Drama Foreign
"My Daughter Yoshiko"
Winner - Short
With her daughter Yoshiko diagnosed with Autism Spectrum Disorder, and her husband overseas serving in the military, Saki Omura is finding it harder and harder to cope. Too ashamed to burden others and too proud to ask for help, Saki faces the now-daunting task of giving her daughter the best life possible.
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Film Type:
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Short
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Genres:
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Family, Disability, Drama
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Runtime:
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15 minutes
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Completion Date:
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September 24, 2018
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Production Budget:
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30,000 USD
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Country of Origin:
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United States
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Country of Filming:
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United States
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Shooting Format:
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Digital
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Aspect Ratio:
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2.35:1
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Film Color:
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Color
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First-time Filmmaker:
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No
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Student Project:
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No
Director - Brian Blum
Brian Blum is a film director based out of NYC. Brian grew up in Miami, Florida, and discovered his passion for filmmaking in high school while directing 'commercials' for his school's video Morning Announcements program. After high school, Brian went on to hone his skills at NYU's prestigious Tisch School of the Arts, graduating in 2015. His NYU Thesis film, Blood and Water, won 1st prize at NYU's showcase festival, the First Run Film Festival, and was shortlisted for a BAFTA Student Film Award in 2018.
"IL VESTITO (THE SUIT)"
An immigrant works in a laundry to buy a wedding suit. One day he is found stealing a suit from a sick groom who has just been left at the altar. To atone for his sins, he will have to avenge the robbed man.
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Film Type:
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Short
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Runtime:
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15 minutes
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Completion Date:
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February 1, 2020
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Production Budget:
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9,000 EUR
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Country of Origin:
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Italy
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Country of Filming:
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Italy
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Film Language:
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Arabic, Italian
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Shooting Format:
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Digital
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Aspect Ratio:
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2:40
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Film Color:
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Color
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First-time Filmmaker:
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No
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Student Project:
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No
Director - Maurizio Ravallese
Maurizio Ravallese, born in Rome on March 31st,1989, has a Doctorate in Philology and History of the Ancient World. He is a tenured Latin and Greek teacher. He has worked as a director’s assistant on different television and film productions. He has also directed various video music clips. In addition, he is the director and screenwriter of three short films: Miracolo in Periferia (Miracle on the Outskirts, 2013), La Terra degli sconfitti (The Land of the defeated, 2014), and Il Vestito (The Suit) 2020. To-gether with Emanuele Pisano, he is a founding partner of Pathos Distribution.
"ANA"
Ana's life takes a turn and while it seems to sink into her fears she reflects that the greatest fear is not death, if not, what dies within us while we live.
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Project Title (Original Language):
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A N A
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Film Type:
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Short
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Genres:
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drama, suspense, horror, action, fiction, short
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Runtime:
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3 minutes
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Completion Date:
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January 25, 2020
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Production Budget:
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200 USD
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Country of Origin:
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Spain
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Country of Filming:
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Spain
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Film Language:
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Spanish
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Shooting Format:
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Digital
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Film Color:
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Color
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First-time Filmmaker:
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No
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Student Project:
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No
"The Remains"
THE REMAINS is a stream of consciousness progression of a hallucinatory experience of an old man .The old man living his last days in a small hut situated on the isolated riverbank has lost almost all the assets of his life .All he left is his aged skinny figure, an old hut and hazy childhood nostalgia which are also vanishing towards eternity gradually.
The old man slowly paddles an old wooden boat in a mist covered river bank where he is frequently haunted by his childhood nostalgia. His own childhood image traps the old man in a fish net and they play a typical game on the riverbank. The senile old man hallucinates his own old hut vanished in the flame of fire, and his feeble body transformed into a gigantic fish.
