belgium | 7 |
| 37-38 | KEDAMONO - THE BEAST
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Details:Length: 4'Screenwriter: Antonella Fabiano Director: Antonella Fabiano, Chiara Speziale Producer: n/a Animation: Antonella Fabiano, Chiara Speziale DOP: n/a Sound: Giovanni Benedetti Editor: Antonella Fabiano, Chiara Speziale Production Designer : n/a Synopsis: A pitiless fight where a woman must face up to her beast. |
Milan City Film School Luchino Visconti (MCSC) | Italy | 6 |
| 37-38 | ROOSTERS
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Details:Length: 5'Screenwriter: Tan Lee Wen, Nicole Director: Tan Lee Wen, Nicole Producer: Nanyang Polytechnic, Singapore Animation: Tan Lee Wen, Nicole DOP: Tan Lee Wen, Nicole Sound: Teo Wei Yong Editor: Tan Lee Wen, Nicole Production Designer : Tan Lee Wen, Nicole Synopsis: A short story about the rivalry between two roosters over a gorgeous hen. |
Nanyang Polytechnic / School of Design and Media (SDM) | Singapore | 6 |
| 39-43 | FRED'S HEAD
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Details:Length: 3'Screenwriter: Kathryn Leviton Director: Kathryn Leviton Producer: Amanda Chin, Kathryn Leviton Animation: Kathryn Leviton, Bethany Walker, Clodagh Horne, Faye McGovern, Francis Rattray, Imogen Saunders, Jedd Saltmarsh, Katy Taylor, Lucy Redman, Molly Fuller, Neidin Rogers, Ting Loh DOP: n/a Sound: Kathryn Leviton Editor: Kathryn Leviton Production Designer : n/a Synopsis: In an attempt to escape reality, a young boy is consumed by his hyperactive imagination. A journey through conflicting worlds... what is real and what is not? |
Falmouth University | United Kingdom | 5 |
| 39-43 | I DON'T FIT IN MYSELF ANYMORE
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Details:Length: 3'Screenwriter: Samira Poffo Director: Samira Poffo Producer: Samira Poffo Animation: Samira Poffo DOP: Samira Poffo Sound: Samira Poffo Editor: Samira Poffo Production Designer : Samira Poffo Synopsis: "Some days I feel an incessant need to release my thoughts". |
Universidade Lusófona / Film and Media Arts Department (ULHT) | Portugal | 5 |
| 39-43 | IN COLOR
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Details:Length: 6'Screenwriter: HWANG, Jeong-ah Director: HWANG, Jeong-ah Producer: HWANG, Jeong-ah Animation: HWANG, Jeong-ah DOP: n/a Sound: HWANG, Jeong-ah Editor: HWANG, Jeong-ah Production Designer : HWANG, Jeong-ah Synopsis: It is a story about a little ghost covered with white cloth. While meeting several friends, he gets his own color. |
KUMA | South Korea | 5 |
| 39-43 | THE GROWTH
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Details:Length: 7'Screenwriter: Sarah Cheok Director: Sarah Cheok Producer: Morrie Tan Animation: Kehua Loh, Morrie Tan, Sarah Cheok DOP: n/a Sound: Jevon Chandra Editor: n/a Production Designer : Sarah Cheok Synopsis: An ambitious young boy is eager to grow up so he can experience the world outside of his kellong (an offshore platform) in the middle of the ocean. Eventually, he musters up the courage to persuade the old man but was faced with disapproval. The boy decides to go anyway. |
Puttnam School of Film & Animation / LASALLE College of the Arts (LCA) | Singapore | 5 |
| 39-43 | WHAT THE HECK SHOULD I WRITE ABOUT?
