Youth made films at 2022 UMFF

2022 UMFF Youth & Student Films
     2030
United States | 2 min Student-made | Animation
Director: Angela N Hernandez-Carlson
"A worsening problem continues to threaten the stability of our future."
   

 Challenge
United States | 42 min Youth-made | Documentary
Director: Katie Liu
This documentary is produced by the students from Rainbow Bridge Performance Art School. Director: Katie Liu (11 years old), supervisor: Windy He. This film records some fragments of the daily life of students of all ages at Rainbow Bridge Performance Art School during the COVID-19 epidemic, as well as the students' interviews with people from all walks of life.

           
   Impermanence
United States | 12min Student-made | Documentary
Director: Vejune Sidaugaite
Having grown up in Soviet-occupied Lithuania—a socialist, conservative society—Audrone spent her childhood understanding that tattoos were reserved for Soviet soldiers and criminals. But after her youngest daughter, the filmmaker, gets a tattoo in Audrone’s honor, Audrone takes the leap of getting her own first tattoo at the age of 53.
   

 

 Recipient
United States |15min Student-made| Drama
Director: Di Lu
Wu Yan comes to America expecting to reunite with his wife, only to find that her death has been covered up by another woman.

           
   Something Has Died In The Forest
Australia | 25min Student - made| Drama
Director: Eva Justine Torkkola
A Ukrainian woman, recently migrated to Australia post WW2, struggles to come to terms with her pregnancy as she relives the trauma of losing her first child.
   The Pain Killer
Korea | 9min Student-made| Drama
Director: Minjae Kim
A journey of a depressed protagonist seeking to kill her inner pain. In the samsara of her emotions, just like the cycle of water(the tide), the protagonist's journey of life- enduring endless suicides of her inner self is praiseworthy.