Author: Indie Short Fest

Alex Carson discovers he has slipped into a parallel world with another Alex Carson. Trouble is, he likes that Alex’s

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Sequel to the award-winning neo-noir film “Rise of The Avalanche” (2017), “Rise of the Avalanche: Revenge from the Shadows” is about a gangster by the name of Alvin “Avalanche” Steele who is freed from prison and executes his plans to take back his city. Meanwhile, the Supercop that put him behind bars (Antoine “Megki” DeLord) is hell-bent on sending him back to prison where he belongs. While Avalanche is distracted trying to take back his city and doing everything he can to keep the cops off his trail an old rival who he left for dead is out to exact revenge from the shadows.
Directed by Antoine M. Dillard (USA)

This film was produced by young Japanese and Myanmar creators in Yangon. They challenged the very new concept in Myanmar, comedy drama based on cooking battle. It is also a revenge story. Its important theme is Myanmar traditional catfish noodle “mohingar.” Young chef fights using his handmaid mohingar to revenge himself for his father’s death on big evil society which is ruling mohingar market in Myanmar by its automated technology.
Directed by Yuki Kitazumi and Aung Thu Rein (Myanmar)

Wimana Beatrice, an aspiring journalist and Congolese refugee, recounts her educational journey in Kyangwali Refugee Settlement. Beatrice invites us into her world to understand the challenges facing young women East African refugees. Through her own eyes and voice, Beatrice personalizes the trauma of leaving the DR Congo as a young child, the struggle to access school as an older girl student, and the realities of growing up in a refugee camp.

“Life in my Shoe” is a collaborative film made through a Uganda-based journalism training program for young refugees and a US-based documentary production group.
Directed by Wimana Beatrice (Uganda)

Actors are 13 children ages 11-17. The movie depicts belly-aching as the most popular sport in Croatia. Nobody in the world has ever beaten the Croatian national team at complaining. Croatia’s team shows urban and rural belly-aching and gives advice on how to belly-ache with passion.
Directed by Emir Mulalic (Croatia)

The devastating impact of today’s opioid crisis on the younger generation is poignantly captured in this 9-minute short. We walk alongside Maggie who, at the age of 20, finds herself alone and without hope after falling into heroin dependency from a sports injury that derails her safe, suburban life. Few words are needed to convey the desperate place she inhabits; every emotion she feels is vividly captured by the camera, an intimate companion. And just when it seems all is lost she encounters someone from her past who brings everything back into a focus that puts Maggie on a course of revival and renewed determination.
Directed by John Wager (USA)

Follow the paper trail.
Directed by Emily Brown (UK)

In a country like India, where the game of cricket is more than a sport, where it is the heartbeat of a nation, comes a story which every Indian will relate to and which is the essence of the film “The Lost Game”.
Directed by Duane Dsouza (India)

“9” is a multiple narrative short film that attempts to create a space for viewers to revolve around the subjective perception of time and parting. Four independent storylines intersect in a way that knits 12 characters’ vignettes together. The film unfolds in a network structure; plots and characters integrate to form a cinematic landscape to present the ambiguity of life, the value of the single moment, and the melancholy truth that every meeting leads to a parting.
Directed by Danyu Wang (USA)

Five women meet a mysterious woman that transports them into a new world forcing them to find their truths and sisterhood.
Directed by Viktoria-Isabella King (USA)