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A mysterious seaman cooks plastic-polluted fish meals in a gloomy ship’s kitchen in the middle of a storm on the ocean.

“For this short film, I built a ship’s kitchen on a tilting platform to create the illusion of a real ship and want to raise awareness about plastic pollution in our oceans.”

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Driven by the urge to prove the existence of an extinct creature, a father and his son head off into the wilderness. But soon the search becomes much more personal, when the son suddenly vanishes without a trace.

Medieval Russ, year 1612. The country is going through a severe crisis – many years of hunger, devastation, Moscow is captured by Polish troops. Main character Ivan is a combat servant, tries to accept the death of his beloved sister, but he is pulled into a newly formed militia that must liberate Moscow.

FILM:

“Imdat” – it’s a music video for Turkish singers Ezgi and Gunes.

This is how they commented this project:
“Violence against women does not exist in the family, it unfortunately extends to the streets, schools, workplaces, everywhere the society enters. When we come to 2022, we can see that this has not decreased a bit.
Unfortunately, in the society we live in, we women experience them directly without empathizing. Just as a face we don’t know can be our honor guard by finding that limit, we can’t feel safe anywhere in public transportation on the street. Living as a woman has a weight, and this is not a weight that comes with our innate gender. It is a burden given to us by the society we open our eyes to carry for the rest of our lives.”

The problem of inequality and rigidity towards women has no nationality and no time.
The director added UN statistics to the video: every third woman is subjected to psychological and sexual violence against men. 50,000 women a year die from domestic violence. And 19% of murders go unpunished.

This project was conceived as a reflection, what if women did the same to men? What if the world belonged to women? Could men then feel the same violence that women experience every day, for many years?

A beautiful kingdom. An eerie howling in the woods. The hunter Frederick is sent to catch the mysterious Squonk once and for all…

Detailed Synopsis Little Caspar is afraid of an ugly moth in the dark. Then his grandfather tells him the story of the Squonk. Every spring, an ugly monster appears in the most beautiful of all beautiful countries. With its eerie howling in the woods, the Squonk robs people of their sleep. The brave hunter Frederick sets out to catch the beast. But his spear only hits a flower. More flowers disarm even his most skillful traps. Soon Frederick doesn’t know what to do. Then he secretly observes how the other animals of the forest fearfully flee into the undergrowth. Lonely and all by himself, the Squonk sits at a pond and cries. Absorbed in grief, he does not notice how shining, beautiful flowers grow from his tears. He only has eyes for his disfigured reflection in the water. Frederick forms a puppet in the Squonks image and lures his prey into the trap: The Squonk cautiously approaches the supposed companion – and suddenly finds himself in a net, wriggling two feet above the ground!

No sooner has the hunter marveled at his howling catch than the Squonk disappears, dissolving into tears. All that remains is a puddle on the ground, from which soon grows the tallest and most beautiful flower in the forest.

The grandfather finishes the story and steps outside to water a huge flower. In the Moonlight, we recognize him as the aged Frederick. Without the Squonk, spring has never returned to the forest. The once beautiful kingdom has turned into a barren wasteland…

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Miles goes on a mission risking his safety to learn the truth.

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Set in 1984, a former NASA Scientist and his young son make a discovery in his make-shift laboratory located in the garage.

When a sculptor from an unknown realm is given consciousness, he is called upon by the sounds of a ticking Grandfather Clock to create life.

FRONTIER tells the story about the 19-year-old Aniela (Vanessa Boritzka), who lives with her 54-year-old husband Boguś (Marius Biegai) in a small lumberjack’s hut in the war-ravaged Poland of 1941.

Boguś’ repression gradually takes on violent characteristics, but Aniela’s fear of the war binds her to the hut in the forest.

One night, the two German soldiers Helmut and Ralf (Jonas Brunstein & Lukas Koller) knock on the door and completely new opportunities open up, but not only for Aniela.

In a close-knit, dusty Western town, an unlikely group of friends – three spirited women (Neakita, Audley, Maruja) and three tough-as-nails ex-military men (Ned, Dutch, Sebastian) – share a deep bond. They find solace in the welcoming embrace of the local saloon, where laughter flows as freely as whiskey, and their connections run deeper than mere friendship, often blurring the lines of intimacy.