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Project Title (Original Language):
Avashesh
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Film Type:
Experimental, Short
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Genres:
Drama
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Runtime:
16 minutes 27 seconds
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Completion Date:
July 5, 2018
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Production Budget:
4,950 USD
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Country of Origin:
Nepal
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Country of Filming:
Nepal
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Film Language:
Nepali
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Shooting Format:
Digital
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Aspect Ratio:
16:9
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Film Color:
Color
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First-time Filmmaker:
No
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Student Project:
No
Director - Manoj Babu Panta
Manoj Babu Panta was born on 1 April, 1984. He graduated from Tribhuvan University with the specialization of filmmaking in 2007 AD. He has been teaching cinema at Tribhuvan University for a decade. He has mentored numerous cinema workshops. He is the head of department of screenplay writing and direction faculty at Tribhuwan University(College of Film Studies) since 2012. His film “Where is the Story?”(2008) was screened at numerous film festivals. His second film AVASHESH (THE REMAINS) (2017) is ready for its international venture. As a script consultant, he has initiated to craft many shorts and features that have travelled to the international fraternity representing Nepal. Since 2015, he has guided Bikalpa Cinema Society that aims to create a new movement in cinema culture of Nepal. Currently, he is developing his debut feature SIMI NASA.
"Isolated - Flatten The Curve"
I’ve been stuck in #SaoPaulo, #Brazil and can’t make it back home to #NewYork. Not just about getting a flight back, but also how severe the situation is at home. As it’s been a very rough year thus far for all of us. Especially in the entertainment business. So as a Filmmaker, in these days of loneliness and isolation wanted to make something where we can all mutually emotionally relate to. Amazingly enough, for perhaps the first time ever, everybody is together in the same boat globally. Let's get this over quickly so we can get our world back to where it was before. Be smart and safe #StayHome #FlattenTheCurve #PSA #TVC
Ps. Im usually behind the camera, but don't have any actors to work with.
Music by Harry Gregson-Williams
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Film Type:
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Short, Web / New Media, Other
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Runtime:
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1 minute
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Completion Date:
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March 23, 2020
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Production Budget:
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0 USD
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Country of Origin:
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United States
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Country of Filming:
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Brazil
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Shooting Format:
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Sony Rx100 iva
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Aspect Ratio:
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anamorphic
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Film Color:
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Color
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First-time Filmmaker:
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No
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Student Project:
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No
Director - Blake Farber
Blake Farber is always on a plane off to his next interesting project and a new adventure. Growing up in a household with both parents as photographers, Blake began his own career in film at the young age of 16. As a self taught New York City filmmaker, Blake has directed various projects in over 30 countries. Being a musician himself, he blends both the visual medium with his musical background to create exciting and fresh films. He’s worked as a director for artists and brands such as Olympics, Nike, Ray-Ban, Beyoncé, Dropkick Murphys and many more.
ALL MY TOMORROWS - Feature [Mature]
Winner - Feature
A widowed lawyer seeks solace in the company of a beautiful hispanic prostitute whom he becomes quickly endeared to, complicating their initial business arrangement.
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Film Type:
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Feature
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Runtime:
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51 minutes 6 seconds
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Completion Date:
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March 8, 2019
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Production Budget:
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22,000 USD
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Country of Origin:
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Germany
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Country of Filming:
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Germany
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Film Language:
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English
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Shooting Format:
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Sony FS7 digital
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Aspect Ratio:
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16:9
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Film Color:
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Color
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First-time Filmmaker:
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No
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Student Project:
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No
Director - Jeffrey van Davis
Jeffrey van Davis is an award winning filmmaker and screenwriter. His screenplay, The Hotel Room, was an official
nominee for Best Screenplay at the Beverly Hills Film Festival 2015 and was a finalist in the New York Screenplay competition 2014 and a Second Rounder at the Austin Film Festival 2016. The Hotel Room title has now been changed to ALL MY TOMORROWS. His screenplay, Heidegger in Ruins, won a Silver Remi Award at the 48th WorldFest Houston Film
Festival 2015. The short film MOMENTUM, which he produced (directed by Alexander Bergmann), was screened at the Cannes Film Festival in 2013. Jeffrey‘s film, 14th Place, which he wrote and directed, won a Silver Plaque Award at the Chicago International Film Festival. He received special recognition from the German Film Institute for JAZZ EXPATRIATES which was broadcast on German and American Television. All My Tomorrows recently won a Silver Remi at the WorldFest 51 Houston International Film Festival 2018 (as short film work-in-progress).
