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Original Film Title: Onward

Director’s Name: Sun Yuchen

Writer’s Name: Wei Shirui

Producer: Zhang Lu

Country of Origin: China

Country of Filming: China

Language: Chinese

Runtime: 14 minutes 52 seconds

Film Description:

Zhou Xiaoman was the sole caretaker of her mother, Lin Qiaoyun, who suffered from Alzheimer’s disease. Trapped in the world of her late husband’s passing, Lin Qiaoyun was consumed by her desire for a sea burial and had filled their home with paper boats symbolizing farewell. Exhausted yet accommodating, Zhou Xiaoman repeatedly accompanied her mother to the sea to carry out an endless mourning ritual.
This was to be their final farewell at sea. Zhou Xiaoman had finally decided to take her mother south, away from their hometown, for better care. But when her mother stubbornly stuffed a paper boat into the suitcase, the last thread of Zhou Xiaoman’s composure snapped. Lin Qiaoyun, no longer recognizing her own daughter, left home alone.
Zhou Xiaoman found her by the shore. A paper boat her mother had set adrift lay stranded in the mud. Mistaking her daughter for a stranger, Lin Qiaoyun invited her to “set sail together.”
In the struggle between memory and oblivion, Zhou Xiaoman took the sweat-soaked paper boat and boarded that never-docking boat in her mother’s inner world.

Original Film Title: Capturada

Director’s Name: Isabela Paiao

Writer’s Name: Isabela Paiao, Ryan Rivera, Sophie Gould

Producer: Sophie Gould

Country of Origin: United States

Country of Filming: United States

Language: English, Spanish

Runtime: 10 minutes

Film Description:

A grandmother, Alma, secretly explores a new relationship online, rediscovering her identity beyond the roles of mother and grandmother. When her hidden life collides with her family, Alma faces a transformative journey of self-love, desire, and liberation.

Original Film Title: An Everyday Occurrence

Director’s Name: Virginia Porter Hepp

Writer’s Name: Virginia Porter Hepp

Producer: Grace Stromatt

Country of Origin: United States

Country of Filming: United States

Language: English

Runtime: 14 minutes 34 seconds

Film Description:

It is an average day at Milton High School–or so it seems. After a fight with her son, teacher Sarah Henderson discovers there is an active shooter in her school, and she must find her son before it’s too late.

Original Film Title: Director’s Cut

Director’s Name: Alvaro José Cogollos, Juanita Santafe

Writer’s Name: Alvaro José Cogollos, Juanita Santafe

Producer: Alvaro José Cogollos

Country of Origin: Colombia

Country of Filming: United States

Language: Spanish

Runtime: 6 minutes 4 seconds

Film Description:

A choice between two lives: the calm, slow pace of peace or the exciting, relentless scream of the city.

A young couple in New York City ponders the future of their relationship. Under the camera’s gaze, this couple debates living together in New York.

Original Film Title: AUDIOQUATROSCOPY Barcelona & de Falla

Director’s Name: Christophe Schaeffer

Writer’s Name: Christophe Schaeffer

Producer: Christophe Schaeffer

Country of Origin: France

Country of Filming: France

Language: French

Runtime: 5 minutes 4 seconds

Film Description:

This film works at the threshold.
The threshold of perception, the edge of a face, the edge of the world.

It opens on an extremity : a woman’s eyelashes.
Not a full face, not even a gaze — but the boundary of sight itself.
A flicker.
The eyelid becomes territory, the frontier between inside and out.
The tram, in motion, already suggests a passage.
But here, it is not space that moves — it is vision itself that unravels.

Little by little, the figure fades.
The world emerges.
Foliage, traces of light, reflections — not as objects, but as phenomena.
We are no longer seeing things, but the act of seeing itself.

The camera tells no story.
It exposes the unfolding of the visible in its fragility, its fluidity.
It does not show a subject in the world, but the way the world appears through a body — and then beyond it.

This cinematic gesture echoes phenomenology in its barest form:
it seeks to return to experience,
to the birth of vision,
to the moment when the image ceases to represent and becomes a pure appearance.

The film follows a trajectory with no destination.
From face to foliage.
From blinking lashes to rays of light.
From the intimate to the diffuse.
From the human to the abstract.

But this is not disappearance.
It is a transfiguration of presence.
A way of turning vision into a passage, a drift,
a silent listening to what always slips between forms.

