Enhanced Festival Experience
Have you reserved your Spotlight? Get Your Tickets Now.
Original Film Titlel: LIFE CLASS 1920
Director’s Name: Tom Cowan
Writer’s Name: Tom Cowan
Producer: Anelia Bozinovska, Tom Cowan
Country of Origin: Australia
Country of Filming: Australia
Language: English
Runtime: 1 hour 15 minutes 48 seconds
Film Description:
A re-imagining of the scandalous life drawing class of Monsieur Georges Bresson in a small village in Victoria in 1920.
Have you reserved your Spotlight? Get Your Tickets Now.
Original Film Titlel: Zadra
Director’s Name: Grzegorz Molda
Writer’s Name: Monika Powalisz
Producer: Maciej Sowiński, Andrzej Papis
Country of Origin: Poland
Country of Filming: Poland
Language: Polish
Runtime: 1 hour 22 minutes
Film Description:
Zadra (Splinter) is a talented girl from the housing estate, who is fighting for recognition on the rap scene. Although she seems like an ordinary teenager, in front of the microphone she gains incredible energy and charisma, thanks to which she can captivate crowds. But in an environment full of testosterone, it’s hard to find a place for people like her. Zadra fights for her dreams, but most of all for a better life for her family. Still, music isn’t everything, because Zadra’s choices will be greatly influenced by love.
Have you reserved your Spotlight? Get Your Tickets Now.
Original Film Titlel: Hero
Director’s Name: Dustin Whitehead
Writer’s Name: Myles Isreal
Producer: Amanda Grupp, Sadie Whitehead, Dustin Whitehead
Country of Origin: United States
Country of Filming: United States
Language: English
Runtime: 1 hour 25 minutes
Film Description:
A misfit artist finds out his pre-med ex-girlfriend is pregnant. As she debates whether or not to keep their baby, he must prove himself a worthy father by building a more permanent footing in the world.
Have you reserved your Spotlight? Get Your Tickets Now.
Original Film Titlel: 我和虎妈
Director’s Name: Wei Zhang
Writer’s Name: Wei Zhang, Ruirui Chen, Ying Qin, Yang Chen, Siqi Li, Yu Wang, Haojiao Liu,Wenxin Lu, Yixin Fang
Producer: Min Zhang
Country of Origin: China
Country of Filming: China
Language: Chinese
Runtime: 1 hour 27 minutes
Film Description:
When exam fever consumes a family, a mother’s vicarious ambitions corrode her daughter’s spirit, driving them toward breaking point. This domestic drama dissects the dark side of academic pressure, where worth is defined by test scores, and self-worth sacrificed. Trapped in a twisted tango between apathy and obsession, a teenage girl struggles to find her voice amid the din of inflated expectations. With futures hanging in the balance, will this household fracture or somehow rediscover harmony? Their fate hinges on redefining achievement beyond the narrow lens of conventional success, and embracing dreams on their own terms before Opportunity’s door slams shut.
Have you reserved your Spotlight? Get Your Tickets Now.
Original Film Titlel: Longing for the Soul; A Quest for Rumi
Director’s Name: Gautham Ramachandran
Writer’s Name: Gautham Ramachandran, Hariharan Raju
Producer: Gautham Ramachandran
Country of Origin: India
Country of Filming: India
Language: Tamil
Runtime: 2 hours 10 minutes
Film Description:
A young Government schoolteacher’s life is turned upside down when her aging Security guard father is accused of raping a minor child. Shunned by society, shamed by the media, and fighting against a tight deadline, she sets on a journey to prove her fathers innocence.
The Trust of the innocent is the liar’s most useful tool – Stephen King
Original Film Titlel: Chilling Effects with Glacial Survival Instinct
Director’s Name: Ian Richard Laughlin
Country of Origin: United States
Country of Filming: United States
Runtime: 5 minutes 50 seconds
Film Description:
Oil drums in various forms of dissection, a water tub, and singing kettles form key elements in Ian Laughlin’s sculptures. They are performed on by percussionist David Van Tieghem.
Original Film Titlel: Impérissable
Director’s Name: Nicolas Comte, Joe Hoster
Writer’s Name: Mathieu Châtelain
Producer: Farid Itani, Mathieu Châtelain, Nicolas Comte
Country of Origin: Switzerland
Country of Filming: Switzerland
Language: French
Runtime: 4 minutes
Film Description:
The death of a loved one is a real mourning, but also an opportunity to meet. When his father dies, Mathieu feels incomprehension and anger towards the one who decided to die and abandon him. Although he is overcome by negative thoughts, he does not want the last words addressed to his father to be filled with bitterness. He then meets a little boy: himself, at the age of eight, who still sees his father as an immortal hero. Through the eyes of the child he was, Mathieu rediscovers the undying love of a son for his father. Through this song, Mathieu finally decides to act as a messenger between this child and his hero.
Mourning is the path we take, alone and with the other versions of ourselves that lived alongside the deceased, to accept living without the person who has left us.
Original Film Titlel: Unbroken
Director’s Name: Kathy Moore
Writer’s Name: Tyler James Waters
Producer: Tyler James Waters
Country of Origin: Australia
Country of Filming: Australia
Language: English
Runtime: 4 minutes 55 seconds
Film Description:
This is a story of gender discovery, a search for identity and wholeness. Unbroken is a musical drama showing the fight to become free from the bonds of society, history and shame.
Original Film Titlel: Star Dance
Director’s Name: Elvira Kalnik
Writer’s Name: Elvira Kalnik
Producer: Elvira Kalnik
Country of Origin: United States
Country of Filming: Ukraine, United States
Language: English
Runtime: 3 minutes 28 seconds
Film Description:
Happy colorful party on a beach. Everyone dances to EDM track “Star Dance” while a singer sings the song.
Original Film Titlel: Vegan Cannibal
Director’s Name: Thomas Gauthier
Writer’s Name: Thomas Gauthier
Producer: Thomas Gauthier
Country of Origin: France
Country of Filming: France
Language: English
Runtime: 2 minutes 48 seconds
Film Description:
Groovy, sexy and bloody, Vegan Cannibal depicts a vegetable lover through his several personnalities.