1] BALANCE
Iran
Musical
Barzan Rostami
00:03:00 mnts
SYNOPSIS
It’s a story about the soldiers who are sacrificing their lives and resist in order to the people of the city and future generations live in peace…
2] STRINGS
Venezuela
Spanish
Paula Zambrano
00:12:12 mnts
SYNOPSIS
Verónica, a sardonic woman, returns to her childhood home to confront her dead mother for the last time, so through an old Jenga game she begins to remember the spoilage of their relationship and what took place at the abandoned house.
3] THE SHUTTLE
United States
English
Lu Han
00:15:16 mnts
SYNOPSIS
An infertile nail salon owner decides to confront her husband, the salon’s shuttle driver, whom she suspects of sleeping with one of her employees.
4] THE HOBBYIST
United States
English
George Vatistas
00:08:37 mnts
SYNOPSIS
A short neo-noire thriller centered around a mysterious druggist visited by Sangstrom, a seemingly ordinary man in search of an undetectable poison. Yet, Sangstrom winds up getting more than he bargained for from the sagacious alchemist.
5] HINDSIGHT
United Kingdom
English
Oisin-Tomas O Raghallaigh
00:11:05 mnts
SYNOPSIS
Tony, a convict and drug addict, desperate for a new relationship with his daughter and former partner, must overcome his past temptations and prove that he’s finally changed his ways.
6] APOLLYON
United States
English
Matt Burkett
00:06:48 mnts
SYNOPSIS
A woman’s suffering may bring about monstrous consequences for humanity.
7] HOW IT ALL STARTED BY A MOUSE
United States
English
Max Zabell
00:07:32 mnts
SYNOPSIS
In a recreation of a pivotal, make or break moment during Walt Disney’s early career Walt was given a choice to work under unfair terms or to give up on his creation, “Oswald the Lucky Rabbit”. It was not a simple choice to make and the decision would effect his career and the world of entertainment forever.
8] RED TOMATO
India
Tamil
Ananya
00:15:35 mnts
SYNOPSIS
The film is a political satire with a young boy and his grandmother as protagonists. They make a living out of selling tomatoes. One sunny afternoon, four men dressed all in sparking white come to buy tomatoes. Although taken aback, the boy negotiate with the men and the deal is sealed with an exchange of money. The four men filled their black cloth with the weighed tomatoes and walk a few steps away, like they are waiting for a bus. In a few minutes a police jeep with red lights and a loud siren passed by, almost immediately followed by a convoy of vehicles. As the convoy pass, the two boys see the four men hurl tomatoes at the passing vehicles. The red tomatoes spluttering on the windows, bonnets, getting squashed under the tyres. The red tomatoes all over the road. As the convoy ends, the four men disappear, as quickly as they appeared on scene. The events of that sunny afternoon changes the lives of the young boy and the grandmother. Or does it?
9] PEHCHAAN
India
Hindi
Chirag Khatri
00:14:43 mnts
SYNOPSIS
Suraj and Chandu have been best friends since they could barely walk. With age their friendship has seen itself only fester into a bond that brothers share. Both are the two ends of this relationship. However, although they started out as friends, things change along the way from one end. Suraj falls in love with Chandu and Chandu is oblivious to this. And living in a small town, Suraj is scared to the idea of coming ‘out of the closet’. Due to certain events , in a rush of moments , Suraj makes an advance towards Chandu, which alienates Chandu from this friendship. While Suraj tackles with his feelings towards Chandu and tries to come face to face with this sexuality, he alienates his best friend.
10] I NOW FANTOM GOD’S SECRET
India
Tamil
Ram Shankar
00:32:10 mnts
SYNOPSIS
it is a non narrative and parallel screenplay film of contemporary subject.
11] KUCH DER AUR
India
Hindi
Anurag Kawatra
01:05:30 mnts
SYNOPSIS
Kuch Der Aur (Wait a while) is a film showing the momentary lives of the people in Chandni Chowk. The film follows the journey of a young boy trying to find a moment of bliss in his life filled with impassiveness and eternal wait that the thousands of lives in Chandni Chowk are accustomed to. The transcending wait continues to test his patience and that of the other lives around him like his mother waiting for a relief from her silent life, his Chacha hoping to get out of his middle age crises and his Chachi longing for a son she could never have. Each one has to try their own way out of this never ending cycle of wait. The film also tries to seep inwards into the lives of the people in Chandni Chowk and internalize their experiences of desperate longing and wait, and presents it through a tinge of observational cinema.
12] QUELL
India
English
Yash Solanki
00:05:21 mnts
SYNOPSIS
Sam is a passionate kid who wants to be an astronaut. The sky always amazed him. His parents always supported him in every way but he lost them in early age, With his hard work he joins KRION – KINETIC RESEARCH OF INTERSTELLAR ORBITAL NETWORK, a secret space facility. He always believed the possibilities of life outside earth So with resources available in KRION he creates a machine which sends extraterrestrial messages. On account of that a entity(Human Girl) comes from UFO. He gradually develops a connection with her. He goes with the girl to the places where there are no people and keeps her safe by hacking KRION servers and making her as underground KRION officer. He also finds a stone which she is possessive about. Then comes a day when she leaves earth. Down the years after the research done by KRION, Sam is selected for the mission to go on that planet and he makes plans to search her there and something goes wrong there and he loses his life holding her stone.
