1) FINAL DECISION
SYNOPSIS
A little girl watches over her dying father, in hopes of reuniting her grief stricken estranged parents in the afterlife. Can one family’s selflessness lead to a never-ending love?
United States
English
Elaine Del Valle
00:06:59
2) BETWEEN SECONDS
SYNOPSIS
“Between Seconds” is the story of two musicians who have grown out of sync with their music and ultimately themselves. Adrian, a classically trained pianist, loses the ability to play in sync with his music when thoughts of his ex-girlfriend flood his mind. Alicia, a struggling opera singer, loses her ability to sing in sync when she realizes she can’t really grasp her dreams. Both the musicians discover mysterious red envelopes which lead them inside of their clocks and into a surreal clock world. Here they must figure out how to synchronize themselves or they risk never being able to play their music again.
United States
English
Nora Jaenicke
00:20:00
3) CLASH OF MORALITY
SYNOPSIS
Mohamed & Richard stuck in an elevator clash upon their morals. Mohamed confronts Richard upon being judged for his look & why he presumes him to be a terrorist.
United States
English
Vinay Pujara
00:17:10
4) RECLAMATION
SYNOPSIS
A determined young woman embarks on an epic adventure to reunite her family, torn apart and spread across the solar system ten years ago by an all-powerful global company that, in 2151, has the power to “recruit” anyone who owes it a debt. This cautionary tale juxtaposes our economic inequality, corporate power, and basic freedoms against a realistic, potential dystopian future. Subtitled version available.
United States
English
Alison Kohlhardt
00:18:00
5) WELCOME BACK
SYNOPSIS
After being deported to Mexico, CARMEN is forced to survive in a country she doesn’t understand anymore. Follow her struggles as she looks for an answer to where she’s really from, and which country is truly her home.
United States
English, Spanish
Matias Nilsson
00:21:32
6) TOMASITO
SYNOPSIS
Firing someone is an easy task. Unless that person has been in the company for 12 years, has a flawless CV and his name is Tommy.
Spain
Spanish
Ignacio F. Rodó, Sergio Arróspide
00:12:00
7) ACCOMPLICE
SYNOPSIS
Alex gets the feeling that he’s being followed after a woman in the park tells him that she has killed a man. He is asked to this as a secret else he too will be killed.
Spain
English, Spanish
Adrian Ramirez Leon
00:19:42
8) MY FRIEND NAIM
SYNOPSIS
Alba an 8 year old girl who lives alone with her father, comes out one night to throw away the garbage. In a dark alley, next to the containers, she meets Naim, a South African immigrant. Two different worlds will come into contact to show that… Has friendship no age, color or borders? In the Universe we are all connected; but sometimes capriciously.
Spain
Spanish
José Luis López Ortiz
00:12:00
9) BLINDNESS
SYNOPSIS
A blind mother asks for help from a woman to know if the girl who loves her son is beautiful or not. The greatest revealation is that the son’s beloved too is blind.
Iran, Islamic Republic of
Persian
Navid Nikkhah Azad
00:12:23
10) ARE YOU VOLLEYBALL?!
SYNOPSIS
A group of Arabian spoken asylum seekers arrive to an English spoken country border and can’t keep going. They conflict with border soldiers everyday till a deaf-mute baby becomes a catalyst for better communication between two groups.
Iran, Islamic Republic of
Arabic, English
Mohammad Bakhshi
00:15:00
11) A GIFT FOR A GLOOMY DAY
SYNOPSIS
Kill yourself and get rid of this life. A man receives a courier wrongly delivered to him containing a pistol. Will the man kill himself on his birthday ???
Iran, Islamic Republic of
Persian
Behzad khodaveisi
00:08:59
12) GLOOMY GREEN
SYNOPSIS
An abused young girl looking for solace on the streets of Tehran. The girl is ill treated at home by her father for being a girl. A state that denotes the mindset of the entire city. But where can she go to find peace. She starts beging and selling things at a traffic signal. The noise of traffic is louder than her father’s yellings.
Iran, Islamic Republic of
Persian
Forouzan Jalali
00:18:18
13) BREATHING
SYNOPSIS
A few worker of a stone factory that don’t have health care, have to hide in a dark and small room every month when the insurance agent arrives. This time many problems happen. Some of them who are not happy with their situation and they didn’t receive their salary for couple of months, want to show them self to the agent so their boss get a huge surtax, but there is a gas lick in the room and one of the workers who has “Asthma” is about to die. Finally all the workers help him to get near the window close to the ceiling and he survives.
