Toti Loureiro, Ruy Prado
Brazil
2015 | 0:22:00

After Márcio lost his scholarship for the preparatory course, he faces his ast chance to be admitted to Med school. As the qualification exam approaches, de dives into a univers of competition, paranoia, and violence.

Michael MacGarry
South Africa
2015 | 0:12:00

The form of the film is one of a fable, that grafts Thomas Mann’s 1925 novella, Death in Venice, to the contemporary issue of African refugees and immigrants in Italy. The film takes Mann’s book as a nexus point and expands upon a number of themes inherent in it. In Sea of Ash, Mann’s character Tadzio is an immigrant to Italy from West Africa (Senegal) who has survived the treacherous and often fatal journey by sea. While the lead character of the original – von Aschenbach – is embodied in the unseen filmmaker himself. The narrative of the film follows Tadzio on a short journey from the remarkable Brion Cemetery at San Vito in the mountains of Northern Italy to the coastal area of the Venetian lagoon. On Lido Island he visits the famous Hotel dés Bains as featured in Luchino Visconti’s 1971 film version of Death in Venice. The film concludes on the dés Baines beach, with Tadzio embarking on a doomed attempt to return home.

Olga Osorio
Spain
2015 | 0:14:58

Andrea is trapped in a temporal loop. Will she be able to break it?

Oliver Smolders
Belgium
2015 | 0:24:00

Collector of cursed musicians, unreasonable murderers, fairground freaks, paranoid revolutionaries, flatulists and suicidal hermits, a psychiatric patient presents a gallery of the historic figures he is haunted by.

Sam Barnes
Australia
2015 | 0:11:15

Dream Reel is about the impassable yet ambiguous gulf between the world of dreams and the reality experienced in waking life. The short film is an insight into the conscious minds of three ordinary people and their interpretations of the unconscious realms experienced in their dreams. From recurring childhood dreams, nightmares, to dreams that are inherently absurd, Dream Reel explores how dreams can have a hermitically sealed existence of their own, while sometimes they can unearth the deepest parts of the soul.

Tom Bailey
Great Britain
2015 | 0:08:15

A young man has to come to terms with a mysterious epileptic condition that compels him to run at night, experiencing feelings of deep depression and transcendent euphoria. As his everyday life begins to seem fickle in comparison to these profound experiences, a rift is created between him and his family. The film was written, directed and mostly edited in 48 hours as part of sci-fi London's 48 hour film competition.