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Original Film Title: It’s Raining
Director’s Name: Edward Lai
Writer’s Name: Tianqi Pei
Producer: Dafei Wei
Country of Origin: China
Country of Filming: China
Language: Chinese, Chinese – Min Nan
Runtime: 28 minutes 8 seconds
Film Description:
This short film tells the story of a Taiwanese father and son who reunite after thirteen years, focusing on the emotional relationship and distance between Chinese fathers and sons.
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Original Film Title: ANXIETY
Director’s Name: Maximilian Dziduch
Writer’s Name: Maximilian Dziduch
Producer: Maximilian Dziduch, Maximilian Hock
Country of Origin: Germany
Country of Filming: Germany
Language: German
Runtime: 1 minute 38 seconds
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Original Film Title: Plein Gaz
Director’s Name: Gabriel Boyer
Writer’s Name: Gabriel Boyer
Producer: Gabriel Boyer, Eve Lafont
Country of Origin: France
Country of Filming: France
Language: French
Runtime: 5 minutes 57 seconds
Film Description:
A young man gets into a gleaming Porsche
and rushes at breakneck speed through the
streets of Toulouse.
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Original Film Title: BACKROOOMS – ANOTHER SYNC
Director’s Name: Sung Yoo
Writer’s Name: Sung Yoo
Producer: Sung Yoo
Country of Origin: Korea, Republic of
Country of Filming: Korea, Republic of
Language: No Dialogue
Runtime: 2 minutes 25 seconds
Film Description:
A Sync Company pioneers the Backroom and furthermore makes it their own space.
Meanwhile, another A Sync Company appears in Backroom.
The place where the two A Sync Companies are located is the same place, but they are located in different dimensions, and the two beings move towards the point where they connect.
The point where the two A Sync Companies meet is the starting point of the story of whether they will collide or move forward together.
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Original Film Title: Honeymoon USA
Director’s Name: Jonathan and Tania Schipper
Writer’s Name: Jonathan and Tania Schipper
Producer: Bela Wolf
Country of Origin: United States
Country of Filming: United States
Runtime: 4 minutes
Film Description:
Newlyweds Tania and Jonathan travel the West Coast of the USA on their honeymoon this year, as Covid eases up.
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Original Film Title: Ashes to Ashes
Director’s Name: George Zouvelos
Writer’s Name: George Zouvelos
Producer: George Zouvelos
Country of Origin: United States
Country of Filming: United States
Language: English
Runtime: 2 minutes 31 seconds
Film Description:
‘Ashes to ashes’ starring George Zouvelos is a short film sitcom/romance about tragic events that happened a year ago, when John had tragically lost the wife he loved dearly from a heart-attack. At the same time Lauren dreadfully lost her husband when he was arguing on his cellphone with his talent manager and walked into the path of an oncoming bus. Each of the deceased were taken to the same funeral home for services at the same time, and later to the crematorium where the funeral home put the wrong names on the funeral urns. Fate is the only explanation for the mix-up as Lauren was given an urn bigger than her head, and John received one that fit in the palm of his hand. They both finally found the time to mee to exchange the urns at Laurens apartment.
Directed by George Zouvelos, and the first time opportunity to be an Assistant Director for Deanna Doyle.
‘Ashes to ashes’ is a crescendo scene that launches the success of the television proof of concept pilot called ‘Pushing up Daisy’ created and written by George Zouvelos © Fiat Lux Pictures and Film Studios, Inc. 2022 Fiat Lux Studios.
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Original Film Title: The Adventures of Vomit Cat and Cat Vomit
Director’s Name: Erin Audley
Writer’s Name: Erin Audley
Producer: Erin Audley
Country of Origin: Canada
Country of Filming: Canada
Language: English
Runtime: 1 minute 35 seconds
Film Description:
Short pixel animation featuring a cat who vomits and that which the cat vomits up.
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Original Film Title: Coming Up For Air
Director’s Name: Trina Noel Davis
Producer: Trina Noel Davis
Country of Origin: United States
Country of Filming: United States
Runtime: 1 minute
Film Description:
Coming Up for Air’s message is to smply make it a point to step away from your daily activities for a few minutes every couple of hours and focus on your breath. Breathing is one of the most effective ways to manage stress because it leverages your own physiology and requires no special tools. In as little as 90 seconds, deep breathing stimulates a physiological relaxation response that inhibits stress hormone production, lowers blood pressure and decreases heart rate
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Original Film Title: A Tiger in the Subway
Director’s Name: James Abrams
Writer’s Name: James Abrams
Producer: James Abrams
Country of Origin: United States
Country of Filming: United States
Language: English
Runtime: 9 minutes 13 seconds
Film Description:
An agoraphobic painter reflects on an old white lie his mother told him as a child.
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Original Film Title: TOAMNEI 10
Director’s Name: Theo Herghelegiu
Writer’s Name: Theo Herghelegiu
Producer: Dan Vulc
Country of Origin: Romania
Country of Filming: Romania
Language: Romanian
Runtime: 27 minutes 9 seconds
Film Description:
10, Autumn street is a short about ”extraordinary things happening to ordinary people”. The narrative evolves around a man in his 40s who comes home one night and finds an unknown woman in his apartament.
Built on this funny and odd situation, the film reveals in the end the cause of the peculiar event that generates fury, consternation, and confusion: for one night, two parallel universes overlap, causing the unusual meeting of two lonely people, literally living in their own world.
It’s like a game between the daily tangible reality and the unexplainable magic of life. Our life.
