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OFFICIAL SELECTION (19th Edition)
December 10, 2024

FICTION
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Pas de Deux
Directed by: Sofia Soto
Category: Short, Student
Year & Country: 2024, United Kingdom
Duration: 13 min
Synopsis: When a lonely young photographer befriends a ghost he can see through his camera, he is compelled to help him remember how he died.

 
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Directed by: Mingun Kim

Category: Short, Student


Year & Country: 2024, Republic of Korea

Duration: 15 min

Synopsis: Three best friends, Gyu-bin, Yu-hyeok, and Dong-hyun, get stranded on a deserted island after an accident during their trip. The three of them stay positive and work together to survive.
But gradually, they start to keep an eye on each other.
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Kevin at Work

Directed by: Louis Hickford

Category: Short

Year & Country : 2024, United Kingdom

Duration: 8 min
 
Synopsis: The film follows a young bartender at work as his days goes from bad to worse as unfortunate events unfold...

 
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Xiao Jiu's Rashomon

Directed by: Danni Yang
 
Category: Short, Student
 
Year & Country: 2024, China

Duration: 9 min
 
Synopsis: The virtual host Xiao Jiu, who appears sunny, cheerful, and proactive in creating a comedic persona, is actually a mature young woman in real life who stays at home all day, lacks social experience, and is out of touch with society. The rise in the popularity of live streaming has attracted a large number of trolls and ill-intentioned fans who stalk, follow, and harass her with a combination of tactics that leave Xiao Jiu bewildered. After going off the air, she worries about her real life and can't find anyone to listen to her suffering
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The Second Sunday of May

Directed by: Nepal Arslan

Category: Short

Year & Country: 2024, United States
 
Duration: 13 min


SynopsisN/A
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Blackness

Directed by: Vivek Roy
 
Category: Short
 
Year & Country: 2024, United States

Duration: 27 min
 
Synopsis: Disabilities come in many forms, some visible and others hidden. Embracing our disabilities enriches our lives, adding depth and meaning, and reminds us of our shared humanity.

 
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Rest Assured

Directed by: Adam El Nabli
 
Category: Short, Student
 
Year & Country: 2024, Egypt
 
Duration: 19 min
 
Synopsis:
When a vagabonding alcoholic’s flask empties, he is forced to embark on a turbulent journey in search for a refill.

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The Last Garden

Directed by: Matthew Camfield
 
Category: Short
 
Year & Country: 2023, United Kingdom

Duration: 19 min
 
Synopsis: In 2048 Earth's sun began it's solar maximus cycle, increased solar activity caused massive coronal mass ejections, decimating communication, electronic systems and the earths magnetosphere, scorching the surface of our once vibrant planet, the only escape - underground re-purposed nuclear bunkers built centuries ago at a time long since forgotten.
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Polemos

Directed by: Evgen Brooks
 
Category: Short
 
Year & Country: 2024, Ukraine
 
Duration: 12 min
 
Synopsis:
The short film "Polemos" artistically highlights the centuries-long battle for freedom and independence. At all historical times, Ukraine has given birth to warriors whose worldview was based on the desire for freedom and the willingness to give up everything for it, even their lives. Different generations of warriors depicted in the film are manifestations of the same tradition, in which the fight for freedom is the most important principle.
 
Buddy Love

Directed by: Kiefer O'Reilly
 
Category: Short, Student
 
Year & Country: 2023, Canada
 
Duration: 13 min
 
Synopsis: A match making robot helps a widowed husband re-find love, in more then one way.

 
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The Last Bite

Directed by: Veanne Cao
 
Category: Short
 
Year & Country: 2024, United States
 
Duration: 3 min
 
Synopsis: Over dinner, two friends argue about the last dumpling until it escalates into a balletic, kung-fu scuffle. A nod to Stephen Chow, Hong Kong's legendary action-comedy filmmaker.
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The Farm

Directed by: Leo Villares
 
Category: Short, Student


Year & Country: 2023, United Kingdom
 
Duration: 19 min
 
Synopsis: The Farm is a dark comedy set in an idyllic retreat in Brazil. Calvin and Hanna are an English couple who come to the Farm expecting rest and relaxation, in the hopes that this will get them through a rocky patch in their relationship. When they meet Bernardo, the eccentric guru of the Farm, they learn that the 'resort' is actually an experimental psychotherapy centre. To protect his girlfriend and his sanity from the meddling guru, Calvin will have to dive head-first into the hippy free-for-all.

 
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The Touch

Directed by: Nikolay Aristarkhov

Category: Short

Year & Country: 2023 Russia

Duration: 12 min
 
Synopsis: N/A
A Day Of A Month

Directed by: Eva Tomashevich
 

Category: Short, Student
 
Year & Country: 2024, Russia


Duration: 25 min

Synopsis: Stepa loses his suitcase with needed for studies copies of old manuscripts in a remote village, where his mother brought him to show his father’s grave. Endless wandering through the cemetery are followed by a pointless argument with his mother: she will help him to return to an archive in Madrid, only if he agrees to politicize science. Both of them, having reached the extremes, are miserable in their own way. The choice made by Stepa, having found the suitcase, gives him freedom. The idiot's freedom.

 
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