"Hanneh"
"Hanneh" is a bout a brave Kurdish Woman, who is struggling between love and duty. the story happens the early days of Iranian Revolution and the struggle between Kurds People.
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Project Type:
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Short
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Runtime:
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12 minutes 45 seconds
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Completion Date:
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March 20, 2019
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Country of Origin:
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Iran, Islamic Republic of
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Country of Filming:
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Iran, Islamic Republic of
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Language:
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Kurdish
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Shooting Format:
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digital
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Film Color:
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Color
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First-time Filmmaker:
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No
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Student Project:
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No
Director - Meysam Malekipour
Meysam Malekipour is a Iranian filmmaker who has a master in Cinema and Directing from Tehran Art University. he has been making documentary since 15 years ago and he has years of experiences in directing, editing, and writing. Hanneh is his fist short film sending to the international platforms.
YOUTHS AFRICAN LIFE
Runner Up - Feature
This fiilm shows the challanges in african mainly in zanzibar tanzania.
and it was shooted in tanzania.
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Film Type:
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Feature
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Runtime:
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45 minutes 16 seconds
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Production Budget:
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3,000 USD
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Country of Origin:
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Tanzania, United Republic of
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Country of Filming:
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Tanzania, United Republic of
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Film Language:
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Swahili
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Shooting Format:
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digital
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Film Color:
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Color
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First-time Filmmaker:
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No
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Student Project:
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No
"The Other Half"
Laine a young film director, during her shoot with 4 women, she discovered how judgement stops people from compassion, but when they listened to each others all their biggest fears came a strenght and even they came out with greatest resolutions to their heartsore.
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Project Type:
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Short
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Genres:
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drama, social
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Runtime:
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15 minutes
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Completion Date:
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February 20, 2019
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Production Budget:
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25,000 USD
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Country of Origin:
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United States
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Country of Filming:
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Morocco, United States
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Language:
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Arabic, French
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Shooting Format:
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Digital
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Aspect Ratio:
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16:9
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Film Color:
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Color
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First-time Filmmaker:
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No
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Student Project:
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No
"Shift Change"
Alicia and Vero are room watchmen in an art gallery and only see each other during shift change. A work of art will test their feelings.
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Project Title (Original Language):
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CAMBIO DE TURNO
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Project Type:
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Short
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Genres:
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Drama, LGBT, ART
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Runtime:
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10 minutes
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Completion Date:
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October 24, 2018
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Country of Origin:
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Spain
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Country of Filming:
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Spain
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Language:
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Spanish
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Shooting Format:
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Digital
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Aspect Ratio:
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1:85
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Film Color:
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Color
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First-time Filmmaker:
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No
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Student Project:
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No
Director - Federico Untermann
I was born in Buenos Aires, Argentina, in 1976. Between 1995 and 1997 I studied Film Direction at FUC (Universidad del Cine) and in 1998 I moved to Madrid.
I have directed the series "Right to Dream", currently broadcast by TVE 1 and the short films "Todo lo demás" (5 awards and more than 60 selections (Medina del Campo, Elche, Cortogenia, Soria, DC Shorts, Athens, Ohio (Qualifier for the Oscars)).
I have participated as 1ºAD in films like " The Lighthouse of the Orcas " of Gerardo Olivares, " Beautiful Youth " of Jaime Rosales or " We need to talk about Kevin " of Lynn Ramsay, to mention some, and in the series Alta Mar "(Netflix), " Velvet Collection "(Movistar) + and " The Refugees "(BBC), among others.
TENSION [Short/TV]
Winner - TV/Short
Max Varga runs a private firm which deals in damaging the reputation of individuals ordered by clients. However, during an operation, his assigned target vanishes. A desperate fight against time ensues, in which he can't afford to disappoint his client Lola Lieberman, at the same time getting caught up in a dispute with his collegue Tom Karloff. The film is about the moral downfall of a person who becomes consumed by th evil he himself created. It draws on conventions of film noir both thematically and stylishtically, but it's creative purpose were familiar visual elements of classical film noir (such as low-key lighting and dutch angles) with untraditional ones, for example the use of hand-held camera or untraditional ones, for example the use of hand-held camera or electronic music.
