Films and Works in the Competition

BLACK MUD
Black Mud is a coming of age story about two orphaned brothers who travel cross country to the Alberta oil sands in search of a new life. Along the way, they learn to depend on one another, but tensions grow as money gets tight. On the brink of giving up, Alex, the older brother, meets Flora, a young drifter, who insists on coming with them in exchange for a place to stay in Alberta.
Adriano Trapani - Writing Credits
The Sleeper by the River / La dorMeuse Duval
In a village by the Meuse river, located near the French-Belgian border, a factory storekeeper named Basile Matrin leads a dreary life with his wife, Rose. The young Maryse Duval, who had just come back from Paris, has abandoned her dreams of becoming an actress. She will unwittingly turn their life upside down. Basile’s great friend and neighbour, who is a reporter for a local newspaper « Le
Manuel Sanchez
Manuel Sanchez, Alain Depardieu, Marylise Den Hollander, Jérémy Banster
Eva
Gabriel, a shy boy, decides to resort to the services of Eva, a transgender prostitute. He isn’t able to make love with her. Then, their meeting takes an unexpected turn, and becomes an unusual first time.
Florent Médina
ENS Louis Lumière
AVE variation #7
"AVE variation #7 is a personal interpretation of the Spanish landscape filmed aboard the high-speed train AVE (Alta Velocidad Español) between Madrid and Barcelona. It is an assemblage of abstract forms and sounds representing my interpretation of the beauty of the passing landscape from the perspective of a passenger on a speeding train. Using digital effects, I created a metaphor of a
Richard H. Alpert
Richard H. Alpert
Gregueria
After losing a child, a man and woman try to reestablish communication. Each of them pass through the barrier differently. As their attempts fail to get anywhere, they each decide to give it one more chance.
Leonid Karnitsky
Leonid Karnitsky
Fernweh - The Ache for Distant Places
Feature Historical Drama inspired by a True Story. A girl born in East Africa longs to go to Germany to be where she fits in, only to have her family dismantled in the wrath of Hitler’s regime. This is an ensemble in which each of the family members struggles with the theme of BELONGING in their own way. However, the plot points pivot around the daughter EVA. We begin at the start of the
The Butterfly
Vanessa, from a modest social background, goes to Marseille following the death of her father, whom she has not seen since adolescence. Master Leclerc, in charge of the estate will offer him an unexpected choice that will plunge Vanessa into her past.
Paillès Brothers
Boris Vassallo
The Dicks
A veteran hotel detective with unorthodox methods shows his new partner the ropes. Featuring Academy Award nominee Burt Young.
Rob Barron
Monika Lohrbeer and Brian Rush
Hair of the Dog
Matthew Stelle’s life is slowly going down the drain; his artwork is failing, his addiction is worsening, and everything he thought he had under control is slowly slipping away. One night, on a drunken rendezvous, Matt discovers something that sends the spiral of his life spinning even faster
Aden Lungstrom
Aden Lungstrom
FAITH
FAITH is a character driven dark comedy inspired by the lives and struggles of real teenagers recovering from drug and alcohol abuse in a psych ward. Under the direction of writer/director Kymberly Harris , this young all star ensemble employed method acting techniques to explore the lives of the characters. The result is an edgy, magical, and truthful human story exploring how broken people can
Kymberly Harris
Clayton Rowley
Rose's Turn
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.
Kymberly Harris
Chris Abernathy
Amorphosis
One girl's shortcut. One guy's repressed anger. One cat's black hunger. Blood moon. The beast is rising.
Noro Napravnik
Noro Napravnik
Citylife 2
Dur: 6:27 min The images from the video projection of City-life II move quickly in the sky, acting as the memories, dreams, and the action of these inhabitants. The windows of trains moving appear as new realities. In this process, a new city is created. Additionally, a new city is created in which the actions of the inhabitants are present as extensions of their ideas, but their appearances
Graciela Cassel
Graciela Cassel
FIFTY
A world-renowned psychiatrist is put to the test when a mysterious patient reveals his true identity.
Javier Dampierre
Javier Dampierre
April Fools
Ayu draws a picture in a park. She meets the boy who put on the hat of the raccoon. He came from Ibaraki to Tokyo. His name is Hiroto who is younger brother of Miss Mackerel. Ayu is interested in him. But Hiroto had death wish… Ayu got the raccoon hat although she was disappointed in Hiroto. Her older brother Hamachi works in a cafe. Chinese foreign student Marin comes over there. She gets
Yusaku Fushimi
S is for Summer, K was for Fall
Susumu has moved up to Tokyo from Osaka. He went to an interview at music production company over the summer. He has decided to try to achieve his best friend Koichi’s dream of playing in a band Susumu and his friend’s music style differs from the mainstream music scene of today. They fight amongst themselves to decide whether they produce their own music or produce the music that others want
Fumito Fushi
Frog Hunters
Dealing with the frog hunting profession that is being passed on from generation to generation by Romani people in Edirne, the documentary film blends the cultural structure and aesthetics of the Romani neighbourhood and examines the details of frog hunting profession through the intimate relationship between fathers and sons. The film also tells hunters’ struggles against the factories which
Batuhan Kurt
Batuhan Kurt, Sait Kurtuluş
Amazing Amorgos
An amazing trip through a miniaturized Amorgos
Joerg Daiber
Smile
Short-film of my trip to Amorgos with my partner, discovering the island day by day, landscape by landscape, smile after smile.
