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OCTOBER 2021 NOMINEES

Animation Short – Official Selection – October 2021

Thar Liggur Hundurinn Grafinn (there’s the rub) | Austria | 2021 | 06’
Director: Simon Skrepek
Synopsis: Machines were mice and men were lions once upon a time. But now that its the opposite, look at all the tired little horsies. How am I supposed to get any writing done?

Devil’s in the Details | United States | 2021 | 05’
Director: Anna Owenson
Cast: Skyler Brigmann, Nola Klop, Matthew Moore
Synopsis: A witch gets less than she bargains for when she tries to summon Satan on her ex-boyfriend. An occult comedy.

Giselle | United States | 2021 | 02’
Director: EMMANUEL SHIU
Writer: EMMANUEL SHIU
Synopsis: I never had closure with my mother, I literally did not have a chance to say goodbye. So this short film became my closure , a way for me to say my last goodbye. I am so glad to be able to share this with you all and for anyone who’s lost someone , this is for you.

Defrocked: Omair’s Solstice | Canada | 2021 | 07’
Director: Denis Moric
Synopsis: Receding into the freezing winter storm and removed from all hope of survival, a defeated mountaineer gives up his last breath in exchange for an eternity of warmth in an afterlife he dangerously comes to learn is more inhospitable than divine.

Earlybird | United Kingdom | 2021 | 04’
Director: Daniel Fitzgerald
Synopsis: Get up early, eat a healthy breakfast, have a great day! Right? (Also available in 1.85:1)

Step into the river | France | 2020 | 15’
Director: MA Weijia
Writer: MA Weijia
Producers: Damien Megherbi, Justin Pechberty
Synopsis: Lu and Wei are two young girls living in a village nestled on the banks of a river. As the one-child policy has led some families to drown baby girls, they both have a special relationship with this river, which looks like a cradle of tragic stories.

Trick or Treat, Alistair Gray | United States | 2021 | 09’
Director: Lindy Ryan
Writer: Lindy Ryan
Producer: Lindy Ryan
Cast: Sam Shearon
Synopsis: In the style of Tim Burton’s THE NIGHTMARE BEFORE CHRISTMAS and Lemony Snicket’s THE DARK, after leaving a school carnival that feels more silly than spooky, a young boy learns about the true spirit of Halloween. When Alistair Gray attends his school Halloween carnival, he is disappointed to see his favorite night of the year has turned more silly than scary—all treats and no tricks. But when he wanders alone into the dark the night before Hallow’s Eve, Alistair meets a spooky new friend that teaches him the holiday is about fun and of fright…and that there’s more than one way to celebrate Halloween.

Above the Deluge | Canada | 2021 | 06’
Director: Allyson Lorraine Glenn
Writer: Allyson Lorraine Glenn
Producer: Allyson Lorraine Glenn
Synopsis: Film Synopsis for “Above the Deluge” Multimedia Collaboration with Visual Artist Allyson Glenn (assisted by Shelby Lund and Lucy Dzou), Music Composers Paul Suchan and Silas Friesen, and the Saskatoon Jazz Orchestra (SJO) Above the Deluge is one of two pieces made in collaboration with the Saskatoon Jazz Orchestra (SJO) for a project called Dimensions of Sound, simulating the phenomena of sound synesthesia. This project builds on a previous collaboration with the orchestra in 2018, when Glenn created and projected a 3D animation including shapes represented categories of instruments – percussion, brass, and wind, to simulate the movements that she “saw” in her mind’s eye. For the latest project, Dimensions of Sound, the orchestra commissioned local musician/composers Paul Suchan and Silas Friesen to create music scores. To inform the pieces, the composers consulted with Allyson about synesthesia-specific responses. In May 2021, the SJO orchestra members were able to record the music independently using new technology, then mixed and put together digitally. Allyson received the music and began the animations by selecting open source video footage of underwater animals that could capture the floating, circling, and fluid shapes she could see in her mind’s eye. For Paul’s composition Above the Deluge, she investigated the shapes and movements of deep-sea divers and animals including otters, seals, fish, sharks, shark whales and water snakes. With her assistants Shelby Lund (Master of Fine Arts (MFA) student, University of Saskatchewan) and Lucy Dzou (BSc, University of Saskatchewan) they created drawings using the rotoscope method to transcribe the collaged footage. On January 21, 2022, the SJO and Allyson will present a live performance with a projection of the animation behind the orchestra. This event will be livestreamed and available on the SJO’s website. The presentation of the animations and later live performance is an opportunity for audiences to learn more about synesthesia and contemplate their own experiences of music. Dimensions of Sound is supported by the Canada Council for the Arts through a Digital Now Fund.

Children Short – Official Selection – October 2021

Heroes Great And Small | United Kingdom | 2020 | 05’
Director: Christy Leung
Writer: Hannah Siden
Producer: Lynn El Safah
Cast: Connie Kiss-Mee, Sean Meyer, Alejandra Costa
Synopsis: Molly idolizes her parents as superheroes until an argument between them causes her to lose touch with her imaginary world, and shakes the foundation of her innocent worldview.

Liv&Bell ” Bell’s long thin friend ” | Japan | 2021 | 05’
Director: Natsuki Kida
Writer: Natsuki Kida, Naoya Kida
Producers: Izumi Nakazawa, Ryosuke Komine
Synopsis: Liv & Bell, the story of Liv, a girl with a big ribbon, and Bell, a colorful hedgehog, who travel in the flying house with an inventor pig. One day, the flying house lands in a beautiful but Lackluster town. On the outskirts of town, there is a lot of nature, but there is also a factory spewing black smoke. When Liv and Bell go out into the town, they are guided by beautiful insects and meet curious-looking creatures. The creatures lie in long, thin shapes. They are making a path between the town and the forest. Why did the creatures appear in this world? A beautiful story is spun in stop-motion animation with a set made of paper craft pop-ups in the background, full of surprises to stimulate children’s imagination. Is it possible for nature and civilization to live together? This is a message to the children who will live in the world of the future.

George’s Chick | United States | 2021 | 10’
Director: Renzi Li
Writer: Renzi Li
Producers: Zhengyang Lu, Jiangyi Zhang
Cast: Vincent Myers
Synopsis: George’s Chick tells a story of a boy whose baby chick was dying. He believed his grandfather’s words and prayed to God for his chick. When he was glad for the chick’s recovery, he found everything was his grandfather’s white lie.

Debut – Official Selection – October 2021

Our First Time | United States | 2021-08-19 | 29’
Director: Ezra Fikru
Writer: Ezra Fikru
Producer: Ezra Fikru
Cast: D’andre Noire, Alexis Calderon
Synopsis: A recently young married couple arrive at their honeymoon suite, where they will finally consummate their marriage. But when the reveal of ones infidelity becomes known, it sends the relationship for a treacherous spin on their most special night.

