Above The Horizon
Director Russell Conley
United States
Runtime 16:22
Completion Date: October 30, 2021
A lifelong friend sees a friend's cry for help on social media which sends him on a journey to save his life.
The Promenade
Director Nikolaos Falcone Georgiadis
Sweden
Runtime 15:41
Completion Date: September 17, 2021
We take a walk to find a way, to find the answers or just a cigarett to calm us down. Are we connected without knowing it... captured in mixed realities in the promenade of life, some stories can not fade away while we are moving so close to one onother but in the same times close can be far away.
NEVE (SNOW)
Director Filipe Martins
Portugal
Runtime 18:21
Completion Date: November 1, 2021
A young flutist arrives in Abu Dhabi on a work trip, invited by a friendly couple. After a few days of stay, the possibility arises for her to stay there to live. The flutist visits the desert alone and buries her feet in the sand… A dancer who lives in Porto is about to go abroad. A few days before the trip, he paints in white the rented room where he lived for a few years. On one of his last nights in the city, he meets an old friend, and invites him to travel with him, but the friend refuses.
The dancer ends up leaving for his trip alone ...
Many years
Director Виталий Александрович Кошкин
Russian Federation
Runtime 29:35
Completion Date: September 1, 2021
Through the story of the hero's life, the viewer learns the history of the temple of John the Predtecha. This is the arrest of the first abbot of the church, the salvation of the icon from the destroyed church, and the stories of the lives of people who, despite the hard times - persecution of the church, the war - were able to keep faith in their hearts, thanks to the fact that the doors of the church from 1903 to the present day have always been are open.
Sick !
Director Rotem Jackman
France
Runtime 24:30
Completion Date: October 1, 2021
Tom and his sister Meirav meet up with Haïm Bouzaglo, a famous Israeli film director they know nothing about, in a cafe in Tel Aviv during one of Tom's visits to his family in Israel. Haïm proposes a role to Tom in his next movie. Tom is sceptical at first but he then realises Haïm’s notoriety when both his whimsical mother and his father won’t stop talking about Haïm. Tom decides to look into Haïm’s films and immediately becomes a big admirer of his work.
IMAGINARY'S EYES
Director Stéphane Parientitho
France
Runtime 21:00
Completion Date: Oct-2021
Anna a professional photographer who was promoted to a great career, had been selected to participate in a famous photograph festival.
But her dreams were suddenly broken by an eye disease called glaucoma
Turning her brightness world into darkness.
Blind and desparate, to get through this awful situation, she was helped by Bruno her loving, devoted, husband and an association called "eyes of imagination" giving her hope and confidence to live her first passion once again.
The Van
Director John Terranova
United States
Runtime 16:40
Completion Date: March 15, 2021
Laundry Day: Life on the Line
Director Ines Eisses
Canada
Runtime 19:00
Completion Date: Aug-2021
Laundry Day is a dramatic short film, with music and no dialogue, reminiscent of a silent movie. It unfolds the story of a suburban Canadian woman's life, spanning sixty years, as depicted through the laundry on her clothesline. The very personal ritual of hanging out the family washing captures private moments, historical happenings, fashion trends, political events, and billboard hits - the rhythm of Rose's life encrypted in her weekly wash. Beginning in 1930, just before Rose's wedding to Arthur; we follow her freshly laundered journey thru young love, motherhood, raising a family, and school days. In the 1940s, Rose's clothesline misses Arthur as he is away serving his country until the family is reunited at WWII's end.
ofuda
Director yoshinobu nakamura
Japan
Runtime 6:16
Completion Date: July 15, 2021
Horror with the motif of "a ofuda that should not be peeled off"
Don't peel it off ...
Unless you solve it, it's obsessed with where it's pasted.
A group of horrors that began when people who visited an abandoned village and tried their luck brought back "ofuda that should not be peeled off."
Utah, a cameraman working in a photo studio in Tokyo. When he returned from work, his colleague Yuka's shoes were scattered around the front door. There is a smartphone of the president inside, but there are not two ...
Sammy & Quinn
Director Christopher Coppola
United States
Runtime 33:33
Completion Date: July 15, 2021
Sammy, the little brother, searches the streets of San Francisco to find Quinn, the older brother, to bring him home for Thanksgiving. Quinn, who suffers from mental health issues, has been missing for 5 years. He's been on an imaginary quest to find his sublime Dulcinea melody. Sammy decides to help his older brother find his Dulcinea with the hope his love and dedication can somehow heal him and bring him back to the family.
LYNX
Director Julien Henry
Belgium
Runtime 19:12
Completion Date: May 5, 2021
Tony and Marie are passionate about Bangers, a trashy variant of the stock car. Following a tragedy, their couple breaks down. Tony hung up the races as Marie vent her anger onto the speedway in violent crashes. When problemes resurface, they have no choice but to resolve their dispute where their community has always solved them : on the speedway.
MTI
Director Mauricio Corco
Chile
Runtime 18:00
Completion Date: Jan-2021
Mti (29), an haitian inmigrant, after years of saving money during his stay in Chile decides to return with his wife and daughter in Haiti. However, his plans will be truncated by the unexpected theft of his money.
Binocular
Director Krishnan Unni
India
Runtime 22:00
Completion Date: Jul-2021
Kanaran is a timber mill worker.He is called Kunjettan by children and old men alike .He is loved and respected by one and all. He worked hard and struggled a lot to provide good education to his son so that his son would one day become a very high official. That was his late wife’s wish before she died.But the son never cared much about his father.Kunjettan wished so much to live as a family with his son and to caress his grandchildren.Unfortunately the son becomes a drug addict, And slowly loses his sanity and roams around the street without food and ultimately starves to death.
a new perspective
Director Emanuela Ponzano
Italy
Runtime 18:00
Completion Date: Jan-2021
Early one morning, in an unspecified and seemingly far off time, a 12 years old boy, together with some friends, is searching a thick forest for objects of value. There is a lot of fog. The boy goes off by himself to another part of the wood .His happy expression turns to one of curiosity as he is distracted by some high pitched cries which come and go intermittently. He follows the sounds to an abandoned wooden cabin.
ANGELOS AT CHRISTMAS
Director Fotis Zampetakis
Greece
Runtime 18:00
Completion Date: Aug-2020
It is Christmas Eve, and Angelos, an attractive 50-year-old man, is doing his last-minute Christmas shopping in the center of Athens. He comes across a little boy who is singing Christmas carols in broken Greek among other children. Angelos mysteriously invites the little boy to come for a ride in his car. The little boy is soon seated in the stranger's car, riding towards an unknown destination.
NATZRAT "The Beginning"
Director Cristian Calabrese
Italy
Runtime 17:26
Completion Date: August 31, 2021
No one can say what really happened that night, nine months before Year Zero.
A look at Nazareth show us the fragility of Mariam and Yosef discovering their intimacy.
Timeless feelings changing slowly until they become devotion and awareness of being the chosen ones.
16 WORDS OR LESS
Director Meghan Finn
United States
Runtime 12:52
Completion Date: June 30, 2019
A lonesome flowershop clerk helps a grieving man find words to express his loss in this offbeat film about language, death, and hair.
Bullshit
Directors Borys Shusterman, Mykhailo Ozerov
Ukraine
Runtime 25:50
Completion Date: October 10, 2021
There is an opinion, with a tinge of comic connotation, that the shortest novel can become the most significant for a man - this is when it is unambiguously supported by the result of a paternity test. Of course, such a "literary novel" is usually based on, albeit accidental, but ... Adultery. What should the heroes, husband and wife, mother and father of three children do? To voice the problem, to reveal the whole truth? But it can hurt a loved one, even lead to a breakup. Hide the truth? Hide forever and carry this burden for the rest of your life? But to endure this is not easy at all.
Hard-ish Bodies
Director Mike Carreon
United States
Runtime 8:39
Completion Date: October 18, 2018
A plus-size male stripper knocks on the wrong door and is thrust into the criminal underworld. His only chance to save the club and himself is to do what he does best... DANCE!
Home Office
Directors Andràs Léner, Maria-Csilla Békés Dr.
Switzerland
Runtime 12:27
Completion Date: September 20, 2021
Everything is alright. The life of a couple, emotions, work, wellbeing, togetherness.
Then an incursion from real-life happens: pandemic, isolation, quarantine…Now they are always together. They are losing themselves and one another.
There are many ways to fight these problems. We would like to show you one.
Promise
Director Sebastien Cascio
France
Runtime 20:15
Completion Date:
Franck is interned in a psychiatric hospital following the death of his great love, his wife Rachel.
His psychiatrist, Doctor Hetlin, probes Franck's memories to help him overcome his trauma ...
Ghost Tours (of Québec)
Director Anaëlle Morf
Switzerland
Runtime 6:28
Completion Date: November 10, 2018
“As the skies begin to darken over Quebec City, the costumed guides of Ghost Tours of Quebec strike a match and light their lanterns. Eager ticket holders wait in anticipation, for they know they will be led on a walking tour through the streets of Old Quebec, to hear 400 years of stories of murder, executions, mysterious ghost sightings, tragedies and hauntings. Hear the stories that history books have tried to forget.
Wondering what to do next in Old Quebec? How about a lovely evening walk with a paranormal twist?”
REM
Director Alan Tonello
Germany
Runtime 8:07
Completion Date: September 28, 2021
Vidid dream, oneiric life.
Baba
Directors Cooper Harrison Levy, Cole Harrison Walderman
Canada
Runtime 23:54
Completion Date: August 19, 2021
An awkward, yet lovable university student selfishly takes advantage of his supernatural gift to make things work with the girl of his dreams.
Martin's House of Music
Director George Goss
United States
Runtime 3:22
Completion Date: September 14, 2021
Martin O'Grady, an immigrant from Ireland, sought to offer schoolchildren what he never had: the opportunity for musical instruction. Based in the Irish enclave of Woodlawn in the Bronx, O'Grady founded a House of Music which he hopes will be a "mini-Broadway someday." With O’Grady recently diagnosed with cancer, the future of the House of Music is in doubt.
Fallen
Director Matthew Craig Todd
United Kingdom
Runtime 14:13
Completion Date: May 3, 2021
World weary couple Pete and Susan - like the majority of the modern world - have resigned themselves to a life of bleak monotony. They start to question everything they thought they knew when a mysterious boy appears, drenched with rain, on the doorstep of their London home. He claims to come from a world where there is no suffering, a world that is not 'Fallen'. The more they see, the more they begin to wonder: is it true?
At the circuit
Director Olivier Van Malderghem
Belgium
Runtime 20:00
Completion Date: May 3, 2021
Every weekend, Anne and Jeff go to the Mettet motorcycle circuit. A racing pilot, Jeff is training. Anne takes his lap times. Occasionally, at the Au Circuit café, she negotiates bitterly on the phone the lending of the motorbike. Anne's gaze then meets that of Jacques, a client who, like his sidekick René is « part of the furniture ». They never exchange a word. One day, Jacques sets off. He joins Anne at the bar.
SQUISH
Director Xavier SERON
Belgium
Runtime 20:00
Completion Date: September 11, 2020
FLO has to go to Marrakech for work. So, it’s TOM who takes care of SAM, their 5-year-old son. Flo left him a list of tasks to complete during his absence. Despite this, Tom forgot Sam’s guitar course. From his ryad, Flo calls to blame him. Tom hates being caught. He picks up Sam. The car comes out of the garage at full speed. SPROTCH. Tom just crushed something...
Growth
Director Daniel Loh
United States
Runtime 6:37
Completion Date: May 14, 2021
Tossed Out
Director Michael K.Bell
United States
Runtime 10:42
Completion Date: April 1, 2021
What is there was a second conversation between Eve and the Serpent in the Garden Of Eden
The Thing
Director Olivier Sadock
France
Runtime 11:00
Completion Date: September 12, 2020
Invited to the engagement party of a woman he is in love with, Simon, taken by an uncontrollable impulse, tries to kiss her.
Taken with remorse, he meets a strange character in a hotel bar, who will help him solve his love problem.
BOXED
Director Alyn Darnay
United States
Runtime 13:30
Completion Date: July 30, 2021
Traumatized in a boxcar en route to a Nazi concentration camp, a husband and wife dance team find their bond of love strengthened.
Mazel Brouk
Director Hanael
France
Runtime 24:21
Completion Date: July 8, 2021
Five young women, born in France but with different ethnic and cultural backgrounds ranging from Islam to Judaism, are gathering in the South of France for a bachelorette party over a week-end.
The two brothers and Santa Claus
Director Gabriel Tibi
France
Runtime 20:00
Completion Date: November 25, 2019
As Christmas Eve approaches, Léo, a naïve 7-year-old kid, searches for evidence to prove that Santa Claus really exists.
His older brother, Kevin, tries to prove him wrong.
Fake
Director Alan J. Chriest
United States
Runtime 8:00
Completion Date: July 22, 2021
Fake news is not new - but now it's digital. From click-bait headlines to cyber disinformation, we are easily manipulated. What do we gain and what do we lose by our unquestioned beliefs that control our actions?
A MARTYR OF THE PEN
Director ALAN HAMWAN
United Kingdom
Runtime 9:00
Completion Date: 2021 - May
A freelance journalist has been kidnapped and thrown in the foot of a car. Only the flare of his lighter can illuminate his claustrophobic prison in this speeding car. He searches desperately for any way he can escape. With time running out and hope almost lost, he will indeed be make an example, but maybe he can get one last message of hope out before the end and a final act of defiance.
LIKE YOU
Director Marco Gosalvez
Spain
Runtime 11:00
Completion Date: Jul-2021
A child with Down syndrome wants to go to a casting for actors, but he doesn't dare because of his condition. His mother encourages him to come forward, with unexpected results.
WAKE UP, PRIMCESS
Directors Camila De Paula Daniel Lopez Clhoe Calderon
Spain
Runtime 6:00
Completion Date: Jul-2021
On a beach, a little girl meets a mysterious boy who helps her having her dearest wish granted.
At dawn the youth!
Director Bernard Assako
France
Runtime 30:00
Completion Date: Jan-2021
Eventful life of a young woman in a hostile environment
DIBBOUK
Directors Léonard Kahn, Pierre Barbier
France
Runtime 6:53
Completion Date: January 31, 2021
A man wake up in a field without memories and without trousers. He asks some help to a neighbour. This one persuades himself that this man a Dibbouk : jewish demon who come to steal his soul. So he decides to exorcise him in his wardrobe.
The Shore
Director Lisa Fuchs
France
Runtime 39:40
Completion Date: July 24, 2020
The body of Eva is juxtaposed with the landscape of the sea shore where David is walking. A tacit dialogue is created beyond the space. David has died at sea and she is expecting his child.
LOVE IN ZE PHONE
Director JOLIVET QUENTIN
France
Runtime 20:00
Completion Date: May 15, 2021
In the darkness of a teenage bedroom, Kilian has just received a cell phone for his birthday. Accompanied by two friends, Julie and Hugo, they watch a porn movie for the first time...
During the day, they sing
Director Véronique Laveau
Canada
Runtime 14:36
Completion Date: September 30, 2020
Every day, in Senegal, in the Saloum Delta, a UNESCO World Heritage site, many women go to sea. On these islands, where men, for lack of work, deserted to France, Spain or Italy, women became, in spite of themselves, the heads of families. This documentary turns its gaze on the steps of those who chose to stay.
Chaque jour, au Sénégal, dans le Delta du Saloum, classé au patrimoine mondial de l'Unesco, de nombreuses femmes partent en mer pour subvenir aux besoin de leur famille. Sur ces îles, où les hommes, faute de travail, désertent vers la France, l'Espagne ou l'Italie, les femmes deviennent, malgré elles, les chef de famille. Ce documentaire tourne son regard sur les pas de celles qui ont choisi de rester.
Future Fractal
Director Julia Deak
Hungary
Runtime 13:56
Completion Date: December 7, 2020
A young woman feels threatened in the present world. Where can you go to get away? To the past? To her great-aunt who died in the Ravensbrück concentration camp? Or into an imaginary future? Wherever it runs, the present remains the current. Or maybe not? It seems to her that the future can be hoped for. While the world is evolving in a repetitive, fractal-like way, scientists claim that there is an unexpected random element in these patterns that can drastically change the course of events. In her imagination, the young woman sees that these changes will finally bring peace and freedom to the persecuted at last.
Partforever
Director Alan Chung-An, Ou
Taiwan
Runtime 13:00
Completion Date: April 1, 2021
**Taiwanese Tradition**
There is a tradition in Taiwan that people would come home to visit their families within 3 days after they died. That is why people in Taiwan will set up a mourning hall to mourn the dead until they buried the body in the coffin.
In a dark hall, the candlelight flickers faintly. The remains were placed in the center of the hall. Huei and her husband, Wen Hsiung came in to mourn the dead, Huei’s little sister. In these ordinary mourning moments hides an unbelievable secret.