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SHORT FILMS
BLESS ME, FATHER fiction / comedy
Director: Boubkar Benzabat
Country of Origin / Filming: France
A man goes to the church in order to confess
his last sin to an exasperated young priest.
COVID 19 - UNICORN documentary
Director: Charalambos Charalambous
Country of Origin/Filming: Cyprus
CoViD 19 through the eyes of a young girl and her unicorn sister...
DESATURATED fiction / comedy
Director: Marina Stepanska
Country of Origin/Filming: Ukraine
'Desaturated' is a 10-minute visual comedy. The comedic value of the film is built on the fact that the character knows that she is a character in a film, and is trying to overcome the visual cliches without which we cannot imagine modern cinema.
DOING BIG JOBS fiction / comedy
Director: Johannes Huth
Country of Origin/Filming: Germany
Suffering from horrible indigestion, a lady dashes into the toilet of a club in Berlin. But before she can relieve herself, a young couple in the next cubicle starts a heated discussion ending in a fight. A story about love, jealousy and a bit of cocaine.
FREE FUN fiction
Director: Fehmi Öztürk
Country of Origin: Cyprus
Country of Filming: Turkey
When Kika entered to have fun in a game, she encountered something she never expected. Nothing will be the same anymore.
HOMEMADE fiction / comedy
Director: Zulma Rouge
Country of Origin/Filming: France
In a deep countryside, a family of farmers round their end of the month in a very special way.
IN THIS LAND WE’RE BRIEFLY GHOSTS fiction / drama
Director: Chen-Wen Lo
Country of Origin: Myanmar
Country of Filming: Myanmar / Taiwan
Myanmar, 2013. Based on actual events, this human tragedy follows a 12-year-old child soldier, Su Su Myat, and her mute brother, Tin Min, who are imprisoned after deserting their first combat mission. Punished with no food or water, Su Su Myat is forced to choose between killing her seriously ill brother for her own survival, or risk dying with him.
BLUE MATTER fiction / romance
Director: Andrea Gatopoulos
Country of Origin: Italy / Greece
Country of Filming: Italy
It's a sunny summer day. Mickey is sick with the worst disease. He chooses Flo, an old friend, for a trip in his hippie van to forget about everything just for one night.
COMMITTED fiction /drama
Director: Lee Gilat
Country of Origin/Filming: Israel
'Committed' takes place on the day when Leah forces her younger sister Batya to confront their father’s mental illness for the first time in a very long time and demands of Batya to hospitalize him. On this day, Leah is finally fed up with her role to solely care for their father and she decides to drastically alter her situation.
MILA fiction / drama
Director: Andreas Vakalios
Country of Origin / Filming: Greece
Based on a true story, "Mila" is a "polaroid picture" of a daughter's and a father's last encounter at the hospital. She is a twenty year old girl who likes to skate and who hates talking to her mom. He is a forty-five year old hospitalised alcoholic life artist. They haven't spoken or seen each other for years. Their encounter at the hospital might change everything. Or, it might not.
MOON DROPS fiction / fantasy
Director: Yoram Ever-Hadani
Country of Origin/Filming: Serbia
A factory worker assembles an enigmatic machine that produces liquid drops from the moonlight.
MOTHER OF fiction / drama
Director: Gan
Country of Origin/Filming: Israel
A mother discovers that something happened to her daughter. Instantly her whole being becomes mother of.
SHHHH fiction / comedy / horror
Director: Jonathan Mordechay
Country of Origin/ Filming: Israel
It was supposed to be another ordinary evening for the couple who just had a cute baby. Father comes home from work, mother gets up to make dinner, but most importantly - don't wake up the baby who just fell asleep, because things can go wrong beyond imagination.
PIZZA BOY fiction / drama
Director: Gianluca Zonta
Country of Origin/Filming: Italy
Saba, a boy from Georgia, works as a Pizza delivery boy in Bologna. During his evening shift he receives an important phone call: his son is about to be born. Forced to finish his deliveries, Saba goes through the city frenetically, hoping to be on time at the hospital.
SWAP fiction / drama
Director: Aksinya Gog
Country of Origin / Filming: Russia
Dashing 90's. A young man who urgently needs money, hijacks a car with a diplomat from Sweden. Colonel Saveliev acts. His task is to save lives.
STAY AWAKE, BE READY fiction / drama
Director: Pham Thien An
Country of Origin/Filming: Vietnam
A motorbike crash happening before the street stalls on a street corner was embedded in the mysterious story of three young men.
THE LEAK fiction / drama
Director: Alberto Marchiori
Country of Origin/ Filming: Italy
Maria has always played the part of the caring mother and grandmother. Which is what everyone expected from her. A simple question opens her eyes, she realises that she needs an authentic friendship. For the first time, she asks for help.
WAX AND FEATHERS documentary / experimental
Director: Marios Lizides
Country of Origin/ Filming: Cyprus
Even though dad passed away thirty years ago, the last time I saw him was one year ago, in a dream I had. This film is a metaphysical conversation with an apparition, a construct of dreams and memories that raises questions of identity, memory, and existence.
2020
WILD WILL fiction / horror
Director: Alan King
Country of Origin/ Filming: Australia
When the neighbourhood dogcatcher William Page is found wandering the streets disoriented, he is brought back to the local police station for assistance. However the situation soon disintegrates into hell on earth.
