WEDNESDAY MORNING (dir. M. Garza)

Director  Mario Garza
United States
Runtime  7:18
Completion Date: March 1, 2017

In the middle of Roger’s dentist appointment, his dentist has a heart attack. Will Roger save his life?

 

The Grave Inc.

Director  Debbie Soni
United States
Runtime  6:30
Completion Date: March 31, 2018
Drama, Horror, Mystery

The days leading to Jesus' death and resurrection, Mrs. Grave and Lucifer's demon, make plans on how to keep Jesus of Nazareth in the tomb and stop him from coming back to life.


 

Mr. Larraín

Director  Gonzalo Menéndez
Chile
Runtime  14:23
Completion Date: May 17, 2018
Thriller
First-time Filmmaker

Sebastián Larraín is a man that hides his sociopath instincts from society, but after being affected by the attitudes of his neighbor and surroundings, his past traumas arise making his psychopathic side to start murdering.


 

The Rebel Lady with the Dark Secrets

Director  Chris Rakotomamonjy
France
Runtime  23 min
Completion Date: Mar 2018
Horror, Thriller, Mystery

1ST TIME FILMMAKER

Pushed by her greedy agent to finish writing her gruesome story, the renowned writer Gianna Baldini reluctantly journeys back to her childhood home, where her family had been massacred by a psychopath. Once she is back, the murders resume, or do they?

 

Utopia

Director  Aimiende Negbenebor Sela
United States
Runtime  15:10
Completion Date: May 7, 2018

Utopia is a surreal drama about an aspirational, blond young lady who wakes up from a coma in Uganda. And, no -- nothing is as it seems.


 

La Puerta Del Infierno

Director  Enrique Novials
Spain
Runtime  13 min
Completion Date: Oct 2017
Action  Drama  Fantasy  Romantic  Thriller  Western

While enjoying a picnic, Alice is bitten by a snake. Wild, her love, searches for the Hell´s door to go down to Hades to rescue her before it gets too late (Story based in the Greek Myth of Orpheus and Euridice).

Miscreant

Director  Rocky Ramsey
United States
Runtime 10:45
Completion Date: April 15, 2018
Thriller, Crime, Drama, Myster

Anderson McCarthy, a young law-school graduate, walks two small town detectives through his life threatening turn of events while visiting his Uncle Billy for the very first time.

 

The Lovers of Sarria

Director  Alessandro Malfatti Montaño
Spain
Runtime 13:00
Completion Date: Jul 2017
Comedy  Historical
First-time Filmmaker

1934. The bourgeois from Sarrià are debating whether to overturn their city’s annexation to Barcelona. When one of them discovers his daughter is seeing a young man from the lower part of town they will take some rash decisions…

 

34 days, 18 hours

Director  Hélène Schweitzer
United Kingdom
Runtime 5:54
Completion Date: January 1, 2017
Drama, Romance
First-time Filmmaker

It's Theo's birthday today and all he wants is to talk to his ex, Lucile. All she wants is to talk to him. In a serendipitous turn of events, they call each other at the same time and end up leaving each other a voicemail, saying more in one message than they would have ever said in one conversation.

 

THE VIRGIN OF THE WATER

Director  Joaquin Possentini
Argentina
Runtime  29:30
Completion Date: January 2, 2018
Drama, Violence, Thriller, Family, Children, Field, Policial, Racism, Crime

In the monotony of a small town, the corpse of a girl appears on the shores of the lake. A frustrated police investigation and the desperation of a mother in search of justice by her own hand will reveal the family's darkest secrets.

 

Umeshu Night

Director  Irene Gomèz-Emilsson
United Kingdom
Runtime 11:06
Completion Date: January 1, 2017
Drama, Romance

In a japanese restaurant, two strangers connect over a glass of plum wine. A short but sweet distraction from a painful reality.

 

Inlove

Director  Les Fères Lopez
France
Runtime 7:25
Completion Date: February 21, 2018
First-time Filmmaker

While on patrol in a Middle Eastern country, a western army squad stops for a while in the village of Iqmarba...

 

Inspector W

Director Matthieu Di Paolo
France
Runtime 29:59
Completion Date: April 15, 2018
Comedy

In the small town of Saint-Martin-des-Bois, the unthinkable happened: a woman was murdered. Inspector W, with his loyal right-hand man, Lieutenant Lanvin, will start an investigation full of whiskers, floral dresses and pana cotta...

 

Simple Sonate

Director Anna Montanyà
Germany
Runtime 14:00
Completion Date: April 1, 2018

In a somewhat outdated setting, an obsessive, disciplined piano teacher welcomes his pupils.
The students are not the only ones who have to practice the piano.
Satisfied with himself, he also practices conscientiously.
But he is under observation.
Through his old-fashioned phone, a growing threat invades his healing world.

