A Song of starless Skies – dir. Jan Niederprüm

Original Film Title: A Song of starless Skies

Director’s Name: Jan Niederprüm

Writer’s Name: Jan Niederprüm

Producer: Lisa Marie Krosse

Country of Origin: Germany

Country of Filming: Germany

Language: German

Runtime: 30 minutes 49 seconds

Film Description:

A Study of the Unknown and the individual Reaction to it.

Tremor Documentary 2022 – dir. Rob Scherer

Original Film Title: Tremor Documentary 2022

Director’s Name: Rob Scherer

Writer’s Name: John Dutton

Producer: John Dutton

Country of Origin: United States

Film Description:

How you deal with adversity defines you as a person. The subject of this documentary, John Dutton, has dealt with adversity. Not only does he have multiple sclerosis but was also diagnosed with an aggressive form of Parkinson’s disease, which manifested itself with debilitating tremors. John tried everything, every drug regimen and holistic approach there was. Nothing worked. He turned to the medical mecca of Boston for a groundbreaking form of surgery which uses soundwaves as opposed to scalpels. The audience will get to witness, in real time, non invasive brain surgery with results that are immediate. A Best Picture Oscar WINNER calls this documentary amazing and inspirational and considers John to be a walking miracle who will change the world. We will, together, benefit society by illuminating this form of surgery to the millions of people who have tremors.

Timeless – dir. Meng Ju

Original Film Title: Timeless

Director’s Name: Meng Ju

Writer’s Name: Meng Ju

Producer: Chunhong Liu, Aihui Dong

Country of Origin: China

Country of Filming: China

Language: Chinese

Runtime: 8 minutes

Film Description:

In the gallery, old Song Yi enters the parallel space-time by inputting the coordinates of -1/12. After entering the poetic white building, Song Yi changes into the appearance of his youth, and meets the warmhearted and lively girl Lina.
During that long night, Lina told Song Yi about her strange dream, and about the hopeful meaning indicated by Euler’s formula that totals -1/12. Gradually, the two lover’s hearts light up like lanterns arranged in the gallery. Unfortunately, the night is long and the dream is short. As Lina and Song Yi become more intimate, an invisible wall appears and separates them.
Upon departure, beautiful memories of Song Yi and Lina flash in the crevices of space and time. We realize that Lina Song Yi’s wife who has passed away. For the several years after she died, Song Yi has travelled through the parallel universe in search of her till the last moments of his life. Unswervingly, he has engraved his love in time.

Judge – dir. Nicolo’ Pozzali

Original Film Title: Judge

Director’s Name: Nicolo’ Pozzali

Writer’s Name: Nicolo’ Pozzali

Producer: Nicolo’ Pozzali

Country of Origin: Italy

Country of Filming: Italy

Language: English

Runtime: 16 minutes 22 seconds

Film Description:

Gianni, an eccentric Italian-American, is forced to hide out in a luxurious villa on Lake Como, Italy. He hosts a card game in the villa with a group of suspicious personalities and his old apprentice, Tim. The game turns sour when it is interrupted by an Interpol raid. However, neither the officers nor Gianni and his friends are what they seem. The director (Nicolo Pozzali) is 21 years old.

Memorial, of a circus that once was – dir. Maria Solà

Original Film Title: Memorial, d’un circ que va existir

Director’s Name: Maria Solà

Writer’s Name: Maria Solà

Country of Origin: Spain

Country of Filming: Denmark, Spain

Language: No Dialogue

Runtime: 6 minutes 40 seconds

Film Description:

The Brunette bros. circus has died, leaving behind an illusionary myth of laughter and dust. In the short docudrama “Memorial”, Will, one of the clowns of that peculiar gang, stubborn in the idea of saving the memory of the circus universe that once was, decides to re establish a different staging, a museum of curiosities , to try to resurrect the memories of that post-apocalyptic show. The exhibition shows the entrails on an itinerant business committed to authenticity.

A Zebra-Riding Boy – dir. Xiaotian Fan, Juzhi Chen

Original Film Title: 纸骑兵

Director’s Name: Xiaotian Fan, Juzhi Chen

Writer’s Name: Xiaotian Fan, Huan Jiao

Producer: Cheng Jiang

Country of Origin: China

Country of Filming: China

Language: Chinese

Runtime: 1 hour 36 minutes

Film Description:

A Zebra-Riding Boy is an exploration of the combination of literature and commerce. Also it is the first film of the impressionism-southern author films, based on Su Tong’s novels Cavalryman and Paper.
Poor bowlegged teenager Zuo Lin has a little dream to ride a horse in the most prosperous place of the city: the sad wooden horse cavalry, the happy zebra cavalry, the bleak and sad iron cavalry, the brilliant paper cavalry all melt into one.

Emergency Musical Response – dir. Cosmo Swevens

Original Film Title: Emergency Musical Response

Director’s Name: Cosmo Swevens

Writer’s Name: Cosmo Swevens, Sol Solaris

Producer: Cosmo Swevens, Alexander John Anthony Senicki

Country of Origin: United States

Country of Filming: United States

Runtime: 43 minutes 55 seconds

Film Description:

LOGLINE: Emergency Musical Response Team 421 responds to distress calls using music as a healing therapy (EMR Part 1). What is initially perceived as a routine service call devolves into an existential challenge where the very fate of pop music hangs in the balance (EMR Part 2).
SYNOPSIS: Emergency Musical Responders, Sage and her partner Cosmo, provide emergency music as a service to those in need of music as medicine. Ride with EMR Unit 421 as they help people in distress on their journey to Netherworld.

Infinity + 1 – dir. Flo Demmer

Original Film Title: Unendlich + 1

Director’s Name: Flo Demmer

Writer’s Name: Flo Demmer, Alexandra Bekiou

Producer: Flo Demmer, Flo Demmer

Country of Origin: Germany

Country of Filming: Germany

Language: German

Runtime: 8 minutes 3 seconds

Film Description:

Sam, a young boy, longs for his mothers love and protection after his father died. She, on the other hand, struggles to be the mother she wants to be while dealing with her own pain. She knows she’ll break down once that moment of weakness overcomes her. So she cuts herself from her feelings while leaving her son with his own behind.