Original Film Title: ATANG
Director’s Name: Dean Wei
Writer’s Name: Dean Wei
Producer: Jiaqi Liu
Country of Origin: Germany
Country of Filming: China
Language: Chinese
Runtime: 29 minutes 59 seconds
Film Description:
Chen Fei was a naughty and stubborn student who always performed bad. As the king of the poor students, he was honored as Atang, a nick name of Tom Cruise in Chinese.
A girl named Luan Jing appeared in Atang’s life, claiming that she was from the future. She told Atang that he was dying. Yet the time was unknown, but very soon. Due to her so-called prediction, Atang’s behavior was influenced. The troubled teacher, bullied classmate, and his mother were all happy and surprised by his change.
As he gradually performed good, Luan Jing disappeared. Meanwhile the doomed destiny did not come.
A few days later, Atang got on a bus as usual. He came across a familiar girl. It was the younger Luan Jing who had not known Atang at that time…
Original Film Title: Se engana que eu gosto
Director’s Name: Marco Felipe Rossi
Writer’s Name: Marco Felipe Rossi
Producer: Marco Felipe Rossi
Country of Origin: Brazil
Country of Filming: Brazil
Language: Portuguese
Runtime: 15 minutes 58 seconds
Film Description:
When three way too close friends present a brilliant enterpreneurial idea as their final paper at University, a professor shows interest in presenting them to an investor. The only problem is that, once they start discussing what’s the best way to achieve their goal, their egos bring up unresolved problems from the past that will make them conspire against one another, only caring about their own personal personal interests.
Original Film Title: Autumn Leaves Fall Far From Home
Director’s Name: Matthew Petti
Writer’s Name: Matthew Petti
Producer: Matthew Petti
Country of Origin: United States
Country of Filming: United States
Runtime: 10 minutes 48 seconds
Film Description:
Yanni, Dante, and Jill reunite after being apart for half a decade to visit the grave of their late friend, whose death forces these young friends for the first time to consider their own mortality and what it means to really grow up.
Original Film Title: High Expectations
Director’s Name: Alx Suljic
Writer’s Name: Alx Suljic
Producer: Alx Suljic
Country of Origin: United States
Country of Filming: United States
Language: English
Runtime: 11 minutes 56 seconds
Film Description:
Former heroin addict, Kat, finds herself in the spiraling back into substance abuse yet refuses to let her loved ones know. Her secrecy and lies result in a failed relationship and a reality check.
Original Film Title: Goolar Ka Phool – a big short story
Director’s Name: Dheeraj Bhatnagar
Writer’s Name: Sudhir Mishra
Producer: Sameer Agarwal
Country of Origin: India
Country of Filming: India
Language: Hindi
Runtime: 13 minutes 3 seconds
Film Description:
This is the story of a young boy Chintu and his innocent hope. The hope that if he manages to find a “Goolar Ka Phool”, his mother, who has left the world, will return to him.
The boy lives in a semi-urban area of Lucknow, capital of India’s biggest state, Uttar Pradesh, with his parents. When his mother dies in an accident, his father marries another woman. At this juncture Chintu starts missing his mother badly. The father loves his son but shows his emotions only when he is drunk. One day Chintu hears a saying — if a person finds a flower of Goolar, all his wishes will be realized. But it is said the mythical flower blooms only at midnight and that to for merely two seconds.
This gives Chintu hope — if he can find the flower, his mother may return.
He goes to a Goolar tree at midnight, night after night – never to find either the flower or his lost mother. The film ends with Chintu having grown up to be a successful man — maybe because of the hope that his mother may return one day. The film’s theme is: hope never dies.
Original Film Title: L’interview de Guillaume Bogaert
Director’s Name: Fabrice Chan
Writer’s Name: Fabrice Chan
Producer: Fabrice Chan, Jo Coune
Country of Origin: Belgium
Country of Filming: Belgium, France, Luxembourg
Language: Dutch, French
Runtime: 23 minutes 19 seconds
Film Description:
When Guillaume Bogaert (28) learns that he has a serious health problem, he asks a film crew to make a documentary of him. In case he doesn’t survive, he wants to leave a memory for his loved ones.
Original Film Title: Dueño de su tiempo
Director’s Name: Caitlin Long
Writer’s Name: Caitlin Long
Producer: Tom Garner
Country of Origin: Spain
Country of Filming: Spain
Runtime: 9 minutes 50 seconds
Film Description:
Rhythm of the Donkey (2022) by Caitlin Long introduces Casimiro Rodriguéz, high-profile Madrid banker turned humble donkey farmer. This documentary short invites an examination of our choices around personal happiness, life fulfillment, and whether we are truly the masters of our own time. This is her debut film.
Original Film Title: Das Resort
Director’s Name: Mathias Kessler
Writer’s Name: Ron Kaneke
Producer: Mathias Kessler
Country of Origin: Austria
Country of Filming: Austria
Language: English, German
Runtime: 22 minutes 3 seconds
Film Description:
An unnamed narrator in a small, undisclosed mountain village examines his life from three different points in time; from his childhood, his adult life, and from his old days. As he jumps back and forth, in and out of time, non-linear memories surrounding his long-lost father and the events that took place in a virus-ridden, dystopian world begin to take shape. The exhaustive and introspective search eventually leads him back to a place of fond childhood recollection, a cabin found in perfect peace where he can dream again.
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