2021
Fiction
| Place | Title | School | Country | Points |
| 1 | ANATOMY OF A CZECH AFTERNOON
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Details:Length: 22'Screenwriter: Adam Martinec Director: Adam Martinec Producer: Ondřej Šejnoha - Studio FAMU, Breathless Films Animator: n/a DOP: David Hofmann Sound: Michael Kocáb Editor: Matěj Sláma Production Designer: n/a Synopsis: The disappearance of two boys at a lake, during a scorching summer afternoon, forces us to question who we really are in the face of our own humanity. |
Film and Television School / Academy of Performing Arts in Prague (FAMU) | Czech Republic | 101 |
| 2 | MY DEAR CORPSES
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Details:Length: 30'Screenwriter: German Golub Director: German Golub Producer: Sander Lebrech, Antero Noor Animator: n/a DOP: Juss Saska Sound: Siim Skepast Editor: Kaupo Muuli Production Designer: Kätlin Loomets Synopsis: Unexpectedly evicted from his house, Erki faces a difficult task to take care of his lonely mother. He’s forced to become a corpse carrier. But the situation is about to get a whole lot worse, when Erki meets his new colleague for whom it's just another day in the field. |
Baltic Film, Media and Arts School, Tallinn University | Estonia | 61 |
| 3 | WHO GOES THERE?
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Details:Length: 24'Screenwriter: William Gillies Director: Astrid Thorvaldsen Producer: Leah Bethany Jones Animator: n/a DOP: Graham Boonzaaier Sound: João Fonte, Ines Adriana Editor: Armiliah Aripin Production Designer: Peter Coulthard Synopsis: 1880: Three Norwegian sisters' trust is tested when a stranger appears on the prairie. When the eldest invites the man in to heal her dying sister, she doesn't realise that a supernatural force is crossing her threshold. |
National FIlm and Television School (NFTS) | United Kingdom | 58 |
| 4 | THE PUSH PINS
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Details:Length: 22'Screenwriter: Lisa Sallustio Director: Lisa Sallustio Producer: Tristan Vaslot Animator: n/a DOP: Hovig Hagopian Sound: Noëmy Oraison Editor: Charly Cancel Production Designer: Roxane Merolle Synopsis: Berlioz is over-qualified and cannot find a job. In order to keep his right to unemployment insurance, he accepts a "high responsibility" job offer which consists of removing all the thumbtacks from the wall of an empty building... |
La Fémis | France | 53 |
| 5 | WHEN THE SUN SETS
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Details:Length: 14'Screenwriter: Phumi Morare Director: Phumi Morare Producer: Christine Cho Animator: n/a DOP: Sherry Yingying Qian Sound: Andree Lin Editor: Mojtaba Mirshekari Production Designer: Waldemar Coetsee Synopsis: Johannesburg, 1985. A young, black nurse living in apartheid South Africa must face her worst fears when she learns that her activist, younger brother may be in danger when he doesn't return after school. |
Chapman University / Dodge College of Film and Media Arts | United States | 45 |
| 6 | HARMONIA
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Details:Length: 27'Screenwriter: Sam Dijkstra, Thom Lunshof Director: Thom Lunshof Producer: Pieter Kapteijns, Indy Kisoen, Maayke Pleijers Animator: n/a DOP: Amit Kumar Sound: Burak Öztas Editor: Pepijn Ahsmann Production Designer: Daan Goudswaard, Emmy Rommers Synopsis: A mysterious voice invades a university campus. It is looking for unity and connection iq a world trapped in egoism, where everyone is pursuing their own individual goals. Simultaneously we follow Philine in her obsessive battle to earn a spot in the competition boat of the university's rowing club. |
Netherlands Film Academy (NFA) | Netherlands | 37 |
| 7-8 | BALLAST
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Details:Length: 18'Screenwriter: Daniel Howlid Director: Daniel Howlid Producer: Agata Golanska Animator: n/a DOP: Knut Joner Sound: Pawel Gapiński Editor: Piotr Ogiński Production Designer: n/a Synopsis: Family meeting. Lack of adult attention, upbringing mistakes, as well as unstable emotional ties and disrupted relationships, lead a small, bored, lonely boy to destructive behaviour from which there is no turning back. Tragedy hangs by a thread... |
Polish National Film, Television and Theatre School in Lodz (PWSFTViT) | Poland | 33 |
| 7-8 | J`ADOR
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Details:Length: 16'Screenwriter: Tommaso Fava~Grossa, Simone Bozzelli Director: Simone Bozzelli Producer: Centro Sperimentale di Cinematografia Production Animator: n/a DOP: Callum Begley Sound: Francesco Mauro, Giorgio Borrelli Editor: Christian Marsiglia Production Designer: Davide Alberto Gramegna, Angelica Morelli Synopsis: Claudio is 15 years-old and Lauro, 16-year-oid leader of a group made of guys claiming to be fascists, is writing “J'ador” on his forehead because he smells like a little girl. Claudia wants to belong to the group and go with them to the "dinner". If he truly wants to achieve his goal, one afternoon Claudio must lose its boy scent and leam how to smell like a man. |
Centro Sperimentale di Cinematografia (CSC) | Italy | 33 |
| 9-11 | BOREDOM
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Details:Length: 19'Screenwriter: Alica Bednáriková Director: Alica Bednáriková Producer: FTF VŠMU Animator: n/a DOP: Roman Šupej Sound: Igor Jedinák Editor: Katarína Koniarová Production Designer: n/a Synopsis: Boredom follows a life of a young girl, Greta, who is a pathological liar. Using an unreliable narration of the story, she deceives not only the characters, but the viewer himself. This manipulative nature of hers causes an absurd chain of events, after which Greta as a character is, as she should be, completely transformed. Except she isn’t. |
Academy of Performing Arts / Film and Television Faculty (VSMU) | Slovakia | 31 |
| 9-11 | FISH LIKE US
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Details:Length: 17'Screenwriter: Raphaela Schmid Director: Raphaela Schmid Producer: Claudia Joldes Animator: n/a DOP: Simone Hart Sound: Lucia Johow, Jon Geirfinnson Editor: Philipp Mayer Production Designer: Andrey Rutar, Lisa Ulrich Synopsis: As part of an unusual farewell ritual, two siblings end up at a Chinese restaurant. Both feel guilty after the recent death of their mother and find it difficult to broach the subject. At another table a father improves his daughter's homework, at the next a date goes wrong, and somewhere in between, the server's collar bursts. Though the tables are close together, the siblings hardly notice the little dramas taking place. |
Film Academy Vienna (UMDK) | Austria | 31 |
| 9-11 | JULIET
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Details:Length: 15'Screenwriter: Wilandrea Blair Director: Irina Producer: Katherine May Animator: n/a DOP: Sarah Anne Pierpont Sound: Thomas Ouziel Editor: Anna Khusnutdinova Production Designer: Danna McDonald Synopsis: A transgender teenager battles prejudice and her own self-doubt to audition for the female lead in her high school’s play. |
American Film Institute Conservatory (AFI) | United States | 31 |
| 12-13 | NEURIM
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Details:Length: 30'Screenwriter: Shaylee Atary Director: Shaylee Atary Producer: Yahav Winner Animator: n/a DOP: Omer Weiss Sound: Rotem Dror Editor: Noa Gottesman Production Designer: Etelle Ebner Synopsis: A strange awkward relationship develops between Orr, a 30-year-old wheelchair user after an injury, and her new physiotherapist that brings new breezes of desire to her daily routine rehabilitation at her mother’s house. |
The Steve Tisch School of Film and Television (TAU) | Israel | 30 |
| 12-13 | WILDFLOWERS • THE CHILDREN OF NEVER
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Details:Length: 25'Screenwriter: Ammen Ogedengbe Director: Ammen Ogedengbe Producer: RITCS – Brussels - Belgium Animator: n/a DOP: Charlie Speeckaert Sound: Feras Daouk Editor: Nick Read Production Designer: Ellen Brock Synopsis: During an otherwise boring summer holiday, a new girl, Willow, tries to find her way around in a special boarding school. She learns to come to terms with her turbulent past. When she meets the other residents and tries to make friends, she finds out that there’s more to them that binds them together. Her dark past has found its place. |
Royal Institute for Theatre, Cinema and Sound (RITCS) | Belgium | 30 |
| 14 | IN THE WOODS
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Details:Length: 17'Screenwriter: Sara Grgurić Director: Sara Grgurić Producer: Mihael Šandro, Sara Grgurić, Suzana Erbežnik (Academy of Dramatic Art Zagreb) Animator: n/a DOP: Frane Pamić Sound: Dino Ljuban Editor: Marko Klajić Production Designer: Frane Pamić, Sara Grgurić Synopsis: Sasš and Filip are going to Gorski Kotar during the lockdown. Saša finally has time to realize how she really feels. |
Academy of Dramatic Art Zagreb (ADU) | Croatia | 28 |
| 15 | SUMMER SHADE
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Details:Length: 16'Screenwriter: Shira Haimovici Director: Shira Haimovici Producer: Yuli Shiloach, Adam Robinson Animator: n/a DOP: Tamas Apor Meder Sound: n/a Editor: n/a Production Designer: Michal Bergman, Maya Ratmansky Synopsis: On a hot summer’s day, mischievous teenager Gal takes a dip in her favourite nearby pool and unexpectedly encounters a group of Hasidic boys. |
London Film School (LFS) | United Kingdom | 27 |
| 16 | SUNNIES
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Details:Length: 11'Screenwriter: Ismail Khan Director: Ismail Khan Producer: Skye Leon Animator: n/a DOP: James Ward Miller Sound: Sean Doyle Editor: Alexander Cox Production Designer: Sharna Graham Synopsis: After roaming the streets of his neighbourhood one morning, Malcolm, a troubled and somewhat delinquent teen, decides to steal a pair of sunglasses from the local shops - an act that is later revealed to be part of a much bigger plan. |
Australian Film Television and Radio School (AFTRS) | Australia | 26 |
| 17 | NO
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Details:Length: 16'Screenwriter: Bruno Manguen Director: Bruno Manguen Producer: Academy of Media Art Cologne, Bruno Manguen, Alexander Pauckner, Francisco Torregrosa Animator: n/a DOP: Alexander Pauckner Sound: Pamela Casasa Editor: Bruno Manguen, Francisco Juarez Production Designer: Juan Trujillo Synopsis: Frida and Emiliano are having an affair. After spending a wild evening together he asks for more than she is willing. |
Academy of Media Arts Cologne (KHM) | Germany | 25 |
| 18-19 | FOR ROSA
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Details:Length: 21'Screenwriter: Kathryn Boyd-Batstone Director: Kathryn Boyd-Batstone Producer: Ahsley N. Flores, Sabrina Ehlert Animator: n/a DOP: Hark Xu Sound: Sergio Diaz Editor: Romina Rey Production Designer: Rachael Garcia Synopsis: For Rosa is inspired by the Madrigal Ten, a group of women who were ten of Latinas sterilized without consent while giving birth at Los Angeles County USC Medical Center during the 1970s. |
University of Southern California's School of Cinematic Arts (USC) | United States | 22 |
| 18-19 | REINA
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Details:Length: 19'Screenwriter: Ozan Mermer Director: Ozan Mermer Producer: Mariella Santibáñez Animator: n/a DOP: J. Daniel Ziiniga Sound: Julian Riegl Editor: Sofia Angelina Machado Production Designer: Tihui Arau Méndez, Edgar Larrabaquio Synopsis: Lola celebrates her 15th birthday, her Quinceanera. The night before, an unexpected encounter puts an end to her protected childhood. |
University of Television and Film Munich (HFF) | Germany | 22 |
| 20 | WE WILL BE THE GREATEST
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Details:Length: 20'Screenwriter: Jelena Vujovic Director: Jelena Vujovic Producer: Filippo Bonacci Animator: n/a DOP: Noah Frey Sound: Alban Schelbert Editor: Jelena Vujovic Production Designer: Viviane Rapp Synopsis: Synopsis: Kosovo 1998: When Dunja, a young Serbian woman, finds out that she's pregnant she decides to run away to her aunt in Switzerland. Amir, her secret Albanian boyfriend, promises to follow as soon as possible. In Switzerland and heavily pregnant she is suddenly unable to reach him anymore. Without knowing what has happened to him, her contractions start. |
Zurich University of the Arts / Department of Performing Arts and Film (ZHdK) | Switzerland | 20 |
| 21 | ONE ELEVATOR APART
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Details:Length: 27'Screenwriter: Pavla Kotova, Chris Zahariev Director: Chris Zahariev Producer: Prof.Dr. Stanislav Semerdjiev Animator: n/a DOP: Anastas Shipkov, Rosen Tihov Sound: Taraleshta, Lili Ivanova Editor: Danail Kolev Production Designer: Elis Vely Synopsis: Yuli and Pavel, two best friends, both studying to become policemen are forced into a private investigation. The suspects are all of the neighbors. |
National Academy for Theatre and Film Arts (NATFA) | Bulgaria | 19 |
| 22 | I AM
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Details:Length: 27'Screenwriter: Florens Huhn Director: Jerry Hoffmaann Producer: Stella Flicker (Creative Producer) Animator: n/a DOP: Lena Katharina Krause Sound: Stephan Radom Editor: Julia Kovalenko Production Designer: Iris Trescher-Lorenz Synopsis: One day, the withdrawn Noé finds a motionless android in the forest, takes it with her and reactivates it. It's the beginning of a strange relationship. Far too late, Noé realizes that the android is about to copy her personality. |
Hamburg Media School (HMS) | Germany | 17 |
| 23-26 | iHUMAN
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Details:Length: 15'Screenwriter: Niko Sjöholm Director: Satu-Lotta Rannisto Producer: Petra Kinnunen Animator: VFX Supervisor: Jukka Kiiski DOP: Sonja Tolonen Sound: n/a Editor: n/a Production Designer: n/a Synopsis: Mankind is approaching devastation caused by overpopulation and famine. The gray and melancholic everyday life takes a turn when the big company Lemon introduces its new product called iHuman. This devive is meant to save the nation and allow everyone to experience what true freedom really is. |
Turku University of Applied Sciences (TUAS) Arts Academy / Degree Programme in Film and Media | Finland | 16 |
| 23-26 | POST LOVE
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Details:Length: 11'Screenwriter: Ryan Mortell, Max Barry Director: Max Barry Producer: Erik Scarsella Animator: n/a DOP: Tiernan O`Raurke Sound: John Cooney Editor: Barra O`Connor Production Designer: Evelyn Hassett Synopsis: Three eldery women from the west of Ireland rob past offices to break free from their nursing homes. |
National Film School / Institute of Art, Design and Technology (IADT) | Ireland | 16 |
| 23-26 | SLACKER
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Details:Length: 22'Screenwriter: Nikita Popov Director: Nikita Popov Producer: Mikhail Abramyan Animator: Fedor Makarov DOP: Petr Vorontsov Sound: Varvara Frolova Editor: Nikita Popov Production Designer: Sofia Tutunnik Synopsis: Petya is a carefree young man from Moscow. Within one day he goes through a test of friendship, love experience and, finally, realizes the need for change. |
Russian State University of Сinematography n.a. S.Gerasimov VGIK | Russia | 16 |
| 23-26 | STAGNANT WATER
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Details:Length: 19'Screenwriter: Coraline Zorea Director: Coraline Zorea Producer: Tamar Birger Animator: n/a DOP: Tal Ninyo Sound: n/a Editor: Coraline Zorea Production Designer: n/a Synopsis: Dvora is a 17-year-old girl who refuses to leave her job in the kibbutz fish farm, even though she promised to return to school. Her last day at work intensifies her fear of life outside of water. |
Sam Spiegel Film and Television School Jerusalem (JSFS) | Israel | 16 |
| 27 | BALLAST
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Details:Length: 16'Screenwriter: Jesse Gilbert Director: Jesse Gilbert Producer: Kalyani Pathak, Jesse Gilbert Animator: n/a DOP: Yash Suda Sound: Chris Lipscombe Editor: Sarah Stock Production Designer: Jesse Gilbert Synopsis: Ballast tells the story of Michael, a man living in the rural west of Ireland. In his self-imposed isolation, he spends his days building something in his workshop with only his dog for companionship. When his life is again shattered Michael must finish building the means to escape the pains of his existence. |
Northern Film School / Leeds Beckett University (NFS/LBU) | United Kingdom | 14 |
| 28-30 | EVERYTHING IN ITS RIGHT PLACE
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Details:Length: 22'Screenwriter: Nađa Petrović Director: Nikola Stojanović Producer: Nikola Stojanović, Nađa Petrović, Mladen Teofilović, Tijana Savić Animator: n/a DOP: Mladen Teofilović Sound: Jana Baljak Editor: Nikola Stojanović Production Designer: Timna Tomiša, Nikola Stojanović Synopsis: Jovana, a single, working-class mother, wants to spend her birthday with her daughter Sara, but her plans are ruined when Sara invites her father to come. |
Faculty of Dramatic Arts (FDU) | Serbia | 13 |
| 28-30 | NESTING
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Details:Length: 20'Screenwriter: Petra Koivula Director: Siiri Halko Producer: Aino Niemi Animator: n/a DOP: Ari Virem Sound: Ossi Oikari Editor: Saara Välimäki Production Designer: Aki Tarkka Synopsis: Nesting is a story about Veikka (20), who is about to leave his work place, a construction site owned by Kari (50), to start a new life in the big city. Veikka thinks the goodbyes will go smoothly, but a rare situation appears: there’s a baby in the crane. The surprising problem is an annoyance at first, but in the end it allows communication between the employees in a way that has been difficult in the past. |
Aalto University School of Arts, Design and Architecture / ELO Film School Helsinki | Finland | 13 |
| 28-30 | THE CUCKOOS
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Details:Length: 27'Screenwriter: Marhaba Israyil Director: Marhaba Israyil Producer: Chen Liang, Fang Gangli Animator: n/a DOP: Chen Ke Sound: Li Zhikun, Liu Yifan Editor: Emetjan Memet Production Designer: Shen Yi Synopsis: Zeynep went to the countryside to see the cuckoo mentioned in the legend related to her name. Here, she met a boy named Ekper, and chose to believe in him regardless of everyone's rumors. However, the loss of an earring broke the relationship between the two. Before leaving, Zeynep went to look for Bayer in the woods. |
Beijing Film Academy (BFA) | China | 13 |
| 31-33 | HOW TO LOVE YOU
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Details:Length: 15'Screenwriter: Bridgette Ong Director: Bridgette Ong Producer: Lee Yu Han, T. Pravin Animator: n/a DOP: Javen Leong Sound: Jethro Caniedo Editor: Jethro Caniedo Production Designer: Sarah Ann Sim Synopsis: How To Love You is about the struggle of a mother from an Asian household when she discovers the sexuality of her daughter. |
Ngee Ann Polytechnic / School of Film & Media Studies | Singapore | 12 |
