Enhanced Festival Experience
Original Film Title: The Painter
Director’s Name: Mackenzie Bunnell
Writer’s Name: Mackenzie Bunnell
Producer: Berridge Programs
Country of Origin: France
Country of Filming: France
Language: English
Runtime: 10 minutes 46 seconds
Film Description:
Jack, a pretentious American painter, is taken by surprise when his portrait comes to life.
Original Film Title: Lion’s Cage
Director’s Name: Linus von Stumberg
Writer’s Name: Linus von Stumberg
Country of Origin: Switzerland
Country of Filming: Switzerland
Language: German
Runtime: 14 minutes 58 seconds
Film Description:
To free herself from her two pimps, Klea hires a hitman whose assassination plan leads up to a tense reunion.
Original Film Title: To Gather
Director’s Name: Chuchu Yue
Writer’s Name: Chuchu Yue
Producer: Julie Zhao
Country of Origin: United States
Country of Filming: United States
Language: Chinese, English
Runtime: 14 minutes 13 seconds
Film Description:
A story of two unfaithful men engaged in adultery suddenly finding themselves caught in-between an apartment with a clogged toilet as a result of an overnight outbreak of dysentery, in a chaotic city going on lock-down, and the impending return of the man’s wife.
Original Film Title: Parting Moments
Director’s Name: Yawen Deng
Writer’s Name: Yawen Deng
Producer: Yawen Deng
Country of Origin: Japan
Country of Filming: Japan
Language: Japanese
Runtime: 36 minutes 42 seconds
Film Description:
Kajiwara is a member of a university filmmaking circle.She is making her first and last film of her student days.
Immediately before the work is completed, the few remaining production members gather at school with their own thoughts…
Original Film Title: Disconnected
Director’s Name: Anna Maria Christofidou
Writer’s Name: Anna Maria Christofidou
Country of Origin: Cyprus
Country of Filming: Cyprus
Language: Modern Greek (1453-)
Runtime: 10 minutes 35 seconds
Film Description:
A young woman has been isolated in her house following the loss of her unborn baby and husband in a car accident. Her grief has consumed her, her whole life changed in one nightmare. What begun as grief for her, has turned into regular physical panic attacks. While trying to escape her inner pain, she must come to terms with her grief before she loses herself.
Original Film Title: Guan C·X8129
Director’s Name: Yizhi Lin
Writer’s Name: Wenfang Zhang
Producer: Peiran Chen
Country of Origin: China
Country of Filming: China
Language: Chinese
Runtime: 18 minutes 20 seconds
Film Description:
This is a story about Zhixin Zhou, a thirty-year old uber driver, living in the miserable life with the misfortune of origin and loss of family. Even if the strange city cannot offer any meaningful destination but isolation, he drive with calm. Although he have seen such various passengers, the boy in skirt, the thief stealing for bride price, and the abandoned old man with persistence still greatly inspired him. When he is observing others, we are observing him, which is namely an endless cycle between self existence forms.
Original Film Title: 恶性循环
Director’s Name: Tianyun Lyu
Writer’s Name: Tianyun Lyu
Producer: Tianyun Lyu
Country of Origin: United States
Country of Filming: United States
Language: Chinese
Runtime: 11 minutes 7 seconds
Film Description:
Vicious Circle is an experimental documentary animation about my relationship with my mother. The audio consists of a recorded conversation between me and my grandmother.
My grandmother speaks openly about her relationship with her daughter (my mother.)
During the conversation my grandmother explains how she sent my mother to someone else’s house for foster care because she could not afford to care for her. My grandmother explains their current complicated relationship.
My grandmother’s lack of love for my mother resulted in my mothers exerting extreme control over me. This vicious cycle was a result of actions brought about by the family between three generations.
The film uses celluloid film as the main form of animation, and utilizes a large number of photo collage sequences to illustrate the tragedy of two generations of mothers and daughters.
Original Film Title: A Song of starless Skies
Director’s Name: Louis Roba
Writer’s Name: Louis Félix Roba
Producer: Louis Félix Roba
Country of Origin: Belgium
Country of Filming: Canada
Language: English
Runtime: 1 minute 40 seconds
Film Description:
Two monkeys engage in a playful struggle across the heart of the jungle, until an unexpected event shows the strength of their brotherly bond.
Original Film Title: A Song of starless Skies
Director’s Name: Jan Niederprüm
Writer’s Name: Jan Niederprüm
Producer: Lisa Marie Krosse
Country of Origin: Germany
Country of Filming: Germany
Language: German
Runtime: 30 minutes 49 seconds
Film Description:
A Study of the Unknown and the individual Reaction to it.
You must be logged in to post a comment.