Drop | United Kingdom | 2021 | 20’
Director: James Thomas Cockrell
Writer: Bailey Newsome
Producer: James Thomas Cockrell
Cast: Bailey Newsome, Anna Russell-Martin
Synopsis: A Glaswegian drug dealer contemplates his job, his life and his not so distant past on a busy Friday night in December.

Documentary Short – Official Selection – October 2021

Always With You | United States | 2020 | 19’
Director: Changhe Liu
Cast: Xi Zhou
Synopsis: Xi Zhou is a young Chinese woman, living in an interesting life as a fashion photographer. In 2018, her boyfriend had successfully applied for his graduation in the United States. At the moment, she had to make two important decisions about her love and future life. To cherish her relationship, what Xi did is that she bravely decided to marry her boyfriend and accompany him studying abroad and starting a new life in an unfamiliar country.

The Last Bus to Nay Pyi Taw | United States | 2021 | 06’
Director: Brandon Bloom, Jordan Satmary
Synopsis: A group of surgeons, speech therapists, and nurses begin work in a desolate hospital within Nay Pyi Taw, Myanmar’s modern capital. • On February 1st 2021, Myanmar’s military staged a deadly coup to overthrow the ruling power, The National League for Democracy, in the capital of Nay Pyi Taw. Nestled within that capital is a small hospital employed by veterans of the country’s bygone militarized era. When the new hospital was built in tandem with the new capital in 2005, the government failed to equip the hospital with enough surgeons with the skills to fix one of the countries most ubiquitous physical deformities – cleft lips and palates. While we no longer feel it safe to make a film with the perspectives of the dissenting veterans that populate the hospital, we wanted to include some insight from our own doctors and volunteers about the people and country of Myanmar from our 2019 medical mission. The coup and COVID-19 have wedged a significant gap between the doctors and volunteers of Faces of Tomorrow and Myanmar, but we hope to be able to return soon.

The World Is My Stage | Russian Federation | 2021 | 03’
Director: Andrew Arrakis
Writer: Andrew Arrakis
Producers: Roman Krupin, Anastasiya Guseva
Cast: Anna Scherbakova
Synopsis: The story of a ballerina who was robbed of chances to perform on stage but fell back in love with her profession. The career of Anna Shcherbakova, prima ballerina of the Russian state ballet, ended abruptly once the pandemic had started. All theaters were closed; all productions and tours were cancelled. But Anna had eventually discovered the true essence of her unique meaning and survived the true adherence to her being in the profession – she reflects on what she has been through when she tells us her story.

Behind The Loom | 2021 | 11’
Director: Heejoo Kim
Synopsis: An experimental animated short film about the impact of war on women underscoring rape as a war crime in 1945. Told from the perspective of one family, this common yet forgotten story surrounding the Siege of Berlin.

Captain Wakusch. The author Giwi Margwelaschwili. | Germany | 2021 | 30’
Director: Kerstin Nickig
Writer: Kerstin Nickig
Producers: Kerstin Nickig, Michael Truckenbrodt
Cast: Giwi Margwelaschwili
Synopsis: The short documentary film “Kapitän Wakusch” (Captain Wakusch) is a poetical portrait of the German-Georgian writer and philosopher Giwi Margwelashvili, born in 1927 in Berlin, a permanent stranger and migrant between Germany and Georgia, East and West, reality and literature. The themes most central in his work are “freedom” and “being foreign”. The film is based on interviews with the old author in the last years before his death in 2020 and extracts from his autobiographical novel “Captain Wakusch”. Memories and literature floating one into another. Margwelashvili’s alter ego and main hero of his novel Captain Wakusch as well as himself, is raised in Berlin in a family of political immigrants from Georgia – a broken family, he says. His efforts to be a real Berlin boy, end up without success when he is thrown out of the Hitler youth camp for playing his favourite jazz albums to his mates. Captain Wakush soon becomes part of the Berlin Swing Youth (Swingjugend) of the forties, dancing to the hot rhythms of his maestro Tullio Mobiglia in the Kakadu dance bar; feeling that this music, and jazz music on the whole, is a taste of the freedom found in the “dixielandish” world… The film takes you into Captain Wakusch’s alias Giwi Margwelaschwili’s life’s journey which consists of many unexpected twists and turns. Captain Wakusch has to find his path between the two DEADLY TEXTS of the twentieth century – the Nazi ideology and the communist ideology. And finds islands of freedom and individuality between the lines – sometimes! Private and historical archive footage, new footage and a lot of good jazz music make you experience the life’s journey of the character (or is it the author – you never know). For Margwelaschwili, writing is his “refuge” as he calls it. His little known work creates a whole literary cosmos with its own playful rules and special relations between author, characters and reader. A playful-literary portrait of a very free person.

The Robot and The Butterfly | Lithuania | 2021 | 26’
Director: Gaile Garnelyte
Writer: Gaile Garnelyte
Producer: Laura Ratkeviciute
Cast: Ieva Mikenaite, Vadim Korotajev
Synopsis: The art of self-realisation: when a young mother IEVA leaves her small daughter to produce a musical performance with much older VADIM, she has to realise that this project leaves her with the same feelings of unfulfilledness like the mother’s role. It became a modern convention to use arts and culture as THE must-be form of self-realisation as it had been the role of the caring mother before. Both puts a lot of pressure on Ieva and her choices.

Experimental Short – Official Selection – October 2021

A Castle in Spain | France | 2021 | 20’
Director: Max BELMESSIERI
Writer: Max BELMESSIERI
Producer: Max BELMESSIERI
Cast: Charlotte DENIS, Angeles MOLINA GARCIA
Synopsis: A few months after a painful loss, lonely photographer Carlota Cortés fails to complete a commission documenting castles in the Spanish countryside. Despite the passage of time, she has remained obsessed with “her man”. She is especially haunted by the memory of one “Tina Tickey”, a mysterious and erotic woman of whom he often spoke. Who was she? During her trip through the barren Bardenas Reales Desert, Carlota’s mental distress grows, and she gradually gets lost in her thoughts, musing about the vital need to take photos, the ideas of property and the nature of matter. These at times humorous reflections lead her to observe the rocks, sand and dust of the desert where she finds symbolic figures of “her man” in the contours of the landscape. Her overheated imagination then develops a hypothesis: could the shapeless “magma” which permeates the imagery – an entity as indestructible as the memory of the flesh – bring back from the depths of the universe the very atoms and voice of her departed lover? By chance, the beginning of an answer appears when she finally meets the real “Tina Tickey”.

