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Original Film Title: 25 dB
Director’s Name: Peter Yu
Writer’s Name: Peter Yu
Producer: Peter Yu, Dillon Lin
Country of Origin: Taiwan
Country of Filming: Taiwan
Language: Chinese
Runtime: 2 minutes 35 seconds
Film Description:
She is mouthy, and the other is retiring. They have entirely different personality, but have one thing in common. They all love the forrest, and find happiness in it. This is a story where two strangers bonding together within the mother nature.
Original Film Title: The Place She Dwell
Director’s Name: Maurice Moore
Writer’s Name: Maurice Moore
Producer: Maurice Moore
Country of Origin: United States
Country of Filming: United States
Language: English
Runtime: 2 minutes 2 seconds
Film Description:
After watching her husband be brutally murdered, Rachel finds herself a prisoner in her own home and mind, as she is paralyzed by the fear of the outside world. Fear Never Sleeps!
Original Film Title: Check The Locks
Director’s Name: Eric Larson
Writer’s Name: Eric Larson
Producer: Eric Larson
Country of Origin: United States
Country of Filming: United States
Language: English
Runtime: 15 minutes 24 seconds
Film Description:
Following a nervous breakdown, a woman retreats to a friend’s cabin in the woods — only to discover that her coping mechanisms are mysteriously turning against her.
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Original Film Title: Mad Scientists
Director’s Name: Antonia Tong
Writer’s Name: Antonia Tong
Producer: Antonia Tong
Country of Origin: United States
Language: English
Runtime: 1 minute
Film Description:
A group of cutting-edge scientists, risk everything to return to a foreign land to search for the secret to controlling the deadly AI robots weapons to help the real mankind.
Original Film Title: Luna
Director’s Name: Jacopo Matteo Golizia
Writer’s Name: Margherita Giusti Hazon
Producer: Jacopo Matteo Golizia
Country of Origin: Italy
Country of Filming: Italy
Language: Italian
Runtime: 15 minutes
Film Description:
LUNA tells the story of several lives, lives that intertwine over the course of a long night. Nicolò and Camilla are two young lovers who have not yet managed to open up to each other, out of fear, pride, insecurities. Camilla plays the piano to dare a sense of emptiness, Nicolò has grown up too quickly, he is always tough but inside he suffers, and does not know how to share his insecurities. Luna, on the other hand, is a tormented girl who has lost her mother, very lonely, deep, thoughtful. An outsider who spends her days walking around the city with headphones in her ears. Will these three existences meet by pure chance (or destiny?) and their lives will never be the same ever since. A music box will be the object that will unite these stories, a sort of magical door that will give access to something unknown and mysterious.
Original Film Title: Flâneur
Director’s Name: Wanqiu Oneness Zeng
Writer’s Name: Wanqiu Oneness Zeng
Producer: Ricky Choy
Country of Origin: China
Country of Filming: China
Language: Chinese – Min Nan
Runtime: 9 minutes
Film Description:
One rundown township, one fateful night. On an adventure detached from time and space, two restless teenagers, one of them lives.
Original Film Title: Unbearable – The Global Heatwave Crisis
Director’s Name: Vishal Munsif
Writer’s Name: Vishal Munsif
Producer: Vishal Munsif
Country of Origin: United States
Country of Filming: India, United States
Language: English, Gujarati
Runtime: 46 minutes 10 seconds
Film Description:
A comprehensive documentary about the global heatwave crisis. The documentary includes interviews from scientists all over the world, including a Nobel Prize recipient.
We are at the infliction point and if things don’t change, we are looking at temperatures higher than ever witnessed by anybody in the history of life on earth.
Original Film Title: PSYCHOPOMP
Director’s Name: Yue Mao
Writer’s Name: Marina Kaye
Producer: Jake W. Frank
Country of Origin: United States
Country of Filming: United States
Language: English
Runtime: 7 minutes 33 seconds
Film Description:
Candace and Henry are a very affectionate couple. They plan to see the movie together. However, accidents always happened unexpectedly. Candance suffered a car accident. Candace’s nostalgia for Henry seems to have made The Reaper give her a chance to say goodbye to Henry. This is the beginning of a farewell between the two people who love each other before the gap between yin and yang.
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Original Film Title: 귀못
Director’s Name: Se-woong Tak
Writer’s Name: Se-woong Tak
Producer: Se-woong Tak
Country of Origin: Korea, Republic of
Country of Filming: Korea, Republic of
Runtime: 1 hour 51 minutes
Film Description:
Bo-Yeong moves into the mansion of the previously wealthy grandmother, Wang, as a caregiver with a dangerous intention. Mrs. Kim, the only blood relative of Wang who hired Bo-Yeong, sets conditions such as ‘Do not bring anyone, especially children,’ and ‘Do not go near the reservoir’. Ominous and bizarre signs continue in grandmother Wang’s huge mansion located next to a reservoir called ‘Gwimot’, where people are dying, and Bo-Yeong finds out that foreigners who have visited the place have suffered a mysterious death.
Original Film Title: SCHATTENUMARMUNG
Director’s Name: Nina Salzmann, Laura Freudenberg
Writer’s Name: Nina Salzmann, Laura Freudenberg
Producer: Nina Salzmann, Laura Freudenberg
Country of Origin: Germany
Country of Filming: Germany
Language: German
Runtime: 18 minutes 58 seconds
Film Description:
The short film SCHATTENUMARMUNG (Embrace your shadow) deals with different aspects of womanhood in Germany. Collective, as well as personal female experiences are performed in nature. They come to life in a dreamlike atmosphere created by the fusion of movements and the natural landscape in which the performances take place. SCHATTENUMARMUNG displays pain, fear, injustice and anger but also joy, strength, surrender and comfort.
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