Original Film Title: Angel
Director’s Name: Skylar Schanen
Writer’s Name: Skylar Schanen
Producer: Daniela Muñoz
Country of Origin: United States
Country of Filming: United States
Language: English
Runtime: 10 minutes 36 seconds
Film Description:
After falling in love with a fellow ballerina, Elise must come to terms with her religion and sexuality.
Original Film Title: Sign
Director’s Name: Nika Verdzadze
Writer’s Name: Nika Verdzadze
Producer: Nika Verdzadze
Country of Origin: Georgia
Country of Filming: Georgia
Language: Georgian
Runtime: 22 minutes 33 seconds
Film Description:
In order to avoid meeting an unwanted guest, Zaza goes out of the house to idle away time
Original Film Title: Before Night Shift
Director’s Name: Po Wei Su
Writer’s Name: Po Wei Su
Producer: Po Wei Su
Country of Origin: United States
Country of Filming: United States
Language: English
Runtime: 13 minutes 52 seconds
Film Description:
After a post-work conversation over a late night snack, a man realizes he must come to a critical decision about his relationship with his boyfriend.
Original Film Title: Maw of Delusion
Director’s Name: Benjamin J. Young
Writer’s Name: Benjamin J. Young
Country of Origin: United States
Country of Filming: United States
Language: English
Runtime: 11 minutes 24 seconds
Film Description:
Maw of Delusion is a student short film that focuses on addiction, and the manifestations we create when in the throes of chemical dependency.
Original Film Title: Die Schwimmerin
Director’s Name: Sophie Salzer
Writer’s Name: Sophie Salzer
Producer: Sophie Salzer
Country of Origin: Germany
Country of Filming: Germany
Language: German
Runtime: 34 minutes 29 seconds
Film Description:
Marina is 19 years old and has been a competitive swimmer since childhood. When her friend Jana unexpectedly tells her that she is going to stop swimming, an important support in Marina’s life breaks away – alone now with the highest demands on herself, she doesn’t seem to leave the water at all. After hard weeks of training, she manages to qualify for the German championships. When she jumps into the pool after the starting gun for the decisive race, the water makes her feel light, almost weightless. Marina is with herself as never before, she dissolves.
Original Film Title: Psychedelic Reiki Massage
Director’s Name: Michelle Ragay
Producer: Michelle Ragay
Country of Origin: Germany
Country of Filming: Germany
Language: English
Runtime: 11 minutes 16 seconds
Film Description:
Berlin-based Reiki Master Nina Kim explains the magic of Reiki and how through its practice, she changed her life for the better.
Original Film Title: LANAPA
Country of Origin: China
Country of Filming: Myanmar
Runtime: 33 minutes 2 seconds
Film Description:
More than 3,000 refugees from the Kachin ethnic group in northern Myanmar fled to Lanapa on the border with China in 2011 as the civil war continued over resource allocation. The film focuses on a 20-year-old girl in a refugee camp who is a junior leader in the camp and works as an unpaid tutor for refugee children. The film objectively records the process of the producer’s fieldwork, recording the relocation of the camp, the Camp Christmas, the camp funeral and so on. It attempts to record the real life in the refugee camp of Lanapa by video, showing the strength of human existence, the weight of faith and the hope for peace.
Original Film Title: Play
Director’s Name: Olga Kondyli Roussou
Writer’s Name: Olga Kondyli Roussou
Producer: Olga Kondyli Roussou
Country of Origin: Germany
Country of Filming: Germany
Runtime: 13 minutes 53 seconds
Film Description:
Pascal is 16 years old and feels like an outsider. The music from his Bluetooth box is his only accompaniment. This changes when Pascal meets 18-year-old Tim.
Original Film Title: 醉舟
Director’s Name: Xueqi Wang
Writer’s Name: Xueqi Wang
Producer: Xiaojing Ma
Country of Origin: United Kingdom
Country of Filming: China
Language: Mandarin Chinese
Runtime: 18 minutes 9 seconds
Film Description:
When Lu struggles to make her first film, she meets an eccentric man who can be a perfect documentary protagonist. However, this man seems becoming more and more alike to a fictional character Lu wrote in her script, a poet decides to commit suicide.
Original Film Title: Old Donkey
Director’s Name: Xiangang Meng
Writer’s Name: Xiangang Meng
Producer: Xiangang Meng
Country of Origin: Germany
Country of Filming: China
Language: Chinese
Runtime: 28 minutes 24 seconds
Film Description:
An Internet celebrity, a rural couple, and a village head are connected by a donkey.
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