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Original Film Title: Crabs in a Bucket
Director’s Name: Alex Hashim
Writer’s Name: Alex Hashim
Producer’s Name: Alex Hashim
Country of Origin: United States
Country of Filming: United States
Language: English
Runtime: 12 minutes 47 seconds
Film Description:
Nelson, an ambitious recent graduate living in New York City, struggles to cope with his two dysfunctional roommates while attempting an impossible job search during the Covid-19 pandemic.
Original Film Title: Enclosed
Director’s Name: Yi Yang
Writer’s Name: Yi Yang
Producer’s Name: Jialiman Sun
Country of Origin: United States
Country of Filming: United States
Language: English, Spanish
Runtime: 18 minutes 47 seconds
Film Description:
On a dry shining day, the bu father is out of home, Julio, a 14-year-old precocious boy, could no longer contain himself to longing for an echo of affection from April, the cleaning lady who comes to his home every week. Everything is seemingly peaceful, yet the emotion, restlessness, and epinephrine are rising as their eye contacts impending something to happen in the noisy sound of the vacuum cleaner working. However, this young boy doesn’t know what to do. He hides back in his bedroom and plays with the puzzle with the pattern of Oedipus, expecting April to come in. She does, following the housework routine but in a mood of repression, and does not notice and understand the puzzles’ message, which is an obscure love letter speaking for Julio. Coming back and forth from the laundry room, April, having the bruise on her wrist caused by her boyfriend, reminisces about the domestic violence scene and cannot suppress her feelings anymore. She wants to abreact her grievances and transfer them to the boy when he takes the courage to kiss and hug her. After a tender but baffling “intimacy” between them, April leaves the scene right away but comes across the father arriving home unexpectedly early. Julio hasn’t recovered from this first-time experience and doesn’t notice this life-changing moment. He stands there listening to the two adults talking, confused and being ignored as always.
Original Film Title: Filled Vacuum
Director’s Name: Yotam Giustizia
Writer’s Name: Yotam Giustizia
Producer’s Name: Yotam Giustizia
Country of Origin: Israel
Country of Filming: Israel
Language: English, Hebrew
Runtime: 16 minutes 57 seconds
Film Description:
A son in his 30’s returns home in order to interview his mother about her life choices for the final project of his academic degree.
His goal is to try and “assemble”, through the art of cinema, the human puzzle that is his mother’s traumatic past, ever-changing present, and a future he must deal with.
In this experimental journal, he constructs his mother’s life story while trying to answer his deep-rooted questions and worrying thoughts that are driven by the aging process of his mother.
Original Film Title: La Fièvre
Director’s Name: Matias Carlier
Writer’s Name: Matias Carlier
Producer’s Name: Jean-Guillaume Sonnier
Country of Origin: Switzerland
Country of Filming: Switzerland
Language: French
Runtime: 22 minutes
Film Description:
Two young skateboarders decide to go to a party, their evening gets complicated.
Original Film Title: רעש
Director’s Name: Victoria Uchitel
Writer’s Name: Victoria Uchitel
Producer’s Name: Shira Ghertner
Country of Origin: Israel
Country of Filming: Israel
Language: Hebrew, Russian
Runtime: 18 minutes 35 seconds
Film Description:
Or is trying to commit suicide but as she is hallucinating, she confuses her neighbor with her deceased mother whom she wished would disappear from her life and she started to feel guilty whether her thoughts caused her mother’s death.
Original Film Title: Anywhere But Here
Director’s Name: Maitry Rao
Writer’s Name: Maitry Rao
Producer’s Name: Maitry Rao
Country of Origin: United Kingdom
Country of Filming: United Kingdom
Runtime: 3 minutes 13 seconds
Film Description:
Anywhere But Here (2021) is a metacommentary film about wanting to go places and see new faces, but being prevented from doing so by the pandemic. The narrator unravels a bittersweet resolution in the self-reflexive filmmaking process as we dive deeper into her dreamscape.
Original Film Title: Between Us
Director’s Name: Antonio Mendes
Writer’s Name: Antonio Mendes
Producer’s Name: Claudia Maria Carbajo
Country of Origin: United Kingdom
Country of Filming: United Kingdom
Language: English
Runtime: 22 minutes 46 seconds
Film Description:
When his estranged father is released from prison after a four-year sentence, 15 year old Jack will have to deal with his feelings of resentment and adapt to the changes his father’s return will bring. As Jack struggles to share his mother’s and sister’s affection with his father, he confronts him, putting the relationship with his whole family at stake. Now he has a decision to make. Will he accept his father?
Original Film Title: It’s Not About Eitan
Director’s Name: Ron Baranov
Writer’s Name: Ron Baranov
Producer’s Name: Yarden Agian
Country of Origin: Israel
Country of Filming: Israel
Language: Hebrew
Runtime: 8 minutes 52 seconds
Film Description:
After a meaningful session at the psychologist, Dean is visiting his father to reflect on their relationship and to better understand if his father accepts him.
Original Film Title: 《船票》
Director’s Name: Jiawei Shen
Writer’s Name: Jiawei Shen
Producer’s Name: Jingting Liu, Mengyuan Hao
Country of Origin: China
Country of Filming: China
Language: Chinese
Runtime: 15 minutes 14 seconds
Film Description:
The narrative motive of Ferry Ticket is a story adapted from its own real experience, peeping into social problems such as parent-child relationship and marriage relationship in modern families. As an effort to communicate with life and reality, it appeals to parents to attach importance to family affection and pay attention to the spiritual growth of children. The overall tone is full of bitter and tender feelings.
Original Film Title: Όταν έχασε η νύχτα
Director’s Name: Asteris Tziolas
Writer’s Name: Asteris Tziolas
Producer’s Name: Asteris Tziolas
Country of Origin: Greece
Country of Filming: Greece
Language: Modern Greek (1453-)
Runtime: 17 minutes
Film Description:
Summer in the heart of Athens. Two strangers enter a place that looks like an oasis amidst the deserted night landscape of the city. Above the pulsating lights and the dim sounds of some old pinball machines, the two of them will come closer and try to break the darkness that is hidden inside them.
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