PROGRAM

2022


5 Impressions of Marilyn Monroe in the Bathroom

Synopsis:

“We are all of us stars, and we deserve to twinkle"-- Marilyn Monroe

Directors:

Suzan Averitt

Key Cast:

-

Writers:

Suzan Averitt

Producers:

strangevista

Other Credits:

Creator, Director, Co-Editor: Suzan Averitt; Creator, Camera, Editor, Soundtrack, Sound Design: Jeff G Peters

Project Type:

Experimental, Short, Other

Genres:

Experimental, Short, Collage, mobilephine

Country of Origin:

United States

Duration:

00:05:50

Language:

English

Completion Date:

2022-03-11


AGIRLICA

Synopsis:

Boys come and go—from the boudoir to the confessional to the lab, the cabinet where K lives is a whirlwind of drugs, horny nightmares, and lustful stories. Until one fateful encounter.

A film about danger and desire in the modern world, and how interchangeable those desires all are.

Playfully adapted from Robert Wiene's 1920 The Cabinet of Dr. Caligari.

Directors:

Fette Sans

Key Cast:

Felix Deiters

Writers:

Fette Sans

Producers:

Fette Sans, Frank Hauschildt

Other Credits:

Composer: Andreas Reihse; Editor: Fette Sans

Project Type:

Experimental, Short

Genres:

Experimental, Queer, Snuff, Provocative

Country of Origin:

Germany

Duration:

00:46:18

Language:

English

Completion Date:

2021-10-21


Aiken Trilogy

Synopsis:

Trilogy of musical short films. The protagonist is Aiken, a cold and ruthless killer from a secret agency. After his daughter’s death, destroyed by grief, when he has to kill the target, who in turn has a daughter, hesitates and gives up killing. Now deprived of a reason to live, he is no longer focused and during a second mission is captured, tortured, and buried alive by another killer.

Directors:

Luca Coassin

Key Cast:

Vladimir Zaleski, Giulia Alberti, Matilda Cominoli, Angelica Destefani, Nicola Cominoli

Writers:

Marco Corbetta

Producers:

Marco Corbetta

Other Credits:

Executive Production: Febo Film Srl; Music: Cosmophonix Production; First Assistant Director: Andrea Cominoli; Direction of Photography: Stefano Bianchi; Editor: Stefano Bianchi; First Camera Assistant: Filippo Brizzolari; Second Camera Assistant: Francesca Avanzini; Gaffer: Andrea Scutra; Make up Artist: Giulia Truzzi; Stylist: Lea Bevilacqua; Color Correction: Andrea Cominoli

Project Type:

Experimental, Music Video

Genres:

-

Country of Origin:

Italy

Duration:

00:11:25

Language:

English, Italian

Completion Date:

2021-08-30


Alexa - Mondo 208

Synopsis:

Mr. Tagliaferri is a bored and frustrated working man, alone in a shabby hotel. In order to have some fun in the weekend, he tries to call an escort. But the world in which he's living is a disturbing dystopia halfway between Kafka, Orwell, Snowden and our everyday life made of surveillance and perpetual emergency.

Directors:

Martino Sartori, Alessandro Ferrini

Key Cast:

Alessandro Ferrini, Roberta Gambaro, Emanuele Zelaja, Massimiliano Sartori

Writers:

Gianmaria Sisca, Alessandro Ferrini, Martino Sartori

Producers:

Martino Sartori, Alessandro Ferrini, Roberta Gambaro, Emanuele Zelaja, Scimmia Divina - Collettivo Cinema Emergenziale

Other Credits:

-

Project Type:

Feature, Short

Genres:

Dystopic

Country of Origin:

Italy

Duration:

00:13:57

Language:

Italian

Completion Date:

2021-07-30


Boneless

Synopsis:

During a business trip to Venice, a couple offers a ride to a mysterious hitchhiker.

A wrong path at the very wrong time will lead our people in the midst of an intergalactic war between humans and aliens.

