2015
Fiction
| Place | Title | School | Country | Points |
| 1 | LEIDI
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Details:TrailerLength: 16' Screenwriter: Simon Mesa Soto Director: Simon Mesa Soto Producer: Diana Patiño Martínez Animator: n/a DOP: Juan Sarmiento G. Sound: Ania Przygoda Editor: Ricardo Saraiva Production Designer: n/a Synopsis: Leidi lives with her mom and her baby. Her boyfriend, Alexis, hasn't shown up in days. Sent out by her mom on an errand she meets a guy that tells her he has seen Alexis with another girl. Forgetting the errand she sets out to find him. |
London Film School (LFS) | United Kingdom | 83 |
| 2 | SLAP
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Details:TrailerLength: 25' Screenwriter: Co-Writer: Islay Bell Webb Director: Director/Co-writer: Nick Rowland Producer: Michelangelo Fano Animator: n/a DOP: Sverre Sordal Sound: Mattis Rei Editor: Mark Hamill Production Designer: n/a Synopsis: A teenage boxer is suddenly faced with the risk of losing everything when a friend discovers he is secretly a transvestite. |
National FIlm and Television School (NFTS) | United Kingdom | 63 |
| 3 | ALL WE SHARE
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Details:TrailerLength: 25' Screenwriter: Jerry Carlsson Director: Jerry Carlsson Producer: Jerry Carlsson Animator: n/a DOP: Marcus Dineen Sound: Olle Sjöström Editor: Philip Bergström Production Designer: n/a Synopsis: Two arborists, Samir and Sara, are hired to cut down a healthy tree in a family's backyard. Why the family wants the tree removed seems at first quite incomprehensible. While taking the tree down, Samir observes the backyard and the people he meets. |
Göteborg U | Sweden | 59 |
| 4 | MOTHER EARTH
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Details:TrailerLength: 30' Screenwriter: Piotr Złotorowicz Director: Piotr Złotorowicz Producer: Marcin Malatyński Animator: n/a DOP: Nicolás Villegas Sound: Ewa Bogusz Editor: Anna Dobrowodzka Production Designer: n/a Synopsis: "Mother Earth" is the story of a conflict of a father's expectations with the power and sensitivity of his son. Maciek - the main protagonist of the film - is no longer a boy, but has not yet become a man. He wants to satisfy the ambitions of his father, and - as everyone in the family - be a butcher. But he is too sensitive to make an animal suffer. The boy directs all his warm feelings towards an old, neglected orchard - the only memory of his mother. |
Polish National Film, Television and Theatre School in Lodz (PWSFTViT) | Poland | 56 |
| 5 | LOOKOUT
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Details:TrailerLength: 18' Screenwriter: Noa Gusakov Director: Noa Gusakov Producer: Inbal Tenembaum Animator: n/a DOP: Eitan Hatuka Sound: Yfat Levin Editor: Yael Yakirevich Production Designer: n/a Synopsis: Timmy is a look-out in the military. As a diversion from her tiring frame work, she creates an imaginative, childish world, which sets her apart in a mundane routine. When she has to deal with the real military world for the first time, her own world is shattered and undermined. |
Sam Spiegel Film and Television School Jerusalem (JSFS) | Israel | 46 |
| 6 | HERMAN THE GERMAN
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Details:TrailerLength: 15' Screenwriter: Michael Binz Director: Michael Binz Producer: Maike Drinhausen Animator: n/a DOP: Jesse Mazuch Sound: Judith Nordbrock Editor: Tom Vennekotter Production Designer: n/a Synopsis: Herman is one of the most experienced bomb defusers in Germany. After a medical examination he learns that he suffers from the rare Kahnawake syndrome, which causes an inability to feel fear. |
Academy of Media Arts Cologne (KHM) | Germany | 45 |
| 7 | DEAD LEAVES
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Details:Length: 14'Screenwriter: Noam Ellis Director: Noam Ellis Producer: Jean Baptiste Legrand Animator: n/a DOP: Barak Itzkovitz Sound: Gadi Raz Editor: Or Lee Tal Production Designer: n/a Synopsis: Unable to control her emotions, Amelie takes her 4 years old boy for a trip in the woods to calm herself down. |
The Steve Tisch School of Film and Television (TAU) | Israel | 44 |
| 8-9 | FIDELITY
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Details:TrailerLength: 24' Screenwriter: Georg Lippert Director: Ilker Çatak Producer: Alexandra Staib (Creative Producer) Animator: n/a DOP: Florian Mag Sound: Claudia Mattai del Moro Editor: Jan Ruschke Production Designer: n/a Synopsis: Istanbul 2014: Asli, a young modern woman, gives shelter to a political activist who got into a fight with the cops. The police investigates the case and ends up questioning Asli and her family. The situation escalates as she is not willing to cooperate. |
Hamburg Media School (HMS) | Germany | 41 |
| 8-9 | SKUNKY DOG
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Details:TrailerLength: 25' Screenwriter: James Fitzgerald Director: James Fitzgerald Producer: Paddy Slattery, James Fitzgerald Animator: n/a DOP: Aidan Gault Sound: Julian Callan, Ian Mc Intyre Editor: Oisin Bickley Production Designer: n/a Synopsis: Set in a small rural Ireland, a troubled nineteen-year-old boy spends his days drinking in the local pub dreaming for a better life. Lick, a local mechanic, sees potential in Flick and offers him work at his garage which soon becomes a challenge for Flick as Mick‟s sexual orientation and a topic for debate among the local community. When Flick meets Sue, a young widow with two children, it seems that life is taking a turn for the better. However, it isn‟t long before Flick is confronted by the truth that he might never break his routine or leave his dead-end town. |
National Film School / Institute of Art, Design and Technology (IADT) | Ireland | 41 |
| 10-11 | PERDITION COUNTRY
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Details:TrailerLength: 26' Screenwriter: Raphael Crombez Director: Raphael Crombez Producer: Matthias Schellens (Colonel) Animator: n/a DOP: Rik Zang Sound: Steven Luyckfasseel, Ken Bardyn , Tom Van Ham ( mixing) Editor: Koen Timmerman Production Designer: n/a Synopsis: An atmospheric story focusing on a foot soldier, named Desmond, who defects from his band of scalp-collecting pilgrims. He sets out on an odyssey to freedom, throughout the endless landscapes of a fictional county, and attempts to reclaim his humanity. |
LUCA School of Arts (LUCA) | Belgium | 39 |
| 10-11 | REQUIEM
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Details:Length: 13'Screenwriter: Wen Muye Director: Wen Muye Producer: Jin Ge Animator: n/a DOP: Qian Cicheng Sound: Wang G Editor: Wen Muye Production Designer: n/a Synopsis: The whole families of Meng Xiaojun suffered a serious car accident. Meng was hurt badly, his four-year-old daughter got a serious brain damage, and his wife was dead. The girl must have an expensive operation within a week for living, which Meng cannot afford. Meng was driven to such desperate and followed the mortuary keeper's advice with no choice, selling his wife's remains to countryside for money... |
Beijing Film Academy (BFA) | China | 39 |
| 12 | NEVER COME BACK
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Details:TrailerLength: 16' Screenwriter: Leonardo Díaz Director: Leonardo Díaz Producer: Henner Hofmann, Karla Bukantz Animator: n/a DOP: Jorge Linares Sound: Alberto Molero, Leonardo Díaz Editor: Leonardo Díaz Production Designer: n/a Synopsis: Two friends from the countryside decide to take a job, without measuring the consequences they will have to face. They can't go back to the way they were. |
Centro de Capacitación Cinematográfica, A.C. (CCC) | Mexico | 31 |
| 13-14 | THE FRENCH REVOLUTION
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Details:TrailerLength: 21' Screenwriter: Hai Afik Director: Hai Afik Producer: Malki Dan Animator: n/a DOP: Mazal Ben Ishai Sound: Nadav Lazar Editor: Tamar Ben Baruch Production Designer: n/a Synopsis: A noisy disturbance from some youths on the street erupts into Noni and Tamar’s home, shattering their evening. The violence that ensues raises questions for both of them about fear and ethics, testing the relationship between them to the limit. |
Ma'aleh School of Film, Television and the Arts (MAALE) | Israel | 30 |
| 13-14 | THUNDERBIRDS
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Details:Length: 24'Screenwriter: Léa Mysius Director: Léa Mysius Producer: Mélissa Malinbaum Animator: n/a DOP: Augustin Barbaroux Sound: Colin Favre-Bulle Editor: Pierre Deschamps Production Designer: n/a Synopsis: Antonin and Leonor are hunting the lark. He is as submissive as his sister voracious. One day, a dog attacks them. |
La Fémis | France | 30 |
| 15 | LIKE YOU
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Details:Length: 30'Screenwriter: Roman Gielke, Franziska Pflaum Director: Franziska Pflaum Producer: Anne Baeker Animator: n/a DOP: Nico Mews Sound: Christoph Kozic Editor: Friederike Hohmuth Production Designer: n/a Synopsis: Tina and Marlene. A friendship between two girls in the middle of nowhere in Brandenburg, East Germany. Alcohol fueled weekends between suburban disco and football fields, Berlin far away. Relentless they head for the night, to fulfill their longing for intimacy and recognition. |
Film University Babelsberg KONRAD WOLF | Germany | 29 |
| 16-21 | POP ART
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Details:TrailerLength: 9' Screenwriter: Paolo Cenzato, Massimo Mapelli Director: Angelo Mozzillo Producer: Matteo Damiani Animator: n/a DOP: Fabio Brusadin Sound: Francesco Mangini, Jonathan Quattrocchi, Riccardo Arrigoni Editor: Emanuele Fiorito, Serena Pighi Production Designer: n/a Synopsis: Nick, a freshman at his first "working" day in the Mob, is left alone on the crime scene by his elder colleague. What seemed to be an easy job for him - to clean the place - becomes a windmill of non sense killings involving unpredictable characters from the art world. |
Milan City Film School Luchino Visconti (MCSC) | Italy | 24 |
| 16-21 | REBECCA
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Details:TrailerLength: 28' Screenwriter: Anna F. Kohlschütter Director: Anna F. Kohlschütter Producer: Maureen Adlawan Animator: n/a DOP: Bine Jankowski Sound: Ronny Müller Editor: Gesa Hille Production Designer: n/a Synopsis: Rebecca knows very little right now. She is restless and hasn’t been able to sleep for quite a while. Rebecca lets herself drift, goes out, has one-night stands, walks down the streets of the big city. |
international film school cologne (ifs) | Germany | 24 |
| 16-21 | THE SPRINGTIME SLEEP
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Details:Length: 20'Screenwriter: Dominik Mencej Director: Dominik Mencej Producer: Jožica Blatnik Animator: n/a DOP: Rok Kajzer Nagode Sound: Peter Žerovnik Editor: Tina Novak Production Designer: n/a Synopsis: All of a sudden world have become very different for Jasna, or has it always been this way? She doesn't try to find out, she rather lives in now as it is. Doing so she meets a younger boy Pero which she finds a bit shady but cool and together they go on a journey to find out how meaningless is what was and will be. |
University of Ljubljana / Academy of Theatre, Radio, Film and Television (AGRFT) | Slovenia | 24 |
| 16-21 | UNSPOKEN
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Details:TrailerLength: 20' Screenwriter: Eric Otten Director: Eric Otten Producer: Natalie Whalen Animator: n/a DOP: Tanner Hall Sound: Nathaniel Grady-Reitan Editor: Emerson Steinberg Production Designer: n/a Synopsis: A young woman must deal with the hardships of moving her mother into a nursing home. |
Chapman University / Dodge College of Film and Media Arts | United States | 24 |
| 16-21 | WHAT WE DID BEFORE WE DRANK COCOA TOGETHER
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Details:TrailerLength: 30' Screenwriter: Aramisova Director: Aramisova Producer: Michal Kráčmer Animator: n/a DOP: Jan Vlnas, Vojtěch Votýpka, Daniel Souček, Aramisova Sound: Tomáš Sokol Editor: Roman Tesáček, Aramisova Production Designer: n/a Synopsis: What is the value of energy invested into friendship? How can you defend yourself when there is no one to stick up for you? Our heroines find a way out of a complicated situation by continuing poetic life and by avoiding objective reasoning, condemnation and the need to win. |
Film and Television School / Academy of Performing Arts in Prague (FAMU) | Czech Republic | 24 |
| 16-21 | YOUR SIGN HERE
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Details:TrailerLength: 10' Screenwriter: Clara Núñez, Álvaro Icaza Director: Rodrigo Zarza Producer: María Isabel Cárdenas Animator: n/a DOP: Olvido Pérez Sound: Paloma Huelin Editor: Eva Martos Production Designer: n/a Synopsis: Spain. Faced with the progressive aging of the population and the dire economic situation, the Administration launches an assisted euthanasia campaign aimed at so-called “unproductive beings”. Keen to get their hands on the amount of money set for the substitution of the old man, the Arévalo family will try to get rid of Granddad… unaware that he has plans of his own. |
ECAM (The Madrid Film School) | Spain | 24 |
| 22 | MUTE
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Details:Length: 26'Screenwriter: Frederick Schofield Director: Johanna Thalmann Producer: Hanna Grossmann, Jana-Maria Kreutzer, Philipp Traner Animator: n/a DOP: Jakob Wiessner Sound: Edgar Armos, Lorenz Kainz Editor: Florian Duffe Production Designer: n/a Synopsis: Monika runs away from her husband and her dissatisfying marriage. On the way to Venice, she picks up the mute hitchhiker Nema, who from now on accompanies Monika and helps her to liberate herself from the shackles of her marriage. Based on a short story by Stephen King. |
University of Television and Film Munich (HFF) | Germany | 23 |
| 23-24 | MONSTER
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Details:Length: 18'Screenwriter: Delphine Girard Director: Delphine Girard Producer: INSAS — Atelier de Realisation Animator: n/a DOP: Alex Moyroud Sound: Lucas Le Bart Editor: Fanny Deblauwe Production Designer: n/a Synopsis: It's moving day, in the beginning of summer. Between playing in the garden and packing, 11-year-old Adele decides to send a message to her future self so that she will not forget what makes up her life. Adele wants to grasp everything, even if it means staging what does not sound right to her, even if it means that she has to bully the whole world and no longer live in the present.... |
Institut National Supérieur des Arts du Spectacle et Techniques de Diffusion (INSAS) | Belgium | 22 |
| 23-24 | ONNO THE OBLIVIOUS
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Details:TrailerLength: 30' Screenwriter: Viktor van der Valk, Jeroen Scholten van Aschat Director: Viktor van der Valk Producer: Erik Glijnis, Hanne Sinninghe Animator: n/a DOP: Emo Weemhoff Sound: Robin Berk, Tijn Hazen Editor: Lot Rossmark Production Designer: n/a Synopsis: Onno is stuck. He's lost. Many questions. Few answers. And on top of that there's this strange feeling. This feeling that he knows, but doesn't understand. This feeling that has come to him much earlier, so it didn't start here. But where? Where did it start? Let me tell you the story of Onno the Oblivious, who has fallen victim to the strange feeling. |
Netherlands Film Academy (NFA) | Netherlands | 22 |
| 25-26 | BEASTS
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Details:TrailerLength: 12' Screenwriter: Rui Neto, Joana Nicolau Director: Rui Neto, Joana Nicolau Producer: Inês Varela Animator: n/a DOP: André Vieira Sound: Ruben Almeida Editor: Fábio Gonçalves, Tomás Pousão Production Designer: n/a Synopsis: Beasts is the story of Jucas, a thirteen-year-old kid who swears vengeance to the man that abuses his mother in exchange for a miserable life. But when he realizes that he hasn‟t got the courage to pull it through, he already finds himself in the hands of a bigger predator. In the wilderness full of beats, the cowards are the preys. |
Universidade Lusófona / Film and Media Arts Department (ULHT) | Portugal | 21 |
| 25-26 | LAST TRIP HOME
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Details:TrailerLength: 26' Screenwriter: Han Fengyu Director: Han Fengyu Producer: Adar Ng Animator: n/a DOP: Lee Sze Wei Sound: Yuka Kamamoto Editor: Faraz Hussain Production Designer: n/a Synopsis: Homeless Chinese immigrants Huang He and his son, Zheng Yang, are surviving on scraps. In hopes of a better life, they decide to drive back to China. As they prepare for their journey, a few questions arise: How do we get back home? Where and what is home? |
Ngee Ann Polytechnic / School of Film & Media Studies | Singapore | 21 |
| 27-30 | ECCE HOMO
