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: Joanna’s Kitchen
Director’s Name: Theo Herghelegiu
Writer’s Name: Theo Herghelegiu
Producer: Cosmina Sandor
Country of Origin: Romania
Country of Filming: Romania
Language: Romanian
Runtime: 22 minutes 33 seconds
Film Description:
A young woman presents her weekly culinary podcast – Joanna’s Kitchen; today: Coq au vin.
Nothing unusual, except the fact that she’s pretty tensed, behaving a bit chaotically and confused. After a few minutes, unexpectedly, her phone rings. At the other end, there is someone who corrects her about certain details of the recipe. In a mix of funny reactions, genuine cooking and a mystery underneath the action, Joanna manages to finish her coq au vin in a hectic way, while inserting specific, emphasized words among the cliché utterances of the recipe. The last call she gets takes her away from the camera and we only hear what was actually going on: she was constrained to say all those words during the podcast by somebody who had kidnapped her little boy. Now, as the work is done, she may take her child back. What we eventually understand, is that all those words and formulae that Joanna has mentioned, were encoded messages for some terrorists who planned a bomb attack, that very evening.
Original Film Title: KATANA
Director’s Name: Maarten Groen
Writer’s Name: Cheroney Pelupessy
Producer: ART& DPPLR
Country of Origin: Netherlands
Country of Filming: Netherlands
Runtime: 4 minutes 25 seconds
Film Description:
A short dance film celebrating female empowerment, inspired by Asian culture.
Written, choreographed, and performed by Cheroney Pelupessy, the film Katana represents the reflection of her journey towards standing in her feminine power.
“Katana is a strong, sensual character I created for a show 3 years ago”, Cheroney says. “However, she appeared to be less of a character, and more of an addition of newfound strength to my own identity. The personal process was very much about embracing sensuality and femininity while remaining powerful. This also translated to my style of dance. In addition to my interpretation of Urban Contemporary, the introduction of Katana cultivated a new way of moving which includes floorwork on heels. I believe people are multidimensional, and I made it a point to display that through movement.
Original Film Title: Saint-Désir l’Exil
Director’s Name: Natacha Nisic
Writer’s Name: Natacha Nisic
Producer: Natacha Nisic
Country of Origin: France
Country of Filming: France
Language: French
Runtime: 3 minutes 14 seconds
Film Description:
In the heart of Saint-Désir l’Exil there is a swimming pool. In the heart of the pool are the noxious bodies. Next to the pool, my mother lives her last moments under the sun.
Original Film Title: ΤΟ ΚΟΥΤΙ
Director’s Name: Sophia Michael Tsangaridou
Writer’s Name: Sophia Michael Tsangaridou, Elena Nicolaou
Producer: Sophia Michael Tsangaridou
Country of Origin: Cyprus
Country of Filming: Cyprus
Runtime: 15 minutes
Film Description:
The box’ is a short film about the beautiful moments that love can give us, if we dare to fight against our Monster-our insecurities and fears- and finally trust and share ourselves with someone who has the same feelings and beliefs. The movie aims to awake the hope for pure love and trustful meaningful relationships to our younger generation who seems to be lost and drugged into a social media and virtual reality.
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