The Rat
Director Baimukhamedov Zhantemir
Kazakhstan
Runtime 29:00
Completion Date: Sep-2022
This is true story that happened during the Collaps of the Soviet Union in the Republic of Kazakhstan. Prisoner is a guitar player released from jail. He setled in the room of closed plant.
He found a rat living in his room. When he played guitar the rat had been dragging money out of the hall.
Man and rat became best friends.
Good bye Paris
Director Louis Salvatore Bellanti
France
Runtime 19:00
Completion Date: Jul-2022
Frédéric, a young law student afflicted with a stutter, must pass an oral exam for his last online assignment. His stutter threatens to get in his way, and so he attempts everything to get rid of it.
Between The Words
Director Farid Ismaïl
Luxembourg
Runtime 15:00
Completion Date: May 21, 2022
Frédéric, a young law student afflicted with a stutter, must pass an oral exam for his last online assignment. His stutter threatens to get in his way, and so he attempts everything to get rid of it.
NO SOY YO
Director Paul Neøclasic
Spain
Runtime 05:21
Completion Date: 2022-01-18
Bruno is a young entrepreneur who has an online t-shirt store. However, he suffers from a triple personality disorder that with the help of his "friend Aurora" and the psychologist Beatriz, he will try to overcome it.
Outta This World
Director Brittany Christine
United States
Runtime 5:00
Completion Date: May 24, 2022
An animated sci fi comedy about a human woman, Astria ZonBerg, who longs for something. On a journey with alien Pike to find it, she discovers something else she never knew she was missing.
The Lowest Point
Director He Liu
China
Runtime 27:10
Completion Date: April 20, 2022
This is a story about a photographer who meets a desperate young girl.(“Run down” is a former name).
Bon appetit
Director Shijun Chen
China
Runtime 10:12
Completion Date: August 31, 2022
The forensic doctor and the female leader Ji Chunfen pressed the female leader step by step during the meal in the restaurant to find out another hidden truth behind the death of the female leader. It turned out that the female leader was arranged by her family to go to a key university to impersonate Chunfen Ji without her knowing it many years ago. Now the female leader sees that Chunfen Ji is living a very bad life, feels guilty and decides to return her name to her by suicide...
PERVIVENCIA
Director ALBERTO GARCÍA MIRANDA
Spain
Runtime 14:47
Completion Date: 2022-05-27
In different moments in History there have existed women with power who have suffered repression and even have died because of their life style and ideas. The patriarchal power tried to take away thei knowledge as a way to control and submit them. Regardless, they have survived through time. Before the arrival of the Spanish conquerors there were women of power in the Canarian Archipelago and mainly in Gran Canaria. Some of them were gifted with divination and healing, helped their people and played an important role in their society during the colonization.
Entre Dragones
Director Miguel Ezquieta
Spain
Runtime 09:48
Completion Date:
Sixteen-years-old Unax travels through time to find out what is happening both to him and to the knight who has been pursuing him in so many battles for a number of years. Through his fight against the forces of evil he eventually understands and accepts himself.
OGNI TRE GIORNI
Director MARK PETRASSO
Italy
Runtime 12:00
Completion Date: 2022 - May
Through the eyes of an unusual witness we get to see what happens in the house of the main characters, thus showing us what normally no one would have seen.
The Door
Director Pierre H. Ollier
France
Runtime 14'
Completion Date: Jul-2022
Curiosity brews as two women are charged with pressing a button that leads to a mysterious nowhere. People enter but never leave. What is behind this door? For one, the unknown doesn't plague them in the slightest. For the other, the answer must be known, despite all risks.
VALENTINE'S DAY
Director Andres Romero
Spain
Runtime 10'
Completion Date: Mar-2022
February 14th. Valentine's Day. A couple arrives for dinner at a restaurant, without a reservation.
She behaves in a very stupid and arrogant way towards her partner and the restaurant staff. She begins to bother all the guests present and business workers.
The couple's conversation increasingly reaches a greater degree of insults until it reaches an unbearable point.