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Details:TrailerLength: 30' Screenwriter: Dimitar Kutmanov Director: Dimitar Kutmanov Producer: Andrei Lascu, Dimitar Kutmanov Animator: n/a DOP: Flora Fecske Sound: Jaime Sotelo Editor: Andrei Lascu Production Designer: n/a Synopsis: A godforsaken land. Young Ada and her ill mother live in solitude and destitution. In a moment of crisis reality interweaves with the realm of the soul where hope and despair battle for dominance. |
Screen Academy Scotland (SAS) | United Kingdom | 20 |
| 27-30 | SABRA
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Details:Length: 29'Screenwriter: JUNG Dae-gun Director: JUNG Dae-gun Producer: OH Su-yeop Animator: n/a DOP: MIN Sung-won Sound: SONG Su-duck Editor: JUNG Dae-gun Production Designer: n/a Synopsis: Raised by a single mother, Ki-seok likes to rap to get his bitter story out. Han-sol, who moved away for high school, comes to see Ki-seok at the place where Ki-seok and his friends gather and rap. Han-sol hasn’t kept in touch, but Ki-seok takes him in. Ki-seok doesn’t understand Han-sol’s odd way of “collecting courage.” |
Korean Academy of Film Arts (KAFA) | South Korea | 20 |
| 27-30 | UNDER THE SUN
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Details:TrailerLength: 19' Screenwriter: n/a Director: Qui Yang Producer: n/a Animator: n/a DOP: Tarun Hansen Sound: Mei Zhv Editor: n/a Production Designer: n/a Synopsis: There is nothing new under the sun. |
VCA Film and Television | Australia | 20 |
| 27-30 | WE SEE IN THE DARK
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Details:Length: 24'Screenwriter: Merethe T. Strandberg Director: Aurora Langaas Gossè Producer: Nina Maria Barbosa Blad Animator: n/a DOP: Asmund Skrettfng Hasli Sound: Linda Torp Editor: Thomas Grotmol Production Designer: n/a Synopsis: Emma has waited two years for David to get out of prison. Now they're getting a fresh start. Can Emma' s expectations live up to reality, and live up to Emma? |
The Norwegian Film School (NFS) | Norway | 20 |
| 31 | THE END OF PUBERTY
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Details:Length: 8'Screenwriter: Fanni Szilágyi (Based on a novel, written by Reka Mán Várhegyi) Director: Fanni Szilágyi Producer: Miklós Bosnyák Animator: n/a DOP: Nándor Gulyás Sound: Bállnt Zándoky Editor: Ágnes Grünvalszky Production Designer: n/a Synopsis: Teenage sisters, who are non-identical twins, meet a boy on a beautiful summer day, who acquaints them with their sexuality. This experience guides their feelings into different directions and creates a moment that puts an end to their unity. They must face the end of their adolescence. The story expresses the desire for the unknown and another dimension far away from one's comfort zone. |
University of Theatre and Film Arts Budapest (SzFE) | Hungary | 19 |
| 32 | LEFTOVER
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Details:Length: 18'Screenwriter: Eui Yong Zong Director: Eui Yong Zong Producer: Andy Kloske Animator: n/a DOP: Rodrigo Michelangeli Sound: Kevin Luttman Editor: Julian Papas Production Designer: n/a Synopsis: Leftover is a story about a family of North Korean refugee family who is trying to come to terms with their past while trying to start a new life in Canada. |
York University Department of Film - Fine Arts | Canada | 18 |
| 33-34 | SPARROWS AND SNORKELS
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Details:TrailerLength: 15' Screenwriter: Elena Brotschi, Co-Autor Mario Gysi Director: Elena Brotschi Producer: Zürcher Hochschule der Künste - Bachelor of Arts in Film Animator: n/a DOP: Tom Keller Sound: Gregg Skerman, Benjamin Pogonato Editor: Simon Gutknecht Production Designer: n/a Synopsis: Sparrows and Snorkels: lvan meets Paolo, little Jonas meets lda, another Jonas meets Sandra and Annina meets Jonas - in July, at a campsite by the river. |
Zurich University of the Arts / Department of Performing Arts and Film (ZHdK) | Switzerland | 17 |
| 33-34 | THE IMMACULATE RECEPTION
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Details:TrailerLength: 16' Screenwriter: Charlotte Glynn Director: Charlotte Glynn Producer: Berkley Brady, Luke Spears Animator: n/a DOP: Greta Zozula Sound: Larry Zipf Editor: Nicholas Biagetti Production Designer: n/a Synopsis: The year is 1972 during the famous playoff game between the STEELERS and RAIDERS. Can Joey, a shy sixteen-year-old, win over the girl of his dreams? |
Columbia University | United States | 17 |
| 35 | THE WANDERINGS OF THE FISHERMAN'S SON
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Details:TrailerLength: 20' Screenwriter: Lorris Coulon Director: Lorris Coulon Producer: ENSAV Animator: n/a DOP: Lorris Coulon, Julien Laville Sound: Clément Thuriot, Romain Orsoni Editor: Lorris Coulon Production Designer: n/a Synopsis: A father, his son. A boat, a fishing net spread once more yet brought back empty. The child stares at his father and wonders. He is hungry but there is no more fish in the sea. So why do they have to repair and spread the fishing net again and again? |
ENSAV | France | 16 |
| 36-37 | 69
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Details:TrailerLength: 16' Screenwriter: Dilian Pavlov Director: Dilian Pavlov Producer: National Academy for Theatre & Film Arts (NATFA) “Krustyo Sarafov” Animator: n/a DOP: Anton Bakarski Sound: George Stresov Editor: Bohos Topakbashian Production Designer: n/a Synopsis: A young girl is attacked on the street. In the hospital, she is mistakenly put in the same room with her attcker, where he attempts to finish her off. The attacker tells a different story – he is the victim of the accident, and in the hospital, he is trying to save her life. |
National Academy for Theatre and Film Arts (NATFA) | Bulgaria | 15 |
| 36-37 | THE ART OF LOSING
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Details:TrailerLength: 30' Screenwriter: David Voss Director: David Voss Producer: Holger Bergmann Animator: n/a DOP: Jan Prahl Sound: Luis Schöffend Editor: Yvonne Tetzlaff Production Designer: n/a Synopsis: Christian Bender is a young and ambitious boxer. At home he looks after his father, who is a complete nursing case after his second stroke. Maria, a friend of the family and his brother Michael’s ex-girlfriend, helps him as a nurse. After a long time, Michael finally comes home, but he isn't the helping hand, Christian has wished for. It is a short film about envy, hatred, love and death. |
Filmakademie Baden-Wuerttemberg (FABW) | Germany | 15 |
| 38-40 | INSIDE THE MUSIC
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Details:TrailerLength: 30' Screenwriter: Fani Vital, Yulia Novich Director: Yulia Novich Producer: Yulia Novich Animator: n/a DOP: Karen Manaseryan Sound: Boris Shaps Editor: Yulia Novich Production Designer: n/a Synopsis: Musaeva (33) is really depressed because her boyfriend died. When he was alive he sang her a melody. Now she hears it constantly. |
Russian State University of Сinematography n.a. S.Gerasimov VGIK | Russia | 14 |
| 38-40 | ROUBADO
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Details:TrailerLength: 18' Screenwriter: Erica A. Watson Director: Erica A. Watson Producer: Tierney Young, Joshua Clark, Daniel Willis Animator: n/a DOP: Tommy Maddox Upshaw Sound: Juel Taylor, Juel Taylor Editor: Harris McCabe Production Designer: n/a Synopsis: A teen photographer in the south of France develops a tense relationship with his mother's new boyfriend after his parents' breakup. |
University of Southern California's School of Cinematic Arts (USC) | United States | 14 |
| 38-40 | SOURDOUGH
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Details:TrailerLength: 17' Screenwriter: Annalisa Elba, Angelo Rago, Fulvio Risuleo Director: Fulvio Risuleo Producer: CSC Production Animator: n/a DOP: Juri Fantigrossi Sound: Vincenzo Santo, Francesco Lucarelli Editor: llenia Zincone Production Designer: n/a Synopsis: Three's a crowd. A classic love triangle. But what happens if the third isn't human? Or rather, it's made of water, flour and honey? |
Centro Sperimentale di Cinematografia (CSC) | Italy | 14 |
| 41-42 | RELOCATION
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Details:Length: 12'Screenwriter: Yair Fridman Director: Yair Fridman Producer: Yotam Knispel Animator: n/a DOP: Or Dotan Sound: Ruth Dolores Weiss Editor: Nadav Porat-Chomsky Production Designer: n/a Synopsis: Moshe watches in concern when the residents of his nursing home deceased like flies. His daughter got relocated to Cleveland and he's planning to join her while he still can. He packs his last belongings while chatting with his rabbit Haim, and leaves with his suitcases to wait for her. |
Beit Berl College / Faculty of Arts (Beit Berl) | Israel | 13 |
| 41-42 | WHEN THE NEW YEAR COMES
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Details:Length: 30'Screenwriter: Jiang Boyang Director: Jiang Boyang Producer: Jiang Boyang Animator: n/a DOP: Yang Yufei Sound: Cai Xiao Editor: Jiang Boyang Production Designer: n/a Synopsis: XingMei owns a small restaurant in a small town. As the new year is coming , her son, DongDong will come back from a big city with his girlfriend NingNing. How the gap between rich and poor will affect XingMei's life? Does money really play an important role in nowadays society? |
Academy of Film / Hong Kong Baptist University (HKBU) | Hong Kong | 13 |
| 43-48 | CRY, MARIA
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Details:Length: 27'Screenwriter: Naledi Bogacwi Director: Joseph Van Wyk Producer: Rudzani Muthambi Animator: n/a DOP: Brenton du Plessis Sound: Tertius Roach Editor: Tertius Roach Production Designer: n/a Synopsis: After Maria loses her son Thabang (10) to "Nyaope", she sets out to seek justice against the perpetrators. When the system frustrates her, she sets out to personally attain retribution. |
Tshwane University of Technology | South Africa | 12 |
| 43-48 | FORD ESCORT
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Details:TrailerLength: 16' Screenwriter: Pol Cortecans Director: Estel Díaz Producer: Sergi Casamitjana Animator: n/a DOP: Simón García-Miñaur Sound: Júlia Benach Editor: Anaïs Urraca Production Designer: n/a Synopsis: Before Judith's father passed away he promised her that, once she was eighteen, she could have his old Ford Escort. A few months after her eighteenth birthday, Judith decides to retrieve his father's car, but it won't be as easy as she thought. |
Cinema and Audiovisual School of Catalonia (ESCAC) | Spain | 12 |
| 43-48 | KNIGHT OF SAINT GEORGE
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Details:Length: 15'Screenwriter: Rogério Cathalá Director: Marcio Vianna, Rogério Cathalá Producer: Victor Biagioni, Gustavo Chiappetta Animator: n/a DOP: André Queiroz Sound: Anna Magdalena Silva Schlenker, Noábi Arbeláez Hernández, Tomás Franco, Vitor Brandt, Daniel Rodizanski Editor: Marcos Kutinaitis, Victor Biagioni Production Designer: n/a Synopsis: Paulo and Dimas are long-time companions who have always lived in the violent outskirts of Sao Paulo. Yet, reminiscences from the past torment Paulo's mind. Discord arises between them. They must now go separate ways in life. |
University of São Paulo / School of Communications and Arts / Department of Film, Radio and Television (USP) | Brazil | 12 |
| 43-48 | OF THE WILDERNESS
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Details:TrailerLength: 21' Screenwriter: Renu Savant Director: Renu Savant Producer: Shri d. J. Narain Animator: n/a DOP: Riju Das Sound: Chetas Desai Editor: Vijay Kalamkar Production Designer: n/a Synopsis: The film strives to create the symbolic echoes in the story of two girls searching for their imaginary friend, whose invisible quality they associate with the anonymity of the industrial black hole – the water pipe. Another story – an elemental and existential search for water in a dried up river by two migrant workers from the city. The film moves between the lyrical and the referential, the selfreflexive statement and the existential search, ending in an ironic arrival into the real. |
Film and Television Institute of India (FTII) | India | 12 |
| 43-48 | SHADOWBOXER
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Details:Length: 18'Screenwriter: Jannis Lenz Director: Jannis Lenz Producer: Silvia Winzinger Animator: n/a DOP: Jakob Fuhr Sound: Rudolf Pototschnig Editor: Alexander Rauscher Production Designer: n/a Synopsis: Kickboxing is Ahmet’s life. Physical strength is his main source of self-confidence. After committing a violent felony, passing an anti- violence training is his last chance to take his personal and occupational future into his own hands. |
Film Academy Vienna (UMDK) | Austria | 12 |
| 43-48 | SHOT
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Details:Length: 15'Screenwriter: Célio Porto Director: Célio Porto Producer: Julia Menna Barreto Animator: n/a DOP: Phill Whizzman Sound: João Henrique Costa Editor: Célio Porto, Karl Fathi Production Designer: n/a Synopsis: An overreacting screenwriter argues about the ending with the director of his movie. Can a gun change the ending? |
Pontificia Universidade Catolica do Rio de Janeiro (PUC) | Brazil | 12 |
| 49-50 | MORE THAN JUST STRANGERS
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Details:Length: 29'Screenwriter: Twinky MA Tsun Kei Director: Lester Chow Chun Ming Producer: Roy SHEK Yi Ching Animator: n/a DOP: Timothy ТАМ Cheuk Sing Sound: Joanne LAU Yuen Man Editor: Ursula LIN Mei Hung Production Designer: n/a Synopsis: One day, Hung, a factory manager in Mainland China, has received the news of his wife applying for a divorce. Only Hung and his son are left in the family as his wife is away. The two are no more than strangers even though they live under the same roof. |
Hong Kong Academy for Performing Arts / School of Film and Television (HKAPA) | Hong Kong | 11 |
| 49-50 | THE SUMMER OF ABC BURNS
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Details:TrailerLength: 13' Screenwriter: Dannika Horvat Director: Dannika Horvat Producer: Stephanie Westwood Animator: n/a DOP: Harry Hayes Sound: Troy Mauri Editor: Emily Robb Production Designer: n/a Synopsis: In 'The Summer of ABC Burns', Gem realizes there is a lot she doesn't know about her cruel 'best friend', Drew, and learns what must be sacrificed in order to survive in the visceral high school world. |
Swinburne School of Film and Television (SSFT) | Australia | 11 |
| 51-54 | (NOT) LIKE HER
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Details:TrailerLength: 16' Screenwriter: Hash Perambalam Director: Hash Perambalam Producer: Lucy Stonex, Hash Perambalam Animator: n/a DOP: Grant McKinnon Sound: Ande Schurr Editor: Hash Perambalam Production Designer: n/a Synopsis: Maia is the type of fifteen-year-old girl you’d find giggling in the back of any classroom. She’s loud, pretty, crushes on older boys, and hides her insecurities through confrontational behaviour. (Not) like her explores how Maia’s relationship with her dysfunctional, plastic-surgery-addicted mother has contributed to how she sees herself in the world. |
University of Auckland (UoA) | New Zealand | 10 |
| 51-54 | POWER STATE
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Details:TrailerLength: 15' Screenwriter: Joshua Goener Director: Joshua Goener Producer: Zac Black Animator: n/a DOP: Callum Hanley Sound: George Brown, David Wiggett Editor: Jack Gray Production Designer: n/a Synopsis: Brisbane, 1985. A corrupt state government and brutal police force has brought the organized labour movement to its knees. The long standing Premier, Joh Bjelke-Peterson, has moved to privatize the electrical industry, in doing so extending the working week and taking away job security from workers. Martin Andrews, a family man and union leader, finds himself forced into the front lines of a bitter fight for worker's rights and square in the sights of some powerful enemies. |
Griffith Film School (GFS) | Australia | 10 |
| 51-54 | SPLITTING HAIRS
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Details:TrailerLength: 20' Screenwriter: Diana Tatarca Director: Nathalie Abbott Producer: Diana Tatarca Animator: n/a DOP: Nicolas Stylianou Sound: Matt Tume, Louis Cochran Editor: Louis Cochran Production Designer: n/a Synopsis: A twisted femme fatale and her sidekicks try to cure Frank of his fetishistic urges, during a night time train journey in the 1950s. |
Westminster Film BA / University of Westminster (WFS) | United Kingdom | 10 |
| 51-54 | THE COLLECTION
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Details:TrailerLength: 16' Screenwriter: Noah Smith Director: Ian Michael Gullett Producer: Tay Nikonovich Animator: n/a DOP: Claire Busic Sound: Jonathan Gauthier Editor: David Harris Production Designer: n/a Synopsis: Ava, a bored young girl shopping with her parents, wanders off in an antique store. She finds herself locked in the shop’s back room where she discovers a mysterious door that opens to many different places and times. |
University of North Carolina School of the Arts (UNCSA) | United States | 10 |
| 55-58 | BE!
