The Shepherd’s Supper – dir. Yiannis Stravolaimos

Original Film Title: Το Δείπνο του Βοσκού

Director’s Name: Yiannis Stravolaimos

Writer’s Name: Yiannis Stravolaimos

Producer: Konstantinos Gourgiotis

Country of Origin: Greece

Country of Filming: Greece

Language: Modern Greek (1453-)

Runtime: 2 hours 3 minutes

Film Description:

This is the true story of a kind shepherd who had dinner with Jesus himself…

Charo’s song – dir. Nobb Sueyoshi

Original Film Title: チャロの囀り

Director’s Name: Nobb Sueyoshi

Writer’s Name: Nobb Sueyoshi

Producer: Nobb Sueyoshi

Country of Origin: Japan

Country of Filming: Japan

Language: Japanese

Runtime: 1 hour 55 minutes

Film Description:

An encounter between people who do not have a common language.
A man who has lost his memory and language.
A man who lives with strong convictions even in the midst of discrimination.
A woman who sways between social disparities.
Focusing on these two people, we will draw people who live in various disparities such as occupational discrimination, school caste, and the gap between rich and poor.

MOTHER OF APOSTLES – dir. Zaza Buadze

Original Film Title: Мати Апостолів

Director’s Name: Zaza Buadze

Writer’s Name: Zaza Buadze, Ratha Makeenkova,

Producer: Dmytro Ovechkin

Country of Origin: Ukraine

Country of Filming: Ukraine

Language: Russian, Ukrainian

Runtime: 2 hours

Film Description:

In 2014, Sofia’s peaceful life was invaded by the war, when she received a news informing her that the humanitarian plane that her son was flying was shot down over the occupied territory, where there is war.

After receiving an unsatisfactory response from the military regarding her son’s life, she packs a small suitcase and travels to the occupied territory, to find her son.

Sofia understands the danger, however is determined to find her son. While traveling by bus, at the border, she gets saved from the militants by a local resident – Fedir.

Raw Materials – dir. Sosiessia Nixon-Kelly

Original Film Title: Raw Materials

Director’s Name: Sosiessia Nixon-Kelly

Writer’s Name: Sosiessia Nixon-Kelly

Producer: Sosiessia Nixon-Kelly

Country of Origin: Jamaica

Country of Filming: Jamaica

Language: English

Runtime: 32 minutes

Film Description:

A fashion prodigy who is struggling to find his direction must overcome and abusive community to fully embrace his talent and identity.

ROOFTOP – dir. Nevena Nikolova, Petar Gerzilov

Original Film Title: ПОКРИВ

Director’s Name: Nevena Nikolova, Petar Gerzilov

Writer’s Name: Nevena Nikolova

Producer: Nevena Nikolova, Milen Manev

Country of Origin: Bulgaria

Country of Filming: Bulgaria

Language: Bulgarian

Runtime: 15 minutes 45 seconds

Film Description:

Two strangers meet at the rooftop of a 20-story hotel building, both with the intention to commit suicide.

Innermost – dir. Maing Caochong

Original Film Title: 无二

Director’s Name: Maing Caochong

Country of Origin: China

Country of Filming: China

Runtime: 15 minutes

Film Description:

The background of the stop-motion animation short film Innermost is set in the future featured by highly advanced technologies but collapsed society and civilization system. The cyberpunk-style science fiction world coexists fantastically with the traditional oriental martial arts world. The story follows the emotional entanglement between a long-lost chivalrous couple and a person with regenerated organs starting from a fight for a mystic magic lyre. From the perspective of what regeneration technologies are able of, the short film will arouse the audience to think of how the value of emotions can be magnified or dissolved.

ELEMENTAL, reimagining our relationship with wildfire – dir. Trip Jennings

Original Film Title: ELEMENTAL, reimagining our relationship with wildfire

Director’s Name: Trip Jennings

Writer’s Name: Ralph Owen Bloemers, Trip Jennings

Producer: Ralph Owen Bloemers

Country of Origin: United States

Country of Filming: United States

Language: English

Runtime: 1 hour 19 minutes 25 seconds

Film Description:

As fire seasons grow longer, more destructive and more deadly, it is clear that our approach to reducing wildfire risk is failing. This film brings cutting edge science and indigenous knowledge into focus. It forces us, from city dwellers to seasoned fire professionals to rural citizens , to question what we believe and offers a science based way forward to live and thrive with fire.

SLOVENIAN WATER CYCLE – dir. Matjaz Mihelčič

Original Film Title: SLOVENIAN WATER CYCLE – The Badaševica river and Škocjanski zatok nature Reserve

Director’s Name: Matjaz Mihelčič

Writer’s Name: Matjaz Mihelčič

Producer: Matjaz Mihelčič

Country of Origin: Slovenia

Country of Filming: Slovenia

Language: Slovenian

Runtime: 25 hours

Film Description:

Water is an essential part of man and nature, without which there is no life.
In Europe, waters create »jewels« of natural wonders such as rivers, lakes, waterfalls, caves, gorges etc.
In this documentary TV series, we will get as close as possible to the particular »jewels« of slowenian waters and present them in time and space.
We will discover what flora and fauna surronds the particular water »jewels« and specially, how the particular water »jewels« affect the life of the inhabitants and visitors.

Ecology will be the »fill rouge« of the Water Cycle, with the intent to show how we nowadays care for, and what more could be done to preserve the »jewels« in their unspoiled, natural form. Without negative impacts of industry, progress and pollution.

Slovenian waters are also a reflexion of the european humanist spirit, which lived here and created throughout the centuries. The rivers, caves, gorges, springs have always been a inexhaustible source of inspiration for many a great european artist (for example Prešeren, Beethoven).

Engaged – dir. Anastasia Boyett

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.

The last ticket to the train – dir. Gal Dahari

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.