Petri Kankkunen
Finland
2016 / 0:08:04

This is not a movie. This is a cry. How we are, why we act like this. Is there any hope left?

Gui Campos
Brazil
2016 / 0:14:00

At the dawn of existence, a rose blooms with the caresses of the last rays of the sun. Rosinha is a short story about love and sexuality in the old age, and the struggle to overcome social conventions.

Werner Biedermann
Germany
2016 / 0:04:00

The found-footage film „Jamais-vu“ shows archetypical situations which, in this new montage, are perceived as different and strange. This panorama presents a gamut of emotional sensory impressions focussing on cinema as the means of expressing the condition of a culture. All about heart, skin and brains, eyes and genitalia, consciousness and sub-consciousness, in short, all about cinemastory – cinema stories: or, all about life, from birth to death.

Yongliang Chang
China
2016 / 0:24:00

Chang YongLianThe story probes into the life and inner world of a left-behind child in adolescence. Ya Zi was born in a village in Shijiazhuang, Hebei province. His mother left home when he was 11. His father worked in cities as a migrant worker, seldom going back all year round. He and his elderly grandmother hanged on together at home. In the 1990s, the village was frequented by traveling players. He saw the first opera in his life, and was attracted by a female role in the play. Later, he found that the female role was played by a handsome young man. However, he remained experiencing maternal care in the performer. After a rehearsal, the performer agreed to take him to see the outside world. But with the decline of the opera performance, the disappearance of the performance caravan, the silent leave of the performer, and the decease of his grandmother, the boy was caught in the mist of loneliness...

Raymund Ribay Gutierrez
Philipines
2016 / 0:15:00

Under the humid night within a lively slum in the center of Manila, Inday, a 54 year old single parent of a special child goes to her unusual work.

Nancy Allison, Lauro Boato
Italy, USA
2016 / 0:07:00

High up on a ledge of a marble quarry a sculpture waits to emerge from the rough walls that imprison it. Flesh and stone, sculptor and sculpture, dance around the question of who creates whom. UR CF 2017

Will Sankhla
India
2016 / 0:11:00

The Other is an experimental short, looking at the loss of a single woman as a metaphor for the ways in which women in general are erased or lost from society. The first half of the film is narrated from the woman’s point of view, after she has already died; the second half is from a man’s who is still alive and mourning her. I wanted to show in as deeply personal and poetic a way as I could how both men and women—all of us—suffer when the female half of humanity suffers.

Alice Angeletti
Germany
2016 / 0:08:00

The daily light is often too bright and unbearable. But the sun disappears quite quickly. And then a blue darkness caresses your tired eyes., when the restless memory of ancient stones makes the silence sound even louder. Are you sure that you really want to go back?

Jeannette Louie
USA
2016 / 0:08:30

Sometimes the everyday is overshadowed by a feeling of disquiet. Tucked into the synaptic forests of our minds are memories that have never been properly encoded. They lurk in the cognitive purgatory of consciousness and oftentimes, appear alongside ordinary recollections. A Careful Resurrection begins with a typical narration but slowly evolves into a disconcerting monologue.