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Details:Length: 13'Screenwriter: Samanta Quevedo Director: Maria Amanda Celi Producer: Catalina Accoto Animator: n/a DOP: Pablo Franco Sound: Evelyn Frosini Editor: Nicolas Sanz Production Designer: n/a Synopsis: Two teenagers, Alexia and Josefina. and a secret love affair. The threatening gossip mixed up with the desire of simply being who they are; along with a misunderstanding that can tear them apart. |
National School of Film Experimentation and Production (ENERC) | Argentina | 9 |
| 55-58 | CALL IT BLUE
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Details:TrailerLength: 13' Screenwriter: Julia Hendrickson, Kelso Gerhard Director: Julia Hendrickson Producer: Alessia Lamonaca Animator: n/a DOP: Julia Hendrickson Sound: Daniel Haack Editor: Daniel Haack Production Designer: n/a Synopsis: An impromptu passenger on Benito's routine door-to-door sales trip forces him to take his nose out of the insurance folder and take in the view. If you’re always looking at the road ahead you’ll miss what you’re passing. |
Toronto Metropolitan University | Canada | 9 |
| 55-58 | JUST LIKE YOU
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Details:TrailerLength: 12' Screenwriter: Lovísa Lára Director: Lovísa Lára, Margrét Buhl Producer: Lovísa Lára, Margrét Buhl, Nanna Höjgaard Grettisdóttir Animator: n/a DOP: Nanna Höjgaard Grettisdóttir Sound: Árni Rúnar Hrólfsson Editor: Nanna Höjgaard Grettisdóttir Production Designer: n/a Synopsis: Dora is a troubled teenager who is disconnected from her parents who want nothing more than for her to talk to them. When she starts displaying dangerous behavior her parents start to wonder is she just a troubled teen or is there something she is hiding. |
Icelandic Film School (IFS) | Iceland | 9 |
| 55-58 | PRELUDE TO A BROKEN HOUSE
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Details:TrailerLength: 29' Screenwriter: Carlos Esteban Godoy Acosta Director: Carlos Esteban Godoy Acosta Producer: Jhazley Pinzón Higuera Animator: n/a DOP: Carlos Mario Mahecha Castañeda Sound: Andrés Montaña Duret Editor: Carlos Esteban Godoy Acosta Production Designer: n/a Synopsis: Isabel is haunted with distasteful ideas of aggression towards her father who looks forward to prove, to his whole family, at any cost, he has the attitude needed to sustain their family's legacy and traditions -the house-, while it warns them it is unbearable to shelter so many heavy loads. |
Escuela de Cine y Televisión / UNAL (ECYTV) | Colombia | 9 |
| 59-63 | BEYOND THE LINE
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Details:TrailerLength: 19' Screenwriter: Emilio Gamal Boutros Director: Emilio Gamal Boutros Producer: Callum Green, Thomas Peace Animator: n/a DOP: Poppy Rogers Sound: Ruben Robinson Editor: Sam Hodge Production Designer: n/a Synopsis: During the 1984 miners' strike, Llewelyn goes back to work to provide for his family. He becomes an outcast in his community and is forced to answer to his brother, the village union representative. |
Bournemouth Film School (AUB) | United Kingdom | 8 |
| 59-63 | CLOUDBERRY
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Details:Length: 12'Screenwriter: Marjaana Auranen Director: Marjaana Auranen Producer: Liisa Koivisto Animator: n/a DOP: Lauri Autere Sound: Samuli Welin Editor: Sasu Riikonen Production Designer: n/a Synopsis: Cloudberry is a short film about the father’s wrong choices and the guilt he is suffering. |
Tampere University of Applied Sciences (TUNI), Degree Programme in Media | Finland | 8 |
| 59-63 | GOSPEL OF ANASYRMA
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Details:TrailerLength: 29' Screenwriter: Elene Naveriani Director: Elene Naveriani Producer: Jean Perret Animator: n/a DOP: Agnes Pakozdi Sound: Philippe Ciompi Editor: Elene Naveriani, Laura Peeters Production Designer: n/a Synopsis: Gabriel a young Georgian man has a love relation with transgender women, Amaia who lives in Tbilisi suburbs. Gabriel is madly in love with her, but the actual social-political context does not allow him to live this love openly. |
Film Department/cinéma du réel - Geneva School of Art and Design (HEAD) | Switzerland | 8 |
| 59-63 | MAZDA
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Details:Length: 14'Screenwriter: Alexis Almström Director: Alexis Almström Producer: Stefan Henriksson, Markus Waltå Animator: n/a DOP: Karin Stenwall Sound: Martin Lindström, Manne Kjellander, Philip Eriksson Editor: Joel Rayner Production Designer: n/a Synopsis: After a brutal police beating, riots has broken out in a suburb of Stockholm. Three friends join up to participate in the riots and to burn cars. Finding themselves trapped in the middle of the riots they are forced to escape, stumbling upon an old Mazda that forces them to take a new turn. |
Stockholm University of the Arts (SKH) | Sweden | 8 |
| 59-63 | WHEN I CLOSE MY EYES
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Details:TrailerLength: 18' Screenwriter: Ann-Julie Vervaeke Director: Ann-Julie Vervaeke Producer: Jurgen Willocx (Earlybirds) Animator: n/a DOP: Grimm Vandekerckhove Sound: Gedeon De Pauw Editor: Ann-Julie Vervaeke Production Designer: n/a Synopsis: Allison (11) keeps holding on to her memories and wants her life to remain the same as before. Since the divorce of her parents, dark thoughts have been bothering Allison. On the way to their new house with her stepfamily, she tries to reach her father. |
Royal Academy of Fine Arts / University College Ghent (KASK) | Belgium | 8 |
| 64-66 | BACK TO BUSINESS
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Details:Length: 24'Screenwriter: Matti Koskinen Director: Olli llpo Salonen Producer: Olli llpo Salonen Animator: n/a DOP: Hannu Käki Sound: Tiia Vestola Editor: Niina Vornanen Production Designer: n/a Synopsis: Juha, 35, has lost his mojo. A gun enters his life and gets Juha's blood pumping again. |
Aalto University School of Arts, Design and Architecture / ELO Film School Helsinki | Finland | 7 |
| 64-66 | THE TWINKLING TIME
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Details:TrailerLength: 9' Screenwriter: Hsu Chia-Wen, Wu Cheng-Hao Director: Wu Cheng-Hao Producer: Tsai An-Lin Animator: n/a DOP: Lo Wav-Ne Sound: Wu Cheng-Hao, Cho Tzu-Lan Editor: Wu Cheng-Hao Production Designer: n/a Synopsis: Pei-Chun, the disciplinary patrol leader, is Kao-Yu's favorite. He tries every trick in the book to have her register him on the misbehavior list But every time when the drillmaster announces the punishment list, his name never shows up. Is Pei-Chun giving him the cold shoulder on purpose, or...? Kao-Yu wonders, with the uncertainty of his expectation, does she feel the same way? |
National Taiwan University of Arts (NTUA) | Taiwan | 7 |
| 64-66 | UNORIGINAL SIN
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Details:TrailerLength: 7' Screenwriter: Trigg Ferrano Director: Trigg Ferrano Producer: Ashlea Patterson Animator: n/a DOP: Eric Sarrantonio Sound: Trigg Ferrano Editor: Nick DeCell Production Designer: n/a Synopsis: Jake just wants to get laid. But when his choice of sex over responsibility indirectly leads to a classmate’s death, Jake re-evaluates his moral standards. |
Florida State University / College of Motion Picture Arts (FSU) | United States | 7 |
| 67-71 | ASSIL & JAD
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Details:Length: 23'Screenwriter: Bane Fakih Director: Bane Fakih Producer: IESAV Animator: n/a DOP: Elias Daaboul Sound: Rami Ouzon Editor: Bane Fakih Production Designer: n/a Synopsis: Assid and Jad, married, decide to have dinner in front of the window to watch their neighbors having sex. This will lead them to a spontaneous, frank and over the top discussion about their marital issues. |
Institut d'études scéniques, audiovisuelles et cinématographiques (IESAV) | Lebanon | 6 |
| 67-71 | CECILY
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Details:Length: 13'Screenwriter: Bruce Cook Director: Mike Johnson Producer: Philippa Warlow Animator: n/a DOP: Thom Burgess Sound: n/a Editor: Adam Risino Production Designer: n/a Synopsis: Sam lives an unfulfilled life in a job he hates, his dream of being an artist forgotten. Stuck in a monotonous routine with no hope of breaking out, this is all shaken up by Cecily, an eight-year-old girl with a straightforward approach to life. |
Northern Film School / Leeds Beckett University (NFS/LBU) | United Kingdom | 6 |
| 67-71 | ON THE SHORES WITH ZARATHUSTRA
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Details:Length: 4'Screenwriter: Yang Zimik Director: Yang Zimik Producer: Whistling Woods International Animator: n/a DOP: Mitesh Parvatneni Sound: Sanidhya Bohra Editor: Nidhi Vora Production Designer: n/a Synopsis: A man follows a person on the beach who's dragging a heavy steel trunk behind him, curious to see what lies within the quiet stranger's chest. |
Whistling Woods International (WWI) | India | 6 |
| 67-71 | PANDEMONIUM
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Details:TrailerLength: 26' Screenwriter: Philippe Van den Eynde Director: Philippe Van den Eynde Producer: RITCS Animator: n/a DOP: Stijn Vanwing Sound: Mathias Pico, Paulo Rietjens Editor: Lotsje De Ridder Production Designer: n/a Synopsis: A girl and her father are confronted with their inner demons and eventually each other. |
Royal Institute for Theatre, Cinema and Sound (RITCS) | Belgium | 6 |
| 67-71 | WHERE THERE IS NOTHING BUT WATER
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Details:Length: 27'Screenwriter: Mohamed Sabbah Director: Mohamed Sabbah Producer: Gabriel Zarazir, Yara Abi Nader Animator: n/a DOP: Karim Ghorayeb Sound: Jean Nassif Editor: Mohamed Sabbah Production Designer: n/a Synopsis: A family is getting disintegrated... A cancer, a loss of memory, a desire and a lot of imagination... under the hypnosis of the song of mermaids... |
Lebanese Academy for Fine Arts / School of Cinema / University of Balamand (ALBA-UOB) | Lebanon | 6 |
| 72-78 | A MERMAID’S TAIL
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Details:TrailerLength: 10' Screenwriter: Athena O’Connor-Lindsey Director: Lorna Truman Producer: Luke Tucker Animator: n/a DOP: George Dallimore Sound: Simon Burdall Editor: Luke Tucker Production Designer: n/a Synopsis: Growing up in a seaside town with her father, Meredith has spent most of her life fantasising about becoming a mermaid. As she grows older her fantasies become stronger merging her two separate worlds into one. |
University of South Wales | United Kingdom | 5 |
| 72-78 | AEQUILIBRIUM
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Details:Length: 28'Screenwriter: Alexandru Badea Director: Alexandru Badea Producer: Ioana Lascar Animator: n/a DOP: Stefania Grigorescu Sound: Andrei Boanta Editor: Razvan Ilinca Production Designer: n/a Synopsis: Apart from quitting her job, nothing much is going on in Daria's life. Although she's trying to find an inner balance, she seems unable to decide what to do next. She's stuck at the crossroads. |
National University of Theatre and Film (UNATC) | Romania | 5 |
| 72-78 | EMERGENCY EXIT
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Details:TrailerLength: 15' Screenwriter: Vladimir Tagić Director: Vladimir Tagić Producer: Tatjana Žeželj Gojković Animator: n/a DOP: Đorđe Arambašić Sound: Predrag Adamović Editor: Nataša Pantić Production Designer: n/a Synopsis: Mr. Stojanovich got his first aid kit stolen. Petar is smoking out the window of his rented room. Mr. Ivanovic has a hearing problem, Luka and Marko are getting into a fight over a football game, Mr. Fillipovic is sent by his wife to buy groceries. At first sight ordinary and not connected stories are revealing the absurd mechanisms of everyday life. |
Fakultet dramskih umetnosti | Serbia | 5 |
| 72-78 | IKAN
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Details:Length: 10'Screenwriter: Fauzi Azman Director: Fauzi Azman Producer: Habibul Rahman Animator: n/a DOP: Ivan Poh Sound: Phyo Ko Ko, Saniel Wong, Jonathan Shin Editor: Muhd Firman Production Designer: n/a Synopsis: IKAN is the story of Meera and her attempt to save a beloved fish farm from closing down. She comes up with new ideas and innovations to help the owner, but his stubbornness in accepting change may spell the end of the fish farm. Will Meera be able to convince him in time? |
Republic Polytechnic - Singapore | Singapore | 5 |
| 72-78 | INANIMATE
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Details:TrailerLength: 18' Screenwriter: George-Alex Nagle Director: George-Alex Nagle Producer: Ana Jimenez Animator: n/a DOP: Adric Watson Sound: Thorn Kellar Editor: Michael Drake Production Designer: n/a Synopsis: When a man wakes up in hospital after a near death experience he sets out to rediscover and face the painful events that brought him there. Told through the lucid perception of the protagonist, Inanimate explores the fractured psyche of a man grappling with the horror of uncertainty and ultimately asks how could you choose to live when there is nothing to live for. |
Australian Film Television and Radio School (AFTRS) | Australia | 5 |
| 72-78 | THE LAST 30 NIGHTS
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Details:TrailerLength: 30' Screenwriter: Esteban Angulo Director: Carolina Vinay Producer: Carolina Vinay, Florencia Di Tomaso Animator: n/a DOP: Esteban Angulo Sound: Mailen Palma Editor: Agustin Armanino Méndez Production Designer: n/a Synopsis: Alfonso and Olivia meet each other at a party and spend one of their best nights. Their worlds change and they continue seeing each other every day, but not for love. |
Universidad de Buenos Aires / Diseño de Imagen y Sonido FADU (UBA) | Argentina | 5 |
| 72-78 | THE WILLOW
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Details:Length: 12'Screenwriter: Jiří Mynařík Director: Jiří Mynařík Producer: Tomas Bata University in Zlín, Faculty of Multimedia Communications Animator: n/a DOP: Matěj Piňos Sound: Samuel Jurkovič Editor: David Lorenz Production Designer: n/a Synopsis: Film adaptation of the Czech classic ballad by Karel Jaromir Erben. "My dear wife, my light, what happens when you sleep each night? Each evening, sound, you go to bed, but in the night it's like you're dead." |
Tomas Bata University in Zlín / Faculty of Multimedia Communications (TBU) | Czech Republic | 5 |
| 79-84 | CHRISTMAS PRESENT
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Details:TrailerLength: 11' Screenwriter: Areum Han Director: Areum Han Producer: Sanjay Pattnaik Animator: n/a DOP: A. Kisnore Kumar Sound: Sudeepta Sadhukhan Editor: Manish Snarma Production Designer: n/a Synopsis: One Christmas day in the near future. Christo, a lonely office worker living in a foreign country, wakes up with a loving wife and an adorable son. Confused about this miraculous appearance (or is it amnesia?); but the love of his family soon warms Christo to the best Christmas ever. |
Satyajit Ray Film and Television Institute (SRFTI) | India | 4 |
| 79-84 | MARTINI SHOT
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Details:Length: 22'Screenwriter: Martin Kazimir Director: Martin Kazimir Producer: FTF VŠMU, executive producer: Róbert Šariščan Animator: n/a DOP: Martin Chlpík Sound: Viktor Krivosudský Editor: Martin Kazimir Production Designer: n/a Synopsis: Sometimes one just really has to make that shot. Young filmmakers attempt to finish their film against all odds. |
Academy of Performing Arts / Film and Television Faculty (VSMU) | Slovakia | 4 |
| 79-84 | THE 'ILLAGE
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Details:TrailerLength: 15' Screenwriter: Irdit Kaso Director: Arian Dalladaku Producer: Academy of Film & Multimedia Marubi Animator: n/a DOP: Alvis Mine Sound: n/a Editor: Mentor Selmani Production Designer: n/a Synopsis: A man and a woman return from America to send flowers to man's parents graveyard in Albania. The history is based on true facts that happened in Albania and its theme is based on loss of identity. |
Academy of Film and Multimedia Marubi (AFMM) | Albania | 4 |
| 79-84 | THE CASE OF THE WOMAN WHO APPEARS DEAD SEVERAL TIMES
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Details:Length: 16'Screenwriter: Nicolás Botana Director: Nicolás Botana Producer: Matilde López Animator: n/a DOP: Diego Pavese Sound: Maximiliano Martínez Editor: Gonzalo Torrens Production Designer: n/a Synopsis: Julio (34) is a policeman in a small town in the Uruguayan countryside. When a dead woman is found, he's called to guard the body at the local morgue; but Julio's link to the case is not only professional. His relationship with this woman is deeper and sick, revealing his darker side ... over and over again. |
Film School of Uruguay (ECU) | Uruguay | 4 |
| 79-84 | THE PRESENT
