OSPREY
Director Wayne Slaten
United States
Runtime 01:36:25
Completion Date: November 30, 2016
Thriller, Drama, Action, Romance
First-time Filmmaker
The CIA and a rogue assassin attempt to expose the source behind a corporate global intelligence ring inciting war for profit.
Consolation
Director Paweł Podlejski
Poland
Runtime 01:16:00
Completion Date: October 31, 2016
First-time Filmmaker
Patryk spent over 20 years in Germany and has recently come back to Silesia - his homeland. He used to dream big, but now he teaches German to pay his bills. Paulina is young and all she wants is to go there – to Germany. When she suddenly enters Patryk’s life, he is forced to look back at his past, although he spent years running away from it. It is a meeting of two generations shaped by different views on life and experiences. Emigration is shown as a screen reflecting their hopes and failures.
Stories of Destroyed Cities
Director Sêro Hindê
Syrian Arab Republic
Runtime 01:17:12
Completion Date:
First-time Filmmaker
Kurds call it Rojava, or the West, the place where the sun sets on Kurdish lands: the north of Syria, the stage of the most violent war of our times, painted in blood by the mass-rape and mass-killings of the ISIS terrorist organization. It is here, in Rojava, in three destroyed cities, that three separate stories tell the story of how savage war destroys not only our cities, but our people, too. Sinjar, Kobanî and Jazaa are three towns that display the most destructive impact of modern war. All three are in the process of being rebuilt at the moment. The people who live here have transformed
their tragedies into a determination to leave a better Rojava for future generations.
The filmmakers have sought to explore the parallels between fiction and life by including stories told in the sincere words of those who actually experienced them.
This is also the first feature film shot, in their own language, by the Rojava Film Commune, established after the revolution by a group of artists from Rojava.
SHE, THE SERGEANT MATACHO
Director WILLIAM GONZALEZ
Colombia
Runtime 01:30:00
Completion Date: May 13, 2015
First-time Filmmaker
In 1948, El Libano municipality, Tolima: as a retaliation for the liberal guerrilla attack, the “chulavita” police kills Rosalba Velasco’ husband. She is a 24-year-old peasant and mother of a female child. The young lady, known as “la Mona”, with a desire for revenge, starts up a criminal life which will leave a long succession of dead policemen. Her heinous crimes are rejected by the army which is after her diligently.
The guerrilla and their liberal allies are suffering the repression consequences exacerbated by Rosalba’s overkill and they in turn are looking for her to neutralize her. Two years later, she is taken captive by Feliciano Pachón’s command and then included as part of it. “Sergeant Matacho” as la Mona Velásquez was known from then on, makes part of the command more because of survival reasons than political or ideological ones. She ends up being Feliciano Pachón’s partner and mother of his second child.
ENI
Director Ashvin Meshram
Nigeria
Runtime 02:05:03
Completion Date: August 18, 2017
friction, romance, art
Somewhere in remote village of 21st century Africa, so many things have changed under influence of modernisation and urbanisation. But still so many are as it were before.
Costumes changed, customs not. Language changed, emotions not. Life changed but traditions not. Thinking changed but rituals not.
ENI, an innocent girl was having lot of emotions but unfortunately was missing the language to convey it. Her inability to express herself made her restricted to very few friends.
And when turbulence of love entered in her life, she has no other way other than to trust her sympathisers only. But no one could guess the love. And sympathisers never can understand how cruel the love turns up.
Unpredictability was very nature of love. Love and God, who can guess? Ultimately Eni has only way to surrender.
Why Siegfried Teitelbaum had to die
Director Axel B. Steinmueller
Germany
Runtime 01:39:40
Completion Date: December 31, 2016
First-time Filmmaker
Who was Siegfried Teitelbaum? Why did he have to die? Did he even exist? Was hitman Stefán who barely survived a shot in the head possibly involved in the case. While being interrogated by interrogation-specialist Dante, Stefán informs him of his order to eliminate the alleged super-mobster Siegfried Teitelbaum. But this routine job, it seems, has gone all wrong and even forces Stefán´s unknowing wife Samantha to stumble into her very own adventure. Is Stefán tell the truth or is he simply attempting to deceive Dante? Could all that has happened be part of an elaborate plan? An off-beat cat and mouse chase will reveal all!
