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Piercing Stillness

Piercing Stillness

2019 • 5 min • Italy
👁️ 249
A relaxing walk in the countryside unexpectedly turns into an existential mystery. When a filmmaker starts to shoot images of an abandoned mannequin, the ghosts of a distant past begin to haunt him: flashbacks of pierced butterflies, phantoms, chimeras... With a sudden twist, the artist and his memories are struck by the stillness of a surreal destiny. Original/Alternative Title: L'immobilità trafigge AWARDS:
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Clarity

Clarity

2023 • 6 min • United States
👁️ 248
The struggle of addiction. The healing in recovery. AWARDS:
#507
Axé, Salvador!

Axé, Salvador!

2022 • 53 min • Italy
👁️ 248
"Axe, Salvador!" born from the author's passion for Brazil and in particular for the city of Salvador De Bahia AWARDS:
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Jason Voorhees vs. Michael Myers

Jason Voorhees vs. Michael Myers

2015 • 10 min • United States
👁️ 248
Micheal and Jason fight against each over using water bending skills.
#509
Death by Condom

Death by Condom

2023 • 15 min • India
👁️ 248
Death by Condom is a dark comedy film dealing with intertwined topic of sexuality and rising population in India. Starring a conservative Indian patriarch of a blooming family with vigorous sexual desires, as one day he stumbles upon a box of imported condoms and his lack of know-how about the product leads to disastrous yet hilarious situation for his family. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-cJOn-fh0H4 AWARDS:
#510
Taipei Jesus

Taipei Jesus

2020 • 8 min • United States
👁️ 248
Washed-up writer Roy Frankel sees his dreams dashed when three boneheaded Hollywood execs hijack his biblical adaptation, "The Gospel of Matthew," and turn it into an 'edgier' holy reboot: "Taipei Jesus." AWARDS:
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Space Eye

Space Eye

2023 • 32 min • Croatia
👁️ 248
After four young drug dealers obsessed with space accidentally kill the niece of a dangerous and eccentric mobster, they must decide what to do before he arrives, but little do they know that the real danger lurks in front of their eyes. Original/Alternative Title: Oko Svemira AWARDS:
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The Talk

The Talk

2022 • 10 min • United States
👁️ 248
The Talk explores the relationship between a father and a daughter after the tragic passing of the mother. This short film delves into the reality of dealing with a girl’s journey through her first menstruation and how a single father handles it. The Talk has the intention of opening a dialogue and bridging the gap between the lack of education about female hygiene and breaking the restraints surrounding menstruation. AWARDS:
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the Edge

the Edge

2019 • 15 min • Portugal
👁️ 248
Mary is a humble lady who abdicated her personal life in favor of her brother John who lives in a vegetative state after a childhood accident. Amid difficulties imposed by her brother's condition, she finds herself in a great dilemma: She is sick and she discovers her cancer treatment has not been effective. Alone and helpless, Maria has to decide how to deal with João, unable to live on his own. AWARDS:
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Tick

Tick

2020 • 3 min • United States
👁️ 248
A mercenary is haunted by the trauma of his deeds in a life long past. AWARDS:
#515
Gifts from Babylon

Gifts from Babylon

2018 • 24 min • Gambia
👁️ 248
When Modou, a young African deportee, returns to his home country after five years of living illegally in Europe, he keeps being haunted by the traumatic flashbacks of his journey. AWARDS:
#516
Project Human

Project Human

2020 • 11 min • Canada
👁️ 248
Project Human is a psychological science fiction drama about Ellie, an imprisoned resistance fighter, whose escape attempts are constantly thwarted by the Engineer. When Ellie accidentally uncovers a secret inside her cell, it is revealed that she is not in fact human, but a test subject for the opposition that she is trying to destroy. AWARDS:
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Resolution

Resolution

2023 • 4 min • Taiwan
👁️ 247
The story begins with a small pixel block, and as the camera pulls away, individual pixels gradually form an image. I employ this technique to portray the process of interaction between the id consciousness and the collective consciousness. Through a continuously distancing perspective, all stories are narrated within the limits of the visual field. AWARDS:
#518
Hope for Christmas

Hope for Christmas

2022 • 14 min • Canada
👁️ 247
This holiday drama short is based on a small town's psychologist being brought out of retirement on Christmas Eve, to analyze a new visitor to town, who is accused of killing Santa Claus. The story is set in the 1930s after a stranger causes turmoil to the mundane lives of the townspeople. In their paranoia they tie him up and accuse him of murder, then call in the retired local psychologist to analyze what to do. Once his patients, these townspeople hover over the discussion between the Dr and the Stranger, until the end. The tables are turned and we learn it's the Dr, who is guilty for causing all this darkness, to the townspeople. .. and the stranger becomes the saviour. AWARDS:
#519
Along Came Ruby