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Details:TrailerLength: 16' Screenwriter: Tinatin Mumladze Director: Tinatin Mumladze Producer: TAFU Animator: n/a DOP: Erekle Tskhelishvili Sound: Erekle Getsadze, Tinatin Mumladze Editor: Tinatin Mumladze Production Designer: n/a Synopsis: The story in the park in the center of the city. Many people walks through the park, everyone has his own lifestyle, interests and outlook but the atmosphere of the garden and street makes one union of humanity. In capital of Georgia, in tbilisi happen the same things as in any other cities around the world: there are children playing their games, couples in love kissings each other, babysitters walking with babies, pizzadelivery makes his job, professional killer has his routine day. |
Theatre and Film Georgia State University (TAFU) | Georgia | 4 |
| 79-84 | TOXURIA
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Details:Length: 13'Screenwriter: Zi Gao Director: Zi Gao Producer: Zi Gao, Emily Chao Animator: n/a DOP: Constanze Schmitt Sound: Zi Gao, Jerry Summers Editor: Zi Gao Production Designer: n/a Synopsis: Mark goes to see his mother one last time in an attempt to make a family connection that he has never before given or received. Toxuria explores the aftermath of physical and psychological violence within an isolated family and the social structure of modern society. |
CalArts School of Film/Video (CALARTS) | United States | 4 |
| 85-86 | PIECE OF TISSUE
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Details:Length: 11'Screenwriter: Pape Abdoulaye Seck Director: Pape Abdoulaye Seck Producer: Vincent Mellili Animator: n/a DOP: Mamadou Conare Sound: Mathilde Martouzet Editor: Reda Darouzi Production Designer: n/a Synopsis: Amina is traumatized: she goes insane after losing her children. She creates a fake baby that she tries to protect from everyone. Her husband observes, powerlessly, split between his love for his wife and preserving his dignity for his mother. |
Marrakech School of Visual Arts (ESAVM) | Morocco | 3 |
| 85-86 | SPLOTCH
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Details:Length: 7'Screenwriter: Stephen Jangro Director: Stephen Jangro Producer: Stephen Jangro Animator: n/a DOP: Kelly Pike Sound: Stephen Jangro Editor: Stephen Jangro Production Designer: n/a Synopsis: Charlie wakes up in a dark, sinister purgatory-like place with no knowledge or memory of how he got there. All he knows is that he must stop the growing Splotch. |
University of California Los Angeles (UCLA) | United States | 3 |
| 87-93 | BAPTISM
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Details:Length: 15'Screenwriter: Michael Connelly Director: Iveel Mashbat Producer: Dana Lewis Animator: n/a DOP: William Christensen Sound: Spencer Ouellette Editor: Brett Martinson Production Designer: n/a Synopsis: When an abused teenage boy discovers a murder scene and its creator, he tragically and ceremoniously enters into a new way of life. |
Columbia College Chicago (CCC) | United States | 2 |
| 87-93 | BERMUDES
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Details:Length: 11'Screenwriter: Louis Lhomel, Michel Plonka Director: Louis Lhomel Producer: Écoles des medias UQAM Animator: n/a DOP: Ariane Aubin-Cloutier Sound: Balint Demers Editor: Fanie Pelletier Production Designer: n/a Synopsis: Two young skaters, find their lives change the course of one night, after accidentally wounded a roaming. |
University of Québec Montréal / School of Media (UQAM) | Canada | 2 |
| 87-93 | DOOMSDAY
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Details:TrailerLength: 15' Screenwriter: Sara Marković Director: Sara Marković Producer: Dušan Đoković Animator: n/a DOP: Matija Munjiza Petrović Sound: Luka Jočić Editor: Aleksandar Milenković Production Designer: n/a Synopsis: A rebelious soon-to-be father is forced to go shopping in the hypermarket, against his principles. |
Akademija Umetnosti | Serbia | 2 |
| 87-93 | HANG IN THERE
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Details:TrailerLength: 8' Screenwriter: Erkan Uzdur Director: Hayrullah Eker Producer: Murat Demirbilek, Hayrullah Eker Animator: n/a DOP: Berk Kuşbeygi Sound: Samet Yalçın Editor: Hayrullah Eker Production Designer: n/a Synopsis: Ismail is an unsuccessful writer. He has no expectations left of life and has decided to commit suicide. Just as he is about to hang himself, his canary begins to sing from its birdcage. Despite the fact that Ismail had given up on his own life, he could not bear the thought of the canary dying of hunger and thirst because of him. Thus, he begins to search for someone that could look after it. Nobody wants to take care of Ismail’s canary, leading to a new bond to form between the two. |
Istanbul Kultur University (IKU) | Turkey | 2 |
| 87-93 | MANIFEST OF HOPE
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Details:Length: 12'Screenwriter: Anna Hints Director: Anna Hints Producer: Kaspar Ainelo Animator: n/a DOP: Tõnis Tuuga Sound: Ann Reimann Editor: Marion Koppel Production Designer: n/a Synopsis: “Who will you grow up for us to be? A doctor? An architect? A lawyer? A scientist? A politician? Let us call her Hope.“ |
Baltic Film, Media and Arts School, Tallinn University | Estonia | 2 |
| 87-93 | WHEN THE DAY IS OVER
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Details:Length: 14'Screenwriter: Marusia Estrada Zepeda Director: Marusia Estrada Zepeda Producer: Raúl Zendejas Animator: n/a DOP: Alicia Segovia Sound: Daniel González Editor: Marusia Estrada Zepeda Production Designer: n/a Synopsis: Clara, a young and lonely employee on a parking lot. Clara‟s longing is so intense that leads to an unusual and unexpected reunion. |
National School of Film Arts / National Autonomous University of Mexico (ENAC/UNAM) | Mexico | 2 |
| 87-93 | WINTER/SPRING
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Details:TrailerLength: 12' Screenwriter: Bryan Sih Director: Bryan Sih Producer: Vijayta Narang Animator: n/a DOP: Yahna Harris Sound: Roman Perry Editor: Bryan Sih, Navzad Dabu Production Designer: n/a Synopsis: Maria and Florencio have a child on the way, but Maria begins to question Florencio's ability to be a caretaker as their sheep fall prey to a night¬time attacker. The couple experiences a silent but significant re-evaluation of their relationship in the face of oncoming parenthood. |
Boston University / Department of Film and Television | United States | 2 |
| 94-97 | A TURTLE’S LIFE
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Details:Length: 13'Screenwriter: Daria Kurtzeva Director: Daria Kurtzeva Producer: Aleksey Muradov, M2Fproduction Animator: n/a DOP: Robert Filatov Sound: Oleg Ladov, Andrey Tarasenko Editor: n/a Production Designer: n/a Synopsis: Sometimes one little Turtle from your childhood can change your live. Main Hero before his death receive an opportunitiy to return yto his childhood and change his past. What will He choose and why? |
GITR FILM & TELEVISION SCHOOL | Russia | 1 |
| 94-97 | MORDIDA
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Details:Length: 7'Screenwriter: Erick Pulido Director: Rodrigo Pérez Galicia Solís Producer: Giuliana Tomassi & Nuria Palau Animator: n/a DOP: Pablo Sierra Sound: n/a Editor: Perla Gutierrez, Giuliana Tomassi, Rodrigo Pérez Galicia Production Designer: n/a Synopsis: This story tells a common tale in Mexico which is corruption. In this case it´s seen through the eyes of a fat 10 year old boy. The film shows the exact moment on which the boy decides to change his life entirely from being bullied to becoming the bully. |
Universidad Iberoamericana Mexico City (IBERO) | Mexico | 1 |
| 94-97 | PUBERTY
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Details:Length: 8'Screenwriter: Kenneth Lee Director: Kenneth Lee Producer: Cheng Chai Hong Animator: n/a DOP: Daryl Ong Sound: Vivien Koh Editor: Kenneth Lee Production Designer: n/a Synopsis: A pregnant young girl attempts to run away from home to Malaysia to be with her rich boyfriend. Will she be picked up by him to be taken across the border from Singapore, will her dreams be shattered? |
Puttnam School of Film & Animation / LASALLE College of the Arts (LCA) | Singapore | 1 |
| 94-97 | THE LUNAR EFFECT
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Details:Length: 21'Screenwriter: Emma Heino Director: Emma Heino Producer: Claudia Fleege Animator: n/a DOP: Jesse Ekholm Sound: Jonas Paajanen Editor: Jesse Ekholm Production Designer: n/a Synopsis: Thirty-year-old Selena writes romance novels. One night at full moon she starts writing a new novel with a mystical and handsome main character; Quentin Rush. |
ARCADA University of Applied Sciences Department of Culture and Communication / Media Culture Finland | Finland | 1 |
| 98-106 | FOLLOW ME
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Details:TrailerLength: 15' Screenwriter: Albane De Santi, AnaÏs Courson Director: Albane De Santi Producer: 3iS Animator: n/a DOP: Goris Denariaz Sound: Robin Nugue Editor: Benjamin Baran Production Designer: n/a Synopsis: A young girl student, Gaby, left all behind to pursue her university study. Unfortunately, nothing goes as she likes. She has a lot of difficulties to lead a new life. Then she comes into a community which seems to her an ideal flat- share... |
International Institute of Image and Sound (3IS) | France | 0 |
| 98-106 | HAPPY EARTH CO.
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Details:TrailerLength: 12' Screenwriter: Hylton Jandrell Director: Hylton Jandrell Producer: AFDA Animator: n/a DOP: Jake Levy Sound: Joe Vink Editor: Stephanie Traut Production Designer: Jason Broderick Synopsis: Happy Earth Co is a story about entrapment in a so called "free world" in the year 2050. John is a worker for "Happy Earth Co". The company release a miraculous new product,"Ecstatic 1000", a device which guarantees happiness. However, for John and his co-workers the company is not as sincere as it makes out to be. |
South African School of Motion Picture Medium and Live Performance (AFDA) | South Africa | 0 |
| 98-106 | MY WAY, MY FATE
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Details:Length: 29'Screenwriter: Jack Han Director: Jack Han Producer: Damien Lee Animator: n/a DOP: Si Ning Mao Sound: Monki Luo Editor: Jack Han Production Designer: n/a Synopsis: It’s a sad story about the brother-love between two men and their totally different fate in a small town ,1980s China. |
Communication University of China (CUC) | China | 0 |
| 98-106 | PARAFILIA
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Details:TrailerLength: 11' Screenwriter: Ander Aranguren Director: Iñigo Aizpuru Producer: Elena Minaya Animator: n/a DOP: Alberto López Sound: Omar Chom Editor: Iñigo Aizpuru Production Designer: n/a Synopsis: Parafilia was born in Ancient Greece where “Para” means “aside from” and “Filia” means “love”. Parafilia shows the conflict and impulses that everyone has to face in life. The story, rude and cruel, with Freudian influence happens in an unusual psychiatric where nothing is what it seems. Many secrets and immoral instincts are intermingled between patients, monitors and personnel of the institution, although some of them resist to the darkness. |
ESCIVI | Spain | 0 |
| 98-106 | THE ESCAPEE
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Details:Length: 25'Screenwriter: Jonathan Ricquebourg Director: Jonathan Ricquebourg Producer: n/a Animator: n/a DOP: Julien Hogert Sound: Heloise Turlot, Jules Valeur Editor: Arnaud Alain Production Designer: n/a Synopsis: Bilal is sent to apprenticeship to have split paint on a teacher’s car. Nanorou has fed from Cote d’Ivoire to arrive in a juvenile center. He told his story to Bilal. Kalia is looking for a bit of love in Bilal’s arm, but he doesn’t have the word to. |
ENS Louis-Lumière | France | 0 |
| 98-106 | THE PHANTASMIC LILY KING-WILLIAMS
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Details:TrailerLength: 21' Screenwriter: Allison Simmons, Chad Brown Director: Peter Lewis Producer: Elizabeth Velander Animator: n/a DOP: Arthur Eng Sound: Taylor Westbrook Robinson Editor: Juliette Tostain Production Designer: Drew Sherlin Synopsis: A young woman is brought back from the dead to start her singing career and now she must deal with the consequences of fame and immortality. |
VCUarts Cinema (VCU) | United States | 0 |
| 98-106 | THE RITUAL
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Details:Length: 13'Screenwriter: Olivier Medjigbodo Director: Olivier Medjigbodo Producer: ISMA Animator: n/a DOP: Audax Egbohou Sound: Constant Tevoedjre Editor: Gael Ahoudji Production Designer: n/a Synopsis: FATONDJI, the priest of the ORACLE FA, spits out the truth to the king SIYIN at the time of the ORACLE'S consultation. To take vengeance of FATONDJI, SIYIN takes hold of her daughter and banish him from the kingdom. This act causes the the anger of the gods and the king loses sight. |
Higher Institute of Audiovisual Training (ISMA) | Benin | 0 |
| 98-106 | THE WORLD’S BURNING
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Details:TrailerLength: 18' Screenwriter: Sebastiano Piattini Director: Sebastiano Piattini Producer: CISA / Inmagine Animator: n/a DOP: Magdalena Erny Sound: Rico Andriolo Editor: Amos Pellegrinelli Production Designer: n/a Synopsis: Lora wanders into the rainy night.Along the country road lies the gate of an old uninhabited house.This space becomes a refuge from reality and the theater where the overwhelming emotions resurface slowly. |
Academy of Audiovisual Sciences (CISA) | Switzerland | 0 |
| 98-106 | YESTERDAY
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Details:TrailerLength: 13' Screenwriter: Markus Laitinen Director: Henna Välkky Producer: Meeri Hankala Animator: n/a DOP: Sakari Rinta-Valkama Sound: Juuso Heikkilä Editor: Eero Lehtine Production Designer: n/a Synopsis: Forty-year-old Miko tells his story in the same old bar to anyone who would listen. When Miko hears his all-time-favorite song “Yesterday” in the jukebox and accidentally endangers his own child‟s life, he finds out that one can surpass one‟s troubles only by talking about them. |
Metropolia University of Applied Sciences (MUAS) | Finland | 0 |
Documentary
| Place | Title | School | Country | Points |
| 1 | HONEY ON WOUNDS
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Details:Length: 30'Screenwriter: n/a Director: Iulia Stoian Producer: Iulia Stoian Animator: n/a DOP: Iulia Stoian Sound: Neo Amilcar Petersen Editor: Sibila Estruch Production Designer : n/a Synopsis: According to the old law of Kanun war widows in Kosovo are forbidden to remarry, work or lead an independent life outside of their homes. Held back by tradition they are now fighting depression and poverty. |
National FIlm and Television School (NFTS) | United Kingdom | 31 |
| 2 | YAAR
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Details:Length: 19'Screenwriter: n/a Director: Simon Gillard Producer: INSAS — Atelier de Realisation Animator: n/a DOP: n/a Sound: Simon Gillard Editor: Elisa Zurfluh Production Designer : n/a Synopsis: In the heart of the bush where the gravel is hollowed, a stubborn civilisation hunts out its future below the earth's surface. Blind, or perhaps all too seeing, they dig away, night and day, spurred on by the madness that drives man to his death. |
Institut National Supérieur des Arts du Spectacle et Techniques de Diffusion (INSAS) | Belgium | 28 |
| 3 | NORTH EAST HARD WEST
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Details:Length: 24'Screenwriter: n/a Director: Bart van den Aardweg Producer: Michelle Hoekstra Animator: n/a DOP: Antonio Martinez Urbina Sound: Kamila Wójcik Editor: Antonio Martinez Urbina Production Designer : n/a Synopsis: A closely-knit group of adolescent kickboxers trains every day in a boxing gym in the heart of Amsterdam West. Here the youths are confronted by the strict approach of the trainer. The gym offers shelter and is a place for inspiration to strengthen them in the choices they have to make in life. |
Netherlands Film Academy (NFA) | Netherlands | 27 |
| 4-5 | OWAMI - I AM
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Details:Length: 28'Screenwriter: Diana Menestrey Director: Diana Menestrey Producer: Academy of Media Arts Cologne Animator: Animation compositing assistants: Igor Shin Moromisato, Sebastian Gimmel DOP: Diana Menestrey Sound: Ingo Baier Editor: Simon Rittmeier Production Designer : n/a Synopsis: In northern Namibia every personal name is unique. Every name is a little memory that is part of an oral tradition. To tell a name is to reveal a big part of oneself and a small part of heritage. |
Academy of Media Arts Cologne (KHM) | Germany | 25 |
| 4-5 | ULTERIOR
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Details:Length: 9'Screenwriter: Sabrina Muhate Director: Sabrina Muhate Producer: Georgina del Río Animator: n/a DOP: Natali Montell Sound: Sabrina Muhate, Majo Villaseñor Editor: Sabrina Muhate Production Designer : n/a Synopsis: An essay on Death and Life. |
