Original Film Title: Tutto Crolla
Director’s Name: Stefano Recchia
Writer’s Name: Stefano Recchia
Producer: Stefano Recchia
Country of Origin: Italy
Country of Filming: Italy
Language: Italian
Runtime: 6 minutes 4 seconds
Film Description:
Freely inspired by the novel “Things fall apart” by Chinua Achebe, this short film is a modern and allegorical “Odyssey” of a migrant, Chinedu, who cross the Mediterranean sea in search of fortune…
Original Film Title: มายา
Director’s Name: Pimdao Panichsamai
Writer’s Name: Pimdao Panichsamai
Producer: Supachai Kanjanasakchai
Country of Origin: Thailand
Country of Filming: Thailand
Runtime: 6 minutes 4 seconds
Film Description:
Humans, all with hunger,
Filled with desires,
Yearn and lust.
Humans, all with fetishes,
In both lights and fantasies.
Gobbling in excess,
Depleted.
Original Film Title: OPAQUE
Director’s Name: Aniket Chandrakant Dhavale
Writer’s Name: Prarthana J Acharya
Producer: Aniket Chandrakant Dhavale
Country of Origin: India
Country of Filming: India
Language: English, Hindi
Runtime: 17 minutes 54 seconds
Film Description:
Goutam and Saanvi are falling in love with each other. The next step is marriage, but Goutam has a
secret he is not yet ready to share. He is an artist who paints nude models.
After struggling with his fear of losing her, of how his unconventional job might destroy their relationship, he takes the high road of being honest. Saanvi, shocked after hearing what he had to say, tells Goutam that she will discuss this with him later and leaves.
Goutam is dejected thinking Saanvi might reject him. He spends most of next days lost. Few weeks later, once she has composed herself, Saanvi meets Goutam. Goutam is shocked to hear her response. That she too is a nude model.
Although this seems to be a perfect match of interests, but is it?
Are men and women equal in our society for what they do?
Does morality judge them the same?
The true meaning of these questions and answers culminate when Saanvi and Goutam are faced with each other’s secrets, but remain questions for the audience who are required to find an answer for themselves.
Original Film Title: 森へ island
Director’s Name: Ryosuke Handa
Writer’s Name: Ryosuke Handa
Producer: Yoshiko Kanazawa
Country of Origin: Japan
Country of Filming: Japan
Language: Japanese
Runtime: 48 minutes
Film Description:
IIn the midst of World War II, a young soldier escapes from an enemy plane that has crashed in the Boso Peninsula. A woman who lives in an isolated cottage in the forest rescued the injured man. When the unconscious man wakes up, he sees a hand-made cello in the room. “My dead son made it,” she says. He asks if he can play the cello. She brings the cell to him and he begins playing sarabande from Bach’s Suite No. 3 with his wounded hands.
The ghost of her dead son wanders in the forest and around his mother’s cottage with a kettle to draw water, but only birds can see the ghost, not the mother.
One day the mother hears the sound of a kettle.
Original Film Title: Like a PowerPoint
Director’s Name: Pat Bradley, Melanie Gretchen
Writer’s Name: Melanie Gretchen
Producer: Melanie Gretchen
Country of Origin: United States
Country of Filming: United States
Language: English
Runtime: 7 minutes 20 seconds
Film Description:
A man and woman negotiate the expectations of their romance.
Original Film Title: A Love Worth Fighting For
Director’s Name: Toby Fountaine
Writer’s Name: Toby Fountaine
Producer: Toby Fountaine
Country of Origin: United Kingdom
Country of Filming: United Kingdom
Language: English, French, German
Runtime: 40 minutes
Film Description:
A Love Worth Fighting For is set in the opening month of the First World War, August 1914. But it is not a war film, rather an anti-war film, and a love story. It is meticulously researched and historically accurate.
Original Film Title: Francesca
Director’s Name: D.Channsin Berry
Writer’s Name: D.Channsin Berry
Producer: D.Channsin Berry, Meleisha Edwards, Ese’ Morrison, Christopher A Wilson, Thorodris Vournas
Country of Origin: United States
Runtime: 39 minutes 30 seconds
Film Description:
Famous American Actor returns to Athens Greece and revisits an Ex Lover, only to find out her secrets.
Original Film Title: Raw Materials
Director’s Name: Sosiessia Nixon-Kelly
Writer’s Name: Sosiessia Nixon-Kelly
Producer: Sosiessia Nixon-Kelly
Country of Origin: Jamaica
Country of Filming: Jamaica
Language: English
Runtime: 32 minutes
Film Description:
A fashion prodigy who is struggling to find his direction must overcome and abusive community to fully embrace his talent and identity.
Original Film Title: Das Glück des Armen
Director’s Name: Julian Paul Füchsl
Writer’s Name: Julian Paul Füchsl
Producer: Julian Paul Füchsl
Country of Origin: Germany
Country of Filming: Germany
Language: German
Runtime: 19 minutes 26 seconds
Film Description:
When a crafty homeless man is mistaken for a famous life coach, he finally sees an opportunity to free himself from the clutches of poverty.
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