Near Nazareth Festival

Director  Anaïs Girard-Blanc
France
Runtime 18:01
Completion Date: November 1, 2016

When 11 year-old Leo and his 8 year-old sister Eloïze come back from school, they sit in front of a TV game show. The goal is to inflict fake punishments on candidates when they're wrong. A game "not to reproduce at home." But Leo, educated by TV and TV games, reproduces in his own way what he sees on television. The candidate: his sister. A game which gets out of control.

Director  Alessandro Panelli
Switzerland
Runtime 7:25
Completion Date: November 19, 2018

Toil
Accomplishment
Ecstasy
Toil

Director  Rachel Elitzur
Israel
Runtime 18:26
Completion Date: May 1, 2018

In the Jewish ultra-Orthodox world, marriage is by arrangement only. Leah, a young woman just coming of age who works in her widowed mother's store, is ready for love, but her mother seems unwilling to let her go

Director  Yonatan Shehoah
Israel
Runtime 16:42
Completion Date: June 1, 2018

Dan, who suffers from PTSD after bring wounded in a terrorist attack, finds himself thrown together with his Arab co-workers when multiple terror attacks hit Jerusalem again.
 

Director  Lihi Sabag
Israel
Runtime 15:00
Completion Date: June 1, 2018

When Sima decides to get close to the one thing that matters to her, she has no idea of the price she will have to pay.

 

Director  Ariel Pariente
Israel
Runtime 17:00
Completion Date: July 1, 2018

Sonia falls in love with Ariel and follows him back to Israel to convert to Judaism. But Israel is strange and alien, and Sonia may never be able to call it home.

 

Director  Baruch Rosenstein
Israel
Runtime 14:48
Completion Date: October 1, 2018

When Shmil is expelled from a prestigious ultra-Orthodox Yeshiva (religious seminary), he will do anything in his power to be allowed to return.

 

Director  Raanan Rosenbaum
Israel
Runtime 20:20
Completion Date: August 30, 2018

Children’s TV star Shmelky the Jewish Puppet has a midlife crisis and considers a change of career.
 

Director  Aner Tausig
Israel
Runtime 8:48
Completion Date: July 7, 2018

Raphael is sent by the ultra-Orthodox rabbinate to use physical force on a man who is refusing to give his wife a get (decree of divorce.)

 

Director  Liel Gur
Israel
Runtime  10:03
Completion Date: September 10, 2018

A newly-married young woman goes to war with her loving parents-in-law

Director  Andre Diwisch
Germany
Runtime 30:00
Completion Date: October 1, 2018

A small village community group set their sight on the absurd goal of protecting the border from refugees. In the end, they finde themselves on the refugee route without any identification documents and money. In an ironic and comic story, an absurd foray becomes an unusual self-discovery trip.

Director  Ariel Pariente
Israel
Runtime  21:02
Completion Date: March 30, 2018

In the Israel of the nineties, Sami is the young son of Jewish Tunisian immigrants. Sami feels belittled by the attention lavished on his younger brother, Yudeh. One day the father insists that Sami take his brother to a movie. What follows will profoundly alter the two boys forever.

Director  XUAN LI
China
Runtime  4:30
Completion Date: October 31, 2018

The film is based on a true child molestation case happened in China rural area. To reprent the orginal story, the whole film is spoken in a typical Chinese rural dialet. This story is about a “left-behind” child whose parents are laboring elsewhere. After hanging out with friends, she was sexually harassed by a man in the same village. However, instead of standing out, she chose to stay silence about her misfortune due to her inner fear and the absence of parents. Instead of saying "me, too", she chose to suffer alone because of the traditional social environment in the countryside and the lack of sex education……

Director  Omer Sehayek
Israel
Runtime  23:28
Completion Date: October 1, 2018

In Jerusalem, dogs have being disappearing from their homes every year. Why and where? The film follow the story of a young woman in search of her lost dog and what she finds out.
 

Director  CHUYI CHEN
Taiwan
Runtime  18:18
Completion Date: June 8, 2018

Shen Si Yan, who lived under the strong fetters of her mother, was like a bird blindfolded, but could not fly. When it comes to daily chores, friends, work and mate are all interfered. Even if words have stepped out of society, mother still does not allow her to make her own choices. How can she survive without compromise, loss of self thinking, and mother who is bent on loving her daughter?

Director  Mason Coburn-Weigand, Aidan Bova
United States
Runtime  9:59
Completion Date: August 30, 2018

When Caleb, a privileged college-bound teenager makes a life-changing mistake, he must decide how much he is willing to sacrifice to preserve his future.

Director  Nikita Woolfe
United Kingdom
Runtime  01:03:08
Completion Date: December 8, 2017

“It’s only when it’s too late, people wake up and realise they are going to loose their home” says Clint, a leaseholder on Central Hill Estate in Gypsy Hill - London.
 

Director  Alon Hammer
Israel
Runtime  14:58
Completion Date: February 1, 2018

Oshri, an Israeli psytrance party producer, books an overseas DJ to play at his underground 'nature party'. On the way to the party, along with Oshri's girlfriend Anna and a fellow 'partier' hitchhiker, they get lost deep in the southern deserts of Israel.

