Oliver Smolders
Belgium, France
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.

Begona Colomar
United States
2015 | 0:20:00

"Contra" - as against - against the elements Xtian struggles with the impossible. Man versus nature. The film presents the universal question that emerges after the loss of a loved one, and its recurrent challenge. Xtian is the one left behind who must reconcile his overwhelming feelings of guilt, impotence and ire with his desire to honor his love's (Clara's) decision to take her own life. This is Xtians biggest predicament and the conflict that will bring him to face an impossible challenge at the end of the film.

Ravi Sankar
India
2015 | 0:13:30

In a quest to find a place of tranquility and peace in a world where every moment is an image, a vacuum biological unknown presence has the body of a Cyberspace addict and the soul of a Buddhist monk. Finally the cyberspace addict melts into an everlasting moment of an image like a sacrifice, the soul still goes to find a place where there is tranquility and peace which is "Utopia".

Kalpana Subramanian
Switzerland
2015 | 00:05:40

The film is a satirical family portrait of sorts explored through image, movement, space and time. Dream-like the film unfolds, revealing fragments of a dark and broken narrative. Set in a tiny cottage that once happened to be a slaughterhouse, the characters pose like masked actors on stage almost performing for the camera. The idea of family takes on a disturbing and eerie tone as the film progresses.

Erin Coates
Australia
2015 | 0:12:45

A ghostly remnant from the activities of an old whaling station is awakened by a young scrimshander. Set in the coastal town of Albany, Cetaphobia is a ghost story which traces the haunting and ultimate misfortune of a married couple troubled by a whale spirit. The obscure and ambiguous spirit is an unsettling remnant of the Port City’s once viable whaling industry. Its presence is awakened after the wife, who is a scrimshander, starts inscribing on the only remaining evidence of its life: a tooth. This action unleashes a dark and cetaceous force which possesses the scrimshander and her husband and draws them back to the site of the Cheynes II, the sunken wreck of the whale chaser, where they are eventually overcome by a disconcerting and unknowable horror.