Category: Best Short Film – 2024 WSXA BARCELONA

Original Film Title: Escucha Paisaje Escucha

Director’s Name: Victor Checa, Diego Cendra Woodman

Writer’s Name: Victor Checa, Diego Cendra Woodman

Producer: Marlene Miyashiro

Country of Origin: Peru

Country of Filming : Norway, Peru

Language: Spanish

Runtime: 20 minutes

Film Description:

From the Paracas desert in Peru to the forests of Hjardtal in Norway, two musicians create a lysergic connection.
Natural landscapes merge with an immersive sound experience between electronic sounds, percussion and experimentation.

Original Film Title: Sueño

Director’s Name: Simon Longuet

Writer’s Name: Simon Longuet

Producer: Lane Forbes

Country of Origin: France

Country of Filming : France

Language: French

Runtime: 12 minutes 49 seconds

Film Description:

A young man, who lives a perfect life, sees it shattered during a mid-autumn night’s dream, a 13th November, in Paris.

Original Film Title: Следи от Хода

Director’s Name: Miroslav Zhelyazkov Trifonov

Writer’s Name: Miroslav Zhelyazkov Trifonov, Nikola Nikolaev Gaidov

Producer: Miroslav Zhelyazkov Trifonov

Country of Origin: Bulgaria

Country of Filming : Bulgaria

Language: Bulgarian

Runtime: 24 minutes 28 seconds

Film Description:

A young, troubled man reaches the edge of the world in his search for a mysterious elder that holds the key to understanding the endless cycle of paying a meaningless price.

Original Film Title: Shades

Director’s Name: Madeleine Karlsson

Writer’s Name: Madeleine Karlsson

Producer: Madeleine Karlsson, Olivia Hansson

Country of Origin: Sweden

Country of Filming : Sweden

Language: Swedish

Runtime: 14 minutes 52 seconds

Film Description:

In Shades we are invited to a place between light and dark. Embraced by dusk, perception changes and senses open up to the mysterious and unknown. Through movement of body and light interactions develop, shift, dissolve and reorganize; creating patterns that move in unpredictable and transformational ways. Stillness is overlapped by rhythmical vibrations, taking us from meditative to passionate states of being. Through touch we can start listening to the quiet, subtle inner voice of ourselves.

Original Film Title: Bitter Brownies

Director’s Name: James Carman

Writer’s Name: David MacGregor

Producer: James Carman

Country of Origin: United States

Country of Filming : United States

Language: English

Runtime: 12 minutes 15 seconds

Film Description:

In this dark comedy, a devious thief pilfers lunches from the company refrigerator. Staff employees are out for blood. Where will the food bandit strike next?!!!

Original Film Title: Scent of A Persimmon Flower

Director’s Name: Jae Hong Park

Writer’s Name: Jae Hong Park

Producer: min oh kim

Country of Origin: Korea, Republic of

Country of Filming : Korea, Republic of

Language: Korean

Runtime: 14 minutes 29 seconds

Film Description:

A midsummer story between a middle-aged brother who works hard at his food stall with his wife and his blinded younger sister caused by an accident at an early age.
The brother lives a difficult life financially and suffers maritally from his wife, so he cannot afford to take care of his blind sister.

One day, he comes back home earlier than usual from an exhausting day. He enters the house quietly not to disturb his sister’s sleep.
However, as he enters, he hears his sister moaning. As he opened the door, he catches her masterbating.
He had forgotten that she was also a woman and wants things just like rest of us do.

The next day, he asks and pays his friend to take care and stay with her at home. Hoping that he might grow some feelings for her, but she is middle-aged, big and a disabled woman.

After a long rainy season ended one rainy summer day, him and his sister goes on a trip, just two of them.