SIGNS – dir. Jason Satterlund

Original Film Title: SIGNS

Directors Name: Jason Satterlund

Writers Name: Jameel Saleem

Producer: Jameel Saleem

Country of Origin: United States

Country of Filming: United States

Language: English

Runtime: 15 min 47 sec

Film Description: 

Two disillusioned sign spinners find love and friendship on the streets of West Los Angeles.

Paul Keller – Stille im Schrei – dir. and DOP Axel Loh

Original Film Title: Paul Keller – Stille im Schrei

Directors Name: Axel Loh

Writers Name: Axel Loh

DOP: Axel Loh

Producer: Axel Loh

Country of Origin: Germany

Country of Filming: Germany

Language: German

Runtime: 2 h 8 min 56 sec

Film Description: 

Paul Keller lives in a bombed-out city in the post-war year of 1952. He did not know his father and his mother is no longer there. Paul finds one day the missing person report of a young girl. He goes to Inspector Holler and claims that he knows the girl. But in the course of the conversation, Paul always seems less credible. He is sent out by the inspector. Does Paul actually have anything to do with the missing girl or does he seek recognition in a lost world? When he meets young Ingrid and falls in love with her, the story turns in an uncontrollable and surprising direction. 

Season of Aeon – dir. and DOP Kassandra Lim

Original Film Title: Season of Aeon

Directors Name: Kassandra Lim

Writers Name: Kassandra Lim

DOP: Kassandra Lim

Producer: Kassandra Lim

Country of Origin: Singapore

Country of Filming: United Kingdom

Language: English

Runtime: 8 min 53 sec

Film Description: 

The worldʼs most valuable fashion brand LK stages the largest ever fashion show, a redefined season that will drift aboard an archive of the traditions of the endangered Indian Ajrakhpur block printing, unfolding a spectacle at a container port once in a decade. The very industrial mechanisms that have created disposable fashion seasons have been reengineered to celebrate and value traditional handcraft.

Once a decade, people chase after it like the Northern Lights.

Carnival – dir. Lia Wang, DOP Jiahao Zhang

Original Film Title: Carnival

Directors Name: Lia Wang

Writers Name: Lia Wang

DOP: Jiahao Zhang

Producer: Yue Liu, Jiahao Zhang

Country of Origin: United States

Country of Filming: United States

Language: English

Runtime: 3 min 8 sec

Film Description: 

A young, visually impaired woman — accompanied only by her guide dog — sits in a café, reading a novel as she waits for the next bus. Suddenly, a pay phone begins to ring loudly outside. Led by her trusty friend, the young woman then experiences something that can only be described as magical.

Just Be – dir. Sarah Koteles

Original Film Title: Just Be 

Directors Name: Sarah Koteles

Writers Name: Michael Paull, 

Producer: Michael Paull, Caitlyn Hardy, Lesley Lopez, Malcolm Garvey

Country of Origin: United States

Country of Filming: United States

Language: English

Runtime: 9 min

Film Description: 

Two sisters, with supernatural powers, are kidnapped by sex traffickers.