2016
Fiction
| Place | Title | School | Country | Points |
| 1 | EVERYTHING WILL BE OKAY
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Details:TrailerLength: 29' Screenwriter: Patrick Vollrath Director: Patrick Vollrath Producer: Patrick Vollrath, Filmakademie Wien Animator: n/a DOP: Sebastian Thaler Sound: Konrad Glas, Sergey Martynyuk, Nora Czamler Editor: Patrick Vollrath Production Designer: Momo Ehegartner Synopsis: A divorced father picks up his eight-year-old daughter Lea. It seems pretty much like every second weekend, but after a while Lea can't help feeling that something isn't right. So begins a fateful journey. |
Film Academy Vienna (UMDK) | Austria | 141 |
| 2 | PATRIOT
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Details:TrailerLength: 15' Screenwriter: Eva Riley Director: Eva Riley Producer: Michelangelo Fano Animator: n/a DOP: David Pimm Sound: Robert Malone Editor: Abolfazi Talooni Production Designer: Irene Dimarca Synopsis: Against the backdrop of simmering racial tensions within her rural English town, the life of eleven year old Hannah changes forever when she meets a boy from a mysterious and forbidden world. |
National FIlm and Television School (NFTS) | United Kingdom | 78 |
| 3 | BEAUTIFUL FIGURE
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Details:TrailerLength: 17' Screenwriter: Hajni Kis, Daoud Dániel Director: Hajni Kis Producer: Miklós Bosnyák Animator: n/a DOP: Ákos Nyoszoli Sound: Ervin Stark Editor: Vanda Gorácz Production Designer: Anna Nyitrai Synopsis: A high-school cleaning lady falls in love with one of the students in the school. Her love is impossible from the beginning but at this point in her life - just for a moment, she believes this can be possible and she tries to show her feelings. |
University of Theatre and Film Arts Budapest (SzFE) | Hungary | 61 |
| 4 | PEACOCK
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Details:TrailerLength: 27' Screenwriter: Jan Smutný, Ondřej Hudeček Director: Ondřej Hudeček Producer: Ondřej Hudeček, Ondřej Šejnoha Animator: n/a DOP: Ondřej Hudeček Sound: Viktor Prášil Editor: Ondřej Hudeček Production Designer: Anna Mayerová, Petra Vencelidesová Synopsis: Bohemia, 19th Century. Ladislav, the mischievous son of a local landlord, terrorizes the village with his cruel practical jokes. When war breaks out, Ladislav is sent to a monastery, where he unexpectedly discovers his hidden desires... A twisted queer romance telling the true but taboo story of the birth of one of the nation's most influential writers. |
Film and Television School / Academy of Performing Arts in Prague (FAMU) | Czech Republic | 57 |
| 5 | BOAT PEOPLE
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Details:Length: 29'Screenwriter: Paul Meschùh Director: Paul Meschùh Producer: Therese Seemann Animator: n/a DOP: Markus E. Müller Sound: Thong Tony Zhang Editor: Matthias Writze Production Designer: Marie-Theres Kaiser Synopsis: On his journey from Somalia to Europe, shipwrecked Moussa is picked up by a wealthy couple on their luxurious catamaran. The athletic young man is the only survivor of a disaster in the Mediterranean sea. He asks Hannes and Gertinde to smuggle him across the border. Questioning Moussa's true intentions, the yacht owners are torn between mistrust and fear and the urge to help a fellow human being. A political drama of two separate worlds, colliding within one global community. |
University of Television and Film Munich (HFF) | Germany | 52 |
| 6 | THE MAUSOLEUM
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Details:TrailerLength: 26' Screenwriter: Lauri Randla Director: Lauri Randla Producer: Peeter Urbla Animator: n/a DOP: Peter Salovaara Sound: Jorma Kaulanen Editor: Leo Liesvirta Production Designer: n/a Synopsis: Pathologist Abrikosov gets a phone call in the middle of the night just before the 1936 May Day festivities and is informed that there's a fly inside Lenin's sarcophagus. No one knows how to get rid of it as Lenin lies in a sealed micro climate, designed to preserve the God of communism forever. |
Aalto University School of Arts, Design and Architecture / ELO Film School Helsinki | Finland | 47 |
| 7 | TENANTS
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Details:TrailerLength: 30' Screenwriter: Klara Kochanska, Kasper Bajon Director: Klara Kochańska Producer: Marcin Malatynski Animator: n/a DOP: Zuzanna Pyda Sound: Rafal Nowak Editor: Barbara Fronc Production Designer: n/a Synopsis: Justyna, a young woman who's the main protagonist in the film, buys a flat at a bailiff auction regardless the risk it may bring. When she wants to move in it turns out that the keys she was given do not fit the locks. A dream about a place of her own turns into a nightmare. |
Polish National Film, Television and Theatre School in Lodz (PWSFTViT) | Poland | 45 |
| 8 | LEND A HAND FOR LOVE
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Details:TrailerLength: 15' Screenwriter: John Alan Thompson, Amy Thompson Director: John Alan Thompson Producer: Amy Thompson Animator: n/a DOP: Andrew Russo Sound: Erik Aadahl Editor: John Alan Thompson Production Designer: n/a Synopsis: Lend a Hand for Love is the magical tale of two bashful soulmates who fight their fear to find love in a most unusual way. |
University of Southern California's School of Cinematic Arts (USC) | United States | 44 |
| 9 | ON THE ROOF
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Details:TrailerLength: 11' Screenwriter: Damià Serra, Miguel Casanova Director: Damià Serra Producer: Ruben Llorach Animator: n/a DOP: Gemma Rogés Sound: Sandra Ramionet, Oriol Bonals Editor: Marc Berraondo Production Designer: n/a Synopsis: It's summer time. Adrian and his friends climb every afternoon at a roof to spy a girl who sunbathes naked. But this afternoon won't be like the others: today they'll realize that one of them is more interested in a guy showering in a close building. |
Cinema and Audiovisual School of Catalonia (ESCAC) | Spain | 34 |
| 10-11 | NEW LIFE
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Details:Length: 15'Screenwriter: Kiro Russo Director: Kiro Russo Producer: Universidad del Cine Animator: n/a DOP: Pablo Paniagua Sound: Pepo Razzari Editor: Eulogio Cuevas Production Designer: n/a Synopsis: Mysteries, anxieties and dreams of a new life. |
Universidad del Cine | Argentina | 30 |
| 10-11 | THE DAM
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Details:Length: 16'Screenwriter: Brendon McDonall Director: Brendon McDonall Producer: liana Lazar Animator: n/a DOP: Josh Flavell Sound: Lachlan Harris Editor: Bernadette Murray, Rocky Amaranto Production Designer: n/a Synopsis: A lifelong friendship is under siege when two mature Australian men visit the monolithic dam that defined their young lives. They are confronted by feelings that were impounded long ago, but cannot be contained any longer. |
Australian Film Television and Radio School (AFTRS) | Australia | 30 |
| 12-13 | MAUVE
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Details:TrailerLength: 30' Screenwriter: Lucero Sánchez Novaro Director: Lucero Sánchez Novaro Producer: Henner Hofmann, Karla Bukantz Animator: n/a DOP: Juan Pablo Ramirez Sound: Loretta Ratto Editor: Martha Poly Vil Production Designer: n/a Synopsis: Estela is an eight year old girl who lives her first approach to mortality through the death of her best friend during a car accident. She and her family live with her great grandmother, who is submerged in a state of constant sleep as the relationship between her and the old woman in a coma becomes stronger. Estela will face these mortality related situations in a very peculiar manner while she discovers herself in the way |
Centro de Capacitación Cinematográfica, A.C. (CCC) | Mexico | 29 |
| 12-13 | UNDER THE ROBES
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Details:Length: 20'Screenwriter: Michel Zarazir Director: Michel Zarazir Producer: Antoine Zarazir Animator: n/a DOP: Karim Ghorayeb Sound: Simon Souaid Editor: Michel Zarazir Production Designer: n/a Synopsis: Monsignor Isidore gives a visit to an isolated convent in order to announce its closing down. During the visit, he steps on a land mine. The panic is installed and the faith becomes questionable. |
Lebanese Academy for Fine Arts / School of Cinema / University of Balamand (ALBA-UOB) | Lebanon | 29 |
| 14 | SIA
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Details:TrailerLength: 30' Screenwriter: Annika Berg Director: Annika Berg Producer: Caroline Eybye Animator: n/a DOP: Louise McLaughlin Sound: Thomas Arent Editor: Sofie Marie Kristensen Production Designer: Anna Cathrine Colberg Synopsis: Today I thought that I do not want to be cremated when I die. Even though I`ve always felt it was the cleanest way to approach it. |
National Film School of Denmark (DDF) | Denmark | 28 |
| 15 | FLOWERS
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Details:TrailerLength: 19' Screenwriter: Judita Gamulin Director: Judita Gamulin Producer: Ana Vidović Animator: n/a DOP: Tomislav Sutlar Sound: Tihomir Vrbanec Editor: Tomislav Stojanović Production Designer: n/a Synopsis: Two families are visiting their fathers that share a room in the hospital. One family is selfishly arguing about their trivial problems, while the other one has a completely different perspective. Flowers are for celebration, but also for the cemetery. |
Academy of Dramatic Art Zagreb (ADU) | Croatia | 27 |
| 16 | CIPRIANA
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Details:TrailerLength: 21' Screenwriter: Maruani Landa Director: Maruani Landa Producer: ESAV Animator: n/a DOP: Fernando Hernandez Sound: Antoine Paolicchi Editor: Maruani Landa Production Designer: Maruani Landa Synopsis: In a Mexican village, a 13-year-old girl, Cipriana, suffers mockery from her classmates and desire from adults because of her big breasts. Her physical changes surpass her mental capacities, and she finds herself uncontrollably attracted to her teacher. One day in class, Cipriana cannot tear her eyes away from her teacher. |
ENSAV | France | 26 |
| 17-18 | GIRLS AND BOYS
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Details:TrailerLength: 30' Screenwriter: Theo Westin Director: Ninja Thyberg Producer: Isabella Rodriguez, Johanna Lind Animator: n/a DOP: Karin Stenwall Sound: Mikael Månsson, Martin Lindström Editor: Amalie Westerlin Tjellesen Production Designer: Mari Ibyn Eriksson, Filippa Malmberg Synopsis: Sixteen year old Nour is a overly horny dork whose greatest desire is to get rid of virginity. But she cannot even talk to guys, how the heck will she get someone into bed then? |
Stockholm University of the Arts (SKH) | Sweden | 25 |
| 17-18 | OUT OF REACH
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Details:Length: 20'Screenwriter: Efrat Rasner Director: Efrat Rasner Producer: Leah Tonic Animator: n/a DOP: Gal Rumbak Sound: Nil Gibs Editor: Uriya Hertz Production Designer: n/a Synopsis: Hagar works at a photo store where she converts old video tapes to new digital files. A lonely, quiet young woman, she finds herself fascinated by watching the videotapes people have forgotten to pick up. A young man she sees in one of these tapes haunts her, and when she tries to find him, the search turns into a life-changing journey. |
Sam Spiegel Film and Television School Jerusalem (JSFS) | Israel | 25 |
| 19-20 | THE STEPMOTHER
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Details:TrailerLength: 25' Screenwriter: Liang Shuang Director: Liang Shuang Producer: Chen Liang, Xiang Wang Animator: n/a DOP: n/a Sound: Gong Chen Editor: Liang Shuang Production Designer: n/a Synopsis: Li Min, 34-year-old, was six to seven months pregnant who works with men in a coal preparation plant. Gao rain's father worked outside most of the year. In this house without men, Gao Rain and her step-mother Li Min attacked each other by overt and covert means often. Li Min liked to eat sauerkraut especially after pregnancy, and specifically put a bit vat with sauerkraut in the room, Gao Rain hated this and the contradictions with her step-mother were sharpening. Gao Rain wanted to evicted Li Min from her |
Beijing Film Academy (BFA) | China | 24 |
| 19-20 | THE WEDDING GIFT
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Details:Length: 11'Screenwriter: Aron Þór Leifsson, Ásgeir Logi Axelsson Director: Aron Þór Leifsson Producer: Ásgeir Logi Axelsson, Ragnar Ingi Magnússon, Aron Þór Leifsson, Marteinn Knaran Ómarsson, Matthías Kristinsson Animator: n/a DOP: Ásgeir Logi Axelsson Sound: Ragnar Ingi Magnússon, Ásgeir Logi Axelsson Editor: Ásgeir Logi Axelsson, Ragnar Ingi Magnússon Production Designer: n/a Synopsis: An old antique sewing machine creates great troubles, when a man heads to wedding with his wife and mother. |
Icelandic Film School (IFS) | Iceland | 24 |
| 21 | THE BLEAK FARM
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Details:TrailerLength: 30' Screenwriter: Christian Zipfel Director: Christian Zipfel Producer: Daniela Pennekamp Animator: n/a DOP: Nino Peschel Sound: Nathalie Bender Editor: Nathalie Bender Production Designer: n/a Synopsis: Westfalia, 1873: Pillage and murder put the future existence of Hans' farm at stake. The farmer has to defend his remaining daughter and their goods against man and nature. A struggle of life and death begins. |
international film school cologne (ifs) | Germany | 23 |
| 22-24 | 1989
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Details:TrailerLength: 30' Screenwriter: Francesca Mazzoleni, Pietro Seghetti Director: Francesca Mazzoleni Producer: CSC Production Animator: n/a DOP: Emanuele Pasquet Sound: Federico Cabula Editor: Elisabetta Abrami Production Designer: n/a Synopsis: The journey of Katrin and his father in a Berlin that doesn't exist anymore. A journey to fill lapse of memory confused by Alzheimer and to collect details about a story never told: a story about a woman disappeared in a cold night of 1989. |
Centro Sperimentale di Cinematografia (CSC) | Italy | 22 |
| 22-24 | MONICA’S END
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Details:Length: 25'Screenwriter: Thomas Nuijten Director: Thomas Nuijten Producer: Niels Visser, Thomas Nuijten Animator: n/a DOP: Myrthe Mosterman Sound: Gerben Kokmeijer Editor: Thomas Nuijten Production Designer: Thomas Nuijten Synopsis: In the dark tunnels underneath the city, Monica seems trapped in a web of habit. A claustrophobic portrait of a subway operator that offers room for reflection, interpretation, and projection. |
Royal Academy of Fine Arts / University College Ghent (KASK) | Belgium | 22 |
| 22-24 | STRANGE BIRD
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Details:Length: 14'Screenwriter: Anouk Fortunier Director: Anouk Fortunier Producer: Anouk Fortunier / LUCA school of Arts Animator: n/a DOP: Fiona Braillon Sound: Damien Favreau, Thibaud Rie Editor: Joppe Van den Brande Production Designer: n/a Synopsis: This narrative short is about a man with bipolar disorder, painted through the eyes of his 10 years old daughter. In class, Zoe was told to write an essay about her weekend. She has decided on the subject of her father, Pierre. Right after her colorful but distorted presentation, her father comes to pick her up from school. That is when Zoe continues the adventure of trying to match her own vivid imagination and Pierre's everyday struggle. At the end of the day, Pierre grows tired of playing the hero and sh |
LUCA School of Arts (LUCA) | Belgium | 22 |
| 25-26 | ANGELUS NOVUS
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Details:TrailerLength: 24' Screenwriter: Aboozar Amini Director: Aboozar Amini Producer: Mahshad Afshar Animator: n/a DOP: Dawood Hilmandi Sound: Mahshad Afshar Editor: Aboozar Amini Production Designer: Aboozar Amini Synopsis: Afghani refugee Ali and his brother have just arrived in Turkey where, surrounded by many other refugees, his family tries to build a new life. The boys earn their living shining shoes. When one day their spot has been taken, their fragile existence and dreams of a better future hang by a thread |
London Film School (LFS) | United Kingdom | 21 |
| 25-26 | BLACK FRIDAY
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Details:TrailerLength: 21' Screenwriter: Ana-Maria Gheorghe, Roxana Stroe Director: Roxana Stroe Producer: UNATC – student production: Smaranda Sterian, Ioana Lascăr Animator: n/a DOP: Laurențiu Răducanu Sound: Alex Andreică Editor: Cristian Dimitriu Production Designer: Adina Lupu Synopsis: In the Communist era, queuing for food is something normal. After a long wait on an empty stomach, Mihail doesn’t receive his food ration. The next day he tries to be the first in line. |
National University of Theatre and Film (UNATC) | Romania | 21 |
| 27-28 | AFLOAT
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Details:Length: 10'Screenwriter: Ida-Maria Olva Director: Ida-Maria Olva Producer: Liisa Koivisto, TAMK Tampere University of Applied Sciences Animator: n/a DOP: Valtteri Piira Sound: Mikko Kananen Editor: Sasu Riikonen Production Designer: n/a Synopsis: Even the tiniest headache can become a burden, if you let it grow for decades. Liina and Niilo don't really talk about their feelings. They rather keep themselves busy with everyday life. A severe accident is needed for them to face each other. |
