As a tormented filmmaker reaches new levels of success, the horrors of his film start to creep into his life.
Directors:
Maximus Jenkins
Key Cast:
Alex Nimrod, Jordan Rice, Brandon Whipple, Lisa Starrett, Brandon Gilbert, Devin Harris, Elizabeth Hadjinian, Trevor Van Auken, Lexi Minetree, Jacob Childress, Eric Eberle, Callie Skopelitis, Kyle Lacross II, Kevin M. Shiley, George Duryea, Janina Colucci, Cristina Goyeneche, Andrea Meier, Erin Lucid
Writers:
Alex Nimrod
Producers:
Jordan Rice, Alex Nimrod, Maximus Jenkins, Kaleb Manske
Other Credits:
Director of Photography: Kaleb Manske; Executive Producers: Jordan Rice, Alex Nimrod, Maximus Jenkins, Kimmi Colarossi, Jacqueline and David Gmach, Simon Jenkins; Associate Producers: Lisa Tudic, Jenna Ross, JJ Lippman, Saundra and Jason Rice, Margaret McCarthy, Gillian Callaghan; Editor: Kaleb Manske; Production Company: 4085 Productions LLC; Music: Lex Stout, Sam Mohart; Post Production Sound: Renata Finamore, Jordan Aldinger; VFX Team: Kaleb Manske, Gordon Horwitz, Milton Gourgel, Jimmy Paez, Johnny DiGiorgio; Key Crew: Dennis Morrison, Victoria Martzloff, Quinn O'Connor, Grace Gentile, Briana Brody, Sophia Grose, JJ Javier, Amelia Mackey, Charlotte Doyle, Andrew Rice; Colorist: Nathan Clark
Project Type:
Feature, Student
Genres:
Psychological Thriller, Horror
Country of Origin:
United States
Duration:
01:45:46
Language:
English
Completion Date:
2023-09-25
Anche il riccio respira (The breath of a sea urchin)
Synopsis:
An 18 years old boy starts to feel uncomfortable with his friend and the people around him. He begins to withdraw from others, leading him to take a drastic decision for his future.
Directors:
DOMENICO PIETROPAOLO
Key Cast:
ANDREA PANNOFINO, BEATRICE LOTTI, DAMIANO LEPRI, PIETRO MICHELINI, PIETRO MOSER
Writers:
DOMENICO PIETROPAOLO
Producers:
PIETRO MICHELINI
Other Credits:
1st assistant director: CARLO PIVA; Script supervisor: AURORA CATTANEO; Line producer: PIETRO MICHELINI; Set designer: CHIARA GUARINO; Sound engineer: GIANFRANCO ZANGARINI; Boom operator: GIACOMO FORNASIER; Sound editor: GIANFRANCO ZANGARINI, GIACOMO FORNASIER, RICCARDO PIZZO; Sound designer and music composer: GIACOMO FORNASIER; Sound mixer: MASSIMO FILIPPINI; Editor: AURORA CATTANEO; Costume designer: TALIA RESTREPO; Make-up artist: STEFANIA GRIGGI; Colourist: PETRO RONZONI; VFX: DANIELE TASSO; Cinematographer: PIETRO RONZONI
Project Type:
Short
Genres:
-
Country of Origin:
Italy
Duration:
00:17:40
Language:
Italian
Completion Date:
2023-02-22
Carousel
Synopsis:
Jake Keller, a Dallas reporter, uncovers a "Smart City" surveillance conspiracy. Jake’s investigation takes him from the skyscraper office of an oil CEO to a drug den with guns at the ready. He discovers a network of corrupt politicians, hungry lobbyists, Deep State assassins, and gray aliens—only one of which might be a hallucination. With allies in short supply and a rising body count from suspicious accidents, the only question is which will unravel first: the conspiracy or Jake’s sanity.
Directors:
Jason Nancarrow
Key Cast:
Jason Nancarrow, George Welder, Evan Mason, Brian Hathorn, Michael Guinn
Writers:
Jason Nancarrow
Producers:
Michael J. Mills
Other Credits:
Executive Producer: Jason Nancarrow, Edmund Doherty, Nolan Shutler, Donald Lohr; Co-Producer: Natali Jones; Director of Photography: Jonathan Shahan; Production Designer: Michael Walsh; Editor: Kevin Fleming; Original Score: Bradford Nyght, Eric Daniel Meyer; Costume Designer: Kadi Uhack; Visual Effects Supervisor: Kevin Fleming; First Assistant Director: Michael J. Mills; Second Assistant Director: Natali Jones; "A" Camera: Jonathan Shahan; "B" Camera: Michael J. Mills; Drone Camera: Ryan Whitehead; Second Assistant Camera: James Hinkley, Dalton Jenks; Gaffer: Mark Johns; Script Supervisor: Jason Stark; Sound Mixer: Clint Wagoner; On-Set Dresser: Christian Alexis Vaca; Prop Master: Michael Walsh; Key Makeup Artist: Chelsea Lee; Hair Stylist: Kadi Uhack; Special Effects Makeup: Kadi Uhack; BTS Photographer: Billie Hara Sharp; CGI Artist: Kevin Fleming; Colorist: Kevin Fleming; Sound Supervisor: Clint Wagoner; Production Dialogue Editing: Clint Wagoner; Sound Design: Clint Wagoner
Project Type:
Feature
Genres:
-
Country of Origin:
United States
Duration:
01:38:53
Language:
English
Completion Date:
2023-03-09
COSE DI FAMIGLIA / FAMILY MATTERS
Synopsis:
La morte di un familiare. Una riunione di famiglia, due fratelli gemelli, Fabio e Sveva, ed un terzo fratello minore, Stefano. L’appuntamento è nella villa di campagna, Sveva li aspetta tutti lì.
The death of a family member, a family reunion, two twin brothers, Fabio and Sveva, and a third younger brother, Stefano. The appointment is in the country villa where Sveva is waiting for all them.
Directors:
Martinus Tocchi
Key Cast:
FOSCA BANCHELLI, LAURA SELLARI, MARTINUS TOCCHI
Writers:
Martinus Tocchi
Producers:
Martinus Tocchi
Other Credits:
-
Project Type:
Short
Genres:
-
Country of Origin:
Italy
Duration:
00:15:00
Language:
Italian
Completion Date:
2022-10-13
Dino's Dark Room
Synopsis:
The story of Dino Pedriali a roman photograph. Hi did the famous naked pictures to Pier Paolo Pasolini. In his amazing life he had relationship with artist such as Man Ray and Andy Warhol.
Directors:
corrado rizza
Key Cast:
pietro de silva, achille bonito oliva, raffaele curi, dino pedriali
Writers:
corado rizza
Producers:
corrado rizza
Other Credits:
-
Project Type:
Documentary
Genres:
-
Country of Origin:
Not Specified
Duration:
01:20:00
Language:
Italian
Completion Date:
2023-06-01
Fuliggine (Foulness)
Synopsis:
Antonio is a forty-five-year-old Calabrian charcoal burner. He still lives with his father, a gruff and violent figure. In the background, job insecurity. Absence as a universal condition.
Directors:
DOMENICO PISANI
Key Cast:
ANNA MARIA DE LUCA, CARMELO GIORDANO, DOMENICO MAIOLO, GIUSEPPE VELLONE
Writers:
DOMENICO PISANI, VASCO MEDDI
Producers:
Reboto Production
Other Credits:
Cinematographer: DAVIDE MANCA; Editor: SIMONE NAZZARENO VALENTE; Set designer: Simone SETZI; Costume designer: DOMENICO PISANI; Make-up artist: SILVIA VAVALÀ; Hairstyles: MASSIMILIANO BRUNO; Line producer: CINZIA SANNA; Sound engineer: ANDREA DI MARTINO; Music: YEHEZKEL RAZ
Project Type:
Short
Genres:
drama
Country of Origin:
Italy
Duration:
00:16:00
Language:
Italian
Completion Date:
2023-07-01
Hum
Synopsis:
A recently retired woman begins hearing a strange noise her husband can’t hear. Is it all in her head or is there something out there?
Directors:
Ryan Kilbourne
Key Cast:
Dawnie Finn, Mark Starratt, Shawn Vincent
Writers:
Ryan Kilbourne
Producers:
-
Other Credits:
Producer / 1st AD: Lianne Graham; Director of Photography: Ryan Kilbourne; Camera Operator: Ash Hardman; 1st AC: Maria Glover; Drone Operator: Sam Burns; Hair / MUA: Brenda Andrade, Luka Reshmi; Costumes / Set Dresser: Chanelle Berlingeri; Grip / Electric Swing: Aaron Kothiringer, Andrew Osawe, Luka Reshmi; Boom Operator: Aaron Kothiringer, Andrew Osawe; Editor: Ryan Kilbourne
Project Type:
Short
Genres:
Drama, Thriller
Country of Origin:
Canada
Duration:
00:15:11
Language:
English
Completion Date:
2023-04-14
I'm not a racist, but...
Synopsis:
The video is based on the song "I am not a racist, but ..." and was made in Brussels with the participation of the children of the "Center Communautaire Maritime (CCM)" of Molenbeek-Saint-Jean.
Some scenes were shot at the CCM, while others were shot outdoors in the Molenbeek-Saint-Jean district and in the city of Brussels.
In the video, two characters confront each other in different situations: in a pub, in a car inside a parking lot, during a walk in the city. The main character gives a strong and cynical voice to prejudice and clichés, trying to convince the other who is opposed to them. The irony of the text is amplified by the caricatured behavior of the main character and the reactions of the interlocutor. The games, laughter, expressions and spontaneous attitudes of children underline the absurdity of prejudice and clichés in a world that is constantly evolving.
Halfway through the video, the main character is filmed in the intimacy of his home, in the kitchen, while preparing a dish using the tagine and wearing the djellaba. The text and other elements present in the scene reflect the inconsistency of the protagonist, torn between prejudice and attraction to other cultures. And so the video develops and enhances the message of the song, namely that we are all made of the same substance and what differentiates us, our culture, life experiences, must be considered an added value and not a divisive element.
The ballets of the children and the two characters invite you to get involved and confront each other to improve and learn to live with others, in a world that will be increasingly multicultural and multi-ethnic.
Directors:
Marco Locurcio
Key Cast:
Stefano Cinti, Guido Castellano
Writers:
Stefano Cinti, Marco Locurcio
Producers:
Stefano Cinti
Other Credits:
-
Project Type:
Music Video
Genres:
-
Country of Origin:
Belgium
Duration:
00:04:14
Language:
Italian
Completion Date:
2022-04-01
Knife, Chocolate
Synopsis:
This movie is the story of a happy family!
The son of the family is antisocial, psychotic, skeptic and sexist who judges women by the smell of their cosmetics!
He believes that the smell of a decent woman’s cosmetics is different from an indecent one!
He even classifies bees.
Prostitute or chaste, that is the question!
Like an interrogator, he openly tortures his sisters mentally and emotionally.
Of course, the crime of the daughters of this family is very serious!!!
They want to makeup!
They want to get married!
They don't want to work like a servant at home!
And the funniest of all, they have bought a male doll.
A male lion!
The daughters of this family are victims similar to "Mahsa Amini" who are tried only for the crime of being a woman.
Women who may be your neighbors right now.
Can't you hear them crying?
Women looking for life and freedom!
Directors:
Hooshmand Varaei
Key Cast:
Hamid Pishghadam
Writers:
Hooshmand Varaei
Producers:
Latifeh Eine Jafari, Dr.Houshang Varaei, MOJENO Film School
Other Credits:
-
Project Type:
Experimental, Short
Genres:
Women, Black Comedy, Psychological, Drama
Country of Origin:
Iran, Islamic Republic of
Duration:
00:15:00
Language:
Persian
Completion Date:
2022-07-06
Le gemelle Eternalismo (The Twins Eternalism)
Synopsis:
The Eternalism Twins is the story of two twins during the 60’s. One of them lives on the Earth, the other one floats in space as an astronaut. Once she heads back on Earth her twin sister 50 years older than her, while she is as old as she left Earth.
Directors:
Francesco Therese
Key Cast:
GIORGIA DARELL
Writers:
Francesco Therese
Producers:
LAURA CATALANO
Other Credits:
-
Project Type:
Short
Genres:
-
Country of Origin:
Italy
Duration:
00:03:00
Language:
-
Completion Date:
2023-06-12
Letters from the Blue
Synopsis:
A documentary investigating how inmates, from their cells on Death Row, help penpals outside in their daily struggles. Through the words of the protagonists and their letters, we experience these meaningful, intimate relationships where dramatic, blood-drenched life stories mesh with every day domestic trivialities.
Photo Retoucher A-nan returns to the old house that saddens him. The eerily beautiful yellow flowers on the loofah trellis attract a whole nest of ants. As a child, A-nan accidentally killed all these yellow flowers when spraying insecticide on them to kill the ants. In a rage, his father beat him lame. This caused a lifelong conflict between them. The elderly and paralyzed father, now wrapped in diapers and covered with ants, evokes the painful memories of A-nan’s youth. A-nan sprays and kills the ants again. But how will A-nan unravel this knotted relationship with his father, entangled for so many years? How will he restore the loving beauty of the yellow flowers that once bloomed in the courtyard?
Directors:
Chien-Ping Lin
Key Cast:
Huai-Zhong Wang, Ming-Siou Tsai, Bozhi Yang
Writers:
Chien-Ping Lin, Yun-Ju Pai
Producers:
Chien-Ping Lin
Other Credits:
Cinematograper: Chien-Ping Lin
Project Type:
Experimental, Short
Genres:
-
Country of Origin:
Taiwan
Duration:
00:29:55
Language:
Chinese, Chinese - Min Nan
Completion Date:
2021-10-15
Lori and the Six Six Sixties
Synopsis:
“The Other Side of the Forest” is a fantasy Pop-Art Fairytale starring Lori Stott (BBC’s The Demon Headmaster’ and Ashley Sutherland,. It is the tale of a shy young woman seeking her fame in the dark work of the 1960s folk-music underground. Lori’s journey to stardom takes her on a journey far beyond the familiar music world she is trying to break into and instead breaks out to a forgotten past of rural landscapes, magic, myth, dead Gods and mysterious fallen angels”.
It is a bold mix of influences covering 1960’s British Youth-Film such as “Smashing Time’, Carnaby Street news-reels and the Counter-Culture texts ‘The White Goddess’, ‘The House on the Borderland’ and ‘The Golden Bough’.
It bravely plays with structure and narrative while playing with the genre tropes and musical group performances.
It was filmed with analogue sound and film equipment, incorporating various 16mm and Super8 processing techniques – hand developing, vintage cameras, sellotaped film editing, scratching, and film looping.
The film was edited by Andy Morrison (Lord of the Rings, The English, Outlander, The Man Who Fell to Earth and The Last Kingdom).
The soundtrack is exclusively written by Post-Punk legend, Jowe Head (Swell Maps and Television Personalities).
Directors:
Grant McPhee
Key Cast:
Lori Stott, Ashley Sutherland
Writers:
Lori Stott, Ashley Sutherland, Ben Soper
Producers:
Grant McPhee
Other Credits:
-
Project Type:
Experimental, Feature
Genres:
Fantasty, Experimental
Country of Origin:
United Kingdom
Duration:
01:10:22
Language:
English
Completion Date:
2023-03-30
Rival
Synopsis:
"Rival" delves into the transformative impact of artificial intelligence on the world of photography. Through candid interviews with global photographers, the documentary unveils the profound shifts in the creative landscape. As AI blurs the lines between human and machine-generated images, "Rival" invites viewers to contemplate on the brave new world of image generation.
Directors:
Frank Oly
Key Cast:
-
Writers:
-
Producers:
-
Other Credits:
-
Project Type:
Documentary, Short
Genres:
science, technology, art
Country of Origin:
Australia
Duration:
00:30:00
Language:
English, Japanese
Completion Date:
2023-12-08
Shtander, shtander, Katya!
Synopsis:
A story about the relationship of two teenagers, who used to look at each other as friends, but this summer he fell in love with her. She can't respond the same but is afraid of losing their friendship until a silly game destroys everything.
Directors:
Alexandra Shadrina
Key Cast:
Stella Frišman, David Babayan
Writers:
Alexandra Shadrina
Producers:
Anna Miller
Other Credits:
-
Project Type:
Short
Genres:
Teenage drama
Country of Origin:
Estonia
Duration:
00:13:31
Language:
Russian
Completion Date:
2023-06-29
Soluzione Fisiologica / Pleasure
Synopsis:
ENG
What seems to be an ordinary phone call between a man and a sex worker disguises a far more complex intent. A gesture of deep understanding. An act of unconditional love.
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ITA
Quella che sembra un’ordinaria telefonata tra un uomo e un sex worker nasconde un intento ben più complesso. Un gesto di profonda comprensione. Un atto di amore incondizionato.
Jacopo Pica, Elena Pedrazzini, Tomaso Pessina, Luca Maria Piccolo
Other Credits:
DOP: Cristiano Di Nicola; Editor: Marcello Saurino; Music: Jean Michel Snider, Umberto Gaudino; Sound: Jacopo Lattanzio; Costumes: Sara Fanelli; Production Design: Alessandro Iacopelli
Project Type:
Short
Genres:
-
Country of Origin:
Italy
Duration:
00:15:00
Language:
Italian
Completion Date:
2023-05-01
The Concierge
Synopsis:
Akino is a trainee concierge at the Hokkyoku Department Store, an unusual department store that caters exclusively to animals. Under the watchful eyes of the floor manager and senior concierges, Akino runs around to fulfill the wishes of customers with a myriad of needs and problems in her pursuit to become a full-fledged concierge.
Directors:
Yoshimi Itazu
Key Cast:
Natsumi Kawaida, Takeo Otsuka, Kenjiro Tsuda
Writers:
Satomi Oshima
Producers:
-
Other Credits:
Character Designs: Chie Morita; Animation Production: Production I.G
Project Type:
Animation
Genres:
Animation
Country of Origin:
United States
Duration:
01:10:00
Language:
Japanese
Completion Date:
-
The Consulting Virus
Synopsis:
Who truly decided which vaccine had to be bought during the pandemic? We found out that most European governments asked for help from large global consulting firms such as McKinsey, Deloitte, Accenture or KPMG and others. Despite the existence of potential conflicts of interest and thanks to insufficient transparency legislation. But in fact, these companies have been influencing the economy and politics for decades. Pandemic has only exposed these links. Let's put it that way: while Covid-19 has infected millions of people, the consulting virus has infected governments all around the world.
Directors:
Riccardo Bagnato Bulgarelli
Key Cast:
-
Writers:
Riccardo Bagnato Bulgarelli
Producers:
Pietro Bernaschina (RSI), Antonio Civile (RSI)
Other Credits:
Collaboration: Emiliano Bos (RSI), Daniela Fabello (RSI); Legal advice: Laura Bernasconi (RSI); Graphics: Fabrizio Bernasconi (RSI); Film editing: Marilyne Zeller (RTS); Cameraman: Gilles Brisseau (Actua, Geneva), Michael Clément (Actua, Geneva), Eric Jacquin (Actua, Geneva), Massimo Incollingo (Actua, Geneva), Philippe Eveque (Actua, Geneva), François Ducobu (INS, Bruxelles), Guillaume Parent (Mammut, Paris); Mixage: Pierre Bader (RTS), Elias Siddiqui, Edgar Biondina (RTS)
Project Type:
Documentary, Feature, Television, Web / New Media
Genres:
-
Country of Origin:
Switzerland
Duration:
01:00:58
Language:
English, French, Italian
Completion Date:
2023-06-12
THE CURE
Synopsis:
In the De Angelis household, days pass slowly and Federico, a bored modern prince, experiences the world by detaching himself from it. The encounter with a special friend becomes an opportunity to be able to reborn from the ancient ruins of his family.
Directors:
GIUSEPPE BURRAFATO
Key Cast:
FRANCESCO SAVINO, JANE ALEXANDER, MARTA MENEGHETTI, CHRISTOPH HULSEN
In 1873 a young pioneer family traveling through the wilderness befriends a complete stranger that says he is a rancher. However the young girl discovers that a white horse haunts the rancher. She then tries to convince her mother they are about to witness an extraordinary event of the book of revelations.
Directors:
River Roubaix
Key Cast:
Joni Adhal, Amylea Meiklejohn, River Roubaix
Writers:
River Roubaix
Producers:
Victor Pytko, Eric T Miller, Morey Reimund, Ellen Lawer Stella
Other Credits:
-
Project Type:
Feature
Genres:
Western, Religious, Drama
Country of Origin:
United States
Duration:
01:15:44
Language:
English
Completion Date:
2023-12-01
The special train
Synopsis:
On a summer afternoon, Saverio and Cataldo, a student and a teacher, find themselves in the countryside that they usually see everyday trough the train window. The meeting becomes an opportunity to get to know each other better, allowing Saverio to read a poem he has just written.
The story is about the train crash happened between Andria and Corato, in 2016 in Puglia Italy, and it’s dedicated to the victims of this tragedy.