Unbeknownst to everyone, Neakita carries a haunting secret from her past. When she is summoned to the local police station to identify a man named Pascal, a face from the nation’s most-wanted list, the truth unravels. Pascal, the very monster who had kidnapped and subjected her to unspeakable horrors years ago, also shattering her world by taking the life of her innocent seven-year-old daughter. The town remains ignorant of this dark history until it’s too late.

Pascal’s chilling escape from police custody rekindles the nightmare, unleashing a torrent of torment upon Neakita and her loyal companions. The horrors intensify, culminating in the tragic demise of Dutch.

As the dust settles, a shocking revelation emerges – the local clothing designer, Winston, a regular at the saloon, held a sinister knowledge of Neakita’s past. The secrets, conveyed through a note Neakita left behind before her own tragic end, weigh heavily on Maruja’s heart, forever changing the dynamics of their small town.

In this gripping tale of secrets, betrayal, and tragedy, the bonds of friendship are tested, and the town’s innocence is shattered, leaving scars that may never heal.

“For The Freedom”, “Between Life and Death”, and “Trail of Tears” are contemporary modern-day Westerns that make up a screenplay trilogy, each featuring a female lead character. Although the stories and characters are unique, they are all set in the same town.

Despite a dark history and only 5% speaking the native language, a local Hawaiian hero fights to save his culture by teaching traditions, sustainability and life skills to disadvantaged indigenous kids.

An animated short film set in ancient Greece. It’s the story of an Athenian boy living in the shadow of his father’s exploits, with the threat of a second Persian invasion looming over Greece.

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This is a story about a man who lived an ordinary life, until he experienced a vision, so pure and sublime, that it changed his conception of life. He pondered what held greater significance – this vision he saw that day, or anything else in existence. // This man is called “Der Jogi” – a butcher, looking for the best regional and sustainable products in the western alps of Austria. He developed a recipe for a high-end meatloaf (Leberkäse). Yes. Meatloaf. His first love. Now and forever. This is the story, how they met.

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After accidentally shrinking in size, Juniper must create a counter potion while only being a few inches tall.

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The definitive accounting of the 1MDB financial scandal and an indictment of the global capitalist system and its inability to regulate itself in the face of avarice and corruption.

MAN ON THE RUN uncovers the shocking true story of a corrupt group of co-conspirators who jeopardized a country’s hope for financial stability. Their influence extended from the highest levels of the Malaysian government to the glamorous enclaves of Hollywood.

At the heart of this scandal lies the enigmatic Low Taek Jho, known to most as Jho Low, a mysterious businessman, and notorious playboy. Teaming up with Prime Minister Najib Razak, Low orchestrated a scheme to exploit 1MDB, a sovereign wealth fund established in 2009 with the noble purpose of benefiting the people of Malaysia. In 2015, intrepid journalist Clare Rewcastle-Brown receives leaked financial documents, setting off a global investigation that uncovers a staggering amount of money being channeled into international bank accounts, all in support of Low’s extravagant lifestyle. This includes the acquisition of lavish properties, a private jet, a yacht, excessive A-list celebrity parties, and even the financing of the Hollywood blockbuster film, “The Wolf of Wall Street.”

Through the meticulous work of director Cassius Michael Kim, who gains unprecedented access to key individuals involved on both sides of the story, MAN ON THE RUN unravels a complex web of greed and corruption. It delves into gripping first-person accounts, unveiling the extensive repercussions of one of the most colossal financial scandals in history.

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Under orders from a ruthless crime boss, a getaway driver must battle his conscience and drive an unsuspecting crew member to an ambush execution. There is a long drive ahead.

“The Perfect Shot” is an inventive and captivating documentary that profiles award-winning fine art photographer Artem Shestakov as he attempts to photograph the most remote locations on the planet affected by the climate crisis.

An employee of a cleaning service company is in charge of wash the floor of a research laboratory when he suddenly face a thief with dirty shoes…

The moments of isolation and seperation are most of the time the door opener to a journey within. That is how we discover new sides and parts of ourselfs which we ignored for so long.

‘A Greenlander’ follows Pierre Auzias (66) a French Painter fully integrated in Uummaanaq, a settlement 450 miles north of the arctic circle in Greenland.

Pierre speaks Greenlandic, travels by dog sled and teaches art therapy to neglected children.

