Original Film Title: WHO ARE YOU
Director’s Name: Huang Zi Ying
Writer’s Name: Huang Zi Ying
Producer: Li Mo Mo
Country of Filming: Korea, Republic of
Language: Chinese, Korean
Runtime: 16 minutes 42 seconds
Film Description:
A Chinese couple, Jiayi and Rock, and a Korean couple, Dongeun Kim and Suwon Park, planned to go hiking and prepare a special birthday surprise for Jiayi. But unexpectedly a fake play became true and they were haunted by a curse of the big mountain.
Original Film Title: Engaged
Director’s Name: Anastasia Boyett
Writer’s Name: Anastasia Boyett
Producer: Anastasia Boyett
Country of Origin: United States
Country of Filming: United States
Language: English
Runtime: 5 minutes
Film Description:
Engaged is a short thriller about LAPD Captain who is a gruesome serial killer. With his charm he traps women into thinking he is deeply in love with them. Shortly after an engagement proposal, he brutally murders the bride-to-be. Leaving just a hand wearing an engagement ring. For the last five years, his team been trying to solve the case of the Engagement Guy, not having a clue that the killer is in plain sight.
Original Film Title: The last ticket to the train
Director’s Name: Gal Dahari
Writer’s Name: Gal Dahari
Producer: Ziv Tondovsky
Country of Origin: Israel
Country of Filming: Israel
Language: Hebrew
Runtime: 28 minutes 16 seconds
Film Description:
Life is like a train ride, lined with stations that arrive one after the other at a dizzying pace. Each of us can choose which stations to board and which to skip, but in the end we all get to the final station. Ron, young and optimistic, works in the pediatric oncology department, where she is teamed up to Gilad, a young patient who just does not want to be near her. Gilad’s condition worsens and his chances don’t look good, but Ron continues to believe that anything is possible.
Original Film Title: Homeown Lullaby
Director’s Name: Bo Liu
Writer’s Name: Bo Liu
Producer: Yunosuke Tamari
Country of Origin: China
Country of Filming: Japan
Language: Japanese
Runtime: 47 minutes 26 seconds
Film Description:
Naoto, who has been wandering around the big city for a long time, always remembers his friend Takumi, who treated him warmly during his difficult boyhood. However, Takumi has disappeared from Naoto’s life without a trace. This became a coiling of Naoto’s heart.
Naoto returned to his hometown to look for Takumi. In the place where his memories took place, memory and reality intersected, and everything seemed to return to the beautiful old days.
Original Film Title: TOUCH
Director’s Name: Jana Siân Blume
Writer’s Name: Jana Siân Blume
Producer: Polina Litvinova
Country of Origin: Germany
Country of Filming: Germany
Language: English, Romanian
Runtime: 19 minutes
Film Description:
ANI (24) is a young Romanian woman who studies professional dance in Cologne.
The final performance of the dance school is coming up and Ani is rehearsing with her dance colleagues on a choreography called “TOUCH”.
The director of the dance theater will be watching the performance to welcome new talents into the ensemble. Ani feels torn. Because at the same time her mother in Romania is suffering from cancer and she needs urgent financial support from Ani for medical care. But Ani misses her mother and would rather give up everything to visit her sick mother at home. Ani tries desperately to meet all of the family’s expectations. However, Ani wants to make her own decisions and be free like her girlfriend Mara who is Anis closest person, but doesn’t want to lose Ani and encourages her to stay in Cologne and fight for the job, so they can stay together. Ani’s mother dies all of a sudden the day of the performance, but Ani has no time to mourn. Her father pushes her to go on stage. But Mara is overwhelmed by her feelings and suffers strong grief, whilst the director of the theatre is watching her having a black out on stage. The audience and the choreographer are uneasy but Mara walks onto the stage and takes Ani’s hand. Mara gently guides the movements and they dance an intimate duet in front of everyone. Like they always do at home when no one is looking. Familiar and tightly embraced, they dance in the spotlight and forget everything around them. In the midst of chaos, Ani feels disappointed to not have been able to support her mother before she died. She realises that she was trying so hard to hold everything together and that she was trapped. Now, she can let go and in Maras arms she forgets about the director and the performance and embrace her emotions and grief.
Original Film Title: El Canto de los Coquis
Director’s Name: Rachel Dolan
Writer’s Name: Natalia Fuentes
Producer: Tobi Oladipo
Country of Origin: United States
Country of Filming: United States
Language: English
Runtime: 13 minutes 4 seconds
Film Description:
El Canto de los Coquis is an MFA short film that follows the journey of Elena, a young Puerto Rican American woman who is visiting her family in Puerto Rico for the first time. Her excitement for the land and culture are shaken when her dual identity creates a rift of not being American or Latina enough. Through the support of those around her, Elena discovers the joy in finding who we are and the acceptance in learning we are always searching for those answers. No matter what, the people we surround ourselves with and their love will always fill us with the sense of returning home.
Original Film Title: Fleeting
Director’s Name: Peter Figueira
Writer’s Name: Peter Figueira
Producer: Javier Barajas
Country of Origin: United States
Country of Filming: United States
Runtime: 7 minutes 20 seconds
Film Description:
“Fleeting” is a short, silent (but musical) film that follows a reclusive man, who relives a forgotten memory of a past lover when a red silk lace takes him on a nostalgic journey through love, loss, and longing.
Original Film Title: وهى فى برلين
Director’s Name: Sondos Shabayek
Writer’s Name: Sondos Shabayek
Producer: Sondos Shabayek
Country of Origin: Egypt
Country of Filming: Germany
Language: Arabic
Runtime: 10 minutes
Film Description:
On a street in Berlin, Sara joins her boyfriend Tarek in a line to view a flat. Sara just came from the gynecologist; she is 10 weeks pregnant. Tarek starts discussing marriage plans, after all an Egyptian couple they have no choice but to marry. But Sara who has left Cairo in search of free life struggles to accept that they should ignore all their problems as a couple and rush to marry for the baby. When she fails to stop Tarek’s excited planning, she breaks the news; that she already had an abortion. Miles away from home, Sara is still battling the demons of her patriarchal society that are mirrored in her relationship with Tarek.
Original Film Title: DEADLINE
Director’s Name: Shihan Shoukath
Writer’s Name: Shihan Shoukath
Producer: Shihan Shoukath
Country of Origin: United Arab Emirates
Country of Filming: United Arab Emirates
Language: English
Runtime: 10 minutes 9 seconds
Film Description:
A disturbed 811 operator navigates through connecting grieving callers amid another troubling day of disclosures – and realizations.
Original Film Title: Θέμα Χημείας
Director’s Name: Nick Karamousadakis
Writer’s Name: Nick Karamousadakis
Producer: Nick Karamousadakis
Country of Origin: Greece
Country of Filming: Greece
Language: Modern Greek (1453-)
Runtime: 23 minutes 45 seconds
Film Description:
A chemical analyst, finds himself under unbearable pressure from the environment he chose to live in. Which leads him to a drastic change, for self-acceptance.
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