Directors:

Dario Bagatin

Key Cast:

Francesco Roder, David White, Erica Alberti, Alessandro Ravagnati, Cristina Baldino, Vittoria Malignani, Paolo Fagiolo, Mattia Cassaro

Writers:

Dario Bagatin

Producers:

Dario Bagatin, Amerigo Porcu Neri

Other Credits:

-

Project Type:

Feature

Genres:

-

Country of Origin:

Italy

Duration:

01:25:00

Language:

English, Italian

Completion Date:

2022-09-19


Crazy Crabs from Outer Space

Synopsis:

Pirjo, still stuck in her past, gets kidnapped by her pet crab Sebastian who turns out to be an alien. Sebastian wants to save her since the world is about to end at 10 o’clock today. However, Pirjo refuses to leave the planet without a memento of her beloved Ester and Sebastian won’t leave without Pirjo. The clock is ticking.

Directors:

Magdaleena Jakkila

Key Cast:

Lena Labart, Tuomas Rinta-Panttila, Saana School Koivisto

Writers:

Sebastian Granskog

Producers:

Johan-Sebastian Rintala

Other Credits:

-

Project Type:

Short, Student

Genres:

-

Country of Origin:

Finland

Duration:

00:22:45

Language:

Finnish

Completion Date:

2022-05-03


Doll

Synopsis:

There's a group of women who are making a puppet show for their children. They have a director, Orsolya, who tries to teach them how to work together and with the puppet. However working with these women is a little bit difficult, but the question is: why?

Directors:

András Schmidt

Key Cast:

Zsuzsanna Rácz, Pallai Mara, Horváth Fruzsina

Writers:

András Schmidt

Producers:

András Schmidt, Anna Sípos, Peter Fazakas

Other Credits:

editor: László Gyula Hegedűs; cinematographer: Domonkos Józsa

Project Type:

Short

Genres:

drama, socio, prison, women

Country of Origin:

Hungary

Duration:

00:18:38

Language:

Hungarian

Completion Date:

2019-03-18


Fish Eye

Synopsis:

Fish Eye explores the struggle of expression through the eyes of a homeless man's soul wandering through a diverse city. It is a 15-minute stylized film starting from the perspective of a homeless artist. After his sudden death on the streets, his soul wanders around the city viewing strange instances in different peoples lives as they pass by each other. It is an honest look into the conversations and deep emotions of 22 city dwellers. Their perspectives range broadly from backgrounds of the rich, the poor, young, old, businessmen and criminals. They each individually explain their own personal philosophies on why things are the way they are, and why they do what they do. This all forms a subtle but inescapable theme: Confidence is silent, and insecurities are loud. Fisheye was shot all in one take around 8 city blocks. We utilized 22 improvisational actors from the Chicago-land area with professional backgrounds.

Directors:

Colin Parker

Key Cast:

Charles Allen-Anderson

Writers:

Colin Parker

Producers:

Kenny Molloy

Other Credits:

-

Project Type:

Animation, Experimental, Short, Student

Genres:

-

Country of Origin:

United States

Duration:

00:15:00

Language:

English

Completion Date:

2019-09-10


IDENTITY ES

Synopsis:

The unbelievable real life story of one of the most highly-respected immunologists and geneticists, Czech-Canadian Professor Emil Skamene. He devoted his life to uncovering the secrets of genes, while not knowing is own identity for many decades! He discovered that he was actually someone else by coincidence.


Professor Emil Skamene, M.D., Ph.D., F.R.C.P. (C), M.A.C.P., F.R.S.C., O.Q. physician, pedagogue, scientist. During his prolific professional life he wrote 250 professional publications, received tens of distinguished awards and even had the Nobel Prize within reach. He is the founder of the Institute for Clinical Research at McGill University in Montreal, a member of the Learned Society of the Czech Republic and a Knight of the National Order of Quebec.


This is just one page of the life story of Professor ES. A chapter about the successful scientist, who is a world leader in his branch. However, the second chapter, concerning his personal life, is just as interesting.


Professor ES was born during the Second World War in Buchach in Galicia around August 1941.

His precise date of birth is unknown. He did not know his real identity for thirty years. He was born as Emil Kleiner, a child of Jewish parents, the son of important Galician notary Benio Kleiner and his wife Giselle. His parents died during the pogrom in 1943. However, shortly before their death they managed to arrange for their eighteen-month old son to be taken on the difficult journey to Prague.