After 14 years in Greenland, Annie, Pierre’s partner, retires from her position as the town Doctor and returns to France. Pierre then spends an agonising 9 months in limbo, waiting to find out if the Danish Authorities will grant him citizenship.

Four boys survive on the seedy night streets of St Kilda’s red-light district in Australia in the 1980’s. Based on true events. (Adult themes)

A short while after his dominant wife abandons the wimpy and meek Hayati, who is a literary

teacher in a patriarchal town, the police find an unrecognized female corpse by the lake.

Hayati wants to state that the body belongs to his wife and to take the blame for the murder

that someone else committed.

SYNOPSIS

Hayati is a small-town literature teacher and a one hit wonder author who tries helplessly

to hold on to his past: his shattering marriage, his sick old mother, a decaying walnut tree

and the memory of his father. Instead of moving on with his life and taking control, he

passively accepts its blows and is only interested in digging into the past, until his

discovery forces him to confront his own weakness and answer the question: is standing

idle while witnessing evil being done is just as much of a sin as doing it?

In an unknown time and place, a young boy escapes war with nothing but a dream and a violin case. Along the way he meets the beautiful Naila and a group of other travelers. He crosses deserts and seas during a long and dangerous trip. The music in his heart will guide him along the journey to find his path on the other side of the border and destroy prejudice.

An old, stubborn veteran conducts a funeral for himself on the past battleground and confesses to his family that he is no war hero but a deserter..

The story of gifted German runner Melat Kejeta is told through exclusive footage of her preparations for the 2021 Olympics in this experimental portrait documentary about a young refugee who has become a world-class athlete. To achieve her goal of a podium finish at the most important race of her life, she must defy both physical and mental adversity at the training camp in Kenya, just a stone’s throw away from the country she had to flee from nine years ago.

When a wild Manhattan author nearly dies from an overdose, she trades the penthouse for a secluded country mansion in a desperate attempt to fix her life, but when a poltergeist begins terrorizing her family, and a local Sheriff starts digging into her past, the author knows her deepest secret is in danger of being revealed.

A married couple tries to come to terms with the terrible tragedy which threatens to destroy their family.

A Love Worth Fighting For is set in the opening month of the First World War, August 1914. But it is not a war film, rather an anti-war film, and a love story. It is meticulously researched and

historically accurate.

Just after every major European power has been drawn into a conflict they do not know how to

fight, politicians and generals are sleepwalking their way towards unimaginable catastrophe with

all the arrogance that defined the Edwardian age. The conflict will become enormous, the scale

of destruction almost inconceivable.

Against this epic backdrop, the film throws into relief the lives of just two men. They are

insignificant players in one of the twentieth century’s greatest tragedies. But their stories are no

less poignant and compelling for it.

A Love Worth Fighting For examines immense concepts – the futility of war, nationality, love,

fidelity and human compassion – from the perspective of an English officer and a German

soldier.

The result is unique. It is poignant, compelling and sad. It asks difficult questions. Yet ultimately,

it ends with hope. Because without hope, what do we have…?

An experimental short about our love-hate relationship with Instagram and our photo-editing mania.

Issa is a 29 year old man held by chains. In the past 14 years, through winter and summer, rainy seasons and drought, he has been tethered around a thick, solid tree root within the sight of the family hut. He cannot move beyond the earthen circle allowed by his two-meter-thick metal chain.

Leon doesn’t want to go to jail. After years of heroin use, he therefore has to commit to therapy. His father Hans-Joachim doesn’t want to die. The artist tries to overcome death and become a Homo Digitalis. After a long break, Leon visits his father in the central german province. It will be the last time they see each other.

Bao, a 40-year-old divorcé and small-time Chinese Opera amateur performer finally gets a chance to perform to the city’s VIPs. However, his son’s departure to America forces him to make a decision between their relationship and his potential big break.

Son of a slave, Boxer, hero of Verdun… Discover the epic life of the first African-American fighter pilot in history.

For a long time David is captured in a life filled with depression, low self-esteem, and an extreme shyness regarding other people, especially women. After a sudden cancer diagnosis David decides not to start chemotherapy, and therefore to put an end to his sad life. His last wish: A journey to New York.

Hardly arrived there, he meets the astonishing and slightly crazy Coco that promptly employs herself as his personal tour guide. Her mission: To show David the most beautiful places in her world, and to finally make this timid man get out of his shell.

