2019
Fiction
| Place | Title | School | Country | Points |
| 1 | A SIEGE
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Details:TrailerLength: 23' Screenwriter: Kálmán Gasztonyi Director: István Kovács Producer: Mónika Mécs, Tamás Hutlassa, Gábor Osváth Animator: n/a DOP: Zoltán Dévényi Sound: Gábor Balázs Editor: Péter Duszka Design: László Rajk Synopsis: A lonely woman in war-torn Sarajevo embarks on a journey to find water, and neither her neighbors nor sniper fire can stop her. |
University of Theatre and Film Arts Budapest (SzFE) | Hungary | 114 |
| 2 | SISTERS
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Details:TrailerLength: 15' Screenwriter: Rosita Wolkers Director: Daphne Lucker Producer: Jolijn van Rinsum; Thomas Mataheru; Divya Kohli Animator: n/a DOP: Casper van Oort Sound: Roel Wildenburg Editor: Tobias Cornelissen Design: Lisa Berkhuysen Synopsis: Three sisters grow up in a dysfunctional family. They are at each others mercy and survive as long as they are together. But is their connection strong enough to overcome the reality of their existence? |
Netherlands Film Academy (NFA) | Netherlands | 97 |
| 3 | GOOD NIGHT
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Details:Length: 23'Screenwriter: Anthony Nti, Chingiz Karibekov Director: Anthony Nti Producer: Anthony Nti/, Chingiz Karibekov & RITCS Animator: n/a DOP: Pieter-Jan Claessens Sound: Vincent Rurangura Struelens Editor: Frederik Vandewalle Design: Anthony Nti, Chingiz Karibekov, PJ Claessens Synopsis: A foreigner in Ghana gets an assignment from his gang to find kids for a risky job that will take place later that evening. While spending the day with two energetic children, Prince and Matilda, he starts to question his decision and how it will effect their lives. |
Royal Institute for Theatre, Cinema and Sound (RITCS) | Belgium | 69 |
| 4 | SIMON CRIES
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Details:TrailerLength: 19' Screenwriter: Sergio Guataquira Sarmiento Director: Sergio Guataquira Sarmiento Producer: MédIADiffusion Animator: n/a DOP: David Garcia Sound: Antoine Busson, Ryan Kurlekar Editor: Noé Bries Silva Design: n/a Synopsis: Following a breakup, Simon's sadness is so big it overflows. It overflows his whole body. |
Institut des Arts de Diffusion (IAD) | Belgium | 60 |
| 5 | DOG EAT DOG
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Details:TrailerLength: 25' Screenwriter: Rikke Gregersen Director: Rikke Gregersen Producer: Rebekka Rognøy Animator: n/a DOP: Torjus Thesen Sound: Hans Ekevi, Lars Andreas Nilssen Editor: Espen Skjong Knutsen Design: n/a Synopsis: Silje wants to leave her boyfriend, but when she finds him in a half-hearted attempt to hang himself she has to reconsider, in fear of acting reckless. |
Westerdals Oslo School of Arts, Communication and Technology (Westerdals Oslo ACT) | Norway | 53 |
| 6 | MY PLANET
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Details:Length: 24'Screenwriter: Valéry Carnoy Director: Valéry Carnoy Producer: INSAS/ Atelier de Realisation Animator: n/a DOP: Hugo Brilmaker Sound: Pierre-Nicolas Blandin Editor: Julie Robert Design: Bruno Rino Nesin Synopsis: Henri, a fifty-plus baker, is starved of his wife Marieke's love. One morning, after an umpteenth row, he has a strange encounter with Anita, a young photographer who likes the bulky shape of his body. |
INSAS | Belgium | 52 |
| 7 | WHERE IS SPRING
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Details:Length: 29'Screenwriter: Xiao He Director: Xiao He Producer: Xiao Kew Ei Animator: n/a DOP: Hu Chen Sound: Liu Tong Editor: Xiao He Design: Liu Youngheng Synopsis: Little boy Li Ii moved from country to town. His father died accidentally and left his mother to support the family alone, who eventually drifted into prostitution and snubbed Li Ii. He decided to draw the attention of his mother in his own way one day. To him, this day was a normal day but also a fancy day. |
Academy of Film / Hong Kong Baptist University (HKBU) | Hong Kong | 43 |
| 8 | THE MANEATER
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Details:Length: 17'Screenwriter: Xavier Lacaille, Mauricio Carrasco, Baptiste Drapeau Director: Baptiste Drapeau Producer: Jonas Benhaiem Animator: n/a DOP: François Ray Sound: Armin Reiland Editor: Thomas Robineau Design: Clara Fontaine Synopsis: Jane, an ambitious and incorruptible cop is going to find herself thrown into a shady deal, stuck between her superior Chief officer Paul Belmart and the Gutowski brothers, losers from the Vosges mob who just robbed 50 000 francs. |
La Fémis | France | 38 |
| 9 | SUGAR AND SALT
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Details:TrailerLength: 19' Screenwriter: Adam Martinec Director: Adam Martinec Producer: Ondřej Šejnoha / Studio FAMU, Czech Television Animator: n/a DOP: David Hofmann Sound: Michael Kocáb Editor: Matěj Sláma Design: Zuzana Formánková Synopsis: A group of friends arrives as every year to a remote and secluded place to “celebrate their friendship". Now they're arriving for the 36th time, but this year is going to different that those before. Stana lost his battle with cancer and for the first time ever there are only five friends… |
Film and Television School / Academy of Performing Arts in Prague (FAMU) | Czech Republic | 35 |
| 10 | OM EN MANED
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Details:TrailerLength: 30' Screenwriter: Jonas Kærup Hjort Director: Jonas Kærup Hjort Producer: Karen Kristensen Animator: n/a DOP: Jacob Sofussen Sound: Jonas R. Kirkegaard Editor: Mik Stampe, Jonas Kærup Hjort Design: Kirstine Auener, Amalie Skovhus Petersen Synopsis: Same good news as last month, be patient. |
National Film School of Denmark (DDF) | Denmark | 34 |
| 11-12 | SWEET TOOTH
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Details:TrailerLength: 23' Screenwriter: Shannon Ashlyn Director: Shannon Ashlyn Producer: Katherine Shearer Animator: n/a DOP: Emma Paine Sound: Alex Birch Editor: Rochelle Oshlack Design: Emma Bourke Synopsis: A dark and magical fairytale film inspired by the classic story of Hansel & Gretel by the Brothers Grimm, but it offers a different perspective on the tale you may think you know...! Sweet Tooth is the untold story of the Wicked Witch and her infamous gingerbread house. |
Australian Film Television and Radio School (AFTRS) | Australia | 31 |
| 11-12 | TOUCH ME
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Details:Length: 21'Screenwriter: Eileen Byrne, Elodie Malanda Director: Eileen Byrne Producer: Südhang Film, HFF Munich, Germany Animator: n/a DOP: Rebecca Meining Sound: Boris Steffen, Ben Barnich, Benedikt Hoenes Editor: Sebastian Wild, Laura Heine Design: n/a Synopsis: Alice has cancer. She has already lost one breast. And now her hair starts to fall out. What else will the disease take away from her? Moritz, her boyfriend, is as overwhelmed by the situation as she is. The fear of losing each other makes them almost forget the one thing they can still hang on to: their love for each other and for themselves. |
University of Television and Film Munich (HFF) | Germany | 31 |
| 13-14 | GOTCHA!
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Details:TrailerLength: 21' Screenwriter: Stefani Doytchinova Director: Stefani Doytchinova Producer: NATFA “Kr. Sarafov”, Bulgaria – Stanislav Semerdjiev Animator: n/a DOP: Yoanna Hadjiivancheva Sound: Ivo Ignatov Editor: Volen Penev Design: Andrea Popova Synopsis: Krum (45) is involved in a child trafficking group. Looking for his next victim he stumbles upon a little girl (5) who makes him his committed misdeeds. From being a hunter Krum becomes a sacrifice to his victim. |
National Academy for Theatre and Film Arts (NATFA) | Bulgaria | 30 |
| 13-14 | MY MOTHER
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Details:Length: 17'Screenwriter: Charlie Manton Director: Charlie Manton Producer: Priya Dosanjh Animator: n/a DOP: Molly Manning-Walker Sound: Benjamin Goodall Editor: Celina Oier Design: Georgina Devine Synopsis: A deeply religious teenager struggles to move forward after witnessing a sin. |
National FIlm and Television School (NFTS) | United Kingdom | 30 |
| 15 | GOLDEN BOMB
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Details:Length: 20'Screenwriter: Patrick Elias Director: Patrick Elias Producer: ALBA-UOB Animator: n/a DOP: Jad Beyrouthy Sound: Marwan Rahy Editor: n/a Design: n/a Synopsis: Beirut 1985. Yumna and Marwan, in a refuge, are getting ready for their wedding. It’s the war. The long-awaited ceremony is interrupted by the bombing of the church. Chaos reigns and panic takes place, but the couple insists on making the marriage possible in spite of all the mess they’re in. |
Lebanese Academy for Fine Arts / School of Cinema / University of Balamand (ALBA) | Lebanon | 26 |
| 16 | PASSAGE
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Details:TrailerLength: 15' Screenwriter: Kimia Hendi Director: Kimia Hendi Producer: n/a Animator: n/a DOP: Soheil Goharipour Sound: Hamed Hoseinzadeh Editor: Mahyar Madegar Design: Porya Porya Synopsis: Passage is a drama with fantasy elements, about a young woman who is struggling to deal with death of her dad. |
VCA School of Film and Television / University of Melbourne (VCA) | Australia | 25 |
| 17-18 | FOLLOWER
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Details:TrailerLength: 10' Screenwriter: Simon Schulz Director: Jonathan Behr Producer: Jonas Sticherling Animator: n/a DOP: Bo-Christian Riedel-Petzold Sound: n/a Editor: n/a Design: n/a Synopsis: Clara only wants to spend a casual evening as a babysitter for a rich family in their house, when she suddenly has a new follower for her Instagram account. But this one is different - and not easy to shake off... |
Filmakademie Baden-Wuerttemberg (FABW) | Germany | 24 |
| 17-18 | LOST IN KYIV
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Details:TrailerLength: 30' Screenwriter: Amanda Högberg, Axel Nygren, Yana Martsynkevych Director: Yana Martsynkevych Producer: Amna Maksumic Animator: n/a DOP: Josua Enblom Sound: Alexander Berggren Editor: Marte B. Aasen Design: Oryna Stetsenko Synopsis: Is it possible to love without losing yourself? War photographer Karin Holm has decided to never again take the risk and instead engage in her profession and vocation. But when she gets stuck in Kyiv she meets a young couple, and the day they share forces her to ask herself what is really there to lose? |
Stockholm Academy of Dramatic Arts / Stockholm University of the Arts (SADA) | Sweden | 24 |
| 19-20 | A RUBBER DOLPHIN
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Details:TrailerLength: 28' Screenwriter: Ori Aharon Director: Ori Aharon Producer: Ori Aharon Animator: n/a DOP: David Rudoy Sound: Rotem Dror Editor: Ori Aharon Design: Hagai Galimidi Synopsis: A gay love story set in a one bedroom apartment in Tel Aviv. They meet, they have sex, they fall in love. Will it last until the morning comes? |
The Steve Tisch School of Film and Television (TAU) | Israel | 22 |
| 19-20 | TREAT MY MOTHER RIGHT
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Details:TrailerLength: 12' Screenwriter: Nevo Shirazi Director: Nevo Shirazi Producer: Gil Ferman Animator: n/a DOP: Mikey Wajnerman Sound: Milton Michaeli Editor: Snir Oznovich Design: n/a Synopsis: Eighteen year old Maor wants to make his mother very happy. When she returns from the hospital again, he takes her to the neighborhood`s hair salon. However, meeting with the locals brings up anxiety and awakes old fears. |
Sam Spiegel Film and Television School Jerusalem (JSFS) | Israel | 22 |
| 21 | WHAT REMAINS
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Details:TrailerLength: 17' Screenwriter: Areej Mahmoud Director: Areej Mahmoud Producer: Tyler Hazard Animator: n/a DOP: Alex Halstead Sound: Diego Trejo Editor: Areej Mahmoud Design: n/a Synopsis: Farid, an Iraqi immigrant living in Chicago works as an Uber driver at night. He is about to finish his last ride for the night before returning home to his family, when Justin, a desperate war veteran, hijacks his car. They soon discover that they had met before, in 2003, on the opposing sides of the Iraqi invasion by coalition forces. The film is a psychological drama based on the experiences of refugees and war veterans, and their lifelong struggles with their memories, and with survival. |
Columbia College Chicago (CCC) | United States | 21 |
| 22 | HUMAN
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Details:Length: 23'Screenwriter: Korwin Quiñónez Director: Korwin Quiñónez Producer: Bryan Yepez Animator: Ankalli F. Maldonado DOP: Ankalli F. Maldonado Sound: Bryan Flores Editor: Korwin Quiñónez, Ankalli F. Maldonado Design: Viviana Caicedo Synopsis: David a journalist get in ”Human Homosexual Rehabilitation Center”. He is encharged to make a reportage of Julio the first rehabilitated homosexual, in the interview David recognizes Julio as human and decides to help him escape. |
Advanced Institute of Film and Acting (INCINE) | Ecuador | 20 |
| 23 | MILK
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Details:TrailerLength: 13' Screenwriter: Samiramis Kia Director: Samiramis Kia Producer: Samiramis Kia Animator: n/a DOP: Samuel Robert Willets Sound: Peyman Vahedi Editor: Sid Devalla, Samiramis Kia Design: n/a Synopsis: In this family drama, a Russian immigrant couple do all they can to provide help to their daughter while facing their differences. |
York University Department of Film - Fine Arts | Canada | 19 |
| 24-25 | LABOR
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Details:TrailerLength: 12' Screenwriter: Andrea Brusa Director: Cecilia Albertini Producer: Gregory J. Rossi Animator: n/a DOP: Halyna Hutchins Sound: Barry Weir Editor: Marie Lee Design: Hogan Lee Synopsis: Two mothers. One baby. A harrowing decision. |
University of California Los Angeles (UCLA) | United States | 18 |
| 24-25 | LAST STRIKE
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Details:TrailerLength: 18' Screenwriter: Zan Gillies Director: Zan Gillies Producer: Lysandra Petersson, Zan Gillies, Zach Laliberte Animator: n/a DOP: Ross Godwin Sound: Zan Gillies Editor: Zan Gillies Design: Yildiz Yilmaz Synopsis: A twelve-time lightning strike survivor searches for an answer to his affliction amidst the approach of the storm of the century. |
American University | United States | 18 |
| 26-28 | AFTER ROBOT
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Details:TrailerLength: 15' Screenwriter: Lindo Malinga Director: Karabelo Shirinde Producer: Karabelo Shirinde Animator: n/a DOP: Manku Molope Sound: Percy Sibiya Editor: Katjedi Katlego Design: n/a Synopsis: Thandeka is an ignorant cashier who gets kidnapped in a taxi on her way to work, she goes from being vulnerable to strategic as she’s forced to use her last willpower to escape. |
Tshwane University of Technology | South Africa | 17 |
| 26-28 | FAITH
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Details:TrailerLength: 30' Screenwriter: Jasraj Padhye Director: Jasraj Padhye Producer: Jasraj Padhye Animator: n/a DOP: Vishal Dahiya Sound: Jed Shiheng Xu Editor: Jasraj Padhye Design: Vinati Makijani, Natascha Nargolkar, Akshaya Sawant Synopsis: Shraddha is a narrative drama that explores the idea of faith in India. The film follows Sudha, a disciple of a healing Guru as she has a crisis of faith as her teacher suffers from a life threatening illness but refuses to go to a doctor and take modern medicine. Sudha faces the dilemma of whether to obey Guru’s orders or save his life. |
Emerson College | United States | 17 |
| 26-28 | FILCH
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Details:Length: 10'Screenwriter: Ana Victoria Neves Director: Rachel Fitzgerald Producer: Ben Harris Animator: n/a DOP: Edwin Sitt Sound: Syuart Orchard Editor: Morgan Maclannan Design: Nathan van der Wiele Synopsis: A haphazard bank heist goes awry when the robbers get more than they bargained for. |
WA Screen Academy, Edith Cowan University | Australia | 17 |
| 29-33 | ECHO
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Details:TrailerLength: 18' Screenwriter: Jelena Pavlovic Director: Jelena Pavlovic Producer: Rea Televantos Animator: n/a DOP: Natascha Vavrina Sound: Fabian Gremper Editor: Elias Jutzet Design: Anja Zihlmann Synopsis: Maša (20) is one step away of leaving her small town life behind. In order to process her decision completely, she enters the depths of her subconscious. There she meets not only familiar faces, but also herself. |
Zurich University of the Arts / Department of Performing Arts and Film (ZHdK) | Switzerland | 16 |
| 29-33 | FIGHT BACK
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Details:TrailerLength: 18' Screenwriter: Loren Trabelsi Director: Loren Trabelsi Producer: Hila Pollak Animator: n/a DOP: Sapir Rokach Sound: Mitch Clyman Editor: Hila Pollak, Loren Trabelsi Design: Rinat Sharabi, Meitar Libi Flam Synopsis: Rotem, a young maturing women 16 years old, is a professional Thai boxer. She is the only female in a group of men and she's training for the European championship. At the same time, she starts dating Shachar, the most charming guy in the group. |
Ma'aleh School of Film, Television and the Arts (MAALE) | Israel | 16 |
| 29-33 | HEAVEN'S MEADOW
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Details:TrailerLength: 30' Screenwriter: Magdalena Chmielewsk, Andreas Schiessler Director: Magdalena Chmielewska Producer: Yana Eresina Animator: Digital art class at The Filmakademie Wien DOP: Manu Prett Sound: Maggie Cha, Carlo Pelikan, Norbert Bichler, Chris Kuchner Production Editor: Magdalena Chmielewska, Laszlo Vancsa Design: Klaudia Kiczak Synopsis: It is night Heaven's Meadow, on the outskits of Vienna. Injured and barefoot, Maya runs back home, to the city center. Next day she reports the incident of the prior evening.She undergoes a check- up and files an official statement: assaulted by several perpetrators, no traces of semen, but internal injuries. Rather than falling apart, Maya takes off to Italy to see Daniel. There, she hopes to forget. She wants to regain control of her life. But instead, she keeps floating through the world like an unchored |
Film Academy Vienna (UMDK) | Austria | 16 |
| 29-33 | MAGICIAN ON THE ROOF
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Details:TrailerLength: 28' Screenwriter: Xiao-Hui MA Director: Xiao-Hui MA Producer: Shu-Feng SHUI Animator: n/a DOP: Chi-Chun HSU Sound: Bing-Chung WU Editor: Liang-Ting CHEN, Chun-Hao JHAN Design: Shu-Feng SHUI Synopsis: Fei Long, a thief, witnesses a rape in progress. He chooses to flee the scene of the crime. However, he starts to feel guilty, day after day, until he once again meets the foreign caretaker girl from that fateful night... |
National Taiwan University of Arts (NTUA) | Taiwan | 16 |
| 29-33 | TREMORS
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Details:TrailerLength: 21' Screenwriter: Dawid Bodzak Director: Dawid Bodzak Producer: Agata Golanska Animator: n/a DOP: Adam Suzin Sound: Bogdan Klat Editor: Kamil Grzybowski Design: Matgorzata lwaniuk Synopsis: Imagine that you are in a forest which is dark, quiet and empty. You do not know why you are here. Suddenly you hear a howl. You feel you do not want to be here. You are afraid. You see a wolf, and a second one, and a third. They come closer and closer to you and surround you. What are you going to do? |
Polish National Film, Television and Theatre School in Lodz (PWSFTViT) | Poland | 16 |
| 34-35 | THE CONTEST
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Details:Length: 26'Screenwriter: Saulé Bliuvaité Director: Saulé Bliuvaité Producer: Giedré Burokaité, Kipras Garla Animator: n/a DOP: Vytautas Plukas Sound: Iveta Maceviciute Editor: Saulé Bliuvaité, Igné Narbutaité Design: Justé Vazgyté Synopsis: Recently divorced mother Sylvia invites her new boyfriend to the Christmas Eve dinner to meet her two grown-up children. |
Lithuanian Academy of Music and Theatre (LMTA) | Lithuania | 15 |
| 34-35 | THE MARCH
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Details:Length: 20'Screenwriter: Michal Blaško Director: Michal Blaško Producer: FTF VSMU Animator: n/a DOP: Adam Mach Sound: Ivan Ďurkech Editor: Filip de Pina Design: Anna Rumanová, Tomáš Zeman Synopsis: After anonymous violent attack, young girl Lucia tell the police, that she was attacked by three Roma. People from the city want to express their frustration , so they organize "march against violence" in support of attacked girl. This march actually changed lives of many people, even those, who never met Lucia. And it is only Lucia, who knows the real truth about the attack. |
Academy of Performing Arts / Film and Television Faculty (VSMU) | Slovakia | 15 |
| 36-43 | A PERFECT PLAN
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Details:Length: 23'Screenwriter: Doan Nguyen Thuy Linh Director: Doan Nguyen Thuy Linh Producer: Hoang Nam Animator: n/a DOP: Nguyen Duy Tien Sound: Doan Dinh Trung Editor: Doan Nguyen Thuy Linh Design: Cao Son, Ngoc Quang Synopsis: “A Perfect plan” talks about a 27 year old lady - Tu. She debits 500 millions VND and create a plan to kidnapp a boy - Nam. Will her plan be successful? |
Hanoi Academy of Theatre and Cinema | Vietnam | 14 |
| 36-43 | EKAANT
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Details:TrailerLength: 25' Screenwriter: Sarthak Bhasin Director: Sarthak Bhasin Producer: Mr. Bhupendra Kainthola, Director, FTII Animator: n/a DOP: Pratheepan Selvaratnam Sound: Arun Kumar R Editor: Sumit Kumar Design: n/a Synopsis: Set in an unspecified time and space, the film’s protagonist seems to be the only living person in a completely devastated city. He goes about, struggling his way, negotiating the tough settings and trying to survive. When on one fine day, out of nowhere, he happens to meet another person. Except that this person looks exactly like him. |
Film and Television Institute of India (FTII) | India | 14 |
| 36-43 | HOLIDAYS
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Details:TrailerLength: 22' Screenwriter: Hamza Oujamaa Director: Hamza Oujamaa Producer: ESAV Marrakech Animator: n/a DOP: Hamza Atifi Sound: Yassine Belouquid Editor: Mariwenn Arnaud-Joufary Design: n/a Synopsis: Eid Lkbir is coming ... Abdellah, a proud man and his poor family, are selling their furniture to celebrate ... |
Marrakech School of Visual Arts (ESAVM) | Morocco | 14 |
| 36-43 | LALO’S HOUSE
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Details:TrailerLength: 25' Screenwriter: Kelly Kali, Yasemin Yilmaz Director: Kelly Kali Producer: Victor Pourcel Animator: n/a DOP: Xing-Mai Deng Sound: Derek Sepe Editor: Jeremy Deneau Design: Michael Miller, Malice Wartelle Synopsis: Inspired by a series of true events. After being taken from their home in Jacmel, Haiti, two young sisters must escape a child sex trafficking ring disguised as a Catholic orphanage. |