Paul Saada
Amorgos - between past and future
The film " Amorgos - between past and future" was made last year on Amorgos island in Greece. The TV crew of the international touristic series "We welcome" spent several days on beautiful island. The presenter Zurab Dvali with his friend Irene Giannakopoulos discover the life on the island - meet interesting and creative people, show the cultural side, visit historical places
Irina Khangoshvili
Amorgos Yperia Film Festival 2018
Amorgos Yperia Film Festival 2018 at Aegialis Hotel & Spa in Amorgos
Elysia Yoga Convention 2019 - Amorgos, Greece
Elysia Yoga Convention 2019 at Aegialis Hotel & Spa in Amorgos.
Evangelos Tzoumanekas
Across her body
Every year, on July 31, Mrs. Irene and the last remaining “fifteeners” return to the Monastery of the Accession, on the south end of Therasia, the little known sister island of cosmopolitan Santorini. They spend the next two weeks living in the cells of the obsolete Monastery, honoring their life-time vow to the Virgin and continuing the tradition of “Fifteen”.
Zacharias Mavroeidis
Memories of Crete
A family visits the island of Crete in an active way, monasteries, archaeological sites, museum, national park, ecolodge, a discovery off the beaten track organized by See You Soon travel a local responsible tourism agency.
Stephane Dupuis
Frog Hunters
Dealing with the frog hunting profession that is being passed on from generation to generation by Romani people in Edirne, the documentary film blends the cultural structure and aesthetics of the Romani neighbourhood and examines the details of frog hunting profession through the intimate relationship between fathers and sons. The film also tells hunters’ struggles against the factories which
Batuhan Kurt
Batuhan Kurt, Sait Kurtuluş
Bed Bug
Doubts are more cruel than the worst of truths. (Jean B. MoIiere) İdris and Hatice are the ordinary couple who live in a shantyhouse.Although Hatice is the woman who is frightened and bullied by her husband,İdris,she has a love affair with her husband’s co-worker,Cemal.İdris who is a gambler sells the television at his home to pay his gambling debt. This incident concurs with his stealing his
Tunahan Kurt
Kadraj Yapım & Visualfocus Film
Carpinti
When the man returns to home, he suspects that something's going wrong and finds some clues about his wife cheating on him. This unconvinced suspicion eats his soul day by day.
Cihan Tamtürk
İzzet Arpacı
Parting Shot
There is an incident at an otherwise very ordinary Turkish funeral. A man drops his phone inside the grave while throwing soil during the burial. He promptly interrupts the service to take his phone back. However someone in community denies this request because of religious beliefs. The Hodja who is leading the funeral, gets involved and an extraordinary discussion unfolds.
Özgür Cem Aksoy
Özgür Cem Aksoy
Feys: Another World
The film describes Saim Kemik, a scrap cardboard collector in Istanbul,efforts of entering Feys, a social networking platform.Saim Kemik arrives next to the rice cart he eats from every evening. At that moment, he overhears two well dressed men talking about Feys and he wonder what Feys is like, and tries to find out how to access to Feys.
Kaan Kurnaz
Batıkan Alkan
UNDO Divergent Film Awards film of the year 2019
The 2019 film of the Year at UNDO will be awarded in September, in Boston. The title will be screened at WFF.
Adam
In 1981 The Kurdilli Peninsula became an island as a result of the increase of the level of Caspian Sea. Those who live in two villages of the peninsula leave the island over time. But for Vitaly the island becomes the last destination. He did not want to leave the land where he buried his father and mother, where he spent his childhood and youth. In 2014, everyone on the entire island left
Emil Ali
Ali Araz, Qan Turalı
Other Borders
Three friends, who cannot prevent the civil war in Afghanistan from ruining their lives, come to Turkey at different times in pursuit of a new hope. After a long, dangerous journey and several borders crossed, the ‘other borders’, where they seek refuge in the hope that everything will be better, becomes the beginning of a new struggle and another tough war. The three friends, after the troubles
Turap Başel, Ahtam İbragimov
Ali Araz
Excuse Me, I’m Looking For The Ping-Pong Room And My Girlfriend
A film about a couple on a wellness trip, where one partner disappears and the other isn't sure whether he's looking for her or himself. Within the bizarre world of the alpine wellness resort, Aron begins a new chapter in his life.
Bernhard Wenger
Florian Bayer, Clara König, Bernhard Wenger
The Version of You
Right before Pera puts up the shutters of the coffee shop that she works as a waitress, meets an odd but cute customer. What Pera doesn't know is that this customer knows her very closely.