The Ride

Director Réka Győrbíró
Hungary
Runtime 14:38
Completion Date: December 16, 2017
Thriller, Horror
First-time Filmmaker
Student Project

Lilla is near the end of her twenties, who she in the countryside. Determined to change her life, she wants to travel to Budapest for a job interview. However instead of the car, which was promised to deliver her, a rather scarry looking man arrives in an old car. However once on the trip, the man tells Lilla they must go to his mother, since she left the pills in the back of the car. Suddenly knocking can be heard and it turns out there is girl tied up in the car trunk


 

Bedside manner

Director   GARCIA MARIENSTRAS MYRIAM
France
Runtime 11 min
Completion Date: 2017 - September
Fiction / Drama

Au 31 décembre, Esther, une jeune fille de 16 ans, s'apprête à passer sa soirée du nouvel an chez son amie Léa. Malgré une ambiance chaleureuse et amicale, cette soirée ne se déroule pas comme elle l'avait imaginé et elle se retrouve confrontée au viol, une réalité banalisée par ses amis

Aller-retour

Director VICTOR CESCA
France
Runtime 17 min
Completion Date: 2017 - September
Drama, Family, Horror

Richard, former best-selling author, lost his self-confidence since he saw, powerless, his son dying, hit by a car. In a lack of imagination, he isolates himself in a house to write his next book. On site, he will have to face and accept the trauma that haunts him.
 

Hide and Seek

Director Gal Nachshon
Israel
Runtime 15 min 37 sec
Completion Date: Apr 2018
Drama

Sivan, a lone wolf who carries a secret on her back, has a chance encounter with a peculiar stranger that leads her back to her past life and towards a slight chance at redemption.

 

One Last Time

Director Alexander Lönn
Sweden
Runtime 30:52
Completion Date: January 1, 2018

When Jessie decides to get help from Euthanasia due to her incurable cancer, she wants her family's full support. She invites family and her closest friends to a last big dinner where her plan is to pay tribute to life. But instead of support she meets sad and angry people whom she has to explain herself for. A mother who does not understand why, a father fighting against jealousy, a brother who does not know how to handle this, a friend whom just wants to get out of there and a girlfriend just wanting Jessie to change. Everything Jessie wants is to have one last night where she can celebrate her and her beloved life, but the evening will be anything but a tribute.

 

GAB

Director Gazanfer BIRICIK
France
Runtime 10:00
Completion Date: February 28, 2018
Sci-Fi, Drama, Short, Musical

Ani is a journalist who was charged by her diary to write an article about Ezra dead during an attack. For doing this, she organized an appointment with Lily, the sister of the deceased, in a pub. While she was waiting for her in the bar, she will make an unexpected meeting that will not leave her indifferent.

Hirofumi's Suitcase

Director natasja pattipeilohy
Netherlands
Runtime 8:02
Completion Date: March 9, 2018

An introvert Japanese expat is burned on professing his love to his Dutch language instructor before she leaves for her world trip, but the language barrier makes it impossible to express his emotions adequately. Despite of his fear of publicly losing face, he will have it his all in order to express his love for her.

A BITTER PILL

Director ASHUTOSH JHA
India
Runtime 11:25
Completion Date: January 10, 2018

A bitter pill is voluptuous staring of eyes, pretending attempts of negotiating physiques, undignified and annoying gestures and postures, obscene, vulgar and irresponsible remarks, and sometimes trying to share uncalled for company and even molest – all these causing immense emotional harassment and torture which an innocent, noble, modern, well educated, open minded liberal professional working girl who faces and consumes off and on in an awfully overcrowded traffics of contemporary metro cities inflicted up on by some uncultured and uncivilized men of low order mentality. The short film depicts physical, mental and emotional condition of a such girl who has undergone such sufferings. She is deeply disturbed and perturbed and has become mentally so unbalanced that she is unable to keep normal behaviour even with her boyfriend who is always loving and most caring towards her. Unaware of happenings, which she has met with, her boyfriend is upset and disappointed to see her unusually unresponsive and abnormal. But when he comes to know about the context he cajoles and extends loving sympathy and consoles to make her normal. Script and direction of the film by Ashutosh Jha.

Day Off

Director Alexander Griffith
Germany
Runtime 11:00
Completion Date: March 25, 2018
Drama, Crime

Day Off is about the relationship between three people involved to varying degrees in the sex industry. Set in Munich showing a side of the southern German city not often seen on screen, Day Off lays bare the power dynamics and contradictions of sex work.