University of Southern California's School of Cinematic Arts (USC) | United States | 14 |
| 36-43 | MISCELLANEOUS
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Details:TrailerLength: 18' Screenwriter: Léon Yersin Director: Léon Yersin Producer: Yasmine Abd El Aziz (Nouvelle Tribu) Animator: n/a DOP: Pierre Hubert Martin Sound: Florian Pittet Editor: Félix Sandri Design: Quentin Millot Synopsis: At dawn Gregor gets waken up by the police knock ing at his door. They come to pick up the dead body of his neighbour next door dead since two years withou t anybody noticing. Gregor is gonna have to deal with his consciousness during the next day, slowly loosing his mind. When the nigt comes, there is no turning back. |
Film Department/cinéma du réel - Geneva School of Art and Design (HEAD) | Switzerland | 14 |
| 36-43 | PAUL IS DEAD
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Details:TrailerLength: 14' Screenwriter: George Moore, Stuart Armstrong, Ben Bovington-Key Director: George Moore Producer: George Moore, Stuart Armstrong, Laura Martin Laderas Animator: n/a DOP: Harry Green Sound: Thurston Thomson Editor: George Moore Design: Stuart Armstrong Synopsis: After Paul dies during a musical retreat, John, George and Ringo must convince Billy Shears, a rural lookalike, to join their band. Braving a mountain hike to bury Paul, each must face up to their inner conflicts and personal shortcomings if they are going stop the band from falling apart. |
London College of Communication | United Kingdom | 14 |
| 36-43 | SARA’S INTIMATE CONFESSIONS
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Details:TrailerLength: 22' Screenwriter: Marianne R. Kielland Director: Emilie Blichfeldt Producer: Ole Elverhol Animator: n/a DOP: Vegard Landsverk Sound: Adam Andersson Editor: Gothe Ellevsoy Design: Catrine Gormsen Synopsis: After being confronted with her fear of being too big, Sara, who's 181 cm tall and heavily built, begins to explore her perception of love, sex, and femininity, with her talking vulva. |
The Norwegian Film School (NFS) | Norway | 14 |
| 36-43 | TIME TO LEAVE, TIME TO RETURN
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Details:TrailerLength: 25' Screenwriter: Pedro Nishi, Rena Zoé, Victor Miaciro Director: Pedro Nishi Producer: Catarina Cavallari, Priscila Wilhelm Animator: n/a DOP: Lucas Silva Campos Sound: João Pedro Bim Editor: Victor Miaciro Design: Giu Nishiyama Synopsis: A bunk without a mattress, a blue-tiled bathroom, a dark laundry room, a portrait on a dusty altar, a long and narrow hallway, a window covered with newspapers. After separated years, three brothers return to live together in the house of their childhood, the absence of one of them is present everywhere. |
University of São Paulo / School of Communications and Arts / Department of Film, Radio and Television (USP) | Brazil | 14 |
| 44-46 | FIN
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Details:TrailerLength: 20' Screenwriter: Yimit Ramirez, Tatiana monge Director: Yimit Ramirez Producer: Gregorio Rodríguez Animator: n/a DOP: Pablo Ascanio Sound: María Alejandra Rojas Editor: Kendra García Design: Pilar Natalí Cardet Synopsis: Juan is dead. Surprisingly, they give him an opportunity: to relive a moment of his past life, but it will not be an ordinary moment. |
International School of Film and TV (EICTV) | Cuba | 13 |
| 44-46 | NESSUN DORMA
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Details:TrailerLength: 20' Screenwriter: Giulia Pace, Alessandro Padovani, Paolo Strippoli, Milo Tissone Director: Paolo Strippoli Producer: Centro Sperimentale di Cinematografia Production Animator: n/a DOP: Lucrezia Zanolini Sound: Arianna De Luca Editor: Federico Palmerini Design: Marta Montani Synopsis: The town is quiet. Only the breaths and a few dogs barking win the silence. Men, women and children, all suddenly fell in a permanent sleep. Two young boy scouts sheltered in a church are the only ones still awake in a sleeping world. |
Centro Sperimentale di Cinematografia (CSC) | Italy | 13 |
| 44-46 | RED, RED, RED
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Details:Length: 29'Screenwriter: Jade Li Director: Jade Li Producer: Maximilian Bohl Animator: VFX: Mikko Beste DOP: Thorsten Schönrade Sound: Vlad Litvak Editor: Vlad Litvak Design: Markus Schütz Synopsis: Tales of womanhood: Blood, daisies and divorce. |
international film school cologne (ifs) | Germany | 13 |
| 47-49 | FILIA
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Details:TrailerLength: 24' Screenwriter: Ossi Hakala Director: Anniina Joensalo Producer: Anna Mellin Animator: n/a DOP: Aku Koskinen Sound: Iivo Korhonen Editor: Menni Renvall Design: Luca Vincze Synopsis: Filia is story about a women who encounters a love of her life. While jogging, Maria finds a corpse in a woods and falls in love with him straight away. Will they be together forever? |
Aalto University School of Arts, Design and Architecture / ELO Film School Helsinki | Finland | 12 |
| 47-49 | FROZEN TO DEATH, SOAKED TO THE SKIN
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Details:TrailerLength: 15' Screenwriter: Javier Galán, Álvaro López Director: Elena Tara Producer: ECAM Animator: n/a DOP: Marina Tizón, Tomás Martin García Sound: Miguel Salas Editor: Zack Giannetto, Alberto Encinar Design: Marta Fernandez Jimenez, Adrián Díaz Such Synopsis: A jobless young lady has to return to her mother's home; A trailer anchored in the forrest. |
ECAM (The Madrid Film School) | Spain | 12 |
| 47-49 | LOOK AT THE SKY
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Details:Length: 30'Screenwriter: Ashok Veilou Director: Ashok Veilou Producer: Satyajit Ray Film and Television Institute Animator: n/a DOP: Jithu George Sound: Sandeep Singh Editor: Pouskeru Ngade Design: n/a Synopsis: Hai, a 40-year-old man is outcast by the villagers for not supporting the village candidate in the election. He shows courage and stand by his individual right. |
Satyajit Ray Film and Television Institute (SRFTI) | India | 12 |
| 50-54 | BANGLA
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Details:TrailerLength: 17' Screenwriter: Nelia Phoon, Chen Huiyi, Li Kayue Director: Chen Huiyi Producer: Nelia Phoon Animator: n/a DOP: Li Kayue Sound: John Foong Editor: Ken Ng Design: Claire Tui Synopsis: BANGLA tells a story about a migrant worker who ends up moonlighting at a struggling hawker stall in his desperation to send money home. It is an attempt to shed light on the local/foreigner relationship in Singapore where the two communities co-exist on a tiny reel clot for nothing more than a living transaction. |
Nanyang Technological University | Singapore | 11 |
| 50-54 | DARK HEARTS
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Details:TrailerLength: 26' Screenwriter: Vivien Sali Director: Maria Neheimer Producer: Paula Lichte (Creative P.) Animator: n/a DOP: PhilipJestädt Sound: Rolf Manzei Editor: Martin Langhof Design: A. Grünkind, F. Lührssen Synopsis: When Liv’s criminal mother is arrested, she has to move into a girls’ residential group. There, caught between her past and a new love interest, she must decide for the first time on how to continue her life. |
Hamburg Media School (HMS) | Germany | 11 |
| 50-54 | FOREIGN BODY
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Details:Length: 22'Screenwriter: Dusan Zoric, Boris Grgurovic Director: Dusan Zoric Producer: Carna Vucinic, Nevena Petrovic Animator: n/a DOP: Milica Cimi Drinic Sound: Milan Antić, Uroš Todorović, Antonio Toni Andrić Editor: Olga Kosaric Design: Lenka Debeljak Synopsis: Willing to prove his manhood to his handsome buddies, Marko tries to find a girl. In the encounter with a victim of a past sexual trauma he discovers an aggressive part of himself. |
Faculty of Dramatic Arts (FDU) | Serbia | 11 |
| 50-54 | PLUCKED
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Details:Length: 23'Screenwriter: Tejus Yakhob Director: Tejus Yakhob Producer: Annapurna International School of Film and Media, Hyderabad Animator: n/a DOP: Akash Subramanian Sound: Ashwin Rajashekar Editor: Tanya Chhabria Design: Amala Mukindadas Synopsis: The story revolves around an innocent boy who wants an eyelash to fall on his cheek so that he can make a wish to save something precious to him |
ANNAPURNA COLLEGE OF FILM & MEDIA | India | 11 |
| 50-54 | THE GIRL AND THE HIKIKOMORI
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Details:Length: 20'Screenwriter: Rafael Grieco Director: Rafael Grieco Producer: CISA Animator: Rafael Grieco DOP: Fabian von Unwerth Sound: Alberto Gallo Editor: Sara Di Stefano Design: Patrick Micaroni Synopsis: Grace (22) moves in a new apartment in the suburbs of a big city. She has no one but herself, until she finds out that next door’s lives a hikikomori, a person who chooses complete isolation from society. Driven by curiosity but most of all by her loneliness, she’s motivated to know more and paradoxically their own loneliness will be their reason to become friends. |
Academy of Audiovisual Sciences (CISA) | Switzerland | 11 |
| 55-58 | MELI MELO
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Details:TrailerLength: 19' Screenwriter: Julian Wolf Director: Julian Wolf Producer: Julian Wolf / LUCA SCHOOL OF ARTS Animator: n/a DOP: Virgil Leclercq Sound: Eli Sundermann Editor: Jasper Flikschuh Design: Julian Wolf Synopsis: Meli Melo paints a portrait of a mixed group of young friends in the big city. Stuck in a daily routine of hanging out, they talk more about their future than they actually work for it. Each individual struggles with a search for identity, ambitions and a place in modern society. |
LUCA School of Arts (LUCA) | Belgium | 10 |
| 55-58 | THE JUNGLE
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Details:TrailerLength: 15' Screenwriter: Amandine Clément, Victor Ohmer Director: Victor Ohmer Producer: Jean Claude Walter, Stephane Pierrat Animator: n/a DOP: Hugo Dias Da Silva Sound: Mallaurie Guitard, Pierre Falque Editor: Emilie Fortun Design: Célia Bretzner Synopsis: Simba ans Ava live in a migrant camp. They fled their country years ago, claiming the right to live. They are now only 33 kilometres from the end of their journey and will try to cross the border by any means necessary to reach their destination, England. |
International Institute of Image and Sound (3IS) | France | 10 |
| 55-58 | THE LAST FIGHT OF THE HAWK
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Details:TrailerLength: 15' Screenwriter: Yann Cristal Director: Fernando Caruso Producer: Ana Köhring, Nicole Faktor Animator: n/a DOP: Mariana Kacef Sound: Tatiana Frean Editor: Kevin Kogan Design: Gabriela Zimmerman Synopsis: Omar Bustos is a boxer in decline who doesn't want to assume his retirement. In the face of an impending fight he must choose whether to take care of himself or risk everything, being true to his style, regardless of the consequences. |
National School of Film Experimentation and Production (ENERC) | Argentina | 10 |
| 55-58 | UPPER LIP
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Details:TrailerLength: 11' Screenwriter: Shiri Cohen Director: Shiri Cohen Producer: Oanit Zur Animator: n/a DOP: Maor Alteras Sound: Michal Gideon Editor: lnbar Katz Design: n/a Synopsis: Tamara is about to turn 12. In preparation for her Bat Mitzva, she goes with her mother to the beauty salon to get her eyebrows done for the first time. When the painful procedure starts, she tries to resist, but her mother and the other women in the salon hold down the kicking and screaming girl until they are done. |
School of Audio & Visual Arts, Sapir College | Israel | 10 |
| 59-62 | AFTER ADEENA
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Details:Length: 20'Screenwriter: Neil Lim Director: Kulbir Singh Producer: Stacia Teoh Animator: n/a DOP: Alvin Thoo Sound: Chok Shu Yin Editor: Jonathan Jude Christee Design: Rachel Marie Moore Synopsis: A hardened, quiet and lonely middle-aged Malay man alienated by his wife after the loss of his only daughter-the titular Adeena, crosses paths with a neglected Chinese schoolgirl. In their time together, they find escape, understanding and a sense of connection in and through each other’s presecence. |
Puttnam School of Film & Animation / LASALLE College of the Arts (LCA) | Singapore | 9 |
| 59-62 | THE LAST VIRGIN
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Details:TrailerLength: 17' Screenwriter: Bàrbara Farré, Lucas Casanovas Director: Bàrbara Farré Producer: Júlia Estruga - Escac Films Animator: Bernat Fontanals DOP: Lucas Casanovas Sound: Biel Blancafort Editor: Jason Causse Design: Teresa Montanuy Synopsis: Sara, a 13-year- old-girl, has the need to leave her innocence in order to get inside the adult world, so that she can fit into her circle of friends. Surrounded by a world where only the appearance matters, Sara is going to see her will forced, and therefore will become another victim of this society. |
Cinema and Audiovisual School of Catalonia (ESCAC) | Spain | 9 |
| 59-62 | WALTER'S WAY
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Details:TrailerLength: 15' Screenwriter: Tom Gigliotti Director: Tom Gigliotti Producer: Leandro Amorim-Downie Animator: n/a DOP: Nhat Nguyen Sound: Timothy Choy Editor: Tom Gigiotti, Daniel Lupetina Design: Eva Kozlova Synopsis: Taking a driving test is not something 78 year old Walter Clark thought he would ever be required to do again. Determined to hold onto the past through his old age and rapidly failing health, Walter is forced along with the help of his only daughter Kim to face what losing his ability to drive really means. |
School of Image Arts / Ryerson University | Canada | 9 |
| 59-62 | WE GO TOGETHER
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Details:Length: 30'Screenwriter: Seungwon Jo Director: Seungwon Jo Producer: Seongchoel Choi Animator: n/a DOP: Daehyun Shin Sound: Seonghoon Lee Editor: Geonwhi Cho Design: Sumin Choi Synopsis: Zhou, Kiho is a young soldier serving the country in the US Army post in Korea. He wants to enlist in the US Army and get citizenship because he believes Korea is full of irrationalities. |
Korea University of Media Arts (KUMA) | South Korea | 9 |
| 63-66 | DAUGHTERLAND
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Details:TrailerLength: 15' Screenwriter: Alice Gambara, Giulia Betti Director: Andrea Di Paola Producer: Greta De Stradis Animator: n/a DOP: Edoardo Lio Sound: Nicole Abbiati, Sante Spagnolo Editor: Elisa Clementelli, Andrea Bottari Design: n/a Synopsis: Mr. P faces his daughter’s birthday; the distance between them and his incapability of understanding the modern world permeates his search for a present. Lara is a grown up girl, she can be scaring; Milan is a big city, it can be scary too. |
Milano Civica Scuola di Cinema (MCSC) | Italy | 8 |
| 63-66 | GIRL WITH FORK IN A WORLD OF SOUP
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Details:TrailerLength: 22' Screenwriter: Yotam Knispel Director: Yotam Knispel Producer: Eran Wolfson, Sapir Rubin Animator: n/a DOP: Or Dotan Sound: Music: Ayelet Gabay Editor: Lynn Laor, Yotam Knispel Design: n/a Synopsis: Dafna has a lot of love to give, but no one to give it to. The sound of the new neighbor's guitar will mark a chance. |
Beit Berl College / Faculty of Arts (Beit Berl) | Israel | 8 |
| 63-66 | UNTAMED
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Details:TrailerLength: 25' Screenwriter: François Lluelles, Vincent Lluelles Director: François Lluelles, Vincent Lluelles Producer: Paul Salmon Animator: Audrey Jouve DOP: Mickael Maalaoui Sound: Vincent Paysant Editor: Arthur Cherprenet, Maxime Sebeo Design: Martin Escoffier Synopsis: Between Flins and Jumeauville, farmers are threatened with expropriation by the ogre “Rustik Parc“, an amusement park about farming. Serge and his son Jérôme are running their family farm and are determined to save it. They will try to make their voice heard … |
ESRA Group | France | 8 |
| 63-66 | WITH THE ARRIVAL OF SPRING
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Details:Length: 11'Screenwriter: Katla Sólnes Director: Katla Sólnes Producer: Katla Sólnes Animator: Katla Sólnes DOP: Róbert Magnússon Sound: Róbert Magnússon Editor: Katla Sólnes Design: Katla Sólnes Synopsis: The desolate Icelandic spring awakens complicated feelings between two choir girls. |
Icelandic Film School (IFS) | Iceland | 8 |
| 67-71 | CALIFORNIA
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Details:Length: 19'Screenwriter: Dastan Madalbekov Director: Dastan Madalbekov Producer: VGIK, Konstantin Peremyshchennikov Animator: n/a DOP: Vladislav Bakhanovich Sound: Valentin Mingalev Editor: Dastan Madalbekov, Vladislav Bakhanovich Design: Svetlana Glebova Synopsis: He is fond of rap and wants to go to California. He is ashamed of his nationality, native language and family. He is eager to become free, to become a true American. Will he find love for his homeland in himself before the plane leaves for California? |
Russian State University of Сinematography n.a. S.Gerasimov VGIK | Russia | 7 |
| 67-71 | ONE FOURTH GONE
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Details:TrailerLength: 19' Screenwriter: Andy Arthur Smith Director: Andy Arthur Smith Producer: Lauryn Eisenstein, Andy Arthur Smith Animator: n/a DOP: Aaron Maxey Sound: Michael Winters Editor: Astrid Cedeño Franco Design: James Abroms Synopsis: An original musical about a young man with OCD who attempts to cope with the imminent return of his absent father through the power of music. |
Columbia College Hollywood (CCH) | United States | 7 |
| 67-71 | STORY OF A DAWN AND TWO SUNSETS
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Details:TrailerLength: 25' Screenwriter: Acelo Ruiz Villanueva Director: Acelo Ruiz Villanueva Producer: Centro de Capacitación Cinematográfica, A.C. Animator: n/a DOP: Fernando Hernández Sound: Octavio Sánchez Editor: Marlén Rios-Farjat, Acelo Ruiz Villanueva Design: Graciela Miguel Villanueva, Daniel Cabrera Z. Synopsis: Oaxaca, October 29th, 2006. The Federal Police advances to take the city that has been in the hands of the popular insurgency for 4 months. Kresta and Anaclara, young supporters of the revolt, have been asked to pick up a radio transmitter that will supply the flimsy radio station of the movement. |
Centro de Capacitación Cinematográfica, A.C. (CCC) | Mexico | 7 |
| 67-71 | THE DAY OFF
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Details:Length: 15'Screenwriter: Edward Howarth, Carter Zhao Director: Carter Zhao Producer: Eric Moots Animator: n/a DOP: Marshall Chen Sound: Li Wang Editor: Carter Zhao, Alvaro Congosto Design: Tina Xu, Marrissa Dianas Synopsis: Living in the shadows, two hard-working illegal Chinese immigrants decide to use their day off to have fun for the first time in their American lives. The journey begins when the older man, forces the younger, more cautious man to leave their run-down apartment and enjoy themselves for a day. |
Boston University / Department of Film and Television | United States | 7 |
| 67-71 | THE PLAYERS
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Details:TrailerLength: 23' Screenwriter: Samuel Auer Director: Samuel Auer Producer: Tobias Gaede Animator: n/a DOP: Lukas Eyland Sound: Tamás Bohács, Andor Márton Horváth, Daniel Engel Editor: Wiebke Henrich Design: n/a Synopsis: To gamblers, Paul and Fatih, are playing a dangerous game as this is the only way both feel free. |
German Film and Television Academy Berlin (DFFB) | Germany | 7 |
| 72-76 | DON'T CALL ME BRO
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Details:TrailerLength: 19' Screenwriter: Gina Wenzel Director: Gina Wenzel Producer: Gina Wenzel Animator: n/a DOP: Sebastian Bergfeld Sound: Simone Weber Editor: Gina Wenzel Design: Insa Meyer Synopsis: Cheyenne is the only girl in a boys' football gang known as "The Kick-About Crew". Boozing and violence play a central role in the life of the gang, of which Cheyenne's boyfriend, Josh, is also a member. One day a new boy with something mysterious about him appears at the pitch. |
Academy of Media Arts Cologne (KHM) | Germany | 6 |
| 72-76 | JUST JOSIE
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Details:Length: 16'Screenwriter: Lily-Evelina England Director: Ben Porro Producer: Georgina Rowlands Animator: n/a DOP: Katia Shipulina Sound: Carrie Liddell Editor: Osian Pearson Design: Nathalie Carraro Synopsis: Josie Parker has always been the boring one in her family, until an alien abduction gives her something to talk about. |
Westminster Film School / University of Westminster (WFS) | United Kingdom | 6 |
| 72-76 | PITCH BLACK
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Details:TrailerLength: 22' Screenwriter: Philip Schafferhans Director: Philip Schafferhans Producer: Jascha Loos Animator: Tim Kaszik, Philip Schafferhans DOP: Tim Kaszik Sound: Simon Huett, Johann Ott, Jonas Porombka Editor: Philip Schafferhans Design: Stina Nies, Alina Saltheim, Nele Gertsen Synopsis: The young Horst (17) and his best friend Jupp (17) have the dream to become overseer in a coal mine. When Horst loose his arm his dream falls apart. |
Dortmund University of Applied Sciences and Arts | Germany | 6 |
| 72-76 | SON OF
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Details:Length: 9'Screenwriter: Winnie Lee Director: Ashvin Segar Producer: Claire Chao, Timothy Ong Animator: n/a DOP: Muhammad Firdaus Sound: Justin Seah Editor: Sharmaine Ng, Ashvin Segar Design: Lee Wan Lin Synopsis: When Arjun witnesses his father inflict an especially brutal beating on his mother, he is forced to confront the violence being committed in his household. As he moves into adulthood, Arjun is forced to decide whether or not he should confront his father about his past misdeeds. |
Ngee Ann Polytechnic / School of Film & Media Studies | Singapore | 6 |
| 72-76 | WHITE ROOM
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Details:Length: 20'Screenwriter: Mladen Staniċ Director: Mladen Staniċ Producer: Danijel Popoviċ Animator: n/a DOP: Sara B. Moritz Sound: Luka Gamulin Editor: Oleg Skorin Design: Dragan Apeloko Synopsis: Two brothers are renovating their apartment in Split, Croatia. They have plans to rent it during the tourist season. After a tragic event that has recently changed their lives, they will use their time together to finally face the traumatic past that has been troubling their relationship. |
Academy of Dramatic Art Zagreb (ADU) | Croatia | 6 |
| 77-87 | BREASTFRIENDS