National School of Film Arts / National Autonomous University of Mexico (ENAC/UNAM) | Mexico | 25 |
| 6 | GOING HOME
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Details:Length: 13'Screenwriter: Documentary Concept by Jayesh N Akhargekar Director: Jayesh N Akhargekar Producer: Satyajit Ray Film and Television Institute, India Animator: n/a DOP: Prasoon K Prabhakar Sound: Saanu Purushothaman Editor: Shikha Gupta Production Designer : n/a Synopsis: A mother (Soni) and her six-year-old son (Suraj) live by a railway track in the city of Kolkata, India. As they go about their work and play, a passing train interrupts them, challenging their existence and life in this place. |
Satyajit Ray Film and Television Institute (SRFTI) | India | 24 |
| 7-8 | LOOKING AT THE STARS
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Details:Length: 30'Screenwriter: Alexandre Peralta Director: Alexandre Peralta Producer: Alexis Morrell, Sabrina Chammas Animator: n/a DOP: Guan Xi, Alejandro Ernesto M.F. Sound: Veronica Li Editor: Faroukh Virani Production Designer : n/a Synopsis: A group of talented blind ballerinas inspire audiences to believe anything is possible, at the world’s only ballet school for the blind, in Brazil. |
University of Southern California's School of Cinematic Arts (USC) | United States | 22 |
| 7-8 | VIETNAMESE WIVES FOR CHINESE MEN
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Details:Length: 21'Screenwriter: Li Shan Shan Director: Li Shan Shan Producer: Russian State University of Сinematography n.a. S. Gerasimov (VGIK), Russia Animator: n/a DOP: Xi Bing Sound: Seraphima Vershinina Editor: Li Shan Shan, Alexander Feshchuk Production Designer : n/a Synopsis: Vietnamese women are leaving their homes in the hope of finding happiness in a foreign country. What will their fait be in these distant lands, will they see their relatives again to say whether they have found happiness in their lives, or not? |
Russian State University of Сinematography n.a. S.Gerasimov VGIK | Russia | 22 |
| 9 | SECOND FLOOR
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Details:Length: 20'Screenwriter: n/a Director: Hajni Kis Producer: Miklós Bosnyák, Gábor Osváth Animator: n/a DOP: Mátyás Gyuricza Sound: Dorka Mezõ Editor: Zsófia Ördög Production Designer : Majoros Zsolt Synopsis: An intimate look into the life of a home for the elderly, and the story of a male nurse who tries his best to cheer up the tenants. |
University of Theatre and Film Arts Budapest (SzFE) | Hungary | 20 |
| 10 | IMRAAN C/O CARROM CLUB
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Details:Length: 14'Screenwriter: Udita Bhargava Director: Udita Bhargava Producer: Amit Chandiok Animator: n/a DOP: David Schittek Sound: Christoph Kozik Editor: Olaf Voigtlander Production Designer : n/a Synopsis: In Malwani, Mumbai, most boys can play carom. There are carom clubs scattered across the slum. Imraam, an eleven-year-old, looks after one such carom club. A tiny glimpse into Imraam‟s life on his little planet. |
Film University Babelsberg KONRAD WOLF | Germany | 19 |
| 11 | BEAUTIFUL MOON
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Details:Length: 26'Screenwriter: Pavel Tavares Director: Pavel Tavares, Cecilia Belén Sandoval Producer: Cecilia Belén Sandoval Animator: n/a DOP: Franco Paolino, Benjamín Garay Sound: Pavel Tavares Editor: Maria Gala Blanco Production Designer : n/a Synopsis: The daily life of the guarani village Jasy Porã, more specifically of their children, who are part of a choir. They show an innate wisdom of living in harmony and serenity with the environment. Temporality, the musicality of nature and men mixed, in the jungle of Iguazu, Argentina. |
Universidad de Buenos Aires / Diseño de Imagen y Sonido FADU (UBA) | Argentina | 17 |
| 12 | NO DISTURBANCE
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Details:Length: 15'Screenwriter: n/a Director: Michela Tomasi, Cecilia Bozza Producer: Heidi Gronauer, Lorenzo Paccagnella Animator: n/a DOP: Cecilia Bozza, Michela Tomasi Sound: Michela Tomasi, Cecilia Bozza Editor: Sonja Müller Production Designer : Nadia Caruso, Emanuele Vernillo Synopsis: Hunting is an emotionally purging act for Betty. She achieves a spiritual pleasure by observing the nature around and live side-by-side with wild animals. Through her experience Betty developed a deep sense of respect towards the creatures that live the wood. She feels like a guest in that place, she hunts and she makes it without disturbing. |
ZeLIG - School for Documentary, Television and New Media | Italy | 14 |
| 13-14 | SHOOT ME
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Details:Length: 30'Screenwriter: Narges Kalhor, Benedikt Schwarzer Director: Narges Kalhor, Benedikt Schwarzer Producer: Ferdinand Freising, Benedikt Schwarzer Animator: David Laubsch DOP: Julian Krubasik Sound: Benedikt Schwarzer, Christof Ebhardt, Alexander Würtz Editor: Frank J. Müller Production Designer : n/a Synopsis: An Iranian filmmaker, living in exile in Germany, hears about an exile rapper facing death treats because of one of his songs. The filmmaker encounters fear and has to face her inconvenient memories of suppression in her past in Iran. |
University of Television and Film Munich (HFF) | Germany | 13 |
| 13-14 | THE LAST FAREWELL
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Details:Length: 27'Screenwriter: Wenwei Song Director: Weichao Xu, Siqi Sun Producer: Wenwei Song & Yu Bai Animator: n/a DOP: Weichao Xu Sound: Yu Bai Editor: Weichao Xu, Siqi Sun Production Designer : n/a Synopsis: 60 years ago, Shaolin Zhang met Xiaofeng Xu at a painting club in Jinan. They fell in love before Shaolin was appointed to move to the northwest. 2 years after that, they broke up because of the distance, and were never able to see each other until 60 years later. |
Communication University of China (CUC) | China | 13 |
| 15-17 | BALAZHER. CORRECTING REALITY
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Details:Length: 29'Screenwriter: Lesia Kordonets Director: Lesia Kordonets Producer: Zürcher Hochschule der Künste - Bachelor of Arts in Film Animator: Lesia Kordonets DOP: Lesia Kordonets Sound: Maurizius Staerkle-Drux Editor: Lesia Kordonets Production Designer : n/a Synopsis: A rusted case on wheels. A Ukrainian bus, old in years and kilometers. His service route connects various villages along the border with the EU. He drives through the passing time, with passengers who are between different designs of the reality. |
Zurich University of the Arts / Department of Performing Arts and Film (ZHdK) | Switzerland | 12 |
| 15-17 | BANDIT AND THE RAM
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Details:Length: 25'Screenwriter: Alberto Iordanov Director: Alberto Iordanov Producer: Alberto Iordanov Animator: n/a DOP: Lukasz Kulec Sound: Alberto Iordanov Editor: Alberto Iordanov Production Designer : n/a Synopsis: Doycho is the last person inhabiting a remote village in the heart of the Balkan mountains, where his neighbours are animals and best friend is a Ram. |
Screen Academy Scotland (SAS) | United Kingdom | 12 |
| 15-17 | ONE IN A MILLION
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Details:Length: 30'Screenwriter: Paul Guilhaume Director: Paul Guilhaume Producer: La Fémis Animator: n/a DOP: Paul Guilhaume Sound: Marion Papinot Editor: Suzanne Van Boxsom Production Designer : n/a Synopsis: On the heights of Los Angeles, Nathan, 18, dreams of Hollywood. He seems to be trapped in the strange house he lives in. |
La Fémis | France | 12 |
| 18 | WELL OF SOULS
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Details:Length: 22'Screenwriter: Marta Almeida Director: Filipa Pinto Producer: Bruno Corte-Real Animator: n/a DOP: Inês Nunes Sound: Francisco Costa Editor: Miguel Martins Production Designer : n/a Synopsis: In a cemetery, we watch the workers going about their daily work of perpetuating the lives and memories of all those who wander the premises and are numbed by their own souvenirs. |
Lisbon Theatre and Film School (ESTC) | Portugal | 11 |
| 19-22 | BRUSSELS - MANHATTAN
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Details:Length: 24'Screenwriter: Kwinten Gernay Director: Kwinten Gernay Producer: RITCS Animator: n/a DOP: Ward Collin, Karel Verstreken, Klaas Boelen Sound: Karel Verstreken, Pol Van Laer Editor: Kwinten Gernay Production Designer : n/a Synopsis: In the 60' the working-class neighborhood situated in the North area of Brussels was broken down to build the new business quartier, Manhattan. Joseph 'Kid' Davidt, boxer and grandson of one of the residents tells the history and the changes of the Manhattan district starting from the 40s until today. |
Royal Institute for Theatre, Cinema and Sound (RITCS) | Belgium | 10 |
| 19-22 | COTTON DREAMS
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Details:Length: 14'Screenwriter: Sandeep Rampal Balhara Director: Sandeep Rampal Balhara Producer: Marcin Malatyński Animator: n/a DOP: Jonathan Young, Sunil Balhara Sound: Rafal Nowak Editor: Karol Kubiak Production Designer : n/a Synopsis: Over the past 15 years, more than 250,000 farmers in India have committed suicide as a result of drastic changes in the climate and the development of agricultural technology, they were unable to keep up with transformations, and they fell into debt. This is an empathetic portrait of a poor widow from the village of Thanegaon in Western India whose husband committed suicide after the complete loss of the crops that were to provide for his family. At the same time, it is the story of their loving relationship. |
Polish National Film, Television and Theatre School in Lodz (PWSFTViT) | Poland | 10 |
| 19-22 | KEEP ME SAFE
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Details:Length: 15'Screenwriter: n/a Director: Ellen Fiske, Joanna Karlberg Producer: Stefan Henriksson Animator: n/a DOP: Pia Lehto Sound: Manne Kjellander Editor: Anton Hemgren Production Designer : n/a Synopsis: KEEP ME SAFE is a short documentary about three young girls at Good Shepherd secure unit in Scotland. A place where local authorities send young people with behavioral and emotional problems. A film about life in care, rebuilding trust and to start believing in a future outside. |
Stockholm University of the Arts (SKH) | Sweden | 10 |
| 19-22 | THE WOLF, THE SHIP AND THE LITTLE GREEN BAG
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Details:Length: 14'Screenwriter: n/a Director: Kathryn MacCorgarry Gray Producer: Cullum Carver-Jones Animator: Alice de Barrau, Etienne Gisto Cipriani, Leena Zaher DOP: Julia McGill Sound: Rebecca Babagee Editor: Hannah Jayawardene Production Designer : n/a Synopsis: After meeting ten years ago in a physiotherapy class, Karin, Peggy and Anne, (aged from seventy to ninety four) have become very close friends. As they reflect on their lives, and particularly their adolescent years, they each discuss a particular moment that made them the people they are today. |
Westminster Film BA / University of Westminster (WFS) | United Kingdom | 10 |
| 23 | RIVER MAN
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Details:Length: 16'Screenwriter: n/a Director: Kate Howley Producer: Kate Howley Animator: n/a DOP: Kate Howley Sound: Nick Bedo Editor: Kate How Production Designer : n/a Synopsis: A portrait of the death of American industry. |
School of Visual Arts | United States | 9 |
| 24-27 | 108 WORRIES
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Details:Length: 27'Screenwriter: Markus Wulf Director: Markus Wulf Producer: Markus Wulf Animator: n/a DOP: Janosch Goetze Sound: Jeon Gimi, Eunji Kim Editor: Felix Meyer Production Designer : n/a Synopsis: We, living beings keep creating worries; therefore, we are called: living beings. |
international film school cologne (ifs) | Germany | 8 |
| 24-27 | KOMOREBITATCHI
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Details:Length: 15'Screenwriter: Sophie Perrier, Masanori Omori Director: Sophie Perrier, Masanori Omori Producer: Haute école d'art et de design – Genève Animator: n/a DOP: Masanori Omori Sound: Raphaël Harari, Sophie Perrier Editor: Sophie Perrier Production Designer : n/a Synopsis: Every time they cut a tree, the woodcutters know that they deprive a god of a home, and another young tree must be planted, and maybe it will become a sacred tree too. The ageing population celebrate this event so when the last ihnabitants will be dead, the god of the forest will keep being a proof of the axistence of those who use to venerate them. |
Film Department/cinéma du réel - Geneva School of Art and Design (HEAD) | Switzerland | 8 |
| 24-27 | THE HEART THIEF
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Details:Length: 9'Screenwriter: Ella Rubeli Director: Ella Rubeli Producer: Stacey Kwijas Animator: n/a DOP: Burak Oguz Saguner Sound: Lana Kristensen Editor: Jenna Bowden Production Designer : n/a Synopsis: In this untold true crime thriller set in Sydney Hospital in 1956, a doctor and his assistant become unlikely criminals when their passion for pioneering heart transplant leads them to commit a heinous act. |
Australian Film Television and Radio School (AFTRS) | Australia | 8 |
| 24-27 | THE HOUSE OF OPEN ARMS
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Details:Length: 26'Screenwriter: Maja Križnik Director: Maja Križnik Producer: Jožica Blatnik Animator: n/a DOP: Uroš Hočevar Sound: Tristan Peloz Editor: Jaka Krivec Production Designer : n/a Synopsis: The documentary deals with questions of human transience and the meaning of »preparations« for passing away that take place daily in a Hospice house. The »House of Open Arms« is open to patients with chronic illnesses without hope of recovery, who are treated by a team of selfless experts and volunteers. With their work they create an opportunity for a dignified and compassionate acceptance of death as a necessary part of human life. |
University of Ljubljana / Academy of Theatre, Radio, Film and Television (AGRFT) | Slovenia | 8 |
| 28-31 | CHANGING PLACE OF MAKING
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Details:Length: 16'Screenwriter: n/a Director: Jack Weisman Producer: Rodrigo Michelangeli Animator: n/a DOP: Jack Weisman, Rodrigo Michelangeli Sound: Rex King, Hon Ho Editor: Jack Weisman Production Designer : n/a Synopsis: The film is a process of understanding inherent legacies passed from one generation to another. Through examining the dynamics between the director‟s father and his craft, perceiving his legacy. Creativity is not a chosen activity. |
York University Department of Film - Fine Arts | Canada | 7 |
| 28-31 | FAITH
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Details:Length: 13'Screenwriter: Hristina Sheyretova Director: Hristina Sheyretova Producer: National Academy for Theatre & Film Arts (NATFA) “Krustyo Sarafov” Animator: n/a DOP: Elena Nikolaeva Sound: n/a Editor: Martin Savov Production Designer : n/a Synopsis: Marina is the mother of Yana, a child which suffers from a very rare genetic disease called EB (Epidermolysis Bullosa). She tells the story about their first encounter with the sickness and life with it. |
National Academy for Theatre and Film Arts (NATFA) | Bulgaria | 7 |
| 28-31 | RED
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Details:Length: 21'Screenwriter: Samantha André Director: Samantha André Producer: Samantha André Animator: n/a DOP: Samantha André, Malina Fagan, Ryan Westra Sound: Dan McDonald Editor: Samantha André, Malina Fagan Production Designer : n/a Synopsis: A retrospective documentary about the life and last days of Lanny “Red” Giesler. |
Chapman University / Dodge College of Film and Media Arts | United States | 7 |
| 28-31 | THE NICE HOUSE
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Details:Length: 22'Screenwriter: n/a Director: Louise Turley Producer: n/a Animator: n/a DOP: Louise Turley Sound: Irene Metter Editor: Louise Turley Production Designer : n/a Synopsis: The Nice House tells Rosie‟s story: how the man she fell in love with would one day murder their only son. |
VCA Film and Television | Australia | 7 |
| 32-34 | A-22103 AIDE MEMOIRE
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Details:Length: 26'Screenwriter: Yonatan Geron, Maya Zack Director: Yonatan Geron Producer: Yonatan Geron Animator: n/a DOP: Yonatan Geron Sound: Ron Cohen Editor: Yonatan Geron Production Designer : n/a Synopsis: A 22 years old Holocaust video testimony by Yudith Arnon, a past choreographer, constitute a starting point to a nonlinear story line and explores new findings and personal artistic commentary by the director and the main characters in her private and professional life in order to preserve, understand and spread her unique story. |
Bezalel Academy of Arts and Design Jerusalem (BAAD) | Israel | 6 |
| 32-34 | EARTHWORM SEASON