Director  Yuichiro Nakada
Japan
Runtime  14:20
Completion Date: August 1, 2018

Despite glaucoma, Tetsuo spends his days on drawing pictures of fireworks after his wife passed away. One day, his only son, Yuji visits him. Tetsuo is not welcoming his repudiated son, but he hands out his drawing that contains the old memory of his family, watching the back of his son as someone.

Director  Joseph Quinn
United States
Runtime  19:17
Completion Date: December 1, 2017
Action

During the WWII North African campaign, a German sniper of the AfrikaKorps and a U.S. Combat engineer find themselves the sole survivors of a battle. They must reluctantly join forces to escape a marauding band of desert nomads and the unforgiving desolation of the Sahara desert. During their odyssey, the German relates the destruction of his country due to following their corrupt politicians. He regrets not stopping them before it was too late. It's a specter from the past that sadly parallels many aspects of our society today. The German soon realizes his own government is the real enemy of his people and struggles to find the courage (Tapferkeit) to stop them.

Director  Lucas Ruderman
United States
Runtime  32:27
Completion Date: June 1, 2017
Student Project

After taking in his father for hospice care, Malcolm "Mac" Peters is reminded of his childhood neglect. Out of disdain for his father, Mac tries to be a better father for his son but finds himself in an uncomfortably similar situation. Oliver now feeling similarly to his father when he was young, has found an unlikely friend in his attempt to find his own happiness. It will take Oliver's genuine heart and the wisdom of his unlikely imaginary friend to show Mac what being a father is really about.

Director  Timotheus Dorogoychenko
Russian Federation
Runtime  59:00
Completion Date: February 1, 2018
Student Project

Alexander, a spiritual guru, treats life as a ongoing practice: he leads developmental trainings,specializes on Tensegrity, and being a life coach is eager to help his own daughter to deal with her illness - bouts of depression. He takes her to the sea.

Director  Tejus Yakhob
India
Runtime  22:52
Completion Date: May 5, 2018
Student Project
First-time Filmmaker

A young boy tries to save his dying mother by making wishes with his eyelashes.

Director  Alexandra Vasilyeva
United States
Runtime  7:25
Completion Date: June 30, 2018
Student Project
First-time Filmmaker
Post-Apocalyptic, Sci-Fi

The action takes places in the 2040 year in post-apocalyptic Los Angeles. All the water is exclusively owned by the powerful corporation that gives it to people in minor portions just for drinking. Alternative uses of water are prohibited.

Director  Alisa Pien
Thailand
Runtime  28:10
Completion Date: May 31, 2018
Student Project

A exclusive documentary around the life of 'Madam Winnie' Thailand's most successful mother and famous writer of the parenting book 'The Modern Mom' along side with her beloved daughter and best friend, Leila, in the perspective no one has ever seen before.

Director  Ida Huber
Austria
Runtime  10:22
Completion Date: June 21, 2018
Student Project
First-time Filmmaker

On the day that signifies entrance into the independent rows of adulthood, a self-determined daughter is torn between opposing needs. Finchas 18th birthday culminates in an unexpected way, not only for herself, but also for her sick mother.

Director  Elena Mishutina
Russian Federation
Runtime  10:14
Completion Date: May 15, 2018
Student Project
First-time Filmmaker

Director  Chuan Ching Ching Ho
United States
Runtime  3:30
Completion Date: April 22, 2018
Drama, Family, Village Life

In the Zone is a 3D motion graphics animation whose main character is summoned by his own reflection to take a journey, a trip to his inner world. During his time there he discovers many more reflections of himself.  When he returns to the first world, he considers the idea that this first world might not be the same place he came from….

Director  Stefan Pavlovic
Romania
Runtime  21:00
Completion Date: May 1, 2018
Drama, Family, Village Life

there is fog in the morning, laundry hangs from colorful strings, almost no sound. he leaves the house while she sits with the children. wasps eat jam from the ground. two people bound by endless time spent, their eight children and the caring for a herd of cows: the acceptance of a life turned out not quite as expected.

Director  Bill Spry
United States
Runtime  01:13:00
Completion Date: April 30, 2018
Drama, Mystery, Comedy, Thriller

Barry Johnson believes the new hire at work holds a mysterious connection to his past. He becomes obsessed with unraveling the mystery, causing his sense of reality to spiral and fracture.

Director  Elena Avramova
Russian Federation
Runtime  18:59
Completion Date: October 31, 2017

Novice Grisha is going to take vows, however, the monastery considers that he is a harmful and clumsy man causing troubles.
Grisha is a real bungler. One fine morning he crashes the electric generator accidentally and leaves the monastery without electricity. The monks demand to expel Grisha, but the prior decides to give him a chance.
So Grisha gets the obedience to go to the nearest road with the alms-box to raise money for generator repair. This is impossible task and everyone is convinced that he will run away.
In the final Grisha is the owner of great sum of money and he has a choice to let it all hang out and back to old life or return to the monastery. After serious doubts Grisha chose the monastery