Original Film Title: 刘子骥
Director’s Name: Yanqing Jin
Writer’s Name: Yanqing Jin
Producer: Zhiran Guo, Xinghuan Wang
Country of Origin: China
Country of Filming: China
Language: Chinese
Runtime: 5 minutes 19 seconds
Liu Ziji – dir. Yanqing Jin
Anemone : A Fairy Tale for No Kids – dir. Jung Ha-Yong
Original Film Title: 애들이 보면 안되는 동화 : 아네모네
Director’s Name: Jung Ha-Yong
Writer’s Name: Jung Ha-Yong
Producer: Um Hyun-Sook
Country of Origin: Korea, Republic of
Country of Filming: Korea, Republic of
Language: English, Korean
Runtime: 1 hour 17 minutes 45 seconds
Film Description:
Yong-Ja lives in Seoul as the mother of a child, striving to sustain a living of a household and undaunted by the obstacles laying before her.
On her way to work rather late in a random morning on a weekend when she had this peculiar dream which she found to be very unusual, she urges her jobless husband to buy a lottery, thinking she already knows the numbers for a jackpot and even writing them down herself for him to see.
That night, when Yong Ja was under harsh labor until.late, she finds out on a real-time basis that the numbers she wrote down earlier during the morning and which she told her hubby to keep intact actually did hit the jackpot. This felt very unrealistic for her to believe, and she could hardly admit it. All this made her rush towards her house at the speed of light.
But what lay ahead waiting for her was only all the more shocking enough to make her taken aback, going beyond the boundaries of her common sense that would make her jaws open wide in horror and disbelief……..
Back to Apirol – dir. Luoxi Liu
Red Carpet & Award Ceremony? Get Your Tickets Now.
Original Film Title: Back to Apirol
Director’s Name: Luoxi Liu
Writer’s Name: Luoxi Liu
Producer: Quyao Zhi
Country of Origin: United States
Country of Filming: United States
Language: Chinese
Runtime: 5 minutes 52 seconds
Film Description:
A lonely woman digs her head into her lover’s jean jacket and has an intensive experience in her imagination.
Azart. Come Make Art – dir. Annike Kaljouw
Original Film Title: Azart. Come Make Art
Director’s Name: Annike Kaljouw
Writer’s Name: Maria Novikova
Producer: Maria Novikova
Country of Origin: Netherlands
Country of Filming: Aruba, Colombia, Ecuador, Netherlands, Spain
Language: Dutch, English, Russian, Spanish
Runtime: 1 hour 23 minutes
Film Description:
Welcome to Azart: the Ship of Fools. A unique ship that symbolizes the realization of dreams.
Based on a painting of Hieronymus Bosch, Captain August turned an old fisherman’s ship into a sailing theatre. During more than 30 years he travelled around the world to bring theatre, joy and folly. Until 2020, the ship has visited hundreds of cities, to brighten them up with its theatrical performances. Together with his crew – consisting of actors and musicians, in varying composition – August showed how to live an adventurous life by following your heart, create dreams and make them come true.
In the film we follow August in his mission to give the ship a final destination. He visits old friends and family in the Netherlands and looks back on his travels. Because August always had filmmakers on board, we have a rich archive of film images at our disposal. This creates a colorful overview of the wonderful history of the theater ship.
‘The ship of fools’ was actually on its way to Australia, to put the ship on wheels and drive though the desert to bring theatre. But unfortunately this dream was abruptly coming to an end, when serious illness forced him to go back to Holland to get treatments. He had to leave the ship behind in Ecuador. His last wish was to get the ship on the beach. This seemed like an impossible dream. But in the spirit of Azart, he completed this mission too.
The end scene looks like a surreal ‘grand final show’: the Amsterdam theatre ship Azart is making its very last voyage after thirty-three years of sailing. On wheels, pulled by bulldozers. The ship now stands perky on a beach in Ecuador and is fully embraced by a local theater group.
The name Azart has several meanings: passion; taking risks; take the gamble, fearlessly pursue your goal, opportunities.
Captain August: “The name is the omen.. of the many near-collisions, and other perils about permits, lack of money, etc. But also the omen of a life journey in permanent amazement that it just kept going! Nothing is impossible.” Everyone in the world who knows Azart shares this amazement: it is a source of inspiration until the very end.
Watch the wonderful history about living your dreams, and dealing with obstacles on the way.
Please enter the world of captain August and his Ship of Fools!
UNSPOKEN – dir. Manzanon
Original Film Title: UNSPOKEN
Director’s Name: Manzanon
Writer’s Name: Shiyi Bai, Thalia Giardini
Producer: Camilo Maria Bahamón, Alexandra Sirotenko
Country of Origin: Czech Republic
Country of Filming: Czech Republic
Language: Chinese, English, Italian
Runtime: 8 minutes 19 seconds
Film Description:
Shiqi, a young Chinese girl who loves Chinese calligraphy, studies in the beautiful Prague. She meets Hannah, an Italian girl whose vibrant personality hits her immediately. Shiqi tries to hide her feelings, but the heart-warming Hannah melts her from inside. Meanwhile, Shiqi’s father keeps calling in. Before she even summons up the courage to say anything, father’s storm of questions and unshakable authority put her into silence. What would Shiqi do? Will she leave Hannah, or will she stay?
RIGGED – dir.
Remote energy healing in action – dir. Shihyun Wang
Original Film Title: Remote energy healing in action
Director’s Name: Shihyun Wang
Writer’s Name: Shihyun Wang
Producer: Shihyun Wang
Country of Origin: Taiwan
Country of Filming: Mexico
Language: English
Runtime: 2 minutes
Film Description:
This documentary recorded how 8 people with different age and background got together to see if their vital signs are changed during a remote energy session sent from an energy master 7000 miles away
Mad Scientists – dir. Antonia Tong
Red Carpet & Award Ceremony? Get Your Tickets Now.
Original Film Title: Mad Scientists
Director’s Name: Antonia Tong
Writer’s Name: Antonia Tong
Producer: Antonia Tong
Country of Origin: United States
Language: English
Runtime: 1 minute
Film Description:
A group of cutting-edge scientists, risk everything to return to a foreign land to search for the secret to controlling the deadly AI robots weapons to help the real mankind.
10, AUTUMN STREET – dir. Theo Herghelegiu
Original Film Title: TOAMNEI 10
Director’s Name: Theo Herghelegiu
Writer’s Name: Theo Herghelegiu
Producer: Dan Vulc
Country of Origin: Romania
Country of Filming: Romania
Language: Romanian
Runtime: 26 minutes 50 seconds
Film Description:
10, Autumn street is a short about ”extraordinary things happening to ordinary people”. The narrative evolves around a man in his 40s who comes home one night and finds an unknown woman in his apartament.
Built on this funny and odd situation, the film reveals in the end the cause of the peculiar event that generates fury, consternation, and confusion: for one night, two parallel universes overlap, causing the unusual meeting of two lonely people, literally living in their own world.
It’s like a game between the daily tangible reality and the unexplainable magic of life. Our life.
Badlands – dir. Gabriel Chicano
Original Film Title: Badlands
Director’s Name: Gabriel Chicano
Writer’s Name: Gabriel Chicano
Producer: Gabriel Chicano
Country of Origin: Spain
Country of Filming: Spain
Language: English
Runtime: 11 minutes 41 seconds
Film Description:
Eli is a young girl traveling through an area of Badlands. After getting stranded with the car, she starts walking in search of help and, seeing a caravan in the distance, she decides to approach and enter but someone locks her in from the outside.
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