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Original Film Title: Guilty
Directors Name: Archibald Benhamou
Writers Name: Archibald Benhamou
Producer: Haya Alghanim, Chien Ni Yang
Country of Origin: United States
Country of Filming: United States
Language: English
Runtime: 9 min 25 sec
Film Description:
A date between a serial killer and an Instagram influencer turns wrong.
Original Film Title: Playing Planet
Directors Name: JIAYI WANG
Writers Name: JIAYI WANG
Country of Origin: China
Country of Filming: China
Language: Chinese
Runtime: 14 min 50 sec
Film Description:
If AI has emotional intelligence, it will be a disaster for humans. Due to the issuance of Decree No. 2900-1, humans have to terminate all projects related to AI emotional learning. Therefore, GAEA outside the atmosphere established twenty scenes as a secret training base. Then the game company also acquired several scenes. As a game player, Jurij searched the abandoned body of Siena, trying to use her cross-border memory, through the scene, to find helium gas to achieve a short plan. On the way, he was in crisis due to Siena’s ambiguous identity …
English Film Title: The Shadow of the Sun
Original Film Title: הצל של השמש
Directors Name: Ido Hartmann
Writers Name: Ido Hartmann
Producer: Bezalel Academy of Art and Design
Country of Origin: Israel
Country of Filming: Israel
Language: Hebrew
Runtime: 8 min
Film Description: 7 years ago Boaz has cut all ties with his parents, brother & sister, his friends, and his previous world. The film tracks the story of his disappearance and embarks in a surreal journey into the memories he left with his family.
Original Film Title: Terror Fervor
Directors Name: Phoebe Parsons
Writers Name: Phoebe Parsons
Producer: Phoebe Parsons
Country of Origin: Canada
Country of Filming: Canada
Language: English
Runtime: 6 min
Film Description:
Informed by experimental films from the 1960s and 70s, Terror Fervor takes the viewer on a psychedelic non-linear journey through the vices of seven characters. The wordless journey of Terror Fervor plunges the viewer into an experience that is hard to classify and hard to forget.
Original Film Title: The Masque of Blackness
Directors Name: Epoh Beech
Writers Name: Epoh Beech
Producer: Epoh Beech
Country of Origin: United Kingdom
Country of Filming: United Kingdom
Language: English
Runtime: 12 min 45 sec
Film Description:
Epoh Beech’s The Masque of Blackness is a hand drawn animation re-imagining Ben Jonson’s 1605 play The Masque of Blackness and Joseph Conrad’s 1899 novella Heart of Darkness. Created over 7 years out of thousands of charcoal drawings, the animation weaves both texts together and explores the spirit of place to take you on a journey from West Africa to the Thames in London and the Rhine in Germany. It has themes of moonlight, oceans, rivers, unexplored territory, mythological symbolism and highlights concerns for the environment. Our guides on the journey are Hermes, a grey seal, and Pegasus, the winged horse, they are both unconstrained by the straight jacket of time.
Original Film Title: Aripi
Directors Name: Dmitri Voloshin
Writers Name: Dmitri Voloshin, Sergiu Chirillov, Anastasia Berzoy
Producer: Dmitri Voloshin
Country of Origin: Republic of Moldova
Language: no
Runtime: 8 min 11 sec
Film Description:
This story is about an astronaut who, as a child, dreamed of flying and being free. And now he seems to be flying in the sky, but he is actually locked in the capsule of a spacecraft. One day, minor problems lead to bigger problems, causing the spaceship to lose control and collapse on Earth. And now the astronaut will once again spread the wings of his dreams and return to childhood.
Title: Giant Rooks – King Thinking
Directors Name: Sander Houtkruijer
Producer: Leberg
Country of Origin: Germany
Country of Filming: Germany
Language: English
Runtime: 3 min 39 sec
Film Description: How do you make a music video that isn’t just another music video? A director duo is struggling mid-shoot. Has everything been done already? What’s the point of anything? Their crisis gets quickly metabolised by the image production machine. Meanwhile, the band become the crew, hoping the crisis is resolved before they go into overtime.
Title: Nice Shoes
Directors Name: Jonathan Lawrence
Writers Name: Tommy Mack
Producer: Tommy Mack
Country of Origin: United States
Country of Filming: United States
Language: English
Runtime: 3 min 47 sec
Film Description: A sci-fi extravaganza that is as pointless as the lyrics. Over 40 classic movie references are featured in this epic music video.
Title: Mountain
Original Title: הר
Directors Name: Gabriel Thomas Ayache
Writers Name: Gabriel Thomas Ayache, Noam Helfer
Producer: Gabriel Thomas Ayache, Noam Helfer, Needwant Records
Country of Origin: Israel
Country of Filming: United Kingdom
Language: English
Runtime: 3 min 51 sec
Film Description: The music video, made in close collaboration with London based motion artist Gabriel Thomas Ayache, takes the viewer on a journey of visual enjoyment and self-reflection, one of re-connection with the elements of nature through various carefully composed Land Art pieces. The song was written in the north of India and comes to voice the feeling of being in another dimension, where time passes differently and where connecting to the power of nature while letting alternative forces direct you intuitively, is possible. Stepping away from the mundane city life and informally shifting into serenity, when both the body and metaphysical self, the mind, can calmly merge.
Title: Phoet – Symmetry Breaking
Directors Name: Ezra Capogna, Federico Biasin, Steve Panariti
Writers Name: Ezra Capogna
Producer: Mybosswas, Phoet
Country of Origin: Italy
Country of Filming: Italy
Language: no
Runtime: 5 min 15 sec
Film Description: Incensed by the current political situation in Italy whereby the government have made the migrants a scapegoat for the country’s problems, the symbolic and socio-politically pertinent video tells the story of one man’s journey through two different lenses – the literal and spiritual. The cinematic video sees main protagonist played by South African musician Kholeho Mosala leave his family and embark on a treacherous journey across the sea. Accompanied throughout by a group of dancers who represent both the real and spiritual ferrymen that go with him, the video is littered with recurring symbols and themes in this journey include a tarot suit; the stick, the sword, the cup, the money and coins, and Homer’s The Odyssey.
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