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Details:Length: 4'Screenwriter: Matei Monoranu Director: Matei Monoranu Producer: UNATC I.L.CARAGIALE BUCHAREST - Matei Monoranu Animation: Matei Monoranu, Cristina Pirvu DOP: n/a Sound: Andra Berilă, Aurel Ciucur Editor: Bogdan Benea, Matei Monoranu, Valeriu Caliman Production Designer : n/a Synopsis: An extremely lazy writer aims to write something worthy of a great prize while struggling with the delights of procrastination. Things change when a talented mosquito enters the window, bringing the possibility of writing a masterpiece. |
National University of Theatre and Film (UNATC) | Romania | 5 |
| 44-46 | MASQUERADE
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Details:Length: 6'Screenwriter: Emma Rautala Director: Emma Rautala Producer: Eija Saarinen, YLE Sari Volanen Animation: Emma Rautala DOP: Emma Rautala Sound: Niklas Eurén Editor: Emma Rautala Production Designer : Emma Rautala Synopsis: Who you really are behind all your masks? |
Turku University of Applied Sciences (TUAS) Arts Academy / Degree Programme in Film and Media | Finland | 4 |
| 44-46 | MY FISHDAD AND I
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Details:Length: 8'Screenwriter: Yael Gelber Director: Yael Gelber Producer: Yael Gelber Animation: Yael Gelber DOP: n/a Sound: Ahjad Ohaii Editor: n/a Production Designer : n/a Synopsis: The story of an adolescence girl about belonging, sexual awakening and the relations between myself-family-place, coming to life in the gap between two worlds - current Israeli monotonous reality and a saturated childhood in Thailand. |
School of Audio & Visual Arts, Sapir College | Israel | 4 |
| 44-46 | WAITING FOR THE RAIN
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Details:Length: 12'Screenwriter: Franco Lombardi Director: Franco Lombardi Producer: Universidad dle Cine Animation: Franco Lombardi, Juaco Garin, Julián Cristiano, Angie Sena DOP: Franco Lombardi, Javier Tedín Sound: Franco Lombardi Editor: Franco Lombardi Production Designer : n/a Synopsis: A boy is separated from his home. Loses his beloved forest where it always rains, linked to the memory of his mother. He moves to the desert and finds it really hard to adapt to this new habitat and the school. He misses the rain and looks for it. |
Universidad del Cine (UCINE) | Argentina | 4 |
| 47-48 | HADEDA
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Details:Length: 6'Screenwriter: Nuha Suliman Director: Nuha Suliman Producer: Tiisetso Maoke Animation: Nuha Suliman DOP: n/a Sound: Ntokozo Mahlangu, Natasha Luttjeboer Editor: Bobette Muchinga Production Designer : n/a Synopsis: Ziya moves into a new home, only to be disturbed by a noisy Hadeda bird. She can only find peace if she discovers where the real noise is coming from. |
South African School of Motion Picture Medium and Live Performance (AFDA) | South Africa | 3 |
| 47-48 | KENYA'S SYMPHONY
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Details:Length: 5'Screenwriter: Carlos Douglas Jr. Director: Carlos Douglas Jr. Producer: Carlos Douglas Jr. Animation: Carlos Douglas Jr, Helen Grimes, Micha Rogers, Cassidy Romero, Francesco Porcello, Sean Carter, Paul Kritikos DOP: n/a Sound: Emilee Q Brackenbury Editor: Carlos Douglas Jr. Production Designer : n/a Synopsis: A bold young girl reluctantly visits the symphony for the first time with her mother, wreaking havoc with a straw and spitballs to entertain herself! But soon, she discovers the musical gift hidden within her young spirit. |
Columbia College Chicago (CCC) | United States | 3 |
| 49-52 | HEXTOPIA
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Details:Length: 2'Screenwriter: Ulaş Can Iştar Director: Ulaş Can Iştar Producer: Ulaş Can Iştar Animation: Ulaş Can Iştar DOP: n/a Sound: Ulaş Can Iştar Editor: n/a Production Designer : n/a Synopsis: Sometimes love overcomes negativity. Hexar, Tanus and Hectus try to get rid of Kevin who is a greedy monster. They make plans but nothing works. One day, when Hexar and his friends try to stop Kevin, a boy appears in front of their cave. Boy smiles and hugs Kevin and his love transforms him into a sweet, little creature. |
Istanbul Kultur University (IKU) | Turkey | 2 |
| 49-52 | PAWN POWER
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Details:Length: 6'Screenwriter: Tyler Yarbro Director: Tyler Yarbro Producer: Nadine Natividad, Paul Dixon Animation: Dontae Carter, Zachary Honea DOP: Tyler Yarbro Sound: Tyler Yarbro Editor: Tyler Yarbro Production Designer : Chai Simone, Audrey Page Synopsis: A pawn discovers through battle that it can become a rook, bishop, knight or queen. But it can never be KING. |
University of Nevada Las Vegas (UNLV) | United States | 2 |