| 31-33 | ONCE UPON A TIME
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Details:Length: 9'Screenwriter: Wong Man Kit Alex Director: Ho Nok Lam Rosany Producer: Leung Hoi Yee Jill Animator: n/a DOP: Chung Yiu Hei Ray Sound: Seto Ka Long CLong,Chan Ching Hei Samson Editor: Lau Yik Tung Teresa Production Designer: n/a Synopsis: Once upon a time, there is a man named Cheung. More or less, Cheung lived a mundane, uneventful life. But one day, out of nowhere, the voice of a narrator emerged from Cheung's ear, describing everything that Cheung do or say, as if a story was being told. Cheung couldn't help but wonder, is it just the day-to-day feeling of mundaneness getting to his head. |
Hong Kong Academy for Performing Arts / School of Film and Television (HKAPA) | Hong Kong | 12 |
| 31-33 | RUSHES
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Details:Length: 6'Screenwriter: Andreas Kouba Director: Clara Zoë My-Linh von Arnim Producer: Clara Zoë My-Linh von Arnim Animator: n/a DOP: Raban Jakob Friedrich Sound: n/a Editor: Simon Adegbenro Production Designer: n/a Synopsis: Early morning in the Bavarian woods. Christoph sits next to his mother on a high seat. While she is aiming at a deer, Christoph tries to make up his mind. He's had the plan to come out to her, but this really doesn't seem like the best time. |
German Film and Television Academy Berlin (DFFB) | Germany | 12 |
| 34-36 | A THRUSH FLAPPING ITS WINGS AGAINST THE WIND
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Details:Length: 16'Screenwriter: Alexandre Haldemann Director: Alexandre Haldemann Producer: Nicolas Wadimoff (HEAD – Genève) Animator: n/a DOP: Alexandre Haldemann Sound: Marie Gasser Editor: Alexandre Haldemann Production Designer: Alexandre Haldemann Synopsis: LUIS, a young worker in a farm is helping VASCO to chop an enormous quantity of wood before winter, meanwhile his wife in Portugal is about to give birth. |
Film Department/cinéma du réel - Geneva School of Art and Design (HEAD) | Switzerland | 11 |
| 34-36 | CHINESE WALL
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Details:Length: 17'Screenwriter: Santiago Barzi Director: Santiago Barzi Producer: Universidad del Cine Animator: n/a DOP: Julián Bustelo Drovandi Sound: Facundo Iair Sasson Editor: Delfina Mosconi Production Designer: Constanza Schmidt Synopsis: Fernando receives some baffling news which upset him profusely, but when he shares them with his loved ones, their reactions are not as he expected. An odd debate ensues, affecting everyone involved. |
Universidad del Cine (UCINE) | Argentina | 11 |
| 34-36 | CHORDS
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Details:Length: 21'Screenwriter: José Antonio De la Torre Vega Director: José Antonio De la Torre Vega Producer: Víctor Ángel Valladolid Contreras Animator: n/a DOP: Amaury Velasco Sound: Jonathan Sánchez Editor: Leticia Paola Gómez Morales Production Designer: Sidney Rodríguez Synopsis: A retired professor encounters a long lost love. |
University of Guadalajara / Image and Sound Department | Mexico | 11 |
| 37-40 | AJOTIN
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Details:Length: 21'Screenwriter: Muhammed Seyyid Yıldız Director: Muhammed Seyyid Yıldız Producer: Matias Mario Contini Animator: n/a DOP: Hou Yue Sound: Umut Can Döven Editor: Mehmet Ali Kanat Production Designer: Chen Feng Synopsis: An illegal Kurdish refugee is a night watchman in a carpark. When the car of his dreams appears it brings him back to life and, on impulse, he takes it for a ride. Where will this journey take him? |
London College of Communication | United Kingdom | 10 |
| 37-40 | PAPA
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Details:Length: 25'Screenwriter: Tatev Mkrtchyan Director: Tatev Mkrtchyan Producer: Tsovinar Mkrtchyan Animator: n/a DOP: n/a Sound: n/a Editor: n/a Production Designer: n/a Synopsis: Beekeeper Varuzh has been saving money for a whole year to pay his daughter’s tuition fee for her studies abroad. The day he was to send her the money, he found out he was robbed? |
St. Petersburg State University of Film and Television (SPUFT) | Russia | 10 |
| 37-40 | SEURUM
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Details:Length: 16'Screenwriter: Marcell Farkas, Eszter Kajlik Director: Marcell Farkas Producer: UNIVERSITY OF THEATRE AND FILM ARTS, HUNGARY Animator: n/a DOP: Marcell Csillag Sound: Janka Kovacs Editor: Zsuzsanna Papp Production Designer: Gabriella Csoma, Bori Zatykó Synopsis: Peter, a sugar addict, gets into a fight with Zoli. his brother one night. Afterwards his brother refuses to inject Peter's insulin for him. Then, Peter meets a stranger throwing rocks through the windows in the suburb and he decides to join her until dawn. |
Színház- és Filmművészeti Egyetem | Hungary | 10 |
| 37-40 | TO BELONG TO
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Details:Length: 29'Screenwriter: Tran Thi Ha Trang Director: Tran Thi Ha Trang Producer: Tran Thi Ha Trang Animator: n/a DOP: Duong Minh Thai Sound: n/a Editor: Tran Thi Ha Trang Production Designer: Do Thang, Pham Phuong Hue Synopsis: About a man died in the flood season. A family wonder how to bury him; whether obey the family's rule or the village's custom. |
Hanoi Academy of Theatre and Cinema | Vietnam | 10 |
| 41-44 | BREATHE
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Details:Length: 26'Screenwriter: Paul Vincent de Lestrade Director: Paul Vincent de Lestrade Producer: Laurent Gross Animator: n/a DOP: Julien De Keukeleire Sound: Victor Crestani Editor: Clara Tassier Production Designer: n/a Synopsis: An opportunity arises for Nina, a 19 years-old athlete, when her teammate suddenly quits and she is offered the opportunity to try out for the national athletics team in the hope of competing in the European Athletics Junior Championship. Her inclination to take on a challenge and her obsessive search for perfection will end up pushing her to accept a task that will push her way beyond her limits. |
INSAS | Belgium | 9 |
| 41-44 | COUSINS WAIT
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Details:Length: 20'Screenwriter: Marina Nerea Malchiodi, Vicente Moreno Acuña Director: Marina Nerea Malchiodi Producer: Andrés Prego Animator: n/a DOP: Candela Martín Sound: Victoria Zhong Editor: Santiago Ledesma Production Designer: Vicente Moreno Acuña Synopsis: Paula, Santiago, Lucía and Nicolás decide to stay at their recently deceased grandmother's house while the rest of the adults are at her funeral. Old games, new questions and the absence that still beats between the walls lead the cousins to new ways to deal with their loss. |
Universidad de Buenos Aires / Diseño de Imagen y Sonido FADU (UBA) | Argentina | 9 |
| 41-44 | LOVE CLUB
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Details:Length: 18'Screenwriter: Anna McGuchin Director: Snns McGuchin Producer: Freya Brunning Animator: n/a DOP: Lachlan Marshall Sound: Zali Capel Editor: Joshua Fearn Production Designer: : Miljana Miljevic Synopsis: Exploring life after sexual assault, Love Club, follows 22 year old, Luce Jones on a peculiar and heartfelt journey of acceptance. With a pattern of destroying the hearts of her partners, in particular, the intelligent and sweet Tim, the film finds Luce in “Love Club”. |
Griffith Film School (GFS) | Australia | 9 |
| 41-44 | PIN UP
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Details:Length: 27'Screenwriter: TSAI Chi Min Director: TSAI Chi Min Producer: Wang Ling Chun Animator: n/a DOP: LEE Ling Sound: LIN Yo Ting Editor: HSU Chun Cheng, TSAI Chi Min Production Designer: WEN Zhi-Ching Synopsis: The day, the trouble-maker Ya-Ting who is lodging in their house will be taken home by her dad,so Pei-Hsuan will have a perfect birthday. |
National Taiwan University of Arts (NTUA) | Taiwan | 9 |
| 45-50 | BREAKTIME
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Details:Length: 17'Screenwriter: Martin Bytriansky Director: Martin Bytriansky Producer: Tomas Bata University in Zlín, Alexandra Straková Animator: VFX supervisor: Vojtěch Kaleta DOP: Jakub Gallo Sound: Lukáš Klinec Editor: Lukáš Vích Production Designer: Martin Bytriansky Synopsis: Lory, a qirl interested in modern games, gets the opportunity to meet again her dead father in Virtual Reality, where an unpleasant surprise awaits her. |
Tomas Bata University in Zlín / Faculty of Multimedia Communications (TBU) | Czech Republic | 8 |
| 45-50 | ÉCHAPPÉ
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Details:Length: 17'Screenwriter: Rebecca Walters, Brandon Rieff Director: Rebecca Walters Producer: Brandon Rieff, Julia Lofton Walpole Animator: n/a DOP: Rachel Schattle Sound: Joe Linford Editor: Joe Linford Production Designer: Shelby Grzech Synopsis: When faced with the opportunity for a solo performance, an aging dancer must question whether her moral compass and personal integrity are important enough to stand up to a choreographer's unwanted sexual advances. |
University of North Carolina School of the Arts (UNCSA) | United States | 8 |
| 45-50 | EQUAL
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Details:Length: 11'Screenwriter: Je-in Lee Director: Je-in Lee Producer: Insu Park Animator: n/a DOP: Soo-yeon Kim Sound: Seong-wook Jang Editor: Hye-seung Lee Production Designer: Sung-soo Kim Synopsis: As the teacher's bell rings, students move in unison and take a syringe which symbolizes the education system. When the bell rings again, students are injected with a syringe through their arm. Saena behaves the same as others, but she gradually becomes skeptical about the system. Saena panics at her being unable to do anything unless directed. The teacher notices this abnormal behavior and approaches Saena... |
KUMA | South Korea | 8 |
| 45-50 | SPARE PARTS
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Details:Length: 25'Screenwriter: Niva Ehrlich, Sandra Schroder Director: Niva Ehrlich Producer: Zakaria Rahmani Animator: n/a DOP: Leander Buge Sound: Max Rodegra Editor: Maria Hartig Production Designer: Jan Zinn, Franziska Hoh Synopsis: Seven-year-old Lina (Julia Kovacs) urgently needs a new heart. But she definetly does not want one from a dead child! In a junkyard, she looks for parts to build herself a heart. On this trip, she meets nine-year-old Kalle (Gavrilo Arnautovic). A film about true friends, trust and the liberating feeling of letting go. |
ifs internationale filmschule köln | Germany | 8 |
| 45-50 | TERREPIANE
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Details:Length: 21'Screenwriter: Thomas Tattarletti Director: Thomas Tattarletti Producer: Domenico Lucchini Animator: n/a DOP: Alice Priante Sound: Alice Pischetola Editor: Aura Caruso Production Designer: Petra Barchi Synopsis: The strange day of an unemployed man who just wanted to iron cloths. Instead: harassing phone calls, a mysterious woman obsessively asking for ten minutes of his time, a semi-erotic phone call that the man seems to refuse, an estranged marriage, a disappeared cat and a weird but charming high school girl who may not even exist. |
Academy of Audiovisual Sciences (CISA) | Switzerland | 8 |
| 45-50 | THE DEER HUNTING
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Details:Length: 22'Screenwriter: Andrei Olănescu Director: Andrei Olănescu Producer: Roxana Văduva Animator: n/a DOP: Cătălin Rugină Sound: Alexandru Milies Editor: Alexandru Văduva Production Designer: Miruna Croitoru Synopsis: A young man meets his father for the first time in 22 years during a hunting trip. While waiting for the prey, they get to know each other. Everything seems normal, until the son starts to ask some taboo questions about his father's violent past, trying to find the real reason of his parent's divorce. |
National University of Theatre and Film (UNATC) | Romania | 8 |
| 51-54 | AT NIGHT WE FLY
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Details:Length: 17'Screenwriter: Gert-Jan Verdeyen, Arne De Loore Director: Gert-Jan Verdeyen Producer: Gert-Jan Verdeyen, LUCA SCHOOL OF ARTS Animator: n/a DOP: Charlie Speeckaert Sound: Laurent Martin, Thomas Guillaume Editor: Lawrence Paul Foley, Sarah-Lou Coeurnelle Production Designer: n/a Synopsis: Three non-binary friends experience a night together in which they lose themselves in an artificial bubble of their own making. |
LUCA School of Arts (LUCA) | Belgium | 7 |
| 51-54 | I WAS MAX
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Details:Length: 21'Screenwriter: Lukas Kacinauskas Director: Lukas Kacinauskas Producer: Laura Vrubliauskaitė Animator: n/a DOP: Meida Lileikytė Sound: Mindaugas Juška Editor: Lukas Kacinauskas Production Designer: Deimantė Krutulytė Synopsis: Max goes on a date with another guy, Tadas, whom he met online. Max feels uncomfortable and timid so Tadas decides to act on his own initiative. Max feels torn between his feelings and Tadas’ pressure. Eventually he breaks down and reveals his true identity. |
Lithuanian Academy of Music and Theatre (LMTA) | Lithuania | 7 |
| 51-54 | WATER
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Details:Length: 15'Screenwriter: Santiago Zermeño Director: Santiago Zermeño Producer: Production Director: Paulina Villavicencio Animator: n/a DOP: Ángel Jara Taboada Sound: Óscar Victoria Editor: David Torres, Santiago Zermeño Production Designer: Lau Charles Synopsis: Camilo fears revealing his sexual preference, when he feels contronted to do so he must decide between violence and isolation. |
Centro de Capacitación Cinematográfica, A.C. (CCC) | Mexico | 7 |
| 51-54 | WHO BURIES AN AFGHAN
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Details:Length: 22'Screenwriter: Javid Sina Director: Javid Sina Producer: Javid Sina Animator: n/a DOP: Fredrik Fridlund Sound: Anders billing vive Editor: Javid Sina Production Designer: Javid Sina Synopsis: Two refugee siblings are separated in different parts of the world. This forces them, due to the pandemic, to share their grief of their mother's death through an online call. In their grief, long kept secrets unfold and threatens their relation. |
HDK-Valand | Sweden | 7 |
| 55-59 | 3C48
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Details:Length: 24'Screenwriter: Vamsi Telugu Director: Vamsi Telugu Producer: Bhupendra Kainthola Animator: n/a DOP: Kumaraa Swaamy P Sound: Aditya Singh Editor: Raviraj Murmu Production Designer: Srinivas Kalinga Synopsis: An ordinary day in a remote corner of the World. Bob(72), an estranged radio astronomer on his daily routine looking for signs of life in outer space, receives a call about ill-health of his wife. Aadya(26), photojournalist on her assignment, visits Shabana(65), who works in the crop field, stays alone with her granddaughter due to growing intolerance in the locale. As the day passes they find extreme personal forgotten inner journeys of love, relationships, anxieties triggered by coincidental encounters and their longing intensifies. |
Film and Television Institute of India (FTII) | India | 6 |
| 55-59 | AGAINST THE CURRENT
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Details:Length: 16'Screenwriter: Ariane Vallin Director: Ariane Vallin Producer: ENS Louis-Lumiere Animator: n/a DOP: Ariane Vallin Sound: Louise Lagabbe Editor: n/a Production Designer: Clemence Touzet Synopsis: By the years they spent together, Charlie and Rachel built a common life and way of thinking. One morning, while many people have to leave their home because of a natural disaster, Charlie and Rachel are pulled apart with no way to contact each other. They start to grow apart. |
ENS Louis-Lumière | France | 6 |
| 55-59 | ANNUAL DAY
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Details:Length: 30'Screenwriter: Pratik Thakare Director: Pratik Thakare Producer: Ruchika Gupta, Kunal Shashikant Ahirrao Animator: n/a DOP: Saravanamaruthu Soundarapandi Sound: Mohit Shankar Editor: Shweta Kamat Production Designer: n/a Synopsis: The annual day function in a school evokes latent aspirations in three feisty teenagers who want to seize the day like there's no tomorrow. |
Satyajit Ray Film and Television Institute (SRFTI) | India | 6 |
| 55-59 | MY BROTHER
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Details:Length: 22'Screenwriter: Daniel Yang, Shreela Agarwal Director: Shreela Agarwal Producer: Wong Jade Xin Animator: n/a DOP: Charis Yeo Sound: Chan Soo Chee Editor: Tejaswi Annadevara Production Designer: Trudy Gold Lukamto Synopsis: Ram, undocumented Indian-Muslim immigrant is working in the cemetery alongside a young, illegal Indonesian immigrant trying to make ends meet in Singapore. |
Puttnam School of Film & Animation / LASALLE College of the Arts (LCA) | Singapore | 6 |
| 55-59 | QUIET ON SET
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Details:Length: 25'Screenwriter: Natasha Luttjeboer Director: Jessica Teixeira Producer: Ore Ajewole Animator: n/a DOP: Samantha Sabatelli Sound: Natasha Luttjeboer Editor: Unathi Mkhize Production Designer: Siobhan Venter Synopsis: When Ria, a young, female sound designer, still finding her footing in the industry overhears the director harassing the lead actress, she must choose between her career and her morals. |
South African School of Motion Picture Medium and Live Performance (AFDA) | South Africa | 6 |
| 60-63 | JÖKULL
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Details:Length: 24'Screenwriter: Axel Frans Gústavsson, Ingvar Örn Arngeirsson Director: Axel Frans Gústavsson Producer: Maria Araceli de Quintana Animator: n/a DOP: Öttar Andri Öttarsson Sound: Gunnar Blondal Editor: Axel Frans Gústavsson, Ingvar Örn Arngeirsson Production Designer: Axel Frans Gústavsson Synopsis: After attempting to take his own life, Jokull is committed to rehabilitation center. There he meets a young woman who brings joy back to his life. |
Icelandic Film School (IFS) | Iceland | 5 |
| 60-63 | MORPHO
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Details:Length: 13'Screenwriter: Asya Shchuplova Director: Asya Shchuplova Producer: Sofia Baitman Animator: n/a DOP: Alexandra Amelina Sound: Yulia Vasilyeva Editor: Asya Shchuplova Production Designer: Appolinaria Bulgakova Synopsis: A young scientist who grew up far beyond the solar system arrives on the once-ruined planet Earth, in search of life. This expedition reveals to the scientist shocking historical details that will change his life. |
GITR FILM & TELEVISION SCHOOL | Russia | 5 |
| 60-63 | ROCKET SHIP
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Details:Length: 18'Screenwriter: Mathias Choo Director: Mathias Choo Producer: Peh Jia Qi Animator: n/a DOP: Vanessa Tan Sound: Arinah Sham Editor: Wong King Lam Production Designer: Tong Xu Han Synopsis: In the days leading to the annual mid-autumn-festival celebrations, 10-year-old Samuel is on a mission to salvage his parent’s marriage by recreating a fond memory that they share as a family. As the date of filing draws closer, Samuel is pressured and challenged to carry out his ambitious scheme, and in the process, gains an important life lesson that would forever alter his outlook on life. |