Tampere University of Applied Sciences (TUNI), Degree Programme in Media | Finland | 20 |
| 27-28 | EXODUS
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Details:Length: 15'Screenwriter: Vakhtang Jajanidze Director: Vakhtang Jajanidze Producer: Lasha Khalvashi, Tinatin Kajrishvili Animator: n/a DOP: Sandro Wysocki Sound: Paata Godziashvili Editor: Giga Japaridze Production Designer: n/a Synopsis: Time has stopped in a little, almost deserted industrial city Tchiatura. People, tired of everyday struggling for survival, keep their inertial meaningless existence. In a little, isolated house at the edge of the city live two elderly sisters. Lily (60 years old) works as a Cableway conductor and guides workers from the city to the factory every day. Tatiana (64 years old) is unemployed and mainly is busy doing housework. Despite poor living conditions, their micro world had been idyllic, before Lily got a |
Theatre and Film Georgia State University (TAFU) | Georgia | 20 |
| 29-32 | BASTARD
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Details:TrailerLength: 20' Screenwriter: Holden Barnes, Joe Mackendanz Director: Joe Mackendanz Producer: Miguel Berg Animator: n/a DOP: Tommy Oceanak Sound: Andrew Kantos Editor: Holden Barnes Production Designer: Megan Pulone Synopsis: On the day he is to film his first comedy special, comedian George Harmon finds out that his ex-wife may be pregnant with his child. |
Chapman University / Dodge College of Film and Media Arts | United States | 19 |
| 29-32 | HOMELESS
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Details:TrailerLength: 14' Screenwriter: Nathan Rice Director: Nathan Rice Producer: Londiwe Shange, Nathan Rice Animator: n/a DOP: Brad McGee Sound: Darren Jaynarayan Editor: Justin Case Production Designer: n/a Synopsis: After being forcefully removed from their shack home, a young man and his kid brother journey to find their lost mother’s home with the hope of a better life. |
South African School of Motion Picture Medium and Live Performance (AFDA) | South Africa | 19 |
| 29-32 | KATHAKAAR
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Details:TrailerLength: 11' Screenwriter: Krishna Agarwal, Abhimanyu Kanodia Director: Abhimanyu Kanodia Producer: Whistling Woods International Animator: n/a DOP: Mitesh Parvatneni Sound: Kunal Lolsure Editor: Pavi Trehan Production Designer: Vertex Sets Synopsis: An old theatre projectionist is fired form his job and has to come back to his village. Struggling with what to do with his life, he one day narrates a story for a crying kid. Slowly he becomes the favorite story teller in the village and rediscovers his passion. |
Whistling Woods International (WWI) | India | 19 |
| 29-32 | SZVO
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Details:Length: 27'Screenwriter: Ken Eeraerts Director: Ken Eeraerts Producer: Celine Vanhoutte Animator: n/a DOP: Tom Bonroy Sound: Arne De Beleyr Editor: Robin De Praetere Production Designer: n/a Synopsis: Guntara lives with her uncle, an ophthalmologist in a small castle. She doesn't have any contact with the world outside. When a new patient is staying at their house, Guntara gets a glimpse of the world outside. |
Royal Institute for Theatre, Cinema and Sound (RITCS) | Belgium | 19 |
| 33 | LOVE
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Details:Length: 24'Screenwriter: Simeon Ventsislavov Director: Boya Harizanova Producer: NATFA“Kr. Sarafov” Animator: n/a DOP: Viktor Roev Sound: n/a Editor: Emil Granicharov Production Designer: n/a Synopsis: Boris (30) arrives in a mountain village to give back the deceived Radko’s belongings to his only living relatives – Radko’s grandmother and grandfather. Todorka (74) doesn’t know about her grandson’s death. While worried about the health condition of Atanas (75) she decides to hide the truth from him. When on the next day Boris is departing he understands that Atanas knows about the death of his grandson but also hides it to himself because he is concerned about Todorka’s health if she learns about this. |
National Academy for Theatre and Film Arts (NATFA) | Bulgaria | 18 |
| 34-36 | FROM THE SCRATCH
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Details:Length: 20'Screenwriter: Sergei Ovcharov Director: Julia Kolesnikova Producer: n/a Animator: n/a DOP: Elizavet Lapenko Sound: n/a Editor: n/a Production Designer: n/a Synopsis: A girl records a video message to her father not realizing what will happen to her soon. |
St. Petersburg State University of Film and Television (SPUFT) | Russia | 16 |
| 34-36 | MY BLOSSOMING SUMMER
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Details:TrailerLength: 30' Screenwriter: Wu Bo Ping Director: Wu Bo Ping Producer: Yang Yu Fei Animator: n/a DOP: Yang Yu Fei Sound: Tang Hok Lun Cyrus Editor: Wu Bo Ping, Yang Yu Fei Production Designer: n/a Synopsis: Lan had gone through an awkward summer during her first period. Every girl in this town wishes for a grown-up ceremony called "out of the garden" at the age of 15, of those who bring her out of the garden, there are her three male friends, and the fourth is the boy she has a crush on. In this summer, when hormones spread in the air, Lan began to blossom, carrying her little secrets. |
Academy of Film / Hong Kong Baptist University (HKBU) | Hong Kong | 16 |
| 34-36 | PITTER PATTER GOES MY HEART
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Details:TrailerLength: 22' Screenwriter: Christoph Rainer Director: Christoph Rainer Producer: Elsa Kremser, Mark Szilagyi, Nikolai Gemel Animator: n/a DOP: Georg Geutebrueck Sound: Simon Peter Editor: Roland Stöttinger Production Designer: n/a Synopsis: The hopelessly romantic Lisa takes desperate measures to win her former lover back, Alf. But the fact that Alf already has a new girl at his side and that Lisa needs to bring her alcoholic father to an anti-varicose-campaign photo shooting without letting him know, is not particularly helping. |
Columbia University | United States | 16 |
| 37-39 | DOLL
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Details:TrailerLength: 20' Screenwriter: Dianа Avhadieva Director: Dianа Avhadieva Producer: Olga Grebyonkina Animator: n/a DOP: Artem Sadovnikov Sound: Natalia Ivanova Editor: Dianа Avhadieva Production Designer: n/a Synopsis: Ethnic story about initiating ritual of a young girl. Eastern people are making a doll by the image of woman. They decorate and dress the doll to burn it after, so they pass the ritual of changing childhood on maturity of the girl Aisilu. |
Russian State University of Сinematography n.a. S.Gerasimov VGIK | Russia | 15 |
| 37-39 | NIGHTHAVEN
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Details:TrailerLength: 30' Screenwriter: Loulou Swarte Director: Hetty de Kruijf Producer: Tessa Beijer, Julia Rombout Animator: n/a DOP: Aziz-AI-Dilaimi Sound: Rosanne Blokker, Jelle van Osenbruggen, Berend Blom Editor: Erik ten Brinke Production Designer: Rosylke Gersons Synopsis: Nighthaven is set in a desolate working class town. During the day, the introverted Said works as a key cutter to keep his head above water. At night however, he enriches his life in an unusual way. |
Netherlands Film Academy (NFA) | Netherlands | 15 |
| 37-39 | THE GIFT
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Details:Length: 21'Screenwriter: Sophie Perrier Director: Sophie Perrier Producer: HEAD - Geneve & Bord Cadre films Animator: n/a DOP: Erika Meda Sound: Marc Alberisio Editor: Oceane Yvert Production Designer: n/a Synopsis: Christmas time. Two rich donators pay a visit to a household facing precariousness in order to bring a financial donation. |
Film Department/cinéma du réel - Geneva School of Art and Design (HEAD) | Switzerland | 15 |
| 40-43 | BREAD & OLIVES
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Details:TrailerLength: 29' Screenwriter: Alexander Jaschik, Jordanis Orfanidis, Jan Gallasch Director: Alexander Jaschik, Jordanis Orfanidis Producer: Jan Gallasch, Tobias Herrmann, Christoph Heidrich - Pictures In A Frame Filmproduction; Co-Production: Macromedia University of Animator: n/a DOP: Thomas Schiller Sound: n/a Editor: Theo Strittmatter Production Designer: n/a Synopsis: The two unequal brothers Leonidas and Vangelis don't see a future in Greece due to the Greek financial crisis. As Leonidas must close his restaurant, they pack all belongings in their car and head for Germany to try to build a new life. |
Macromedia University of Applied Science | Germany | 14 |
| 40-43 | CHRONOS
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Details:TrailerLength: 11' Screenwriter: Martin Kazimír Director: Martin Kazimír Producer: VSMU Animator: n/a DOP: Martin Chlpík Sound: Michal Horváth Editor: Martin Chlpík Production Designer: Kristína Majorošová Synopsis: A troubled old businessman finds the world being upside down through a hotel room where time runs backwards. Yes. |
Academy of Performing Arts / Film and Television Faculty (VSMU) | Slovakia | 14 |
| 40-43 | IN THE SHADOW OF THE MOUNTAIN
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Details:TrailerLength: 15' Screenwriter: Neith Sentis Director: Neith Sentis Producer: Laura Torenbeek Animator: n/a DOP: Juan Sebastian Diaz S Sound: Christian Steuer Editor: Benjamin David Sayers Production Designer: Lorenzo Martin Garcia Polak Synopsis: The sole inhabitants of an old tiny village in the Catalonian Pyrenees will take any opportunity to keep their place alive, when they receive a visit from a couple looking for a house where they can start a family. |
Northern Film School / Leeds Beckett University (NFS/LBU) | United Kingdom | 14 |
| 40-43 | POLSKI
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Details:Length: 21'Screenwriter: Rubén Rojas Cuauhtemoc Director: Rubén Rojas Cuauhtemoc Producer: Alexandra Cedeño Animator: n/a DOP: Elías Martín del Campo Sound: Lucas Coelho Editor: Livia Uchoa Production Designer: Antonio Horta Synopsis: Yoemil, a young Cuban, inherited from his father an old Polish car destroyed. At all costs try to fix the car, eager to salvage something from a relationship between father and son little existed. On an island where a car is a sign of luxury, the old Polski becomes the possibility of a new future. |
International School of Film and TV (EICTV) | Cuba | 14 |
| 44-45 | HOUSE ARREST
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Details:Length: 13'Screenwriter: Matthias Sahli Director: Matthias Sahli Producer: ZHdK Animator: n/a DOP: Pascal Reinmann Sound: Gina Keller Editor: Matthias Sahli Production Designer: n/a Synopsis: Hausarrest (House arrest) tells the story of Max, who was sentenced to six months of house arrest. An electronic monitoring unit called Percy helps him trough his new daily life, where he struggles to maintain a healthy relationship with his wife. One day Max regards with horror how far Percy is willing to go to assist him in his needs. The seemingly harmless monitoring unit kills the neighbors dogs to ensure that Max can enjoy a quiet and soundless night. Too late Max begins to question the product strappe |
Zurich University of the Arts / Department of Performing Arts and Film (ZHdK) | Switzerland | 13 |
| 44-45 | LOCKWOOD
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Details:TrailerLength: 11' Screenwriter: Adam Griffiths, Chris Greef Director: Chris Greef Producer: Shea Davie Animator: n/a DOP: Adam Griffiths Sound: Leila Ben Belfadfel, Steve Roberts, Joe Faccivolo Editor: Eric Bos Production Designer: n/a Synopsis: After a lonely old man is given the opportunity to prove he can be a responsible grandparent, he struggles to protect his grandson from ruthless neighbors. |
Sheridan College | Canada | 13 |
| 46-47 | ALICE
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Details:TrailerLength: 25' Screenwriter: Satindar Singh Bedi Director: Satindar Singh Bedi Producer: Mr. Prashant Pathrabe, Director, Film and Television Institute of India, Pune Animator: n/a DOP: Rangarajan Ramabadran Sound: Sandro Sadhukhan Editor: Kratika Adhikari Production Designer: n/a Synopsis: In Hindu mythology, Kamakshi is the goddess of compassion. She fulfils all wishes and embodies serenity and peace. Sita, Rama's wife, suffering a long journey full of deprivations and false accusations levelled against her by her beloved husband, pleads to be swallowed up by her mother, the earth. In black and white and on 35mm, we follow an old woman who digs for water in a dry and barren region. She digs and digs, and the furrows in the soil are mirrored in the wrinkles of her spirited face. Almost disappearing in the ditch, a girl suddenly appears at its edge. They exchange looks. The woman distributes coins from a water filled boat The water carriers Wield torches in the night. Associative and hallucinatory imagery is interspersed narrative moments. Towards the end, colour takes charge of the direction and the desire for water is fulfilled at a high price. |
Film and Television Institute of India (FTII) | India | 12 |
| 46-47 | THE DREAM FACTORY
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Details:TrailerLength: 19' Screenwriter: Michal Pinsky Gross, Jonny Gross Director: Michal Pinsky Gross Producer: Shira Gabay Animator: n/a DOP: Josef Shelest Sound: Calanit Tayer Editor: Jonny Gross Production Designer: n/a Synopsis: Ben dreams of publishing his comic book "The Dream Factory" but is rejected. His daughter Maya takes him into their fantasy world to The Dream Factory to fix his dream. There, Ben learns that his dreams come with a price. |
Ma'aleh School of Film, Television and the Arts (MAALE) | Israel | 12 |
| 48-50 | HOTARU
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Details:TrailerLength: 22' Screenwriter: William Laboury Director: William Laboury Producer: Yannick Beauquis Animator: n/a DOP: Raphaël Vandenbussche Sound: Maxence Dussere Editor: William Laboury Production Designer: n/a Synopsis: They told me: "You have a gift, Martha. Down here, your gift is useless. So we're gonna show you the most beautiful things. You're gonna have more memories than everyone else. And then, you will sleep. You won't wake up. But you will carry the most precious memories from Earth". |
La Fémis | France | 11 |
| 48-50 | LET ME GO
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Details:TrailerLength: 10' Screenwriter: Giuliana Tommasi, Eduardo Rivera Director: Giuliana Tommasi Producer: Giuliana Tommasi Animator: n/a DOP: Leslie Montero Sound: Santiago Pérez Rocha Editor: Giuliana Tommasi, Santiago Pérez Rocha Production Designer: n/a Synopsis: Frida and Adrian live their present relationship longing for the past. While he goes through a deep depression face, she desperately tries to save him, as well as their relationship. Frida encounters herself before situations that will provoke her mixed feelings, taking her to a critical turning point without any chance of going back. |
Universidad Iberoamericana Mexico City (IBERO) | Mexico | 11 |
| 48-50 | THE OUTCAST
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Details:Length: 16'Screenwriter: J. Scott Sibley, Bucher Almzain Director: Bucher Almzain Producer: Bucher Almzain, Olayinka Hassan Animator: n/a DOP: Sargon Saadi Sound: Production Sound mixers: Abby Young, Eric LaCour Supervising; Sound Designer: Nathan Cox-Reed; Sound Designers: Avry Luy, Matthe Editor: Claire Levinson Production Designer: n/a Synopsis: After escaping a war-torn country, a young woman is left alone when her husband is denied entry to the United States. All alone and with little money, she searches for a way for him to enter the country before being deported back. Surrounded by an alien culture, she must learn to quickly adopt to a foreign country as she experiences what it's really like to be an outcast. |
Columbia College Chicago (CCC) | United States | 11 |
| 51-53 | I AM JUPITER I AM THE BIGGEST PLANET
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Details:Length: 15'Screenwriter: Matthew Victor Pastor Director: Matthew Victor Pastor Producer: VCA School of Film and TV Animator: n/a DOP: Matthew Victor Pastor Sound: n/a Editor: Matthew Victor Pastor Production Designer: Fritz Silorio Synopsis: Silence in the Red Light District of Manila. |
VCA Film and Television | Australia | 9 |
| 51-53 | SO LONG, MY NIGHT
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Details:Length: 30'Screenwriter: Kanna Kimura Director: Kanna Kimura Producer: Kaito Murata Animator: n/a DOP: Takuro Matsumoto Sound: Ryotaro Higashi Editor: Chihiro Aiba Production Designer: n/a Synopsis: How do we face it when, before we know it, we suddenly realize that what is dear to us has already lost its shine? For Sachiko, 26, this happened to her pursuit of the art of drawing. A series of events unfurls which lead her to face reality. |