Become Paper

Director Frederick Bird
United Kingdom
Runtime 7:28
Completion Date: March 1, 2018
First-time Filmmaker
Sci-Fi, Drama, comedy, absurdist, surreal, fantasy

A man suffering a midlife crisis finds a magical printer/scanner.

Malka

Director Stefan Freedman + Lois Cordelia
United Kingdom
Runtime 4:45
Completion Date: July 18, 2017
First-time Filmmaker

original art video + song, dedicated to refugee children

The Victory of Charity

Director Albert Meisl
Austria
Runtime 24:14
Completion Date: January 23, 2017

The Denodnaba Prologue

Director Brett Leigh
U S A      
Runtime 6 min 4 sec
Completion Date: Mar 2018
Drama, Horror, Thriller, Fantasy, Mystery, Music

A monstrous woman allows a chained captive in her basement the freedom to leave for one hour everyday.

Early for Work

Director Keith Glidewell
U S A
Runtime 4 min 1 sec
Completion Date: Apr 2017
Comedy, Drama

Early for Work is the story of two men discussing morals before going into work.

The Easter Tide

Director Danielle Boesenberg
Australia
Runtime 9 min 10 sec
Completion Date: Feb 2003
Drama

Every night William Walker has dinner with his wife, Juney. She never eats, she never speaks. An ocean of guilt stands between them, his loving memory the only thing to stem the tide.

 

THURSDAY

Director John Anthony Flavin
U S A
Runtime 13 min 40 sec
Completion Date: Aug 2017
Drama
1ST TIME FILMMAKER

Set on location in Spain, JUEVES is the story of two Spaniards running away from their past and into a murkier future.

HIJRAT

Director Gurmeet Brar
India
Runtime 44 min 3 sec
Completion Date: Jan 2018
Drama, Thriller
1ST TIME FILMMAKER

An Indian refugee searches for his daughter following partition of India and finds her in a tragic state in the end.

 

Man In Focus

Director Gang "Garfield" Wang
United States
Runtime 19:38
Completion Date: March 10, 2018
Crime, Drama, Reel Events
Student Project

Aaron, a citizen patrol volunteer who reports an explosive backpack to the police, must prove his innocence when the media label him as a suspect.

 

Violin

Director Konstantin Fam
Russian Federation
Runtime 35:00
Completion Date: June 20, 2017

The “Violin” film entirely revolves around a unique musical instrument. It’s a story about the amazing fate of a violin that survives all the horrors of the war. The tale begins in a violin workshop where, at the beginning of the 20th century, a violin is created, designed as a gift for a Jewish boy, and ends after many years with a concert at the Wailing Wall.

Shanghai, I love you

Director Gino Ceriachi
Italy
Runtime 13:58
Completion Date: November 24, 2017

Marco in an Italian young teacher and has just arrived in Shanghai. He would like to learn from his colleagues how Chinese women behave in Shanghai.
All his four colleagues tell him their dating experiences and he found himself using those experience in his first date in Shanghai.

Heather Has Four Moms

Director Jeanette Buck
United States
Runtime 14:09
Completion Date:

When Mom Number Four reads Heather's diary, she discovers 14 year old Heather's plan to lose her virginity. Mom Four must persuade the other moms that it's time to talk to Heather about birth control. While the moms come to terms with the fact that Heather is no longer a little girl, Heather comes to realize she still needs her moms. It's a Mother-Daughter Story times four.

 

La Terraza

Director Paulo Menezes
Italy
Runtime 15:00
Completion Date: January 1, 2018

Loosely based on the Russian play 3 Sisters by Chekhov, set in the south of Italy, mixing professional and non professional actors from the local village. Masha wishes she had moved to Milan. Olga has her reasons for staying.

 

Trial

Director Alan M Brooks
United States
Runtime 14:40
Completion Date: November 30, 2017

Jewish young man is taken to a rabbinical court to defend his faith Jesus

 

Hollow Me

Director Shahrad Fredotti
United States
Runtime 15:00
Completion Date: February 16, 2018
Drama
First-time Filmmaker

Hollow Me is about a young teenager who locks himself in a cabin and is isolated from the world. He has posters and newspaper clipping in his cabin, which contain pop-culture references, articles of millionaires flaunting money, and sports stars. Every night, he takes an article or poster from his wall and takes it to bed with him. While he sleeps, he is transported into the "world" of the article or poster.

The story is essentially a metaphor for being trapped inside of your phone/social media!

