Near Nazareth Festival

​Director  WAHIDY KFRI
Iraq
Runtime  9:00
Completion Date:  2017

Director of (Best film award) Mr Alan Kurdistani, after his short film award in Baghdad international film festival
in Iraq, on the way back home to Sulaymaniyah city he Had been murdered by a group of terrorists

Director  Dong Han
China      
Runtime  38 min 27 sec   
Completion Date:  Jun 2018

People from different countries communicate with each other by arranging barrels to be some patterns to send messages and receiving messages from patterns arranged by others in the same alley although they are in different time and can not see each other. Through this, they help mutually and conquer their own difficulty without meeting each other

Director  Mart Sander
Estonia      
Runtime  22 min   
Completion Date: Apr 2018

Three people, who meet at a wayside hotel one stormy night, seem to share both past and futuure – but not necessarily in that order.

Director  Terra Budreviciute
U S A      
Runtime   23 min   
Completion Date:  Sep 2018

As far as fairytales are concerned, there is always more than meets the eye. Briana and Ashley are both devastated by the lack of romance that exists in 21st-Century Southern California.

Director  Stephen Baxter
Canada     
Runtime  26 min  
Completion Date:  Sep 2018

When a mild-mannered English professor, John Dykstra, faces a challenge that shakes him to his core, he has to make a choice - leave an innocent woman to die, or summon his alter-ego, the hardboiled mystery writer Rick Hardin to save her.

Director  colas Besnard
Belgium     
Runtime   7 min 30 sec
Completion Date: Jul 2018

Two characters have a talk in a toilet.

Director  Jon Santana
U S A     
Runtime  21 min
Completion Date:   Sep 2018

The heartfelt journey of a couple attempting to move past a recent tragedy.
 

Director  Brandan Haskell
U S A     
Runtime  11 min 51 sec
Completion Date:   Sep 2018

A young paratrooper, deep into enemy lines in Normandy during World War 2, must fight to survive and make it back to his love, Grace, who is fighting the war from home.

 

Director  Yves Callewaert
Portugal    
Runtime 12 min 27 sec  
Completion Date:   Sep 2018

There is no way out if the adversary is within.


 

Director  Paulie Chih Chia HUANG
Taiwan   
Runtime 25 min
Completion Date:   Aug 2018

Jin-Hua and Jin-Tien are twin sisters, but they are like the light and shadow, always attached yet so different from each other.

 

Director  Bray Jorstad
Canada   
Runtime 2 min 59 sec
Completion Date:   Oct 2017

The delight and demise of redundant risk

Director  Anastasia Berezovsky
United Kingdom  
Runtime 10 min
Completion Date:  Oct 2018

When Frank springs an unexpected meeting on Maria with important investors, she is yet to realise that her fate could be decided with the push of a button.

Director  A.Hassan Keivan
Australia
Runtime 30 min 15 sec
Completion Date:  Oct 2018

A sculptor and her family are emigrating from Iran but before leaving the capital, the city council commissions her to create a public sculpture. She accepts as her heart is not yet committed to leaving. Meanwhile, her husband and son leave ahead of her.

Director  Julius Austin Olivas
United States
Runtime  7:24
Completion Date: October 5, 2018

A family's tradition of making hand pressed tortillas is passed down from one generation to the next. A gentle introspective look at the importance of preserving cultural practices and family heritage.

Director Lawrence "LAW" Watford
United States
Runtime 13:56
Completion Date: February 28, 2017

This modern day examination of the parable of 'The Good Samaritan' finds two very different people at a moment of crisis and in need of intervention. One, a wealthy Wall St. investor is moments away from taking his own life, but changes his plan in order to intervene on behalf of the other, a prostitute being abused by her pimp.

Director Teeshay
United States
Runtime 17:52
Completion Date: September 21, 2018

Hiraeth is a short film whose story revolves around a refugee of war. This humanizing story briefly reveals some of the inner complexities of living outside one’s home country and highlights the struggle many refugees face when trying to make decisions in the best interest of their family. .

