Kabul

Director  Lauren Fritz
United States
Runtime 15:15
Completion Date: March 4, 2016

A young woman, who has long lived in the shadow of her famous war photographer mother, is suddenly forced to confront a life without her over the course of an eventful evening when her girlfriend visits their house.

Rose's Turn

Director Kymberly Harris
U S A
Runtime  14 min 53 sec  
Completion Date: May 2016 
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Logline:
A glamorous European couple working in LA invite a homeless woman for dinner, and learn that their idea of helping may not be as simple as it seems.

Wherever you are

Directors Gabriel Virata and Joan Montesinos
United Kingdom
Runtime  13 min 53 sec 
Completion Date: Oct 2016

 
A short film taking LGBT characters down a different track.

Guin

Director Rachel Kleinman
U S A
Runtime  18 min 
Completion Date: Feb 2016
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A short film about growing up when you're 27.

Blues with Me

Director Hanjong Lee
South Korea
Runtime  25 min   
Completion Date: Jul 2016

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Blues with Me. True life behind real world.

The Escape

Director Gianmarco D'Agostino
Italy 
Runtime  14 min 58 sec 
Completion Date: Jan 2011

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Sometimes a good story can save your life.

Farah

Director Baris Fert
Turkey
Runtime  4 min 58 sec 
Completion Date: Dec 2016

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Farah, a Syrian refugee, stays in the Basmane neighbourhood of İzmir. She waits for her departure to the Greek islands and tries to cope with her life’s uncertainity.

Voiceless Voices

Director  Nitzan Levinson
Argentina
Runtime 12 min 51 sec
Completion Date:  Jun 2016 
First-time Filmmaker
STUDENT PROJECT
 

In an exquisite imperial mansion, a speechless girl yearns to be heard by her aristocratic family and an eccentric doctor who attends her with all sorts of tortuous treatments.

inbaifu

Director Kimihiro Kodama
Japan  
Runtime   56 min 34 sec
Completion Date: May 2016  

”inbaifu”（aru jyoko ki）The Prostitute 淫売婦(imbaifu) a film that actively depicts a diverse range of motives for “escape”. An escape from poverty, from a fear of death, from domination, from life in the country and its restraints on life.
The first film adaption of Yoshiki Hayma’s short story,The Prostitute 淫売婦(imbaifu).
Yoshiki Hayama (葉山 嘉樹 Hayama Yoshiki), March 12, 1894 – October 18, 1945) is a Japanese author associated with the Japanese proletarian literature movement.
He spent a lot of time in jail due to his involvement with the labor movement, but later turned away from Marxism and became an enthusiastic supporter of Japanese imperialism.

A Terrible Beauty

Director Sarah-Jane Woulahan
Australia  
Runtime   11 min 37 sec
Completion Date: Apr 2016

After her father destroys her prototype 'Soulmate' robot, a replacement for her dead mother, a roboticist, Olivia, questions her fundamental belief in a world without suffering and the nature of love.

Unchildishness

Director Andy Papadimitriou
Greece
Runtime   5 min 3 sec
Completion Date: Aug 2016

The short film Unchildishness is a story of a child experiencing the cruelty of war, in a surrealistic approach of events happening in his home. Inspired by the recent events of Syrian refugees crisis, the film reflects on the consequences that will echo on the future generations. The eight year old child is drawing when his tranquility is violently iterrupted by the ravaging of his family. The drama unfolds in the simple yet complex way a child can perceive the world. A contemporary odyssey, underlained by the perpetual conflict between East and West.

The Last Zombie ( The Last Zombie )

Director ANTHONY LECOMTE
France
Runtime  22:00
Completion Date: 2016 - May

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In a world devastated by a zombie plague, a reality show based on zombie killing and survival in a hostile world has found a huge success... We follow the last candidates still alive on the hunt for the last zombie !

Clover field

Director Natalia Tumova
Russian Federation
Runtime  11:32
Completion Date: March 30, 2016
First-time Filmmaker

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After the catastrophe people live in the underground bunkers, it is strictly forbidden to go out. Young Mia meets a man who inspires her to escape and risk everything. But her father will do everything to stop her.

Magdalena's File

Director Konrad Bogusław Bach
Germany
Runtime  4:58
Completion Date: September 18, 2015

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Magdalena can write their lives all over again - but she has only 30 seconds.