UNSHACKLED EPISODES | Austria | 2020 | 03’
Director: Mira Gregorič, Mirjam Sadjak
Producer : Marko Andrea Weiss
Cast: Mira Gregorič, Mirjam Sadjak
Synopsis: Suit. Bruised skin. Existence. Ascent. Interaction. Which possibilities of disempowering objects are available to us and which can we create? How does a uniform work as an art object? Are we following a romantizised approach on bodies? Does looking at squashed skin change anything? The recurring loops, which take on a new role through different sounds, rhythmic patterns etc., guide the piece in directions and develop a diverging dynamic. That creates calmness as well as tension. In UNSHACKLED EPISODES, Mira Gregorič and Mirjam Sadjak use clothing, materials and objects to create portraits and different perspectives on episodes of everyday female life.

Fashion Short – Official Selection – October 2021

CIELO (Sky) | Italy | 2021 | 04’
Director: Michele Bizzi, BG
Writer: Michele Bizzi, BG
Producers: BG, Lorenzo Comoletti, Massimo Comoletti
Casst: Carol Ulivieri, Chiara Giubergia
Synopsis: A dances goes on an emotional journey involving the colors and materials of a new design concept.

No Place Like Home | United Kingdom | 2020 | 05’
Director: Fabrizio Eramo
Writer: Fabrizio Eramo
Producers: Jarno Leppanen, Key Chow
Cast: Aaron Baksh, Jack Beaumont, Max Gershon, Lee Jay Hoy, Travis Clausen-Knight, James Pett, Moses Ward
Synopsis: The film explores a young man’s journey into his subconscious. Through a tactile relationship with the clothing that adorns his bedroom walls, he is able to undergo an ethereal, dreamy experience. However, what at first appears to be a pleasant invitation amongst graceful beings soon becomes a chilling and terrifying nightmare.

Oppression | Denmark | 01’
Director: Sophie Dixen Højland
Writer: Jakob Lander Vingtoft
Producers: Daniel Christen Østergaard, Filip Ørskov Zafirakos
Cast: Magnus Lund Nielsen
Synopsis: “Oppression” is based on the third syn in Martyna Brechelkes’ fashion collection “The Sins of the Patriarchy”. The film works with the shapes and colors of Martyna Brechelkes’ design and reflects on the different layers of pain caused by oppression. The film portrays patriarchal oppression and forces the viewer to take a stand on the issue.

Mini Short – Official Selection – October 2021

Creepy Bits – Chapter 1 – “Baby Face” | Canada | 2021 | 03’
Director :David J. Fernandes
Writer: David J. Fernandes
Producers: David J. Fernandes, Simon Winterson, Sarah R. Kapoor
Cast: Madison Claringbold
Synopsis: Zara, a tired new mom, contends with a baby monitor showing her things in the room that shouldn’t be there.

Baby Food | Canada | 2021 | 01’
Director: Kyle Dunbar
Producer : Rebecca Callender
Cast: Kenton Blythe
Synopsis: Daddy cooks a vegetable puree to celebrate the first night alone with his child.

Addiction | Canada | 2021 | 03’
Director: Marc De Vinci
Writers: Marc De Vinci, Jake Straat
Producers: Marc De Vinci, Jake Straat, Reagan Eve
Cast: Destiny Millns, Rachel Michetti, Michel Duran
Synopsis: A young woman shares her struggle with addiction.

SILENT CRIES | United States | 2021 | 01’
Director: CLAUDIO NELSON PEREYRA
Producer: BELEN PEREYRA
Cast: WALKIRIA ELIZABETH PEREYRA
Synopsis: A BEAUTIFUL WOMAN SHUTS THE ABUSE WHO RECEIVES DAILY

Music Video – Official Selection – October 2021

DoloRRes ★ D.T.R ♡ | Australia | 2021 | 06’
Director: Renee Kypriotis
Producers: Martino Passi, Renee Kypriotis
Cast: Pearl Kennedy, DoloRRes
Synopsis: “If you wanna go, girl just tell me why” DoloRRes attempts to avoid the inevitable conversation of ‘Defining the Relationship’ with his significant other.

Panties And Chocolate – Love Song For Cuckold Teens | France | 2021 | 03’
Director: Shawy, Jeremiaah Bourgeois
Writer: Jeremiaah Bourgeois
Producer: Jeremiaah Bourgeois, Shawy
Synopsis: Animated Music video in piexel-art

Damage Control | Canada | 2021 | 04’
Director: Greg Doble
Synopsis: Luke, Ross and Kyle, also known as the alternative rock band, The Dirty Nil, stumble upon a fortune telling wizard. What damage does their future hold?

Walk Into the Water | United States | 2020 | 05’
Director: Aric Johnson
Writer: Aric Johnson
Producer: Anti-Matter Media
Cast: Kristi Krings, aka Nation of One
Synopsis: Walk into the Water responds to our turbulent world with a message about longing, courage, and hope. Song by electronic music pioneer BT, featuring lyrics and vocals by Nation of One. Shot entirely during the pandemic lockdown, and being continually chased away from locations by the worst wildfires in Colorado history, first-time director Aric Johnson overcomes impossible odds to deliver a haunting and beautiful music art piece.

Space Chaser – Remnants of Technology | Germany | 2021 | 09’
Director: Lucas Fiederling
Writer: Lucas Fiederling
Producers: Boromir Bogumil, Vanessa Linden
Cast: Mila Loewen, Laura Müller, Eva Ariane, Felina Kirstein, Siegfried Rudzynski
Synopsis: A german thrash metal band get’s teleported into a cantina bar in a distand galaxy and has to show all the alien creatures what they are about.

Drug Marathon | Mexico | 06’
Director: Pablo Fuentes Rivera
Writer: Pablo Fuentes Rivera
Producer: Pablo Fuentes Rivera
Cast: Bobby, Gorilla, Bettine Mackenzie
Synopsis: Official Music Video by Pablo Fuentes Rivera for ¨Drug Marathon¨ by Ali X x Ximena (Original Mix) released by Playground Records.

Got to move | Germany | 2021 | 04’
Director: Oltscho
Writer: Oltscho
Producer: Oltscho
Cast: Oltscho
Synopsis: A man in front of the assembly line of a sushi bar. The comforts of our consumer world passing by. But the beautiful glow is suddenly clouded. The disturbing injustice that is linked to our consumer behavior pushes itself into the picture and challenges our conscience.

Pillophobia – La Nausee | France | 2020 | 05’
Director: Sébastien Combet
Writer: Sébastien Combet
Producer: Sébastien Combet
Cast: Sébastien Combet
Synopsis: A man stay late at is work, and seems forced to stay there forever…

Viata Nu Fi Hoata | Romania | 2021 |04’
Director: ANDREA VONJAKO GIACOMINI
Writer: ANDREA GIACOMINI
Producer: ANDREA GIACOMINI
Cast: DAMIAN DRAGHICI
Synopsis: Damian & Brothers music video performing around the streets of Bucharest.

