Student / debut

The Last Believer

Director Titus Pannell
United States
Runtime 30:17
Completion Date: December 31, 2016

A prisoner who has amnesia has his faith put to the test during a torturous interrogation. (PG-13)

Musician

Director Aleksei Borovikov
Russian Federation
Runtime 18:00
Completion Date: November 15, 2016
First-time Filmmaker

Young pianist Dima is preparing for audition in a prestigious music school. But before the performance he finds that his parents separated and decides to save the family.

The Guilt List (Extended version)

Director Tereza Horak
Czech Republic
Runtime 16:53
Completion Date: November 1, 2016
Student Project
First-time Filmmaker

California 1953: A young girl lives with her parents, who believe in the Red Scare, when she meets an immigrant from communist Czechoslovakia. Realizing that her parents disapprove of the relationship, she has to make an important decision.

Mirror

Director Sara Eustáquio
Portugal
Runtime 3:18
Completion Date: August 10, 2016
Student Project

She’s young. She’s in trouble. She’s staring at the mirror looking for answers.
But what she's about to find can change her life.

Nymphadelle

Director Quentin de Jubécourt
France
Runtime 55:00
Completion Date: January 17, 2017
First-time Filmmaker
Student Project

A long time ago, in a medieval world, Aegeus, son of Lord Theron, is forced to hide in the forest after the murder of his parents for political reasons. He meets there a young woman, Asteria, who decides to follow him on his journey.

The 11th Commandment

Director Bryan McGlothin
United States
Runtime 19:56
Completion Date: October 9, 2016
First-time Filmmaker

Dillon, former CIA operative, is losing it. His son can cover for him for only so long. In the end, no one expected it.

Noturno

Director Eduardo Mattos
Germany
Runtime 13:52
Completion Date: October 3, 2016
Student Project
First-time Filmmaker

By juxtaposing images as in an assemblage the film brings two characters together, a foreign man and a girl from a Germany’s small village, that have more in common than it would be expected in the first sight: the interest for photography, the loneliness and an out of the social context life. Noturno was produced in 2016 as part of my masters graduation project at Met Film School Berlin.

Director Gina Wenzel
Germany
Runtime 23:36
Completion Date: January 1, 2017
Student Project

Laura is a self-confident young woman, a member of the new “Me Me Me Generation“, also known as “Generation Y”. Spoilt for choice by life’s abundance of options, Laura has lost track of her own aims and ideals. She’s always looking for something, she just doesn't know what. One night she meets Safi, who has fled her homeland. The encounter gives Laura food for thought.

Standpoint

Director Erik Hirschhorn
United States
Runtime 16:35
Completion Date: May 25, 2016
Student Project
First-time Filmmaker

Aliza is a Jewish dancer, in Nazi occupied Poland; 1941. In order for Aliza to save her family from the hands of war, she needs to make it to a ballet audition in Prague. Aliza’s journey escaping Poland if full of exciting adventures and heart breaking moments that will mark her for the rest of her life.

Tales of the Shadow

Director Sarah Lederman
Belgium
Runtime 20:40
Completion Date: May 22, 2016
First-time Filmmaker
Student Project

The documentary is about the third generation asking for the first generation's stories. Stories about their life when they were hidden as Jewish children in the war. Stories they have never told, not to their children and not even to each other.
They start talking about their pushed-away-past, and with that information I make a road trip, to search for their memories.

Durch die Nacht - (Through the Night)

Director Andreas Elsener
Switzerland
Runtime 01:31:39
Completion Date: May 21, 2016
1ST TIME FILMMAKER

"Durch die Nacht" tells the story of the student Alex and his problems. He is unhappy with his university studies, his flat mate is a stoner and is no help whatsoever, his fathers birthday is impending and his open relationship with foreign Art student Nicole bothers him more than he would care to admit.
Due to a chain of unfortunate circumstances Alex is forced to spend Saturday night in downtown Zurich. It is an odyssey through the streets of the city during which Alex meets a number of very strange characters.

You are You

Director Carmen Gómez Peralta
Spain
Runtime 7 min 51 sec
Completion Date: Jan 2016

STUDENT PROJECT
1ST TIME FILMMAKER

A story about the opportunities that life sometimes offers us to regain our self-confidence, when love, expressed as respect for others, becomes one the most fundamental emotions for human beings.

To the last drop

Director Shotaro Wake
Norway
Runtime 1 hr
Completion Date: Jul 2016

STUDENT PROJECT
1ST TIME FILMMAKER

Mr Okamoto is trying to cope with his wife’s cancer diagnosis. He joins a support group for empathy and companionship. By way of repaying the kindness he insists on serving tea and coffee at all of their regular meetings. Okamoto seems driven in his quest for the perfect cup. His efforts bemuse as much as comfort these fellow travellers on painful journeys. But by being useful he knows that he can find a certain relief, even things to smile about along the way. To the Last Drop is the second feature documentary from Shotaro Wake, who decided, for this project, to use a smart-phone rig to minimise the disruption of the process. With his own personal knowledge of cancer, the filmmaker is a friend to Okamoto through difficult times, attentive to his story and his every small gesture of defiance in the face of the inevitable.

PUBLIC INTIMACY

Director Luciana Canton
Brazil
Runtime 01:10:26
Completion Date: May 15, 2016

YOU CANNOT LIVE SOMEONE ELSE'S LIFE.
Public Intimacy is a movie about how we deal with sexuality and love on public and private levels. The four stories of "Public Intimacy" deal with urgent and profound themes, like homofobia, prostitution, transsexuality and madness. "Public Intimacy" proposes a cinema that is focused on its characters. They struggle to become who they really are.

LIVE

Director Elena Piskareva
Russian Federation
Runtime 16:28
Completion Date: January 2, 2016

8 women in the ward waiting for their turn to the abortion. They all are of different ages, but they have one thing in common - as it seems, they all have a very good reason to make such a terrible decision. During the easy conversation they are leaving the ward one after another and coming back... After...

My Friend Manuel (30 min) English & Spanish subtitles

Director Ricardo Franco
Portugal
Runtime 33:00
Completion Date: May 2, 2015

A film about the memories of my friend Manuel, an actor at the age of 25. I wanted to know how my sensibility, my archive footage and my own memories, could help me to understand the uniqueness of his and vice-versa.

Maestro

Director Nemanja Mladenovic
Serbia
Runtime 16:22
Completion Date: June 15, 2016

A story about loneliness of an aged forgotten pianist.

To The Sky

Director Miguel Andres Oliva Figueroa
Canada
Runtime 13:45
Completion Date:October 16, 2014

A heartwarming tale of a grieving young inventor and his hopes to go to the sky.

Why is Mr W. Laughing?

Director Jana Papenbroock
Germany
Runtime 01:15:35
Completion Date: August 31, 2016

Portraying three members of a community of artists with different handicaps, the film is a cinematic experiment and an inclusive production: In a journey through their pictorial worlds the focus was set on their own videography and obsessions. Verging on documentary and ethnofiction, their subversive imagery displays subjectivity as accidental and playful experience in space. Art for them is not an alternative dream but the quintessence of bourgeois work enabling them a status as citizens.

Cold Matchsitck

Director Ricardo Franco
Portugal
Runtime 59:55
Completion Date: March 1, 2016

"I, sacred to love, as the last thunder among small fires" Afonso Luís Campos. A young romantic poet summons Death in order to make a deal, to trade his life for the life of his loved one.

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