2018
Fiction
| Place | Title | School | Country | Points |
| 1 | FACING MECCA
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Details:TrailerLength: 27' Screenwriter: Anna Schinz, Jan-Erick Mack Director: Jan-Eric Mack Producer: Joël Jent, Dschoint Ventschr / Zurich University of the Arts / Switzerland Animator: n/a DOP: Jan Mettler Sound: Christian Schäppi Editor: Simon Gutknecht Production Designer: n/a Synopsis: Pensioner Roli comes to Fareed’s assistance when the Syrian refugee is faced with the burial of his Muslim wife. Together they stumble into a bewildering forest of Swiss bureaucracy to which Roli finds a beautifully simple answer. |
Zurich University of the Arts / Department of Performing Arts and Film (ZHdK) | Switzerland | 84 |
| 2 | PROVENCE
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Details:TrailerLength: 22' Screenwriter: Kato De Boeck Director: Kato De Boeck Producer: Hadewich Huysveld Animator: n/a DOP: Esmoreit Lutters Sound: Fred De Geus Editor: Lawrence Paul Foley Production Designer: n/a Synopsis: On the summer vacation Camille (11) and her brother Tuur (15) explore the camping site in Provence. When they meet two Dutch teenage girls, Camille’s admiration for her brother turns into jealousy. A careless holiday becomes an awakening to adolescence. |
Royal Institute for Theatre, Cinema and Sound (RITCS) | Belgium | 61 |
| 3 | BLUE SUMMER SYMPHONY
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Details:Length: 29'Screenwriter: Raphaela te Pass, Sinje Köhler Director: Sinje Köhler Producer: Filmakademie Baden-Württemberg 2017 Animator: n/a DOP: Fabian Gamper Sound: Lena Beck, Marcus Fass, Thomas De Filippi, Marco Schnebel Editor: David Kuruc Production Designer: Nora Simon Synopsis: A public pool, a sociotope. A scene of daydreaming and gentle snoozing. It is a place where everything is fine, or at least it feels like it. The smells of summer are in the air: sun milk lawn and flower fries, beach ball melon and chlorine lemonade. In the tightest of spaces half-naked people share an afternoon, some hours with each other while time flies by so quickly. That is where you find the poetic banality of everyday life. |
Filmakademie Baden-Wuerttemberg (FABW) | Germany | 59 |
| 4 | LITTLE ITALIAN GIRLS
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Details:TrailerLength: 18' Screenwriter: Giuseppe Brigante, Anna Zagaglia Director: Letizia Lamartire Producer: CSC Production Animator: n/a DOP: Giuseppe Chessa Sound: Valerio Tedone, Giandomenico Petillo Editor: Fabrizio Franzini Production Designer: Marco Pittacci Synopsis: In 1943 the fascist regime bans production and sale of toys. Toy factories will be reconverted in war industries. Italia a strongly fascist and polemic little girl, takes the decision to rebel against the edict, during a school play, raising the roof. |
Centro Sperimentale di Cinematografia (CSC) | Italy | 58 |
| 5 | PORTRAIT OF MY FAMILY IN MY 13TH YEAR
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Details:TrailerLength: 16' Screenwriter: Omri Dekel-Kadosh Director: Omri Dekel-Kadosh Producer: Yotam Shazar Animator: n/a DOP: Tal Ninyo Sound: n/a Editor: Legal Mor Production Designer: Yotam Shazar Synopsis: Omri is trying to direct a scene recreating the day his dog died. The attempt at restoration gets complicated when Omri discovers that his father remembers the events differently. |
Sam Spiegel Film and Television School Jerusalem (JSFS) | Israel | 46 |
| 6 | ONE SMALL STEP
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Details:TrailerLength: 13' Screenwriter: Travis Rush Director: Aqsa Altaf Producer: Derek Tonks, Alexandra Christensson Animator: n/a DOP: Dakota Adney Sound: Jeffrey McDonald Editor: Clayton Kinson Production Designer: Shannon McDonogh Synopsis: A 9-year-old girl attempts to juggle the responsibilities of school and her younger siblings after her mother goes missing. |
University of Southern California's School of Cinematic Arts (USC) | United States | 42 |
| 7 | NIGHT CALL
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Details:TrailerLength: 17' Screenwriter: Joseph Sousa Director: Amanda Renee Knox Producer: Miriam Anwari, Phabilla Afflack-Borja Animator: n/a DOP: Michael Phillips Sound: William Tabanou Editor: Yezhi Chen Production Designer: Stephanie J. Gordon Synopsis: When on a routine patrol, a Black female cop living in and patrolling Inglewood gets called to a disturbance she is forced to make an unprecedented life altering decision. |
Chapman University / Dodge College of Film and Media Arts | United States | 39 |
| 8 | EARTHLY PEOPLE
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Details:TrailerLength: 27' Screenwriter: Ádám Freund, Ádám Fekete, János Antal Horváth Director: Ádám Freund Producer: Gábor Garami, Miklós Bosnyák Animator: n/a DOP: Mátyás Gyuricza Sound: Bálint Zándoki Editor: Zsófia Érdi Production Designer: Zsófia Tasnádi Synopsis: Ábel, 12, has to face the fact that his parents are living in two completely different galaxies of the universe. Now he has to decide which one he belongs to. |
University of Theatre and Film Arts Budapest (SzFE) | Hungary | 38 |
| 9 | DON’T PASS THROUGH SAN BERNARDINO
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Details:TrailerLength: 20' Screenwriter: Hugo Magaña Director: Hugo Magaña Producer: CCC (on screen credit), Executive producers: César Salcedo, Salathiel López Animator: n/a DOP: J. Daniel Zúñiga S. Sound: Iván Ramos, Hugo Magaña Editor: Hugo Magaña Production Designer: Karina Moreno Synopsis: Ligia, a mourning peasant mother, turns to government institutions and social organizations to try to find answers for her son’s death. |
Centro de Capacitación Cinematográfica, A.C. (CCC) | Mexico | 37 |
| 10-12 | EXCUSE ME, I'M LOOKING FOR THE PING-PONG ROOM AND MY GIRLFRIEND
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Details:Length: 23'Screenwriter: Bernhard Wenger Director: Bernhard Wenger Producer: Florian Bayer, Clara König, Bernhard Wenger Animator: n/a DOP: Albin Wildner Sound: Ken Rischard, JnesVorreiter Editor: Rupert Höller Production Designer: Antonio Semerano Synopsis: A film about a couple on a wellness trip, where one partner disappears and the other isn't sure whether he's looking for her or himself. Within the bizarre world of the alpine wellness resort, Aron begins a new chapter in his life. |
Film Academy Vienna (UMDK) | Austria | 35 |
| 10-12 | LITTLE MANIFESTO AGAINST SOLEMN CINEMA
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Details:TrailerLength: 14' Screenwriter: Roberto Porta Director: Roberto Porta Producer: Universidad del Cine Animator: n/a DOP: Sofía Victoria Rodrigo Sound: Carla Finco, Martín Gorosito Editor: Agustina Andrade Production Designer: Camila Romero, Roberto Porta Synopsis: A trivial story about two people that meet at a party and spend the night together told in the most pretentious, most poetic, but above all, most solemn possible ways. |
Universidad del Cine (UCINE) | Argentina | 35 |
| 10-12 | SIREN
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Details:TrailerLength: 26' Screenwriter: Randy Oost Director: Zara Dwinger Producer: Pina Balk, Liora Notoadikusumo, Maxime Rozestraten Animator: n/a DOP: Douwe Hennink Sound: Olmo van Straelen Editor: Tessel Flora de Vries Production Designer: Clara Bragdon, Liz Kooij Synopsis: SIREN is a film about confusion, friendship and becoming who you are. The 15-year old Kay lives a boy's life in between roaring motor cross bikes. When the enchanting Melody sails into his life on a big boat, their flourishing friendship lures him towards this dormant feeling. |
Netherlands Film Academy (NFA) | Netherlands | 35 |
| 13 | TRIALS
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Details:TrailerLength: 28' Screenwriter: Boya Harizanova Director: Boya Harizanova Producer: NATFA Animator: n/a DOP: Viktor Roev Sound: n/a Editor: Bohós Topakbashian Production Designer: Virginia Dodova Synopsis: Rumen (21) was born in Syria, where his mother was killed soon after his birth because his father is Bulgarian and a Christian. Rumen grew up in Bulgaria, raised by his father Bogdan (64). He wants to study at the Police Academy. Two days before the entrance exam, Rumen is involved in a quarrel between his best friend Viktor and a Syrian refugee. Half Syrian and half Bulgarian, Rumen is faced with a difficult choice. He becomes a victim of his own prejudice and, instead of joining the ranks of the Police Academy, he gets arrested. |
National Academy for Theatre and Film Arts (NATFA) | Bulgaria | 33 |
| 14 | THREE MEN
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Details:Length: 12'Screenwriter: Emil Alfreð Emilsson Director: Emil Alfreð Emilsson Producer: Emil Alfreð Emilsson Animator: Óttar Ingi Þorbergsson DOP: Óttar Ingi Þorbergsson Sound: Ágúst Ari Þórisson Editor: Óttar Ingi Þorbergsson, Ágúst Ari Þórisson Production Designer: Emil Alfreð Emilsson Synopsis: With pressure from his father a teenage male decides to start behaving more maturely in order to be a better role model for his younger brother. |
Icelandic Film School (IFS) | Iceland | 32 |
| 15-17 | ASA TURNS 13
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Details:Length: 30'Screenwriter: Sali Elimelech Director: Sali Elimelech Producer: Nevo Jakobivitch Animator: n/a DOP: Naama bunimovitz Sound: Adam Barkan Editor: Sali Elimelech Production Designer: Talya Lapid Synopsis: The film tells the story of the day before Asa's Bar-Mitzvah, a young boy who lost his mother and lives with his father in a small southern city in Israel. |
School of Audio & Visual Arts, Sapir College | Israel | 29 |
| 15-17 | ATELIER
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Details:TrailerLength: 30' Screenwriter: Elsa Maria Jakobsdottir Director: Elsa Maria Jakobsdottir Producer: Anna Anna Malmkjaer Willumsen Animator: n/a DOP: Annika Aschberg Sound: Toke Gelardi Roensholt Editor: Mark Bukdahl Production Designer: Josefine Else Larsen Synopsis: A young woman seeks solitude and restoration in a modern utopian residence on a remote island. Her stay is disrupted when a strange woman unexpectedly turns out to be staying at the house as well. Tension and power struggles between the two women arise while nature and mysterious sheep close in on the house. |
National Film School of Denmark (DDF) | Denmark | 29 |
| 15-17 | CLIFF
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Details:TrailerLength: 24' Screenwriter: Sheila Altamirano Director: Sheila Altamirano Producer: Lucía Ocaña, Víctor Hugo Jiménez Animator: n/a DOP: Natali Montell Sound: Daniel Rojo, Gabriel Villegas Editor: Sheila Altamirano, Esteban Arrangoiz Production Designer: n/a Synopsis: From her childhood in the field Mikaela faces the cycle of life. |
National School of Film Arts / National Autonomous University of Mexico (ENAC/UNAM) | Mexico | 29 |
| 18-19 | COMEBACK KID
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Details:TrailerLength: 17' Screenwriter: Sam Steiner Director: Ian Robertson Producer: Nathan Craig Animator: n/a DOP: Jon Muschamp Sound: Michalianna Theofanopoulou Editor: Zsófia Tálas Production Designer: Ana Martinez Fernández Synopsis: 16-year-old Hugh thinks he's a in a nice, normal., coming-of-age story when a past life's unsatisfied urges make him want to sleep with his girlfriend's mum and kill her dad. He finds it all very confusing. |
National FIlm and Television School (NFTS) | United Kingdom | 28 |
| 18-19 | SUMMER SATURN
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Details:TrailerLength: 30' Screenwriter: Mónica Lima, Gonçalo Branco Director: Mónica Lima Producer: Luise Hauschild Animator: n/a DOP: David Wilhelm Schmitt Sound: Bernardo Theriaga Editor: Mónica Lima, Gonçalo Branco Production Designer: n/a Synopsis: About to turn 35 years old and in the imminence of having to give up his music, Samuel comes to Lisbon to do a concert. He stays over at Teresa’s, the attractive mother of his girlfriend, a woman who resists getting old. During 3 days, accomplices and inert, they create a silent intimacy, feeling time overcome them without knowing where to go. |
German Film and Television Academy Berlin (DFFB) | Germany | 28 |
| 20-21 | ATLANTIS, 2003
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Details:TrailerLength: 30' Screenwriter: Michal Blaško Director: Michal Blaško Producer: VSMU Animator: n/a DOP: Adam Mach Sound: Ivan Ďurkech Editor: Petr Hasalík Production Designer: Jakub Brychta, Veronika Jelšíková Synopsis: 2003. Martin and Denisija, a young couple from Ukraine, are trying to get to Germany. |
Academy of Performing Arts / Film and Television Faculty (VSMU) | Slovakia | 27 |
| 20-21 | WILD GAME
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Details:TrailerLength: 25' Screenwriter: Bojana Babic Director: Jerónimo Sarmiento Producer: Clare Fog Animator: n/a DOP: Francesco Crivaro Sound: Indrek Soe Editor: Ahmed Abdelrazek Production Designer: n/a Synopsis: During the harsh Estonian winter, fifteen-year-old Liis joins a group of teenagers for an unusual hunting game in the forest. Hoping to fit in with them, she's opportunely paired with the boy she likes. The wild nature surrounding her awakens the strength to confront her feelings, yet conflicting emotions surface as the game unfolds. |
Universidade Lusófona / Film and Media Arts Department (ULHT) | Portugal | 27 |
| 22-25 | BRITISH BY THE GRACE OF GOD
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Details:TrailerLength: 16' Screenwriter: Sean Dunn Director: Sean Dunn Producer: Juliana Lembi, Alexander Polunin, Jenni Gould Animator: n/a DOP: Arseni Khachaturan Sound: Eric Han Editor: Shakti Bhagchandani Production Designer: Mauricio Rivera Hoffman Synopsis: Scotland during the summer of the Brexit referendum. A day in Irene’s life, a waning beauty married to a stringent member of the Orange Order (an international Protestant fraternal organization) and the mother of a misanthropic teenage son. |
Columbia University | United States | 25 |
| 22-25 | PERNICIO
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Details:TrailerLength: 19' Screenwriter: Dave Fox Director: Dave Fox Producer: Laura Gaynor Animator: n/a DOP: Alfie Hollingsworth Sound: Janneke Van Nijnanten Editor: Conor Donoghue Production Designer: Fiona Mitchell Synopsis: Gary Dunn wants to die. Luckily for him he lives in world that caters for the needs of those who are suicidal. After a failed suicide attempt at Pernicio Clinic, he meets Sam, who shows him that life may be worth living after all. |
National Film School / Institute of Art, Design and Technology (IADT) | Ireland | 25 |
| 22-25 | RIDER
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Details:TrailerLength: 24' Screenwriter: Morgan Healy Director: Morgan Healy Producer: Elizabeth Simard Animator: n/a DOP: Mark Broadbent Sound: Damon Sheridan Editor: Steve Cooper Production Designer: Brittany Blacka Synopsis: On the verge of a relationship breakdown t a midlife crisis and crippling debt former journalist, now ride-share driver picks up the man responsible for the loss of his job as all hell breaks loose. |
Griffith Film School (GFS) | Australia | 25 |
| 22-25 | THE LAST DAY
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Details:TrailerLength: 24' Screenwriter: Klaudija Matvejevaité Director: Klaudija Matvejevaité Producer: Veronika Cicènaité Animator: n/a DOP: Odeta Riškuté Sound: Paulius Ivanauskas Editor: Urté Aškelovičiūtè Production Designer: Paulina Ružauskaitè Synopsis: How would you feel if you knew your exact date of death? A time comes when every person in the world can find it out. Beloglazovai family - Kolia, Lena, their daughter Sonia and teenage son Igor live in an old house in Vilnius. Today is the day when fourteen year old Igoris must die. All family members know that and in their own way are trying to deal with this burdensome waiting. |
Lithuanian Academy of Music and Theatre (LMTA) | Lithuania | 25 |
| 26 | SONS OF NO ONE
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Details:Length: 21'Screenwriter: Hans Vannetelbosch Director: Hans Vannetelbosch Producer: Hans Vannetelbosch / LUCA School of Arts Animator: n/a DOP: Lino De Coninck Sound: Antoine Duwaers Editor: Joris Vertenen Production Designer: Hans Vannetelbosch, Synopsis: Eva works as a teacher in a juvenile detention center. She's passionate about her job and believes in righteousness and the well being of the young detainees above all else. After a suspicious incident between a guard and one of the boys, she starts to question the guard's side of the story. |
LUCA School of Arts (LUCA) | Belgium | 24 |
| 27-28 | ABDULLAH’S WONDERLAND
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Details:TrailerLength: 28' Screenwriter: Liu Mingshan Director: Liu Mingshan Producer: Li Wei Animator: n/a DOP: Liu Dapeng Sound: Wang Tiange, Wang Yuqi Editor: Liu Mingshan, Duman Birleskhan Production Designer: Liang Jiasheng, Wulam Synopsis: Abdullah's sister has lost her sight for several years. Their families have made every effort to treat she’s blindness but failed. One night, sister told Abdullah about her dream that the lamp genie could cure her eyes. In order to help sister, Abdullah starts a journey to find the genie. |
Beijing Film Academy (BFA) | China | 23 |
| 27-28 | FIRST LOVE
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Details:TrailerLength: 20' Screenwriter: Jules Carrin Director: Jules Carrin Producer: Jean Perret, Haute école d'art et de design, HEAD Animator: n/a DOP: Florian Berutti Sound: Michaël Mambole Editor: Alexandra Mélot Production Designer: n/a Synopsis: This young couple knows vaguely that the love which bonds them can be their way of freeing themselves from the tenacious resentments and suspicions peculiar to this remote region of France, stigmatized as it is by a survival economy. But the social bonds that the adults forge are unexpectedly violent . |
Film Department/cinéma du réel - Geneva School of Art and Design (HEAD) | Switzerland | 23 |
| 29 | AWAY HOME
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Details:Length: 21'Screenwriter: Jana Stackhouse Director: Jana Stackhouse Producer: Sarah Quan, Aldo Mauro Animator: n/a DOP: Nyssa Gluck Sound: Jesse Whitty Editor: Aldo Mauro Production Designer: n/a Synopsis: Daniel McNeil returns to his home on the East coast of Canada to unite his family. |
Toronto Metropolitan University | Canada | 22 |
| 30 | MONDAY
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Details:Length: 17'Screenwriter: Arun K Director: Arun K Producer: FTII Animator: n/a DOP: Raju Biswas Sound: KV SUBRAMANIAN Editor: Lavanya Ramaiah Production Designer: Roshan Kumar Synopsis: The film is an absurd and comical take on the corporate culture of life taking over our country, through the eyes of people who struggle under its weight every day. A start up of youngsters pitching an electric bike, an unemployed man learning the ropes to clean skyscrapers, a grafitti artist finds unlikely places to spray his work, and so on. The city copes with a malady in the strangest ways. |
Film and Television Institute of India (FTII) | India | 21 |
| 31-32 | FRIENDLY SPORT MEETING
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Details:Length: 18'Screenwriter: Adam Koloman Rybanský Director: Adam Koloman Rybanský Producer: FAMU Animator: n/a DOP: Petr Pospíšil Sound: Adam Bláha Editor: Matěj Sláma Production Designer: n/a Synopsis: Futnet is a typical Czech sport. Almost every village hosts amateur futnet tournament from time to time. And these tournaments are not just about sport... |
Film and Television School / Academy of Performing Arts in Prague (FAMU) | Czech Republic | 20 |
| 31-32 | TEN BELL TOLLS
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Details:Length: 25'Screenwriter: Eli Rezik Director: Eli Rezik Producer: Baraa Deeb Animator: n/a DOP: Alvaro Gomez Pidal Sound: Raja Dubayah Editor: Eyas Salman Production Designer: Noam El Kayam Synopsis: The story of Elias, a 10-year-old reticent orphan living with his grandparents: a priest and a delusional grandmother. Due to unfortunate events, Elias must face the bitterness of life while dealing with his troubled grandmother and those that try to separate them. |
The Steve Tisch School of Film and Television (TAU) | Israel | 20 |
| 33 | LOOP
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Details:TrailerLength: 19' Screenwriter: Matija Gluščević, Isidora Milosavljević Director: Matija Gluščević Producer: Matija Gluščević Animator: n/a DOP: Aleksa Radunović Sound: Jana Vulović Editor: Natalija Shatzka Production Designer: Nera Vulović Synopsis: Some time ago, Mima had a car accident and a man died. She has almost managed to forget about it when someone starts sending her birthday cards perfumed with a man's fragrance. Becoming obsessed with these cards, she can't help but remember her trauma. |
Fakultet Dramskih Umetnosti | Serbia | 18 |
| 34-37 | LAWS OF THE GAME
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Details:TrailerLength: 18' Screenwriter: Aegina Brahim, Radu Ghelbereu Director: Aegina Brahim Producer: Regina Seifert Animator: n/a DOP: JP Garcia Sound: Sam Heath Editor: Ricardo Saraiva Production Designer: Annemarieke Kloosterhof, Sergine Brahim Synopsis: A biographical drama about fierce yet imperfect Surinamese female referee who fights for her place in the murky world of men’s football. |
London Film School (LFS) | United Kingdom | 17 |
| 34-37 | NO SKY
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Details:TrailerLength: 25' Screenwriter: Jianna Maarten Director: Jianna Maarten Producer: Daria Suvorova Animator: n/a DOP: Marcin Banasiak Sound: n/a Editor: Aashish D'Mello Production Designer: Emma Sparer Synopsis: A young boy in a Mexican border town hustles any way he can to help his family, but learns some very cruel realities when the girl he likes “disappears”. |
American Film Institute Conservatory (AFI) | United States | 17 |
| 34-37 | PARDAA
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Details:TrailerLength: 17' Screenwriter: Kajri Babbar Director: Kajri Babbar Producer: Veronika Kiseleva Animator: n/a DOP: Darius Shu Sound: Guy Dowsett Editor: Amol Datta Production Designer: Yeonkyeong Park Synopsis: In the need of money, an Indian-Muslim girl secretly sacrifices her religious morals. |
Bournemouth Film School (AUB) | United Kingdom | 17 |
| 34-37 | THE DISAPPEARED
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Details:TrailerLength: 20' Screenwriter: Justo Matías Valencia Director: Justo Matías Valencia Producer: Justo Matías Valencia, Alejandro Cortés, Juan Antonio Mecalco Animator: n/a DOP: Alejandro Cortés Sound: Osvaldo Rodríguez Editor: Alexandra Boskovich Production Designer: Elisa Adame Synopsis: On the anniversary of the disappearance of her son, a single mother Lourdes, living in a small town in Mexico, is forced to take desperate measures that will challenge her faith and well being in exchange for a moment with her son, Arturo. |
School of Visual Arts | United States | 17 |
| 38 | FEAST ON THE YOUNG
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Details:TrailerLength: 12' Screenwriter: Katia Mancuso Director: Katia Mancuso Producer: CJ Welsh, Lucy Claire Animator: n/a DOP: Charles Richardson Sound: Tearlach Wales Editor: Katia Mancuso Production Designer: Julia Goldsworthy, Maddison Haywood Synopsis: After mindlessly stepping into her trap, a troubled teenager must save her little sister from a bloodthirsty fairy lurking in the forest, before it devours them both. |
VCA Film and Television | Australia | 16 |
| 39-42 | AT THE BORDER
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Details:Length: 13'Screenwriter: Camila Acuña Brady, Tomás Zabala Director: Tomás Zabala Producer: Camila Acuña Brady Animator: n/a DOP: Antonella Mele Sound: Camila García Ferreira Editor: Federico Rodríguez, Tomás Zabala Production Designer: Camila Acuña Brady Synopsis: Deep in the woods, two young men awaiting the return of their friends stumble upon a mysterious and seductive woman who stoles their gear. As tensions rise, the two men develop unsettling feelings. |
Universidad de Buenos Aires / Diseño de Imagen y Sonido FADU (UBA) | Argentina | 14 |
| 39-42 | FLIGHT
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Details:Length: 23'Screenwriter: Alfia Khabibulina Director: Alfia Khabibulina Producer: Amalia Manasarian, VGIK Animator: n/a DOP: Dmitry Madorsky Sound: Daniil Brick, Viktor Mors Editor: n/a Production Designer: n/a Synopsis: Grigory Vasilievich lives in a home for elderly persons. One day a new roommate Valentin moves in and Grigory invites him to fly an aviette. |
Russian State University of Сinematography n.a. S.Gerasimov VGIK | Russia | 14 |
| 39-42 | RÔTISSEUR
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Details:TrailerLength: 13' Screenwriter: Veera Lamminpää Director: Veera Lamminpää Producer: Janne Vanhanen, Vilma Vehmasaho Animator: n/a DOP: Jyrimatti Holm Sound: Jaakko Niemelä Editor: Sami Pehkonen Production Designer: Aleksi Tilli Synopsis: An overconfident chef makes wrong accusations of sabotage when a critic praises his colleague instead of him. The chef stays overnight in the kitchen to prove his work is perfect, but as the night goes on his ego and self-doubt begin to haunt him. |
Tampere University of Applied Sciences (TUNI), Degree Programme in Media | Finland | 14 |
| 39-42 | WELCOME!