Community College – Miranda Fling | United States | 2021 | 05’
Director: Blue Stephens
Cast: Miranda Fling, Ethan Chamberlain, Brody Stephens
Synopsis: A young girl finds herself in the whirlwind of a new romance but, in an effort to impress begins to lose sight of herself in the relationship and must decide whether to stay with him or break her pattern of self-destruction.

Miracle | Iceland | 2021 | 05’
Director: Hrund Atladóttir
Producer: Magnús Jónsson
Cast: Daniel Ágúst, Magnús Jónsson, Alda Daníelsdóttir, Hrund Atladóttir

Unscored – COWBOY | Australia | 2021 | 05’
Director: Harrison W Lane
Writer: Carter Smith
Cast: Kyle Leittermann, Emma Colley
Synopsis: A young man rides a stolen bike to a party with the sole intention to self implode.

Narrative Short – Official Selection – October 2021

No man’s Land | 2021 | 02’
Director: Kim HyunJong
Producer: Kim HyunJong
Synopsis: In 1916, a large battle took place in Verdun, one of the western French fronts. There is a sound of fire everywhere and a shower of bullets. To occupy only a few inches of land, countless soldiers rush to the front line knowing death. After the desperate battle, a soldier who is left alone is lost in deep thought, recalling the horrors of the last battle. “No Man’s Land” is based on the Battle of Verdun, one of the largest battles on the Western Front of World War I in 1916. The Battle of Verdun lasted a total of 303 days, with approximately 714,231 casualties and 377,231 French and 337,000 German. It is recorded as one of the longest and most terrible war of attrition in human history.

Do You Still Ask About Me | United Kingdom | 2021 | 10’
Director: Daniel Bott
Writer: Daniel Bott
Producer: Daniel Bott, James Knowles
Cast: Jordan Akkaya, Alexandra Daszewski, Duncan Ross
Synopsis: A sullen twenty-something explores his distorted memory and fragile identity in an unorthodox therapy session.

Hellhole | United States | 2021 | 27’
Director: Andreas Rothbart
Writer: Andreas Rothbart
Producers: Eric Chang, Miriam Rothbart
Cast: Greg Kriek, Benedikt Sebastian, Gabriella Toth
Synopsis: A U.S. Air Force pilot wakes up in a desolate desert, unsure of how he got there. Upon encountering a mysterious plague doctor, he finds himself on a journey through the nine circles of hell. Unsure if he is dead or alive, he seeks answers and ultimately redemption.

Angelos At Christmas | Greece | 2020 | 18’
Director: FOTIS ZAMPETAKIS
Writer: FOTIS ZAMPETAKIS
Producer: ARTemis Productions
Cast: DIMITIRIS GEORGALAS, MARIOS NOUSIAS, YVONNE MALTEZOU
It is Christmas Eve. Angelos, a mysterious 50-year-old man, observes a young boy singing the carols in the streets of Athens. He convinces the child to go with him in his car towards an unknown destination.

I Exist Because You’re Here | Ireland | 2021 | 14’
Director: Ingrid Machado
Writer: Ingrid Machado
Producers: Ingrid Machado, Vivienne Murphy
Cast: Liam Burke, Elitsa Dimova, Emer Casey, Demi Bhamber
Synopsis: In a three-floor house, a 79-year-old man lives with his wife’s memories that he avoids facing by spending all day in a local cinema. The walls in his house are now slowly ageing while Thomas’s wrinkles start telling the time. On an essential visit to the groceries, he notices a telescope, that once belonged to his wife, sitting at the window of an antique shop. Thomas tries to buy the telescope; however, the Antique Shop Owner is a collector of broken things and selling her dearest objects are not on her agenda. His dearest telescope is Thomas’ only companion and his life project for a while. This is a film that dialogues with our lonely selves. To be lonely and when we don’t show up. It’s, hopefully, a wake-up call for being more present to our loved ones and finding joy in our surroundings, making the most when it seems there’s very little available for us. Even if the joy comes from warming memories and broken objects.

Incident at school | Denmark | 2020 | 23’
Director: Jacob Thomas Pilgaard
Writer: Jacob Thomas Pilgaard
Producer: Cecilie Jensen
Cast: Cecilie Elisabeth Bogø Bach, Camilla Bendix, Mads Kruse
Synopsis: A shooting at a university—played out for 24 terrifying minutes—in a single unbroken close-up of a young woman hiding in an auditorium. Selected for 6 Oscar qualifying festivals. Award winner at Short Shorts Film Festival & Asia 2021

The Morning After | United Kingdom | 2021 | 12’
Director: Magnus Lyche
Writer: Magnus Lyche
Producer: Yevgeniya Filchenkova
Cast: Abbie Steele, Scarlett Rayner, Tedroy Newell
Synopsis: A young teenager, hiding from her overbearing mother, must journey to the local pharmacy to buy a morning after pill. When her mother finds out, they must let bygones be bygones and overcome their differences.

ZERO KILOMETER | India | 2021 | 15’
Director: SHAMAS NAWAB SIDDIQUI
Writer: SHAMAS NAWAB SIDDIQUI
Producer: SHAMASUDDIN SIDDIQUI
Cast: TANYA DESAI, JAIHIND KUMAR
Synopsis: Kajal, a small town villager woman who is always busy with her family and work as labourer in briquette furnace to feed her child, sister and useless husband. The supervisor of that briquette furnace is always trying to trap Kajal to fall in love with him, but Kajal ignores him and continues her work. One day Jai got the clue that Kajal is fond of bras which she haven’t used in her entire life ,so he buys some bras and keeps it where Kajal works. And Kajal finds the bras while working. Kajal realizes that she can’t fulfil her desire due to family responsibilities and poverty ,But Jai can. After that Kajal fall in love with Jai. Jai convinces her and takes her to his home. Kajal finds Jai is married and her wife is coming to his home with Jai’s greedy demand as dowry. Jai is happy as he will get dowry and her wife is coming, so he wants to get rid of Kajal. Kajal did abortion and asks Jai to take me back home. As Jai wants to get rid of Kajal, he takes her the next morning. When Kajal reaches her home, she finds her husband married to her sister and shifting with her kid. Kajal gets stunned. Kajal realizes her family is not her anymore and even Jai is leaving her behind too. And thinking that the journey she started to fulfil her desire has dropped her to Zero.