Only 4 of the 16,000 Jews in Buchach survived the war. Professor Skamene’s lifelong endeavours arise from his desire to show that his life was worth rescuing.

Directors:

ALENA CINCEROVA

Key Cast:

EMIL SKAMENE

Writers:

ALENA CINCEROVA

Producers:

VIKTOR SCHWARCZ

Other Credits:

-

Project Type:

Documentary

Genres:

HISTORIC

Country of Origin:

Czech Republic

Duration:

01:20:00

Language:

Czech, English, French

Completion Date:

2022-03-03


Member State

Synopsis:

Filmed in the depths of the lockdown of early 2021, Member State is a 100-minute feature created entirely from improvisation. This film explores personal relationships put under pressure by the imminent collapse of the European Union. Member State investigates external situations which are already bubbling beneath the surface of present day EU: the potential end to freedom of movement and rightwing extremism’s return to Germany.

Directors:

Adam Donald Ferreira

Key Cast:

Milena Rendón, Paolo Schoene, Sabine Schroeder, Edan Rowett, Sara Rut Arnardóttir, Siebe Schoneveld, Daniel Straube

Writers:

-

Producers:

Agostina Cerdan

Other Credits:

Director of Photography: Alan Dresti; Art and Production Design: Isabelle Schmitz; Gaffer, AC, 2nd Unit Cinematographer: Jayden Bailey; Editor: Grattan Aikins; Sound Operator: Lawrence Bolton

Project Type:

Feature

Genres:

-

Country of Origin:

Germany

Duration:

01:49:00

Language:

English, German, Spanish

Completion Date:

2022-07-01


Milano San Siro

Synopsis:

Three rich and bored guys decide, in a completely random and unmotivated way, to fill their afternoon by carrying out a fake robbery against the local tobacconist, whom they know by sight.

The story tries to stage a grotesque drama in which it is difficult to identify good and bad, dragging the characters into a narrative and temporal vortex that puts them now in the position of the victim, now in that of the executioner.

Directors:

Riccardo Chiarini

Key Cast:

Lorenzo Spolverato, Gregorio Cavallaro, Marco Schillaci, Francesco Oranges

Writers:

Riccardo Chiarini

Producers:

ACCADEMIA 09, Debora De Benetti

Other Credits:

DOP: Simone Bani

Project Type:

Short, Student

Genres:

Action - drama

Country of Origin:

Italy

Duration:

00:10:00

Language:

Italian

Completion Date:

2021-11-30


Nana's Gate

Synopsis:

A guard is plunged into a strange situation on his first day on the job

Directors:

Sam Tameler

Key Cast:

Finn Murray, Ranjan Sigdel

Writers:

Sam Tameler

Producers:

-

Other Credits:

-

Project Type:

Animation, Short, Student

Genres:

Sci-Fi

Country of Origin:

United States

Duration:

00:10:07

Language:

English

Completion Date:

2022-05-05


Off-Key

Synopsis:

A down and out trombone player finds himself at a crossroads with his career and life in a dark, wet alley at night.

Directors:

Michael McCallum

Key Cast:

Michael McCallum, Ginneh Thomas, Andrew D. Standstedt

Writers:

Anthony “Tucker” Amirante, DT Kofoed, Michael McCallum, William C. McCallum, Lucas Nielsen, Andrew D. Sandstedt, Eric Shalayko, Ginneh Thomas

Producers:

Michael McCallum, William C. McCallum

Other Credits:

Director Of Photography : Lucas Nielsen; Editors: Lucas Nielsen, Michael McCallum

Project Type:

Short

Genres:

-

Country of Origin:

United States

Duration:

00:08:03

Language:

English

Completion Date:

2021-07-25


Pan American: Volume I

Synopsis:

-

Directors:

Andrew Burton

Key Cast:

-

Writers:

-

Producers:

-

Other Credits:

-

Project Type:

-

Genres:

-

Country of Origin:

United States

Duration:

01:42:00

Language:

-

Completion Date:

-


Paper Dream

Synopsis:

"Dreams can be a reason to live or a reason to die."

The film depicts the harsh reality of part-time lecturers who are unable to find tenured posts to continue their research, tackling contemporary issues of the Japanese academic system such as the repayment of student loans, discriminatory low wages and mental exhaustion.