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Details:Length: 18'Screenwriter: Eleanor Rogers Director: Eleanor Rogers Producer: Philip Emo Animator: n/a DOP: Robin Kavanagh Sound: Karima Dillon El-Toukhy Editor: Frances Healy Design: Jack Rogers, Collete Wrafter Synopsis: When a team member gets injured days before a competition, the relay team get a replacement from a confident outsider called Edel, who the headstrong, driven leader of the team Ash hates. During a sleepover, the girls stare a moment which leads Ash to see Edel in a new light. |
National Film School / Institute of Art, Design and Technology (IADT) | Ireland | 5 |
| 77-87 | EL OREJANO
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Details:Length: 17'Screenwriter: Ignacio Revello Director: Ignacio Revello Producer: Lucía Martínez Animator: n/a DOP: Agustín Fernández Sound: Valentain Dalmao Editor: Martín De Benedetti Design: n/a Synopsis: With the help of a rebel girl and old motorcycle, Guillermo goes on journey after his father. A mysterious man living in the middle of the countryside. |
Film School of Uruguay (ECU) | Uruguay | 5 |
| 77-87 | ELENA
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Details:Length: 9'Screenwriter: Emily N. Kordovich Director: Emily N. Kordovich Producer: James Abrams Animator: n/a DOP: Emily N. Kordovich Sound: Alex Gilroy Editor: Emily N. Kordovich Design: Alexa Boyd Synopsis: Our most haunting adversary is often ourselves. |
School of Film and Animation, College of Art and Design, Rochester Institute of Technology | United States | 5 |
| 77-87 | EQUALLY RED AND BLUE
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Details:TrailerLength: 21' Screenwriter: Georgiana Moldoveanu Director: Georgiana Moldoveanu Producer: Alexandra Buzoianu, Adrian Bulgariu-UNATC I.L.CARAGIALE Animator: n/a DOP: Zoran Simulov Sound: Roxana Bain Editor: Maria Salomia Design: n/a Synopsis: On the day of her one-year anniversary with Stefan, Ana offers him an unexpected present - she agrees to be surrogate mother for the baby Stefan can't have with his wife. In the end, Stefan realizes that he wants something else, but it's way too late. |
National University of Theatre and Film (UNATC) | Romania | 5 |
| 77-87 | LAURA AND THE WIND
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Details:Length: 16'Screenwriter: Natali Montell Director: Natali Montell Producer: Centro Universitario de Estudios Cienmatograficos UNAM Animator: n/a DOP: Sheila Altamirano Sound: David Muñoz Velasco, Natali Montell Editor: Natali Montell, Arian Sánchez, Gabriela Ruvalcaba Design: Rafael Macazaga Synopsis: Time, sensations and memories are mixed when Natalia confronts loss. |
National School of Film Arts / National Autonomous University of Mexico (ENAC/UNAM) | Mexico | 5 |
| 77-87 | RARA AVIS
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Details:Length: 16'Screenwriter: Irving Moncada Director: Luis Felipe Moncada Producer: Juan Sebastián Sarmiento Bazzani Animator: n/a DOP: Diego Alejandro Barajas Sound: German Avella Editor: Handrey Correa Design: Juan David Bernal Synopsis: Victor faces an unknown judicial case that leads to an unresolved love journey on his 40th birthday. |
London Film School (LFS) | United Kingdom | 5 |
| 77-87 | THE MATTRESS KING
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Details:TrailerLength: 16' Screenwriter: Miguel Lambert Director: Miguel Lambert Producer: Jade Marcoux-Archambault Animator: n/a DOP: Marie-Chloé Racine Sound: Jordan Choinière Editor: Jacob Marcoux Design: UQAM Synopsis: Simon Dugas, a man in his forties who is having a mid-life crisis and who also suffers from a condition that forces him to stay awake; survives his days and nights knowing that if he rests only once, he would never wake up. And it is through his daydream that he will finally find his childhood love, Suzie Lapointe, an ex-model that now manages a mattress store: The Mattress King. |
University of Québec Montréal / School of Media (UQAM) | Canada | 5 |
| 77-87 | THE MOMENT
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Details:Length: 16'Screenwriter: Matic Štamcar, Ida Brancelj Director: Matic Štamcar Producer: Jožica Blatnik (UL AGRFT) Animator: n/a DOP: Žiga Krajnc Sound: Samo Jurca Editor: Saša Škulj Design: Neža Zinajić Synopsis: The family is leaving for a trip. Parents are behaving unusually. Dad stays at home, mom seems distant, her daughter is taking over her role. Eight-year-old Lin is increasingly feeling the unspoken among them. What will the day bring? |
University of Ljubljana / Academy of Theatre, Radio, Film and Television (AGRFT) | Slovenia | 5 |
| 77-87 | THE MOON AND THE NIGHT
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Details:TrailerLength: 20' Screenwriter: Erin Lau & Justin Omori Director: Erin Lau Producer: Olivia Gray Animator: n/a DOP: Anton Jiracek Sound: Rachel Bassett Editor: Yurim Han Design: Alana Bombino Synopsis: In rural Hawaii, a teenage girl is forced to confront her father after he steals her beloved pet for an underground dogfight. |
Chapman University / Dodge College of Film and Media Arts | United States | 5 |
| 77-87 | VIRGINIA
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Details:TrailerLength: 12' Screenwriter: Francesco Puppini Director: Francesco Puppini Producer: Kayleigh Platt Animator: n/a DOP: Jack Armour Sound: Nevan Brothers, Massimiliano Borghesi Editor: Joel Renberg-Fawcett Synopsis: Virginia, a psychic medium living in a petrol station, doesn’t want her son to leave home while an old tragic memory of a fire haunts her. |
Northern Film School / Leeds Beckett University (NFS/LBU) | United Kingdom | 5 |
| 77-87 | WONDERLAND
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Details:Length: 30'Screenwriter: Shi Chang Director: Song Xinqi Producer: Zhang Jiandong Animator: n/a DOP: Fan Chao Sound: Xu Haoli Editor: Song Xinqi Design: Sun Wenxuan Synopsis: An accident occurred on the lake near the kid's school, where a woman's corpse was found. A few hours ago, her husband who is going to get divorced and her lover who is not willing to get divorced, both had inescapable suspicions. The truth is not as complicated as imagined, but it is full of irresistible destinies. |
Beijing Film Academy (BFA) | China | 5 |
| 88-95 | A LOVE STORY
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Details:Length: 8'Screenwriter: Julien Charpier Director: Julien Charpier Producer: n/a Animator: n/a DOP: Benjamin Philipppot Sound: Julien Charpier Editor: Julien Charpier Design: Julien Charpier Synopsis: A sidereal, digital and experimental journey, by way of a declaration of love sent to the woman I love. |
ENS Louis-Lumière | France | 4 |
| 88-95 | CANDELINE
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Details:TrailerLength: 12' Screenwriter: Alessandro Logli, Asiyat Gamzatova Director: Asiyat Gamzatova Producer: Reece Cargan, Asiyat Gamzatova (co-producer) Animator: n/a DOP: Marco Valerio Carrara Sound: Alberto Sueri Editor: Sean Geddes Design: n/a Synopsis: The lives of three men, Daniele, Antonio and Giovanni are interwoven and all intersect with emotional results on the birthday of little Elisa. |
Screen Academy Scotland (SAS) | United Kingdom | 4 |
| 88-95 | IRENE
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Details:Length: 16'Screenwriter: Rafael Afonso Director: João Martinho Producer: Escola Superior de Teatro e Cinema Animator: n/a DOP: Inês Alegre Sound: Tiago Pereira Editor: Davíd Araújo Design: Tiago Amorim Synopsis: Irene, after joining Pedro, is pushed to an erratic game. In that house, contaminated by the shadow of his mom, Irene hesitates. |
Lisbon Theatre and Film School (ESTC) | Portugal | 4 |
| 88-95 | LABYRINTH
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Details:TrailerLength: 20' Screenwriter: Tang Hongyi, Yang Baoyi Director: Tang Hongyi, Yang Baoyi Producer: Zhang Shuting Animator: Li Boyuan DOP: Tang Hongyi Sound: Wang Ruiting Editor: Tang Hongyi, Yang Baoyi Design: Li Suyang Synopsis: Luo, who is reduced to а brothel, has unbearable memories. She gradually lost hope about life and just then she met Рао. а ex-soldier who is much older then her, but they are under severe pressure from family and society. When Рао suffered а serious illness. Luo chose to leave in order to protect their transitory love. |
Communication University of China (CUC) | China | 4 |
| 88-95 | ONE WAY TICKET
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Details:TrailerLength: 28' Screenwriter: Leung Cheok Wai, Nil Director: Leung Wing Ho, Thomas Producer: Pang Tsz Kwan, Mandy Animator: n/a DOP: Chan Fong Yuen Sound: Li Sin Ying, Rochelle Editor: Chan Hin Ko, Harold Design: n/a Synopsis: Wah Launches a Protest against the bus company to ask for better working condition. Fung supports the campaign. The Company surprisingly offers Fung a contract renewal, but it comes with a special condition. Can we keep our integrity in front of the harsh realities of life? |
Hong Kong Academy for Performing Arts / School of Film and Television (HKAPA) | Hong Kong | 4 |
| 88-95 | THE HERD
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Details:Length: 19'Screenwriter: Inga Pohjolainen Director: Inga Pohjolainen Producer: Ida Kentala Animator: n/a DOP: Emilia Wik Sound: Nicolas Lehtola Editor: Emilia Wik Design: n/a Synopsis: A story about friendship between Virva, Joakim, and Viljami. |
ARCADA University of Applied Sciences Department of Culture and Communication / Media Culture Finland | Finland | 4 |
| 88-95 | THY WILL BE DONE
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Details:Length: 18'Screenwriter: Emma-Lotta Kiuru Director: Emma-Lotta Kiuru Producer: n/a Animator: n/a DOP: Henri Marttila Sound: Sakari Karjalainen Editor: Tapio Lähdesmäki Design: n/a Synopsis: Thy Will Be Done tells a story of pastor's wife Loviisa, who is used to put expectations of others before her own will. The pastor worries because Loviisa doesn't get pregnant despite everything he tries. Loviisa starts to question her place as her husband's subordinate. |
Tampere University of Applied Sciences, Degree Programme in Film and Television | Finland | 4 |
| 88-95 | UNTIL DAWN COMES
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Details:TrailerLength: 30' Screenwriter: Aarón Acuña Director: Aarón Acuña Producer: Erick Pérez Animator: n/a DOP: Paulo Soto Sound: Daniel Alarcón Editor: Doniphan Molina Design: Raquel Rivera Synopsis: Carmen has to travel, to see, maybe for the last time, the love of her live. She asks Rocío, her older sister to accompany her. Carmen and Rocío used to be very close, but their lives took different paths. Through the roadtrip they find something more valuable between themselves. |
School of Image - Veritas University | Costa Rica | 4 |
| 96-99 | A FAMILIAR STRANGER
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Details:Length: 16'Screenwriter: Yining Xu/Xinqi Zhou Director: Yining Xu Producer: Xiao Ma Animator: n/a DOP: Jonas Schubach Sound: Yining Xu Editor: Jingjue Li Design: Jingjue Li Synopsis: While on holiday with her dad, Wen, an 18.year-old Chinese girl, struggles with her feelings about her estranged mother. By chance she shares a tender and meaningful encounter with a French woman, which helps her reconcile old emotions and discover new feelings. |
Florida State University / College of Motion Picture Arts (FSU) | United States | 3 |
| 96-99 | ALL THE WORLD IS GREEN
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Details:Length: 21'Screenwriter: Antony Maalouf Director: Antony Maalouf Producer: Antony Maalouf Animator: n/a DOP: Elio Chalhoub Sound: François Yazbeck Editor: Antony Maalouf Design: Antony Maalouf Synopsis: A young man wakes up in an underground bunker and finds the lifeless body of his wife laying besides him. Disoriented with grief, he finds solace in mechanical and mundane tasks. This, however, only postpones the inevitable question twirling around in his mind: What to do, when all is lost? |
Institut d'études scéniques, audiovisuelles et cinématographiques (IESAV) | Lebanon | 3 |
| 96-99 | SIEGE
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Details:TrailerLength: 16' Screenwriter: Deeptanshu Sinha Director: Deeptanshu Sinha Producer: Stuti Khanna Animator: Harshit Poddar, Karan Trivedi DOP: Akash Mondal Sound: Preyas Sangeet Editor: Yogesh Tank Design: Deeptanshu Sinha, Akash Mondal Synopsis: After a citywide lock down to make the city crime free, Aaditya, a soldier from the city forces, must find a way to protect the people of the city from the commander and his forces. |
Whistling Woods International (WWI) | India | 3 |
| 96-99 | SO FAR FROM GOD
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Details:TrailerLength: 16' Screenwriter: Ismael Capistrán, Pablo Martínez, Carlos Isaías Pérez Andrade Director: Ismael Capistrán Producer: Carlos Isaías Pérez Andrade Animator: Jorge Pedbrä DOP: Pablo Martínez Sound: Look As Audio Editor: Pablo Martínez, Carlos Isaías Pérez Andrade, Ismael Capistrán Design: Sarah Achar Sacal, Joan Fuentes Disney Synopsis: A veteran soldier of the U.S army, that fought in the U.S- Mexico war of 1846, is kidnaped by a young man who wants vengeance for the crimes he perpetrated against his country and his family during the war. |
Universidad Iberoamericana Mexico City (IBERO) | Mexico | 3 |
| 100-107 | ALMA
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Details:Length: 19'Screenwriter: Bridget Anderson, Grant Conversano Director: Grant Conversano Producer: Kevin Cutrara, Abe Bengjo Animator: n/a DOP: Trent.Spivey Sound: Gabrielle Walden Editor: John Machado Design: Giselle Eng Synopsis: A Venezuelan middle-schooler living in North Caroljna finds herself in "Alma," a fictional character she writes to realize her place amongst the other Idds on the bus. |
University of North Carolina School of the Arts (UNCSA) | United States | 2 |
| 100-107 | GRANDMA`S HOUSE
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Details:TrailerLength: 6' Screenwriter: Ryan LeBouef Director: Savanah Joeckel Producer: Savanah Joeckel Animator: n/a DOP: Robert Machado Sound: Mathew Quiatchon Editor: Cody and Ryan LeBouef Design: Savanah Joeckel Synopsis: A woman has one last chance to visit her beloved grand parents. |
University of Nevada Las Vegas | United States | 2 |
| 100-107 | INVISIBLE
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Details:Length: 6'Screenwriter: Sacha Guillot, Richard Fernandes Director: Manuel Paz Lubertino Producer: CLCF Animator: n/a DOP: Christophe Larue Sound: Dana Farzanehpour Editor: Aisse Coulibaly, Charles Damidot Design: Veiane Simon Synopsis: Franck, homeless, living in the street for half of his life, wake up one morning and begins his routine. As usual people in the streets ignore him, but what he ignores is that he died the night before. |
CLCF | France | 2 |
| 100-107 | LIVE TO REMAIN
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Details:TrailerLength: 9' Screenwriter: Bartek Sozanski Director: Bartek Sozanski Producer: Mariana Torii Animator: n/a DOP: Suparawee Victor Patravanich Sound: Arnas Pigulevicius Editor: Bartek Sozanski Design: Haruka Ogawa Synopsis: Influenced by pro-Leave xenophobic hate speeches, a young girl makes a decision that will change her life forever. Set against the backdrop of the post-Brexit UK and the simmering tensions of the immigration issue, writer/director Bartek Sozanski delivers a story about expectations, presumptions and the kindness reality can have. |
Bournemouth Film School (AUB) | United Kingdom | 2 |
| 100-107 | MINE
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Details:Length: 20' |
Academy of Film and Multimedia Marubi (AFMM) | Albania | 2 |
| 100-107 | THE ABANDONED
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Details:TrailerLength: 13' Screenwriter: Morgane Buléon Director: Loïc Richard Producer: ESEC Animator: n/a DOP: Matilde Esteves Sound: Rémi Renaud Editor: Pauline Varguy Design: Barnabé Castelanelli-Boyer Synopsis: During the 2nd World War, Anne is torn between a chance to become a doctor, and stay on the “good” side. |
Ecole Supérieure d'études Cinématographiques (ESEC) | France | 2 |
| 100-107 | THE VANISHED
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Details:TrailerLength: 17' Screenwriter: Omar Robles Director: Omar Robles Producer: Eduardo Esquivel Animator: n/a DOP: José Permar Sound: Juan Amézquita Editor: Renata Amaris Design: Marianne Cebrián Synopsis: Oscar returns to the city that banished her, now as a woman. Her father is dying and her younger brother is full of resentment. Oscar will have to overcome her own pain to heal the wounds she left then she parted. |
University of Guadalajara / Image and Sound Department | Mexico | 2 |
| 100-107 | TOMORROW ISLAND
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Details:TrailerLength: 17' Screenwriter: Ana Falcon Director: Gwenn Joyaux Producer: Shruti Sidhan / KINOEYES KEM Animator: n/a DOP: Michael Tebinka Sound: Gabriel Guerrero Solis Editor: Abdallah Sada Design: Terje Kähr Synopsis: In the dawn of the Cold War, a young Soviet telegraphist makes a desperate attempt to save her American lover from being stranded in the Russian side of the Bering Strait after receiving a border closure message. |
Universidade Lusófona / Film and Media Arts Department (ULHT) | Portugal | 2 |
| 108-110 | CLANDESTINE
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Details:Length: 8'Screenwriter: Mbali Hlatshwayo Director: Mbali Hlatshwayo Producer: Mbali Hlatshwayo Animator: Mbali Hlatshwayo DOP: Nomsa Fakude Sound: Sebastian Micci Editor: Mbali Hlatshwayo Design: Nomsa Fakude Synopsis: Clandestine is an experimental fiction piece about relationships gone wrong. |
Wits School of Arts / Division of Film & Television (WSOA) | South Africa | 1 |
| 108-110 | LEFT MARCH
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Details:TrailerLength: 15' Screenwriter: Olesya Yakovleva Director: Olesya Yakovleva Producer: Danila Yakovlev Animator: Angelina Rumyantceva, Arseniy Teplyakov DOP: Danila Chubenko Sound: Anatoly Nikulin Editor: Olga Savva, Olesya Yakovleva Design: Anisia Teplyakova Synopsis: An experimental film about Mayakovsky without Mayakovsky. Let's see the great poet Vladimir Mayakovsky not only as a glorifier of the revolution but also as a victim of the Soviet power - a woman that loved and decimated him. Will Mayakovsky be able to break away from her after his own death? |
St. Petersburg State University of Film and Television (SPUFT) | Russia | 1 |
| 108-110 | MONICA VOLVO
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Details:TrailerLength: 23' Screenwriter: Jany Kasmi, Philibert Gau Director: Jany Kasmi Producer: ENSAV Animator: n/a DOP: Yoann Suberviolle Sound: Titouan Dumesnil Editor: Annabelle Abdul Design: n/a Synopsis: Without any real goal in his life, Naël spends days alone in his family castle somewhere in the French provinces. Driving on the small roads with his old car becomes his single distraction until the day he meets Monica and Vimala, two mysterious barmaid. |
ENSAV | France | 1 |
| 111-125 | #RELATABLE
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Details:TrailerLength: 13' Screenwriter: Ran Bensimon Director: Ran Bensimon Producer: n/a Animator: Ran Bensimon DOP: Ran Bensimon Sound: Ran Bensimon Editor: Ran Bensimon Design: Ran Bensimon Synopsis: In today's technologically saturated world, each of us maintain various virtual identities for interacting with others. We facilitate social lives through digital profiles and split ourselves into more digital avatars, to connect with more people- Which keeps us more alone and disconnected until eventually we lose ourselves in the grid. |
Bezalel Academy of Arts and Design Jerusalem (BAAD) | Israel | 0 |
| 111-125 | AQUARIUM
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Details:TrailerLength: 29' Screenwriter: Lucia Pšenková, Janka Drotárová Director: Janka Drotárová Producer: Tomas Bata University in Zlín Animator: Kryštof Ulbert DOP: Samuel Timko Sound: Radek Kuboš Editor: Juraj Ondruš Design: n/a Synopsis: I dreamed I was a fish. But what if I am a fish which dreams of being a human? |
Tomas Bata University in Zlín / Faculty of Multimedia Communications (TBU) | Czech Republic | 0 |
| 111-125 | BACK, THE SEA
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Details:Length: 19'Screenwriter: Francisco Bacigalupo, Jimena Markowicz Director: Francisco Bacigalupo, Jimena Markowicz Producer: Benjamin Bauer Animator: n/a DOP: Agustin Prieto, Delfina Seefeld Sound: Yamil Vozzi Editor: Agustin Prieto Design: Iara Ohanian Synopsis: A young couple travels to spend the weekend at a house on the beach. An unexpected encounter with an old friend of one of them at a party will bring up unresolved problems of the past, at the same time as unexplored sensations. |
Universidad de Buenos Aires / Diseño de Imagen y Sonido FADU (UBA) | Argentina | 0 |
| 111-125 | BACKING UP BILITIS
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Details:TrailerLength: 12' Screenwriter: Abbie Pobjoy Director: Abbie Pobjoy Producer: William Dabinet Animator: n/a DOP: Hazal Alakus Sound: Joe Sexton Editor: Isobelle Amie Design: Amelia Childs Synopsis: Seventeen-year-old closeted Jane creates an underground event in the basement of her suburban home, all on the brink of Melbourne's first gay liberation movement. |
Swinburne School of Film and Television (SSFT) | Australia | 0 |
| 111-125 | FIFONSI
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Details:TrailerLength: 14' Screenwriter: Keveen da Silva Director: Keveen da Silva Producer: Institut Superieur des Metiers de l'Audiovisuel Animator: n/a DOP: Lariaus Honvo Sound: Mohamed Aguemon Editor: Felix Avagbo Design: Ineck Houngbedji Synopsis: Harry, a talented young photographer, takes part in a photography contest. He goes to a village to take pictures. During his session, he takes a picture of a statue without asking permission. Honhlon, the owner discovers it and uses mystical methods to hurt him. |
Higher Institute of Audiovisual Training (ISMA) | Benin | 0 |
| 111-125 | FIVE MINUTES OUTSIDE
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Details:TrailerLength: 10' Screenwriter: Constanza Gatti Director: Constanza Gatti Producer: Ángel Del Re Animator: n/a DOP: Andrés Proaño Sound: Valeria Fernández Editor: Constanza Gatti, Federico Vicente Design: n/a Synopsis: Irene and Juan escape a get together with friends to talk about the state of their relationship. No matter how hard they try nothing will be the same. |
Universidad del Cine (UCINE) | Argentina | 0 |
| 111-125 | I, MARGO
