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A Stranger at the Funeral
Peru | 15min Short | Drama
Director: Ana maria Estrada
The death of Roberto, took by surprise, to this emerging family. In the wake, an unknown man that no one knew, arrived and was very moved by Roberto's death. Who is this stranger who came to the funeral? What mystery does involves this man? What relationship did this man have with the deceased? |
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A Tropical Boy
Korea| 30min Short | Drama
Director: Lee Jihyeong
Hano is a 14-year-old boy who is a so-called kid from a 'multicultural family.' He becomes a target for bullying in class, but he has more profound questions on who he is and what he wants to become. Han-Oh faces the questions once again at the end of his unexpected journey and finally reaches an answer.
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Dare Or Not ?
France | 19min Short | Drama
Director: Pierre-antoine Carpentier
During the summer, the children of Toulouse in France discover their river almost dry. Eager to grow up in a world where fish will not be roasted by the sun, the children imagine their ideal city, a city that no longer uses fossil fuels. But what would a week without oil look like?
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Happy
Russia | 39min Short | Drama
Director: Ivan Rodin
Bangis Schastlivyi (Happy in Russian) is a son of an influential Guinean, and a simple Russian woman. He is one of the few black people born in the USSR. His whole life is a series of fascinating events: a meeting with his father, whom he has never seen before, gold mining in Africa, loses and gains. Despite all the difficulties, Bangis surname corresponds to reality. No matter what happens, he is still happy
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ICON - Memoirs of a Master Craftsman
India | 42min Short | Documentary
Director: Kala Shreen
ICON is the story of an indigenous artisan, from an underprivileged stratum of the Hindu society, who became a nationally acclaimed master craftsman through his handmade religious artefacts. Guided by his spiritual immersion, inner vision and revelations, images from his creative consciousness are translated into materiality through hand craftmanship. Hailing from the Kulalar ethnic community in India, his creative pursuits perpetuate the traditional knowledge and praxis rooted in ancient autochthonous culture. |
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Miracle
China | 8min Short | Animation
Director: Shaofu Zhang
In modern day Xian, two siblings will have the most memorable adventure of their lives. Silkma, a curious and naughty boy and his adorable younger sister Lingling are visiting their Grandma’s house. However, she’s no ordinary Grandmother. In fact, she is the world’s greatest inventor, and Grandma is close to finishing her top secret spaceship that can travel through time and space. |
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My Home
United Kingdom | 13min Short | Drama
Director: Bilal Mudassar Khan
Aryam receives a call from her employer, asking her to care for someone on her day off. Aryam reluctantly agrees, as it was her late father's birthday and she had plans. Aryam arrives at the Boyle's home and is faced by comments judging her ethnicity and religious attire, as she is a Muslim who always wears a headscarf. As Boyle's comments turn more discriminatory and reveal his disgust about his foreign neighbours, Aryam's patience reaches breaking point and she considers calling her employer to leave caring duties; however Aryam decides to stay put. |
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On the beach
Iran | 15min Short | Drama
Director: A.Hassan Keivan
A young man whose girlfriend has emigrated from Iran has been waiting for her on the beach for days. His brother visits him every day and bring him food and water and sometimes blames him. But one day… |
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Parental Alienation: The Aftermath
United States | 24min Short | Documentary
Director: Petra Deeter
A documentary examines the long-term impacts of parental alienation on the children victims. For the first time on the big screen, adult survivors speak out about the abuse behind closed doors when children are used as weapons in parents' breakups |
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Professional Experience
Brazil | 7min Short | Drama
Director: Marco Felipe Rossi
We follow a young man who is coming to work at a peanut snacks company, on his first permanent job. There, he comes across top executives who are trying to take advantage of his naivete to win a dispute for control that has been nurtured for years.
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Respect and Honor
United States | 9min Short | Drama
Director: Rob Schmidt
The Cleveland Clowns must choose a new sports mascot.
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SHASHTHI
India | 29min Short | Drama
Director: Jude Peter Damian
The Short film in Tamil is a fiction about the struggles (and events thereafter) of an economically weaker woman to save her son from a medical emergency, who was actually adopted by her about ten years ago on finding him as an abandoned baby from near a dust bin |
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Tashi‘s Sheep
China| 27min Short | Drama
Director: Yin Yu
A special bellwether is killed by a shotgun, so around the searching for sheep and gun, there's a story about hegemony in a remote mountain village. The hero returns home to visit his family, but is wrongly accused of being the killer of the bellwether. So,illegal gun-holding, illegal poaching and other charges are all on his head. All became actors, trying to act exaggeratively in order to set him up. While fighting with those people, the hero also gradually excavated about the brutal growth of power and interests in this barren and desolate land. |
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The Border
Spain | 30min Short | Animation
Director: Jose Pedraza Martinez
Two neighboring peoples live in the same territory, separated by the border line. Although they are identical and only differ in the color they use in their clothing and symbols, they observe with suspicion to each other and any border incident can lead to large-scale conflict |
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The Man Of The Trees
Italy | 19min Short | Drama
Director: Andrea Trivero
Daniel Balima is a senior horticulturist from Tenkodogo, a small Sub-Saharan African town in Burkina Faso, where he lives with his large family and has worked since he was born 67 years ago. Daniel as a child falls ill with polio and, although growing without the use of his legs, he is able to follow his father in the family nursery, walking on his hands. |
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Unresolved - WIP for both Sound and Coloring
United States | 16min Short | Drama
Director: R. W. Jones
The day after a couple gets into a relationship breaking argument they battle with high tensions and emotions. Like many of us, as they go about their day separate from each other they contemplate both their relationship and who they are as people. |
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