Iran, Islamic Republic of
Persian
Farshid Ayoobinejad
00:12:00
14) NO EXIT
SYNOPSIS
Sheida brought a fortuneteller to her house, while fortunetelling her boyfriend arrives and her husband calls and says he would be home soon, and another guest arrives, she has to hide them all then her husband arrives and realizes something is wrong in the house.
Iran, Islamic Republic of
Persian
Azadeh Masihzadeh
00:20:00
15) FREEZER
SYNOPSIS
Tassos, a man just over 50 years old, with a career in the marketing and commercial direction of large corporations, has been unemployed for three years now. Too old for a new beginning, but also too young to resign. His relationships with his close people are being tested, and his psychological state is marginal. His goal is one: to get out of the “freezer”.
Greece
Modern Greek
DIMITRIS NAKOS
00:16:15
16) THE LEAK
SYNOPSIS
A super hacker must recruit others like him, only to find himself in a game of cat and mouse with the agency that trained him in the first place. The agency locates the teenaged super hacker after a interesting cat and mouse chase.
Mexico
English, Spanish
Patrick Barbeau
00:14:00
17) I’M A SUPERHERO
SYNOPSIS
The classic Italian family, happy until the dismissal from the workplace of Sergio, husband of Miriam and father of Federico, a 9-year-old down child, and Chiara, a 6-year-old girl. The man will not say anything to the family, he believes he has been wronged. Every morning he wears vigilant clothes and meets with friends to play on clandestine races. He always comes out defeated, he loses with the complicity of Francesco, Luigi and Michele, his play friends. Sergio has a memory that always comes back to his mind, dates back to their wedding day, a flashback that torments him.
Italy
Italian
Nino Giuffrida
00:19:00
18) TE MAKUTU, THE CURSE
SYNOPSIS
Two star-crossed lovers in colonial New Zealand incur the wrath of a deadly spirit that follows them into the present where they must decide between lives apart or love and death.
New Zealand
Musical
Jonathan Zsofi
00:20:00
19) THE STORY OF 90 COINS
SYNOPSIS
How much is a promise worth these days? An aspiring fashion designer finds out when she has to choose between fulfilling her promise and realising her dream.
China
Chinese, English
Michael Wong
00:09:23
20) UNDER THE JERICHO SUN
SYNOPSIS
A rendezvous for vital enemy information goes wrong and leaves two British soldiers and their contact to flee from a key German Air Base across the dangerous North African Desert. The last available plane is deployed to find them and recover the information; a deadly Stuka dive-bomber. In the race to escape, the desert road runs out and they become stranded on an exposed ridge. With time and options running out, they must fight to survive as Stukas, snakes and suspicion close in around them.
United Kingdom
English
Marc Pearce
00:14:45
21) METAPHOR
SYNOPSIS
As with every story, every person has two faces. The one we choose to reveal, and the one we keep hidden from view. The protagonist in this film, uses the avatar and handle ‘Fallen God’ when accessing social media and virtual worlds. In his virtual journeys, he comes across the mysterious, beautiful and enchanting ‘Encre’. Will this encounter turn into a relationship touched by the spark of the infinite? This animated French-Australian film, based on true events that happened 2017 explores the many masks we wear along with the question of identity and relationships in the modern world in all its shapes and forms.
Australia
French
Basile Vignes
00:07:54
22) GUARD
SYNOPSIS
An emotionally hardened young woman wrestles with difficult memories when her estranged father returns from time in prison. As he teaches her how to box, reconciliation seems possible, but their traumatic past will not be easily washed away.
Ireland
English
Jonathan Harden
00:13:26
23) NOORA
SYNOPSIS
After a series of coincidences two strangers happen to meet on a deserted bridge at night. They have little in common but they do share one thing.
Norway
Norwegian
Tommy Naess
00:20:00
24) THANKS FOR EVERYTHING
SYNOPSIS
After a series of coincidences two strangers happen to meet on a deserted bridge at night. They have little in common but they do share one thing.
Norway
Norwegian
Frank Aron Gårdsø
00:29:50
25) SIMPLE SIMON
SYNOPSIS
The parents of a young girl are dismayed when she begins bullying her imaginary friend.
Canada
English, Other
Maninder Chana
00:08:05
26) FORBIDDEN
SYNOPSIS
Forbidden is a short dramatic thriller inspired by a true story that follows a Sikh woman named Jasleen, who is running away with her Muslim lover, Fahwaz. Jasleen’s culture and religious conscious parents want her to marry within the Sikh community, and are shocked when she suddenly disappears. After Jasleen and Fahwaz elope, they think they have found happiness—but Jasleen’s family tracks the couple down and commit horrific acts in defense of their family honor.