Japan Institute of the Moving Image (JIMI) | Japan | 9 |
| 51-53 | TRUST ME, I HAVE AN EYE FOR THESE THINGS
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Details:TrailerLength: 8' Screenwriter: Clement Clareton Director: Clement Clareton Producer: Michel Coteret Animator: n/a DOP: Raphael Auger Sound: Hugo Deguillard Editor: Clement Clareton, Sophie Vincendeau Production Designer: n/a Synopsis: A hair salon in the ‘60s. Yvonne is eyeing the barber up when a policeman comes for a shave. He’s investigating a killer that exclusively targets young wo-men. The murder weapon: a straight razor. Quickly, Yvonne grows suspicious. |
ENS Louis-Lumière | France | 9 |
| 54-55 | JAPANESE FANTASIES
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Details:TrailerLength: 28' Screenwriter: Rory Pfotenhauer Director: Rory Pfotenhauer Producer: Ei Kaneko Animator: n/a DOP: Lorenzo Zanini Sound: Sven Rethemeier Editor: Alexandra Boskovich, Rory Pfotenhauer Production Designer: n/a Synopsis: A white boy who dreams of cognitive enhancement moves to Tokyo at the age of eighteen to pursue the technological singularity. Instead, he ends up becoming a fashion model and acting in a Japanese soap opera. The cultural and linguistic complexities of this work change his brain chemistry. Now, ten years later, and spurred on by an audible "cute Japanese" female voice in his head, he decides to return to Japan to seek closure on his traumatic past and revisit the issues that led to his demise. |
School of Visual Arts | United States | 8 |
| 54-55 | SPAGHETTI
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Details:TrailerLength: 19' Screenwriter: Iyabo Kwayana Director: Iyabo Kwayana Producer: Agneya Ferraz, Isabel Green Animator: n/a DOP: Ivan Rodrigues Sound: Borja Sau Razquin Editor: Iyabo Kwayana Production Designer: n/a Synopsis: A joyful adolescent but misfit boy obsessed with proving himself to the tough kids in the neighborhood must face the person that threatens his innocence. In the process, he escapes humiliation and discovers his own strength. |
University of California Los Angeles (UCLA) | United States | 8 |
| 56-58 | JEEZ
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Details:Length: 17'Screenwriter: Colin Nixon Director: Colin Nixon Producer: Université du Québec à Montréal Animator: n/a DOP: Marilee Goulet Sound: Alexandre Pelletier Editor: Alexandre Pelletier, Charles Boisseau Production Designer: n/a Synopsis: Jaydon enjoys talking philosophy with his friend Jeez, made out of plywood. As Jaydon tries to include Jeez in the family, his father Jim gets grumpier and grumpier. The tension soon becomes overwhelming for softhearted Jeez. |
University of Québec Montréal / School of Media (UQAM) | Canada | 7 |
| 56-58 | TWO NOTES
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Details:Length: 30'Screenwriter: Gireesh Kumar K. Director: Gireesh Kumar K. Producer: Satyajit Ray Film and Television Institute, India Animator: n/a DOP: Appu Prabhakar Sound: Arijit Mitra Editor: Sudipto Shankar Roy Production Designer: n/a Synopsis: An old couple lives in a village waits to see their daughter and grandson. The daughter lives abroad and does not want to come back to the parents in the village. Meanwhile a boatman in the village fails to solve the disagreement with his wife. She leaves an one year old son with the boatman and goes away, changes the world of the old couple. |
Satyajit Ray Film and Television Institute (SRFTI) | India | 7 |
| 56-58 | WAKE
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Details:TrailerLength: 18' Screenwriter: Hencas van Huyssteen Director: Hencas van Huyssteen Producer: Suzanne van Jaarsveldt Animator: n/a DOP: Samkelwe Vilana Sound: Arno Marx Editor: Hencas van Huyssteen, Ndamulelo Muruba Production Designer: n/a Synopsis: Soon to be father and doting husband, Chris, experiences extra-terrestrial dreams after an accident at work. With the help of the quirky stranger, Edward, he tries to uncover the truth and decipher his visions before it's too late. |
Tshwane University of Technology | South Africa | 7 |
| 59-64 | BARK
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Details:TrailerLength: 15' Screenwriter: Paloma Rincón Director: Paloma Rincón Producer: Sebastián Martínez Rodríguez Animator: n/a DOP: Jerónimo Sarmiento Sound: Andrés Montaña Duret Editor: Paloma Rincón Production Designer: n/a Synopsis: M. is 71 years old and Alzheimer’s disease has transformed her mind and body. Her world is full of noises and whispers. Sometimes thoughts come out from her mouth and reveal a disturbed reality. Corteza –Bark- is a short fiction film that describes this woman’s bath routine. Submerged in a bathtub, M. lets her body lie there, while an imposing black woman is in charge of rinsing her, rubbing her...accompany her, and contemplating her. Arms, legs, skin, bones. This is the inventory of a body that consumes itself. A body that inhabits another world and another time. |
Escuela de Cine y Televisión / UNAL (ECYTV) | Colombia | 6 |
| 59-64 | BEHIND THE SCENES
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Details:Length: 16'Screenwriter: Yu Chun Su, Ting Ning Chen Director: Yu Chun Su Producer: Shin Huang , Yu Chun Su Animator: n/a DOP: Yu Ren Chen Sound: Agnes Meng, Rene Hsu, Tzu Ya Wang, Zhi Ying Lin Editor: Chin Zhenpan, Yu Chun Su, Zhi Ching We Production Designer: n/a Synopsis: The actor is not showing up. Facing the pressure from the crew and the worries from her mother, the girl is feeling down.The dream of working on set is fading. Suddenly, another unexpected guest arrives on set… |
National Taiwan University of Arts (NTUA) | Taiwan | 6 |
| 59-64 | ONE OUT OF THREE
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Details:TrailerLength: 19' Screenwriter: Cecilia de Arce, Jeanne Alamercery, Lauranne Boivin Director: Cecilia de Arce Producer: Adrien Ferrand Animator: n/a DOP: Brieuc Weulersse Sound: Romain Vernier, Hannah Kessas Editor: Justine Marazzani, Damien Leclercq Production Designer: Adrien Ferrand Synopsis: Simone and Zelda are two very close friends. Simone gets pregnant and immediately decides to have an abortion. Zelda tries to help her but she gets involved in matters that doesn't concern her. |
International Institute of Image and Sound (3IS) | France | 6 |
| 59-64 | ST ELMO
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Details:TrailerLength: 18' Screenwriter: Emily Dynes Director: Emily Dynes Producer: Brooke Guy Animator: n/a DOP: Wilson Huang Sound: Trent Cliffe Editor: Cylindra Sapphire Production Designer: Emily Dynes Synopsis: In the winter following a devastating bush fire, Peter and his teenage son Joshua struggle with the loss of their wife/mother. |
Swinburne School of Film and Television (SSFT) | Australia | 6 |
| 59-64 | TAKE AWAY
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Details:TrailerLength: 15' Screenwriter: Clara Ortega Botas,Roberto Martín Maiztegui Director: Geórg Cantos Producer: Azahara Ramos Truchero Animator: n/a DOP: Pablo Moya,Michel Rey Sound: J. Lebrón Editor: Ana Bustamante,Xavi G. Pereiro Production Designer: n/a Synopsis: A Burger King late at night. Five friends with a knot in their stomachs. Twenty seven Whoppers to go. |
ECAM (The Madrid Film School) | Spain | 6 |
| 59-64 | XYZ, THE CITY HUNTER
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Details:TrailerLength: 24' Screenwriter: Maxime Hourdain Director: Maxime Hourdain Producer: INSAS, ATELIER DE REALISATION Animator: n/a DOP: Leslie Charreau Sound: Clara Merken Editor: Stephanie Merken Production Designer: n/a Synopsis: After the murder of her fiance, Usagi Tanase wants revenge. In order to do so, she contacts Ryo Saeba, aka City Hunter, the most respected and feared hitman in the city. However, she doesn't know he's also an incorrigible womanizer who accepts contracts on two conditions only ... but what are they? |
INSAS | Belgium | 6 |
| 65-70 | CITY CRUSH
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Details:TrailerLength: 14' Screenwriter: Mia Forrest Director: Mia Forrest Producer: Mia Forrest Animator: n/a DOP: Jason Klaassen Sound: Jackson Scott, Mircha Mangiacotti Editor: Mai Forrest Production Designer: Alex Hodgins Synopsis: A lavish thug poaches an exotic young trophy-boy and smuggles him into City Crush. When our would be ivory concubine escapes during his own sale he must navigate the desolation, boredom an deviant lust of the locals. |
Griffith Film School (GFS) | Australia | 5 |
| 65-70 | DROP
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Details:TrailerLength: 9' Screenwriter: Yotam Knispel Director: Yotam Knispel Producer: Shai Blanc Animator: n/a DOP: Yair Fridman Sound: Itai Levi Editor: Or Dotan Production Designer: n/a Synopsis: Neta, a socially-rejected 11 year old, is having a nightmarish day that starts with getting her first period right before gym class. Not wanting to face the embarrassment, she takes drastic actions. But only these actions will lead her to discover something surprising and new. |
Beit Berl College / Faculty of Arts (Beit Berl) | Israel | 5 |
| 65-70 | EVEN IF ALL, I WON`T
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Details:Length: 23'Screenwriter: Mehmet Akif Büyükatalay Director: Mehmet Akif Büyükatalay Producer: Mehmet Akif Büyükatalay Animator: n/a DOP: Christian Kochmann Sound: Tim Gorinski Editor: Mehmet Akif Büyükatalay Production Designer: n/a Synopsis: Harun loses his apartment to an intermediate tenant and is going into a nocturnal odyssey through a vernissage, a backyard Mosque and ends up back in his hometown with a hairdresser. |
Academy of Media Arts Cologne (KHM) | Germany | 5 |
| 65-70 | MAMAN AND THE OCEAN
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Details:TrailerLength: 10' Screenwriter: Roman Toulany Director: David Wagner Producer: Hamburg Media School Animator: n/a DOP: Felix Striegel Sound: Siegfried Fischer Editor: Anne Frohlingsdorf Production Designer: n/a Synopsis: Plastic bags kill. As far as that, Miro and his mother have the same opinion. Only Miro's mother is thinking about the ocean while Miro is thinking about Lorenzo. |
Hamburg Media School (HMS) | Germany | 5 |
| 65-70 | NAKED AS YOU CAME
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Details:Length: 27'Screenwriter: Martin Velič Director: Martin Velič Producer: Alica Barošová, Nikola Augustínová, TBU in Zlín Animator: n/a DOP: Martin Rau Sound: Josef Šenkýř Editor: Michal Čepec Production Designer: n/a Synopsis: A film about endless love, relationship and arguments between two young homosexual men. They seem to be the happiest couple in the world but... |
Tomas Bata University in Zlín / Faculty of Multimedia Communications (TBU) | Czech Republic | 5 |
| 65-70 | PANCASONYA
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Details:TrailerLength: 25' Screenwriter: Bunga Rachmawati Director: Ihsan Fadli Producer: Reza Ocktarina Animator: n/a DOP: Agasta Ariani Sound: Iwand Joshua Editor: Bayu Cipta Pramudya Production Designer: n/a Synopsis: Story about a father being accused as communist, then decide to learn about black magic to made him immortal in order to revenge for his wife`s death and protect his only son because they accused as communist too. |
Jakarta Institute of the Art / FFTV (IKJ) | Indonesia | 5 |
| 71-81 | ABSENCE IS PRESENT
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Details:TrailerLength: 19' Screenwriter: Vladimir Paskaljevic Director: Vladimir Paskaljevic Producer: Vladimir Paskaljevic Animator: n/a DOP: Daniel Valle Sound: Velibor Hajdukovic Editor: Vladimir Paskaljevic Production Designer: n/a Synopsis: While Jelena, a young immigrant, looks for a better future in Canada, her mother Rada looks for a dog that she has lost in the streets of Belgrade. |
York University Department of Film - Fine Arts | Canada | 4 |
| 71-81 | CHEN JING
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Details:TrailerLength: 18' Screenwriter: Vivien Koh Director: Alvin Soh Producer: Umaira Ab Latiff Animator: n/a DOP: Daryl Ong Bang Hao Sound: Xia Yuren, Alvin Soh Editor: Vivien Koh Production Designer: Xie Hao Yun Synopsis: Chen Jing is trafficked into Singapore and is forced into prostitution on the promise of a better life. In a bid to raise money quicker to pay off her debts and return home, she places her only friendship in the brothel on the line. |
Puttnam School of Film & Animation / LASALLE College of the Arts (LCA) | Singapore | 4 |
| 71-81 | GRANDMA`S BIG SCHLEP
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Details:TrailerLength: 21' Screenwriter: Zoe Kenndal Shafir Director: Sophie Clarke Producer: Rhianna Rizvi Animator: n/a DOP: Christopher Starkey Sound: Hana Ishikawa, Shaun Kobrak Editor: Lewis Cyrus-Thompson Production Designer: Zoe Kenndal Shafir Synopsis: Things go away for Hannah and Rivkah, when they discover that their recently deceased grandma wasn`t as Jewish as she made out to be… |
Westminster Film BA / University of Westminster (WFS) | United Kingdom | 4 |
| 71-81 | OUT-OF-STOCK
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Details:TrailerLength: 22' Screenwriter: Johannes Rothe Director: Alexander Alaluukas Producer: Urs Kind, Max Michel Animator: n/a DOP: Marcus Lauterbach Sound: Leo Aderhold Editor: Leo Aderhold Production Designer: n/a Synopsis: Due to his probation Richard Ahrens cannot risk any more slip-ups. Therefore trying to do everything right, everything goes wrong. |
Film University Babelsberg KONRAD WOLF | Germany | 4 |
| 71-81 | PRISM
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Details:Length: 12'Screenwriter: Andrés Azzolina Webster Director: Andrés Azzolina Webster Producer: Patricio Solórzano Animator: n/a DOP: Juan Pablo Villalobos Sound: Andrés Polti Editor: Andrés Azzolina Webster Production Designer: Andrés Azzolina Synopsis: He makes music; she is sick and dances in a ruined house. While death lurks them and their world is transformed, they encounter love and beauty. |
National School of Film Arts / National Autonomous University of Mexico (ENAC/UNAM) | Mexico | 4 |
| 71-81 | ROOF JUMPING TUTORIAL
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Details:Length: 25'Screenwriter: Honami Sugiura Director: Honami Sugiura Producer: Honami Sugiura, Mai Yoneyama, Ririko Shibano Animator: n/a DOP: Mai Yoneyama Sound: Ririko Shibano Editor: Honami Sugiura Production Designer: n/a Synopsis: Sagara who is the student of the public high school is troubled with friend relations. One day she is going to jump off the roof of the school. The principal appears there. Two people confide each other's daily life. In that way the feelings that they endured blow up. |
Nihon University | Japan | 4 |
| 71-81 | SINISTER
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Details:Length: 18'Screenwriter: Cauê Shimoda Director: Mariani Ohno Producer: Ana Julia Travia, Mariani Ohno Animator: n/a DOP: Adriana Serafim Sound: Mariana Vieira Editor: Felipe Santo Production Designer: n/a Synopsis: Daughter`s left hand itch only ceases when she uses it to draw ner favorite pastime. Mother doesn`t tolerate her being distracted from homework and forbids the use of her left hand. As Daughter's rebellion increases, so do Mother's violence and repression. Mother will do everything to maintain order, but Daughter will resist. |
University of São Paulo / School of Communications and Arts / Department of Film, Radio and Television (USP) | Brazil | 4 |
| 71-81 | STAR DUST
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Details:TrailerLength: 15' Screenwriter: Edouard Partoes Director: Edouard Partoes Producer: ESEC Animator: n/a DOP: Clément Gabriel Jolivet Sound: Maxime Cuvelier, Jeremy Gulino Editor: Alexandre Shabrow Production Designer: n/a Synopsis: A mother is going to pass the way... What will stay of her? |
Ecole Supérieure d'études Cinématographiques (ESEC) | France | 4 |
| 71-81 | THE FANTASTIC LOVE OF BEEBOY AND FLOWERGIRL
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Details:TrailerLength: 10' Screenwriter: Clemens Roth Director: Clemens Roth Producer: Charles E. Breitkreuz, Helena Hofmann Animator: n/a DOP: Conrad Lobst Sound: Johannes Kunz Editor: Julia Kovalenko Production Designer: Iris Schilhab Synopsis: The fantastic love story of beeboy and flowergirl, whom are falling in love hopelessly. A life together requires them to face the hard reality, which soon threatens to break them apart as well as their love. |
Filmakademie Baden-Wuerttemberg (FABW) | Germany | 4 |
| 71-81 | UNBREAKABLE SIGNS
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Details:Length: 14'Screenwriter: Victor Clin Director: Victor Clin Producer: Renata Carpenter, Danielle Villanova Animator: n/a DOP: Dudu Mafra Sound: Fernando Aranha Editor: Victor Clin Production Designer: n/a Synopsis: Chris intends to leave The Village where he lives, aware that he will have to face Those We Don't Speak Of. inspired by M. Night Shyamalan's The Village. |
Pontificia Universidade Catolica do Rio de Janeiro (PUC) | Brazil | 4 |
| 71-81 | WHERE'S THE HEAD?