Rast
Director Utku Yasavul
Turkey
Runtime 3:34
Completion Date: September 1, 2022
Sonokoe (The Voice)
Director Nachshon Taishi Tanaka
Japan
Runtime 39:07
Completion Date: May 1, 2022
Fu Yoshizawa is a young man with selective mutism who is unable to speak in certain social situations. He can only speak to his mother at home. A young woman, Shiori, starts working in an accessible workplace for people with mental disabilities where Fu also works at. She tries to talk to him, but he is unable to respond. One day, Fu is in the forest collecting cicada’s shells, as he often likes to do. He suddenly hears footsteps from a distance and slowly walks towards the sound…
7 Days to the Carnival
Director Nanako Irie
Japan
Runtime 39:42
Completion Date: November 28, 2021
The Carnival in 400 years is coming. 7 days before the carnival, three gods, Laughos, Sightos and Danceus, are called to a lodging house. They have to choose two out of three, who are destined to die at the carnival for the salvation of the world. It’s a tradition and an honor if chosen. The way to choose is left in their own hands.
They start chatting but don’t get to the point. On the third day, the Supremacy appears and put pressure to the three. They go gradually into distress until the carnival.
Touched Perry
Director Nanako Irie
Japan
Runtime 39:58
Completion Date:
Perry is hungry for being touched by others. The relationship between Perry and his mother in his child hood let his heart missing something essential. He switches his job and move his place frequently with his feeling of inferiority.
Hana, an owner of dinner, talk to Perry after a trouble on the street. Hana suggests Perry to do part time job at his own shop.
The Wheel
Director RAJITH MOHAN
Singapore
Runtime 30:48
Completion Date: August 8, 2022
Perpetually stuck a world of what-ifs, a lonely man struggles to discern dream from reality.
Set in present-day Singapore where a growing share of the population remains single in a multiracial society, this film explores loneliness and aging, the possibilities and consequences of a man choosing a life alone. With references to the "butterfly dream" philosophy, Aadi questions the blurred line between dreaming and waking in his increasingly monotonous life.
River Road and Hoodwinked Toad
Director Ankit Santra
India
Runtime 30:00
Completion Date: May 1, 2022
The pandemic has brought doom upon the entire world, except Kalitala. The village seems to be making a fortune out of its abundance of wood as corpses from the city are brought for cremation. Wherever the economy booms, politics follows. Young Sholte finds drawings of a dead child from the city, and trying to match them with their said progressive village, discovers the harsh reality.
Cycle again
Director Atsushi Kadowaki
Japan
Runtime 28:04
Completion Date: September 15, 2022
When the Great East Japan Earthquake struck in 2011, the director was far from home and cycled 200 kilometers to get home. He came up with the idea of cycling 200 kilometers along the coast of Indonesia, the area hit by the 2004 Sumatra earthquake, in the same way he had cycled in Tohoku. What he saw there was a completely different picture of reconstruction than in Japan.
To Meet Esther
Director Anna Eret
Germany
Runtime 18:01
Completion Date: January 1, 2022
Marianna of Jewish-Russian descent, born in Germany, proudly presents her Jewish family tree at elementary school. Contrary to her parents who are afraid of antisemitic attacks, she confesses to be Jewish. When she gets home, she tries to smuggle in the poster about her Jewish family without being noticed.
On that day the young journalist and blogger Eva is visiting, she learns about the discrepancy in the family and about the double life Marianna has to live up until now. Eva recognizes herself in this little girl and writes for the first time about her Jewish origin in her blog. The statement triggers hundreds of reactions and finds a positive response among people with jewish background.
Antisemite
Director Michelle Bossy
United States
Runtime 13:00
Completion Date:April 1, 2022
Seth, a college senior, is home for winter break. He’s spending a day relaxing and shopping on Fairfax Avenue when he’s suddenly confronted by an Orthodox Jewish man asking Seth if he’s Jewish. Seth’s chance encounter leads to a profound spiritual experience with life-changing implications.
Brigitte
Director Ningyue Hao
China
Runtime 7:27
Completion Date:May 31, 2022
Winter time in Shanghai, after her best friend moved out of their shared flat, the 26-year-old girl named A felt lost and began to wander the streets while looking for a new flat. One day, She was wandering around aimlessly, a woman who was walking a cat went passed her. Just when she was curious and about to follow, the woman had disappeared. Few days later, As A went out from home and ran down the stairs in a hurry, she bumped into a woman in the staircase. The bag in the woman’s hand fell to the ground and there were shrimps scattered all over the floor.
Domani
Director Eilon Ben-Nissan
United States
Runtime 16:00
Completion Date:June 15, 2022
A Fantasy/Drama about Leon, a man who, with out knowing, creates an imaginary world in his subconscious. There, Leon meets parts of himself he had never discovered before. On his journey of self discovery Leon comes to find himself at an intersection between his reality and his blissful imagination. When Leon goes to sleep in his reality he wakes up in his imagination and when he goes to sleep in his imagination he wakes up in his reality. Each new day is a different one and it’s up to Leon to decide which world is more worth living in.
Jonah: the True Story
Director Graham Scheaffer Young
United States
Runtime 17:15
Completion Date:May 13, 2022
A prophet of God struggles with accepting forgiveness as he is forced to follow God's commands in this comical retelling of a well-known Bible story.
Stay With
Director Ben Stamper
United States
Runtime 20:47
Completion Date:December 11, 2021
Inspired by Internal Family Systems therapy, this film follows one urbanite encountering their disassociation, anxiety, workaholism, and depression personified. This individual draws nears to each hurting part through the award-winning lens of film-maker Ben Stamper.
Yesterday ended last night
Directors Galenus Zhou, Jia jie lin, ze cong kuang
China
Runtime 20:55
Completion Date: June 1, 2022
Losing his mother as a child, Yi, a young man in a small town, leads a gloomy life until he meets Mei, the daughter of an aquarium owner. Because of Mei, Yi's life has just began to shine, but the harsh reality soon tears this felicity apart. Yi soon loses himself between his memories, the reality and "everything he could never have imagined".
Below the river
Director yinze li
China
Runtime 25:00
Completion Date: June 7, 2012
This film was produced by Shen Xinghao Director Studio of Hebei University of Media and Communications, and was shot by teachers from the Teaching and Research Office of Drama Film and Television Directors and students with students in Dujiangyan, Chengdu. The film tells the story of an online car-hailing driver who found a huge sum of money in the process of looking for the owner, trying to buy a new house with his own money to alleviate the family conflict caused by the crowded housing. It aims to express the distortions and swaying of the life at the bottom of the society and human nature under the impact of the network economy.
The Living Things
Director wenyu zhang
China
Runtime 24:32
Completion Date: June 6, 2026
Synopsis Recently, the actor Zhao Yuanyi plans to film his first movie. In order to raise money, he starts to interview for a job. When the
Brother Troll
Director Gudmund Helmsdal
Faroe Islands
Runtime 29:59
Completion Date: January 7, 2021
Once upon a time in the Faroe Islands, two lone brothers struggle to save their fragile relationship after the sudden loss of their older brother.
HAGAR
Director Avi Ludmir
Israel
Runtime 7:21
Completion Date: June 1, 2022
Through lines of poetry and psychological dance hagar tries to persuade her partner out of the closet
Flash/Crash
Director Angelo Perez Lebbink
Netherlands
Runtime 12:33
Completion Date: January 31, 2022
A down on his luck drug addict seeks forgiveness and salvation from an alienated prostitute in need.
The Seventh Seal
Director Jacek Krawczyk
Poland
Runtime 29:56
Completion Date: June 30, 2020
Disillusioned Knight Antonius returns home from the Crusades to find his country in the grips of the Black Death, he challenges Death to a chess match for his life. Tormented by the belief that God does not exist, Antonius sets off on a journey, meeting up with traveling player Mia and becoming determined to evade Death long enough to commit one redemptive act while he still lives. But Death is always around the corner, biding his time. Knight Antonius cannot escape his fate, and the two begin their game.
FAMILY MATTER
Director Nissim Khalifa
Israel
Runtime 25:00
Completion Date: September 25, 2021
A short story about 2 brothers and a younger sister, trying to find the right balance between their family values and their personal needs.
ANJELA
Director Vilma Kartalska
Bulgaria
Runtime 16:02
Completion Date: October 3, 2021
Anjela Pencheva has suffered from Cerebral Palsy since birth, but the difficult diagnosis has never broken her spirit and has turned her into a writer, an actress and a dancer. Through her work and with her computer generated voice, she participates in various initiatives for the rights of the people with disabilities and inspires everyone who has met her.