Forgiving the mistakes, learning to love and stop being afraid of life – it is rather difficult to cope with at the cemetery, but it is quite possible. Even though it sometimes seems that the cemetery is not outside, but inside of you.

Sasha – a man of about 35 – manager of a firm that installs tombstones at the cemetery. He has a lot of customers, each of whom experiences

a personal tragedy. However, Sasha is full of cynicism and irony. One day his 14-year-old daughter appears to return her father into her life. Sasha also meets a young business lady who has just buried her son and a lonely old man who has ordered a tombstone for himself. Sasha becomes involved in the struggle for power between the “eminence grise” of the cemetery and the new manager. And in this whirl of personal tragedies and criminal clashes, it gradually becomes clear that Sasha has a severe psychological trauma because of what happened in his past.

Guilty Love is a song written by Ladyhawke and BROODS.

Lula Cucchiara directed this music video and it was all shot in New Zealand.

Narrated by Zachary Quinto and produced by Fenton Bailey and Randy Barbato (World Of Wonder), the story of Ric Weiland’s life and legacy can be measured in incredible milestones.

He was one of the first employees at Microsoft. He helped focus and organize their early successes. It made him wealthy and influential at an early age. He never felt overly comfortable with his wealth – he didn’t feel that he deserved it. Other people had worked harder for what they had, he thought. So to quiet the nagging doubt, he turned to philanthropy.

Out and proud since the 70’s, Ric was a champion of gay rights. During his life, he donated more than 20 million dollars to fund more than 60 non-profit organizations. His efforts to establish representation and resources for the LGBT community still have a profound impact today.

He also lived through the AIDS epidemic. Painful losses tempered his social life, and focused his resolve to give back to his community during a time when they desperately needed hope. Like so many of his friends, he was diagnosed with HIV. It seemed he wouldn’t emerge from the crisis unscathed emotionally, or physically.

As his wealth and influence grew, Ric seemed to slip further into self-doubt, depression, and a kind of impostor-syndrome that seemingly no one could talk him out of. It was clear to see from the outside looking in that he was a brilliant, impactful, and beloved person. Where was the disconnect in his own heart and mind?

It’s difficult to overestimate the impact that Ric had. Technology, gay rights, HIV/AIDS research funding… and the list goes on. He was one of the greatest philanthropists in American history. A founding member of one of the biggest companies on earth. But he couldn’t manage the pain and doubt within his soul.

Near the end of his life, he wrote, “I’ve lost interest in fighting my depression and other emotions. I can’t see how it would end given my circumstances.”

It’s a chilling reminder that no matter how much success one finds – everybody desperately needs help… geniuses included.

Interviews include Bill Gates, friends and colleagues.

Lost in the forest of his own mind, Eric must rely on the survival skills of an enigmatic nine-year-old boy to help him battle vicious withdrawals and self-deprivation to catalyze change within his family’s cycle of addiction.

Raul and Romet are two film school students who one day wish to become world-famous film directors. However, this is not the purpose of this film. They had a really unique friend Brandon – he was a wild card. Suddenly Brandon committed suicide. Now the brothers attempt to understand the mysterious end of their best friend, by making a movie for him.

In a dusty future where the last humans have taken refuge in a cold, sterile Moon colony, A-153 is being driven mad by vivid dreams of a beautiful green world. While planning his escape, he picks up a distress signal from Earth! Hellbent on making contact, he steals a ship and launches toward the planet. Soon he will discover the horrifying truth about his fantasy world and the person who called for help.

Marta, a young Venezuelan mother, is immigrating to Brazil when she meets a struggling young couple with a baby girl. Her ability to breastfeed causes their fates to become forever entwined.

Normal is relative. A fathe takes care of the 18 year old handicapped son who declares his independence. He can’t take nor turn down his son who wants to live like a normal person at least one day.

An 86-year-old barber in North Dakota still cuts hair with a winning smile, even as the world around him has changed.

Nguyen Van Chuc lives under the bridges on the Saigon River. Driven by a small outboard motor, he goes out onto the river every day. His mission: He fishes the bodies of suicides out of the water so that they can be given a proper burial.

Nguyen is a believer and gets up at 4 a.m. every morning to pray before he starts his work on the Saigon River. He used to be a fisherman, but the river is so polluted for a long time that he can no longer practice this profession. He now earns his living as a water cab that transports people and goods from bank to bank.