’91 | Slovenia | 2021 | 27’
Director: Luka Štigl
Writer: Luka Štigl
Cast: Sanja Raičević, Sebastjan Oblak, Luka Štigl
Synopsis: Jan Kok, Luka Štigl, Aleksandar Repić, Mitja Okorn
In the middle of the 10 day war for Slovenian independence (1991), two soldiers day-dream about the future of their newborn country. Ratko and Tugo are volunteers in the middle of a war, keeping post on a barricade… but not much is happening. They decide to throw a small party for Ratko’s 30th birthday. This causes them to speculate and dream about where their new country will be 30 years in the future. As they literally let their guard down, they are up for a surprise. A tale about friendship, brotherhood, an end of an era and the beginning of a new one, full of possibilities.

Color Me Jane | Canada | 2020 | 09’
Director: Mary Darling
Writer: Elisa McRae
Producer: Mary Darling
Cast: Elisa McRae, Penn Badgely
Synopsis: JANE, a spunky disfigured high school counsellor, finds a gaping hole of suck in her life after her bff, DANA, gets married and leaves on her honeymoon. Jane’s consolation: the honour of dog-sitting Dana’s hyperactive mutt, COLGATE. In return for Colgate’s colour-blind, unwavering love, she takes him to the dog park, even in the rainy autumn, which is where she meets TREVOR, a goofily charming drummer with a dog named DEVO. For reasons which baffle Jane, Trevor seems attracted to her. Luckily, she has work to keep her tethered to the real world and at school she finds herself contending with a new transfer student, DOVE, who has been disfigured in a fire and patently refuses to drink Jane’s “you are not a victim kool-aid.” Meanwhile, at the park, Jane and Trevor continue to bond over dogs, obscure 80s music, and a shared sense of humor- including a few jokes at his ex-wife’s expense. This closeness starts to freak out Jane until Dana saves the day by returning and eliminating the need for Jane’s dog park visits. Back at school, after a gaff where she speaks her mind a bit too bluntly, Jane manages to convince Dove she can be her personal Obi Wan Kenobi. Things seem to go back to status quo until… Trevor shows up at her school as the music substitute. Backed into a corner, Jane agrees to go out to the club to check out his show. Things are about to get romantic when her birthmark once again becomes an issue and Jane takes off, feeling… once again… justified in using her deformity as armor. So she uses Christmas break to hunker down and get Trevor off her mind. This, of course, fails and like all good things, Christmas break comes to an end. Throwing herself back into work- planning the winter dance and solving students’ problems, Jane tries to keep Trevor at arm’s length. As she continues to counsel Dove, she tries to celebrate Dove’s increasing confidence and ignore that the student is surpassing the master. Then a crisis with another student hits and Jane loses her footing, chinks in her self-protection armor start to appear. Trevor, still working at the school, witnesses this and embraces her vulnerability. Seeing his chance to start a meaningful, intimate relationship with Jane, he professes his feelings. Unfortunately, he expects too much and spooks her, causing her to hurt him for his own good and escape- it’s like the opposite of “you had me at hello.” Jane seeks solace from her best friend, but Dana refuses to join in the pity party, calls Jane on her b.s., and kicks her out of the house. Alone and without a sounding board, Jane flips out, trying to blame her problems on everyone else. At the school dance, Jane finally realizes her immature hypocrisy after getting a lecture from Dove, who is starting to resemble a character right out of “Mean Girls.” (Jane leaves that as a problem to solve another day…) Jane chases down Trevor and fights to win him back, honestly admitting for the first time in her life that she was playing the victim. He accepts her with his generous heart and juicy lips. So she loses her pride but gains someone to make out with. And to love. It’s a pretty good trade.

Puram | India | 2021 | 23’
Director: Karthikeyan Mani
Writers: Okkur MaSaathiyar, Karthikeyan Mani
Producer: Karthikeyan Mani
Cast: Bhanupriya, Praveen Kumar, Logan, Naresh Madeshwar
Synopsis: Based on a 2000-year-old Tamil poem. It’s the year 100 BC, somewhere in present-day Tamil Nadu, India. A widowed mother and her son go about their daily chores while recalling how she lost her father and husband in battle. The mother knows sooner or later she might have to send her only son to the battlefront since an invasion is around the corner.

Twenty Years | Germany | 2020 | 16’
Director: Maren Link-Nennmann
Writer: Maren Link-Nennmann
Producers: Daniel Jäger, Maren Link-Nennmann
Cast: Margarida Neto, Stefan Franz, Mona Kloos
Synopsis: Twenty years of age difference, twenty years of marriage: Klara’s parents have a toxic relationship, marked by sexual frustration and lost appreciation. Klara develops – despite everything – into a self-determined professional dancer and processes her helplessness from childhood days on stage.

No/Low Budget – Official Selection – October 2021

Somewhere in the Sky | United States | 2021 | 02’
Director: Aaron Kierbel
Cast: Nicole Maria
Synopsis: A day after the riots on the capital building earlier this year, family friend and celebrated Los Angeles poet Ellyn Maybe posted a poem called “Somewhere in the Sky.” Her words were a soothing balm and necessary counter narrative to the ugliness on full display in our country. I was so moved by it that I decided to create a stop motion film with it. I collaborated with the talented dancer Nicole Maria

Fleuraison | France | 14’
Director: Sébastien Combet
Writer: Sébastien Combet
Producer: Sébastien Combet
Cast: Gabriel Bismuth-Bienaimé, Sarah Bertholon, Isabelle Desmazières, Simon Tirant
Synopsis: In a hospital, a young disruptive boy does all he can to attract a girl who doesn’t move.

Same Page | United Kingdom | 2021 | 04’
Director: Josie Charles
Producer: Alexandra Boulton
Cast: Alexandra Boulton, Barney Fishwick
Synopsis: ** HONOURABLE MENTION – The Shortest Nights – Short Sighted Cinema** After they have a one-night stand, Luke wants Ela to leave so he can get on with his day. After all, they’re totally casual. And totally on the same page. Or so they say…

The Doc Bender | United States | 2021 | 20’
Director: Stevie Raelynn
Cast: Aaron Abbott, Dave, Sadie
Synopsis: Filming in Leadville, Co. over a 48hr period in June 2021, this is a glimpse into Aaron Abbott’s world. (a.k.a The Doc Bender)

Worlds Apart | United States | 2021 | 28’
Director: Joy Foster
Writer: Joy Foster
Producer: Eric Vazquez
Cast: Ricky Cardine II, De’Quan Lollar, Lyric Hill, Justin Smith
Synopsis: A cynical man, wrapped up in the drug culture is about to perform a heist with friends. The night before the heist his world turns upside down when he gets visited by three ghosts, who are determined to convince him to change his life.

