Original Film Title: DÉVORE
Director’s Name: Corentin Schieb, Mathias Averty
Writer’s Name: Corentin Schieb, Mathias Averty
Country of Origin: France
Country of Filming: France
Language: French
Runtime: 6 minutes 43 seconds
Film Description:
Facing the Tv, alone, a man is watching over and over several DV tapes he used to make. Memories of a woman he deeply loved seem to live again on the moving screen. Haunted by regrets, he looses himself in a devouring romance…
Original Film Title: Pink Booth Confessions
Director’s Name: Millie Heckler
Writer’s Name: Millie Heckler, Britt Ford
Producer: Millie Heckler, Schivona Johnson
Country of Origin: United States
Country of Filming: United States
Language: English
Runtime: 28 minutes 44 seconds
Film Description:
Pink Booth Confessions relishes in what it means to be woman: dark, whole, broken, bent, drunk, woke, silent, brash, slutty, strong, prude, wise, forever-changing and deeply committed to humanity and love. Through a pressurized “pink booth,” performers testify to their experiences as women, illuminating their secrets and discharging them simultaneously. Directed by UVM Dance Faculty Millie Heckler in collaboration with Schivona Johnson, Britt Ford, PhaeMonae, Camille Breslin and Elias Hill, this work features original music, dance, costume design, set design, and videography. This project is supported in part by the Vermont Arts Council, the Vermont Community Foundation and the Austin Music Disaster Relief Fund.
Original Film Title: BLACK BOX
Director’s Name: Vicky Vassilopoulou
Writer’s Name: Vicky Vassilopoulou
Producer: Vicky Vassilopoulou
Country of Origin: Greece
Country of Filming: Greece
Language: Modern Greek (1453-)
Runtime: 9 minutes
Film Description:
A young cartoonist on the brink of a creative impasse she decides to create her own superhero.
Through this endeavor she will travel to a fantasy world with other superheroes and male characters as her skit takes character.
This journey will bring to light all the problems and guilt arising from her family as a result of the experience of awareness
Original Film Title: Three Sisters
Director’s Name: Lenny S. Gonzalez
Writer’s Name: Lenny S. Gonzalez
Producer: Lenny S. Gonzalez
Country of Origin: United States
Country of Filming: United States
Language: English
Runtime: 3 minutes 14 seconds
Film Description:
A non-narrative short film about the 2019 Hong Kong protests that explores three archetypes engaged in the conflict.
Original Film Title: 娑婆
Director’s Name: Siye Tao
Producer: Siye Tao
Country of Filming: China
Runtime: 6 minutes 8 seconds
Film Description:
This short film tries to recap the personal experience of a dancer, whose old house and the associated memories are overshadowed by the fast-going urbanization. On a bright sunny day in the near future, when skyscrapers erect from the ruins, will we forget all the textured past？
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.
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: If not Freedom
Director’s Name: Will Amorim Masheter
Writer’s Name: Will Amorim Masheter
Producer: Tevin Sahota, Colette Brown
Country of Origin: United Kingdom
Country of Filming: United Kingdom
Language: No Dialogue
Runtime: 20 minutes
Film Description:
A contemporary love story that is relatable to the divide that can occur between two people when met with cultural differences. This story follows Myra & Igansi, both from very different walks of life but both in search of freedom. Their paths cross in an unlikely manor when they are both attempting to run away from their physical and mental restraints.
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