Nanyang Technological University | Singapore | 5 |
| 60-63 | THE VELVETEEN RABBIT
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Details:Length: 8'Screenwriter: Batuhan Buldu Director: Rüya Neşe Producer: Batuhan Buldu Animator: Alara Nil Seler DOP: Alara Nil Seler Sound: Batuhan Buldu Editor: Batuhan Buldu Production Designer: Rüya Neşe Synopsis: A boy is given a toy rabbit for Christmas. The toy wants to become real. It learns that love can slowly make it real, but at a cost. As the toy bonds with the boy it deteriorates, until one day it is thrown out. |
Bilkent University | Turkey | 5 |
| 64-73 | ANA
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Details:Length: 14'Screenwriter: María Mondragón Director: María Mondragón Producer: Paulina Aguado, María Mondragón Animator: n/a DOP: Jacobo Salame Sound: Jordy Ulloa Editor: Daniela Arreola Production Designer: Michelle Saimar, Alejandra Malvido Synopsis: Three twelve-year-old girls protagonize a coming of age that takes place in a summer camp. After a kiss, that seems like a playful act, Ana begins to discover an undeniable feeling of attraction for Carlota, her best friend. Julia, motivated by teenage envy, annoys and pressures Ana to confess her feelings for Carlota. |
Universidad Iberoamericana Mexico City (IBERO) | Mexico | 4 |
| 64-73 | CLEBARDS
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Details:Length: 23'Screenwriter: Chloé Duponchelle Director: Chloé Duponchelle Producer: IAD - Mediadiffusion Animator: n/a DOP: Antoine Labadie Sound: Olivier Jamez Editor: Rémy Monti Production Designer: n/a Synopsis: Annie, lost in the countryside, is looking for her cat. She meets two local boys who decide to help her. Together, they are like stray dogs. |
Institut des Arts de Diffusion (IAD) | Belgium | 4 |
| 64-73 | GOWRIPURAM
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Details:Length: 20'Screenwriter: PV Avinash Varma Director: PV Avinash Varma Producer: Annapurna College of Film and Media Animator: n/a DOP: EJ Josh Sound: Varun Arsid Editor: Chiranth K Production Designer: Shiva Kumar Macha Synopsis: Told from the perspective of Nani, a young boy, we witness the story of the boy's father the village head, who is torn between love for his daughter and a superstitious group of villagers who going by the advice of a self-proclaimed godman, want to extract her blood and pour it over a tulsi plant over an extended period of time. As the girl's health deteriorates, Nani comes up with a clever plan to satisfy the villagers' superstitious demands as well as save his own sister. |
Annapurna College of Film and Media | India | 4 |
| 64-73 | HUMONGOUS
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Details:Length: 12'Screenwriter: Ayako Suzuki Director: Ayako Suzuki Producer: Kota Yamazaki Animator: n/a DOP: Muqeddes Muxter Sound: Ma Minghong Editor: Dong Jing Production Designer: Zhao Ruiyao Synopsis: Eiko has repeated flashbacks from childhood. In that place where she is enveloped by a huge noise, a boy starts running and Eiko falls off a swing. Are they memories or dreams, or are they the present day, or do they belong to someone else. The sound expands. That's really something huge. |
Tokyo University of the Arts, Graduate School of Film and New Media | Japan | 4 |
| 64-73 | OSCAR
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Details:Length: 19'Screenwriter: Lupo Cerutti, Pietro Demartini Director: Riccardo Copreni Producer: Civica Scuola di Cinema, Luchino Visconti (MCSC) Animator: n/a DOP: Alessandro Tempestini Sound: Carolina Stichter, Andrea Serventi, Alessandro Lattante Editor: Davide Ferrari, Leonardo Landeo Production Designer: n/a Synopsis: A middle age mother, after many incertainties, introduces her new partner to her son, Oscar, who's just completed a trans-species path. |
Milan City Film School Luchino Visconti (MCSC) | Italy | 4 |
| 64-73 | PRELUDE
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Details:Length: 18'Screenwriter: Lucas Mazzoni Director: Lucas Mazzoni Producer: Maximiliano Minetti Animator: n/a DOP: Camila Costa Sound: Diego Bertolini Editor: Diego Bertolini Production Designer: Sebastián Gil Synopsis: A son and a father in a secluded storm. |
Film School of Uruguay (ECU) | Uruguay | 4 |
| 64-73 | SEEDS
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Details:Length: 16'Screenwriter: Simon McWilliam Director: Simon McWilliam Producer: Edward Foo Animator: n/a DOP: Francis Healy Wood Sound: Jennifer Aldred Editor: Bridget Webster Production Designer: Lin Kerr Synopsis: Nelson receives a mixed response from those around him when he tells them that he wants to plant his feet and grow into nature. As Nelson and his body struggle to resist this calling, both his friend and father struggle to come to terms with what they think is 'unnatural'. |
Swinburne School of Film and Television (SSFT) | Australia | 4 |
| 64-73 | SOMETHING BLUE
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Details:Length: 14'Screenwriter: Yisrael Rhon Rigler Director: Yisrael Rhon Rigler Producer: Yotam Deshe Animator: n/a DOP: Shaya Chesner Sound: Mitch kleinman Editor: Yovel Avital, Yisrael Rigler, Kama Shwartz Production Designer: Rachel Levi Synopsis: Shoshanna and Chaya Tova are best friends. They're preparing for Chaya Tovas wedding that will be in a few hours. Shoshanna doesn't know how to share her feelings with her friend and things get complicated just when everything has to go smoothly. |
Ma'aleh School of Film, Television and the Arts (MAALE) | Israel | 4 |
| 64-73 | THE TOMBSTONE
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Details:Length: 23'Screenwriter: LIU Lie Director: LIU Lie Producer: LIU Lie, Siri SUN, Fire Animator: n/a DOP: Wen Sound: Kristen Chen Editor: LIU Lie Production Designer: Harden He Synopsis: Recently, Li Houcai constantly dreamt about his dead father, so he decided to burn some paper money for him. Days after days of searching, he still could not find his father's tomb. Soon he found out the death of his father was not like what his mother had told him. |
Academy of Film / Hong Kong Baptist University (HKBU) | Hong Kong | 4 |
| 64-73 | WINTER
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Details:Length: 24'Screenwriter: Tomás Ferreira Director: Alexandra Barbosa Producer: Inês Pinto Animator: Alexandra Barbosa DOP: Diogo Almeida Sound: Carolina LeCoq Editor: Ana Carolina Silva Production Designer: Catarina Campos Sousa Synopsis: José is leaving. To say goodbye, he calls Inês to the old aviary where he has taken shelter. In the farewell process he thinks about the responsibility he has towards his father and about the difficulty of confronting him. The conversation is triggered by a childhood memory. Finally, he starts the journey. In the first steps, he weakens and decides to go and talk to his father. |
Lisbon Theatre and Film School (ESTC) | Portugal | 4 |
| 74-82 | AUTUMN
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Details:Length: 17'Screenwriter: Matthew Guarnaccia Director: Matthew Guarnaccia Producer: Matthew Guarnaccia Animator: n/a DOP: Victoria Dunn Sound: Greighton Yanchar Editor: Matthew Guarnaccia Production Designer: Emma Belair Synopsis: After disappointing his strict father, a 12-year-old boy tries to reclaim his role as the farmers son on his family`s homestead. |
School of Film and Animation, College of Art and Design, Rochester Institute of Technology | United States | 3 |
| 74-82 | DISCONTENT
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Details:Length: 18'Screenwriter: Janae Ambrose, Nicholas Andros Director: Lua Borges Producer: Mia Elliott Animator: n/a DOP: Pouya Shahbazi Sound: Michael Pukoszek Editor: Martin Ibarra Production Designer: Caleigh Chapman Synopsis: A seventeen-year-old girl who provides company to an older man in exchange for the money, seeks to escape her rural hometown. Discontent is a moment in the idle life of a young woman who is finding her way. |
Columbia College Chicago (CCC) | United States | 3 |
| 74-82 | LAST PERFORMANCE
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Details:Length: 23'Screenwriter: İrem Çoban Director: İrem Çoban Producer: Erdi Çoban Animator: n/a DOP: Tunca Köterin Sound: Tunca Köterin Editor: Enes Erimşah Production Designer: İrem Çoban Synopsis: Eda is a performance, video artist and a defender of woman rights. While looking for a seamstress to embroider the symbols on the dress for her exhibition opening, she meets Aysel. As they begin to spend time together, their prejudices against each other begin to break. |
Maltepe University | Turkey | 3 |
| 74-82 | MANIFESTATION
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Details:Length: 7'Screenwriter: Sofia Capista Director: Sofia Capista, Paula Ner Dormiendo Producer: Jessica Whittingham Animator: Miguel Fernandes DOP: Emily Ryder Sound: Bernice Chu Editor: Samantha van der Bent Production Designer: Brittany Markell Synopsis: When emotional pain manifests into a physical form, a seemingly powerless young girl struggles to release the ever-increasing weight of her traumas. |
Sheridan College | Canada | 3 |
| 74-82 | REQUIEM
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Details:Length: 13'Screenwriter: Anouk Kemp Director: Pauline Bernard, Augustin Hanicotte Producer: ESEC Animator: n/a DOP: Joseph Bunnel Sound: Théo Tiersen Editor: Clara Huet Production Designer: n/a Synopsis: He loves music, she hates him. Maybe... |
Ecole Supérieure d'études Cinématographiques (ESEC) | France | 3 |
| 74-82 | SARIKIZ
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Details:Length: 16'Screenwriter: Batuhan Çelik Director: Batuhan Çelik Producer: Batuhan Çelik Animator: n/a DOP: Batuhan Çelik Sound: Güven Özkaya Editor: Batuhan Çelik Production Designer: Batuhan Çelik Synopsis: A man who is working for livestock industry wants his daugter to marry. Upon this, the girl will listen in despair to what her father talks with the family who came to meet with them. |
Istanbul Kultur University (IKU) | Turkey | 3 |
| 74-82 | THE GREY ZONE
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Details:Length: 14'Screenwriter: Zhao Tonghuan Director: Zhao Tonghuan Producer: Chen Kunyang Animator: n/a DOP: Yang Changming Sound: Li Gen Editor: Song Hao Production Designer: Lian Xiaxia Synopsis: A young man went to Beijing expectantly, but was seduced and cheated by a strange man and a small town with the same appearance of prosperity outside Beijing. A violent incident was thus created by the young man. |
Communication University of China (CUC) | China | 3 |
| 74-82 | WASH ME TENDER
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Details:Length: 8'Screenwriter: Théo Berchet Director: Théo Berchet Producer: SVA & Théo Berchet Animator: Jean-Gabriel Loquet DOP: Philipp Cherichenko Sound: Isabel Moratinos Editor: Théo Berchet Production Designer: Bella Miller Synopsis: A little girl meets her older brother at the laundromat While the machine is spinning, they learn to love each other again and to live together with innocence. |
ENSAV | France | 3 |
| 74-82 | YOU CAN’T RUN AWAY FROM THE KISSES
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Details:Length: 13'Screenwriter: Lili Mária László Director: Lili Mária László Producer: József Fülöp Animator: n/a DOP: Bence Szemerey Sound: Benjámin Rigó Editor: Barna Szőke Production Designer: Fernec Kratochwill Synopsis: Hajni's period is late. She is afraid of being pregnant, therefore she visits the boy who might be the father of her child. They spend the night together at the boy’s house, trying to get closer to each other – in different ways. Hajni has to decide whether to tell her secret or try to solve the problem on her own. |
Moholy-Nagy University of Art and Design (MOME) | Hungary | 3 |
| 83-85 | FIREWORKS
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Details:Length: 22'Screenwriter: Jin NOH Director: Jin NOH Producer: Jaewon WOO Animator: n/a DOP: Leny YANG Sound: Chaewon HYEON Editor: Jin NOH Production Designer: Yejin OH Synopsis: Since her mother's funeral, Yeoreum has undergone a strong conflict with her father... |
Dong-Ah Institute of Media and Arts (DIMA) | South Korea | 2 |
| 83-85 | ICED
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Details:Length: 21'Screenwriter: Fatima Fakih Director: Fatima Fakih Producer: Fatima Fakih Animator: n/a DOP: Elio Chalhoub Sound: Jihad Zougheib Editor: Ali Hammouch Production Designer: n/a Synopsis: Leila, a 27 years old woman, overcomes her social anxiety and isolation with the help of her only friend and her mother. |
Institut d'études scéniques, audiovisuelles et cinématographiques (IESAV) | Lebanon | 2 |
| 83-85 | WHAT ABOUT US?
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Details:Length: 13'Screenwriter: José Carlos Director: José Carlos Producer: Gabriel Jiménez Animator: n/a DOP: Sebastián Garro Sound: Fernando Esquivel Editor: José Carlos Production Designer: Ariadna Araya Synopsis: Daniel and Maria are a young couple, distanced by the virus, who are in crisis due to the uncertainty surrounding the future of their wedding. |
School of Image - Veritas University | Costa Rica | 2 |
| 86-89 | APHERESIS
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Details:Length: 10'Screenwriter: Sebastian Jaimes Director: Sebastian Jaimes Producer: Sebastian Jaimes, Julian Sandoval Animator: n/a DOP: Christian Ríos, Sebastian Jaimes Sound: Santiago Forero-Alarcón Editor: Sebastian Jaimes Production Designer: Juliana Ramírez Synopsis: Plastic exploration of the process of forgetting that a person lives. |
Escuela de Cine y Televisión / UNAL (ECYTV) | Colombia | 1 |
| 86-89 | LIA
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Details:Length: 16'Screenwriter: Janine Beyersdorfer Director: Janine Beyersdorfer Producer: José Añazco Animator: n/a DOP: Marlon Lopez Sound: Damian Terán Editor: Janine Beyersdorfer Production Designer: Joycc Ortiz Synopsis: 15-year-old Lia lives with her single mother in the center of Quito. Lia spends many afternoons alone at home and is friends with her neighbor Ronaldo, 35, a sociologist. She enjoys Ronaldo's company because he gives her some of the attention she misses at home. But the day comes when Lia must grow up and face the reality that Ronaldo cannot supply the fatherly love she is lacking. |
Advanced Institute of Film and Acting (INCINE) | Ecuador | 1 |
| 86-89 | ONIPAʻA
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Details:Length: 12'Screenwriter: Dyllon Ching Director: Dyllon Ching Producer: Keana Nisbet Animator: n/a DOP: Nainoa Andrade Sound: Douglas Haban Editor: Ciana Bird Production Designer: Joshua Co Synopsis: Liʻi is a kalo farmer who is the last perpetuator of this art in a soon to be shut down loʻi. As Liʻi looks for a successor, his son has no interest in following in his dad’s footsteps. Leading Liʻi to overcome his prejudiced ways towards a young Caucasian James. |
University of Hawai‘i Mānoa, Academy for Creative Media | United States | 1 |
| 86-89 | POTLAKO
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Details:Length: 23'Screenwriter: Boitumelo Molalugi, Pretty Mangena, Keamogetswe Mere Director: Pretty Mangena Producer: Boitumelo Molalugi Animator: n/a DOP: Tshegofatso Dibakoane Sound: Boitumelo Molalugi Editor: Tshegofatso Dibakoane, Boitumelo Molalugi Production Designer: Keamogetswe Mere Synopsis: Potlako comes out of slavery after many years of servitude, to follow a journey into memory of regret for unfulfilled life, lost love and failure to heed to his parent’s warnings. |
Wits School of Arts / Division of Film & Television (WSOA) | South Africa | 1 |
| 90-106 | BEFORE YOU DIE
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Details:Length: 17'Screenwriter: Alves Reçi Director: Alves Reçi Producer: Eol Çashku Animator: n/a DOP: Malis Selmani Sound: n/a Editor: Malis Selmani Production Designer: n/a Synopsis: A Rubik's cube appears out of nowhere in Jacks life making him and his friend solve a mystery behind all the suicides in the city and this new cult. |
Academy of Film and Multimedia Marubi (AFMM) | Albania | 0 |
| 90-106 | BIG TONY_S BALLET
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Details:Length: 30'Screenwriter: Dan Rutkowski Director: Dan Rutkowski Producer: Junrui Hong Animator: n/a DOP: Max Gleiser Sound: n/a Editor: Dan Rutkowski Production Designer: Ben Wang Synopsis: Set in the 1950s, a recently divorced ex-mobster begins noticing his 7 year-old sons inclination towards ballet. In a community where such things are ridiculed and shunned, Big Tony is forced down an existentialistic spiral towards truth, justice, love, and understanding. |
Loyola Marymount University / School of Film and Television (LMU) | United States | 0 |
| 90-106 | COME AS YOU ARE
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Details:Length: 8'Screenwriter: Saskia Vanhalakka Director: Saskia Vanhalakka Producer: Saskia Vanhalakka, Pauli Pietilä Animator: Emmi Kokko DOP: Aaro Aho Sound: Tuomas Asikainen Editor: Juha Hirsimäki, Roope Jääskeläinen Production Designer: Saskia Vanhalakka Synopsis: Come as You are is a comedy short film, where normally shy young adult Liisa ends up buying herself a vibrator. She goes home and is ready to test the toy, when her boyfriend Joni arrives home early. Joni starts to bully Liisa. Soon enough both of these young adults will find out the bare truth of a sexuality of a human being. |
Tampere University of Applied Sciences (TUNI), Degree Programme in Media | Finland | 0 |
| 90-106 | EDEN
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Details:Length: 16'Screenwriter: Sven Spur Director: Sven Spur Producer: Sven Spur Animator: n/a DOP: Matthee Van Holderbeke Sound: Raf Enckels Editor: Sven Spur Production Designer: Naomi Zwaenepoel Synopsis: A restless young man cruises the gay hot spots of a city. Anonymous mirror-reflected places with intense colours and kitschy decors provide the landscape for this stranger in search of comfort, connection and himself. |
Royal Academy of Fine Arts / University College Ghent (KASK) | Belgium | 0 |
| 90-106 | ETHICAL SAUCE
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Details:Length: 13'Screenwriter: Lucy Crow Director: Pauline McGrath Producer: Clara Gienger Animator: n/a DOP: Camden Skerman-Stevenson Sound: Chris Fernandez Editor: Phoebe Humphries Production Designer: Christian R Sierra Synopsis: The passionate relationship between the mysterious Esme and vegan restaurant owner Osian culminates in a gory dinner with his parents, where her true nature is revealed. |
Westminster Film BA / University of Westminster (WFS) | United Kingdom | 0 |
| 90-106 | HOW SOON IS NOW
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Details:Length: 15'Screenwriter: Ella Mosseri Director: Ella Mosseri Producer: Noa Shrenzel Animator: n/a DOP: Eyal Bau Cohen Sound: Ella Mosseri Editor: Ella Mosseri Production Designer: Ella Mosseri Synopsis: A visual poem about a flatlined and bourgeois relationship between a young woman and an older man. Her yearning for childhood intensifies along with a choir of girls, as her inner world is quietly storming. |
