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JUNe 18, 2024
OFFICIAL SELECTION (2nd Edition)
20-30 June, 2016
#3C
Directed by: Mischa Auzins
Category: Fiction, Drama, Thriller, Horror
Year & Country: 2013, United States
Duration: 16 min
Synopsis: With his life crumbling around him. David chooses to live life through the memory of better times; a reality that no longer exists. With the assistance of his wife, David is able to find solace through his memories. But, when the truth can no longer stay hidden, David’s wife is forced to accept the truth and holding onto David is only causing him more pain and prolonging the inevitable. Regardless of the outcome, she guides David to face the truth and to find peace
Website: http://3c-thefilm.com/
(IM)MORAL
Directed by: Rachel Breitag
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Category: Fiction
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Year & Country: 2016, United States
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Duration: 9 min
Synopsis: (IM)MORAL is a comedic look at what the cost of success is. Lars is an unemployed working actor who's girlfriend, Ava, is a high profile defense lawyer. After a tiff Ava blurts her frustration with Lars lack of income. Lars recognizes his need to "hustle" to appease his girlfriend. He was offered an audition with a big network but it is for actors with disabilities. What he first declined for moral reasons he reconsiders for egotistical reasons. What ensues tells the tale of integrity and success.
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Website: https://www.facebook.com/IMMORALtheFilm
35 minutes after
Directed by: Cristian Toporan
Category: Fiction
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Year & Country: 2016, Romania
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Duration: 7 min
Synopsis: The script presents what happens in the first 35 minutes after a breakup, its intrigue based on the loss of a cell phone, which is then passed from person to person.
Catrinel (21 years old) is a student who ends her relationship with Paul (22 years old). He does not take the situation lightly and proceeds to call her insistently. Irritated by the many phone calls, preceding events which precipitate, Catrinel forgets her phone in a coffee shop. It then passes from person to person, all of them taking turns in talking to Paul: a hipster girl asks him out, a granny realises with difficulty that the phone isn’t hers, a teenager takes indecent photos of herself and sends him the pictures etc.
Website: N/A
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Ability
Directed by: Klacsán Gábor
Category: Fiction
Year & Country: 2015, Hungary
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Duration: 30 min
Synopsis: There is a big change occurring in the life of Örsur Háros, the picture framer. Unexpectedly, he finds himself in a wonderful, “soft” and fluid world (in the Ukraine), which reacts to human thought and desires much more sensitively than any of the places where he used to live. He arrives to a world where different rules apply and where the most amazing and absurd desires can come true.
Örsur Háros determines to find happiness and never to let go of it again. At this point in time he doesn’t suspect he shall face the effect – probably best described by filmmakers with the term – cutting the Möbius strip.
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Website: https://www.facebook.com/kepesseg?ref=hl
Alternate Ending
Directed by: Diego Barragan
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Category: Fiction
Year & Country: 2015, United States
Duration: 11 min
Synopsis: The main character of an old film noir movie is tired of always living the same ending, so he will do anything to change it, but he will find out that his fate is already written.
Website: https://www.facebook.com/Alternate-Ending-short-film-732798453519398/
Appetence
Directed by: Cristhian Andrews
Category: Fiction, Drama, Science Fiction
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Year & Country: 2016, United States
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Duration: 15 min
Synopsis: A mom manipulates her “hunger-for-fame” idealistic daughter to stop eating to save the world, but not without consequences.
Website: N/A
As We Say Goodbye
Directed by: Jhosimar Vasquez
Category: Fiction
Year & Country: 2016, United States
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Duration: 16 min
Synopsis: After being unwillingly separated from her mother, and brother Nicole will dedicate her last days to saving her brother's life where he will meet her for the first in the operating room.
Website: http://aswesaygoodbyefilm.com/index.html
Awakening
Directed by: Rolf Lindblom
Category: Fiction
Year & Country: 2016, Finland
Duration: 10 min
Synopsis: To provide a life-style his wife and son deserve, Jake takes on a lot of pressure at his job as a real-estate agent. But can he handle it all? As things start to pile up he seeks guidance from a psychiatrist. Per his doctors orders Jake takes a few days at one of his listings, a remote summerhouse, to work on his self-suggestion. All goes well until Jake senses something disturbing. Something within him or something else? He decides to ignore the piles of work staring at him from his make up desk and continues with the exercise.