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Project Type:
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Short, Student
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Genres:
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Drama, Thriller, Mystery
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Runtime:
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25 minutes 32 seconds
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Completion Date:
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August 11, 2019
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Production Budget:
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9,000 USD
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Country of Origin:
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Czech Republic
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Country of Filming:
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Czech Republic
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Language:
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Czech
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Shooting Format:
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Digital
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Aspect Ratio:
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2.35:1
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Film Color:
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Black & White
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First-time Filmmaker:
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No
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Student Project:
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Yes
Director - Michal Starý
Michal Starý studied directing at the Miroslav Ondříček Film Academy in Písek. In his films he focuses primarily on the inner worlds of his characters, which are directly reflected to the film world in which these characters are and where act. His long-term endeavor is build independent art on the basics of genre.
The Remaining Eight [Short/TV]
Runner Up - TV/Short
In a world where people are having multiple lives, Daniel is living his everyday life somewhat undisturbed, that is until he finds out the person who he loves the most, hurt him the most. There is only one question left for Daniel: what will he do for the rest of his lives?
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Project Title (Original Language):
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A maradék nyolc
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Project Type:
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Short
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Genres:
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Drama
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Runtime:
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28 minutes 10 seconds
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Completion Date:
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September 13, 2019
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Production Budget:
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23,000 USD
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Country of Origin:
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Hungary
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Country of Filming:
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Hungary
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Language:
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Hungarian
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Shooting Format:
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ARRI RAW
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Aspect Ratio:
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16:9
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Film Color:
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Color
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First-time Filmmaker:
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No
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Student Project:
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No
"Stillness"
Mazen, a 35-year-old man who lives with mannequins and treats as his own family whom he had lost in a car crash. Since then he lives in agony despite the fake company, he created for himself.
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Project Type:
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Short
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Runtime:
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13 minutes 50 seconds
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Completion Date:
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February 10, 2020
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Production Budget:
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2,620 USD
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Country of Origin:
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Lebanon
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Country of Filming:
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Lebanon
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Language:
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Arabic
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Shooting Format:
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digital
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Aspect Ratio:
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16:9
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Film Color:
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Color
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First-time Filmmaker:
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No
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Student Project:
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Yes
Director - Fadel Marji, Moustafa Ghabris
Fadel Marji was born in Lebanon and lived all his childhood in Saudi Arabia. He grew up with immense passion towards watching animation and movies allowing his imagination to stretch and grow since his young years. Fadel studied Radio/TV at the Lebanese International University in 2016 and graduated in early 2020. He started his career path with great experience in sales, marketing and hospitality, which gave him high flexibility due to working in several environments such as restaurants, markets and a printing house.
He made a senior short film titled “Stillness” 14 min long, in addition to three other movies – my city, the hunt, and the last man.
Fadel also interned at the Al-Jadeed national TV station in Lebanon for 4 months in 2019, in which he trained in the domain of after-effects, cinema 4d, and info graphics in the evening news anchor.
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"I Died as a Man"
The young Wehrmacht soldier Frederic, fights in the battle of the Seelower höhen. When he receives the order to storm the battlefield, which would mean his certain death, he deserts. Surrounded by the Russian fronts, he flees to Berlin and hides in an abandoned cellar. As the bombs fall over him, he deals with the horrors of war by writing down his crimes and horrors. After days in the distance, when he hears a German company, he tries to join the company like an obedient soldier. But that is exactly what he no longer wants to be, so he decides that he does not want to die in the Wehrmacht uniform.
For days he waits in this hopeless situation for being discovered and writes down his life from the point of view of a wartime follower.
