"The Stairs"
Director Haykim Reagan
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United States
Ten-year-old boy hides on the top of the staircase as his father tells a horrific story about the holocaust and escaping being gassed to death in Nazi concentration camp. After his father passes away, the boy, now a fifty-year-old man receives a cassette tape that his father made six months earlier. On the tape is an interview taken by an employee of a holocaust museum. As the son stands in his kitchen and listens to the tape, he is stunned and amazed at what he learns about his father and regrets they never had this talk in person.
Tension
Director René Wiesner
Germany
Jack just wants to have some damn silence in his life... But when does something ever turn out like it was supposed to be? And sometimes even in the own comfort zone an attack is the best way of defense. Will Jack find his inner peace? Or will it be the others who end in pieces?
The Train
Directors Asher Grodman
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United States
A preoccupied young man reluctantly agrees to take some time from his busy day to meet his girlfriend’s grandfather (Academy Award Winner Eli Wallach). He learns how life can change in a moment.
Oasis
Director Aidan Kahn
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Canada
Max is driving out to the country to spend the summer on a friend's family ranch when he sees a beautiful girl standing in front of a roadside gas station. He imagines how awful her life must be that she should have to live in the middle of nowhere. He then imagines taking her back to the city with him, saving her from what he imagines to be her dead-end, dust-bowl life. Smitten, Max decides to go talk to her, but he quickly realizes his assumptions may have been all wrong.
Welcome To Frogmore
Director Gary Winstead
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United States
Two life long friends are challenged by the supernatural. A mysterious light endangers the careers of two military types. Is the light real or an excuse. Was one playing the other, and will friendship endure despite differences. People have been known to disappear after seeing the light at the end of the road in North Carolina.
About Time
Director: Samantha Scott-Blackhall
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Singapore
The Birdeatress
Director Tibor Ungvár
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Hungary
On one day all of a sudden, the adopted Indian daughter of a divorced Hungarian couple starts to eat birds alive. The mother, Anna, breaks in on her husband, Tom, who is living the bohemian life of an artist. She wants Tom to take their daughter to live with hime, and he invites him over for a visit to make her point. After a heated argument, Tom starts to understand Anna's desperation: if she has to spend one more day with the child, she is going to kill herself and the little girl. Seeing his ex-wife's determination, Tom decides to take the girl in. The message of the film is to acknowledge deviance.
I am sorry
Director Julie Blasenhauer
France
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Because tomorrow starts today, with just a little gesture you could make all the difference...
The Field
Director: Omer Sasson
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Israel
A farmer decides to work his land with "improved" futuristic technology which aggressively treat his dying land, and fails to realize that he himself is the cause of the problem.
H-3957
Director Jörn Knost
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Germany
The manufacturing hand H-3957 has an accident. After regeneration, H-3957 wants to continue his job. But the Company-Main-Computer answers, that H-3957 is to slow to continue working there. H-3957 retires. After another regeneration sleep, he feels his finger more than before. He recognizes the warm feeling blanket. After that he goes into the nature to feel everything: the rocks, the flowers, the water…
Love
Director Nicolai Tegeler
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Germany
There is a couple who apparently has arrived the end of their
common life.
He, the husband, is in the deathbed and leaves his common life Revue again.
Both revel in the memories of the past.
In this short film is a couple who apparently at the end of their
common life has arrived.
He, the husband, is in the deathbed and leaves the common life again Revue
happen.
Both revel in the memories of the past.
At the end, the question arises whether the life is too short. Perhaps we ought to have more out of it ?!
Laid out the story of a Jewish joke.
Two Landscapes
Directors Neil Ira Needleman
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United States
A clash between the landscape the eye perceives and the one that’s deeply embedded in the mind.
The Greenkeeper
Directors Felix Schwadorf
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Germany
Old lonely Greenkeeper meets young boy
Just talking to her
Director: Euiyoung Lim
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Korea, Republic of
Chang Seop is lonely father who has been fired and lived alone. He is used to put on a suit rather than a pajama. He is also unfamiliar to eat a meal alone, not yet. To relieve feelings of isolation and loneliness, he calls to his daughter and friends but they hang up on making all sorts of excuses. Suddenly chang Seop picks up the phone and calls telemarketer, Joo A. She makes a great effort to canvass for insurance. However Chang Seop says totally different stories. He worries about her sore throat, and tells her not to eat alone. And then he puts the phone down.
