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BROKEN
A brief Musical narrative on the consequences of drug abuse and effect of domestic violence in the society.
PETER PETRELII
PETER PETRELII
The Farthest Place Of The World
Mahshid is a little girl who wishes to become a doctor for helping her addicted mom,after 3 years a documentary group decided to find this girl but they face with some terrible truth
Milad Khaleghi Manesh
Milad Khaleghi Manesh
DANCE WITH YOU
A man fight with his fear
jungwook
jungwook
THE LOST DREAM
This short film is about boy's prospects between reality and his dreams how the positions take a special form and how it shows up in his dreams he tries to break some boundaries and some spaces he tries to face them and understand them.
Bahman Salah
Penoos Aras
Watch Me
A young girl trapped in a cage of self-doubt finds the courage to break out into the unknown world around her to follow her dream of love.
Lesya Malskaya
The Substitute
Sergeant William Burke has had to handle many tough situations in his 20+ years in law enforcement. But this was no ordinary day. And little did Sergeant Burke know that today everything he believed would be put to the ultimate test.
Matthew McCaulley
Matthew McCaulley, Daniel McCaulley
The Staying Kind
A woman left behind during the Civil War must break the ties to her dead husband before they become the demise of her son.
Isaac Deitz
Rachel Hendrix
Spring
A father learns to let his son be a kid and play in the desolate wasteland of future Earth.
Yuanzhi Kevin Chen
Jimmy Calhoun
Rag Dolls
Playtime turns into uncontrolled shenanigans when a child discovers rag dolls in an antique chest...
Kristin Schaack
Justin and Kristin Schaack
Illuminosity
A focused and dedicated light bulb tester discovers he is the last remaining worker at his now abandoned factory...
Jeffrey Meacham
Jimmy Calhoun
Buy One Get One
After discovering a small portal in her kitchen, a woman must choose the best way to use its power.
Benjamin Sliker
Matthew Bumby, Benjamin Sliker
Character Study
When a conceited college students primary goal of getting a date with a cute girl in class comes in conflict with his secondary goal of passing the class, he has to decide if saving his grade is worth doing homework with a girl he thinks he is too good for.
Luke Brubaker
Horse Riders
...a story which relies on the human happiness reflected through three homeless young people.
Marjan Gavrilovski
Marjan Gavrilovski
Bless You
Three friends share old wives tales as to why its customary to say bless you after someone sneezes.
Daryl Grizzle
Stephen Steele
One Last Coin
A man decides what to do with his one last coin in Rome just before Christmas.
Skip Shea
Skip Shea and Gigi Chinappi
A Scream That's Trapped Inside
Mara comes back home from her boyfriend's funeral to experience a mind game full of guilt. Jake, her boyfriend, prepared a scavenger game and placed some notes around the house that lead to an anniversary present. Memories and guilt spin around her head as she plays the "game".
Savvas Christou
Amari Agee
Hard Sell
Things take a strange turn when a high-school cross country star tries to sell pies to a recently divorced millionaire with a cocaine habit.
Luke Slendebroek
Luke Slendebroek
Renee
Every great wine has a story to tell. This is the story of two people, their relationship and how their lives are forever changed by the wine they love.
Neil Watson
Michael Shenefelt
EJA ARO
A young woman who has been in a romantic long distance relationship for one year, is yet to set eyes on her boyfriend. when he decides to break it off, he is forced to reveal his true identity to her
Badewa Ajibade
Badewa Ajibade
Blueberry Spirits
Blueberry Spirits is a poetic movie about a Roma family that gathers Blueberrys for living. Every summer they come to a forest in Latvia and while they gather the fruits all the spirits and ghosts of their life are with them.
Astra Zoldnere
Kaspars Brakis
L'Indigestion
A family dinner is organized for the grandmother‘s birthday. This meal is an opportunity to see the distress, the fears, the wickedness of this family.
Mathilde Remy
Atelier de Production La Cambre ASBL
Bitchboy
Lukas, a young dedicated metal head, is visiting his recently departed grandfather at the hospital.
Måns Berthas
Filmuminati AB, Måns Berthas, Daniel Burman
Travelogue Tel Aviv
A young art student from Switzerland arrives for six months in Tel Aviv. Through drawing he will learn to analyse, understand and free himself to this contrasted environnement.
Samuel Patthey
Jürgen Haas
Augenblicke, A blink of an eye
A woman is going home at night. She’s alone and suddenly a stranger tries to rape her. They are fighting. The spectators are watching them from both sides of their view. It gets wilder and truth and perception becoming one blurry image.
Kiana Naghshineh
Kiana Naghshineh, Mareike Keller
SAVE
Dawns, a baby breaks silence.