Directors:
Luigi Cianciaruso
Key Cast:
Franco Ferrante, Pierdomenico Minafra
Writers:
Luigi Cianciaruso
Producers:
Edoardo Margotti, Ilaria Pascale, Greta Zamparini
Other Credits:
Executive Producer: Silvia Morigi, Leila Rusciani; Director Of Photography: Francesco Filacchione; Composer: Orazio Saracino; Sound Department: Francesco Piro; Segretaria di edizione: Francesca Zonta
Project Type:
Short
Genres:
fiction, narrative, drama
Country of Origin:
Italy
Duration:
00:09:29
Language:
Italian
Completion Date:
2023-07-03
THE TENANTS
Synopsis:
In near future Seoul, suffering from pollution and housing issues, Shin-dong must find a new rental due to his landlord's notice. His friend suggests renting part of his place to complicate eviction. Shin-dong advertises, and a peculiar newlywed couple wanting to live in the bathroom appears. He accepts them, but their strange behaviors soon become unbearable.
Directors:
Eun-kyoung Yoon
Key Cast:
Dae-geon Kim, Dong-won Heo
Writers:
Eun-kyoung Yoon
Producers:
Eun-kyoung Yoon, Joseph Bahng
Other Credits:
-
Project Type:
Feature
Genres:
SF. Fantasy, Black Comedy, Thriller
Country of Origin:
Korea, Republic of
Duration:
01:28:41
Language:
Korean
Completion Date:
2023-10-31
Una Risata ci Salverà - A laugh will save us
Synopsis:
‘Una Risata ci Salverà’: Esploreremo l’intersezione tra umorismo, satira e religione, analizzando come si influenzano reciprocamente. Attraverso interviste con comici, artisti e studiosi, scopriremo le battute irriverenti, le parodie sagaci e le caricature audaci che mettono in discussione i dogmi religiosi. Rifletteremo sul ruolo critico dell’umorismo nella fede e nella spiritualità, esaminando la sua capacità di sfidare le convenzioni sociali e di aprire il dialogo su temi considerati sacri. Un viaggio che ci farà ridere e riflettere, esplorando il potere della comicità nel contesto delle religioni e aprendo nuove prospettive sulle dinamiche culturali. ‘Una Risata ci Salverà’ inviterà a sfidare il potere attraverso una risata liberatrice."
"A Laugh Will Save Us: We will explore the intersection between humor, satire, and religion, analyzing how they mutually influence each other. Through interviews with comedians, artists, and scholars, we will discover irreverent jokes, clever parodies, and bold caricatures that challenge religious dogmas. We will reflect on the critical role of humor in faith and spirituality, examining its ability to defy social conventions and initiate dialogue on sacred topics. It will be a journey that will make us laugh and reflect, exploring the power of comedy within the context of religions and opening new perspectives on cultural dynamics. 'A Laugh Will Save Us' will invite us to challenge power through liberating laughter."
Directors:
Michelangelo Gregori
Key Cast:
Sergio Staino, Moni Ovadia, Piergiorgio Odifreddi, Giorgio Montanini, Saverio Raimondo, Filippo Girdina, Alessandro Aronadio, Arianna Porcelli Safonov, Daniele Fabbri, Simone GEPPO Metalli, Sergio Spaccavento, David Le Breton, Ivo De Palma, Michelangelo Gregori, Daniele Ercolani, Sara Tortora, Michele Lorefice
Writers:
Michelangelo Gregori
Producers:
Michelangelo Gregori
Other Credits:
-
Project Type:
Documentary
Genres:
-
Country of Origin:
Italy
Duration:
01:00:00
Language:
Italian
Completion Date:
2023-06-12
Via Don Minzoni n. 6
Synopsis:
Andrea (28) deve trascorrere l’ultima notte nelle stanze di Via Don Minzoni n.6, la casa dov’è cresciuto assieme alla nonna appena scomparsa, con il compito di chiudere le scatole e consegnare le chiavi ai nuovi proprietari la mattina successiva. Nelle ultime ventiquattr’ore tra le mura che hanno segnato la sua infanzia, un amarcord di spazi, colori e oggetti che gli ripor- tano alla mente il suo passato e l’appuntamento con il suo gruppo storico di amici per un’ultima partita di poker in Via Don Minzoni, una lunga tradizio- ne che morirà con la vendita della casa. In questo percorso di metabolizzazione della perdita – degli affetti, dei ricordi, di una parte di sé – Andrea cerca una misteriosa scatola blu che contiene qualcosa di molto prezioso.
Directors:
Andrea Caciagli
Key Cast:
FRANCESCO GAUDIELLO, LIA GRECO, MIRKO RISALITI, IRENE BATTAGLIA
Writers:
Andrea FRANCESCO GAUDIELLOCaciagli
Producers:
-
Other Credits:
DOP: LUCA GALASSO; Music: FRANCESCO QUATRARO; Editor: ANDREA BONANNI
Project Type:
Feature
Genres:
-
Country of Origin:
Italy
Duration:
01:27:32
Language:
-
Completion Date:
2023-04-12
Westermarck Effect
Synopsis:
Sally gave Sam up for adoption 20 years ago- when they reunite, they fall romantically in love with devastating consequences.
Directors:
Saara Lamberg
Key Cast:
Saara Lamberg, Jayden Denke
Writers:
Saara Lamberg
Producers:
Saara Lamberg
Other Credits:
-
Project Type:
Feature
Genres:
Drama, Romance, Arthouse
Country of Origin:
Australia
Duration:
01:36:04
Language:
-
Completion Date:
2022-05-01
6th Anniversary - Six Pack Edition
WUNDERSAAR Retrospective
Hauntology of the Retrodromomania
Synopsis:
Hauntology of the Retrodromomania is an essayistic motion picture, a locomotory legwork, a deambulatory non-rural land survey, a casual journeying in a punctual dissertation around the phenomenon of the nostalgic feeling, discoursing on a late capitalistic landscape of social emotions, which are of yore, yet coloured of the postmodern tint of pixelated neo-noir, a socio-philosophical flâneur’s trip in critical theory escorted by the spirits of French post-structuralists. For a Sociology of Nostalgia revisited.
Directors:
Sara Ferro, Chris Weil
Key Cast:
Wundersaar
Writers:
Sara Ferro
Producers:
Chris Weil
Other Credits:
-
Project Type:
Documentary, Experimental, Feature
Genres:
Avant-garde, Sociological
Country of Origin:
Italy
Duration:
02:44:00
Language:
English
Completion Date:
2021-06-08
H(o)me(o)pa®t(h)y
Synopsis:
H(o)me(o)pa®t(h)y is a home entertainment healing system based on Homoeopathic medicine which one can at least to a certain extent autonomously manage as first aid tool, if you are skilled enough. As an allusion to David Cronenberg's Videodrome where the president of a trashy TV channel, Max Renn is desperate for new programming to attract viewers by establishing a new TV show dedicated to torture and punishment, H(o)me(o)pa®t(h)y instead is based on joy and healing. But will there be an overdose of globules? Insert 1 globules and start your solo home party! Cure yourself on so many occasions and relive a full relief. Your own H(o)me(o)pa®t(h)y kit is now available. Don't worry, be homeopathic!
Directors:
Sara Ferro, Chris Weil
Key Cast:
Wundersaar
Writers:
-
Producers:
-
Other Credits:
-
Project Type:
Experimental
Genres:
Glitch Art
Country of Origin:
Italy
Duration:
00:30:00
Language:
-
Completion Date:
2020-11-12
Mascara Cartridge Déjà War
Synopsis:
The world is an enduring war theater. Perhaps because it’s a men’s world? When cast in such a set women try to play out all their means, even performing a sad joy division or bowing down like a poor little thing. This in spite of being a fierce partisan or a tactical guerrilla expert.
The world is either a repeating making up of same actions, as in the movements necessary for the make-up moment, every single day. Persisting like a waterproof mascara – but will it alike prove itself bulletproof too? I guess no, a mascara can only be more or less dramatic. Like in a recrudescing war against more natural habits, occurring at large in the world theater.
Directors:
Sara Ferro, Chris Weil
Key Cast:
Wundersaar
Writers:
-
Producers:
-
Other Credits:
-
Project Type:
Experimental, Expanded Cinema
Genres:
Action, Comedy, War
Country of Origin:
Italy
Duration:
00:13:00
Language:
-
Completion Date:
2020-12-06
Queen of the Luna Parking
Synopsis:
Queen of the Luna Par(k)ing is a moving images arts by combining the element of the moon (from the Italian “luna” ) shining over a parking slot, where a girl is waiting for encountering someone, perhaps the king of the luna park. While acting in the gap of certainties like a lonely queen the moonshine splits its aura into the colours red/blue/yellow, interpreting the interstellar communication signals of Voyager 1 launched by the NASA in 1977. Exactly the year when the protagonist Wundersaar (Luna Queen) was born. Therefore the journey of the Voyager space probe can be seen as a metaphor for the expedition of every human being discovering the unknown in the deep space of life.
Directors:
Sara Ferro, Chris Weil
Key Cast:
Wundersaar
Writers:
-
Producers:
-
Other Credits:
-
Project Type:
Experimental, Performance
Genres:
Moving Images Arts
Country of Origin:
Italy
Duration:
00:01:33
Language:
-
Completion Date:
2020-10-28
Super Sauber
Synopsis:
A dream where obsession for German as a second language mixes up with an obsession for neatness and cleanliness as a distinctive feature of the national culture in question seen from the perspective of a foreigner. The dream is not a nightmare only because the set it is dreamt into is the seashore of the mare nostrum, where the dreaming subject is perfectly at home. A homeland which she, in turn, in her more secret thus naïf dreams would dream of being cleaner and tidier as in the reality, especially in front of such beauty of nature. As is right and proper.
Directors:
Sara Ferro, Chris Weil
Key Cast:
Wundersaar
Writers:
-
Producers:
-
Other Credits:
-
Project Type:
Performance
Genres:
Video Art
Country of Origin:
Italy
Duration:
00:01:00
Language:
German
Completion Date:
2018-08-27
VE®NICE69
Synopsis:
Reversed gender surrender of an acid society that obeys mainstream restrictions and prescriptions of how and what to be.
Directors:
Sara Ferro, Chris Weil
Key Cast:
Wundersaar
Writers:
-
Producers:
-
Other Credits:
-
Project Type:
Performance
Genres:
Video Art
Country of Origin:
Italy
Duration:
00:01:00
Language:
-
Completion Date:
2021-03-09
VIRTUAL REALITY
Media Art
kaltcaldo
Synopsis:
A virtual reality installation about the physical laws of thermo-dynamics, contrasted in the colors red (hot) and blue (cold), creating an engagement of opposites.
Artists:
ARTOLDO
Developement:
RedMagicBlue
Project Type:
Virtual Reality
Genres:
Art installation
Country of Origin:
Italy
Duration:
00:03:00
Language:
English
Completion Date:
2023-06-03
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
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
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:
Christoph Walesch
Other Credits:
CO-Producer: Carolin Hellmann; DOP: Jan Fecke; Art Director: Marie-Christin Riedel; Set Design: Ilgın Özkazanç; Editor: Nikita Fedosik; Sound Engineer: Fanny Huder; Music by: Steffen Dix; Costume Designer: Natalie Soroko
Project Type:
Experimental, Short
Genres:
-
Country of Origin:
Germany
Duration:
00:28:06
Language:
German
Completion Date:
2022-05-16
Solastalgia
Synopsis:
Solastalgia, a neologism coined in 2003 by philosopher Glenn Albrecht, describes “a form of psychic or existential distress caused by environmental change. A loss of certainty in a once predictable environment is common among groups that express solastalgia.”
The primary imagery for this work was collected during a two-month fellowship in central Italy, a country known for its stone hilltop towns and villages, pastoral landscapes, and heritage preservation- a kind of opposite to the American ethos of renewal and development so keenly observed and felt in the current Seattle urban makeover.
The work is composed of several sets of slow-moving synchronous tableaux displayed across four vertically placed compositions that together form a traditional triptych. While digital in origin, the imagery can be thought of, in my view, as
belonging to a sub-genre of painting.
Directors:
Robert Gordon Campbell
Key Cast:
Fenja Abrams
Angel
Sean Ardor
Shawn Backstrom
Monyee Chau
Casey Curran
Kaitlin Dacanay
Tracy Palestino Davalos
Reilly Donovan
Anastasia Hill
Ryan Patterson
Babette DeLafayette Pendleton
Drew Santoro
Irene Song
Redd Walitzki
Dylan Ward
Lena Whittle
Marlys Yvonne
Petra Zanki
Writers:
-
Producers:
Robert Gordon Campbell
Other Credits:
-
Project Type:
Experimental
Genres:
-
Country of Origin:
United States
Duration:
00:48:45
Language:
English, Italian
Completion Date:
2017-06-01
Sweet Side
Synopsis:
This drama focuses on Jean, a tired boy whose mind starts modifying reality when he meets Jolie. A mysterious woman that allures him from the get go.
Ignoring common sense he endangers his life in order to reach her.
Directors:
Albert García Boté
Key Cast:
-
Writers:
-
Producers:
Agustina Brizuela
Other Credits:
Art Directors: Albert García Boté, Alba Vila López; Animators: Marc Roca Fernandez, Joan Alarcón Carlin, Luca David Cipriani, Albert García Boté, Eloi Torras Almirall; Art Department: Violeta Cliffe Malara, Paula Martinez Lorca, Maria Laura Luque
Project Type:
Animation
Genres:
-
Country of Origin:
Spain
Duration:
00:09:12
Language:
English, Spanish
Completion Date:
-
t0gether al0ne
Synopsis:
A uniquely epic journey into the wide and colourful subconsciousness of a teenager, trying to change his family's shared desolation and to break free from past trauma.
Directors:
Kir Likdov
Key Cast:
Maksim Karushev, Alla Chernikh, Evgeniy Frolenkov, Kira Mikutskaya, Diana Shulmina, Petr Kudryashov, Nikita Kondratyev, Dimitriy Likhodedov
Writers:
Kir Likdov
Producers:
Konstantin Likhodedov, Kir Likdov
Other Credits:
Cinematographer: Kir Likdov; Editor: Kir Likdov; Sound designers: Dmitriy Buslaev, Kir Likdov; Assistant Director: Nikita Kondratyev
Project Type:
Experimental, Feature
Genres:
Drama, Art-house
Country of Origin:
Russian Federation
Duration:
01:50:49
Language:
English, Russian
Completion Date:
2022-07-14
THAIDI
Synopsis:
A young girl, who leaves to meet her tutor, seems to be the target of a dark hunter and a disturbing maniac.
While the maniac leaves bodies in his path, while brooding over his past and his fallen dreams, and as the hunter unveils larger criminal intentions, the tutor leads the child towards an education that is completely out of control.
Directors:
Marc Louis DEVAUD
Key Cast:
Stephanie E. Kohler, Paulin Tadadjeu Dadjeu, Alonso Leal-Morado, Grace Kanchanita Meekaew
Writers:
Marc Louis DEVAUD
Producers:
Marc Louis DEVAUD
Other Credits:
-
Project Type:
Feature
Genres:
-
Country of Origin:
Switzerland
Duration:
01:28:30
Language:
French
Completion Date:
2022-06-22
The Zone
Synopsis:
Corticella, Bologna’s suburbs. The Serendippo association and the artist Athena, call fifteen artists in order to repaint the Civic Centre William Michelini, a partisan of the neighbourhood. Exchanges and generational clashes between very different people, bounded together by the same goals, will be shown.
The project proceeds with the repainting of a wall in Bologna’s plain centre, where the artists will experience completely different scenarios.
Man is moving and taking the next step in his life. He finds memory from the past that pulls him deep inside of it. His dramatic past keeps a grip on him and won't let him move forward in his life. Fear to let loose, struggle to take the next step. The compelling need to understand the past is the force for him to reach toward the future. Whatever the future is.
This dramaciously dramatic drama piece is told with a strong visual style and is non-verbally driven by beautiful music.
Directors:
Teemu Saarinen, Ville Aittokumpu, Azh Boyzz
Key Cast:
Janne Karjalainen, Jonna Nissinen
Writers:
Teemu Saarinen, Ville Aittokumpu, Azh Boyzz
Producers:
Teemu Saarinen, Ville Aittokumpu, Azh Boyzz
Other Credits:
Makeup&Hair/Script supervisor: Iina Rajamo; Cinematographer&Editor: Teemu Saarinen; Production Design: Ville Aittokumpu; Gaffer: Eetu Keränen; Grip: Jyrki Kuitto; Composer: Heinrich Dressel; Sound&Foley: Tatu Aittamaa; Poster Art: Chad Keith
Project Type:
Experimental, Short
Genres:
Drama, Mystery, Fantasy
Country of Origin:
Finland
Duration:
00:17:34
Language:
Finnish
Completion Date:
2021-12-31
Uncut
Synopsis:
After the New Republic Patriot Party seizes control in America , and passes a law requiring all males over 35 to have a vasectomy to keep the number of babies with birth defects down, Jamie decides to flee to Canada on the eve of his 35th birthday.
Directors:
Mark Hensley
Key Cast:
Sam Meader, Phil Idrissi, Max E Williams, Kat Mahard
Writers:
Mark Hensley, peggy lewis
Producers:
Mark Hensley
Other Credits:
Director of Photography : Srushti KALSE
Project Type:
Short
Genres:
Drama, Political
Country of Origin:
United States
Duration:
00:19:00
Language:
English
Completion Date:
2022-03-15
What Makes Us Human
Synopsis:
In a perfect world, where emotions can be only felt through a technological device, there are some who still struggle against the system. Jack, a young man, accidentally discovers a puzzling truth behind a new update for the device, which makes it possible to record dreams. Helped by Sam, a skillful hacker, he'll embark on a dangerous mission to retrieve data that could change reality as they know it. Along the way he'll eventually meet with Judy, a proudy young woman searching for her place in the world. Together, they'll be faced with an impossible choice.
Directors:
Lorenzo Bussone
Key Cast:
Roberto Gentile, Rebecca Dosio, Lorenzo Melli
Writers:
Lorenzo Bussone
Producers:
-
Other Credits:
Director Of Photography: Lorenzo Bussone; Editor, Colorist: Simone Dosio
Project Type:
Short
Genres:
Sci-fi, Adventure, Thriller
Country of Origin:
Italy
Duration:
00:28:07
Language:
Italian
Completion Date:
2021-12-08
Whitecollar Upgrade
Synopsis:
The year 2045, the Sunlight Systems corporation has discovered a way to modify the human brain through a neuroimplant, or NI. Intelligence has become for sale. Money now determines social status and professional success. Many people have risen to the social elite by being implanted with an NI, while others have chosen not to for financial or ethical reasons. This has led to a split in society, where career advancement is virtually impossible without an NI.
Unemployed programmer Jacob Carus develops a program that can be used to gain control over people and wows the board of Sunlight Systems. When he wants to prevent the work on his project from being snatched away from him, he is faced with a momentous decision.
Directors:
Oliver Clark
Key Cast:
Wolfgang Zarnack, Claudia Plöckel
Writers:
Rashid Ben Dhiab, Oliver Clark
Producers:
Daniel Bernhard
Other Credits:
-
Project Type:
Short
Genres:
-
Country of Origin:
Germany
Duration:
00:15:00
Language:
German
Completion Date:
2021-07-30
Who Is James Payton?
Synopsis:
From playing Frank Longbottom in Harry Potter to Adolf Hitler in Captain America, as well as standing in for Anthony Hopkins and Jude Law; James Payton has been part of the British Film Industry for the best part of 20 years. Yet he is still largely unknown.
Director Oliver Guy-Watkins followed James for a year as he attended Comic Cons, taught wizardry skills to children and was cast as Tony Blair in the Nick Moran helmed film Creation Stories.
This is a story of fandom, loneliness and perseverance, that plays with the boundaries of reality and fiction, but do we find out Who Is James Payton?
Directors:
Oliver Guy-Watkins
Key Cast:
James Payton, Nick Moran, Chris Rankin, Georgina Leonidas, Tony Slattery
Writers:
Oliver Guy-Watkins
Producers:
Orly Nurany
Other Credits:
-
Project Type:
Documentary
Genres:
-
Country of Origin:
Netherlands
Duration:
01:18:08
Language:
English
Completion Date:
2021-01-01
Zondvloed (Flood)
Synopsis:
The year is 1672 and the Dutch Republic is being attacked by an immense force of 120.000 french soldiers commanded by Louis 14th. To save the Republic and it’s citizens, a big chunk of land, more than a 100km’s, is being flooded with water to make sure the French army can not reach the Republic’s heartland of Holland. Any farmers living in the area are instructed to leave everything behind and let their land be flooded. In Flood we follow Sijmen, eldest son of farmer Karel, who discovers the danger his family is in is closer than expected. As he starts to prepare his family to leave the farm, the silent battle between Sijmen and his father grows intenser fast. Like many of his fellow farmers, Karel is not yet ready to give away and leave his land.
Directors:
Nils Verkooijen
Key Cast:
Maas Bronckhuyzen, Ian Bok, Marcel Faber, Catalijn Willemsen, Floris van Kampen, Maartje van den Dool
Writers:
Nils Verkooijen
Producers:
Thomas Mataheru, Jolijn van Rinsum, Sjors Mans, Nils Verkooijen
Other Credits:
-
Project Type:
Feature, Short
Genres:
History, drama
Country of Origin:
Netherlands
Duration:
00:11:22
Language:
Dutch
Completion Date:
2021-01-01
2021
16 agosto 1973
Synopsis:
An unwanted pregnancy has unexpected consequences.
On a sweltering day at the pools, monotony conspires to take us on an ethereal journey. A bored front desk attendant reads the acknowledgments of a paperback while dreamily observing the swimmers.
