PAPHOS INTERNATIONAL FILM FESTIVAL
Join us on
STUDENT SHORT FILMS
ALIEN fiction / drama
Director: Jegwang Yeon
Country of Origin/Filming: S. Korea
Reonghee and I are illegal aliens. Yesterday, Reonghee died while running away from the Immigrant Office Agents. The company we worked for is only concerned about covering up the mess. I'm going to find Reonghee, who's body the company has hidden somewhere and give her funeral that she deserves.
ALNAJMA fiction / drama
Director: Gilbert Karam
Country of Origin/ Filming: Lebanon
After the curtain falls at the end of a musical play in one of the most prestigious theaters in Beirut, Aida, the very well-known actress, leaves the stage to face an uncertain reality.
DANCES WITH CAMELS fiction / comedy
Director: Josh Trachtman
Country of Origin/Filming: Israel
A soldier is left to guard in the desert in the middle of nowhere. With nothing better to do, he starts to dig holes in search of a lost bag of drugs. Slowly he loses all reason, and his obsessions take over.
KIPPAH fiction / drama
Director: Lukas Nathrath
Country of Origin/Filming: Germany
Based on actual events, this film tells the story of 15-year-old Oskar who newly visits a multi-cultural high school. He feels comfortable in his class community and has found a best friend in his seatmate Eren. However, when Oskar, without thinking, reveals in an ethics lesson that he is Jewish, the atmosphere changes.
MAMA fiction / drama
Director: Anastasia Borisova
Country of Origin / Filming: Russia
A young country girl with a baby is trying to arrange her life in Moscow. To make ends meet, she is looking for money and any job.
OFFENCE fiction / drama
Director: Max Benyo
Country of Origin/Filming: Germany
One night Gregor notices that his son hasn't come home. In search of him, his worst worries come true: Julius was brutally beaten up. Driven by pain and helplessness, he tracks down the one, who is responsible. But the image he had of the perpetrator does not match reality. The insight into the difficult life circumstances of the young man opens a new perspective for him. But his decisions have already triggered a dangerous development.
SILENT NIGHT fiction / comedy
Director: Alexandra Rieser
Country of Origin/Filming: Austria
The young student Elias returns to his home village on Christmas Eve to celebrate together with his mother Veronica, 'Vroni', but this year her new boyfriend Fritz will join as well. From the start it is clear that Elias, a vegetarian, refuses to accept the Butcher in his family life.
THE CALL fiction / drama
Director: Ondrej Burda
Country of Origin / Filming: Czech R.
It's a cold spring evening and Tomas is just in the city far away from his home. He is talking on a phone to Anna, who is suddenly telling him that a suspicious man is standing in front of their house and is trying to get in.
2020
THE QUIET animation / experimental
Director: Radheya Jegatheva
Country of Origin / Filming: Australia
When an astronaut ponders on the quietude of space, he comes upon a startling self-realisation. The truth is written in the stars, but what will he uncover?