Short Comedy – Official Selection – October 2021

The Big French Robbery | Bulgaria | 05’
Director: Tina Markovich
Writer: Tina Markovich
Producers: Konstantina Manolova, Alex Momchev, Magdalena Staneva
Cast: Nathan Cooper, Igor Jones, Martin Vladimirov

Garland | Russian Federation | 2021 | 13’
Director: Nikita Andrienko
Writers: Anton Nikolaenko, Nikita Andrienko
Producer: Anna Egorova
Cast: Aleksandra Polonik, Ivan Shumikhin, Svetlana Bogdanova, Polina Kupriyanova
Synopsis: A mother with a paranoid disorder prevents a teenager from having sex for the first time. She is afraid that her son’s attempts to grow up will end tragically, like the ridiculous death of his father years ago.

The Struggle is Real 365 | Denmark | 2021 | 15’
Director: Flook Nielsen
Writers: Daniel Mierz, Flook Nielsen
Producers: Daniel Mierz, Flook Nielsen
Cast: Daniel Mierz, Rudi Køhnke, Jacob Svarre Juhl, Stine Primdahl
Synopsis: Daniel tries to impress his new boss in an attempt to get his life back on track.

CHICKS | Russian Federation | 2022 | 15’
Director: Olga Gagarina
Writer: Olga Gagarina
Producer: Olga Gagarina
Synopsis: Inga, who has two loans and a young husband, really needs a job as a restaurant manager. Her natural shyness, as well as the negative attitude of the restaurant owner, who considers all women to be “chicks”, prevent her from showing her true self and talent in the interview. But then the Waiter brings her an envelope with the mysterious title “The Egyptian Story”.

The Warziniek’s File | France | 2021 | 19’
Director: Pierre J. Secondi
Writers: Pierre J. Secondi, Maxime J. Richard
Producers: Julien Vicaire, Pierre J. Secondi
Cast: Julien Pestel, Benoit Gourley, Benoit Blanc, Jerome Lenotre, Lionel Laget, Chantal Baroin, Marion Creusvaux, Matthias Girbig
Synopsis: Paul Warziniek – citizen 4.815.162.342 – is living a happy life. One day, he receives a parking ticket. The only problem is : he doesn’t own a car. Paul then decides to go to the Prefecture to settle what seems to be a simple administrative formality.

Brando’s Spoon | United States | 2020 | 08’
Director: Mac Brydon
Writer: Jane Cortney
Producers: byrdmanco, Lafayette Salon Films
Cast: Earle Hugens, William Tatlock Green, Jane Cortney
Synopsis: Two brothers at odds, bicycle across New York City in hopes of locating a beloved family heirloom.

Caught | United Kingdom | 2021 | 10’
Director: Fred Kelly
Writer: Kathryn O’Reilly
Producers: Kathryn O’Reilly, Anna Doolan, Fred Kelly
Cast: Kathryn O’Reilly, Anna Doolan, Charlie O’Reilly
Synopsis: Caught is a dark comedy. Jay visits Rita’s photographic studio seeking revenge on an abusive partner.

Waking Up to This | Italy | 2021 | 03’
Director: Marco Coppola
Writer: Marco Coppola
Producer: Marco Coppola
Cast: Mafalda De Risi, Giampiero Schiano
Synopsis: How was it like to be born during pandemic’s maximum use of masks? A conceptual work about how our society starts influencing people since they’re born.

Halal Kiss | Egypt | 2021 | 13’
Director: Selim Eladawy
Writer: Selim Eladawy
Producers: Selim Eladawy, Youssef Mandour
Cast: Mohamed Elsewesy, Sherif Eldesouky, Nadia Khairy, Mohamed Elsawy, Amr Amrosy
Synopsis: Strolling down the street, buying a set of porn magazines and erotic novels from a street newspaper and book stand, a middle-aged man gets into a conversation with the seller who finds him strange and outdated. He explains to him that acquiring such material provides a different kind of pleasure compared to modern, effortless ways. Sexual deprivation is displayed evidently on this man, who gets himself into an odd journey of unfortunate events, after harassing a woman who innocently asked him for directions. Her frustration and angriness led her to throw her coffee at him, staining his shirt. Meanwhile, a street salesman notices the situation and blackmails him into buying from his shop, which turns out to be for traditional Islamic clothing, otherwise he will expose him to the people and cops. He is then falsely interpreted by a taxi driver he rides with, after wearing the “jalabeya” he bought, which made him look like an Islamic “sheikh”. In a bizarre transition of circumstances, he is suddenly being asked for religious advice, judging by his appearance. After the taxi driver drops him off, he finds the magazines and novels he left behind. Realizing the man was playing him all along and starts laughing hysterically.

Short Dance/Musical – Official Selection – October 2021

Epitome | United States | 2021 | 04’
Director: Quenne Eric Nonde
Cast: Sarah J Bartholomew
Synopsis: Epitome Experimental Short Film Directed by quenerc Choreography: Sarah J Bartholomew
Loneliness is in fact an chance to reconnect with others and oneself “A season of loneliness and isolation is when the caterpillar gets its wings. Remember that the next time you feel alone.”

La Danza Delle Streghe | France | 2020 | 04’
Director: Maud Pugliese
Writer: Maud Pugliese
Producer: Shane Day
Cast: Kelsey Moss, Marilu Retana, Missy Reyes, Yasmin Pena
Synopsis: La Danza Delle Streghe is an all-women dance piece that explores the question of woman’s objectification, bringing together women from di-verse backgrounds to share in ritualistic movement, trance, and a rec-lamation of themselves.

AMALGAMATION | Cyprus | 2020 | 19’
Directors: Sylvia Nicolaides, Nicolas Iordanou
Producers: Sylvia Nicolaides, Nicolas Iordanou
Synopsis: ‘Amalgamation’ is a portrait of a soulful female choir revisiting traditional songs in a contemporary way, bridging past and present, with a strong voice and a deep sense of community and friendship.

Chronolovie | France | 2021 | 05’
Directors: Victor Cesca, Clémence Rocand
Writers: Victor Cesca, Clémence Rocand
Producer: Amiel Tenenbaum
Cast: Maya Bizel, Jean Duigou, Simon Larvaron, Hélène Degy, Bastien Guio, Julie Guio
Synopsis: A look, a melody, that’s how their love story begins. Suspended above the ocean, the couple progress where music, dance steps, and emotions intermingle. Two souls, one life: this is the story of Chronolovie.

Twenty Years | Germany | 2020 | 16’
Director: Maren Link-Nennmann
Writer: Maren Link-Nennmann
Producers: Daniel Jäger, Maren Link-Nennmann
Cast: Margarida Neto, Stefan Franz, Mona Kloos
Synopsis: Twenty years of age difference, twenty years of marriage: Klara’s parents have a toxic relationship, marked by sexual frustration and lost appreciation. Klara develops – despite everything – into a self-determined professional dancer and processes her helplessness from childhood days on stage.

