Director Haresh Maher
United States
Runtime 15:00
Completion Date: August 12, 2018
In the midst of war, an 11 years old handicapped girl is struggling with the reality and waiting for her Brother who is fighting for their country, and her unexpected encounter with a fantastic creature changes her life.
HOPE
Director ASHWIN MADASU
India
Runtime 14:30
Completion Date: January 10, 2019
All drinks have stories within them. The best ones carry secrets. The pink lady is the cocktail of a mysterious stranger, an old bartender, his disciple and an unsolved murder, served with a unique twist.
PINK LADY
Director Isabel Medarde Oliden
Spain
Runtime 14:00
Completion Date: May 2019
The slot, or rather, La rainure (title in French) is an experimental short film that belongs to a project of contemporary artistic creation entitled The wonderful spiral, directed by Isabel Medarde and produced by Bambara Zinema. This project tries to put in value the figure of the woman pioneers of cinema forgotten by history, Alice Guy, Lois Weber, Germain Dulac, etc.
la ranura
Director Emanuel Cossu
Italy
Runtime 11:00
Completion Date: Sep 2018
Nicholas is a forger who witnesses the murder of a woman but because of the shock he lost the use of one eye and can not remember what he has seen. This prevents him from working on a painting to be delivered to an art dealer and prevents him from bringing the criminal to justice.
peeping nicholas
Director Jay New
United States
Runtime 11:56
Completion Date: May 14, 2019
Two long lost half-brothers meet for the first time, exploring the bonds and boundaries of what it means to be family.
Lost Brothers
Director Qi Yang
China
Runtime 9:00
Completion Date: March 30, 2019
The film tells a story about keeping promises.
The girl who sells balloons meets a pair of mothers and daughters.
The daughter falls in love with a heart-shaped balloon and insists on it.
The girl's mother has no choice but to promise. She tells the girl who sells balloons that they willbuyit after watching the movie.
The balloon girl readily agrees that she waits from day till night...
A Ballon
Director Annick Christiaens
Belgium
Runtime 18:53
Completion Date: December 1, 2018
Three “same” stories in different shooting formats in a boarding room.
A young woman passes a short waiting time by feeding playfully the male attention that surrounds her, with the help of her umbrella. The plot development of the stories changes along with the zeitgeist of each generation.
MARQUET PLACE
Director Linnea Pihl
Sweden
Runtime 13:31
Completion Date: March 8, 2019
Evelyn has not seen her father Bruce in 9 years, but has now agreed to meet him at a restaurant and talk. They awkwardly and desperately try to reconnect and find some common ground, but quickly problems arise. Old wounds and unmet needs are resurfacing, and both Evelyn and Bruce have high expectations - but are they willing to give anything in return?
Siphonophore
Director Shirin Jahani
Iraq
Runtime 14:49
Completion Date: March 21, 2019
Yade (English: Mother) is a short movie that delivers Anit-war messages. It is about a 5-year old Kurdish-Syrian girl who missed their parents. She was fled to Iraqi Kurdistan with her grandparents and they are currently living in a Refugee-camp.
Yade
Director Amanda Diego Polematidis
United States
Runtime 6:03
Completion Date: January 17, 2019
A story about Jesus' birth narrated by a four year old.
Just a Little Christmas
Director Ruben Broekhuis
Netherlands
Runtime 6:28
Completion Date: August 26, 2018
Two dentists in a rotten marriage, and an assistant who has to bite the bullet, leave a bad taste in your mouth.
Choosing Love
Director Cyrus Neshvad
Luxembourg
Runtime 15:00
Completion Date: April 15, 2019
Andre meets her 8 year-old grand daughter who is about to die. The little girl lost all hope and keeps on drawing the same dead tree she sees outside her window.