“Fish Out Of Water” tells the story of a young father who gets the chance to spend a weekend with his five-year-old son Louis after not having been allowed to see him for a while. Michi’s cluelessness is met by his son Luis´ curiosity and childish candour, and Michi slowly grows into his role as a father.

A hybrid, experimental documentary which explores the issue of modern-day slavery perpetrated by the fast fashion industry. Through art, dance, and anthropology, Alive seeks to start the conversation of our individual role in the world, and our responsibility to fix its issues.

Hernán is a child who likes to daydreaming, but in his studies he is not doing well at all. His father constantly urges him to improve, advising him that he must reach very high to succeed in life. Hernán dispenses with his dream, gradually forgetting it to devote himself to his studies. Over time, and already become a successful entrepreneur, Hernán achieves the dream that his father instilled in him, reach high, until one day he will realize that he has not really achieved something he always longed for. Then he will make the crucial decision to fulfill his dream, but fate will play tricks on him. Hernán will have to face a new challenge that will change the meaning of his life.

Artist Biography

Emad Hamdy (Biography) :

Anyone who’s at all interested in classical guitar can hardly avoid this name.

Iconic Musician Emad Hamdy has won numerous international awards, titles and honors during his musical career. Hamdy was dubbed the “No. 1 musician in Egypt and the Middle East” from Yamaha Corporation in Japan and was chosen as the region’s representative ( YAMAHA ARTIST ) .

Prominent guitarist Emad Hamdy graduated from the Royal British Academy of Music while his musical repertoire came from the Egyptian Opera House to the world.

When an ex-CIA agent’s (Scott Adkins) daughter is kidnapped by Russian agents he is forced to team up with Sasha, a mysterious Ukrainian woman to track down a video incriminating the Russian government in her abduction.

This is the story of a day in the life of Aspiya. A 10-year-old girl living with her younger brother, older sister and parents in a one-room-shack in New Delhi near Asia’s biggest landfill.

Aspiya is the main supporter of her family. Every single day she walks up the landfill in order to collect trash that then will later be sold to companies that reuse the materials for their products.

While the subtext is pollution, child labor, our modern lifestyle of waste the main thing is that you can be happy no matter the circumstances.

This film is about the human crave for happiness and how, despite dire circumstances, your outlook on life determines the inner quality of your life.

Josef wants to fly with a propeller hat and Claudius wants to shoot his graduation film about Josef. But neither is that easy…

Elenore’s boyfriend, Danny, plays a wrong game with her and tries to drive her into prostitution by using the lover boy scheme.

A woman who had lost her husband to cancer without health insurance must live in her car with her son trying to fight out of homelessness, all the while never revealing the severity of their circumstances.

A poetized retrospective of the events that took place during the first year of the “new politics.”

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Matilha comes as a response to Brazil’s self-titled “new politics”. Through the allegory of a big demonstration, the film features metaphors of key events that have interfered and regressed public, social and ecological policies since 2018. Representing the key groups affected by this old way of governing, the clip shows the strength of these minorities when fighting collectively. The enemy? 3 conservative personas that prevail in the history of the country: the ruralist, the entrepreneur and the military.

Today Greenland feels to be at the centre of many different issues facing our changing world. The unspoken truth is the perfect storm of a changing climate, and the rapid encroachment of the modern age has already dramatically impacted the Arctic people – forcing them to cope with change beyond their immediate control in the present – not the future. The short film, Open Water, is a triptych narrative, based on the lives of three Greenlanders; a Hunter, a Ship’s Captain and a Fisherman, individuals whose very existence and heritage is intertwined with the Arctic Ocean. Like many who live in the polar north, their fortunes straddle the extremes of summer and winter. In the best of times, they can fish, hunt and be free of one of the harshest landscapes known to man. In the worst of times, they are exposed to the climate crisis and stranded between Arctic storms and an unforgiving icy interior. At the heart of a warming planet, open water, an ocean without ice, offers both economic opportunity for fishermen in terms of access to Halibut grounds in winter and a longer tourism season, but also cultural decay in terms of traditional ways of life like sled dog hunting. Faced with the looming spectre of a drastically changing environment, these seafarers hold a complex range of emotions as they reflect on both their past, their present and future.

Fred, a driving instructor, hits a girl on the street. Thinking that she died instantly, he decides to put the body in the trunk and go to his driving course as if nothing had happened. What he does not know is that the girl is still alive.