Original Film Title: AUDIOQUATROSCOPY Barcelona & de Falla

Director’s Name: Hans Thierstein

Writer’s Name: Hans Thierstein

Producer: Hans Thierstein

Country of Origin: Switzerland

Country of Filming: Switzerland

Language:

Runtime: 3 minutes 34 seconds

Film Description:

This Audioquatroscopy is based on a coloured Google Earth view of the Montjuïch Communication Tower in Barcelona. The Tower has its unique design by Swiss architect Santiago Calatrava and was constructed for the Summer Olympic Games 1992.

I have it move to the tune of Manuel de Falla‘s Danse Espangnole from his opera La Vida Breve, which he composed in 1913 for piano. This Dance Espagnole was arranged for violin an piano by Fritz Kreisler in 1929, performed here by Carrie Rehkopf (Violin) and Lisa Bergmann (piano). I found this recording at the royalty-free site http://www.commons.wikimedia.org.

My invention of audioquatroscopy represents a type of mobile, digital design, whose movements are synchronized to the rhythm of a music piece. A quatroscope is a four-sided mirror tunnel, similar to a kaleidoscope, but with four, rather than three mirrors. A square image placed at one end – when watched from the other end of the tunnel – is reflected repeatedly in four directions, leading to unexpected and fascinating patterns. These patterns change, when the central image is moved.

Original Film Title: Take It

Director’s Name: Wilbert C Thomas

Writer’s Name: Kimberly Cash Tate

Producer: Lamontt Blackshire, Lamontt Blackshire

Country of Origin: United States

Country of Filming: United States

Language: English

Runtime: 3 minutes

Film Description:

“Take It” is a music video by 13FOUR (Lamontt Blackshire & Kim Cash Tate) from the film “Cling the Movie.”

Original Film Title: No One Walks On Water (Anymore)

Director’s Name: Matt Ellsworth

Writer’s Name: Ira Ingber, Steve Bartek

Producer: Ira Ingber

Country of Origin: United States

Country of Filming: United States

Language: English

Runtime: 4 minutes 53 seconds

Film Description:

The official music video for “No One Walks On Water (Anymore)” dives into a steampunk-inspired world of animated whimsy, perfectly reflecting the inventive sound of BarIng All’s debut album, There Goes My Compass. Gears turn, airships drift, and surreal mechanical seas shimmer beneath a clockwork sky. Through this dreamlike landscape, a lone wanderer searches for meaning in a world where faith and fantasy collide. Playful yet profound, the video captures the essence of losing direction — and finding wonder in the process.

Steve Bartek and Ira Ingber are BarIng All. Conceived, developed, and inspired by their shared desires to journey on musical roads less traveled, their ever-growing body of work surprises, challenges, and ultimately rewards the listener.

With countless years of both recording and live performances as individuals or together in such musically diverse contexts as Bob Dylan, Oingo Boingo, Brian Wilson, Captain Beefheart, Strawberry Alarm Clock, Frank Sinatra (to name a few), Steve and Ira communicate nearly telepathically. Oftentimes it truly is telepathy. This happens not only when they play guitars together, but when composing and mixing their BarIng All pieces as well.

Like film directors do, they have cast other musicians for spotlight roles in their songs. Because of the respect they’ve earned from their fellow musicians, the performances these outside artists have brought to BarIng All are notable, not only for their intrinsic virtuosity, but for the ways in which they contribute to the “whole.” They don’t seem to mind being tortured. Just a little.

Original Film Title: I’ll Burn Alive

Director’s Name: Manuel Mira Albero

Writer’s Name: Manuel Mira Albero

Producer: Manuel Mira Albero, Joan Manel Piquer

Country of Origin: Spain

Country of Filming: Spain

Language: Catalan

Runtime: 4 minutes 50 seconds

Film Description:

The music video for “Cremaré Viu” takes us on an intimate and poetic journey where vulnerability turns into strength. Through symbolic imagery — balancing light and shadow, fire and calm — Joan Manel Piquer conveys the inner tremor of moments of crisis, while offering the warmth of companionship. The video reinforces the song’s message: even when the ground shakes beneath us, we are not alone. A visual piece that blends simplicity, emotion, and powerful metaphors to portray human fragility and the hope of rising again.

Original Film Title: End of Summer

Director’s Name: Weiqi Cai

Writer’s Name: Weiqi Cai

Producer: Weiqi Cai

Country of Origin: United States

Country of Filming: Georgia

Language: Chinese

Runtime: 14 minutes 39 seconds

Film Description: