time

Early one morning, in an unspecified and seemingly far off time, a 12 years old boy, together with some friends, is searching a thick forest for objects of value. There is a lot of fog. The boy goes off by himself to another part of the wood. His happy expression turns to one of curiosity as he is distracted by some high pitched cries which come and go intermittently. He follows the sounds to an abandoned wooden cabin. Through the window he sees a bawling baby. The boy stands stock still uncertain what to do. His eyes meet those of the baby. He decides to open the window but, as he does so, his vision widens as he follows the baby girl’s gaze as she is dragged by a man towards a vast group of people in front of a barbed wire fence. At first glance we think we are maybe in 1945. The people shout in protest as they are crowded together against the wire and are surrounded by guards with machine guns. The boy looks on in horror and backs away from the window. Two boys shout out to him telling him to hurry home as it is late and time to return to the village. The boy and his other friends run through the forest and arrive at a new gate. They enter at the border checkpoint and pass on the other side of the barbed wire. We follow his gaze as it settles on a little baby and the other people who remained in line. Will the boy be able to find the little girl? Where are they? and when?

memory

Sardasht is a kurdish city in West of Iran. Sardasht is the first city in the world to be victim of chemical weapons with mustard gas bombs at 4:15 p.m on Sunday, June 28th 1987.
This film is about before, after the bombing, Also a romantic relationship between an couple and finally, the effects of the post-war.

diary film

A young woman travelling, looking for a place to rest, looking for a place to connect, reflecting the borders that separate her from the world, while moving to the border of Europe. On the island of Lampedusa, between the currents of migration and tourism, her inner reality is confronted with an outer reality equally determined by separation as well as contradicting second hand narratives.

In this film essay, the overland journey is thought not only as a route from one place to another, but as a series of moments of displacement and shifts in perspective; moving along, outer and inner boundaries dissolve and reconfigure and in the process the static assumptions constructed upon the consumption of media images slowly give way to fragments of a narration based on one’s own bodily presence.

While being more concerned with discovering complexity than drawing conclusions, the film none the less argues in favor of the necessity to think anew the reconciliation of presence and representation.

documentary short

An experimental animated short film about the impact of war on women underscoring rape as a war crime in 1945. Told from the perspective of one family, this common yet forgotten story surrounding the Siege of Berlin.

narrative short

A young family confronts the impending realities of a positive pregnancy testa

cinematography

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In a part of middle east in eastern and northern Kurdistan lives a group of people who have their own religion and perform their prayers and worship god using tanbur. Tanbur is an old musical instrument that has its own special ritual of crafting. Yar talks about the process of crafting the Tanbur and how it is used for religious ritual of the Yarsans.

A dog and a mare embark upon a voyage together. With every step they take, the differences between them become inevitably clearer, and yet the profound mutual knowledge they develop over time shows the potential to suddenly produce a luminous moment between the two.

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Special Award

Siege Leningrad, hotel Astoria, where in 1941 there was a hospital for workers of arts and sciences. The main character, violinist Anastasia, can not come to terms with the death of her sister, which happened due to the fact that they finished the concert during the bombing.In Astoria, she meets different people: unrepentant artists and a street boy who has lost his mind. Meeting them helps her to forgive herself and take a step forward to live on.

The film "The pictures come at night" accompanies the former forced laborer Czeslawa Wölfel in her last months of life.
The old lady lives in a retirement home near Bielefeld. It is difficult for her to come to terms with her new home. Nobody really has time. And certainly no time to listen. It would be worth listening to stories from more than 80 years of German-Polish life, in which only violence and unconditional love for their children were reliable figures.
Czeslawa was born in Poland in 1927, she would have had the opportunity to go to high school. Instead, however, her way led to Germany - into forced labor.
The film is shaped by Czeslawa's relentless tales about her extraordinary, yet historically exemplary life. In turn, everyday observations are in the style of the Cinema Verité. The camera observes the family, who, despite great challenges, has maintained a loving attitude and their sense of humor. It is always close, but never judgmental. This was made possible by the filmmaker's close relationship of trust with the family members. She has been friends with Czeslawa's children for more than twenty years.

A woman risks everything to try and protect an asylum seeker in a totalitarian society in which all borders are militarized.

Mti (29), an haitian inmigrant, after years of saving money during his stay in Chile decides to return with his wife and daughter in Haiti. However, his plans will be truncated by the unexpected theft of his money.

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Honorable Mention

pity, a film poem is an ode to image-making.

In response to grief following the suicide of a loved one, “Other Methods of Bearing Weight” is a collaborative performance practice that mediates the problem of absence as it pertains to creating visual documents, and the ceremonial study of transcending partnership without the body of the other. It focuses on relationships as translucent sensory cooperations and shared imaginary spaces, and on the invincible relativity of intimacy between two, something symbiotic and yielding captured without seeing--experimenting at togetherness.

Images of decay and regeneration photographed using a video camera whose sensor has been modified for infrared photography create a post apocalyptic, strangely alluring, but disconnected world. A mesmerizing series of largely deserted rural and urban landscapes concretizes the bittersweet memories of a lost love in Pamela Falkenberg and Jack Cochran's film of Lucy English's poem, "The Names of Trees," part of her Book of Hours film project, whose collected poems have now been published in book form (https://burningeye.bigcartel.com/product/the-book-of-hours-by-lucy-english). Accepted by more than thirty festivals in fifteen different countries, and nominated for best visual poem and best experimental film several times, including by the BAFTA qualifying Wales International Film Festival, Outlier's most widely celebrated film is surprisingly uplifting, hauntingly beautiful, and deeply mysterious.

Two brothers are preparing ducks and spending the night in a hut in the middle of the sand, facing the sea. The son of one of the hunters is following them with his camera in order to capture their way of life.
Abri is a reflection on transmission and cinema as a refuge from a passing world.

WISH is the true story of a refugee boy who dreams of playing with the children of a country where he is imprisoned in a border camp.
He faces problems but he is not disappointed
He is trying to achieve his dream...

A vanishing craft in Anatolia which is the old name of Turkey. My grandfather used to do ' Packsaddle Crafting' and called himself "Donkey's Tailor" .. After he passed away , my father does this craft now this documentary witnesses what has happened , what has changed between past and present time ( technological or industrial radical change between past and present time )in a small village of " Donkey's Tailor.

Anna a professional photographer who was promoted to a great career, had been selected to participate in a famous photograph festival.
But her dreams were suddenly broken by an eye disease called glaucoma
Turning her brightness world into darkness.
Blind and desparate, to get through this awful situation, she was helped by Bruno her loving, devoted, husband and an association called "eyes of imagination" giving her hope and confidence to live her first passion once again.

The girl the suitor is going to come to and her brother is looking for furniture to be seen better.

WE ALL CRY. SOMEONE MUST ANSWER.
When a man of color is convicted of a crime he did not commit,
his life and death hang in the hands of a woman too afraid to stand for truth.

Project Overview: A CRY FOR HELP is an intimate look at the destructive power of white privilege and the impact of white silence on black incarceration told in a dramatic short film format. Lensed in black and white, reminiscent of classic films like TO KILL A MOCKINGBIRD, it’s an American tragedy right out of the headlines. A cautionary tale that shines a sad light on the tragic destruction of an American family by the fear and indifference of an otherwise caring witness to a crime that never really happened.

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