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Details:TrailerLength: 24' Screenwriter: LUI Mei Fung Director: LUI Mei Fung Producer: FOK Ka Po Animator: n/a DOP: TANG Sin Ying Sound: LEE Kuen Fung Editor: LUI Kin Lok Production Designer: n/a Synopsis: LaiHa wants her son Yan to secure the throne in the mob empire. But Yan rather to be a filmmaker and put into a huge debt. She wants to save her son and accidentally take back home the head of Mrs. Chan. Will Laiha and Yan survive the crisis? |
Hong Kong Academy for Performing Arts / School of Film and Television (HKAPA) | Hong Kong | 4 |
| 82-88 | FLOW
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Details:Length: 11'Screenwriter: Cristhian Orta Director: Cristhian Orta Producer: Andrea Franzini Animator: n/a DOP: Andrés Failache Sound: Agustin Chapre Editor: Cristhian Orta Production Designer: n/a Synopsis: A guy tries to end a relationship with his girlfriend, but is very afraid to do it. |
Film School of Uruguay (ECU) | Uruguay | 3 |
| 82-88 | MAN IN THE CINEMA HOUSE
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Details:TrailerLength: 17' Screenwriter: Bernard Jay Mercado Director: Bernard Jay Mercado Producer: Nina Torralba Animator: n/a DOP: Gianco Ante Sound: Nina Torralba Editor: Bernard Jay Mercado Production Designer: n/a Synopsis: A Man is imprisoned in a movie theater for killing Jose Rizal, a film producer. He then attempts to escape. |
University of the Philippines Film Institute (UPFI) | Phillipines | 3 |
| 82-88 | MENESETUNG
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Details:TrailerLength: 9' Screenwriter: Kyle McDonnell, Olivia D’Oliveira Director: Kyle McDonnell Producer: Emily Langridge Animator: n/a DOP: Steven McDonnell Sound: Dominick Dahl-Lacroix Editor: James Resendes Production Designer: n/a Synopsis: Two siblings on a failed sheep farm in rural Canada decide to escape their trouble home by stealing their father’s truck, but they are unprepared for the consequences ahead. |
Toronto Metropolitan University | Canada | 3 |
| 82-88 | RIOT
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Details:Length: 5'Screenwriter: D Naveen Raj Director: D Naveen Raj Producer: Aloysius Ong Animator: n/a DOP: Hanirusyaidi Subhan Sound: David Yong Editor: Malcolm Soh Production Designer: n/a Synopsis: Set against the backdrop of a riot that actually took place in Singapore's Little India in 2013, this dramatic short probes the fine balance of racial harmony in a multicultural society. |
Ngee Ann Polytechnic / School of Film & Media Studies | Singapore | 3 |
| 82-88 | THE BOY MURDER
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Details:TrailerLength: 18' Screenwriter: Ciarán Hickey Director: Ciarán Hickey Producer: Finbarr Crotty Animator: n/a DOP: Oisín Lowry Sound: Robert Flynn Editor: Ian Burke Production Designer: Declan Winser Synopsis: In the aftermath of a child suicide in his local community, a troubled school boy comes into violent conflict with reality. |
National Film School / Institute of Art, Design and Technology (IADT) | Ireland | 3 |
| 82-88 | THE LEAVES WILL BURY
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Details:Length: 24'Screenwriter: Toni Geitani Director: Toni Geitani Producer: IESAV - USJ Animator: n/a DOP: Rachelle Noja Sound: Toni Geitani Editor: Toni Geitani Production Designer: n/a Synopsis: The tension rises as we follow a man, to a hotel. |
Institut d'études scéniques, audiovisuelles et cinématographiques (IESAV) | Lebanon | 3 |
| 82-88 | UP AND ARISE
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Details:Length: 22'Screenwriter: Raanan Berger Director: Raanan Berger Producer: Or Katz, Raanan Berger Animator: n/a DOP: Zamir Nega Sound: n/a Editor: Eyar Paz Production Designer: Bar From, Stav Brazilay Synopsis: Likey is a man who was raised by his Master as a dog. When he succeeds to escape from his Master's home, he discovers that the outside world conducts itself differently than we would aspect. |
The Steve Tisch School of Film and Television (TAU) | Israel | 3 |
| 89-90 | THE ROAD ON THE BODY
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Details:Length: 21'Screenwriter: Riccardo Calabro Director: Marco Longo Producer: Michele Pasini Animator: n/a DOP: Dario Scommegna Sound: Alessio Sartori, Manuel Paradiso Editor: Alessandro lonescu Baino, Matteo Lucernari Production Designer: n/a Synopsis: In the relationship between Cinzia and Marco, there's more than one secret. Everything will come to light after Marco's attempted suicide. |
Milan City Film School Luchino Visconti (MCSC) | Italy | 2 |
| 89-90 | WHEN YOU MEET HIM
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Details:Length: 13'Screenwriter: Jürgen Moor Director: Jürgen Moor Producer: Kristina Hakk Animator: n/a DOP: Gunnar Laal Sound: Kauri Lemberg Editor: Sander-Kalle Somma Production Designer: n/a Synopsis: The film is about a young girl who falls victim to a lonely older gentleman. The two of them learn a lot of themselves as they take the longest ride of their lives. |
Baltic Film, Media and Arts School, Tallinn University | Estonia | 2 |
| 91-94 | FIRST WALL
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Details:Length: 16'Screenwriter: Luciano Romano Director: Luciano Romano Producer: Karina Laura Sinisi Animator: n/a DOP: Federico Fiori Sound: Ignacio Avila Editor: Luciano Romano Production Designer: n/a Synopsis: "First wall" is a story that exposes the employment relationship between Salvador and his son Rodrigo while performing masonry work and move like a child tries, in vain, his father negative habits to move forward more willingly in front of customers. |
Universidad de Buenos Aires / Diseño de Imagen y Sonido FADU (UBA) | Argentina | 1 |
| 91-94 | LISTEN ME DIE
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Details:TrailerLength: 13' Screenwriter: Riccardo Sirignano Director: Riccardo Sirignano Producer: JFC studios, Joel Fioroni Animator: n/a DOP: Mariangela Marletta Sound: Rico Andriolo Editor: Riccardo Sirignano Production Designer: n/a Synopsis: Lorenzo is a doctor of sixty years. He lives perpetually in telephone contact, forced to a constant availability. One evening gets a call from his daughter Lisa who does not feel long. The plane on which it stands has been hijacked, the situation on board is dire. Lorenzo then begins a race to the airport, in a futile attempt to close the gap. On arrival Lorenzo will find just lost in front of the large window of the airport, forced to confront an unbridgeable distance. |
Academy of Audiovisual Sciences (CISA) | Switzerland | 1 |
| 91-94 | MAY AT THE AVENUE
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Details:Length: 17'Screenwriter: Federico Gatto Director: Diego Baridó Producer: Silvana Cascardo Animator: n/a DOP: Florencia Carnovale Sound: Luz Galizzi Editor: Gonzalo Del Val Production Designer: n/a Synopsis: "But why did I come?" wondering Isabelle, a French tourist, as begins to walk around Buenos Aires. Neither she nor the city seem to be in the mood to make friends. The help of an eccentric gentleman change things up a bit... |
National School of Film Experimentation and Production (ENERC) | Argentina | 1 |
| 91-94 | THE ROMA PROJECT
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Details:TrailerLength: 20' Screenwriter: Evan Scott Russell Director: Harry Keenan Producer: Evan Scott Russell Animator: n/a DOP: Tyler Harmon-Townsend Sound: Alex Nomick Editor: Alex Nomick Production Designer: n/a Synopsis: Following a deadly car accident, a frightened teen awakes in an ominous hospital and discovers powerful abilities he did not know he possessed. |
University of North Carolina School of the Arts (UNCSA) | United States | 1 |
| 95-110 | COURTING LEWIS BAKER
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Details:TrailerLength: 14' Screenwriter: Richard T. Fields Director: Richard T. Fields Producer: Sonya Dunnn Animator: n/a DOP: Andy Evans Sound: Jonathan Ferraro, Ted Hogeman Editor: Richard T. Fields Production Designer: Yildiz Yilmaz Synopsis: A young man's search for his estranged father and its impact on his life and romance. |
American University | United States | 0 |
| 95-110 | FIFTH LANDING STAGE
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Details:TrailerLength: 29' Screenwriter: Beauty Esi Akpanya Director: Beauty Esi Akpanya Producer: Dennis-Brook Prince Lotsu (for NAFTI) Animator: n/a DOP: Richard Asante Sound: Edward Aikins Editor: Wisdom Mattey Production Designer: n/a Synopsis: ANKPAVI, not just persevering but also determine to save his only son from death and regain his integrity. She therefore stalks executioners and brings his son back to life. Meanwhile her accuser is found guilty of many atrocities. |
National Film and Television Institute (NAFTI) | Ghana | 0 |
| 95-110 | GALAXY
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Details:Length: 11'Screenwriter: Fanny Viitaharju Director: Fanny Viitaharju Producer: Leena Kilpeläinen Animator: n/a DOP: Johannes Repo Sound: Niikka Makkonen Editor: Johanna Viren Production Designer: n/a Synopsis: Creativity and longing do not belong to the standards of a gray world. |
Turku University of Applied Sciences (TUAS) Arts Academy / Degree Programme in Film and Media | Finland | 0 |
| 95-110 | IF I HAD IT MY WAY I WOULD NEVER LEAVE
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Details:TrailerLength: 16' Screenwriter: Marko Grba Singh Director: Marko Grba Singh Producer: FDA – Višnja Nikitin / StudAVP – Nevena Tomić Animator: n/a DOP: Marko Milovanović Sound: Milan Andjelović Editor: Marko Grba Singh Production Designer: n/a Synopsis: Abdul and Hamza, two immigrants from Somalia, are hiding in an abandoned house on Serbian-Romanian border. They walk at night and sleep during the daytime. |
FDU - Fakultet Dramskih Umetnosti | Serbia | 0 |
| 95-110 | LITTLE FISH
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Details:Length: 22'Screenwriter: Maja Križnik, Jerneja Kaja Balog Director: Maja Križnik Producer: UL AGRFT (Nina Robnik) Animator: n/a DOP: Maksimiljan Sušnik Sound: Samo Jurca Editor: Matic Drakulić Production Designer: n/a Synopsis: BRINA: Hey, Bor. Grandpa told me there are fish in this lake that could bite off half your leg. BOR: Oh. I only see little fish. BRINA: Yes, but the little fish look after the big fish. They're the ones who bite off your leg. |
University of Ljubljana / Academy of Theatre, Radio, Film and Television (AGRFT) | Slovenia | 0 |
| 95-110 | LUX
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Details:TrailerLength: 11' Screenwriter: Bernardo Lopes Director: Bernardo Lopes, Inês Malveiro Producer: Mariana Mendes Animator: n/a DOP: Pedro Arial Sound: Henrique Silva Editor: César Santos, Miguel Jerónimo Production Designer: n/a Synopsis: Pedro is a solitary writer who decides to embark upon a imaginary disorientation in order to get to the central idea for his next novel. |
Universidade Lusófona / Film and Media Arts Department (ULHT) | Portugal | 0 |
| 95-110 | ONE MID AFTERNOON
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Details:Length: 11'Screenwriter: Jesse John Director: Hamza Mu'azu Producer: Mwanse Shedi Daniel Animator: n/a DOP: Mo Steve Sound: Da'anong Gyang Editor: Moses n. Stephen Production Designer: n/a Synopsis: The life experience of a young rapper who wakes up and finds himself in the heat of religious crisis, he tries to get solutions from drugs, philosophical books and his friends in the same situation. But he finds peace and becomes an advocate of peace through his music. |
NTA Television College (NTA) | Nigeria | 0 |
| 95-110 | ROAST
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Details:TrailerLength: 9' Screenwriter: April Moore Director: April Moore Producer: Ryan Brown Animator: n/a DOP: Nicole Machon Sound: Nicole Machon Editor: Ryan Brown Production Designer: Paula Gonzalez Synopsis: Fifteen-year-old Nia has caught the attention of an attractive senior. Though she knows he’s in a group that casually spit-roasts girls at parties, she is eager to be alone with him. As the night progresses and two other boys join them, Nia finds herself in a situation that is more than she anticipated. |
Florida State University / College of Motion Picture Arts (FSU) | United States | 0 |
| 95-110 | SMOKE IN THE WATER
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Details:Length: 23'Screenwriter: Olga Lekka, Spiridon Papaspirou Director: Spiridon Papaspirou Producer: Evaggelia Zagoritou Animator: n/a DOP: Andreas Margiolas Sound: Vassilis Aranas Editor: Anthi Tsirouki Production Designer: n/a Synopsis: The life of a woman who is married to her high school teacher, is becoming a burden she can no longer carry. Things get even more complicated when her husband finds out some marks on her body, which proves her unfaithfulness. |
Hellenic Cinema and Television School Stavrakos (HCTSS) | Greece | 0 |
| 95-110 | THE BUS
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Details:Length: 18'Screenwriter: Samet Yalcin Director: Samet Yalcin Producer: Samet Yalcin Animator: n/a DOP: Berk Kusbeygi Sound: Omer Kortak Editor: Samet Yalcin Production Designer: n/a Synopsis: While Onur keep moving on the way he meet by chance a funeral. Because of this funeral he is reminded his dead grandmother. He couldn't this head round his grandmother's death because of that he couldn't go there. After this case he went his dead grandmother's home in order to be freed his remorse. |
Istanbul Kultur University (IKU) | Turkey | 0 |
| 95-110 | THE CAPSULE
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Details:Length: 19'Screenwriter: Irdit Kaso Director: Irdit Kaso Producer: Academy of Film & Multimedia Marubi Animator: n/a DOP: Alvis Mine Sound: n/a Editor: Mentor Selmani Production Designer: n/a Synopsis: Keli works as a welder in a factory. He did not receive a salary for nine months. The bank is obliged to seize his apartment because of non-payment of his loan. Keli tries to find a place to live. |
Academy of Film and Multimedia Marubi (AFMM) | Albania | 0 |
| 95-110 | THE CHAMELEON
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Details:Length: 15'Screenwriter: Alima François Sylvin Director: Alima François Sylvin Producer: Afr'images Animator: n/a DOP: Nsoh Emmanuel Sound: Babeng Ngue Guy, Fotchou Galin Editor: Nko'o Ella Morand Nicodème Production Designer: n/a Synopsis: David chooses to be a “playboy” and now he will face the challenge of that identity. |
Institute for the Preservation of National Audio Visual Heritage (IFCA/CRTV) | Cameroon | 0 |
| 95-110 | THE HOUSE IN THE ENVELOPE
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Details:TrailerLength: 16' Screenwriter: Demet Gül, Sanela Salketic Director: Sanela Salketic Producer: Fred Burle, Demet Gül Animator: n/a DOP: Patrick Jasmin Sound: Alessandro Mongardini Editor: Christian Brecht Production Designer: n/a Synopsis: One year after the death of Leyla's father, she decides to visit her family in Istanbul, asking the same questions her father did 30 years before. But her grandmother refuses to talk about family problems and her grandfather is not at home. A talkative taxi driver helps her not just to find the grandfather, but also shares a quiet moment with her. |
German Film and Television Academy Berlin (DFFB) | Germany | 0 |
| 95-110 | THE POSTCARD CLUB
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Details:Length: 11'Screenwriter: Kaya Pakaslahti Director: Kaya Pakaslahti Producer: Hanna Hedengren Animator: n/a DOP: Jakob Norrgård Sound: Nino Poppius Editor: Jakob Norrgård Production Designer: n/a Synopsis: A dark comedy of a group of grannys keeping a postcard club at an old people home. |
ARCADA University of Applied Sciences Department of Culture and Communication / Media Culture Finland | Finland | 0 |
| 95-110 | WHEN THE ANGELS SMILE
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Details:Length: 22'Screenwriter: Hicham Elladdaqi Director: Hicham Elladdaqi Producer: ESAV Production Animator: n/a DOP: Aziz Es-Saghir Sound: Charles Collin Editor: Jamal Kellal Production Designer: n/a Synopsis: AYOUB is a bold child (been born without hair) who lives with his foster mother who does not delay dying. Ayoub is a big dreamer and his biggest dream is to fly in the sky. His dreams dissipate when he finds himself in a boarding school where he becomes a big rebel been afraid by everyone. |
Marrakech School of Visual Arts (ESAVM) | Morocco | 0 |
| 95-110 | WOMEN IN VAIVÉN
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Details:TrailerLength: 13' Screenwriter: Paloma Arroyo Director: Elena Lerones Producer: Cecilia Pérez-Homar Animator: n/a DOP: Jacopo Meneghin Sound: John McGheen Editor: Macarena Sierra Production Designer: n/a Synopsis: On the morning of her wedding in Puerto Rico, ZoeTaína struggles to fit into her grandmother’s old wedding dress, when suddenly her dead mother shows up to wish her luck. |
Screen Academy Scotland (SAS) | United Kingdom | 0 |
Documentary
| Place | Title | School | Country | Points |
| 1 | THE ARCHIPELAGO
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Details:Length: 30'Screenwriter: Benjamin Huguet Director: Benjamin Huguet Producer: Benjamin Huguet Animator: n/a DOP: Benjamin Huguet Sound: Robert Malone Editor: Neil Lenthall Production Designer : n/a Synopsis: A modern community on the cusp of change; a people intrinsically linked to nature and tradition, though their whale hunting practice is about to be challenged by the outside world. |
National FIlm and Television School (NFTS) | United Kingdom | 52 |
| 2 | MY SILICONE LOVE
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Details:Length: 28'Screenwriter: n/a Director: Sophie Dros Producer: Eleanora de Rijke Animator: n/a DOP: Boas van Milligen Bielke Sound: Brandon Grötzinger, Gijs den Hartogh, Floris Werver Editor: Erik ten Brinke Production Designer : n/a Synopsis: Everard has twelve lifelike dolls. He talks to them, dresses them, has sex with them and loves them as if they were real people. Is he happy with this way of living or is he actually looking for a real woman? This documentary shows his everyday life in contrast to a fantasy world in which the dolls come alive. |
Netherlands Film Academy (NFA) | Netherlands | 42 |
| 3 | FLOWER OF A THOUSAND COLORS
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Details:Length: 23'Screenwriter: Karen Vazquez Guadarrama, Bart Goossens Director: Karen Vazquez Guadarrama Producer: Karen Vazquez Guadarrama (Visiophonics) Animator: n/a DOP: Karen Vazquez Guadarrama Sound: Bart Goossens, Matthias Hillegeer Editor: Karen Vazquez Guadarrama Production Designer : n/a Synopsis: Emiliana is a single mother trying to survive in a remote Bolivian mining camp 4,897 meters above sea level. She lives with her children in the middle of the paradise -like mountains of Mina Argentina. But appearances are deceptive: life in the camp is fierce and alcohol-driven. Those who find tin eat; those who don’t, don’t… |
Royal Academy of Fine Arts / University College Ghent (KASK) | Belgium | 32 |
| 4 | TRANSIT ZONE
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Details:Length: 30'Screenwriter: n/a Director: Frederik Subei Producer: Frederik Subei Animator: n/a DOP: Frederik Subei Sound: Frederik Subei Editor: Frederik Subei Production Designer : n/a Synopsis: Transit Zone is a character-driven documentary about a refugee in the jungle of Calais, hoping to cross to the UK. |
Screen Academy Scotland (SAS) | United Kingdom | 28 |
| 5 | A WOMAN AND HER CAR
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Details:Length: 28'Screenwriter: Loïc Darses Director: Loïc Darses Producer: Université du Québec à Montréal Animator: n/a DOP: Hubert Auger Sound: Amélie Hardy, Philippe Lefebvre Editor: Amélie Hardy Production Designer : Jeremi De Pue, Élise Madé Synopsis: December the 31th, 2003. Driven by a powerful instinct for survival and freedom, Lucie decides to write a letter to the man who abused her from the age of 8 to 12 years old. She then takes her camera, her car and resolves herself to bring him this letter in person, wherever he may be. Purpose: give back to her aggressor the shame and pain she withheld wrongly for all theses years. |
University of Québec Montréal / School of Media (UQAM) | Canada | 24 |
| 6 | INTO DARKNESS
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Details:Length: 30'Screenwriter: Rachida El Garani Director: Rachida El Garani Producer: RITCS Royal Institute for Theatre, Cinema and Sound Animator: n/a DOP: Kris Van Den Buick Sound: Zenib El Ouarzazi Editor: Erika De Korte Production Designer : Tom Van Herzele Synopsis: Little Mohamed and his family live in the small village of Taroudant, Morocco. Eleven of the family members are blind. Living in extreme poverty and excluded from society, they try to keep their hopes and dreams alive. But the constant lack of money makes her dream very uncertain. |
Royal Institute for Theatre, Cinema and Sound (RITCS) | Belgium | 20 |
| 7-8 | FRONT VIEW OF MY FATHER
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Details:Length: 28'Screenwriter: Nicoline Skotte Jacobsen Director: Nicoline Skotte Jacobsen Producer: Julie Tarding Animator: n/a DOP: Valdemar Cold Winge Leisner Sound: Rune Kristiansen Editor: Denniz Göl Bertelsen Production Designer : Helle Kirstine Egsgaard Synopsis: Father/daughter - play, talk and learn about each other. |
National Film School of Denmark (DDF) | Denmark | 19 |
| 7-8 | THE MUTE'S HOUSE
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Details:Length: 30'Screenwriter: Tamar Kay Director: Tamar Kay Producer: Ariel Richter Animator: n/a DOP: Zvi Landsman Sound: Shahaf Wagshall Editor: Shira Mauz Production Designer : n/a Synopsis: A building in Hebron, which has been deserted by its Palestinian owners, is called "The Mute's House" by the Israeli soldiers stationed there and by the tour guides who pass by. The building's only occupants are a deaf woman, Sahar, and her eight-year-old son, Yousef. The family's unique story, which unfolds against the backdrop of the Israeli-Palestinian conflict, is told through the eyes of the young and charismatic Yousef, as he goes through his daily routine in both the Jewish and Muslim areas of a city |
Sam Spiegel Film and Television School Jerusalem (JSFS) | Israel | 19 |
| 9 | NIGHT BEES
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Details:Length: 27'Screenwriter: n/a Director: Joanna Karlberg Producer: Veronika Öhnedal Animator: n/a DOP: Kristoffer Jönsson Sound: Janna Johansson Editor: Magnus Eriksson Production Designer : n/a Synopsis: It is night and a new working day has just begun for the girls in the parking lot in southern Poland. This is the place where the truck drivers from all over Europe to eat and sleep. Night Bees is all about the people on Jarska parking, a work area and hub for trade in Europe. |
Stockholm University of the Arts (SKH) | Sweden | 17 |
| 10-11 | EDUCATION
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Details:Length: 20'Screenwriter: Emi Buchwald Director: Emi Buchwald Producer: Marcin Malatynski Animator: n/a DOP: Tomasz Gajewski Sound: Kamil Radziszewski Editor: Anna Gontarczyk Production Designer : n/a Synopsis: Children have to learn a poem by heart as a school exercise. |
Polish National Film, Television and Theatre School in Lodz (PWSFTViT) | Poland | 15 |
| 10-11 | LIVING BEHIND NUMBERS
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Details:Length: 15'Screenwriter: Martin Read Director: Martin Read Producer: Martin Read Animator: n/a DOP: Joseph Sullivan Sound: Joseph Sullivan, Martin Read Editor: Joseph Sullivan Production Designer : n/a Synopsis: My art is unique. It took me twelve years to master. In becoming a criminal I became an artist, and in becoming an artist I have become a criminal. We take a rare glimpse into the world of fraud and the skill employed by the UK’s most artistic underground counterfeiter. |
University of South Wales | United Kingdom | 15 |
| 12-15 | CINDERELLA
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Details:Length: 26'Screenwriter: Alexander Zubovlenko Director: Alexander Zubovlenko Producer: Alexander Zubovlenko Animator: n/a DOP: Elizaveta Speranskaya Sound: Alexander Zubovlenko Editor: Alexander Zubovlenko Production Designer : n/a Synopsis: A classic story: a woman looking for love. With aggravating circumstances – she has a child without alimony, she is unemployment and she is 27 years old. Will Masha meet a man? |
Russian State University of Сinematography n.a. S.Gerasimov VGIK | Russia | 11 |
| 12-15 | DOWN SOUTHERN ROADS
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Details:Length: 29'Screenwriter: Jorge Luis Linares Martínez Director: Jorge Luis Linares Martínez Producer: Henner Hofmann, Karla Bukantz Animator: n/a DOP: Jorge Luis Linares Martínez Sound: Andrea Rabasa Jofre Editor: Eddie S. Barriga, Horacio Romo Mercado Production Designer : n/a Synopsis: A father and daughter will spend a season in another world, a place which Mariana never wanted to visit: Miguel's dignified, divine and rebel mountain. Right there, they will meet each other as never before, regardless of the consequences. |
Centro de Capacitación Cinematográfica, A.C. (CCC) | Mexico | 11 |
| 12-15 | IS LONGING HEREDITARY?
