Category: Best Short Film

Original Film Title: A Night at the Organ

Director’s Name: David N. Stamos

Writer’s Name: David N. Stamos

Producer’s Name: David N. Stamos

Country of Origin: Canada

Country of Filming: Canada

Runtime: 26 minutes 53 seconds

Film Description:

This is a tribute to the “king of instruments,” which involves much that is related to it, including death and mourning, spiritualism, horror, religion, philosophy, science, and, of course, art and architecture. The film is quite varied, both in images and music. The meaning of each of the eight pieces themselves, moreover, and of the film as a whole, is highly ambiguous. Viewers, I suspect, will tend to project their own meanings onto what they see and hear, depending on their background knowledge and beliefs (or lack thereof). In this case, once again, art reflects life.

Original Film Title: Business Woman

Director’s Name: Frédérique Alain

Writer’s Name: Frédérique Alain

Producer’s Name: Lyne Larochelle

Country of Origin: Canada

Country of Filming: Myanmar

Language: English, French

Runtime: 26 minutes 36 seconds

Film Description:

Louanna and Beatrice travel to Myanmar, in the kingdom of Bagan, to learn about Buddhism. Louanna, hesitant about the benefits of meditation, lets her guard down when she meets a Burmese named Pauk Kyi. This man can then teach them the fundamental principles of Buddhism. The two women therefore see themselves being able to put into practice the teachings they received.

Original Film Title: Echo

Director’s Name: Félix Baudouin

Writer’s Name: Félix Baudouin

Producer’s Name: Carlos Lopes

Country of Origin: France

Country of Filming: France, Hungary

Language: French

Runtime: 6 minutes 40 seconds

Film Description:

The holidays by the ocean are troubled by a tragic accident. From then on, the beauty surrounding takes a tint of desperation until Frédérique finds the strength to cope with the loss, in her music.

Original Film Title: Rabbit And Bear

Director’s Name: zhaocongbo

Country of Origin: China

Country of Filming: China

Language: Chinese

Runtime: 10 minutes

Film Description:

This film revolves around the topic of parent-child education, focusing on the two educational concepts of parent-child and health. The author creates two images of the raccoon Daddy Bear and the clever Daughter Rabbit which are favorite by kids. Daddy Bear and Daughter Rabbit create a microcosmic tree house by the use of various waste and materials from nature to paint them with the color. The Daddy Bear and Daughter Rabbit performed a series of interesting fitness exercises from balance ability to sports movement ability after the demonstration of Daddy Bear and the imitation of Daughter Rabbit .

Original Film Title: Broken

Director’s Name: Broken

Writer’s Name: Haleh Saberi

Producer’s Name: Haleh Saberi

Country of Origin: United States

Country of Filming: United States

Language: English

Runtime: 4 minutes 12 seconds

Film Description:

A nurse struggling to keep her sanity while fighting alongside her patients, as she battles one of the worst pandemic the world has seen. Making matters worse the pandemic hit while she was working in an undercover fashion gathering information to expose missing patients coverups, individual, and systemic criminal behavior in the senior care and vulnerable population.

Original Film Title: The Comet in Doomsday Prophecy

Director’s Name: Shihyun Wamg

Writer’s Name: Shihyun Wamg

Producer’s Name: Shihyun Wamg

Country of Origin: United States

Country of Filming: United States

Language: English

Runtime: 22 minutes

Film Description:

The huge comet coming in 2031 is predicted in seceral Chinese prophecy

Original Film Title: LOLA, AGRARISTA INDOMABLE

Director’s Name: Fidela Cisneros Rivera

Writer’s Name: Fidela Cisneros Rivera, Rafael Meza Suárez

Producer’s Name: Rafael Meza Suárez

Country of Origin: Mexico

Country of Filming: Mexico

Language: Spanish

Runtime: 10 minutes 11 seconds

Film Description:

Lola, Agrarista Indomable is based on the story of Dolores Campos Ponce (1878-1945) who was born in the municipality of Izúcar de Matamoros, Puebla and shows us the life of a heroine who was not afraid of her time, that changed the face of the agrarian struggle in a region dominated by men inside and outside the plot. Through this work we can get closer to know the motivations and the internal strength that kept Lola in the fight until the day of her death.

Original Film Title: This Case & My Life

Director’s Name: Ana A P Braunstein

Writer’s Name: Ana A P Braunstein

Producer’s Name: Ana A P Braunstein

Country of Origin: United States

Country of Filming: United States

Language: English

Runtime: 12 minutes

Film Description:

The protagonist is Chris Roberts played by Mark Karten. Chris is married to Mrs.Stacey Roberts played by Monica Phillips. He is a successful lawyer in a New York City law firm with complicated cases, and his relationships are starting to catch up with him. His long-time law partner Mark Harrison played by Alexander Carney, who he made a personal deal with, is closing in on him for resolution. And his long-time executive assistant Kathy Welch played by Ana P. Braunstein is caught in the middle trying to manage his professional and personal life. She is secretly considering quitting her job at the firm. Chris’s life is about to change when a detective enters the picture. And the day brings him other shocking news

Original Film Title: BEHIND THE MASK, SURVIVORS

Director’s Name: PAULINA ALY, ATIAT CARI ALY, RAMADAN ALY

Writer’s Name: PAULINA ALY

Producer’s Name: PAULINA ALY

Country of Origin: United States

Country of Filming: United States

Language: English

Runtime: 25 minutes 10 seconds

Film Description:

The story of a journalist in the pandemic named Paulina Aly. She has a non-profit foundation called “Sobreviviras, survivor” and serves the minorities on the streets of Miami, homeless, families with low income. She collects money from the social media community to do these activities. The pandemic affects to much because as long as the TV was “staying at home”, the government took to the streets hundreds of people for not being able to pay the rent. Everything becomes difficult. Going out to give them food and clean clothes every week, with double mask for protection, Paulina Aly is a cancer survivor.
Life changes for Paulina in march 2020 is in full production with a famous guitarist since the president Donald Trump declares a STATE OF EMERGENCY in the United States. The depression is increased every day by the loss friends at the hands of the covid-19 virus. She is strong but collapses. The ending is positive as the work of Paulina well known in Miami and other countries for its altruism.

Original Film Title: Chasing the Bubble

Director’s Name: Peter West

Writer’s Name: Peter West

Producer’s Name: Jeffery Pedersen, Peter West,

Country of Origin: United States

Country of Filming: United States

Language: English

Runtime: 8 minutes 57 seconds

Film Description:

Glassblowing mythology and tradition collide as a 5th generation glassblower takes on a contract with an impossible timeline, that he fears has been designed to fail. He is watched over by a former lover who pledges to get him through it, while taunting him with stories of his past, his family legacy, and the near religious reverence he has for the material of molten glass.