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Details:Length: 15'Screenwriter: Lucas Piloto Director: Lucas Piloto Producer: Laura Riolfi, Pedro Brito Animator: n/a DOP: Danilo do Carmo Sound: João Vítor Muçouçah Editor: Mariana Moraes Production Designer: n/a Synopsis: João, a six-month-old baby, won't eat his food at a mother's day lunch reunion, while the whole family strugles to feed the baby. |
University of São Paulo / School of Communications and Arts / Department of Film, Radio and Television (USP) | Brazil | 14 |
| 43-45 | BACKBONE
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Details:TrailerLength: 12' Screenwriter: Alex Barker, Plamen Dimitrov Director: Alex Barker Producer: Alex Barker, Plamen Dimitrov Animator: n/a DOP: Michael Hoad Sound: Alex Barker Editor: Alex Barker Production Designer: Alex Barker Synopsis: An overworked truck driver is faced with the dilemma of stowaways in his lorry, whilst at the same time he has to contend with his angry boss and an even greater problem that could affect his whole life. A single location drama that explores the emotional turmoil of individuals thrown together and all trying to find the right path forward. |
University for the Creative Arts | United Kingdom | 13 |
| 43-45 | FOMO
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Details:Length: 21'Screenwriter: Amédée SABRA Director: Amédée SABRA Producer: Amédée SABRA - IESAV Animator: Amédée SABRA DOP: Pauline MAROUN Sound: Thierry DIAB Editor: Raymond AFTIMOS Production Designer: Charbel ZGHEIB Synopsis: Jamil Salhab, a young man, is admitted to a rehab center for social media addicts due to his FOMO. |
Institut d'études scéniques, audiovisuelles et cinématographiques (IESAV) | Lebanon | 13 |
| 43-45 | HEIMAT
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Details:TrailerLength: 24' Screenwriter: Emi Buchwald Director: Emi Buchwald Producer: Agata Golanska Animator: n/a DOP: Tomasz Gajewski Sound: Agata Golusinska Editor: Anna Gontarczyk Production Designer: Katarzyna Dobrowolska Synopsis: Short fiction about five members of a quite specific family. They meet at the police station. Three grown-up children have to testify against a man who beat up their father. |
Polish National Film, Television and Theatre School in Lodz (PWSFTViT) | Poland | 13 |
| 46-52 | ASYA
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Details:Length: 30'Screenwriter: Daniella Rybakyan Director: Daniella Rybakyan Producer: Mariia Vasileva Animator: n/a DOP: Sergey Poromov Sound: Alexandra Sidorenko Editor: Daniella Rybakyan Production Designer: n/a Synopsis: Asya is a successful police officer in the department of juvenile affairs. Always young her mother is entering the girl's life to restore a relationship with her daughter. |
St. Petersburg State University of Film and Television (SPUFT) | Russia | 12 |
| 46-52 | BIRTHRIGHT
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Details:TrailerLength: 21' Screenwriter: Daniel Fure Schwarz, Mauritz Brekke Solberg Director: Daniel Fure Schwarz, Mauritz Brekke Solberg Producer: Wilde Siem Animator: n/a DOP: Eivind Aurstad Sound: Eero Kujala, Hakon Solsvik Editor: Martha Steinsland Leivestad Production Designer: n/a Synopsis: Birthright foresees a future that focuses on secure upbringing of children combined with technology and artificial intelligence. It's a life not far from the one's we live today and reflects on issues present in the modern world. |
Westerdals Department of Film and Media School of Arts, Design and Media, Kristiania University College | Norway | 12 |
| 46-52 | CATTLE
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Details:Length: 20'Screenwriter: Kerinne Jenkins Director: Kerinne Jenkins Producer: Katie Amos Animator: n/a DOP: Grégoire Lière Sound: Andrew Simmons Editor: Joshua Webber Production Designer: n/a Synopsis: On a rural cattle farm, two sisters worry about their mother's cancer, but an unexplained death in the herd gives the girls cause to go out alone looking for answers. |
Australian Film Television and Radio School (AFTRS) | Australia | 12 |
| 46-52 | LITTLE JAFFNA
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Details:TrailerLength: 21' Screenwriter: Lawrence Valin, Marlene Poste Director: Lawrence Valin Producer: Simon Bleuzé, Patrick Vuittenez Animator: n/a DOP: Maxence Lemonier Sound: Thomas Van Pottelberghe, Clement Gallice, Thibaut Macquart Editor: Anais Manuelli Production Designer: Camille Bodin Synopsis: In 2009, the Sri Lankian War was at its worst. 10,000 km in the Tamoul neighbourhood of Paris, Seelan sees his life change… |
La Fémis | France | 12 |
| 46-52 | THE 99 STEPS LEFT FROM THE SQUARE
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Details:Length: 11'Screenwriter: Sevgi Eker Director: Sevgi Eker Producer: Anna Nuuros Animator: n/a DOP: Theofanis Kavvadas Sound: Jarkko Kela Editor: Sevgi Eker Production Designer: n/a Synopsis: The iron gate keeping an old man’s peace gets opened. |
Aalto University School of Arts, Design and Architecture / ELO Film School Helsinki | Finland | 12 |
| 46-52 | TIME KEEPER
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Details:TrailerLength: 14' Screenwriter: n/a Director: Ng Yang Meng Producer: Lim Ming Jie Nigel, Beaunice Toh Jun Ying Animator: n/a DOP: Douglas Tan, Aik San Gong Yimin (2nd Unit) Sound: Kaizer Thng Kai Siang Editor: June Tan Yen Jun Production Designer: n/a Synopsis: A beautiful and aesthetically striking piece, the short film revolves around the chanced meeting of Hock and Anna. Hock is a retired watchmaker who collects obsolete object, admiring and treasuring their value. 11-year-old Anna follows Hock into his quirky shop house one day, and an affinity is quickly formed between the pair as Hock reminisces and shares his past to the curious young girl. Revisiting Hock’s memory lane, they soon discover a memento that connects the two of them together. |
Nanyang Technological University | Singapore | 12 |
| 46-52 | WOMAN IN HAPPINESS
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Details:Length: 21'Screenwriter: Lina Nurmalina Director: Viva Westi Datuk Producer: Rohaya Said Animator: n/a DOP: Rohaya Said Sound: Hadrianus Eko Sunu Editor: Andhy Pulung Widagdo Production Designer: Feri Deswandi Synopsis: Rita, who lives with an abusive husband, needs to find a way to break free. When another guy confess that he loves Rita. Rita suddenly has an idea to create a happiness in life. |
Jakarta Institute of the Art / FFTV (IKJ) | Indonesia | 12 |
| 53-54 | GUILTLESS
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Details:TrailerLength: 20' Screenwriter: Guillermo Arriaga Director: Santiago Arriaga, Mariana Arriaga Producer: Federico Fábregas, Santiago Arriaga Animator: n/a DOP: Leslie Montero Sound: Javier Umpierrez Editor: Patricio Marín Production Designer: Nancy Martínez Synopsis: A 21 year old boy gets an aggressive lung cancer and asks his older brother to help him end his pain in a very unorthodox way. |
Universidad Iberoamericana Mexico City (IBERO) | Mexico | 11 |
| 53-54 | LÉO
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Details:TrailerLength: 14' Screenwriter: Julian Alexander Director: Julian Alexander Producer: Pilar Cartró Benavides Animator: n/a DOP: Luis Zarzo Escabias Sound: Liam Gilchrist Editor: Luis Zarzo Escabias Production Designer: Milda Baginskaite Synopsis: Desperate to make money, Léo accepts a job smuggling a refugee couple through France. However, Léo and the couple have separate expectations concerning their destination. He’s forced to confront the couple, his boss, and himself in order to understand how far he is really willing to go for these people he never intended to help. |
Northern Film School / Leeds Beckett University (NFS/LBU) | United Kingdom | 11 |
| 55-57 | CITY HERO
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Details:TrailerLength: 14' Screenwriter: Cristian Ulloa Director: Federico Rodríguez Seveso Producer: Juan Cruz Voiro Animator: n/a DOP: Yazmin Quiroga Sound: Iván Primosich Editor: Nicolás Uriarte Production Designer: Camila Pérez Synopsis: Luis, a pizza master, is in love with Elisa, but a world of pimp and thughs stands between them. Through the teachings of the least expected one, he must become a heroe and regain his beloved. |
National School of Film Experimentation and Production (ENERC) | Argentina | 10 |
| 55-57 | EL NIÑO
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Details:TrailerLength: 15' Screenwriter: Nikita Dunovits-Ferrier Director: Nikita Dunovits-Ferrier Producer: Liv Bunting Animator: n/a DOP: Liv Bunting Sound: Dylan Timtschenko Editor: Dylan Timtschenko Production Designer: Maddie Latomanski Synopsis: An Argentinian migrant living in Australia, drives her teenage son to the city to meet his father for the first time. |
Swinburne School of Film and Television (SSFT) | Australia | 10 |
| 55-57 | NOTHING WILL REMAIN
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Details:TrailerLength: 30' Screenwriter: Maureen Zanetti Director: Maureen Zanetti Producer: Maureen Zanetti Animator: n/a DOP: Florian Berthellot Sound: Jeremy De Fazio Editor: Maureen Zanetti, Julien Sans Production Designer: n/a Synopsis: Alicia is in her sixties. She gradually notices that she is losing her memory. Without telling her husband John of her intentions, she goes back to her family house which was abandoned long ago. While in the house Alicia relives childhood memories and remembers a traumatic event which confronts her with what is happening to her. |
ENSAV | France | 10 |
| 58-60 | PAN
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Details:TrailerLength: 17' Screenwriter: Anna Roller, Wouter Wirth Director: Anna Roller Producer: Joachim Köglmeier Animator: n/a DOP: Felix Pflieger Sound: Marcus Fass, Tobias Rehm Editor: Anna Roller, Elena Schmidt Production Designer: Lena Muller, Laura Goetz Synopsis: Juno dreams of PAN, the ghost of the forest. At a techno party she meets him: the real PAN, a normal guy, loved by all the girls. Juno goes on a hunt: to get PAN. |
University of Television and Film Munich (HFF) | Germany | 9 |
| 58-60 | THE LAST SUMMERS
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Details:TrailerLength: 16' Screenwriter: Ricardo Esparragoza, Omar Robles Director: Ricardo Esparragoza Producer: José Villanueva Animator: n/a DOP: Ernesto Trujillo Sound: Rubí J. Pérez, José Villanueva Editor: Omar Robles Production Designer: Renata Amaris Synopsis: Diego, an introverted teenager, travels with his family to the house on the beach where he spent all the summers of his childhood. The house has collapsed and the family intends to sell it. |
University of Guadalajara / Image and Sound Department | Mexico | 9 |
| 58-60 | TWENTY MINUTES
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Details:Length: 5'Screenwriter: Johanna Saariluoma Director: Oisin Byrne Producer: Paula Hamalainen, Linde Geerinck Animator: n/a DOP: Jordan Williams Sound: Rory Cargill Editor: Victoria Jazwecka Production Designer: n/a Synopsis: A first person survivor account of the emotional and psychological impact of sexual assault. Based on the 2016 public victim impact statement of Emily Doe in the Stanford rape case. |
National Association for Higher Education in the Moving Image (NAHEMI) | United Kingdom | 9 |
| 61-63 | QATARAT
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Details:TrailerLength: 18' Screenwriter: Oussama Oussouss Director: Oussama Oussouss Producer: ESAV Marrakech Animator: n/a DOP: Mouad Fahmi Sound: Yassine Laadnani Editor: Anna Faury Production Designer: n/a Synopsis: Hakim (13 years) has his first wet dream during Ramadan. He decides to fast, like an adult. But he couldn’t achieve his fasting that day, neither could he admit it to his parents, therefore he became ashamed. |
Marrakech School of Visual Arts (ESAVM) | Morocco | 8 |
| 61-63 | STRANDED
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Details:TrailerLength: 28' Screenwriter: Moïra Himmelsbach Director: Moïra Himmelsbach Producer: Moïra Himmelsbach, Vanessa Linnemann Animator: n/a DOP: Yves Itzek, Deniss Kacs Sound: Patrick Leuchter, Till Schaarschmidt Editor: Moïra Himmelsbach, Ian Purnell Production Designer: n/a Synopsis: Four women, four stories about every day struggles. An episodic film about lack of communication. |
Academy of Media Arts Cologne (KHM) | Germany | 8 |
| 61-63 | WHITE CARNATIONS
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Details:TrailerLength: 10' Screenwriter: Tang Wan Xin Director: Tang Wan Xin Producer: Engku M. Iqbal Animator: n/a DOP: James Hia Sound: Nur Bibiyana Binte Hussain Editor: Rajeswari Vikiraman Production Designer: Nikko Koh May May Synopsis: While trying her best to get her son with special needs to a mainstream primary school, a humiliated single mother struggles with her resentments against her only child when he obstructs her plan. |
Puttnam School of Film & Animation / LASALLE College of the Arts (LCA) | Singapore | 8 |
| 64-68 | 500 RUPEES
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Details:TrailerLength: 16' Screenwriter: Shashwat Gandhi Director: Shashwat Gandhi Producer: Whistling Woods International Animator: n/a DOP: Bhavya Jogani Sound: Krishna Bagla Editor: Ayush Sapra Production Designer: n/a Synopsis: Sarita, an innocent teenage girl who lives in a dinghy chawl of 1990s Bombay works as part-time prostitute. She seems oblivious to the grim reality of her job and focuses on the prospect of enjoying the car rides her rich customers offer when they pick her up. One day, three men pick her up in a car and try to make advances on her but more often than not the situation gets diffused with her charm. She is playful, fun loving and cheerful like any teenage girl and quite different from the stereotypical imagery of a sex-worker. |
Whistling Woods International (WWI) | India | 7 |
| 64-68 | EYES SHUT
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Details:TrailerLength: 24' Screenwriter: Otilia Casteels Director: Léopold Legrand Producer: INSAS/ ATELIER DE RÉALISATION Animator: n/a DOP: Felix Moy Sound: Barabara Juniot Editor: Romain Waterlot Production Designer: n/a Synopsis: Emile floats. Stretched out on the surface of the water. His head immersed, the young man holds his breath. Outside his mother is dying of cancer. |
INSAS | Belgium | 7 |
| 64-68 | RIFT
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Details:Length: 11'Screenwriter: Claire Toonen Director: Quentin Curzan Producer: Hannah Ngo Animator: n/a DOP: Jake Blackburn Sound: Benjamin Morris Editor: Brenton Cooney Production Designer: Marnie Allen Synopsis: Two indigenous teenage girls find their friendship put to the test when external influences begin to pull them in different directions. Rift explores the subtle influence of indigenous culture, the pressure of choices and the rift that threatens a delicate young female friendship. |
WA Screen Academy, Edith Cowan University | Australia | 7 |
| 64-68 | SHADES
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Details:TrailerLength: 16' Screenwriter: Dri Sommer Director: Dri Sommer Producer: Abraham Bengio, Jason Thomas, Addison Sharp Animator: n/a DOP: Jesse Sanchez-Strauss Sound: Tommy Wakefield Editor: Tommy Wakefield Production Designer: Ketti Shum Synopsis: A chance encounter between a beautiful drifter and a cynical gas station clerk results in a night that neither of them will ever forget. (Note: this film was shot from dual perspectives -this is "her" perspective) |
University of North Carolina School of the Arts (UNCSA) | United States | 7 |
| 64-68 | STITCHES
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Details:Length: 10'Screenwriter: Laavania Krishna Director: Laavania Krishna Producer: Han Lihui Animator: n/a DOP: Izzul Hakim Sound: Maximilian Liang Editor: Julian Hong Production Designer: Nur Aainaa Bte Shamsul Jalala Synopsis: Thaiyal revolves around of a single mother and her son. The mother finds out that her son is been tormented by bully in school and with the very little that she has, she helps him with the most that she can. |
Ngee Ann Polytechnic / School of Film & Media Studies | Singapore | 7 |
| 69-74 | A TIME TO GLANCE
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Details:TrailerLength: 16' Screenwriter: Dorian Lacroix, Victoria Roblin Director: Victoria Roblin Producer: Stéfane Pierrat Animator: n/a DOP: Alexis Leclére Sound: Victor Pigree Editor: Fei Gao Production Designer: Manon Bertrand Synopsis: For the first time since their break, Lylia meets Johan. Time of a look, she travels through her memories. |
International Institute of Image and Sound (3IS) | France | 6 |
| 69-74 | EMMA
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Details:TrailerLength: 14' Screenwriter: Clara Lezama Director: Clara Lezama Producer: José Luis Trinidad Animator: n/a DOP: Karen Antunes Sound: Sabina Somacal Editor: Margarita Grasso Production Designer: n/a Synopsis: A young girl arrives at a hotel escaping from something, but far from feeling secure. Everything there feeds paranoia. |
Film School of Uruguay (ECU) | Uruguay | 6 |
| 69-74 | EVERYDAY
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Details:TrailerLength: 30' Screenwriter: Lutz Rödig Director: Lutz Rödig Producer: Christopher Albrodt Animator: n/a DOP: Sabine Stephan Sound: Jeannine Compère Editor: Jeannine Compère Production Designer: n/a Synopsis: Bachelor party, waiting room rush-hour. In this composition of small everyday cruelties, the city becomes an asylum where it's who is a visitor and who is a patient. And while the dust settles on every building, it becomes clear: No way leads back home. |
ifs internationale filmschule köln | Germany | 6 |
| 69-74 | FEEL IT
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Details:Length: 14'Screenwriter: Malin Englund Director: Malin Englund Producer: Malin Englund Animator: n/a DOP: Fanny Linander Sound: Petter Nilsson, Carl Fellgren Editor: Malin Englund, Kim Sundbeck Production Designer: n/a Synopsis: Hanna just moved in with her girlfriend and should be happier than ever. How ever, at the housewarming party she gets second thoughts. Can she truly be herself in this relationship? |
HDK-Valand | Sweden | 6 |
| 69-74 | MEDDY
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Details:TrailerLength: 26' Screenwriter: Ted Sakowsky, Ed Sakowsky, Omar Bishir Director: Ted Sakowsky Producer: Ted Sakowsky, Ed Sakowsky Animator: Ted Sakowsky DOP: Andrew Morel Sound: Vladimir Bilenjki, Mariana Urrutia Editor: Ted Sakowsky Production Designer: Christina Chow Synopsis: This compelling and heart-wrenching drama offers a unique glimpse into the quiet life of Sam, a lonely young gamer, who is forced to face her insecurities and fear of losing her online friends. |
York University Department of Film - Fine Arts | Canada | 6 |
| 69-74 | MR. UNIVERSE
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Details:Length: 18'Screenwriter: Nimrod Itkin Director: Nimrod Itkin Producer: Hadar Balas Animator: n/a DOP: Or Dotan Sound: Shahar Guy Editor: Nadav Porat Chomsky Production Designer: n/a Synopsis: Ilan is a drunk taxi driver. On Valentine's Day he decides to surprise his former lover with a bouquet of flowers. But instead of meeting her he meets her new guy. Bruised and hurt, Ilan returns to work, but this time his lover surprises him. |
Beit Berl College / Faculty of Arts (Beit Berl) | Israel | 6 |
| 75-76 | ANIMAL
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Details:Length: 13'Screenwriter: Pedro Takahashi Director: Alexander Cole Producer: Polly Rosier Animator: n/a DOP: Pedro Takahashi Sound: Thomas Whitehead Editor: Robert Kirkwood Production Designer: Eleonora Scoccimarro Synopsis: After making a devastating discovery in the forest, Rose stumbles into a world where morals no longer seem to apply. Everyone has an animal living within them; the forest unearths it. |
Westminster Film BA / University of Westminster (WFS) | United Kingdom | 5 |
| 75-76 | FOULEK
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Details:TrailerLength: 18' Screenwriter: Patrick Muroni Director: Patrick Muroni Producer: Lionel Baier Animator: n/a DOP: Léo Lefèvre Sound: Timothée Zurbuchen Editor: Thomas Robineau Production Designer: n/a Synopsis: Niels, a twenty-year-old young man, rediscovers a friend became professional rap artist. |
Ecole Cantonale d'Art de Lausanne (ECAL) | Switzerland | 5 |
| 77-85 | DIALECT