Portraitist
Director Benjamin Dib
United States
Runtime 13:41
Completion Date: February 20, 2019
The Tenth Year follows a family through a memorial barbecue held ten years after their daughter’s death, as they continue to process the immediate and long-lasting implications of her death while confronting the way that her life and death have been distorted through time.
The O’Connor’s - Kevin and his parents, Marie and Jeff - find hosting a memorial barbecue for their deceased daughter, ten years after her death. The event is muscle memory, and we find that the O’Connors and their extended family gather annually to continuously mourn the death of their daughter, Brianna, who died as a child.
The Tenth Year
Director Jack Beck
United States
Runtime 9:03
Completion Date: November 20, 2018
A fable set in Old Town, Dubrovnik, Croatia. A boy, hiding from artillery fire, makes a wish for peace. Unfortunately, it all comes true.
Stari Grad (Old Town)
Director Sophie Gueydon
United Kingdom
Runtime 12:45
Completion Date: May 15, 2018
Emma (9) and her Mum recently moved to a new flat in London. Mum suffers from depression. Emma takes care of both herself and her mother, struggling between being a child and looking after her Mum’s needs.
EMMA
Director Yeo Joon Han
China
Runtime 13:00
Completion Date: January 20, 2018
Two men in a long distance relationship decide to get married in New York. When one of them loses his passport, they discover a gulf between them as wide as the South China Sea.
For Better or For Worse
Director Handuo Zhang
Canada
Runtime 13:00
Completion Date: May 25, 2018
The film is about mixed media visual artist and poet Joachim Waibel(1959) and the creation of his Stalingrad painting series. Originally from Germany, Waibel relocated to North America in 1973 and has since explored many avenues of self-expression, in keeping with his eclectic cultural upbringing and he is a postmodern renaissance man.
A Collective Tragedy: Waibel's Stalingrad Inferno
Director Dmitriy Orlov
Russian Federation
Runtime 30:00
Completion Date:
There is a house within the snow. There's a table in the house. There's food on that table and there are two educated men talking with each other. But who are they?
Yakov In Snow
Director Robert Anthony Peters
United States
Runtime 14:40
Completion Date: February 11, 2019
Tank Man is the story of the iconic gentleman who stood in front of and stopped a line of tanks after the Tienanmen Square massacre of June 4, 1989. All that is know of this man are the images that were recorded of his acts. This film is a speculation of what he went through the day he took his courageous steps 30 years ago.
Tank Man
Director Simon Werdmüller von Elgg
United States
Runtime 13:03
Completion Date: September 1, 2018
A lone missionary is invited into the stately home of a mysterious older woman. Polite conversation over sweet tea gradually unravels as the two grasp to understand one another. While exploring her home, he comes to realize his suspicions only begin to scratch the surface of a terrible truth, forcing him to confront his own damaged past.
Lemons
Director Serkan Öztürk
United States
Runtime 14:29
Completion Date: December 25, 2018
A boy who ran away from Nazi camp begins to live in a forest. He never leaves the forest since then because he fears being abducted by Hitler. After many years, he is found by a nature photographer wandering around his home. She takes him to a senior center. However, he cannot make it in there, he goes back to the forest. Since, he saw the news about refugees and the people died for their freedom, his old fears hunts him again and he believes Hitler has never died and still lives among us..
Dictators Don't Die
Director Emma Pitt
United Kingdom
Runtime 16:32
Completion Date: February 3, 2018
A lonely mortician's search for company takes a dark turn.
The Ballad of a Haunted Man
Director Rencheng Liu
United States
Runtime 16:30
Completion Date: January 1, 2019
Tony, an office worker in his mid-twenty receives a dinner invitation from his attractive co-worker Lisa. Single as he, takes it as a romantic approach, but later it’s revealed that everyone in the office were invited. In order to clear his mind, Tony’s friend/co-worker Albert suggests him a trip to a whorehouse, but he refuses.
Whorehouse Visitor
Director YUAN Jiachi
China
Runtime 25:00
Completion Date: September 1, 2017
What happens when people yearn for love, but never realize how they feel, nor find a way to properly articulate?
ALL THROUGH THE NIGHT
Director Christopher Kyas
Germany
Runtime 8:22
Completion Date: January 6, 2019
Alex works in a small recording studio. To compensate for his monotonous work he loves to watch silent movies. In a cinema he meets Anna. She is organist and accompanies silent movies every day at midnight on a cinema organ. In Berlin after midnight they make an unexpected acquaintance, while reality and imagination are merging.
After Midnight
Director Herman Perera
Australia
Runtime 11:18
Completion Date: December 29, 2018
When Jo discovers a hidden side to Roy's life, she’s shocked to the point of self-destruction. She needn’t think about it, terror will take care of its own. Aaron commits an act that requires a meticulous cover up. Roy finds himself in the middle of a plight he’s sure to regret. Together, Aaron & Roy must dig deep to escape the repercussions. How best can they handle the dilemma?
DEEPER
Director Jakob Thomsen
Germany
Runtime 3:30
Completion Date: November 7, 2018
As an entire district goes missing on the eve of election, the president and his campaign-manager discuss the situation.
The Zero-Sum Perspective
Director Alejandra Hinojosa
United States
Runtime 13:46
Completion Date: December 10, 2018
When an ICE officer on the hunt, seriously hurt in her front yard, a beautiful undocumented immigrant puts her safety on the line to come to his aid.
Breaking the I.C.E
Director Naveh Dadush
Israel
Runtime 10:25
Completion Date: March 1, 2017
A secular Single man returns to his roots and has a direct conversation with his god above about his lost love and his downfalls. After questioning his faith he reaches new insight that helps him leave his past behind and move on.
ABOVE
Director Adrian B. Morina
Sweden
Runtime 10:49
Completion Date: September 16, 2018
The ultimate wish of the convicted criminal, which shook everyone in the courtroom, in anticipation of the execution, asked as his last wish that the letter was handed over to his mother. The letter read:
Death Penalty
Director Gazanfer BIRICIK
France
Runtime 5:30
Completion Date: January 1, 2016
A young married woman and mother of two kids is forced to make a business trip. Behind this room is hiding in fact a big secret . It's during this day that the curtain will fall and the truth will take place.
The Heartthrob / Le Tombeur
Director Gazanfer BIRICIK
France
Runtime 5:30
Completion Date: January 1, 2016
A young married woman and mother of two kids is forced to make a business trip. Behind this room is hiding in fact a big secret . It's during this day that the curtain will fall and the truth will take place.
The Heartthrob / Le Tombeur
Director ROBERTO AZNAR
Spain
Runtime 25:00
Completion Date:
LOVE BEYOND THE DEAD
THE SON OF THE SEA
Director Rolf Gunnar Hjalmarsson
Sweden
Runtime 15:00
Completion Date: May 7, 2018
The Movie "Bardo" is a movie without dialog that deals with the difficult expiriences that human life passes through and transforms pain into new energy and new opportunities.
Bardo
Director Andrea Purgatori
Italy
Runtime 15:00
Completion Date: January 10, 2018
Puglia, 1946. Cosimo is a shoemaker, bent by his debts and his wife's escape with an Afroamerican soldier. Left alone with his daughter Giulia, try as he can to give her strength and make her smile.
They Sell
Director Armand Hamouth
Canada
Runtime 19:28
Completion Date: November 26, 2018
Caring is easy. Surviving is hard. A comedy of errors hits hard when a slacker becomes a caregiver to a crusty Scottish senior resulting in mishap and mayhem.
GIVE + TAKE
Director Hussein Al-asadi
Iraq
Runtime 6:17
Completion Date: April 1, 2019
Short film about two solders in war of Mosul 2014 Against ISIS, Their responsibility is protecting the only mountain in the area , But they face an enemy from afar ... to show in the end that he is just a boy