Original Film Title: غبار الصوت
Director’s Name: Rahaf Suleiman Jammal
Writer’s Name: Rahaf Suleiman Jammal
Country of Origin: Lebanon
Country of Filming: Lebanon
Language: Arabic
Runtime: 8 minutes 26 seconds
Film Description:
A woman spends her afternoon in her unlit apartment attempting to do a multitude of tasks around the house. Upon reaching a meditative state in each chore, she gets interrupted by the sound of an approaching ambulance.
Original Film Title: Don’t Be Afraid
Director’s Name: Matthew Winters
Producer: Jig Reel Studios
Country of Origin: United States
Country of Filming: United States
Language: English
Runtime: 1 minute 34 seconds
Film Description:
Hank (Ben Cable) and his son Ben (Cristopher Michael Rose) have a heart-to-heart talk about an upcoming protest.
Original Film Title: Bad News
Director’s Name: Sheng Ting Shen
Writer’s Name: Sheng Ting Shen
Producer: Auralynn Rosario
Country of Origin: United States
Country of Filming: United States
Language: English
Runtime: 3 minutes 59 seconds
Film Description:
A mom facing the loss of her husband. At the same time, she needs to gather herself together to tell her daughter the bad news.
Original Film Title: 纪念日
Director’s Name: Ken
Writer’s Name: Ken
Producer: Ken
Country of Origin: China
Country of Filming: China
Language: Chinese
Runtime: 19 minutes 40 seconds
Film Description:
In a Halal Restaurant in a small town in Northwest China, there was a kidnapping case. A retired male soldier and a female negotiator of the police were confronting each other. The atmosphere at the scene was strange. The life and death of the hostages were unknown. The man didn’t make a request, and the woman didn’t know the reason for the kidnapping. However, all this was related to another unknown incident of homosexual abuse on a minor campus. What was the final truth? This day, for both men and women, is a day with special meaning. Facing their hearts, how unexpected will their ending be?
Original Film Title: Subterranean Love (Olga)
Director’s Name: Robert Haufrecht
Writer’s Name: Robert Haufrecht
Producer: Subterranean Films LLC
Country of Origin: United States
Country of Filming: United States
Runtime: 15 minutes 58 seconds
Film Description:
A day in the life of Olga, an old Russian woman who lives in Brighton Beach, Brooklyn (Little Odessa). She plays accordion on a subway platform to earn a little money. She meets a younger acquaintance on the ride back from Manhattan who drags her for company at a Boardwalk restaurant. They share their worries and dreams. Olga returns to her sick husband, Misha, whom she can’t change, but loves nevertheless. And then….another day.
Original Film Title: 寶貝母親_B-side
Director’s Name: Han-Ling Chuang
Writer’s Name: Han-Ling Chuang
Producer: Han-Ling Chuang
Country of Origin: Taiwan
Country of Filming: Taiwan
Language: Mandarin Chinese
Runtime: 11 minutes 44 seconds
Film Description:
“Darling Mother: Multiperspectivity“ is a feminist-dance theater-participatory performance. The film discusses motherhood and how a woman is formed when conforming to social structure.
The meaning of B-side can be associated with the words ‘beside’ or ‘besides’, as well as referring to the B-side of a cassette tape. A cassette has two sides. Side A and Side B. The A side of a cassette has the main content. The B-side of the cassette is often never listened to. This film explores the B-side. An experimental and documentary approach is utilized to reveal the easily overlooked aspects.
Original Film Title: Alt Er Hvidt
Director’s Name: Freja Bøgh Lassen,
Writer’s Name: Freja Bøgh Lassen, Jeppe Rydell
Producer: Zara Bækkelund Kristensen, Kristian Seeberg
Country of Origin: Denmark
Country of Filming: Denmark
Language: Danish
Runtime: 22 minutes 28 seconds
Film Description:
Samuel is a 23-year-old guy who lives alone in his one-bedroom apartment. He spends his time smoking weed and boxing at his local club where he is well-liked among the others, the coach included. One day, after training, he bumps into his ex-girlfriend Caroline. Samuel and ‘Caro’ have known each other since high school. Caro reveals that she misses him and believes that Samuel needs her in life. It is revealed that Samuel has tried to take his own life and that he has since broken up with her because he doesn’t know how to live alongside anyone but himself. The two of them go on a long walk and end up in the ocean as a form of emotional relief.
Original Film Title: One’s family gravesite
Director’s Name: Hyungsuk Jung
Writer’s Name: Hyungsuk Jung
Producer: Hyungsuk Jung
Country of Origin: Korea, Republic of
Country of Filming: Korea, Republic of
Language: Korean
Runtime: 39 minutes 17 seconds
Film Description:
Natasha, originally from Uzbekistan, got a citizenship in Korea. She wishes to buy a family graveyard like Koreans do. She believes that this will somehow give Korean roots, for her descendants. She meets realtors but doesn’t have enough money to buy the land. In the last minute she finds a miraculously low-priced land put by some old lady, but she declines to sell her property to Natasha because she is a foreigner. Natasha decides to meet this lady,,,,,
Original Film Title: Several of myself
Director’s Name: Coi Belluzzo, Joaquim Haickel
Writer’s Name: Coi Belluzzo, Joaquim Haickel
Producer: Joaquim Haickel, Ney Bello
Country of Origin: Brazil
Country of Filming: Brazil
Language: Portuguese
Runtime: 11 minutes 7 seconds
Film Description:
A tormented man struggles to survive illnesses of body, mind and soul.
Original Film Title: コロナになりました。
Director’s Name: Yumi Masuda
Writer’s Name: Yumi Masuda, Kota Watarai
Producer: Daisuke Ito
Country of Origin: Japan
Country of Filming: Japan
Language: Japanese
Runtime: 34 minutes 56 seconds
Film Description:
A pandemic in Tokyo, Japan.
A yoga instructor in her 30s became Corona.
This is a story of her 13 days of self-isolation told by the Public Health Center.
In reality, the director herself suffered from COVID-19.
Just after her recovery, she wrote and shoot this film under the limited circumstances in a pandemic.
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