Bezalel Academy of Arts and Design Jerusalem (BAAD) | Israel | 0 |
| 90-106 | JOINING THE BIRDS
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Details:Length: 9'Screenwriter: Carrie Carusone Director: Carrie Carusone Producer: Francisco Cabrera Animator: n/a DOP: Chris Violette Sound: Carrie Carusone Editor: Alex Ullom Production Designer: Alex Ullom Synopsis: Living in a cramped apartment on the beach, Jia longs for the affection of her immature mother, Kata. When Jia seeks Kata out at her favorite club, her mother’s sudden attention is as alluring as it is disorienting. |
Florida State University / College of Motion Picture Arts (FSU) | United States | 0 |
| 90-106 | MURDER BALLOON
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Details:Length: 12'Screenwriter: Pranay Noel Director: Pranay Noel Producer: Pranay Noel Animator: n/a DOP: Simon Ruscinski Sound: Evan Hoffman Editor: Pranay Noel, Paul Villenave Production Designer: Monica Peendergast Synopsis: Young boys bored. |
York University Department of Film - Fine Arts | Canada | 0 |
| 90-106 | MY LUCKY DAY
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Details:Length: 6'Screenwriter: Banou Sagou Director: Banou Sagou Producer: ISIS-SE Animator: n/a DOP: Abdoul Latif Keita Sound: Nelson Boro Editor: Cyrille Ouedraogo Production Designer: Didier Zongo Synopsis: Therese, a pregnant housekeeper, lives with her husband Ardjouma. Their unglamorous living condition does not leave her indifferent. By managing herself with her small business, she keeps thinking about better living conditions and in her head, fashions stunning stories. |
ISIS | Burkina Faso | 0 |
| 90-106 | OLIMPIA
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Details:Length: 24'Screenwriter: Sharon Attias Director: Sharon Attias Producer: Rotem Gabai Animator: n/a DOP: Asi Oren Sound: Yotam Aloof Editor: Rotem Gabay Production Designer: n/a Synopsis: Three teenage friends who encounter a beautiful sex doll face a state of deep confusion. One night, while delivering pizza to a middle aged man, Ariel comes across Olimpia, a beautiful sex doll. He tells his friends about her and they decide to steal her. Soon, the night that started as a youthful game is getting out of control. |
School of Audio & Visual Arts, Sapir College | Israel | 0 |
| 90-106 | PREY
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Details:Length: 20'Screenwriter: Fernando Cabral, Leonardo Ortiz Director: Letícia Kamiguchi Producer: Matheus Biscaro, Bárbara Policarpo Animator: Flávia Lucena DOP: Arthur Ribeiro, Vitor Brandão Sound: João Vitor Muçouçah, Rachel Rocha, Taynah Amaro Editor: Matheus Biscaro Production Designer: Iris Libanio Synopsis: When the father sacrifices the sick dog of the family, the relationship with the eldest daughter becomes unsustainable. Fearing that he may do the same with the youngest daughter, who is also sick, the sisters come together to try to escape the threat of their father. |
University of São Paulo / School of Communications and Arts / Department of Film, Radio and Television (USP) | Brazil | 0 |
| 90-106 | STUPID JOB
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Details:Length: 14'Screenwriter: Stanislas Togbonon Director: Stanislas Togbonon Producer: Institut Superieur des Metiers de I'Audiovisuel (ISMA) BENIN Animator: n/a DOP: Geff Atindegla Sound: Nassandou Liga Editor: Maurice Dahoue Production Designer: Ulrich Ouachinou Synopsis: Serge holds a master's degree and is looking for work. Despite the contempt and sexual harassment he faces in this quest, he still persists. |
Higher Institute of Audiovisual Training (ISMA) | Benin | 0 |
| 90-106 | THE MEADOWS OF TIME
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Details:Length: 21'Screenwriter: Sahil Gada Director: Sahil Gada Producer: Whistling Woods International Animator: n/a DOP: Kartik Avtani Sound: Acquib Sayyed Editor: Sharvari Barfiwala Production Designer: Sunil Thale Synopsis: A middle aged, lonely theatre actress, Susana is diagnosed with an untreatable brain tumour that puts her in a trance of awesome memories of her pregnancy; before she eventually dies. |
Whistling Woods International (WWI) | India | 0 |
| 90-106 | TOURISTS
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Details:Length: 10'Screenwriter: Sharon Israeli Director: Sharon Israeli Producer: David Moalem Animator: n/a DOP: Saray Salman Sound: n/a Editor: Gal Zaydman Production Designer: n/a Synopsis: Yael and Omer are meeting a good friend of Omer from Italy, Paolo. They are going to a party and inside they go through a night they will not forget- love, relationship, passion, trust, alcohol, drugs, techno and euphoria. |
Beit Berl College / Faculty of Arts (Beit Berl) | Israel | 0 |
| 90-106 | WAGNER
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Details:Length: 24'Screenwriter: Ana Clara Távora Director: Ana Clara Távora Producer: Lucas Cabral Animator: n/a DOP: Rhay Salina,Luiz Felipe Gonçalvez, Hélio Loro Sound: Renan Decaro Editor: Joaquim Pantaleão Production Designer: n/a Synopsis: Wagner is obsessed with the famous singer Everaldo and works as an impersonator of him. However,everything changes when the news reveal that his idol is being accused of sexual harassment by multiple women.After this, he will have to discover his own individuality. |
PUC-Rio Department of Social Communication - Cinema | Brazil | 0 |
| 90-106 | WITH FRIENDS LIKE THESE
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Details:Length: 16'Screenwriter: Laurnelle Beukes Director: Heinrich Botha, Tembelihle Hadebe Producer: Tembelihle Hadebe Animator: Laurnelle Beukes DOP: Arfin Widyatmadja Sound: Zusiphe Hlanekela Editor: Laurnelle Beukes Production Designer: Tembelihle Hadebe Synopsis: A man wakes up bound, with the last thing he remembers; celebrating his birthday with his girlfriend & best friend but to his surprise, there's more to the day than expected.... |
Tshwane University of Technology | South Africa | 0 |
| 90-106 | ‘TWO ROOMS’
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Details:Length: 14'Screenwriter: Gilda Jones Director: Gilda Jones Producer: EVANGELINE PARKS Animator: n/a DOP: Ryan Boutland Sound: Hamish Keen Editor: Gilda Jones Production Designer: Gracie Dephoff, Chris Jones Synopsis: A young girl navigates the meaning of human connection within the confines of her ever morphing bedroom. |
VCA Film and Television | Australia | 0 |
Documentary
| Place | Title | School | Country | Points |
| 1 | WHY DIDN`T YOU STAY FOR ME?
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Details:Length: 25'Screenwriter: n/a Director: Milou Gevers Producer: Annerose van Strijen, Quita Ruijgrok Animator: Muus Veldkamp, Lola Mooij DOP: Lola Mooij Sound: Remco Langedijk Editor: Richelle van Loon Production Designer : Kathleen Hilbers, Mey Rahimi, Meret Wellman, Lotty Mulleners Synopsis: Four children. One director. All lost a parent to suicide. When director Milou probes the questions no one ever dared to ask her, the kids can finally tell about the journey they made from the moment they heard the news. |
Netherlands Film Academy (NFA) | Netherlands | 130 |
| 2 | UNFINISHED LIVES
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Details:Length: 23'Screenwriter: n/a Director: Yucong Chen Producer: John McKinney, Rose Tsai Animator: n/a DOP: Huanxi Li Sound: Cabba Jiaxuan Cai Editor: Yucong Chen, Mozhu Yan Production Designer : n/a Synopsis: An understated and ignored story about Xinran Ji's death. |
University of Southern California's School of Cinematic Arts (USC) | United States | 50 |
| 3 | DON'T FORGET TO SMILE
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Details:Length: 14'Screenwriter: Ning Cai Director: Ning Cai Producer: DocNomads EMJMD Animator: n/a DOP: Ning Cai Sound: Ning Cai, David Novack, João Alves Editor: Ning Cai, Pedro Marques Production Designer : n/a Synopsis: Six-years old Rachel endures more expectations than an average child. Language lessons, singing, dancing, practicing the piano, making music videos, are routine tasks. Her parents truly invest their lives to make sure Rachel becomes the next big name. But is such a life surrounded by spotlights what she wants? |
Universidade Lusófona / Film and Media Arts Department (ULHT) | Portugal | 43 |
| 4-6 | A TALE OF TWO SISTERS
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Details:Length: 16'Screenwriter: Jakub Prysak Director: Jakub Prysak Producer: Agata Golanska Animator: n/a DOP: Jakub Prysak Sound: Lucyna Wielopolska, Beata Klimaszewska Editor: Jakub Prysak Production Designer : n/a Synopsis: Two elderly sisters, Bozena and Zofia, live next to each other in two flats in the housing block. There are two things that divide them - the wall and completely different political views. |
Polish National Film, Television and Theatre School in Lodz (PWSFTViT) | Poland | 38 |
| 4-6 | ECHOES
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Details:Length: 16'Screenwriter: Pedro Pablo Hernández de Obeso, Rene Villanueva Gámez, Joab Gabirel Molina Ruvalcaba Director: Pedro Pablo Hernández de Obeso, Rene Villanueva Gámez, Joab Gabirel Molina Ruvalcaba Producer: Gabriela Ruvalcaba Animator: n/a DOP: Pedro Pablo Hernández de Obeso, Joab Gabirel Molina Ruvalcaba Sound: Pedro Pablo Hernández de Obeso, Rene Villanueva Gámez Editor: Pedro Pablo Hernández de Obeso, Rene Villanueva Gámez Production Designer : n/a Synopsis: Doña Julia, has been mourning for 20 years the death of her youngest son Javier and the migration of the rest of her children. Through this absence we witness the grief that many families go through when their loved ones leave in search of a better life. |
University of Guadalajara / Image and Sound Department | Mexico | 38 |
| 4-6 | WHERE IS MY DARLING?
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Details:Length: 21'Screenwriter: Adam Finney Director: Adam Finney Producer: Adam Finney Animator: n/a DOP: Cameron Dunlop Sound: Nathan Turnbull Editor: James Taylor Production Designer : n/a Synopsis: As Australia suffers from its worst drought and the country begins to burn, Lanz, a homeless man and his buddy Ethan take matters into their own hands. |
Australian Film Television and Radio School (AFTRS) | Australia | 38 |
| 7 | ON HOLD
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Details:Length: 20'Screenwriter: Laura Rantanen Director: Laura Rantanen Producer: Anna Mellin Animator: n/a DOP: Tomi Rislakki Sound: Iivo Korhonen Editor: Menni Renvall Production Designer : n/a Synopsis: Did you know puberty lasts forever? On Hold is an experimental documentary short film contemplating around the themes of intergenerationality and socially constructed masculinity. The film is based on anonymous phone calls dialed for a helpline for boys and young men under 20-years of age. |
Aalto University School of Arts, Design and Architecture / ELO Film School Helsinki | Finland | 34 |
| 8 | THE ROOTS OF WATER
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Details:Length: 19'Screenwriter: Sarah Lederman Director: Sarah Lederman Producer: Sarah Lederman, LUCA SCHOOL OF ARTS Animator: n/a DOP: Alana Stoefs Sound: Brecht Vander Plaetse Editor: Lawrence Paul Foley Production Designer : n/a Synopsis: Two very different young Jewish women meet and discover they have the same quest. Both are looking to own their Jewish identity through ancient rituals. |
LUCA School of Arts (LUCA) | Belgium | 30 |
| 9-10 | ELONG E'NABE
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Details:Length: 14'Screenwriter: Niels Devlieghere Director: Niels Devlieghere Producer: RITCS – Brussels - Belgium Animator: n/a DOP: Pauwel Billau Sound: Simon Kremar Editor: Louyise Butter Production Designer : n/a Synopsis: Elong E'nabe is the story of six-year-old Angela, a black girl with Senegalese roots, born in Belgium. Ten years ago, her mother Roos and father Rafael came to Belgium in search of a safer environment for their children to grow up in as the situation in their home country became unbearable. We get to see how Angela, her brother Dirk, and sister Tina grow up in a complex socio-political situation. The part of Belgium where they live is known for its right-wing nationalist supporters, and the growing migration of African families to the region creates a lot of tension. Unaware of the conflict they have found themselves in, the children lead a carefree life while their mother watches over them. The film paints a picture of what it is like to grow up in Flanders as a child with a black skin color. |
Royal Institute for Theatre, Cinema and Sound (RITCS) | Belgium | 28 |
| 9-10 | MISS CURVY
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Details:Length: 24'Screenwriter: n/a Director: Ghada Eldemellawy Producer: Ghada Eldemellawy Animator: n/a DOP: Fabio Mota Sound: João Fonte Editor: Gareth Pugh Production Designer : n/a Synopsis: A documentary about a Ugandan mother trying to navigate her past traumas through participating in the country's first-ever beauty pageant for plus-size women. |
National FIlm and Television School (NFTS) | United Kingdom | 28 |
| 11 | HAVEN IN THE BOOTH
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Details:Length: 21'Screenwriter: n/a Director: Leo Pfeifer, Sophie DeGreen Producer: Samantha Thomas Animator: n/a DOP: Sean Thomson Sound: Chris Fleming Editor: Leo Pfeifer, Sophie DeGreen Production Designer : n/a Synopsis: HAVEN IN THE BOOTH is an intimate exploration of vulnerability and healing at a last chance high school in The Bronx. Through the eyes of 18-year-old Marc Brooks, we see a community built by Hip Hop and the transformative power of trust and creative expression. As the film unfolds, Marc reveals deeper truths about himself to social worker JC Hall, who leads the Hip Hop therapy program. Despite growing up in a neighborhood that often teaches the dangers of vulnerability, the Mott Haven students create a future of healing by opening up to each other and the world with their music. |
Chapman University / Dodge College of Film and Media Arts | United States | 27 |
| 12-14 | CONVERSATION AT THE END OF LIFE
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Details:Length: 19'Screenwriter: Fabienne Koch Director: Fabienne Koch Producer: Filippo Bonacci Animator: n/a DOP: Fabienne Koch Sound: Lars Mulle Editor: Fabienne Koch Production Designer : n/a Synopsis: How does one stand growing old? What sense does it make to keep living, when you can't do anything anymore? Three old women answer my burning questions. A widow questions everything, a former dancer shows me what to do when you can't dance anymore, and a nun introduces me to what lies beyond. A personal quest to find out how to deal with the inevitable finiteness of life. |
Zurich University of the Arts / Department of Performing Arts and Film (ZHdK) | Switzerland | 24 |
| 12-14 | JUDE
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Details:Length: 10'Screenwriter: Amos Feige Menin, Megan DeCaluwe Director: Amos Feige Menin Producer: Amos Feige Menin, Megan DeCaluwe Animator: n/a DOP: Amos Feige Menin Sound: Louis Shah Editor: Amos Feige Menin Production Designer : n/a Synopsis: A child loses everything as he escapes the Nazi holocaust. This traumatic and poignant story is told by his grandson, Director Amos Menin in this deeply personal documentary short. |
Northern Film School / Leeds Beckett University (NFS/LBU) | United Kingdom | 24 |
| 12-14 | STORGETNYA
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Details:Length: 21'Screenwriter: Hovig Hagopian Director: Hovig Hagopian Producer: Astrig Chandèze-Avakian Animator: n/a DOP: Hovig Hagopian Sound: Hayk Israelyan Editor: Lucie Brux Production Designer : n/a Synopsis: Yerevan, capital of Armenia. 230 meters underground, in the Avan salt mine, men and women walk to breathe easier. Physical activities and medical consultations set the rhythm of the timeless world of this underground clinic, where lives intersect and stories are told. |
La Fémis | France | 24 |
| 15-16 | STRUCK BY LIGHTNING
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Details:Length: 17'Screenwriter: Romet Esko Director: Romet Esko Producer: Raul Esko, Romet Esko (Esko Brothers) Animator: n/a DOP: Raul Esko, Romet Esko (Esko Brothers) Sound: Carol Alice Tõniste Editor: Raul Esko, Romet Esko (Esko Brothers) Production Designer : n/a Synopsis: Raul and Romet are film school students who had a really unique friend Brandon - he was a wild card. Suddenly he committed suicide. Now the brothers attempt to understand the mysterious end of their best friend, by making a movie for him. |
Baltic Film, Media and Arts School, Tallinn University | Estonia | 22 |
| 15-16 | THE IMPERIAL LULLABY
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Details:Length: 23'Screenwriter: Filippo Foscarini Director: Filippo Foscarini, Marta Violante Producer: Centro Sperimentale di Cinematografla Animator: n/a DOP: n/a Sound: Filippo Foscarini Editor: Marta Violante Production Designer : n/a Synopsis: Italian colonialism is still hidden in darkness. Africa Bianca tells the story of the fascist invasion of Ethiopia in 1936 through the lens of a child's school drawings. |
Centro Sperimentale di Cinematografia (CSC) | Italy | 22 |
| 17 | THE DE FACTO MARTYR SUITE
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Details:Length: 18'Screenwriter: Justine de Gasquet Director: Justine de Gasquet Producer: Nicolas Wadimoff (HEAD – Genève) Animator: n/a DOP: Justine de Gasquet Sound: Justine de Gasquet Editor: Justine de Gasquet Production Designer : Justine de Gasquet Synopsis: It is the story of an african american prisoner, thinking about his destiny as a de facto martyr. He has been in prison since 1974, after having been arrested for jumping the train turnstile and attempted murder of a police man. |
Film Department/cinéma du réel - Geneva School of Art and Design (HEAD) | Switzerland | 20 |
| 18-20 | DAWN
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Details:Length: 18'Screenwriter: n/a Director: Jelle Hermans Producer: Jelle Hermans Animator: n/a DOP: Jelle Hermans Sound: Cyriel Beerten Editor: Jelle Hermans Production Designer : n/a Synopsis: A poetic approach to documentary cinema, this films scans a nocturnal phenomenon on a remote farm in images as well as sounds. An encounter between man and animal, between nature and human intervention. An idiosyncratic non-fiction work that sheds light on a revealing experience in the fabric of animal and human existence. |
Royal Academy of Fine Arts / University College Ghent (KASK) | Belgium | 19 |
| 18-20 | JAN G