Short Drama – Official Selection – October 2021

The Monster | United Arab Emirates | 2021 | 25’
Director: Abdulrahman Al Madani
Writer: Abdulrahman Al Madani
Producers: Abdulrahman Al Madani, Rezek Saadeh
Cast: Meera Al Midfa, Huda Al Ghanem, Abdulla Al Hemeiri
Synopsis: When a battered wife seeks refuge in her estranged mother’s house from her narcissistic husband, she finds herself pressured to succumb to his abuse.

The Longest Night | Russian Federation | 10’
Director: Anastasia Kuznetskaya
Producer: Anastasia Kuznetskaya
Synopsis: Two drunk friends, after meeting classmates, decide to go home by car. Everything would be fine, but at a pedestrian crossing, an unconscious girl falls down on the hood of a car. Take her to the police and reveal herself or leave it as it is?

Coagulation | Kosovo | 2021 | 18’
Director: Noar Sahiti
Writer: Noar Sahiti
Producer: Mrinë Godanca
Cast: Adriana Matoshi, Dukagjin Podrimaj, Yll Bytyçi, Ajkuna Hasi
Synopsis: At the turn of the century, a 9-year-old boy and his mother travel to the capital city to undergo a medical procedure.

LOVE IN ZE PHONE | France | 2021 | 20’
Director: JOLIVET QUENTIN
Writer: JOLIVET QUENTIN
Producers: WISNIEWSKI LEA, BILLET VICTOR
Cast: BARBERAN ELISA, CAETANO COGEZ AXELL, BONNEFOI MATHEO
Synopsis: In the darkness of a teenage bedroom, Kilian has just received a cell phone for his birthday. Accompanied by two friends, Julie and Hugo, they watch a porn movie for the first time…

Broken | Ukraine | 2021 | 21’
Director: Solomiia Tomashchuk
Writer: Solomiia Tomashchuk
Producer: Polina Herman

Anita | India | 2020 | 18’
Director: Sushma Khadepaun
Writer: Sushma Khadepaun
Producer: Ankur Singh
Cast: Aditi Vasudev , Mitra Gadhvi , Sanjivani Sathe, Nikhil Dave, Bhakti Maniar, Deep Sheth
Synopsis: While attending her sister’s wedding in India, Anita is pushed to question whether her life in America is any better than those in her hometown.

From time to time I burn | France | 2020 | 15’
Director: Liyan FAN
Writer: Carlos Segundo
Producers: Carlos Segundo, Cristiano Barbosa, Damien Megherbi, Justin Pechberty
Cast: Rubia Bernasci, Carla Luz
Synopsis: Louise is a photographer who seeks the symbiosis of bodies. Tereza is a Franciscan nun who does not want to give up her body. This sensual and spiritual encounter will disturb these two women more than they imagined.

Martin fell from a roof | France | 2019 | 15’
Director: Liyan FAN
Synopsis: While working on a construction site, Martin falls from a roof. His right leg and arm in a cast, Martin can not work anymore but his boss refuses to compensate him after the incident. His pregnant wife, Jeanne, decides to solve this situation in her own way.

The Diver | Australia | 2019 | 12’
Directors: Michael Leonard, Jamie Helmer
Synopsis: Rage, chaos and confusion consume Callan’s mind, creating a destructive environment for all those around him. Only the solitude of the underwater world is capable of soothing his volatility. But when his base instincts are left unchecked, the violence he is capable of displays its full potential.

Hunger | Mexico | 2021 | 15’
Director: Carlos Meléndez
Writer: Carlos Meléndez Meléndez
Producers: Mar Mercado, Tim Luna, Marius Henry Hoyo
Cast: Damian Rodríguez Martínez, Evan Zahid Parra Sánchez, Lilia Mendoza
Synopsis: A child is being tormented by a voracious well demanding food from him. But as he proves unable to satisfy its hunger, he drags himself to find another way of feeding it.

Drink Up, You’re Next | New Zealand | 2021 | 13’
Director: Nathan Higgins
Writer: Nathan Higgins
Producers: Mary Rinadli, Paige Larianova
Cast: John Turner, Phillip Garrity, Josiah Joyce
Synopsis: “Drink Up, You’re Next” is a short drama about the negative cultural impacts of binge-drinking in Aotearoa/New Zealand

Not far out | Germany | 2021 | 12’
Director: Beran Ergün
Writer: Beran Ergün
Producer: Amy Geier
Cast: Miguel Arrobas
Synopsis: For his training, an extreme swimmer goes to the sea at dawn. On this day the waves are very rough, and the man has problems to keep his head above the water. In what will probably be his last moments he makes an unexpected discovery.

Katya | Ukraine | 2021 | 12’
Director: Viktor Demkovskyi
Writer: Viktor Demkovskyi
Producer: German Alimov
Cast: Yuliya Pogrebnaya, Vladislav Verzhbickij, Bogdan Parshakov
Synopsis: 1941. The territory of the German occupation. A German officer takes a village teacher to the forest to shoot. Will he succeed in what he has planned?

Short Fantasy/Sci-Fi– Official Selection – October 2021

Five Minutes | Spain | 2021 | 07’
Director: Genesis Lence
Writer: Genesis Lence
Producer: Genesis Lence
Cast: Aïda Ballmann, Serai Ballmann
Synopsis: Aïda and Serai are the main characters of a not so far future where the rule of law have been lost. The vulnerable people living in a polluted, exploited and wasteland have to pay for clean oxygen.

The Dot | United Kingdom | 2020 | 07’
Director: Philip Clyde-Smith
Writer: Sam Smith
Producer: Zoe Waller
Cast: Olegar Fedoro
Synopsis: The dot leads Man B from his dystopia to a forgotten forest where Cosmic Charlie presents him with an utterly surreal conception of truth, imparting a brief glimpse of that which lays beyond the senses.

Short Thriller/Mystery – Official Selection – October 2021

MYSTERY MEAT | Denmark | 2021 | 10’
Director: Veber Rasmussen
Writer: Emil Veber Rasmussen
Producer: Emil Veber Rasmussen
Cast: Nicolai Duckert Perrild, Mads Nørby , Nadia Jasmin Nielsen , Mikkel Baden-Jensen , Malaika Berenth Mosendane , Jan Korsbakke
Synopsis: MYSTERY MEAT is an unsettling encounter between two people, of different generations, in a Smoky jazz club. When a very insisting older man engages with a younger man, bizarre things start to happen. A strange meat-like tumor emerges from the old man’s stomach and is sucked into a bleeding hole in the young man’s chest – soon after, innocence leaves his body in an obscure and disgusting way. The encounter is irreversible, but one thing is certain – human cruelty spreads like a disease.