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Details:Length: 13'Screenwriter: Gitte Helwig Director: Gitte Helwig Producer: Urs Kind Animator: n/a DOP: n/a Sound: Leonard Aderhold Editor: Jorg Volkmar Production Designer : n/a Synopsis: My grandfather was a radio operator on a fishing boat. When he left my grandmother, my father was twelve years old. He left his photo album to my father. The images tell of his love for the sea. After my grandfather was gone, his love became our longing. Can longing become a sickness? |
Film University Babelsberg KONRAD WOLF | Germany | 11 |
| 12-15 | POST-WAR DREAMS
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Details:Length: 24'Screenwriter: Juhani Haukka Director: Juhani Haukka Producer: Henri Hopalainen Animator: n/a DOP: Cristal Alakoski Sound: Jorma Kaulanen Editor: Jade Woods Production Designer : n/a Synopsis: When the war was over, it was talked about in dreams that they wanted to forget. This film brings forth the dreams of people who live and who have passed away. A hybrid documentary reach into the fading reality that continues to live within us. |
Aalto University School of Arts, Design and Architecture / ELO Film School Helsinki | Finland | 11 |
| 16-17 | A SIMPLE STORY, MINE, YOURS AND M`S
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Details:Length: 30'Screenwriter: Atefeh Yarmohammadi Director: Atefeh Yarmohammadi Producer: HEAD - Geneve Animator: n/a DOP: Atefeh Yarmohammadi Sound: Atefeh Yarmohammadi Editor: Sepideh Abtahi Production Designer : n/a Synopsis: Back in the 80’s in Iran, for some the war was pilgrimage or a duty, others profited and renamed. But for us it was hell of opium. |
Film Department/cinéma du réel - Geneva School of Art and Design (HEAD) | Switzerland | 10 |
| 16-17 | WHAT IF HE LIVES?
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Details:Length: 18'Screenwriter: n/a Director: Peter Nielsen Producer: Peter Nielsen Animator: n/a DOP: Jeffrey Holiday Sound: Kevin Luttman Editor: Josh Devenyi Production Designer : n/a Synopsis: An unflinching family portrait, looking at a devoted mother's twenty-eight year struggle to ensure her son with an undiagnosed medical condition lives as normal of a life as possible... and the complications of that. |
York University Department of Film - Fine Arts | Canada | 10 |
| 18-21 | ICEBERG
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Details:Length: 27'Screenwriter: Juan Manuel Dartizio Director: Juliana Gómez Castañeda Producer: Alexandra Cedeño Delgado Animator: n/a DOP: Adrien Peter Sound: Victor Quintanilha Editor: Eduardo Resing Production Designer : Antonio Horta Synopsis: In the absence of his daughter, a fisher woman in her sixties lives between mourning his mother and the obligation to raise her granddaughter alone. |
International School of Film and TV (EICTV) | Cuba | 9 |
| 18-21 | MILES TO GO BEFORE I SLEEP
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Details:Length: 13'Screenwriter: Noora Kuparinen, Hanna Hovitie Director: Hanna Hovitie Producer: Emmi Vuokko, MUAS Animator: n/a DOP: Hanna Hovitie, Iikka Salminen Sound: Miikka Katajamäki Editor: Noora Kuparinen Production Designer : n/a Synopsis: As Achat was seven years old, her parents sent her away from Congo to be adopted in France. After her adoptive mother`s death, years of ordinary life turned into a nightmare. Through twists and turns beyond belief, she`s thrown into a whirlwind of drifting between continents. |
Metropolia University of Applied Sciences (MUAS) | Finland | 9 |
| 18-21 | RUN BOY RUN
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Details:Length: 23'Screenwriter: Liu Luolan Director: Liu Luolan Producer: Chen Liang, Xiang Wang Animator: n/a DOP: Liu Luolan Sound: Wang Wanyun, Wang Kaiyuan Editor: Liu Luolan Production Designer : n/a Synopsis: Tells a story about a heavily tattooed boy named Xiaoyu. Because of his tattoos, Xiaoyu's life was in many troubles. When Xiaoyu felt very upset, he joined the Catholicism. But things didn't goes well. Xiaoyu was not allowed to get into the church once because of his tattoos. He felt very bad. Finally Xiaoyu told me the meaning of his tattoos. |
Beijing Film Academy (BFA) | China | 9 |
| 18-21 | THE DAY THE BEATLES CAME TO ARGENTINA
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Details:Length: 30'Screenwriter: Tomás Epstein Director: Fernando Pérez Producer: Pablo Dadone Animator: n/a DOP: Juan Borghi Sound: Lucía Pellitero Editor: Alejo Piro Production Designer : n/a Synopsis: During the Beatlemania’s peak, Argentinian business man Alejandro Romay announces the visit of the band to Argentina. A series of odd events is revived by the voice of the protagonists |
National School of Film Experimentation and Production (ENERC) | Argentina | 9 |
| 22-25 | HOMEMADE EMPIRE
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Details:Length: 21'Screenwriter: Alexa Bakony Director: Alexa Bakony Producer: Ádám Farkas Animator: n/a DOP: Gergely Vajda Sound: Bálint Zándoki Editor: Marianna Rudas Production Designer : n/a Synopsis: Szorospatak is a smail, desolated village in the North Hungarian Mountains. You can find only three things here: pines, poverty and Antal Szabics. He is a nearly 60 years old local contactor and ex-teacher. He's got an extraordinary hobby: he constantly builds something. He's got tennis courts, pools, stages, an artificial lake, a sauna, an emu farm, a self-made forest, etc. He would like to make festivals, concerts and wellness programs. He is ready to be a host. But there's the snag! No one ever comes to his place. The condition of the buildings are getting worse and worse. As soon as he repairs something, something else becomes bankrupt. Moreover he`s got new ideas as well. He can`t stop working, he says, because that`s what keeps him alive. His family has left him because they are tired of his maniac building operations. The film is about the measureless solitude of a megalomaniac man. |
University of Theatre and Film Arts Budapest (SzFE) | Hungary | 8 |
| 22-25 | JIHAD IN HOLLYWOOD
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Details:Length: 26'Screenwriter: n/a Director: Genie Deez Producer: Omar Al-Dakheel, Coerte Voorhees Animator: n/a DOP: Ayana Baraka Sound: Adam Billingham, Johnny Vong Editor: Calvin Herrmann, Marcus Heleker Production Designer : n/a Synopsis: Once a successful Syrian actor, Jihad Abdo has arrived in Hollywood and struggles to reinvent himself and his career. |
University of Southern California's School of Cinematic Arts (USC) | United States | 8 |
| 22-25 | TIME TO LEAVE
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Details:Length: 21'Screenwriter: Bruno Leal Director: Bruno Leal Producer: Ana Francisca Rafael Animator: n/a DOP: Čeněk Folk Sound: Bernardo Theriaga, Milene Coroado Editor: Bruno Leal, Čeněk Folk Production Designer : n/a Synopsis: Shunned by a society that still regards them with fear and disdain to this day, the residents of one of the last shanty towns on the outskirts of Lisbon, learned to foster a sense of union, anchored in a common cultural heritage. Now, with the imminent destruction of their homes and the severing of the ties that unite them, they reflect on the uncertainty that lies ahead and the memories of a life that will inevitably be left behind, along with the rubble. |
Lisbon Theatre and Film School (ESTC) | Portugal | 8 |
| 22-25 | TO KNIT A JUMPER FOR A BUTTON
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Details:Length: 30'Screenwriter: Robert Leonard Key Director: Robert Leonard Key Producer: DocNomads EMMC Animator: n/a DOP: Robert Leonard Key Sound: Martina Droandi, Joao Sales Moreira, Silvia Coelho, Luis Pinto Editor: Robert Leonard Key, Luisa Homem Production Designer : n/a Synopsis: How to capture, order, understand, and picture a world that always seems too big to comprehend? Here, a story of the stories of those trying to reach a broader sense of life. |
Universidade Lusófona / Film and Media Arts Department (ULHT) | Portugal | 8 |
| 26-28 | KRAINA
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Details:Length: 27'Screenwriter: n/a Director: Christina Tynkevych Producer: Kamile Dementaviciute Animator: n/a DOP: Andrei Oprescu Sound: Ksenia Vinogradova Editor: Vania Flaccomio Production Designer : n/a Synopsis: Kiev, Ukraine, spring 2015.The war with Russia is five hundred miles to the East, but since the revolution of 2014, every moment of Kristina`s life has been affected by the conflict. |
Westminster Film BA / University of Westminster (WFS) | United Kingdom | 7 |
| 26-28 | MY ALEPPO
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Details:Length: 18'Screenwriter: n/a Director: Melissa Langer Producer: Melissa Langer Animator: n/a DOP: Melissa Langer Sound: Catharine Axley Editor: Melissa Langer Production Designer : n/a Synopsis: After fleeing the civil war in Syria and relocating to another continent, a young family struggles to preserve their ties to the ancient city of Aleppo. |
Stanford University | United States | 7 |
| 26-28 | PARTO
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Details:Length: 9'Screenwriter: Mauricio Hernández Serrano Director: Mauricio Hernández Serrano Producer: Selma Cervantes Aguilar Animator: n/a DOP: Sebastián del Valle Leguízamo Sound: Mauricio Hernández Serrano Editor: Ana Moreno Hernández, Mauricio Hernández Serrano Production Designer : n/a Synopsis: An egg is fertilized, thus initiating the process of human life until at birth. The systematization of the body within a hospital dehumanizes the individual to become a machine. A symphonic and precise machine. |
National School of Film Arts / National Autonomous University of Mexico (ENAC/UNAM) | Mexico | 7 |
| 29-32 | INTO MY DREAMLAND
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Details:Length: 29'Screenwriter: Mai Seng Director: Mai Seng Producer: Sebastian Johannsen Animator: n/a DOP: Tilman Holzhauer Sound: Marc Eyrich Editor: Willibald Wonneberger Production Designer : n/a Synopsis: Seven years ago Do Do imigrates as a refugee with his family from Myanmar into the Netherlands. But instead of finally living a carefree life in his dreamland, he has to realize that his lack of adaption to the new culture gets him into conflict with the law. The following consequences change the life of himself and his family dramatically. |
Filmakademie Baden-Wuerttemberg (FABW) | Germany | 6 |
| 29-32 | MARACATU
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Details:Length: 15'Screenwriter: Anna lunes Director: Anna lunes Producer: Elba Cynthia Animator: n/a DOP: Arthur Dalla, Raphael Narciso Sound: José Cândido Coutinho Editor: Jonas Murad Production Designer : n/a Synopsis: The cultural movement that is Maracatu resists in the midst of the Rio de Janeiro's white tourism, revealing the contrast of a black African manifestation surrounded by a scenery far from its origins. Marli, Aline and Tyaro: Three dancers. Three people fighting for the resistance of the popular culture. |
PUC-Rio Department of Social Communication - Cinema | Brazil | 6 |
| 29-32 | SECRET MATTERS
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Details:Length: 20'Screenwriter: Janos Zoltan Director: Janos Zoltan Producer: VCA School of Film and TV Animator: n/a DOP: Jessica Hutchison Sound: Sebastian Broadbent Editor: Janos Zoltan Production Designer : n/a Synopsis: The Gerald who walks around and talks and plays golf… he doesn’t write the books. It was another part of me." - Gerald Murnane, award winning writer. |
VCA Film and Television | Australia | 6 |
| 29-32 | TWINS
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Details:Length: 13'Screenwriter: Pablo Radice Director: Pablo Radice Producer: Diego Kompel Animator: n/a DOP: Sofia Rozenwurcel, Dario D'antiochia Sound: Diego Kompel Editor: Pablo Radice Production Designer : n/a Synopsis: Efrain and Jose are homologous twins brothers. Both of them are actually doctors. Efrain works as an obstetrician, dealing with birth. On the other side , his twin brother , Jose , works as a forensic doctor in the police morgue dealing with death. |
Universidad de Buenos Aires / Diseño de Imagen y Sonido FADU (UBA) | Argentina | 6 |
| 33-36 | 10:34 TO BELGRADE
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Details:Length: 18'Screenwriter: Ioana Grigore Director: Ioana Grigore Producer: A co-production National University of Theatre and Film Animator: n/a DOP: Marija Djokovic, Ioana Grigore Sound: Răzvan Petre Editor: Răzvan Petre, Vlad Genescu Production Designer : n/a Synopsis: „You kids must memorize everything that happens in your life, because that’s who you are and that will keep you going . Both the good and the bad things will give you strength when some difficult moment occurs.” |
National University of Theatre and Film (UNATC) | Romania | 5 |
| 33-36 | EPIGENETICS: THE MEMORY OF THE WORLD IN OUR BODY
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Details:Length: 25'Screenwriter: Noemi Puneili, Cristina Coppari Director: Paolo Turro Producer: n/a Animator: n/a DOP: Nicolò Terranova Sound: Edoardo Ami, Silvia Brandi, Lilia Carlone Editor: n/a Production Designer : n/a Synopsis: Born from the meeting between The Cinema School of Milan and the scientists working at the project EPIGEN, leaded by CNR - this documentary raises from their need of make accessible to laymen information on a new biological research field which perspectives are still not evaluated. |
Milan City Film School Luchino Visconti (MCSC) | Italy | 5 |
| 33-36 | FLOWERS IN THE DESERT
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Details:Length: 8'Screenwriter: Hamza Mu'azu Director: Hamza Mu'azu Producer: Hamza Mu'azu Animator: n/a DOP: Mwanse Shedi Daniel, Mo Steve Sound: Na'anret Kumbet Paul Editor: Hamza Mu'azu Production Designer : n/a Synopsis: The perceptions of a young girl about the disabled in her neighborhood, at the end she finds them to be ordinary people like her in spite of their disabilities and are indeed like "flowers in the desert". |
NTA Television College (NTA) | Nigeria | 5 |
| 33-36 | WAITING ROOM
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Details:Length: 21'Screenwriter: Markus Lenz Director: Markus Lenz Producer: Markus Lenz Animator: n/a DOP: Markus Lenz Sound: Markus Lenz Editor: Markus Lenz Production Designer : n/a Synopsis: For more than 60 years Don Carlito has been working in his old-fashioned barber shop in Bogota. Sometimes time stands still in his small salon in Colombia's fast moving capital. |
Academy of Media Arts Cologne (KHM) | Germany | 5 |
| 37-43 | 10 TO 10
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Details:Length: 13'Screenwriter: Elena Toncheva Director: Elena Toncheva Producer: NATFA”Kr.Sarafov” Animator: n/a DOP: Marin Marinov Sound: n/a Editor: Volen Penev Production Designer : n/a Synopsis: Dobrin Goranov was once a promising scientist, but due to the circumstances he never realized his potential. In order to bring meaning to his life, he tries to solve a mathematical problem, that is considered unsolvable. |
National Academy for Theatre and Film Arts (NATFA) | Bulgaria | 4 |
| 37-43 | BLESS
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Details:Length: 13'Screenwriter: El Mouchaouq Mariam Director: El Mouchaouq Mariam Producer: ESAVM Animator: n/a DOP: Laatita Mustapha Sound: Fadela Khatiri Editor: Jamal Kellal Production Designer : n/a Synopsis: In the mountains lives a little boy, surrounded by a massive volume of mountains, a brief window into a forgiven world, an immersion to a certain kind of life that makes us wonder who lives better us or them? |
Marrakech School of Visual Arts (ESAVM) | Morocco | 4 |
| 37-43 | CONVERSATION OVER THE FENCE
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Details:Length: 13'Screenwriter: Lisa Gerig Director: Lisa Gerig Producer: Lisa Gerig, ZHdK Animator: n/a DOP: Lisa Gerig Sound: Lisa Gerig Editor: Lisa Gerig, Gregg Skerman Production Designer : n/a Synopsis: “Conversation over the fence” is a documentary essay-like film about the deportation center in Zürich. As a part of the prison group form the Solidarity Network I regularly visit detainees. These visits are a way of attempting to ensure that these people are not left alone in their isolation. The film describes the situation of the detainees, that are held in the deportation center under strict rules up to 18 months. I never enter the prison with my camera during the film - the detainees stay faceless. My voice gives the spectator a better understanding of the doom of these people in this forgotten place. |
Zurich University of the Arts / Department of Performing Arts and Film (ZHdK) | Switzerland | 4 |
| 37-43 | KEEPING BALANCE