Directors:

Koichi Izuhara

Key Cast:

-

Writers:

-

Producers:

Naoya Ootani

Other Credits:

-

Project Type:

Feature

Genres:

-

Country of Origin:

Japan

Duration:

01:00:47

Language:

Japanese

Completion Date:

2021-03-01


Pinocchio

Synopsis:

Within a social cohousing during the COVID epidemic, two nice retired guests with very different personalities invent a social page followed by millions of young people throughout Italy. Their story will thrill all their fans, even when the truth is discovered ...

Directors:

Emilio Guizzetti

Key Cast:

Pietro Ghislandi

Writers:

-

Producers:

Giada Mazzoleni

Other Credits:

Key cast: Francesco Porfido, Silvia Briozzo, Alberto Baraghini

Project Type:

Short

Genres:

Comedy, social

Country of Origin:

Italy

Duration:

00:13:00

Language:

Italian

Completion Date:

2021-11-01


Reprise

Synopsis:

Reprise is a playful narrative experiment of a critical nature - a riddle in a seamless loop. (Please read the director's statement).

Directors:

Kenji Ouellet

Key Cast:

Romina Küper, Katrin Flues, Benedikt Crisand, Anna Platen, Marielena Krewer, Stefan Mogel, Stefan Hornbach

Writers:

Kenji Ouellet

Producers:

Kenji Ouellet

Other Credits:

Director of Photography: Jesse Mazuch; Art Department: Elena Vonderau, Katharina Janson, Senta Hetzer, Anissa Kholte; Sound: Hagen Waechter, Malte Lahrmann, Christian Obermaier, Jochen Jezussek

Project Type:

Experimental, Short

Genres:

Psycho-thriller, Experimental, Loop

Country of Origin:

Germany

Duration:

00:21:58

Language:

German

Completion Date:

2021-10-15


Robot Tells a Joke

Synopsis:

A brief and educational video about a young roboticist's current project.

Directors:

Cameron Strittmatter

Key Cast:

Marina Barham, Natasha Fedor

Writers:

Cameron Strittmatter

Producers:

Tendai Savage, Cameron Strittmatter, Jacob Wilson

Other Credits:

Editors: Wes Latta; Production Company: Failure Island

Project Type:

Short

Genres:

Comedy, Sci-Fi

Country of Origin:

United States

Duration:

00:03:40

Language:

English

Completion Date:

2021-12-03


She the Creator


LOGLINE: Lilith, a brilliant artist living in isolation, decides to face her deepest trauma with a new series of paintings based on the alchemical process. Seduced by her narcissistic caretaker Kat, Lilith loses her grasp on reality as Kat assumes her identity.


SYNOPSIS: Grieving the loss of her mother and sister, Lilith is completely alone except for her relationship to her caretaker Kat. Obsessed with the alchemical process of transformation, she embarks on a new series of alchemically inspired works to face her trauma.

As Lilith and Kat become increasingly invested in her latest series, Kat makes a deal to sell Lilith’s work at a local gallery.


Kat’s growing obsession with Lilith and her art pushes Lilith’s mental state to the limits as the subjects in her paintings begin appearing to her in visions and dreams. As their relationship becomes convoluted, Kat spends more of her off-hours with Lilith, blurring the lines of professionalism and romantic interest.


As Lilith develops feelings for Kat, Kat pulls away becoming negligent and abusive. As Lilith’s condition worsens, the entities from her paintings reveal her darkest inner fears and memories. The entities of her paintings begin to manifest in her waking state as nature begins taking over through a vigorous deterioration of her physical space. As Lilith walks the line between creativity and self-destruction, her realities collide and she must make a choice as to which demons she will face, and how far she is willing to go to achieve artistic perfection.