Mainly classical academic training, throughout our professional career we have developed in other musical fields such as Conduction, Interpretation, Production and Recording, specialized in music for Cinema, TV, Performing Arts and Symphonic Music. We develop our work with different and contrasting musical styles: Classical, Pop, Rock, Electronic, Jazz, World Music, or different fusions of these styles with Contemporary or Traditional Symphonic and Chamber Music.

The Hawking virus has destroyed humanity. Life is barely existent, dangerous hawkers roam the land, driven by blood thirst and also dangerous Looters are lurking around. Falter and Mila, two women belong to the few remaining humans who fight daily for their survival. In a world where there is little hope left, is it worth trusting a stranger?

High above the sacred Navajo land of Monument Valley, two hot air balloons float, circling each other as if in a dance. One carries the German flag, the other that of the United States. A closer look reveals that the balloons are not only tethered together, but that a person is walking on this thin, connecting line.

This is the sight that the protagonist of the short film #buildingbridges beholds, as he steps out of his humble Utah home and looks up at the sky. An old and lonely man, he finds his own courage through the actions of these strangers.

This balancing act in movie form by the young creative agency One Inch Dreams was commissioned by the German Embassy as a tribute to German-American friendship.

In October 2018 the production company One Inch Dreams captured unique pictures in Americas wild west. Those key visuals for the campaign “Wunderbar together“ of the German year in the US are the groundation of three movies that got finished after one and a half years of work. The production of the films has been characterized by difficult circumstances and extraordinary challenges.

On a knife-edge was also the balance act of extreme sports athlete Niklas Winter who kept it together during this symbolic slackline crossing.

Le Champion is the story about the life and career of one of Australia’s unknown world sporting champions, Sakio Bika, this is a journey about poverty, prejudice, determination and one man’s quest for acceptance.

A sixteen years old teenager Haoran escapes from his home when his parents decide to live abroad. Instead, he lives with his classmate, Luyang, at the shabby city village in downtown Shenzhen that is bound to be reconstructed. At an exhibition held here, he cannot take his eyes off a photo of the back of a “beer girl”.

During Haoran’s stay, the maturity of Luyang’s sister, Shiyan, makes Haoran’s heart flutter. However, in a wandering caused by his insomnia, Haoran accidentally discovers that the “beer girl” is Shiyun. Out of a desire to protect and possess her, Luyang goes to the food stall every night and saves her from people who try to make Shiyun drunk regardless of her own will.

The seeming peace maintains until Haoran saves Shiyun from a sexual assault. He takes away the photo at the exhibition and tears it apart to express what he feels. Then, Haoran encounters the soft side of Shiyun who is so sophisticated and rarely reveals her own weaknesses. Haoran forbids Shiyun to work at night, but Shiyun does not listen. She disappears in darkness as usual.

Haoran leaves the village and meets Shiyun‘s photograph again.

Life is not always smooth. When bad things happen, some people are lucky enough to move on, but not the old lady A-Yuan. Either because of the deepest love to her lover or social constriction, that women should belong to her husband. A-Yuan was trapped in the past after the death of her lover. The big house contains lots of memories; the illusion of happiness lives that created by A-yuan and those good times between the nephew and A-Yuan when he was a kid.

However, there is no way to stop the time or go back to the past. For those who are unwilling to move forward, there must be a story behind it. And that is difficult for outsiders to understand what they have been through. This film is a glimpse of a traditional silence woman who doesn’t talk much but has lots of secrets in her mind.

Walter, a con artist, drives around the city with his sick guard dog in the back. Sometimes successful, other times less so, Walter keeps tricking people, until an acquaintance dares him to go two minutes without telling a lie.

A teenager cares for her younger sibling and multi-ethnic local orphans in the face of danger after her Grandmother is killed surrendering to the Mexican Army toward the end of the Texas Revolution.

A teenage biracial girl struggles to come to terms with her identity in a racially driven world.

Dawns . A baby breaks the silence .

For the past decade the German doctor Volker Schoeffl and his wife Isabelle have been coming to Laos. The country, squeezed in between Thailand, Vietnam and Cambodia is one of the poorest in the world. Once a year the two doctors perform difficult operations, teach and support the local team and bring new equipment to the hospital. Not only do they work though. Both are astonishing climbers and so they spend their free time setting up new routes all accross the country.

