Touttay (Parrots)

Director  shashank singh
U S A
Runtime  51 min 1 sec
Completion Date: May 2018
Drama, Fantasy, History

1ST TIME FILMMAKER

We know a greater deal about the ' how' of things, it is the 'why' we do not understand - Prof. Hinton

This is a story of a theater personality, who has written a play which is adapted from a poem. When he is trying to perform it into a stage play, then some influential people, with hidden agendas become his obstacle. This times it is not about Freedom of Speech but Freedom of Thought.
 

DIGGIN' THE GARDEN

Director  Silke Abendschein
Germany
Runtime  4:30
Completion Date: March 1, 2017
Portrait

A child is digging the ground, the spade is scratching on concrete, notes in a diary about the weather, a recipe for a birthday cake, an empty house.
Drops of water.
What remains from life? An attempted dialogue between yesterday and today - between my grandmother and myself.

 

Everything is Upstream

Director  Martin Ponferrada
Australia
Runtime  10:00
Completion Date: January 13, 2018

Part animation and part documentary. Buddhist monks from around the world offer vivid descriptions of their dreams, which are then brought to life through detailed rotoscope.

 

L'Enfer

Director Rachel Yedid
France
Runtime 2:24
Completion Date: December 11, 2016
Music Video, Short

End of recent past

Director Salvador Pardo
Spain
Runtime 28 min
Completion Date: Jan 2018
Other  Reality Recorder  Portrait
Debut film

Julio, is a lighthouse keeper living and working in inhabited island, in south Galicia, Spain. He is also a writer, musician and philosopher.

After 35 years dedicated to the lighthouse he is on retirement, becoming the very last lighthouse keeper in the island of Sálvora, which is part of the the Spanish National Parks Network. From now on the Lighthouse is automatically controlled from an office far away.

 

365

Director Borja Ros Espejo
Spain
Runtime 20 min
Completion Date: Mar 2017
Adventure  Catastrophe  Science Fiction  Drama  Fantasy  Horror  Psychological  

The humans have caused the progressive extinction of themselves. We have seen the end coming and we did nothing. We have what we deserve. Now the world is desolate and the only way is survival.

A survivor tells his story. He has been searching for his family for years without success and loneliness makes him loose his mind.

 

Gegensteine

Director Irina Arms
Germany
Runtime 12 min
Completion Date: 4.11.2016


In the middle of Germany in the Harz mountains there are two famous rocks. They are called the "Silent rock" and the "Loud rock". The silent rock is said to be bewitched. It is part of the devil`s wall and it does not give back any echo when you shout at it. A young mute Russian girl lives in the vicinity and she is a prime target of this evil rock. She is ill and depressiv and want to die one day. So the force of the evil rock pulls her towards the evil mountain and she sets on her path to death. ....This film is a visual and musical poem that shows in an allegorical way that there is always a choice in life.

Hot Afternoons Have Been in Montana

Director Ken Kimmelman
United States
Runtime 14:38
Completion Date: May 15, 2010

A dramatic montage based on the "Nation" magazine prize poem by Eli Siegel, combining photographs, live-action and special effects to show how a hot afternoon in Montana is related to the whole world. It so deeply honors earth--its land, its history, its people.m



 

KRONOS

Director Frédéric Tachou
France
Runtime 20:00
Completion Date:

The film Kronos explores the notion of making a so-called “family film”. Shot during different moments of family life, the film sets out to establish links between the destiny awaiting a father-figure and those of his children - and their different claims to power and destruction - with that of Kronos, the king of the Titans from the Golden age of ancient Greek mythology. This exploration is above all a personal reflection on one’s own destiny, death.

 

The Faces Living In My Dreams

Director Mishka Balilty
Canada  
Runtime 2 min 10 sec
Completion Date: Mar 2018
Horror

It is said that all the people in our dreams are a version of ourself.
But.... what if they aren't?

 

Vrij (Free)

Director Ruud Matthijssen
Netherlands
Runtime 20 min 40 sec
Completion Date: Dec 2017

Vrij is a short film about structures. Constructions and structures that limit or expand our freedom.

Are you holding me, or am I holding myself?

Director  Cesar Brodermann
United States
Runtime   11:47
Completion Date: May 16, 2017
Dance, Indie, Experimental
First-time Filmmaker

This film is a self study examining the relationship between our minds and our bodies, our thoughts and our actions, and the sometimes insurmountable gaps between what we think we want to feel and what we actually experience.

In this film I pose the question “Are you holding me, or am I holding myself?” and I attempt to answer it through a movement study describing the relationship between myself as an individual-a sensitive and receptive human body, and between various external influences. I am placing the human body in extreme conditions. Sometimes existing in a more grounded or neutral reality, while at other times existing in a warmer more surreal world, I investigate what it is to create and struggle with certain boundaries that stem from self reflection/self torment over past experiences, and the means by which we think we can achieve an ideal emotional or physical state.

Does our self perception hinder us? In recognizing our patterns, good and bad, are we really just making the realization that we are our own worst enemies? The realization that I sought through this film is that we are all looking for a human connection, someone to hold us as well as someone to hold.

 

Strangers

Director  Lisa Seidenberg
Austria
Runtime   2:51
Completion Date: May 16, 2017
poetry film

Original title is "Die Fremden", a poem by Rose Auslander, 1901-1988. Auslander was a Jewish German poet from Czernowitz, then part of Austro-Hungarian Empire and she later lived in New York. Her first book of poetry was destroyed by Nazis. Many of her poems are concerned with moving and homeland. Most of the footage was shot in Austria. Although written in another time, I wanted to give new life to the poem by showing the alienation of modern travel.

 

Strange Divinity

Director  Carlos Marcelin
United States
Runtime   01:04:14
Completion Date: September 29, 2017
Rock Opera

Every moment in time holds infinite outcomes. This realm of infinite possibilities, between point A and point B, is known as 'C'.
In the land of the Immortals, the Goddess Destiny prevails over C.
She is asked by her deity, the Orb Nadia, to grant the power over C to the Mortals.
The Demigod Sally is dispatched to watch over the Mortals as they wield this gift.
Professor Otto Von Grunberg and his son Otto Jr. learn the risks and benefits of this ability in this supernatural rock opera that uses quantum theory to spin its tale.
As Otto Jr. falls in love and uses this great power for personal gain, in the end, he must decide where the path of his humanity leads

 

Eventide

Director  Muriel Paraboni
Brazil
Runtime   20:00
Completion Date: July 1, 2016

A man and a woman relive moments of their lives transfigured on the landscape of a beach. Past, present and future merge in the cadence of the waters, which come and go revolving memories and old silences. So the characters go through a sort of trail of desire, leading the edge
of the abyss of themselves, where all days born and die, the horizon of all passes, all eventides.

 

Cannot Predict Now

Director  Kimberly Burleigh
United States
Runtime   4:38
Completion Date: August 14, 2015

"Cannot Predict Now" is a short experimental 3D computer animation. It features a spherical form that continuously evolves to perform its function as a predictor of the future. The sphere begins as a magic crystal soccer ball, then shatters to become a vessel in a tolijabee, a Korean birthday ritual in which the baby picks up various items that attract him or her. The items that the child picks are said to foretell the child’s future. Then, after a brief phase of capnomancy, a method of divination using smoke, a rotorelief/wheel-of-fortune emerges and spins out a vague prediction.