Category: Best Trailer WSXA 2023 Amsterdam

Original Film Title: Party Girl

Director’s Name: Stacey Kelly

Writer’s Name: Stacey Kelly

Producer: Stacey Kelly, Deirdre Brenner

Country of Origin: United States

Country of Filming: United States

Language: English

Runtime: 6 minutes 38 seconds

Film Description:

When a straight-laced student takes an unexpected detour one night and has a wild fling with the unlikeliest of guys, she discovers that life is full of surprises—and true love! Get ready for this heartwarming romantic comedy about finding yourself in all the wrong places.

Original Film Title: Κασσάνδρα

Director’s Name: Alexander Manolides

Writer’s Name: Alexander Manolides, George Ding

Producer: Alexander Manolides

Country of Origin: Greece

Country of Filming: Greece

Language: Modern Greek (1453-)

Runtime: 25 minutes

Film Description:

A young woman visits a company that claims it can show the future of any relationship. When she discovers a future infidelity in her relationship with her boyfriend, she must decide whether to let the visions dictate her choices in the present.

Original Film Title: Bambi (Crowned with Laurels: An American Murder Story- Case #1 the Laurie Bembenek Story)

Runtime: 2 minutes

Film Description:

This true crime story, that happened in my hometown the year my dad died, comes full circle when the investigating PI meets me and hands me the torch.

Original Film Title: The Heaviest Order

Director’s Name: Peter Böving

Writer’s Name: Peter Böving

Producer: Peter Böving

Country of Origin: Germany

Country of Filming: Germany

Language: English, French, German, Italian, Spanish

Runtime: 10 minutes

Film Description:

Greta Thunberg places a significant order at a bakery…

Original Film Title: COME SABBIA AL VENTO (LIKE SAND IN THE WIND)

Director’s Name: Paolo Catellani

Country of Origin: Italy

Country of Filming: Italy

Language: Italian

Runtime: 2 minutes 58 seconds

Film Description:

The documentary is centred on an interview with a young Senegalese man who arrived in Italy after enduring countless hardships in Africa. To enhance the story, there is a fictional part about a little boy and a bandana. 
  
The documentary provides a clear and vivid description of what human trafficking in Africa really is. A steeplechase based on the ancient caravan routes from the sub-Saharan regions to the Mediterranean, now the main routes of the new slave trade. How do trafficking organisations work? What does it mean for a young man of 22 to embark on such a dangerous journey? What are his motivations, his dreams? What kind of future does he have once he arrives in our country?

Malamine is not just an immigrant, he is a survivor! Yet many of his fellow travellers didn’t make it. As a duty of truth and justice, we have the task of collecting his story, in honour of those sunk into the sand.

Original Film Title: FRAGILE – Handle with care

Director’s Name: Frank Besl

Writer’s Name: Frank Besl

Producer: Frank Besl

Country of Origin: Germany

Country of Filming: Germany

Language: German

Runtime: 25 minutes 14 seconds

Film Description:

An unprecedented serious patient case brings Chief Physician Dr. Winter and his trusted chief secretary Renate Trauer to the brink of despair and uncovers problems that one would never have expected with this “dream team” built up over many years.

Original Film Title: Pandemic: Suvival – Book Trailer

Director’s Name: Cynthia Fridsma

Writer’s Name: Cynthia Fridsma

Country of Origin: Netherlands

Country of Filming: United States

Language: English

Runtime: 3 minutes 16 seconds

Film Description:

A mall massacre. A virus outbreak. A race for the cure.

Jack Hunter is an agent with the Anti-Terrorism Unit, and he’s the only one who can stop a group of terrorists who have taken over a Boston mall. But his mission is far from over. After the shootings, a deadly virus spreads through Boston – and only Jack Hunter can stop it. He discovers that someone is behind the outbreak and has a sinister plan to destroy the city. 
Sybil Crewes is a former ATU agent who survived the Nightbird attack, a bioweapon that stripped the skin from its victims during the COVID-19 pandemic. She’s in a mental hospital for PTSD, but when someone tries to kill her, she realizes she knows something that could stop the Tranq virus, a drug that zombifies its victims. She teams up with Jack to find the cure and save the world.

As they race against time to find the cure, they discover a shocking truth that changes everything.

Pandemic: Survival is a fast-paced, modern-day thriller that will keep you on the edge of your seat. If you like action-packed stories with twists and turns, you’ll love this book by Cynthia Fridsma.

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Original Film Title: Galgenvogel

Director’s Name: Lucas Vossoughi

Writer’s Name: Artur Golczewski

Country of Origin: Austria

Country of Filming: Austria

Language: German

Runtime: 5 minutes

Film Description:

Gallows Bird is a full-length cinematic descent into the tormented soul of an unsuccessful actor, a balancing act between finding an identity and the obsessive desire to be recognized. 
Somewhere between mystery-thriller and tragic comedy, it is also an investigation into the elusive sense of being lost in our modern society, in which the projection of a “valuable” identity counts for more than its actual possession.