Director Matan Yaniv
Israel
Runtime 14:57
Completion Date: March 3, 2018

How would you behave if faced with danger? What would you do in when life-or-death threat hanging over your head?

Director Price Arana, Adam Rothlein
United States
Runtime 15:41
Completion Date: February 29, 2016

Sam Harris, believed to be one of the youngest to survive the camps during the Holocaust, shares his amazing story of survival with philanthropist and activist Sharon Stone.

Director Winterhalter Liza Maria
France
Runtime 34:00
Completion Date: April 15, 2018

Cannes , 2018, a man in his forties just closed his doctor's office to give life to his child's dream : becoming a hairdresser ! But... is it possible when you are forty and on top of it , bald ?

Director Javier Espinoza
United States
Runtime 31:00
Completion Date: August 20, 2018

The glass slipper is broken. The castle is just a sand castle. Love poems are now text messages. Prince is just a singer that passed away, and the rose is slowly dying. Welcome to 2018. 50% of Marriages in the US end in divorce. The number is similarly high in many other developed nations.

Director Sourav Neal
India
Runtime 25:42
Completion Date: August 25, 2018

Deepak was seeing strange dreams which created a dilemma between hallucination and reality. For this he sought the advice of a psychiatrist, Dr. Agnimitra Ghosh.
But these dreams of him solved a bigger mystery of his life.

Director Joshua Carlon
United States
Runtime 5:50
Completion Date: August 4, 2017

As a teenager in 1950 Brooklyn, all Saul wanted to do was hang out with his friends and go to the beach. Instead, he got roped into a dangerous new job, and Saul got in a little over his head.

Director Gianni Saponara
Italy
Runtime 16:31
Completion Date: November 30, 2017

One day, in late spring of 1976, the group "Brigate Rosse" killed three men of state: the judge Francesco Coco, his driver Antioco Deiana and his security guard Giovanni Saponara. That day, the breaking news quickly reported the terrible events occurred in Genoa. Angela, the guard's wife, and Luigi, his firstborn, listened the news...

Director Maciej Kawalski
Poland
Runtime 22:30
Completion Date: May 1, 2018

A remote, and a bit crazy, psychiatric hospital receives a curious patient — he doesn’t move nor speak, but spends his days standing with his hands up. The only thing known is his nickname — “The Atlas”. In a word, he is a riddle, and a riveting one at that.

Director eduard agarunov
Israel
Runtime 2:30
 

Director Fareed Kairon
France
Runtime 12:28
Completion Date: September 9, 2018

A silent exploration of a broken couple, and the attraction they still may share for one another.

 

Director Catherine Åsberg-Fleury
Sweden
Runtime 23:10
Completion Date: June 1, 2018

A priest goes weird, can't make the difference between reality and illusion, think that he falls in love with a new visitor in the church. Everything is made ut in his mind. Based on the essence of Shakespeares Hamlet.

Director Fabio Soares, Célia Paysan
France
Runtime  21:57
Completion Date: April 8, 2017
Thriller, Road movie

At their father’s funeral, Colorado and Louise Fox discover the existence of an exclusive and mysterious heiress: Apple Pie.
Together, they set out to find who she is and hit the road to get the money back…

Director  Benny Goldman
Australia
Runtime  16:25
Completion Date: September 18, 2017

Betsy Bloom is an orthodox Jew who wants to be an actor but her performing in certain roles conflicts with her religious beliefs. This all comes to a head in the middle of an audition where her mother self and her cooler self, go head to head in Betsy’s mind. Betsy must make a choice between her two passions; acting and God, or is there another option?

Director Luis Arturo Madrazo
Mexico
Runtime  10:12
Completion Date: July 25, 2018

A troubled young man manipulates his doctor in order to get powerful medication.

Director Jonathan Zsofi
Israel
Runtime  14:49
Completion Date: July 11, 2018

Drama, Historical, War

In ancient Jerusalem, fiery Binyamin is swept into the horrific Roman invasion and must learn the reality of war.

