Showcase of the best FILMS in the world today.
Audience Award Winners:
Best Short Film: LUNGS
Best Direction: DUNES
Best Performances: BLOSSOM OF CHOICE
Best Story: THE LOVERS OF AVIGNON
Best Poetry Film: AWAITING WONDER
Best Art Film: YOU ARE SO CLOSE
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BLOSSOM OF CHOICE, 7min., USA
Directed by Tuğçe Evirgen Özmen
Blossom of Choice is an experimental short film as an offering of healing through self-reflection and presence and as a reminder of the way of life and nature: constant change. The main character encounters a transformative path when the person in front of her becomes the mirror to herself, which leads to confrontation and unfolding the stiff roots she has fed all along: the resigned realities of self-concept, ego, identification, categorization, discursive thinking, etc. This path she leads herself into is where the self meets its being state—the awakened state of consciousness, the essence, beyond the limitations of self-concept and ego—and transcends and liberates itself from its constraints and stiff roots that weren’t able to loosen and change.
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DUNES, 10min., France
Directed by Virginie Kahn
It could be a Harlem theater in the fifties. Two strangers share the same emotion while watching a movie. The cinema exit door opens onto an imaginary desert where they will meet,
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THE LOVERS OF AVIGNON, 3min., Spain
Directed by Manuel Fernández Ferro
The Lovers of Avignon” is the first ever translation of pictorial cubism into motion real image. Is an allegory of cubism as a conceptual symbol that acts as a filter and wall of emotions.
https://www.lineupshorts.com/los-amantes-de-avignon
https://www.instagram.com/losamantesdeavignon/
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LUNGS, 20min., UK
Directed by Adrianna Ewa Polcyn
This is a tale about a young woman driven to the edge of heartbreak, who is visited by a ghoul in her sleep and awakens in the mythic woods. Being thrown into swirling turmoil of her own soul, she flounders through the forest in search of truth, freedom and forgiveness. The story is an experimental re-imagined fairytale representing the final phase of the self-healing process.
https://lungsfilm.com/
https://instagram.com/lungsfilm
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AWAITING WONDER, 12min., Cyprus
Directed by Eleana Theophilou
A poetic exploration of a love story, of a widower that is going through the lonely journey of coming to terms with the sudden loss of his wife.
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YOU ARE SO CLOSE, 5min., UK
Directed by Craig McNulty
Short experimental film follows a woman seemingly trapped in a derelict art gallery repeatedly viewing images and gradually becoming more frustrated. Unable to leave, and refusing the offer of help.
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