AUDIENCE AWARDS:
Animation Film: SONG OF SEA FISHES
Documentary: DREAMS OF THE PAST
Experimental Film: ARITHAARAM (Facial Makeover)
Fashion Film: THE CROWN OF JOY
Music Video: CHOVO – ANDERS (Different)
Performances: CAPITAL OF CULTURE
Short Film: THE WICKLOW’S WITCHES
Society Film: SCHOOL BELL
Story: DYE LOVE
Student Film: MAKENA (english)
Virtual Reality Film: ATLAS OF UNCERTAINTY
SEE THE FULL LINEUP OF FILMS:
May 18th – EXPERIMENTAL EUROPEAN
ATLAS OF UNCERTAINTY, 7min., Italy
Directed by Massimo Vito Avantaggiato
Atlas of Uncertainty is an experimental music video based on the representation of 4 Classical elements, that typically refer to the concepts in Ancient Greece of water, fire, earth and aether, which were proposed to explain the nature and complexity of all matter in terms of simpler substances.
CHOVO – ANDERS (Different), 5min., Austria
Directed by Kevin Thaliyath
This music video follows Chovo, a german upcoming artist, stalking her crush throughout the day. It is like an old-school RnB music video, but with it’s own spin to it.
https://www.instagram.com/2jaym.films/
SONG OF SEA FISHES, 1min., Russia
Directed by Denis Vasilev
18 century, sea. Sea fishes want to crash a ship. The sailors and ship animals begin to protect the ship.
https://www.instagram.com/merlin_movie_vfx/
CAPITAL OF CULTURE, 3min., Russia
Directed by Maxim Ustyuzhaninov
Social video. The basis was the old Leningrad story about the tram boor.
TAKE A TRIP, 30min., UK
Directed by Christos Karakasis
I’ m travelling. I’ m leaving a city behind me for another city. I hope a different one. I suppose, someone else must be travelling to reach the city that I’m leaving. Maybe the journey takes place only inside us. Maybe the city itself is only inside us. What indeed is a city, rather than the way we see it. Violence follows me everywhere. For a while the colors fade and the place loses its power, I’m not sure where I am. How different is a tourist town from a real one. Is fascism something acquired or something that we are born with?
https://www.imdb.com/title/tt15354796/?ref_=nm_knf_i1
https://www.facebook.com/Take-a-trip-1603388459888236/
THE WICKLOW’S WITCHES, 46min., Italy
Directed by Francesca Stangoni
The story talks about the bond between two women from different background and generation: an old witch and a little girl.
May 19th – EXPERIMENTAL – WORLD SHOWCASE
SCHOOL BELL, 3min., India
Directed by B. Suresh Kumar
Importance of education is conveyed through a Child Laborer’s Point of View.
https://www.facebook.com/babusureshkumar
https://www.instagram.com/sureshkumar_1971
ARITHAARAM (Facial Makeover), 13min., India
Directed by B Suresh Kumar
Due to the advanced technological developments in Social media, the future of Therukoothu (Therukoothu in Tamil, is an ancient art, where artists play songs with dance and music in storytelling the epics. It is a folk art originated from the early Tamil country.) slowly started diminishing and the survival of the Therukoothu artists became a question mark? This film captures one such artiste and his mental agony.
DYE LOVE, 15min., China
Directed by Alexander Kang
An obsessive painter had just murdered his wife in their home when he got the phone call from the police notifying him that they have found the dead body of his wife at a hotel.
SURVIVOR, 13min., Iran
Directed by Karim Azimi
Some immigrants by the sea are waiting for them to cross the sea.. A young couple with other immigrants are going to the light of the world, but they have problems when their baby is born.
https://www.instagram.com/Karim_azimi100
DREAMS OF THE PAST, 20min., Russia
Directed by Dmitri Frolov
A film about peace, love and war. Dedicated to the 100th anniversary of the end of the Civil War in Russia. The film takes place at the end of the summer of 1917, when Russia and the whole world were at a crossroads between two eras. None of the people could even imagine how much his life would change in the very near future.
http://dmitrfrolov.narod.ru/Dreams/engl.html
https://www.facebook.com/DreamsthePast/
https://www.instagram.com/dreams_of_the_past_1917/
THE CROWN OF JOY, 4min., USA
Directed by Dr. Karmen A. Smith
The mother Gia (Mother Earth) comes to see the suffering on earth and calls JOY and Compassion to heal the people and remind them of their divine nature. She wants people to remember their power and put on the magical crown of joy. Joy will activate their creative and life-giving energy so that they can have the reality that is manifested from joy.
MAKENA (english), 7min., Brazil
Directed by Arno Bukanowsky
Makena is a love letter to nature, a declaration of love to others, to any form of life that shares the same space with us, that feels the same needs to eat, to breathe, to live! This essay is a way to remember and pay homage to those lives suffering in peripheral, forgotten places in the world, due to the selfishness of a humanity that struggles to harmonize with nature and itself.
https://www.facebook.com/Bukanowsky/
https://www.instagram.com/arnobukanowsky/
GIRO-UN POEMA DE GRACIELA SUÁREZ, 1min., Argentina
Directed by Ileana Andrea Gomez Gavinoser
A GIRL SEARCHS HER IDENTITY
Experimental Film & Music Video Festival 