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Details:Length: 22'Screenwriter: Mark Limansky, Xenie Zasetskaya Director: Mark Limansky Producer: Polina Dudina Animator: n/a DOP: Xenie Zasetskaya Sound: Tatyana Petrina Editor: Mark Limansky Design: Mark Limansky, Xenie Zasetskaya Synopsis: Margarita is the daughter of a world-famous ballerina. All her life, she tries to surpass her deceased mother. However, fate is doing everything to Margartra remained unknown. This story is not about ballet, but about life. Funny story about sad moments. If it seems to you that it cannot be any worse, believe ... It can! Margarita is kicked out of the theater and she can do nothing about it. Only fate decided her course for her. |
GITR FILM & TELEVISION SCHOOL | Russia | 0 |
| 111-125 | INVENTED LIVES OF AMELIA ARAGAO
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Details:TrailerLength: 16' Screenwriter: Luiza Quental Director: Luiza Quental Producer: Gustavo Monlevad Animator: n/a DOP: Luciana Morin Sound: Victor Oliver Editor: Mariana Barreiros Design: Daniel Massarani Synopsis: Amelia Aragao doesn't live, she waits. She waits for the alarm to go off, for the cue to move, for the elevator to rise, for the Spotify ad to pass. And the next day, she does it all over again, to the great displeasure of her narrator, who is condemned to chronicle a life without meaning. But, what happens when the narrator decides to change the script? |
PUC-Rio Department of Social Communication - Cinema | Brazil | 0 |
| 111-125 | LETTERS TO THE PAST
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Details:Length: 12'Screenwriter: Kostas Dimitriadis, Katerina Thanopoulou Director: Kostas Dimitriadis, Katerina Thanopoulou Producer: Hellenic Cinema and Television School Stavrakos Animator: n/a DOP: Sotiris Tzatzakis Sound: Vassilis Vassilakis Editor: Katerina Thanopoulou, Kostas Dimitriadis Design: Katerina Thanopoulou, Kostas Dimitriadis Synopsis: Marina meets her co-star, Orestis, outside the theatre for the first time. Orestis insists that they have met before. Marina tries in vain to remember but she can't. The "reality" fuses with the representation to give an answer to what exactly happened between them. |
Hellenic Cinema and Television School Stavrakos (HCTSS) | Greece | 0 |
| 111-125 | LONGING
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Details:Length: 7'Screenwriter: Kyle Reece Butt Director: Kyle Reece Butt Producer: Sean Abnett Animator: n/a DOP: Lillian Carrara Sound: Mitchell Toft Editor: Harry Gale Design: Karri Munchenberg Synopsis: A closeted teenager must come out to bis best friend and further admit bis feelings for him, putting the stability of their friendship on the line. |
Griffith Film School (GFS) | Australia | 0 |
| 111-125 | MEGURU
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Details:Length: 29'Screenwriter: Yusuke Takatoku, Mie Tonooka Director: Sae Suzuki Producer: Mio Nomura Animator: n/a DOP: Lianghui Liu Sound: AYITIKEN Yaermaimaiti Editor: Sadato Takenaka Design: Tetsutaro Nakamura Synopsis: Yuri (18) ’s dead body is discovered one night. Ryoko (18) arrives at the scene and begins having flashbacks of her memories with Yuri. In elementary school, Yuri resolved to commit suicide when she reached 18 years old, just like her own mother. Ryoko gradually she loses herself in in Yuri’s world. |
Tokyo University of the Arts, Graduate School of Film and New Media | Japan | 0 |
| 111-125 | THE LEMNISCATE
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Details:Length: 14'Screenwriter: Mirjam Mikk Director: Teresa Väli Producer: Helen Räim Animator: n/a DOP: Rasmus Kosseson Sound: Arbo Maran Editor: Andres Hallik Design: Brigita Viik Synopsis: On an ordinary Sunday before going to church Lee is announcing that she and Ülar are going to have a visitor that day. Though it’s not an ordinary guest but a very symbolic person, wife’s classmate Kärt whom they call Skater. |
Baltic Film, Media, Art and Communication School of Tallinn University (BFM) | Estonia | 0 |
| 111-125 | THE OUTCRY
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Details:TrailerLength: 24' Screenwriter: Loren Buchner, Sisanda Dyantyi Director: Loren Buchner, Sisanda Dyantyi Producer: Athenkosi Gabada Animator: n/a DOP: Vuyile Yis Faba Sound: n/a Editor: n/a Design: Ryan Reid-Thomson Synopsis: Ciki, a young woman who grew up in a small Hamburg village, marries Bantu a suburban high school teacher. After moving to Ntselamanzi Township with Bantu, she discovers that her husband is not the man she imagined him to be. Supported by her fellow stokvel friends, Ciki finally stands up to his archaic interpretation of cultural standards, and so begins a journey of courageous self-discovery. |
South African School of Motion Picture Medium and Live Performance (AFDA) | South Africa | 0 |
| 111-125 | WAITHOOD
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Details:TrailerLength: 22' Screenwriter: Louisiana Mees Fongang Director: Louisiana Mees Fongang Producer: Louisiana Mees Fongang Animator: n/a DOP: Louisiana Mees Fongang Sound: Valentin Mazingarbe & Pierre van Caloen Editor: Louisiana Mees Fongang Design: n/a Synopsis: Athens 2018, 44% of youth is unemployed. WAITHOOD shows five young non-actors who are ‘waiting’ for ‘adulthood’. They play their own lives yet are captured in a fictional plot. Together they yearn to forget their idle futures while fooling around in luxurious airbnbs. High on rooftops of different penthouses they look at the skyline and dream about other worlds where things could be different. |
Royal Academy of Fine Arts / University College Ghent (KASK) | Belgium | 0 |
| 111-125 | YOU LOOK LIKE THE OCEAN
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Details:Length: 19'Screenwriter: Вае So-Yeon Director: Вае So-Yeon Producer: Yu Se-Yeong Animator: Joung Seong-Hun DOP: Park Sung-Yoon Sound: Кiм Chan-Young Editor: Park Sun-Yoon Design: Yoon Jae-Seung Synopsis: Nabom, who has always been abandoned Ьу people around her, gets dumped abruptly Ьу her boyfriend Jinhyuk, the only person she's ever trusted. She leaves to commit suicide at the beach, carrying only her camcorder, just like her own character did in her script. |
Dong-Ah Institute of Media and Arts (DIMA) | South Korea | 0 |
Documentary
| Place | Title | School | Country | Points |
| 1 | THE SISTERS
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Details:Length: 19'Screenwriter: Michał Hytroś Director: Michał Hytroś Producer: Agata Golańska Animator: n/a DOP: Janusz Szymański Sound: Michał Hytroś (on the set), Bogdan Klat (sound mix) Editor: Marcin Wojciechowski Design: n/a Synopsis: Behind the mighty eighteenth-century wall of the oldest enclosed convent in Poland - Benedictine convent in Staniatki, near Krakow - the life of twelve nuns in their 70s goes on. Despite their age and the world of rapid change, they try to comply with the rule set over ten centuries ago 'ORA et LABORA' each day. |
Polish National Film, Television and Theatre School in Lodz (PWSFTViT) | Poland | 66 |
| 2 | WITH ALL THE WILL IN THE WORLD
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Details:Length: 12'Screenwriter: n/a Director: Daniel Appleby Producer: Tomas Fernandes Animator: n/a DOP: Dylan Smart Sound: Doug E. Bishop Editor: Thomas Wesley Design: n/a Synopsis: In 1988, the last shipyard in Sunderland closes, ending 600 years of tradition. Thirty years later, amidst the biggest regeneration project in the city’s history, a £133 million bridge is built in its place. Has the city recovered and is there a future on the Wear? |
University for the Creative Arts | United Kingdom | 50 |
| 3 | BACKWARDS
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Details:Length: 16'Screenwriter: Dana Gelman Director: Dana Gelman Producer: Efrat Cohen Animator: n/a DOP: Dana Gelman, Keren Rosenberg Sound: Dana Gelman Editor: Dana Gelman Design: n/a Synopsis: At the outskirts of the Tel Aviv “bubble”, in the neighborhood known as Florentine, a play is enacted nightly, with hundreds of work-seeking migrants and asylum seekers waiting to enter the offices of the Department of Immigration, their gateway to a better life. As the lights of the city go out, the line outside the Immigration Office begins to grow. Everyone wants to be among the first in line when the doors to the office open at 8:00am. By midnight, hundreds of people have lined up, most of them Ukraini |
The Steve Tisch School of Film and Television (TAU) | Israel | 42 |
| 4-5 | UNIQUE
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Details:Length: 29'Screenwriter: Nikola Polić Director: Nikola Polić Producer: Nikola Polić Animator: n/a DOP: Igor Lazić Sound: Filip Verkić Editor: Branka Pavlović Design: n/a Synopsis: Stojan (35) lives and works in a big city, and at first glance, lives a very ordinary life. However, in his spare time, he takes refuge from everyday life in an uncommon place with a group of friends. In a world where words are superfluous, it is possible to communicate only through sincere emotions. |
Faculty of Dramatic Arts (FDU) | Serbia | 39 |
| 4-5 | WE WILL SURVIVE
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Details:Length: 29'Screenwriter: n/a Director: Nele Dehnenkamp Producer: Nele Dehnenkamp Animator: n/a DOP: Bo-Christian Riedel-Petzold Sound: Jan Mielke Editor: Jana Briesner Design: n/a Synopsis: The Julie Roger Home is by no means an ordinary retirement home. At the unique elderly home in Germany seniors of all sexual orientation find more than a home. The documentary observes the funny, heart-warming and at times delicate everyday life at the LGBT-friendly nursing home. |
Filmakademie Baden-Wuerttemberg (FABW) | Germany | 39 |
| 6 | FAKE NEWS FAIRYTALE
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Details:Length: 14'Screenwriter: n/a Director: Kate Stonehill Producer: Kate Stonehill, James Campbell Smith Animator: n/a DOP: Ronnie McQuillan, Kate Stonehill Sound: Odinn Ingibergsson Editor: Conor Meechan Design: n/a Synopsis: FAKE NEWS FAIRYTALE takes us to the unlikely epicentre of fake news: Veles, Macedonia. |
National FIlm and Television School (NFTS) | United Kingdom | 38 |
| 7 | THE OPPOSITE OF LOVE IS NOT HATE
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Details:Length: 27'Screenwriter: Hadas Hechter Director: Hadas Hechter Producer: Hadas Hechter, Omri Obana Animator: n/a DOP: Hadas Hechter, Omri Obana Sound: Rei Elbaz Editor: Hadas Hechter Design: n/a Synopsis: In this personal documentary, the intricate balance of the family questions about parents, sibling and the echoes of one person's story within the family are examined. |
Sam Spiegel Film and Television School Jerusalem (JSFS) | Israel | 37 |
| 8-9 | LIVING IN CHAINS
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Details:Length: 15'Screenwriter: n/a Director: Nur Humaira Binte Sajat Producer: Nurul Atikah Binte Hasimen Animator: n/a DOP: Kannan S/O Vijakumar Sound: Qing Editor: Chia Cai Yun Nur Dariah Bte K A Design: n/a Synopsis: Living in Chains is a short documentary film that centers around the banned practice in Indonesia known as 'pasung'. 'Pasung' refers to the practice of physical restraint or confinement upon a person deemed as mentally ill. The documentary presents the standpoints of the traditional healers and the unconventional methods they employ to heal the patients. The film also serves to highlight the stigma and cultural beliefs that perpetuate the practice which still exists in certain parts of the world at this mod |
Nanyang Technological University | Singapore | 35 |
| 8-9 | THE OLD HERALDS
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Details:Length: 23'Screenwriter: Luis alejandro Yero Director: Luis alejandro Yero Producer: Ana María Pulido Animator: n/a DOP: Natalia Medina Sound: Nathan Stuart Editor: Kendra García Design: n/a Synopsis: Tatá and Esperanza witness the elections of the first Cuban president in more than half a century without the Castro surname. At almost 90 years old, they silently observe the end of one of their many lived cycles. As two lighthouses of a remote era. |
International School of Film and TV (EICTV) | Cuba | 35 |
| 10 | MARSEILLE, TO THE MOON AND BACK
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Details:Length: 18'Screenwriter: Benjamin Chevallier Director: Benjamin Chevallier Producer: Jonas Benhaiem Animator: n/a DOP: Julia Mingo Sound: Corvo Lepesant Lamari Editor: Audrey Bauduin Design: n/a Synopsis: It's the summer holidays in Marseille. Rania and Samara fool around in their ‘hood’, trying not to think about September and the start of the school year. They want to stay small forever, and live together on the moon. |
La Fémis | France | 33 |
| 11 | TAKING YOUR BOW
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Details:Length: 18'Screenwriter: Olivia Dubost, Olivia Frey, Cécile Emond, Boris Bincoletto, Jean-Michel Dziedzic Director: n/a Producer: ESEC Animator: n/a DOP: Boris Bincoletto Sound: Olivia Dubost, Olivia Frey Editor: Clara Borgen Design: n/a Synopsis: A social worker a Belgian doctor and a French patient with cancer tell their experiences concerning the topic of euthanasia still illegal practice in France. |
Ecole Supérieure d'études Cinématographiques (ESEC) | France | 31 |
| 12 | UNKNOWN RAVENS
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Details:Length: 20'Screenwriter: n/a Director: Sema Basharan Producer: Sema Basharan Animator: n/a DOP: n/a Sound: Stephanie Roy, Claire Stevens Editor: Sema Basharan Design: n/a Synopsis: Contructed entirely from archive, Unknown Ravens is a story of pacifism, told through the lens of one family in England who refused to consider any person their enemy. With exclusive access to previously unpublished prisoner of war images, Unknown Ravens brings a unique perspective on the Second World War. |
Falmouth University | United Kingdom | 30 |
| 13-14 | GLOW WORM IN A JUNGLE
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Details:Length: 12'Screenwriter: n/a Director: Ramana Dumpala Producer: Mr. Bhupendra Kainthola, Director, FTII Animator: n/a DOP: Ravishankar Krishna Sound: Naithik Mathew Eapen Editor: Fareeda Am Design: n/a Synopsis: In the midst of chaos, if you go to Budhwar Peth, Pune, you will find a house surrounded by trees, birds, cats, dogs and lots and lots of books. In it, resides Hema Sane, a retired botany professor and an established author. In this documentary, she shares a slice of her life with us talking about her philosophy, her love for plants and animals, her choice to live independently, and of course, her decision to not have used electricity ever in her life! A documentary on a strong woman who stood by her princi |
Film and Television Institute of India (FTII) | India | 29 |
| 13-14 | INTENTIONS
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Details:Length: 27'Screenwriter: Noa Anikster-Oren Director: Noa Anikster-Oren Producer: Noa Anikster-Oren Animator: n/a DOP: Liel Sharon Gur Sound: Nati Taub Editor: Noa Anikster-Oren Design: n/a Synopsis: A young Orthodox Jewish woman in Jerusalem searches for answers within her religion, which leads her to connect with two women of other faiths, Christian and Muslim. Their soul searching leads to conflicts with their surroundings, between themselves, and within their own beliefs. The film is a visual prayer of hope. |
Ma'aleh School of Film, Television and the Arts (MAALE) | Israel | 29 |
| 15 | LINE 881
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Details:Length: 29'Screenwriter: Ron Goldin Director: Ron Goldin Producer: Christopher Albrodt, Cedric Engels Animator: n/a DOP: Yotam Eytan Sound: Raz Ezra Editor: Hadar Waksman Design: n/a Synopsis: At first glance Durmagen is a perfect, green and pastoral town just a short distance from the big city. Its residents opened the gates of the city with love to the stream of refugees that filled Germany, but the warm welcome carries with it a hidden fear from the future. On one bus line that crosses the entire city you can see a social microcosm. From refugees who have just arrived to adult Germans, all are destined to travel in the metal pipe that creates forced intimacy. Through the stories of the passeng |
Beit Berl College / Faculty of Arts (Beit Berl) | Israel | 26 |
| 16-18 | AFTER THE SILENCE
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Details:Length: 23'Screenwriter: Sonam Larcin Director: Sonam Larcin Producer: MédIADiffusion Animator: n/a DOP: n/a Sound: Alexandre De Biolley Editor: Louis Rousseau Design: n/a Synopsis: To obtain refugee status, David is gonna have to speak for the first time about a difference he has always kept in him. |
Institut des Arts de Diffusion (IAD) | Belgium | 24 |
| 16-18 | BORNEO’S VANISHING TRIBES
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Details:Length: 24'Screenwriter: Kent Wagner Director: Kent Wagner Producer: Kent Wagner Animator: Chelsea Green DOP: Kent Wagner Sound: Kent Wagner Editor: Kent Wagner Design: Kent Wagner Synopsis: In the rainforests of Borneo, a native community struggles to protect its ancestral homeland from destruction. The Dayak "people of the forest,” have relied on these forests for millennia. Now their close bond with nature is being threatened as they watch their forests disappear. |
American University | United States | 24 |
| 16-18 | THE INK DOESN`T DRY
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Details:Length: 15'Screenwriter: Felix Herrmann Director: Felix Herrmann Producer: HFF Munich, Germany Animator: n/a DOP: Karl Kürten Sound: Rodolfo Silveira, Lena Becker, Jakob Defant Editor: Nina Ergang, Camille Tricaud Design: n/a Synopsis: Two friends, young German Muslims, live together. They observe the culture, the church, the dating, the relationships and each other. One thinks pragmatically, the other thinks romantically. |
University of Television and Film Munich (HFF) | Germany | 24 |
| 19-22 | CHAMPION
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Details:Length: 20'Screenwriter: Máté Bartha Director: Máté Bartha Producer: Miklós Bosnyák Animator: n/a DOP: Máté Bartha Sound: n/a Editor: Máté Bartha Design: n/a Synopsis: Vanessza, the young gypsy girl is getting prepared for the chance of her lifetime, a prestigeous boxing-tournament. The road is long from the small countryside gym to the tournament, but with the help of her trainer, they might be able to go against all odds. |
University of Theatre and Film Arts Budapest (SzFE) | Hungary | 23 |
| 19-22 | STUCK LIKE GUM
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Details:Length: 15'Screenwriter: Maddy Pilon Director: Maddy Pilon Producer: Jonah Blazer, Paul Stavropoulos Animator: n/a DOP: Paul Stavropoulos Sound: Paul Stavropoulos Editor: Maddy Pilon Design: n/a Synopsis: Indigenous youth are dying at alarming rates in Canada. This film gives a voice to these youth and questions why these tragedies continue to happen. |
School of Image Arts / Ryerson University | Canada | 23 |
| 19-22 | THE WEIGHT OF GOLD
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Details:Length: 30'Screenwriter: Yves ltzek Director: Yves ltzek, Milosz Zmiejewski, Oscar Diaz Producer: Yves ltzek Animator: n/a DOP: Yves ltzek Sound: Peter Lange Editor: Yves ltzek Design: n/a Synopsis: A documentary about gold miners and their daily work in remote Colombian mountain villages. The camera follows them deep down into tunnels, where gold was extracted for more than 400 years. The value of their work at the end of the week is weight in grams. |
Academy of Media Arts Cologne (KHM) | Germany | 23 |
| 19-22 | WALK WITH ME
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Details:Length: 30'Screenwriter: Anita Beikpour Director: Anita Beikpour Producer: Nanna Nyboe Tabor Animator: n/a DOP: Annika Aschberg Sound: Catrine le Dous Editor: Mik Stampe Design: Anna Cathrine Rubeh Colberg Synopsis: I am travelling back in time, to a Iran I`ve never known, to a revolution I did not flee from. |
National Film School of Denmark (DDF) | Denmark | 23 |
| 23-28 | GRAND HOTEL
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Details:Length: 11'Screenwriter: Giulio Pettenò Director: Giulio Pettenò Producer: CISA Animator: Matteo Verda DOP: Edoardo Nerboni Sound: Matteo Verda Editor: Giulio Pettenò Design: Michel Voisin Synopsis: “The glory of a building resides in its age, and in that sense of wide resonance, of severe vigilance, of mysterious participation (…) the we feel present in the walls that have long been lapped by the ephemeral waves of the history of men.” JOHN RUSKIN |
Academy of Audiovisual Sciences (CISA) | Switzerland | 22 |
| 23-28 | HEROIN HEARSE
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Details:Length: 12'Screenwriter: n/a Director: Ryan Buckley Producer: Mark Winters Animator: n/a DOP: Ryan Buckley Sound: n/a Editor: Ryan Buckley Design: n/a Synopsis: In the overdose capital of America, Dwayne Woods turns a vintage hearse into a mobile pulpit, preaching a message of life through the imagery of death. When he opens a detox center at ground zero for heroin use, Dwayne hopes sheer compassion trumps experience when recruiting his first client. |
Columbia College Chicago (CCC) | United States | 22 |
| 23-28 | RUBBING IT IN
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Details:Length: 14'Screenwriter: Joan Fuentes Disney, Sarah Achar Sacal Director: Joan Fuentes Disney, Sarah Achar Sacal Producer: Joan Fuentes Disney, Sarah Achar Sacal Animator: n/a DOP: Natalia Herrera Sound: Sarah Achar Sacal, Joan Fuentes Disney, Pablo García Editor: Joan Fuentes Disney, Sarah Achar Sacal Design: Joan Fuentes Disney, Sarah Achar Sacal Synopsis: Women also masturbate. The documentary "+ TURBO" presents the testimony of 12 Mexican women and their relationship with their private parts. Between descriptions and humorous anecdotes, the interviewees reveal aspects of their relationship with their bodies and reflect on female sexual repression. |
Universidad Iberoamericana Mexico City (IBERO) | Mexico | 22 |
| 23-28 | SOMEONE CARES
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Details:Length: 6'Screenwriter: Jillian Tunbridge Director: Corey Booth Producer: William Pacquiao Animator: n/a DOP: David Duong Sound: Joanne Carwardine Editor: Kate Parker Design: n/a Synopsis: A young boy on a quest to help the homeless one bag at a time. |
WA Screen Academy, Edith Cowan University | Australia | 22 |
| 23-28 | THE CLINIC
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Details:Length: 16'Screenwriter: n/a Director: Elivia Shaw Producer: Elivia Shaw Animator: n/a DOP: Elivia Shaw Sound: Elivia Shaw Editor: Elivia Shaw Design: n/a Synopsis: Amidst a devastating opioid epidemic, a needle exchange and free clinic operates in the shadows of Fresno, California. |
Stanford University | United States | 22 |
| 23-28 | VIVA LOTEN!