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Details:Length: 17'Screenwriter: n/a Director: Nadim Hejeili Producer: IESAV Animator: n/a DOP: Nadim Hejeili Sound: Nadim Hejeili Editor: Nadim Hejeili Production Designer : n/a Synopsis: After discovered his family archives the director of the movie seeks to understand the story of his family. A history unfolds, one of wars, fear and hiding: but also one of children, family gatherings and rare occasions of happiness. Untold memories and unrevealed truth hides behind the testimony of the director's mother. |
Institut d'études scéniques, audiovisuelles et cinématographiques (IESAV) | Lebanon | 6 |
| 32-34 | TO FACE WILD ANIMALS
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Details:Length: 8'Screenwriter: Jerónimo Quevedo Director: Jerónimo Quevedo Producer: Universidad del Cine Animator: n/a DOP: Victoria Pereda Sound: Milton Rodriguez Editor: Jerónimo Quevedo Production Designer : n/a Synopsis: Miss Chile‟85 has been kidnapped by Tarzan: king of the jungle and maximum exponent of patriot anti - Pinochet command. |
Universidad del Cine (UCINE) | Argentina | 6 |
| 35-38 | A PLACE GOOD ENOUGH
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Details:Length: 16'Screenwriter: n/a Director: Emilie Norenberg Producer: Emilie Norenberg Animator: n/a DOP: Sirus f Gahan Sound: Olly Gale Editor: Emilie Norenberg Production Designer : n/a Synopsis: Far up in the Norwegian mountains lies Skåbu – Northern Europe‟s highest village, where six hundred inhabitants live everyday surrounded by breathtakingly beautiful nature. With short Nordic days and icy temperatures, life is lived thoroughly and properly: wood chopped for fire, deer hunted for dinner and wool knitted for warmth. Peeking into the lives of the individuals that call these mountains their home, following their adventures into the boreal forests, their communal activities and their isolated everyday lives, the film observes a very different way of life. |
Bournemouth Film School (AUB) | United Kingdom | 5 |
| 35-38 | DAVID 555 DAVID
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Details:Length: 18'Screenwriter: n/a Director: Rony Kahana Producer: n/a Animator: n/a DOP: Rony Kahana Sound: n/a Editor: Gal Shani Production Designer : n/a Synopsis: David, a recently divorced 54-years-old quadriplegic, is looking for love through online dating sites. Since the divorce and the move to a new apartment, David is feeling alone and isolated. When his daughter offers to make a documentary about him he agrees hoping that it will bring them closer together. |
The Steve Tisch School of Film and Television (TAU) | Israel | 5 |
| 35-38 | SEE YOU, CHINESE WRESTLING
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Details:Length: 30'Screenwriter: Cen Lan Director: Cen Lan Producer: Xie Xiaojing Animator: n/a DOP: Cen Lan, Liu Jianxin Sound: Wu Zijie Editor: Cen Lan Production Designer : Zhang Huijun Synopsis: During 1970s and 1980s, Chinese style wrestling swept over China, particularly in Beijing, Hebei,Shanxi and Inner Mongolia. This period was the golden age of wrestling in China.By chance, We got to know Li Deshun, once a great wrestler, and his intricate stories. This documentary records glorious past of the three brothers of the Li's (Li Deshun, Li Dewen and Li Deren) and uncovers the life experiences of a generation of wrestlers. |
Beijing Film Academy (BFA) | China | 5 |
| 35-38 | THE STORY OF MOLLIE ROSE
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Details:Length: 26'Screenwriter: Juraj Klaudiny Director: Juraj Klaudiny Producer: Tomas Bata University in Zlín, Faculty of Multimedia Communications Animator: n/a DOP: Juraj Klaudiny Sound: Thomas Robert Editor: Juraj Klaudiny Production Designer : n/a Synopsis: When you find the one who cares about you, who kisses you like nobody else and opens wide their arms to embrace you, it's like a dream come true. But what happens if one morning something changes and you awake to the sound of the voice of the one you love, saying: "I don't want you anymore, pack your stuff and go!" |
Tomas Bata University in Zlín / Faculty of Multimedia Communications (TBU) | Czech Republic | 5 |
| 39-43 | GOKANOSHO: LOST IN TIME
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Details:Length: 14'Screenwriter: Caleb De Leon Director: Caleb De Leon Producer: Isabel Stanfield Animator: n/a DOP: Sean Ryan Sound: Peta Hoskins Editor: Harold Neale Production Designer : n/a Synopsis: The Japanese district of Gokanosho is one of the most beautiful places on earth, so why are only 10 children every year born in the region. |
Griffith Film School (GFS) | Australia | 4 |
| 39-43 | HERE COMES THE TRAIN
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Details:Length: 15'Screenwriter: Igor Husak Director: Igor Husak Producer: Igor Husak Animator: n/a DOP: Antonio Pozojević Sound: Tihomir Vrbanec Editor: Karla Folnović Production Designer : n/a Synopsis: Two years after railroad reconstruction, train triumphantly returns to city of Daruvar, to connect it with the rest of the Croatia. After big welcome party, train station returns to its everyday life - empty train and terminal. |
Academy of Dramatic Art Zagreb (ADU) | Croatia | 4 |
| 39-43 | MOSAIC
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Details:Length: 29'Screenwriter: Stefan Krasić Director: Stefan Krasić Producer: Sonja Krasić, Zoran Krasić, Dušan Đoković Animator: n/a DOP: Ljubiša Jovanović Sound: Stefan Krasić Editor: Stefan Krasić Production Designer : n/a Synopsis: My grandma, Gordana, constantly complains that she is lonely. I am willing to understand her, knowing that maybe one day I will be old and lonely too. But, there is something I don't understand: almost every day she has someone around her and she is not lonely at all. |
Akademija Umetnosti | Serbia | 4 |
| 39-43 | PHOTOFINISH - A SEASON AT THE RACES
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Details:Length: 30'Screenwriter: Chiara Campara, Davide Cipolat, Giovanni Dall'Avo Manfroni, Lorenzo Faggi Director: Chiara Campara, Davide Cipolat, Giovanni Dall'Avo Manfroni, Lorenzo Faggi Producer: Chiara Campara, Davide Cipolat, Giovanni Dall'Avo Manfroni, Lorenzo Faggi Animator: n/a DOP: Chiara Campara, Davide Cipolat, Giovanni Dall'Avo Manfroni, Lorenzo Faggi Sound: Chiara Campara, Davide Cipolat, Giovanni Dall'Avo Manfroni, Lorenzo Faggi Editor: Chiara Campara, Davide Cipolat, Giovanni Dall'Avo Manfroni, Lorenzo Faggi Production Designer : n/a Synopsis: No more crowded audiences nor the glamourous atmospheres of the past. Lately for Italian horseracing even the money is lacking. But despite this general decadence - or perhaps because of it - this world still has something to tell. A film about men and animals, passion for races and departures with no turning back. |
Milan City Film School Luchino Visconti (MCSC) | Italy | 4 |
| 39-43 | WANDERING RABBI
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Details:Length: 14'Screenwriter: Henry Wiener Director: Henry Wiener Producer: Henry Wiener Animator: n/a DOP: Henry Wiener Sound: Henry Wiener Editor: Henry Wiener Production Designer : n/a Synopsis: A young, traveling rabbi makes his way through the American South, struggling to breathe life back into dwindling rural Jewish congregations. |
Stanford University | United States | 4 |
| 44-52 | ABU FUAD
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Details:Length: 27'Screenwriter: Jani Ilomăki Director: Jani Ilomăki Producer: Jani Ilomăki Animator: n/a DOP: Jani Ilomăki Sound: Pyry Survo Editor: Emmi Myllärinen Production Designer : n/a Synopsis: Fouad Hanafi-Eweiss moved to Finland from Egypt in 1972. The Finns were afraid of him and many acted aggressively to him. By working hard in his kebab restaurant he finally got accepted in Finnish society, but he didn’t really see his children grow up. |
Tampere University of Applied Sciences (TUNI), Degree Programme in Media | Finland | 3 |
| 44-52 | AFTERLIFE ARCHITECTS
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Details:Length: 9'Screenwriter: Elyss Tai Huay Wen Director: Elyss Tai Huay Wen Producer: Zanne Siek Animator: n/a DOP: Matthew Chaisit Tan Sound: Phoebe Low Editor: Phoebe Low Production Designer : n/a Synopsis: Making paper offerings for funeral rites is time-consuming, and one Singapore family has been in this trade for over 30 years. How will such an esoteric occupation weather the future? Join the Toh brothers as they take you through a colourful process and hear their thoughts of the future. |
Ngee Ann Polytechnic / School of Film & Media Studies | Singapore | 3 |
| 44-52 | ALEX THE MAGNIFICENT
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Details:Length: 13'Screenwriter: n/a Director: Robert Monk Davis Producer: Robert Monk Davis Animator: n/a DOP: Lindsay Trapnell Sound: Nicholas O’Bradovich, Michael McMenomy Editor: Robert Monk Davis Production Designer : n/a Synopsis: Fed up with his life, Alex Martin gives up all his worldly possessions to hitchhike across the country, trying to live off the kindness of strangers. |
Columbia University | United States | 3 |
| 44-52 | ARGUMENTS
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Details:Length: 20'Screenwriter: n/a Director: Andran Abramjan Producer: n/a Animator: n/a DOP: Andran Abramjan Sound: Andran Abramjan, Radim Lapčík Editor: Andran Abramjan Production Designer : n/a Synopsis: A debating contest meets a telephone call by Vladimir Zhirinovsky to the Ukrainian ministry of the interior. A conceptual play shows diplomacy at different states of mind, but still trying to catch the opponent. |
Film and Television School / Academy of Performing Arts in Prague (FAMU) | Czech Republic | 3 |
| 44-52 | REMEMBERING THE CHAMPION
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Details:Length: 14'Screenwriter: Shivam Sharma Director: Shivam Sharma Producer: Shri d. J. Narain Animator: n/a DOP: Rohit Garge Sound: Kapil Dev Singh Editor: Krishna Lohani Production Designer : n/a Synopsis: This documentary film chronicles the journey of Mr. Sheri Bhathena also known as the 'Wizard on Wheels' from Pune. Mr. Bhathena was an avid racer in his glory days and he along with his brothers ruled the racing scene in India. He now runs a modest garage at Pune but his love for these mean-machines remains intact to this day. |
Film and Television Institute of India (FTII) | India | 3 |
| 44-52 | ROMANIAN
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Details:Length: 24'Screenwriter: Artur Boruzs Director: Artur Boruzs Producer: UNATC “I.L.Caragiale” Animator: n/a DOP: Cosmin Filisan Sound: Cristian Radu Editor: Cristian Radu Production Designer : n/a Synopsis: Somewhere in Romania, a man recreates a depth of a cave atmosphere, through art. |
National University of Theatre and Film (UNATC) | Romania | 3 |
| 44-52 | SECRETS OF THE NIGHT
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Details:Length: 12'Screenwriter: Stephan de Villiers Director: Stephan de Villiers Producer: AFDA Animator: n/a DOP: Isaac Nkhatho, Lindani Gumede Sound: Christopher Stonall Editor: Karien van Bijon, Skhumbuzo Dlomo, Omphile Rapoo Production Designer : n/a Synopsis: Secrets of the Night documents the confessions of an ex- male prostitute and drug addict in South Africa, tracing his life from his early childhood in Durban and leading to the seedy life of drugs and prostitution in Johannesburg. |
South African School of Motion Picture Medium and Live Performance (AFDA) | South Africa | 3 |
| 44-52 | STREET SCALE
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Details:Length: 23'Screenwriter: Jovana Filipović Director: Jovana Filipović Producer: n/a Animator: n/a DOP: Feđa Hadžić Sound: Marko M. Vučković Editor: Jovana Filipović Production Designer : n/a Synopsis: A walk on the streets of Belgrade where talented children and academy educated professionals, rebels and adventurists make their living by creating a unique atmosphere of Belgrade. These are stories of their everyday fight for a place on the street music scale. |
Fakultet dramskih umetnosti | Serbia | 3 |
| 44-52 | THE STARS
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Details:Length: 25'Screenwriter: Jessica Desjardins Director: Jessica Desjardins Producer: Écoles des medias UQAM Animator: n/a DOP: Matthew Wolkow Sound: Jessica Desjardins, Adrien Bukowski, Valérie Nantel Editor: Camille Poirier Production Designer : n/a Synopsis: Among the best in women's hockey, these talented, powerful and courageous athletes try, by all means, to live and share their passion despite the obstacles they face. More than ever, the Montreal Stars inspire fans and redefine the image of the national sport. |
University of Québec Montréal / School of Media (UQAM) | Canada | 3 |
| 53-59 | APPARITIONS
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Details:Length: 23'Screenwriter: María Luz Olivares Capelle Director: María Luz Olivares Capelle Producer: María Luz Olivares Capelle, David Eisl, Stephan Podest Animator: n/a DOP: María Luz Olivares Capelle, Lucia Hoffer, Serafin Spitzer, Almut Schilling Sound: Lenja Gahtman Editor: Svenja Plaas Production Designer : n/a Synopsis: „Apariciones“ is a cinematographic essay on the question of what are apparitions, or what might they be. It’s a filmed documentation of the verbs “to appear” and “to disappear”. This film challenges itself by trying to make visible und perceptible these unseizable and sometimes invisible subjects. Apariciones is a collage-shortfilm, an associative definition, a visual thinking process, a physics of illusions. |
Film Academy Vienna (UMDK) | Austria | 2 |
| 53-59 | FELT UP
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Details:Length: 4'Screenwriter: n/a Director: Alexandra Cox Producer: Alexandra Cox Animator: n/a DOP: Alexandra Cox Sound: Alexandra Cox, Kyle Miller Editor: Kyle Miller Production Designer : n/a Synopsis: Young people give testimonies about their first sexual experiences by speaking through felt puppets. |
Columbia College Chicago (CCC) | United States | 2 |
| 53-59 | INSIDE THE HOUSES
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Details:Length: 19'Screenwriter: n/a Director: Ananda Campana Producer: Pedro José Moura Animator: n/a DOP: José Edurado Zepka, Leonardo do Valle Sound: João Henrique Costa, Eduardo Sant Anna Editor: Ananda Campana Production Designer : n/a Synopsis: Two housemaids share their life lessons, dreams and achievements from being an orphan to becoming a ruler of one’s own life. |
Pontificia Universidade Catolica do Rio de Janeiro (PUC) | Brazil | 2 |
| 53-59 | IRJA AND KALLE
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Details:Length: 14'Screenwriter: Rickard Stolpe Director: Rickard Stolpe Producer: Mia Holmberg Animator: n/a DOP: Axel Nordman Sound: Liina Johansson Editor: Rickard Stolpe Production Designer : n/a Synopsis: Kalle 92 and Irja 85 met at the home for the elderly. |
ARCADA University of Applied Sciences Department of Culture and Communication / Media Culture Finland | Finland | 2 |
| 53-59 | MAZAL MEANS LUCK
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Details:Length: 28'Screenwriter: n/a Director: Mazal Ben-Yishai Producer: Mazal Ben-Yishai Animator: n/a DOP: Mazal Ben-Yishai Sound: n/a Editor: Reut Ketii Production Designer : n/a Synopsis: The young director of the film, who was raised by her grandparents while in continuous contact with her parents, tells the unusual and thought-provoking story of her remarkable family. |
Ma'aleh School of Film, Television and the Arts (MAALE) | Israel | 2 |
| 53-59 | THE SPACE BETWEEN
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Details:Length: 15'Screenwriter: n/a Director: Zoe Sandoval Producer: Zoe Sandoval Animator: ROb Herman, Francis Bade, Ioan Pricop DOP: Cindy Mimi Phan Sound: Mike Simpson Editor: Carr Thompson Production Designer : n/a Synopsis: A documentary about Michael R. Evans and his theory on the geometry of light. |
University of California Los Angeles (UCLA) | United States | 2 |
| 53-59 | YUCCA
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Details:Length: 19'Screenwriter: George Gkonos Director: George Gkonos Producer: George Gkonos Animator: n/a DOP: George Gkonos Sound: George Gkonos Editor: George Gkonos Production Designer : n/a Synopsis: A love story unfolds while touring around the balconies of Athens. |
Hellenic Cinema and Television School Stavrakos (HCTSS) | Greece | 2 |
| 60-61 | A SEAT WITH A VIEW
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Details:Length: 11'Screenwriter: Kaisa El Ramly Director: Kaisa El Ramly Producer: Kaisa El Ramly Animator: n/a DOP: Jonatan Sundstrom Sound: Vili Laitinen Editor: Inka Lahti Production Designer : n/a Synopsis: A Seat with a View is a film that takes us on a journey with three children sitting as passengers on a bicycle. It is a depiction of those mythical moments experienced along the way: what is seen and what thoughts are aroused by being "onboard". |