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Details:Length: 29'Screenwriter: Gurgulia David Director: Gurgulia David Producer: Giorgi Tetiashvili Animator: n/a DOP: David Chxaidze Sound: Otar Bregvadze Editor: Irakli Gurgenidze Production Designer: Tamar Photskhishvili Synopsis: Sound designer Mithras is sent on a mission to record a “divine language”, spoken by children residing in a “sacred reserve”. At first Mithras is perplexed by ancient “mute customs” of highlands. But, after a while he starts to fit in perfectly, everything in the “reserve” was awaiting him… |
Theatre and Film Georgia State University | Georgia | 4 |
| 77-85 | DISCONNECTION
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Details:Length: 17'Screenwriter: Zhang Hangshuo Director: Zhang Hangshuo Producer: Zhang Shoubai, Zhang Mingzhi, Zhang Hangshuo Animator: n/a DOP: Zhang Kuan, Tang Hongyi Sound: Gang Yang Editor: Zhang Hangshuo Production Designer: Zhang Hangshuo, Yu Yibo, Tang Hongyi Synopsis: Inspiration comes from real events. The hero, Lin Bingxin, is an ordinary student of the University. He often borrows a bright red car from family. At about two o'clock one afternoon, Lin Bingxin received a phone call from his mother and asked him if he had recently committed anything. Then, another student sent him a Weibo ID for "Everyman" micro-blog information screenshots. It turned out that a car crash near the factory earlier today, a red car hit a pregnant woman and drove away. Micro-blog users "Everyman" share a picture on the Internet. It is a group photo taken by Lin and their classmates and Lin family's red cars. This “Everyman” hinted that Lin Bingxin was a perpetrator on Weibo. Lin and his parents ask a reporter for help, and after that Lin start to believe he classmate and friend Xu Kai, was “Everyman”, because he is the only one has the photo, also, Lin had a small quarrel with him recently. However, that was not true and Lin made a terrible but unwittingly mistake because of the reporter. |
Communication University of China (CUC) | China | 4 |
| 77-85 | DOWN IS THE NEW UP
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Details:Length: 13'Screenwriter: Camille Cabbabe Director: Camille Cabbabe Producer: Camille Cabbabe Animator: n/a DOP: Manal Zakharia Sound: Nadim Helou Editor: Camille Cabbabe Production Designer: n/a Synopsis: An ambitious documentary film-maker and his crew shoot the last hours of a solitary man who has decided to suicide at the dawn. |
ALBA | Lebanon | 4 |
| 77-85 | EMOTIONAL CRACK
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Details:Length: 28'Screenwriter: Efughi Peace, Francis Becky Akunne Director: Eldad Onyedikachi Onyeama Producer: Orji-Okoro Mmerechi Animator: n/a DOP: Jude Adie Betiang Sound: Patrick Uwasomba Editor: Eldad Onyedikachi Onyeama Production Designer: Onoja Emmanuel Synopsis: In many African cultures, when a couple fails to bear children, it is often blamed on the woman. This is the story of Monica. |
NTA Television College (NTA) | Nigeria | 4 |
| 77-85 | FATHER
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Details:Length: 15'Screenwriter: Tomislav Šoban Director: Tomislav Šoban Producer: Adrijana Dimić Animator: n/a DOP: Sara Bernarda Moritz Sound: Emma Teur Editor: Ivana Perčinlić Production Designer: Tea Truta Synopsis: The father spirals into resentment and agitation towards his son after his trespass. |
Academy of Dramatic Art Zagreb (ADU) | Croatia | 4 |
| 77-85 | GI
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Details:TrailerLength: 30' Screenwriter: Kunjila Director: Kunjila Producer: SRFTI Animator: n/a DOP: Rakesh Dharan Sound: Kalhan Raina Editor: Ritka Poddar Production Designer: n/a Synopsis: GI lives with Appachan, her grand father. She and he dealing with different realities. Appachan is losing some memories and delving into world GI unfamilier with. |
Satyajit Ray Film and Television Institute (SRFTI) | India | 4 |
| 77-85 | GOOD AFTERNOON
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Details:Length: 15'Screenwriter: YOHEI Yamazaki Director: AKIRA Yamamoto Producer: KENGO Watanabe Animator: n/a DOP: LI Ziyao Sound: SOMA Orikasa Editor: DAI Zhoujie Production Designer: CHINATSU Hori Synopsis: Issei (35) and Yumi visit the Yumi's older sister Yamashita Rie (39)' s family in Tokyo. They haven’t seen each other recently. One incident triggers a discussion about which family will care for their father, Morio, in his old age, a topic which has not been broached until now. |
Tokyo University of the Arts, Graduate School of Film and New Media | Japan | 4 |
| 77-85 | THE KILLING LOOK
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Details:TrailerLength: 18' Screenwriter: Marie-Sara THISY Director: Valentin COSTE, Florent BEAUDOT Producer: ESEC Animator: n/a DOP: Stéphane SCHOPP Sound: Jordan CALBRY, Pierre CARRASCO, Augustin SALDJIAN Editor: Jacques ROULLIER Production Designer: n/a Synopsis: When Victor, the king of thieves, meets Zoé, a careless young woman, it is love at first sight! But not for the good reason : Zoé expects Victor to be blind ...A few weeks later, Zoé decides to present her new lover to her father, Jacques. Under his gentleman-like appearance, Jacques hides in fact a most terrifying secret ... |
Ecole Supérieure d'études Cinématographiques (ESEC) | France | 4 |
| 77-85 | VITA FORTUNA
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Details:Length: 21'Screenwriter: Tuuli Hostikka Director: Ilona Hiltunen Producer: Ilona Hiltunen Animator: n/a DOP: Rosa Mukala Sound: Kristian Vieri Editor: Nelli Kampman Production Designer: Essi Hyrkki Synopsis: One of the ordinarily boring mornings Mirkku gets a phone call, which promises to fix all the imperfections of her life. |
Metropolia University of Applied Sciences (MUAS) | Finland | 4 |
| 86 | HOLOCAUSTS. AND NOTHING IS LIKE BEFORE
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Details:Length: 23'Screenwriter: Denise Liardet, Mattia Monticelli, Giulio Pettenò, Michel Voisin Director: Denise Liardet, Mattia Monticelli, Giulio Pettenò, Michel Voisin Producer: Antonio Librera, Giorgio Lurà, Mattia Monticelli, Edoardo Nerboni Animator: Abed Kawsarani DOP: Giada Cappa, Heorhiy Honcharov, Abed Kawsarani, Nicolas Prieur Sound: Heorhiy Honcharov, Edoardo Nerboni, Matteo Verda Editor: Etienne Del Biaggio, Mattia Monticelli, Michelle Puttini Production Designer: Giulia Debartolomei, Denise Liardet, Gioele Pozzi Synopsis: There is room for memories and empathy. In the film testimonies of the victims of different kinds of holocausts and genocides are real, truthful, alive. The mosaic of their voices arises over the original historical events and creates a universal language, where terrible events are symbolically represented through evocative images. |
Academy of Audiovisual Sciences (CISA) | Switzerland | 3 |
| 87-93 | BLIND MOUTH
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Details:TrailerLength: 16' Screenwriter: Leong, Siew Hong Director: Leong, Siew Hong Producer: Lovelyn, Ng Kha Shuen Animator: n/a DOP: Tan, Seng Kiat Sound: Ou, Chien-Chi Editor: Chew, Chin-Wai, Leong, Siew Hong Production Designer: n/a Synopsis: Father works as an assistant to doctors who seal every child’s mouth. He’s worried that his daughter’s secret would be discovered. |
National Taiwan University of Arts (NTUA) | Taiwan | 2 |
| 87-93 | IN CORP.
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Details:TrailerLength: 8' Screenwriter: Marcell Andristyak Director: Marcell Andristyak Producer: Janos Szirtes, Peter Fazakas Animator: Marcell Andristyak DOP: Marcell Andristyak Sound: Abel Szakacs Editor: Marcell Andristyak Production Designer: n/a Synopsis: The subject of IN Corp. is the modification of the human body and mind. It is addressing this subject through promotional movies for fictional organ and body accessories approaching the Utopian human condition of transhumanism in a quasi-scientific manner. The advertised products aim to (re)establish a physiological, individual and inter-personal harmony by reinterpreting our lost abilities. |
Moholy-Nagy University of Art and Design (MOME) | Hungary | 2 |
| 87-93 | LADY PLUM
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Details:Length: 8'Screenwriter: Grayson Goga Director: Grayson Goga Producer: Gabriel Valbuena Animator: n/a DOP: Robert Bevis Sound: Grayson Saxer Editor: Patrick Saxer Production Designer: Anthony Romaguera Synopsis: Before she became a mother at 17, Sylvia was a promising competitive swimmer. She has been separated from her young daughter, Plum, for three years now, but she’s hellbent on retrieving her from the man responsible for her own grim childhood: her father. |
Florida State University / College of Motion Picture Arts (FSU) | United States | 2 |
| 87-93 | MERRY GO ROUND
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Details:TrailerLength: 24' Screenwriter: Jaco Van Bosch, Mark Haines Director: Jaco Van Bosch Producer: Caleb Lazarus Animator: n/a DOP: Vincent Boonzaaier Sound: Jaco Van Bosch Editor: Claudio Leitao Production Designer: Lauren Boy Synopsis: When a regretful university student meets his time travelling older self, their attempts to perfect a date with their secret crush is hindered by the older self's neglect of the truth behind the circumstances of his presence. |
South African School of Motion Picture Medium and Live Performance (AFDA) | South Africa | 2 |
| 87-93 | RED
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Details:TrailerLength: 25' Screenwriter: Martin Janoušek Director: Martin Janoušek Producer: Kamila Bialešová Animator: n/a DOP: Martin Kubalec Sound: Radek Kuboš Editor: Martin Janoušek Production Designer: n/a Synopsis: A shy adolescent Adam cope with his fate of an unseen mother as well as with neverending knowledge of the universe. His study of astrophysics and desire for knowledge in other disciplines does not give him enough answers to basic questions of life, and hence he creates his own world - the red room where he meets a familiar girl. She is able to answer all his questions ... |
Tomas Bata University in Zlín / Faculty of Multimedia Communications (TBU) | Czech Republic | 2 |
| 87-93 | REFILL
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Details:TrailerLength: 13' Screenwriter: Isabel Fernández Director: Isabel Fernández Producer: Salvatore Delpi Animator: Isabel Fernández, Mauricio Llerena DOP: Kevin Armendariz Sound: Mauricio Llerena Editor: Isabel Fernández, Mauricio Llerena Production Designer: Salvatore Delpi Synopsis: Milo is 24 years old and works in a cafeteria, he and his co-worker, Iris, have had relationships for some time, but they have not formalized anything yet. When Milo receives a text message from Iris, he begins to wonder what they really are. |
Advanced Institute of Film and Acting (INCINE) | Ecuador | 2 |
| 87-93 | THE RIGHT CUT
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Details:Length: 10'Screenwriter: Alberto Failli, Alessandro Frigerio Director: Mattia Fazzari Producer: Arianna Dolini Animator: n/a DOP: Alberto Cammarano Sound: Gabrjeie Cardullo, Giacomo Beltrami, Matteo Gaetani Editor: Nicolas Redolfi, Angela Anzelmo Production Designer: n/a Synopsis: In an elegant restaurant, a client refuses his meat, complaining for a mistake in the cut. This provokes the hanger of the chef and a quarrel between the two. When the chef follow the man outside the restaurant, he discovers that he's the victim of a cooking deceit. |
Milan City Film School Luchino Visconti (MCSC) | Italy | 2 |
| 94-98 | 78.4
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Details:TrailerLength: 15' Screenwriter: Pedro Marques Director: Tiago Amorim Producer: Daniel Tavares Animator: n/a DOP: Pedro Marques Sound: João Tenera Editor: Miguel Branquinho Production Designer: Maria Eiriz Synopsis: Manuel, a young broadcaster in an 80s pirate radio, thinks about leaving this project, when he finds out that his friend and colleague will leave him and their pirate radio to start working at an official radio. |
Lisbon Theatre and Film School (ESTC) | Portugal | 1 |
| 94-98 | IF ONLY FOR A MOMENT…
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Details:TrailerLength: 30' Screenwriter: Sophie Kurpershoek Director: Sophie Kurpershoek Producer: Sophie Kurpershoek, Marieke Bolle Animator: n/a DOP: Xavier Van D’huynslager Sound: Ruben de Winther, Michel Coquette Editor: Pieter De Naegel Production Designer: Khaël Touag, Laura Eyckmans Synopsis: In a desolate landscape a disillusioned artist meets a sober geologist, and quickly they form a strong connection. Their lives seem temporarily idyllic until the real world sticks its head up again. |
Royal Academy of Fine Arts / University College Ghent (KASK) | Belgium | 1 |
| 94-98 | NOCTURNAL RATS
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Details:Length: 5'Screenwriter: Miguel Gallego Director: Miguel Gallego Producer: Guillermo Robayo Animator: n/a DOP: Astrid Useche Sound: Pablo Martínez Cusgüen Editor: Miguel Gallego Production Designer: Milo Marthe Synopsis: Stiven, a cowardly thief, convinces Yeimy, the mother of his son, to commit their ‘last robbery’ not knowing everything is going to fail. |
Escuela de Cine y Televisión / UNAL (ECYTV) | Colombia | 1 |
| 94-98 | QUEEN OF OASIS
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Details:TrailerLength: 8' Screenwriter: Lena Fakler Director: Lynn Oona Baur Producer: Philipp Haeberlin (Creative Producer) Animator: n/a DOP: Philip Matoušek Sound: Yannick Rehder, TONIK Studio Editor: Martin Narr Production Designer: Nadja Götze Synopsis: At a war-damaged block of buildings, Manal encounters Dima. Dima holds out there, transforming the cruel reality with the power of her childlike imagination. Manal is fleeing from the war. When Dima is jeopardized, Manal is forced to face her fears. |
Hamburg Media School (HMS) | Germany | 1 |
| 94-98 | SEX, PIPE AND OMLETTE
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Details:TrailerLength: 23' Screenwriter: Ana-Maria Comanescu, Andrei Hufuleac, adapted from The Great Switcheroo by Roald Dahll Director: Ana-Maria Comanescu Producer: Carla Fotea Animator: n/a DOP: Tudor Platon Sound: lulian-Cristian Nunu Editor: Patricia Chelaru Production Designer: Adeline-Andreea Badescu Synopsis: Victor feels attracted to Filip's wife. Filip feels attracted to Victor's wife. Victor and Filip are next-door neighbours, not to mention good friends. |
National University of Theatre and Film (UNATC) | Romania | 1 |
| 99-120 | ADA'S DEPARTURE
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Details:Length: 30'Screenwriter: Louise Vandeginste Director: Louise Vandeginste Producer: n/a Animator: n/a DOP: Marc Leyval Sound: César Boucheton, Antoine Goarant Editor: Louise Vandeginste Production Designer: n/a Synopsis: Some days in Ada’s life, a young woman who is struggling with addiction. |
ENS Louis-Lumière | France | 0 |
| 99-120 | ANJA GANJA
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Details:Length: 19'Screenwriter: Peter Bizjak Director: Peter Bizjak Producer: Jožica Blatnik (UL AGRFT) Animator: n/a DOP: Boj Nuvak Sound: Peter Žerovnik Editor: Jakob Hreščak Production Designer: Neža Zinajić Synopsis: Anja has to reconsider her love life, because her pothead boyfriend seems more and more plant-like. |
UL AGRFT | Slovenia | 0 |
| 99-120 | BATHROOM STORIES
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Details:TrailerLength: 30' Screenwriter: Kaya Pakaslahti Director: Kaya Pakaslahti Producer: Daniela Holm Animator: n/a DOP: Sophie Feldt Sound: Magdalena Silin Editor: Sophie Feldt, Sofia Ek Production Designer: n/a Synopsis: Hilda is unemployed and Lo is working at a nursing home. They are privileged losers but in the bathroom the roommates can exist on their own terms, where judgemental voices and the norms of the patriarchy cannot reach. Nude and cheeky, honest and powerful. The unique story about Hilda and Lo investigates what it is like to be a young woman in 2017 – this time in an intimate environment we all know and visit daily. |
ARCADA University of Applied Sciences Department of Culture and Communication / Media Culture Finland | Finland | 0 |
| 99-120 | BEAUTIFUL LIFE
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Details:TrailerLength: 20' Screenwriter: Tran Quang Khai Director: Tran Quang Khai Producer: Le Manh Hung Animator: n/a DOP: Bui Chi Quang Sound: Dao Xuan Loc Editor: Tran Quang Khai, Bui Chi Quang Production Designer: Le Due Son Synopsis: The dream and imaginative life of a young man. |
Hanoi Academy of Theatre and Cinema | Vietnam | 0 |
| 99-120 | HAKKIL
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Details:TrailerLength: 13' Screenwriter: Gédéon C. DJOGBENOU Director: Gédéon C. DJOGBENOU Producer: ISMA Animator: n/a DOP: Lariaus Mignoin HOUNVO Sound: Didier GUEDOU Editor: Olivier KPOSSA Production Designer: Arnold SETOHOU Synopsis: After running away and rejecting his responsibilities, Abdoul a young man got caught in his own race by its own conscience. |
Higher Institute of Audiovisual Training (ISMA) | Benin | 0 |
| 99-120 | HAREVAN
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Details:TrailerLength: 18' Screenwriter: Marilou Caraveccha-Pelletier Director: Marilou Caraveccha-Pelletier Producer: Elise Bois, UQAM Animator: n/a DOP: Marianne Fortier Sound: Marie-Pier Grignon Editor: Marie-Pier Grignon Production Designer: n/a Synopsis: Determined to leave the family cocoon, Clemence is settling in the big city. Constrained by her shyness, she is struggling to build relationships with others. When her neighbor asks her for help, she finds herself spending time with an old Armenian woman. In this intimate relationship, she will learn to open to others, and by the same occasion, she will get in touch with her emotions and free herself more. |
University of Québec Montréal / School of Media (UQAM) | Canada | 0 |
| 99-120 | HELE KALEI
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Details:TrailerLength: 14' Screenwriter: Kelsie Greene Director: Kelsie Greene Producer: Dymond Cabildo Animator: n/a DOP: Sawyer Chesnut-Pinto Sound: Keith Taylor Editor: Dymond Cabildo Production Designer: Anela Ling Synopsis: Hele Kalei is a quirky coming-of-age film that follows Kalei, a self-conscious woman who struggles to hide a secret passion for taiko drumming from her oppressive mother. When the opportunity to perform in Tokyo arises, Kalei must choose between continuing to lie to those around her and dancing to the beat of her own drum. |
University of Hawai‘i Mānoa, Academy for Creative Media | United States | 0 |
| 99-120 | LANDING
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Details:Length: 28'Screenwriter: WONG So-sim Director: WONG Kam Producer: CHAK Hoi-ling Animator: n/a DOP: JANG Jihun Sound: YANG Zhi-chao Editor: LEE Ka-yan Production Designer: n/a Synopsis: Man Ho, who has always been taken care of, is being forced to face a reality that she has tried to escape since the sudden death of her mother. All ruthless realities conspire to push her into an abyss of hopelessness… |
Hong Kong Academy for Performing Arts / School of Film and Television (HKAPA) | Hong Kong | 0 |
| 99-120 | LE GRAND JETÉ
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Details:Length: 30'Screenwriter: Cédric Ernoult Director: Cédric Ernoult Producer: Fachhochschule Dortmund, Cédric Ernoult, Florian Högerle Animator: Felix Brüggen DOP: Felix Christ Sound: Florian Högerele Editor: Cédric Ernoult, Felix Müller Production Designer: Darko Petrovic Synopsis: In Germany, Jakob, a young dancer from Nigeria is caught without valid identification. From now on everything turns strange: a wall, growing thicker, emerges between his old life and himself. Cornered, he dares one last act of liberation. |
Dortmund University of Applied Sciences and Arts | Germany | 0 |
| 99-120 | LOTUS
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Details:Length: 28'Screenwriter: LEE Tak Chu, Touch Director: LEE Tak Chu, Touch Producer: HO Lok Wun Animator: n/a DOP: LEE Tak Chu, Touch Sound: LEE Tak Chu, Touch Editor: LEE Tak Chu, Touch Production Designer: LEE Tak Chu, Touch Synopsis: The story is about how the main cast Rou faces his sins. He chooses to wear a religion coat, but it still cannot hide his evil inside his heart. |
Academy of Film / Hong Kong Baptist University (HKBU) | Hong Kong | 0 |
| 99-120 | MIGRATION TO THE YESTERDAY
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Details:Length: 8'Screenwriter: Berk Baysal Director: Berk Baysal Producer: Berk Baysal, Efe Keser, Tolga Yildiz Animator: n/a DOP: Efe Keser Sound: Berk Baysal, Efe Keser Editor: Berk Baysal, Efe Keser Production Designer: n/a Synopsis: Kenan finds a way out of his boredom by relieving his memories. |
Istanbul Kultur University (IKU) | Turkey | 0 |
| 99-120 | P.X.O.