After a terrible accident, Marie finds herself trapped in a space-time loop which she can’t escape from. To get out, she will have to face her new traumatic reality.

A tragic love story of lust, betrayal, and murder told in reverse.

The surgeon Carlos Rigoni and his daughter Malena are in the living room of their house, watching a recording of the news of their own car accident. While the news passes, the fate of both seems to be at stake.

A self-righteous husband risks his and wife safety as he goes to confront a dangerous drug dealer who is plaguing the council estate with drugs.

Joel Constantine and Liz Austin who is a cohabiting couple, are residents of the Grizedale estate and as the former contemplates how they are both down on their luck, Liz tries to stay positive about their lives.

Joel makes an over exaggerated comment about the area they live in which Liz points out. This leads to an argument between the couple but in the middle of all the shouting, they hear loud music coming from a car which is unusual for that time of day.

They go out onto the balcony and they see Reece standing by a car doing a drug deal. Joel, fed up of seeing Reece doing drug deals, goes to confront him and when he does, he is provoked and punches Reece, knocking him to the ground. Despite her best efforts, Liz fails to prevent the altercation and drags Joel back inside.

Another argument ensues between Joel and Liz and the former really oversteps the mark by saying that no one asked Liz to be there. Seeing that his wife is visibly upset, Joel tries to reason with her to no avail. He goes out onto the balcony to get fresh air but when he walks out he enters into a stare down, as he sees Reece looking up at him with menace.

Against All Odds is a short documentary that follows three of AFC Bournemouth’s most influential characters throughout the clubs darkest days. Furthermore it explore the clubs plight from a fans perspective, giving a multi faceted recollection of this incredible journey.

Once a ruthless war lord who won his land by his sword, Mort-Lieu is now a sick old man. A mysterious knight appears ; Mort-Lieu believes the stranger is Death himself coming to get him. Facing his own end, Mort-Lieu has to confront his legacy.

A LOVE-HATE RELATIONSHIP BETWEEN TWO MEN ENDS UP IN A BLOODY BATTLE.

Harun Güler is a Berlin based director and artist.

His work ranges from fashion film and music videos to video installations, exploring the boundaries of documentary and fiction while carefully blurring the line between art and commerce.

Born and raised in Germany by Turkish parents, Güler’s main area of interest remains masculinity and traditions in the everyday, framed within a more specific Middle Eastern context.

His professional background is video editing and post production in Munich, Istanbul and London.

His work has featured on: NOWNESS, SHOWstudio, Berlin Fashion Film Festival, BAFTA qualifying Aesthetica Short Film Festival i.a.

WONDERWALL is a short film/narrative cinematic music video, which tells the story of unconditional love that helps overcome the loss of a loved one and helps one cope with grief.

A musical story follows a young man whose heart has been broken due to the lost of a loved one, and he is trying to escape reality. But his surreal experience while in the Chernobyl exclusion zone gives him a chance to discover himself.

Two puppets, a prince and a princess, are protagonists of a fairy tale story.Of this story we are only allowed to know the finale, the moment of the kiss that decree the happy ending. But something goes wrong: the one who manages the puppets decides to get in half. Will our hero succeed in kissing the princess?

“As the Earth Turns” (Unreleased 1938 film, available for the first time in 80 years!)

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(Note: 5.1 Surround available for theatrical showing)

In 1937, in Seattle, a twenty-year old budding filmmaker using his own equipment, had already created 58 plays and 9 never released, award-winning films. This director would go on to work for Disney Studios, and direct and edit a 1950 Academy Award Documentary. Richard H. Lyford’s films have developed a following among film-historians, since his early “amateur” films are some of the first “indie” films ever created outside of Hollywood. Lyford experimented with special effects, and models, and was becoming an excellent director. His final, and most challenging, film of this era was “As the Earth Turns”, his screenplay based on “The Man Who Rocked the Earth” by Arthur Train and Robert Williams Wood, 1915.. It was filmed in the Pacific Northwest, in and around Seattle.

“As the Earth Turns”, is presented for the first time after 80 years of development! To finish his vision, a professionally mixed orchestral soundtrack, by NW film composer, Ed Hartman has been added to the presentation.