Iván Sáinz-Pardo
Iván Sáinz-Pardo
BASILICATA ADVENTURE
BASILICATADVENTURE is an incredible international showcase for the Lucanian territory and for young people intended to work in the world of the seventh art. It is a creative and innovative challenge that aims to the promotion of the Basilicata's locations in Italy and in the world. It is a dronevideo that offers a unique experience of its kind. Breathtaking natural landscapes and locations
Walter Nicoletti, David Cinnella
Voce e Spettacolo, Walter Nicoletti, Michele Valente, Vito Nicoletti
THE BORDER
Paolo Negro
Arimvideo, Paolo Negro and Alessio Partenopeo
I am Hitkoak
Hitkoak describes her youth: the food she ate, the toys she grew up with, and the values she learned from her elders. Now, she passes them on to the young people in her community. In 2017, Reel Youth visited Kugluktuk, NU for two weeks as part of the Moving Forward Together - Hivumut Aulaniq Atauttimut project. We facilitated two intergenerational programs on the land, where young people and
Adine, Tabitha
Reel Youth
Darkslide
Damen Krow is a young musician with Asperger's syndrome who plays guitar and works at a sawmill. He has trouble making connections in his life, but desperately wants his band 'P.F.C.' to gain notoriety. One day, he meets a talented visual artist named Naomi Sinclair. Naomi completely disappears as Damen falls into a daze of drug use. Will Damen rise above his inner struggles? Or
Brendan Petersen
Eric Weller
PLURIMA
Are we the sum of our emotions or those of others? The strongest journeys are those within us, sometimes unfinished, sometimes useful. The important thing is to get lost forgetting the departure. The important thing is feelings. Plurima hides to be visible. We watch, Plurima lives in its narrow, timeless space. Plurima remains unattainable to itself to discover itself infinite in its finiteness.
Martina Parretta, Umberto Cacia
THE SILENT OF JILL
Wild west, early 20th century. The quite life of Noel, an old bounty hunter who has retired, time ago, to dedicate himself to his property, is disturbed by the arrival of Sam and Amos, two fierce henchmen of a rich landowner named Logan. Logan convinced that under the land of Noel there is an oil field, is willing to do anything to convince him to sign the papers to give him the property. Sam and
Daniele Tullio
controluce
UGLY
An ugly cat struggles to coexist in a fragmented and broken world, eventually finding a soulmate in a mystical chief. Inspired by the internet story ‘Ugly the Cat’.
Nikita Diakur
Nikita Diakur
01
Sergam is a little boy. A refugee. His boat’s stranded on the coast. His mother didn’t survive. Instead, a young woman takes care of him and they both set off on their way through a nightmare. “01” is a lovingly drawn animation film by Katharina Potratz. Without pointing at anyone, she shows the emotional and moving story of a small refugee boy on his way into a new homeland. A homeland that is
Julian Silverscreen & Katharina Potratz
Julian Silverscreen & Katharina Potratz
CUBEMAN
An elderly man is unable to accept that he is made to retire and his life takes a dramatic turn, when he realises that he cannot finish the work of his life
Linda Dombrovszky
Ferenc Szohár, CINEMART KFT,
WINTER IN LVIV
Winter in Lviv“ is a short-documentary about the situation of four Ukrainian women, trying to get by in a country that is struggling with an escalating conflict on the Eastern border as well as a heavy economic crisis. The protagonists are: Nurse Olha Roman is 75 years old, but still working. Because the Ministry of Health Affairs stopped paying her salary, she works as a volunteer and lives from
Till Mayer, Pirmin Styrnol
Till Mayer
SPLENDID CASE OF DOUBT
A simple love story between a bored bumber car owner and a furry. Sometimes love makes us forget...
Daniel Moshel
Eugen Klim, Daniel Moshel, Philipp Hatzl
MANEKI NEKO
The unexpected encounter of two strangers and their agreement while waiting for a cab to share the cost of the ride, becomes the motive for the anatomy of a relationship. From the moment they enter the taxi, the driver reveals that they know eachother and they have a common past, leading the couple to the landscapes of desire.