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Details:Length: 27'Screenwriter: Teresia Fant Director: Teresia Fant Producer: Teresia Fant Animator: n/a DOP: Jonathan Bjerstedt Sound: Adam Andersson Editor: Geir F. Rolandsen Design: n/a Synopsis: "VIVA L0TEN!" portrays a colorful universe of engines, alcohol, loud music and pizza. This film unveils a different aspect of the Norwegian countryside through the everyday life of two young men. A story of sorrow, anger, faith and comfort. |
The Norwegian Film School (NFS) | Norway | 22 |
| 29-31 | LIMINALITY & COMMUNITAS
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Details:Length: 10'Screenwriter: Laura Rantanen Director: Laura Rantanen Producer: Mikko Asikainen Animator: n/a DOP: Tomi Rislakki Sound: Joonatan Turkki Editor: Vilja Harjamäki Design: n/a Synopsis: After the sunset, a man wonders between the edges of the highways gathering edible roadkill animals. |
Aalto University School of Arts, Design and Architecture / ELO Film School Helsinki | Finland | 20 |
| 29-31 | ONLY CHILD
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Details:Length: 19'Screenwriter: n/a Director: Jingya Zhang Producer: Jingya Zhang Animator: n/a DOP: Jingya Zhang Sound: Jingya Zhang Editor: Jingya Zhang Design: n/a Synopsis: In 1978 China introduced a one-child policy. This law was replaced in 2016 by a two-child policy. But the “one-child generation” it impacted has grown up and started their own families. Only now, 40 years later, are the real social implications beginning to reveal themselves. |
London College of Communication | United Kingdom | 20 |
| 29-31 | SEABOUND
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Details:Length: 11'Screenwriter: Nguyen Anh Vu Director: Nguyen Anh Vu Producer: Nguyen Anh Vu Animator: n/a DOP: Mai Quoc Thinh Sound: n/a Editor: Nguyen Anh Vu Design: n/a Synopsis: Seabound indicates the connection among people, daily life and religion belief from the past to present then to future. Everything exists to create a life circle. |
Hanoi Academy of Theatre and Cinema | Vietnam | 20 |
| 32-33 | BACKWATER
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Details:Length: 15'Screenwriter: Marina Layana Director: Mariano Álvarez Producer: Federico Iturbe Animator: n/a DOP: Carolina Battaglini Sound: Lucero Blaustein Editor: Conrado Ares Design: Lucila Manara Synopsis: The Rio de la Plata, a water purification plant, street gutters, rain, puddles and their reflection, mirrored buildings, mud and trash, the sound of a passing train, and finally, backwater. |
National School of Film Experimentation and Production (ENERC) | Argentina | 19 |
| 32-33 | LOVE & LOSS
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Details:Length: 22'Screenwriter: n/a Director: Xining Nikki Li Producer: Xiangui Hermta Cai, Stephanie A. Hernandez Animator: n/a DOP: Huazhang Patric Dei Sound: Miles Jensen Editor: Jinghe Sharon Cai, Adam Kunsberg Design: n/a Synopsis: Two physically disabled women are on a journey to find their own versions of self-acceptance. |
University of Southern California's School of Cinematic Arts (USC) | United States | 19 |
| 34-36 | LINGER ON SOME PALE BLUE DOT
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Details:Length: 27'Screenwriter: n/a Director: Alexandre Koberidze Producer: Dana Gal Animator: n/a DOP: Meidan Arama Sound: n/a Editor: Alexandre Koberidze Design: n/a Synopsis: On some pale blue dot in the Milky Way Galaxy - every day - bread is made - you will see how! |
German Film and Television Academy Berlin (DFFB) | Germany | 18 |
| 34-36 | ON THE EDGE
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Details:Length: 14'Screenwriter: Barbora Chalupová Director: Barbora Chalupová Producer: Ondřej Šejnoha / Studio FAMU Animator: n/a DOP: Šimon Havel Sound: Adam Bláha Editor: Barbora Chalupová Design: n/a Synopsis: Today's scientists have substituted mathematics for experiments, and they wander off through equation after equation, and eventually build a structure which has no relation to reality. |
Film and Television School / Academy of Performing Arts in Prague (FAMU) | Czech Republic | 18 |
| 34-36 | REANIMATED
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Details:Length: 7'Screenwriter: n/a Director: Shae Demandt Producer: Shae Demandt Animator: Shae Demandt DOP: Anisha Gupte Sound: Geena Hernandez-Solis Editor: Shae Demandt Synopsis: After hurricane Andrew devastated the Miami Marine Stadium, the structure was left abandoned, until the work of local graffiti artists reanimated the structure into a concrete gallery. |
Florida State University / College of Motion Picture Arts (FSU) | United States | 18 |
| 37 | HOME FOR CHRISTMAS
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Details:Length: 30'Screenwriter: n/a Director: Tomislav Djurinec Producer: Martina Roginic Animator: n/a DOP: Magdalena Pticek Sound: n/a Editor: Marko Klajic Design: n/a Synopsis: Tomislav is about to spend the Christmas holidays with his family and inform them that he is gay and has a boyfriend. |
Academy of Dramatic Art Zagreb (ADU) | Croatia | 17 |
| 38-39 | HUNGARO-PESSIMISM
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Details:Length: 23'Screenwriter: Mátyás Kálmán Director: Mátyás Kálmán Producer: Péter Fazakas Animator: Lívia Janoch DOP: Júlia Juhász Sound: Ábris Gryllus Editor: Nándor Grőger Design: Mátyás Kálmán Synopsis: Does hungaropessimism really exist? Are Hungarians more pessimistic than other nations of the world? Our short documentary addresses these questions, building on a variety of disciplines as well as on everyday experience. A precise account of the national psychology of Hungarians might always be beyond our reach, but everyone agrees that it exists and that it is unique. While pessimism is not a specifically Hungarian phenomenon, several studies suggest that Hungarians are particularly prone to exaggerate th |
Moholy-Nagy University of Art and Design, Budapest | Hungary | 16 |
| 38-39 | WHO AM I
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Details:Length: 14'Screenwriter: Valeriy Gadziev Director: Valeriy Gadziev Producer: VGIK Animator: n/a DOP: Timofey Sherstennikov Sound: Roman Bronnikov Editor: n/a Design: n/a Synopsis: A cinematic portrait of a street musician talking about the magic of his music. Everything can be a musical instrument for him because everything can produce sounds. And the fusion of sounds is the meaning of a musician’s life, his way of understanding the world. |
Russian State University of Сinematography n.a. S.Gerasimov VGIK | Russia | 16 |
| 40-42 | THE BOOK OF SABETH
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Details:Length: 30'Screenwriter: Florian Kogler, Andreas Schmiedecker Director: Florian Kogler Producer: Lukas Zweng Animator: n/a DOP: Albin Wildner Sound: Benedikt Palier, Ken Rischard, Joseph Nikolussi, Ines Vorreiter Production Editor: Lukas Meissner Design: n/a Synopsis: Elisabeth immigrated from the Sovjet Union to Vienna in the 1970s. Her stories, her poems, her music and an encounter with an old friend depict a live dedicated to arts and the quest for truth; but most of all the steady determination to pass on this experience to other generations. |
Film Academy Vienna (UMDK) | Austria | 15 |
| 40-42 | THE SCAR
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Details:Length: 12'Screenwriter: Anton Rinolfi Director: Anton Rinolfi Producer: Centro Sperimentale di Cinematografia Sicilia Animator: n/a DOP: Anton Rinolfi, Andrea Mafrica, Luca Capponi Sound: Marco Colocci Editor: Anton Rinolfi Design: n/a Synopsis: "What happened?" It is the question that arises when, entering the former NATO base of Comiso, we are faced with a post-apocalyptic scenario. The Scar is a claustrophobic journey into a destroyed and abandoned place, where hundreds of atomic bombs were once kept. Images and sounds, the present and the past, come together to represent the destiny of a place where m4n used to produced total destruction and which has now turned into his own product. |
Centro Sperimentale di Cinematografia (CSC) | Italy | 15 |
| 40-42 | THE WEDDING GAME
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Details:Length: 29'Screenwriter: Adina Balatova Director: Adina Balatova Producer: Adina Balatova, Madina Maksudova Animator: n/a DOP: Andrea Boljat Sound: Achiel Van den Abeele & Raf Enckels Editor: Adina Balatova Design: Adina Balatova Synopsis: Two Belgian friends with Dagestan roots return to their native country, seemingly to get married. Their virgin marriage unveils the hypocrisy of religious masquerades. Le jeu de mariage is a film about the attempt to side-step traditional roles and structures. It is a form of protest, not at all without risk. My fictive husband and I trail through the desiccated monuments of the Caspian Sea. |
Royal Academy of Fine Arts / University College Ghent (KASK) | Belgium | 15 |
| 43-47 | A WELL KEPT SECRET
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Details:Length: 25'Screenwriter: n/a Director: Mihkel Oksmann Producer: Mihkel Oksmann Animator: n/a DOP: Mihkel Oksmann Sound: Juhan Vihterpal Editor: Mihkel Oksmann Design: n/a Synopsis: The small Estonian village of Soonlepa is home to its last three residents – a witch, an artist, and a philologist. All their lives will change when Aino the witch is diagnosed with cancer. Film captures everyday life in an abandoned village with memories of youth and discussions of art and poetry. |
Baltic Film, Media, Art and Communication School of Tallinn University (BFM) | Estonia | 14 |
| 43-47 | AT MIDNIGHT PLAYS A DANCE-TUNE
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Details:Length: 30'Screenwriter: n/a Director: Roy Seerden Producer: Felix Voogt; Charlene Vos Animator: n/a DOP: Eva Heinsbroek; Casper van Oort Sound: Sam van Eenbergen Editor: Tobias Cornelissen Design: Julia van Emmerik Synopsis: After hearing that his mother is seriously ill, filmmaker Roy Seerden is driven into the night, away from daily life. The memory of his former neighbor Antoine crosses his mind. Driven by the mystery, Roy goes on a search for him. |
Netherlands Film Academy (NFA) | Netherlands | 14 |
| 43-47 | DAD'S GONE TO THE SEA
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Details:Length: 22'Screenwriter: Vanessa Zeytouny Director: Mrs Vanessa Zeytouny Producer: ALBA-UOB Animator: n/a DOP: Karl Hadifé Sound: Maria Ghosh Editor: Vanessa Zeytouny Design: n/a Synopsis: Having been part of the Lebanese army, my father was a fearless men; devoted to his friend, work and family. In 2006, he cuts himself off from everything including me, and ran away to the place he loves more than anything: the sea. |
Lebanese Academy for Fine Arts / School of Cinema / University of Balamand (ALBA) | Lebanon | 14 |
| 43-47 | OIL ON WIND
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Details:Length: 19'Screenwriter: Alejandro Perez Director: Alejandro Perez Producer: Jean Perret Animator: n/a DOP: Francisco Marise Sound: Alejandro Perez Editor: Alejandro Perez Design: Alejandro Perez Synopsis: A lonely island encircled by a strange lake is the te'ritory of a man attached to the cultivation of olive trees. Daily liie of work, trips by boat, scrolling days to the rhythm of the skies, its lights and thunderstorms. In amazing games of mirrors and reflections, the beauty of passing time builds an imaginary and poetic landscape. |
Film Department/cinéma du réel - Geneva School of Art and Design (HEAD) | Switzerland | 14 |
| 43-47 | THE SECOND VERSE
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Details:Length: 14'Screenwriter: Thea Gryttenholm, Mari Borand Director: Thea Gryttenholm Producer: Mari Borander Animator: Gard Svendsen DOP: Ola Norum Schanke Sound: Trym Søvik Lyssand Editor: Thea Gryttenholm, Mari Borand Design: n/a Synopsis: Marte (6) tells of her life's greatest struggle, just like Marte can. |
Westerdals Oslo School of Arts, Communication and Technology (Westerdals Oslo ACT) | Norway | 14 |
| 48-51 | HUNGER CIRCUS
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Details:Length: 16'Screenwriter: Eugen Dediu Director: Eugen Dediu Producer: UNATC I.L.CARAGIALE Animator: n/a DOP: Rares Dima Sound: Sabin Filip Editor: Sabin Filip Design: Eugen Dediu Synopsis: The film tells the story of the transformation of the communist buildings known as 'Hunger Circuses·, huge cantinas where people were supposed to eat together, into commercial shopping malls at the end of the 20th century. |
National University of Theatre and Film (UNATC) | Romania | 13 |
| 48-51 | PINK GOLD
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Details:Length: 20'Screenwriter: Daniel Anguiano Zúñiga Director: Daniel Anguiano Zúñiga Producer: Centro de Capacitación Cinematográfica, A.C. Animator: n/a DOP: Daniel Anguiano Zúñiga Sound: Octavio Sánchez Editor: Sergio Beltrán Design: n/a Synopsis: Looking through the lens of the fishing boat, "Kolsillo", PINIK GOLD offers a portrait of shrimp fishing off the coast of Mexico in Sea of Cortez. A stunning portrait of a community's dependence on the sea and the bounty that it grants them |
Centro de Capacitación Cinematográfica, A.C. (CCC) | Mexico | 13 |
| 48-51 | THANATOS
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Details:Length: 12'Screenwriter: Axel D. Sánchez Director: Axel D. Sánchez Producer: Guillermo Martín / Roi F. Carvajal - Escac Films Animator: n/a DOP: Paco Ruiz Sound: Eloy Rodríguez Editor: Charalambos Varelias Design: n/a Synopsis: Gina, a native of the Galician village of Combarro, shares with us her look at the past, a retrospective reflection on her long life, death, the loss of loved ones and the feelings that emerge in old age. |
Cinema and Audiovisual School of Catalonia (ESCAC) | Spain | 13 |
| 48-51 | WINDOWS
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Details:Length: 21'Screenwriter: Akvilé Žilionyté, Christopher Thomson Director: Akvilé Žilionyté Producer: Akvilé Žilionyté Animator: n/a DOP: Vytautas Gradeckas Sound: Vytautas Gradeckas Editor: Vytautas Gradeckas Design: n/a Synopsis: In last 7 years I lived in 5 countries, in 7 cities and in 16 houses. Now I only have three days to pack my things. It's my sixteenth home, sixteenth room from which I'll move myself out. I am packing things and through my window I see another 215 windows. Through these windows I see immigrants, couples, lost Some read, some play, some sleep, some learn to walk the balance beam, they come in, they go out I am filming what I wouldn't forget about them. |
Lithuanian Academy of Music and Theatre (LMTA) | Lithuania | 13 |
| 52-54 | GOYITO THE CHAMPION
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Details:Length: 20'Screenwriter: Diego Casillas Reyes, Daniel Malvido Director: Diego Casillas Reyes, Daniel Malvido Producer: Gabriela Ruvalcaba Rentería Animator: n/a DOP: Diego Casillas Reyes Sound: Daniel Malvido Editor: Diego Casillas Reyes Design: n/a Synopsis: Goyito is an amateur football legend. He won everything in the local league, during more than 40 years. Today, at the age of 72, Goyito is playing a sadder match: taking care of his son, Gregorio, after the brain damage caused by the abuse of drugs. |
University of Guadalajara / Image and Sound Department | Mexico | 12 |
| 52-54 | MAREES
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Details:Length: 22'Screenwriter: Juliette Granger Director: Juliette Granger Producer: Jade Marcoux-Archambault Animator: n/a DOP: Alexane Bouvrette Sound: Marielle Pauwels Editor: Marie-Kathryne Viens Design: UQAM Synopsis: Marées is a sensory and immersive experience of the Gaspesian Sea. Through expressionist imagery. |
University of Québec Montréal / School of Media (UQAM) | Canada | 12 |
| 52-54 | NOWY
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Details:Length: 14'Screenwriter: Matthieu Bourdeaud'hui Director: Matthieu Bourdeaud'hui Producer: INSAS/ PWSFTviT Animator: n/a DOP: Lisa Billuart-Monet Sound: Matthieu Bourdeaud'hui Editor: Julie Robert Design: Kamila Kozłowska Synopsis: In Łódź, an old man, Zenek, lives alone and observes his neighborhood through the window of his small apartment. Outside, people are gathering as the wind picks up. |
INSAS | Belgium | 12 |
| 55-58 | CLEANED; NOT CLEAN
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Details:Length: 9'Screenwriter: Jolyn Liauw & Cristal Chris Ang Director: Yap Chun Yuong Producer: Yap Chun Yuong Animator: n/a DOP: Shawn Yeo Sound: Darrel Moh Editor: Darrel Moh Design: n/a Synopsis: In this environmental documentary, we set out to follow Bernard Seah, an otter enthusiast, and a group of volunteers from Waterways Watch Society (WWS) to explore the cleanliness of Singapore’s waterways, uncovering alarming truths about the impact of littering. |
Ngee Ann Polytechnic / School of Film & Media Studies | Singapore | 11 |
| 55-58 | SON OF THE SOIL
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Details:Length: 6'Screenwriter: Siyabonga Mbele Director: Siyabonga Mbele Producer: Hyacinth Nhlumayo, Lesole Taustswala Animator: n/a DOP: Tshegofatso Dibakoane Sound: Boitumelo Molalugi Siyabonga Mbele Editor: Siyabonga Mbele Design: Siyabonga Mbele Synopsis: Son of the Soil explores the interior life of a young addict trying to make sense of his life. |
Wits School of Arts / Division of Film & Television (WSOA) | South Africa | 11 |
| 55-58 | THE FLOW EFFECT
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Details:Length: 11'Screenwriter: Lachlan Henry Director: Lachlan Henry Producer: Lauren Creasey, James McLennan Animator: n/a DOP: Joshua Nicol, Stuart Ireland Sound: Glencora Brenan Editor: Lachlan Henry, Shihab Alfarsi Design: n/a Synopsis: Diving down into the vast beauty of the ocean, young Freediver, Olivia Rose reveals the magic and tranquility of the underwater world, and her amazing capacity to reach seemingly unreachable depths - an ability that lies within all of us. |
Swinburne School of Film and Television (SSFT) | Australia | 11 |
| 55-58 | TOMORROW
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Details:Length: 15'Screenwriter: Bo Vloors Director: Bo Vloors Producer: Bo Vloors / LUCA SCHOOL OF ARTS Animator: n/a DOP: Bo Vloors Sound: Gilles Van Der Wee Editor: Bo Vloors Design: Bo Vloors Synopsis: Looking at Tomorrow, a filmic observation which places us in the micrososm of a group of children. |
LUCA School of Arts (LUCA) | Belgium | 11 |
| 59-63 | ENTOMOPHAGY
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Details:Length: 14'Screenwriter: n/a Director: Lachlan Robert Anderson Producer: n/a Animator: n/a DOP: J. Connor Bjornson Sound: n/a Editor: Lachlan R. Anderson Design: n/a Synopsis: A journey through Cambodia guided by its cuisine. People’s eating habits are diverse. Yet the human condition is the same. |
York University Department of Film - Fine Arts | Canada | 10 |
| 59-63 | GRAHAME
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Details:Length: 18'Screenwriter: n/a Director: Eli Beristain Producer: Katherine Selway Animator: n/a DOP: Khing Kriengkomol Sound: Alia Romagnoli Editor: Khing Kriengkomol Design: n/a Synopsis: Meet Grahame, a reformed car thief. After spending time in prison, he settled down with a family, but his former life still feels very present. With his 20-year-old son, Grahame explores his past and how it has shaped their relationship. |
Westminster Film School / University of Westminster (WFS) | United Kingdom | 10 |
| 59-63 | PARKOUR: THE ART OF MOVEMENT
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Details:Length: 5'Screenwriter: Nicholas Sithole Director: Heinrich Botha Producer: Mathona Magopeni Animator: n/a DOP: Arfin Widyatmadja Sound: Marcus Mogoane Editor: MP Rabie Design: n/a Synopsis: A short documentary exploring the parkour community and its challenges in South Africa through a series of interviews. |
Tshwane University of Technology | South Africa | 10 |
| 59-63 | SAUDADES
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Details:Length: 11'Screenwriter: Celina Filgueiras Director: Celina Filgueiras Producer: ENSAV Animator: n/a DOP: Celina Filgueiras, Arthur Maringoni Sound: Celina Filgueiras, Arthur Maringoni, Brian Golveia, Jaco Golveia Editor: Celina Filgueiras Design: n/a Synopsis: A girl walks in the streets of São Paulo (Brazil) looking for answers about her nanny Christina, with whom she has lost contact for ten years. |
ENSAV | France | 10 |
| 59-63 | UNSPOKEN WAR
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Details:Length: 16'Screenwriter: n/a Director: Javeus Toh Producer: Stacia Teoh Animator: n/a DOP: Javeus Toh Sound: n/a Editor: Jonathan Jude Christee Design: n/a Synopsis: The film centers its theme around the impact of trawling on the lives of a local fishing community in Cambodia and its marine ecosystem. When much larger Vietnamese trawling boats illegally enter Cambodian waters, territorial disputes endanger the livelihood of the local trawlers. Yet in this complex marine ecosystem, the act of trawling destroys seagrass which prevents the reproduction of marine life, threatening the survival of sustainable fishing. |
Puttnam School of Film & Animation / LASALLE College of the Arts (LCA) | Singapore | 10 |
| 64 | THANK GOD IT'S FRIDAY
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Details:Length: 15'Screenwriter: Charbila Isidora Director: Charbila Isidora Producer: Charbila Isidora, Daphne Stergides Animator: n/a DOP: Charbila Isidora Sound: Sarah Tainsh Editor: Charbila Isidora Design: n/a Synopsis: In TGIF, we follow a group of five friends with intellectual disabilities in Athens, Greece. Under the guidance of their mentor/carer/friend, Kelly, they get together every Friday for theatre class. Every year they go on a week-long vacation, to work on their long-term goal of someday living together, semi-autonomously. |