Directors:
Arvid Eriksson
Key Cast:
Donna Brookbanks
Writers:
Arvid Eriksson, Louise Wallace
Producers:
Arvid Eriksson, Nikhil Madhan
Other Credits:
-
Project Type:
Short
Genres:
-
Country of Origin:
New Zealand
Duration:
00:03:30
Language:
English
Completion Date:
2021-01-12
ADIEU LACAN
Synopsis:
"With realistic acumen and artistic expertise, Adieu Lacan portrays the struggles of a young woman, Seriema, who is trying to understand why her path to motherhood has reached an unbearable impasse. Following two miscarriages and the possible loss of her marriage, Seriema travels to Paris in 1972 to undergo psychoanalytic treatment with the maverick French analyst, Jacques Lacan. Her analysis is an attempt to help her to disentangle the enigma of her question: why has motherhood become a seeming impossibility? Inspired by the story of Betty Milan, a Brazilian psychoanalyst and writer, it follows closely her own actual psychoanalysis with Lacan. Based on two books, Goodbye Doctor and Lacan’s Parrot, in which Milan recounts her analytic work, Adieu Lacan offers an insightful and accurate account of an actual psychoanalytic cure."
- Mavis Himes, Psychoanalyst and author of "The Power of Names."
Directors:
RICHARD C LEDES
Key Cast:
DAVID PATRICK KELLY, ISMENIA MENDES
Writers:
RICHARD C LEDES, BETTY MILAN
Producers:
RICHARD C LEDES
Other Credits:
CINEMATOGRAPHER: VALENTINA CANIGLIA
Project Type:
Feature
Genres:
-
Country of Origin:
United States
Duration:
01:32:41
Language:
English
Completion Date:
2021-01-20
Alephia 2053
Synopsis:
Alephia 2053 is a story about three individuals in a race against time, and each other, to deal with the source of a cyberattack that has infiltrated the most secure surveillance systems of the most sophisticated and authoritarian regime in history.
Developed to be primarily published on streaming platforms,
the movie and its hosting website (alephia.xyz) Allow the viewer to
explore and experience life in dystopian fictional Alephia in the year 2053.
Directors:
Jorj Abou Mhaya
Key Cast:
Khaled El Sayed, Ali Saad, Gihan Malla
Writers:
Bassem Breiche
Producers:
Rabi Sweidan, Marwan Harb, Jules Kassas
Other Credits:
-
Project Type:
Animation
Genres:
-
Country of Origin:
Lebanon
Duration:
00:59:32
Language:
Arabic
Completion Date:
2021-03-20
ALL'ALBA PERDERO'
Synopsis:
The idea of telling the failure from a funny and at the same time constructive point of view seemed to me an urgent necessity. Given the current situation, where the spread of Covid has made us more fragile and vulnerable, the exploits of these extraordinary champions of defeat, protagonists of the film, give a tonic and regenerating effect for the soul. In short, it was the right story, at the right time! “Dare to lose to win”, the meaning of the film could be summed up in this slogan, where failure is no longer told as an unbearable burden but rather as a precious opportunity for growth. Talent is often associated with precocity, in many cases it is true: at 16 Maradona made his first hat-trick as a professional, Chaplin at six made his debut in the theater. However, there are artists like Cezanne who up to 40 years old did not promise well at all. What turned him into internationally renowned men? Cezanne is what is called "Late flower". The flower needs sun and water to be born. The late flower only needs one thing; to fail. Only through failure does it find its way, it strengthens and blossoms. At the beginning of their path a late flower and a failed one have the same trend, only over time one blooms while the other remains constant in the results. In short, the late flower manages to capitalize on its failures, it feeds on it to become strong.
Directors:
ANDREA MUZZI
Key Cast:
ANDREA MUZZI MIRIAM BARDINI MICHELE CRESTACCI ALESSANDRO RICCIO PAOLO CALABRESI ANGELA FINOCCHIARO ENZO GHINAZZI DANIELE MARMI NUNZIO CAPPIELLO
Writers:
ANDREA MUZZI
Producers:
HENEA PRODUCTIONS SRL
Other Credits:
-
Project Type:
Feature
Genres:
comedy, dark comedy
Country of Origin:
Italy
Duration:
01:26:00
Language:
Italian
Completion Date:
2021-04-10
AMIN
Synopsis:
Ilinca, an eight-year old orphan discovers God and starts praying for a family. A possible adoptive father appears at the orphanage, but his intentions are not the best. Ilinca's magical thinking and purity make her an easy target. After he lies and rapes two of the girls (Ilinca and Sofita) in the orphanage, a strange friendship forms between these girls. They start thinking of themselves as angels who do not feel pain, so they tease and test each other. Ilinca finds out her new friend will be adopted and is only consoled when Sofita brings her a puppy as a new friend. Together, they try to see if the puppy is an angel as well and kill it accidentally. Sofita is refused by her adoptive family and Ilinca realizes she has to do anything in her power to make the family take her. She runs to their feet and prays to God that they understand their way of thinking, as it was influenced by the rapist. In the end, the family decides to adopt both girls.
The sacred satire of the "stand art" host and great stuff before they become dust.
Directors:
Mox Mäkelä
Key Cast:
Anders Anttila, Frank Boyle
Writers:
Mox Mäkelä
Producers:
Mox Mäkelä
Other Credits:
-
Project Type:
Experimental, Feature
Genres:
-
Country of Origin:
Finland
Duration:
01:48:48
Language:
English
Completion Date:
2020-07-02
Bologna
Synopsis:
Two lranian girls have to meet each other in Bologna
Directors:
Arash Abbasi
Key Cast:
Minoo Mirshahvalad
Writers:
Arash Abbasi
Producers:
Arash Abbasi
Other Credits:
-
Project Type:
Feature, Short
Genres:
-
Country of Origin:
Italy
Duration:
00:09:34
Language:
Italian, Persian
Completion Date:
2019-01-15
Elected Girl
Synopsis:
An exploration of the type of lunacy which often parades as politics, Elected Girl takes a wild ride through the minds of those who package whatever can be sold to the voting public. They have found their next savior to be sold to the voters, and she has found the perfect vehicle to change the nation as she sees fit.
Directors:
-
Key Cast:
-
Writers:
-
Producers:
-
Other Credits:
Creator: Red Scarus
Project Type:
Experimental, Music Video
Genres:
-
Country of Origin:
United States
Duration:
00:04:02
Language:
English
Completion Date:
2020-09-11
EXTERNAL
Synopsis:
A revolutionary businessman tries to conquer the world with $2,000.
Directors:
Jonathan Taub, Leandro Taub
Key Cast:
Leandro Taub, Elizabeth Ehrlich, Christian Bargados
Writers:
Leandro Taub
Producers:
Jonathan Taub, Leandro Taub
Other Credits:
Line Producer: Manouk van Kuyk; Cinematographers: Jesse Mickle, Jonas Schneider; Production Management: Zee Marla Osh; Post-Production : Alfredo Acevedo; Art Department: Ignacio Farias; Sound Department: Niklas Matthaei, Benjamin De Vuyst; Edition: Leandro Taub, Jonathan Taub, Benjamin De Vuyst, Alfredo Acevedo; Colour Grading: Ana Montaño; Sound Design: Emmanuel Gayosso, Mauricio Nicoli; Foley: Niklas Matthaei; Animations: Ánfer Chávez , Sophia Schomberg , Nikolaus Baumgarten; Graphic Design: Ánfer Chávez , Stephan Van Kuyk
Project Type:
Feature
Genres:
Drama, Mystery, Thriller
Country of Origin:
United States
Duration:
01:23:00
Language:
English, Spanish
Completion Date:
2020-06-01
Faltenrock
Synopsis:
What does aging mean in a society when lives become longer? With their friend's camera, two young filmmakers follow four regulars of Hamburg’s FALTENROCK party scene where you have to be over 60 to get in. Mechthild, Christiane and Volker and Christian fly to China, love the symmetry of their bux tree, they volunteer for refugees and disappear into the realm of Facebook for three hours at a time. Dealing with our own vision of age, always means confronting society’s image of it. The documentary FALTENROCK wants to move between those images and challenge our own ideas about retirement. Do we need a new definition of “old”? Empathizing with different lifeworlds also means understanding that anything is possible. Only one thing is certain: Retirement doesn’t have to mean that life is coming to a standstill.
Directors:
Leonie Kock, Janina Rasch
Key Cast:
-
Writers:
Leonie Kock, Janina Rasch
Producers:
Leonie Kock, Janina Rasch
Other Credits:
-
Project Type:
Documentary, Feature, Student
Genres:
comedy, drama, society, dance, aging
Country of Origin:
Germany
Duration:
01:22:43
Language:
German
Completion Date:
2019-09-30
HOLD MY TONGUE
Synopsis:
The video, filled with reflections of collective and personal meanings, narrate, using small vignettes of poetic expression, a heartbreaking world where Man tolerates the onslaught of his tragic and arbitrary destiny with a kind of stoicism that, in some strange way, allows him to point out, accuse and finally redeem himself.
In this universe there is cynicism, hope, light, shadows, contemplation and detonation.
Directors:
ILAN BARZILAI
Key Cast:
-
Writers:
ILAN B
Producers:
ATTO ATTIE
Other Credits:
-
Project Type:
Animation, Experimental
Genres:
-
Country of Origin:
Mexico
Duration:
00:04:40
Language:
English
Completion Date:
2020-09-15
Holes
Synopsis:
A nameless woman and a nameless man, travel across a snowy landscape and discover the limits of their connection through dominant-submissive dynamics.
Directors:
Ali Emir Tapan
Key Cast:
Melis Tezkan, Enes KA
Writers:
Ali Emir Tapan, Yaya
Producers:
Ali Emir Tapan, Kaan Mujdeci, Muge Buyuktalas, Yaya, Letisya Tapan
Other Credits:
-
Project Type:
Short
Genres:
-
Country of Origin:
Turkey
Duration:
00:23:33
Language:
Turkish
Completion Date:
2020-02-11
If It's All the Same to You
Synopsis:
Music video for the Montreal band Reviews.
Directors:
Etienne Morneau
Key Cast:
-
Writers:
Etienne Morneau
Producers:
Etienne Morneau
Other Credits:
-
Project Type:
Music Video
Genres:
-
Country of Origin:
Canada
Duration:
00:03:40
Language:
English
Completion Date:
2020-11-19
Il Porto e la Tempesta
Synopsis:
Today Ettore is a lonely man. A man, it seems, unsuitable for what awaits him out there. He has his own apartment, though, where he can be safe. But what if he doesn’t have that either? What happens? Against the backdrop of a city in revolt, Ettore’s story intertwines with that of a young African boy, like him guilty only of being born in the midst of the Storm.
Directors:
Antonio Chiricò
Key Cast:
Ivan Olivieri, Haroun Fall
Writers:
Antonio Chiricò
Producers:
Lino Guanciale
Other Credits:
D.o.p.: Niccolò Palomba; Editor: Antonio Chiricò
Project Type:
Short
Genres:
drama
Country of Origin:
Italy
Duration:
00:15:00
Language:
Italian
Completion Date:
2020-02-05
Il Prigioniero / The Prisoner
Synopsis:
BRIEF HISTORY OF A PARADOXAL PRISON. Obedience and justice in the individual-society relationship Paolo and Maria take their leave happy one morning like any other. Misunderstanding, Paolo is accused of a theft, chased by passers-by, caught by a policeman and taken to a cellar, where he is told to stay. In order not to contravene the orders received, he decides to stay there beyond any reasonable measure, until he convinces his wife to share the absurd fate with him.
Directors:
Federico Olivetti
Key Cast:
Paolo Musio , Sabrina Impacciatore, Franco Ravera, Mariano Pirrello
Writers:
Federico Olivetti, Francesco Canova
Producers:
Kama Productions
Other Credits:
-
Project Type:
Short
Genres:
drama, grotesque
Country of Origin:
Italy
Duration:
00:15:00
Language:
Italian
Completion Date:
2019-09-27
In Search of Monsters
Synopsis:
IN SEARCH OF MONSTERS is an exploration of the American “War on Terror” 20 years after the 9/11 attacks, a film about Guantanamo, a study of the members of the Special Projects team – men and women accused of torture.
One of their victims, Mohamedou Slahi, was freed from Guantanamo in 2016. In 2017 Journalist John Goetz starts his search for Slahi’s torturers – a 3-year journey across America.
As the journey continues, members of the Special Projects team agree to appear on camera, and a remarkable revelation occurs. It seems Slahi is no longer the victim: he has learned to reconcile himself with his past. It is the Americans who are lost. Stuck in the past, suffering from nervous illness, it is America that now seems the victim of the shadowy side of the War on Terror.
Directors:
John Goetz, Ben Hopkins
Key Cast:
-
Writers:
John Goetz, Ben Hopkins
Producers:
Olaf Jacobs
Other Credits:
-
Project Type:
Documentary, Feature
Genres:
-
Country of Origin:
Germany
Duration:
01:29:00
Language:
English
Completion Date:
2021-07-31
INFORG
Synopsis:
We are probably the last generation to experience a clear difference between being online and being offline. INFORG embraces the future of being 100% online, a revolution in which the real world is totally absorbed by electronic smog and supermassive black holes.
An avantgarde music film with a story told by music and holes. Inspired by the extraordinary ideas of professor of philosophy, Luciano Floridi.
Directors:
Paul Schenk
Key Cast:
-
Writers:
Paul Schenk
Producers:
Paul Schenk
Other Credits:
-
Project Type:
Animation, Experimental, Short
Genres:
-
Country of Origin:
Netherlands
Duration:
00:10:33
Language:
English
Completion Date:
2020-01-13
Innocent Goodbye
Synopsis:
With her high school under siege, a teenage girl fights for her life in a standoff with the active shooter.
Directors:
Theresa Picciallo
Key Cast:
Niki Koss, Darren Barnet
Writers:
Theresa Picciallo
Producers:
Niki Koss, Theresa Picciallo, Robert Johnson
Other Credits:
-
Project Type:
Short
Genres:
-
Country of Origin:
United States
Duration:
00:12:57
Language:
English
Completion Date:
2020-03-01
Karma - Angelica
Synopsis:
Music video for Angelica’s song “Karma”. The film recounts in various scenes the transition from a dimension of solitude and detachment to one of company and celebration, where the singer immerses herself among people.
Directors:
Fabio Cotichelli, Emiliano Neroni
Key Cast:
-
Writers:
-
Producers:
Davide Cipolat, Video Ex Machina, Carosello Records
Other Credits:
DOP: Ciro Di Niccolò; Video Editor: Jacopo Ramella
Project Type:
Music Video
Genres:
-
Country of Origin:
Italy
Duration:
00:03:05
Language:
-
Completion Date:
2021-02-09
Memories of a Stranger
Synopsis:
Sam is a vagabond who wanders through the city; trapped by a strong sense of inadequacy, he will meet various characters in a semi-surreal journey. Inspired by "Notes from the Underground" written by Fedor Dostoevskij.
Directors:
Tommaso Frangini
Key Cast:
Samuel Camp, Ieva Vizgirdaite, James T. Majewski
Writers:
Tommaso Frangini
Producers:
Tommaso Frangini, Rui Xu, California Istitute of Arts (CALarts)
Moving Barcelona is a magical realist dance story about the Catalonian capital, an autonomous region in the Spanish State contending with an identity crisis. A city with everything going for it is still haunted by the ghosts of its past and despite much progress, it finds itself unearthing old wounds. Narrated by celebrated actor, Pep Munné, who appeals for calm, there is a sense of reassurance that all is okay. The movement of the city however tells a different story, and he is resigned to the fact that things inevitably, are the way they are. Barcelonians, in pursuit of happiness, find themselves on a treadmill to nowhere in a tale of modern day life. Moving Barcelona is the eighth film in an award-winning collection of works by the London-based film-maker, Jevan Chowdhury to capture the world as a stage. Life on the street in London, Paris, Brussels, Dallas, Prague, Yerevan and Athens have all been recorded in this growing canon.
Directors:
Jevan Chowdhury
Key Cast:
-
Writers:
Jevan Chowdhury
Producers:
-
Other Credits:
Co-Director: Laura Obiols; Composer: Kevin Matley; Narrator: Pep Munné; Executive Producer: Catherine Allard, Antoni Gutiérez-Rubí ; DOP: Jevan Chowdhury; Camera Assistant: Alberto Balazs; Cast: IT Dansa, La Veronal; Editor: Jevan Chowdhury
Project Type:
Experimental, Music Video, Short, Other
Genres:
Dance, Experimental, Poem
Country of Origin:
United Kingdom
Duration:
00:06:21
Language:
Catalan
Completion Date:
2021-05-11
MUDLARKER
Synopsis:
An injured school bus driver forced into retirement scavenges for survival at a radioactive beach in Brooklyn. An ode to aging — Mudlarker follows 66-year-old Adele Daly as she finds a means and a sense of belonging at Dead Horse Bay, a historic landfill littered with junk.
Directors:
Miles G. Cohen , Seb Tuinder
Key Cast:
Adele Daly , Merrill Kazanjian
Writers:
-
Producers:
-
Other Credits:
-
Project Type:
Documentary, Short, Student
Genres:
-
Country of Origin:
United States
Duration:
00:23:52
Language:
English
Completion Date:
2021-05-26
Mute
Synopsis:
Mute follows a middle aged woman as she unloads the details of her husband's infidelity on a deaf hitchhiker. What starts as just a ride becomes something much more sinister.
Mute is based on the short story of the same name by Stephen King, acquired through his Dollar Baby program for emerging filmmakers.
Directors:
Constance Hilton
Key Cast:
Cynthia Preston, Amanda Richer, Josh Vokey, Randy Butcher
Writers:
Constance Hilton
Producers:
Cynthia Preston, David Senior Jr.
Other Credits:
-
Project Type:
Short
Genres:
Drama, Mystery, Thriller
Country of Origin:
Canada
Duration:
00:16:41
Language:
English
Completion Date:
2019-10-30
Night Reflections
Synopsis:
A journey on the water, from the headlights of the vaporetto, new realities of light emerge.
Darkness squeezes human artifacts, thinning their boundaries.
The faint lights persist in their artificial presence.
Constructions resting on a broken mirror.
Fragments return images, distorted and complex.
Existing realities, but hidden from view, emerge.
The light is Byzantine decoration, lightning in the night, vision in the dark.
Bridges are patterns sewn on a tablecloth, houses on the water are wallpaper, "calli" (streets) and canals black chains.
Image expansion.
In the postcard city, always the same at the eyes of tired lovers, emergence of senses for fleeing souls.
Directors:
Paolo Pandin
Key Cast:
Andrea Gava
Writers:
-
Producers:
-
Other Credits:
-
Project Type:
Experimental, Music Video, Short
Genres:
-
Country of Origin:
Italy
Duration:
00:04:43
Language:
-
Completion Date:
2021-03-26
Off-season
Synopsis:
„Off-season” tells a story about fourteen-year-old Adam, who lives in a holiday resort by the sea, that is run by his parents. When a mysterious, mature Woman arrives to the resort, Adam becomes immediately captivated by her. Spying on her slowly turns into an obsession, which makes him explore his sexuality. While trying to grow up, Adam rebels against his parents who still perceive him as a small child. The movie touches on the subjects of coming-of-age, love, but also family and its disintegration while facing non-easy actions.
Directors:
Monika Majorek
Key Cast:
Ignacy Klim, Anna Moskal, Sylwia Nowiczewska, Norbert Kaczorowski
Writers:
Monika Majorek
Producers:
Maciej Ślesicki
Other Credits:
-
Project Type:
Short
Genres:
Drama
Country of Origin:
Poland
Duration:
00:18:19
Language:
Polish
Completion Date:
2020-03-01
Quiet on Set
Synopsis:
An actress assaulted on a film set during the filming of a sex scene, must choose whether to pursue accusations or complete the film that could start her career.
Directors:
Jeanette Buck
Key Cast:
Claire Autran, Vanessa Bradchulis, Max Monnig, Lorraine Wochna
Writers:
Rani Deighe Crowe
Producers:
Rani Deighe Crowe
Other Credits:
Crew: Wenting Deng Fisher, DP; Editor: Bonnie Rae Brickman; Music: Elizabeth Ziff
Project Type:
Short
Genres:
-
Country of Origin:
United States
Duration:
00:07:46
Language:
English
Completion Date:
2020-04-01
Rossellini Roma '21
Synopsis:
This is the story of one of the most iconic cars ever built and specially made for neorealist Maestro Roberto Rossellini.
It left its native Italy over half a century ago to lead a very different life, first in quiet French retirement before sailing for America where it found stardom. Now we’ve brought it home to be reunited with the humble streets and personalities of its youth, to reveal the untold human stories behind the bright lights and glittering celebrity…and to roar.
Directors:
Francesco Piras
Key Cast:
Mirko Venturi, Eleonora Eutizi, Mario Savona, Renzo Rossellini
Writers:
Guido Scassellati Sforzolini
Producers:
Simon Kidston, Guido Scassellati Sforzolini, Emanuele Collo
Other Credits:
-
Project Type:
Documentary
Genres:
-
Country of Origin:
Switzerland
Duration:
00:24:22
Language:
English, Italian
Completion Date:
2021-08-04
SAN DONATO BEACH
Synopsis:
A small visual essay on lonliness.
Tragicomic notes on being alone, through the equation of summer, of the sunny suburbs and of old songs.
The rhythm and the reiteration of silences, angular shadows, midday crickets. Of archaic audio accompanying desolate and courageous souls.
"There are no bogus storytelling of boredom, but the slow and imperceptible evolution of tender movements of hope".