Aalto University School of Arts, Design and Architecture / ELO Film School Helsinki | Finland | 1 |
| 60-61 | BLACK YOGURT
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Details:Length: 13'Screenwriter: Racha Taki Director: Racha Taki Producer: Racha Taki Animator: n/a DOP: Ahmed Al Amoudi Sound: Paul Alouf Editor: Racha Taki Production Designer : n/a Synopsis: Aisha is a Syrian little girl living in one of Lebanon's refugee camps. Suffering from all kinds of inhuman conditions, she dares to dream like every other child. |
Lebanese Academy for Fine Arts / School of Cinema / University of Balamand (ALBA-UOB) | Lebanon | 1 |
| 62-74 | INVISIBLE
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Details:Length: 14'Screenwriter: Dylan Pelgrims Director: Dylan Pelgrims Producer: Dylan Pelgrims Animator: n/a DOP: Carl Van Baelen Sound: Sidney Van Wichelen (Recording) - Gertjan Van Damme (Mixing) Editor: Gertjan Van Damme Production Designer : n/a Synopsis: A documentary self-portrait where I show myself in my habitat and use archive footage to show how my home situation was with my mother. It's about the diagnose I received of ADD and how it affected the people around me like my friends, family and ex-girlfriend. |
LUCA School of Arts (LUCA) | Belgium | 0 |
| 62-74 | LAST HANDS
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Details:Length: 7'Screenwriter: Ahmet Bikiç Director: Ahmet Bikiç Producer: Nagihan Çakar Animator: n/a DOP: Ahmet Bikiç Sound: Seyithan Kızıl Editor: Ahmet Bikiç Production Designer : n/a Synopsis: In this fairy tale, there are many hands, these hands allow for the fairy tale to live on those hands, like the way time imprints itself treat many materials found in nature with great mastery…There are many hands who teach without a flitch for many years. and there are many young ones, who are waiting to learn… |
Istanbul Kultur University (IKU) | Turkey | 0 |
| 62-74 | LIFE OF BEN
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Details:Length: 20'Screenwriter: WU Boping Director: WU Boping Producer: WU Boping Animator: n/a DOP: WU Boping Sound: WU Boping Editor: WU Boping Production Designer : n/a Synopsis: Ben's been living in Hong Kong for five year. He studied here, working in here and got married here. He felt a lot of pressure, meanwhile filled with joy. At the age of 30, not only he has his own career ha even purchased his second real estate property in Hong Kong. What's surprising is his second child is coming. This documentary is to present the life of Ben to the audience, to let them taste his life in Hong Kong. |
Academy of Film / Hong Kong Baptist University (HKBU) | Hong Kong | 0 |
| 62-74 | LUNCH MENU
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Details:Length: 27'Screenwriter: Simona Schurdáková Director: Simona Schurdáková Producer: FTF VŠMU, executive producer: Peter Vlkovič Animator: n/a DOP: Peter Vlkovič, Jozef Šimko, Ján Križovenský Sound: Peter Vlkovič, Gregor Haneš, Stanislav Králik Editor: Paula Ďurinová Production Designer : n/a Synopsis: The director sneaks a look at the everyday dining of various people who talk about their current life situation that bothers, cheers, intrigues or annoys them. The life cycle starting from childhood up to old age is a great process that we just undergo, start or end. However, we always experience similar lures or worries. We are moved forward by our first decisions and mates, and we will either benefit from them or they will become our nightmares. |
Academy of Performing Arts / Film and Television Faculty (VSMU) | Slovakia | 0 |
| 62-74 | NEVER FORGOTTEN
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Details:Length: 24'Screenwriter: Michael Shipman Director: Michael Shipman Producer: Michael Shipman Animator: n/a DOP: Michael Shipman Sound: Michael Shipman Editor: Michael Shipman Production Designer : n/a Synopsis: Lisa Ann Maynard and World War I expert, Dave Bedford, explore the story of Lisa's great uncle, Army Sergeant Paul Maynard, in an effort to ensure that his legacy, and the legacies of the half million Americans who fell during the First World War, are never forgotten. |
American University | United States | 0 |
| 62-74 | PEDALLING ON
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Details:Length: 5'Screenwriter: Ilona Hiltunen Director: Ilona Hiltunen Producer: Mikko Lehtonen Animator: n/a DOP: Patrik Sundberg Sound: Oona Ylönen Editor: Enni Punkkinen Production Designer : n/a Synopsis: Pedaling on is a documentary about a change that effects over 300 000 people in Finland. During the change what kind of thoughts and emotions people go through. |
Metropolia University of Applied Sciences (MUAS) | Finland | 0 |
| 62-74 | RIGHT HERE WAITING
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Details:Length: 10'Screenwriter: n/a Director: Xiaoxiao Chen Producer: Xiaoxiao Chen Animator: n/a DOP: Xiaoxiao Chen Sound: Xiaoxiao Chen Editor: Xiaoxiao Chen Production Designer : n/a Synopsis: An old farmer lives alone in a small village because his child has gone to the city to work (a typical phenomenon in China) is hoping for his son‟s return. Will his son come back? |
Loyola Marymount University / School of Film and Television (LMU) | United States | 0 |
| 62-74 | SAMAPTI: LOVE IN ASHES
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Details:Length: 21'Screenwriter: Tila Datta, Anjali Nair Director: Tariq Mehmet, Benjamin Theodore Rowe Producer: Whistling Woods International Animator: n/a DOP: Daniel James Crittenden, Altamash Raza Khan Sound: Abhinav Agnihotri Editor: Kyle Griffin, Vini N Raj Production Designer : n/a Synopsis: Co production between Calgary and Whistling Woods International. |
Whistling Woods International (WWI) | India | 0 |
| 62-74 | SWEET ORANGES
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Details:Length: 18'Screenwriter: n/a Director: Nora Sweeney Producer: Nora Sweeney Animator: n/a DOP: Nora Sweeney Sound: Nora Sweeney Editor: Nora Sweeney Production Designer : n/a Synopsis: Exploring idyllic rural California, I meet Jaime, Blanca and Hugo, a group of orange pickers from Michoacan, Mexico, who share with me their songs, dreams, aspirations, and thoughts about work. |
CalArts School of Film/Video (CALARTS) | United States | 0 |
| 62-74 | THAT’S THAT (THE THREE LOVES OF VALA)
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Details:Length: 16'Screenwriter: Santa Aumeistere Director: Santa Aumeistere, Simon Pax McDowell, Zak Campbell Producer: Santa Aumeistere Animator: n/a DOP: Zak Campbell Sound: Simon Pax McDowell Editor: Simon Pax McDowell Production Designer : n/a Synopsis: Valentīna lives in an isolated mental health institution in Latvia. This documentary explores her relationships with her brother, husband and closest friend, who live there too. With this glimpse into their lives, we realise that this is not a film about “crazy” people - It is a film about people. |
University of South Wales | United Kingdom | 0 |
| 62-74 | THE IMPASSIONED: A DOCUMENTARY ON THE GREATEST FANS IN THE WORLD
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Details:Length: 19'Screenwriter: Stephen Hosier Director: Stephen Hosier Producer: Stephen Hosier, Deidter Stadnyk, Lucas Ford Animator: n/a DOP: Nikolay Michaylov Sound: n/a Editor: Stephen Hosier Production Designer : n/a Synopsis: A character exploration into the fandom that surrounds the Toronto Maple Leafs and the infamous loyalty devoted to the team. |
Toronto Metropolitan University | Canada | 0 |
| 62-74 | TRI-INDUSTRY
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Details:Length: 14'Screenwriter: Jeanne Piatier Director: Jeanne Piatier Producer: ENSAV Animator: n/a DOP: Charly Caillaux, Jeanne Piatier Sound: Hugo Rossi, Jeanne Piatier Editor: Jeanne Piatier Production Designer : n/a Synopsis: Tri-industry symbolizes the dehumanization engendered by the functioning of a ski resort. |
ENSAV | France | 0 |
| 62-74 | WATER
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Details:Length: 13'Screenwriter: Manuel Carneiro Director: Manuel Carneiro Producer: Manuel Carneiro Animator: n/a DOP: Manuel Carneiro Sound: Manuel Carneiro Editor: Manuel Carneiro Production Designer : n/a Synopsis: Water doesn‟t stop. Instead, it keeps running, running in a closed cycle, in a universal cycle. In its very own and only symbolic cycle. |
Universidade Lusófona / Film and Media Arts Department (ULHT) | Portugal | 0 |
Animation
| Place | Title | School | Country | Points |
| 1 | THE BIGGER PICTURE
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Details:Length: 8'Screenwriter: Co-writer: Jennifer Majka Director: Director/Co-writer: Daisy Jacobs Producer: Christopher Hees Animation: Daisy Jacobs DOP: Max Williams Sound: Jonas Jensen Editor: Vera Simmonds Production Designer : Elo Soode Synopsis: Two sons; one elderly mother; no end in sight. ‘The Bigger Picture’ uses giant animated characters in life-size sets to tell the stark and darkly humorous tale of caring for an ageing parent. |
National FIlm and Television School (NFTS) | United Kingdom | 105 |
| 2 | WHOLE
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Details:Length: 12'Screenwriter: Carina Kamper, William Reynish Director: William Reynish Producer: Lina Flint Animation: Character animation by: Lea Boje, Rasmus Brinck, Anne Moth Larsen, Steffen Christensen, Kirsten Bay DOP: Louise McLaughlin Sound: Philip Flindt Editor: Carla Luffe Production Designer : n/a Synopsis: Mira has a headache and feels hollow inside. Her friend Ingeborg attempts to help Mira, but as Mira meets the shaman Uhlrik, a more holistic solution arises. |
National Film School of Denmark (DDF) | Denmark | 38 |
| 3-4 | GRANDMA
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Details:Length: 7'Screenwriter: Karolien Raeymaekers Director: Karolien Raeymaekers Producer: Karolien Raeymaekers Animation: Karolien Raeymaekers DOP: n/a Sound: Ruben De Gheselle Editor: Karolien Raeymaekers Production Designer : n/a Synopsis: A wordless film about a girl who has to conquer her fear for her terminally ill grandma. |
Royal Academy of Fine Arts / University College Ghent (KASK) | Belgium | 24 |
| 3-4 | LUMA
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Details:Length: 9'Screenwriter: Carmel Ben Ami, Sohini Tal Director: Carmel Ben Ami, Sohini Tal Producer: Carmel Ben Ami, Sohini Tal Animation: Carmel Ben Ami, Sohini Tal DOP: n/a Sound: Ziv Ravits Editor: Carmel Ben Ami, Sohini Tal Production Designer : n/a Synopsis: Alex, a 13 year old teenager, is going through puberty in an “empty” house, where all are immersed in their own screens. Can the screen replace the human touch she longs for? |
Bezalel Academy of Arts and Design Jerusalem (BAAD) | Israel | 24 |
| 5 | EAGLES AND CHICKEN
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Details:Length: 9'Screenwriter: Tian Yesu, Geng Jiexi, Huang Jing Director: Tian Yesu, Geng Jiexi, Huang Jing Producer: Sun Cong, Zhang Li, Yan Ran Animation: Tian Yesu, Geng Jiexi, Huang Jing DOP: n/a Sound: Liu Cong Editor: Tian Yesu, Geng Jiexi, Huang Jing Production Designer : n/a Synopsis: The production technique of this film is the traditional two-dimensional hand- painted, sketch pastel style. The story is about a "smart" eagle pretended to be a chicken and snick into a farm, starting his "eat a ready-cooked meal" type of life. However, as he got more and more into the character, a crisis followed... |
Beijing Film Academy (BFA) | China | 20 |
| 6-8 | EMILE
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Details:Length: 5'Screenwriter: Tiffanie Mang Director: Tiffanie Mang Producer: Tiffanie Mang Animation: Tiffanie Mang DOP: n/a Sound: Zheng Jia Editor: Tiffanie Mang Production Designer : n/a Synopsis: A blind beggar boy sitting in the streets loses his one coin and sets out to find it, only to discover a trail of music that leads him to something more magical than he could imagine. |
University of Southern California's School of Cinematic Arts (USC) | United States | 18 |
| 6-8 | THE AGE OF RUST
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Details:Length: 7'Screenwriter: Alessandro Mattei Director: Alessandro Mattei, Francesco Aber Producer: Sergio Toffetti, Chiara Magri, Laura Fiori Animation: Alessandro Mattei, Francesco Aber DOP: Alessandro Mattei, Francesco Aber Sound: Paolo Armao, Vito Martinelli Editor: Alessandro Mattei, Francesco Aber Production Designer : n/a Synopsis: An extraordinary mockumentary discovering the incredible life cycle of “Peteramosaurus Cavator” In the wonderful landscape of the Alps. |
Centro Sperimentale di Cinematografia (CSC) | Italy | 18 |
| 6-8 | THE GUARDIAN
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Details:Length: 7'Screenwriter: Pietari Bagge, Christer Hongisto, Elisa Ikonen, Inka Matilainen Director: Pietari Bagge, Christer Hongisto, Elisa Ikonen, Inka Matilainen Producer: Pietari Bagge, Christer Hongisto, Elisa Ikonen, Inka Matilainen Animation: Pietari Bagge, Christer Hongisto, Elisa Ikonen, Inka Matilainen DOP: Pietari Bagge, Christer Hongisto, Elisa Ikonen, Inka Matilainen Sound: Tuukka Nikkilä Editor: Pietari Bagge, Christer Hongisto, Elisa Ikonen, Inka Matilainen Production Designer : n/a Synopsis: A short animation film about an old woman whose assistant robot is trying to remind her about something important. |
Aalto University School of Arts, Design and Architecture / ELO Film School Helsinki | Finland | 18 |
| 9 | FOREVER YOURS x3
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Details:Length: 15'Screenwriter: Susani Mahadura Director: Susani Mahadura, Sami Levo Producer: n/a Animation: Susani Mahadura, Sami Levo DOP: n/a Sound: Marko Puhakka Editor: Susani Mahadura, Sami Levo Production Designer : n/a Synopsis: A touching love story of a three-time divorced mother, narrated by her daughter. |
Metropolia University of Applied Sciences (MUAS) | Finland | 17 |
| 10 | OPOSSUM
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Details:Length: 4'Screenwriter: n/a Director: Paul Cichon Producer: Alexandra Stautmeister Animation: Martin Minsel, Paul Cichon DOP: Martin Minsel, Paul Cichon Sound: Johannes Schmitz Editor: n/a Production Designer : n/a Synopsis: An opossum in a coffee machine and the question why most technical devices brake after a certain time. |
Filmakademie Baden-Wuerttemberg (FABW) | Germany | 16 |
| 11-12 | THE POTATO EATERS
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Details:Length: 4'Screenwriter: Martin Kukal Director: Martin Kukal Producer: Tomas Bata University in Zlín, Faculty of Multimedia Communications Animation: Martin Kukal DOP: Martin Kukal Sound: Samuel Jurkovič Editor: Martin Kukal Production Designer : n/a Synopsis: A tribute to the Artist. Short animation film about a man who is passing through the Brabantse land. |
Tomas Bata University in Zlín / Faculty of Multimedia Communications (TBU) | Czech Republic | 15 |
| 11-12 | WHAT I FORGOT TO SAY
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Details:Length: 9'Screenwriter: Patrick Buhr Director: Patrick Buhr Producer: Academy of Media Arts Cologne Animation: Patrick Buhr DOP: n/a Sound: Henning Hein, Ralf Schipke Editor: Patrick Buhr Production Designer : n/a Synopsis: A flaneur attempts to reflect on the origins and the meaning of pointless walking. |
Academy of Media Arts Cologne (KHM) | Germany | 15 |
| 13-14 | NEVER STOP CYCLING
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Details:Length: 3'Screenwriter: Colin Lepper Director: Colin Lepper Producer: Sheridan College Animation: Colin Lepper DOP: Colin Lepper Sound: Colin Lepper Editor: Colin Lepper Production Designer : n/a Synopsis: In order to continue a comfortable, routine and mundane life. A creature must make the journey into a strange living world. |
Sheridan College | Canada | 14 |
| 13-14 | PISSED OFF
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Details:Length: 5'Screenwriter: Ilian Velikov Director: Ilian Velikov Producer: National Academy for Theatre & Film Arts (NATFA) “Krustyo Sarafov” Animation: Ilian Velikov DOP: Ilian Velikov Sound: Ilian Velikov, Dalibor Rajninger Editor: Ilian Velikov Production Designer : n/a Synopsis: A dog is trying to get its owner’s attention because it needs to go to the toilet and has to be taken out for a walk. Despite all efforts that the dog makes the human just doesn’t notice it. The dog pisses itself and everything around it including the human. The human is furious and the ending is unexpected. |
National Academy for Theatre and Film Arts (NATFA) | Bulgaria | 14 |
| 15 | CHASING CLOUDS
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Details:Length: 4'Screenwriter: Zjef Crabbé Director: Zjef Crabbé Producer: Zjef Crabbé Animation: Zjef Crabbé DOP: n/a Sound: Arnout Colaert Editor: Zjef Crabbé Production Designer : n/a Synopsis: A shepherd takes his flock of clouds on a everyday walk. Every time they pass the grave of his beloved dog. The shepherd loses his attention and the rams start a fight causing lightning... |