Lars and the Baron (The poacher)
Director John Tornblad
Sweden
Runtime 01:35:00
Completion Date: October 29, 2016
The asocial wildman Lasse breaks loose from society and moves into a hand built cave in the forest. Lasse is forced to poach on the Baron´s land, which causes a violent conflict in which Lasse risks everything. The Poacher is based on a true “David and Goliath” story, taking place in 1890´s Sweden, telling the story about the simple man´s fight against powers in society.
100% Puro algodón
Director Albert Ivars
Spain
Runtime 76:00
Completion Date: 02 March 2017
Debut film
Sonia and Artiz receive the unexpected visit of a bathrobes seller. A comedy thriller.
SCREWED
Director Nils-Erik Ekblom
Finland
Runtime 01:36:50
Completion Date: June 19, 2017
First-time Filmmaker
Screwed (orig. Pihalla) is a Finnish drama film, where seventeen year old’s Miku and Elias find themselves and each other during a summer in the Finnish countryside. Love is not as easy as it seems.
argi
Director Iratxe Mediavilla
Spain
Runtime 01:34:00
Completion Date: October 5, 2016
First-time Filmmaker
Argi feels different and she makes a point of showing it despite being so young. A prisoner and an outsider in a society that seems exclude her if she doesn’t adapt to it.
Diva senza Tempo-Diva Forever
Director Jonathan Gottesmann
Israel
Runtime 01:15:00
Completion Date: January 20, 2017
Arie and Johnny leave the Middle East on a journey through the Balkans and Southern Italy to reach Rome and convince Diva Zanicchi, the wonderful singer, to join their rock band
Jeena Isi Ka Naam Hai ( And that's called life )
Director Carlos Keshhav Panneriy
India
Runtime 02:33:31
Completion Date: February 12, 2017
First-time Filmmaker
“Jeena isi Ka Naam Hai” is a motivational, inspirational and a very positive film. The story spans the journey of an Author from her childhood till she aged. Starting from a modest family to a world of successful people, the girl sees many phases and relationships around. Every phase in her life is full of challenges but she draws strength from each phase and keeps on moving forward without begrudges or remorse.
This story is of evolution and realization of our inherent power. Alia the protagonist is not a crying victim or crusader of woman liberation. There is both a hell and heaven in all of us. It’s entirely up to us what we nurture. Alia finds her way through love and not hatred. She fights with compassion not with revenge. To fight evil, she develops her own angel and she makes a leaving impact on her life as well as others. She strongly relate to this expression, as she believes everyone has inherent courage to be happy irrespective of surroundings. That happiness comes from inner strength and hope. Happiness does not come in a platter but we have to create it.
Delirium
Director Carlos Kaimakamian Carrau
Argentina
Runtime 01:25:00
Completion Date: September 1, 2014
First-time Filmmaker
Federico is working a dead-end job and deeply dissatisfied with the status quo; and his friends, Mariano and Martín, are aimless in their pursuit of a promising future. The trio strike up a seemingly foolproof plan to find success, fame, and wealth: they will produce a low budget film in hopes that it will be a runaway success. The only thing they need is a recognizable movie star. Through a series of misunderstandings, they manage to book Argentina’s biggest film star, Ricardo Darin (playing himself), who believes he’s doing a favor for a friend. The production goes unsurprisingly off-course, leading to a situation that catapults the trio into the the public’s eye for all the wrong reasons, in this zany and hilarious comedy.
Next to us
Director Protopriest Alexander Novopashin
Russian Federation
Runtime 01:25:00
Completion Date: May 20, 2016
What is happening with our youth? How can it be that outwardly normal young people suddenly take to dangerous cultural practices, pseudo-religious and ultra-radical ideas that drive them to terrorism, suicide and mass murder? Is the transition really so invisible? Can it be true that a physically and mentally healthy human will, out of the blue and of free will, volunteer to take his or her own life along with the lives of tens and hundreds innocent bystanders? The formation of such a goal requires time, a long time. And what of the ones closest to the individual - friends, family, colleagues, the society at large? Did none see the difference in his or her behavior? There must have been signs of change, alienation, a distance building up. Is our indifference to each other not to blame? The creators of the film offer to think about these questions in an attempt to attract the attention of the masses to the problem. It's a story about a college girl who falls in love with a young man who leads her into a religious cult of kamikaze terrorists.
My Pot of Gold
Director Priyanka Tanwar
India
Runtime 56:21
Completion Date: September 1, 2016
My Pot of Gold revolves around the lives of three wonderfully different people; some family and some more than that.
Alexandra (Nani), Kiarrah (Granddaughter) and Sunita (Maid) share a bond that none can describe.