Vivekananda

Director YOGESH MEHTA
India 
Runtime  3 min
Completion Date: Nov 2016 
 

UNTIL EINSTEIN, SPACE HAD NOT BEEN CONCEPTUALIZED. SCIENCE, RELIGION AND PHILOSOPHY COUNTED ONLY IN WHAT OCCUPIES SPACE, NOT SPACE PER SE. NO ONE EVER ASKED THE QUESTION WHAT IS SPACE OR HOW IT HAPPENS - EXCEPT THE UPANISHADS WHERE BRAHMAN IS SPACE. SO IN VEDANTA, GOD IS SPACE. FOR VIVEKANANDA, NOT ONLY SPACE BUT ALL IS GOD WHICH HE EXPERIENCES IN THOUSAND ISLAND PARK,U.S.

Season of Hope

Director Jason Whittier
U S A
Runtime  18 min 24 sec
Completion Date: Jul 2015
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With an extremely difficult home life, a young girl only wants one thing this year for Christmas.

Fox

Director Jacqueline Lentzou
Greece
Runtime  28:00
Completion Date: January 20, 2016

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Stephanos, a reactive teenager, oldest of a family with no father, has a fight with his mother. Left home-alone with his siblings and sick dog, Lucy, he has no idea that this would be the last, most carefree day of his life.

Wait for you no more

Director Miwa Ono
Japan
Runtime 9:33
Completion Date:  September 24, 2015

When you stop waiting for your lover, the relationship between you and him will change.
Rio's boyfriend Naoki is always late for date, so Rio always has to wait for him more than an hour. One day, she decides to break the promise. At first she enjoys freedom however, gradually she visits the places where both of them had been and starts feeling sad.
When Rio is walking crying, she meets with her ex-boyfriend, Hayato. Hayato still loves her and comforts her who is crying. As they are just about to kiss, Naoki, who is looking for Rio, saw them.

Leap

Director Zoey Peck, Madelyn Kelly
United States
Runtime 5:47
Completion Date: April 30, 2016
Student Project
First-time Filmmaker

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Sloane is a dancer in her senior year of high school trying to get into Juilliard, so she could stay close to home while her mom suffers from cancer.

In the Rough

Director Cappello Vincent
France
Runtime  18:10
Completion Date: November 15, 2015

Swann and Malik were friends forever. They have only their joyous rage to conquer Paris. But Malik wants to take a shortcut. A bad skeem. Swan, aspires to a more harmonious life. Will he be dragged by friendship?

The Opera Singer

Director Steve Kahn
United States
Runtime  3:00
Completion Date: July 31, 2016

A woman is haunted by unfulfilled dreams.

Anrath

Director Gregor Hoeppner
Germany
Runtime  18:58
Completion Date: July 2, 2015

Nazi Germany. October 1944. A 60year old Jewish woman from the village Anrath in the Lower Rhine Region, is being deported. She rides crossbar on the bike of an elderly village police man. They inevitably come closer than convention usually allows. He is resigned, to obediently follow orders, but fate seems to throw obstacles in the way of this journey.

St Jude's Crossing

Director Iddo Goldberg
United States
Runtime  11:38
Completion Date: September 15, 2016
First-time Filmmaker

When police officer Joe Hollis investigates a seemingly routine missing person's report, he begins to relive his inability to make choices, walking a thin line between life and death.

Nothing Like the Sun

Director Jonas Banks
U S A
Runtime  18 min 49 sec
Completion Date: Mar 2014
STUDENT PROJECT

Nothing Like the Sun is a short film about a vampire couple, together for over 200 years, who come to a crossroads in their marriage when the husband decides he wants to become human again.

Writings On The Edge

Director Bernard Candey
Portugal
Runtime 20 min 40 sec
Completion Date: Oct 2016
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STUDENT PROJECT

A young writer is struggling with a serious problem: there is not a single word on his page. It is almost like his pen is erasing ideas instead of writing them. Suddenly, his writer’s block is interrupted when a girl appears and begins singing and playing her guitar. The girl tries to understand why the young man can’t write, but then something extraordinary happens, and the writer embarks on a journey inside his soul. With the guidance of a mysterious man he meets along the way, the young man learns that he must take risks to truly achieve something great. As he journeys through a world of shadows, music, and dance, he discovers that imagination is the most powerful force in the universe.

Un Seul Corps

Director Sotiris Dounoukos
Australia
Runtime 18 min 30 sec  
Completion Date: Aug 2014

Best friends and skilled abattoir workers David and Wani are saving to open their own butchery, but before they can realise their dream the arrival of a new worker will test the bonds of their shared life.
This is a film about the connections between us, made with the real life workers of an abattoir in rural France.

SON

Director Cyrus NESHVAD
Luxembourg
Runtime  14 min 40 sec
Completion Date: Jul 2016

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Sébastien, who cannot come to terms with his son being in a coma, begins to question his reality.