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Website: http://www.vikingfilm.fi/excitatio/index.html
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Besides that life is grand
Directed by:Astrid Carlen-Helmer
Category: Fiction, Romance, Dramedy
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Year & Country: 2014, United Kingdom
Duration: 22 min
Synopsis: Zoé and Léo are best friends, French twenty-somethings living in London. They work together, they party together, they do everything together. They both like men. Except that the man Zoé likes is Léo.
Website: http://www.besidesthatlifeisgrand.com/
Bipolar & Cheese
Directed by: Scarlet Perez
Category: Fiction, Comedy, Drama, Dramedy
Year & Country: 2015, United States
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Duration: 12 min
Synopsis: Do you know anyone with Bipolar Disorder? Do you like Cheese? BIPOLAR & CHEESE is a short film that touches on both. It's centered around romance and cheese... And for some people, their romance with cheese.
LOGLINE: A therapist is diagnosed with Bipolar Disorder after she has a public manic break over a co-worker whom she bonds with over cheese.
Website: http://www.bipolarandcheese.com/
Bohemian like you
Directed by: Michael Salmon
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Category: Fiction
Year & Country: 2015, United Kingdom
Duration: 10 min
Synopsis: Every day, Billy Baxter watches Annie Carroll and daydreams of taking her out on a date. When fate throws up the chance, Billy finds the courage to ask Annie out but it is on the date, when Billy’s dream girl reveals a surprising secret. . .
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Website: https://www.facebook.com/bohemianlikeyoufilm
Canone (Tamil: ODAM)
Directed by: Vivek Elangovan
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Category: Fiction
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Year & Country: 2015, United States
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Duration: 11 min
Synopsis: Presenting to you a short film by Indus Creations and Petromaxx lights . The next 10 minutes will take you through a journey of current Syrian refugee crises, our biases and our prejudices. The movie is a call to all fellow humans to open our hearts, put things in perspective and more importantly to act
Website: N/A
Cold Caller
Directed by: Philip Cook
Category: Fiction, Drama, Dark Comedy
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Year & Country: 2015, United Kingdom
Duration: 14 min
Synopsis: Convinced of his credentials, an elderly couple invite a door-step 'Cold Caller' into their home with unexpected consequences
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Website: https://www.facebook.com/Cold-Caller-382594511900137/
Dragon
Directed by: Gulliver Moore
Category: Fiction
Year & Country: 2015, United Kingdom
Duration: 3 min
Synopsis:When Morgan receives an unexpected package in the form of a fantastical beast, it's up to the delivery man to convince him that it might not be such a bad idea after all to own a Dragon.
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Website: N/A
Elisa
Directed by: Nicolas Wendl
Category: Fiction
Year & Country: 2015, United States
Duration: 10 min
Synopsis: Elisa is a short film that retraces the life of a young couple from one morning to the same night. It shows their love, disappointments and hopes. How long before it is going to be too late for them to realize their dreams, and to accomplish what they always said they wanted to do?
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Website: N/A
Equal measure
Directed by: Michael Salmon
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Category: Fiction
Year & Country: 2015, United Kingdom
Duration: 14 min
Synopsis: N/A
Website: N/A
Home Away From Home
Directed by: Markus Ortner
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Category: Fiction
Year & Country: 2015, Austria
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Duration: 30 min
Synopsis: Of all things, the ‘vanillekipferl’ (small crescent shaped biscuits) of his grandmother bring the long-term student back to the provinces. Arrived at home, a downward spiral is created which is marked by void and faded hope. A tragicomical insight into the life of a traveler on the run from himself.
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Website: https://www.facebook.com/VanillekipferlDerFilm
How to win
Directed by: Mingyuan Liu
Category: Fiction
Year & Country: 2015, China, United States
Duration: 25 min
Synopsis: A Chinese student who had been so lost in the US has now found his own place in the basketball court.
Website: N/A
Isla Traena
Directed by: Freddy Syborn
Category: Fiction, Drama, Comedy
Year & Country: 2015, United Kingdom
Duration: 13 min
Synopsis: Isla Traena is a sad, funny short film about how lonely and strange it gets when someone you love dies
Website: N/A
Jubilee nurse
Directed by: Keith Farrell
Category: Fiction, Drama, Comedy, Romance, LGBT
Year & Country: 2015,Ireland
Duration: 25 min
Synopsis: Jubilee Nurse' tells the story of out break of the Spanish Flu Epidemic through the eyes of nurse Kitty Malone.
To be a nurse in any era is a challenge but to be a nurse operating in remote rural Ireland in 1918 during a period of upheaval and calamity was not just challenging but down right dangerous. Kitty Malone – a district jubilee nurse, struggles to cope as a soldier returning from the Western front brings a mysterious illness to her door.
Website: N/A
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Lapsus
Directed by: Karim Ouaret
Category: Fiction
Year & Country: 2013, France
Duration: 30 min
Synopsis: Terry is a psychologically disturbed predator whose sinister playground is a laundromat.
Terry thinks he is the hero of a comic gangster that is reading :
« Terry Laurence, Gentleman Gangster ».
That is when his memory playing tricks on him.
Terry is a victim of an unknown phenomena that literature considers as a Lapsus memoriae or a slip of memory.
Website: http://www.lapsus-film.com/
Lincoln Letter
Directed by: Mike Levinsohn
Category: Fiction, Drama, Dark Comedy
Year & Country: 2016, United States
Duration: 6 min
Synopsis: We all want to say something to certain people but can't find the right words. Sometimes you have the right words but you certainly can't say them.
Website: N/A
Locked up short
Directed by: Euros Jones-Evans
Category: Fiction, Drama, Thriller
Year & Country: 2016, United Kingdom
Duration: 18 min
Synopsis: Inspired by true events. Tia has it all; loving family, great friends and an advancing career. However her world gets turned upside down when an obsessed neighbour decides to abduct her and keep her all for himself. Locked up in a handmade cupboard designed to keep her hostage she finds herself in a new kind of hell. The police can’t find her, her abuser constantly switches from sweet and caring to abusive and her parents are beginning to give up hope. In desperate attempts to escape she files at the wardrobes hinges everyday; her only companion a stuffed animal and only solace from her diary, and it’s entries.
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Mr Ludifico
Directed by: David Witchell
Category: Fiction, Comedy, English Wit
Year & Country: 2016, United Kingdom
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Duration: 7 min
Synopsis: Fresh from university, Nathan attends an interview for a financial firm, only to be rather surprised...
Website: https://www.facebook.com/MrLudifico/
Native Immigration
Directed by: Eric Romero
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Category: Fiction, Comedy
Year & Country: 2016 United Kingdom
Duration: 15 min
Synopsis: A mockumentary about a new shocking phenomenon named by the experts as 'Native Immigration'. We will put a face to people like Manuel, Olamilekan and Chen Lee, whose life took a 180 degree turn when they discovered that... they are immigrants.
Website: N/A
On a wire
Directed by: Lugli Nicolas
Category: Fiction
Year & Country: 2013, France
Duration: 31 min
Synopsis: Amar is going to see his life change radically after an accident. Leaving only his son Icham plunged into a deep coma. At the bedside of his son, Amar believes in his awakening . During this event, Icham's dad is going to make a life changing encounter
Website: http://surunfil-film.fr/
Otherworldly Blessings
Directed by: Luke Porst
Category: Fiction
Year & Country: 2016, United States
Duration: 13 min
Synopsis: A college student tries to make some extra beer money the same way every kid does; by selling fortunes, potions, and other enchanted goods on Ebay.
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Website: N/A
Out of Touch
Directed by: Danny Ahlfeld
Category: Fiction
Year & Country: 2015, United States
Duration: 15 min
Synopsis: A man returns for his high school reunion to win back the girl of his dreams, only to find a woman changed by time.
Twenty-five years have passed since Tom Fitzgerald last saw his high school sweetheart, but from the moment he first sees her at the reunion, he thinks he made the right decision to attend. After the reunion, they meet for a drink at a local bar, where they catch up on old times and the years that have passed, and he tells her the real reason he came back to Chicago. Then, he learns the truth about her and realizes that she is not what she appears to be.
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Website: N/A
Radio Silence
Directed by: Dan Ollerhead
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Category: Fiction, Drama, Thriller
Year & Country: 2016, United Kingdom
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Duration: 17 min
Synopsis: A late night radio host receives an on-air call from a man claiming he wants to kill himself.
Website: N/A
Rose
Directed by: Ritchie Vermeire
Category: Fiction
Year & Country: 2015,Belgium
Duration: 14 min
Synopsis: A young girl suffering from a rare blood disease is in urgent need of a stem cel donor. When insurance companies refuse to pay for her treatment, she and her mother are in a world of hurt.
Website: https://www.facebook.com/kortfilmrose
She(s)
Directed by: JASON ROFFE
Category: Fiction
Year & Country: 2015, France
Duration: 13 min
Synopsis: Lea, a 17th years old girl from Marseille, comes back from vacations with her father. She was supposed to meet her mother at home. But when she gets back with her boyfriend Nico, only absence and silence are waiting for her...
Website: N/A
Smog
Directed by: Rafael Gibbons
Category: Fiction
Year & Country: 2015, United Kingdom
Duration: 13 min
Synopsis: A short fantasy film with an environmental message. In London a giant smog cloud has blocked out the sun. So schoolgirl Molly and her grandfather come up with a plan to bring the sunshine back.
Website: https://www.facebook.com/smogfilm
Spoken silence
Directed by: David Dargaud
Category: Fiction, Drama
Year & Country: 2014,France
Duration: 16 min
Synopsis: A forty year old man suddenly dies on the sidewalk as he is jogging. Some days later, in a interrogation room, several of his relatives and close friends will describe him as great guy, a good man. But it seems that the devoted and ambitious husband was a complex character. Maybe not the man everybody thought he was.
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Website: N/A
Staccato
Directed by: Eoghan McQuinn
Category: Fiction, Period Drama, LGBT, Suspense
Year & Country: 2015, Ireland
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Duration: 22 min
Synopsis: Thomas Croydon is busy rehearsing for his piano debut. His attention, however, is divided elsewhere - to the young gardener out in the grounds whom he so desperately wants to keep.
Website: https://www.facebook.com/staccatofilm/
Stand Up
Directed by: Jinming Zhao
Category: Fiction
Year & Country: 2015, United States
Duration: 12 min
Synopsis: A teenage girl tries to hide her emotions on her beloved grandpa's wake, but the appearance of her 'missing' father, who is a gambler, forces her to stand up to protect her family and deal with her emotions.
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Website: N/A
The Brightest Star
Directed by: Grant Pollard
Category: Fiction
Year & Country: 2015, United Kingdom
Duration: 5 min
Synopsis: A young girl gives her dying mother one last gift.
Website: https://www.facebook.com/The-Brightest-Star-372259412951137/?ref=aymt_homepage_panel
The Owls
Directed by: Natalia Bougadellis
Category: Fiction
Year & Country: 2016,Greece
Duration: 10 min
Synopsis: N/A
Website: https://www.facebook.com/koukouvagies
The Rabbit Hole
Directed by: Ed Pronley
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Category: Fiction
Year & Country: 2015, United States
Duration: 4 min
Synopsis: A man struggles after his daughter was killed in a hit and run accident.
Website: N/A
The tell-tale heart
Directed by: James Cotton
Category: Fiction, Thriller, Horror
Year & Country: 2014, United States
Duration: 10 min
Synopsis: The Old Woman's nurse is driven mad by her dead eye. One night, the Woman murders the Old Woman, buries the body under the floorboards.
Website: N/A
Touch
Directed by: Noel Harris
Category: Fiction
Year & Country: 2016, Canada
Duration: 15 min
Synopsis: A loving single mom, facing eviction, is offered work. She desperately seeks a babysitter for her two small children. Everyone turns her down. As a last resort, she calls her brother, with whom she is fighting. "Touch" is a story that challenges societal stereotypes that those who live in poverty are guilty of something. In the end, the viewer will see, sacrifice for family is not trade-marked by those who have.
Website: http://www.shortfilmtouch.ca/
Try Again
Directed by: Charles Pinion
Category: Fiction
Year & Country: 2015, United States
Duration: 9 min
Synopsis: TRY AGAIN brings us into the mind of Walt Eichner, a middle-aged failure on the verge of ending it all. However, it turns out Walt isn’t any better at ending his life than he is at living it. Each attempt to formulate his grand demise is stymied by circumstance and bad planning, leading Walt to consider that suicide isn’t the neat solution he thought it would be.
Website: http://www.tryagainmovie.com/
Value
Directed by: Shtol Olga
Category: Fiction
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Year & Country: 2015, Russian Federation
Duration: 21 min
Synopsis: This is a film is about the value of human life
Website: https://www.facebook.com/filmmaiking
Wanderer
Directed by: Mark O'Brien
Category: Fiction, Drama, Thriller
Year & Country: 2015, Canada
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Duration: 17 min
Synopsis:N/A
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Website: http://wandererthefilm.com/
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