Category: Films in Competition

Pauline needs to come clean to her best friend about her feelings. Things don’t turn out as planned.

Pauline, a nervous, quirky twenty-something-year-old, prepares to meet a friend by practicing how she will confess that she wants something more than a friendship. Her friend arrives – it is Gabby, her cool and sassy best friend. Pauline attempts to get to the point, but Gabby sidetracks the conversation to unexpected places. Surprising confessions, sharp remarks, mixed signals and affectionate gestures turn what seemed like a normal girls’ night into something Pauline and Gabby will never be able to come back from.
Directed by Maria Corso (USA)

Arty and very intimate, philosophical short film taking up childhood memories that may lead to an emotional enhanced repositioning in life for those who dare to think with their heart. Outstanding original music score by Jens Mahla.
Directed by Grohmann, Dieter Michael (Austria)

Fatima is forced to choose between her honor and heaven in the afterlife.
Directed by Mac Ali (USA)

The year: 1869. The Civil War is over. The Union has won. The South was badly beaten due to lack of arms, ammunition, food, and clothing for their soldiers. Many Confederate soldiers had no boots. They walked home barefoot. The stagecoach bound for Santa Fe holds four passengers: a Mexican Woman and her young son, who had been scalped by a Navajo Indian, a Confederate Lt. suffering from PTSD, and a Yankee Colonel arrogantly flaunting his shiny black cavalry boots to his fellow travelers. The wounds of the war are still fresh and raw. They have yet to be forgotten or forgiven.
Directed by Melissa Ash-Brownell (USA)

It’s 2075 and the Anti-Aging Revolution is finally over, thanks to a deadly disease that has wiped out half the world’s population. Instead of survival of the fittest, only the wealthy can afford the expensive drugs and cyber parts necessary to prolong life and remain immune from the disease. When research scientists Eli and X are kidnapped and forced to work at a sinister pharmaceutical company, they find themselves in a race against time to formulate a cure or be killed. Realizing their captors, The White Coats, have no intention of saving the rest of the world, Eli and X must rely on their own intelligence, artificial intelligence, and a little help from their friends to see if their efforts will be enough to save mankind.
Directed by Jax Price (USA) 

In a dark room, we find two men forehead to forehead, sitting on the floor, heads connected by a helmet with an organic look. They are surrounded by silhouettes motionless and tense. In parallel in a sanitized white space, these two men face each other at a distance. They seem to have the power to influence the behavior of the other. Their violent and fierce manipulations quickly blow them to the limit of the knockout. This struggle has the effect of animating the individuals around them in the dark space. Alain Chamfort is the link between these two spaces. He is the witness and the narrator. He walks in the dark towards a ray of light. In the air there are particles that gradually draw a yellow landscape, a chaotic exterior that indicates a post-apocalyptic era. A child appears in the distance through the yellowish fog. He walks in the midst of a group of women and men of all ages walking in the same direction, looking out at the horizon of a new land.

NOTE 
The duo evokes the contradictions of a single individual facing himself, he also represents humanity. The clip shows a dark face that gradually evolves towards sharing, listening, understanding. It is a form of rebirth by setting off dust in an animal movement that is humanized. The spaces of protection, the different closed spaces, the charged and colored air, indicate an unbreathable exterior, but it is not the nothingness … The fact that the frozen bodies come back to life during the evolution of the duel, suggests the influence of our actions on everything around us and that man would have the power to reverse the course of things, the possibility of a second chance. The dust brings back to a primitive side, to the stars, to the universe.

CHOREOGRAPHY 
The choreography and its setting in space leave a static state, the register of the intimate evolving towards bodies in full effusion. There are two distinct choreographies, that of the duo of dancers where the fight evolves towards a form of harmony, and this same duo immobile in another space with dancers (r) all around, linked to each other in a circle who eventually relax and become animated. Impulses, uncontrolled gestures begin to emerge. The dance is inspired by trances, rituals, traditional dances and martial arts.
Directed by Niki Noves (France)

Frank and Lamar follows two best friends who live together and work together as middle school teachers in New York City. When workplace drama, romance, and personal growth turn their world upside down, their friendship is put to the test.
Directed by Fred Soligan (USA)

Just like ancient mural paintings, a painting drawn on six of 30 inches * 40 inches panels has a story to tell. It is a story of a small eel wishing to become something greater than itself. 
Directed by Na Kyung Kim (South Korea)

Within a fragile atmosphere, nature opens an answer. 
Gateways have arisen across the globe, rumoured as crossing points to a place people are calling “Point B”. 
One small group have arrived at a gateway in the North of UK, on the brink of crossing into an uncertain future.
Directed by Rebecca King (UK)

A twenty-something man who doesn’t feel that he fits into this world meets a mysterious young woman at a party, only for her to lead him on an unimaginable journey through strange new realities. Along the way, he learns who he really is and finds his way home.
Directed by Cameron Elmore (USA)