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Original Film Title: Quimera
Director’s Name: Tomas Vergara
Director of Photography: Alex Arteaga
Writer’s Name: Tomas Vergara
Producer: Borja Fernandez Doldan
Country of Origin: Spain
Country of Filming: Spain
Language: Spanish
Runtime: 12 minutes
Film Description:
A couple battling mental illness confined to their home discovers a painful truth
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Original Film Title: TÍZPERTÍZ
Director’s Name: Imre Mazlo
Writer’s Name: Imre Mazlo
Producer: Imre Mazlo
Country of Origin: Hungary
Country of Filming: Hungary
Language: Hungarian
Runtime: 7 minutes 40 seconds
Film Description:
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Original Film Title: PRITHIBI
Director’s Name: Joy Peter Halder
Director of Photography: Joy Peter Halder
Writer’s Name: Joy Peter Halder
Producer: Joy Peter Halder
Country of Origin: Bangladesh
Country of Filming: Bangladesh
Language: Bengali, English
Runtime: 37 minutes 35 seconds
Film Description:
A film maker bump in to a writer who lives away from any kind technology in a distant village. The film maker convinces the writer to visit his place with a motive of millions of views online. Things take a different turn once the film maker reaches the village.
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Original Film Title: Huzi’s Summer Wish
Director’s Name: Zero Zhele Lin
Director of Photography: Raquel Fernandez Nuñez
Writer’s Name: Guanglei Liu, Zero Zhele Lin
Producer: AJ Wenjun Li, Make Youjun Tsang, Make Youjun Tsang, Dana Yanran Dai
Country of Origin: China
Country of Filming: China
Language: Chinese
Runtime: 7 minutes 22 seconds
Film Description:
Huzi, a 9-year-old village boy, who always wants a mobile phone. One day, he is ridiculed by his classmates for not having a mobile phone on the way home from school. He’s very upset and pacing alone by the river. While he’s kicking the pebbles, he finds a lost phone by accident. This unexpected surprise makes the boy very excited. But how would he handle with this surprise…
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Original Film Title: L’ombre de la Bête
Director’s Name: Frederic Raynaud
Writer’s Name: Frederic Raynaud, Cyril Estevenin
Producer: Fabien Quesada, Frederic Raynaud, Nicolas Jacques, Isabelle Raynaud
Country of Origin: France
Country of Filming: France
Language: French
Runtime: 24 minutes 13 seconds
Film Description:
In a remote village in Provence in the early 1940s, 9-year-old Louis, accompanied by his faithful wooden dog Pégase, investigates the emergence of a danger that is gradually surrounding the locality.
Shot in the first person, Louis’ gaze is the only point of view in the story that highlights the confrontation between innocence, imagination and reality.
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Original Film Title: Tea
Director’s Name: Eva Wu
Director of Photography: Yijun Wang
Writer’s Name: Eva Wu
Producer: Eva Wu, Yijun Wang, Yu Zhang
Country of Origin: United States
Country of Filming: United States
Language: Chinese, English
Runtime: 4 minutes 38 seconds
Film Description:
Josh, an arrogant man, arrives at an ancient temple to challenge the world’s greatest martial artist. Upon meeting Lin, a young woman, he underestimates her abilities, leading to unexpected and deadly consequences. Lin marks his defeat in a unique way, adding to a long list of fallen challengers.
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Original Film Title: La Récréation de Juillet
Director’s Name: Joseph Rozé, Pablo Cotten
Writer’s Name: Joseph Rozé, Pablo Cotten
Producer: Antoine Playoust, Martin Playoust, Nicolas Tzipine
Country of Origin: France
Country of Filming: France
Language: French
Runtime: 1 hour 21 minutes
Film Description:
July 9, Paris. Gaspard, 26, teaches music in the middle school he used to attend as a kid. After his twin sister dies in a tragic accident, he respects her last wishes and asks their long lost childhood friends to spend a few days in the school where they all met. In the memory-filled place deserted for the summer holidays, they gradually fall back into childhood as if time hasn’t gone by. But as a heavy secret shakes their bubble, they have to stop playing hooky and get back to reality.
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Original Film Title: Mosul My Home
Director’s Name: Adalet R. Garmiany
Writer’s Name: Adalet R. Garmiany
Producer: Adalet R. Garmiany, Touraj Aslani
Country of Origin: Iraq
Country of Filming: Iraq
Language: Arabic, English, Kurdish
Runtime: 1 hour 2 minutes
Film Description:
For many of us, when we first hear the name Mosul City, we immediately think of the brutal reign of the so-called ‘Islamic State,’ of humanitarian crisis, devastation and slow recovery. However, this film tells the story of Mosul beyond these stereotypes, examining the aftermath of war, the environment of the city and its communal places, as well as the once thriving energy of the city and its multi-ethnic inhabitants.
Throughout the film we follow the journey of Mohammad Al-Shabaki – a simple man with a compassionate heart. His entire body is covered in wounds, tracing a map of human tragedy. His home is the now roofless factory he used to work in.
In bare feet, Mohammad walks through desolate alleys, passes heaps of rubble still covering corpses and unexploded devices, visits desecrated places like the Tomb of the Prophet Jonah and the charred former cinema.
Mohammad’s soul is filled with memories that allow us to see, hear and touch the life of Mosul that is long-gone but may return one day.
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Original Film Title: The Nana Project
Director’s Name: Robin Givens
Writer’s Name: Eric Ulloa
Producer: Anthony Del Negro, Carl Moelleberg, Shane O’Brien, Zach O’Brien
Country of Origin: United States
Country of Filming: United States
Language: English
Runtime: 1 hour 23 minutes
Film Description:
Set in the competitive world of chess, we follow Nana’s (Academy Award WINNER Mercedes Ruehl) journey in a heartwarming feel-good comedy about reuniting her grandsons (Will Peltz and Nolan Gould) and supporting her retirement community.
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Original Film Title: MAHALLE
Director’s Name: Inan ALTIN
Writer’s Name: Inan ALTIN, Selcuk KOZAGACLI, Veysel SAHIN
Producer: Studio Karinca
Country of Origin: Turkey
Country of Filming: Turkey
Language: Turkish
Runtime: 2 hours 5 minutes 51 seconds
Film Description:
“The shooting of this film in Istanbul was interrupted on the 11th day when the police raided the set. Therefore, the director had to complete the scenes of the film with animation in France.”
“The Neighborhood” takes place in present day, in a poor neighborhood with a high real-estate value in Istanbul… A poor neighborhood surrounded by gardens, flowers and trees… One side facing the Bosphorus, while the other facing the bright lights of the skyscrapers…
A giant construction company, international funding institutions, their collaborators, all with an appetite for the value of this neighborhood, ready to do anything to seize it… Determined struggles of the young of the neighborhood, foreseeing the dangers ahead and putting all effort to mobilize the neighborhood. And a love story in the middle of all of this: Rüstem and Aslı.
For Aslı, her wedding has been the most important thing; but as the day approaches, she would have never guessed how things would turn out. This is a story of creativity. Of the children of the people who don’t only talk, but keep seeking extraordinary means to solve problems.
“The Neighborhood” is a story of love and struggle, amidst suspicious deaths, big money games, and a drug epidemic…
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