Original Film Title: THE EYE: CALANTHEK
Director’s Name: Aaron Sims
Writer’s Name: Aaron Sims, Vivian Yoon
Producer: Karen Dufilho, Jill Gilbert
Country of Origin: United States
Country of Filming: United States
Language: English
Runtime: 8 minutes 59 seconds
Film Description:
An intergalactic maintenance worker travels to a distant planet to fix a fallen drone, only to discover a hostile force that won’t let her leave.
Original Film Title: The others
Director’s Name: Like Xu
Writer’s Name: Kerra Xu
Producer: Na Liu, Dong Qiao
Country of Origin: China
Country of Filming: China
Language: Chinese
Runtime: 10 minutes 10 seconds
Film Description:
An ordinary middle-aged woman of an ordinary family Wucai bears and enjoys a variety of social identities such as mothers, wives, and daughters. She is gentle and virtuous in appearance as a perfect woman in the eyes of most people. The memory and reality of growing up on the way out are constantly intertwined in various forms, allowing Wucai to begin to examine his half-life, and at the same time make a bold decision that he has longed for for a long time…
Original Film Title: And So I Begin.
Director’s Name: Margarethe Baillou
Writer’s Name: Margarethe Baillou
Producer: Margarethe Baillou
Country of Origin: United States
Country of Filming: United States
Language: English
Runtime: 11 minutes 20 seconds
Film Description:
A semi-animated short film portraying three artists living next door to each other, yet decades apart, at a glance: a painter in the early 1900s, a writer in the 1940s and a modern ballerina. Separated by walls and time, their connections unfold.
Original Film Title: That Night
Director’s Name: Swati Ganguly
Writer’s Name: Swati Ganguly
Producer: Sachet Saraf
Country of Origin: India
Country of Filming: India
Language: Bengali
Runtime: 12 minutes 9 seconds
Film Description:
“That Night”, when darkness blocked her path, she tried to escape the dark and found a bright streak of light in him. This story however revolves around a stormy night, years after the two met. The raging storm outside somehow triggers a storm within the boundaries of their minds. The girl finds a battered old rose within the pages of a book, commemorating their moments of love. What follows is a montage of suppressed emotions, the gusts of the storm within. Was it their entire relationship or “That Night” , which was actually an illusion?
Original Film Title: Hunch
Director’s Name: Sara Joyce
Writer’s Name: Kate Kennedy
Producer: Joey Dawson, Sara Joyce, Kate Kennedy
Country of Origin: United Kingdom
Country of Filming: United Kingdom
Runtime: 5 minutes 53 seconds
Film Description:
Meet Hunch. The Superhero. Coming to the rescue when you’ve splinters on your arse from sitting on the fence. A short comedy about the consequences of making gut decisions for other people.
Original Film Title: Via Dream
Director’s Name: Frances Feng, Vincent Liu
Writer’s Name: Frances Feng
Producer: Vincent Liu
Country of Origin: China
Country of Filming: China
Language: Chinese
Runtime: 21 minutes 47 seconds
Film Description:
The short film Via Dream focuses on the common experience of a mother of two children, Wen Nanke, on the day she gives birth, to dramatize the challenges and dilemmas encountered by a woman in the workplace and in life when she is pregnant with a second child. In her pregnancy with a second child, Wen Nanke is afraid of losing her job and being neglected by her family. The sensitivity of pregnancy turns her psychologically fragile, leading to one after another misunderstanding in her life and workplace. When she faces the exhausting vomiting daily life of pregnancy, her husband’s thoughtless mistake is a shirking of responsibility in her eyes. Facing a colleague kind enough to help her with her work, she fears that the other person plots to take over her career. However, when the accidental birth happens, she wakes up as if from a dream. When her birth is over, the truth of the past is revealed to be that her child does not disturb her rest for understanding her difficult moments, thus creating the illusion of getting separated more often than being together. Everyone around Wen Nanke is caring and supporting her in their own way.
Original Film Title: Caution! Land Crabs Crossing
Director’s Name: Huang Pei Ju
Country of Origin: Taiwan
Country of Filming: Taiwan
Language: English
Runtime: Mandarin Chinese
Film Description:
Kenting National Park has the highest ecological abundance of land crab in the world.
But thousands of crabs die tragically on the highway every year before they lay their eggs.
Not only the city government has set up “crabs crossing” signs on roads to protect the land crabs but also the local residents has helped them cross the road for decades.
Original Film Title: Moving through waiting rooms
Director’s Name: Sarah Choo Jing
Producer: Mathias Choo Rui Zhi
Country of Origin: Singapore
Runtime: 6 minutes
Film Description:
‘The dance is an art in space and time.
The object of the dance is to obliterate that.’ – Cunningham
Choo first began seeing dance as a visible action in life during Circuit Breaker in Singapore when she noticed people engaging in their ordinary daily routines in private, intimate spaces: movement is a dance, and the window the stage unveiling a performance.
In moving through waiting rooms, the distance is removed as we follow a young man in a metaphorical cycle of life through interpretive dance, a form of contemporary dance wherein the dancer improvises and reacts to his environment: a void deck acting as a mystical passageway taking him in a journey across time where he encounters his boyhood self and his future. As with life, dance in a larger concept is abstract.
Original Film Title: Jimmy
Director’s Name: Ori Shahar
Writer’s Name: Ori Shahar
Producer: Lavi Raz
Country of Origin: Israel
Country of Filming: Israel
Language: Hebrew
Runtime: 15 minutes 46 seconds
Film Description:
Guy has been a friend of Dor for as long as he can remember. However, Guy suffers from acute social anxiety, which makes it difficult for the relationship between the two. The two decide to rob a big amount of money from one of the wealthy residents living in the town, but when the robbery goes awry the two’s friendship is put to the test.
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