Where there is wind – dir. Pei Ge

Original Film Title: 有风的地方

Director’s Name: Pei Ge

Writer’s Name: Pei Ge

Producer: Pei Ge

Country of Origin: China

Country of Filming: China

Language: Chinese

Runtime: 26 minutes 50 seconds

Film Description:

Conversations between a father and daughter unfold everywhere. They talk about tomatoes, kites, garbage, baby teeth, the Dead Sea, a missing hedgehog named Tuan Tuan and a mechanical beast with the same name, as well as a dream that father and daughter shared. Meanwhile, something is happening in a fish tank.et out.

The Case – dir. Robert Kouba

Original Film Title: The Case

Director’s Name: Robert Kouba

Writer’s Name: Robert Kouba

Producer: Robert Kouba

Country of Origin: Switzerland

Country of Filming: United States

Language: English

Runtime: 6 minutes 21 seconds

Film Description:

A suitcase turns out to be a time machine. As a result, two friends are stuck in a time loop in their apartment. One manages to get out.

Dies – dir. Stefano Di Pietro

Original Film Title: Dies

Director’s Name: Stefano Di Pietro

Writer’s Name: Stefano Di Pietro, Muriel Romero, Pablo Palacio

Producer: Muriel Romero, Pablo Palacio, Real Academia de Espana, Stocos

Country of Origin: Italy

Country of Filming: Italy, Spain

Language: No Dialogue

Runtime: 8 minutes 40 seconds

Film Description:

A moment does not exist in time, it is an artificial fraction extrapolated from a continuum. Art aims to grasp those moments and therefore, like in the creation of a sculpture, it reminds us that there was life and therefore it depicts as well, death. Dĭēs is a film that combines dance, music and sculpture in the Tempietto del Bramante, a temple that constitutes a masterpiece of the Renaissance in Rome. Entering a temple is to cross a threshold that symbolises the passage from the known to the unknown, from the light of consciousness to the darkness of the unconscious, a timeless dimension in which the dynamic creative forces of the individual reside.

Blue Peach Blossoms – dir. Shan Shang Li

Original Film Title: Blue Peach Blossoms

Director’s Name: Shan Shang Li

Writer’s Name: Dan Du

Producer: Wei Da Ding

Country of Origin: China

Country of Filming: China

Language: Mandarin Chinese

Runtime: 5 minutes 14 seconds

Film Description:

The film presents a poetic image. One day, 44 years after the COVID-19 outbreak, he went back to his old house again, walked through the abandoned and dilapidated room, and came to the peach blossom forest behind the courtyard. Looking at the white peach blossoms, he thought of his deceased relatives and a sunny afternoon in his childhood, And the pain caused to his memory by the nucleic acid test campaign caused by COVID-19······

Three Sisters – dir. Lenny S. Gonzalez

Original Film Title: Three Sisters

Director’s Name: Lenny S. Gonzalez

Writer’s Name: Lenny S. Gonzalez

Producer: Lenny S. Gonzalez

Country of Origin: United States

Country of Filming: United States

Language: English

Runtime: 3 minutes 14 seconds

Film Description:

A non-narrative short film about the 2019 Hong Kong protests that explores three archetypes engaged in the conflict.all the mourning, a secret, that they would rather forget. The nightmare returns.

Infinity + 1 – dir. Flo Demmer

Original Film Title: Unendlich + 1

Director’s Name: Flo Demmer

Writer’s Name: Flo Demmer, Alexandra Bekiou

Producer: Flo Demmer, Flo Demmer

Country of Origin: Germany

Country of Filming: Germany

Language: German

Runtime: 8 minutes 3 seconds

Film Description:

Sam, a young boy, longs for his mothers love and protection after his father died. She, on the other hand, struggles to be the mother she wants to be while dealing with her own pain. She knows she’ll break down once that moment of weakness overcomes her. So she cuts herself from her feelings while leaving her son with his own behind.

A Feast That Never Comes – dir. Maria Juranic

Original Film Title: A Feast That Never Comes

Director’s Name: Maria Juranic

Writer’s Name: Sven Britt,

Producer: Maria Juranic, Sven Britt, Rachel Morgan

Country of Origin: United States

Country of Filming: United States

Language: English

Runtime: 16 minutes 22 seconds

Film Description:

Four characters inhabit cycles within cycles of contentment, discontentment, inertia, movement, desire, and betrayal. A story emerges—told through the marriage of music (Ex-Fiancée) and dance (ChrisMastersDance)—functioning as a set of nesting dolls, inviting you to uncover as many layers as you wish. Directed by Maria Juranic.