“As the Earth Turns” is a 45 minute, sci-fi film that foresaw WWII, future-technology, climate change, and the extreme need for peace, as the world was drifting back into world war again. The main character, “PAX” (“Peace” in Latin), is played by Lyford, himself, a scientist who desperately wants peace. He uses climate changing science to keep mankind from war. The lead actors are both male and female. The lead actress, Barbara Berger (AKA Barbara Berjer) portrays a hard working newspaper reporter. Her strong character, “Julie Weston” leads the hunt for the villain all the way to the end of the film. Berger had a long career on Broadway and television (ironically including “As the World Turns”).

The acting is dramatic, professional and realistic. Lyford used early homemade FX including controlled dynamite explosions and miniature models similar to those used in “Flash Gordon” (1936 Serial). His make-up work was excellent (he loved Lugosi and horror films) and his framing of the picture is mature and developed. Lyford was very capable of directing his acting troupe, as well. A legendary location in Seattle, “Gasworks” was used for PAX’s lair. The film has similar themes to “Things to Come”(1936), “In Like Flint” (1967), and even a little “Austin Powers” (1997). Some of the dialogue seems to come out of the TV series “Star Trek” (1966), and even “Dr. Strangelove”(1964). The film was shot in B&W, but the last scene was shot color for dramatic purpose, foreshadowing “Wizard of Oz” in 1939.

“As the Earth Turns” is an example of a true “indie” film, completely shot outside of Hollywood. It is an amazing educational film for any filmmaker to learn from. This filmmaking had no sophisticated technology available. It has multiple-exposure sequences (including a very professional title sequence), “day for night” shooting, simple transitions, and intense editing between live action and miniature model sequences. Richard Lyford did his best with very limited resources. This film is a great lesson for anyone in media creation, today.

In „This Jelly Doughnut Feeling”, the shy and dreamy cartoonist Anna is confronted with a cheeky, high-tech smart speaker which wants to help her wake up and take her life into her own hands.

This entertaining story mixes cartoon animation with life action scenes. With a comedic and sarcastic look, Anna’s relationship, her professional life and her way of dealing with problems is shown and very creatively staged.

Kanuki Jungle, September 1907.

Liam Loyld Powell the adventurer is chased by his old enemy, Professor Wathkins. Liam has discovered the secret to get to the famous Chikuzo’s treasure and will protect his discovery from the professor despite the challenges that Liam must faces.

This story is not about a girl who was raped. It’s not about her forced-marriage with the rapist at the same day. It’s not about the society that forced her. And not about the rapist husband and his “want-to-rape-the girl-tonight” friends either.

This is about a girl who was reborn the same day.

Retired and conservative Mrs Foster is starting chemotherapy and is understandably anxious. The last thing she needs, is to have to share the treatment room with a ‘know it all child’ who wants to grow up to be a lesbian! But a series of life lessons from this cheeky 9 year old, give her much more than just a glimmer of hope!

A dinner party kicks off with the last guest to arrive, the oddly named Asparagus Tips. Upon introducing herself we soon gather that her name comes from her asparagus hands. After the starter doesn’t go according to plan she steps up to the plate, literally, and offers her tips for the party. A delicious delight that everyone wants more of, mostly at the disadvantage of poor Asparagus Tips.

Maintenance worker by day, pro-boxer by night, Jerome Conquest lives in the city of ‘Rocky’ and comes from one of Philadelphia’s most dangerous neighborhoods, Strawberry Mansion. When Conquest loses his best friend, Calvin, to street violence, he turns to boxing as a way to improve his life, which begins a story of redemption, not only for him but for his struggling community.

A Russian astronaut awakes on an ISS space module after an accident. His attention is caught by outside knockings . Someone has come to welcome him, although it might all be just his Imagination, or maybe not

Nazi Colonel Wilhelm Brauer endures a crisis of faith when Hitler’s order to kill the disabled will result in the death of his Down syndrome son Max. Wilhelm decides to escape with Max, but to do so, he must bring the one person who can communicate with him: a Jewish boy with polio whose parents are in hiding.

A director with a broken heart directs a break up scene and has a breakdown.

Tammy is breaking up with Tim and Tim starts to cry – well that’s how the scene is supposed to go. But the actor playing Tim can’t make himself cry so the director steps into the role, a role he knows too well. Using the scene to relive his recent traumatic breakup, the director has a lot to get off his chest. A comedy short film written and directed by Aaron Lucas (and not based on true events).