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Details:Length: 24'Screenwriter: Josef Švejda Director: Josef Švejda Producer: Ondřej Šejnoha – Studio FAMU Animator: n/a DOP: Kryštof Hluže Sound: Dominyka Adomaityte Editor: Rosalinda Hálová Production Designer : n/a Synopsis: Jan is 21 years old and he wants to travel Europe on freight trains. This illegal! way of travelling includes crossing the boarders, spending endless hours on the watch and stepping out of his comfort zone. During his trips, he is usually alone and lives like a hobo. Going back home always means to slow down his fast life and look for answers what he will do with his future. |
Film and Television School / Academy of Performing Arts in Prague (FAMU) | Czech Republic | 19 |
| 18-20 | MIRELLA
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Details:Length: 20'Screenwriter: Oliver Bruck Director: Oliver Bruck Producer: Oliver Bruck Animator: n/a DOP: Oliver Bruck Sound: n/a Editor: Oliver Bruck Production Designer : n/a Synopsis: The African-born photographer Mirella Ricciardi has tried to capture the vanishing beauty of life in her photographs. Now, almost 90 years old, she struggles with the reality of old age and appearing in front of a camera. Through mutual collaboration, filmmaker Oliver Bruck gains a unique insight into her story. |
London College of Communication | United Kingdom | 19 |
| 21-22 | ATTENTION ALL PASSENGERS
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Details:Length: 19'Screenwriter: Marek Moučka Director: Marek Moučka Producer: FTF VŠMU Animator: n/a DOP: Andrej Dlabáč Sound: Stanislav Kubica Editor: Marek Bihuň Production Designer : n/a Synopsis: A train crashing into a suicide is unstoppable just like this world. Fractions of a second decide what the driver will dream about and how it will affect their psyche. The film is about coping with a tragic event through a mass portrait of men from the train cab and about the helplessness they experience when they apply the brakes and close their eyes at a speed of 100 kilometers per hour. |
Academy of Performing Arts / Film and Television Faculty (VSMU) | Slovakia | 18 |
| 21-22 | STONES BREAKERS
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Details:Length: 16'Screenwriter: Simon Herreman Director: Simon Herreman Producer: IAD - Médiadiffusion Animator: n/a DOP: Guillaume Uteza Sound: Maxime Léonard Editor: Aurore Courault Production Designer : n/a Synopsis: Angelo, Jose and Luis, three stone sawyers, are worried. This is the work of a whole life that ends with the exhaustion of workers. This is the story of an end, of bodies long exploited in rock that is extracted from the earth, leaving the soil emptied of its riches. Landscape of flesh consumed by the mechanization of men. |
Institut des Arts de Diffusion (IAD) | Belgium | 18 |
| 23 | ABOUT THE NIGHT
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Details:Length: 20'Screenwriter: Vassili Schémann Director: Vassili Schémann Producer: Laurent Gross Animator: n/a DOP: Marie Merlant Sound: Sara Kamidian Editor: Sara Kamidian Production Designer : n/a Synopsis: They have spent their entire life underground, or are getting ready to do so. Every week, the choir of minors reunites to sing far from the galleries and the deafening machines. A portrait of these voices that resonate in the deep end and that fear the closing of the biggest copper mine in Poland. |
INSAS | Belgium | 17 |
| 24-27 | EVE
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Details:Length: 14'Screenwriter: Vytautas Plukas Director: Vytautas Plukas, Domas Petronis Producer: Dagnė Vildžiūnaitė Animator: n/a DOP: Vytautas Plukas Sound: Iveta Macevičiūtė Editor: Vytautas Plukas Production Designer : Sigita Jonaitytė Synopsis: Inside a lab, a robot is created. Like a newborn, it analyses its surroundings with the primitive senses and limited knowledge it has. While exploring such fundamental concepts as distance, weight, light and size, the robot tries to perform basic physical tasks that would resemble natural human motion. It fails miserably but still keeps learning. Emotions start to appear on its face, when it sees human children. These emotions are probably just involuntary muscle contractions. A test is set up to see how a dog and a humanoid robot would respond to each other. Perhaps a less intelligent life form would be not as critical about what being alive means? |
Lithuanian Academy of Music and Theatre (LMTA) | Lithuania | 16 |
| 24-27 | HILL 314
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Details:Length: 27'Screenwriter: Omrie Levy Director: Omrie Levy Producer: Omrie Levy Animator: n/a DOP: Gal Sheer, Omrie Levy Sound: Omrie Levy Editor: Omrie Levy Production Designer : n/a Synopsis: My Childhood's view: The Latru's Hills. "Oasis Of Peace" set on hill 314, was founded on coexistence of Jews and Arabs. Ibrahim a beduin shepard lives there with his family for 51 years. Since 1999 the settlement and the Silence Monastery, the landowners, have reached an agreement resulting in the impending deportation of Ibrahim and his family. |
Bezalel Academy of Arts and Design Jerusalem (BAAD) | Israel | 16 |
| 24-27 | NOW I AM IRENA
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Details:Length: 13'Screenwriter: Jasminha Beširević Director: Jasminha Beširević Producer: Academy of Dramatic Art Zagreb Animator: n/a DOP: Magdalena Ptiček Sound: Nina Ugrinović Editor: Dora Slakoper Production Designer : n/a Synopsis: A young woman revisits a seemingly insignificant argument with her former husband during the time of her pregnancy. Using elements of psychodrama, she steps into the role of her past self and struggles to access buried emotions caused by his abusiveness. Switching into the role of her volatile former husband, she begins to understand the possible reasons for his aggressive behavior. |
Academy of Dramatic Art Zagreb (ADU) | Croatia | 16 |
| 24-27 | WE COME ONE BY ONE AND WE LEAVE AT ONE’S TIME
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Details:Length: 20'Screenwriter: Mihnea Toma Director: Mihnea Toma Producer: Mihnea Toma Animator: n/a DOP: Beatrice Paun Sound: Mihai Dumitrache Editor: Mihai Dumitrache Production Designer : n/a Synopsis: In the midst of a world where traditions are dissipating and the Church views mourning as a pagan custom, the last generation of mourners from the village of Romuli reveals a different perspective on death. |
National University of Theatre and Film (UNATC) | Romania | 16 |
| 28-30 | 75/1
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Details:Length: 27'Screenwriter: n/a Director: Till Kleinau Producer: Friederike Dorffler Animator: n/a DOP: Katja Tauber Sound: Max Rodegra Editor: Friederike Dorffler Production Designer : n/a Synopsis: Thomas, a professional drummer, was asked to revive Harry Partch's lifework. He starts reconstructing all of Partchs' 75 custom-made instruments. He has only two years to get everything ready for the grand premiere at the National Theatre in Taiwan but he is determined to finish the work he has started. |
international film school cologne (ifs) | Germany | 15 |
| 28-30 | BARA DIN
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Details:Length: 28'Screenwriter: Xenia Patricia Director: Xenia Patricia Producer: Rafael Manuel, Justin Morse, Jeffery Sequeira, Xenia Patricia Animator: n/a DOP: Xenia Patricia Sound: Edward Guy Editor: Rafael Manuel, Iacopo Calabrese Production Designer : n/a Synopsis: 2018. Pakistan. Karachi. Inside the walls of the providence home the residents, two Sisters and 16 girls, prepare for their annual Christmas play. A play they perform every year for their remaining relatives. Preparations are running on full speed. Only through the radio, news from the outside seep into the Catholic orphanage. Pakistani society is in uproar. Asia Bibi, a Christian woman, who had been on death row due to claims of blasphemy, has been acquitted. |
London Film School (LFS) | United Kingdom | 15 |
| 28-30 | BATTLEFIELD
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Details:Length: 8'Screenwriter: Jannis Lenz Director: Jannis Lenz Producer: David Bohun, Sonja Lenz Animator: n/a DOP: Jakob Fuhr Sound: Rudolf Pototschnig Editor: Jannis Lenz Production Designer : n/a Synopsis: Inspired by the quote of Austrian Expressionist, Oskar Kokoschka: „ Weeds are nature's opposition to the governance of gardeners", BATTLEFIELD shows the inner life of a military base as a microcosm that seems to have fallen out of another time. Soldiers focus meticulously on gardening instead of preparing themselves for war. The grass-green battlefield gets a military buzz cut. The film depicts a dreamlike look into an imaginary future, where barracks appear as well maintained open-air museums. The tanks remain as relics, silent but admonishing. Some of them still work. |
Film Academy Vienna (UMDK) | Austria | 15 |
| 31-32 | A SPECIAL CASE
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Details:Length: 15'Screenwriter: Bruno Ciancaglini Director: Bruno Ciancaglini Producer: Universidad del Cine Animator: n/a DOP: Martina Perosa Sound: Rodrigo Sánchez Mariño Editor: Bruno Ciancaglini Production Designer : n/a Synopsis: Roberto finds a VHS with images of Bruno and his family on vacation in Uruguay in 1993. But they assure that they were never there. Twenty-seven years later, Bruno and Roberto will try to discover what could have happened. |
Universidad del Cine (UCINE) | Argentina | 14 |
| 31-32 | RADIO RIDERS
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Details:Length: 14'Screenwriter: Paola Piscitelli, Ludovica Lopertti Director: Fabio Corbellini, Paola Piscitelli Producer: Civica Scuola di Cinema, Luchino Visconti (MCSC) Animator: n/a DOP: Fabio Corbellini, Paola Piscitelli Sound: Fabio Corbellini, Paola Piscitelli Editor: Fabio Corbellini, Paola Piscitelli Production Designer : n/a Synopsis: Feet hooked up on the pedals, gaze focused on the mobile phone screen. Under the scorching sun or the pouring rain, they dart through traffic to feed an always hungry city. Food deliverers pay the price for a production system that lacks awareness of the most basic labor rights. |
Milan City Film School Luchino Visconti (MCSC) | Italy | 14 |
| 33-36 | KEEP SHIFTIN'
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Details:Length: 21'Screenwriter: Verena Wagner Director: Verena Wagner Producer: Verena Wagner Animator: n/a DOP: Matthias Kofahl Sound: Andrew Mottl Editor: Ulrike Tortora Production Designer : n/a Synopsis: A glass factory in the middle of the German-Czech border region. The magic of the routine carries through the night shift. A symphony of muscle mass, glowing hot glass, and the birds that sing with the coming daylight. |
University of Television and Film Munich (HFF) | Germany | 13 |
| 33-36 | ON THE FENCE
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Details:Length: 7'Screenwriter: Paula Ner Dormiendo Director: Paula Ner Dormiendo Producer: Asad Chaudhry Animator: Miguel Fernandes DOP: Hubert Maliszewski Sound: Sumith Ragunathan Editor: Samantha Yabut Production Designer : n/a Synopsis: A poetic coming of age documentary that follows several intertwined conversations with a multicultural film crew and their struggle with cultural identity. |
Sheridan College | Canada | 13 |
| 33-36 | OWN NAME
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Details:Length: 16'Screenwriter: Valentina Giraldo Sánchez Director: Valentina Giraldo Sánchez Producer: Valentina Giraldo Sánchez Animator: n/a DOP: Valentina Giraldo Sánchez Sound: Valentina Giraldo Sánchez Editor: Valentina Giraldo Sánchez Production Designer : Valentina Giraldo Sánchez Synopsis: This short film was born as a question to know myself. The path that spins it is the reflection around the own name and the naming monopoly that belongs to the patriarch. Between colony, biology, religion and rage "Own Name" appears like the seams of a tired body tissue. |
Escuela de Cine y Televisión / UNAL (ECYTV) | Colombia | 13 |
| 33-36 | “YOU WHITE PERSON”
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Details:Length: 21'Screenwriter: n/a Director: Marilyn Nassar Producer: Marilyn Nassar Animator: n/a DOP: Marilyn Nassar Sound: n/a Editor: Marilyn Nassar, François Yazbeck Production Designer : n/a Synopsis: “Potho” (white man), mysterious stranger, visits villages detached from modernity and progress, but majestic in nature. The hunters eliminate the birds, disrupt the daily life of the natives by entering their territory. This documentary is both a visual journal and a travelogue, a quest for identity and a revelation. |
Institut d'études scéniques, audiovisuelles et cinématographiques (IESAV) | Lebanon | 13 |
| 37-40 | AN EXPRESSION OF AN INDIAN CLASSICAL DANCER
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Details:Length: 13'Screenwriter: Priyanka D/O Tamilarasan Thevar Director: Priyanka D/O Tamilarasan Thevar Producer: Indirajith Shanmugapriya Animator: n/a DOP: Nurul Adriana Binte Johari Sound: Nicole Chow Hui Lin Editor: Chong Ya Hui Production Designer : n/a Synopsis: Abinayam features Ambiga Krishnasamy's journey back to dance after being diagnosed with multiple sclerosis. |
Ngee Ann Polytechnic / School of Film & Media Studies | Singapore | 12 |
| 37-40 | EASY PANTIES
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Details:Length: 16'Screenwriter: Marlena Martikainen Director: Marlena Martikainen Producer: Elisabeth Keinänen Animator: n/a DOP: Marlena Martikainen, Johannes Heinonen, Mikko Manninen Sound: Haruna Nakada Editor: Johannes Heinonen Production Designer : n/a Synopsis: The spring of COVID-19 pushes the unemployed Marlena to find an easy way to make money from home through a seemingly innocent business. |
Metropolia University of Applied Sciences (MUAS) | Finland | 12 |
| 37-40 | NEVER IN LOVE. 52 YEARS OF FAITHFULNESS
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Details:Length: 14'Screenwriter: Ibolya Simó, Zsuzsanna Bak Director: Ibolya Simó Producer: n/a Animator: n/a DOP: Ibolya Simó Sound: András Pongor Editor: Ibolya Simó Production Designer : n/a Synopsis: Jozsef, a deaf-mute senior athlete trains for his running competitions with no limits. He shares a home with his wife in rural, impoverished Transylvania, but wings endless kilometres through breathtaking landscapes every day. He has passionately lived his dreams, while his disabled wife has only done so in their 53-year-marriage. |
Színház- és Filmművészeti Egyetem | Hungary | 12 |
| 37-40 | THERE MAY BE UNCERTAINTY
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Details:Length: 29'Screenwriter: Paul Reinholz Director: Paul Reinholz Producer: Paul Reinholz, Academy of Media Arts Cologne, Germany Animator: n/a DOP: Paul Reinholz Sound: Bence Borocz Editor: Paul Reinholz Production Designer : n/a Synopsis: The fear and anxiety about the future is ubiquitous in a globalized world too complex to understand. States, companies and private persons attempt to plan the unpredictable. "there may be uncertainty" draws a calm and unpretentious picture of uncertainty, the imagination of disasters and the architecture of catastrophes. |
Academy of Media Arts Cologne (KHM) | Germany | 12 |
| 41-45 | ASH DUST
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Details:Length: 12'Screenwriter: Aljoša Nikolić Director: Aljoša Nikolić Producer: Jožica Blatnik Animator: n/a DOP: Veronika Francesca Štefančič Sound: Samo Jurca Editor: Nika Otrin Production Designer : n/a Synopsis: In the heart of the Šalek valley, behind a cloud of smoke from the nearby power plant, lies the town of Šoštanj. When Slovenia is supplied with enough electricity and the smoke dissipates, only a few people remain there. This is their story. |
AGRFT | Slovenia | 10 |
| 41-45 | FAMILY PORTRAIT
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Details:Length: 27'Screenwriter: n/a Director: Jordan Sultana, Yuval Horovitz Producer: Yuval Horovitz, Jordan Sultana, Thekra Zohir Makalde, Sapir Rubin, Coral Haik Hofman Animator: n/a DOP: Yuval Horovitz, Jordan Sultana Sound: Daniel Cohen Editor: Jordan Sultana Production Designer : n/a Synopsis: Galit, Yoav and Delia allow a glimpse at an episode of their unusual routine. A family of three bounded by dependence, love and care. It is a special family portrait. They offer a possibility for a unique and moving lifestyle where love and care overcome physical disability. |
Beit Berl College / Faculty of Arts (Beit Berl) | Israel | 10 |
| 41-45 | I AM NOT A MICROBE
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Details:Length: 13'Screenwriter: Sara Obame Director: Sara Obame Producer: Institut Superieur des Metiers de I'Audiovisuel (ISMA) Benin Animator: n/a DOP: Bienvenu Hounnoukon Sound: Rocelin Houngbo Editor: Elodie Guedeme Production Designer : Andrea Aholode Synopsis: In this film, we have shown the difficulties encountered by garbage collectors. Expose their resentment at the attitude of the population towards them. |
Higher Institute of Audiovisual Training (ISMA) | Benin | 10 |
| 41-45 | KAMBADWANE
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Details:Length: 20'Screenwriter: Gulson G Nayak Director: Gulson G Nayak Producer: Bhupendra Kainthola Animator: n/a DOP: Sikher pal Sound: Dhrubaraj Boro Editor: Dhanesh Gopal Production Designer : n/a Synopsis: The film tells about a dance form called Kambad, practiced by the Thakkar tribe in and around Maharashtra. This dance is not just a form of entertainment but a daily routine for the people. Because of globalization and its effects, In the Adivasi village of uddawane, the dance form's existence is facing a threat from many such factors. Catching up with the modern times means dying a slow death for the dance form. We meet with the core members of the dance troop to know about the origins, the meaning, and the relevance of kambad in their daily life in these times. |
Film and Television Institute of India (FTII) | India | 10 |
| 41-45 | SILVER FIREFLIES
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Details:Length: 28'Screenwriter: Thales Pessoa Director: Thales Pessoa Producer: Thales Pessoa Animator: n/a DOP: Julia Cohen, Thales Pessoa Sound: Daniel Nec, Herison Pedro Editor: Thales Pessoa, Daniel Nec Production Designer : Thales Pessoa Synopsis: Facing the possibility of a government change in the argentinian elections of 2019, Adrián, a fisherman who lives by the riverside of “Río de la plata”, increases his hope on retaking a more dignified life. |
Universidad de Buenos Aires / Diseño de Imagen y Sonido FADU (UBA) | Argentina | 10 |
| 46-48 | HOME
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Details:Length: 27'Screenwriter: Smadar Epstein Plagi, Nir Dvorchin Director: Smadar Epstein Plagi Producer: Smadar Epstein Plagi Animator: n/a DOP: Smadar Epstein Plagi, Vardit Goldner, ANONIMUS Sound: Ilan Admon Editor: Nir Dvorchin Production Designer : n/a Synopsis: Two women are cleaning up the neglected apartment of one of them who lives there with her 12 cats. The condition of the home is the result of years of neglect. One's desire to help the other's inability to cope with her own neglect creates a Sisyphean process whereby as the dirt clears a new consciousness seeps in. |
School of Audio & Visual Arts, Sapir College | Israel | 9 |
| 46-48 | I THINK IT’S ENOUGH, ISN’T IT?