From the very start of their day; till night falls; they cannot help but call out to each other; if not 10 times; then 10 times 10.
The relationship they share is so strong that in spite of all their violent and outrageous fights; a hearty laugh, a tight hug and a big kiss is undoubtedly exchanged.
My Pot of Gold tells us a warm, loving and heartfelt story; of a day in the lives of Nani, Kiarrah and Sunita; their laughs, their love and the legacy left….
TCHAIKOVSKY IN LOVE
Director Ian Woodward
United Kingdom
Runtime 7:49
Completion Date: November 26, 2017
TCHAIKOVSKY IN LOVE is adapted from the ballet sequence in Ian Woodward’s full-length film “Love Song: The Triumph and Tragedy of Tchaikovsky”, recipient of many awards worldwide, with screenings from Hollywood to Salzburg. Based on ground-breaking research by English filmmaker Ian Woodward, the dance-drama reveals for the first time that Tchaikovsky’s popular “Romeo and Juliet” Love Theme is not about a teenage boy and girl in love…not even about a girl. Filmed in Russia and England, the dance film features the Serbian National Ballet soloist Lloyd Petchey as the composer and, as his pupil, the up-and-coming young dancer Rowan Shone who has starred with the English National Ballet in their London production of Tchaikovsky’s The Nutcracker. Set to the music of the famous Love Theme, the sequence is choreographed especially for the film by Yat-Sen Chang, former leading dancer with the English National Ballet.
Dark Iron
Director Jerzy Bojanowski
Poland
Runtime 2 hr 7 min 40 sec
Completion Date: Oct 2017
Drama, Horror
'Dark Iron' - young history enthusiasts die in mysterious circumstances. Everything points to the curse of an unknown madman. Hero, Janek, history student, will be next, has three days to stop the clock of death.
The Last Library
Director Jesse Koester
U S A
Runtime 1 hr 25 min
Completion Date: May 2017
Adventure
1ST TIME FILMMAKER
A pair of women, one pregnant, face the myriad dangers of a post-nuclear winter world. They are searching for a rumored stronghold of civilization, known only as The Library, and must find it if the infant is to have any chance of survival.
Know the Incarnate God | The Mystery of Godliness: The Sequel
Director The Church of Almighty God (CAG)
Republic of Korea
Runtime 03:00:04
Completion Date: July 21, 2017
Lin Bo'en is an old preacher who has believed in the Lord for many decades. Since accepting Almighty God, Christ of the last days, he was convicted, excluded, and expelled from the religious community by the pastors and elders, the antichrist forces. But even though Lin Bo'en was attacked, convicted, and framed, he did not shrink back in fear. Rather, his faith became more resolute than ever, and this led him to finally understand that the pastors and elders of the religious world were faking a virtuous appearance. At the same time, he came to know that only Christ is the truth, the way, and the life, and only Christ can save and purify and perfect man. Because of this, he was resolved to follow Christ, bear witness for Christ, and do his utmost to pursue the truth, to seek to transform his disposition so that he could become a true witness for God. Once the Chinese Communist Party discovered that Lin Bo'en was released from prison and had not changed, that he had not renounced his faith in the slightest bit and even believed in the Eastern Lightning, that he went everywhere to testify that the Lord Jesus has come again and that He is Almighty God, the CCP listed him as wanted and went everywhere to arrest him. Lin Bo'en was forced to leave his family, and in each place he testified to Almighty God's work in the last days, he was able to lead a lot of sincere, good-natured believers to God's side. This video gives an account of Lin Bo'en's true story of spreading the gospel and testifying for God.
Stand up and walk
Director sander burger
Netherlands
Runtime 54:00
Completion Date: May 2017
A young woman with a spinal cord injury is presented with the opportunity to
represent the Netherlands at the first Bionic Olympics in Zurich. Working together with an ambitious team of TU Delft students that has developed a customised exoskeleton, she seizes the challenge with high hopes of returning to an ambulant life.
Unfortunately reality proves more stubborn than others would have her believe.
There is a world outside
Director Giovanni Galletta
Italy
Runtime 39 min 45 sec
Completion Date: Dec 2016
The world is waiting for him.
In the moment Gabriele wins his depression, and renews his presence in the world, the unexpected events he will come through, bring him to a new life.
Dad's Last Flight
Director Sheldon Schiffer
U S A
Runtime 39 min 45 sec
Completion Date: Jul 2017
STUDENT PROJECT
A son's mind, a father's heart. Can a family ever heal?
