Near Nazareth Festival

Director  JAMLY YANG, Zhihui Yang
U S A
Runtime 06:00
Completion Date: Jul 2018

What will Billy does to save his arranged marriage

 

Director  Christophe Mavroudis
Belgium
Runtime 25:00
Completion Date: December 31, 2017

"Tom hides not only a deformed face behind his flamboyant Commedia dell'arte masks, but also a dark secret that won't be divulged until decades later. "
 

Finalist

Director  Susana Weingarten Evert
United States
Runtime  29:35
Completion Date: August 31, 2018

A man searches for deep answers in a patterned systematic world, he finds a teacher and guide who seduces and guides him
into realising his own real self

Director  Vishesh Mankal
India
Runtime 19:21
Completion Date: August 25, 2018

A boy down on his luck.
A girl looking for thrills.
A plot is hatched. A kidnapping is staged.
As far as crimes go, this one seems harmless.

Director  Guilherme W. Machado
Brazil
Runtime 14:56
Completion Date: November 17, 2018

A retired old man experiences strange surreal events at his apartment.

 

Director  Sigal Erez
United States
Runtime 24:05
Completion Date: April 1, 2017

The story of an unlikely friendship between a Holocaust survivor and a young African American boy who meet at the park on an ordinary afternoon. The kid is waiting for his Mom to pick him up from school, but on that day she doesn't show up, and his phone dies.

Director  Karthik shamalan
Malaysia
Runtime 17:27
Completion Date: September 15, 2018

In this fast moving current world, responsibility and care is being delegated to someone we never know at all for a price. The story is about Ani an indonesian maid who works for a Malaysian family. Everything was normal until one day when all her patience is tested. Will Ani overcome the problem?
 

Director  Ivan Rassadin
Russian Federation
Runtime 13:12
Completion Date: October 31, 2018

The researcher gets the task to test a sentient AI and to find out whether it is truly alive

 

Director  wahidy Kfry
Iraq
Runtime 7:59
Completion Date: December 10, 2013

The Kurdish Women Musician she kidnapped by the Group of Terrorist, They give her two choices, She must blow herself in Valentine's Day or they will kill her Daughter.
 

Director  Mehmet Tığlı
Turkey
Runtime 10:14
Completion Date: March 4, 2018

This short film is about a father and his two autistic children. They get on ferry in a wintry day. They meet with some disappointing incidents in their short trip. Due to some impatient passengers' reactions to his children's unintentional actions, father feels sad and loses his hope.

Director  Bryce Ury
United States
Runtime 26:45
Completion Date: March 19, 2018

Banished from Eden, a struggling family is violently reminded of the presence of death; and the need for sacrifice.

Director  GIORGIO MOLTENI
Italy
Runtime 14:30
Completion Date: October 28, 2018

A Dead Man presents himself to the cemetery’s Gatekeeper: he wants to enter, as is his right; but the Gatekeeper is his umpteenth obstacle. While crossing over into the new dimension, the Dead Man relives the same experiences he lived during his lifetime.

Director  Benoit LELONG
France
Runtime 13:25
Completion Date: February 1, 2018

Samir is a Belgian comedian, resourceful, good talker, but accustomed to complications. He gives himself every means to achieve his ends, as when he manages to get this appointment with an agent. But things get complicated when the latter asks him to bring his demo tape...

Director  Timur Kvekveskiri
Russian Federation
Runtime 28:44
Completion Date: July 1, 2018

Abkhazia, the end of 19th century.
A father always tried to bring up his son Ardashyn a dignified and honorable person. Soon the father admitted his failure.

Director  Danny Maas
Netherlands
Runtime 8:45
Completion Date: September 1, 2018

When the depressed Herman wants to end his life by jumping in front of a train, he gets competition from a suicidal man. They start a competition: who is the saddest, and who deserves the approaching train.

Director  Yevgeny Blinov
Israel
Runtime 15:00
Completion Date: January 11, 2017

A frustrated young man visits a psychologist, only to find her standing on a balcony ledge, preparing to commit a suicide. In order to save her, he becomes a psychologist to the psychologist, and eventually learns they have a lot in common. However, there is still a dark secret about the psychologist yet to be uncovered. .

Director  Henry Young
Australia
Runtime 11:04
Completion Date: March 1, 2018

On a property in rural Australia, a son's struggle with his father's growing decrepitude and hypocrisy coils itself to an explosive showdown.

Director   david eduardo contreras silva  
Chile
Runtime 7:00
Completion Date: Oct 2018

a man with an old promise to fulfill, embarks on a journey, to travel the same places that in the past toured in the company of an old and dear friend.

