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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

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The Boat

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Angel of Anywhere

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Through the Mirrors

Director: Kathy Kasic

Category: Short

Genres: Experimental, Music Video

Year: 2017

Country: United States

Runtime: 9 minutes 8 seconds

Production Budget: --

“Through the Mirrors” is a poetic film about the fate of love in the
face of time, inspired by the poem “As I Walked Out One Evening”, by WH
Auden. Although it uses no spoken word, the film has three voices: a
narrator-pianist (Julien Brocal), an elderly woman (Susan Heyneman), and
Time. As the woman remembers her love, the pianist performs the tone and
rhythm of her memory in a room filled with mirrors, while projections of
her life play back into the mirrors. The music that the pianist performs
is by Ravel "Miroirs: La Vallée des Cloches” and Mompou “La Fuente y La
Campana”; both compositions relate to the passing of time.

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Retail

Director: Jonathan James

Category: Short

Genres: Drama, Sci Fi

Year: 2018

Country: United Kingdom

Runtime: 15 minutes 15 seconds

Production Budget: 20,000 GBP

The retirement of Abigail’s manager leaves her as the last human
employee in one of the oldest branches in the country. Forresters is the
largest chain of retail stores on the planet and it’s heavy push towards
mechanisation has left most of its human employees hanging by a thread.

Alongside her fellow high tech machine employee ‘Bertie’, Abigail
embarks on attempting to make her role relevant in an industry where
humans are now becoming surplus to requirements whilst fighting to
maintain her own sanity. That said, in a world where everything and
everyone is easily replaced, who at Forresters really is safe?

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This Is Not The Time (Be A Human)

Director: Joeann Calabrese

Category: Short

Genres: Documentary, Experimental

Year: 2016

Country: United States

Runtime: 7 minutes 55 seconds

Production Budget: 2,500 USD

This is a sound and visual experience that captures the energy in
America during the 2016 Presidential election - and correlates this time
to the 1960s civil rights movement. Poez, whom the New York Times called
a “spoken-word pioneer”, calls for us to be humans and exercise our
right to participate in society - to not give up even when we are
feeling beaten. He calls for civil societies to embrace the exchange of
dialogue, demonstrate tolerance for different view points, and support
human and civil rights. Images dance with his words to reflect the
vivacious exchange of viewpoints on the streets in NYC during the 2016
election and the struggle we fought to win as a nation, in the past, to
earn civil rights protection. This piece has won 10 film awards and
screened in 4 countries. It also won the Audience Choice Award from the
2017 New Filmmakers of New York festival.

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L’ultimo ballo – The last dance

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Just Divorced, or how to rob the Maffia

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Houdor Jiyori

Director: Keya Dutta

Category: Short

Genres: Drama

Year: 2017

Country: India

Runtime: 18 minutes 53 seconds

Production Budget: 1,400 USD

Here the protagonist is the victim of her lover who was from the peasant
group and actually taking revenge from her for what her father and
grandfather did to her lover's family. However, she was unaware of his
intentions. He kept stealing her jewelries and she always wondering
where would she might misplaced them. He made her get addicted to use of
opium since taxation on opium cultivation became too huge for the
farmers to pay.