In a minute, She calls again and says that want to have a meal with him.
The Journey of Little Red Cap inside of the Wolfs Belly
Directors Lidiya Huzhva
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Ukraine
This is the story of a young talented artist who gave up everything to care for her disabled grandmother. The life of two women - the endless repetition of itself. An invitation to an Art Bienalle - a chance that comes once in life - makes the girl do what she avoids at all costs - a hard choice.
Square Speaks
Director Bahram Sadeghi
Netherlands
What would happen when the tumultuous events of revolutionary squares like Tahrir or Maidan are not viewed through the eyes of the people, but through the 'eyes' of the square?!
Easy
Director: Robert Guthrie
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United States
Two high school guys are in love. One's Christian, one's Jewish. A father disapproves, the other's parents are thrilled. Who cares that it's not perfect? They got this.
Movies Matter
Director Oliver Marsden
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Australia
Every friday James likes too watch movies off 'HookLocker', that's until his favourite franchise runs out of money because of this!
The Red Heiffer
Director Kim Hays
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United States
This is a satirical look at the Old Testament laws around the handling of dead bodies. This is a class project in conjunction with the Jewish Studies at TVT aka (Tarbut V'torah) in Irvine, Ca.
Araf
Director: Anne Murray
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United States
Araf is a video about the borderland between heaven and hell and represents contemporary shamanism in Turkey. It was created while I was an artist-in-residence at Babayan Culture House in Ibrahimpasa, Turkey in the Cappadocia region.
Dreams and Spaces in Between
Director: John Graham
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Canada
A young musician has just become deaf. He then mysteriously gives life to sounds by experiencing them visually.
Even the Devil Swiped Right
Director: Jessica W. Cole
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Canada
Soulless creatures. Questionable motives. Terrible people. Who knew online dating and Hell had so many things in common?
When the Devil needs to gather souls for his army and is looking for a hot date, what better way to find victims than by looking on a dating app? He may not find his soulmate but at least her soul will still be useful for something.
Transport
Directors J Hanna
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United States
Two space travelers, trapped in a floating space ship.
The outcasts of the Calatrava bridge
Directors Dimitris Panakis
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Greece
A man and a woman, outcasts of a harsh reality, walk along the Calatrava Bridge in Athens (Greece). The man tells the woman that the bridge is made by the famous architect Calatrava and that it resembles a boat. He imagines them going for a trip by this boat. But, soon, the dream ends and they return to their everyday reality.
Devil
Director: Bahadır Arıcı
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Turkey
Murat in his 50s, finds himself under attack of devilish thoughts, where he went a mosque to pray. In the world these thoughts took him, he chases a woman in burka who is a very familiar person in his life.
Orpheize
Director: PEDRO JAÉN R.
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Spain
UigiG needs to go out and feel, like his favourite film's star. His girlfriend, just like her, loves to smoke and enjoy the authenticity... but that’s before she ceases to exist.
FATIMA`S DREAM
Director: Enoh Lienemann
Germany
The language of the Video is metaphorical.
Fatima receives a number of mails and she`s looking for an advice to reflect her situation and to get a help in order to understand her own personality.
My film deals with hopelessness, and to be caught up into bad family matters. It asks how far somebody has settled in its captive role so so deeply, that to escape from it seems to be more painful than to remain into given destructive circumstances.
A Family Story
Director: Lino Kafidas
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Belgium
A couple gets a phone call in the middle of the night with the worst news a parent can imagine, their daughter died in an accident; hit by a car. They both have their own way of processing everything and they have their reasons.
Time Benders
Director: Paul Cavallo
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Australia
Time. It's like a being. It has an immune system which prevents change. A young scientist puts this to the test when she falls in love with a man from the year 1788.
Francesca, Francesca!
Director: Dimitri Limpert
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Germany
Music brought a sheet to life.
Nicola's Shedim
Directors Lawrence Mallinson
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United Kingdom
A small child with a fear of monsters at bed-time asks her mum to check the bedroom before she can go to sleep, her mother unwittingly finds one.
Non-refundable ticket
Director: Emilia Ruiz
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Spain
Maria decides to travel abroad in search of a better life. The ticket is non-refundable.