Directors:

Ettie Wahl

Key Cast:

Bernadette Cuvalo, Johanna Warren, Sera Barbieri, Dawn Perryman

Writers:

Ettie Wahl

Producers:

Ettie Wahl, Hannah Walls-Scott, Veronica Compton-Wallace, Micah Fusco

Other Credits:

Editor: Gabe Shelton-Jenck; Composer: Emer Kinsella; Visual Effects: Ian Hubert; Cinematography: Brody Willis; Production Designer: Georgianna Nielson; Art Director: Kaitlin Romig; Sound Design: Ajeng Canyarasmi

Project Type:

Feature

Genres:

Psychological Thriller, LGBTQ, Drama, Surreal

Country of Origin:

United States

Duration:

01:37:00

Language:

English

Completion Date:

-


Shivering wall

Synopsis:

It’s a self-examined process for assess your present time. In the regular bass sound surround space, you could find there’s a few teenagers are having a madness house party, and there’s a girl awake but exhausted for being there. There’s a slightly smog or light gently but regularly move in the space. The smog represented a spiritual inside a space. It could be the spiritual from you or others. It’s like you are just in a conference or a party and suddenly there’s something pull your spirit away from your body. It makes you look at yourself in a different angle, but you’re still in the group. What would you do and what’s the connection between you and others?

If the smog was another you – a same existence from another world to look at your body in this group full of chaos and desired. However, there’s nothing you can changed as a member in this group. All you can do silently look down at your body, and move away quietly.

If the smog wasn’t you, it was an outsider of this whole group of people. You are paralysed to make any specific change in the group although your body still in there. What you should do and what would you do? You are just upon there and silently away from all these scenes made by human being.

There’s certainly no right or wrong answer for this topic. This just point out the way how you look at yourself. It’s a discussion about the existence of yourself. What makes you becomes the present existence and what’s track you would leave in your life.

Directors:

Tseng Yu Chin

Key Cast:

-

Writers:

-

Producers:

-

Other Credits:

-

Project Type:

Experimental, Short, Web / New Media, Other

Genres:

-

Country of Origin:

Taiwan

Duration:

00:10:00

Language:

-

Completion Date:

2020-02-15


SILENT RIVER

Synopsis:

On the road in a desperate attempt to reunite with his estranged wife, Elliot takes respite at a desert motel. He encounters Greta, a mysterious woman bearing a striking resemblance to his wife. Elliot soon discovers her secret and descends into a mind-bending journey that forces him to question exactly who she is and where they are.


Haunting and hallucinogenic, SILENT RIVER is a layered and nuanced film that boldly challenges the very notions of reality and illusion.

Directors:

Chris Chan Lee

Key Cast:

West Liang, Amy Tsang, Max Faugno, Chandra Anderson, Dakota Loesch

Writers:

Chris Chan Lee

Producers:

Chris Chan Lee, Robert Cho, West Liang

Other Credits:

Executive Producer: Philip Lam; Director of Photography: Norbert Shieh; Editor: Chris Chan Lee; Composer: Brian Ralston; Production Design: Jennifer D'Amore

Project Type:

Feature

Genres:

Supernatural Psychological Drama

Country of Origin:

United States

Duration:

02:00:00

Language:

English

Completion Date:

2021-09-25


SINTER

Synopsis:

Samy Blum (Lucia Kotikova) does not remember anything. Neither day nor night.

She doesn't remember when her own perception began to crack and the horrors of her past began to trickle in. Was it because of her work at Café Devi? Because of the drugs? Did it have to do with the visit of that one guest (Christoph Müller) who had looked so familiar to her?

In panic and seemingly lost, Samy awakens in her inner world - rooms of darkness and dissociation. Dreadful scars continue to tear open piece by piece. Something chases Samy through the realm of this pain, in which every perception of reality threatens to drift away anchorless and only one thing becomes unimaginable: to forget.

SINTER was created in 2019 as a feature-length script at the "Münchner Drehbuchwerkstatt" and was realized as a short film in Berlin and Potsdam in 2021/22. The film makes two debuts: as the first feature film by the author Philip-Laszló Koch, and in film direction by Daniel Noël Fleischmann.

Directors:

Daniel Noël Fleischmann

Key Cast:

Lucia Kotikova, Christoph Müller, Johanna Kolberg, Sabine Friedrich, Daniel Hölzinger, Jannik Mühlenweg, Nina Siewert, Leonie Euler, Carina Thurner, Saladin Dellers, Christoph Gummert, Volker Figge

Writers:

Philip-Laszló Koch

Producers: