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PRECIOUS

Precious

Director: Irfan Avdic

Category: Short

Genres: Drama

Year:  2018

Country: Bosnia and Herzegovina

Runtime: 15 minutes

Production Budget: 4,000 USD

Upon learning that a planned school trip was postponed due to financial constraints, high-school student Alem – an orphan who lives with his grandmother – decides to take matters into his own hands and secure the money for the trip in whatever way possible. Alem’s manliness and credibility are put to test when his criminal role model Paze suggests robbing a supermarket.

 

 

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In Principio

In Principio

Director: Daniele Nicolosi

Category: Short

Genres: Drama, Sci-fi

Year:  2018

Country: Italy

Runtime: 19 minutes 51 seconds

Production Budget: --

In the wake of a global disaster in the near future, a man wandering a sick and inhospitable land in search of his family arrives in a small town in northern Italy, where he meets a mysterious old survivor with whom he begins a dialogue that leads to a disconcerting awakening.

 

 

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the boat

The Boat

Director: Valerii Gaken

Category: Short

Genres: Drama

Year:  2017

Country: Russian Federation

Runtime: 15 minutes

Production Budget: 3,000 EUR

Global flood is coming but Lioscia knows how to savehimself: he has a boat. Unfortunately a hunter want toappropriate it. In the movie curious people Will appearhaving different reactions looking at him sitting in theboat waiting for the global flood.

 

 

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VINILICI

Vinilici

Director: Fulvio Iannucci

Category: Feature

Genres: Documentary

Year:  2018

Country: Italy

Runtime: 1 hour 10 minutes

Production Budget: --

Exactly seventy years after the birth of the vinyl record, "Vinilici - perché il vinile ama la musica" is the first completely Italian film dedicated to this wonderful support. The docufilm starts from Naples, the original capital of music and disc in Italy, and it is no coincidence: the Phono type Record, founded in Naples at the beginning of the '900 is among the first record companies in the world to have an independent factory for the manufacture of disks.

 

 

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Alganesh

Alganesh

Director: Lia Beltrami, Marianna Beltrami

Category: Feature

Genres: Documentary

Year:  2018

Country: Italy

Runtime: 1 hour

Production Budget: --

'I didn't believe it until I saw it'. A sign on a wall says this, as a hundred Eritrean refugees arrive in Endabaguna collection centre in the Tigray region in Ethiopia, after traveling in an airless truck for four days. Why do people run away? What happens before the infamous images we are shown in the West of refugees crossing the sea? An intense journey through four refugee camps for Eritreans in Ethiopia, amongst unaccompanied children, persecuted Kunamas, people who have been there for as long as 17 years.
This journey will follow Dr Alganesh Fessah's work, and her commitment in securing refugee's rights and liberating kidnapped and tortured prisoners in the Sinai desert.
Three protagonists: refugees; Ethiopia, a welcoming land; and Alganesh who, among despair, will tell us her hopes on the horizon.

 

 

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The Spark - La scintilla

The Spark “La scintilla”

Director: Giuseppe Zampella

Category: Short

Genres: Drama

Year:  2017

Country: Italy

Runtime: 20 minutes

Production Budget: 10,000 EUR

1918. During the First World War, Antonio, a young italian aviator, gets
caught across Innsbruck highlands and locked in a prison camp, at
Sigmundsherberg (Austria).
Eight years after the war ends, Francesco, a doctor and ex-prisoner at
the same camp, goes and visits Antonio, who lives isolated on a
mountain.
Francesco wants to republish The Spark, an old paper written by
Sigmundsherberg prisoners, in order to demonstrate to Italian People,
what really happened in that prison.
Antonio can't trust anybody anymore and Francesco is hiding something.

 

 

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EOS

EOS

Director: Bruce Muller

Category: Short

Genres: Documentary

Year:  2018

Country: United States

Runtime: 25 minutes

Production Budget: 60,000 USD

In a colossal city of a fragmented and chaotic resonance, a woman
awakens from a prolonged stasis that has rendered her true nature
unknown, and in parallel, incites an equivocal force setting her on a
journey into the realms of Earth and self.

 

 

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Foggy Days

Foggy Days

Director: Martin Sandin

Category: Short

Genres: Drama, Narrative

Year:  2018

Country: Sweden

Runtime: 17 minutes 20 seconds

Production Budget: 30,000 USD

Stockholm 2018. In a time where social media gives us performance
anxiety and confirmation is becoming increasingly important, Clara meets
Peter. Clara wants the world. Peter wants nothing but to be loved.

The usually confident Peter quickly becomes inferior to the charismatic
Clara, leaving him with only one last option: to confront her with his
true feelings. Together they are drawn into a world where love is a
currency to feed their own ego. Their relationship is a battle without a
winner.

Foggy Days is a modern love story that questions how we live today and
what happens when we only focus on ourselves and ignore everybody else.

 

 

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Calamity

Calamity

Director: Séverine De Streyker, Maxime Feyers

Category: Short

Genres: Drama

Year:  2017

Country: Belgium

Runtime: 20 minutes

Production Budget: 50,000 USD

France meets her son's girlfriend for the first time. She loses
control...

 

 

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ALLAFINFINFIRIFINFINFINE

ALLAFIN FIN FIRIFIN FIN FINE

Director: Francesco D'Ascenzo

Category: Short

Genres: Documentary

Year:  2018

Country: Italy

Runtime: 9 minutes

Production Budget: --

An unpublished work by Paolo Villaggio that talks of himself. He shows
himself very clearly in his old age with the awareness of the embittered
man, tormented by the fear of dying; no longer popular, he tells the
others: "You do not know who I was".