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Details:Length: 5'Screenwriter: Bernhard Wenger Director: Bernhard Wenger Producer: Bernhard Wenger, Filmakademie Wien Animator: n/a DOP: Rupert Hoeller Sound: Oetzguer Anil Editor: Bernhard Wenger Production Designer : n/a Synopsis: Denise, a 20-year-old girl, visits the Viennese 'Prater' amusement park nearly every day to take some rides with the electronic 'Tagada' carousel because it helps her to get over her difficult past. |
Film Academy Vienna (UMDK) | Austria | 4 |
| 37-43 | PAPA
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Details:Length: 16'Screenwriter: n/a Director: Zaharova Daria Producer: n/a Animator: n/a DOP: n/a Sound: Kazancev Vladislav Editor: n/a Production Designer : n/a Synopsis: He is 55 years old. He had a heart attack a year ago. His daughter can`t walk, as she is an invalid. To find sponsors and raise 30 000 dollars, he decided to cross England from end to end by bicycle. |
St. Petersburg State University of Film and Television (SPUFT) | Russia | 4 |
| 37-43 | SHELL
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Details:Length: 23'Screenwriter: Hagai Adorian Director: Hagai Adorian Producer: Hagai Adorian Animator: n/a DOP: Hagai Adorian Sound: Sharon Shama Editor: Michal Cohen, Tehila Peter-Dansker Production Designer : n/a Synopsis: An IDF veteran and combat medic drives across the country in his car, chasing ghosts. |
Ma'aleh School of Film, Television and the Arts (MAALE) | Israel | 4 |
| 37-43 | THE STILL LIFE OF VERA
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Details:Length: 9'Screenwriter: Greta Stocklassa Director: Greta Stocklassa Producer: FAMU Animator: n/a DOP: Tomáš Daliman Sound: Viera Marinová Editor: Greta Stocklassa, Hana Dvořáčková Production Designer : n/a Synopsis: The lost magic of postcards is explored on film. A mosaic composed of seasonal motifs and short messages illustrates the relationship of several people to Věra. The passage of time is shown only by the change in the heads of state on the postage stamps. Will the mysterious recipient be found? |
Film and Television School / Academy of Performing Arts in Prague (FAMU) | Czech Republic | 4 |
| 44-50 | 7 DAYS WARRANTY
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Details:Length: 23'Screenwriter: Tania Infante Antivar, Astrid Ginet Useche Director: Tania Infante Antivar Producer: Tania Infante Antivar Animator: n/a DOP: Astrid Ginet Useche Sound: Alejandra Flórez Editor: Tania Infante Antivar Production Designer : n/a Synopsis: Magdalena goes out everyday to a flower plantation (Cota, Cundinamarca, Colombia), where she dedicates her day to protect and cut flowers. On sunrise, Jorge is already in the Paloquemao market (Bogotá) selling his flowers, offering them as “export quality”, while in the crops the national flower, the same that Jorge sells, is rejected by Ruby due to plant deseases and bad conditions. Settled apart, in a corner, and without any care, the national flower waits for being bought in “leftovers” price, while the healthy flower is prepared to have an unforgettable trip in plane to far lands. That’s how 7 days warranty documents the flower-growing process in Cundinamarca (Colombia), starting from the sowing to the commercialization, and following the point of view of flowers themselves. |
Escuela de Cine y Televisión / UNAL (ECYTV) | Colombia | 3 |
| 44-50 | JESSICA
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Details:Length: 8'Screenwriter: Erika Lozano González Director: Erika Lozano González Producer: Erika Lozano González, Isabel Campaña Rojano Animator: n/a DOP: Isabel Campaña Rojano Sound: Federico Zuvire Editor: Beatriz Justo Production Designer : n/a Synopsis: Marjane Jessica (23) is a young trans woman, feminist, social activist who committed all that take human dignity. In this documentary she include us in her life to tell us about the process of transition from Jesus to be Jessica. We talk about the difference between gender and sexuality; and tells us how she understands and lives his transition. The recognition in the mirror was not easy but the guidance and support of his mother have been key to achieve this. |
Universidad Iberoamericana Mexico City (IBERO) | Mexico | 3 |
| 44-50 | PSYCHEDELIC SOLDIERS
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Details:Length: 15'Screenwriter: Ana Starova Director: Michael Spadaphora Producer: Ana Starova Animator: n/a DOP: Cameron Anderson Sound: Mitchell Wollziefer, Spencer Brown, Kelly McGahey Editor: Cameron Anderson Production Designer : n/a Synopsis: Since 2004 more Canadian & American soldiers have died from PTSD related suicide than actual combat... In Psychedelic Soldiers two Afghanistan veterans Mark Griggs and James Casey open up about their exhausting post-war battle with mental illness, the darkest moments that followed it, the controversial alternative treatment they turned to in despair, and the surprising outcome of it... |
Sheridan College | Canada | 3 |
| 44-50 | QUINN
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Details:Length: 16'Screenwriter: Rave Phuah Director: Rave Phuah Producer: Faqrullah Arman Animator: n/a DOP: Goh Wei Kiat Sound: Alvin Soh Editor: Vivien Koh, Rave Phuah Production Designer : n/a Synopsis: A young couple gives birth to a daughter with a disability after their shotgun marriage. When given an option to abort, they decide not to after seeing her smile in the ultrascan. Quinn is the bridge to their marriage as they struggle with their own inexperience and the challenges of raising a disabled child. They must muster the courage to accept the realities of Quinn's future. |
Puttnam School of Film & Animation / LASALLE College of the Arts (LCA) | Singapore | 3 |
| 44-50 | THE GUEST
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Details:Length: 16'Screenwriter: Ahmet Bikiç Director: Ahmet Bikiç Producer: Nagihan Çakar Animator: n/a DOP: Ahmet Bikiç Sound: Emrecan Tekgül Editor: Ahmet Bikiç Production Designer : n/a Synopsis: The aim of this documentary is to reflect the lives of Syrian refugees and the camps in which they have been living in for approximately in since the civil war in Syria began. This document of those who have fled their homes and what they hope for when the war ends. |
Istanbul Kultur University (IKU) | Turkey | 3 |
| 44-50 | TITANS OF ART
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Details:Length: 16'Screenwriter: Mor Albalak Director: Mor Albalak Producer: Mor Albalak Animator: n/a DOP: Mor Albalak Sound: Emmy Gyori, Michael Cullen Editor: Mor Albalak Production Designer : n/a Synopsis: Three successful Cuban artists must overcome many obstacles due to the embargo placed on their country by the United States. Their livelihood is on the line as they face questions of how they will obtain their materials and continue to be brilliant artists on a global scale. |
Chapman University / Dodge College of Film and Media Arts | United States | 3 |
| 44-50 | UNSCHEDULED ARRIVALS
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Details:Length: 12'Screenwriter: n/a Director: Vijaya Singh Producer: Mr. Prashant Pathrabe, Director, Film and Television Institute of India, Pune Animator: n/a DOP: Vipin Krishna Waghmare Sound: Mrinmay Dey Editor: Shaunak Banerjee Production Designer : n/a Synopsis: Between scheduled arrival and departure on a railway station in Pune, India, a multitude exists in the intersections and Interstices of ticketed travels. |
Film and Television Institute of India (FTII) | India | 3 |
| 51-59 | KONG RICE
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Details:Length: 14'Screenwriter: n/a Director: CHAN Yiu Hei Producer: LI Ka Wing Animator: n/a DOP: JANG Jihun Sound: NG Man Ni Editor: NG Man Ni Production Designer : n/a Synopsis: When the dish come, the rice just for letting to feel full. We are hoping that this short film could arising audience awareness towards rices, and thank for the rice as a gift by the earth. |
Hong Kong Academy for Performing Arts / School of Film and Television (HKAPA) | Hong Kong | 2 |
| 51-59 | MACHO GWAPITO
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Details:Length: 22'Screenwriter: n/a Director: Miguel N. Hernandez Producer: Miguel N. Hernandez Animator: n/a DOP: Theo Lozada, Carlos Mauricio Sound: Bryan Dumaguina, Miguel Hernandez Editor: llsa Malsi Production Designer : Tiara Samson Synopsis: Raul Villareal grooms some of the most powerful men in the Philippines. As a former local politician, this barber is no stranger to the wild and woolly world of politics. Blending proficient hair cutting skills with witty salesmanship, Raul excels in a field where others have failed to make the cut. |
University of the Philippines Film Institute (UPFI) | Phillipines | 2 |
| 51-59 | MARY
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Details:Length: 18'Screenwriter: n/a Director: Ivan Hage Producer: IESAV - USJ Animator: n/a DOP: Noel Bassil Sound: Ivan Hage Editor: Ivan Hage Production Designer : n/a Synopsis: Mary is a Lebanese woman suffering from bipolar disorder. She is lonely and wants a boyfriend so she can change her routine. |
Institut d'études scéniques, audiovisuelles et cinématographiques (IESAV) | Lebanon | 2 |
| 51-59 | MY GRANDMOTHER
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Details:Length: 30'Screenwriter: Jurgen Agushi Director: Jurgen Agushi Producer: Academy of Film & Multimedia Marubi Animator: n/a DOP: Denis Hoxha Sound: n/a Editor: Mentor Selmani Production Designer : n/a Synopsis: The life of Valentina Buci, a 77 years old woman from Russia. How she met her Albanian husband the first time. All problems that she passed through in Albania during communism time after the relation between Albania and Soviet Union was broken. The film is about her life in three countries Russia - Albania - USA. |
Academy of Film and Multimedia Marubi (AFMM) | Albania | 2 |
| 51-59 | NIGHT SMOKERS OF CHICAGO
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Details:Length: 11'Screenwriter: n/a Director: Eve Studnicka Producer: Kai Blakely Animator: n/a DOP: Kai Allen Blakley, Blake Griffin Sound: Cameron Boswell Editor: Hector Vazquez Production Designer : n/a Synopsis: Through intimate interviews with the Windy City's own nighthawks, THE NIGHT SMOKERS OF CHICAGO explores the power of the personal narrative and reveals the marginalized humanity of the Chicago's streets after dark. |
Columbia College Chicago (CCC) | United States | 2 |
| 51-59 | PERPETUUM MOBILE
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Details:Length: 14'Screenwriter: Virva Heinimaa Director: Virva Heinimaa Producer: Virva Heinimaa Animator: n/a DOP: Anu Mäkinen Sound: llmari Hieltala, Sasu Riikonen Editor: Leo Suonikko Production Designer : n/a Synopsis: “Some people do what they know how to do, but we do what we want to do” Eino and Toivo wanted to build a perpetual motion machine. |
Tampere University of Applied Sciences (TUNI), Degree Programme in Media | Finland | 2 |
| 51-59 | SCATTERED CLOUDS
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Details:Length: 15'Screenwriter: n/a Director: Debjani Banerjee Producer: Satyajit Ray Film and Television Institute, India Animator: n/a DOP: Subal KR Sound: Agnitray Chakrabarty Editor: Yashodhan C. Kelkar Production Designer : n/a Synopsis: Director`s personal experience of loneliness in a crowded city like Kolkata. |
Satyajit Ray Film and Television Institute (SRFTI) | India | 2 |
| 51-59 | THE CYCLE OF LIFE
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Details:Length: 9'Screenwriter: Pishdaad Modaressi Chahardehi Director: Pishdaad Modaressi Chahardehi Producer: Chris Beech Animator: n/a DOP: Ivan Bailey-Wilson Sound: Arpan Patel Editor: George Harper Production Designer : n/a Synopsis: The Cycle of Life tells the incredible Story of Sam Khazaei who shattered his right leg in a car accident when trying to save his sister, 15 years ago. After several operations and many years of recovery and facing permanent disability in such a dramatic way he now wants to pursue his dream of becoming a professional cyclist. |
Northern Film School / Leeds Beckett University (NFS/LBU) | United Kingdom | 2 |
| 51-59 | TO LIGHT
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Details:Length: 26'Screenwriter: Nora Särak Director: Nora Särak Producer: Nora Särak Animator: n/a DOP: Nora Särak Sound: John Bence Editor: Nora Särak Production Designer : n/a Synopsis: A poetic film about a mother and son who decided to stay behind when the Es-tonian town Pechora became the Russian town Pechora. After 70 years there is hardly anything Estonian left in the town. Linda and Mart Kallas try to maintain contact with their homeland but this is no cure for loneliness. |
Baltic Film, Media and Arts School, Tallinn University | Estonia | 2 |
| 60-62 | LARKS & OWLS
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Details:Length: 27'Screenwriter: Bakar Cherkezishvili Director: Bakar Cherkezishvili Producer: Salome Gabatashvili, Bakar Cherkezishvili Animator: n/a DOP: Luka Jibladze Sound: Luka Jibladze Editor: Bakar Cherkezishvili, Luka Jibladze Production Designer : n/a Synopsis: Film is about old people who are living in a charity house named "Katharsis". They're struggling in this life, have social problems, some nostalgia about old times, feelings, fear of death and regrets. These stories are evolving around main protagonist named Soso who's eager to go to his countryside. |
Theatre and Film Georgia State University | Georgia | 1 |
| 60-62 | MRS LIU
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Details:Length: 24'Screenwriter: Mengyuan Liu, Ama Noia Director: Mengyuan Liu Producer: ESEC Animator: n/a DOP: Jeremy Travaux Sound: Quentin Pallu Editor: Ama Noia Production Designer : n/a Synopsis: A portrait of the Chinese translator of Marguerite Yourcenar leaving in Paris. |
Ecole Supérieure d'études Cinématographiques (ESEC) | France | 1 |
| 60-62 | THE HUNTER
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Details:Length: 7'Screenwriter: n/a Director: Lea Podhradska, Meg O'Connell, Braden Trotter, Balazs Meszaros Producer: Meg O'Connell Animator: n/a DOP: Braden Trotter Sound: Braden Trotter, Meg O'Connell Editor: Braden Trotter Production Designer : n/a Synopsis: Gólya József is a hunter, but he is also a conservationist. In this micro-documentary we spend one night with Gólya out on his hunting platform, listening to the groans of the reindeer he may kill along with his lucid and often poetic musings on nature and evolution. |
Griffith Film School (GFS) | Australia | 1 |
| 63-81 | A KENITIC MIND
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Details:Length: 10'Screenwriter: Li Kexin, Bao Tantan, Christopher Miller Director: Li Kexin, Bao Tantan, Christopher Miller Producer: Tang Peilin, Pablo Frasconi Animator: n/a DOP: Li Kexin, Bao Tantan, Christopher Miller Sound: Li Kexin, Bao Tantan Editor: Christopher Miller Production Designer : n/a Synopsis: This film is about an Indian guy who has a kenitic mind, it's difficult to catch up his mind. He has a lot of different experience, he did a lot of jobs, such as model, writer, Assistant to Plastic Surgeon, youtube star, now, he is a student in USC. He has a dream of film. |
Communication University of China (CUC) | China | 0 |
| 63-81 | BALKAN
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Details:Length: 8'Screenwriter: n/a Director: Eliza Chotiadzhieva Producer: ESAV Animator: n/a DOP: Eliza Chotiadzhieva Sound: Eliza Chotiadzhieva Editor: Eliza Chotiadzhieva Production Designer : n/a Synopsis: Life is like a long staircase. You climb higher and higher every day and it's only when you gel to the last step that you have the most beautiful view. |
ENSAV | France | 0 |
| 63-81 | BIT BY BIT
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Details:Length: 7'Screenwriter: Josephine Aikins Director: Josephine Aikins Producer: Dennis-Brook Prince Lotsu (for NAFTI) Animator: n/a DOP: Ebenezer Titus Hackman Sound: Gabriel Marfo Editor: Enock Tetteh Production Designer : n/a Synopsis: A single father, Kwesi Amponsah, whose wife abandons him and their three children for another man who was more financially sound as compared to Amponsah (a by-day mason). Now the father singularly takes care of his three children. |
National Film and Television Institute (NAFTI) | Ghana | 0 |
| 63-81 | BROTHER
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Details:Length: 13'Screenwriter: Vuyokazi Kadalie Director: Hankyeol Lee Producer: Titus Poutanen Animator: n/a DOP: Marika Hill Sound: Titus Poutanen Editor: Marika Hill Production Designer : n/a Synopsis: Elmer and Erik Eklund are two boat building brothers who have lived in the Finnish archipelago their whole life together. In this film we get a glimpse of their everyday life. What happens when someone you've lived with for 80 years will pass away? |