Director Florent Hill
France
Runtime  4:14
Completion Date: July 19, 2018

Grandson tries to fix an annoying eating habit his grandmother has.

Director sevda usanoglu
Turkey
Runtime  12:48
Completion Date: January 9, 2018
Drama
First-time Filmmaker

Could a woman whose childhood coincides with the Armenian Deportation, remember her forgotten past after seeing a news clip on the television?...

Director Rodrigo Martín Jaffe
Mexico
Runtime  13:00
Completion Date: January 9, 2018

On his 10th birthday, Alex witnessed the accident that killed his little brother. After 9 years, Alex wants his parents to live the present which will enable them to cope with his little brother's death and finally recognize Alex.

Director Youdai Uenishi
Japan
Runtime  29:57
Completion Date: July 1, 2018
Drama, Family

This is a story of sisters who are not connected with blood.
her sister Maki was sexually assaulted by her sister 's father when she was a student, and her older sister will bear the compensation.
Utilizing that relationship, Maki's boyfriend will ask the Yoko to buy and sell the stimulant drug, but the police will get hold of the scene.

Director  Royston Innes
United States
Runtime  13:04
Completion Date: May 1, 2018

When a group of unwitting strangers wake up on an airplane in midair they must learn the true nature of why they were deemed enemies of the state.

Director  Edi Mehana
United States
Runtime  25:00
Completion Date: February 28, 2018
First-time Filmmaker

- War, Religion and LGBTQ The film "The Pride" unites the themes of war, religion and LGBTQ issues by wrapping them in the values and emotions of one complex family. General Truman, wheelchair-bound and mute because of war, sustains pride in his past military services. He is a widower and the father of three adult children --- Christian, Ray and Jessica.

Director  Dr. Ariel Orama Lopez, Jordan J. Ortiz
Puerto Rico
Runtime  7:43
Completion Date: July 9, 2018
Fictional, Surreal, Drama

A castaway in his delirium is thrown into the unspeakable to find his nephew, while experiencing the ravages of Hurricane Maria immersed among souls in pain. At his side, Hurricane Maria is transfigured as a woman that appears with a cameraman, who accompany the castaway on his journey, while facing his most terrible moments to achieve his freedom. It is a struggle of masculine and feminine energies, combined with an inescapable dose of religious elements, African archetypes and poetry petals.

Director  Sébastien MARQUES
France
Runtime  25:00
Completion Date: April 1, 2018
First-time Filmmaker

The life of a Melanesian tribe is disrupted by the progressive arrival of modernity. Iabe, a young Melanesian, finds this change very hard to cope with and gets lost between his traditions and this modernity.

Director  Pablo Munoz Gomez
France
Runtime  14:45
Completion Date: February 28, 2017

Santa is capitalist. He brings toys to the rich kids and swea shirts to the poor ones.
Nikos, 5 years old.

Director  NAVARAJ R S
India
Runtime  11:27
Completion Date: May 28, 2018

A Typical middleclass family from a city. Where the father (SUNDAR, 46) got stuck with his stock market issues. A Multi-talented mother (SEETHA, 41), as she can hear her famous TV serial while busy in kitchen. Their daughter (ANU, 18) is busy in a WhatsApp chat and their son (NAVEEN, 15) who just back from play ground, wants the TV on his control as the important football match going to be started.

Director  Hannes Kirschner
Austria
Runtime  28:28
Completion Date: June 9, 2018
Comedy Drama
First-time Filmmaker
Student Project

"Cloudscraper" tells the story of Rushy, a sensation-seeking vlogger, who infiltrates the everyday life and also the feelings of Kantlinger, who appears to be god’s earthly henchman. Soon she approaches her subconscious destination step by step, her own immortality. The borders between good and bad, god and devil perish, as soon as human beings are scratching on the clouds to get closer to the sun.