| 49-52 | WEAVING THE DAWN
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Details:Length: 2'Screenwriter: Alice Andreoli Hirata Director: Alice Andreoli Hirata Producer: Alice Andreoli Hirata Animation: Alice Andreoli Hirata DOP: Leandro Paiva Sound: Lucia Esteves Editor: Alice Andreoli Hirata Production Designer : Alice Andreoli Hirata Synopsis: One rooster can't bring the dawn by itself. So many roosters come together and interlace rays of light to weave the dawn. As the Sun comes, its light reveals what was only silhouettes before. |
University of São Paulo / School of Communications and Arts / Department of Film, Radio and Television (USP) | Brazil | 2 |
| 49-52 | “1032 PROCESS”
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Details:Length: 10'Screenwriter: David Rodríguez Director: David Rodríguez Producer: David Rodríguez Animation: David Rodríguez DOP: David Rodríguez Sound: David Rodríguez Editor: David Rodríguez Production Designer : David Rodríguez Synopsis: “X is an official of “The Corporation”, a multinational enterprise that makes illegal business and is a government ally. X is investigated, expelled and subsequently arrested, tortured and they take samples of his DNA, then X decides to escape” |
Escuela de Cine y Televisión / UNAL (ECYTV) | Colombia | 2 |
| 53-55 | HOLGA AND DIMITRI
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Details:Length: 4'Screenwriter: Anastasia James Director: Anastasia James Producer: Kate Diggins Animation: Anastasia James, Kate Diggins DOP: n/a Sound: Anastasia James, Kate Diggins, Bethany Stewart Editor: Anastasia James, Kate Diggins Production Designer : n/a Synopsis: An oddball couple must tackle their daily life and each other, as they navigate a world lost to time and sense. |
Australian Film Television and Radio School (AFTRS) | Australia | 1 |
| 53-55 | MIDNIGHT SHOWING
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Details:Length: 10'Screenwriter: Gavin Arucan Director: Gavin Arucan Producer: Sophia Whalen Animation: Chandelle Oliver, Sophia Whalen, Jared Louis, Gavin Arucan, Kalilinoe Detwiler, Alexis Nelson, Bobby Renteria, Jayme Sugitaya DOP: Gavin Arucan Sound: Alexis Nelson Editor: Gavin Arucan Production Designer : Gavin Arucan Synopsis: Midnight Showing is a wacky animated horror film following Angel, an utterly exhausted movie theatre usher, on the most frightening closing shift of his life. When nobody arrives for a midnight movie premiere, Angel eagerly closes up early, angering a menacing phantom that haunts the theatre. |
University of Hawai‘i Mānoa, Academy for Creative Media | United States | 1 |
| 53-55 | PLUNGER
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Details:Length: 8'Screenwriter: Lauri Ketonen, Konsta Verta Director: Lauri Ketonen, Konsta Verta Producer: Lauri Ketonen, Konsta Verta Animation: Lauri Ketonen, Konsta Verta DOP: n/a Sound: Konsta Verta Editor: n/a Production Designer : n/a Synopsis: Timotei is heading home. The train stops at a mysterious train station he has never been before. Timotei sees a beautiful blue ribbon and he starts to chase it. Finally, after three times he is able to catch it. This sends him out to his dreams. |
Aalto University School of Arts, Design and Architecture / ELO Film School Helsinki | Finland | 1 |
| 56-66 | AGONY ECSTASY
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Details:Length: 12'Screenwriter: Paula Almeida Director: Paula Almeida Producer: Paula Almeida Animation: Paula Almeida DOP: Paula Almeida Sound: Paula Almeida Editor: Paula Almeida Production Designer : Paula Almeida Synopsis: Agony Ecstacy is an animated short film that tells fragmentary about movement through state of abandonment and amazement in an odd world which still reminds us of our own.. A timeless world without past nor future. |
HDK-Valand | Sweden | 0 |
| 56-66 | BLUE & HUES
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Details:Length: 6'Screenwriter: Jordan McLaughlin, Brian Sheehan, Gabrielle Walden Director: Jordan McLaughlin Producer: Nick Dardes Animation: Jordan McLaughlin, Hosanna Gurley DOP: n/a Sound: Gabrielle Walden Editor: Brian Sheehan Production Designer : n/a Synopsis: Blue and Hues are a tight-knit duo in thievery. When they set their sights on a powerful man with a diamond lodged in his eye, they start to question if this is the kind of life they really want. |
University of North Carolina School of the Arts (UNCSA) | United States | 0 |
| 56-66 | COMME DES OCEAN
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Details:Length: 2'Screenwriter: n/a Director: Amy Cousins Producer: Amy Cousins Animation: Georgia Brooke, Freya Wood DOP: n/a Sound: Ella Linden Editor: Amy Cousins Production Designer : n/a Synopsis: It’s no longer a figment of your imagination. Jolted from the serenity by a mechanical thunder she drops down into the depths of the ocean, and irreversible tragedy ensues. |
