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Original Film Title: The Leaving Room

Directors Name: Aly Rose

Writers Name: Aly Rose

Producer: Zhang Lin, Chen Chun, Aly Rose

Country of Origin: China

Country of Filming: China

Language: Chinese, English

Runtime: 14 minutes 15 seconds

Film Description: 

While sitting comfortably in her living room, feet propped up on the coffee table, Star receives quite the shock. What ensues is a journey inward, accompanied by the faces and facets of her ego. This story is stylistically kitsch and told through dance for camera in five acts.

Original Film Title: Strange Nostalgia

Directors Name: Alex Proyas

Writers Name: Alex Proyas

Producer: Alex Proyas

Country of Origin: Australia

Country of Filming: Australia

Language: English

Runtime: 7 minutes 3 seconds

Film Description: 

A woman dreams of a past life or a parallel existence.

Original Film Title: Eallin lea guovttesuorat niehku

English Film Title: Life is a two-way dream

Directors Name: Gjert Rognli

Writers Name: Gjert Rognli

Producer: Gjert Rognli

Country of Origin: Norway

Country of Filming: Norway

Language: Norwegian

Runtime: 8 minutes

Film Description: 

The film “Eallin lea guovtte suorat niehku — Life is a two-way dream” shows the way in a world undergoing rapid change, with polarisation and globalisation going in many directions. We are in an age marked by adoration of youth, fixation on the present and extreme individualism. What we do today will affect the way people live in the future. The wisdom from the shaman’s worldview from the old Sami religion helps weave together another interpretation and story.

Original Film Title: Gold

Directors Name: Gi Gonzales

Writers Name: Gi Gonzales

Producer: Max Neace, Kathryn Dunn

Country of Origin: United States

Country of Filming: United States

Language: English

Runtime: 4 minutes 56 seconds

Film Description: 

Five kids are approached by a stranger to play Russian Roulette with a twist.

Original Film Title: Align

Directors Name: R.E. Wolfe

Writers Name: R.E. Wolfe

Producer: R.E. Wolfe

Country of Origin: United Kingdom

Country of Filming: United Kingdom

Language: English

Runtime: 7 minutes 22 seconds

Film Description: 

‘Align’ is a conceptual dance film that presents two radically different dance forms: ballet and pole dance. Starring Californian born professional ballet dancer Casey Nokomis Pereira and British actress and dancer Holly Weston, our black and white film is set in a North London studio and cuts back and forth between the two dancers whilst they rehearse their sequences. The juxtaposition between the two crafts is demonstrated throughout, but our cinematographic choices also allow the audience to see the parallels between the two crafts and between these two women who are united in numerous ways, including rhythm, gracefulness and athleticism.

Original Film Title: Panem et Circenses

Directors Name: sofi

Writers Name: sofi

Producer: gizem albohayre

Country of Origin: Turkey

Country of Filming: Turkey

Language: English

Runtime: 4 minutes 8 seconds

Film Description: 

Named after ancient Roman poet Juvenal’s famous phrase “Breads and Circuses”, Panem Et Circenses focuses on the collective suffering of being limited by conceptual boundaries, which suppress a being’s uniqueness, creativity, and sought self fulfillment. Inside a metaphorical universe, which is inspired by an aquarium, original characters depict their individual journeys in life, accompanied with a goldfish’s tale of seeking a way out his habitat that is togged up with distractive ornaments. As each character tries to realize themselves in fashion, choreography, emotions and identity, the goldfish simultaneously continues his journey as an element that reflects their collective dreams, hardships, joys and disappointments.

Having created and developed by a team of volunteers, Panem Et Circenses aims to express the will to embrace and lead change and transformation under challenging circumstances, while leveraging the power of being unique and acting collective to overcome social, economical and political challenges.

Original Film Title: Lust Day

Directors Name: Wei Shengyu

Writers Name: Wei Shengyu

Producer: Ding Li

Country of Origin: China

Country of Filming: China

Language: Chinese

Runtime: 12 minutes

Film Description: 

In the morning, after withdrawing a large sum of money from the bank, the boy was on his way to the hospital to pay his mother’s overdue medical fee which he had borrowed from his friends before. It was on that very road that he met the girl. Since then, they spent the rest time of that day in the sweetest way, from encountering to knowing each other, from being loved to making love. Seduced by the lure and lust, the boy even gave up sending the urgent money to the hospital where his mother needed that desperately for treatment. When the sun set, the boy was murdered by the girl on the bed where they had just made love. The girl took all his money and successfully escaped while the boy’s mother died in the hospital ward for lack of treatment……

Original Film Title: The Cellular Life of Stella Chondriac

Directors Name: Catherine Correa

Writers Name: Catherine Correa

Producer: Catherine Correa, Liz Charky, Sam Crawford, Lorena Alvarado

Country of Origin: United States

Country of Filming: United States

Language: English

Runtime: 15 minutes 51 seconds

Film Description: 

The Cellular Life of Stella Chondriac intimately follows the essential rhythmic behaviors and meta-domestic routines of Stella Chondriac, a woman undergoing an existential reckoning amid her life’s many chromatic and microscopic menaces.

Original Film Title: Luna

Directors Name: Júlia Bagaria

Country of Origin: Spain

Country of Filming: Spain

Runtime: 3 minutes

Film Description: 

Luna is the story of a woman who is trapped in a dream-like world of stillness, and she destroys everything she touches. She is faced with a pillow, the only soft and harmless thing there is in the room, and she starts a dance with it that ends up with her awakening.

Original Film Title: Anthropocene

Directors Name: Michelle Kossler

Writers Name: Michelle Kossler

Producer: Quinta Dimensione Film Making, Five Seasons

Country of Origin: Italy

Language: Italian

Runtime: 15 min

Film Description: 

Our planet has been sick for a long time.
People have to use face masks because the air has become unbreathble.
Due to the harmful sun, two sisters are forced to study and play in their own home.
Suddenly the ventilation system stops working, so the two girls have to use artificial respirators but after a while they faint.
However Vanessa, a very curious little girl, finds the strength to react and decides to go out.
Thus a fantastic surreal adventure begins.
Vanessa finds a strange object: it is a forgotten book that will lead her to look for the colors and scents which our sick planet still keeps for those who want to dream.