Chinese Herb
​Director Ying Zhou
China
Runtime 16:19
Completion Date: December 15, 2021
This is a story about the young girl Ling who lost her father, after witnessing the chaos and injustice of the family poisoned by feudal ideology and the long-term self-repression, she chooses to help the family get liberated in her own way.
WELLSPRING
Director Shaya Chesner
Israel
Runtime 15:49
Completion Date: August 1, 2021
Michael, a Jewish Orthodox young man and his wife, Nura, are having problems with intimacy. A romantic night time camping trip in beautiful surroundings is supposed to bring them together but instead, Nura discovers the disturbing truth about her husband.
The boy and the fire
​Director Lu
China
Runtime 4:00
Completion Date: 5/8/2021
This is a symbolic fable extracted from the director’s childhood memories: the boy accidentally lit a piece of dry lawn, and a picture of the fire appeared in his mind. When he fell out and fled, he finally decided to face it. everything. The film tries to touch the nihility of our existence through the duality of boy and fire.
Suit
Director Zeng Zhicong
China
Runtime 22:00
Completion Date: 9/27/2021
The short story "Suit" revolves around the theme of "home" and expresses the alienation between the two generations under the current social development trend through the emotional changes between father and son in a small family. It is hoped that the process of father and son from estrangement to understanding in the film can inspire the audience to attach importance to the maintenance of family emotions, so that young people will have more understanding, respect and tolerance for their elders.
THE UGLY SWAN
Director Rachel Lévy
Israel
Runtime 12:11
Completion Date: August 1, 2021
Sarah, a 23-year-old ultra-Orthodox young woman, goes out on her fourth date with Yossi, a loving and sensitive yeshiva student. But Sara carries a big secret which, if revealed, may jettison all her chances of happiness.
AS IF I AM
Director Meitar Libi Flam
Israel
Runtime 8:10
Completion Date: May 1, 2021
Through paint, camera, words, art, dream and fantasy this young artist explores how the images that lurk in the corners of our minds can frighten and destabilize us. When these are brought into light and given artistic shape, they become less shadowland and more part of the knowable landscape in our lives.
THERE IS NO END
Directors Clelia Bertrand, Benjamin Serrero
Israel
Runtime 22:38
Completion Date: August 1, 2021
Alex (30) breaks his ten-year-old brother Nati out of a care home in order to prevent his transfer to a psychiatric facility. His aim is to get both of them both back to France, their birthplace. But will Alex's actions help Nati, or harm him?
PSAGOT RAMALLAH
Director Binyamin Haneman
Israel
Runtime 16:24
Completion Date: July 1, 2021
Through the camera lens, and through the art works of a painter and a poet who grew up with him in the Israeli settlement of Psagot, this student director descibes his growing awareness of the neighboring Arab city of Ramallah and how it impacted his coming of age.
EDEN'S EMPIRE
Director Joshua Trachtman
Israel
Runtime 17:08
Completion Date: August 1, 2021
A lonely thirteen year old girl whose parents are splitting up runs away to the woods near her home, where an unexpected companion helps her come to terms with feelings of powerlessness and loss.
NAOMI
Director Ella Deutsch
Israel
Runtime 8:30
Completion Date: July 10, 2021
Thirteen year old Naomi is one of a group of girls who break in to the local swimming pool one night as a prank. But their adventure will force Naomi to come to terms with how far she is prepared to go to hide her disability.
SOMETHING BLUE
Director Yisrael Rohn Rigler
Israel
Runtime 13:34
Completion Date: June 1, 2021
Two ultra-Orthodox Jewish young women, Chaya and Shoshana, are forced to face up to what will happen to their relationship when they come together as bride and bridesmaid on Chaya's wedding day.
CHECKMATES
Director Avihai daskal
Israel
Runtime 13:30
Completion Date: January 2, 2022
Two old fellas, Shlomo and Arie, are close friends for sixty years, sit in their beloved spot at the public park where they meet every week to play chess. For many years that they are working, hanging out and playing together, and everything looks calm and peaceful on the surface until an unexpected event shakes the table, floods secrets from the past and puts the friendship to the test. Where the truth lies and is it black and white? Which one hides more moves up his sleeve and who will lose everything? And most importantly, how will the game of chess end?
Crying on The Island They Own
​Directors Joan Dwiartanto, Cyrie Topete
Indonesia
Runtime 8:30
Completion Date: February 1, 2022
Stuck in a bubble, these wealthy patrons know nothing else but this tension.
The Typical Day of an Effective Jobseeker
​Director Alexandre Bedenko
France
Runtime 01:33:35
Completion Date: January 17, 2021
The ordinary life of a 55-year-old job seeker, in debt, divorced, without friends and who has trouble speaking French because of his accent. He decides to follow the recommendations of a poster which provides, hour by hour, the ideal day for a job seeker, hoping that he will finally be able to find a job.
MORNING
Directors Nevena Krassimirova Nikolova, Petya Atanassova
Bulgaria
Runtime 12:00
Completion Date: September 23, 2021
A young man dances every morning at 8 o`clock in the living room in front of his step-mother – an ex-ballet dancer currently in a wheelchair.
SERGE
Director Tristan Guignard
France
Runtime 30:00
Kreisleriana
Director Simon Kluth
Germany
Runtime 6:50
Completion Date: September 30, 2021
In our performance driven and competitive world, Hanna, a young entrepreneur, and Johnny, an aged actor, are confronted with gender and age discrimination. But instead of submitting to the game, they fight it and make their own rules.
Kolya is like a butterfly
Director Sergey Zanchevskiy
Russian Federation
Runtime 12:32
Completion Date: August 22, 2021
Kolya, a retired electrician, lives in the center of Rostov (a small Russian city with great history), among the ruins of revenue houses.