Northern Film School / Leeds Beckett University (NFS/LBU) | United Kingdom | 0 |
| 56-66 | DOOR
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Details:Length: 11'Screenwriter: Emre Zengineken Director: Emre Zengineken Producer: Emre Zengineken Animation: Emre Zengineken DOP: Emre Zengineken Sound: Yaz Yilmaz (Music) Editor: Emre Zengineken Production Designer : Emre Zengineken Synopsis: Cem wakes up on a stretcher in the middle of a foggy room. He notices the familiar doors around him. When he gets in a room, he suddenly turns in to another person that he knows from his life. This anomaly becomes a golden opportunity to look his own life from outside. |
Maltepe University | Turkey | 0 |
| 56-66 | DOWN THE CHAINS
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Details:Length: 4'Screenwriter: Stephany Ortiz, Agata Piccardo, André Salas Director: Stephany Ortiz, Agata Piccardo, André Salas Producer: Stephany Ortiz Animation: Stephany Ortiz, Agata Piccardo, André Salas DOP: Agata Piccardo Sound: Ernesto Suárez Editor: Stephany Ortiz Production Designer : Agata Piccardo Synopsis: A young woman is attacked by her memories from her childhood and the dictatorship; she must free herself from her fears and keep moving forward. |
School of Image - Veritas University | Costa Rica | 0 |
| 56-66 | EMBARKO
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Details:Length: 8'Screenwriter: Kai Lee Hague Director: Kai Lee Hague Producer: n/a DOP: n/a Sound: Helena McGill Editor: n/a Production Designer : n/a Synopsis: When two delivery dogs on a job discover buried treasure in the mountains, their conflicting interests lead to dire consequences. |
Chapman University / Dodge College of Film and Media Arts | United States | 0 |
| 56-66 | FOLLOW THE WAY
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Details:Length: 7'Screenwriter: Robin Daloze, Jin-Jhoo Detienne, Delphine Kubiela Director: Robin Daloze, Jin-Jhoo Detienne, Delphine Kubiela Producer: Media Diffusion Animation: Robin Daloze, Jin-Jhoo Detienne, Delphine Kubiela DOP: Romain Vermeiren Sound: Grégory Babut du Marès, Raphael Lapoulle, Xavier de Maere Editor: Robin Daloze, Jin-Jhoo Detienne, Delphine Kubiela Production Designer : n/a Synopsis: A young man begins an adventure in a strange forest hoping he can find his beloved who is trapped inside. |
Institut des Arts de Diffusion (IAD) | Belgium | 0 |
| 56-66 | RED CHRISTMAS
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Details:Length: 2'Screenwriter: Royce Marnell Director: Royce Marnell Producer: Royce Marnell Animation: Royce Marnell DOP: Royce Marnell Sound: Royce Marnell Editor: Royce Marnell Production Designer : Royce Marnell Synopsis: Driven by hate, Mr. Smith plans to get revenge by plotting to kill Santa Claus after a lifetime of being given nothing but lumpy coal. |
Florida State University / College of Motion Picture Arts (FSU) | United States | 0 |
| 56-66 | STORY ABOARD
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Details:Length: 6'Screenwriter: Louis Billaud Director: Louis Billaud Producer: Louis Billaud Animation: Louis Billaud DOP: Louis Billaud Sound: Jean Fournier, Louis Billaud Editor: Louis Billaud Production Designer : Louis Billaud Synopsis: The wandering of an individual through the city and imaginary landscapes, seeking his place in the world and evoking his concerns about our time. |
ENSAV | France | 0 |
| 56-66 | THE ONE YOU MISS
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Details:Length: 4'Screenwriter: LAM Lok Yee Joy Director: LAM Lok Yee Joy Producer: n/a Animation: LAM Lok Yee Joy DOP: n/a Sound: LAM Lok Yee Joy Editor: LAM Lok Yee Joy Production Designer : n/a Synopsis: The lover separated by death, but a promise once again reconnected them. Faced with regrets and pain of life, would you choose to confront It bravely or let it go? |
Academy of Film / Hong Kong Baptist University (HKBU) | Hong Kong | 0 |
| 56-66 | TRUST ME
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Details:Length: 6'Screenwriter: Zlata Golecová, Júlia Oreská Director: Zlata Golecová Producer: FTF VŠMU Animation: Zlata Golecová, Marianna Bódy DOP: Marcel Smieško Sound: Natália Jancová Editor: Katka Koniarová, Zlata Golecová Production Designer : Silvia Malovcová Synopsis: „Trust me. I know what I am doing.“ The film depicts the relationship between mother and her child. How close and far they are to each other. And what happens when child needs to fly away from the nest. |
Academy of Performing Arts / Film and Television Faculty (VSMU) | Slovakia | 0 |