Ayşegül Okul
Eren Maçoro, Roy Kamhi, Ayşegül Okul
Obituary
Visual obituary of an old youngster.
Onur Keşaplı
Onur Keşaplı
Mishko
Angel, quiet and withdrawn boy, goes with his friend Mishko to pick apples, in order to sell them later. But, as the day passes, Angel is increasingly facing the cruelty of Mishko and his own parents.
Hanis Bagashov
Samir Ljuma
Daughter
What can a father do when his beloved daughter was so much hurt by someone that he finds her unconscious in the bathroom, lying in her own blood. What can he do when the system fails him standing in the way of justice? The film is a part of the social debate in the current context of the #MeToo campaign.
Mara Tamkovich
Warszawska Szkoła Filmowa
Sister
A woman who 50 has a life story from Black Sea to Istanbul.Hatice Akgün is beginning adventure of Track driving with take support from her father. She never give in, in spite of obstacles. She driving truck as a job now. In the dominant male society she look after her 6 children alone when doing truck driving.
Kenan Diler
Give Me A Lighter
The Dumlupinar Submarine collides with a Swedish ship while cruising on the Dardanelles. It sinks into depths of the sea within seconds. The soldiers trapped inside the submarine wait for days, hoping to be rescued.
Gökhan Kaya
Gökhan Kaya
Soil
Conceived through the division of the screen into nine cinematic frames, the film "Soil" narrates the journey of a young man carrying a handful of soil into the grave of a deceased soldier who happens to be burying his own dead body. With the form integrated into narrative, it is possible to watch every phase of his journey synchronically. Wherever he goes the smell of the soil remains
Alican Durbaş
Neslihan Oskay
A Hard Day In The Empire
Cansu (26) works as an art department assistant on the set of an Ottoman period soap opera. On a difficult day, she cannot fulfill the extreme requests of the director. Challenging conditions, various caprices and endless requests bring her to an irreversible moment.
Sezen Kayhan
Beste Yamalıoğlu
Living Like Heta
Heta lives with her pet seal in her highly peculiar house full of curious rooms and endless corridors. Her entire life consists of carefully planned and conducted routines. When the latter get thrown into disarray, Heta‘s world begins to crumble, until she feels compelled to make an irreversible decision.
Bianca Caderas, Isabella Luu, Kerstin Zemp
Hochschule Luzern – Design & Kunst / Animation, Jürgen Haas
Blue Tomorrow
A man who lives alone on his island goes on an unknown journey caused by rising ocean. After witnessing a catastrophe on the way, he finds hope again with other people.But when the ocean rises again this time he makes an unexpected decision to an another unknown.
Numan Ayaz
Numan Ayaz
Closed
The customer girl, who comes to Kenan's workshop on an ordinary day, is actually won't be an ordinary person for Kenan. The girl makes an invitation which encourages him to get out of his closed life and faces him with a tough decision.
Kerem Altın
Kerem Altın
Celebration
Five year old Leyla who has deep emotional connections with nature lives with her family in a country house. Only a few days left for Eid el Adha (Muslim feast for sacrifice) and there is a feast rush in the house. Sheep which is bought to be sacrificed for the feast lives in the hut next to house for several days. But Leyla, who visits the sheep occasionally to slop it, has a smart idea to
Elif Sözen
Mesut Tasasız
The Guest
An Imam (the person who leads the Muslim congregation in the mosque) who lives alone in the free quarter of the mosque.. In a cold night, his doorbell rings and the visitor asks him something simple. The decision that the Imam shall make, would affect the rest of his life.
Selim Şahintürk
Emre Konuk
FERRUCCIO story of a (little) robot
Mr. Duccio engages with a technological challenge that might improve his life. While trying to fix his old TV in his home workshop something magical happens: the screen shows a stylised ...
STEFANO DE FELICI
ANTONINO VALVO, ENRICO BONINO, CATERINA TEOLDI
A Believer
At sunset, in a dark art gallery, one painting, two men. Or maybe just one. A film based upon a short story by George Loring Frost.
Kenta Crisà
Stefano Demarie, Robin Studio
The Vates
Gabriele D’Annunzio, 70 years old, sick and exiled in the Vittoriale household, answers to an ex-soldier letter in which he reminds the promise made by the poet: the revolution and the dream of a nation founded on art and beauty. D’Annunzio, haunted by regret, writes the answer in a letter he won’t ever send, in which he asks for forgiveness and remembers the time when he used to believe his
Kenta Crisà
Stefano Demarie, Robin Studio
Accidental LAX Outlaw
A Malaysian female published author throws caution to the wind and follows her gut instincts and lands in New York, the Big Apple. A survivor of the deadly dengue fever, clinical depression and decades of domestic violence propelled Jasemin to carve a new life in the New World. Armed with her 3 books, personal story and a never-say-die attitude she is determined to turn her books into films and

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