Near Nazareth Festival

Director  Anton Chizhikov, Ilya Chizhikov
Russian Federation
Runtime 01:34:00
Completion Date: April 28, 2018

The film is based on a dramatic story about human relationships.
The main character - Anna Andreevna - a famous actress in the past, who lived a fairly selfish life, rarely considered with the opinion and desires of others. She has an incurable disease. She spent her last days in a private expensive hospice.

Director  Anton Chizhikov, Ilya Chizhikov
Russian Federation
Runtime 01:23:00
Completion Date: April 27, 2018

The main character of the film – Lily – an actress in the circus-shapito of lilliputians, she is a super star among “little people”, performing exciting tricks under the dome of shapito.
 

Director  Prabhakar sharan
Costa Rica
Runtime 01:37:00
Completion Date: February 2, 2018

Leo, in a mid of millionaire robbery, meets the love of his life, Ana. But now he has to choose between money and love. He chooses his love and decides to return the money but the confusion starts with an accident, which happens on the way.

Director  Zhuo Kailuo, Chen Ming
China
Runtime 01:30:00
Completion Date: June 30, 2018

A childhood story, looming in a family gathering decades later. Is that just a memory of the deposit, is it also illusory?

Director  Claude Chamis
France
Runtime 01:15:00
Completion Date: May 22, 2018

The Wanderings of Ivan depicts the misadventures of a young Russian immigrant.
Ivan wanders in a hostile Paris and is rejected from everywhere. He finds shelter on the outskirts of Paris in Bois de Vincennes. However this new haven of peace rapidly turns into a nightmare when Ivan tries to resist the somber traffics of an underworld fauna until the inevitable occurs.

Director  Derek Ahonen
United States
Runtime 01:36:00
Completion Date: June 27, 2017

Roger, a Rasputin-like drifter, is in search of the ultimate indie-rock band, The Transcendents. What he finds is less than transcendent: a band who has all but abandoned society, a host of unpleasant memories, and more questions than answers in search of his own existential fulfillment.

Director  Fatmir Koci
Albania
Runtime 01:34:04
Completion Date: June 27, 2017

Mickey Jones is marooned in the Balkan wars - carrying a guitar and wearing an Elvis Presley jumpsuit. His world tour kicks off by entertaining the British troops, but when the military police discover he is an Albanian they try to arrest him. So Mickey flees.

Director  Lewis Eizykman
France
Runtime 01:10:00
Completion Date: January 1, 2018

How could the disappearance of a simple cat lead to the biggest financial crisis of all times? French documentary filmmaker Thomas Lafite went out looking for an answer: his film The Marvin Case thus explores one of the most incredible stories of the 21st century.
 

Director  T. van Dijk, F. Munnecom
Netherlands
Runtime 01:16:31
Completion Date: May 6, 2018

During the Second World War 6 prisoners are being held in a prison cell in Concentration Camp Amersfoort, Holland. Their fate is unknown. This night has an impact for many years and in many lives.
 

Director  Aksel Rifman
Morocco
Runtime 01:36:00
Completion Date: April 1, 2018

Three masked men: The Boss, The Brute, & The Loser attack rich man (Haj Ahmed) in his vacation home and hold his wife (Naima) and daughter (Silyia) as hostages asking them for the whereabouts of their money.
 

Director  Yusaku Fushimi
Japan
Runtime 01:34:45
Completion Date: January 10, 2018

“The Chinese woman Marine divorced to her husband caused his affair. She works for the cafe owned by homosexual person in Shimokitazawa Tokyo. One day, the cafe manager Saba-san put the warning paper “Don’t open it!” on the door in the caf? . But Marine found the key accidentally and opened it.

Director  PUTHIYAVAN RASIAH
United Kingdom
Runtime 01:45:42
Completion Date: August 14, 2018

Set against the backdrop of the 30-years of armed conflict for a separate state for Tamils in Sri Lanka which ended on the 18th May 2009,  “OTRAI PANAI MARAM - SINGLE PALM TREE”   is a  striking film, spotlights the unprecedented destruction and loss of life.
 

Director  Tonia Noyabrova
Ukraine
Runtime 01:20:00
Completion Date: March 3, 2018

Young Zhorik is a newcomer trying to make it in a big city. After several attempts he realizes there’s no sweet without sweat and makes us recognize ourselves, not without a laugh.

 

Director  TMJ
Finland
Runtime 01:28:33
Completion Date: January 30, 2017

After suffering AVM, Matti has to learn all basic skills. With the help of his mother, Marja-Leena, he quickly recovers every physical function. However, something else is going on in Matti's mind. He sees the world differently now but he isn't exactly sure about the whole truth behind it.

Director  alberto rondalli
Italy
Runtime  02:06:00
Completion Date: December 1, 2017

Based on the novel "Manuscript found in Saragosse" of Jan Potocki. Alphonse van Worden, Walloon officer in the service of Charles of Bourbon at the time of the Battle of Bitonto in May 1735, receives by the King the order to reach Naples as soon as possible and decides to take the shortest route in order to perform his duty. His valet Lopez tries in vain to discourage him by telling him that the direct route across the Murge is infested with demons and ghosts whose sight would make any heart tremble, as well as with threatening bandits and Saracen pirates.

Director  Guy Bordin, Renaud De Putter
Belgium
Runtime  01:20:00
Completion Date: July 1, 2017

1910. Charlotte Dufrène, a former demimondaine secluded in elegant society close to Paris, has to accept a strange proposal: to become the pretend companion of Raymond Roussel, an eccentric writer and secret homosexual. She would spend twenty-three years by his side, accompanying him right to the end of a hallucinated quest. From Brussels, where she then retreats, she recalls the day preceding this decisive meeting and the flamboyant celebration that was then given in her honour. Letters sent by Charlotte Dufrène between 1933 and 1964 support this narrative.

Director  The Church of Almighty God
Taiwan
Runtime  01:39:41
Completion Date:

Wenya's parents separated when she was two, and after that she lived with her father and stepmother. Her stepmother couldn't stand her and was always arguing with her father. He had little choice—he had to send Wenya to her mother's house, but her mother was fully focused on running her business and didn't have any time to take care of Wenya, so she was often shuttled off to her relatives' and friends' homes to be fostered. After so many years of a life of foster care, young Wenya felt lonely and helpless, and longed for the warmth of a home. Only when her father and stepmother divorced did she return to her father's side, and from then on had a home, for better or for worse.

Director  Dr. Jose. P. V.
India
Runtime  01:53:45
Completion Date: December 27, 2017
First-time Filmmaker

Washerman kanavan gets a lady, kannaki- from the family of his late wife, along with a donkey. She looks very pretty so also innocent. Kanavan was utter drunkard and gambler and used to torture kannaki very badly. Inspite she loves, his son in late wife-podiyan just like his mother.

Director  Pablo Aura Langer
Mexico
Runtime  01:36:00
Completion Date: September 17, 2017
Drama
First-time Filmmaker

LEONORA (16) lives with her grandmother in a roof-top room isolated from the world for 10 years, because she has the gift of bringing about the death if people whose faces she looks into. The magical world she’s created to survive living in seclusion is shaken when her grandmother dies and she meets BRANDO (18), an urban prince whom she hides from the neighborhood mafia, and who will introduce her to Love. She will be liberated of her fateful gift, not without paying a high price.

Director  Ian Goldberg
Canada
Runtime  01:20:30
Completion Date: March 26, 2018
Drama, Comedy, Romance
First-time Filmmaker

A troubled youth charged with drug trafficking has to stay with his religious Jewish uncle while on bail.

Director  Jon Michaelson
Canada
Runtime  01:40:43
Completion Date: October 27, 2017

When a young First Nations client dies after being committed to police custody, social worker Stevie struggles to keep the troubled people she encounters away from the system she no longer trusts. Opening her East End Toronto home as a safe haven for people 'at risk' – George, an ex-con and chronic gambler, Tracy, a down and out musician, and Mina, a battered wife - Stevie tries to mend some broken lives, but she masks her own issues by burying herself in theirs. “I’d say get a life,” says her paramedic boyfriend Ben, “but you already have more than one!”

Director  Mostfa Keshvari
Canada
Runtime  02:14:09
Completion Date: May 1, 2018
First-time Filmmaker

Longing for connection, a Muslim immigrant woman secretly joins an acting class; acting empowers her to unveil her true-self beyond limitations as passion and faith collide.

Director  Viktor Gasic
Germany
Runtime  02:18:00
Completion Date: January 8, 2018
First-time Filmmaker
Student Project

Two couples and their children go on an excursion into the forest. They are young, successful and well-set parts in today's social-political establishment. When their children disappear in a storm, the entire construct of their friendship starts to crumble. What follows is an odyssey through the forests that turns into a metaphysical journey. The forest and the film imagery act as a poetic expression of the inner mind, creating the metaphorical psychogram of a lost culture that desperately looking for a way out and a future. It is a poetic portrait of today's society.

Director  Lourival Chiarentin
Brazil
Runtime  01:32:00
Completion Date: March 5, 2017

Benjy Lucas is businessman who made his fortune building a successful airline company from scratch. Not showing up for his anniversary was the breaking point for his wife to leave him. For his surprise, things were not going so well in his relationship as he thought it was. His mother shows him a picture of his pet pig bringing him good memories of his childhood helping him to realize his family is more important than anything.
Asking for forgiveness soften his wife's heart to understand him and accept him back.