Ezra is a street artist who feels time is running out to succeed in the art world. With an unhealthy obsession with social media he is followed online and encouraged to go around town, take pictures and repost work in exchange for likes. Ezra starts to do what this online personality wants pushing him into daring and dangerous scenarios.
Directors:
Suridh Hassan
Key Cast:
Ezra Dickinson
Writers:
-
Producers:
-
Other Credits:
Music: James Longley; Editor: Tim Grabham
Project Type:
Animation, Experimental, Short
Genres:
-
Country of Origin:
United States
Duration:
00:23:00
Language:
-
Completion Date:
2021-05-14
SPY
Synopsis:
Jimmy has dreams of a better life. Living, however, might not be an option as his past is suddenly proving difficult to reconcile.
Directors:
Natalie Spence
Key Cast:
Brandon Wayne, Carlotta Migliolo, Mark Adams, James Raydan, David Carfora
Writers:
Natalie Spence
Producers:
Natalie Spence
Other Credits:
Associate Producer: Hussein Khoder; 1st Assistant Director: Hussein Khoder; Cinematographer: Benjamin A. Thompson; Editor: Benjamin A. Thompson; Gaffer: Cassten Roberts; Sound Recordist: Alex Christensen, James Browning; Make Up and SFX: Emma Rose, Armanda Dickson
Project Type:
Short
Genres:
Drama, Romance, Dark Comedy
Country of Origin:
Australia
Duration:
00:40:01
Language:
English
Completion Date:
2021-08-30
Subtropics
Synopsis:
Documentary short film about my father, his horrible job ( as a forensic pathologists) and my memories about him.
Directors:
levan borisoff
Key Cast:
-
Writers:
Levan Borisoff
Producers:
Levan Borisoff
Other Credits:
-
Project Type:
Animation, Documentary, Short, Student
Genres:
-
Country of Origin:
Russian Federation
Duration:
00:29:57
Language:
Russian
Completion Date:
2019-12-10
Sunlight
Synopsis:
A woman recounts a nightmare in which she is at a garden party speaking to a stranger who is not real.
Directors:
Laurence Rosier Staines
Key Cast:
Harriet Gordon-Anderson, Hayley Sullivan
Writers:
Laurence Rosier Staines
Producers:
Laurence Rosier Staines
Other Credits:
-
Project Type:
Short
Genres:
-
Country of Origin:
Australia
Duration:
00:02:14
Language:
English
Completion Date:
2021-05-18
Sycamore
Synopsis:
An old man spends the day wandering the streets of Istanbul. He communicates with the trees and seagulls rather than other people. All day, he checks the ATMs to find change like a child, even though he does not own an ATM card. He gets happy when he finds money and indignant when he doesn’t. For the old man, life is like a game that has remained from his childhood. And the sycamore leaves are a part of this innocent game.
Directors:
Mehmet Tığlı
Key Cast:
Mahmut Gökgöz, Barış Aksavaş, Sefa Turan
Writers:
Mehmet Tığlı
Producers:
Erkan Şimşir
Other Credits:
-
Project Type:
Short
Genres:
-
Country of Origin:
Turkey
Duration:
00:14:50
Language:
Turkish
Completion Date:
2019-12-11
The Deluge
Synopsis:
Syndafloden (The Deluge) is the first joint full-length feature film by Jenni and Lauri Luhta. The work is visual-cinematic, realized through digital collage technique. The film's script is based on the prophecies and riddles in the work diaries of Leonardo da Vinci (1452–1519). The work on the film began in the spring of 2019, when 500 years had passed since Leonardo's death and the Notre Dame of Paris caught fire.
Our journey starts with Leonardo wandering amongst nature's sublime wonders and rumblings, finally coming upon a cave. A secret is found therein: it is Death (played by Jenni Luhta), reciting Leonardo's prophecies in Swedish for the remainder of the film. Through Leonardo's words and visions, we look into the state of the contemporary world, our present age that was born from the shock of the 20th century and the World Wars. As our story is narrated by Leonardo through Death's lips, our emotional guide for the duration of the trip is Olavi Paavolainen (1903–1964), a Finnish critic and essayist to whom this film is dedicated. As Paavolainen represents the 20th century tragic European (melancholic Parisian influence on modernity, fears of decline of the West, witnessing WWII, genocide and atomic bombings), the present is portrayed by a fish-eyed Follower (played by Lauri Luhta) of Death. The passive Follower accepts the strange death of Europe, as well as his own death, but in his total, futile emptiness is ready to be reborn, realizing that the great turning in the West away from what is best began already before Leonardo’s time, the so-called Renaissance...
The unique translations of Leonardo's fragments to Swedish used in the film were made in collaboration with visual artist and translator Magnus Strandberg. Syndafloden is in Swedish language, because "Döden talar svenska" ("Death speaks Swedish") as the meme goes. The character of the narrator cannot be seen in isolation from the "medieval" figure of Death in Ingmar Bergman's Det sjunde inseglet (The Seventh Seal). Moreover, the filmmakers find Swedish language to be as "sjungande" ("singing") as Italian. The directors have also been inspired by Andrei Tarkovsky’s last work Offret (The Sacrifice), which was filmed in Sweden.
Directors:
Jenni & Lauri Luhta
Key Cast:
Jenni Luhta, Lauri Luhta
Writers:
Jenni Luhta
Producers:
Lauri Luhta
Other Credits:
-
Project Type:
Animation, Experimental
Genres:
-
Country of Origin:
Finland
Duration:
01:21:14
Language:
Finnish, Swedish
Completion Date:
2021-09-30
The Fourth Man
Synopsis:
All kinds of deals go down on the golf course and this is one for the history books.....
Directors:
William Amendola
Key Cast:
-
Writers:
Randy S Kirk
Producers:
Randy S Kirk, Jim Henry
Other Credits:
-
Project Type:
Short
Genres:
-
Country of Origin:
Canada
Duration:
00:07:40
Language:
-
Completion Date:
2016-10-31
The Girl on the Moon
Synopsis:
The year is 2069. Aboriginal Australian girl Luna, the only child ever born on the Moon, yearns to travel to Earth but her weak Moonling body would never survive there. At least that’s what her mother has always told her …
Directors:
Georgina Jenkins
Key Cast:
Sandy Greenwood
Writers:
Georgina Jenkins, Sue McPherson
Producers:
Georgina Jenkins
Other Credits:
Director of Photography: Robb Shaw-Velzen; Editor: Bill Russo; Composer: Madeleine Cocolas; Sound Designer: Tim Duck
Project Type:
Experimental, Short
Genres:
-
Country of Origin:
Australia
Duration:
00:05:00
Language:
English
Completion Date:
2020-12-04
The Glass
Synopsis:
Miguel, 17 years old, lives in the country side with his grandfather.
One day, while cleaning the bottles of beer that his grandfather had left, he notices a peculiar red string that goes towards the forest and seems to have no end. Attached to the string is a
cup. After the young man wonders, he hears a voice coming from the object. The voice of a girl named Lidia.
Directors:
Rodrigo Ferreira
Key Cast:
Rubén da Silva, Mariana Montenegro
Writers:
Rodrigo Ferreira, Sara Rosa
Producers:
Sara Rosa, Rodrigo Ferreira, Lusófona Filmes
Other Credits:
Director of Photography: Duarte Rodrigues, Dan Ilco
Project Type:
Short, Student
Genres:
-
Country of Origin:
Portugal
Duration:
00:16:09
Language:
Portuguese
Completion Date:
2020-11-25
The Leaving Room
Synopsis:
While sitting comfortably in her living room, feet propped up on the coffee table, Star receives quite the shock. What ensues is a journey inward, accompanied by the faces and facets of her ego. This story is stylistically kitsch and told through dance for camera in five acts.
Directors:
Aly Rose
Key Cast:
Tao Siye, Dong Lingyu, Qian Tingting, Shirley Zhao, Amelia Jin, Miki Bin
Writers:
Aly Rose
Producers:
Zhang Lin, Chen Chun, Aly Rose
Other Credits:
-
Project Type:
Experimental, Short, Other
Genres:
Dance on Film
Country of Origin:
China
Duration:
00:14:15
Language:
Chinese, English
Completion Date:
2020-11-04
THE TOUCH OF MOON
Synopsis:
(Cinematographic Documentary) Giovanni Paneroni 23/01/1871 - 02/01/1950 of Rudiano (BS). From ice cream maker and pastry chef to self-educated astronomer and unaware pataphysicist, Paneroni disagreed with the whole astronomical world shouting "The earth does not turn, oh beasts!". Indeed, he cultivated with conviction his personal anti-Galilean theories about the universe, defending them honestly with heart and passion, being noticed in Italy and also abroad, between seriousness and extravagance, in University, political and popular field until the end of his days. His theories have acquired over the years an artistic and cultural symbolism beyond the concepts contained in them.
Directors:
GIACOMO ANDRICO
Key Cast:
FRANCO BALDUZZI, EMANUELE COMINELLI, GIUSEPPE MURACHELLI, GIANNINO ZUCCHI, ENRICO MIRANI, VITTORIO VEZZOLI, EDOARDO LUCA RADICE, TANIA SOFIA LORANDI, LAURA SALERI, MARIA FORNARI, GIUSEPPINA ALLEGRINI, FEDERICO MANENTI, ANGELA PANERONI, GIOVANNI RIVA
Writers:
-
Producers:
WILLYCO ASSOCIAZIONE CULTURALE
Other Credits:
COLLABORATORE ALLA REGIA: EMANUELE FANELLI; SOGGETTO E DISEGNI: GIACOMO ANDRICO; MONTAGGIO: GIACOMO ANDRICO; COLLABORATORE AL MONTAGGIO: EMANUELE FANELLI; MUSICHE ORIGINALI: CLAUDIO SMUSSI
Project Type:
Documentary, Feature
Genres:
-
Country of Origin:
Italy
Duration:
01:20:00
Language:
Italian
Completion Date:
2019-01-30
TIME IS GOD
Synopsis:
“TIME is not real - it is a human construct to help us differentiate between now and our perception of the past,
The concept of time is simply an illusion made up of human memories, everything that has ever been and ever will be is happening RIGHT NOW.
Directors:
Pepo Alfaro , Elena Gutierrez, Pablo Garrido
Key Cast:
-
Writers:
Pepo Alfaro, Eduardo Ostos
Producers:
11:11 Filmakers, Ed is Dead
Other Credits:
-
Project Type:
Music Video
Genres:
Sci-fi, Distopian, Globalization
Country of Origin:
Spain
Duration:
00:04:00
Language:
No Dialogue
Completion Date:
2020-04-08
Trees Under Water
Synopsis:
When the young photographer Simon sets out to photograph a motif that has has been on his mind for a long time,
he is hit by the tour-bus of an overtired punk band.
Concise scenes from his life appear before his inner eye:
Memories of things past, habitual actions and schemes of the present, narratives and fictions.
Directors:
Julian Simon Pache
Key Cast:
-
Writers:
Julian Simon Pache, Mattias Engling
Producers:
Julian Simon Pache, Lukas Soboll
Other Credits:
Executive Producer: Dennis Faßbender; DOP: Lukas Soboll
Project Type:
Experimental, Short, Student
Genres:
-
Country of Origin:
Germany
Duration:
00:24:24
Language:
German
Completion Date:
2021-01-01
When The Roads End
Synopsis:
Divided into four chapters, and narrated by Maurizio Lombardi's voice over "When The Roads End" aims to raise awareness among road users - primarily the youngest - about the high degree of danger related to driving a motor vehicle. Through different witnesses- ranging from relatives of road accident victims to first aid operators - the documentary tells the pain of those involved in a road accident, recalling the enormous responsibility that affects anyone who drives in the roads.
Directors:
Lorenzo Borghini
Key Cast:
Maurizio Lombardi
Writers:
Lorenzo Borghini
Producers:
Lorenzo Borghini, Ubaldo Giusti, Raoul Soldaini, Umberto De Tomi, Andrea Pampaloni
Other Credits:
Director of Photography: Tommaso Alvisi; Editor: Theo Putzu; Composer: Francesco Bondi; Sound Editor: Saverio Damiani; Production Manager: Giacomo Gandossi; Production Designer: Elisa Mugnaini
Project Type:
Documentary, Feature
Genres:
-
Country of Origin:
Italy
Duration:
01:06:39
Language:
Italian
Completion Date:
2021-01-03
2020
AMERICAN MARRIAGE
Synopsis:
Leonardo, an Italian immigrant who lives in New York, marries a Latina woman, Nikki, to obtain the American greencard. Through the comedy of it all Nikki and Leo fall in love “for real” but it looks like "Uncle Sam" will be the one to have the last laugh.
Directors:
Giorgio Arcelli Fontana
Key Cast:
Giorgio Arcelli Fontana, Lori Hammel
Writers:
James Ivory (Collaboration)
Producers:
Stephen Gibler , James Ivory
Other Credits:
-
Project Type:
Short
Genres:
-
Country of Origin:
Italy
Duration:
00:14:45
Language:
English
Completion Date:
2019-07-05
Buried Seeds
Synopsis:
Buried Seeds, a film by Andrei Severny, is a timeless and true story of human passion, willpower, and resolve in the face of adversity. The film follows Michelin Star Chef Vikas Khanna on his journey as an immigrant.
Born with clubbed feet in Amritsar, Vikas is bullied by his classmates. Khanna takes refuge in his grandmothers kitchen and discovers his passion for the vivid traditions of Indian cuisine.
At the age of 29, Vikas moves to New York with nothing in his pocket and ends up in a homeless shelter. Through years of struggle and hard work Vikas opens his first Indian restaurant in Manhattan.
Vikas Khanna grows to become one of the most influential chefs in the world and a cultural ambassador of his nation. While wealth and glory may be transient, what truly defines him is the will to create himself every single day.
Directors:
Andrei Severny
Key Cast:
Vikas Khanna
Writers:
-
Producers:
-
Other Credits:
-
Project Type:
Documentary, Feature
Genres:
Documentary, Biography
Country of Origin:
United States
Duration:
01:14:00
Language:
English
Completion Date:
2019-02-06
Censoring Nuremberg
Synopsis:
Dr. Arnold Joseph, Professor Emeritus of Modern Languages, taught French at Denison University in Ohio from 1963-1990. In another life, Arnie was a translator of mail to and from Nazi prisoners in Germany at the Nuremberg Trials after War War II. Censoring Nuremberg chronicles his time at the trials.
Directors:
Tim Raycroft and David Bussan
Key Cast:
Arnold Joseph
Writers:
Tim Raycroft and David Bussan
Producers:
David Bussan and Tim Raycroft
Other Credits:
-
Project Type:
Documentary, Short
Genres:
-
Country of Origin:
United States
Duration:
00:13:55
Language:
English
Completion Date:
2019-05-10
CHAOS
Synopsis:
"Chaos makes us alive, Destiny kills us." Three moments, three characters, the same person. The past shapes us, changes the present and distorts the future. we can't run away from the events,which create the monsters that define who we are. A shock suffered by the subject during his childhood will mark him for the rest of his life.
Directors:
Giacomo Morlando
Key Cast:
Bruno Memoli, Titti Nuzzolese
Writers:
Giacomo Morlando
Producers:
Giacomo Morlando
Other Credits:
-
Project Type:
Short
Genres:
Drama
Country of Origin:
Italy
Duration:
00:18:51
Language:
Italian
Completion Date:
2019-06-30
Charlie
Synopsis:
An everyday situation, shopping for glasses, turns into a surreal affair. In a claustrophobic world, the optometrist, the grandson and the grandfather wrestle and there is only one way out. Because that gun has been loaded for too long.
In this modern adaptation of Slawomir Mrozek’s eternal play, Charlie, political hatred leaves the online sphere to walk straight in through the door.
Directors:
Koroknyai Róbert
Key Cast:
Antal Cserna, Gusztáv Molnár, Károly Horváth, Alexandra Lancz
Writers:
Robert Koroknyai
Producers:
Marion Kurucz, Judit Romwalter
Other Credits:
-
Project Type:
Short
Genres:
-
Country of Origin:
Hungary
Duration:
00:15:50
Language:
Hungarian
Completion Date:
2019-10-30
CIAO, LUCA
Synopsis:
Andrea Di Giovanni suffers a stroke at the age of 71, on December 13th 2016. He says his last words on his hospital bed to his son Luca, young actor: "Ciao, Luca". The sudden loss brings Luca back on his feet on the harsh stage of everyday life.
Only three months later the desperate need to get past the grief brings Luca to start the Ciao, Luca Italy Tour, a photographic travelling project which immortalizes he and his dad in 110 art shots. During six months (from March to September 2017) Luca travels alone to visit 110 cities, all italian provincial capitals.
In the eight months that follow his return Luca pursues a new goal: to relate his experience in a one man show. When he finally stages his monologue on May 4th 2018 he's not satisfied anymore: he'd realised that making a movie is the best way to tell the story of his everyday life during the last year and half in all its complexity. Writing this film becomes his new obsession.
After two months of exhausting writing sessions, on July the 9th 2018 Luca has a nervous breakdown due to a very intense depressive crisis. He must stop. Few days after his faint, Luca quit the idea of producing his film in a canonical way and decides to turn it into a documentary. He begins to shoot without a script nor a precise idea of what is going to happen, and starts another road trip through Italy followed only by a boom and a camera operator. His new goal: to meet and talk with the most important people of his life.
This is how the complex genesis of the film becomes Ciao, Luca itself: conversating with his relatives Luca appears as himself, but in the film he's not just an actor, author and director. He's a 37 years old son trying to become a man by revealing the mystery of his father's life.
Ciao, Luca is a journey in the search of lost time, where road movie meets coming of age. Will the enquiring power of cinema and the affection of his beloved ones help Luca to give a name to his and his father's story?
Directors:
Luca Di Giovanni
Key Cast:
Luca Di Giovanni , Bianca Friscelli, Cinzia Bianchini, Chiara Di Giovanni, Francesca Di Giovanni, Antonino Di Giovanni, Roberto Pruneddu, Arianna Lo Cascio, Fabiana Del Vico, Andrea Polimeni, Lorenzo Giovenga, Jacopo Lattanzio
Writers:
Luca Di Giovanni
Producers:
Luca Di Giovanni , Onlus Ceralaccha, Ravic Film, Carla Signoris
Other Credits:
-
Project Type:
Documentary, Experimental
Genres:
-
Country of Origin:
Italy
Duration:
01:12:00
Language:
Italian
Completion Date:
2019-08-03
Divine Monkey - the tragedy of the beggars
Synopsis:
Vicenza, 1978. A man reads a newspaper. An article catches his attention: the corpses of a painter and a boy, belonging to a cult of alienated fools, are found in an elegant house of the upper middle class. The article reconstructs the obscure and grotesque story of this cult, permeated with bizarre characters: a double-lived swindling doctor, a confused paraplegic painter, an ambiguous girl who practices esoteric rituals.
In a dream scape, a masquerade is about to begin. Inside a mystic room filled with mirrors, under the watchful care of courtesans, a sensual lady prepares herself for a battle of wits and charms. The prize? A King for the night.
Her rival shares her heart’s desire and is equally prepared to match her in every way over a game of chess. The question is, which of the two will take the other’s prize of the night?
Directors:
Tarek Sursock
Key Cast:
Raphaella Sanches
Writers:
-
Producers:
-
Other Credits:
-
Project Type:
Experimental
Genres:
-
Country of Origin:
Switzerland
Duration:
00:05:13
Language:
-
Completion Date:
-
Execution
Synopsis:
A renegade band of females stages an execution of rapists and killers in a classroom
Directors:
Stavit Allweis
Key Cast:
Natalia Plaza, Yana Bron, Chiara De Caroli, Lieselotte Nickmans, Vilma Hodo, Josephine Cooper, Adia Smith -Eriksson, Elly Han
Writers:
Stavit Allweis
Producers:
Shuchi Talati, Hillevi Loven
Other Credits:
Director of Photography: Jih-E Peng
Project Type:
Experimental, Feature, Short
Genres:
-
Country of Origin:
United States
Duration:
00:40:00
Language:
English
Completion Date:
2020-09-10
Fine Dying
Synopsis:
Chef Arthur, who is very sensitive to nature, is entertaining an important jury for dinner. Arthur who does yoga and kisses his flowers every morning turns into another character when he puts the chef apron on. He turns the kitchen into a battlefield while trying to cook the best food for the juries. There is no trace of this naïve man anymore. Arthur who is not even able to hurt a fly does not keep away from murdering animals and sacrificing anything for flavour when he steps into the kitchen.
Directors:
Umut Evirgen
Key Cast:
Burak Yamantürk, Hazer Amani, Seda Akman
Writers:
Umut Evirgen
Producers:
Umut Evirgen
Other Credits:
-
Project Type:
Short
Genres:
-
Country of Origin:
Turkey
Duration:
00:15:00
Language:
-
Completion Date:
2019-06-24
Fragments
Synopsis:
Robert, an independent actor, decides to finish writing the fragments of a script left behind by his son, Conrad, who was kidnapped by the military five years ago.
He asks his director friend, Kiki, to direct the film. He and Kiki, as well, decide to act as the lead actors in the film.
The shooting of the film is stalled a number of times because Robert does not know how
to end the film. This is because he refuses to acknowledge that he still resents Conrad's having chosen the movement over him.
Like all the relatives of the disappeared or "desaparecidos", Robert still hopes to
eventually find his son. He keeps Conrad's room the way it was the day he disappeared.