Director  Razan Hassan
Germany
Runtime  10:35
Completion Date: April 20, 2018
First-time Filmmaker

If you could no longer return to the place where your memories were made, would you still recall them in the same way? Razan Hassan takes us with her onto an autobiographical journey trying to recover her only record of the past, while she is trying to forge a new identity following her displacement from Syria.

Director  Bruna Arbex
Canada
Runtime  12:44
Completion Date: February 21, 2018
Student Project

Ryan, a female fashion photographer who is struggling with how society continues to view, label, and restrain her inside of the “straight vulnerable girl” box. Ryan’s journey is a visual illustration of the importance of self-love and acceptance.

Director  PEDRO DELTELL
Germany
Runtime  15:00
Completion Date:  2017 - July
Comedy, Ethnographic, Globalization, Identity, Immigration, Latino, Romantic, Sex

Claudia and Juan are Cousins, maybe more than cousins. They are from Spain but Juan lives in Berlin. His cousin comes to try to live in the city too

Director  Noa Galiley, Ester Stancel
Israel
Runtime  7:22
Completion Date: August 28, 2017
First-time Filmmaker
Student Project

The elderly woman Leah Rimon, formally known as Charlotte Teitelbaum, tells how her escape from Nazi Germany led her to the promised land.

Director  Jason MacDonald
United States
Runtime  4:53
Completion Date: May 20, 2018

Mr. Goody lives to interview. But his tactics are questionable.

Director  TAKESHI KUSHIDA
Japan
Runtime  10:00
Completion Date:   2017 - September
Children, Dance, Drama, Fantasy, Romantic

A lonely man becomes fascinated with a shadow that appears on his apartment's wall.

Director  STEFANO PARADISO
Greece
Runtime  10:00
Completion Date:  2017 - July
Social

In an African village, a mother dresses her own son with stylish clothes for what can be a very special day, a happy encounter that will restore the hope for a better future.

Director  Kevin Ruiz
U S A
Runtime  15:40
Completion Date: Mar 2018
Drama, Science Fiction

A woman is visited by an alien who must decide whether or not humans deserve to exist.

Director  Paul Beniamin
U S A
Runtime  26:29
Completion Date: May 2018
Drama, Adventure

Persecuted, But Not Forsaken.
Struck Down, But Not Destroyed.

Director  Andres Puustusmaa
Estonia
Runtime  17:07
Completion Date: December 1, 2016

Two brothers, left alone in a whole village. Uncle was last who died in their large family. Now they have to feel their roots. Are they still there, where they were born, where died all their ancestors..? what does these deep roots mean for each of them.

Director  Saranne Bensusan
United Kingdom
Runtime  6:05
Completion Date: January 6, 2018
SciFi, dystopia

Information is power. Governed by a corrupt Artificial Intelligence, can one woman's home video spark a revolution?

Director  Ilanit shlosberg moreno
Israel
Runtime  23:12
Completion Date: May 29, 2018
First-time Filmmaker
Student Project

Lev is a Russian Metalist immigrant living in the margins of Israel.
He only wants to make a few bucks and get wasted.
An unexpected encounter with Romi- a beautiful Arab girl in need of a lift, will lead to Lev's abduction.
A case of mistaken identity quickly becomes clear, but the tables are turned when Lev decides to help his kidnapers.

Director  Vilma Kartalska
Bulgaria
Runtime  6:46
Completion Date: February 23, 2018
Romance
Student Project

Music reporter Milla and cameraman Bobby return from a rock concert. Bobby has had a long time crush on Milla. But she has neither noticed his interest, nor is looking for a relationship. With her headphones always on, she is inaccessible to his attempts to win her over. When finally there is a chance for him to reveal his feelings, she relentlessly puts him to a Trust exercise. Will Bobby pass the exam?

Director  Shelly Anthis
Canada
Runtime  22:00
Completion Date: February 23, 2018
Drama, fantasy

Second chances are challenged as Joe and Julie slip into different stages of grief following a death in the family.