STUDENT FILMS 2018

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.