A Shared Gesture  – dir. Anatoly Cheremukhin

Original Film Title: A Shared Gesture

Director’s Name: Anatoly Cheremukhin

Producer: Anatoly Cheremukhin

Country of Origin: Chile

Language: No Dialogs

Runtime: 12 minutes

Film Description: This is a story about a young violinist who leaves his home in search of a better life. To earn his living, the boy works at a construction site and devotes his lunch breaks to play the violin.

One day a passing by music teacher notices him. Touched by the boy’s eagerness, the musician offers his help in sharping boy’s violin playing skills. The young man happily agrees and comes home to his new teacher. Unfortunately, during the first lesson, the instrument slips out of the hands of a young violinist when he tries to perform a difficult passage.
On the way to his dream, the young boy will have to overcome a series of obstacles: restoring a broken violin, endless lessons and rehearsals. But despite all the difficulties, his efforts will be fully rewarded.

Stranger At The Funeral – dir. Ana Estrada

Director’s Name: Ana Estrada

Producer Rubén Enzian

Country of Origin: Peru

Language: Spanish

Runtime: 27 minutes

Film Description:

The death of Roberto, father, and head of the family, took the town’s society by surprise, especially his family made up of his wife Raquel and their three adult children, Fernando, Mariana, and Alfonso. In the wake, an unknown man that no one knew, only one of his sons, arrived and was very moved by Roberto’s death. Who is this stranger who came to the funeral? What mystery does involves this man? What relationship did this man have with the deceased? The arrival of the stranger will change the life of this wealthy family. Also, will make the viewers reflect on what could happen if a similar situation happened to them. See the unfolding of the history of this short film directed and written by Ana María Estrada, whose unexpected and shocking ending will leave everyone thinking, and more than one, with their mouths open.

Mentirosa Mia- dp. Emilio Costa dir. Bruno Cirillo

Original Film Title: Mentirosa Mia

Director of Photography: Emilio Costa

Director’s Name: Bruno Cirillo

Writer’s Name: Camilla Ragozzino, Salvatore Iodice, Alessandra Lomasto

Producer’s Name: Dorado Production srl, GRG movie

Country of Origin: Italy

Country of Filming: Italy

Language: Italian

Runtime: 4 minutes 24 seconds

Lonely Season – dir. Hamid Reza Mahmoudi Mehrizi

Original Film Title: Lonely Season

Director’s Name: Hamid Reza Mahmoudi Mehrizi

Writer’s Name: Hamid Reza Mahmoudi Mehrizi

Producer’s Name: Hamid Reza Mahmoudi Mehrizi

Country of Origin: Iran, Islamic Republic of

Country of Filming: Iran, Islamic Republic of

Language: Persian

Runtime: 13 minutes 31 seconds

Film Description:

Farzaneh was a compassionate mother and a faithful wife. The life with love was going on, but unfortunately, her life was overshadowed by the shadow of darkness. While she was struggling with problems and circumstances, she accidentally found a secret that changed her life course completely….

Here Is Where the Monsters Live – dir. Chance Fuerstinger, April Matson

Original Film Title: Here Is Where the Monsters Live

Director’s Name: Chance Fuerstinger, April Matson

Writer’s Name: Chance Fuerstinger, April Matson

Producer’s Name: Chance Fuerstinger

Country of Origin: United States

Country of Filming: United States

Language: English

Runtime: 18 minutes 3 seconds

Film Description:

Oliver tries to live through a dark episode of depression; however, memories – both joyful and sorrowful – keep pushing their way to the forefront of his mind.

ARENA – dir. Myles Clohessy

Original Film Title: Maior Que O Mundo

Director’s Name: Myles Clohessy

Writer’s Name: Myles Clohessy

Producer’s Name: Myles Clohessy, Rob Simmons, Jared Safier

Country of Origin: United States

Country of Filming: United States

Language: English

Runtime: 13 minutes 24 seconds

Film Description:

Kbeto is a middle-aged writer experiencing a creative crisis. His biggest drama is not being able to write a second successful book and being able to get out of literary ostracism. On one of his bohemian nights, he finds a diary in a dumpster on the street. From that moment on, your life changes. That diary tells the story of Altair, a dangerous circus dwarf who kills the magician to be with his wife. Kbeto transcribes the diary and releases it as if it were a novel written by himself, but he doesn’t change the characters’ names. The book is a success and Altair decides to go after Kbeto to collect his royalties on the story. Kbeto refuses to admit the plagiarism and must face Altair to settle the score.A story of forbidden love. An LGBTQ drama set in Ancient Rome. Arena tells the incredible true story of adopted son of one of Rome’s cruelest emperors who must choose between his life as the future ruler of the Ancient world or a love and friendship once forcefully forgotten.Kbeto is a middle-aged writer experiencing a creative crisis. His biggest drama is not being able to write a second successful book and being able to get out of literary ostracism. On one of his bohemian nights, he finds a diary in a dumpster on the street. From that moment on, your life changes. That diary tells the story of Altair, a dangerous circus dwarf who kills the magician to be with his wife. Kbeto transcribes the diary and releases it as if it were a novel written by himself, but he doesn’t change the characters’ names. The book is a success and Altair decides to go after Kbeto to collect his royalties on the story. Kbeto refuses to admit the plagiarism and must face Altair to settle the score.

Jenna The Great – dir. Dan Tonkin

Original Film Title: Jenna The Great

Director’s Name: Dan Tonkin

Writer’s Name: Dan Tonkin

Producer’s Name: KT Parker

Country of Origin: United Kingdom

Country of Filming:United Kingdom

Language: United Kingdom

Runtime: English

Film Description:

A cocky student accidentally conjures young philosopher Aristotle into our present and seizes her chance to cheat through her exams.

she Q – dir. Tomoaki Yanai

Original Film Title: she Q

Director’s Name: Tomoaki Yanai

Writer’s Name: Tomoaki Yanai

Producer’s Name: Tomoaki Yanai

Country of Origin: Japan

Country of Filming: Japan

Language: Japanese

Runtime: 1 hour 23 minutes 4 seconds

Film Description:

A story about a man who is skeptical of being alive and explores absurdity. He is informed that he had a daughter ,who died recently. He accepts his existence by thinking about her life.

DIES IRAE – Day of wrath – dir. Nacho Gutierrez

Original Film Title: DIES IRAE (Día de Ira)

Director’s Name: Nacho Gutierrez

Writer’s Name: Nacho Gutierrez

Producer’s Name: MACAON FILMS

Country of Origin: Spain

Country of Filming: Spain

Language: English, French, Latin, Spanish

Runtime: 7 minutes 20 seconds

Film Description:

Inspired by “Qatsi trilogy”(Koyaanisqatsi,1982) and Zygmunt Bauman’s theory of liquid modernity, this film shows with a critical point of view with fantastic overtones, the director’s vision of destroyed spaces and isolated human beings in empty cities: Citizens inside home, watching helplessly as hundreds of thousands of people disappear due to the global health crisis in the new normal as the absence of normality.
However, the machinery of the globalized world has continued to destroy or operate in automatic mode for rebuilding everything that guarantees its development. It doesn´t matters if the zoonosis produced by an animal virus that could infects humans’ beings occurs by intensive animal farming, nor the eternal threat of global warming of the planet. All guilt is immediately forgiven to foster economic growth

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