Fever – dir. Matias Carlier

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.

Noise – dir. Victoria Uchitel

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.

Anywhere But Here – dir. Maitry Rao

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.

Between Us – dir. Antonio Mendes

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?

It’s Not About Eitan – dir. Ron Baranov

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.

Ferry ticket – dir. Jiawei Shen

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.

When night lost – dir. Asteris Tziolas

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.

Oonch Neech – dir. Aryaman Prasad

Original Film Title: ऊँच नीच

Director’s Name: Aryaman Prasad

Writer’s Name: Aryaman Prasad

Producer’s Name: Aryaman Prasad

Country of Origin: United States

Country of Filming: United States

Language: English, Hindi

Runtime: 15 minutes 30 seconds

Film Description:

Two next-door neighbors, experiencing grief at different stages of their life come to realize, through their incidental interactions, that they both are answers to each other’s problems.

Doodle – dir. LinkWei

Original Film Title: Doodle

Director’s Name: LinkWei

Writer’s Name: Doodle

Producer’s Name: Angus

Country of Origin: China

Country of Filming: China

Language: Mandarin Chinese

Runtime: 15 minutes 45 seconds

Film Description:

The little boy was educated by a strict Chinese mother since he was a child. Her mother invited him a tutor to prepare for a junior high school exam, but this tutor seemed to be different from the teachers that other little boys had contact with. On the other side, a man knocked on the door…

My Dear Corpses – dir. German Golub

Original Film Title: Mu kallid laibad

Director’s Name: German Golub

Writer’s Name: German Golub

Producer’s Name: Sander Lebreht, Antero Noor

Country of Origin: Estonia

Country of Filming: Estonia

Language: Estonian, Russian

Runtime: 34 minutes 42 seconds

Film Description:

Unexpectedly evicted from his house, Erki faces a rather difficult task to take care of his lonely mother. He’s forced to agree to become a corpse carrier. But the situation is about to get a whole lot worse, when Erki meets his new colleague for whom it’s just another day in the field.