INDIE SHORT FEST

Just one short moment in childhood changed a life forever.
Directed by Dieter-Michael Grohmann (Austria)

Emotional intimacy is not everyone’s cup of tea. Some people can deal with sex – as long as only the body is involved, but when it comes to emotions seemingly suppressed very dark secrets surface. Most of the time music can temper the girl’s childhood trauma – but not always. Will her new lover be saved or run into the inevitable?
Directed by Dieter Michael Grohmann (Belgium)

Morning sport in the park ends very differently than planned.
Directed by Dieter-Michael Grohmann (Belgium)

“Bitter Sweet” is the story of Alex Scott and her lemonade stand movement, fighting childhood cancer one cup at a time.
Directed by Jackie Prata (USA)

During a bizarre series of events a vampire discovers that harmless forest creatures, and even his own body, have turned against him.
Directed by Christopher Angus (Canada)

A quirky journey through recent time to an ethos of futurity, which explores the potential ramifications of technology on human beings while leaving us with choices.
Directed by Christopher Angus (Canada)

Simon Salas, an outcast high school student who believes he’s schizophrenic because he can hear the voice of his own shadow. He’s bullied at school because he’s different. He’s in denial regarding his shadow and takes medicine to get rid of the voices. One day when he’s getting beaten up in the school’s bathroom by his classmates he will finally accept his power and let them save him from the bullies.
Directed by Katherin Hussein (USA)

The dreamscapes of a director and her protagonist juxtapose as the life and fate of both women take their toll, merging on and off screen through waves of cinema.
Directed by Ann Huang (USA)

Two friends meet on a Mediterranean Island. He invites her for a tour on the jet-ski and they take off towards an unexpected ending.
Directed by Claudia Dapiran (Ireland)

Simon is an eight-year-old boy who seems to have everything from life. He’s a handsome child, he’s rich yet unhappy. He senses that there’s something wrong with his life and this leads him to wander off thanks to his fervid imagination. His greatest wish is to leave the materialistic world behind since he isn’t fond of it. That’s why the only present he wants for Christmas is for Santa Claus to take him away to live in his fairyland toy factory. At the same time, a secret that his family has been keeping for a long time suddenly comes to the surface and it is feared that the worst might happen soon. The expectation for the stroke of midnight on the night before Christmas is transformed into reality for everyone on the eve of something truly different. Something terrible that might happen.
Directed by Luca Machnich (Italy)