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Details:Length: 4'Screenwriter: Emily Shir Segal Director: Emily Shir Segal Producer: Emily Shir Segal Animator: n/a DOP: Segal Family Archive Sound: Nati Taub Editor: Emily Shir Segal Production Designer : n/a Synopsis: Reconstructing one last encounter with Dad. |
The Steve Tisch School of Film and Television (TAU) | Israel | 9 |
| 46-48 | MASTER OF THE POND
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Details:Length: 30'Screenwriter: Sofia Kulakova Director: Sofia Kulakova Producer: Sofia Kulakova Animator: n/a DOP: Sofia Kulakova Sound: Egor Lis Editor: n/a Production Designer : n/a Synopsis: Alexander Viktorovich lives in the Oryol region on the banks of a pond. He raises fish and every day fishermen come to him - to relax and go fishing. He lives in absolute solitude and is often ill, especially the difficult situation with his lungs. What keeps the hero on the pond and moves him away from his relatives? |
St. Petersburg State University of Film and Television (SPUFT) | Russia | 9 |
| 49-51 | BABY BOY
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Details:Length: 25'Screenwriter: n/a Director: Jessica Heng Producer: Bambby Cheuk, Toby Wu Animator: Mok Yuin Peng, Javon Chan DOP: Chua Zong Xuan Sound: Josh O' Hara Editor: Jessica Heng, Chua Zong Xuan Production Designer : n/a Synopsis: Baby Boy is a documentary short about Zaki, a 17 year old ex-gang member. Zaki’s passion for boxing and return to education bears much promise, yet is disrupted by the splintering of his familial unit. His coming of age is distinctly marked by the crucible of impending fatherhood. |
Nanyang Technological University | Singapore | 8 |
| 49-51 | LIMINAL
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Details:Length: 24'Screenwriter: Tiffani Joy Director: Tiffani Joy Producer: Tiffani Joy Animator: n/a DOP: Tiffani Joy Sound: Gabrielle Landers Editor: Ruann Oosthuizen Production Designer : Bronwyn Ireland Synopsis: Liminal explores the way in which mixed race individuals challenge society’s notion of race as they cannot be easily placed into any pre-existing racial categories. Given how the concept of race continues to be categorized within South Africa. |
South African School of Motion Picture Medium and Live Performance (AFDA) | South Africa | 8 |
| 49-51 | THE GALLERY THAT DESTROYS ALL SHAME
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Details:Length: 11'Screenwriter: n/a Director: Aurora Brachman, Jessie Zinn Producer: Aurora Brachman, Jessie Zinn Animator: n/a DOP: Aurora Brachman, Jessie Zinn Sound: Aurora Brachman, Jessie Zinn Editor: Aurora Brachman, Jessie Zinn Production Designer : n/a Synopsis: One evening in L.A., a group of women gather to learn how to take back the speculum. |
Stanford University | United States | 8 |
| 52-55 | (1÷6)×6=1
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Details:Length: 16'Screenwriter: Tsang Fuk Ching Katie Director: Tsang Fuk Ching Katie Producer: Tsang Fuk Ching Katie Animator: n/a DOP: Wong Wai Hung Eric Sound: Cheung Ka Fai Editor: Wong Wai Hung Eric Production Designer : n/a Synopsis: Ruby was suffering from domestic violence from nine years old. Her six alters help her to overcome these suffer and pain. However, they bring her a lot of living trouble. She tried to resist. She thinks they were bothering her daily life. In this documentary, we are going to discover how they get along peacefully. |
Hong Kong Academy for Performing Arts / School of Film and Television (HKAPA) | Hong Kong | 7 |
| 52-55 | AND I, AND I
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Details:Length: 27'Screenwriter: Lam Yan Yue Director: Lam Yan Yue Producer: Lam Yan Yue Animator: n/a DOP: Lam Yan Yue Sound: Lam Yan Yue Editor: Lam Yan Yue Production Designer : Lam Yan Yue, keichow (title design) Synopsis: Judy, a single mother and Peter, her intellectually disabled son have been through 45 years with each other. As minorities, lives were half spent with forgotten dreams and helpless love. Yet, they found a temporary exit through music. This film tried to document their days and stories. |
Academy of Film / Hong Kong Baptist University (HKBU) | Hong Kong | 7 |
| 52-55 | INTRE MONTES
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Details:Length: 23'Screenwriter: Antonio Valerio Frascella Director: Antonio Valerio Frascella Producer: Domenico Lucchini, Paolo Carboni Animator: n/a DOP: Dino Hodic Sound: Alice Pischetola, Massimo Mariani Editor: Marta Morotti Production Designer : n/a Synopsis: Annino Mele, one of the best known figures of contemporary Sardinian banditry, has spent more than thirty years of his life in prison. The newly-acquired freedom is a world of ruins, where time has irreversibly eroded everything. Imprisonment can reduce people to “heaps of insignificant flesh”. Fears have the shape of a ghost looming from the past to warn Annino, who in spite of everything must go forward with tenacity to find his place in life. |
Academy of Audiovisual Sciences (CISA) | Switzerland | 7 |
| 52-55 | VOICE OF THE SEA
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Details:Length: 15'Screenwriter: Kashyap Kulkarni Director: Kashyap Kulkarni Producer: Annapurna College of Film and Media Animator: n/a DOP: Charan Reddy Dudipala Sound: Vandana Ramakrishna Editor: Gautam Pappu Production Designer : Sriram K Synopsis: This documentary follows the work of a community radio named Kadal Osai, the only initiative for fishermen in India, located in the small island of Pamban, near Rameshvaram, India. It's main objective is to educate the local community about climate change and how the Ocean behaves due to these changes. |
Annapurna College of Film and Media | India | 7 |
| 56-59 | AWAY TO ME
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Details:Length: 18'Screenwriter: n/a Director: Olivia Ay, Dylan Bruce Producer: Livan Garcia Animator: n/a DOP: Dylan Bruce Sound: Billy Morley Editor: Billy Morley Production Designer : n/a Synopsis: An elderly hill farmer, Patrick, is approaching a time in his life where he can no longer carry out the physical duties of maintaining a farm in the way he once could. This documentary explores the difficult relationship between age and purpose when it comes to working in the Brecon Beacons. |
Westminster Film BA / University of Westminster (WFS) | United Kingdom | 6 |
| 56-59 | EXCLUSION ZONE
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Details:Length: 13'Screenwriter: Julia Rytik Director: Julia Rytik Producer: Arthur Miller Animator: n/a DOP: Julia Rytik Sound: Ivan Apilat Editor: Julia Rytik Production Designer : n/a Synopsis: The film is about how and under what conditions the inhabitants of the territories that have experienced the consequences of the Chernobyl disaster live at present; what they hide and what they have never previously dared to speak aloud. |
GITR FILM & TELEVISION SCHOOL | Russia | 6 |
| 56-59 | MOM HAS TO LIVE
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Details:Length: 17'Screenwriter: Co Hoa Director: Trinh Cong Son Producer: Trinh Cong Son Animator: n/a DOP: Trinh Cong Son Sound: n/a Editor: Trinh Cong Son Production Designer : n/a Synopsis: About mother Nguyen Thi Gam, In Thanh Hoa, Vietnam, who Is trying to llva to take care other children. |
Hanoi Academy of Theatre and Cinema | Vietnam | 6 |
| 56-59 | SECOND SUN
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Details:Length: 24'Screenwriter: Jay Strojnowski Director: Jay Strojnowski Producer: Jay Strojnowski Animator: n/a DOP: Nick Tucker Sound: Ott House Audio Editor: Jay Strojnowski Production Designer : n/a Synopsis: An immersive meditation featuring the earth, sky and water as subjects filmed entirely with infrared light and color. |
American University | United States | 6 |
| 60-65 | 34 KULELI
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Details:Length: 27'Screenwriter: Yaren Temurlenk Director: Yaren Temurlenk Producer: Sevinc Thunold Animator: Ahmad Saif Duman DOP: Ahmad Saif Duman Sound: Ahmad Saif Duman Editor: Yaren Temurlenk Production Designer : Sevinc Thunold Synopsis: Peace among people who commune with nature in Kuleli Emek Neighborhood, their commitment to the soil, their hope about life style they live at all time, their life they established through nature which shows that by raising awareness of the youth and next generation about this path, effort can overcome anything with a mirror for them. |
Istanbul Kultur University (IKU) | Turkey | 5 |
| 60-65 | A FILM THAT WASN`T DONE
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Details:Length: 18'Screenwriter: Giovanni D'Onofrio Director: Giovanni D'Onofrio Producer: ENSAV, Giovanni D'Onofrio Animator: n/a DOP: Giovanni D'Onofrio Sound: Giovanni D'Onofrio Editor: Giovanni D'Onofrio Production Designer : Giovanni D'Onofrio Synopsis: A small documentary about the geography of a lost film. |
ENSAV | France | 5 |
| 60-65 | AFTERTASTE
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Details:Length: 11'Screenwriter: Camila Souto Director: Camila Souto Producer: Camila Souto Animator: n/a DOP: Camila Souto Sound: n/a Editor: Camila Souto Production Designer : n/a Synopsis: A self inducted journey tough memory and family files, of a separation, and a reunion. |
Film School of Uruguay (ECU) | Uruguay | 5 |
| 60-65 | ELEPHANT IN THE ROOM
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Details:Length: 20'Screenwriter: Hariz Zulkifli Director: Hariz Zulkifli Producer: Chia Choong Kai Animator: n/a DOP: Kayson Lau Sound: Chia Choong Kai, Craig Woo Editor: Jordan Lee Production Designer : n/a Synopsis: Two years following the death of his father, a young elephant caretaker, Are Riengngen, is forced to care for the elephant that killed him whilst caring for his own family and inherited elephant, Pong. Ekasit, the elephant that killed his father, was known to be undergoing the process of musth, a psychological phenomenon which causes an elephant's rage at a certain age. This documentary depicts the young caretaker's life with his two elephants as his mother recounts the incident that led to his father's death and the danger that looms over a family who's elephants are important to their livelihood. |
Puttnam School of Film & Animation / LASALLE College of the Arts (LCA) | Singapore | 5 |
| 60-65 | THE FAR OTHER
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Details:Length: 16'Screenwriter: Dor Koren Director: Dor Koren Producer: Dor Koren Animator: n/a DOP: Dor Koren Sound: Royalty free music by Aakash Gandhi, sound editing by Dor Koren Editor: Dor Koren Production Designer : Dor Koren Synopsis: Sea turtle hatchling make their way towards the ocean. Oil spills, plastic pollution and rising temperatures all threaten their extinction, yet this is all far away from here and happening to a species most of us know little about. What empathy have we towards this far other? |
Tampere University of Applied Sciences (TUNI), Degree Programme in Media | Finland | 5 |
| 60-65 | VOICES
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Details:Length: 16'Screenwriter: n/a Director: Selma Pena Producer: Komal Ashfaq Animator: n/a DOP: CT Chen Sound: Creighton Yanchar Editor: Selma Pena Production Designer : n/a Synopsis: Three young and inspired female artists tell their stories. As they share their passion for their respective media, an unexpected occurrence shifts the conversation to modern social issues. The perspectives we hear through the voices of these artists are, at the same time, frustratingly relatable, determined, and hopeful. |
School of Film and Animation, College of Art and Design, Rochester Institute of Technology | United States | 5 |
| 66-70 | DAYS OF PEACE
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Details:Length: 15'Screenwriter: n/a Director: Yehor Vozniuk Producer: Yehor Vozniuk Animator: n/a DOP: Paul Villenave Sound: n/a Editor: Dylan Posgate Production Designer : n/a Synopsis: After coming back from the war in Eastern Ukraine, a group of Ukrainian veterans with different backgrounds and experiences turn to an art rehabilitation program as a way of reconnecting with their community and their own inner selves. |
York University Department of Film - Fine Arts | Canada | 4 |
| 66-70 | DIGGIN UP MY ROOTS
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Details:Length: 17'Screenwriter: n/a Director: Aviya (yaya) Kalifa Sasson Producer: Aviya (yaya) Kalifa Sasson Animator: n/a DOP: Aviya (yaya) Kalifa Sasson Sound: Mitch Clynmann Editor: Nahar Cohen Production Designer : n/a Synopsis: Throughout quarantine and During the COVID-19 Pandemic the director documents her relationship with her father, a colorful and slightly controversial man. Throw the lens she tries to observe him in order to re-learn their connection. The movie is filled with moments of clashes and laughter. |
Ma'aleh School of Film, Television and the Arts (MAALE) | Israel | 4 |
| 66-70 | MOTHER MARTE
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Details:Length: 12'Screenwriter: Dorina Toçi Director: Dorina Toçi Producer: Eol Çashku Animator: n/a DOP: Fatjon Shusha Sound: n/a Editor: Fatjon Shusha Production Designer : n/a Synopsis: In a village in Albania lives a 90-year-old mother. She prays every day for the children grandchildren living abroad for their happiness; In her old chest she has prepared the dress embroidered with her hands for the day of her death. |
Academy of Film and Multimedia Marubi (AFMM) | Albania | 4 |
| 66-70 | SHOWMAN
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Details:Length: 10'Screenwriter: n/a Director: Armin Korsos Producer: Armin Korsos Animator: n/a DOP: Armin Korsos Sound: William Pritts Editor: William Pritts Production Designer : n/a Synopsis: Showman is a short documentary film featuring Justin, a quadrepilegic man living with cerebral palsy. Justin reveals his passion for wrestling and how it goes beyond his aspirations to be on stage one day. His ultimate dream is to achieve things that are truly extraordinary, inside and outside the ring. |
Columbia College Chicago (CCC) | United States | 4 |
| 66-70 | WELCOME TO THE LANES
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Details:Length: 9'Screenwriter: n/a Director: Briana Smith Producer: Briana Smith, Adam Denis Animator: n/a DOP: Briana Smith Sound: Briana Smith Editor: Adam Denis, Briana Smith Production Designer : n/a Synopsis: In a once small but now gentrified and touristic town in Hawai'i, a woman named Rosemarie runs a program for special needs young adults at the only bowling alley in the area: Pali Lanes. |
University of Hawai‘i Mānoa, Academy for Creative Media | United States | 4 |
| 71-73 | CARMONA
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Details:Length: 10'Screenwriter: n/a Director: Juan Manuel Solano Producer: Juan Manuel Solano Animator: n/a DOP: María José Freer Sound: María Paz Quintana Editor: Juan Manuel Solano Production Designer : n/a Synopsis: A traditional fisherman and diver describes his life in relation to the sea just as he retires after forty years of clandestinely diving in the Pacific Ocean. He pauses and reflects on his dreams and his way of life. This documentary adresses universal themes: dedication, fear, love and uncertanity. |
School of Image - Veritas University | Costa Rica | 3 |
| 71-73 | MOM!
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Details:Length: 17'Screenwriter: Vahe Mikayelyan Director: Vahe Mikayelyan Producer: Vahe Mikayelyan Animator: n/a DOP: Artem Strunkin Sound: Evgeny Goryanov Editor: n/a Production Designer : n/a Synopsis: In a small Armenian village, under the rays of the red sun, a woman lives. She only lives for the sake of her son. |
Russian State University of Сinematography n.a. S.Gerasimov VGIK | Russia | 3 |
| 71-73 | THE ROPE WARRIOR
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Details:Length: 13'Screenwriter: n/a Director: Andrew Bourne, Daniel Feldman Producer: Andrew Bourne, Daniel Feldman Animator: n/a DOP: Connie O’Connor Sound: Andrew Bourne, Daniel Feldman Editor: Andrew Bourne, Daniel Feldman Production Designer : n/a Synopsis: Living in a cramped apartment on the beach, Jia longs for the affection of her immature mother, Kata. When Jia seeks Kata out at her favorite club, her mother’s sudden attention is as alluring as it is disorienting. |
Florida State University / College of Motion Picture Arts (FSU) | United States | 3 |
| 74-79 | CHRONICLE OF THE PEASANT POETS
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Details:Length: 30'Screenwriter: n/a Director: Tian Yuqing Producer: Yang Lin Animator: n/a DOP: Tian Yuqing Sound: Wang Jiangcun Editor: Tian Yuqing Production Designer : n/a Synopsis: In Qu Yuan’s hometown, namely Lepingli, members from the Sanlu Poetry Society write and recite poems to commemorate Qu Yuan, a patriotic poet, and inherit poetry culture. Currently, as the death of old president of the Society, the conflicts between organizers and members bring different challenges to the Society. |
Beijing Film Academy (BFA) | China | 1 |
| 74-79 | LAST SESSION
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Details:Length: 19'Screenwriter: Production Team Director: Yaren Karadeniz, Irem Baysoy Producer: Production Team Animator: n/a DOP: Adem Demirelli Sound: Andaç Cavildak Editor: Adem Demirelli, Sena Ertan Production Designer : Production Team Synopsis: In İzmir, a small film theatre is struggling to stay afloat in the face of multiplex shopping-mall movie theaters with the help of its staff and audience. As the only business in the city that screens independent films, a single day in Karaca Theatre reveals how different this hall is from the others. |
Yasar University Faculty of Communications | Turkey | 1 |
| 74-79 | LOST
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Details:Length: 20'Screenwriter: Pan Wei-Chieh Director: Pan Wei-Chieh Producer: Pan Wei-Chieh Animator: n/a DOP: Chu Chia-Wei, Pan Wei-Chieh Sound: Pan Wei-Chieh, Chu Chia-Wei Editor: Pan Wei-Chieh Production Designer : Chang Ming-Hsuan Synopsis: Through the confessions of these lost souls, should we, as fellow beings on the same earth, learn to embrace our worries and woes, or remain stranded in a hell of resentment? |
National Taiwan University of Arts (NTUA) | Taiwan | 1 |
| 74-79 | OUARDA
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Details:Length: 12'Screenwriter: n/a Director: Thomas Lemoalle. Camille Déon, Vincent Escafre Producer: ESEC Animator: n/a DOP: Jiwon Kim, Guillaume Crépinior Sound: Wissem Mejri Editor: Emile Benard Production Designer : n/a Synopsis: The life of Ouarda, a thanatopractitioner. |
Ecole Supérieure d'études Cinématographiques (ESEC) | France | 1 |
| 74-79 | PINK, WHITE & BLUE
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Details:Length: 18'Screenwriter: Ash Malone Director: Ash Malone Producer: Epiphany James, Ellie Emfinger, Erin Gallagher Animator: n/a DOP: Ian Price Sound: Ash Malone Editor: Ash Malone Production Designer : n/a Synopsis: After years of transitioning in front of a camera, Aydian Dowling discusses how allowing his transition to be visible via youtube has helped the trans community as a whole grow in pride and allyship. |
University of North Carolina School of the Arts (UNCSA) | United States | 1 |
| 74-79 | VACANT SPACE
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Details:Length: 30'Screenwriter: Shmueli Cohen Director: Shmueli Cohen Producer: Omer Harel, Shmueli Cohen Animator: n/a DOP: n/a Sound: Mitch Kleinman Editor: Coraline Zorea Production Designer : n/a Synopsis: Due to the corona pandemic, a group of combat fighters gathers virtually for the annual Memorial Day meeting. The casual conversation through the screens takes an unexpected turn, as the group begins to recreate for the first time an incident in which their fellow unit member was killed. |
Sam Spiegel Film and Television School Jerusalem (JSFS) | Israel | 1 |
| 80-87 | BALANCING GRACE
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Details:Length: 4'Screenwriter: n/a Director: Sam Sach Producer: Sam Sach, Florence Xie, Yuanyu Zhong Animator: n/a DOP: Yuanyu Zhong Sound: Florence Xie Editor: Florence Xie Production Designer : Yuanyu Zhong Synopsis: Ms. Danling is a prominent ballet teacher living in urban Beijing, hailing from a lesser known, rural province. She lives to make a life for her family in the city by maintaining a respectable reputation, while balancing pressures and expectations inherent in the risk of creating a new life. |
Bournemouth University | United Kingdom | 0 |
| 80-87 | CAR ANTENNA
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Details:Length: 5'Screenwriter: Adam Černich Director: Adam Černich Producer: Tomas Bata University in Zlín Animator: n/a DOP: Adam Černich Sound: Adam Černich Editor: Adam Černich Production Designer : n/a Synopsis: The car as a transport vehicle and also as a place for short- term survival. Film follows a younq woman who decided to spend the mandatory quarantine in the car. She thoughtlessly survives her loneliness in the society of random radio stations. However, information from the media begins to repeat itself gradually and then results in an incomprehensible noise. |
Tomas Bata University in Zlín / Faculty of Multimedia Communications (TBU) | Czech Republic | 0 |
| 80-87 | CONTINENT
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Details:Length: 30'Screenwriter: Jörg Daniel Director: Jörg Daniel Producer: Jörg Daniel Animator: n/a DOP: Jörg Daniel Sound: n/a Editor: Jörg Daniel Production Designer : n/a Synopsis: Between clouds, Google and parliament seats: along remote locations the camera measures a topography of the continent. A collage of Europe in search of an overview. |
German Film and Television Academy Berlin (DFFB) | Germany | 0 |
| 80-87 | EAT MY JORTS
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Details:Length: 14'Screenwriter: Alexa Feeney Director: Alexa Feeney Producer: Alexa Feeney Animator: n/a DOP: Alexa Feeney, Christi Sessa, Sam Dinga, Gray Babbs, Reed Sound: Alexa Feeney Editor: Alexa Feeney Production Designer : Alexa Feeney Synopsis: Eat My Jorts is a documentary exploring the intersections of queer aesthetics and DIY sensibilities through intimate conversations with three millennial queers, Sam, Christi, and Reed, as they talk about the ways denim plays a role in their lives. |
Loyola Marymount University / School of Film and Television (LMU) | United States | 0 |
| 80-87 | NOW I AM AN AXOLOTL
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Details:Length: 11'Screenwriter: Alejandra Medellín Equihua Director: Alejandra Medellín Equihua Producer: Alejandra Medellín Equihua Animator: n/a DOP: Santiago Azuela Sound: David Montero Editor: Emilio de la Vega Production Designer : n/a Synopsis: The Xochimilcan Axolotl is an endemic species to Mexico City. It's currently critically endangered because of water pollution issues. Even though it's a tiny animal, it's extinction would affect us all. "Now I'm an Axolotl" tells the story of the demise of the Axolotl, repercussions and possible solutions. |
Universidad Iberoamericana Mexico City (IBERO) | Mexico | 0 |
| 80-87 | SATURNIIDAE
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Details:Length: 29'Screenwriter: n/a Director: Matthieu Foucher Producer: n/a Animator: n/a DOP: Matthieu Foucher Sound: n/a Editor: Rodolphe Risse Production Designer : n/a Synopsis: Emmanuel is living his dream: to open a club for himself and all of those that resemble him. A space where moths and butterflies could take the stage and invent their own culture, do anything their imagination tells them. A club of one's own: l'Oeil, where flirting, the cabaret shows and the endless parties are mixed to politics and the demands of a nightclub. How to achieve balance between queer revolutionary ideals and economic viability in the gentrified neighborhood of Sainte-Anne, Paris? |
Ateliers Varan | France | 0 |
| 80-87 | THE NEST
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Details:Length: 29'Screenwriter: Boyka Stefanova, Marina Tsoneva Director: Boyka Stefanova Producer: Prof.Dr. Stanislav Semerdjiev Animator: n/a DOP: Vladimir Trifonov Sound: Stanimir Ivanov Editor: Teodora Gurbova Production Designer : Andrea Kartunova Synopsis: Oksana and Michele are foreigners who meet in Bulgaria and start up a big project- rescuing donkeys and giving them a chance for a happier new life. This may seem like a dream come true, but for Lora- Oksana's daughter, this life isn't quite what she needs. |
National Academy for Theatre and Film Arts (NATFA) | Bulgaria | 0 |
| 80-87 | WEDNESDAY
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Details:Length: 15'Screenwriter: Clara Henriques,Erick Cindra, Luiza França Director: Clara Henriques, Luiza França Producer: Francisco Teicher Animator: n/a DOP: Diego Filgueiras Sound: Eduardo Quental Editor: Victor Ribeiro,Clara Henriques, Luiza França Production Designer : n/a Synopsis: Wednesday at Rio de Janeiro is different from other days of the week because of the soccer game at night. The film shows the routine of some daily workers through the schedule of “Bafo da Onça” radio station.But,as everything isn’t about soccer, some people choose to dance to “tacky music”( Brazilian northeast typical music) at Saint Christopher market, at the end of work day. |
PUC-Rio Department of Social Communication - Cinema | Brazil | 0 |
Animation
| Place | Title | School | Country | Points |
| 1 | I’M HERE
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Details:Length: 15'Screenwriter: Julia Orlik Director: Julia Orlik Producer: Agata Golanska Animation: Julia Orlik DOP: Julia Orlik Sound: Bogdan Klat Editor: Aleksandra Rosset Production Designer : n/a Synopsis: An elderly man is looking after his paralyzed wife. Despite his old age and health problems he's doing his best to relieve her suffering, which is getting worse day by day. His daughter helps him, trying to balance care with her work in the hospital and family life. |
Polish National Film, Television and Theatre School in Lodz (PWSFTViT) | Poland | 101 |
| 2 | O BLACK HOLE!