NOBOBIES | United States | 2017 | 25’
Director: Adriano Falconi
Writer: Ken Hanenberg
Producer: Michael Davis
Cast: R Keith Harris, Solomon Gibson
Synopsis: Coincidence pairs an affable hitman and an uptight professor at a secluded locale as they dispose of their misdeeds.

At the circuit | Belgium | 2021 | 15’
Director: Olivier van Malderghem
Writer: Idem
Producer: Idem
Cast: Anne Lenders, Claude Monin, Jacques Pinchard, René Clinias
Synopsis: Every weekend, Anne and Jeff go to the Mettet motorcycle circuit. A racing pilot, Jeff is training. Anne takes his lap times. Occasionally, at the Au Circuit café, she negotiates bitterly on the phone the lending of the motorbike. Anne’s gaze then meets that of Jacques, a client who, like his sidekick René is « part of the furniture ». They never exchange a word. One day, Jacques sets off. He joins Anne at the bar.

Student Short – Official Selection – October 2021

The market man | Italy | 2020 | 20’
Director: Paola Cireddu
Producers: Maurizio Abis, Antioco Floris
Synopsis: Mario collects crates from the fruit and vegetable market to sell on for a few cents. He carries them on his back, ten at time, well fastened with a rope. All his co-workers have the advantage of having a means of transport, even though this kind of work is tricky at the best of times. It’s very competitive and scarce , and carrying the crates on foot becomes increasingly harder. And so on his path fraught with obstacles on his lonely and alienated search for crates Mario hopes that maybe a benefactor will come forward and provide him with a secondhand 3 wheeler vehicle. Amongst his intimidators in his neighbourhood and with the generosity of a small time boss nearby he might just find a way to redemption.

The Things I Miss | United Kingdom | 2021 | 10’
Director: Kevin R. Thompson
Writer: Kevin R. Thompson
Producer: Zoe Taylor
Cast: Siân Altman, Paul Dewdney, Thomas Morell, Oliver Silver
Synopsis: The Things I Miss is a short film about the stories we tell ourselves to get over lost love, the objects that are left behind, and the roles that we play in everyday life. The story revolves around Leah as she meets Duncan to sell a diamond engagement ring, but what exactly is it that Leah is trying to sell him?

Silt | Russian Federation | 2021 | 24’
Director: Мария Кашлачева
Writer: Мария Кашлачева
Cast: Виктор Шуралёв, Вера Латышева
Synopsis: A young doctor Mikhail lives and works in a small Russian village. His life looks quite ordinary, but there is one strange circumstance: a real mermaid lives in his bath. Everything is going well, but one day his parents come to visit Mikhail. They are very surprised by the choice of their son.

The Immortal | Bulgaria | 2021 | 25’
Director: Nikolay Dimitrov Urumov
Writer: Nikolay Dimitrov Urumov
Producer: Stanislav Semerdjiev
Cast: Julian Vergov, Alexander Alexiev, Rashko Maldenov, SAimona Halatcheva
Synopsis: Apprentice psychiatrist Dr. Pavel Hristov (33) has recurrent dreams of his patient Lazar (50). The latter tries to convince him he is his father, that Pavel is an Immortal and has to embrace his fate: kill Lazar and take his place. Pavel is mired in dreams and tries to break free – by killing himself. Yet, the Immortal Lazar gets Pavel to do his bidding. Pavel is locked up in a mental asylum; he has killed his father and his pregnant wife.

Nest | Belgium | 2020 | 01’
Director: Van Holderbeke Matthee
Writer: Van Holderbeke Matthee
Producer: Spur Sven
Cast: Vandelanotte Pepijn, Vanparys Karen, Vermeir Tom
Synopsis: In the aftermath of a divorce, a youngster in his 20s is looking for a step forward.

HOW SOON IS NOW? | Israel | 2020 | 15’
Director: Ella Mosseri
Writer: Ella Mosseri
Producers: Noa Shrenzel, Oneg Efron
Cast: Yuval Barkai, Ella Mosseri
Synopsis: A visual poem about a wishy washy relationship, the yearning to childhood and a choir of girls.

Fallen | Hungary | 2020 | 05’
Director: Ezgi Su Korkmaz
Writer: Ezgi Su Korkmaz Budapest
Producer: Metropolitan University
Synopsis: A Little Star comes to the end of his life span and falls down to the shore to become a starfish. Resentful of this big change he longs to get out of the sea. With the friendship of a Little Girl he learns to overcome his fear of change and enjoy this new chapter of his life. Fallen is a student project produced by Budapest Metropolitan University.

A Reminiscent Lens | Ireland | 2021 | 15’
Director: Clódagh Read
Producer: Clódagh Read
Synopsis: In a world where media is limitless, constantly accessible and at the tip of our fingers, a younger generation craves to create more analogue memories. ‘A Reminiscent Lens’ follows three different perspectives on analogue mediums being used in the modern world. This unique and tactile way of capturing memories is seen in the youth of today, in the film community of Ireland and as a creative outlet for artists.

Summer in winter | China | 2021 | 22’
Director: Xiaoxing Chen
Writer: Xiaoxing Chen
Producer: Xiaoxing Chen
Cast: Joy Le
Synopsis: A high school girl Summer has to choose between natural sciences and humanities. Would she obey to probably the best choice or follow her heart?

Twenty Years | Germany | 2020 | 16’
Director: Maren Link-Nennmann
Writer: Maren Link-Nennmann
Producers: Daniel Jäger, Maren Link-Nennmann
Cast: Margarida Neto, Stefan Franz, Mona Kloos
Synopsis: Twenty years of age difference, twenty years of marriage: Klara’s parents have a toxic relationship, marked by sexual frustration and lost appreciation. Klara develops – despite everything – into a self-determined professional dancer and processes her helplessness from childhood days on stage.

Trailer – Official Selection – October 2021

Frames Closer: Gothenburg | Sweden | 2021 | 02’
Synopsis: This teaser is about cinema as a way of getting closer to others and ourselves. Exactly like this, closer as a comparative adjective and as a metamorphosis of a relationship. During a pandemic that forces us to have physical distance, closer is about shortening distances and moving the camera closer to the humanity that inhabits the framings.

Frames Closer: Stockholm | Sweden | 2021 | 02’
Synopsis: This teaser is about cinema as a way of getting closer to others and ourselves. Exactly like this, closer as a comparative adjective and as a metamorphosis of a relationship. During a pandemic that forces us to have physical distance, closer is about shortening distances and moving the camera closer to the humanity that inhabits the framings.

The Float Folks | United Kingdom | 2021 | 02’
Director: Monica Dzikowicz
Writer: Ian Foyle
Producer: Alexander Williams
Synopsis: Meet Len, Cindy, Lucy and the “Float Folks” as they party at the old fishing hole.

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