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Original Film Title: The Knell
Directors Name: Joseph Osei-Bonsu
Writers Name: Joseph Osei-Bonsu
Producers: Joseph Osei-Bonsu, Bevelyn Osei-Bonsu
Country of Origin: Ghana
Country of Filming: United States
Language: English
Runtime: 14 minutes 56 seconds
Film Description:
On his first day at a rural Oklahoman university, a Ghanaian international student with hopes of achieving the American Dream, encounters a beautiful yet mysterious campus tour guide who sends him down a deadly path in which he awakens to discover an American nightmare he must overcome.
Original Film Title: Spaceman
Directors Name: Paula Suidgeest Alvarez
Writers Name: Marijn Frijns
Producers: Zhaklin Peycheva, Jelle Bathoorn
Country of Origin: Netherlands
Country of Filming: Netherlands
Language: Dutch, English
Runtime: 23 minutes
Film Description:
A peculiar young man dresses in a spacesuit, as a way to cope with the passing of his parents, what helps him with his trauma is his chaotic next-door neighbor.
Original Film Title: SOLDIERS: Six Stories, Six Wars
Directors Name: Tony Villani
Writers Name: Tony Villani
Producers: Tony Villani
Country of Origin: United States
Country of Filming: Czech Republic, Italy, United States
Language: Czech, English
Runtime: 1 hour 34 minutes
Film Description:
Completed on March 1, 2021 SOLDIERS: Six Stories, Six Wars looks into the hearts and souls of people in uniform and describes their inner wars. It features exclusive interviews with veterans of various conflicts, people I once used to know simply as friends.
Original Film Title: El murmullo de la marimba
English Film Title: The Whisper of the Marimba
Directors Name: Greta-Marie Becker
Writers Name: Greta-Marie Becker
Producers: Greta-Marie Becker
Country of Origin: Germany
Country of Filming: Ecuador
Language: Spanish
Runtime: 1 hour 19 minutes 10 seconds
Film Description:
The marimba is the bridge between Africa and Latin America. The sound of the wooden xylophone connects the present-day life on the Ecuadorian Pacific coast with its African roots. Hundreds of years ago, the marimba music came to Ecuador across the sea. Stormy drum rhythms and the gentle, undulating melodies remind us of the violence experienced during slave trade and colonial rule and also tell the story of the centuries-old musical resistance of the Afro-Ecuadorian community. In 2015 the marimba music has been declared as an UNESCO World Cultural Heritage.
“The Whisper of the Marimba” portrays three generations of musicians who lay bare their worries and dreams as well as their unshakable trust in the power of art and music to nurture their identity and community. A story of losing memory and rewriting history…
Original Film Title: HEARTWORK
Directors Name: Benjamin Filinson
Writers Name: Benjamin Filinson
Producers: Filinson Films LLC
Country of Origin: United States
Country of Filming: United States
Language: English
Runtime: 9 minutes 3 seconds
Film Description:
Through the merging of 16mm film and HD Video, shot exclusively at night in B&W. This film explores the consequences of unintegrated childhood trauma, and its growth into adulthood by feeding on fear, anger and grief.
Original Film Title: Where’s Lucy?
Directors Name: Salma Azzam
Writers Name: Salma Azzam, Scott Hartmann
Producers: Salma Azzam, Miranda Davidson
Country of Origin: United Arab Emirates
Country of Filming: United Arab Emirates
Language: English
Runtime: 20 minutes
Film Description:
In order for Lucy to remember what happened to her, she has to face her fears. Little does she know she has to be truly lost to be found.
Original Film Title: Presence of Absences
Directors Name: Dash
Writers Name: Dash
Producers: White Hole Studio, fingers.group
Country of Origin: Syrian Arab Republic
Country of Filming: Netherlands
Language: Arabic
Runtime: 12 minutes 56 seconds
Film Description:
An experimental theatrical short film about the human revolution within society, from racism and the rule of individuals over the religious and community cover.
Original Film Title: Bidar Sho Zibay-e Khofteh
English Film Title: Wake Up Sleeping Beauty
Directors Name: Shila Ommi
Writers Name: Mastaneh Moghadam
Producers: Shila Ommi, Mastaneh Moghadam, Los Angeles County Department of Mental Health
Country of Origin: United States
Country of Filming: United States
Language: Persian
Runtime: 1 hour 35 minutes
Film Description:
A psychological drama, following the story of an Iranian-American woman asleep to all of her power and potential, until she receives an invitation that wakes her up from cultural trappings and ‘curses,’ and allows her to come into her power and to finally start living.
Original Film Title: Into the Abyss
Directors Name: Waleed Sokkar
Writers Name: Waleed Sokkar
Director of Photography: Waleed Sokkar
Producers: Waleed Sokkar
Country of Origin: United States
Country of Filming: United States
Language: English
Runtime: 7 minutes
Film Description:
A visual expression film about mental health. It takes a look at the turbulent mind of a mentally depressed young man on the verge of committing suicide and the endless struggles he has trying to find peace within himself while living in a world that has lost track of what’s important. But Is there any hope left for him?
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