Festival Selection 20-21

In the late 60s a group of artists decides to settle in a village in the ‘darkest-deepest’ Spain. Today only Felix Cuadrado Lomas still remains there, determined to reflect the landscape which surrounds him: the lands built by those who work on them.

Director- Arturo Dueñas Herrero

A middle-aged wife strays away from her faith due to her frustration of not
being able to have a baby, thus leading her to other temptations, causing her husband to be distrusting of her.

Director - Tola Olatunji

Central Kentucky implodes as 1860s pro slavery politics infiltrate organized religion through Witchcraft and Hypnotism. An assassination attempt on Abraham Lincoln using a shooter with Downs Syndrome is carried out in hopes of starting the war.

Director- Danny Lee Ramsey

This film is about the power of HOPE in the darkness of young lives undergoing life-threatening mental health problems. Arvind, grappling with a broken marriage, joblessness and suicidal tendencies, encounters Megha, a cannabis addict, who too, is emotionally scarred due to childhood sexual abuse by a family member. Director - Prashant nagendra

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A vivacious aspiring social worker brings together five peculiar strangers for an afternoon to help solve their existential problems while she copes with her own.

846 is the story of two men who cross paths on a day they at will change their lives forever. Dr. Marcus Mann, an established lung surgeon, but an ordinary guy , has the best and worst day of his life. 

Directors - Charles Andrews, Andrew Essig , Amy Sterling Avila

 A guy has suffered several nights without sleeping and he is starting hearing voices and frightening noises inside his mind until he realizes that the reason of those noises lays below his bed.

Director - Moises Suarez

Debbie recounts her mother’s troubles with dementia and how their relationship has changed now that Debbie is her mother’s caretaker.

Director - Adam Clark

Two friends, one producing glue and the other importing glue, meet and something happens during their conversation.

Director - Vahid Davoudpour

After returning from the Auschwitz concentration camp, Abel meets a harsher reality than the one he has been through; Elena didn't survive. In an attempt to keep her alive in his memory, he begins writing her letters.

Director - Clara Dalmao

Shy college student Chloe must fight her childhood animal trauma as she’s coerced by her longtime friend, Cassie, to watch a lost dog.

Director Biography - Sage Reiger

Mr Jamal is a psychologist. One day A patient Jomir Mia comes to him with a mysterious case. He says that he can transform a real event into a mere dream. 

Director - Saiyeed Shahjada Al Kareem

In times of war. When fear sneaks into a little girl's dreams turning them into nightmares. A tender relationship between a grandmother and her granddaughter helps her feel safe. 

Directors- Adam Breier, Ina Nersesian

After years of losing the annual Prank Wars competition, Dani needs to claim a spot in the top 3 contenders, or she will face permanent disqualification.

Director - Sulli Giles

A young lady buys a coffee at a coffee shop. As she is leaving, a mysterious man starts following her. It is up to the Barista to save her, or is there perhaps more to the story.

Directed by- Jiri Balcar

An Iranian lady tries to find a place to park her car in Tehran to be on time for a business appointment. Men in the streets disturb her concentration while she is driving, but she finds a solution...

Director- Ghasideh GOLMAKANI

Have you ever committed suicide? No? I have.

Director - Henrique Lopes

Daria fantasies obsessively her old lover, he becomes her demon who tries to make her admit her deepest wish, to run away from her husband.

Director - Diana Chemeris

When Aisha and Ambadi fought about their beliefs, they never thought their faiths would take physical forms and carry them to an unexpected place.

Director - Balaram J

On the evening of Independence Day lonely Solomon stands, lost in thought, on Hahagana Bridge next to the Tel Aviv central station. As the fireworks die down a vision in the sky with him as a baby and his mother appears and for a short moment, he is transported back to his childhood.

Director - Gal Kinan

ETEPNA TEPPA presents ROSA. Get ready for a hero's journey in the 80's! (A music video with a short film story).

Director - Efstathios Avramidis

Negative images invert memories. A female foto grapher makes a disturbing discovery and counts the cost of her own fears.

Director - Antonella Barbera

A revolutionary businessman tries to conquer the world with $2,000.

Directors: Jonathan Taub, Leandro Taub

The darkness and silence of an abuse relive in the rooms of a woman's mind.

Directed By:PATRIZIA FAZZI

He is a football fan to the bone trying to have time to buy a snack between the halftime of the main match of the season. But right in front of the cashbox he is outstripped by a clumsy slow madam with a full basket of products. 

Director - Nikolay Rasmagin

A Karen is faced with the greatest ultimatum, wear a mask or die!

Director - Riley Thorpe

Eren is an unemployed graduate from the Department of Radio, TV and Cinema. Although he wants to make a film, he has to earn money to make his life go on.

Director - Erdem Türkavcı

After her dad suffers from a stroke, a 16-year-old woman and her dad are forced to deal with the repercussions of switching roles of parent and child while simultaneously fighting generational and immigrant tensions.
Directed by: NICOLE YIM, TY MONTGOMERY

Near morning a writer (Moein) is writing a story about a spring which turns into winter. He suddenly stops and with his moisty eyes looks at his certificates on the wall. 

Director - Saeed Bahman

When a girl playfully responds to a mysterious post-it note, she finds herself unable to escape the conversation she began...

Director Biography - Esabella Anna Karena Strickland, Taylor Mitchell, Skylar A

A quiet drama about a young couple who break up. The film focuses on the silence, the beauty, and the melancholy.

Director - David Cano Rosenvold Petersen

Karupp - a drunk story is a short film which depicts the insanity that can come to a alcoholic. This also emphasis on the point that alcohol can either kill you or your loved ones.

Director- Vishnu shiva

The story of a bedside table made by a craftsman. Going through his life, from creation to when he was bought by the first owner and lived different moments beside his bed. Intimate, present and always serving its owner, going through several moments. It is a piece of furniture that often looks static but always active in its space, always present.

After attempting to sell cookies on their turf, two teenagers find themselves in a battle against the League of Girl Scouts, a group of evil capitalistic pre-teens who are highly skilled in combat.

Director-Alex Dashwood

Last letter from a serial killer in Distopic Istanbul

Director - Berk Ali Çekmez

The man sits next to a godmother who he owes, for negotiation. The Godmother gives him one last chance to save his own life.

Director - Berk Ali Çekmez

Director - Hamidreza Zakiani

The man wakes up and finds himself on the bed in the sea ...

Director - Siavash Eydani

Feature length documentary telling the stories of healthy children who grow up with chronically ill parents.

Director - Madison VanDerLinde

Yoav is a fat and unconfident man. He decides to make a change in his life and sets a new goal- running along the Tel Aviv beach sidewalk all long. Unfortunately, midway through Yoav realizes the goal he has set is too difficult to accomplish. Miserable and unhappy with himself, his plans to walk home suddenly take an unexpected turn when he meets a girl whom he has to rescue from the violate boyfriend that seeks for her around the neighborhood streets.

Director - Alon Levy, Maayan Amzallag

When a curious robot finds a seemingly worthless book, he discovers that the knowledge within is truly priceless.

Director- Christian Antonini, Tanice Arnold