WHO ARE YOU – dir. Huang Zi Ying

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.

Together – dir. Yuan Lin

Original Film Title: Together

Director’s Name: Yuan Lin

Writer’s Name: Yuan Lin

Producer: Yuan Lin

Country of Origin: China

Country of Filming: China

Language: Chinese, English

Runtime: 11 minutes 11 seconds

Film Description:

WANG Shi is “a child from star” who was diagnosed as autism at 4 years old. Luckily, he has not only been taken care of by his family, but also received education from a special education center as well as financial aid from the government. Everything is getting better and better every day. However, after 16 years old, he will face the challenge to live independently.

A 90-minute Documentary Eyes of Wisdom in Tibet – dir. Zhe Tian

Original Film Title: 90分钟纪录片《屋脊的慧眼》

Director’s Name: Zhe Tian

Writer’s Name: Wenhua Cui

Producer: Guangdong Education Publishing House

Country of Origin: China

Country of Filming: China

Language: Chinese, English

Runtime: 1 hour 30 minutes

Film Description:

EYES OF WISDOM IN TIBET tells two stories about “wisdom eyes” on the roof of the world in a double line narrative way. One story is about the arduous process of the world’s leading edge submillimeter telescope coming a long way from the Alps and settling on Yangbajing Observatory in Tibet. Another is about the profound influence and application of the unique Tibetan traditional astronomical calendar in the folk. With this strong contrast, the documentary shows the blend of modern and ancient, the harmonious coexistence of front-line science and traditional national civilization.
Focusing on the content of science and technology and the extension of its social and cultural relationship, the documentary have made 11-year-long video records of the stories of people Qinghai-Tibet Plateau and major events in Chinese astronomy by using the methods of field investigation and ethnography, which perfectly interprets the application and value of the perspective of physical anthropology and science anthropology in documentaries.

Just Influencer Things – dir. Arden DiManno

Original Film Title: Just Influencer Things

Director’s Name: Arden DiManno

Writer’s Name: Arden DiManno

Producer: Arden DiManno

Country of Origin: United States

Country of Filming: United States

Language: English

Runtime: 5 minutes 16 seconds

Film Description:

The film plays with the non-tangible spaces on the topic of “body positivity in the modern-day.” The lead is a female online influencer who is tossed between their self-image and their online persona.

The struggle to find love within herself grows when she looks in the mirror and only sees what she is not. Giving so much of yourself for social media makes perfection a top priority, which is a dangerous mental game.

“Meet Cute” – dir. Shawn Patrick Tilling

Original Film Title: “Meet Cute”

Director’s Name: Shawn Patrick Tilling

Country of Origin: Canada

Country of Filming: China, United Kingdom

Language: English

Runtime: 2 minutes 43 seconds

Film Description:

Inspired by the silent films of the 1920s, Meet Cute tells the story of a fateful day between two people waiting for the bus.

The Mirage – dir. Weiwei Guo

Original Film Title: 九霄之音

Director’s Name: Weiwei Guo

Writer’s Name: Weiwei Guo

Producer: Zhuolun LI

Country of Origin: China

Country of Filming: China

Language: Chinese

Runtime: 28 minutes 50 seconds

Film Description:

During Shanghai COVID-19’s outbreak, a ride-hailing driver’s mobile phone was stolen. Due to policy reasons, he could not go home or enter other rooms. In the process of carrying passengers, he met Jiuxiao, who didn’t want to be isolated. The two witnessed the changes on the eve of Shanghai’s closure

RED FAUST – dir. Zsolt Pozsgai

Original Film Title: RED FAUST

Director’s Name: Zsolt Pozsgai

Writer’s Name: Zsolt Pozsgai

Producer: Zsolt Pozsgai

Country of Origin: Hungary

Country of Filming: Hungary

Language: Hungarian

Runtime: 1 hour 12 minutes

Film Description:

The Bishop and the Actor. In the same prison cell in 1944. The Actor’s task: to guide the Bishop through his tragic life until his death. Time travel. Will you take the role of Bishop Faust? Wouldn’t it be better to give up now? A real life, an extraordinary fate. The passionate, constant struggle between Priest and Actor, which is in all of us.

Millstone – dir. Nasser Aldhaheri

Original Film Title: Millstone

Director’s Name: Nasser Aldhaheri

Writer’s Name: Nasser Aldhaheri

Producer: Nasser Aldhaheri

Country of Origin: United Arab Emirates

Country of Filming: United Arab Emirates

Language: Arabic

Runtime: 1 hour 30 minutes

Film Description:

The movie “The Millstone” and its slogan: “Al-Ain ‘The Eye’… is the first to see dreams” is a movie about the late His Highness Sheikh Zayed bin Sultan Al Nahyan, the work lasted two years, and it tells aspects of his life since he took over the affairs of the city of Al-Ain as a deputy and then representative of the ruler of Abu Dhabi in 1946, when he was twenty-eight years old, and how he developed it in all economic, agricultural, educational and health fields, where Al-Ain during this period was the Millstone of Zayed’s great and distant dream of establishing a strong emirate, rebirth and developed, where he took the power of Abu Dhabi in 1966, and speeded up the stages in order to build a modern emirate, integrated and developed city, and made a bigger dream again, and the millstone included his great dream of establishing a strong, independent and prestigious state in the future, and that was in 1971, and he continued to work for his homeland, his people, the Arabs, Muslims and all humanity until his death in 2004, His name in history in letters of light.

Objects of Desire – blade – dir. Alejandro Renteria

Original Film Title: Objetos de Deseo – La Navaja

Director’s Name: Alejandro Renteria

Writer’s Name: Jorge Luis Sanchez-Noya

Producer: Agustin

Country of Origin: United States

Country of Filming: United States

Language: Spanish

Runtime: 18 minutes 28 seconds

Film Description:

Forced by the kidnapping of his mother, Jessy, a young man with few scruples, tries to seduce Carlos, an older man in a frank state of decline, to pay his debt.