He writes unsent letters that he keeps in a drawer. He joins endless rallies. He
identifies exhumed corpses, hoping yet fighting against hope that it could be
his son.
In the meantime, Kiki, a lesbian living in with her partner, is involved in a losing
battle for custody for her two children. Eventually his American ex-husband absconds
their children and leaves for the States.
Together, Robert and Kiki grapple with issues of self-guilt as they also try to see
how far film can, and can not, address personal and social issues, in a society
that in all impunity has reduced people to numbers.
Directors:
McArthur Alejandre
Key Cast:
-
Writers:
Ricky Lee
Producers:
-
Other Credits:
-
Project Type:
Feature
Genres:
-
Country of Origin:
Philippines
Duration:
02:05:28
Language:
Tagalog
Completion Date:
2019-07-31
Gone
Synopsis:
A bickering family on a road trip stops at a gas station. Murielle, the mother, insists on having the car washed.
Directors:
Joan Bentosela
Key Cast:
Aurélie Pitrat, Sylvain Geray, Hanna Fiedrich
Writers:
Joan Bentosela
Producers:
Joan Bentosela
Other Credits:
-
Project Type:
Short
Genres:
-
Country of Origin:
France
Duration:
00:13:00
Language:
French
Completion Date:
2019-03-26
Hand Solo - Marika Hackman
Synopsis:
Music promo for Marika Hackman's song 'Hand Solo' - a much needed anthem to female masturbation. The film explores the overwhelmingly phallic environment of architecture, teasing out the yonic shapes within it.
Made by a production crew of 85% women, and movement directed by Eve Fehilly, a sexpert from London's famous SH! store, Hand Solo builds towards an Earth shattering orgasm before sharing real testimonials about masturbation and shame. It's evident that even in 2020 we still have a long way to go to undo the taboos of self love.
Directors:
Sam Bailey
Key Cast:
Marika Hackman, Evie Fehilly, Dineo Moore, Helena Jerreat, Lesley Westrop, Daisy Rylance, Jay Brown, Rebecca Song, Miriam Wakeling
Writers:
Sam Bailey
Producers:
Scarlett Anderson
Other Credits:
Executive Producer: Simone Radclyffe; Movement Director/Sexpert: Evie Fehilly; DOP: Ben Westaway; VFX: Sam Bailey, Hannah Stanczyk; Flame Artist: Eileen Chan; Colourist: Samantha Day; Executive Post Producer: Jenna Le Noury; Junior Post Producer: Katie Gillard
Project Type:
Music Video
Genres:
Romance
Country of Origin:
United Kingdom
Duration:
00:03:51
Language:
English
Completion Date:
2019-11-04
Home Away
Synopsis:
Mr. Zhou, in order to purchase the VIP membership of a nursing home, wants to seize the opportunity of the relocation of his house by arranging a fake marriage with Mrs. Dong to acquire more money out of the compensation.
But Mrs. Dong, fearing karma, has her doubts all along. Zhou Ping, Mr. Zhou's son, on the other hand, sees the relocation as an opportunity to buy a school estate for his daughter.
Yun, Mrs. Dong's nanny who's from Sichuan Province, is suddenly informed that her brother has been hit by a car in her hometown, and, therefore, in urgent need of 100,000 RMB to pay for the operation. When she comes to know of Mr. Zhou's plan of the "fake marriage", she offers to help him out but asks for 100,000 RMB in advance. Having learned about her father-in-law's intention of marrying Mrs. Dong, Huang Lili, Zhou Ping's wife, has stolen his household register. As a result, Mr. Zhou, when he is about to give the bankbook with a deposit of 100,000 to Yun, finds that his household register is gone in which the bankbook is tucked.
In the meantime, Mrs. Dong is suffering from a fall after an eye operation and her daughter finds out that Yun has been seeing doctors using her mother's Medicare card.
Unable to get in touch with her, Yun's husband who has been in the countryside has also arrived in Shanghai...
Directors:
Oliver Yan
Key Cast:
Huang Lu, Xu Caigen, Li Pin Feng, Wen Ting
Writers:
Oliver Yan
Producers:
Oliver Yan
Other Credits:
Crew: Jong Lin, Michael Hough, Oliver Yan
Project Type:
Feature
Genres:
Drama
Country of Origin:
China
Duration:
01:36:08
Language:
Chinese
Completion Date:
2017-02-20
I am Fatou
Synopsis:
Fatou is a 23-year-old Italian girl of Senegalese origin. She lives in a suburb of Rome with his mother, who would like to educate according to the rigid impositions of her culture of origin. But Fatou is looking for her own identity that combines his black Muslim being with Italian society, and unlike most of his peers, the social stigma of the immigrant is imprinted on her, who isolates her and reduces her friendships with other young children of foreigners. Her authentic passion and screen against prejudice is singing: music is what will never betray herself.
Directors:
Amir Ramadan
Key Cast:
Fatou Sokhna, Nar Gada Gaye, Riccardo Petrozzi
Writers:
Amir Ramadan
Producers:
Giulio Baraldi
Other Credits:
Music: Martino Onorato; Editing: Daniele Nozzi
Project Type:
Short
Genres:
-
Country of Origin:
Italy
Duration:
00:18:12
Language:
Afrikaans, Italian
Completion Date:
2019-03-01
I GUERRIERI (THE WARRIORS)
Synopsis:
This is the story of a family and its journey. This family is mine.
I had just finished training to become a filmmaker, when after 17 years of struggle; my father enters into the final stage of Parkinson's disease.
I decide to borrow a camera and leave for Italy to film my father and family's last Christmas together.
From the television of the family bar, I hear that the Maya have announced the end of the world ... Is this the beginning of the end…? or just bullshit!
My father decides to live and fight for another two years.
We have supported him without limits.
The hospital room becomes our new home, warm and welcoming: card games, loud laughter and euphoric dances ... all accompanied by the indelible songs of Adriano Celentano… Our actual house, on the contrary, becomes a sad and abandoned place, where family members prepare themselves several times for the funeral and where they are continually challenged.
Mine is an introspective journey in search of my origins and what my future will be.
I Guerrieri is an Italian painting of our humanity facing the separation from the loved ones.
Directors:
Loredana Acquaviva
Key Cast:
-
Writers:
Loredana Acquaviva
Producers:
Gérôme Bouda
Other Credits:
Co Producer and Sound Engineer: Daniel Pearson - sound engineer
Project Type:
Documentary
Genres:
-
Country of Origin:
France
Duration:
00:51:50
Language:
Italian
Completion Date:
2019-07-08
INCIDENTALLY ALIVE
Synopsis:
A lost boy is chasing his lost side.
Directors:
Zion Lacroix
Key Cast:
Brek, Sarp Ozkaracalar, Goksu Cicek, Eralp Arzoglu, Zoe Kohen
Writers:
Zion Lacroix, Brek
Producers:
Zion Lacroix
Other Credits:
-
Project Type:
Music Video
Genres:
lo-fi, dark wave, synth wave
Country of Origin:
Italy
Duration:
00:03:12
Language:
Turkish
Completion Date:
2019-08-20
Kourtney of Parkdale
Synopsis:
~ A day in the kooky life of a street hustler from Toronto as she struggles to find herself amid colorful neighborhood characters.~
Kourtney of Parkdale is a day in the life of a street hustler from Toronto as she goes about her daily struggles.
A character like no other whose life is torn apart between addiction and relationships, Kourtney begins her day with a failed hustle then a visit to her her friend Brookyln as they grind together at their favorite corner .
Her pimp ,Shorty ,a sleazeball who dresses every day of the week after a different color and today being Tuesday he is in blue, shows up to get paid and tries to hurt Kourtney but she is saved by Brooklyn who convinces Shorty to leave her alone not before Shorty steals her phone promising to give it back only after she gives him her money.
Desperate and alone, Kourtney tries another hustle only to meet the most depraved couple known to man, Pumpkin and Honeybunny who take her to their to their apartment where she runs away from and after stealing their money she heads directly to Shorty's lair to pay him back the money and recover her phone.
Driven by her addictions ,she smokes more crack and she has a few strange encounters all the while couldn't tell the difference between being high and sober.
Kourtney fights Shorty and she takes her phone back. She checks her voicemail and listens to a message from her son, Simon whose Birthday is revealed that Kourtney just missed.
Directors:
Razvan Anton, Jamieson Child
Key Cast:
Luke Slade, Keisha Drummond, Darcy Corbett, AJ Jaywar, Jaclyn Michelle
Writers:
Razvan Anton, Jamieson Child, Andrew Child
Producers:
Razvan Anton
Other Credits:
-
Project Type:
Short
Genres:
Surrealist
Country of Origin:
Canada
Duration:
00:20:44
Language:
English
Completion Date:
2019-03-09
LA PETITE FOLIE
Synopsis:
Occupied Paris 1943. A group of misfits, comrades in the underground bohemian lifestyle, come together to defy the oppression of the new world order. As a group, they take one final stand to prove the resilience of the human spirit.
Directors:
Massimo Zannoni
Key Cast:
Tarryn Meaker, Adrian Klein, Carsten Clemens, Ray Gelato
Writers:
Massimo Zannoni
Producers:
Kevin Barnett, Massimo Zannoni
Other Credits:
-
Project Type:
Student
Genres:
Drama, Musical
Country of Origin:
United Kingdom
Duration:
00:12:33
Language:
English
Completion Date:
2019-02-28
Ludovico De Luigi - Svedutista Visionario Veneziano
Synopsis:
Maestro Ludovico De Luigi, through the story and images of his eccentric life, reveals his artistic inspiration and the secrets of his soul with generosity of details. The paintings created by his timeless imagination are entirely dedicated to his beloved Venice and to the extreme attempt to save it. His paintings and colossal bronze horses scattered throughout the continents are visionary and instinctively exciting. The message, that comes forcefully from the creative inspiration and the free and vital energy of the Maestro, is that the only thing that can save us from oblivion is the beauty.
Il Maestro De Luigi, attraverso il racconto e le immagini della sua eccentrica vita, rivela con generosità di particolari la sua ispirazione artistica ed i segreti del suo animo. Le tele create dalla sua immaginazione senza tempo sono interamente dedicate alla sua amatissima Venezia e all'estremo tentativo di salvarla. I suoi dipinti ed i suoi colossali cavalli di bronzo sparsi nei vari continenti sono visionari ed istintivamente emozionanti. Il messaggio che arriva con forza dall'estro creativo e dall'energia libera e vitale del Maestro è che l'unica cosa che ci può salvare dall’oblio è la bellezza.
Directors:
Stefania Soellner
Key Cast:
-
Writers:
Stefania Soellner
Producers:
Stefania Soellner, Francesco Abonante
Other Credits:
Cinematographer: Miro Evangelisti; Editor: Miro Evangelisti; Compositor: Paolo Simoni
Project Type:
Documentary
Genres:
-
Country of Origin:
Italy
Duration:
00:52:45
Language:
Italian
Completion Date:
2019-01-03
Manifesting Greatness. A True Story by Raz Degan
Synopsis:
Raz Degan was struggling in NY hoping to land that elusive ticket to stardom. Until one day he received a call from the other side of the globe that would change his life forever. Today, 25 years later, Degan unveils the unique experience of discovering his dream had manifested, but was the last to find out.
In the mid 90's, Raz traveled to Italy to shoot a TV commercial for the iconic liquor brand, Jägermeister. After the shoot, he returned to NY to pursue his dreams. Little did Raz know, that commercial he landed in Italy would steal the hearts of many and eventually become an Italian cultural phenomenon that would strike him with incredible fame overnight. The irony of the tale was that almost a year went by before he found out he had become famous and was in great demand on the other side of the globe.
Today, Degan reunites with the German liquor brand to launch their new premium liquor called MANIFEST. Written, produced and directed by Degan himself, the short doc is a true account of how Raz “manifested” his own dreams through his Jägermeister experience. This authentic story of life’s unexpected twists and turns will take viewers on an exciting journey through space and time.
Directors:
Raz Degan
Key Cast:
Raz Degan
Writers:
Raz Degan, Cynthia Kiley
Producers:
Raz Degan, Cynthia Kiley
Other Credits:
-
Project Type:
Documentary, Television, Web / New Media
Genres:
Short documentary, Advertising, Documentary
Country of Origin:
Italy
Duration:
00:04:30
Language:
English
Completion Date:
2019-10-09
Mondo Hollywoodland
Synopsis:
Oscar® nominee James Cromwell presents a groovy mushrooms dealer and a man from the fifth dimension journey through Hollywood to find the meaning of the word 'Mondo.' Shot on an iPhone.
Directors:
Janek Ambros
Key Cast:
Barry Shay, Chris Blim, Alex Loynaz, Jessica Jade Andres, Alyssa Sabo
Writers:
Janek Ambros, Chris Blim, Marcus Hart
Producers:
Janek Ambros, Kelly Parker, Chris Blim
Other Credits:
-
Project Type:
Feature
Genres:
-
Country of Origin:
United States
Duration:
01:29:00
Language:
English
Completion Date:
2020-01-10
One In 50 Million
Synopsis:
Nawaal Akram is a fairy on wheels, a witty wise water sprite made to live in the desert. Diagnosed with Duchenne Muscular Distrophy, a rare chromosomal mutation in women ( only one in 50 million), she uses fashion, make-up, and stand-up comedy as a platform for her activism. Her gradually debilitating health does not seem to affect her energy and zest for life, but her body has already started to fail her. At 19, she’s conscious of her imminent destiny and lives more intensely than ever.
Directors:
Luciana Ceccatto Farah
Key Cast:
Nawaal Akram
Writers:
Luciana Ceccatto Farah
Producers:
Luciana Ceccatto Farah
Other Credits:
-
Project Type:
Documentary
Genres:
-
Country of Origin:
Qatar
Duration:
00:15:00
Language:
English, Urdu
Completion Date:
2018-07-18
Osuba
Synopsis:
When love can hurt and be dangerous, when men can be violent and become crazy, when women have no way to defend themself there is nothing left on earth.
Osuba is a visual expression and emotional trip about this huge problem in the world.
Violence, anger, obsession, fear, war all this can start easy and quick.
Directors:
Federico Marsicano
Key Cast:
Mirko Dalla Zanna, Giulia Petrini
Writers:
Giulia Petrini
Producers:
Antonio Borrelli
Other Credits:
-
Project Type:
Short
Genres:
-
Country of Origin:
Italy
Duration:
00:05:32
Language:
-
Completion Date:
2019-07-20
Rony Roller Circus, Life & Magic
Synopsis:
To pay homage to circus art, to highlight its life and everyday life by trying to remove the easy prejudice that hovers around this world. "Rony Roller Circus - Life & Magic", the documentary by the filmmaker Giacomo A. Iacolenna, with the patronage of the ENC (National Circus Authority), also addresses the theme of the hard clash between circus and animal rights activists.
In the work of Iacolenna the reality of a small community in which the strength of mind, the openness, the sharing and the integration between different cultures, are the foundations of a different and still poorly studied lifestyle.
All is narrated by the exponents of a historian and ancient circus family: the Vassallo's.
The aim of this work is to fascinate the viewer by giving emotions and bringing the minds to reflect from a point of view totally thrown compared to the conventions, removing controversy.
It is a slice of genuine life, exciting and moving features; a reality that many ignore, but from which, in all likelihood, will be fascinated.
The background, in the images, is followed by the photographic work "The Fabulous Destiny of Dainaly" by Liliana Ranalletta, on the everyday life of Dainaly, an autistic girl who has found her place in the universe in the circus, its truest dimension, mirror of his deep inner world full of sounds, shapes, colors and magic.
Directors:
Giacomo Aurelio Iacolenna
Key Cast:
-
Writers:
-
Producers:
-
Other Credits:
-
Project Type:
Documentary
Genres:
Social, Arts, Biografic
Country of Origin:
Italy
Duration:
01:03:00
Language:
Italian
Completion Date:
-
Silence to silence
Synopsis:
The contrasts of a couple are metaphorically represented by a duel of fencing, the so-called love skirmishes. Only at the end will the dispute end and reveal the faces of the two protagonists.
Directors:
Daniele Gangemi
Key Cast:
Donatella Finocchiaro, Mario Venuti
Writers:
Daniele Gangemi, Mario Venuti
Producers:
-
Other Credits:
Editor: Daniele Gangemi; Cinematographer : Alessandro La Fauci
Project Type:
Music Video
Genres:
-
Country of Origin:
Italy
Duration:
00:04:13
Language:
Italian
Completion Date:
2019-11-06
Sui Generis
Synopsis:
Our story talks about a man’s worlds being interrupted by an atypical, exuberant female character, unique in its genre and so sui generis.
The female character is called Greta, she is going to break the already unstable situation of a male domestic scenario. Greta’s attitude is going to discuss the standards and overturn the prejudices about gender identity.
Directors:
Elisabetta Zecca
Key Cast:
Simone Baldassari, Federica Garavaglia, Giuseppe Sartori
Writers:
Marta Di Stasi, Elga Giacalone, Elisabetta Zecca
Producers:
-
Other Credits:
D.O.P.: Elga Giacalone; Camera Operator: Marta Di Stasi; Audio & Sound Design: Andrea Caldera, Andrea Romani
Project Type:
Short, Student
Genres:
Comedy, Drama, Fiction
Country of Origin:
Italy
Duration:
00:21:13
Language:
Italian
Completion Date:
2019-06-11
Tell me when you will come
Synopsis:
The love, pain, the unexpected and the joy of four women on any day.
Directors:
Piero Bronzi, Guido Ciavola
Key Cast:
Vera Tosoni, Viola Bronzi, Consolata Paracchi, Carla Calacolpe, Johnny Lodi
Writers:
Piero Bronzi, Guido Ciavola
Producers:
-
Other Credits:
-
Project Type:
Feature
Genres:
-
Country of Origin:
Italy
Duration:
01:00:03
Language:
-
Completion Date:
2020-01-06
The Game Changer
Synopsis:
During the days leading up to one of the biggest video games conventions, gaming companies are busy getting their latest products ready for international launches.
Liam is a video game taster for possibly the biggest company in the business, and blessed with an incredible eye for detail, he's the best at what he does. But that's all he is really comfortable doing. Human interaction isn't really his thing.
Janet works in marketing for what she considers to be the worst video game company ever. Constantly packed with energy, she's seen as a moaner, a chatter box, and has no concept of "personal space".
As the grand opening of the convention nears, pressure to get things done to the very best builds up, allowing for stress, misunderstandings and frustrations to get in the way of what could otherwise be a very special encounter.
Directors:
Thomas Kadman
Key Cast:
Thomas Kadman, Gina Laline, Francesco Salvi, Malalai Zikria , Olayinka Giwa, Hayley Ainsley , Melissa Cavanagh, Dean Ackerman, Tom Goodhead, Dorothea Facchini, Joey Maragakis, Niels Worrell, Nicholas Kadman, Aimee Leigh
Writers:
Thomas Kadman
Producers:
Thomas Kadman, Francesco Salvi
Other Credits:
Cinematography: AJ Lamb, Junior Monney; Edit: Thomas Kadman; Sound design: Thomas Kadman; Sound Mix: Janis Balodis; Music Composers: Marco Messina, Riccardo Nanni; Make Up: Olivia Murphy; Executive Producers: Enrico Di Paola, Adrienne Aiken; Script Supervisor: Costanza Bongiorni; Art Designer: Simon James Anderson; Sound Recordist: Joris Coiffard, Ryan Miller; Camera Operators: Max Constable, Cristian Mantio, Kristian Szymkiewicz, Jordan Patrick, Aaron Whitehead; Assistant Camera: Daniel van der Molen, Aaron Luk Kwan Lam; Special thanks: Tom Cruise, Brad Pitt, Ben Stiller, David Beckham; Very Special thanks: Olli Collins, Antony Petrou, Stefano Fregni, Angelo D'Agostino
Project Type:
Feature
Genres:
Romance, Drama
Country of Origin:
United Kingdom
Duration:
01:48:00
Language:
English
Completion Date:
2019-09-20
The Heavy Burden
Synopsis:
Hosted by his uncle in Turkey, a young Kurd from Syria decides to return to his country to bring back his young donkey to replace his uncle's old donkey recently "retired" by the municipality of the city.
Directors:
Yilmaz Özdil
Key Cast:
Saman Mustafa, Mehmet Ali Arpa, Nazmi Kırık, Adil Abdulrahman Avdel
Writers:
Yilmaz Özdil
Producers:
Yilmaz Özdil
Other Credits:
-
Project Type:
Short
Genres:
Drama
Country of Origin:
Turkey
Duration:
00:17:00
Language:
Kurdish, Turkish
Completion Date:
2019-05-02
The One and Only Jewish Miss America
Synopsis:
“The One and Only Jewish Miss America” is the surprising story of Bess Myerson, the talented beauty queen from the Bronx, and how she won the world’s most famous beauty pageant 75 years ago, at the tail end of World War II. The film follows Bess, the middle daughter of poor Russian immigrants, from her childhood in a one-bedroom Jewish housing project apartment through the suspense-filled pageant. Impressed by the college-educated musician, the judges chose her in spite of anonymous threatening phone calls and sponsor disapproval of a Jewish pageant winner. On her 1945 Miss America tour, Bess faced antisemitism and closed doors at race-restricted venues which did not allow Jews. It is also a story of courage as her disappointment turned to determination, leading Bess Myerson to start her own tour to teach tolerance at high schools and colleges around the country -- a tour which launched her lifelong passion for justice.
