Near Nazareth Festival

Director  Vincenzo De Sio, Walton Zed (Davide Capasso)
Italy
Runtime  2:46
Completion Date:  April 5, 2018

In a near steampunk future the great film director Federico Fellini is in trouble with his camera. Totò 'The Clown' will help him and both will make a 'filmesque' trip. An art cartoon, a tribute to the cinema.

Director Chiang Yao
Taiwan
Runtime 8:34
Completion Date: May 14, 2017
Drama, Fantasy, Romance

A camel, on a quest to find his missing wife in the desert, faces the dilemma of chasing his treasure or continuing his journey. ‘St(r)ay’ is a story of how someone recognizes the most important thing in life amid chaos caused by dementia.

Director Slobodan Tomić
Croatia
Runtime 9:28
Completion Date: December 20, 2017

3D animation
The film "Perforations" shows the fragility of our civilization.
The film has a non-classical narrative structure. it is made up of five short films: Temple, Decline, Exodus, Death factory and Necropolis.

Director Shahrokh Nael
United Kingdom
Runtime 1:43
Completion Date: August 12, 2018

A welcome addition to Shahrokh Na'el's Scribble Screen's digital sketchbook, Tin Bath immortalises the recollections of veteran engineer, John Goodfellow, as he shares memories of a working class life resigned to the past, and soon to be lost to living memory.

Director  Suisei Hoshii
Japan
Runtime  19:34
Completion Date: November 15, 2017

This story takes place in the near future.
Environmental pollution caused by nuclear waste has led to many cities on Earth becoming extinct. People cannot live without wearing protective clothing, so they have started to look for another star on which to live peacefully.

Director John Semerad
U S A
Runtime    6 min 2 sec
Completion Date: Aug 2018
Comedy

Two ill matched garden statues fall in love in this animated exploration of the battle between spiritual enlightenment and physical desires that we all go through. An imaginative take on what happens in your garden when you’re not looking.

Director Jabriel Woodall
U S A
Runtime    6 min 18 sec
Completion Date: Sep 2017
Comedy

Robin conceives a golden trimmed egg but through strange events has to fight wings and talons for her baby.

Director  Pawel Walendowski, Oscar Carrier Sippy
United Kingdom
Runtime  3:43
Completion Date: August 31, 2017

Ernest is an OCD, germaphobic middle age man, stuck in a world of factory pollution, when his daily routine at work gets disrupted by disgusting people. It raises problematic situations that may lead to something more sinister.

Director  Clarissa Gregory
United States
Runtime  3:43
Completion Date:  November 3, 2017

teenage cicadas procreate, a nymph burrows underground, the world above still turns...
it's the lyrical unfolding of the passage of time in the life of a cicada

Director  Hunter Silvestri
United States
Runtime  8:14
Completion Date:  May 23, 2018
First-time Filmmaker
Student Project

In a vast and unsympathetic universe, a little snail has a good time painting.

Director  Lauren Carr
Runtime  2:40

Director  Benny Goldman
Australia
Runtime  3:51
Completion Date:  July 10, 2017

A man battling depression, is faced with a happy-go-lucky, whose attempts at cheering him up don't seem to be making any difference.

Director  Patrick Smith
United States
Runtime  2:13
Completion Date:  April 1, 2018

A timid character with a wine glass for a head grows larger than his numbered peers while participating in a prosaic cycle of pouring. The conflict occurs when the sequence is interrupted and a new order is established, possibly more tyrannical than the first.

Director  Ying Ling Chen
Taiwan
Runtime  2:13
Completion Date:  April 22, 2018
First-time Filmmaker
Student Project

The story is about a little girl who travels in after world with the guardian rabbit.

Director  CAROL M. BURGER
United Kingdom
Runtime  8:00
Completion Date:  2017 - November
Children, Poetry, Spiritual, Travel

This animation depicts the journey of three sailing boats through the night and all the magic that is caused by a passing comet that makes everything possible... This short is a symbolic representation of our journey through life where obstacles, can be transformed into positive opportunities leading towards self consciousness.

Director  RONNIE CRAMER
United States
Runtime  5:00
Completion Date:  2018 - June
Art, History, Music (Pop-Rock) , Pop-Rock

Five hundred years of world art in five minutes, featuring three dozen iconic works rendered with nylon-tip pen and animated old school style. Each painting is onscreen for three seconds; the transitions between them also last three seconds each. Made up of 2,500 individual drawings, with a musical soundtrack created by the artist.

Director  FRANC KOPIC
Slovenia
Runtime  2:00
Completion Date:

Parody on mobile calls.

Director  Radostina Neykova
Bulgaria
Runtime  11:20
Completion Date: October 23, 2017
humor, drama, family

Innovation handmade embroidery. Man and Woman spend their days in pointless arguments. One day their little House is fed up with their never ending quarrels and runs away.

Director  Jack Shih
Thailand
Runtime  3:28
Completion Date: May 1, 2018

A huge cockroach found its way into their home, seemed a boring family this was, but then the cockroach raved confliction between the elder and younglings under the roof.
The man was incapable of leading what the family should do with the cockroach, in the meanwhile, the younger son with his cute stubbornness seemed funny, it also highlighted the problem when both sides insist so much on their opinions, therefore the hindered conversation.

Director  Tod Polson
Thailand
Runtime  7:00
Completion Date: July 15, 2018

A father has two sons. The younger son asks for his inheritance, which the father gives him. Soon after the son travels to a distant land squandering his fortune. Starving, the younger son returns home intending to serve his father as a servant. To the son's surprise, his father welcomes him back with celebration and fanfare. The older brother, on the other hand is not so happy about the younger brothers return.

Director  Emma Lorie
Australia
Runtime  7:29
Completion Date: October 15, 2017
Drama, environmental

"There was once a mother and a child who lived far away...", and so begins the charming story of a rhino and her calf.