Screen Academy Scotland (SAS) | United Kingdom | 9 |
| 65-68 | ALL MY AUNTS PETS
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Details:Length: 4'Screenwriter: Iiti Yli-Rinne Director: Iiti Yli-Rinne Producer: Iiti Yli-Rinne Animator: Iiti Yli-Rinne, Heta Saukkonen DOP: n/a Sound: Ville-Matti Koskiniemi Editor: Iiti Yli-Rinne Design: n/a Synopsis: Aunt's life does not go as planned. Best of intentions do not always suffice. Animation documentary of my aunt's baffling pet history. |
Metropolia University of Applied Sciences (MUAS) | Finland | 8 |
| 65-68 | DRY TEARS
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Details:Length: 24'Screenwriter: Vutlhari Wisdom Mhangwane Director: Vutlhari Wisdom Mhangwane Producer: Nkhanikheni Mudzusi Animator: n/a DOP: Lwazi Manzi, Ciko Sidzumo, Louise van der Merwe Sound: Thandolwethu Nkabinde Editor: Peter Gillon Donaldson Design: Farai Mukuwane Synopsis: Zomile Inyembezi is a 24 minut long documentary, centered on creating recommendations to break down the stigma surrounding abortions - so that South African women can stop self-inducing them or having illegal backstreet terminations. |
South African School of Motion Picture Medium and Live Performance (AFDA) | South Africa | 8 |
| 65-68 | ISLAND STATE
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Details:Length: 24'Screenwriter: Ross McClean Director: Ross McClean Producer: DocNomads EMMC Animator: n/a DOP: Ross McClean Sound: Elsa Ferreira, João Alves, João Lourenço Editor: Ross McClean, Aurélie Ricard Design: n/a Synopsis: Since the 1990's around 50.000 British nationals have immigrated to Portugal. In a world of mass migration and cross-cultural integration, this documentary raises questions that go beyond stereotypes: Why do these Brits they leave their country in the first place? And when they arrive, does it live up to the Paradise they imagined? |
Universidade Lusófona / Film and Media Arts Department (ULHT) | Portugal | 8 |
| 65-68 | NECOCHEA
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Details:Length: 30'Screenwriter: Nicolás M. Pintos Director: Nicolás M. Pintos Producer: Nicolás Bossi, Paloma Morales, Nicolás M. Pintos Animator: n/a DOP: Nicolás Bossi Sound: Nicolás M. Pintos, Nicolás Bossi Editor: Nicolás M. Pintos, Paloma Morales Design: Paloma Morales Synopsis: Elena Cantero, a marathon runner who is 58 years old, narrates the story of her childhood in a summer camp in Necochea which has become a nursing home. As she wanders along forested, seaside and building landscapes she will revive situations and characters which her memory could never forget. |
Universidad de Buenos Aires / Diseño de Imagen y Sonido FADU (UBA) | Argentina | 8 |
| 69 | WHITE PAGE
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Details:Length: 23'Screenwriter: Christelle Kanaan Director: Christelle Kanaan Producer: IESAV Animator: n/a DOP: Christelle Kanaan Sound: Thierry Diab Editor: Sandra Fatte, Christelle Kanaan Design: n/a Synopsis: It all started with a meeting between a street musician named Daniel, and a passerby captivated by his music in Athens.White page tells the story of the director after she met Daniel again, in Prague. She decides to join him. Her travel diaries takes us from a spontaneous trip across several European cities to a journey of self-discovery. |
Institut d'études scéniques, audiovisuelles et cinématographiques (IESAV) | Lebanon | 7 |
| 70-73 | CHILDREN OF DAR BOUIDAR
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Details:Length: 13'Screenwriter: Isabelle Kouraougo Director: Isabelle Kouraougo Producer: ESAV Marrakech Animator: n/a DOP: Mourad Ouarrirh Sound: Ali Bamhaoued Editor: Shiesh Lutchmeenaraidoo Design: n/a Synopsis: This documentary presents the daily life of children living in a children's village. Most of them are abandoned, orphaned or disabled children. Rejected by the society, they are collected by the association DAR BOUIDAR in this village built for them. They live there and find a new family with substitute moms who offer them the love they need |
Marrakech School of Visual Arts (ESAVM) | Morocco | 6 |
| 70-73 | FARTURA
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Details:Length: 27'Screenwriter: Yasmin Thayná Director: Yasmin Thayná Producer: Juliana Nascimento Animator: Luana Cortes DOP: n/a Sound: Luana Cortes, Yasmin Thayná Editor: Luana Cortes Design: Ana Paula Mathias Synopsis: Through domestic images, food reveals a way of living in community. |
PUC-Rio Department of Social Communication - Cinema | Brazil | 6 |
| 70-73 | PULAU SERIBU
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Details:Length: 17'Screenwriter: n/a Director: Laurenz Otto Producer: Franziska Wieden Animator: n/a DOP: Laurenz Otto Sound: Jonas Jablonski Editor: Jonas Jablonski Design: Jan-Niklas Thape Synopsis: In the gap of an absence, images and memories have accumulated - a son goes in search of the imprint of his own father. |
international film school cologne (ifs) | Germany | 6 |
| 70-73 | THE LAST MINER
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Details:Length: 7'Screenwriter: n/a Director: Luke Brabazon Producer: Luke Brabazon Animator: n/a DOP: Luke Brabazon Sound: Art Skehan Editor: Luke Brabazon, Brendan Corcoran Design: n/a Synopsis: The last man working alone in his father's dying coal mine, Jim Power is faced with a difficult decision: continue the work he was brought up to do, or move on to an uncertain future? |
National Film School / Institute of Art, Design and Technology (IADT) | Ireland | 6 |
| 74-77 | DREAMS OF ELSEWHERE
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Details:Length: 13'Screenwriter: Naama Shohet Director: Naama Shohet Producer: n/a Animator: Naama Shohet DOP: Naama Shohet Sound: Naama Shohet Editor: Naama Shohet Design: Naama Shohet Synopsis: A documentary- Animated film in five chapters. Fragment's of a relationship between Sary and Naama- an Arab and a Jew living together in Jerusalem, and the obstacles that they face. |
Bezalel Academy of Arts and Design Jerusalem (BAAD) | Israel | 5 |
| 74-77 | SWAN WAS HERE
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Details:Length: 14'Screenwriter: n/a Director: Annika León Producer: Annika León Animator: n/a DOP: Annika León Sound: Alexander Griswold Editor: Alexander Griswold Design: n/a Synopsis: Jim Swan spent three years being homeless, before finding housing through Person Centered Housing Options. This is his story. |
School of Film and Animation, College of Art and Design, Rochester Institute of Technology | United States | 5 |
| 74-77 | THE CANADIAN
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Details:Length: 12'Screenwriter: Fábian León López Director: Fábian León López Producer: Centro Universitario de Estudios Cienmatograficos UNAM Animator: n/a DOP: Diego Cruz Cilveti Sound: Bastián Pascal, Fábian León López Editor: Bastián Pascal, Fábian León López Design: Fábian León López Synopsis: Mr. Tito the Colombian is a tattoo artist who learned his labor in the Black Palace of Lecumberri. He remembers absolutely everything that he lived in there, but very few things from his place of origin. |
National School of Film Arts / National Autonomous University of Mexico (ENAC/UNAM) | Mexico | 5 |
| 74-77 | THOSE WHO WALK THROUGH WALLS
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Details:Length: 10'Screenwriter: Elie Maissin, Mieriën Coppens Director: Elie Maissin, Mieriën Coppens Producer: RITCS school of arts Animator: n/a DOP: Mieriën Coppens Sound: Guillaume De Bergeyck, Paulo Rietjens Editor: Elie Maissin, Mieriën Coppens Design: n/a Synopsis: The studio starts from a Tabula Rasa: the empty studio. As a maker we where forced to 'cre-ate' out of nothing. As a documentary with 'facts', with 'documents', there is essentially no reason not to bring that material into the studio. An underground courtyard where images scan the mutual relationships and see the poetry of the repetition. - The visible reality is no longer our only real criterion. A film as a metaphor for the current political situation of undocumented people. |
Royal Institute for Theatre, Cinema and Sound (RITCS) | Belgium | 5 |
| 78-82 | CHOICES
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Details:Length: 25'Screenwriter: n/a Director: Aneesah Dowd Producer: Aneesah Dowd, Tanner Novotny Animator: n/a DOP: Jodi Berg, Hanqing Sky Ma Sound: Austin Roth Editor: Aidan Phillips Design: n/a Synopsis: In this short documentary, 3 men discuss the ways homophobia in the Black community has affected them throughout their lives. The film touches on religion, family dynamics, and overall life obstacles Black LGBT+ must face. |
Columbia College Hollywood (CCH) | United States | 4 |
| 78-82 | KNOCKED OUT
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Details:Length: 30'Screenwriter: Geoffrey Gaspard Director: Geoffrey Gaspard Producer: Geoffrey Gaspard Animator: n/a DOP: Geoffrey Gaspard Sound: Geoffrey Gaspard Editor: Geoffrey Gaspard Design: n/a Synopsis: An ancestral tradition is slowly disappearing in favor of globalization. Morengy, a fighting art, popularly practiced in northern Madagascar, is undergoing a change that allows young villagers to escape from poverty. This emancipation is not without risk for Diego-Suarez's youth and the Malagasy culture. |
Whistling Woods International (WWI) | India | 4 |
| 78-82 | NATENI, MY IDENTITY
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Details:Length: 13'Screenwriter: Sènakpon Zannou Director: Sènakpon Zannou Producer: Arnold Setohou Animator: n/a DOP: Lariaus Honvoh, Alain Nounagnon Sound: Raffet Houessou Editor: Olivier Kpossa Design: ISMA Synopsis: Two years ago Sènakpon had a dream about the tatas sombas. Just thinking about it shuddered. Her curiosity drove her to visit her grandmother to find out more. From there she learns that her great-grandfather was the leader of a community of tatas sombas. She goes to Tanguiéta to find out more. |
Higher Institute of Audiovisual Training (ISMA) | Benin | 4 |
| 78-82 | RAIN SONG
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Details:Length: 20'Screenwriter: n/a Director: Mon Pal Producer: Satyajit Ray Film and Television Institute Animator: n/a DOP: Samyamoy Debnath Sound: Kinkini Deb Editor: Sayan Gupta Design: n/a Synopsis: On the verge of releasing his first album, Aniruddha “Andy” Chakraborty juggles a maddening life of work, music, isolation and discrimination for being gay. |
Satyajit Ray Film and Television Institute (SRFTI) | India | 4 |
| 78-82 | THURSDAY
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Details:Length: 27'Screenwriter: Krasimira Damyanova Director: Krasimira Damyanova Producer: NATFA “Kr. Sarafov”, Bulgaria – Stanislav Semerdjiev Animator: n/a DOP: Deyan Georgiev Sound: n/a Editor: Stanislava Stoyanova Design: n/a Synopsis: Thursday“ tells the story of Pavel Savov, a man left paraplegic following a car accident in 1996. The movie shows his everyday life, including a swimming pool workout. Despite the struggle of exiting of his residence, entering and leaving his vehicle, Pavel enjoys life, stays active and works out. |
National Academy for Theatre and Film Arts (NATFA) | Bulgaria | 4 |
| 83-84 | HOLLOW LAUGHTER
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Details:Length: 16'Screenwriter: Brian Strain Director: Erin Fraser-Currie Producer: Sean Campion, Erin Fraser-Currie, Emily MacCallum Animator: n/a DOP: Jarryd O'Keefe Sound: Kenny Waterson, Edwin Falovic Editor: Emily MacCallum Design: n/a Synopsis: Over the last 10 years, Brian strain has been performing stand up comedy for very little recompense. Why does he still bother? Can he eve quit? |
Griffith Film School (GFS) | Australia | 3 |
| 83-84 | TETE
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Details:Length: 28'Screenwriter: Clara Lazarim, João Pedro Turri Director: Clara Lazarim Producer: André Cury, Clara Lazarim, Nayara Xavier Animator: Maria Kauffmann, Renato Duque DOP: Gabrielle Criss, Natalia Belasalma Sound: João Pedro Bim Editor: João Pedro Turri Design: n/a Synopsis: Tete is a documentary that explores the universe of singer and songwriter Tete Espindola, delving into her creative research - specially the strong connection with nature as a theme and source of inspiration. |
University of São Paulo / School of Communications and Arts / Department of Film, Radio and Television (USP) | Brazil | 3 |
| 85-89 | EVERYTHING IS PINK
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Details:Length: 18'Screenwriter: Patrizia Emma Scialpi Director: Patrizia Emma Scialpi, Fabiana Foschi, Ghila Cerniani, Giuseppe Costa Producer: Arianna Dolini Animator: n/a DOP: Patrizia Emma Scialpi, Fabiana Foschi, Ghila Cerniani, Giuseppe Costa Sound: Patrizia Emma Scialpi, Fabiana Foschi, Ghila Cerniani, Giuseppe Costa Editor: Patrizia Emma Scialpi, Fabiana Foschi, Ghila Cerniani, Giuseppe Costa Design: n/a Synopsis: “Slopping” is the chemical reaction between oxygen and carbon oxide occurring during the production of steel. It’s an industrial oversight and produces a reddish smoke. In Taranto, during the last fifty years the pink dust has been creating a new level of perception of the landscape. |
Milano Civica Scuola di Cinema (MCSC) | Italy | 2 |
| 85-89 | MONARCH
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Details:Length: 6'Screenwriter: Dina ElSaed Director: Dina ElSaed Producer: Dina ElSaed Animator: n/a DOP: Dina ElSaed Sound: Dina ElSaed Editor: Dina ElSaed Design: Dina ElSaed Synopsis: The convenience store represents the migrant's space in Western communities. By drawing parallels between the protagonist's (Emad) state of mind and the Monarch butterfly's early stages of evolution (the caterpillar), a new space is proposed. The idea that this is simply the starting point for something greater. |
Australian Film Television and Radio School (AFTRS) | Australia | 2 |
| 85-89 | PRETTY GROSS AND INCREDIBLY INTIMATE
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Details:Length: 20'Screenwriter: n/a Director: Ella Sowinska Producer: Ella Sowinska Animator: n/a DOP: Ella Sowinska Sound: n/a Editor: Ella Sowinska Design: n/a Synopsis: An intimate portrait of the romantic relationship behind Brisbane-based couple and contemporary art collaboration, Parallel Park. |
VCA School of Film and Television / University of Melbourne (VCA) | Australia | 2 |
| 85-89 | SPRAYING UNDER THE STARS
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Details:Length: 20'Screenwriter: n/a Director: Claire Cai Producer: Claire Cai Animator: n/a DOP: Claire Cai & Jen Zhouwenyue Xu Sound: Paul Hollman Editor: Claire Cai & Sylvia Cong Design: n/a Synopsis: Two graffiti activists are using graffiti to protest for both themselves and others, but the world is more difficult to change than they thought. |
Chapman University / Dodge College of Film and Media Arts | United States | 2 |
| 85-89 | SUMMER PROJECTS
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Details:Length: 26'Screenwriter: Maïram Guissé Director: Maïram Guissé Producer: Les Ateliers Varan Animator: n/a DOP: Maïram Guissé Sound: n/a Editor: Claire Billard Design: n/a Synopsis: Goundo is a young woman living in an estate and going on holiday in another one: and she totally loves it! When she leaves her neighborhood in the 19th district of Paris - called 'Cambrai', she goes to her aunt, 8 km away, in La Courneuve in Seine Saint Denis in the Parisian suburbs. |
Ateliers Varan | France | 2 |
| 90 | CONCRETE TIMES
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Details:Length: 20'Screenwriter: Lucia Kašová Director: Lucia Kašová Producer: FTF VSMU, SHAKAZULUFILMS (SK) Animator: n/a DOP: Martin Jurči Sound: Igor Jedinák Editor: Nikola Kišová Design: Karina Sporinová Synopsis: One kilometer of one river bank in ever-changing city. My city. |
Academy of Performing Arts / Film and Television Faculty (VSMU) | Slovakia | 1 |
| 91-100 | NO SANCTUARY
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Details:Length: 17'Screenwriter: the No Sanctuary crew team Director: Nathan Knox Producer: Emmilee Milhouse, Moriah Hall Animator: n/a DOP: Vishal Parmar Sound: n/a Editor: Jay Batchler Design: n/a Synopsis: NO SANCTUARY, explores human nature.and behavior through the personal lens of those who have been affected by America's indifference to gun violence. On June 17, 2015, Dylann Roof shot and killed nine African Americans in the historic Emanuel African Methodist Episcopal Church in Charleston, SC. We'explore the lives of these families today and look into a phenomenon known as the "Empathy Gap." |
University of North Carolina School of the Arts (UNCSA) | United States | 0 |
| 91-100 | ON THE MOON, LUNA, AND THEIR REFLECTION
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Details:Length: 22'Screenwriter: Ivana Vogrinc Vidali Director: Ivana Vogrinc Vidali Producer: Jožica Blatnik (UL AGRFT) Animator: n/a DOP: Gaja Naja Rojec Sound: Tristan Peloz Editor: Kristian Božak Kavčič Design: n/a Synopsis: On the Moon, Luna, and Their Reflection is an attempt at a portrait of indigenous religions of Slovenia. Although deities of two different indigenous religious systems do not overlap, the film focuses mainly on their common base – nature as the highest entity. |
University of Ljubljana / Academy of Theatre, Radio, Film and Television (AGRFT) | Slovenia | 0 |
| 91-100 | PALM READING
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Details:Length: 20'Screenwriter: Natalia Martínez Director: Natalia Martínez Producer: Natalia Martínez Animator: n/a DOP: Andrés Carrillo, Natalia Martínez Sound: Maria Paz Falla, Cristian Concha Editor: Natalia Martínez Design: n/a Synopsis: Palm reading is an audiovisual essay about the diary films of the directors Ana Salas and Juan Soto; a cinematic montage meditation about self-representation and re-creation; an oscillation between the masks and the depths of the self. |
Escuela de Cine y Televisión / UNAL (ECYTV) | Colombia | 0 |
| 91-100 | PORTRAIT OF A YOUNG ARTIST
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Details:Length: 25'Screenwriter: Julia Duato Stanton, Dario Rizzo, Gerardo Pastor, Carolina Rodriguez Dominguez Director: Julia Duato Stanton, Dario Rizzo, Gerardo Pastor Gómez, Carolina Rodriguez Dominguez Producer: ECAM Animator: n/a DOP: Cristian Díaz Higueruela, Jimmy Edgardo Monasterios García Sound: Carla Silván Editor: Diego Pantoja Barrios, Carlos Mayol Gutiérrez Design: Julia Duato Stanton, Dario Rizzo, Gerardo Pastor, Carolina Rodriguez Dominguez Synopsis: Daniel is a young poet from Madrid with the purpose of create an artistic movement ("Pasión", the artistic movement of the Storm). He define himselfn as a poet, musician, model and actor with two published books, he is 19 and has a known artistic family. Passionated and with his comrades they make efforts to found the new art of the 21th century. |
ECAM (The Madrid Film School) | Spain | 0 |
| 91-100 | RISE UP
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Details:Length: 14'Screenwriter: n/a Director: Christina Birchall Producer: Christina Birchall Animator: n/a DOP: Hassan Abulla, Scott Cameron Sound: Ed Heaton, Lubos Jurick Editor: Ignas Pincevicius Design: n/a Synopsis: The story of an unlikely friendship, and of popstar Daddy Chester who had some hard times and ended up homeless on the streets of London. Yet despite all his problems Chester has a heart of gold, and an inspiration for us all to Rise Up in the face of adversity. |
Northern Film School / Leeds Beckett University (NFS/LBU) | United Kingdom | 0 |
| 91-100 | SACRISTAN
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Details:Length: 7'Screenwriter: Theo Af Enehielm Director: Theo Af Enehielm Producer: Theo Af Enehielm, Sebastian Lindroos Animator: n/a DOP: Sebastian Lindroos Sound: Niklas Jussila Editor: Elin Åsvik Design: n/a Synopsis: Sacristan Seppo Rokkonen and his life after the death of a loved one. |
ARCADA University of Applied Sciences Department of Culture and Communication / Media Culture Finland | Finland | 0 |
| 91-100 | SUNDAY OF THE PRODIGAL SON
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Details:Length: 13'Screenwriter: n/a Director: Sofiya Fyodorova Producer: n/a Animator: n/a DOP: Pyotr Sverdlov Sound: n/a Editor: n/a Design: n/a Synopsis: Great Lent is one of the most important events for an orthodox. The film tells about doubts, extremes and experiences of one young man. He chose the difficult way of renunciation of many worldly blessings and all thoughts that contradict his own worldview based on religious dogma. |
St. Petersburg State University of Film and Television (SPUFT) | Russia | 0 |
| 91-100 | THANKS TO CANINE BLOOD DONORS
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Details:Length: 14'Screenwriter: Kang Won Ho Director: Kwon Bo min. Producer: Shin Hyeon Woo Animator: n/a DOP: Ko Beom Seok, Lim Geun Chae Sound: Park Byung Hyun, Kim Tae Yang Editor: Hong Hyeong Jun, Lee Sang Hyeok, Kang Da Un, Cho Hang Ryang, Lee Hyeon Suk, Park Yeon a, Kim Ji Yoon Design: Kim Lee Hyeon, Ha Do Yeon, Jeong Jae Hee Synopsis: We want to announce about Blood donor dogs in Korea. They have a lot of problem to solve. Korea's Situation is not easy to do it. So, we determine to make a film of their lives and solutions to better. Blood donation is needed to treat people. And also needed to treat dogs. Then where does the blood come from when blood transfusion is needed for dogs during surgery? Have you ever thought about it at once? Our video can show the actual state of things. |