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Project Title (Original Language):
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Ich starb als Mensch
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Project Type:
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Short, Student
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Runtime:
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12 minutes 30 seconds
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Completion Date:
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March 1, 2020
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Production Budget:
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800 EUR
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Country of Origin:
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Germany
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Country of Filming:
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Germany
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Language:
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German
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Shooting Format:
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Cinemascope
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Aspect Ratio:
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21:9
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Film Color:
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Black & White and Color
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First-time Filmmaker:
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No
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Student Project:
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Yes
Director - Luca Studer
Luca Studer was born in Bern in 1996 and grew up in the Emmental. He began his acting career at the age of 15 with the open-air plays of the "Theater Lützelflühe". After a few roles in the theatre he decided to take the step to the film industry and accepted numerous role offers in all genres. In 2016 Luca Studer wrote his first short film RED SNOW, which he realized in the following years as director and producer.
In the years that followed, Luca Studer devoted herself entirely to film production and began studying Bachelor of Arts at the SAE Institute in Berlin. During his studies he made many short films in various genres, such as the War Drama "ICH STARB ALS MENSCH" or the biography of a prostitute in the shortfilm "REDLIGHT STORY".
After graduating from the SAE Institute, Luca was offered a job as a directing intern by UFA Fiction for the historical trilogy "OUR WONDERABLE YEARS".
During his bachelor studies Luca Studer received another job offer at VICE Media. In which he helps out in all fields, like Production and Post-production.
"Fireworks Wednesday"
A teenage boy who lives in an oil town in Khuzestan province, discusses with his friend, threatens to burn his house. The boy does not know that the night is a fireworks game. He does not sleep the night, so he will protect his friend's house, built on gas pipes.
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Project Type:
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Short
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Runtime:
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15 minutes 59 seconds
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Completion Date:
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March 8, 2017
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Production Budget:
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2,000 USD
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Country of Origin:
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Iran, Islamic Republic of
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Country of Filming:
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Iran, Islamic Republic of
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Language:
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Persian
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Shooting Format:
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Digital
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Aspect Ratio:
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15
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Film Color:
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Color
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First-time Filmmaker:
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Yes
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Student Project:
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Yes
Director - Rezamouri
Reza Mouri has been active since 2002 In works such as "Bitter Dance", "Singing Rain", "North Waterway", "Wind Comrades", "The Skeir", "Legend of the Mah titi ", "Ilveg", "Fireworks Wednesday", "yar Dvazdhom", has appeared as an actor, director, writer, script rewriter, stage designer.
Chaharshanbeh Suri is one of the oldest and deepest rituals among Iranians. It is always held with special enthusiasm on the last Wednesday of the year. At the ceremony, people jump from the fire. According to Iranians, jumping on the New Year's fire starts with cleanliness. And they make past mistakes. My movie happens on Wednesday suri. A teenager who symbolizes fire. He intends to make up for his mistake. And start the new year with no mistakes.
"Oblivion Season"
An ex-prostitute starts a new life by marrying her loved one but leaving the shadow of her dark past is not as easy as it seemed before. Now she is the prisoner of her loved one and to earn her freedom she should fight with the masculine society………..
Director View :
In Iran's today society making a film about prostitutes is a real challenge cause the society and government deny their very existence. Now it's much more difficult that your protagonist be an ex-prostitute.
I tried to show a woman behind bars and fences all over today's Tehran, whom is trying to overcome all the intolerance and traditional and religious dogmatism in her society, to live and stay alive. A society which doesn't wish to let her forget the past.
When this woman “Fariba” releases herself from her house that is actually her prison , she finds herself in a bigger prison that is the society. This is a true story , the scriptwriter used to have a neighbor like this and he told me when she ran away from her house nobody didn’t know where she went and what is she doing until now and then It was a motivation for me to make this true story a film that shows this kind of women’s issues in society. After this film has been released , the government didn’t give the permission for screening for this film because of the bitter realism that was inside the scenes of this film and showed the bitter truth of the society.
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Project Type:
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Feature, Other
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Runtime:
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2 minutes 38 seconds
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Film Color:
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Color
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First-time Filmmaker:
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No
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Student Project:
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No
"As We Fell Into The Sun"
Runner Up - Short
As We Fell Into The Sun follows the life of a young boy named Vincent and the relationship that he has with the spirit of his grandfather.