LUCA School of Arts (LUCA) | Belgium | 13 |
| 16-18 | AN INCREDIBLY ELASTIC MAN
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Details:Length: 5'Screenwriter: Karolina Specht Director: Karolina Specht Producer: Marcin Malatyński Animation: Karolina Specht DOP: Karolina Specht Sound: Marek Knaga Editor: Karolina Specht Production Designer : n/a Synopsis: An Incredibly Elastic Man - The story of a man without shape. Given this ephemeral body he is constraint to deal with the people, things and places that are constantly shaping him. Can one live completely detached from others, from reality? Who and what decides of who we are in the end? |
Polish National Film, Television and Theatre School in Lodz (PWSFTViT) | Poland | 10 |
| 16-18 | POND SCUM
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Details:Length: 5'Screenwriter: Catriona Drummond Director: Catriona Drummond Producer: Catriona Drummond Animation: Catriona Drummond DOP: Catriona Drummond Sound: Catriona Drummond Editor: Catriona Drummond Production Designer : n/a Synopsis: Alex is a savvy teenager with the ability to morph into a swamp monster. She enacts some kooky revenge when a bogan cat calls her from his ute. |
Griffith Film School (GFS) | Australia | 10 |
| 16-18 | WELCOME, LENIN
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Details:Length: 8'Screenwriter: Alexei Zhukov Director: Michael Soloshenko Producer: Russian State University of Сinematography n.a. S. Gerasimov (VGIK), Russia Animation: Michael Soloshenko DOP: Anton Pai, Dilara Chernoff-Dimeeva, Irina Posypkina Sound: Natalia Ivanonva, Vladimir Derevyanko Editor: Michael Soloshenko Production Designer : n/a Synopsis: A comedy of absurd. To the displeasure of his mother, Gregory brings a small Lenin home. But their happiness returns when Pushkin, who escaped, comes back, expelling Ilyich from the apartment to Gregory`s mother great joy. |
Russian State University of Сinematography n.a. S.Gerasimov VGIK | Russia | 10 |
| 19-20 | STEADFAST STANLEY
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Details:Length: 4'Screenwriter: John Kim Director: John Kim Producer: John Kim Animation: John Kim DOP: John Kim Sound: Composer: Sam Lustig Editor: John Kim Production Designer : n/a Synopsis: Stanley the Pembroke Welsh Corgi is left behind in the break of an apocalypse. He moves his stubby little legs as fast as he can to reunite with his owner. |
CalArts School of Film/Video (CALARTS) | United States | 9 |
| 19-20 | WILL
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Details:Length: 5'Screenwriter: Xie Chuyu Director: Xie Chuyu Producer: Xie Chuyu Animation: Xie Chuyu DOP: Xie Chuyu Sound: Zhang Keren, Xie Chuyu Editor: Lan Wei, Xie Chuyu Production Designer : n/a Synopsis: To climb a hill. |
Academy of Film / Hong Kong Baptist University (HKBU) | Hong Kong | 9 |
| 21-22 | CHIAROSCURO
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Details:Length: 7'Screenwriter: Daniel Drummond Director: Daniel Drummond Producer: n/a Animation: Daniel Drummond; Additional Animation: Marie Cheng DOP: n/a Sound: Carson French Editor: n/a Production Designer : n/a Synopsis: A geometric chase with tones of morality. |
Chapman University / Dodge College of Film and Media Arts | United States | 7 |
| 21-22 | THE SHIPPING FORECAST
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Details:Length: 4'Screenwriter: David Blanche Director: David Blanche Producer: Jordan Smith Animation: David Blanche DOP: n/a Sound: Cei Frampton, Claudio Santos Editor: Samuel Hodge Production Designer : n/a Synopsis: A story which follows the lives of Tomas and Alis - a retired couple in a small British coastal town, dealing with the harsh realities of Dementia. |
Bournemouth Film School (AUB) | United Kingdom | 7 |
| 23-26 | HALF BABKA
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Details:Length: 5'Screenwriter: Jasmine Elsen Director: Jasmine Elsen Producer: FTF VŠMU Animation: Jasmine Elsen DOP: n/a Sound: Michal Paluga Editor: Jasmine Elsen Production Designer : n/a Synopsis: The film is about loneliness in the society An old woman does everything with her cat, which is more like a toy for her sharing ice cream and knitting sweaters...but the cat runs away and she tries to replace it. |
Academy of Performing Arts / Film and Television Faculty (VSMU) | Slovakia | 6 |
| 23-26 | PARADISE
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Details:Length: 6'Screenwriter: Laura Vandewynckel Director: Laura Vandewynckel Producer: RITCS Animation: Laura Vandewynckel DOP: Laura Vandewynckel, Johanna Vanhaecke Sound: Lode Wellens Editor: Robin De Praetere Production Designer : n/a Synopsis: Paradise is the story of people heading for a better place on the other side of the ocean. Although at times their paths do cross, they never really seem to meet. |
Royal Institute for Theatre, Cinema and Sound (RITCS) | Belgium | 6 |
| 23-26 | TEMPO
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Details:Length: 6'Screenwriter: n/a Director: Sara A. Brown Producer: Sara A. Brown Animation: Sara A. Brown DOP: Sara A. Brown Sound: n/a Editor: Sara A. Brown Production Designer : n/a Synopsis: Layering oil paints with live action footage, Tempo explores the rhythm of silent visuals, from the horizon to deep underwater, resurfacing again to land. This film is an experiment within the visual music style, recognizing the musical elements and movement of cinema. |
York University Department of Film - Fine Arts | Canada | 6 |
| 23-26 | THE SPINNER
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Details:Length: 5'Screenwriter: n/a Director: Manuela Buske Producer: Manuela Buske Animation: Manuela Buske DOP: n/a Sound: Philipp Nespital Editor: n/a Production Designer : n/a Synopsis: There is a world made out of strings. Nobody knows about it, but everybody is connected to them. One woman finds it out and has to make her conclusions. |
Film University Babelsberg KONRAD WOLF | Germany | 6 |
| 27 | THE RAISINS
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Details:Length: 17'Screenwriter: Raymond Aftimos Director: Raymond Aftimos Producer: IESAV Animation: Raymond Aftimos DOP: Christopher Kechichian Sound: Fabio Khoury, Thierry Diab Editor: Raymond Aftimos Production Designer : n/a Synopsis: A poor, unsuspecting, nice and naïve young man finds himself fired. But when the nearby sea offers him incredible gifts, his perspective on life will change. |
Institut d'études scéniques, audiovisuelles et cinématographiques (IESAV) | Lebanon | 5 |
| 28-31 | DAY OFF
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Details:Length: 2'Screenwriter: Romain Jauregui Director: Romain Jauregui Producer: 3IS Animation: Romain Jauregui DOP: n/a Sound: Dany Maatouk Editor: Romain Jauregui Production Designer : n/a Synopsis: A man is sitting peacefully in his armchair in front of his TV. Suddenly he has a heart attack. He's dying, his soul tries to go out of his body but failed. Finally the soul gives up and returns inside the body. The man wakes up... |
International Institute of Image and Sound (3IS) | France | 4 |
| 28-31 | IN THE GARDEN
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Details:Length: 7'Screenwriter: Ondřej Dolejší Director: Ondřej Dolejší Producer: FAMU Animation: Ondřej Dolejší DOP: n/a Sound: David Titera, Vladimír Chorvatovic Editor: n/a Production Designer : n/a Synopsis: Birds are flying. The Birds are garden. The garden inside. Inside a man. The man through the center. Coming through the center. A house coming. The house closed. Closed heavily. Raining heavily. The house is raining. The house a storm. The garden is flowing away. It is flowing silently. |
Film and Television School / Academy of Performing Arts in Prague (FAMU) | Czech Republic | 4 |
| 28-31 | LOOPED
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Details:Length: 3'Screenwriter: Chloe Pisani Director: Chloe Pisani Producer: n/a Animation: Chloe Pisani DOP: n/a Sound: n/a Editor: n/a Production Designer : n/a Synopsis: All Oliver wants is a yo-yo, but soon he discovers materialistic possessions aren't always what they are accepted to be. |
VCA Film and Television | Australia | 4 |
| 28-31 | WE ARE SAILING THROUGH YUGA
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Details:Length: 5'Screenwriter: Maja Planinac, Stefan Đorđević, Matej Okroglič, Ivana Rajić, Nemanja Veselinović, Pavle Pavlović, Bogdan Babović, Ana Danilović Director: Maja Planinac, Stefan Đorđević, Matej Okroglič, Ivana Rajić, Nemanja Veselinović, Pavle Pavlović, Bogdan Babović, Ana Danilović Producer: n/a Animation: Maja Planinac, Stefan Đorđević, Matej Okroglič, Ivana Rajić, Nemanja Veselinović, Pavle Pavlović, Bogdan Babović, Ana Danilović DOP: Maja Planinac, Stefan Đorđević, Matej Okroglič, Ivana Rajić, Nemanja Veselinović, Pavle Pavlović, Bogdan Babović, Ana Danilović Sound: Sharks Snakes & Planes - Mi Plovimo Jugom Editor: Matija Novaković Production Designer : n/a Synopsis: Compilation of student animation works connected by a song. |
Fakultet dramskih umetnosti | Serbia | 4 |
| 32-37 | BAD MAGIC
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Details:Length: 7'Screenwriter: n/a Director: Patrick Kueking Producer: Neil Barck, Madeline Barwegen Animation: 2D animation: Madeline Barwegen, Marissa Dorman, Annie Nguyen, Rhi Ostberg, Cole Rothacker; CG animation: John K. Fure, Vin Lee Rah, Chris DuCharme, Phil Apostol DOP: Neil Barck Sound: Brad Meyer, Dakota Compain Editor: n/a Production Designer : n/a Synopsis: The daughter of a magician attempts to emulate her father. In doing so, she creates a mischevious creature who wreaks havoc on her father’s magic show. |
Columbia College Chicago (CCC) | United States | 3 |
| 32-37 | ONYX
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Details:Length: 4'Screenwriter: Sindy Giraldo, Iina Kuula Director: Sindy Giraldo, Iina Kuula Producer: n/a Animation: Sindy Giraldo, Iina Kuula DOP: n/a Sound: Joonas Samposalo, Luci Holland Editor: n/a Production Designer : n/a Synopsis: An owl couple receives a sad message one day with a mysterious package alongside. The fortunes that come with it bring also great amount of greediness and fear in the house. |
Tampere University of Applied Sciences (TUNI), Degree Programme in Media | Finland | 3 |
| 32-37 | OSMOSE
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Details:Length: 7'Screenwriter: n/a Director: n/a Producer: n/a Animation: Original Story, Concept art, Storyboard, Animatic Backgrounds, Animation and Dynamics: Rui Silva; 3D Modeling, Animation, Rendering and Compositing: David Ferreira DOP: n/a Sound: Concept art, Animation and Sound Design: Pedro Baginha Editor: Rigging, Animation and Editing: Jose Santos; Texturing, Animation and Editing: Margarida Pereira Production Designer : n/a Synopsis: Three beings inhabit a desert, looking for daily survival. One day they find something that will change their lives forever. |
Universidade Lusófona / Film and Media Arts Department (ULHT) | Portugal | 3 |
| 32-37 | THE WALKER
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Details:Length: 4'Screenwriter: Heather Collins Director: Heather Collins Producer: n/a Animation: Heather Collins DOP: n/a Sound: Heather Collins Editor: Heather Collins Production Designer : n/a Synopsis: A little old lady devises an inventive way to cope with the fast-paced and harsh world around her. After suffering a walk down a bustling city block full of inconsiderate people, the old lady reaches her breaking point and goes on a dance revenge rampage. |
University of California Los Angeles (UCLA) | United States | 3 |
| 32-37 | TIMBER
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Details:Length: 6'Screenwriter: Vivienne Medrano Director: Vivienne Medrano Producer: Vivienne Medrano Animation: Vivienne Medrano DOP: Vivienne Medrano Sound: Cooper Goodwin Editor: Vivienne Medrano Production Designer : n/a Synopsis: A short film about how the world would look like if we all accepted each other‟s differences. |
School of Visual Arts | United States | 3 |
| 32-37 | VERTICAL HORIZON
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Details:Length: 3'Screenwriter: Anita Gaughan Director: Anita Gaughan Producer: IADT Animation: Anita Gaughan DOP: n/a Sound: Darius Mc Gann Editor: n/a Production Designer : n/a Synopsis: A girl and her bird companion take to the skies in search of adventure. |
National Film School / Institute of Art, Design and Technology (IADT) | Ireland | 3 |
| 38-39 | HAPPY X-MAS, MR.CAT
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Details:Length: 3'Screenwriter: Clara Doineau Director: Clara Doineau Producer: ENSAV Animation: Clara Doineau DOP: Clara Doineau Sound: Kévin Colin Editor: Clara Doineau Production Designer : n/a Synopsis: It‟s Christmas morning, Mister Cat is hungry but all the family is busy opening the gifts under the tree. |
ENSAV | France | 2 |
| 38-39 | LUCKY
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Details:Length: 6'Screenwriter: Alexandra Botau Director: Alexandra Botau Producer: UNATC “I.L.Caragiale” Animation: Alexandra Botau DOP: Radu Igaszag Sound: Ina Bozdog Editor: Valeriu Caliman, Alexandra Botau Production Designer : n/a Synopsis: A man discovers in his dog the sole witness of his own isolation. |
National University of Theatre and Film (UNATC) | Romania | 2 |
| 40 | WAY FROM WHITE TO BLACK
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Details:Length: 2'Screenwriter: Lika Nutsubidze Director: Lika Nutsubidze Producer: n/a Animation: Lika Nutsubidze DOP: n/a Sound: Lika Nutsubidze Editor: Lika Nutsubidze Production Designer : n/a Synopsis: According to this thesis I took martial arts philosophy, Wich teaches self-defeating, because our main enemy is ourself and It begins with the victory of ourselves happiness. In my animation main character is a girl witch tries to escape from the pain from past. She is looking for a way to find luck, at the same time she meets a man who tries to help her in this. From here the story develops. Despite obstacles she didn’t give up and she tries her best, because of this she gets life black belt. |
Theatre and Film Georgia State University (TAFU) | Georgia | 1 |
| 41-45 | I MET SCROOBIUS PIP
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Details:Length: 5'Screenwriter: Emma Hjelm Director: Emma Hjelm Producer: Emma Hjelm Animation: Emma Hjelm DOP: Emma Hjelm Sound: Emma Hjelm Editor: Emma Hjelm Production Designer : n/a Synopsis: An illustrated extract of a podcast about meeting your idol. A recalling, a conversation and an experimentation of how to illustrate the feeling of the moment of being seen by someone you watched maybe a bit too closely and how to deal with that. |
Stockholm University of the Arts (SKH) | Sweden | 0 |
| 41-45 | LET'S GO TO THE ZOO
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Details:Length: 3'Screenwriter: n/a Director: Stephanie Troncoso Producer: Stephanie Troncoso Animation: Stephanie Troncoso DOP: Angela Elgar Sound: Sedrick Moore II Editor: Conner Troxclair Production Designer : n/a Synopsis: A short film based on the recording of Ivana and Giselle as they describe and imagine themselves in the local zoo and the various animals they know. |
Loyola Marymount University / School of Film and Television (LMU) | United States | 0 |
| 41-45 | LITTLE ROAR
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Details:Length: 3'Screenwriter: Dylan Chase Director: Dylan Chase Producer: Xyla Trull Animation: Dylan Chase DOP: Dylan Chase Sound: Dylan Chase Editor: Dylan Chase Production Designer : n/a Synopsis: Son Plog wants more than anything to be just like his dad. But in order to be a true monster he must find in himself the strength to destroy mankind. |
Florida State University / College of Motion Picture Arts (FSU) | United States | 0 |
| 41-45 | THE WEB
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Details:Length: 3'Screenwriter: Pavithra Panditha Sonali Director: Pavithra Panditha Sonali Producer: Pavithra Panditha Sonali Animation: Pavithra Panditha Sonali DOP: n/a Sound: n/a Editor: Pavithra Panditha Sonali Production Designer : n/a Synopsis: To show its love to a woman, a spider decides to weave her a dress with its web. |
Milan City Film School Luchino Visconti (MCSC) | Italy | 0 |
| 41-45 | UNCANDY
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Details:Length: 3'Screenwriter: Marceia Patterson, John DeKemper, Griffin Giersch, Jake Kath Director: Marceia Patterson Producer: Marceia Patterson Animation: Marceia Patterson DOP: n/a Sound: Kevin MacLeod Editor: Marceia Patterson Production Designer : n/a Synopsis: On Halloween night, a little girl ventures into a spooky old house, unaware of the horrifying monster that lives inside. The monster takes the girl’s candy which soon proves to be a big mistake. |
University of North Carolina School of the Arts (UNCSA) | United States | 0 |