Director   Sébastien Chamaillard,  Philippe Vieux  
France
Runtime  14:00
Completion Date: Nov 2018

Bernard, a man a little in the moon dreams of traveling but he does not have a penny on him, as Christmas approaches how will he realize his dream ??

Director Johnny Aangraj
India
Runtime  12:11
Completion Date: March 1, 2018

Don’t try to help others. You will be destroyed. You won’t achieve anything in life. If you will try to do good for someone, people will think of you as a fool & take undo advantages of your goodness. To sumup everyone is selfish…. As we grow older our perception towards life somewhat becomes the same. But are we really this bad, the way we usually say things in anger, frustration or just because of few bad incidences????

Director Jeremy Borison
United States
Runtime  12:45
Completion Date: June 11, 2018

As Oma and her granddaughter spend the afternoon packing up the belongings of Oma's recently deceased husband, hidden truths about their lives come to light. Oma tries her best to hide a secret life she lived before the Holocaust, while Jessica grapples with coming out about her sexuality.

Director Rose Schimm
Canada
Runtime  10:30
Completion Date: June 30, 2018

Stevie, a young woman in denial about the state of her relationship, is spending Christmas Eve alone in a bar. She meets Rita, a middle-aged woman still looking for prince charming, who just got dumped by the latest candidate. Stevie sees a possible future version of herself in Rita and realizes that she needs to change her life or risk winding up like Rita.

Director John Hopper
Australia
Runtime  10:00
Completion Date: July 16, 2018

A short film about fighting temptation. Josh and Daniel discover that victory is a battle worth fighting for when they are pushed to their limits both physically and spiritually.
 

Director Rob Lee
United States
Runtime  19:38
Completion Date: May 28, 2018

Just Like You is a short film about one woman's fight with anxiety and its detrimental effects.

 

Director Oleg Larin
Russian Federation
Runtime  24:07
Completion Date: April 1, 2018

1937, behind the walls of the Leningrad NKVD (The People’s Commisariat of Internal Affairs). One of the interrogated victims can no longer take the pain and signs the confession. Meanwhile a young lady Maria Batalova is writing poems. Such a fragile lady turned out to be very strong. She is able to take a lot of physical pain and mental humiliation, but the last drop has become disappointment. Disappointment in the one who till that day has been giving her strength to live and persevere regardless of what is happening…

Director Fumito Fushi
Japan
Runtime  18:53
Completion Date: July 31, 2018

Asari and Hirame are idle singers in Tokyo. They don't know how they keep doing their activities. They don’t have enough confidence to succeed. And also funs ever don’t like Tokyo Sava Girl. So Asari wants to quit but Hirame tells her to do her dream to be a top of the idle singers.

Director Sai Deodhar Anand
India
Runtime  13:10
Completion Date: August 6, 2018

An older lady's first job interview and what happens thereafter.

Director Andreas Gruetzner
Germany
Runtime  8:55
Completion Date: June 1, 2016

A family portrait told through Super8 footage and old tapes from 1975-77. In it’s essence the question about belief. A boy and his dilemma to stand between the wish for freedom, struggle in adoleszenz and strong urge for Christian enlightenment from his family background. At the same time the few back on death of parents and remaining questions.

Director Marco Gabriel
Australia
Runtime  17:20
Completion Date: July 1, 2018

It is a parable of someone who has had enough of the world so he decides to block it out.

Director Anaïsa Visser
Canada
Runtime  14:58
Completion Date: February 16, 2018

An American border patrol officer is forced to choose between duty and compassion when he apprehends two refugees fleeing the US into Canada.

Director Jayán Flores Ramos
Costa Rica
Runtime  14:58
Completion Date: May 16, 2018

A Latin American neo-nazi engages in a graffitti battle with a leftist student in the restroom of a local university.

Director James Coe
United Kingdom
Runtime  4:43
Completion Date: July 25, 2018

A young woman wakes up in a tunnel. Hunted by a frenzied, terrifying shadow, how did she get here? What will happen next?

Director Matt Greene-DeLanghe
United States
Runtime  10:23
Completion Date: November 1, 2017

A young boy struggles to comprehend mortality as he, his father, and friends set about creating an epic haunted house for Halloween.

Director Christophe Switzer
France
Runtime  14:00
Completion Date: April 25, 2018

How does a father explain prostitution to his eight year old son while riding in a taxi in Paris? It depends on the driver.

Director  AJochen Isensee
Germany
Runtime  29:30
Completion Date: March 16, 2018

Germany 1984: One evening the wealthy Walther is visited by his past, which confronts him with the accusations of a former Death Camp inmate who lived through the events of that gruesome time.
Is the stranger who calls himself Leonard making up this Story ?

Director Jeff Doyle, Shaun Ryan
Norway
Runtime 12 min 24 sec
Completion Date: Mar 2018
Comedy, Musical, Fantasy, Action, Music, Adventure

'Dead Drop Love' is a dark comedic, musical short film about nuclear seafood and espionage. Simeon Kirkegaard plays the main character of the washed up agent Blue who is trying to stop the villainous ‘Dr. Calamari’ from creating an evil empire within the seafood industry.

Director Lewis Leon
Canada
Runtime 4 min 8 sec
Completion Date: Mar 2018

Set against the backdrop of a vast, frozen tundra; a grizzled fisherman gets his comeuppance from a vindictive, yet familiar fish.

Director John Darbonne
U S A
Runtime 12 min 30 sec
Completion Date: May 2018

Crispus Dabney wakes up on a riverbed with no boots, weapons, any means of survival, and no idea how he got there. Soon he is held at gunpoint by Mik, a fur trapper who says he is to give him instruction and equipment for a journey he will take alone.

Director Grace Williams
United Kingdom
Runtime 14 min 57 sec
Completion Date: Mar 2018
Drama, Horror, Thriller

A middle-class couple living in suburbia have their usual routine disrupted when one of them makes a simple mistake.

Director Juan Arturo Lara Caravantes
Canada
Runtime 12 min
Completion Date: Feb 2018
Thriller

A Stock trader turn state's evidence.

Director  Alice L. Lee
United States
Runtime  13:06
Completion Date: March 16, 2018

Artemis and Henri have spent a lifetime together. Loved one another deeply and imperfectly. Four weeks ago Henri died and so much was left unsaid as Henri's mind ebbed away. And then Artemis hears Henri crying in the next room. Will Artemis get a chance to be with Henri one last time?

Director  Maninder Chana
Canada
Runtime  8:05
Completion Date: May 31, 2018
Horror, Suspense

The parents of a young girl are dismayed when she begins bullying her imaginary friend.

Director  Benedykt Zasadzki
United Kingdom
Runtime  29:55
Completion Date:  January 18, 2017
Fantasy, Thriller, Horror, Supernatural

Ana arrives in London from Eastern Europe. She wanders the city alone. In British Museum she acquires telepathic contact with an ancient Egyptian spiritual entity. In a vision, she gets raped and impregnated by the entity. She descends into madness. The film ends with the birth of Antichrist and his overtaking of the world.

Director  Kim Fabienne Hertinger
Germany
Runtime  26:00
Completion Date:  November 30, 2017

"Meer bei Nacht" (Sea at Night) tells the story about a man, whose disease took away his self-determination, reputation and social support. His tendency to get lost in memories of his past, leads him to a momentous decision.

Director  Philippe ORREINDY
France
Runtime  14:10
Completion Date:  January 5, 2017

Françoise is a company director. She is under the perverse psychological influence of her superior. But is it real or is it an hallucination caused by her anguish?

Director  Marvin Zana
U S A
Runtime  15:40
Completion Date: May 2018
Comedy

Two Robbers steal an Uber car without noticing the three customers in the back seat: a young couple coming from a date and a crazy old Korean woman.

Director  Pedro Jaen R.
Paraguay
Runtime  10:15
Completion Date: April 2, 2018
Drama, Sci-Fi

After the loss of her mother, a little girl arrives at an orphanage. Outside, the greatest discovery awaits her.

Director  Stellan Kendrick
United States
Runtime  3:54
Completion Date: July 17, 2017
Horror, fantastic, thriller

After mom gets hacked to pieces by her latest lover, a devout child fights to escape the same fate

Director  Aaron J. Balk
United States
Runtime  29:24
Completion Date: May 24, 2017
Drama, Romance
First-time Filmmaker

Jacob and Abigail are two young hip 20 somethings who’ve been together for the last two years and are inseparable. Almost to a point of exhaustion. Clearly madly & adorably in love, these two hit a road bump in their relationship. Quite a few actually. And with the pressure of marriage from Jacob’s religious Mother, things begin to get a bit tense for the pair & a heartbreaking truth surfaces

Director  Ian Woodward
United Kingdom
Runtime  2:10
Completion Date:

ADORATION, a wildlife docudrama by Ian Woodward, FZS*, is a portrait of the English countryside seen through the seasons, its fauna and flora, forests and waterways, and through the eyes of Nature Woman. It was filmed around the countryside of Hertfordshire, the filmmaker’s home county, 30 kilometers north of London.

Director  Pepe Luna
Spain
Runtime  14:00
Completion Date: July 10, 2018
First-time Filmmaker

Jacinta resorts to an association to stop living in solitude.