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Project Type:
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Short
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Runtime:
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5 minutes
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Completion Date:
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February 10, 2020
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Production Budget:
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0 GBP
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Country of Origin:
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United Kingdom
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Country of Filming:
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Kenya
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Language:
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Swahili
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Shooting Format:
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Digital
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Aspect Ratio:
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16:9
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Film Color:
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Color
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First-time Filmmaker:
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No
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Student Project:
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Yes
Director - Ivory Campbell
Ivory's approach to storytelling often focuses on what shapes us early on and the relationships between parent and child. Born in London and originally from a theatre background, she studied at the Brit School for four years before transitioning into a playwright with two of her short plays being shown in places around the UK such as The New Wimbledon Theatre. She transitioned into filmmaking in 2018 and made her first short A Search Through the Aisles, which premiered at Raindance in 2019. Her style is inspired by Japanese and South Korean Cinema, often focusing on troubled protagonists with strong comments on societal and personal issues we all face.
"Dogwatch"
After losing his lifelong position at an industrial corporation, Raphael is forced by the Austrian Unemployment Office to take an underwhelming job as a night-time security guard. He recently moved back in with his bedridden mother, who is also cared for by the dedicated Ukrainian nurse Vera. Through her support, Raphael gradually learns to cope with his new life situation, but a tragic incident breaks his world apart once more.
A warm-hearted narrative about a part of society, whose basis of existence is increasingly threatened.
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Project Title (Original Language):
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Der Wächter
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Project Type:
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Short, Student
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Genres:
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Drama, Social, Arthouse, Political, Labour
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Runtime:
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29 minutes 58 seconds
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Completion Date:
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August 5, 2019
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Production Budget:
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20,000 USD
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Country of Origin:
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Austria
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Country of Filming:
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Austria
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Language:
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German
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Shooting Format:
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Arri Alexa 2K
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Aspect Ratio:
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1:2,39
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Film Color:
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Color
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First-time Filmmaker:
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No
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Student Project:
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Yes
Director - Albin Wildner
Albin Wildner was born in Vienna in 1983. He attended a high school for media, photography and arts and shot his first documentary film in Costa Rica in 2004. From 2006 through 2013 he worked as a graphic designer and independent cinematographer, earning his engineering degree along the way. During this period he also became interested in psychology, and completed a two year course in systemic family constellations. Since 2014, Albin Wildner has studied directing and cinematography at the Vienna Film Academy.
"Passing Through the Forest"
Aziz who is living alone in his sixties realizes that the guest who appeared in the hall one evening was not alien to him at all.
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Project Type:
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Short, Student
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Genres:
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Drama
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Runtime:
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15 minutes
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Completion Date:
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March 12, 2020
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Production Budget:
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3,000 USD
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Country of Origin:
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Turkey
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Country of Filming:
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Turkey
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Language:
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Turkish
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Shooting Format:
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4K
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Aspect Ratio:
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16:9
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Film Color:
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Color
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First-time Filmmaker:
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Yes
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Student Project:
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Yes
Director - Gizem Ibak
Gizem IBAK was born on July 16, 1993 in Istanbul. She completed her cinema education at Marmara University Faculty of Fine Arts Department of Cinema-Television. In the years she studied, she made three short films for the school.
She went to India in 2015 and she worked on the set of the movie Dangal, produced by Disney India. She worked with the Video Volunteers film community in the same country in 2016 and 2017; she traveled four states and twelve cities to produce two short documentaries.
In 2016 she worked on behalf of Turkey in the Mumbai Film Festival. Also, she has selected to Mediterranean Film Institute script-2 workshop program and Mumbai Film Festival Young Critic Labs programs in the same year.
In 2018, she has an internship at Istanbul Foundation for Culture and Arts.
In 2019, her fourth short film becomes one of the 51 short film projects supported by the Ministry of Culture and Tourism's Directorate General of Cinema, by the 2019-1 Cinema Support Board.