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Details:Length: 16'Screenwriter: Renee Zhan, Vanessa Rose Director: Renee Zhan Producer: Jesse Romain Animation: Renee Zhan DOP: Adam Singodia Sound: Ed Rousseau Editor: Armiliah Aripin Production Designer : Richard Henley Synopsis: A woman who can't stand the passing of time turns herself into a black hole. A thousand unchanging years pass inside her warm and dark embrace until, finally, the Singularity awakens inside. An immovable woman meets an unstoppable girl in this musical quest to discover the meaning of transience and letting go. |
National FIlm and Television School (NFTS) | United Kingdom | 92 |
| 3 | LOVE IS JUST A DEATH AWAY
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Details:Length: 11'Screenwriter: Bára Anna Stejskalová Director: Bára Anna Stejskalová Producer: Ondřej Šejnoha – Studio FAMU, Bionaut Animation: Bára Anna Stejskalová DOP: Václav Tlapák Sound: Miroslav Chaloupka Editor: llona Malá Production Designer : n/a Synopsis: A short film about parasite, living in a dog's corpse. In ugly world of landfill, he searches for a soulmate, but nobody can see through its shell. The desire for friendship brings him to the edge of death. Only love can give him wings. |
Film and Television School / Academy of Performing Arts in Prague (FAMU) | Czech Republic | 86 |
| 4 | THE THORN BIRDS
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Details:Length: 9'Screenwriter: Fang Qiannan, Pan Yingying, Zhang Jingxiong Director: Fang Qiannan, Pan Yingying, Zhang Jingxiong, Guo Zifeng, Shan Haozhe Producer: Fang Qiannan Animation: n/a DOP: Guo Zifeng Sound: Yuan Dimeng Editor: Fang Qiannan Production Designer : Fang Qiannan Synopsis: According to a Legend, there is a kind of bird that sings only once in its life.It spends its whole life searching for a thorn tree to complete the great song. |
Communication University of Zhejiang (CUZ) | China | 62 |
| 5-6 | EN RANG PAR DEUX (MEETING ALIOU & AFIF)
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Details:Length: 7'Screenwriter: Margherita Giusti Director: Ellsabetta Bosco, Margherita Giusti, Viola Mancini Producer: Centro Sperimentale di Cinematografia Animation: Elisabetta Bosco, Margherita Giusti, Viola Mancini DOP: n/a Sound: Vito Martinelli Editor: Margherita Giusti Production Designer : n/a Synopsis: The idea for the film comes from the encounter with two African boys who live in Rome, and is based on their music. In this film: midway between an interview and a music video, Tunisian Afif and Senegalese Aliou tell their different stories, talk about friendship, immigration, freedom and, above all. about the fundamental value of making music together. |
Centro Sperimentale di Cinematografia (CSC) | Italy | 51 |
| 5-6 | LEAF
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Details:Length: 6'Screenwriter: Aliona Baranova Director: Aliona Baranova Producer: Tomas Bata University in Zlín, Lukáš Gregor Animation: Aliona Baranova DOP: n/a Sound: Jiří Gráf Editor: Jan Saska Production Designer : n/a Synopsis: Huge sailor gets an autumn leaf from a small qirl. It reminds him of his home. How long he hasn't been there? He runs to meet his old parents. What will he find there? |
Tomas Bata University in Zlín / Faculty of Multimedia Communications (TBU) | Czech Republic | 51 |
| 7 | MEMORIES FOR SALE
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Details:Length: 5'Screenwriter: Manuel López Director: Manuel López Producer: Manuel López Animation: Manuel López, Daniel Víquez, Tin Brian Nguyen DOP: Manuel López Sound: Florian Calmer Editor: Manuel López Production Designer : Manuel López Synopsis: After his alcoholic father's death, a young man decides to sell the last memory of him - his taxi. |
School of Image - Veritas University | Costa Rica | 42 |
| 8-9 | I AM A FISH
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Details:Length: 5'Screenwriter: Daria Melnikova Director: Daria Melnikova Producer: Daria Melnikova Animation: Daria Melnikova DOP: n/a Sound: Aleksandr Vanukov Editor: n/a Production Designer : n/a Synopsis: The girl lives in an apartment with a creepy monster who constantly violates her personal boundaries and pesters her with her care. The patience of the main character runs out, and she decides to escape from the house. |
St. Petersburg State University of Film and Television (SPUFT) | Russia | 37 |
| 8-9 | SORRY, I DON’T UNDERSTAND
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Details:Length: 6'Screenwriter: Natalie Feoktistova Director: Natalie Feoktistova Producer: Natalie Feoktistova, LUCA SCHOOL OF ARTS Animation: Natalie Feoktistova DOP: n/a Sound: Ilya Pevtsov Editor: Natalie Feoktistova Production Designer : n/a Synopsis: A careless foreign student, without knowledge of the local language, arrives to a new country and tries to reach the school. Through a series of funny situations, her ignorance will help her to make the wrong choices for the rest of her life. |
LUCA School of Arts (LUCA) | Belgium | 37 |
| 10-11 | THE LIGHTHOUSE MAN
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Details:Length: 5'Screenwriter: Matt Walton Director: Matt Walton Producer: Matt Walton Animation: Matt Walton DOP: Matt Walton Sound: Matt Walton Editor: Matt Walton Production Designer : Matt Walton Synopsis: Utilizing his size to help the citizens of this small fishing town is The Lighthouse Man's pride and joy. However, when the town develops beyond the giant's analogue ways and space gets tighter due to increased boat traffic and infrastructure, the giant feels he has become more hinderance than help. |
Sheridan College | Canada | 31 |
| 10-11 | UNDER PRESSURE
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Details:Length: 6'Screenwriter: Vasil Bogdanov Director: Vasil Bogdanov Producer: Prof.Dr. Stanislav Semerdjiev Animation: Vasil Bogdanov DOP: Vasil Bogdanov Sound: Galo Ortiz and The Bratislava Symphony Orchestra, directed by David Hernando Rico Editor: Vasil Bogdanov Production Designer : Vasil Bogdanov Synopsis: In the film we see a man trying to get to his home from work as fast as possible because he has left the tap water running. Through out the way there he starts a domino effect leading to the whole town getting flooded. |
National Academy for Theatre and Film Arts (NATFA) | Bulgaria | 31 |
| 12 | STRANGE OCCURENCES BUKIT BUABU
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Details:Length: 8'Screenwriter: Wong Shi Teng, Hanna Lee, Yeo Jia Min Gloria Director: Wong Shi Teng Producer: Wong Shi Teng Animation: Wong Shi Teng, Yeo Jia Min Gloria DOP: Yeo Jia Min Gloria Sound: Hanna Lee Editor: Hanna Lee Production Designer : Wong Shi Teng, Hanna Lee, Yeo Jia Min Gloria Synopsis: Strange Occurrences: Bukit Bulabu is a fictional ghost documentary done in stop motion. The story takes place in Singapore and involves a Singaporean influencer, a German Professor and a Singaporean Auntie who is a “superstitions expert”. With the interviewees recounting their haunted experience an underlying family history between the three characters unfolds. |
Nanyang Technological University | Singapore | 27 |
| 13 | REDUCTION
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Details:Length: 11'Screenwriter: Réka Anna Szakály Director: Réka Anna Szakály Producer: József Fülöp Animation: Szandra Farkas, Júlia Gacs, Panni Gyulai, Tina Orosz, Zoltán Reindl, Ildi Szabó, Réka Anna Szakály, Balázs Szentesi, Bettina Szremkó, Anna Szöllősi, Anna Tímár DOP: Réka Anna Szakály Sound: Chris Allen Todd Editor: Vanda Gorácz Production Designer : Réka Anna Szakály Synopsis: Two girls live together along the post-apocalyptic coast, both sharing the same goal of reaching the other side in hopes of a better life. However, when a mysterious character enters the life of one, a chain of irreversible events begins. Relationships fall apart along with the very world around them. |
Moholy-Nagy University of Art and Design (MOME) | Hungary | 21 |
| 14 | DISCONNECT
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Details:Length: 4'Screenwriter: Fee de Koeijer Director: Gregory Samson Producer: Jelle Beuger, Rumi Kaul Animation: Bats Bronsveld, Nils Johannesson DOP: Yorrick van der Gugten Sound: Thomas Machtel Editor: Pepijn Ahsmann Production Designer : n/a Synopsis: The relationship between Anja and David is failing, as some relationships can do. But when are you should fix a broken relationship or try to let go. Anja can't accept the fact that her relationship with David is ending, and David doesn't end it either. Anja has to let go of David. |
Netherlands Film Academy (NFA) | Netherlands | 19 |
| 15-16 | ON THE HILL
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Details:Length: 9'Screenwriter: Lukáš Ďurica, Juraj Mäsiar Director: Lukáš Ďurica, Juraj Mäsiar Producer: FTF VŠMU Animation: Lukáš Ďurica, Juraj Mäsiar DOP: n/a Sound: Lukáš Ďurica, Juraj Mäsiar Editor: Lukáš Ďurica, Juraj Mäsiar Production Designer : n/a Synopsis: One evening, a robot living alone in the woods finds a fallen star from the sky on a hill behind his house. He will like the star, so he decides to keep it. Over time, he discovers that the star is missing in the sky and gradually goes out on earth. So he decides to return the star to the sky again, which will not be so easy. |
Academy of Performing Arts / Film and Television Faculty (VSMU) | Slovakia | 18 |
| 15-16 | ONCE UPON A HEAD
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Details:Length: 8'Screenwriter: ANuodi, ChenYiran, ChenJiawei, YangRuihan, JiXiangyu, Zhang Chuhan Director: A Nuodi Producer: Chen Yiran Animation: Chen Jiawei, Anuodi, Chenyiran, NiXinyue DOP: Yang Ruihan Sound: YangYiran, Li Congying Editor: A Nuodi, Chen Jiawei Production Designer : Yang Ruihan Synopsis: The grandfather decides to go to barber shop in order to get a new haircut for next day’s chorus after picking Dong Dong from school. However, Dong Dong cannot stay still and wants to escape to have some fun while grandfather prevents him from getting out.Finally,Unexpected result happened. |
Beijing Film Academy (BFA) | China | 18 |
| 17 | WOULD YOU PLEASE?
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Details:Length: 5'Screenwriter: Ada Güvenir Director: Ada Güvenir Producer: Ada Güvenir Animation: Ada Güvenir DOP: n/a Sound: Arne Nuyts Editor: Ada Güvenir Production Designer : Ada Güvenir Synopsis: A modern day love story, at the right time but in the wrong place. |
Royal Academy of Fine Arts / University College Ghent (KASK) | Belgium | 17 |
| 18-19 | SIMULACRA
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Details:Length: 6'Screenwriter: Sicong Curry Tian Director: Sicong Curry Tian Producer: Jumai Yusuf , Alexa Velasquez Animation: Sicong Curry Tian DOP: Hark Xu Sound: Dragon Wu CCHH Editor: Sicong Curry Tian, Lai Jiang Production Designer : Menqing Yuan Synopsis: An elderly Buddhist woman recalls a ritual from her past, undertaking a journey of duality expressed through her many identities. |
University of Southern California's School of Cinematic Arts (USC) | United States | 16 |
| 18-19 | TALES OF THE OUTBACK
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Details:Length: 13'Screenwriter: Lauri Ketonen, Konsta Verta Director: Lauri Ketonen, Konsta Verta Producer: Lauri Ketonen, Konsta Verta Animation: Lauri Ketonen, Lotta Taarasti, Heidi Sormunen, Helka Saariniemi, Anne Karine, Lyydia Mäkipää DOP: Lauri Ketonen, Konsta Verta Sound: Konsta Verta Editor: Jasmiina Hmäläinen Production Designer : n/a Synopsis: Three mystical characters gather in misty mountain cabin, where they start to tell stories to each other. Folktales takes viewers to Finnish landscapes where mysterious and strange incidents have occurred over time. After three stories the mist has passed and three characters leave the cabin. |
Aalto University School of Arts, Design and Architecture / ELO Film School Helsinki | Finland | 16 |
| 20 | APOCALYPSE AIRLINES
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Details:Length: 3'Screenwriter: Camille Tricaud, Franziska Unger Director: Camille Tricaud, Franziska Unger Producer: Hanna Bohnenberg, Claudia Schnupp Animation: Franziska Unger DOP: Lilli Pongratz Sound: Music arrangement: Lovemen, Manfred Mildenberger Editor: Camille Tricaud, Franziska Unger Production Designer : n/a Synopsis: APOCALYPSE AIRLINES is a fake commercial for a fictive airline that confronts us with our own contradictions: Everyone wants to travel, discover the world, be free, consume, although we all know the environmental consequences of air travel. Are we ready to make compromises in order to live with full responsibility? |
University of Television and Film Munich (HFF) | Germany | 14 |
| 21-23 | BETWEEN US
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Details:Length: 5'Screenwriter: Niancao Yang, Lite Zhu Director: Niancao Yang Producer: Niancao Yang Animation: Niancao Yang DOP: n/a Sound: Tim Steemson Editor: Niancao Yang Production Designer : n/a Synopsis: Chinese New Year’s Eve, in a car – a father and his child want to confide in each other, but they are under pressure from tradition. As the child talks, the father decides for the first time to summon up the courage to ask whether they are transgender. |
London College of Communication | United Kingdom | 13 |
| 21-23 | THE KING OF HEARTS
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Details:Length: 5'Screenwriter: n/a Director: n/a Producer: n/a Animation: Kimmie King DOP: n/a Sound: Aneli Campos Editor: n/a Production Designer : n/a Synopsis: A game of poker leads to a murder. |
School of Film and Animation, College of Art and Design, Rochester Institute of Technology | United States | 13 |
| 21-23 | THE RED PAD OF COURAGE
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Details:Length: 4'Screenwriter: Chelsea Low Director: Chelsea Low Producer: Chelsea Low Animation: Chelsea Low DOP: n/a Sound: n/a Editor: n/a Production Designer : n/a Synopsis: When Sam, a young school-girl, receives a visit from a blood-thirsty monster, all hell breaks loose. Unable to escape the vile beast, Sam joins forces with a bad-ass female warrior. Together, they must get down to lady-business and defeat the bloody thing. |
Florida State University / College of Motion Picture Arts (FSU) | United States | 13 |
| 24-25 | TENANT
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Details:Length: 6'Screenwriter: Sarah Benson Director: Sarah Benson Producer: Sarah Benson Animation: Sarah Benson, Holly Hamill, Rory Martin, Ruth Harbison, Eamonn O’Neill, Owen Peurois, Eimear Young DOP: n/a Sound: Faith Nico Editor: Sarah Benson Production Designer : Sarah Benson Synopsis: A girl moves into apartment and becomes consumed with curiosity for her reclusive, strange flatmate. |
National Film School / Institute of Art, Design and Technology (IADT) | Ireland | 12 |
| 24-25 | THEM PEOPLE
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Details:Length: 6'Screenwriter: Nausheen Javed Director: Nausheen Javed Producer: Kunsthochschule für Medien Köln Animation: Nausheen Javed, Rajesh Thakare DOP: n/a Sound: Troy Vasanth Editor: Nausheen Javed Production Designer : Nausheen Javed Synopsis: A small child raised to conform to the expectations of society, is unable to differentiate between love, hate and fear. 'Them people' is a short animation film, inspired by a self-composed poem that speaks about the growing intolerance towards "the other", and the obsession to define one's own identity. |
Academy of Media Arts Cologne (KHM) | Germany | 12 |
| 26-28 | MEGHA
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Details:Length: 11'Screenwriter: Rishi Bhaumik Director: Rishi Bhaumik Producer: Satyajit Ray Film and Television Institute, India Animation: Rishi Bhaumik DOP: n/a Sound: n/a Editor: n/a Production Designer : n/a Synopsis: Growing up in a small town in Bengal, little Megha carries a secret that no one's prepared to hear - a horrifying secret that slowly distorts her sense of reality. A scar that lives on her mind forever. |
Satyajit Ray Film and Television Institute (SRFTI) | India | 10 |
| 26-28 | MR SNAP
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Details:Length: 5'Screenwriter: Laila Schmidinger Director: Laila Schmidinger Producer: Anna Nolan Animation: Amanda Palmer, Ash Mayers, Caitlin Carroll, Chantelle Syme, Christy Ho, Gemma Marshall, Genevieve Tree, Jak Bindon, Jay Cole, Josephine Stewart, Sally Stephens, Shah Nawaaz Khan Mohammad, Yiwei Song, Ziyang Zhang DOP: n/a Sound: Sarah Clearwater Editor: n/a Production Designer : n/a Synopsis: Walter, a single father mouse nervously awaits a meeting with the feline head of Snap.co to deliver his latest blueprint designs. |
Griffith Film School (GFS) | Australia | 10 |
| 26-28 | SEXY SUSHI
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Details:Length: 3'Screenwriter: Calleen Koh Yee Lin Director: Calleen Koh Yee Lin Producer: Calleen Koh Yee Lin, Amanda Teo Fung Ling Animation: Calleen Koh Yee Lin, Amanda Teo Fung Ling DOP: n/a Sound: Calleen Koh Yee Lin Editor: Calleen Koh Yee Lin Production Designer : Calleen Koh Yee Lin, Amanda Teo Fung Ling Synopsis: Life on a conveyor belt seems great for Sushi and his Topping friends. But as he begins to contemplate his existence, Sushi wonders if there's more to life than pimping himself out to savage consumers. |
Puttnam School of Film & Animation / LASALLE College of the Arts (LCA) | Singapore | 10 |
| 29 | A FILM NOT NAMED YET AND MIGHT NEVER BE.
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Details:Length: 15'Screenwriter: Lara Yazbeck Director: Lara Yazbeck Producer: Lara Yazbeck Animation: Lara Yazbeck DOP: n/a Sound: Francois Yazbeck Editor: Lara Yazbeck Production Designer : n/a Synopsis: A young woman suffers from depression. Isolated in her house, she spends her time, sitting, waiting for her deliverance. Gradually more and more amorphous, her body embraces the place without participating in it. Taking place in minimalist settings, it becomes the sanctuary of isolation and at the same time its own prison. |
Institut d'études scéniques, audiovisuelles et cinématographiques (IESAV) | Lebanon | 9 |
| 30-32 | CYCLING
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Details:Length: 4'Screenwriter: Victoria Cruell Director: Victoria Cruell Producer: Kayana Waller Animation: Victoria Cruell DOP: n/a Sound: Maddison Whitfield Editor: Victoria Cruell Production Designer : n/a Synopsis: A young woman recounts her difficulty in coping with painful inner emotions, through a series of memories in which her feelings are represented by different forms of water. |
University of North Carolina School of the Arts (UNCSA) | United States | 8 |
| 30-32 | HAUNTED
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Details:Length: 6'Screenwriter: Federico Valle Director: Tommaso Bottaro, Federico Valle Producer: Civica Scuola di Cinema, Luchino Visconti (MCSC) Animation: Tommaso Bottaro; CGI: Tommaso Bottaro, Federico Valle, Alessandro Grimaldi, Davide Nava DOP: Alessandro Grimaldi, Federico Valle Sound: Matteo Gobbi, Riccardo Parenza, Alessandro Nuvoli Editor: Tommaso Bottaro, Federico Valle Production Designer : n/a Synopsis: In a haunted house, the ghost Gerald and his silent tenant, a self-propelled armor named Bob, they spend their quiet "nonlife", between chess games and ghost rants. One day their routine is interrupted by a young thug. |
Milan City Film School Luchino Visconti (MCSC) | Italy | 8 |
| 30-32 | TILL DEATH DO US PART
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Details:Length: 6'Screenwriter: Jef Byl Director: Sofie Vermeir Producer: RITCS – Brussels - Belgium Animation: Sofie Vermeir DOP: n/a Sound: Floris Borghgraef Editor: n/a Production Designer : Sofie Vermeir Synopsis: Leon is a neurotic old man who lives with his wife's corpse. Every day he relives moments from their past together through photos from his diary. Until one day a lost diary page messes up his entire pattern. |
Royal Institute for Theatre, Cinema and Sound (RITCS) | Belgium | 8 |
| 33-35 | FUNERAL
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Details:Length: 6'Screenwriter: Yiu Wan Yin Anna Director: Yiu Wan Yin Anna Producer: Yiu Wan Yin Anna Animation: Yiu Wan Yin Anna DOP: Yiu Wan Yin Anna Sound: Yiu Wan Yin Anna Editor: Yiu Wan Yin Anna Production Designer : n/a Synopsis: In our life, we are afraid of death and want to catch the most important person or the best time of our life, however, we can't control that, but we need to face that bravely. |
Academy of Film / Hong Kong Baptist University (HKBU) | Hong Kong | 7 |
| 33-35 | I KNOCKED ON MY HOME'S DOOR
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Details:Length: 15'Screenwriter: Matthew Khoury Director: Matthew Khoury Producer: Matthew Khoury, Bezalel Academy Of Art and Design, Jerusalem ISRAEL Animation: Matthew Khoury DOP: Matthew Khoury Sound: Hussein Arorui Editor: Matthew Khoury Production Designer : Matthew Khoury Synopsis: George, 11, struggling to figure out what is masculinity along with his body hair growth at an early age for his classmates, George begins a journey looking for ways to deal with his hairy body. |
Bezalel Academy of Arts and Design Jerusalem (BAAD) | Israel | 7 |
| 33-35 | THE PEACH SCARF
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Details:Length: 4'Screenwriter: Del Sego Director: Del Sego Producer: Del Sego Animation: Del Sego DOP: n/a Sound: Brandon Guillot Editor: n/a Production Designer : n/a Synopsis: While in the market, Daisy is distracted by a bird who has stolen a scarf from a stranger, Camille. She hops to action to help reclaim the scarf for Camille, but runs into trouble along the way. Undeterred, Daisy finds her own way to restore the peach scarf to Camille. |
Columbia College Chicago (CCC) | United States | 7 |
| 36-38 | BRACES
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Details:Length: 4'Screenwriter: Chikerlan Anastasiya Director: Chikerlan Anastasiya Producer: n/a Animation: Anna Shvets, Olga Patniko, Anastasiya Chikerlan, Anna Leonchenko, Ksenia Zuikova, Maria Savenkova DOP: n/a Sound: Daria Badianova Editor: Chikerlan Anastasiya Production Designer : Chikerlan Anastasiya Synopsis: Dental story about happiness. |
Russian State University of Сinematography n.a. S.Gerasimov VGIK | Russia | 6 |
| 36-38 | CASE CLOSED
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Details:Length: 5'Screenwriter: Lucy Gatenby Director: Lucy Gatenby Producer: Rebecca Hardess Animation: Tabby Caton-Rose DOP: Aeisha Penwarden Sound: Mitchell Thygessen, Rowan Mathews Editor: n/a Production Designer : Lucy Gatenby Synopsis: When an unexpected security feature derails her mission, a brash spy is forced to pursue a runaway villain in a chaotic chase through and on top of a commuter train. There’s nowhere to run and failure is not an option. |
Falmouth University | United Kingdom | 6 |
| 36-38 | FERGUS, BARTOK & POLLY
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Details:Length: 8'Screenwriter: Mathilde Rossi Director: Mathilde Rossi Producer: Mathilde Rossi Animation: Mathilde Rossi DOP: Mathilde Rossi Sound: Victor Basier Editor: Mathilde Rossi Production Designer : Mathilde Rossi Synopsis: Fergus, Bartok & Polly don't know each other. They find themselves on death row, without a single memory of the past Three chairs are facing them, placed here by God himself. He plays a little game : find out what happened and why they are here in order to escape, or else... |
ENSAV | France | 6 |
| 39-40 | CHRISTMAS AT BROADMOOR
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Details:Length: 3'Screenwriter: Tilly-Fleur Hutchinson Director: Tilly-Fleur Hutchinson Producer: Tilly-Fleur Hutchinson Animation: Tilly-Fleur Hutchinson. Daniel Barker DOP: Tilly-Fleur Hutchinson Sound: Tilly-Fleur Hutchinson Editor: Tilly-Fleur Hutchinson Production Designer : Tilly-Fleur Hutchinson Synopsis: John arrives at the infamous high-security psychiatric hospital, Broadmoor, to find he’s celebrating Christmas with a notorious gangster and a 13-time serial killer. |
Northern Film School / Leeds Beckett University (NFS/LBU) | United Kingdom | 5 |
| 39-40 | IDENTITY CRISIS
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Details:Length: 6'Screenwriter: n/a Director: Natalie Nichols Producer: n/a Animation: Natalie Nichols DOP: n/a Sound: Colette Grob Editor: n/a Production Designer : n/a Synopsis: A cyborg named Scott is looking for the perfect gift for a loved one, but not all is well in this futuristic city when he finds his own picture on a wanted poster. |
Chapman University / Dodge College of Film and Media Arts | United States | 5 |
| 41-45 | BAGGAGE
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Details:Length: 6'Screenwriter: Einat Keshet Director: Einat Keshet Producer: Einat Keshet Animation: Einat Keshet DOP: n/a Sound: Daniel Shemer Editor: Einat Keshet Production Designer : Einat Keshet Synopsis: Reut is excited to join her father, Haim, in a family event abroad. Their interaction soon reveals he expects Reut to make an impression. However, Reut realizes she's very different from his expectations. Just before the event, Reut forms a connection with a unique hair-stylist, who helps Reut express herself. |
School of Audio & Visual Arts, Sapir College | Israel | 4 |
| 41-45 | CAVITY
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Details:Length: 9'Screenwriter: Brittany Reis Director: Brittany Reis Producer: Emma Morapedi Animation: Brittany Reis DOP: n/a Sound: Timothy Drew Editor: Luke Straughan Production Designer : n/a Synopsis: Cavity follows the journey of a little girl Brooklyn with a vivid imagination, who while brushing her teeth before school one morning is transported to a colourful, whimsical land where she follows a fairy but is faced with a challenge as a manipulative witch puts her in danger, forcing her to find a way to escape. |
South African School of Motion Picture Medium and Live Performance (AFDA) | South Africa | 4 |
| 41-45 | CRIMINAL MIMES
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Details:Length: 7'Screenwriter: n/a Director: Harrison Klein Producer: n/a Animation: Harrison Klein DOP: n/a Sound: Grayson McKim Editor: Harrison Klein Production Designer : Harrison Klein Synopsis: Bruno, an amateur mime, is dragged along on an art museum heist by Elle, a criminal mime mastermind. |
Loyola Marymount University / School of Film and Television (LMU) | United States | 4 |
| 41-45 | LETHE
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Details:Length: 3'Screenwriter: Robin Pfister Director: Robin Pfister Producer: Robin Pfister Animation: Robin Pfister DOP: n/a Sound: Jonas Jablonski Editor: Robin Pfister Production Designer : n/a Synopsis: A confrontation with oblivion, familiar emotions and the strong pull of the unknown. |
international film school cologne (ifs) | Germany | 4 |
| 41-45 | MATCH POINT
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Details:Length: 8'Screenwriter: Nicolas Roldan, Evangelina Romero Belvedere, Micaela Tais Pereyra Director: Nicolas Roldan Producer: Evangelina Romero Belvedere Animation: Nicolas Roldan, Javier Etcheverry DOP: Gonzalo Villafañe Sound: Nahuel Quimey Dragonetti Editor: Nicolas Roldan Production Designer : Evangelina Romero Belvedere Synopsis: Benn, a young tennis ball, starts to play the game when Durlot and Winston tell him the bad news: the end of the game signifies the end of their lives. Benn must learn to control his movements and take control of the game in order to save his life. |
Universidad de Buenos Aires / Diseño de Imagen y Sonido FADU (UBA) | Argentina | 4 |
| 46-47 | FOR THE THRONE
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Details:Length: 1'Screenwriter: Adam Wong Director: Adam Wong Producer: Adam Wong Animation: Loise Sota, Beau Begent, Brae Hand-Howden DOP: Adam Wong Sound: Adam Wong, Geoffrey Perrin, Matthew Zagame, David Fesliyan Editor: Adam Wong Production Designer : Isabella Di Donato, Caleb Surman, Caleb Walters, Kelly Zheng Synopsis: On the planet Merriktum, an assembly of alien soldiers fill the halls of a grand throne room. A lone warrior arrives with a mysterious gift for her alien King. Little does she know, the gift has the power to wipe Merriktum clean. |
Swinburne School of Film and Television (SSFT) | Australia | 3 |
| 46-47 | SPINES
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Details:Length: 4'Screenwriter: Julia Conde Director: Julia Conde Producer: Universidad del Cine Animation: Julia Conde DOP: Joaquín Castro Sound: Celeste Dubini Editor: Juan Pomeranec, Nicolás Gutemberg Production Designer : Pilar Fernandez, Mica Snitowski, Julia Conde Synopsis: A depressed cactus falls in love with a mystic rose. Frustrated when comparing her soft petals with his rough thorns, decides to pluck them to be at her level and try to get her attention. |
Universidad del Cine (UCINE) | Argentina | 3 |
| 48-49 | HELLO
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Details:Length: 3'Screenwriter: Mikko Aumala Director: Mikko Aumala Producer: Eija Saarinen Animation: Mikko Aumala DOP: Mikko Aumala Sound: Mikko Tirri Editor: Mikko Aumala Production Designer : Mikko Aumala Synopsis: Three small people drinking mushroom-tea. |
Turku University of Applied Sciences (TUAS) Arts Academy / Degree Programme in Film and Media | Finland | 2 |
| 48-49 | THE RECIPE FOR HAPPINESS
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Details:Length: 1'Screenwriter: Eva Grete Huul Director: Eva Grete Huul Producer: Eva Grete Huul Animation: Eva Grete Huul DOP: n/a Sound: n/a Editor: Eva Grete Huul Production Designer : n/a Synopsis: There are several theories of what is the definition of happiness. Which one of them is the right ingredient of your personal receipe for happinesse, is for you to find out. |
Baltic Film, Media and Arts School, Tallinn University | Estonia | 2 |
| 50-51 | SCREAM FOR ICE
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Details:Length: 4'Screenwriter: Emir Aytemür Director: Emir Aytemür Producer: Emir Aytemür Animation: Motionmatik DOP: n/a Sound: Burak Çambel Editor: n/a Production Designer : n/a Synopsis: The sun shines, ice melts A polar bear on its own A child cries out ah! The haiku poem you read above is the core of the “Scream For Ice”. And the narrative form of “Scream For Ice” is based on the traditional Japanese art of poetry, Haiku. |
Maltepe University | Turkey | 1 |
| 50-51 | THE PĀKALĀ KIDS
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Details:Length: 5'Screenwriter: Gavin Arucan Director: Gavin Arucan Producer: Lisette Flanary, Gavin Arucan, Tiffany Ganti Animation: Gavin Arucan, Jared Louis, Sophia Whalen DOP: Gavin Arucan Sound: Vicky Liu, Alexis Nelson Editor: Gavin Arucan Production Designer : Suky Zhao Synopsis: On the run from their home in the rustic, old plantation town of Pakala Village, two best friends, Lani and Dixie, embark on a journey up Waimea Canyon. |
University of Hawai‘i Mānoa, Academy for Creative Media | United States | 1 |
| 52-55 | MATERNAL AWAKENING
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Details:Length: 5'Screenwriter: Shiika Okada Director: Shiika Okada Producer: Mitsuko Okamoto Animation: Shiika Okada DOP: Shiika Okada Sound: Kohei Iseki Editor: Shiika Okada Production Designer : Shiika Okada Synopsis: I was heading to junior high school one day when my maternal instincts suddenly kicked in. After being held hostage to those urges for a decade, I started to wonder if this feeling was really about motherliness. Virgin birth, genes, pregnancy... I journey through 10 years in search of the maternal. |
Tokyo University of the Arts, Graduate School of Film and New Media | Japan | 0 |
| 52-55 | PROVISIONAL
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Details:Length: 5'Screenwriter: Natalia Díaz Jiménez Director: Natalia Díaz Jiménez Producer: Natalia Díaz Jiménez Animation: Natalia Díaz Jiménez DOP: n/a Sound: Alejandra Urbina, Juan Pablo Otálora Editor: Natalia Díaz Jiménez Production Designer : n/a Synopsis: A curious creature discovers that it can create a whole world using very colorful orbs, however it realizes that sacrifices must be made to get the world it desires. |
Escuela de Cine y Televisión / UNAL (ECYTV) | Colombia | 0 |
| 52-55 | THE GUESTS
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Details:Length: 5'Screenwriter: Răzvan Aprozeanu Director: Răzvan Aprozeanu Producer: Răzvan Aprozeanu Animation: Răzvan Aprozeanu DOP: n/a Sound: Ilinca Mirosanu, Daniel Rizea Editor: Răzvan Aprozeanu Production Designer : n/a Synopsis: One afternoon in the summer of 2019, a fourteen years old teenager named Eduard is playing on the video game console when he is interrupted by the doorbell of the apartment. He receives a watch by courier. Following activation, the boy's body and mind are divided into two creatures: a human fox with human features and a monster. In turn, the real world changes into a parralel, dark and degraded world. Everything culminates with a knock and the opening of the door of the room, revealing a tunnel to the depths of this new gloomy world. Or maybe it's not new at all... |
National University of Theatre and Film (UNATC) | Romania | 0 |
| 52-55 | VARIATIONS
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Details:Length: 8'Screenwriter: n/a Director: Benjamin Sagar Producer: Benjamin Sagar Animation: Benjamin Sagar DOP: Benjamin Sagar Sound: Matthew Sagar Editor: Benjamin Sagar Production Designer : n/a Synopsis: A dialogue between the real and the virtual, Variations explores the developing ways in which we interact with the world around us. |
York University Department of Film - Fine Arts | Canada | 0 |
