Original Film Title: Evermore
Directors Name: Lada Imamovic
Writers Name: Lada Imamovic
Producer: Lada Imamovic, Damir Imamovic
Country of Origin: Croatia
Country of Filming: France
Language: English, French
Runtime: 7 min 13 sec
Film Description:
Mia has to come to terms with the death of her husband as her son makes her biggest fear come true.
Original Film Title: Metanoia
Directors Name: Saimanish Prabhakar
Writers Name: Saimanish Prabhakar
Producer: Prabhakar Ramanathan, Vidya Ayyaswamy, Saimanish Prabhakar, Jalaja Ahuja
Country of Origin: United Arab Emirates
Country of Filming: India, United Arab Emirates
Language: English
Runtime: 14 min 12 sec
Film Description:
A film that follows a young boy and his journey in understanding the impact of our actions on the environment. The impact of a sincere action from a pure heart is more important than an empty action of no meaningful worth. Watch his evolution of understanding what he can do for the bigger picture.
Original Film Title: Fata Morgana
Directors Name: Angelina Komarova
Writers Name: Jakob Christensen
Producer: Bakr Alduhaim
Country of Origin: France
Country of Filming: France
Language: Russian, Ukrainian
Runtime: 9 min 40 sec
Film Description:
A couple spends their last day together before the young man goes to war. I want to show how war destroys, not by showing explosions and tanks, but by showing a young couple in love, torn apart by war. Forced to separate and maybe never even see each other again.
It takes place in Kiev in 2014.
Original Film Title: Into The Void
Directors Name: Yossera Bouchtia
Writers Name: Ciara Doll, Yossera Bouchtia
Producer: Ciara Doll
Country of Origin: United States
Country of Filming: United States
Language: English
Runtime: 20 min
Film Description:
Budding astronomer, wife, and young mother Vera Rubin prepares to present her new, groundbreaking research to the American Astronomical Society and discovers a prejudice that runs much deeper than she thought — one that forces her to reassess her own livelihood and weigh her dreams against society’s expectations for women in this biopic drama set in 1950s New York.
English Film Title: Yes Climax
Original Film Title: Oui Jouie
Directors Name: Oriane Playner
Writers Name: Oriane Playner
Producer: Oriane Playner, Angela Ricciardi
Country of Origin: United States
Country of Filming: United States
Language: English, French
Runtime: 11 min 2 sec
Film Description:
One morning, Oriane traverses through her parents closet as she is left home alone. Secretly snooping through her mothers drawers, Oriane stumbles upon intimate objects that spike her interest. Her curiosity leads her to test them on herself. In the depths of exploration, Maman comes home and a confrontation arrises when she finds her misplaced vibrator.
“Oui Jouie” is a short 16mm narrative film addressing the miseducation around female pleasure and the taboo of sex in the United States. The story depicts the relationship between a girl and her mother as the young daughter explores her own body through sexuality. We follow the main character, Oriane, who confronts her lack of knowledge about masturbation through a series of adventurous discoveries
Original Film Title: cucumber
Directors Name: Haichuan Xu
Writers Name: Haichuan Xu
Producer: Kilian Kiefel
Country of Origin: United States
Country of Filming: United States
Language: English
Runtime: 15 min
Film Description:
Cucumber portrays a near dystopian America where the government controls diet and expands animal rights to an authoritarian conclusion: all meat is forbidden.
David, a police inspector who struggles in his personal life as well as with his job will interrogate a meat loving criminal who will push him to the boundaries of what is right and what is wrong.
English Film Title: Stubborn as a Mule
Original Film Title: Tête de Mule
Directors Name: Victor Bargès
Writers Name: Victor Bargès
Producer: Gabriel Rigoni
Country of Origin: France
Country of Filming: France
Language: French
Runtime: 13 min 59 sec
Film Description:
A car is stopped in a Serbian countryside. A young man, Ulysse, with facial injuries is on the phone. He turns over the back seat of his car, and sits on the driver seat. There is not enough money. On the back seat, a couple of refugees are trying to reason the young man.
Original Film Title: Oh, Brother
Directors Name: Laurin Gausch
Writers Name: Laurin Gausch, Brigitte Wirnharter
Producer: Laurin Gausch, Brigitte Wirnharter
Country of Origin: Austria
Country of Filming: Austria
Language: English, German
Runtime: 39 min 10 sec
Film Description:
20-year-old Leon travels alone with a childhood treasure across Canada to realize the childhood dream of him and his best friend.
Original Film Title: Sapper Smith
Directors Name: Vida Breze
Writers Name: Amanda C. Eberhardt, Emily Morales
Producer: Liza Jane Wiedemann, Emily Morales
Country of Origin: United Kingdom
Country of Filming: United Kingdom
Language: English
Runtime: 14 min 26 sec
Film Description:
At the outbreak of WWI, a young British journalist named DOROTHY LAWRENCE, yearns to experience the war firsthand as a reporter in the trenches. Dorothy travels to France as a freelance reporter where she meets two soldiers, TOM and BILL. She makes a daunting request to them — to help her reach the front lines by transforming her into a male soldier. Moved by her passion to serve, but aware of the risks at hand, they teach her how to look, walk, and talk like a man, and drill and march like a soldier. Soon, ‘Sapper Denis Smith’ is born, but Dorothy’s biggest test is yet to come. She leaves for the trenches and encounters a familiar face who may jeopardize her true identity. Will she make it past the army camp guards or will her true identity be discovered?
Original Film Title: The Last Oil
Directors Name: Kyrre Lien, Ingerid Salvesen
Producer: Kyrre Lien, Ingerid Salvesen
Country of Origin: Norway
Country of Filming: Nigeria, Norway, United States
Language: English
Runtime: 29 min 44 sec
Film Description:
A self-made Texan businessman rides the biggest oil boom in decades. A Nigerian farmer-turned-activist fights oil spills polluting his land. A Norwegian fisherman’s daughter finds herself in the midst of a dilemma: Should her island open up for oil exploration or not? Together, they tell the story of how and why oil has become so important for our economies and modern lifestyles, but also why continuing to use oil as much as we do may jeopardize all of that: it harms our environment and climate. This is a story about the global battle for the last oil, how it affects three ordinary people and, ultimately, all of us.
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