ARCADA University of Applied Sciences Department of Culture and Communication / Media Culture Finland | Finland | 0 |
| 63-81 | CHEKHOV'S EVERYMAN
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Details:Length: 28'Screenwriter: Amir Cohn Director: Amir Cohn Producer: Amir Cohn Animator: n/a DOP: Adi Mozes Sound: Kfir Shai Editor: Idan Neuman Production Designer : n/a Synopsis: Chekov’s Everyman presents the viewer with the intimate story of Albert Cohen, a lively 83 year old Bulgarian-Israeli actor struggling to stage the last play of his life. After an illustrious career performing over 90 plays a month, Albert finds himself without any role to perform. Utilizing the little means he has, Albert decides to pursue his dream by translating and staging the play Chekov’s Everymen in his apartment. Albert’s home and professional life collide as the play comes to life. The viewer peeks into the world of the grumpy antihero who lives off the momentum of his creation. |
The Steve Tisch School of Film and Television (TAU) | Israel | 0 |
| 63-81 | CSILLAG
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Details:Length: 14'Screenwriter: Aron Horvath Director: Aron Horvath Producer: UL AGRFT (Nina Robnik) Animator: n/a DOP: Peter Perunović Sound: Peter Žerovnik Editor: Andrej Avanzo Production Designer : n/a Synopsis: Csillag Jerio is an average man who is looking for extraterrestrial life in a small Slovenian town. Collecting evidence and analyzing it in his small motel room is just an every day habit for him. He is on the road and determined to find proof about extraterrestrial life. |
University of Ljubljana / Academy of Theatre, Radio, Film and Television (AGRFT) | Slovenia | 0 |
| 63-81 | DIVING WITHIN
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Details:Length: 10'Screenwriter: n/a Director: Hanan Dyria Producer: Christian Daly Animator: n/a DOP: Eileen Timmons Sound: Damien Madden Editor: Neil Horner Production Designer : n/a Synopsis: Diving Within is a short documentary featuring Malaysian, Sharena Abdullah, the fear of losing their identity and the need to integrate are some of the challenges faced by immigrants. Sharena tried to find the balance, after much inner conflict, she adjusts her appearance to make it easier to connect with people around her. |
National Film School / Institute of Art, Design and Technology (IADT) | Ireland | 0 |
| 63-81 | GEZOINDELACH
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Details:Length: 28'Screenwriter: Efrat Berger, Tal Sheffi Director: Efrat Berger Producer: Efrat Berger Animator: n/a DOP: Efrat Berger Sound: Shahaf Vagshel Editor: Efrat Berger Production Designer : n/a Synopsis: Yehuda, 19, was raised in a devout Hasidic family. After a period of self-doubt and inner struggles, he decides to do away with the last remaining symbol still connecting him to his religious past: he cuts off his side locks. The film follows Yehuda and his friends’ first steps into their new world, and their effort to break free from their past. |
Bezalel Academy of Arts and Design Jerusalem (BAAD) | Israel | 0 |
| 63-81 | LETTER TO A SMALL CLOUD FROM THE KINGDOM OF BELGIUM
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Details:Length: 13'Screenwriter: Jeanne Cousseau Director: Jeanne Cousseau Producer: INSAS, ATELIER DE REALISATION Animator: n/a DOP: Laura Perrera Sound: n/a Editor: Léo Guillaume Production Designer : n/a Synopsis: Travelling in Beijing, a young cloud fells accidently in the misty sky of a Chinese painting. He takes us in his path of willows and small waves, of pointed roofs and naked branches, through vertical shots with an uncluttered composition. Crossing a stream, he exchanges poems and laughs with a charming breeze. |
INSAS | Belgium | 0 |
| 63-81 | PRECIOUS
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Details:Length: 7'Screenwriter: Katleho Leku Director: Kgopolelo Blok Producer: Ayanda Hlatswayo Animator: n/a DOP: Seluleko Mpisane Sound: Auspicious Maluleke Editor: Tshepo Movundlela Production Designer : n/a Synopsis: We explore the living conditions of homeless foreigners, especially young women, in the bustling capital of South Africa, Pretoria. |
Tshwane University of Technology | South Africa | 0 |
| 63-81 | SANJA
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Details:Length: 9'Screenwriter: Nikica Zdunić Director: Nikica Zdunić Producer: Tajana Bakota Animator: n/a DOP: Nikica Zdunić Sound: Denis Golenja Editor: Denis Golenja Production Designer : n/a Synopsis: Sanja is a portrait documentary that is followed by protagonists off narration and dreamlike visualization of her inner world. |
Academy of Dramatic Art Zagreb (ADU) | Croatia | 0 |
| 63-81 | SAVING SUNGEI
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Details:Length: 13'Screenwriter: Shintaro Tay Director: Shintaro Tay Producer: Shalyn Chin Animator: n/a DOP: Tan Guan Hao Sound: Soo Ee Ter Editor: Hannah Chua Production Designer : n/a Synopsis: "Saving Sungei" tells the story of a street trader who has taken upon himself to save the 70-year-old Sungei Road Flea Market - an historical gem and a source of income for the elders there. |
Ngee Ann Polytechnic / School of Film & Media Studies | Singapore | 0 |
| 63-81 | SEA DOG
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Details:Length: 24'Screenwriter: Elisha Albert Director: Elisha Albert Producer: Patrick Vuittenez Animator: n/a DOP: Raphaël Vandenbussche Sound: Elisha Albert Editor: Raphaël Costa Production Designer : n/a Synopsis: New-Zealand. Alex is 24. On a sudden impulse, he choose to change his life style, leave the town and friends to go live on his father in law's land. Between the ocean and the bushes, portrait of a young fisherman looking for loneliness. |
La Fémis | France | 0 |
| 63-81 | TALES OF RABASSADA
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Details:Length: 28'Screenwriter: Ferrán Romeu, Juan González Director: Ferrán Romeu Producer: Ferrán Romeu, Oriol Vilalta Animator: n/a DOP: Víctor Català Sound: Alberto Martínez Editor: Anaïs Urraca Production Designer : n/a Synopsis: Documentary about the former Casino of Barcelona, located on the road of La Rabassada, seen through the eyes of its current tenant, a globetrotting Russian called Andrei, who introduce us to the remains that were the great dream of the Catalan bourgeoisie in the early twentieth century. |
Cinema and Audiovisual School of Catalonia (ESCAC) | Spain | 0 |
| 63-81 | THE BOOTYFUL ESCAPE
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Details:Length: 25'Screenwriter: Lesego Mncwango Director: Busisiwe Khanyile Producer: Tshegofatso Morule, Aviwe Komsana Animator: n/a DOP: Mpho Kekana Sound: Bongani Matjie Editor: Moleboheng Mokhothu Production Designer : n/a Synopsis: The documentary explores the life of “Reggy”, an urban model or “video vixen” and the modern attitudes of people from her culture in relation to her line of work. |
South African School of Motion Picture Medium and Live Performance (AFDA) | South Africa | 0 |
| 63-81 | THE REMINISCENCE OF THE DUSK
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Details:Length: 23'Screenwriter: Fazhilla Anandya, Kristo Parintes Makur Director: Fazhila Anandya Producer: Fazhilla Anandya Animator: n/a DOP: Fazhila Anandya Sound: Andrew Saputro Editor: Fazhila Anandya Production Designer : n/a Synopsis: Oen Sin Yang (Goyong) 65 years old, is tehyan instrument living sustiner that is now rarely ever performed. In his years of live, he committed to always conserve the existence of the instrument although he signals the impact of modern era has pushed the traditional instrument further away. |
Jakarta Institute of the Art / FFTV (IKJ) | Indonesia | 0 |
| 63-81 | TOMB OF THE DIVER
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Details:Length: 30'Screenwriter: Yan Cheng, Federico Francioni Director: Yan Cheng, Federico Francioni Producer: Centro Sperimentale di Cinematografia Animator: n/a DOP: Yan Cheng, Federico Francioni Sound: Yan Cheng, Federico Francioni Editor: Yan Cheng, Federico Francioni Production Designer : n/a Synopsis: The diver comes to life in a 21st century museum, hanged on a wall and surrounded by tourists' pilgrimage from all over the world. He then takes us onto a journey where time is blurred. Free men and women wander in man-made paradises, shows and historical narrations. The diver comes to dialogue with us, but who is the true diver? |
Centro Sperimentale di Cinematografia (CSC) | Italy | 0 |
| 63-81 | VATABLE STREET
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Details:Length: 30'Screenwriter: Mélissa Issorat Director: Mélissa Issorat Producer: Ateliers VARAN & VARAN Caraibes Animator: n/a DOP: Mélissa Issorat Sound: Guy Gabon, Emmanuel Jomie, Morgane Jean-François, Kra Kouassi, Mariette Monpierre, Jean-Claude Resdedant Editor: Jocelyne Ruiz Production Designer : n/a Synopsis: At 5 am, Jean-Louis is coming out of the "Rue Vatable" tunnel, with his broom to clean up streets. Joseph walks down the street as the man of Providence. In Mr Gauthierot's hair salon, prophets, wise and skeptical men are disputing. People and destinies are crossing in this street of Pointe-a-Pitre, in Guadeloupe island, as if they were unaffected by the passing of time. |
Ateliers Varan | France | 0 |
| 63-81 | WHISPER
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Details:Length: 21'Screenwriter: Margaux Dauby Director: Margaux Dauby Producer: Margaux Dauby, LUCA - School of Arts Animator: n/a DOP: Margaux Dauby Sound: Margaux Dauby, Paulo Rietjens Editor: Margaux Dauby, Mieriën Coppens, Laure Hendricks Production Designer : n/a Synopsis: Lala (7), Kalulah (8) and Muhabat (9) arrived in Belgium from Afghanistan on May 2014. Zamzama explores the in-between space where these children intertwine Pashto culture with French language through play. Constantly looking for the right distance to portray its protagonists, the film draws dotted lines between whispering existence and silent answering. |
LUCA School of Arts (LUCA) | Belgium | 0 |
Animation
| Place | Title | School | Country | Points |
| 1 | EDMOND
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Details:Length: 10'Screenwriter: Nina Gantz Director: Nina Gantz Producer: Emilie Jouffroy Animation: Stop motion Animation: Hywel Roberts, Nina Gantz; 2D lead Animators: Nina Gantz, Terri Matthews DOP: Ian Forbes Sound: Rob Turner Editor: Nina Rac Production Designer : Laura Mickewicz Synopsis: Edmond's impulse to love and be close to others is strong...Maybe too strong. As he stands alone by a lake, contemplating his options, he goes on a journey backwards through his life, and revisits all his defining moments in search for the origin of his desires. |
National FIlm and Television School (NFTS) | United Kingdom | 95 |
| 2 | HAPPY END
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Details:Length: 5'Screenwriter: Jan Saska Director: Jan Saska Producer: Studio FAMU Animation: Jan Saska DOP: Jan Saska Sound: Jiří Gráf Editor: Jan Saska Production Designer : n/a Synopsis: A black comedy about death with happy ending. A splendid chain of unlikely encounters. Hunters, a tractor driver, a disco boy, and a corpse. |
Film and Television School / Academy of Performing Arts in Prague (FAMU) | Czech Republic | 51 |
| 3 | SOME THING
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Details:Length: 7'Screenwriter: Elena Walf Director: Elena Walf Producer: Heiko Schulze, Paul Maresch Animation: Elena Walf DOP: n/a Sound: n/a Editor: n/a Production Designer : Elena Walf Synopsis: Oil, gold and fire are the treasures inside the proud giant mountains. For the little mountain it's impossible to keep up with that. He's just in possession of this tiny, strange and useless SOME THING. |
Filmakademie Baden-Wuerttemberg (FABW) | Germany | 40 |
| 4 | HUM
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Details:Length: 9'Screenwriter: Tom Teller, Andrew Guastaferro Director: Tom Teller Producer: Logan Day, Tom Teller Animation: Visual Effects: Tom Teller, Sophia Bui, Lisa Wu, Zara Abraham, Areeba Khan, Cameron Horst, Brodin Plett, Pulkit Sharma, Richard DOP: Nico Aguilar Sound: Jackie! Zhou Editor: Trevor Stevens Production Designer : Lauren Mayes Synopsis: A solitary dish washing robot living out his life in the back room of a restaurant is enlightened to the world that exists beyond his four walls, with the help of a small friend to pursue his dream of exploration. |
Chapman University / Dodge College of Film and Media Arts | United States | 39 |
| 5 | WELLINGTON JR
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Details:Length: 12'Screenwriter: Patrick Vuittenez, Cécile Paysant Director: Cécile Paysant Producer: Patrick Vuittenez Animation: Cécile Paysant, Elea Richeux, Sophie Pastorello, Constance Robin, Marine Atlan, Julien Laval, Florentine Grelier DOP: Benoît Bouthors, Marine Atlan Sound: n/a Editor: Pierre Deschamps Production Designer : n/a Synopsis: For his tenth birthday, a child has to cross the family rite by hunting his first animal. While a friendly competition settles down between several families, the relation with his father hardens... |
La Fémis | France | 29 |
| 6 | A DOCUMENTARY FILM
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Details:Length: 7'Screenwriter: Marcin Podolec Director: Marcin Podolec Producer: Marcin Malatynski Animation: Marcin Podolec DOP: Marcin Podolec Sound: Marcin Podolec Editor: Marcin Podolec Production Designer : n/a Synopsis: Portrait of a father, whose children live their own lives far away from him. |
Polish National Film, Television and Theatre School in Lodz (PWSFTViT) | Poland | 26 |
| 7 | THE MOUSTACHE
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Details:Length: 4'Screenwriter: Anni Oja Director: Anni Oja Producer: Eija Saarinen Animation: Anni Oja DOP: Hannes Renval Sound: Janne Helenius Editor: Anna Vepsäläinen Production Designer : n/a Synopsis: In a town whose male inhabitants all sport a moustache, a ferocious struggle erupts between two men who want to find out once and for all who has the most handsome and formidable moustache. Things get a bit hairy. |
Turku University of Applied Sciences (TUAS) Arts Academy / Degree Programme in Film and Media | Finland | 22 |
| 8 | ANOTHER EVEREST
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Details:Length: 4'Screenwriter: Alek Kosinski, Isaac Phillips-London, Zing Grem, Gavin Lankford, Edward Loupe, Justin Dunkle Director: n/a Producer: n/a Animation: 2nd year animation class: Alek Kosinski, Isaac Phillips-London, Zing Grem, Gavin Lankford, Edward Loupe DOP: n/a Sound: Edward Loupe Editor: n/a Production Designer : n/a Synopsis: Now in his old age, a former mountain climber must overcome an obstacle almost as daunting as Mount Everest. |
University of North Carolina School of the Arts (UNCSA) | United States | 20 |
| 9-10 | THE CASE OF NIPS AND PORKINGTON
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Details:Length: 3'Screenwriter: Melody Wang Director: Melody Wang Producer: Melody Wang Animation: Melody Wang DOP: Melody Wang Sound: Melody Wang Editor: Melody Wang Production Designer : n/a Synopsis: Two “Bobbies” struggle to solve the case of the missing egg. |
Sheridan College | Canada | 17 |
| 9-10 | THE NIGHTINGALE AND THE ROSE
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Details:Length: 7'Screenwriter: Anastasia Chernova Director: Anastasia Chernova Producer: VGIK Animation: Anastasia Chernova DOP: Anastasia Chernova Sound: Anastasia Chernova Editor: Anastasia Chernova Production Designer : n/a Synopsis: Death is a high price for the red rose, but Love means much more, than a mere little bird`s life. This is a story about love and self-sacrifice, embodied by the dance of the Nightingale and the Rose. |
Russian State University of Сinematography n.a. S.Gerasimov VGIK | Russia | 17 |
| 11 | NICE TO MEETEOR YOU
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Details:Length: 6'Screenwriter: Yizhou Li Director: Yizhou Li Producer: n/a Animation: Yizhou Li DOP: n/a Sound: Chris Bonis Editor: Yizhou Li Production Designer : n/a Synopsis: A lonely wind-up cat discovers a mystery box that may contain friendly creatures, and he has to find the right key to open it. |
University of Southern California's School of Cinematic Arts (USC) | United States | 16 |
| 12 | A SUN
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Details:Length: 8'Screenwriter: Tero Liimatainen Director: Lauri Harju Producer: Susanna Lätti Animation: Lauri Harju DOP: Lauri Harju Sound: Joni Heinonen Editor: Riku Leino Production Designer : n/a Synopsis: On a small island, above the clouds, a father and a son have different view on their daily routine of keeping up the sun. |
Tampere University of Applied Sciences (TUNI), Degree Programme in Media | Finland | 13 |
| 13 | D:729.