Korea University of Media Arts (KUMA) | South Korea | 0 |
| 91-100 | THE TECHNIQUE OF EVERYDAY LIFE
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Details:Length: 21'Screenwriter: Gabriel Zajtko Director: Gabriel Zajtko Producer: Tomas Bata University in Zlín Animator: n/a DOP: Samuel Timko Sound: Pavol Schmidt Editor: Peter Mikušinec Design: n/a Synopsis: Theatre is living organism. This movie is about people, whose work is vital for proper function of this antic temple of culture. And maybe... life behind curtain is much more dramatic, than life in front of it. |
Tomas Bata University in Zlín / Faculty of Multimedia Communications (TBU) | Czech Republic | 0 |
| 91-100 | ZEN ACADEMY
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Details:Length: 1'Screenwriter: Raphael Director: Raphael Producer: Raphael Animator: Raphael DOP: Raphael Sound: n/a Editor: Raphael Design: Raphael Synopsis: Short promotional video for a taekwondo club called Zen Academy. |
Nanyang Polytechnic / School of Interactive & Digital Media | Singapore | 0 |
Animation
| Place | Title | School | Country | Points |
| 1 | INANIMATE
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Details:Length: 9'Screenwriter: Drew Eu Director: Lucia Bulgheroni Producer: Lennard Morrice Ortman Animation: Lucia Bulgheroni DOP: Ronnie McQuillan Sound: Louise Burton Editor: Raphael Pereira Design: Kristina Kovacs Synopsis: Katrine has a normal life, a normal job, a normal boyfriend and a normal apartment in a normal city. Or at least that's what she thinks until one day everything starts falling apart - literally! |
National FIlm and Television School (NFTS) | United Kingdom | 147 |
| 2 | A BLINK OF AN EYE
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Details:Length: 4'Screenwriter: Kiana Naghshineh Director: Kiana Naghshineh Producer: Kiana Naghshineh Animation: Janina Putzker, Kiana Naghshineh DOP: Jan Robin Weiland Sound: Laura Schnaufer Editor: n/a Design: n/a Synopsis: A woman walks home at night. She is overwhelmed from behind by a stranger. Three perceptions of only one truth - hers, his and ours. |
Filmakademie Baden-Wuerttemberg (FABW) | Germany | 135 |
| 3 | NEW NEIGHBOURS
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Details:Length: 6'Screenwriter: Andrea Mannino Director: Andrea Mannino, Sara Burgio, Giacomo Rinaldi Producer: Centro Sperimentale di Cinematografia Piemonte, Dip.to Animazione Animation: Andrea Mannino, Sara Burgio, Giacomo Rinaldi DOP: n/a Sound: Paolo Armao, Vito Martinelli Editor: n/a Design: n/a Synopsis: Donald, a white nationalist, cannot stand the arrival of the new neighbours, while his little daughter can't wait to play with a new friend. In a funny 1930s-style atmosphere, the film questions about our possibility of integration and peaceful coexistence. |
Centro Sperimentale di Cinematografia (CSC) | Italy | 76 |
| 4 | ARMED LULLABY
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Details:Length: 9'Screenwriter: Yana Ugrekhelidze Director: Yana Ugrekhelidze Producer: Ugrekhelidze / Academy of Media art Cologne Animation: Yana Ugrekhelidze DOP: Yana Ugrekhelidze Sound: Gerald Schauder Editor: Yana Ugrekhelidze Design: Julia Dudenko, Alexander Skorobogatov Synopsis: In order to escape the ethnical massacre four different children are leaving their home town each in different ways - with last train , last sh ip, last plane and walking over the snow-covered mount ains.The film is based on a real story happened in 1993 dur ing Sukhumi ethnical cleansing that underwent Georgian civilians. |
Academy of Media Arts Cologne (KHM) | Germany | 70 |
| 5 | BATH HOUSE OF WHALES
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Details:Length: 7'Screenwriter: Kiyamamizuki Director: Kiyamamizuki Producer: Koji Yamamura Animation: Kiyamamizuki DOP: n/a Sound: Naoko Kagata Editor: n/a Design: n/a Synopsis: In this small town somewhere in Japan, the mothers in the neighborhood end their day at the public bath. When a little girl goes along with her mother, she is awed by the sight of a group of bathing women who behave very differently from the others. Within that group is her mother and she blends in perfectly. |
Tokyo University of the Arts, Graduate School of Film and New Media | Japan | 52 |
| 6 | HALF AND HALF
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Details:Length: 9'Screenwriter: Mauricio Carrasco, Baptiste Drapeau Director: Baptiste Drapeau Producer: Baptiste Salvan Animation: Lazare Aïbout-Sibille, Simon Cadilhac, Rodrigo Goulao De Sousa, Audrey Lainé DOP: François Ray Sound: Armin Reiland Editor: Thomas Robineau Design: Raphaël Guillemot Synopsis: On a desertic battlefield, CLOVIS, a knight, wakes up, vertically cut in two! Another knight from the other side, RICHARD, is in the same situation. After fighting, the two half-men are stuck to each other. They have only one thing to do now, find a way to separate from the other… |
La Fémis | France | 50 |
| 7 | DONG DONG QIANG
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Details:Length: 4'Screenwriter: She Ruitao Director: She Ruitao Producer: n/a Animation: She Ruitao DOP: n/a Sound: Chen Xirui Editor: n/a Design: She Ruitao Synopsis: In the early morning, in the cave of the Loess Plateau, the child woke up with a tiger pillow. His dad made a waist drum and gave it to him as a gift. The kid happily held the drum on his bed to play with it. Suddenly, the cloth tiger pillow came to alive, and started a battle with the kid. |
Beijing Film Academy (BFA) | China | 49 |
| 8 | APART
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Details:Screenwriter: Diana Cam Van Nguyen, Lukáš JaničíkDirector: Diana Cam Van Nguyen Producer: Ondřej Šejnoha / Studio FAMU Animation: Diana Cam Van Nguyen DOP: Kryštof Melka Sound: Viera Marinová Editor: Lukáš Janičík Synopsis: It's always too soon. In her short, emotional film about life after the loss of a loved one, the author enthrallingly deals with a difficult topic, using techniques of both feature and animated film. |
Film and Television School / Academy of Performing Arts in Prague (FAMU) | Czech Republic | 46 |
| 9 | HOUNDS
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Details:Length: 6'Screenwriter: Ido Shapira, Amit Cohen Director: Ido Shapira, Amit Cohen Producer: Bezalel Academy of Arts & Design Animation: Ido Shapira, Amit Cohen DOP: Ido Shapira, Amit Cohen Sound: Ory Kadishay Editor: Ido Shapira, Amit Cohen Design: n/a Synopsis: The life of a dog, trained to act as human, changes when a pack of Hounds gathers around his house. |
Bezalel Academy of Arts and Design Jerusalem (BAAD) | Israel | 43 |
| 10 | F.R.D
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Details:Length: 6'Screenwriter: Amélie Calamy, Damien Buchheit, Bastien Halter Director: Amélie Calamy, Damien Buchheit, Bastien Halter Producer: Bastien Halter Animation: Amélie Calamy, Damien Buchheit, Bastien Halter DOP: n/a Sound: Thomas Imbert, Rémi Péral Editor: Damien Buchheit Design: n/a Synopsis: In a futuristic city in zero gravity, Jim the deliveryman takes all possible risks to finish his deliveries in time to pay him of his own flesh. Its limbs lost during deliveries are replaced by mechanical prostheses. |
ESRA Group | France | 35 |
| 11 | THE LIBRARY OF THINGS
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Details:Length: 8'Screenwriter: Sem-Quito Schwengle Director: Ruben Nijsen Producer: Thijme Grol Animation: Aron Baaijens; Roel van Beek; Nanda van der Eijk, Joppe de Graaf; Merith de Haas; Karlijn Hoogenboom; Christian Klinkhamer; Flor DOP: n/a Sound: Jordy Ebben Editor: Eva Krispijn Design: n/a Synopsis: While working in her library Marijke discovers a mysterious digital world in which she can experience real-time adventures she reads in her books. However a mechanic discovers her trespassing and sends her back. She realizes the library is not what it has been. In the end she only wants the relive what she just experienced. |
Netherlands Film Academy (NFA) | Netherlands | 33 |
| 12 | THE MESSЕNGER
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Details:Length: 10'Screenwriter: Lowe Haak, Sara Isabella Jønsson Director: Lowe Haak Producer: Pernille Tornøe Animation: Isak Howant Owe DOP: n/a Sound: Anders Ankerstjerne Editor: n/a Design: Louise Linea Gauhl Benisen Synopsis: Digital postman on the Internet works with getting messages to mobile phones. |
National Film School of Denmark (DDF) | Denmark | 32 |
| 13 | MAGIC LANTERN
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Details:Length: 20'Screenwriter: Youp Zondag Director: Youp Zondag Producer: Mariana Ospina-Arteaga Animation: Youp Zondag DOP: Nick Alberelli Sound: Greg Lehming Editor: Youp Zondag Design: n/a Synopsis: Handcrafted landscapes & 3D printed Puppets come to life in a dreamlike story built upon a kid's fear of growing up. |
School of Image Arts / Ryerson University | Canada | 30 |
| 14 | AS I SEE IT…
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Details:Length: 5'Screenwriter: Cassandra Reis, Mariana Lopes Director: Cassandra Reis Producer: University of São Paulo Animation: Cassandra Reis DOP: Gabriela Akashi Sound: Raquel Vieira, Felipe Cadillac Editor: Raquel Vieira Design: Mariana Lopes, Victor Casé Synopsis: Money, fear and boys & girls stuff told by some real kids in a cute and odd way. |
University of São Paulo / School of Communications and Arts / Department of Film, Radio and Television (USP) | Brazil | 29 |
| 15 | THE OTHER
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Details:Length: 5'Screenwriter: Marta Magnuska, Paulina Lewicka Director: Marta Magnuska Producer: Agata Golanska Animation: Marta Magnuska DOP: Marta Magnuska Sound: Anna Nowak Editor: Ewa Golis Design: n/a Synopsis: While waiting for the arrival of the mysterious newcomer, people keep on guessing who is he. The blury vision of the stranger takes shape the way his presence feels almost real. The initial excitement of the crowd turns into anxiety. |
Polish National Film, Television and Theatre School in Lodz (PWSFTViT) | Poland | 27 |
| 16 | DEBONED
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Details:Length: 5'Screenwriter: Lotte Lola Vermeer Director: Elise Eetesonne Producer: n/a Animation: n/a DOP: Elise Eetesonne Sound: Pepijn Geeraerts Editor: Elise Eetesonne Design: n/a Synopsis: Sarah has psychological problems. The doctors in the hospital ignore her so she sneaks in to the operating room to start an operation herself. |
Royal Institute for Theatre, Cinema and Sound (RITCS) | Belgium | 24 |
| 17 | HER HEAD
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Details:Length: 7'Screenwriter: Emma Louhivuori Director: Emma Louhivuori Producer: Eija Saarinen Animation: Emma Louhivuori DOP: n/a Sound: Emma Louhivuori, Janne Louhivuori Editor: Emma Louhivuori Design: n/a Synopsis: A woman's life is difficult, because her head is a cat. |
Turku University of Applied Sciences (TUAS) Arts Academy / Degree Programme in Film and Media | Finland | 23 |
| 18 | CACOPHONY
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Details:Length: 4'Screenwriter: n/a Director: Leigh Salvage, Suzanne Matharan Producer: Suzanne Matharan Animation: Suzanne Matharan (lead animator), Leigh Salvage (lead background artist), Paula Dominguez (Background and animation assistant) DOP: n/a Sound: Severin Black, Joseph Johnson Editor: n/a Design: n/a Synopsis: While the behind-the-scenes preparation of a classical orchestra is revealed, a rhythm is unintentionally created through the movements of the characters. As we get closer to the performance, the sound increases in intensity reflecting the anticipation of both the musicians and the audience. |
London College of Communication | United Kingdom | 21 |
| 19 | WANDERING
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Details:Length: 9'Screenwriter: Egor Gornostaev Director: Egor Gornostaev Producer: VGIK, Anastasija Fillipova Animation: Ljudmila Varlamova, Egor Gornostaev, Anna Zhdankina, Marja Zvereva, Anastasija Mahlina, Anna Shtyhina DOP: Feliks Umarov Sound: Olga Krasivicheva Editor: n/a Design: Egor Gornostaev, Ekaterina Kudoyarova Synopsis: When a person approaches a hallmark in his life, it is only love that can hold him in this world. |
Russian State University of Сinematography n.a. S.Gerasimov VGIK | Russia | 20 |
| 20-21 | BROKEN THINGS
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Details:Length: 10'Screenwriter: Panni Gyulai Director: Panni Gyulai Producer: József Fülöp Animation: Attila Bertóti, Amanda Hertelendi DOP: Panni Gyulai Sound: Csaba Kalotás Editor: Judit Czakó Design: Panni Gyulai Synopsis: A story of a lonely young child growing up in an isolated family from where she digs into her inner fantasy world. The adults who surround her doesn’t do anything to solve the unbearable life they are living, everybody is resigned. The mother hides behind her cigarette smoke, the grandmother is covered with her plants and the little girl tries to alleviate her depressing circumstances with her fantasy world. But as she dives deeper and deeper into herself, she realizes that everything that surrounds her is |
Moholy-Nagy University of Art and Design, Budapest | Hungary | 18 |
| 20-21 | OUT OF BOUNDS
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Details:Length: 8'Screenwriter: Yogev Sason Director: Yogev Sason Producer: Yogev Sason Animation: Yogev Sason DOP: n/a Sound: ltamar Miron Editor: Yogev Sason Design: Yogev Sason Synopsis: A boy gets lost in a whirlpool of sounds and brings to life an imaginary inner giant monster. Struggling with his father and school, the boy seeks a way to defeat the monster. Choosing a drug to sedate the monster leads the boy into another dimension out of bounds. |
School of Audio & Visual Arts, Sapir College | Israel | 18 |
| 22-25 | CHICHI
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Details:Length: 10'Screenwriter: n/a Director: David Nessi Producer: n/a Animation: David Nessi DOP: n/a Sound: n/a Editor: n/a Design: n/a Synopsis: My dog had a dream and he told me about it. I made a movie about that dream. This is that movie. |
University of Southern California's School of Cinematic Arts (USC) | United States | 17 |
| 22-25 | JOURNEY
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Details:Length: 9'Screenwriter: Marek Jasaň Director: Marek Jasaň Producer: FTF VSMU, Artichoke (SK), Animation People (CZ) Animation: Marek Jasaň, Matej Babic, Eva Sekerešová, Alfons Mensdorff-Pouilly DOP: Ivan Vit Sound: Michal Horváth Editor: Marek Král'ovský Design: Juraj Krasnohorsky (Artichoke) Synopsis: Journey is the story of a man, who daydreams entering the minds of people around him, stealing their dreams, desires and personal experience in order to fill his own, empty mind. |
Academy of Performing Arts / Film and Television Faculty (VSMU) | Slovakia | 17 |
| 22-25 | PEEPING WINKLE
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Details:Length: 11'Screenwriter: Michael Linhart Director: Michael Linhart Producer: Michael Linhart Animation: Michael Linhart DOP: n/a Sound: Curtis Sullivan Editor: Michael Linhart Design: n/a Synopsis: Lonesome Malvin's Christmas wish to have a friend and his peculiar elderly neighbours endeavour to make it come true. |
Griffith Film School (GFS) | Australia | 17 |
| 22-25 | STUMPED
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Details:Length: 6'Screenwriter: Christina Farman & Judie Muhrez Director: Christina Farman Producer: Christina Farman Animation: Christina Farman, Sarah Heinz, Rielle Dizon, Jennifer Moy DOP: Christina Farman Sound: Anna Wozniewicz Editor: Raven Peterson Design: Christina Farman Synopsis: An out of shape corgi turns to aerobics to successfully bring his owner the morning paper. |
Chapman University / Dodge College of Film and Media Arts | United States | 17 |
| 26 | JUNE LILY
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Details:Length: 5'Screenwriter: Tan Yue Han Director: Tan Yue Han Producer: Tan Yue Han Animation: n/a DOP: n/a Sound: n/a Editor: n/a Design: n/a Synopsis: The scene behind that toilet door still appeared in her nightmare over and over. She tried to cut her hair to erase the bad memories but failed. The young girls were still struggling in their respective dilemmas. However, the June lily finally withered and fell. Facing the horrible male power and destruction of both body and mind, she chose to escape or.... |
Academy of Film / Hong Kong Baptist University (HKBU) | Hong Kong | 15 |
| 27-28 | THE GRANNY FLAT
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Details:Length: 8'Screenwriter: Rachel Mackey Director: Rachel Mackey Producer: Nicola Macindoe Animation: Rachel Mackey DOP: n/a Sound: Rowan Yeomans Editor: Eden MacFarlane Design: n/a Synopsis: After being temporarily abandoned by their parents, two siblings wake up to find their house overrun with grandmothers. |
Australian Film Television and Radio School (AFTRS) | Australia | 13 |
| 27-28 | UNDIVIDED
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Details:Length: 4'Screenwriter: Mrs Araz Kelian Director: Mrs Araz Kelian Producer: ALBA-UOB Animation: Mrs Araz Kelian DOP: n/a Sound: Araz Kelian Editor: Araz Kelian Design: n/a Synopsis: Trinity loses focus as her attention splits to virtual places. But she doesn't notice that it's not the only thing that splits. |
Lebanese Academy for Fine Arts / School of Cinema / University of Balamand (ALBA) | Lebanon | 13 |
| 29-31 | DANDELION IN THE WIND
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Details:Length: 4'Screenwriter: Do Thi Ngan Giang Director: Do Thi Ngan Giang Producer: Do Thi Ngan Giang Animation: Do Thi Ngan Giang DOP: n/a Sound: Oliver Tab Belllman Editor: n/a Design: Do Thi Ngan Giang Synopsis: A man, while looking for his dog, stumbles upon a magical world of dreams. Through a mysterious rabbit hole and unexpected events, he discovers himself and his unwavering determination to be united with his beloved pet. The film pays homage to Renee Magritte, master of illusions, dreams and the uncanny. |
Nanyang Technological University | Singapore | 12 |
| 29-31 | OHTO
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Details:Length: 9'Screenwriter: Matti Koskinen, Vilhelmiina Koskinen, Vappu Tuomisto, Laura Pajunen, Paria Eskandari Director: Matti Koskinen, Vilhelmiina Koskinen, Vappu Tuomisto, Laura Pajunen Producer: Paria Eskandari Animation: Matti Koskinen, Vilhelmiina Koskinen, Vappu Tuomisto, Laura Pajunen DOP: Matti Koskinen, Vilhelmiina Koskinen, Vappu Tuomisto, Laura Pajunen Sound: Janne Masalin Editor: Vilja Harjamäki Design: n/a Synopsis: The son of a hunter shows his true colours. |
Aalto University School of Arts, Design and Architecture / ELO Film School Helsinki | Finland | 12 |
| 29-31 | THE LIGHTHOUSE
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Details:Length: 10'Screenwriter: Balalin Egor Director: Balalin Egor Producer: Balalin Egor Animation: Balalin Egor DOP: n/a Sound: Veles Seversky Editor: n/a Design: n/a Synopsis: This story is about a lonely lighthouse keeper who has lost his family. He has been working at the lighthouse for many years without even suspecting that the sea around has dried off. How committed one can be to his profession and what price he is willing to pay for it? |
St. Petersburg State University of Film and Television (SPUFT) | Russia | 12 |
| 32-33 | LONGING
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Details:Length: 7'Screenwriter: Diana Ilignosheva Director: Diana Ilignosheva Producer: NATFA “Kr. Sarafov”, Bulgaria – Stanislav Semerdjiev Animation: Diana Ilignosheva DOP: Diana Ilignosheva Sound: Valentin Yordanov Editor: Diana Ilignosheva Design: Vladislav Budinov Synopsis: Girl longing for a star, finds a way to reach the light, in return she faces the reality. |
National Academy for Theatre and Film Arts (NATFA) | Bulgaria | 11 |
| 32-33 | THE WARSAW ROBIN
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Details:Length: 7'Screenwriter: Mackenzie Bates Director: Mackenzie Bates Producer: Mackenzie Bates Animation: Mackenzie Bates DOP: Mackenzie Bates Sound: Connor Mc Glynn; Music by Garret Reynolds Editor: Mackenzie Bates Design: Mackenzie Bates Synopsis: It`s late winter of 1945 in Warsaw, Poland. After the uprising, the city is in ruins. A young girl who hides in the rubble of the destroyed city meets a mysterious old woman and learns about the importance of storytelling and hope in the darkest of times. |
School of Film and Animation, College of Art and Design, Rochester Institute of Technology | United States | 11 |
| 34 | THE USUAL
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Details:Length: 4'Screenwriter: Eabha Bortolozzo, Jack Kirwin Director: Eabha Bortolozzo, Jack Kirwin Producer: Eabha Bortolozzo, Jack Kirwin Animation: Eabha Bortolozzo,Jack Kirwin, Anna Golovko DOP: Jack Kirwin Sound: Dylan Boyle, Sam Farrar, Stephen Harris, Lacuna Creations Editor: Eabha Bortolozzo, Jack Kirwin Design: Eabha Bortolozzo, Jack Kirwin Synopsis: A day in the life of a barman and patron in an Irish pub. Narration compiled from interviews with John B. Keane and Richard Burton, in which they discuss their relationship with alcohol. |
National Film School / Institute of Art, Design and Technology (IADT) | Ireland | 10 |
| 35-38 | ARE YOU?