 

Fourth Wall Short Movie

Director Nishanth Gopinath
India
Runtime 8:41
Completion Date: February 23, 2018

A wife and a husband struggle to communicate with each other after their falling-out.

DNA OF WILD BEASTS

Director Delphine Montaigne
France
Runtime 17:50
Completion Date: May 31, 2017
First-time Filmmaker

Along her team, the "36', Lea, commander of operation, faces the true face of the news, filled with blood crimes, and is one the top on the French police force.Protected and connected by their invisible bonds weaknesses and solidarity is in their DNA

 

Grandfatherhood

Director Nelly Mursalimova
Russian Federation
Runtime 26:55
Completion Date: September 30, 2017
Drama, Family drama, Dark comedy
First-time Filmmaker

Brother and sister learn their much-hated grandfather is facing death from cancer.

Anniversary

Director Angelica Germanà Bozza
Germany
Runtime 14:17
Completion Date: February 1, 2018
First-time Filmmaker

Ahmet, a young widowed father and his 9-years old daughter, Rozerîn, left Turkey and started a new life in Germany. Ahmet gives his best to provide Rozerîn a serene childhood. Yet, their life is marked by the absence of Rozerîn's mother. On the anniversary of her death, Ahmet and Rozerîn commemorate her by performing her favorite tradition in their own special and caring way.

 

DJS

Director ERIC BUISSON
United Kingdom
Runtime 12:00
Completion Date: March 15, 2017
First-time Filmmaker

Joss works for a music label.
At a worldwide music-award festival, he and his boss have a private meeting with a famous DJ. They are about to sign a huge contract together. This meeting will reveal their true faces.

Latent

Director Philémon Crête
Canada
Runtime   5:00
Completion Date: Mar 2017
Documentary
1ST TIME FILMMAKER

Going north of Québec on the wide littoral !

 

No Gyroscope

Director Fella Cederbaum
U S A  
Runtime   6:16
Completion Date: Jul 2017
Animation, Fantasy, Music

MahnoDahno, a fictional character, reflects on the trials and tribulations of the human experience while traveling through a magical Universe

When Thoughts Stick To Your Mind

Director Fella Cederbaum
U S A  
Runtime   5:32
Completion Date: Jul 2017
Fantasy, Music

A fictional character, MahnoDahno travels through a painted sky and discovers the deeper layers of the dramas of everyday life

To the last drop

Director Barbara Glas
France
Runtime   6:23
Completion Date: Oct 2017
Film Noir

The revenge of a woman who believes she has met the man who had hurt her in the past

The Golden Apple

Director Terence Digan
U S A
Runtime   11:38
Completion Date: Nov 2017
Drama, Romance, Fantasy, History

In Ancient Troy, an ambitious but unimpressive shepherd is chosen by three goddesses to decide which of them is the fairest of them all. His choice will decide the fate of a kingdom.

 

HENNINGSSON!

Director Lina Engborg
Sweden
Runtime   18:55
Completion Date: Oct 2017
Comedy, Drama

A homeless person moving in to a display window, evolves an addiciton to entertain people he doesn’t know on the outside, to get their likes. The window is a symbol of social media and the impact it has on us, and how we let it define our lives..

Red Car

Director Aviv Kegen
Israel
Runtime   40:48
Completion Date: August 8, 2016

Two strangers. One was a hated child, the other loves kids. One kidnapped a child, the other didn’t.

In the arms of the sea (15)

Director Dmitry Moiseev
Russian Federation
Runtime   14:26
Completion Date: October 10, 2017

One day, three friends decided to go to the sea. But one of the friends turned into a fish. So a normal day off became a journey to understanding memory and friendship.

Goodbye, mister D

Director Artem Makarevich
Russian Federation
Runtime   5:53
Completion Date: April 27, 2017
Fantasy, Drama

What will happen if the Devil wins? What if our mankind has already lost without even knowing it? Now the Devil has to go, and it is up to people to decide their fate.

I Promised Her Life

Director Robert Nazar Arjoyan
United States
Runtime   15:15
Completion Date: August 21, 2017
drama, fantasy, magical realism, lgbt

On the day of her daughter's funeral, a grieving Armenian-American mother defies a centuries-old ritual and tests the limits of tradition as she walks the thin line between death and afterlife.

Head Above Water

Director Eric Shahinian
United States
Runtime   10:00
Completion Date: March 13, 2016
Student Project

A devoted husband is forced to confront his doubts about remaining the caretaker of his wife suffering from Alzheimer's disease.

Discovery

Director Jeffrey M. Davis
United States
Runtime   20:00
Completion Date: November 15, 2016

Women in Engineering get ahead in spite of the misogyny of teachers, leaders and politicians