Directors:
David Arond
Key Cast:
Barra Grant
Writers:
Codi Ruttenbur
Producers:
David Arond
Other Credits:
-
Project Type:
Documentary
Genres:
-
Country of Origin:
United States
Duration:
00:51:00
Language:
English
Completion Date:
2020-02-29
Untitled (Sans Titre)
Synopsis:
Jules is about to publish his first novel but cannot find the right title with his publisher. He therefore decides to go to Lisbon to convince the greatest title writer to find him one for free. The old man finally accepts but offers him a very strange deal...
Directors:
Clément de Dadelsen
Key Cast:
Arthur Provost, Bérénice Coudy, Christian de Dadelsen, Joffrey Monteiro-Noël, Benoît Chauvin
Writers:
Clément de Dadelsen
Producers:
Clément de Dadelsen, La Compagnie de la Flibuste
Other Credits:
-
Project Type:
Short
Genres:
Romantic Comedy, Comedy of manners
Country of Origin:
France
Duration:
00:24:04
Language:
French
Completion Date:
2019-06-30
Vladivostok Terminus
Synopsis:
Where is the "eastern border" of Europe in Russia? What about “the Russian soul”, today, 100 years after what Dostoievski wrote about Europe?
Filmed in the train from Moscow to Vladivostok : 9282 km with the mythical trans-Siberian, and 12 cities and villages, we stop along the journey.
Film-investigation during this trip (40 days and 40 nights) in Russia, where I am confronted to more than one hundred people. What are the feelings of Russian, in 2018, regarding Europe, their borders and the European feelings?
With many events and many encounters, I am also the protagonist of this movie with my three partners, one French camerawoman and two Russian women for translation and sound recording.
Directors:
Laurent Canches
Key Cast:
-
Writers:
Canches
Producers:
Itinero Films Gerard David
Other Credits:
-
Project Type:
Documentary
Genres:
-
Country of Origin:
France
Duration:
01:32:01
Language:
English, French, Russian
Completion Date:
2019-07-28
Where Dreams Rest
Synopsis:
In this poetic, impressionistic, realistic coming-of-age film, Ah Wei, a young woman from rural China, decides to cross the US-Mexico border through the underground tunnel to reunite with her husband in the United States. She soon realizes the journey is not about the crossing, but about mending the discrepancies between expectations and reality once she gets there.
Directors:
Elaine Wong
Key Cast:
Michelle Sun, Zhan Wang
Writers:
Elaine Wong
Producers:
Lareina Joelle, Ariel Du
Other Credits:
Director of Photography: Ante Cheng; Editor: Mengxue Hou; Sound Supervisor : Longwei Deng; Production Designer : Yuelin Zhao
Project Type:
Short, Student
Genres:
Drama
Country of Origin:
United States
Duration:
00:15:00
Language:
Chinese, English, Spanish
Completion Date:
2018-06-30
Wrestlove - L'amore combattuto
Synopsis:
Monica and Karim, the first couple of Italian wrestlers in the United States. Miss Monica, stage name of Monica Passeri - 24 years old - at her early age moved from Caprara, a small town in Abruzzo, to Missouri together with his partner Karim Bartoli, also a professional wrestler who fights under the name of Karim Brigante – 25 years old, Roman, but Abruzzese by adoption. Once left Italy, they attended the most important Wrestling academy in Troy, Missouri - the Harley Race Wrestling Academy - which allowed them to build an international career: from World League Wrestling they managed to reach the flagship show of WWE and National Wrestling Alliance, memorable federation owned by the rockstar Billy Corgan. Partners in life and in the ring, they travel alone to defend their titles in American indie circuits. During their stay in Abruzzo they pay homage to the statue of Bruno Sammartino - “The Living Legend”, an icon for American wrestling - in Pizzoferrato, his homeland. Besides defending their titles, in Italy they also see doctors and have some medical tests done, because of the very expensive American treatments. Monica meets her family again, while Karim has to deal with his past but there is very little time before they need to leave again.
Directors:
Cristiano Di Felice
Key Cast:
Monica Passeri, Karim Bartoli
Writers:
Cristiano Di Felice, Angelo Carbone
Producers:
IFA Glocal Film
Other Credits:
Product with the support of: Assessorato alla Cultura del Comune Di Pescara, Comune di Pizzoferrato; Product in collaboration with: Gianluca Arcopinto, Simone Isola; Cinematographer: Mattia Tedeschi; Editor: Matteo Di Simone; Music Composer: Fabio D'Onofrio; Music: Bewider
Project Type:
Documentary
Genres:
-
Country of Origin:
Italy
Duration:
01:10:00
Language:
English, Italian
Completion Date:
-
2019
9,8 m/s2
Synopsis:
Danila (Danny, a Russian immigrant, 47) hijacks a taxi cab on a Saturday night and rushes through Manhattan. Danny is furious - his young beautiful wife hasn't come home yet again, Danny is convinced she is cheating. Unable to contain his fury and frustration anymore he drives the stolen taxicab prowling the notable spots of the city, including tourist magnets, in search for his chippy wife. All the while Danny is on the cell phone, engaged in a conversation with a friend - (Erik, an immigration lawyer, 40). The latter handled Danny's case to obtain a green card and both men became friends. Erik acts as a personal psychoanalyst, a shoulder to cry on, as a friend, who listens to the emotional flood erupting from the cell phone and tries to calm Danny down. Erik seems to be aware of the problem and it is obvious the situation has been discussed between the two on a number of occasions in the past. This time everything seemingly played out following the old scenario and was moving towards a peaceful resolution. Erik nearly managed to calm down Danny and convince him to go home and wait for his wife there when, unexpectedly, Danny turns up, in the middle of a night, driving a stolen taxi, right at Erik's doorstep.
Directors:
Michael Vaynberg
Key Cast:
Pasha D. Lychnikoff, Lyanka Gryu
Writers:
Michael Vaynberg
Producers:
Michael Vaynberg
Other Credits:
Editor: Michael Vaynberg
Project Type:
Short
Genres:
Drama, Romance
Country of Origin:
United States
Duration:
00:22:40
Language:
English
Completion Date:
2018-02-04
About Strangers (road series volume one)
Synopsis:
ABOUT STRANGERS is an ethereal and meditative journey that follows a disillusioned and apathetic GUY, a drifter making his way through the callous streets of Los Angeles. A chance encounter on the Sunset Strip sparks a connection with the equally disenchanted LULU and LEXIE, who also long for distraction and escape. Fueled by memories of forfeited dreams, estranged families, and a peculiar childhood obsession, they find solace in one another’s melancholy abandon. The trio sets out on a road trip, compelling them to contemplate their pasts and wonder if the familiarity of monotony, inadequacy, and loss is enough to sustain a friendship, a love, or a life.
Directors:
Eric Michael Kochmer
Key Cast:
Ethan Kogan, Jessica Silvetti, Sapna Gandhi
Writers:
Eric Michael Kochmer
Producers:
Sapna Gandhi
Other Credits:
-
Project Type:
Feature
Genres:
-
Country of Origin:
United States
Duration:
01:05:50
Language:
English
Completion Date:
2017-07-01
Angiò
Synopsis:
Angiò is a work that breathes life into the spirit of Lorenzo Viani, the artist. It is a film by director Leonardo Palmerini, who hails from Viareggio. It is an experimental film that uses live shots processed through digital technology to echo the graphic work of Viani, painter, sculptor printmaker whose etchings exhibit a rare expressive power; it tells the story of Angelo Bertuccelli, who was born in Via Pinciana in Viareggio in 1850.
Small of stature with a strong and proud character trapped in a deformed body. Sailor, like the majority of the inhabitants of the Viareggio of those days, who escaped the gail-winds aboard the “Dedalo” and swore never to return to the sea.
The “sailor of the Ocean” spends his days in increasing isolation far from the pettiness of people who laugh at his grotesque appearance. In a whirlwind of desperation and rebellion the dwarf with the heart of a giant will end his days overcome by the tides of madness, a man drowned in a deep sea “a man of water” as prescribed by a hostile destiny.
Based on the novel “Angiò uomo d’acqua” by Lorenzo Viani.
Directors:
Leonardo Palmerini
Key Cast:
Iacopo Gori, Luca Checchi
Writers:
Lorenzo Viani
Producers:
Maurizio Bottazzi, Felix Arneodo, Carlo Alberto Carrai
Other Credits:
Music: Le Onde Martenot, Antonio Agostini, Dual Mono, Maurizio Bottazzi, Apois; Audio: Maurizio Bottazzi, Roberto Passuti
Project Type:
Animation, Experimental, Feature
Genres:
-
Country of Origin:
Italy
Duration:
01:15:09
Language:
Italian
Completion Date:
2020-07-16
Crabgirl
Synopsis:
A young virgin guy does not manage to have sex with his beloved long-term girlfriend on his 23rd birthday. By putting an ultimatum on their relationship, he acknowledges the incredible truth beyond her rejection.
Directors:
Sergiy Pudich
Key Cast:
Julien Yakubovski, Rob Feldman
Writers:
Sergiy Pudich
Producers:
Sergiy Pudich
Other Credits:
Director of Photography: Alex Milokost; Art Director: Maria Alter; Costume Designer: Elena Breeva; Composer: Nik Savinich; VFX Artist: Igor Alexeenko; Colorist / 1 AD: Andrey Ilyin; Director's Assistant: Laura Scorretti; Sound Director: Alexandr Samson
Project Type:
Short
Genres:
-
Country of Origin:
Ukraine
Duration:
00:18:31
Language:
English
Completion Date:
2018-02-25
IN THE MOOD FOR NAPOLI
Synopsis:
Anna is one of many "napolitan acquired".
She born in Germany but, travelling around Italy, she fell in love for Naples and decided to refuse a sure job offert in Berlin to live and work here.
After three years she still live and work in Naples, speaks with a vogue napoletan accent, works with children of Scampia hood [knows for high level of criminality and "Gomorra" series] and drive in the traffic of city like a true napolitan.
However, the life here is not easy and her heart is still continually divided between Napoli and Germany...
Animation, Documentary, Experimental, Short, Student, Television, Web / New Media
Genres:
-
Country of Origin:
Italy
Duration:
00:14:59
Language:
-
Completion Date:
2018-09-30
Io, Braga e il violoncello
Synopsis:
Biography of Gaetano Braga
Directors:
Giuliano Braga
Key Cast:
Marco Luca Cattaneo, Alessandro Muller, Fiammetta Tofoni, Ferruccio Vigna, Francesco Leineri, Mino Caprio, Ugo Lo Pinto, Claudio D'Elia, Gianfranco Sforzin, Serena Concilio, Antonio Piovano, Luigi Piovano, Elsa Evangelista, Cesare Corsi, Luciano Di Gullio
Writers:
Giuliano Braga, Donato Robustella
Producers:
Paolo Zanotti per Tauron Entertainment, Gaetano Aiello
Other Credits:
-
Project Type:
Documentary, Experimental, Music Video
Genres:
-
Country of Origin:
Italy
Duration:
00:60:00
Language:
Italian
Completion Date:
2018-12-31
Kalavrìa - the Calabrian Greeks land
Synopsis:
Did you know Greeks are still in Calabria? We are talking about a small group of villages where peaple are still retaining the Greek language in order not to lose the cultural roots that still make their world today, after 2700 years, a world of culture, mountains, agriculture, sheep-farming and handicrafts, a world considered too slow by the global economy to be expected and, therefore, abandoned to itself.
Project description
We went there, between the coast and the mountains most south of the Italian peninsula, not where everything ends, but where everything began. We did shoot beautiful images with breathtaking views, interviewed Greeks of Calabria trying to describe an almost lost world atmosphere, but still alive, witnessing the cultural and artistic peaks that this unfortunate part of Europe has reached.
We are filming a documentary. More specifically, we are creating a document. A mix of images, stories, traditions, music and paths that can offer the beauty of a whole world enclosed in one only work.
To tell “Grecanic Area” we have decided to go through it all along and out, starting from its modernity on the coast to the summits of its mountain tradition, breathing the charming atmosphere of the valley of the river Amendolea, the streets of Roghudi Vecchio and the stories of which was theater, and the architectural beauties of Bova.
We have been working on this project for three years, documenting the various events of Hellenism that the summer offers, from hiking / interviews to the "Greek week lessons", to the new museum of Rholfs to Gallicianò, magical place where one feels a still alive language that, despite the venerable age, seeks in all ways not to disappear.
Directors:
davide carbone
Key Cast:
-
Writers:
davide carbone, freedom pentimalli
Producers:
davide carbone, freedom pentimalli
Other Credits:
-
Project Type:
Documentary
Genres:
-
Country of Origin:
Italy
Duration:
01:22:00
Language:
Italian
Completion Date:
2018-06-27
Love Possibly
Synopsis:
A rom-com obsessed virgin finally finds a fiancee on a Russian bride site, but he soon realizes Hollywood rom-com rules don't apply when you're trying to make a mail-order bride love you.
Directors:
Michael Boccalini, Che Grant
Key Cast:
Steve Hodgetts, Anna Danshina, Julie Nesher, Michelle Thomas
Writers:
Michael Boccalini, Che Grant, Michael Coburn, Jaryl Lim, Steve Hodgetts
Producers:
Arabella Burfitt-Dons
Other Credits:
Music by: Daniel Markovich; Cinematography by: Jaryl Lim; Film Editing by: Rupert Hall; Production Design by: José Nieuwstad; Makeup Department: Cliodhna Scully; Art Department: Hella Stichlmair; Costume and Wardrobe Department: Geo Matei; Production Management: Connor Foley
Project Type:
Feature
Genres:
Comedy, Romance, Mockumentary
Country of Origin:
United Kingdom
Duration:
01:22:55
Language:
English, Russian
Completion Date:
2018-08-01
Mascarpone
Synopsis:
Francis, the dreamy film projectionist, accidentally crashes into the limousine of gangster boss Mascarpone. Suddenly he finds himself in a mobster film. Francis ́ dog Farfalle is taken hostage by Mascarpone’s gang and Francis is being forced to stand guard at their next bank robbery. When the coup fails he has to rescue his dog and conquer the heart of the film diva Vivien.
Directors:
Jonas Riemer
Key Cast:
-
Writers:
-
Producers:
Johannes Schubert
Other Credits:
-
Project Type:
Animation, Experimental, Short, Student
Genres:
Gangster, Action, Comedy
Country of Origin:
Germany
Duration:
00:14:00
Language:
English
Completion Date:
2018-03-07
MATA-the island's gaze
Synopsis:
Scottish photographer John Thomson’s trip to Taiwan in 1871 is an important historical event. In this film we selected a hunter photo to re-interpret that event and visit the Siraya tribe to find an Elder, who talks and sings well, bringing us back to the past through his plucking of strings.
Then we saw the vigorous hunters holding their breath, staying very still in front of that weird machine for a long time, with a boy and a dog squatted at their feet. The director grabbed the view of this moment and invites the audience to watch with curious eyes.
On both sides of the river of time, he repeatedly speculates and watches the past, the future, and the influence of images on this island.
Directors:
CHENG Li-Ming
Key Cast:
Talavan Cheng-hiong, Fangas Nayaw, Jeremie Nicoli, Jiang Jay
Writers:
CHENG Li-Ming
Producers:
Kou Bo-Tsun
Other Credits:
-
Project Type:
Documentary, Experimental, Short
Genres:
-
Country of Origin:
Taiwan
Duration:
00:50:00
Language:
Chinese
Completion Date:
2018-04-01
Matera - From the Shame of Italy to the Capital of Culture
Synopsis:
The cave city of Matera is one of the oldest continually inhabited spots in Europe. It has been notoriously famous as ‘the shame of Italy’ in the 1950s on the basis of the novel «Christ Stopped At Eboli« by Carlo Levi. In the last few years, however, everything has changed: Matera will be the European Capital of Culture in 2019. And since this decision has been made, buildings are being
renovated, school classes from all over Italy are being dragged through the narrow streets, and dedicated volunteers are working on all kinds of cultural and other projects, so that Matera will remain an attractive place to live and work.
A film about exceptional people in an extraordinary city, and about a question that many other small cities around Europe have to ask themselves constantly: How is sustainable tourism to be promoted?
Directors:
Christian Walther
Key Cast:
-
Writers:
Christian Walther
Producers:
Pedro Haldemann, Insertfilm AG
Other Credits:
-
Project Type:
Documentary
Genres:
-
Country of Origin:
Switzerland
Duration:
52:00:00
Language:
English, German, Italian
Completion Date:
2017-12-15
May Day
Synopsis:
In Thierry's living room, several people have gathered. None of them know each other but they are all there to try and fulfil the same dream. They want to find a job... and quickly. But we're in Brussels, so nothing goes quite as planned.
Directors:
Olivier Magis, Fedrik De Beul
Key Cast:
Thierry Hellin, Catherine Salée, Joren Seldeslachts, Simon André, Bess Limani, Chokri ben Chikha, Lydia Indjova, Mathieu Debaty, Tom Adjibi, Manou Tahon, Viktor Biserov, Noureddine Zerrad, Javier Lopez
Writers:
Olivier Magis, Fedrik De Beul, Javier Lopez
Producers:
Marie Besson
Other Credits:
-
Project Type:
Short
Genres:
Dark comedy, reality
Country of Origin:
Belgium
Duration:
00:21:00
Language:
Dutch, French
Completion Date:
2017-05-01
Neighbors
Synopsis:
NEIGHBORS is an observational documentary about people with mental illness who are leaving their institution after decades spent in isolation and once they get out trying to put their shattered lives back together.
Camilo Pessanha, the greatest Portuguese symbolist poet, wrote and rewrote until his death, the poems of Clepsydra - his only work. PE SAN IÉ is not the portrait, nor the illustration of his poems, but the essay on the cinematographic form of his voluntary exile in Macao.
Directors:
Rosa Coutinho Cabral
Key Cast:
Carlos Morais José
Writers:
Rosa Coutinho Cabral, Carlos Morais José, Rui Pedro Mourão
Producers:
nocturno filmes, Art8 Macau - Maria Paula Monteiro
Other Credits:
-
Project Type:
Documentary, Feature
Genres:
-
Country of Origin:
Portugal
Duration:
01:30:00
Language:
Portuguese
Completion Date:
2018-07-31
Red Hands
Synopsis:
Ernest (12) is a smart but also hyper-protected and lonely boy. One day he discovers some wonderful red wall drawings, made by Moon (14), a mysterious girl who has the magic power to produce a vivid red color from her hands. But behind her gift there is a painful and dangerous situation.
Directors:
Francesco Filippi
Key Cast:
Lucia Gadolini, Martina Felli, Ivano Marescotti, Nuna Ferrando
Writers:
Francesco Filippi
Producers:
Michele Fasano
Other Credits:
-
Project Type:
Animation, Short
Genres:
-
Country of Origin:
Italy
Duration:
00:30:00
Language:
Italian
Completion Date:
2018-09-30
Rwanda
Synopsis:
“When it all started in Rwanda, the white man left. The whole world turned aside”
Augustin Maniriho
On the 6th of April 1994, the small African republic was involved in one of the fastest and most systematic genocides in history: one million deaths in just 100 days.
Augustin is Hutu, and he must kill. Cécile is Tutsi, and she must die. However, something gives them the strength to do the right thing and accomplish a very brave act never to be forgotten: Saving many innocent civilian lives.
What happened during that bloody spring changed not only Augustin's and Cécile's life, but also the one of two young actors called to interpret them on a stage boards many years later.
Based on a true story
Directors:
Riccardo Salvetti
Key Cast:
Marco Cortesi, Mara Moschini, Aaron Maccharty, Rosanna Sparapano
Writers:
Riccardo Salvetti, Marco Cortesi, Mara Moschini
Producers:
Massimo Gardini, Marco Cortesi
Other Credits:
Edit: Matteo Santi; Soundtrack: Davide Caprelli; Re-recording Mixing: Corrado Magalotti; Color Correction: Alberto Bandini; Make Up: Apollonia Tolo, Arianna Farolfi; Costumer: Ariane Lanchais, Marianna Biondi; Set Decorator: Nazario di Tullio, Barbara De Monte
Project Type:
Feature
Genres:
-
Country of Origin:
Italy
Duration:
01:30:00
Language:
Italian
Completion Date:
2018-09-01
SeMenti - studio sul paradosso del Mentitore / a study on the paradox of the liar
Synopsis:
Ours first work is a filosofical noir: dreamlike fragments experienced by a confused aged man. A strange scenario dominated by a great question that will grip you: would you tighten the noose around the accused's neck ... even knowing that your decision were been taken by others? From what? Counterfeited by the appearance and the fascination of power ... spoiled by partial or fake readings, or convinced by the wine that made us drink ... or overwhelmed by rules and rules, that can be... the other way round... circumvented with quirks or manipulative words.
Directors:
Andrea Canuti
Key Cast:
Tiziano Meschieri, Ferdinando Napolitano, Salvatore Signa, Sara Gozzi
Writers:
Antonio Lucherini
Producers:
I Fingitori - Antonio Lucherini, I Fingitori - Riccardo Sghedoni
Spizella is a word with Latin and Greek origin and it means ‘sparrow’. Spizella is the story of a father and his daughter with troubled family relationships, which have become even more troubled after the death of the mother. The father keeps forcing his daughter to keep the mourning attitude alive and ongoing within the house and he tries to keep his communication with her very limited. This gloomy house is no different than a cage for this timid girl. The strong revival of her childhood memories and dreams by means of a souvenir suitcase left from her mother can bring the girl a glimpse of happiness.
Directors:
Mehmet Tığlı
Key Cast:
Nurcan Şirin, Yavuz Fırıldak, Arzu Suriçi
Writers:
Mehmet Tığlı
Producers:
Ozan Takmaz
Other Credits:
-
Project Type:
Short
Genres:
-
Country of Origin:
Turkey
Duration:
00:19:57
Language:
Turkish
Completion Date:
2019-02-08
The Minds of Men
Synopsis:
A four part investigation into the mysterious and terrifying Cold War experimentation into man's last bastion of freedom, the brain; a thorough history of mind control as it was attempted, covertly, to obtain an understanding of the new man – programmed, overtly, for life in in symbiosis with the machine.
THE MINDS OF MEN is a 3+ year investigation into the experimentation, art, and practice of social engineering and mind control during the Cold War — a mind-bending journey into the past that gives startling insight into the world we are living in today. It reveals [redacted]
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Winner of Festival Award - Retro Avant Garde Film Festival RAGFF - New York (2020)
Best Feature Documentary - Innuendo International Film Festival (2019)
Best Director - Horror Bowl Movie Awards (2019)
Best Feature Documentary - Videoscream International Film Festival (2019)
Best Documentary Feature Film - Aphrodite Film Awards (2019)
Best Feature Documentary - ARFF Berlin Int’l Awards (May 2019)
Award Winner - Colorado International Activism Film Festival (2019)
Spotlight Silver Award - Spotlight Documentary Film Awards (2019)
Directors:
Aaron Dykes, Melissa Dykes
Key Cast:
Peter Breggin
Writers:
Aaron Dykes, Melissa Dykes
Producers:
Aaron Dykes, Melissa Dykes
Other Credits:
-
Project Type:
Documentary
Genres:
Documentary, Science
Country of Origin:
United States
Duration:
03:42:35
Language:
English
Completion Date:
2018-07-17
The Story of Everything
Synopsis:
Separated as children, Lorraine is on a lifelong search for her former foster brother. After a tense encounter with a stranger named Marcus, the two embark on a road trip, each searching for something. Their pasts and their futures blend, time becomes fluid and dream-logic takes over. During their journey, bits of conversation hint at an intimacy, and possibly a subconscious bond. Are they strangers at all? Will they find what they are looking for?
The Story of Everything is a surreal journey where the emotional connection between two children allow them to communicate through fever dreams throughout their lives.
Directors:
Sharon A. Mooney
Key Cast:
Suilma Rodriguez, Rob Michael Hugel
Writers:
Sharon A. Mooney
Producers:
Donna Czerwinski-Miller
Other Credits:
Crew: Weiyang Li, Liz Holland, Deb Mcclune, Pete Soto, Varun Chopra, Jacob Fuller, Caitlin Pitt, Jared Schwartz, Dale Campo, Brian Kotowski, Skinner Myers, Shauna Deleon, Sarah Kim, Claire Ianelli, Amanda Lechner, Grant Zizzo, Lu Han, Yoyo Li, Rachael Noble, Truman Rae, Jeffrey Scharberg, Jazmine Atienza, Bryan Parker, Brandon Evans, Alan Siegler
Project Type:
Experimental, Short
Genres:
Narrative, Drama, experimental
Country of Origin:
United States
Duration:
00:14:10
Language:
English
Completion Date:
2017-12-01
X
Synopsis:
No fantasy is too obscene at the masquerade balls hosted by Christian King, known to her guests as X. The monthly masked debauchery that takes place at her beachside estate is all fun and games until the arrival of an unexpected guest from Christian's past threatens to bring to light her darkest secret: she is a voyeur who keeps a hidden camera in the guest bathroom.
Directors:
Scott J. Ramsey
Key Cast:
Hope Raymond, Eliza Boivin, Brian Smick, Zach Cowan, Valerie Façhman
Writers:
Scott J. Ramsey, Hannah Katherine Jost
Producers:
Hannah Katherine Jost, Kevin De Nicolo, Alex De Nicolo, Amber-Tiana De Marco, Scott J. Ramsey
Other Credits:
-
Project Type:
Feature
Genres:
Dark comedy, Melodrama, Thriller, LGBTQ, Suspense
Country of Origin:
United States
Duration:
02:07:23
Language:
English
Completion Date:
2018-03-31
꽃 (Flora)
Synopsis:
Experimental animation about gender and sexuality, the awkwardness of division. Uncanny sculptures of vagina and penis are the main element.
Directors:
Chaerin Im
Key Cast:
-
Writers:
-
Producers:
-
Other Credits:
Composer: Roger Kim; Voice over: Bronwyn Maloney; Vibraphone: Katie Eikam
Project Type:
Animation, Experimental, Student
Genres:
-
Country of Origin:
United States
Duration:
00:04:17
Language:
English
Completion Date:
-
2018
116
Synopsis:
Love. No bed of roses.
A woman wakes in a hotel room with a younger who doesn't speak English. It's Lost in Translation meets The Hangover. And it only happens in Room 116.
Directors:
Julia Campanelli
Key Cast:
Julia Campanelli, Sean Yves Lessard
Writers:
Julia Campanelli
Producers:
Julia Campanelli, Nick Atkinson
Other Credits:
Director of Photography: Lauretta Prevost; Editor: Dina Alexander; Production Designer: Julia Campanelli; Sound Designer: Dina Alexander; Composer: Julia Haltigan
Project Type:
Short
Genres:
-
Country of Origin:
United States
Duration:
00:14:58
Language:
English
Completion Date:
2018-07-18
A Ferry Tale
Synopsis:
This short film is about a father and his two autistic children. They get on ferry in a wintry day. They meet with some disappointing incidents in their short trip. Due to some impatient passengers' reactions to his children's unintentional actions, father feels sad and loses his hope.
Directors:
Mehmet Tığlı
Key Cast:
Özgür Dereli, Lara Rojda Ülgen, Derin Çınar Dereli, Nazan Yatgın
Writers:
Mehmet Tığlı
Producers:
Ozan Takmaz
Other Credits:
-
Project Type:
Short
Genres:
-
Country of Origin:
Turkey
Duration:
00:10:14
Language:
Turkish
Completion Date:
2018-03-04
Agnus Dei
Synopsis:
A young man Peter, who is around thirties, lives a desperate life with his mother Maria and her husband Stojan in one village of Serbia. Peter is born in Kosova from a forbidden love between his mother Maria and the young Albanian man, but for this he is not aware Is the period of time when the relations between Serbs and Albanians are inimical, exactly is the time of the beginning of war. Peter is forced by his mother and the others to go to the war. He intends to escape the war and goes to the West. He is mobilized forcefully in one paramilitary unit in Kosova’s war. In one action prepared as a revenge, he kills his father Dini whom he never had the chance to meet. Being not able to bear the arbitrary crimes, Peter, deserts from the army. He takes Dini’s daughter Maria and together they escape to the mountains. During their dangerous trip they are followed from both sides of enemies, Serbs and Albanians. Peter and Maria fell in love. They reach to come back in Peter’s home in Serbia. As soon as they returnee home, Peter realizes that he had killed his biologic father and he had fall in love with his sister. Not being able to stand this spiritual condition he commits a suicide.
Directors:
Agim Sopi
Key Cast:
Astrit Alihajdaraj, Dafina Berisha
Writers:
Agim Sopi
Producers:
Agim Sopi, Milazim Saihu
Other Credits:
-
Project Type:
Feature
Genres:
-
Country of Origin:
Kosovo
Duration:
01:50:00
Language:
Albanian
Completion Date:
2015-01-18
AMARSI MALE
Synopsis:
An asian girl is visited by 5 guys (the music band), but she seems to doesn't appreciate their consideration. Some hint tells that someone (or maybe, everybody) had different plans in stead of a romantic date.
Directors:
Cosimo Bruzzese
Key Cast:
Lo Stato Sociale, Hym Lee
Writers:
Cosimo Bruzzese, Stefania Iemmi, Alberto Cazzola
Producers:
Cosimo Bruzzese, Roberta Simone
Other Credits:
Director of Photography: Roberto Muratori
Project Type:
Music Video
Genres:
-
Country of Origin:
Italy
Duration:
00:04:52
Language:
Italian
Completion Date:
2016-12-03
anexperimentalviralvlog - the movie remix # !
Synopsis:
A unique short experimental remix of 15 vlog episodes, originally posted on youtube, based upon a reflexion on identity, manipulation, truth and beauty, that blurs popular influences with performance video and video art processes and ideas. Self-representation document made with a DIY spirit and a urge to work on basic communication principles, such as the confrontation between the artist and the viewer and speech awareness. The audiovisual manipulations function mainly as an expression of repressed emotions in the context of a confessional aesthetics.
This is a remixed version of the original video: "anexperimentalviralvlog the movie", 2015, which continuous to be the first autonomous work that appropriates the material I posted on my youtube vlog.
Directors:
vasco diogo
Key Cast:
vasco diogo
Writers:
vasco diogo
Producers:
vasco diogo
Other Credits:
-
Project Type:
Experimental, Short, Web / New Media
Genres:
video art, performance art, vlog
Country of Origin:
Portugal
Duration:
00:12:52
Language:
English
Completion Date:
2016-03-17
Bikini Blue
Synopsis:
Great Britain, 1953. Cold War lasts despite the summer. Stalin is dead, the British just finished celebrating the coronation of Queen Elizabeth II, cinema halls are possessed by “The War of the Worlds”.
30 years old Dora Szumski is an English woman married to a Polish immigrant Eryk. He is a former Polish Military officer for whom the existing power balance doesn't leave much choice. He can either be sentenced to death in his homeland or be an immigrant. After a failed suicide attempt he stays in Mabledon Park – a mental hospital for Polish ex-soldiers traumatized by the war.
Dora does not only sense what is the secret behind Eryk's illness. She also has some proof... But the supervisor of the unit – dr Lipman stops her from starting such serious talk with her husband. Dora, full of anxiety, drops her son Paul off at her sister's Sara and starts her old, worn-out motorcycle to visit her husband in the asylum.
The long expected encounter of spouses doesn't end in the hospital. Eryk runs away and turns up in a wayside inn rescuing his surprised wife from trouble. She wants her husband to immediately go back to the hospital, but finally agrees to go with him to the movies. Not aware of the deception, drugged with psychotropes she allows Eryk to kidnap her to a desolated sea shore.
It won't be just peaceful and romantic evening on the beach - we are following Dora’s trip into the heart of her husband’s mystery.
Directors:
Jarek Marszewski
Key Cast:
Lianne Harvey, Tomasz Kot, Ruby Bentall, Lee Ross
Writers:
Jarek Marszewski
Producers:
Juliusz Machulski
Other Credits:
-
Project Type:
Feature
Genres:
Drama
Country of Origin:
Poland
Duration:
01:24:15
Language:
English, Polish
Completion Date:
2017-04-01
Cold inside - Freddo dentro
Synopsis:
Outside, the frost.
Inside instead, a cleaning lady is putting order in a hotel room.
His daily routine, so perfect, so established, will ever be broken by something?
Directors:
Valerio Burli
Key Cast:
Elisabetta de Vito
Writers:
Valerio Burli, Alessia Bonfini
Producers:
Baburka Production
Other Credits:
D.O.P.: Andrea Josè di Pasquale; Foley: Enzo di Liberto
Project Type:
Short
Genres:
Grotesque, Comedy, Drama, Dramedy, Surreal
Country of Origin:
Italy
Duration:
00:08:07
Language:
Italian
Completion Date:
2018-02-12
Crosstitch Road
Synopsis:
An upset young woman runs into a mysterious biker in a restless bar in the middle of nowhere. She is looking for someone who can listen to her and unfortunately ends attracting the attention of two mischievous truckers.
Directors:
Ivan Selva
Key Cast:
-
Writers:
Ivan Selva, Alessio Gonnella
Producers:
Ivan Selva
Other Credits:
-
Project Type:
Short
Genres:
-
Country of Origin:
Italy
Duration:
00:15:00
Language:
Italian
Completion Date:
2017-09-01
Day labor
Synopsis:
Paola Clemente, a 49-year old laborer from Puglia, died of fatigue on the 13th of July 2015. Her story is told through facts and words of the enquiry to the gangmasters that exploited her and by the voices of women travelling on the bus that takes them to the field-work.
Directors:
Pippo Mezzapesa
Key Cast:
-
Writers:
Antonella Gaeta, Pippo Mezzapesa
Producers:
Paky Fanelli
Other Credits:
-
Project Type:
Short
Genres:
-
Country of Origin:
Italy
Duration:
00:11:00
Language:
Italian
Completion Date:
2017-09-28
DRILLING HOLES INTO THE SUN
Synopsis:
Dream sequences have held the Horse captive from finding a consensus for reality. Through a narrative letter between each dream vignette, the Horse explains how he finds respite from his affliction.
Characters of different age, ethnicity and social background constrained in a chaotic, prone to violence and consumerism society. On stage 30 actors, whose 28 eyes are closed to point out the indifference and shallowness which make us blind.
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INFORMATIONS:
EYES is a fictional short film (13’ – genre: soft drama). It deals with a issue deeply connected with everyday life in present times: it denounces the daily frenzy of our lives and a spreading indifference. EYES strongly criticises our society, which is more and more prone to violence, inaction and consumerism.
Is it still possible that people could hope in something better?
In EYES, 30 actors played with eyes wide shout.
This short film is dedicated to the memory of Niccolò Ciatti, and to all the other victims of indifference.
***
Maria Laura Moraci
Key Cast:
-
Writers:
Maria Laura Moraci
Producers:
-
Other Credits:
Director of Photography: Daniele Ciprì; Colorist: Andrea Baracca (Red); Editor: Pierluigi Darino
Project Type:
Short
Genres:
-
Country of Origin:
Italy
Duration:
00:13:00
Language:
Italian
Completion Date:
2018-03-30
Georgia O'Keefe and Me
Synopsis:
Love and art in the age of Trump.
Chaos and order compete as a married man falls for an artist ingenue. Art prevails.
Directors:
Robert Belinoff
Key Cast:
Robert Belinoff, Julie Deife, Bill Howell
Writers:
Robert Belinoff
Producers:
Robert Belinoff, Digital Wkhop, Seventy Productions
Other Credits:
-
Project Type:
Experimental, Short
Genres:
-
Country of Origin:
United States
Duration:
00:05:58
Language:
English
Completion Date:
2017-09-01
Green Street
Synopsis:
A mature guy wants to give a gift to his friend...
Directors:
-
Key Cast:
-
Writers:
-
Producers:
-
Other Credits:
-
Project Type:
Short
Genres:
-
Country of Origin:
Iran, Islamic Republic of
Duration:
00:06:55
Language:
Persian
Completion Date:
2017-09-04
Hamlet Tv Circus
Synopsis:
In an imaginary tv show, the main characters of the Shakespeare's drama "Hamlet prince of Denmark" are interviewed. They talk about their past and they show their version of the story, their doubts and grumbles. The result is a funny and sometimes dramatic afterlife of the characters.
Directors:
Francesco Mancini
Key Cast:
Marco Cavicchioli, Edoardo Ribatto, Simona Arrighi, Chiara Macinai
Writers:
Francesco Mancini
Producers:
Francesco Mancini
Other Credits:
-
Project Type:
Other
Genres:
-
Country of Origin:
Italy
Duration:
00:51:07
Language:
Italian
Completion Date:
2014-12-18
HER
Synopsis:
In una vecchia e sinistra casa napoletana, sita in un palazzo storico del centro, Yuljia, una giovane donna straniera, viene accolta come badante; la donna porta con sé il figlio neonato e una sola valigia. Ad aprirle la porta un’anziana signora dall’aspetto fiero e misterioso: sua sorella, gravemente malata, ormai quasi dissociata dalla realtà, ha bisogno di essere accudita.
Directors:
Roberto Bontà Polito
Key Cast:
Yuliya Myarchuk
Writers:
Roberto Bontà Polito, Celestino Pesce
Producers:
Marcello Tarantino
Other Credits:
-
Project Type:
Short
Genres:
Thriller
Country of Origin:
Italy
Duration:
00:10:00
Language:
Italian
Completion Date:
2018-01-06
Horny Fruits - Wild Kitchen Dreams
Synopsis:
Horny Fruits - Wild Kitchen Dreams
Directors:
Texas Black
Key Cast:
Fruits, Vegetables
Writers:
Texas Black
Producers:
Texas Black
Other Credits:
-
Project Type:
Experimental, Short
Genres:
-
Country of Origin:
Germany
Duration:
00:03:24
Language:
English
Completion Date:
2018-01-03
How Come?
Synopsis:
Everyone does it differently. How do you get there? “How Come?” takes a glance at the final moments leading up to humanity’s single greatest pleasure.
Directors:
Rick Flynn
Key Cast:
-
Writers:
-
Producers:
Rick Flynn
Other Credits:
-
Project Type:
Documentary, Short
Genres:
education, comedy, lgbt, taboo
Country of Origin:
United States
Duration:
00:06:16
Language:
English
Completion Date:
2017-09-01
I Am Harlequin - Minimal
Synopsis:
A children's TV presenter teaches us about idioms for relationships as his own tormented love life bubbles to the surface.
Directors:
Sean Clancy
Key Cast:
Peter McGann
Writers:
-
Producers:
Sean Clancy
Other Credits:
Editor: Sean Clancy; Cinematographer: Sean Clancy; Art Director: Sean Clancy
Project Type:
Music Video
Genres:
-
Country of Origin:
Ireland
Duration:
00:00:00
Language:
-
Completion Date:
-
Ignorance is keeping us alive
Synopsis:
Based on the collection "Kill your darlings" by Maarten van Mulken this is a Fashion Film made around Brissago, Lago Maggiore in Switzerland.
The characters, almost imprisoned inside the masks they wear, look like they're impersonating primal violent instinct and need for total freedom and independence.
In many of the shots it is composed, there is a mixture of eroticism and insanity that fits with the clothing line they wear. The darkest sequences have a surreal approach that looks like the inner darkness of the characters. Dressed with this whimsical clothes that often hide their facial features, it looks like you are watching empty bodies, anonymous souls that have been dressed to represent what they're most like.
"Ignorance is keeping us alive" by Roman Villevoye is a hybridization between an ad and a surreal short movie.
There is no language spoken, only music.
Directors:
Roman Villevoye
Key Cast:
-
Writers:
-
Producers:
Studio Selvedge
Other Credits:
Designer: Maarten van Mulken; Cast: Carlijn Koppelmans, Kim Hoogterp, Kasia Mielczarek; Music: Tim Coenen; Styling: Kasia Mielczarek, Maarten van Mulken
Project Type:
Experimental, Short, Other
Genres:
Fashion, Fashion Film, Abstract, Experimental
Country of Origin:
Netherlands
Duration:
00:02:07
Language:
-
Completion Date:
2018-01-01
Innuendo- the bad twin
Synopsis:
When a mysterious young woman starts a new life as an art model, will her demons leave her alone or finally reveal the naked truth?
The Finnish Tuuli grew up in an oppressively religious and abusive family and in the shadow of her angelic twin sister. She embarks on a journey to the other side of the world, Australia, to find her true identity. Curious of nudity and sexuality, she becomes a nude model for art classes. She seems to use people to her own advantage and the good boy Thomas gets left behind when she meets the rough but charismatic chainsaw sculptor Ben. Her innocent surface starts revealing sordid cracks and the good intentions of the people she meets become a graveyard for her twisted delusions of grandiose. The film has been compared with works of David Lynch and Michael Scorsese.
Directors:
Saara Lamberg
Key Cast:
Saara Lamberg, Brendan Bacon
Writers:
Saara Lamberg
Producers:
Saara Lamberg
Other Credits:
-
Project Type:
Feature
Genres:
-
Country of Origin:
Australia
Duration:
01:39:48
Language:
English, Finnish
Completion Date:
2017-07-31
junk girl
Synopsis:
There once was a girl
who was made up of junk.
She looked really dirty,
and she smelled like a skunk.
She was always unhappy,
or in one of her slumps-perhaps 'cause she spent
so much time down in the dumps.
The only bright moment
was from a guy named Stan.
He was from the neighborhood
garbage man.
He loved her a lot
and made a marriage proposal,
but she already thrown herself
in the garbage disposal.
Directors:
mohammad zare, shalale kheiri
Key Cast:
-
Writers:
shalale kheiri
Producers:
mohammad zare
Other Credits:
photographer: roozbeh shamshiri
Project Type:
Animation, Experimental, Short, Student
Genres:
-
Country of Origin:
Iran, Islamic Republic of
Duration:
00:15:22
Language:
English
Completion Date:
2016-03-15
Marriage
Synopsis:
Thoughtful and provocative drama about Europe's current sociopolitical crisis told through the allegory of a crumbling and twisted marriage.
Europe, the wife, is trapped in a boom and bust relationship with her young and immature husband Rich, and feels lost and disconnected from reality. Unable to deal with his sexual demands and the tragedy that has occurred because of his misconduct, Europe embarks on a journey within her mind to find herself. On her way she’ll meet the people that have haunted and affected her marriage: Rich’s decadent mother, his corrupted friends, his innocent victims and most importantly his domineering lover Adam - a man who seems to dictate the fate of many, including hers.
The film is a visual diary of a woman's thought-process towards divorce. It's dense and meaningful, with surrealistic overtones that reflect her subconscious.
Directors:
Katerina Philppou-Curtis
Key Cast:
Miranda Magee, Chris Slater
Writers:
Katerina Philppou-Curtis
Producers:
Paul Curtis (Producer, VFX Supervisor, Cinematography)
Other Credits:
-
Project Type:
Feature
Genres:
-
Country of Origin:
United Kingdom
Duration:
01:40:00
Language:
English
Completion Date:
2017-06-01
Me Too - Fuck You - It's Time For Action
Synopsis:
ME TOO - FUCK YOU – IT’S TIME FOR ACTION “swipes” (like you do on your smartphone or iPad) between several stories of young and older women who think time’s up, we have to act against sexual abuse. The main storyline is about a Chinese woman who helps loyal other women to finally get justice from unpunished abusers, inspired by Hitchcock's "Strangers on a train" (for a perfect alibi) and Michael Mann's "Collateral" (take a cab to justice).
The first feature that lead actress Jenny Hsia (co) directed (with Paul Ruven). Her parents emigrated from communist China to the Netherlands. Trained as an actress at the Lee Strasberg Institute (NYC). Jenny Hsia: "#MeToo and Time's Up inspired. It’s about time we do something about sexual harassment. Filmmakers too can tell stories and start discussions. "
Emmy nominated producer Paul Ruven was twice selected for Berlin. Every movie he directs is different cinema adventure. Paul Ruven: " We shot a month before #MeToo started. An urgent dilemma: How to act against sexual abusers? In the world 1 in every 3 women and 1 in every 6 men suffered sexual abuse as children. Strong women stand up."
Director of “Three Billboards Outside Ebbing, Missouri” Martin McDonagh couldn’t have said it better at the BAFTA’s 2018 :"It is a hopeful movie but also angry, and sometimes an angry movie is the only way to change something."
Directors:
Jenny Hsia, Paul Ruven
Key Cast:
Jenny Hsia, Golda de Leon
Writers:
Marian Batavier
Producers:
Marian Batavier, Paul Ruven
Other Credits:
-
Project Type:
Feature
Genres:
Drama
Country of Origin:
Netherlands
Duration:
01:20:00
Language:
English
Completion Date:
2018-03-27
Moist
Synopsis:
How do we define the line between men and nature?
Considering the fact that all things found on earth have started out as natural elements, it is unlikely to assume that mankind have at any point contribute to the development of original formation. However, having said that, it is impossible to ignore mankind's directive narrative to world's natural sources through the history, to the point where we can no longer see a clear difference between what is designed by nature and what isn't.
The elements we used for the video such as designed marble stone, fur coat, artificial waterfall etc, were clearly our way to illuminate men intervention within natural space as noted above, threatened by natural disasters such as fire and lava, simply to remind nature's fury and it's unattainable, wild consuming power.
Directors:
Jonathan Trichter, Anna Lann
Key Cast:
-
Writers:
Jonathan Trichter, Anna Lann
Producers:
Jonathan Trichter , Anna Lann
Other Credits:
-
Project Type:
Music Video
Genres:
-
Country of Origin:
Israel
Duration:
00:03:44
Language:
English
Completion Date:
-
Must Kill Karl
Synopsis:
Everyone has "that" friend - the one who shows up uninvited, drinks all your booze, and hits on your girlfriend - who we all secretly hate. One night, a group of friends decide enough is enough and there's only one way to get rid of him for good - they MUST KILL KARL.
Directors:
Joe Kicak
Key Cast:
Peter Mooney, Sarah Power, Mike Lobel, Claire Stollery, Scott Cavelheiro, Jamie Spilchuk, Stacey McGunnigle
Writers:
Karen Moore
Producers:
Karen Moore, Ryan West, Robin Crumley, Joe Kicak
Other Credits:
-
Project Type:
Short
Genres:
-
Country of Origin:
Canada
Duration:
00:12:13
Language:
English
Completion Date:
2017-01-01
Object
Synopsis:
This video essay is a response to the artist's experience working as a stripper. What began as a beautiful and exciting adventure quickly turned dark as the artist was criticized and ultimately fired for not having an augmented body. This piece explores what happens to ones relationship to our own bodies when one performs professionally for the male gaze.
Directors:
Sydney Southam
Key Cast:
-
Writers:
-
Producers:
-
Other Credits:
-
Project Type:
Documentary, Experimental, Short
Genres:
-
Country of Origin:
Canada
Duration:
00:06:00
Language:
English
Completion Date:
2017-05-19
ONE,TWO,GUESS WHO'S WHO
Synopsis:
In a rich Manhattan condo a billionaire lady is murdered. All the evidence leads the police to the conclusion of a suspect but they are wrong.
A murder mystery in the style of Hitchcock that goes backwards
Directors:
System
Key Cast:
Erika Robel, Ben Robertson, Victoria Guthrie, Jessica Sherr, System
Writers:
System, Jacopo Iadicicco
Producers:
System
Other Credits:
-
Project Type:
Feature
Genres:
-
Country of Origin:
Italy
Duration:
01:48:00
Language:
English
Completion Date:
-
Patch
Synopsis:
Narcissistic Charlotte has three values in life: beauty, success and admiration from her online followers and men. She cannot bear the absence of these qualities in her heart broken friend during a weekend away in Guernsey. Charlotte's lack of compassion for her BFF leads to her paying a high price.
Charlotte has three values in life: beauty, success and admiration from her online followers and men. She cannot bear the absence of these qualities in her heart broken friend Tessa. Charlotte's lack of compassion for her BFF leads to her paying a high price.
Directors:
Kristjan Knigge
Key Cast:
Marinda van 't Hof, Karen Spanjer, David Corbett
Writers:
Mariska Breedland
Producers:
Marinda van 't Hof, Karen Spanjer, Rinie Jansen
Other Credits:
-
Project Type:
Short
Genres:
dark comedy
Country of Origin:
Netherlands
Duration:
00:11:18
Language:
English
Completion Date:
2016-04-01
Pelle
Synopsis:
Giovedì. Lei si sveglia. Gli specchi nella stanza riflettono il suo corpo ossuto. Si pesa. La lancetta della bilancia si ferma ancora una volta un po’ più indietro. La sua espressione è delusa. Le sue gracili braccia afferrano cibo colorato dal tavolo imbandito della cucina. La sua bocca morde, mastica, mangia, ingurgita. Eppure il suo corpo continua a dimagrire. Plastiche colorate e montagne di rifiuti invadono la cucina. Il cibo non la nutre, ma lei è determinata a non voler scomparire.
Directors:
Domenico Davide Angiuli, Tommaso De Rai
Key Cast:
Francesca Valtorta
Writers:
Elena Contrino
Producers:
Domenico Davide Angiuli, Tommaso De Rai, Elena Contrino, Edoardo Roccato
Other Credits:
-
Project Type:
Short
Genres:
-
Country of Origin:
Italy
Duration:
00:12:02
Language:
-
Completion Date:
-
Per Errore - To Error
Synopsis:
Napoli, the eastern suburbs of the city. In a frontier School Prof. Rama Ciro's mom waits for her pupil. Showing up is the mother of another Ciro. When the Professor discovers that the woman is the mother ... the killer of his son has a heart attack.
Directors:
Raffaele Ceriello
Key Cast:
-
Writers:
Raffaele Ceriello, Giorgio De Dominicis
Producers:
Les Enfanis Rouge , Francescomorra.com
Other Credits:
-
Project Type:
Short
Genres:
-
Country of Origin:
Italy
Duration:
00:12:51
Language:
Italian
Completion Date:
2017-06-30
PHANTOMS
Synopsis:
A recurring dream has been haunting Valerio at night: weird red and blue strobe lights swirl in front of his eyes, disturbing his sleep. This time he’s daydreaming: it’s a drywall on a suburb street on which his mother is sitting watching him, with that look of her, severe and cautionary. Both his parents recently died in a car accident and Valerio is preparing a memorial exhibition of his father’s work, a well recognized photographer. While he’s organizing the slides looking for the next picture to print, he finds one where his mother is in the exact spot where he dreamed her. It's the beginning of a journey into his past life.
2037, Polignano a Mare, a southern Italian gem. Most of its population now is foreign, so that English is the spoken language there and even the name of that small town has been turned into Polineano. On a warm spring day, the life of a British family, which owns one of the most beautiful houses in the old town, is shaken by the arrival of an elderly apulian man, seriously affected by Alzheimer, followed by his grandson.
The little boy soon discovers that this wonderful home, which he had never even heard of, just once belonged to his grandfather.
Directors:
pierluigi ferrandini
Key Cast:
-
Writers:
pierluigi ferrandini
Producers:
Fondazione Apulia Film Commission
Other Credits:
-
Project Type:
Short
Genres:
-
Country of Origin:
Italy
Duration:
00:16:00
Language:
English, Italian
Completion Date:
2017-02-14
Regarding the Case of Joan of Arc
Synopsis:
An alt-right Christian terrorist in the United States claims to hear the voice of God commanding her to attack federal buildings.
Directors:
Matthew D. Wilder
Key Cast:
Nicole LaLiberte, Suzanne Cryer, Guinevere Turner, Lili Bordan, Tom Fitzpatrick, Christopher Matthew Cook
Writers:
Michael McClung , Matthew D. Wilder
Producers:
Gena Vazquez, Luis Sinibaldi
Other Credits:
-
Project Type:
Feature
Genres:
-
Country of Origin:
United States
Duration:
01:40:13
Language:
English
Completion Date:
2019-05-01
Scent of the stars
Synopsis:
Nino, out of the madhouse after thirty years, finds himself incapable of living otherwise. Just as Adriano, a hospital doctor, shot home from his wife and also unable to find the courage to face life. They all will find the meaning of small things again
Directors:
Francesco Felli
Key Cast:
Alessandro Habert, Giorgio Colangeli
Writers:
Francesco Felli
Producers:
Montechino Editore
Other Credits:
-
Project Type:
Short
Genres:
-
Country of Origin:
Italy
Duration:
00:12:06
Language:
Italian
Completion Date:
2017-01-15
Story for an Empty Theatre
Synopsis:
“Story for an empty theatre”, an introduction by Venanzio del Mare
This film narrates an intense story of love, disease and death, inspired by the autobiographical novel “Beyond the Blue”, by the Italian photographer and writer Cesare Bedognè. The novel is at the basis of the theatrical performance of the same name which, together with the writer’s photographs, was the first material on which this film was created. In this work still photographs, classical music, theatrical choreographies and dance belonging to the Japanese Butoh’s tradition, lyrical prose, diary fragments and poems merge cinematographically, through the editing by the Russian director Aleksandr Balagura, with shots taken both in a deserted Sanatorium of the Italian Alps, the place of the writer’s past, and in the Greek island of Lesvos, the place of his present. As the book on which it is based, the film seems to wander freely in time, attempting to be more faithful to the intrinsically poetic and diachronic flow of memory rather than to the artificial linearity of conventional narration. The space of this film is thus the space of consciousness, a continuum which dilates, in one of the very last shots, into a dreamlike meditation on death, when the theatre’s stage slowly dissolves into the interior of the Sanatorium's ruined church, and the white female character weaving together in a pattern of Japanese theatre the various shots of the film, seems to leave behind her own body and leaves the scene. Before the crumbling altar only a drifting plastic bag remains, stirred by the wind.
This is a film constructed on words where images (both still and moving) do not play a merely descriptive role, but rather open a parallel poetical path. It is thus accomplished, through a polysemic correlation between word and image, what Belá Balázs believed to be one of the most intriguing possibilities of poetical expression pertaining to cinematic language.
Through this filmic journey we are also led to the inner depths of the photographic image, the very stuff cinema is made of. Gelatin silver pictures merge in this film with cinematic shots, abandoning their seemingly static form: they dissolve or slowly take shape, as if still under the action of a developer in the darkroom, gradually revealing different layers of reality. The same pictures return rhythmically, in the film, and as the story unfolds they produce always diverse suggestions and meaning, in the continuously changeable and renewed flow of memory. In quite a similar manner, the actress seems to react to both the words from the book and Bach’s music, wandering freely inside and outside the stage, in a silent dialogue with the impalpable beings that from time to time seem to inhabit her, on the Greek shores, in a deserted church or in the old Sanatorium’s haunting rooms - a landscape of Absence - emptiness submerged by a sense of waiting, that counterpoints and at the same time reverberates the everlasting voice of the sea.
Directors:
Aleksandr Balagura, Cesare Bedogne
Key Cast:
Maria Frepoli, Emanuele Ferrari
Writers:
Cesare Bedogne
Producers:
Studio Incantations, ABao AQu Publishing
Other Credits:
-
Project Type:
Documentary, Experimental
Genres:
-
Country of Origin:
Italy
Duration:
00:57:00
Language:
Italian
Completion Date:
2015-05-14
Sueur de Sang
Synopsis:
Flesh, steel and urges. The life of an ordinary man and woman.
Sueur de Sang deals with the psychosexual aspect of everyday life, where desire threatens its order, and how inert material becomes the site of turmoil.
Directors:
Etienne Laberge
Key Cast:
Josée Gagnon, Bruno Paradis
Writers:
Etienne Laberge
Producers:
Etienne Laberge
Other Credits:
Post-production: Etienne Laberge; Director of photography: Mathieu Chouinard; Music: Nicolas Cuadra
Project Type:
Experimental, Short, Student
Genres:
-
Country of Origin:
Canada
Duration:
00:05:33
Language:
-
Completion Date:
2017-12-27
The Agony of Napolitan
Synopsis:
Exploring of a man's mind when his ordinary lunch routine is abruptly changed.
Directors:
Yousuke Kiname
Key Cast:
Taijyu Nakane, Chisato Yanagisawa, Andrea Galata
Writers:
Yousuke Kiname, Taijyu Nakane
Producers:
-
Other Credits:
-
Project Type:
Short
Genres:
Drama, Experimental
Country of Origin:
United States
Duration:
00:10:25
Language:
Japanese
Completion Date:
2017-09-20
The Art of Eating
Synopsis:
Follow the trail of a 'hungry,' highly evolved Los Angelino, one who has been psychologically abused by patriarchal normalcy, social media addictions and superstitious stereotypes...
Sit back and watch the lengths to which she will go to take care of the one she loves, driven by a luscious, mad masochism that leads her to prostitute and betray the very essence of her magic; selling the deepest secrets of her species for base reward--money, intended to help her pretty, pretty lover boy become something more than what he is, even though he'll never be as complex, as tender or as intelligent as the protagonist herself.
In some ways, this is an examination of the female condition- a hazy, PTSD-infused willingness to subjugate. She feels the gnawing need to serve another- the pleasure of feeding another. It's a sexually maternal tale, almost...
Can she escape the Hardcore Folklore which has pushed her Self Realization behind a veil of socially-constructed reality?
In a kitsch and outdated reception hall, typical of an American hotel, Marcus Öst is hosting a party to celebrate the first anniversary of his blog. He believes that his guests, superficial publicists, diligent readers, brand representatives courting him for an article and everyone else - even opportunists who are only coming for the free buffet - will be impressed by the chic venue and the eloquence of his speech. Blinded by his selfies, Marcus doesn’t understand that they only came to take advantage of him - everyone, that is, except Didier...
Directors:
Lorenzo Sterzi
Key Cast:
Sacha Bourque, Karl Hardy, Léane Labrèche-Dor, Michel Dorion, Volodia Schneider, Louise Marleau
Writers:
Lorenzo Sterzi
Producers:
Lorenzo Sterzi
Other Credits:
Cinematography: Christophe Persoz
Project Type:
Short
Genres:
Comedy, LGBT
Country of Origin:
Canada
Duration:
00:13:00
Language:
French, Italian
Completion Date:
2017-08-10
The dispensation of life and death
Synopsis:
The video shows sadistic people sitting at a table where alongside the main course is a girl, clearly terrified.
With them there is a serial killer who, like a malicious presenter, entertains the audience of this aristocratic lounge.
A waiter keeps resupplying the table in front of these bored spectators and, while they are eating, the food acquires more and more a macabre connotation.
Rapid flashbacks, like dreamlike abstractions of introspection, depict their vices in their own private context touching religion, secret socities and perversions.
The hunger of the nobles is insatiable, they eventually start blaming each other in front of the gleeful eyes of the serial killer.
The last abstraction is his own, which brings him back to reality and what is currently happening: he is at the window and he is looking with desire at a girl as she strolls in the street, the one previously linked to his imaginary dream.
The serial killer is nothing more than a product, brought to the excess by our society. He represents the true choice that it (the society) induces: to abide by oneself or to live by moring according to ethical canons.
In his mind the need for exaggeration is represented throught the control he exercises on the victim.
He sees his personality as the demanding nobles he meets, characters with a dark and scary private life.
In the final he is back to reality, leaving him to the most disturbing of its questions: should he indulge in his nature?
Directors:
Roberto Gallina, Fabio Gallina
Key Cast:
Maria Vittoria Barrella, Guendalina Bassetti, Emilio Frattini, Federico Scarpinato, Paola Rensi, Alessio Dalla Costa
Writers:
Fabio Gallina
Producers:
Roberto Gallina, Fabio Gallina
Other Credits:
Director of Photography: Roberto Gallina; Backstage Photographer: Yatzil Erculiani; Make up Artist: Linda Maculan; Stylist: Gian Paolo Manica; Rental: Corrado Measso; Editor: Roberto Gallina; Color Correction: Paolo Furlanelli; Cameraman: Roberto Gallina; 1st AC: Mirko Dam
Project Type:
Music Video
Genres:
-
Country of Origin:
Italy
Duration:
00:03:22
Language:
English
Completion Date:
-
The Lick
Synopsis:
One chilly day inside a mysterious graveyard, footballer wannabe Kris sees his dreams come true in a most unusual way. THE LICK is a surreal black comedy about the deadly seduction of desire.
Directors:
Stephen C. Horne
Key Cast:
Elias Sommer, Lila Grandgeorge, Dewi Wynne Jones, Niall Macdonald, Raechel Alexandra, Lynsay Holmes
Writers:
-
Producers:
Gianna Arni
Other Credits:
-
Project Type:
Short, Student
Genres:
Comedy, Fantasy
Country of Origin:
United Kingdom
Duration:
00:17:51
Language:
-
Completion Date:
-
The Nude
Synopsis:
A journey into the private thoughts of a figure art model as she challenges herself by working with a photographer for the first time.
Directors:
Alvin Case
Key Cast:
Natalia Curballio
Writers:
Natalia Carbullido, Alvin Case
Producers:
Alvin Case, Natalia Carbullido
Other Credits:
-
Project Type:
Documentary, Experimental, Feature
Genres:
-
Country of Origin:
United States
Duration:
01:00:00
Language:
English
Completion Date:
2018-03-21
Una bellissima bugia
Synopsis:
-
Directors:
Lorenzo Santoni
Key Cast:
Beniamino Marcone, Paolo Sassanelli
Writers:
Lorenzo Santoni
Producers:
Francesco Falaschi, Giancarlo Alessandrini, Lorenzo Santoni
Other Credits:
-
Project Type:
Short
Genres:
-
Country of Origin:
Italy
Duration:
00:14:55
Language:
Italian
Completion Date:
2016-04-11
Upgrade
Synopsis:
A futuristic and mysterious video translated in the six united nations languages, which seems to be a message for humanity, announcing in a solemn but fairly positive and appeased tone that the transhuman era has just begun.
Starring Nigel Ackland, who after an industrial accident became the pioneering user of the world's most advanced prosthetic hand, that he controls with his mind.
Directors:
DAMIEN
Key Cast:
Nigel Ackland
Writers:
DAMIEN
Producers:
DAMIEN
Other Credits:
-
Project Type:
Music Video
Genres:
-
Country of Origin:
France
Duration:
00:03:52
Language:
French
Completion Date:
2018-03-11
Wakey Wakey
Synopsis:
Teen Josie tries to make sense of a frightening world in which a sleep condition blurs her dreams into waking life, and comes under the sway of her sister Samantha, whose dark web of secrets she must unravel.
Directors:
Adrian Goodman
Key Cast:
Laura Wheelwright, Fabiana Weiner
Writers:
Adrian Goodman
Producers:
Adrian Goodman, Nicole Johnstone, Shaun McAlpine
Other Credits:
Music: Nick Cave (with The Birthday Party), Martin Jones, Simon Eddy
Project Type:
Feature, Student
Genres:
Psychological drama, Arthouse
Country of Origin:
Australia
Duration:
01:00:35
Language:
English
Completion Date:
2012-08-01
Waterbabies
Synopsis:
Magic-realist teen drama: Strange and lonely 15 year old MOLLY begins baptising crowds of children in the local river. OWEN's teenage gang go to bully her but he can't admit he really fancies her. He must choose to side with his friends or protect the girl he loves.
Directors:
Andrew Mark Simpson
Key Cast:
Lewis Cope, Juliette Taylor, Joshua Wright, Lilly Ross
Music video for track 'Where Am I' of Colacoaster's Debut Album. Shot on location in Sicily.
Mathias Fellner - Art Director
Michael Dürr - Director of Photography
Philipp Melchers - Editor
Marco Colombo - Drone Operator
Nicoló Stabile - Local Guide
Directors:
Michael Dürr, Mathias Fellner
Key Cast:
-
Writers:
-
Producers:
Gregor Errath
Other Credits:
-
Project Type:
Music Video
Genres:
-
Country of Origin:
Austria
Duration:
00:03:30
Language:
-
Completion Date:
2017-09-09
You and me
Synopsis:
Two college friends embark on a long drive on a Sunday morning, leaving their bustling city lives behind. As they amble through the hilly roads, they reveal to each other, their old longings and hidden pasts. Their rose-tinted nostalgia is broken and they come face to face with their imperfect lives.