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Details:TrailerLength: 12' Screenwriter: Katleho Shabalala Director: Kagiso Mokgale, Kaabelo Shirinde Producer: Thato Maluleke Animator: n/a DOP: Kagiso Mkhabela Sound: Katlego Katjedi Editor: Thato Maluleke Production Designer: n/a Synopsis: Secrecy surroundsresearch on the fatal PXO virus that is wiping out South African citizens. |
Tshwane University of Technology | South Africa | 0 |
| 99-120 | POSSESSED
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Details:TrailerLength: 21' Screenwriter: Ariel Pariente Director: Ariel Pariente Producer: Yael & Baruch Rosenstein Animator: n/a DOP: Yonatan Shehoah Sound: Mitch Clyman Editor: Aner Tausig Production Designer: Joshua Trachtman Synopsis: Sami, a son of Jewish Tunisian immigrants in israel of the 90s, feels deprived by his father, and envies his younger brother. The two boys go to the movies, and return home different. One is possessed, and the other feels guilty. |
Ma'aleh School of Film, Television and the Arts (MAALE) | Israel | 0 |
| 99-120 | PUZZLED
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Details:Length: 9'Screenwriter: Oresti Zeneli Director: Oresti Zeneli Producer: AFMM Animator: n/a DOP: Ardit Muhaxhiri Sound: n/a Editor: Ardit Muhaxhiri, Oresti Zeneli Production Designer: n/a Synopsis: In a small city, crossed encounters of characters who don’t even know they are all related. Not all is what it seems. |
Academy of Film and Multimedia Marubi (AFMM) | Albania | 0 |
| 99-120 | RIVERMENT
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Details:TrailerLength: 19' Screenwriter: Shayla Racquel, Israel Daramola Director: Shayla Racquel Producer: Mitra I. Arthur, Lindsey Sitz Animator: n/a DOP: Ross Godwin Sound: Oliver Getz Rodahl Editor: Shayla Racquel, Jay Sweet Production Designer: Yildiz Yilmaz Synopsis: A former Civil Rights activist fears for the safety of her granddaughter who is determined to follow her footsteps in activism. |
American University | United States | 0 |
| 99-120 | ROOF
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Details:TrailerLength: 9' Screenwriter: Henry Potts Director: Henry Potts Producer: Billie Forbes Animator: n/a DOP: Connor Redmond Sound: Nick Ager Editor: Henry Potts Production Designer: Francesca Knaggs Synopsis: A short Drama film exploring the possible date-rape of a young woman and the impact this has on her and her two friends. |
University of Hertfordshire | United Kingdom | 0 |
| 99-120 | SEEK ANOTHER LAND
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Details:Length: 17'Screenwriter: Phillip Leteka Director: Phillip Leteka Producer: Ian Ladd, Phillip Leteka Animator: n/a DOP: Jacob Mallin Sound: Brian Langman Editor: Fraaz Khan Production Designer: Susie Cody Synopsis: In a very patriarchal, fundamentalist family, a son-in-law defies his father-in-law by seeking medicinal help for his dying wife. Set in an unidentified time and place, but based on a true story from another culture, Seek Another Land portrays the potential dire consequences of ignorance and blind faith. |
School of Film and Animation, College of Art and Design, Rochester Institute of Technology | United States | 0 |
| 99-120 | SURREAL HOSPITAL
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Details:Length: 26'Screenwriter: James Chatwin Director: James Chatwin Producer: Claire Stevens Animator: n/a DOP: George Perry Sound: Claire Stevens, James Chitin Editor: James Lee Warner Production Designer: n/a Synopsis: The world is falling apart - so are they. |
Falmouth University | United Kingdom | 0 |
| 99-120 | THE RETURN OF ERNESTO PAGÁN
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Details:Length: 18'Screenwriter: Story: Juan C. Linares & Hernán Olivera, Screenwriter: Hernán Olivera Director: Hernán Olivera Producer: Juan C. Linares Animator: n/a DOP: Michael Gleeson Sound: Hernán Olivera, John Draughon Editor: Priscilla Perez Production Designer: Marisel Fox Rodriguez Synopsis: A man returns to his hometown to attend the funeral of his younger brother, only to find out his corpse has been transformed into a dancing dummy. |
Columbia College Chicago (CCC) | United States | 0 |
| 99-120 | THE SUN OF IPANEMA
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Details:Length: 15'Screenwriter: David Orea, JL Aceytuno Director: Victor Vicente Villavicencio Potella Producer: ECAM; Carlos Alonso Díaz Animator: n/a DOP: Jorge Rojas Menéndez, Rigel Pomares Amaré Sound: Mateo Menéndez Herrero Editor: Sara Cobos Production Designer: n/a Synopsis: A family visit to the supermarket in a sunny afternoon. But the hallway of the supermarket is very different from the hallway where Luis hangs around. Everything seems to be fine. But and unexpected object forces Nieves to confront the reality and problems of their marriage. |
ECAM (The Madrid Film School) | Spain | 0 |
| 99-120 | UNDERCURRENT
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Details:TrailerLength: 13' Screenwriter: Cookie Moon Director: Cookie Moon, Reut Akkerman Producer: Cookie Moon Animator: n/a DOP: Tomer Zmora Sound: Ziv Barashi Editor: Cookie Moon Production Designer: Cookie Moon Synopsis: Cookie and Josef are inseparable siblings. Cookie tries to resemble Josef in an attempt to perpetuate their childhood bond. Josef escapes her claustrophobia when he meets Noga. Cookie, left alone, turns her infantile attempt into a creative project that ultimately lifts her to independence. |
Bezalel Academy of Arts and Design Jerusalem (BAAD) | Israel | 0 |
| 99-120 | VERA
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Details:Length: 14'Screenwriter: Natasha Wendhausen, Marcus Homsi Director: Natasha Wendhausen Producer: Luiz Severiano Ribeiro Animator: Natasha Wendhausen, Marcus Homsi DOP: Marianne De Sá Pereira Sound: Marcos Wunder, Henrique Maciel Editor: Marianne De Sá Pereira, Leonardo Berman, Natasha Wendhausen Production Designer: Luiz Severiano Ribeiro Synopsis: Vera tells the story of a little girl raised by her grandfather, Arnaldo, and their playful routine is interrupted when Teresa, her grandfather's girlfriend, reveals that she will move to another city. Arnaldo, then, finds himself in a dilemma: leaving his granddaughter under the care of his mother and traveling with Teresa or letting her travel alone? |
PUC-Rio Department of Social Communication - Cinema | Brazil | 0 |
Documentary
| Place | Title | School | Country | Points |
| 1 | FIND FIX FINISH
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Details:Length: 19'Screenwriter: Sylvain Cruiziat, Bogumyla Zhluktenko Director: Sylvain Cruiziat, Bogumyla Zhluktenko Producer: Veronika Faistbauer, Mariella Santibanez, Sylvain Cruiziat, Bogumyla Zhluktenko, HFF Animator: n/a DOP: Nikolai Huber Sound: Philip Hutter Editor: Sophie Oldenbourg Production Designer : n/a Synopsis: Find Fix Finish delves into the accounts of three military drone pilots as they tell the intimate story of the lives they observe on a day-to-day basis. |
University of Television and Film Munich (HFF) | Germany | 74 |
| 2 | APOLLO JAVAKHETI
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Details:Length: 16'Screenwriter: Bakar Cherkezishvili Director: Bakar Cherkezishvili Producer: Julien Diebel, Bakar Cherkezishvili Animator: n/a DOP: Julien Diebel Sound: Beso Kacharava Editor: Bakar Cherkezishvili Production Designer : n/a Synopsis: Bandura is growing up with his single mother in the Georgian region of Javakheti. The climate is harsh, the roads are bad and the views are gray and rocky, he wants to travel to the moon. Between his daily duties, he begins to build an actual rocket and to plan out his future. By selling sheep, he can make enough money to catch a boat to the United States, where he can start asking around about where to study to become a space traveler.. |
Theatre and Film Georgia State University (TAFU) | Georgia | 65 |
| 3 | THE MEN BEHIND THE WALL
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Details:Length: 28'Screenwriter: n/a Director: Inés Moldavsky Producer: Inés Moldavsky Animator: n/a DOP: Inés Moldavsky Sound: Keren Or Bitton Editor: Inés Moldavsky Production Designer : n/a Synopsis: Ines, an Israeli woman from Tel Aviv, the creator of the film and the main protagonist, makes contact with men from the West Bank and the Gaza Strip through dating websites and apps. |
Bezalel Academy of Arts and Design Jerusalem (BAAD) | Israel | 52 |
| 4 | THE UNKNOWN SOLDIER
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Details:Length: 8'Screenwriter: Efim Graboy Director: Efim Graboy Producer: Talia Ashuach Salomon Animator: n/a DOP: Daniel Binsted Sound: Rotem Dror Editor: Efim Graboy Production Designer : n/a Synopsis: An intimate investigation of World War II soviet veteran, 92 years old Newsak Weis or as he prefers, just uncle Nusya. The mission is to discover a real person under the armor of medals and the role model of hero. |
The Steve Tisch School of Film and Television (TAU) | Israel | 51 |
| 5-6 | AN UNFORGETTABLE FAREWELL
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Details:Length: 23'Screenwriter: n/a Director: Cláudio de Oliveira Marques Producer: Denise van den Hoek, Bente Mars Animator: n/a DOP: Michel Rosendaal Sound: Ruben Dekker, Karlijn Hendriksen Editor: Nikki Gorissen Production Designer : n/a Synopsis: When you lose a loved one to suicide, you're often left behind with plenty of unanswered questions. This film follows the process of Claudio, who unexpectedly lost his best friend on new year's Eve. Hoping to find answers, he talks with people how they deal with suicide and their loved ones who consider this. |
Netherlands Film Academy (NFA) | Netherlands | 44 |
| 5-6 | HANDOUT
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Details:Length: 5'Screenwriter: Vedrana Music Director: Vedrana Music Producer: Vedrana Music Animator: n/a DOP: Vedrana Music Sound: Nicholas Redmond Editor: Vedrana Music Production Designer : n/a Synopsis: Zeljka Reljan-Music makes her way out of Sarajevo with the first UN Convoy taking mothers and children to Belgrade in 1992. When soldiers give out sweets at a stop along the way, Zeljka decides she must take one home for her daughter. |
Australian Film Television and Radio School (AFTRS) | Australia | 44 |
| 7 | ALL THAT GROWS
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Details:Length: 11'Screenwriter: Milena Grujić Director: Milena Grujić Producer: Wang Jiayi Animator: n/a DOP: Milena Grujić Sound: n/a Editor: Milena Grujić Production Designer : n/a Synopsis: An 11 year old girl in Changsha prepares to be an Olympic champion. Her thorough understanding of trainings and daily life shows us both sides of a childhood dedicated to the nation. |
Fakultet Dramskih Umetnosti | Serbia | 39 |
| 8 | THE SHIFT
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Details:Length: 9'Screenwriter: n/a Director: Elivia Shaw, Paloma Martinez Producer: Paloma Martinez, Elivia Shaw Animator: n/a DOP: Paloma Martinez, Elivia Shaw Sound: Elivia Shaw, Paloma Martinez Editor: Elivia Shaw, Paloma Martinez Production Designer : n/a Synopsis: As dusk descends across the San Francisco Bay the 911 dispatchers prepare for the busiest time of the day, the swing shift. In a fluorescent call center, 25 civilians hold our lives in their hands while the citizens chum outside unaware of the toll it inflicts on the people in charge of getting us through a crisis. |
Stanford University | United States | 38 |
| 9 | THE LAST PRIOR
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Details:Length: 21'Screenwriter: Tereza Vágnerová Director: Tereza Vágnerová, Petr Januschka Producer: Juliana Rychlíková Animator: n/a DOP: Tomáš Fišer Sound: Ielyzaveta Nazarenko Editor: Tereza Vágnerová Production Designer : n/a Synopsis: The Last Prior is a tragicomical portrait of people working in the last unreconstructed socialist department store Prior. This perfectly preserved piece of socialist culture and aesthetics houses many strange characters that are themselves stuck in time of the store’s biggest fame. Today, they feel left out, frustrated and nostalgic. The film humorously captures a bizarre atmosphere of this forgotten place and reflects a specific mood of a post-totalitarian society. |
Tomas Bata University in Zlín / Faculty of Multimedia Communications (TBU) | Czech Republic | 36 |
| 10 | UNSPEAKABLE
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Details:Length: 22'Screenwriter: n/a Director: Kate Stonehill Producer: Kate Stonehill Animator: n/a DOP: Ronnie McQuillan Sound: Adam Woodhams Editor: Conor Meechan Production Designer : n/a Synopsis: In 2015, the British government issued a press release calling for universities to do more to tackle extremism. The document identified six men as examples of 'radical' speakers who have expressed views that are ''contrary to British values' and who should therefore be silenced. |
National FIlm and Television School (NFTS) | United Kingdom | 35 |
| 11 | THE DREAMER
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Details:Length: 24'Screenwriter: Krasimir Kalushev Director: Krasimir Kalushev Producer: NATFA Animator: n/a DOP: Alexander Dobrev Sound: n/a Editor: Veselin Gerginov Production Designer : n/a Synopsis: Nikolay Bozhikov is suffering from Muscular Dystrophy. Despite the fact that he is completely immobilized, he doesn’t surrender and continues his fight for life. Supported with much love by his relatives and forgotten by the state, he calls himself a dreamer and wants to realize as many dreams as possible. |
National Academy for Theatre and Film Arts (NATFA) | Bulgaria | 33 |
| 12-13 | GRANNY
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Details:Length: 16'Screenwriter: Juli Michl Director: Juli Michl Producer: Miklós Bosnyák Animator: n/a DOP: Juli Michl Sound: Andor Horváth, Bálint Zándoki Editor: Juli Michl Production Designer : n/a Synopsis: Juli sets out to make a documentary interviewing her grandma about her turbulent childhood during WW2 and Communism. The interviews end when the family learns Granny has terminal cancer - but the camera keeps rolling. |
University of Theatre and Film Arts Budapest (SzFE) | Hungary | 31 |
| 12-13 | NIGHTFALL
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Details:Length: 20'Screenwriter: Agnes Xinyang Meng Director: Agnes Xinyang Meng Producer: DocNomads EMMC Animator: n/a DOP: Agnes Xinyang Meng Sound: Elsa Ferreira, João Alves Editor: Agnes Xinyang Meng, Isabela Monteiro de Castro Production Designer : n/a Synopsis: A village isolated in the rocky mountains of northeastern Portugal. At the end of the day the villagers gather to tell stories about things that have happened, or maybe not ... The legends and stories they tell are inspired by the latent awe for the unknown in the surrounding wild. |
Universidade Lusófona / Film and Media Arts Department (ULHT) | Portugal | 31 |
| 14 | THE ROOT OF THE OAK
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Details:Length: 19'Screenwriter: Yesendi Zataráin, Daniel Hernández Director: Yesendi Zataráin, Daniel Hernández Producer: Gabriela Ruvalcaba Rentería, Boris Goldenblank Animator: n/a DOP: Daniel Hernández Sound: Yesendi Zataráin Editor: Yesendi Zataráin, Daniel Hernández Production Designer : n/a Synopsis: Tatei Niwetsika is a small student community sheltered by the mountains of the Sierra Wixarika north of Jalisco in Mexico.Children aged 4 to 12 are educated by young teachers. Their dynamics of organization and study within this small multigrade school where live dreams of the future of children and teachers. |
University of Guadalajara / Image and Sound Department | Mexico | 30 |
| 15 | NOW TO BECOME A POPE?
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Details:Length: 16'Screenwriter: Justyna Mytnik, Milosz Kasiura Director: Justyna Mytnik Producer: Agata Golanska Animator: n/a DOP: Milosz Kasiura Sound: Ewa Bogusz Editor: Dorota Roś Production Designer : n/a Synopsis: A warm-hearted comedy about a ten year old boy who wants to become a Pope. The protagonist is an alter boy, who finds out about an audition for a part of John Paul II in a musical. The boy approaches this task as if it was a holy mission, but his parents do not treat him seriously. What is be going to learn? |
Polish National Film, Television and Theatre School in Lodz (PWSFTViT) | Poland | 28 |
| 16 | BE GIRL
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Details:Length: 19'Screenwriter: Lucía Ravanelli; Jessica Dubois, Lucas Perna Gutiérrez Director: Lucía Ravanelli Producer: Hugo Sergio Souto Animator: n/a DOP: Carola Forster Sound: Lourdes Pérez Editor: Jessica Dubois, Lucía Ravanelli Production Designer : Hugo Sergio Souto Synopsis: Have you ever asked yourself what it means to be a girl? We take you through a small route of images, phrases and ideology to be a trigger for discussing about the naturalization of the role of women since childhood. |
National School of Film Experimentation and Production (ENERC) | Argentina | 27 |
| 17 | THE SHIELD THAT I CARRY
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Details:Length: 19'Screenwriter: Basma Farhat Director: Basma Farhat Producer: Basma Farhat - Michel Bejjani Animator: n/a DOP: Celine Layous Sound: Thierry Diab Editor: Nathalie Rbeiz Production Designer : Loulwa Farhat Synopsis: Basma is a girl who doesn’t wear the hijab. She faces a lot of situations and decides, for the first time, to show up in front of her parents wearing the hijab, to gauge their reaction and experience what lies deep inside of her. |
Institut d'études scéniques, audiovisuelles et cinématographiques (IESAV) | Lebanon | 26 |
| 18-20 | MAREGRAVE
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Details:Length: 25'Screenwriter: Justine Cappelle Director: Justine Cappelle Producer: RITCS Animator: n/a DOP: Jordan Vanschel Sound: Matijs Guypen Editor: Jasper Flikshuh Production Designer : n/a Synopsis: The coastline forms the border between water and land. This line is constantly moving. The sea takes along everything that comes on its path, slowly changing into a graveyard of sunken souls and a collection of human objects.This impressionistic documentary investigates signs of past human decay in order to understand the potential threat of a rising sea. |
Royal Institute for Theatre, Cinema and Sound (RITCS) | Belgium | 25 |
| 18-20 | OLEG
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Details:Length: 24'Screenwriter: Boris Krichevsky, Alexander A. Brodsky Director: Boris Krichevsky, Alexander A. Brodsky Producer: Boris Krichevsky, Alexander A. Brodsky Animator: n/a DOP: Boris Krichevsky, Alexander A. Brodsky Sound: Boris Krichevsky Editor: Boris Krichevsky Production Designer : n/a Synopsis: An intimate portrait of the artist Oleg Kudryashov as he works and cares for his wife Dina in her last days. |
School of Visual Arts | United States | 25 |
| 18-20 | PIOTR
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Details:Length: 5'Screenwriter: n/a Director: Zuza Kopacka Producer: Elliott Watson Animator: n/a DOP: Tommy Reeday Sound: Ross Longhurst Editor: Ross Longhurst Production Designer : n/a Synopsis: Piotr is an artist and a fighter. |
National Association for Higher Education in the Moving Image (NAHEMI) | United Kingdom | 25 |
| 21-23 | MAMUSHKA
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Details:Length: 30'Screenwriter: Maayan (May) Abadi Grebler Director: Maayan (May) Abadi Grebler Producer: Danel Elpeleg Animator: n/a DOP: Maayan (May) Abadi Grebler Sound: Nill Gibs Editor: Nir Guilat Production Designer : Danel Elpeleg Synopsis: 24-year-old Melody lives with her mother Victoria. She will do anything to win her mother’s love. But Victoria’s love comes at a price and Melody cannot always cash in on it. The film follows Melody during different periods where she is looking for income that will allow her to be close to her mother and continue to live in her home. |
Sam Spiegel Film and Television School Jerusalem (JSFS) | Israel | 24 |
| 21-23 | MY FATHER'S SON
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Details:Length: 30'Screenwriter: Hillel Rate Director: Hillel Rate Producer: Hillel Rate Animator: n/a DOP: Hillel Rate Sound: Mitch Klyman Editor: Sapir Rokach Production Designer : Hillel Rate Synopsis: In a house live two, a father and a son. The son – kind, gentle, naïve and loves his father. The father – charismatic and sweeping and loves his son. Between serving his father and taking care of him the son tries to find his place in the world. |
Ma'aleh School of Film, Television and the Arts (MAALE) | Israel | 24 |
| 21-23 | OH BROTHER OCTOPUS
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Details:Length: 27'Screenwriter: Florian Kunert Director: Florian Kunert Producer: Florian Kunert Animator: n/a DOP: Florian Kunert Sound: Stefan Voglsinger Editor: Ian Purnell, Florian Kunert, Lara Rodriguez Cruz Production Designer : n/a Synopsis: The sea nomads of Indonesia believe that with every newborn there is a twin brother in the form of an octopus! Rituals are carried out to appease the brother in the water and prevent misfortunes. When, dishonor occurs .Jakarta is portrayed as the apocalyptic revenge of the brother octopus. |
Academy of Media Arts Cologne (KHM) | Germany | 24 |
| 24 | THE SHEPARD
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Details:Length: 9'Screenwriter: Luke Catena Director: Luke Catena Producer: Joey Tsar Animator: n/a DOP: Luke Catena Sound: Luke Catena Editor: Luke Catena Production Designer : n/a Synopsis: A look into the life of Yu Xizhong, an aging shepard living in a nearly abondoned ancient city in China's Ganzu Province. |
Boston University / Department of Film and Television | United States | 23 |
| 25-26 | MY GARDEN´S SPIDER
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Details:Length: 12'Screenwriter: Daniela Bazzano Director: Daniela Bazzano Producer: Alejandra Acevedo Animator: n/a DOP: Daniela Bazzano, Alejandra Acevedo Sound: Alejandra Acevedo, Daniela Bazzano Editor: Alejandra Acevedo, Daniela Bazzano Production Designer : Alejandra Acevedo Synopsis: A self-portrait, a personal, reflexive and experimental search of the director through the different emotional states that she travels when diving into images of the past, reflecting on the problems and benefits that her bipolar disorder entails, revolving around the attachment. |
Universidad de Buenos Aires / Diseño de Imagen y Sonido FADU (UBA) | Argentina | 22 |
| 25-26 | PEACEKEEPER
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Details:Length: 13'Screenwriter: Tyler Knutt, Nicholas Markart Director: Tyler Knutt, Nicholas Markart Producer: Tyler Knutt, Nicholas Markart Animator: Tyler Knutt, Nicholas Markart DOP: Tyler Knutt, Nicholas Markart Sound: Tyler Knutt, Nicholas Markart Editor: Tyler Knutt, Nicholas Markart Production Designer : Tyler Knutt, Nicholas Markart Synopsis: Native Americans from Standing Rock speak out on the pipeline, the repetition of history, and their roles as water-protectors in a struggle for modern sovereignty. |
Florida State University / College of Motion Picture Arts (FSU) | United States | 22 |
| 27-29 | EMPTY ROOMS
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Details:Length: 21'Screenwriter: Anže Sobočan Director: Anže Sobočan Producer: Jožica Blatnik (UL AGRFT) Animator: n/a DOP: Fabris Šulin Sound: Peter Žerovnik Editor: Ema Radovan Production Designer : n/a Synopsis: There are 200 open cases of missing people in Slovenia. One of them is the case of Jure Plevnik who has been missing for 17 years. His mother Ika has been fighting to find out what happened to her son. In the film she shares her memories of Jure as well as here pain about his absence. What is left after all of this time? |
UL AGRFT | Slovenia | 21 |
| 27-29 | FINDING HOME
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Details:Length: 19'Screenwriter: n/a Director: Abraham Troen Producer: Xin Li, Marc Mounier Animator: n/a DOP: Abraham Troen Sound: Peter Bawiec Editor: Yongle Wang Production Designer : n/a Synopsis: Finding Home follows Brandon Xie: a Chineese lawyer, who left his family and country due to his sexual orientation, as he navigates a new life as a gay immigrant in Los Angeles. |
University of Southern California's School of Cinematic Arts (USC) | United States | 21 |
| 27-29 | FROM THE ANCIENTS TO THE SONS OF TOMORROW
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Details:Length: 29'Screenwriter: Leonardo A. Gelio Director: Leonardo A. Gelio Producer: Leonardo A. Gelio, Grazy Eckert DOP: Leonardo A. Gelio, Thaysa Paulo Sound: Pedro Nascimento, Pedro Alexandre, Leonardo A. Gelio Editor: Leonardo A. Gelio Production Designer : n/a Synopsis: Documentary which explores the fight for keeping the Caiçara culture through the construction of it's Canoe (Caiçara canoe) and the passage of this expertise to the next generation.This village (the only which resisted the land speculation from Rio-Santos Road) still suffers impositions from the ecological reserve which, almost, criminalizes Canoe-crafting today. |
PUC-Rio Department of Social Communication - Cinema | Brazil | 21 |
| 30 | HYPERLAPSE
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Details:Length: 7'Screenwriter: Stefan Tan Director: Stefan Tan Producer: Stefan Tan Animator: n/a DOP: Stefan Tan Sound: Stefan Tan Editor: Stefan Tan Production Designer : Stefan Tan Synopsis: There are places in life we have never been, nor have the chance to visit them at all, or even acknowledge their existence. Spanning a year with over 52,000 images carefully put together, the hyperlapse captures the ephemeral and the tension between nature and nurture in Singapore. |
Nanyang Technological University | Singapore | 20 |
| 31-32 | BELLBOY
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Details:Length: 19'Screenwriter: Terhi Kokkonen Director: Terhi Kokkonen Producer: Terhi Kokkonen, Jenni Dollery Animator: n/a DOP: Joel Grandell Sound: Jani Nikander Editor: Terhi Kokkonen Production Designer : n/a Synopsis: ”When the famous Finnish Radio Symphony Orchestra prepares to perform a symphony by Joonas Kokkonen, Heikki Tikka works in the shadows to make sure every single thing is in it’s right place. Bellboy is a documentary short film about the servant who ruled over everything.” |
Aalto University School of Arts, Design and Architecture / ELO Film School Helsinki | Finland | 19 |
| 31-32 | HARBINGER
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Details:Length: 27'Screenwriter: Sam Sheline Director: Sam Sheline Producer: Sam Sheline Animator: Sam Sheline DOP: Sam Sheline Sound: n/a Editor: Sam Sheline Production Designer : n/a Synopsis: Chytrid is an invasive fungus wipes out amphibians. Luckily Edgardo Griffith and Heidi Ross realized how close Panama's national animal might be to extinction. They breed dozens of species in captivity, and fight tirelessly for rare amphibians. Featuring Elizabeth Kolbert, author of the Pulitzer Prize-winning The Sixth Extinction. |
American University | United States | 19 |
| 33 | PAIN IS MINE
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Details:Length: 13'Screenwriter: Farshid Akhlaghipour Director: Farshid Akhlaghipour Producer: Steve Thomas, Shannon Owen Animator: n/a DOP: Farshid Akhlaghipour Sound: Farshid Akhlaghipour Editor: Farshid Akhlaghipour Production Designer : n/a Synopsis: When the pain is named, it is mine. |
VCA Film and Television | Australia | 18 |
| 34-35 | HOLD MY HAND
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Details:Length: 22'Screenwriter: Alexandre Lefebvre Director: Alexandre Lefebvre Producer: Léonie Hurtubise, UQAM Animator: n/a DOP: Emile Oesroches-Larouche Sound: Philippe Lefebvre Editor: Samuel Caron Production Designer : n/a Synopsis: Documentary exploring visual impairment through the daily life of Chloe (11 years old), Alex (17 years old) and Salma (21 years old), all with partial or complete blindness. An intimate journey centered on the existential questioning of their place in this world. |
University of Québec Montréal / School of Media (UQAM) | Canada | 17 |
| 34-35 | WHAT DO I DO IN LIFE?
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Details:Length: 27'Screenwriter: Manuel De Pandis, Fabio Fusillo, Giovanni Sfarra Director: Manuel De Pandis, Fabio Fusillo, Giovanni Sfarra Producer: CSC Animator: n/a DOP: Giovanni Sfarra, Manuel De Pandis Sound: Fabio Fusillo, Fabrizio Alviti Editor: Manuel De Pandis, Fabio Fusillo, Giovanni Sfarra Production Designer : n/a Synopsis: Tree boys living in Lecce, in particular, in the working-class districts of Ferrovia, Le Vele and San Pio. Ferrovia is a place frequented by prostitutes; since it is close to the train station, it attracts the homeless seeking shelter in the shade of trains. Together with the district of San Pio, it represents one of the strongholds of Lecce’s outskirts. |
Centro Sperimentale di Cinematografia (CSC) | Italy | 17 |
| 36-39 | DUST TO DUST
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Details:Length: 12'Screenwriter: n/a Director: Mahnoor Zaidi Producer: Mahnoor Zaidi, York University Animator: n/a DOP: Shahnawaz Zali Sound: Sidharth, Hassan Badshah Editor: Mahnoor Zaidi, Sidharth Devalla Production Designer : n/a Synopsis: Dust to Dust touches upon the fundamental truth of life - death - and the eternal human quest to transcend it. It follows Ashraf, a gravedigger, in Lahore as he tries to find a greater purpose in life through his daily confrontations with death. |
York University Department of Film - Fine Arts | Canada | 16 |
| 36-39 | I’LL MAKE EVERYTHING FADE AWAY
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Details:Length: 26'Screenwriter: Margaux Chataux Director: Margaux Chataux Producer: ENSAV Animator: n/a DOP: Jordi Honoré Sound: Raphaël Jourdain, Matéo Rousson Editor: Théo Berchet Production Designer : Bastien Viera Synopsis: After her mother’s death, Margaux, a young woman, must leave her family home. Her younger cousin Fleur and then her aunt Jacqueline come to help her sort out her mother’s belongings. Together they mourn their coming departure looming over then. |
ENSAV | France | 16 |
| 36-39 | PROMISE
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Details:Length: 22'Screenwriter: n/a Director: Bünyamin Musullu Producer: Charly Hoffmann, Malte Hafner Animator: n/a DOP: Malte Hafner Sound: Maximilian Rodegra Editor: Maximilian Rodegra Production Designer : n/a Synopsis: Hotel Mado in Cologne functions as long-term home for several refugees. Among them 10 year old Promise, his 3 year old twin sisters and their mother. Promise is responsible for the household and acts as father figure for the twins although he himself would prefer to just be a Kid. |
ifs internationale filmschule köln | Germany | 16 |
| 36-39 | WELTSCHMERZ
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Details:Length: 29'Screenwriter: n/a Director: Jesper Dalgaard Producer: Niclas Caroc Warner Animator: n/a DOP: Valdemar Cold, Winge Leisner Sound: Mathias Dehn Middelhart Editor: Denniz Göl Bertelsen Production Designer : Mina Lejbølle Synopsis: While the world is ablaze, a blind director asks her theater group to help her process her broken heart. In a chaotic and iconographic role play, the group embarks on its search for love's true nature, while the fear of the physical world's limitations are buried deep underneath the stage floor. |
National Film School of Denmark (DDF) | Denmark | 16 |
| 40 | GHOST TOWN
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Details:Length: 17'Screenwriter: Dennis Samuelsson, Gabbrielle Warren Director: Dennis Samuelsson Producer: Gabbrielle Warren Animator: n/a DOP: Connor Nierfeld Sound: Clay Schreiber Editor: Tabea Hannappel Production Designer : Emma Blakey Synopsis: Documentary about Tasmanian Ghost Towns, exploring forgotten communities frozen in time - A diary of lost memories. |
Griffith Film School (GFS) | Australia | 15 |
| 41-45 | DREAM OF THE RED QUEEN
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Details:Length: 29'Screenwriter: Marina Maria Melnik Director: Marina Maria Melnik Producer: VGIK Animator: n/a DOP: Roman Avramenko Sound: Mikhail Zvezdovsky Editor: Marina Maria Melnik Production Designer : Marina Maria Melnik Synopsis: Young girl Lera has a sleepy paralysis. It’s a sort of condition when your body is asleep but the brain wakes up and starts to visualize the fears of your subconscious. You can determine the truth and lie of this film yourself. Anyway, the main idea is human’s responsibility for actions. |
Russian State University of Сinematography n.a. S.Gerasimov VGIK | Russia | 14 |
| 41-45 | EL NAZARENO
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Details:Length: 18'Screenwriter: n/a Director: Brendan Mills Producer: Paul Stavropoulos Animator: n/a DOP: Paul Stavropoulos, Dean Gold Sound: n/a Editor: Paul Stavropoulos Production Designer : n/a Synopsis: In the tropical port of Portobelo, Panama lives a community of Afro-Caribbean people devoted to a statue of a black Jesus Christ known as EL NAZARENO. by weaving through intimate portraits of His most devout followers amidst their 358th annual Festival del Cristo Negro, EL NAZARENO captures a community's reclamation of heritage by redefining the Eurocentric image of a white Christ. |
Toronto Metropolitan University | Canada | 14 |
| 41-45 | FUCK YOU, I LOVE YOU
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Details:Length: 20'Screenwriter: Jan Hušek Director: Jan Hušek Producer: FAMU Animator: n/a DOP: Tomáš Uhlík, Marcel Halcin Sound: Michal Kocáb Editor: Jan Hušek Production Designer : n/a Synopsis: Today was my ex-girlfriend for the first time at FAMU since the entrance exams to see my first year film about how I am trying in a good or completely bad way to cope with our breakup. |
Film and Television School / Academy of Performing Arts in Prague (FAMU) | Czech Republic | 14 |
| 41-45 | SOUNDUP ABIDJAN: MEETING YOUNG NIMO
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Details:Length: 27'Screenwriter: Marion Defer, Mikhael Kurc Director: Mikhael Kurc Producer: Edouard Lalane de saint Quentin Animator: n/a DOP: Manon Blanc Sound: Mikhael Kurc, Gregoire Chauvot, Geoffrey Perrier Editor: Camille Reysset Production Designer : n/a Synopsis: Young Nimo, the young genius of trap music in Côte d’Ivoire, gives us the exclusivity of a first filmed encounter. |
La Fémis | France | 14 |
| 41-45 | WHITE GORILLA
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Details:Length: 18'Screenwriter: n/a Director: Charles Packer Producer: Nikko Koh May May Animator: n/a DOP: Beaumont Loy, Charles Packer Sound: Audrey Lee Editor: Ko Shui Min Production Designer : n/a Synopsis: Filmmaker Charles Packer chronicles his grandfather’s life. Using photographs, home videos, interviews, his grandfather’s writings as well as footage taken while following in his grandfather’s footsteps, he creates a unique work of portraiture that explores how we remember our departed loved ones. |
Puttnam School of Film & Animation / LASALLE College of the Arts (LCA) | Singapore | 14 |
| 46 | HAWK EYE
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Details:Length: 11'Screenwriter: Mattia Beraldi Director: Mattia Beraldi Producer: Debora Giovio, Patrick Micaroni Animator: Grieco Rafael DOP: Antonio Universi, Anrea Mezzalira Sound: Berthold Manolescu Editor: Pietro Bianchini Production Designer : Mattia Beraldi Synopsis: The hawk eye, a machine used to check the precise position of the tennis ball, it's about to show publicly whether Mattia, film student and tennis line judge, is right or wrong during an international match. The author compares man and machine, discovering this technology used to judge the arbiter. |
Academy of Audiovisual Sciences (CISA) | Switzerland | 13 |
| 47-51 | 400 METERS
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Details:Length: 28'Screenwriter: Patricio Aguijar Director: Patricio Aguijar Producer: Alejandro Fuchs Animator: Ximena Guerrero DOP: Sebastián Rico Sound: David Montero Editor: Emilio De la Vega Production Designer : n/a Synopsis: Vianney is a Paralympic swimmer who has dreamed of winning a medal in the Olympics. On her first games in London she failed to reach her goal, remaining in sixth place. But today, at 22 years old, she is seeking her dream in the Rio 2016 games. |
Universidad Iberoamericana Mexico City (IBERO) | Mexico | 12 |
| 47-51 | DREAM INTERMITTENCES
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Details:Length: 18'Screenwriter: Sofía Landgrave Director: Sofía Landgrave Producer: Sofía Landgrave, Argenis Salinas Pineda Animator: n/a DOP: Argenis Salinas Pineda Sound: Sofía Landgrave Editor: Sofía Landgrave Production Designer : n/a Synopsis: Clara and Agapito fight against the physical and psychological afflictions of old age. Locked up in her house and away from her children, María has become her caregiver. Their routine life immerses them in their memories and dreams. |
National School of Film Arts / National Autonomous University of Mexico (ENAC/UNAM) | Mexico | 12 |
| 47-51 | KIKA
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Details:Length: 18'Screenwriter: n/a Director: Mirna Zgrabljić Producer: Mirna Zgrabljić Animator: n/a DOP: Antonio Pozojević Sound: Doris Dodig Editor: Dario Bagarić Production Designer : n/a Synopsis: Kika is a single mother and stripper from Zagreb. The film follows one night in her life, as she travels, accompanied by her boyfriend and two friends, to a small town near Zagreb where she has a gig. |
Academy of Dramatic Art Zagreb (ADU) | Croatia | 12 |
| 47-51 | NOT SO LOVELY
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Details:Length: 12'Screenwriter: n/a Director: Annika Servin Producer: Kevin Cosgrove Animator: n/a DOP: Annika Servin Sound: Nick Love Editor: Alex Griswold Production Designer : n/a Synopsis: In a medium sized city in New York State the mayor approved a plan to move homeless people out of their encampment and temporarily into hotel rooms so that, without notice to the inhabitants, the city could destroy the encampment. |
School of Film and Animation, College of Art and Design, Rochester Institute of Technology | United States | 12 |
| 47-51 | ON MY TERMS
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Details:Length: 8'Screenwriter: Jake Blackburn, Quentin Curzon Director: Quentin Curzon, Jake Blackburn Producer: Brad Nisbet Animator: n/a DOP: Jake Blackburn Sound: Quentin Curzon, Jake Blackburn Editor: Quentin Curzon Production Designer : n/a Synopsis: When a passionate base-jumper has a terrifying accident, and his father pressures him to give up the sport, he searches for a way to fill the void and replace the exhilaration of base-jumping. |
WA Screen Academy, Edith Cowan University | Australia | 12 |
| 52-53 | EAST SHORE
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Details:Length: 23'Screenwriter: Quinten Wyns Director: Quinten Wyns Producer: Quinten Wyns Animator: n/a DOP: Quinten Wyns Sound: Nina de Vroome Editor: Quinten Wyns Production Designer : n/a Synopsis: East Shore is a portrait of Marnix Verleene, a fisherman in Ostend. The film sketches an image of the Ostend fishing district in a poetic glance at Marnix' life. The East Shore is the neighbourhood in which fishermen dwell. Now, this district is being demolished: high, white residential blocks are rising up. |
Royal Academy of Fine Arts / University College Ghent (KASK) | Belgium | 11 |
| 52-53 | ERES NIÑO COMO YO
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Details:Length: 17'Screenwriter: Iria Montes Librero, Roberto Pérez, Magdalena Orellana Director: Iria Montes Librero, Roberto Pérez Morán, Magdalena Orellana Producer: ECAM; Iria Montes Librero, Roberto Pérez, Magdalena Orellana Animator: n/a DOP: Magdalena Orellana Sound: Iria Montes Librero, Roberto Pérez, Angie He Editor: Iria Montes Librero, Roberto Pérez, Magdalena Orellana Production Designer : n/a Synopsis: Virginia lives surrounded by babies of vinyl that she assembles, paints, dresses and combs. All the handcrafted processes that are part of the creation of these realistic dolls explore the representation of reality and the anatomy through the artifice and the simulation that there is around the game and the idea of recreation that accompanies his collecting. |
ECAM (The Madrid Film School) | Spain | 11 |
| 54-55 | PARCHED
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Details:Length: 16'Screenwriter: Christy Westad, Elijah Guess Director: Christy Westad, Elijah Guess Producer: Christy Westad Animator: Lisa Wu DOP: Elijah Guess Sound: Michael Cullen Editor: Gareth Burghes Production Designer : n/a Synopsis: A Chief in rural Malawi must deal with chronic clean water access problems when her villages are pushed to the brink of famine as a result of the worst drought in decades that has tapped their food and water supplies. |
Chapman University / Dodge College of Film and Media Arts | United States | 10 |
| 54-55 | THE TEACHING OF YAKSHAGANA
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Details:Length: 19'Screenwriter: Robin George Thomas, Vishnu Tenkalaya Director: Robin George Thomas Producer: Whistling Woods International Animator: n/a DOP: Robin George Thomas Sound: Robin George Thomas, Samabesh Das Editor: Robin George Thomas, Samabesh Das Production Designer : n/a Synopsis: A Yakshagana Kendra whose mission is to keep the art of Yakshagana alive by giving students a formal education along with Yakshagana training. |
Whistling Woods International (WWI) | India | 10 |
| 56-57 | LETHARGY
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Details:Length: 19'Screenwriter: Carlos Velandia Director: Carlos Velandia Producer: Carlos Velandia Animator: n/a DOP: Camilo Arismendy Sound: Sebastian Romero Editor: Carlos Velandia Production Designer : n/a Synopsis: A year after their breakup, two ex-lovers write letters to each other to remember their past and overcome the harm they caused. |
Escuela de Cine y Televisión / UNAL (ECYTV) | Colombia | 9 |
| 56-57 | TO MY FATHER
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Details:Length: 26'Screenwriter: Gabriel Laderas, Alessio Tamborini Director: Gabriel Laderas, Alessio Tamborini Producer: Cristina Catalani Animator: n/a DOP: Gabriel Laderas, Alessio Tamborini Sound: Tommaso Barbaro Editor: Mirko Platania Production Designer : n/a Synopsis: Mike's is a first-generation immigrant, former political activist, former military serving the Philippine dictatorial government and ex-clandestine. Gabriel (his son, born in Italy) has lived and still lives the consequences of his father’s choices. On the backdrop of the Philippine community in Italy, the private life of a father and son, by their own voice. |
Milan City Film School Luchino Visconti (MCSC) | Italy | 9 |
| 58-59 | HEART OF THE HOUSE
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Details:Length: 9'Screenwriter: Josiah Williams Director: Josiah Williams Producer: Agnes Vesterback Animator: n/a DOP: Alex Stagg Sound: Oliver Blake Editor: Mark Gallagher Production Designer : n/a Synopsis: HEART OF THE HOUSE explores Philip Oliver a clockmaker from Knaresborough who is about to retire with no apprentice to take on his business. He has no choice but to shut down and sell all of his clocks. Philip takes us into the world of the dying craft he has loved so much for the last 30 years. |
Northern Film School / Leeds Beckett University (NFS/LBU) | United Kingdom | 8 |
| 58-59 | SON OF THE WIND
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Details:Length: 20'Screenwriter: David Noblet, Pierre Noel Blandin Director: David Noblet Producer: INSAS/ ATELIER DE RÉALISATION Animator: n/a DOP: David Noblet Sound: Pierre Noel Blandin Editor: Julie Robert Production Designer : n/a Synopsis: Beijing, Spring. Panpan is 10 years old, living with his grandfather. They spend the days on a small farm, just 20 minutes from the center. They grow their own organic food on a small piece of land. |
INSAS | Belgium | 8 |
| 60-66 | 1ST OLD BOYS
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Details:Length: 18'Screenwriter: n/a Director: Dylan Cargill Producer: Natalie Sutton Animator: n/a DOP: Sassan Salamian Sound: Ben Groves Editor: Thomas Hamblin Production Designer : n/a Synopsis: In the build up to the Queen Mary's Annual Brass Band Competition, legendary brass band, "1st Old Boys' have to up their game to stand a chance of winning the hard-fought competition. With rumours of foul-play in the competition this observational documentary captures the underdogs of the competition displaying their passion and enjoyment of the music. But will they win? |
Westminster Film BA / University of Westminster (WFS) | United Kingdom | 7 |
| 60-66 | A MATTER OF LIFE
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Details:Length: 13'Screenwriter: Kimmo Laipio Director: Kimmo Laipio Producer: Kimmo Laipio Animator: n/a DOP: Elias Lehtinen Sound: Hjalmar Slangus Editor: Elias Lehtinen Production Designer : n/a Synopsis: Carita who works at a hospital talks about her work, family, life, and death. |
ARCADA University of Applied Sciences Department of Culture and Communication / Media Culture Finland | Finland | 7 |
| 60-66 | GOING HOME
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Details:Length: 12'Screenwriter: Nestori Majoinen Director: Nestori Majoinen Producer: Alli Walden Animator: n/a DOP: Nestori Majoinen Sound: Juho Virtanen Editor: Saana Kukkavaara Production Designer : n/a Synopsis: Going Home is an emotional story about a homeless couple exploring places to spend time together. |
Metropolia University of Applied Sciences (MUAS) | Finland | 7 |
| 60-66 | INTERSTICE
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Details:Length: 7'Screenwriter: Maryoly Ibarra, Salvatore Delpi Director: Maryoly Ibarra Producer: Maryoly Ibarra Animator: Maryoly Ibarra DOP: Maryoly Ibarra Sound: Maryoly Ibarra Editor: Maryoly Ibarra Production Designer : Maryoly Ibarra Synopsis: Interstice is a documentary that portrays the staging of the short film "Transición", where two inmates escape from a re-education center to fulfill their desire to die. |
Advanced Institute of Film and Acting (INCINE) | Ecuador | 7 |
| 60-66 | LETTERS FROM KERALA
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Details:Length: 10'Screenwriter: Amanda Höglund Director: Amanda Höglund Producer: Amanda Höglund Animator: n/a DOP: Amanda Höglund Sound: Amanda Höglund Editor: Amanda Höglund Production Designer : n/a Synopsis: With the journey as a method and art as a valve, the film tells a story about two friends going to India. But during the trip there are things that put their friendship to the test. Are they as alike as they believed? |
Stockholm University of the Arts (SKH) | Sweden | 7 |
| 60-66 | LIFE IN THE VOID
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Details:Length: 11'Screenwriter: n/a Director: Theophilus Sng Producer: Grace Tan Animator: n/a DOP: Kieren Neo Sound: Greta Lau Editor: Freda Kong Production Designer : n/a Synopsis: This documentary sets out to reveal the juxtapositions of the most intimate communal space that epitomises the Singaporean experience - the Void Deck. |
Ngee Ann Polytechnic / School of Film & Media Studies | Singapore | 7 |
| 60-66 | TRAINER
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Details:Length: 15'Screenwriter: n/a Director: Titas Laucius Producer: Klementina Remeikaite Animator: n/a DOP: Zbigniev Bartosevic Sound: Iveta Maceviciute Editor: Titas Laucius, Zbigniev Bartosevic Production Designer : n/a Synopsis: Marcel is an animal trainer, who works in circus. In his free time he likes to train not only animals, but also his employees. With his acrobat wife, popcorn baker, and a clown Marcel is driving around the country trying to entertain audiences with his unforgettable shows. |
Lithuanian Academy of Music and Theatre (LMTA) | Lithuania | 7 |
| 67-69 | ESMERALDA
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Details:Length: 15'Screenwriter: Andrei-Tache Codreanu Director: Andrei-Tache Codreanu Producer: Andrei-Tache Codreanu Animator: n/a DOP: Rares Dima Sound: Andrei Stoian Editor: Andrei Stoian Production Designer : n/a Synopsis: At the Ancient City of Histria, diggings have started to slow down, as all the experienced workers are retired now. The last man standing from the "old guard" is Mr. Dinica, a former librarian, who has been working for 16 years on the site. |
National University of Theatre and Film (UNATC) | Romania | 6 |
| 67-69 | LABOUR ADDA
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Details:Length: 12'Screenwriter: Swapnil Vasant Kapure Director: Swapnil Vasant Kapure Producer: FTII Animator: n/a DOP: Chaitanya Puranik Sound: Amosana Thcokchom Editor: Shruthy Sukamaran Production Designer : n/a Synopsis: The film is about place Thiyya/ Majoor Adda where daily wages workers gathers everyday for work or money. |
Film and Television Institute of India (FTII) | India | 6 |
| 67-69 | NEWS 23/06/2016
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Details:Length: 10'Screenwriter: Elsa Rosengren Director: Elsa Rosengren Producer: Nadja Rothkirch Animator: n/a DOP: Katharina Wahl Sound: Nadja Rothkirch, Frank Behnke Editor: Elsa Rosengren Production Designer : n/a Synopsis: It’s the 23rd of June 2016. In the UK, a critical referendum is well underway, and across the Atlantic, an ominous American presidential campaign is gathering force. In Sweden, news broadcasting is carrying on as usual. In Germany, however, an identical, yet distorted, news broadcast is simultaneously being constructed by the citizens themselves. In the height of the Berlin summer, the Zeit der Unruhe starts to unfold. |
German Film and Television Academy Berlin (DFFB) | Germany | 6 |
| 70-73 | ABOUT US IN CHERENYANE
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Details:Length: 23'Screenwriter: Keoikantse Holele, Keith Ngulube Director: Sibonokuhle Myataza Producer: Boitumelo Magodielo, Tlotlo TT Sebolai Animator: n/a DOP: Gillroy Thato Mahlabe Sound: Matthews Manamela Editor: Matthews Manamela Production Designer : n/a Synopsis: Boizy a farm worker, describes his definiton of what freedom is in the post-apartheid South Africa from his personal journey. |
South African School of Motion Picture Medium and Live Performance (AFDA) | South Africa | 5 |
| 70-73 | ELEGY FOR A WORKING MAN
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Details:Length: 9'Screenwriter: n/a Director: Daniel Appleby, Tom Fernandes Producer: Brad Kane Animator: n/a DOP: Dylan Smart Sound: Brad Kane Editor: Thomas Wesley Production Designer : n/a Synopsis: This nine-minute portrait documentary witnesses a Working Men’s Club decline, and explores the effect on its intriguing member’s lives. Set in the Town End Farm estate in Sunderland, this film follows Tommy Dixon, the clubs long-suffering treasurer, as he shows us around the club in his last days before handing over to fledgling treasurer-in-training Ross Morgan. |
University for the Creative Arts | United Kingdom | 5 |
| 70-73 | MOTHER. GABRIELE. TELEVISION
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Details:Length: 28'Screenwriter: Lucia Kašová Director: Lucia Kašová Producer: VSMU Animator: Viktor Boža DOP: Martin Jurči Sound: Gergely Both Editor: Lucia Kašová Production Designer : Mira Hudecová Synopsis: This film is mapping how people fulfill the emptiness of being with the instrument of television. |
Academy of Performing Arts / Film and Television Faculty (VSMU) | Slovakia | 5 |
| 70-73 | THIS IS MY PLACE
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Details:Length: 23'Screenwriter: n/a Director: Anna Saridi Producer: Anna Saridi, Kajri Babbar Animator: n/a DOP: Stas Miroschnichenko Sound: Guy Dowsett Editor: Anna Saridi Production Designer : n/a Synopsis: Exploring a Russian village community through the eyes of women born in the USSR during the war. |
Bournemouth Film School (AUB) | United Kingdom | 5 |
| 74-80 | A FAMILY
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Details:Length: 13Screenwriter: Ashok Veilou Director: Ashok Veilou Producer: SRFTI Animator: n/a DOP: Roopesh Kumar Shaji Sound: Sabaridas T K Editor: Pousheru Ngade Production Designer : Amar Pal Singh Fauzdar Synopsis: The film encapsulates a beautiful love story overcoming the differences of religion and caste. |
Satyajit Ray Film and Television Institute (SRFTI) | India | 4 |
| 74-80 | ADEM REKA
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Details:Length: 14'Screenwriter: Ardian Arrëza Director: Ardian Arrëza Producer: AFMM Animator: n/a DOP: Ardit Muhaxhiri Sound: n/a Editor: Leutrim Voka, Ardit Muhaxhiri Production Designer : n/a Synopsis: A journey on the figure of Adam Reka who, after death in 1966, was declared a Hero of Socialist Work by the Communist regime. The event is pieced together through archival materials and testimonies, which include family members of Adam Reka. Their truths and the benefit of hindsight exposes the Regime’s propaganda. |
Academy of Film and Multimedia Marubi (AFMM) | Albania | 4 |
| 74-80 | CHILDLESS
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Details:Length: 11'Screenwriter: Tuulia Mustonen Director: Tuulia Mustonen Producer: Sanni Halttunen Animator: n/a DOP: Kirsikka Lyhteilä Sound: Jaakko Niemelä Editor: Wilma Kurumaa Production Designer : n/a Synopsis: The documentary film Childless tells a story of a middle-aged man's pain, when he finds out that his family-related dreams have been overlaid by his work. |
Tampere University of Applied Sciences (TUNI), Degree Programme in Media | Finland | 4 |
| 74-80 | I AM JEW
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Details:Length: 30'Screenwriter: Manya Lozovskaya Director: Manya Lozovskaya Producer: Manya Lozovskaya Animator: n/a DOP: Igor Beregovsky Sound: Yuri Priyamenko Editor: Ronny Feldman Production Designer : n/a Synopsis: Manya (32) immigrated to Israel and met Erez. In order to be together, Manya needs to undergo a conversion which redefines her life. |
School of Audio & Visual Arts, Sapir College | Israel | 4 |
| 74-80 | MAN OF THE SEA
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Details:Length: 5'Screenwriter: n/a Director: Austin Lau Producer: Austin Lau Animator: n/a DOP: Austin Lau Sound: Austin Lau Editor: Austin Lau Production Designer : n/a Synopsis: Kanaka O Ke Kai is a film about Jace Shiroma. It’s the story of how the ocean has influenced his life and the struggles that it helped him overcome. |
University of Hawai‘i Mānoa, Academy for Creative Media | United States | 4 |
| 74-80 | NEIQIUSHENMA
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Details:Length: 13'Screenwriter: n/a Director: Zuo Aiping Producer: Liu Libin, Wu Yajun Animator: n/a DOP: n/a Sound: n/a Editor: n/a Production Designer : n/a Synopsis: Neiqiushenma, as in wood New Year paintings "living fossil", in the plain of the line, and the unique interpretation of nature spirits, become precious folk cultural heritage of the Chinese nation. The documentary into the Neiqiushenma only inheritor of Wei Jinjun, his experience and stick to the tradition. |
Central Academy of Drama (CAD) | China | 4 |
| 74-80 | TRUE TALES
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Details:Length: 22'Screenwriter: Lucien Monot Director: Lucien Monot Producer: Jean Perret, Haute ecole d'art et de design, HEAD Animator: n/a DOP: Lucien Monot Sound: Philippe Ciompi Editor: Lucien Monot Production Designer : n/a Synopsis: My father the professor, the politician, the judge, the architect. Memories of those assumed roles merge with my longing for the cinema. Ideas take root, scenarios are written. True stories always have a component of lying: what is important is to tell them. |
Film Department/cinéma du réel - Geneva School of Art and Design (HEAD) | Switzerland | 4 |
| 81-82 | CATCHING THE CHAIN