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Details:Length: 5'Screenwriter: Levi Stoops Director: Levi Stoops Producer: RITCS Royal Institute for Theatre, Cinema and Sound Animation: Levi Stoops DOP: n/a Sound: Paolo Rietjens Editor: Levi Stoops Production Designer : n/a Synopsis: A lonely astronaut is, due to a lack of human and physical contact, sexually attracted to his toothbrush. A story about the impossible combination of someone's deepest desires and the world around him. |
Royal Institute for Theatre, Cinema and Sound (RITCS) | Belgium | 12 |
| 14 | DON'T FORGET ABOUT MORI
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Details:Length: 8'Screenwriter: Elisaveta Tsyganova Director: Maria Shiryaeva Producer: n/a Animation: Kate Kurenkova, Alena Rebezova, Masha Shiryaeva DOP: n/a Sound: Polina Korotych Editor: n/a Production Designer : n/a Synopsis: The pilot episode of series about a death called Mori who decides to find her place in life. |
St. Petersburg State University of Film and Television (SPUFT) | Russia | 11 |
| 15-16 | COSMOETICO
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Details:Length: 5'Screenwriter: Martina Scarpelli Director: Martina Scarpelli Producer: Centro Sperimentale di Cinematografia - Piemonte Animation: Martina Scarpelli DOP: Martina Scarpelli Sound: Paolo Armao Editor: Martina Scarpelli Production Designer : Martina Scarpelli Synopsis: What was it like, before the birth of the universe? Does reality exists just because we are able to perceive it? A girl tries to answer the big questions. She imagines she can empty the universe to get to the very first portion of the cosmos. And so she finds herself alone, as the smallest part of the universe - just a point. |
Centro Sperimentale di Cinematografia (CSC) | Italy | 10 |
| 15-16 | FIRE
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Details:Length: 12'Screenwriter: Pablo “Pencha” Penchansky Director: Pablo “Pencha” Penchansky Producer: Pablo “Pencha” Penchansky Animation: Pablo “Pencha” Penchansky DOP: Pablo “Pencha” Penchansky Sound: Diego Gringas, Daniel Schnock Editor: Pablo “Pencha” Penchansky Production Designer : n/a Synopsis: Around the fire, six figures are found. One of them starts a journey. |
Universidad de Buenos Aires / Diseño de Imagen y Sonido FADU (UBA) | Argentina | 10 |
| 17 | BRICKS ON TREES
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Details:Length: 2'Screenwriter: Mohammad Khalikh.P Director: Mohammad Khalikh.P Producer: Whistling Woods International Animation: Mohammad Khalikh.P DOP: n/a Sound: Kumar Kundan Editor: n/a Production Designer : n/a Synopsis: A Bird living blissfully with her baby birds on the tallest tree in a forest comes to find out that the tall buildings have replaced her home and her baby birds are nowhere to be found. |
Whistling Woods International (WWI) | India | 9 |
| 18-19 | HOT BOD
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Details:Length: 4'Screenwriter: Claire Van Ryzin Director: Claire Van Ryzin Producer: Claire Van Ryzin Animation: Claire Van Ryzin DOP: Claire Van Ryzin Sound: Sal laccarino Editor: Claire Van Ryzin Production Designer : n/a Synopsis: A lonely Man gets what he wants, until things go oh so wrong.... |
School of Visual Arts | United States | 8 |
| 18-19 | PROMENADE
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Details:Length: 4'Screenwriter: Davide Ratti, Daniele Ratti Director: Davide Ratti, Daniele Ratti Producer: Davide Ratti, Daniele Ratti Animation: Davide Ratti, Daniele Ratti DOP: Dario Scommegna Sound: Riccardo Arrigoni Editor: Davide Ratti Production Designer : n/a Synopsis: A boy and a girl on a boardwalk, are in the middle of a discussion about their relationship: he's trying to explain her why their relation could not work. But just in the crucial moment, the situation takes an unexpected turn... |
Milan City Film School Luchino Visconti (MCSC) | Italy | 8 |
| 20 | THE SEA
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Details:Length: 7'Screenwriter: Li Yifan Director: Li Yifan Producer: Chen Liang, Xiang Wang Animation: Chen Peixuan, Peng Peng, Shen Yi DOP: Li Jinun, Ma Rui Sound: Jiang Mingjun Editor: Li Yifan Production Designer : n/a Synopsis: A lazy bibulous fisherman lives near the sea, and he spends every day on the simple and boring life. One day, he found a house on the sea.When he got in the house, he realized that he could get whatever he wants in this house after closing the door. He hesitated for seconds and decided to lock this door. Everything in his mind was showing up, and he enjoyed everything that belonged to him now. At the same time of the bunch of gifts that was given by the house, the danger was gradually coming. He was swallowed by house.This house turned back clam again. Another day, two pirates broke into this house, and the house gave them wealth at this time. They pulled their knifes toward each other and wanted to own this property by oneself. The greed of people was revealed again. |
Beijing Film Academy (BFA) | China | 7 |
| 21-22 | 3:14
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Details:Length: 10'Screenwriter: Patricio Marín Director: Patricio Marín Producer: Patricio Marín, Carlos Metta Animation: Patricio Marín DOP: Leslie Montero Sound: Andrés Polti, Carlos Metta Editor: Patricio Marín Production Designer : Patricio Marín Synopsis: The path Bruno has been driving for over 10 hours, slowly becomes tedious and strange each passing mile. His destination, an old road motel where he’s supposed to meet with Julia, his beloved one, seems to be unattainable on a road where time doesn’t appear to exist. It is when his memories and sub-conscious start to betray him on a mysterious road that doesn’t appear to have a way out, when he completely breaks in desperation. At the end, Bruno finally meets his destination, only to discover the true reality he’s trapped in and the fact that he was responsible for the death of his belove. |
Universidad Iberoamericana Mexico City (IBERO) | Mexico | 6 |
| 21-22 | CAVEMANS
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Details:Length: 5'Screenwriter: Joe Carroll Director: Joe Carroll Producer: n/a Animation: Joe Carroll DOP: Joe Carroll Sound: Rob Flynn, Darius McQann Editor: Joe Carroll Production Designer : n/a Synopsis: A stone age hermit's path collides with some otherworldly visitors. |
National Film School / Institute of Art, Design and Technology (IADT) | Ireland | 6 |
| 23 | SOLO
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Details:Length: 2'Screenwriter: n/a Director: Nayera Alsarawy Producer: High cinema institute Animation: Nayera Alsarawy DOP: n/a Sound: Abrar Emad Editor: Omar Abou El-Ellaa Production Designer : n/a Synopsis: Solo film is about a man trying to deal to with his loneliness, so he found the violin his way to pass this mood, imagining audience while playing his violin. |
High Cinema Institute | Egypt | 5 |
| 24-28 | GOOD NIGHT
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Details:Length: 7'Screenwriter: Henning Backhaus Director: Henning Backhaus Producer: Henning Backhaus, Filmakademie Wien Animation: Henning Backhaus DOP: Matthias Halibrand Sound: Peter Brunner Editor: Henning Backhaus Production Designer : n/a Synopsis: A sock puppet wanders through snowy winter worlds accompanied by the music of Franz Schubert's "Winterreise". Dark black and white images change between comedy and tragedy. The protagonist soon get's to his self - chosen end, while Schubert's unsheltered journey is yet to begin. |
Film Academy Vienna (UMDK) | Austria | 4 |
| 24-28 | GREEN LAND
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Details:Length: 5'Screenwriter: Zhang Wang Director: Zhang Wang Producer: Zhang Wang Animation: Zhang Wang DOP: Zhang Wang Sound: Jessica Yuan, Zhu Zehui Editor: Zhang Wang Production Designer : n/a Synopsis: Father drives a car on grassland with his son. A starry night. However, they are arguing: Dad wants his son to have a family of his own soon, but the son is unwilling to be trapped by marriage. The argument brings up in the son's mind, a thinking of the meaning of life... |
Academy of Film / Hong Kong Baptist University (HKBU) | Hong Kong | 4 |
| 24-28 | MILA FOG
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Details:Length: 11'Screenwriter: Marta Prokopová Director: Marta Prokopová Producer: VSMU Animation: Marta Prokopová DOP: Marta Prokopová Sound: Adam Dekan Editor: Marta Prokopová Production Designer : n/a Synopsis: I feel emptiness around me. The night is cold and dark. I am looking for a light, wherever it may be. |
Academy of Performing Arts / Film and Television Faculty (VSMU) | Slovakia | 4 |
| 24-28 | PROCEDERE:
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Details:Length: 6'Screenwriter: Delia Schiltknecht Director: Delia Schiltknecht Producer: Delia Schiltknecht, ZHdK Animation: Delia Schiltknecht DOP: Delia Schiltknecht Sound: Tahel Zimmermann Editor: Delia Schiltknecht Production Designer : n/a Synopsis: “Bad images should disappear suddenly!“. Since negative images mustn’t been thought. Nevertheless they are here and constantly circling in the brain. The compulsion should dispel them... |
Zurich University of the Arts / Department of Performing Arts and Film (ZHdK) | Switzerland | 4 |
| 24-28 | REFLECTION
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Details:Length: 5'Screenwriter: Alice Guzzo Director: Alice Guzzo Producer: Mateusz Borkowski Animation: Alice Guzzo, Mateus Borkowski, Ryongu Lee, Aslaug Willumsen, Silje Skarli, Madoka Nakaike DOP: n/a Sound: Pawitra Sukhawathanakul Editor: Dareos Khalili Production Designer : n/a Synopsis: The young Italian girl Barbara is unhappy with her exhausting job as a waitress and frustrated by the negativity of the life that surrounds her and the depressing daily routine. One night, sinking in reflections and thoughts, Barbara realizes what has always made her happy and fulfilled. |
Bournemouth Film School (AUB) | United Kingdom | 4 |
| 29-32 | EXILE
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Details:Length: 4'Screenwriter: Team Work Director: Alktm Serbest Producer: T.C. ISTANBUL KULTUR UNIVERSITY Animation: Bilal Karakoyun, Emre Kahraman DOP: n/a Sound: Team Work Editor: Team Work Production Designer : n/a Synopsis: Ufo is getting close the World, a caveman tries to burn a fire, alien fire at the fire, caveman is surprised. Aliens who make love with caveman appear on murals. The alien deletes the murals, the caveman has a smiles. Transition, the creatures came from space run, 6th century B.C, when a Mouse nibbles something, the alien infect the Mouse pestilence, the Mouse falls to a woman's arms, and bite. The women are infected, and she is died. On the front of black board Einstein is thinking, moreover e~mc is written on the board, the alien add 2 the formula's beginning, Einstein is glad. When Japan hands a flag of trace, the alien shoots away Japan is panic-stricken. .An airplane which is opened bomb is seen, on ihe bomb little boy is written, and they released the bomb and explode. The alien start to talk, the subtitle is entered as 'It's not your fault you never, wc did it all. The world will stay with us when you leave.' |
Istanbul Kultur University (IKU) | Turkey | 3 |
| 29-32 | LIFE IS RUGGED
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Details:Length: 3'Screenwriter: Simon Schnellmann Director: Simon Schnellmann Producer: Simon Schnellmann Animation: Simon Schnellmann DOP: Simon Schnellmann Sound: Marcus Zilz Editor: Simon Schnellmann Production Designer : n/a Synopsis: Five short sequences about life are linked together by a black point. |
Academy of Media Arts Cologne (KHM) | Germany | 3 |
| 29-32 | ONE DAY OF RAIN
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Details:Length: 3'Screenwriter: Ágnes Gyõrfi Director: Ágnes Gyõrfi Producer: Universidade Lusófona de Humanidades e Tecnologias Animation: Ágnes Gyõrfi DOP: n/a Sound: Ágnes Gyõrfi Editor: n/a Production Designer : n/a Synopsis: “One day of rain” is a film about the million faces of Lisbon in a short moment. Different tastes and colours in one city, in one film. |
Universidade Lusófona / Film and Media Arts Department (ULHT) | Portugal | 3 |
| 29-32 | TOUCH
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Details:Length: 4'Screenwriter: Lauren Edson Director: Lauren Edson Producer: VCA School of Film and TV Animation: Lauren Edson DOP: Lauren Edson Sound: Tracy Chen Editor: Lauren Edson Production Designer : n/a Synopsis: Post trauma, a detached, quiet soul slowly learns to reconnect with the world they'd given up on. |
VCA Film and Television | Australia | 3 |
| 33-36 | HEAD
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Details:Length: 4'Screenwriter: Stav Levi Director: Stav Levi Producer: Stav Levi Animation: Stav Levi DOP: Stav Levi Sound: Trixerin Editor: Stav Levi Production Designer : n/a Synopsis: A bald and downhearted man stands on the edge of the ocean and decides to get rid of his head. Sadly, his decision has unfortunate consequences. |
Bezalel Academy of Arts and Design Jerusalem (BAAD) | Israel | 2 |
| 33-36 | NOVELL
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Details:Length: 7'Screenwriter: Inka Matilainen Director: Inka Matilainen Producer: Jussi Lehtomäki Animation: Inka Matilainen DOP: n/a Sound: Tuukka Nikkilä Editor: Inka Lahti Production Designer : n/a Synopsis: Novell is a film about the breach between children and adults world and the inevitable change that growth brings told via encounter between girl and a horse. |
Aalto University School of Arts, Design and Architecture / ELO Film School Helsinki | Finland | 2 |
| 33-36 | THE THREE RING CIRCUS
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Details:Length: 9'Screenwriter: Sine Özbilge Director: Sine Özbilge Producer: Sine Özbilge, KASK – School of Arts Gent Animation: Sine Özbilge DOP: Sine Özbilge Sound: Bart Maris, Nuño Gomez Editor: Sine Özbilge Production Designer : n/a Synopsis: A girl’s subconscious reflection on the absurdity of the world based on Albert Camus’ philosophy and the parody of proverbs. Wise words, taken too literally, become silly things. Welcome to the three ring circus! |
Royal Academy of Fine Arts / University College Ghent (KASK) | Belgium | 2 |
| 33-36 | WHEN IT RAINS OUTSIDE
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Details:Length: 8'Screenwriter: Tea Vatsadze Director: Tea Vatsadze Producer: Shota Rustaveli Theatre and Film Georgia State University; Georgian National Film Center Animation: Tea Vatsadze DOP: George Vatsadze Sound: Mariana Shengelia Editor: Giga Japharidze Production Designer : n/a Synopsis: Film is about a lonely man and woman who’s meeting depends on the weather broadcast. When it rains outside woman comes to a man’s place and they play chess. However one day it stops raining. What will the couple do about it? And what will happen with the chess? |
Theatre and Film Georgia State University | Georgia | 2 |
| 37-40 | BABI LIBERTY
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Details:Length: 2'Screenwriter: Rabes Rosaline Director: Rabes Rosaline Producer: ESAV Animation: Rabes Rosaline DOP: n/a Sound: Dunouch Augé Editor: Rabes Rosaline Production Designer : n/a Synopsis: In the jungle, a black panther makes the most of her life, of the beauty of the world around her, and enjoys her freedom. But is it real? |
ENSAV | France | 1 |
| 37-40 | FROM TIP TO END
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Details:Length: 7'Screenwriter: Nikolina Tsolova Director: Nikolina Tsolova Producer: NATFA“Kr. Sarafov” Animation: Nikolina Tsolova DOP: Nikolina Tsolova Sound: Borislav Bozhkov Editor: Nikolina Tsolova Production Designer : n/a Synopsis: A man and a woman meet by following the string coming from their embroidered hearts. Between them on the string they find a needle and they start embroidering their communication which leads to their separation. |
National Academy for Theatre and Film Arts (NATFA) | Bulgaria | 1 |
| 37-40 | IVAN AND THE WOLF
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Details:Length: 5'Screenwriter: Anna Levinson Director: Anna Levinson Producer: Anna Levinson Animation: Anna Levinson DOP: n/a Sound: Alexandra Praet Editor: n/a Production Designer : n/a Synopsis: In order to become a real man, little Ivan has to pass a test of courage in which he has to kill a wolf. But it is not easy at all, since Ivan and the wolf like each other right away. |
Film University Babelsberg KONRAD WOLF | Germany | 1 |
| 37-40 | PAIN IN THE RICKSHAW
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Details:Length: 3'Screenwriter: Myfanwy King, Gerard Bishop Director: Myfanwy King Producer: Myfanwy King Animation: Chantelle Ryan, Lauren Gray, Myfanwy King DOP: Sacha Freeman Sound: James Gray Editor: Chantelle Ryan, Lauren Gray Production Designer : n/a Synopsis: A young rickshaw driver receives an unexpected fare to take a rich passenger up a mountain. The mountain is steep and tall, but the hungry driver accepts the fare and begins his journey. But will the passenger be too large a burden for the tired driver to handle. As the driver struggles up the mountain to his destination will he receive his reward or will the wheels of fate be unkind. |
Griffith Film School (GFS) | Australia | 1 |
| 41-49 | ANNA’S PET PROJECT
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Details:Length: 13'Screenwriter: Seth Tomlinson Director: Seth Tomlinson Producer: Michael Naundorf Animation: Seth Tomlinson DOP: n/a Sound: Taylan Cevik, Sean Singh Editor: Xavier Pestana Production Designer : n/a Synopsis: A desperate young girl named Anna uses a T Rex to gain power over her schoolyard bullies. At first she enjoys this newfound power, but it isn’t long before she starts losing control of the T-rex. Anna must ask herself, is the power worth it? |
Toronto Metropolitan University | Canada | 0 |
| 41-49 | BLACK SHEEP
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Details:Length: 7'Screenwriter: Eileen Van Aswagen, Nadia Rabim Director: Eileen Van Aswagen, Nadia Rabim Producer: Tasneem Ismail, Rosanna De Atouguia Animation: Nadia Rabim, Eileen Van Aswagen DOP: Khotso Mathatho Sound: Quintin Bezuidenhout Editor: Sivu Mayisela Production Designer : Eileen Van Aswagen, Nadia Rabim Synopsis: “Black sheep” is a dark comedy about a “sheep” being the “black sheep” of the family. |
South African School of Motion Picture Medium and Live Performance (AFDA) | South Africa | 0 |
| 41-49 | DORU
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Details:Length: 7'Screenwriter: Valentin Dragu, Radu Pop Director: Valentin Dragu, Radu Pop Producer: UNATC – student production - Valentin Dragu, Radu Pop Animation: Valentin Dragu, Radu Pop DOP: Victor Velculescu Sound: Ciprian Cimpoi, Răzvan Ionescu, Iulian Nunu, Ciprian Vișan Editor: Valentin Dragu, Radu Pop Production Designer : n/a Synopsis: On a summer's night, a drunk man gets sick of hanging out with the boys and goes wandering through the wheat fields, looking for his fortune. |
National University of Theatre and Film (UNATC) | Romania | 0 |
| 41-49 | JUST NOT BACK
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Details:Length: 2'Screenwriter: Jan Lovše Director: Jan Lovše Producer: UL AGRFT (Nina Robnik) Animation: Jan Lovše DOP: n/a Sound: Blaž Gracar Editor: Jan Lovše Production Designer : n/a Synopsis: A story about the road to the Promised Land. |
University of Ljubljana / Academy of Theatre, Radio, Film and Television (AGRFT) | Slovenia | 0 |
| 41-49 | NINETY NINE DAYS
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Details:Length: 2'Screenwriter: Zayyad Abdulrahaman Director: Mohammed Lawal, Nura Bello Producer: Remi Afonja Animation: Mohammed Lawal, Nura Bello, Fyner Kennedy Nnokam, Iniobong Wisdom, Remi Afonja, Zainab Obagu, Kabir Aderibigbe, Anita Nyelong DOP: Patrick Uwasomba Sound: Remi Afonja Editor: Remi Afonja Production Designer : n/a Synopsis: An African proverb "everyday for the thief, but one day for the owner" expanded to a story between a snake and a hawk. |
NTA Television College (NTA) | Nigeria | 0 |
| 41-49 | ON THE ORIGIN OF BEER
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Details:Length: 3'Screenwriter: Eliška Chytková Director: Eliška Chytková Producer: Petra Ptáčková, TBU in Zlín Animation: Eliška Chytková DOP: Eliška Chytková Sound: David Schwarz Editor: Eliška Chytková Production Designer : n/a Synopsis: Did you know that Mesopotamia is the godmother of beer? So why sing and drink it so much here? Why do the sins of every Czech so simply clear? Beware though, the tale of beer's got twists and the end is nowhere near... |
Tomas Bata University in Zlín / Faculty of Multimedia Communications (TBU) | Czech Republic | 0 |
| 41-49 | REINALDO
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Details:Length: 10'Screenwriter: Fabián Pineda Director: Fabián Pineda Producer: Fabián Pineda Animation: Fabián Pineda DOP: Fabián Pineda Sound: Diego Moreno, Sebastian Caballero, Fabián Pineda Editor: Fabián Pineda Production Designer : n/a Synopsis: Reinaldo loves eating peanuts, but they are not infinite and they run out. Reinaldo meets Leopoldo who has peanuts and one problem to resolve. If Reinaldo solves the Leopoldo's problem, he will get the peanuts. This is not easy, because Reinaldo is pretty silly and the problem of Leopoldo is weird. |
Escuela de Cine y Televisión / UNAL (ECYTV) | Colombia | 0 |
| 41-49 | THE BEAST
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Details:Length: 3'Screenwriter: Liesbet van Loon Director: Liesbet van Loon Producer: n/a Animation: Liesbet van Loon DOP: n/a Sound: Liesbet van Loon Editor: n/a Production Designer : n/a Synopsis: An experimental story about a woman with an (inner) demon who haunts her in daily life. She attempts to avoid and ignore the monster until she comes to the revelation that she should accept and live with it. |
LUCA School of Arts (LUCA) | Belgium | 0 |
| 41-49 | THE SEASIDE
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Details:Length: 8'Screenwriter: Chris Tate Director: Chris Tate Producer: Chris Tate Animation: Chris Tate DOP: Chris Tate Sound: Oliver Williams, Callum Donaldson Editor: Chris Tate Production Designer : n/a Synopsis: In a simple line animation, share the joy of an old man drinking tea at the beach. Identify with him as he experiences the joy of other people and recalls his memories of his life at the beach. |
Northern Film School / Leeds Beckett University (NFS/LBU) | United Kingdom | 0 |