Along Came Ruby

2023 • 20 min • United States
👁️ 247
In a post-apocalyptic world, Ruby, a determined young woman, embarks on a treacherous journey west in search of her older brother Henry. Along the way, she encounters an enigmatic old woman who holds secrets of the past. As they both struggle with their own grief and memories, their paths converge, revealing a connection that transcends time and space. Together, they confront the harsh realities of their shattered world. AWARDS:
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Sub Rosa

Sub Rosa

2014 • 22 min • United States
👁️ 247
Sub Rosa is the coming-of-age story of a male teenager who has grown up under the shadow of his authoritative father. Over the course of a single summer, events transpire which transform this boy into an adult who challenges his dad in very unorthodox ways.
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Brearth

Brearth

2022 • 2 min • Spain
👁️ 247
An evolutionary journey through a contaminated human dystopia packed in plastic waste that suffocates you. The future is the present. The earth is dying. The human being decomposes and recycles, perishable material until now... An experimental animated film created with AI-generated visuals that will take your breath away. AWARDS:
#522
Once Upon A Midnight

Once Upon A Midnight

2023 • 29 min • Australia
👁️ 247
Out beyond the dark woods sits a lone house, the home of Nero. He's a violent man, a petty tyrant who rules with abuse and fear. For ten years, Dolly has lived in terror, growing more and more resigned each day. Her reason to cling to life is Angelia. At just ten years old, she's never known anything else. But late one night when a loud knocking at the door wakes them, everything in their lives begins to change . AWARDS:
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B for Art

B for Art

2023 • 3 min • France
👁️ 247
Two women take advantage of the night to break into a museum. Their mission: to find a very special painting. But a lack of knowledge of art movements complicates their nocturnal jaunt. AWARDS:
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We Hunt Giants

We Hunt Giants

2023 • 7 min • Sweden
👁️ 247
In a world where cavemen and dinosaurs share the world, a tribe is plagued by a man-eating giant T-Rex that hunts them all. Rougu, the son of the village chief, has had his woman and the whole village captured by the witch doctors... AWARDS:
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Future Alice

Future Alice

2020 • 3 min • Taiwan
👁️ 247
Alice in Wonderland meets Metropolis! Alice grows up. From the little girl in fairy tale nature wonderland, to the big city girl and womanhood. She's now in the urban wounded-land. Nature is replaced by steel, like the people. Initiation to the adulthood of marriage, love, hate, pain, joy, bitter-sweetness of life. Alice gets ready and meditate to the dance of life. Is she destined to the path, or is she writing her own life script for the future? Placed in a urban landscape, with once the world's tallest building Taipei 101, the fairy tale aspect or illusion of it are questioned, while how the multiple-layers of city are placed within this surreality still remains unanswered, lingering in our mind. AWARDS:
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The soldier and the girl

The soldier and the girl

1970 • 23 min • United States
👁️ 247
The girl - a war crime victim and a teacher is stuck inside an abandoned building with a fatally injured enemy soldier. Both the battered souls want an escape by embracing death. If a gun can decide the result of the war, that gun is in her hands. She needs to choose between vengeance and suicide. If she kills him, she will become like the enemy she hates. The soldier has made the choice. He is on a mission to free himself from his physical, emotional, and moral pain. He makes every effort to make her pull the trigger. The girl needs to decide if humanity will succumb to the insanity of war. But the choice is not entirely hers. She wants freedom from the oppressor as she asserts, "you don't control my life". To which he replies, "don't I?"
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Le Veilleur

Le Veilleur

2020 • 7 min • France
👁️ 247
In a world where women are a scarce commodity, a man, watchman from generation to generation, is responsible for collecting them in order to sell them to the highest bidder. But an event will change the fate of humanity. AWARDS:
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Yellow star

Yellow star

2022 • 17 min • Ukraine
👁️ 247
1941. A small Ukrainian town occupied by German troops, where the Nazis organized the Ghetto. Nearby lives the family of janitor Peter, who works in the Ghetto and has unlimited access there. Peter's son, Mykolka, constantly takes food out of the house, which the family lacks so much. The father beats the son, but it does not affect the boy's actions: he humbly accepts the frequent punishments and is silent about his motivation. A Jewish family Liberblum, who are living in the Ghetto, learns about a Nazi-planned operation to send children from the Ghetto to a concentration camp. Parents are trying to save their son Jacob and daughter Raia from this. However, no one can help them. The only person, their last chance, is the janitor Peter, who can take the children to the dump at night. But the janitor flatly refuses to help the Jews, fearing for his own life and the safety of his family. Peter decides to follow his son, who again brings out the food and makes a shocking discovery: Mykolka throws food over the fence of the ghetto to Raia Liberblum, with whom he is in love from school. The father reconsiders his son's behavior and decides to help the Jewish family, provided that he takes only one child out of the Ghetto. Little Nikolay becomes aware of this. The Liberblum couple face a difficult choice - who to save? Son or daughter? They draw lots. Arriving at night, Peter and Liberblums try to hide Raia in a dumpster, but it drags on. Mykolka follows her father through a hole i