INDIE SHORT FEST

Directed by Kazuhiko Yamauchi, Sprout Japan (Japan)

What on a first instance appears to be a conflict between good and evil, is just a struggle within every single one of us. The options are clear: to cope with evil and to continue fighting for our dreams, scarred. The other option is to surrender submissive to the designs of others.
Anacronte and the Sorcerers of Evil, without any emotion and fulfilling their destiny, they put to test humanity’s happiness in a struggle that, in short, as each of us as winners and losers.
Directed by Raúl Koler and Emiliano Sette (Argentina and Mexico)

A modern-day Greek tragedy surrounding the topic of opioid addiction. One young man (reeling from a recent stint at rehab) returns home as he copes with the loss of a best friend who has recently overdosed. He heads to a house-party to reconnect with friends but instead faces his worst demons. An oracle awaits him hoping to help sort out his addiction if he can escape from the grips of the popular new party-drug, “vapor.”
Directed by Zachary Leipert (USA)

Dumped by his true love in the post #metoo era, newly single thirty-something Ben Siegel looks to make sense of a world where technology and misplaced values have rendered the nature of dating and friendship absurd.
Directed by Ben Majest (USA)

A man who is paranoid and deluded by his own conspiracies that someone out there is after him must come to terms with the root of his suffering.
Directed by Fritz Frauendorf (USA)

Three estranged friends wake up in an odd location with no memory from the previous night and no idea how they got there. As they explore their surroundings looking for a way out, they are haunted by a mistake from their past.
Directed by Brett Salamin, Dominic Sarafa, Julia Stankiewicz, Fatimah Zeni, and Erin Brennan (USA)

An arthouse non-dialogue piece on the contrast between dying love and new love. A 17-year-old girl has to make a decision whether to leave her family forever and follow her newly found love or to stay and live through the pain of her parents dying relationship.
Directed by Matt Kaal (Australia)

“In Ancient Egypt, Sheut was the shadow. One could not be without a shadow, and a shadow could not be without a body.”
Luis is a sailor currently living and working on a cargo ship. A disturbing dream will lead him to start a journey into his past, in which he must relive his fears and memories in order to find himself again, facing his darkest part –– his shadow.
Directed by Teo Belton (Peru)

Olivia is an idealistic school teacher in a relationship with a lawyer who suspects she’s being unfaithful. The truth is, a night a week, Olivia transforms into her alter ego, Prince Of Persia, the local leading player the game, Invaders, a clandestine game played physically using the android from iconic Space Invaders, stuck in signposts in the streets, read as a QR code using a phone app to open missions, recharge lives and rise levels combating with martial arts techniques.
Olivia needs to accomplish a mission to rise up to level eight and gain access to play in Paris in the Continental league, however, she’s ambushed by two players, Atari and Pac-Man, who break the game’s rules to steal her mission and lives. In a jiu-jitsu pose, Atari and Prince Of Persia recognize themselves, what can jeopardize their real lives.
Upon game over for Prince Of Persia, she remembers why she started playing the game, to get over a heartbreak, what motivates her to fight her way back in the game so she visits Wallace, the Game-master, to finish her mission.
Directed by Marta Jiménez (Spain)

The world like I knew it was gone. Everything was dry, lean, harsh and collapsing. My brain was translating images of destruction and death. Only seeing traces of old habits remaining in ruins. Sometimes I could hear distant noises of social movements, like the radiations of a parallel universe evolving around me. But I it felt like too far away to be reached. What happened to these potentials? My mind was covered in sand and dust, slowly disappearing forever…
Directed by Etienne Perrone (France)