United States
English
Vibha Gulati
00:20:00
27) ALLUREMENT
SYNOPSIS
Alberta, 1989-Violence and mayhem ensue in the Albertan wilderness; two backpackers stumble upon a wounded man who bares a striking resemblance to one of two men wanted for a bank robbery in a nearby town. With the loot potentially buried nearby, and no one to hear his cries, how far are two seemingly average people willing to go for $150,000?
Canada
English
Robert Misovic
00:13:57
28) WISHFUL THINKING
SYNOPSIS
Time disappears when you dream, you feel like you’ve been in your fantasy world for hours, but reality toke only a couple of minutes. Imagine that after your final breath, you glide in your final dream and you biggest wish becomes true. And that dream lasts forever. What would your dream be? Did you ever think about that? The old Walter did, he knows very wel. He cherished his dream since 1961. This film worshipper and owner of his own old-fashioned filmtheater urges for decades after that one meeting, that one caress, huge, kiss and sleep… with the unreachable love of his live: Marilyn Monroe. One night his heart gives up, shall his dearest wish become true?
Netherlands
Dutch, English
Dennis Nap
00:10:20
29) I AM NOT A T-SHIRT
SYNOPSIS
There is a lot of talk about fashion, but no one ever stopped to listen to it. In an unexpected way the film “I Am Not A T-Shirt” a Fashion Film About Fashion And Film, personifies fashion and puts it right into the life of the young filmmaker Josephina, who has the chance to question Fashion in person, confronting it about issues involving art, fashion film and even its relevance to society. In this interesting dialogue, Fashion has the opportunity to argue and present opinions about itself, revisiting and questioning adjectives such as futility and vanity, so commonly related to it. But is fashion really what it claims to be, or is fashion just hiding its futility behind its glamour?
Brazil
English
Fabio Delai, Renne Castrucci
00:25:00
30) LENA
SYNOPSIS
“If the sin is serious, the suffering is great.” B. Brecht. The film Lena is a story of a mother who is driven to abandon her child. The script draws from a real story which took place in São Paulo in 2015 (even though this happens every day in many other places) to incite a reflection on the conditions experienced by Helena, the protagonist of the film. She is a house maid who lives with her 12-year-old daughter, Barbara, in a room annexed to her bosses’ house. Out of fear of being fired, Lena decides to conceal her pregnancy and keep quiet about her condition. One night her waters burst and, alone in her room, she gives birth to her son, by herself. The next day, she makes a dire decision about her newborn child – but before that, Lena deposits all the love she has into the new life she has just created, which will echo within her forever.
Brazil
Portuguese
Gustavo Campos
00:15:00
31) FLEA
Set in the 1969 war between El Salvador and Honduras –better known as “The Soccer War”– an Honduran foot soldier finds a lonely survivor in a raided border town during a recon mission. Moved by mercy, the soldier takes him in and looks after him. Soon enough, the survivor’s presence draws empathy from the Honduran soldier and even from the enemy, who forget about war for an instant as soon as they see him.
Honduras
Spanish
Alejandro Irias
00:28:03
32) YUMNA
SYNOPSIS
Based on a true story – the story of Yumna, a Syrian girl, who suffered from the war and fled to a refugee camp in Jordan, where we witness her struggles and how she survives physical and mental assaults on her.
Jordan
Arabic
Sandra Kawar
00:23:08
33) EMBRYO
SYNOPSIS
A journalist and his team are kidnapped by a medical research group and end up being part of their experiments.
Argentina
English, Spanish
Nahuel Matias Srnec
00:16:17
34) GOODBYE MY SON
SYNOPSIS
Despite glaucoma, Tetsuo spends his days on drawing pictures of fireworks after his wife passed away. One day, his only son, Yuji visits him. Tetsuo is not welcoming his repudiated son, but he hands out his drawing that contains the old memory of his family, watching the back of his son as someone.
Japan
Japanese
Yuichiro Nakada
00:14:20
35) BATTLE DREAM CHRONICLES: A NEW BEGINNING
SYNOPSIS
Syanna, a young black Caribbean girl, wakes up amnesic in an Afrofuturistic world where she has been enslaved by the global colonial empire of Mortemonde. Every day, she is forced to collect 500 experience points or XP for her master in the Battledream, a dangerous video game in which players die for real. With a kill switch implanted in her body and her limbs replaced by bionic parts controlled by the master, escape seems impossible. When she is offered a chance to learn in secret how to hack and control the technology used to enslave her, Syanna realizes that not everything is lost. But her master, driven by his lust for wealth and political power, is making the slave conditions harder and harder. And planning a rebellion while fulfilling her slave duty is getting more and more challenging. Will Syanna succeed in regaining her freedom?
France
English
Alain Bidard
00:24:00