Eli, in the midst of a family crisis with his wife and young son, begins to lose his grip on sanity just in time to greet the mysterious visit of Sam, his vagabond father. Sam's delusions challenge Eli to reclaim the love of his family if he can connect with his father through their shared memories and childhood imaginations
Faith-Hope-Love | Xiaozhen's Story
Director The Church of Almighty God
Republic of Korea
Runtime 01:52:17
Completion Date: January 4, 2016
Xiao Zhen used to be a pure, kind-hearted Christian, who always treated her friends sincerely. However, when it was to their benefit, her former friends became her enemies. After suffering this tragedy, Xiao Zhen was forced to abandon her true heart and her formal principles. She began to betray her own good conscience and good spirit, and wallowed in the mire of the evil world … As she fell from grace and walked a path of depravity, she was trampled by the world and became riddled with scars and bruises. She had reached a dead end, and at her point of despair when she had given up all hope, Almighty God's sincere call finally awakened Xiao Zhen's heart and soul …
Necropolis Berlin 1945
What'Director JUNKER SUSANNE
Germany
Runtime 16 min
Completion Date: March 2017
The period from 16 April until 2 May 2017 will mark the 72nd anniversary of the Battle of Berlin. After the end of the Second World War, instigated by Nazi Germany and causing the deaths of 85 million people, Berlin lay in ruins. Today, Aleppo is just such a ghost city. War lies not just in the past, but is very much a part of our present. In Berlin there are about 220 burial sites, individual and mass graves, in which the victims of war and tyranny lie – many of them children, civilians, forced labourers, concentration camp victims, resistance fighters, victims of so-called “euthanasia programmes”, soldiers from far-flung nations and the unknown dead. Neukölln in its cultural, religious and social diversity embraces all the attributes of the Berlin metropolis. In 16 Neukölln cemeteries, for example, in Columbiadamm, Herrmannstr., Buschkrugallee and Lilienthalstrasse, there are around 16,000 individual war graves and mass graves covering an area of 1,600 m2 – an urban stratum right at the heart of everyday life. This stratum resembles an antique necropolis – though above ground. These burial places are accessible to the public, but only a very few are aware of them. Most victims remain there, almost invisible, regardless of origin, age, role or fate. “26 years of age. The person who lies here was only as old as I am now. Many who are buried here did not even reach that age” 60 Master’s students from the architecture faculty of the Beuth University at Berlin have spent two years photographing cemeteries in Neukölln. Using a legendary Leica M Monochrome 246, provided by the firm Leica itself, exclusively monochromatic – classic black and white - photographs were produced. They display light and shadow, stillness and emptiness, time and times past. This “painting with light”, carried out in the studio using digital collages and personal portraits on the subject of death and war, is presented as a memento mori – from Homer and the Trojan War, through Leo Tolstoy’s “War and Peace” and the Napoleonic Wars, to the Turkish national anthem, to today’s wars and conflicts, which most of us experience only indirectly through the media and the internet. The tragic parallels between the “Napalm Girl” from Vietnam and the little boy rescued from the ruins of Aleppo who sat bewildered in an ambulance, are visually brought to mind. „We show, we mirror, we remember“ Two of these photographs received „honourable mentions“ in the category „Professional Portraits“ in the prestigious “Monochrome Awards - International Black & White Photography Contest” held in the USA. The "Triptych" was originally presented at the war cemetery Columbiadamm Chapel and screened to a projection surface of 12 x 3 meters.s this item about? What makes it interesting? Write a catchy description to grab your audience's attention...
The Squealer
Director William Sparks
U S A
Runtime 1 hr 34 min
Completion Date: Jul 2017
1ST TIME FILMMAKER
An activist organizer has been exposed as a provocateur working for the government. His deceit has sent two of his fellow activists to prison. After spending a year under the witness protection program he wants to redeem his actions in the eyes of the movement. But he finds himself at odds with his sadistic handler -- and with disorienting flashes of events that led to his turning. The Squealer is an unconventional psychedelic thriller that confronts the breaking of a dissident mind.
BUCKOUT ROAD
Director MATTHEW CURRIE HOLMES
Canada
Runtime 1 hr 37 min
Completion Date: Jun 2017
1ST TIME FILMMAKER
Buckout Road is 'The Omen' meets 'Urban Legend'
A college class project on creation and destruction of modern myth, turns terrifying when a trio of young people come to realize the many evil urban legends surrounding New York State’s famed Buckout Road may, in fact be real.