Manolis Mavris
Mando Stathi, Myrto Stathi, Manolis Kontarinis
BACKSTORY
As a young child our protagonist is left by his mother and has to live with his violent father. He fights his way through adolescence and falls in love with the woman of his dreams and just as everything seems to be finally working out for him, a sudden event changes the course of his life forever. A story about how everything we love, everything we learn, everything we build, everything we fear
Joschka Laukeninks
Benjamin Horstkotte, Tobias Wichura, The Marmalade Films Hamburg
STATE OF EMERGENCY
A movie about a society in fear. It is the story of two soldiers in the everyday life of Paris guarding an official building. An abandoned bag, curious passants and a crazy tramp move the situation into its climax. The lines between normality and real danger disappears.
arek Roehlinger
Marisa Meier, Filmakademie Baden-Wuerttemberg
THE INNER SIDE
Domi is a 33 years old autistic boy, who never speaks and lives with his mother and father. They try everything to cure him, but no effect. The mother cynically tells the story of their unlucky family, she is hopeless. Only the books bring happiness in Domi's life. He is obsessed by books. The family tries a new psychologist, Aliz, who soon realizes how important the books are for Domi. Now
Dániel Reich
FP Films, Péter Fülöp
8 June 1976
In a village of a few souls, in the deep south of Italy, during a hot day, in June ‘76, Luigi and Giuseppe, two brothers of 12 and 9 years old, leaving school, to return home. In Genoa, meanwhile, three armed men run through some alleys. Arrived in front of a staircase they shoot 26 bullets on two men. Not too far, a motorcycle approaches a parked car and two men open fire on the driver. Angela,
Gianni Saponara
SKMG Production
DEPARTURES
Ludovico accepted the difficult choice of his sick wife, helping her to end his suffering life. After some time, he finds the courage to reveal this secret to their daughter, through memories.
Nicolas Morganti Patrignani
REA production
HOT COFFE
Elena is 35 years old, she has a baby small and a stressful job. She constantly lives in a hurry, in an eternal tomorrow. She runs after a goal that is every day more and more distant. Maria lives the present cradling herself in the sweet memory of an old time. Their lives, their stories and their rhythms will collide in front of a cup of coffee, to give life to a fundamental but simple discovery
Luigi Pironaci
Panda Production
The Peculiar Abilities of Mr Mahler
East Germany, 1987: The special investigator Mahler is said to have paranormal abilities. The police assigns him to solve the case of the 6-year-old Henry Kiefer, who is missing for weeks now, before this issue leads to political tensions with the West. But then he brings something to light that makes this family tragedy especially political...
Paul Philipp
Moritz Helmes
The Hip-Hop Kid
This Hip-Hop History Comedy was partially shot under Los Angeles’ famous (but now defunct) 14th Street Bridge former major motion picture filming location. There, Michael Douglas Goodman stars as a young, hungry, rambunctious, Hip-Hop hopeful seeking the tutelage of down-and-out old school, Hip-Hop great Kango - played by prolific SoCal actor Phillip E. Walker. But wanna be rapper Benji finds far
Ron Duncan
Ron Duncan, Nelson Estevez & Phillip E. Walker
http://DarkroomMovie.net
Dubbed a Dysfunctional Family Thriller at its 70th Festival de Cannes 2017 Short Film Corner Worldwide Release plus screening on six (6) continents, in "Darkroom" an overbearing father finds his teenage son has transformed the basement of their New York townhouse into an amateur darkroom. There the boy develops gruesome and voyeuristic images from his late-night crime scene photography
David Schell
Walker Entertainer Academy
Written in Stone
This film by Iranian director Farhad Pakdel reflects on the intimate connections between today’s lives and the lives of those who have come before. From the present to the past, a young woman and her brother trace the history of their ancestors through traditional stone carving in Shiraz, Iran, in the center of the ancient Persian homeland. Their journey takes them to historic sites and
Farhad Pakdel
Davoud Samavati
Still Turning
The art of making the Lanzhou Waterwheel in China was all but lost in the 21st century, until Duan Yicun, a 20th-generation descendent of Duan Xu, a scholar of the Ming Dynasty, took it upon himself to study and learn the craft. Now 74 years old, Duan Yicun finds the waterwheel market chaotic and competitive. Looking to his apprentice and future generations to inherit the craft of waterwheel
Jesse Pickett
Shirley Gu
Marovo Carver
Tasiro is a wood carver who expertly creates traditional sculptures, which represent the Solomon Islands culture and reflect the natural beauty of the environment that surrounds him. Dedicated to his craft, Tasiro uses carving as a means of supporting his family. Set in an island paradise and narrated exclusively in the Marovo language (with English subtitles), this is a gentle and uplifting
Elliot Spencer
Elliot Spencer
Vikings: Warriors from the North, Giants of the Sea
Long before the Viking Age, Scandinavia was already settled. Its population descended from ancient Germanic peoples, with whom they shared the origins of their mythology, language and culture. The inhabitants of present-day Denmark, Sweden and Norway were trading and had contact with numerous surrounding countries and societies. In the 8th century the contact and the purpose of these
Gustavo Vilchez
Gustavo Vilchez

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