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Details:Length: 12'Screenwriter: n/a Director: Clair Hauser Producer: Clair Hauser Animator: Anna Lindholm DOP: Garrett Miller Sound: n/a Editor: Anna Lindholm Production Designer : n/a Synopsis: Following the lives of young men in Chicago affected by the justice system, Catching the Chain highlights the struggles of re-integrating ex-convicts into society. Mass incarceration, specifically in Chicago, is an issue that many know little about. Young ex-convicts, who are predominately African American, face a number of battles after being released. With a permanent record, many young men turn to gang violence as a means to support their families after being denied from public schools and potential employers. This documentary follows a program called Woodlawn Reentry that helps young adults released from Cook County Jail get their GED/Diploma. |
Columbia College Chicago (CCC) | United States | 3 |
| 81-82 | VALDI
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Details:Length: 16'Screenwriter: Ágúst Stefánsson Director: Ágúst Stefánsson Producer: Ágúst Stefánsson Animator: Ágúst Stefánsson DOP: Ágúst Stefánsson Sound: Ágúst Stefánsson Editor: Ágúst Stefánsson Production Designer : Ágúst Stefánsson Synopsis: In the digital media age the big retail chains in Iceland have ceased to exist but Valdi's CD store keeps on going. |
Icelandic Film School (IFS) | Iceland | 3 |
| 83-84 | SHE: THE DIRECTOR
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Details:Length: 5'Screenwriter: Moeti Mfolo Director: Kgodume Mohlala Producer: Maiki Seakgoe Animator: n/a DOP: Mosimole Tau Sound: Tumisang Potelo Editor: Sohny Mohlala Production Designer : n/a Synopsis: Biographic documentary of South African director Sara Blechev. |
Tshwane University of Technology | South Africa | 2 |
| 83-84 | THE WINDOW UPSTAIRS
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Details:Length: 17'Screenwriter: Soroush Helali Director: Soroush Helali Producer: Soroush Helali / Luca School of Arts Animator: n/a DOP: Alireza Sabouri Sound: Soroush Helali Editor: Soroush Helali, Ludo Troch Production Designer : Behzad Farahi Synopsis: Soroush goes back after 15 years to Iran to find his first childhood's love Leyla. They felt in love a year before Soroush and his family moved unexpectedly to Belgium what caused they could never say goodbye to each other. |
LUCA School of Arts (LUCA) | Belgium | 2 |
| 85-86 | THE GREAT DECEPTION
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Details:Length: 13'Screenwriter: n/a Director: Ashraf Elwakhery Producer: James Costello Animator: Ismail Belghit DOP: Sohayb Magraoui Sound: n/a Editor: Ashraf Elwakhery Production Designer : n/a Synopsis: A documentary which speaks through the voice of Abdullah Anas a war veteran who fought alongside the mujahideen in the Soviet-Afgan War. The film tries to tackle the alienated image of jihad today through the voice of an ex-jihadi who was once looked at as a respected freedom fighter. |
University of Hertfordshire | United Kingdom | 1 |
| 85-86 | THE HYPOTHESIS
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Details:Length: 20'Screenwriter: n/a Director: Bruno Saboia Producer: Les Ateliers Varan Animator: n/a DOP: n/a Sound: n/a Editor: Mélanie Caudron Production Designer : n/a Synopsis: In 2009, the National Archives of Brasilia published the classified "secret defense" reports about a military operation in the Amazon forest. Years later, in the streets of Paris, a stroller is questioning the meaning of these strange documents - trying to answer a question that modern science has been working on for half a century. |
Ateliers Varan | France | 1 |
| 87-91 | KA·PỤTT
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Details:Length: 25'Screenwriter: n/a Director: Anna Irma Hilfrich Producer: Anna Irma Hilfrich/FH Dortmund Animator: n/a DOP: Anna Irma Hilfrich Sound: Juliana Atakishieva Editor: Anna Irma Hilfrich Production Designer : n/a Synopsis: While working on her daughters hair, instead of cutting it, the mother chats about key moments in her life. She clips, straitens, untangles; talks nonchalantly about choices: jobs, countries, languages. All these words reflecting in her daughters mirror. |
Dortmund University of Applied Sciences and Arts | Germany | 0 |
| 87-91 | KLEINGOLF
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Details:Length: 23'Screenwriter: Lukas Fuhrimann, Marvin Meckes, Fabienne Steiner Director: Marvin Meckes Producer: Filippo Bonacci Animator: n/a DOP: Jan-David Bolt, Lukas Fuhrimann, Fabienne Steiner Sound: Lukas Fuhrimann, Marvin Meckes Editor: Lukas Fuhrimann, Marvin Meckes, Fabienne Steiner Production Designer : n/a Synopsis: Jörg and Maja give us a short insight into the world of professional Minigolf. We discover what it takes to compete with the best players in Switzerland. Not only do you need the right equipment, also a cool head and the support of the community play a major role in the race of stepping onto the podium. |
Zurich University of the Arts / Department of Performing Arts and Film (ZHdK) | Switzerland | 0 |
| 87-91 | REAR SEAT, NY
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Details:Length: 11'Screenwriter: n/a Director: Berk Kusbeygi Producer: Berk Kusbeygi, Rojin Karaca Animator: n/a DOP: Berk Kusbeygi Sound: n/a Editor: Berk Kusbeygi Production Designer : n/a Synopsis: The story of taxi drivers who serve as amateur therapists in big cities filled with lonely people. |
Istanbul Kultur University (IKU) | Turkey | 0 |
| 87-91 | SERIAL PEST
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Details:Length: 11'Screenwriter: Billy Dahlenburg Director: Billy Dahlenburg Producer: Nikita Dunovits-Ferrier Animator: n/a DOP: Theo Miller, Hugo Rose Sound: Billy Dahlenburg Editor: Billy Dahlenburg Production Designer : n/a Synopsis: A look at the protest movement working to ban duck hunting in Victoria through its most senior member, serial activist Tony Murphy. |
Swinburne School of Film and Television (SSFT) | Australia | 0 |
| 87-91 | THE VIRTUES OF MEDICINAL PLANTS
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Details:Length: 13'Screenwriter: Wilfried LOKONON Director: Wilfried LOKONON Producer: ISMA Animator: n/a DOP: Rachelle ZINSOU Sound: Jaurès LOKOSSI Editor: Trésor LOUMBOU Production Designer : Wilfried LOKONON Synopsis: Medicinal plants have enough virtues. Through this documentary, we will discover some that nature offers us. |
Higher Institute of Audiovisual Training (ISMA) | Benin | 0 |
Animation
| Place | Title | School | Country | Points |
| 1 | POLES APART
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Details:Length: 12'Screenwriter: Paloma Baeza Director: Paloma Baeza Producer: Ser En Low Animation: Paloma Baeza DOP: Jon Muschamp Sound: Morgan Muse Editor: Zsófia Tálas Production Designer : Paula Giménez Synopsis: Poles Apart tells the story of an unlikely meeting between Nanuk, a tough female polar bear, and Aklak, an enthusiastic male grizzly bear, brought together by their changing habitats. |
National FIlm and Television School (NFTS) | United Kingdom | 178 |
| 2 | MONSTERS DON’T EXIST
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Details:Length: 4'Screenwriter: Ilaria Angelini, Luca Barberis Organista, Nicola Bernardi Director: Ilaria Angelini, Luca Barberis Organista, Nicola Bernardi Producer: Ilaria Angelini, Luca Barberis Organista, Nicola Bernardi Animation: Ilaria Angelini, Luca Barberis Organista, Nicola Bernardi DOP: Priyan Fernardo, Otilia Cobzaru Sound: and Music Scuola Civica di Musica Claudio Abbado - Cristian Labelli, Simone Di Leonardo Editor: Ilaria Angelini, Luca Barberis Organista, Nicola Bernardi Production Designer : n/a Synopsis: Thomas and John are again in punishment for having disturbed the lesson, and they have to stay in class with their teacher during the break. Nevertheless, they will find the way to start arguing again. |
Milan City Film School Luchino Visconti (MCSC) | Italy | 90 |
| 3 | THE FRUITS OF CLOUDS
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Details:Length: 10'Screenwriter: Kateřina Karhánková Director: Kateřina Karhánková Producer: FAMU Animation: Kateřina Karhánková DOP: Kateřina Karhánková Sound: Jan Richtr Editor: Blanka Klímová Production Designer : Alžběta Skálová Synopsis: The Story of a little Furry, who will make a great discovery by overcoming the fear of the unknown. |
Film and Television School / Academy of Performing Arts in Prague (FAMU) | Czech Republic | 75 |
| 4 | AWAKER
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Details:Length: 10'Screenwriter: Filip Diviak Director: Filip Diviak Producer: Veronika Machátová Animation: Filip Diviak DOP: n/a Sound: Jiří Hloušek Editor: Josef Erla Production Designer : Filip Diviak Synopsis: Short animated story set in a cold nordic country happening in the beginning of the 19th century. The story is about the stereotypical life of old man who is working as an awaker, man waking up people. His life is still the same, until the day he gets an old shiny bell. |
Tomas Bata University in Zlín / Faculty of Multimedia Communications (TBU) | Czech Republic | 60 |
| 5-6 | CRADLE
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Details:Length: 15'Screenwriter: Devon Manney Director: Devon Manney Producer: Devon Manney/USC Animation: Devon Manney DOP: n/a Sound: Hannah Kubat Editor: n/a Production Designer : n/a Synopsis: Returning to the USA after losing both arms overseas, a young veteran battles phantom pains, prosthetics, and memories of his pre-war life while reaching for a sense of normalcy. |
University of Southern California's School of Cinematic Arts (USC) | United States | 48 |
| 5-6 | CUBED
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Details:Length: 4'Screenwriter: Xue En Ge Director: Xue En Ge Producer: Xue En Ge Animation: Xue En Ge DOP: Xue En Ge Sound: Xue En Ge Editor: Xue En Ge Production Designer : Xue En Ge Synopsis: A man with a Rubik’s cube as a head tries to connect with others, fails and tries again. |
Nanyang Technological University | Singapore | 48 |
| 7 | BLESS YOU!
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Details:Length: 5'Screenwriter: Paulina Ziolkowska Director: Paulina Ziolkowska Producer: Agata Golanska Animation: Paulina Ziolkowska DOP: n/a Sound: Michal Wilczewski Editor: Piotr Baryla Production Designer : n/a Synopsis: Everyone gets sick of everyone. But things become really bad when you get sick of yourself. |
Polish National Film, Television and Theatre School in Lodz (PWSFTViT) | Poland | 46 |
| 8 | BLUE LIGHT
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Details:Length: 4'Screenwriter: n/a Director: Harriet Croucher Producer: Lesley Adams, Stuart Hilton Animation: Harriet Croucher DOP: n/a Sound: Harriet Croucher Editor: Harriet Croucher Production Designer : Harriet Croucher Synopsis: A hand-drawn documentary exploring how Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder (PTSD) affects the emergency services and their families. Blue Light, was inspired by the directors father, who was retired from the London Fire Brigade with PTSD. |
University for the Creative Arts | United Kingdom | 42 |
| 9 | WORTH EVERY PENNY
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Details:Length: 14'Screenwriter: This is a special project made by 10 different directors, animators and writers in the animation department Director: This is a special project made by 10 different directors, animators and writers in the animation department Producer: Lior Oron Animation: This is a special project made by 10 different directors, animators and writers in the animation department DOP: n/a Sound: Sapir Knafo, Geva Hason, Omer Cohen, Avia Weizman, Mor Machlev, Shai Brazilay Editor: Ricardo Werdesheim, Sarai Abergel Production Designer : Talya Lapid Synopsis: An animated documentary based on posts written by consumers in internet sex forums, and by testimonies of women in the industry. |
School of Audio & Visual Arts, Sapir College | Israel | 41 |
| 10 | HUMUS
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Details:Length: 7'Screenwriter: Simone Di Rocco Director: Simone Cirillo, Simone Di Rocco, Dario Livietti, Alice Tagliapietra Producer: CSC Production Animation: Simone Cirillo, Simone Di Rocco, Dario Livietti DOP: n/a Sound: Paolo Armao, Vito Martinelli Editor: n/a Production Designer : Alice Tagliapietra Synopsis: A curious and clumsy kid struggling with the botanical experiments of a lanky Master Deer. One night, the boy, taking advantage of the teacher's sleep, plays with his magic pot experimenting every possible formula and ingredient and eventually causing a real disaster. |
Centro Sperimentale di Cinematografia (CSC) | Italy | 40 |
| 11 | CHROMOSOME SWEETHEART
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Details:Length: 5'Screenwriter: n/a Director: Honami Yano Producer: Koji Yamamura Animation: Honami Yano DOP: n/a Sound: Chikara Uemizutaru Editor: Honami Yano Production Designer : n/a Synopsis: An ex-couple in a café, a girl sucking on her girlfriends' hair, a running woman, a fleeing town, a little girl walking along the river. In this world, there are as many forms of love as there are people. |
Tokyo University of the Arts, Graduate School of Film and New Media | Japan | 37 |
| 12-13 | LOCKER
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Details:Length: 5'Screenwriter: Darya Zimina Director: Darya Zimina Producer: VGIK Animation: Darya Zimina DOP: n/a Sound: Svetlana Narbekova Editor: Darya Zimina Production Designer : Darya Zimina Synopsis: When you're about three years, it's time to change something.It's time to make choices - to choose your locker. The film is about a new, critical stage in the life of a little person. |
Russian State University of Сinematography n.a. S.Gerasimov VGIK | Russia | 33 |
| 12-13 | SPIDER JAZZ
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Details:Length: 2'Screenwriter: Mick Mahler Director: Mick Mahler Producer: Mick Mahler Animation: Mick Mahler DOP: Mick Mahler Sound: Mick Mahler,Friederike Dörffler Editor: Mick Mahler, Maria Hartig Production Designer : n/a Synopsis: With great passion, a Spider practices classical music on its homespun instrument. But when one day a fly crashes into his instrument, he learns that making music is not only about perfection, but all about improvisation and the joy of playing together. |
ifs internationale filmschule köln | Germany | 33 |
| 14-16 | A LOVE LETTER TO THE ONE I MADE UP
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Details:Length: 6'Screenwriter: Rachel Gutgarts Director: Rachel Gutgarts Producer: Rachel Gutgarts Animation: Rachel Gutgarts DOP: n/a Sound: Aviv Stern, Dana Decktor Editor: n/a Production Designer : Rachel Gutgarts Synopsis: A lonely walk home is intertwined with an underwater fantasy world. The combination between reality and fantasy is portrayed in a love letter addressed to an imaginary "perfect" man. The film is made with a unique technique of screen-printed animation. |
Bezalel Academy of Arts and Design Jerusalem (BAAD) | Israel | 32 |
| 14-16 | AUUUNA
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Details:Length: 8'Screenwriter: Dominika Petríková Director: Lina Šuková Producer: VSMU Animation: Lina Šuková, Kristína Saganová, Katarína Kočanová DOP: n/a Sound: Natália Jancová Editor: Petra Hotková Production Designer : n/a Synopsis: Lina is a girl living in the fear of monsters hiding in the dark underneath her bed. One day, the shadows from under the bed eat her up and Lina sinks into the dark forest where she meets a she-wolf. |
Academy of Performing Arts / Film and Television Faculty (VSMU) | Slovakia | 32 |
| 14-16 | SUMMER STORY
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Details:Length: 10'Screenwriter: Yana Ugrekhelidze Director: Yana Ugrekhelidze Producer: Kunsthochschule für Medien Köln Animation: Yana Ugrekhelidze DOP: Yana Ugrekhelidze, Katja Rivas Pinzon Sound: Gerald Schauder Editor: Ivan Morales Production Designer : Yana Ugrekhelidze Synopsis: The story is about a girl, orphaned by war and the way she tries to cope with realities of death and chaos around her. |
Academy of Media Arts Cologne (KHM) | Germany | 32 |
| 17 | STRINGS
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Details:Length: 3'Screenwriter: Erin Morris Director: Erin Morris Producer: Kylie Kamanga Animation: Erin Morris, Mirella Achkova, Simona Cojocariu, Valeria Gestro, Aris Kolaretakis, Szymon Prewysz Kwinto, Ourania Markou, Ryan Or DOP: n/a Sound: Angus Roberts-Carey Editor: Erin Morris Production Designer : n/a Synopsis: A 2D short animated film, inspired by the work of Amnon Weinstein who finds and restores violins from the Holocaust so that they can be played forever as a symbol of hope. CEHope in Hebrew has it's root in the idea of continuity and the film uses continuous line to tell the story of the violin. |
Falmouth University | United Kingdom | 28 |
| 18-19 | ACHOO
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Details:Length: 4'Screenwriter: Inge Van Der Veen Director: Inge Van Der Veen Producer: n/a Animation: Inge Van Der Veen DOP: Inge Van Der Veen Sound: Lars Overstijns Editor: Inge Van Der Veen Production Designer : Inge Van Der Veen Synopsis: The king gave the command to defeat the dragon. But what if the dragon turns out to be ill? |
Royal Institute for Theatre, Cinema and Sound (RITCS) | Belgium | 25 |
| 18-19 | TANGIBLE
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Details:Length: 10'Screenwriter: Laura Castillo Director: Laura Castillo Producer: David Silva Animation: David Silva, Sergio Maldonado, Jesus Maldonado, Fabian Rodríguez, Viviana Sierra, Andreson González, Andrea Castillo, Lena Barre DOP: Jeronimo Sarmiento Sound: Andres Montaña Editor: David Silva, Andrés Villamizar Production Designer : Jimena Sánchez Synopsis: Juan is a lonely man who has lost the sense of his life, he decides to go out into the city searching for Ana, his old love, hoping to find in her his own reason for being. Ana has swept up into the rou- tine and societal chaos. Juan’s pursue will guide him to rediscover and reinvent the city where he lives, aiming to find within and in himself what he believed to find in Ana. |
Escuela de Cine y Televisión / UNAL (ECYTV) | Colombia | 25 |
| 20 | NEXT STATION
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Details:Length: 7'Screenwriter: Miriam Renting Director: Miriam Renting Producer: Miriam Renting Animation: Miriam Renting DOP: n/a Sound: n/a Editor: Miriam Renting Production Designer : Miriam Renting Synopsis: Movie about dolls seeking love through a dating app. Moa spends time on the subway looking for guys in a dating app on the mobile. When she finds a guy she likes to look good, she writes to him. |
Stockholm University of the Arts (SKH) | Sweden | 24 |
| 21-23 | A WONDERFUL WORLD
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Details:Length: 6'Screenwriter: Eli Bastiaens, Larissa Van Craenenbroeck Director: Eli Bastiaens, Larissa Van Craenenbroeck Producer: Eli Bastiaens, Larissa Van Craenenbroeck / LUCA School of Arts Animation: Eli Bastiaens, Larissa Van Craenenbroeck DOP: Eli Bastiaens, Larissa Van Craenenbroeck Sound: Eli Bastiaens, Larissa Van Craenenbroeck, Romain Cadot Editor: Eli Bastiaens, Larissa Van Craenenbroeck Production Designer : Eli Bastiaens, Larissa Van Craenenbroeck Synopsis: Little Layla would like to play outdoors but is hold back by her overanxious father Dave. By way of a self-made marionette puppet theatre Dave teaches his daughter about the scary dangers outside. Are we still living in a 'Wonderful World'? |
LUCA School of Arts (LUCA) | Belgium | 20 |
| 21-23 | ONCE A PAWN A TIME
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Details:Length: 5'Screenwriter: Fouad Sakr Director: Fouad Sakr Producer: Fouad Sakr Animation: Fouad Sakr DOP: Fouad Sakr Sound: Jean Paul Jalwan Editor: Fouad Sakr Production Designer : Bianca Sakr Synopsis: A black man is accused of the murder of the king. The trial takes place. |
Institut d'études scéniques, audiovisuelles et cinématographiques (IESAV) | Lebanon | 20 |
| 21-23 | UNSKETCHED
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Details:Length: 9'Screenwriter: Nayara Xavier Director: Leonardo Cantú Producer: Leonardo Cantú Animation: Leonardo Cantú DOP: Leonardo Cantú Sound: João Vítor Muçouçah, Lucas Piloto Editor: Leonardo Cantú Production Designer : Leonardo Cantú, Pedro Nishiyama, Michel Lara, Heitor Isoda Synopsis: Beatriz, an architect who lives around "The Big Worm" in São Paulo, is trying to work on a sunny weekend. With an unhappy coincidence, her drawings start to become reality in a magical way, so Beatriz decides to change her future. |
