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Original Film Title: LUMINIA
Director’s Name: HERVÉ FAULA
Writer’s Name: HERVÉ FAULA, OZTURK OZKAN, RONYJOELIAH
Producer: HERVÉ FAULA
Country of Origin: France
Country of Filming: France
Language: France
Runtime: 5 minutes
Film Description:
In a desert, a young woman appears lost, while another steals a necessary object, and a third is captive. The boundaries between reality and fiction blur, revealing unexpected connections.
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Original Film Title: Moksha
Director’s Name: Sheel Yerneni
Writer’s Name: Sheel Yerneni, Roshni Rekha
Producer: Sheel Yerneni, Ankita Nayak, Mike Canale
Country of Origin: United States
Country of Filming: United States
Language: English
Runtime: 12 minutes 55 seconds
Film Description:
Moksha is a fashion short film that follows a forward-thinking young woman with an innate flair for high fashion that almost drowns in shame (literally) from a haunting conservative upbringing.
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Original Film Title: COM ESTÀ EL PATI
Director’s Name: Pere Sala
Writer’s Name: Josep Montero
Producer: Play Your Brand, Athenea Harrington
Country of Origin: Spain
Country of Filming: Spain
Language: Catalan
Runtime: 4 minutes 20 seconds
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Original Film Title: Sergio Dondoli’s Happy Life
Director’s Name: Jay Arnold
Writer’s Name: Jay Arnold, Matt Dallas, Jillian Hurley
Producer: Jay Arnold, Gabe Munitz-Allesio, Jillian Hurley, Frank Lomento
Country of Origin: United States
Country of Filming: Italy
Language: English, Italian
Runtime: 1 hour 22 minutes 50 seconds
Film Description:
The boundless joy and unabashed passion of master gelato-maker Sergio Dondoli take center stage in this exuberant tribute to the delights of food, creativity, and a life lived with the lightest of touches yet the deepest of care.
As playful as its subject, Happy Life looks at the rise of Dondoli and his world-famed Tuscan gelateria, where thousands stand in line daily anxiously waiting for a taste. What emerges is a portrait of a man who started from the humblest beginnings yet found a way to make cultivating sweetness in all its forms his life’s work. For it is Dondoli’s insistence on prioritizing happiness in every aspect of his craft—from nurturing ethically-raised cows to cherishing his never-ending customers—that lies behind the man who has been crowned the World Gelato Champion.
Filmmaker Jay Arnold puts the focus on Dondoli’s irrepressible personality, humor, and storytelling as Dondoli recounts his path—from impoverished childhood to aspirational young chef and pizza-maker to the risk he took opening Gelateria di Piazza (now Gelateria Dondoli) in the medieval hilltop town of San Gimignano, Italy in 1992. Against the charming backdrop of San Gimignano’s lush hills and whimsical, tower-spiked skyline–Dondoli recounts how ingenuity, guile, tenacity, and family (especially his intriguingly silent wife Franca) each played an essential role in his now legendary success. He describes the process of how he concocts his gelato, incorporating such unexpected and aromatic flavors as saffron, pine nuts, lavender, rosemary, and local wines. And he delights in his discovery that just a touch of experimentation can transform the traditional into something magical.
But most of all, Dondoli reveals the secret he has discovered applies equally to food, business, and life alike: doing everything with a meticulous cheer and for the pleasure it brings to others.
As Dondoli lays out his guiding philosophy, Happy Life also becomes an homage to the slow food movement and humane, sustainable agriculture. Dondoli credits the inimitable taste of his gelato in part to the biodynamic and organic local farms from which he sources his ingredients. In colorful interviews, Dondoli and the local farmers who collaborate with him paint a compelling picture of why raising happy animals and working in harmony with the land are as important to creating award-winning gelato as milk and fruit.
Throughout Happy Life, Arnold provides a vivid sensory experience with mouth-watering imagery and lively conversations—mirroring the spirit of simple joyousness Dondoli personifies.
Happy Life is directed by Jay Arnold and written by Arnold, Matt Dallas and Jillian Hurley. The producers are Arnold, Dallas, Hurley, Frank Lomento and Gabriel Munitz-Alessio, with Munitz-Alessio also serving as cinematographer. The executive producers are Jay Arnold and Sergio Dondoli.
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Original Film Title: Jonas
Director’s Name: Cassio Neves
Writer’s Name: Cassio Neves
Producer: Fernanda Moraes, Betânia Garib, Danielle Soares, Natália Tabanes
Country of Origin: Brazil
Country of Filming: Brazil
Language: Portuguese
Runtime: 9 minutes 20 seconds
Film Description:
Jonas is a short biographical documentary that presents the story of resilience and faith of the multi-athlete Jonas Letieri, after surviving a serious accident.
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Original Film Title: Don’t Die Hard
Director’s Name: Tigran Sargsyan
Writer’s Name: Tigran Sargsyan
Producer: Tigran Sargsyan
Country of Origin: United States
Country of Filming: United States
Language: English
Runtime: 41 minutes
Film Description:
Detective Jean Jack Pluto confronts a bizarre murder mystery at an old mansion of Marco De Pimpi. With a cast of eccentric suspects, he tries to uncover the truth behind the death. Deception, secrets, and a twisted web of motives await.
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Original Film Title: Commitment is an act not a word
Director’s Name: Abdulrahman Al-mana
Writer’s Name: Abdulrahman Al-mana
Producer: Abdulrahman Al-mana
Country of Origin: Qatar
Country of Filming: Qatar
Language: English
Runtime: 2 minutes
Film Description:
Hamad our main character found a way to quit a sensitive bad habit, but his friend Khalil still in the couldn’t, Hamad will make sure his friend will follow his path whatever it takes.
The film is based on a research from National Institutes of Health (NIH) which claims a large percentage of abandoning any harmful habit is the psychological factor and routine commitment
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Original Film Title: Wizard of O.X
Director’s Name: JUNSANG LEE
Writer’s Name: JUNSANG LEE
Producer: JUNSANG LEE
Country of Origin: Korea, Republic of
Country of Filming: Korea, Republic of
Language: Korean
Runtime: 1 hour 32 minutes
Film Description:
Although Gyung-duk is in his senior year of college, he’s postponing his graduation and is living in the theater club room. One day, he receives a notice that the club room will be shut down if there is no club activity, so he gathers people to do a play, but it doesn’t work out as expected. Thanks to Chae-eun, a freshman who’s a YouTuber who happened to enter the club at this moment in time, people gather around to do a play. However, an incident occurs in which the audience cannot enter as the theater club members get ready to do the play. However, with Chae-eun’s fans as viewers, the audience is gathered again through her live stream and the show goes on. As the show is about to reach its climax, Gyung-duk hears the news that the club room is being shut down right before he goes on the stage, and after thinking about whether to go to the club room or to continue to act, he goes out to the stage to finish his performance on the stage. However, the lights in the auditoriumalso go out, and the performance ends without them being able to finish the show. Gyung-duk leaves the theater and the movie ends with the club members performing the final ending of the play at a bus stop.
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