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Details:Length: 8'Screenwriter: Choo Jin Director: Choo Jin Producer: Choo Jin Animation: Choo Jin, Lee Ye Ji (Background) DOP: Choo Jin Sound: Choo Jin Editor: Choo Jin Design: Choo Jin Synopsis: Everyone has self (I), happiness (HAPPY), misfortune (UN) in their minds. When the main character JENNY becomes unhappy, HAPPY loses his happiness. A story of UN who seeks true happiness for JENNY and HAPPY. |
Korea University of Media Arts (KUMA) | South Korea | 9 |
| 35-38 | OMNIA MATER
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Details:Length: 5'Screenwriter: Lorenzo Besozzi; Andrea Melillo; Giacomo Tagni Director: Lorenzo Besozzi; Andrea Melillo; Giacomo Tagni Producer: Lorenzo Besozzi; Andrea Melillo; Giacomo Tagni Animation: Lorenzo Besozzi; Andrea Melillo; Giacomo Tagni DOP: n/a Sound: n/a Editor: n/a Design: n/a Synopsis: Sacro Monte, in Varese, one of the nine sacred hills of the Pre-Alps. Late at night. A priest is hiding in his car with a woman, but something terrifying emerges from the dark woods. From now he will live a nightmare escape facing his guilt and the darkest recesses of his soul. |
Milano Civica Scuola di Cinema (MCSC) | Italy | 9 |
| 35-38 | THE OUTLANDER
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Details:Length: 5'Screenwriter: Ani Antonova Director: Ani Antonova Producer: Lusofona Filmes Animation: Ani Antonova, Dimiter Ovtcharov DOP: Ani Antonova Sound: Valeria Popova Editor: Ani Antonova Design: Ani Antonova Synopsis: In 16th Century the elephant Siileyman makes a long journey from Ceylon to Portugal, then walks the whole way from Lisbon to Vienna trough the Alps for five months. To be a living royal gift is not an easy job, where even the death is not a peaceful end. |
Universidade Lusófona / Film and Media Arts Department (ULHT) | Portugal | 9 |
| 35-38 | TOWELS
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Details:Length: 5'Screenwriter: Prawta Annez Director: Prawta Annez Producer: Camilla Kjaernet Animation: Majua Carvajal DOP: n/a Sound: Amid Ojubanire, Sam Carson, Martin Hann Editor: n/a Design: n/a Synopsis: ….Brexit. |
Falmouth University | United Kingdom | 9 |
| 39-40 | THE BESTEST JOB
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Details:Length: 5'Screenwriter: Giuliette Lugara Director: Giuliette Lugara Producer: Giuliette Lugara Animation: Emma Davies DOP: n/a Sound: Karima Dillon El-Touhky Editor: n/a Design: Jordyn Nolan Synopsis: A 2D animated short film about a single father, Frank, who is reminded by his young daughter Alex that the most important and rewarding job that he has is being a dad. |
Swinburne School of Film and Television (SSFT) | Australia | 8 |
| 39-40 | TIDE
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Details:Length: 6'Screenwriter: Shreya Sarma Director: Shreya Sarma Producer: Sykki Gonh Animation: Shreya Sarma DOP: Elizabeth Ng Sound: Sykki Gonh Editor: Sykki Gonh Design: Elizabeth Ng Synopsis: Tide explores the topics of depression and anxiety by following their effects on the mind of an individual. |
Puttnam School of Film & Animation / LASALLE College of the Arts (LCA) | Singapore | 8 |
| 41-43 | DORMITA
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Details:Length: 8'Screenwriter: Gabriel Gonzalez Guirola Director: Gabriel Gonzalez Guirola Producer: ENSAV Animation: Gabriel Gonzalez Guirola DOP: Marion Sciuto Sound: Isabelle Moratinos Editor: Manuel Brassart Design: n/a Synopsis: A young woman dreams of walking through a cold wet forest. She becomes sleepy and she decides to rest under a tree. That night she is woken up by a magical being who invites her to discover a fantasy world. |
ENSAV | France | 7 |
| 41-43 | MOTHER NATURE
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Details:Length: 6'Screenwriter: Logan Barrick, Parker Thompson Director: Logan Barrick, Malory Pacheco Producer: Logan Barrick, Malory Pacheco Animation: Logan Barrick, Malory Pacheco Sound: Jacqueline Olivo, Roxanna Lynn Peykamian Editor: Logan Barrick Design: n/a Synopsis: After losing her family in a storm, a mother beaver finds new comfort in aiding other injured animals affected by the storm. |
University of North Carolina School of the Arts (UNCSA) | United States | 7 |
| 41-43 | THROUGH THE MARCH
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Details:Length: 6'Screenwriter: Kryštof Ulbert Director: Kryštof Ulbert Producer: Tomas Bata University in Zlín Animation: Kryštof Ulbert DOP: Kryštof Ulbert Sound: David Schwarz Editor: David Stachura Design: n/a Synopsis: Sun is rising, a beautiful morning. In a little house a father is preparing his daughter. Today it's the little girl's big day – the first day of school! Will she manage to get to the school just on her own? Through the wet marsh and the dark forest full of mysterious sounds and mucus? |
Tomas Bata University in Zlín / Faculty of Multimedia Communications (TBU) | Czech Republic | 7 |
| 44-48 | CHRISTINE
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Details:Length: 4'Screenwriter: Matthew Whitmore Director: Matthew Whitmore Producer: Matthew Whitmore Animation: Matthew Whitmore DOP: Matthew Whitmore Sound: Matthew Whitmore Editor: Matthew Whitmore Design: n/a Synopsis: An elderly gentleman arrives in London to meet with his partner Christine. He descends into madness as he comes to terms with the reason for their meeting. |
University for the Creative Arts | United Kingdom | 6 |
| 44-48 | CONTROL
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Details:Length: 6'Screenwriter: Gard Svendsen Director: Gard Svendsen, Martin Brattensborg (technical director) Producer: Gard Svendsen Animation: Gard Svendsen DOP: n/a Sound: Eirik Linde Editor: Gard Svendsen, Tora Olsvold Design: n/a Synopsis: Doug is a lonely man with a troubled past. By facing his former self he takes his first steps towards forgiving himself as well accepting the actions that caused his loneliness |
Westerdals Oslo School of Arts, Communication and Technology (Westerdals Oslo ACT) | Norway | 6 |
| 44-48 | DANCE OF LOVE
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Details:Length: 6'Screenwriter: Leo Černic Director: Leo Černic Producer: Nina Robnik (UL AGRFT) Animation: Leo Černic DOP: Rok Kajzer Nagode Sound: Samo Jurca Editor: Sara Gjergek Design: Vid Hajnšek Synopsis: Đulo falls in love with Giant green eye. |
University of Ljubljana / Academy of Theatre, Radio, Film and Television (AGRFT) | Slovenia | 6 |
| 44-48 | ROAR
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Details:Length: 6'Screenwriter: Team Roar Director: Olli-Pekka Saarenkylä Producer: Team Roar Animation: Nea Kontio, Lotta Koskelo, Sofia Eskola, Riina Pääkkönen, Elina Pentikäinen, Mikke Larmala, Olli-Pekka Saarenkylä DOP: Mikke Larmala Sound: Ville-Matti Koskiniemi Editor: Team Roar Design: Team Roar Synopsis: A short story about a girl called Anya, who is bullied at school. One night her low self-esteem turns itself into a monster which disrupts her in her sleep. The scaring business takes an unexpected turn, and Anya finds herself with a new - aalbeit reluctant ñ friend. |
Metropolia University of Applied Sciences (MUAS) | Finland | 6 |
| 44-48 | THE TASTE OF TOMATO
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Details:Length: 10'Screenwriter: Roy El Khawand Director: Roy El Khawand Producer: Roy El Khawand Animation: Roy El Khawand DOP: n/a Sound: Vanessa Chawi Editor: Roy El Khawand Design: n/a Synopsis: Marius and his son Clovis live in a world where gardening and harvesting are forbidden by a totalitarian government. Marius is doing his best to plant some tomatoes despite it all to let his son have a taste of freedom for the first time in his life. |
Institut d'études scéniques, audiovisuelles et cinématographiques (IESAV) | Lebanon | 6 |
| 49 | REACH OUT
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Details:Length: 3'Screenwriter: Emma Hygate Director: Emma Hygate Producer: Emma Hygate Animation: Kristian Zhekov DOP: n/a Sound: Joe Zanchi, Megan Ferdinand, Eurig Morgan Editor: Emma Hygate Design: Han Davies Synopsis: It's OK to offer help. It's OK to accept help. This short animation represents some of the challenges associated with Mental Health Disorders. |
University of South Wales (NFS/USW) | United Kingdom | 5 |
| 50-51 | OUT OF KEY
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Details:Length: 9'Screenwriter: Aviv Ziv Director: Aviv Ziv Producer: Maayan Gutenmacher, Hamutal Attar Animation: Aviv Ziv DOP: Omer Weiss Sound: Ori Kadishay Editor: Aviv Ziv Design: Hamutal Attar, Aviv Ziv Synopsis: At a family meal, everything runs at a certain pace, the younger brother struggles to find his place. The family eats in a musical way, creating harmonic rhythms. When the younger brother tries to take part, he is off-key. Overwhelmed by his failed attempts, he finds himself in surrealistic moments, confronting himself and his family. |
The Steve Tisch School of Film and Television (TAU) | Israel | 4 |
| 50-51 | PUPPET
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Details:Length: 6'Screenwriter: Timothee Crabbe Director: Timothee Crabbe Producer: Timothee Crabbe / LUCA SCHOOL OF ARTS DOP: Timothee Crabbe Sound: Timothee Crabbe Editor: Timothee Crabbe Design: Timothee Crabbe Synopsis: Innocent and curious, the child walks on the treadmill of modern life that feeds him, educates and protects, but the rhythm accelerates and step by step, the child opens his eyes. |
LUCA School of Arts (LUCA) | Belgium | 4 |
| 52-55 | KAI AND HONUA
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Details:Length: 3'Screenwriter: Kari Noe Director: Kari Noe Producer: Kari Noe Animation: Kari Noe, Kurt Noe, Al DOP: Kari Noe Sound: Fabian Fabro Editor: Kari Noe Design: Kari Noe Synopsis: When the water spirit Kai’s peaceful world is broken, he is faced with a new foe and something to protect. He must guard the lehua blossom that has bloomed from the newly formed land and face the new spirit that has come from the ocean depths with it. |
University of Hawai‘i Mānoa, Academy for Creative Media | United States | 3 |
| 52-55 | LITTLE P THE PONTIANAK
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Details:Length: 3'Screenwriter: Nataline Ng Si Rong, Rachel Lim Rui Qi, Shannon Ong Director: Nataline Ng Si Rong, Rachel Lim Rui Qi, Shannon Ong Producer: Jacques Frety Animation: Nataline Ng Si Rong, Rachel Lim Rui Qi, Shannon Ong DOP: n/a Sound: Nataline Ng Si Rong, Rachel Lim Rui Qi, Shannon Ong Editor: Nataline Ng Si Rong, Rachel Lim Rui Qi, Shannon Ong Design: Nataline Ng Si Rong, Rachel Lim Rui Qi, Shannon Ong Synopsis: Little P the Pontianak is the story of a young Pontianak (female vampiric ghost in Malay mythology) who is quite different from her peers. |
Nanyang Polytechnic / School of Interactive & Digital Media | Singapore | 3 |
| 52-55 | POCKETS
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Details:Length: 5'Screenwriter: Vivek Prakash Director: Vivek Prakash Producer: Satyajit Ray Film and Television Institute Animation: Vivek Prakash DOP: Vivek Prakash Sound: Sourabh Saha, Shubharun Sengupta Editor: Vivek Prakash Design: Vivek Prakash Synopsis: A consumer busy shopping in the mall who wants to pick up his power that had just fallen but as he bends, all the newly bought items stuffed inside his countless pockets makes it hard to pick. |
Satyajit Ray Film and Television Institute (SRFTI) | India | 3 |
| 52-55 | THE LITTLE HERO
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Details:Length: 5'Screenwriter: Elena Ciolacu Director: Elena Ciolacu Producer: Cosmina Sandor-UNATC I. L.CARAGIALE Animation: Elena Ciolacu DOP: n/a Sound: Andrei Cotarta Editor: Valeriu Caliman, Elena Ciolacu, Cosmin Marius Stanga Design: Elena Ciolacu Synopsis: Childhood is a time of adventure, imagination and happiness. On a beautiful spring day, just after the rain has stopped, a little boy tries to convince his ever-busy mother to go out and play together. Disappointed by her rejection, he goes out on his own, but the whimsy appearance of a butterfly sets him out on an imaginary adventure to rescue his mother from the tedious prison of work and worries. |
National University of Theatre and Film (UNATC) | Romania | 3 |
| 56-57 | ESCAPE FROM PLANET ZOID
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Details:Length: 10'Screenwriter: Bailey Spencer, Tanyaradzwa Musasiwa Director: Bailey Spencer, Tanyaradzwa Musasiwa Producer: Thabo Wesi Animation: n/a DOP: Dumisani Rankin, Marlet van der Westhuizen Sound: Darren Hawkins Editor: Lungelo Mahlobo Design: n/a Synopsis: A selfish young girl gets sucked into a video game for her mischievous behaviour and through trials set up for her, must learn the value of empathy. |
South African School of Motion Picture Medium and Live Performance (AFDA) | South Africa | 2 |
| 56-57 | OVERSEA
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Details:Length: 5'Screenwriter: Helen He Director: Helen He Producer: n/a Animation: Helen He DOP: n/a Sound: Ant Bohun Editor: n/a Design: n/a Synopsis: An impending departure to a new land and one last goodbye; Baby and Monkey's last few minutes at home while Mama packs a single suitcase. |
VCA School of Film and Television / University of Melbourne (VCA) | Australia | 2 |
| 58-60 | CHUBBY TUMMY BUNNY
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Details:Length: 8'Screenwriter: Yuriko Noda Director: Yuriko Noda Producer: Yuriko Noda Animation: Yuriko Noda DOP: n/a Sound: Syuwa Nagai (music) / Patrik Berx (sound mixing) Editor: Yuriko Noda Design: Yuriko Noda Synopsis: There is a hungry chubby bunny in the forest. It is really hungry. Finding food seems an easy job but to satisfy its stomach seems so much harder… |
Royal Academy of Fine Arts / University College Ghent (KASK) | Belgium | 1 |
| 58-60 | DAYLABA AND THE END OF SIMULATIONS
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Details:Length: 6'Screenwriter: Tobias Neustadt Director: Sofia Belelli, Martin Kessler, Tobias Neustadt Producer: Sofia Belelli, Martin Kessler, Tobias Neustadt Animation: Sofia Belelli, Martin Kessler, Tobias Neustadt DOP: Sofia Belelli, Martin Kessler, Tobias Neustadt Sound: Sofia Belelli Editor: Martin Kessler Design: Sofia Belelli, Martin Kessler, Tobias Neustadt Synopsis: Daylaba is a robot who is running out of the electric energy that is keeping him alive. He decides to leave the city and travel into the dessert of this dystopic robot world with his self-made car in search for a solution to his imminent death. |
Universidad de Buenos Aires / Diseño de Imagen y Sonido FADU (UBA) | Argentina | 1 |
| 58-60 | TULIP AND YANNIS
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Details:Length: 6'Screenwriter: Tobias Gavelle Director: Lewis Keeling Producer: Lewis Keeling Animation: Lewis Keeling DOP: n/a Sound: Tobias Gavelle Editor: Joshua Hands Design: John J Escudero Synopsis: A boy who wants to dance on the sun and a girl who wants to dance on the moon, both lookingto escape their evil parents, fall in love from their bedroom windows. A stop motion love story. |
Northern Film School / Leeds Beckett University (NFS/LBU) | United Kingdom | 1 |
| 61-63 | A DARK PLACE
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Details:Length: 3'Screenwriter: David Kroonen Director: David Kroonen Producer: David Kroonen Animation: David Kroonen DOP: n/a Sound: n/a Editor: David Kroonen Design: n/a Synopsis: Carlos seeks tranquility through an ephemeral form of escape. However, this fleeting relief forces him to face the permanent suffering his downward spiral has spawned. |
Florida State University / College of Motion Picture Arts (FSU) | United States | 0 |
| 61-63 | DAILON’S JOURNEY
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Details:Length: 6'Screenwriter: Laila Fabien Director: Laila Fabien Producer: Gina Rose, Ariel Freeman Animation: Fahruddin Abdullah, Andrea Alvarado-Santiago, Laila Fabien, Kasey Felgar, Amy Franco, Ariel Freeman, Becca Kahney, Emily Konecny DOP: n/a Sound: Alex Vaca Editor: Laila Fabien Design: n/a Synopsis: A young boy’s exploration of floating, fantastical islands is interrupted by the attack of a whale- like creature. Dailon’s journey through the ocean depths, shipwrecks and glowing underwater caves draws the leviathan to a final confrontation; revealing the boy’s motivation for the dreamlike chase. |
Columbia College Chicago (CCC) | United States | 0 |
| 61-63 | PADMA
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Details:Length: 2'Screenwriter: Mario Forero, Mauricio Piraquive Director: Mauricio Piraquive Producer: Mario Forero Animation: Mauricio Piraquive, Camilo Cita, Mario Forero, Diego Molina DOP: Camilo Cita Sound: Andrés Camilo Méndez Rojas Editor: Camilo Cita, Mauricio Pirquive Design: Mauricio Piraquive, Camilo Cita Synopsis: In a very dark forest, there is a lake where tiny and shinny creatures live. In the middle of this special lake excels Padma, a rare and magical flower that wonders whoever it looks at it. One night, Lupo, an adventurous mouse that enjoys gathering and classifying flowers, meets this mythical flower and has to cross the lake to get to it. |
Escuela de Cine y Televisión / UNAL (ECYTV) | Colombia | 0 |