University of São Paulo / School of Communications and Arts / Department of Film, Radio and Television (USP) | Brazil | 20 |
| 24-25 | TAKE ME PLEASE
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Details:Length: 14'Screenwriter: Olivér Hegyi Director: Olivér Hegyi Producer: József Fülöp Animation: Olivér Hegyi DOP: n/a Sound: Péter Benjámin Lukács Editor: Judit Czakó Production Designer : Olivér Hegyi Synopsis: The movie is a presentation of a breakup, and everything after that: the boy is hesitant, the girl gets bored with it, the boy meets the girl’s new boyfriend, which is a bit more shocking than it was expected, the boy wants to escape, he believes his life is over, then they meet again, and fall in love again, but in the end they have to admit, that it really doesn’t work. |
Moholy-Nagy University of Art and Design (MOME) | Hungary | 19 |
| 24-25 | VIDA
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Details:Length: 4'Screenwriter: Andrea Popovic Director: Andrea Popovic Producer: Alina Vilhjalmsdottir Animation: Emanuel Mörk, Andrea Popovic, Ukta Can Bozkur DOP: n/a Sound: Yerin Kim Editor: Andrea Popovic, Xenia Moliner Roldan Production Designer : Andrea Popovic, Emanuel Mörk, Lena Blaschek Synopsis: A young girl is faced with the brutality of War as it separates her from her mother. |
Bournemouth Film School (AUB) | United Kingdom | 19 |
| 26 | FISHY
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Details:Length: 6'Screenwriter: Joe Sulsenti Director: Joe Sulsenti Producer: Joe Sulsenti Animation: Joe Sulsenti DOP: Joe Sulsenti Sound: Andy Jung Editor: Joe Sulsenti Production Designer : Joe Sulsenti Synopsis: The story of Fishy explores the relationship between a father and son through an uncanny life threatening situation where the father learns to accept his son for who he is after walking in his shoes...or heels, rather. |
School of Visual Arts | United States | 18 |
| 27 | AMBULANCE
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Details:Length: 4'Screenwriter: Lylah D'Souza Director: Lylah D'Souza Producer: Lylah D'Souza Animation: Letoya Mararu, Tom Allisey, Celine Low, Greg Bates, Damien Rogers, Sarah Brennan DOP: n/a Sound: Rahul Rao Editor: Celine Low Production Designer : Lylah D'Souza Synopsis: A woman recalls the ordinary events of a day forever bookmarked in time by the premature death of her brother, as he goes through the final moments of his life. The day turns to tragedy when the ambulance he calls for is stuck in traffic. |
Swinburne School of Film and Television (SSFT) | Australia | 17 |
| 28 | VOICES TO THE WIND
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Details:Length: 4'Screenwriter: Elton Fortes, Felix Lima, Pedro Ferreira, Tiago Nunes Director: Elton Fortes, Felix Lima, Pedro Ferreira, Tiago Nunes Producer: n/a Animation: Elton Fortes, Felix Lima, Pedro Ferreira, Tiago Nunes DOP: n/a Sound: Pedro Ferreira, Miguel Solano Editor: Pedro Ferreira Production Designer : n/a Synopsis: Three immigrants from different countries, who report on their journey, from the country until installation in Portugal. |
Universidade Lusófona / Film and Media Arts Department (ULHT) | Portugal | 16 |
| 29-31 | BRING YOUR CHILD TO WORK
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Details:Length: 7'Screenwriter: Riku Savikko, Jade Woods, Vilma Väisänen, Jenni Nylander, Chistina Lassheikki, Pauliina Parjanen Director: Riku Savikko, Jade Woods, Vilma Väisänen, Jenni Nylander, Chistina Lassheikki, Pauliina Parjanen Producer: Jorma Kaulanen Animation: Riku Savikko, Jade Woods, Vilma Väisänen, Jenni Nylander, Chistina Lassheikki, Pauliina Parjanen DOP: Hannu Käki Sound: Jorma KAulanen, Lotta Mäki Editor: Jade Woods Production Designer : n/a Synopsis: A child comes home from school with a message to their parents about the Bring Your Child to Work -day. After a long wait with their dog, the parent finally arrives home - and takes the child to a rather different workplace. |
Aalto University School of Arts, Design and Architecture / ELO Film School Helsinki | Finland | 15 |
| 29-31 | THE BALLOON MAN
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Details:Length: 3'Screenwriter: Xinyu Wang Director: Xinyu Wang Producer: BFA Animation: Xinyu Wang DOP: Xinyu Wang Sound: Nanyin Jiang Editor: Xinyu Wang Production Designer : Xinyu Wang Synopsis: A different balloon man who wanted to change himself into society but failed. |
Beijing Film Academy (BFA) | China | 15 |
| 29-31 | THE LIFE OF THE HANGED
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Details:Length: 17'Screenwriter: Luis Mateo Pazmiño Director: Luis Mateo Pazmiño Producer: Diego Duchi Animation: Luis Mateo Pazmiño DOP: Francisco Villagómez Sound: Michelle Londoño Editor: Luis Mateo Pazmiño, Agustín Pazmiño, Francisco Villagómez Production Designer : Diego Duchi Synopsis: Pablo Palacio is writing his last novel, when suddenly the sheet where he is writing comes to life, Pablo must face his work to survive. A struggle between the artist and the work. |
Advanced Institute of Film and Acting (INCINE) | Ecuador | 15 |
| 32 | EMIGRATION
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Details:Length: 8'Screenwriter: Margarita Kalinina Director: Margarita Kalinina Producer: Margarita Kalinina Animation: n/a DOP: n/a Sound: Daniil Samigullin Editor: Margarita Kalinina Production Designer : Margarita Kalinina Synopsis: In a dark empty room live very busy flies. Some nursing babies, others have fun, and others are trying to get a wonderful, warm and vivid world outside the window. But they can't. And only one fly manages to get into wonderful world. However, this world is not as perfect as she thought. |
St. Petersburg State University of Film and Television (SPUFT) | Russia | 14 |
| 33-34 | RUKAWE
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Details:Length: 16'Screenwriter: Omar Szkarlatiuk Director: Omar Szkarlatiuk Producer: Omar Szkarlatiuk, Ayelen Vallejo Animation: Omar Szkarlatiuk, Ayelen Vallejo DOP: n/a Sound: Ayelen Vallejo Editor: Ayelen Vallejo Production Designer : n/a Synopsis: Antupi, a town's witch doctor, travels to Rukawe, an ancient city in ruins, looking for The Power, something that will allow her to defeat a monster that terrorizes the town. In Rukawe she'll have to deal with mages that are searching The Power, and with the dangers of the city. |
Universidad de Buenos Aires / Diseño de Imagen y Sonido FADU (UBA) | Argentina | 13 |
| 33-34 | THE WOMAN
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Details:Length: 5'Screenwriter: Diana Monova Director: Diana Monova Producer: NATFA Animation: Diana Monova DOP: Diana Monova Sound: n/a Editor: Diana Monova Production Designer : Diana Monova Synopsis: “The Woman” follows two in the first glance opposite stories – the one of the young girl, rushing to grow into successful woman and an old lady mourning her lost youth. Both of them appear determined to reach their goals, but in the end it turns out they won’t lead them forward, but instead leave them going in circles. |
National Academy for Theatre and Film Arts (NATFA) | Bulgaria | 13 |
| 35-38 | ARMOR UP
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Details:Length: 4'Screenwriter: Mathilde Renet,Quentin Desvallée, Quentin Dutour, Déborah Soudé, Amaury Thuilleaux Director: Mathilde Renet Producer: Mathilde Renet Animation: Mathilde Renet,Quentin Desvallée, Quentin Dutour, Déborah Soudé, Amaury Thuilleaux DOP: n/a Sound: Ferdinand Mesnier Editor: n/a Production Designer : n/a Synopsis: A Video game female character is faced to sexism, in RPG and find a way to find a proper armor. |
International Institute of Image and Sound (3IS) | France | 11 |
| 35-38 | NIGHT SPINNING
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Details:Length: 5'Screenwriter: Yi Luo Director: Yi Luo Producer: Yi Luo Animation: Yi Luo, Sarah Schulz, Laura Staab, Sabine Volkert, Janina Putzker DOP: n/a Sound: Niklas Menschik Editor: n/a Production Designer : n/a Synopsis: After Eva saw the man she has a crush on, meeting another woman at the bar, her jealousy and obsession drive her crazy and distort her reality and perception more and more. |
Filmakademie Baden-Wuerttemberg (FABW) | Germany | 11 |
| 35-38 | PALETTE
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Details:Length: 5'Screenwriter: Celia Yew Director: Celia Yew Producer: Nanyang Polytechnic Animation: Rosalyn Pang, Tan Ruo Lin, Ho Pin ru, Wang Ya yi, Shu xian, Nur Afiqah, Nur Aquila DOP: n/a Sound: Teo Wei Yong Editor: n/a Production Designer : Celia Yew Synopsis: A depressed business lady seeks to groom and improve her image as she falls in love with a waiter in a cafe that she frequents hoping he would take notice of her. After experiencing a painful heartbreak, she falls into despair but eventually picks herself up again with the help of an artist friend. |
Nanyang Polytechnic / School of Design and Media (SDM) | Singapore | 11 |
| 35-38 | SUPERNOVA
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Details:Length: 9'Screenwriter: Gavin Lankford, Alexsandre C. Kosinski Director: Gavin Lankford, Alexsandre C. Kosinski Producer: Marty McCarthy Animation: Gavin Lankford, Alexsandre C. Kosinski, Zing Grem, Isaac Phillips-London DOP: n/a Sound: Barrett Jay, Gregory Livengood Editor: n/a Production Designer : Zing Grem, 3D Modeler: Isaac Phillips-London Synopsis: When a little boy's late-night viewing of his favorite space adventure videotape is cut short by a scolding from his mom, he channels the heroism of his sci-п fantasy hero and makes it his mission to get the tape back. |
University of North Carolina School of the Arts (UNCSA) | United States | 11 |
| 39-40 | GREEDY LIMBO
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Details:Length: 5'Screenwriter: Milo Gluth Director: Milo Gluth Producer: Robert Stephenson, Paul Fletcher Animation: Milo Gluth DOP: n/a Sound: Milo Gluth Editor: Milo Gluth Production Designer : n/a Synopsis: Two robbers are thrown into another dimension. One robber, fuelled by a nude photo of his love, battles the manifestation of greed to escape. |
VCA Film and Television | Australia | 10 |
| 39-40 | SPARK
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Details:Length: 6'Screenwriter: Aharonit Elior Director: Aharonit Elior Producer: Karli Holdren Animation: n/a DOP: n/a Sound: Aharonit Elior Editor: Aharonit Elior Production Designer : Michael Cullen Synopsis: A girl finds someone to spark her flame. |
Chapman University / Dodge College of Film and Media Arts | United States | 10 |
| 41-42 | THE RED BOX
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Details:Length: 2'Screenwriter: Karla Lomax Director: Karla Lomax Producer: Karla Lomax, Paulina Ibarra Animation: Karla Lomax DOP: Diego Casillas Sound: Karla Lomax Editor: Karla Lomax Production Designer : Karla Lomax Synopsis: Valentina is attracted to a red box without knowing that what it contains is nothing but darkness and evil. |
University of Guadalajara / Image and Sound Department | Mexico | 9 |
| 41-42 | VALKYRIE
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Details:Length: 6'Screenwriter: Sebastian Aho, Otso Jylhä, Teo Kaipainen, Eemeli Loukola, Janne Kuusela Director: Sebastian Aho Producer: Janne Kuusela Animation: Sebastian Aho, Taryn Baker, Teo Kaipainen, Otso Jylhä, Mikaeli Panula DOP: Sebastian Aho Sound: Kasperi Pitkänen, Eero Evijärvi Editor: Sebastian Aho Production Designer : Eemeli Loukola Synopsis: A world-weary pilot seeks her prey over a dusty desert. |
Metropolia University of Applied Sciences (MUAS) | Finland | 9 |
| 43 | MIXED MATERIALS
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Details:Length: 7'Screenwriter: Van Riel Anna Director: Van Riel Anna Producer: Van Riel Anna Animation: Van Riel Anna DOP: n/a Sound: Music: Passepartout Duo: Christopher Salvito, Nicoletta Favari Editor: n/a Production Designer : Van Riel Anna Synopsis: Two young art grads are very determined to throw themselves into the art world and to be successful. But not everything goes as planned... Fortunately there’s always grandma. |
Royal Academy of Fine Arts / University College Ghent (KASK) | Belgium | 8 |
| 44-45 | DIGITAL LIFE
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Details:Length: 4'Screenwriter: Jiang Zhouying Director: Jiang Zhouying Producer: Jiang Zhouying Animation: Jiang Zhouying DOP: Jiang Zhouying Sound: Dong Shihuili Editor: Jiang Zhouying Production Designer : n/a Synopsis: Mr. A trusts his AI very much. Without knowing the AI has been damaged, he still believes AI’s suggestions on his outfit for dating. The girl is shocked by Mr. A’s strange wear. She then turns to her AI for advice. However, her AI has its own plan. |
Academy of Film / Hong Kong Baptist University (HKBU) | Hong Kong | 7 |
| 44-45 | OUT OF THE BOX
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Details:Length: 6'Screenwriter: Marcel Saleta Director: Marcel Saleta Producer: Marcel Saleta Animation: Marcel Saleta DOP: n/a Sound: Josh Banach Editor: n/a Production Designer : n/a Synopsis: The son of a mime instructor tongs to follow a different path and finally earns the blessing of his mom. |
School of Film and Animation, College of Art and Design, Rochester Institute of Technology | United States | 7 |
| 46 | MY WORLD
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Details:Length: 6'Screenwriter: n/a Director: Miyako Makio Producer: n/a Animation: Miyako Makio, Yih Jia Geraldine Toh, Nguyen Hong Ngoc Mai DOP: n/a Sound: Yih Jia Geraldine Toh Editor: n/a Production Designer : Nguyen Hong Ngoc Mai Synopsis: There was once a world filled with gears and life. However, over many years, it started to deteriorate and rust, causing everyone living there to stop functioning completely. Until one day, a spark of energy was flown through one of the organism there, a little light bulb girl, who wake up and started working again. |
Puttnam School of Film & Animation / LASALLE College of the Arts (LCA) | Singapore | 6 |
| 47 | LA TATUANA
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Details:Length: 12'Screenwriter: Gabriel Gonzalez Director: Gabriel Gonzalez Producer: ENSAV Animation: Gabriel Gonzalez DOP: Javier Calderon Sound: Vojtech Zavadil Editor: Manuel Brassart Production Designer : n/a Synopsis: Legend of Guatemala. During the time of the colony, a mysterious woman arrived in Guatemala. No one knows its origin, nor the reasons for which it is there. This young and beautiful woman became a powerful woman and broke with the religious dogmas and visions of the time. One day she was imprisoned by the Holy Inquisition for the crime of witchcraft. But is that true? |
ENSAV | France | 5 |
| 48-50 | FOR MOTHER
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Details:Length: 4'Screenwriter: Ashiiha Nair Director: Ashiiha Nair Producer: SRFTI Animation: Ashiiha Nair DOP: n/a Sound: Diksha Mishra Editor: n/a Production Designer : Ashiiha Nair Synopsis: A young girls struggle with a new found lonliness. She decides to connect with her mother throuh a card bot a recurring dream comes in her way. |
Satyajit Ray Film and Television Institute (SRFTI) | India | 4 |
| 48-50 | PINK BALL
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Details:Length: 5'Screenwriter: Lynda Hong Director: Lynda Hong Producer: Michel Gerencir Animation: Lynda Hong, Michel Gerencir, Shieyanne Copley, Tiffany Carriage, Aidan Sassu, Karis Spencer, Faith Chen, Matthew Simmonds, Ryan DOP: n/a Sound: n/a Editor: n/a Production Designer : n/a Synopsis: A novice witch finds herself on a frightening journey into a surreal world when her potion goes horribly wrong. |
Griffith Film School (GFS) | Australia | 4 |
| 48-50 | THE AMAZING NECKBEARD
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Details:Length: 3'Screenwriter: Aaron Legg, John D'Acunto Director: Aaron Legg Producer: Aaron Legg Animation: Aaron Legg, John D'Acunto, Molly Holmes, Cameron Sanati, Amaury Rodriguez DOP: Molly Holmes Sound: Aaron Legg Editor: Cameron Sanati Production Designer : Aaron Legg Synopsis: A Cosplayer fanboy makes the ultimate Comic-Con sacrifice. |
Columbia College Chicago (CCC) | United States | 4 |
| 51-52 | GOODBYE
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Details:Length: 3'Screenwriter: Charlotte Thomas Director: Charlotte Thomas Producer: Charlotte Thomas Animation: Charlotte Thomas DOP: Charlotte Thomas Sound: Callum Ellis, J. Severino Editor: Charlotte Thomas Production Designer : Charlotte Thomas Synopsis: Two beloved friends, an adolescent girl and her mischievous pet cat, are torn apart after a devastating accident. As the cat fades out of consciousness it recalls the lasting memories of their relationship. |
Northern Film School / Leeds Beckett University (NFS/LBU) | United Kingdom | 3 |
| 51-52 | HORSES DON`T DIE ON A DOG`S WISH
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Details:Length: 1'Screenwriter: Cristian Radu Director: Cristian Radu Producer: Cristian Radu Animation: Cristian Radu DOP: n/a Sound: n/a Editor: Cristian Radu Production Designer : n/a Synopsis: The poet Nichita Stanescu tells about a strange phone conversation he had a few days ago. |
National University of Theatre and Film (UNATC) | Romania | 3 |
| 53 | FATHER
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Details:Length: 6'Screenwriter: Dara Griffin Director: Dara Griffin Producer: Dara Griffin Animation: Sarah Peters DOP: n/a Sound: Richard Byrne, Sam d'Entremont Saunders Editor: Dara Griffin Production Designer : Dara Griffin Synopsis: A forest guardian wakes up after hundreds of years to discover that the Machines have taken over and destroyed all living things, save for his forest. Without hope of fighting them off, the guardian makes a unthinkable choice in order to save the last forest of the planet. |
National Film School / Institute of Art, Design and Technology (IADT) | Ireland | 2 |
| 54-57 | ART BLOCK
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Details:Length: 3'Screenwriter: Alfred Chan Director: Alfred Chan Producer: Alfred Chan Animation: Alfred Chan DOP: n/a Sound: n/a Editor: Alfred Chan Production Designer : n/a Synopsis: A passionate young artist enters art school and in a stifling and constricting academic environment must learn to find creativity in the most unexpected places. |
University of Hawai‘i Mānoa, Academy for Creative Media | United States | 0 |
| 54-57 | BASICS
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Details:Length: 6'Screenwriter: Spencer Smyth Director: Spencer Smyth Producer: Spencer Smyth Animation: Spencer Smyth DOP: Spencer Smyth Sound: Spencer Smyth Editor: Spencer Smyth Production Designer : Spencer Smyth Synopsis: When a hot headed freshman is locked out of her Supremium Account at school she must learn to keep her cool among the underprivileged Base Package students before she can find out who her real friends are. |
Florida State University / College of Motion Picture Arts (FSU) | United States | 0 |
| 54-57 | KAICHI
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Details:Length: 2'Screenwriter: Student Team / Crew Director: Student Team / Crew Producer: Whistling Woods International Animation: Student Team / Crew: Gursikander Singh, Nimit Kapuria, Neha Agarwal, Surya Naik, Siddharth Kaushik, Varun Gehlot, Yash Sharma, DOP: Student Team / Crew Sound: Student Team / Crew Editor: Student Team / Crew Production Designer : Student Team / Crew Synopsis: The bag opens, and pencils and other stationeries exit it. They go to a bus stand, and wait for the pouch to arrive. While pencils were enjoying the pouch ride, the tape comes from behind the building and kidnaps them. |
Whistling Woods International (WWI) | India | 0 |
| 54-57 | LULLABY FROM THE CRYPT
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Details:Length: 8'Screenwriter: Keenan Lott, Raven Davids Director: Keenan Lott, Raven Davids Producer: Sylvanah Claase Animation: Keenan Lott, Raven Davids DOP: n/a Sound: Cailin Theobald Editor: Thulani Maphanga Production Designer : n/a Synopsis: A grieving woman is reminiscent of a night where her and her brother were tormented by the ghost of their mother in the form of a cat. |
South African School of Motion Picture Medium and Live Performance (AFDA) | South Africa | 0 |
