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London 2020 PROGRAM
09th February | Room 1 Screening Room 1
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10:00 - The Avant-Gardener
17:45 - Be Good
USA Short, Music Duration: 37m Film that follows the colorful life of an artist discovering her voice. As she learns from the mistakes of her parents, she struggles to find the balance between self-expression, commitment to her lovers, and the intense drive to further her creative passion.
Duration: 15m An eight-year-old girl finds herself in danger when her mother returns home late one night with an untrustworthy stranger that she calls “a friend�.
11:00 - Glorious Dead India | USA | France Duration: 90m The movie is much more than a narrative storytelling. It assumes the dimension of a Magnum Opus by the sheer audacity of its drama. The magical element of this movie unbelievably created by filming with not a conventional camera, but the very Ubiquitous iphone, and in this case an iphone 8plus.
18:05 - RUBY BABY Duration: 24m A short story with elements of dark comedy. The lead character Catherine is on a journey to look into her past and make sense of unsolved happenings. She travels back to the bleak, remote countryside where, as a young teenager, she lived for a short time with her mother. She intends to locate the farmhouse where her mother kept house for the young Adam and his drunken, violent father - a site of unexplained tragic events. Today, she is determined to delve into her past
12:35 - Tightrope United Kingdom Duration: 1:13m
12:40 - Seagull United Kingdom Duration: 84m After 8 years survival on a beach, Rose returns to her hometown to settle unfinished business.
14:25 - If We Had Tomorrow Duration: 16m
15:30 - Circus Sam Duration: 31m Short - Drama
16:10 - Buried in Burma Cyprus Duration: 93m In 2012, a video game company and a British farmer join forces on an expedition to recover a cache of Spitfire aircraft reportedly buried in Burma at the end of WWII. The press declares it the search for 'aviation's holy grail' and vows to be there when the planes emerge. If the expedition is successful, it will mean accolades for the company and glory for the farmer, who has spent a quarter of his life chasing the planes. But as the true color of his obsession emerges, it's clear that this will be no simple recovery mission. Instead, the ill-fated journey becomes a farce, in which shovels and spades battle delusion -- and deceit.
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9th February | Room 2 09:50 - The Enemies Duration: 66m August 8, 2008. Georgian troops are in main administrative town of South Ossetia – Tskhinvali. While searching a house, Georgian soldier hears extraneous noise coming from the underground. He sends his friend for help whilst he stays at the entrance to the basement. All of a sudden shell bombing starts and some shells hit the house. In order to escape inevitable death Georgian is forced to open the basement door and jump in thus trapping himself underground. What will happen to him? what is his fate? does he manage to get out?
11:00 - Gunshanzhu Dance
Duration: 5m Short film - Animation
14:00 - Le Champion Duration: 74m Documentary, Biography, Sport Le Champion is a feature documentary about poverty and prejudice, determination and boxing. The story begins and ends in Africa, as Sakio Bika searches for love, acceptance and a championship.
15:30 - We Care
Duration: 18m
Duration: 3m Coca-Cola China's Corporate Video
11:20 - Thank you Learners
15:40 - Pioneers in Skirts
Duration: 3m
11:25 - Their love Duration: 3m
11:30 - Whale Done Duration: 30m
12:10 - The Gift Short, Drama, Family Duration: 10m After an accident at sea a woman loses her child and remains entangled between life and death. From there she sees another mother suffering as a chance to redeem herself and reunite with her child.
12:20 - The Chinese Doctors Duration: 46m
13:10 - Time Tree Duration: 3m Short film
13:20 - Citylife 2 Duration: 7m Citylife 2 a video emphasizing the abstract nature of the geometry so prevalent in the contemporary urban grid. Shooting at night, the splices and overlays of the illuminated train cars, streetlights and window reflections create a vocabulary of images in a video collage that becomes a meditation on modern cities.
13:45 - Stay Duration: 4m China Shortfilm This public welfare video is talking about the passing on love. When you help others, there are many people caring about you in the same time. Through this video, we hope to convey goodness, and let people help each other, and understand each other well.
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Duration: 60m USA Pioneers in Skirts is an entertaining examination of gender parity in the workplace from the perspective of a female filmmaker who was frustrated with her own problems in the film industry. Not finding many answers within her profession, she decides to expand her search to include other industries and society in general. For 4 years, she traveled the U.S. to investigate solutions: speaking to fellow pioneering women and girls and interviewing topic experts. By the end of her journey she finds out how we ALL can address the stereotyping and sexism that can chip away at a woman, hurt her potential, and make her feel like she must re-think her dreams.
9th February | Room 3 9th February | Room 4 Screening Room 3 10:00 - Aspire to the Sky The Wilshire Grand Story Documentary USA Duration: 50m The tallest building on the west coast was recently completed in one of the most seismically active zones in the world.
12:50 - The Instant
Screening Room 4 10:00 - Edda Tudor Duration: 60m Edda's long-lost brother, Daniel, reappears after more than a decade and brings back memories of pain, loss, anxiety and blackmail. The film shows Edda dealing with a sudden loss as well as her trying to figure out what her brother's sudden reappearance is all about.
Turkey Duration: 67m The documentary is based on a photograph of 18 Syriacs taken in İdil, the town of Mardin, in the late 1980s. Today, 9 of them are living in Germany and 7 in Switzerland. In Turkey, there are only two people. In the scope of documentary film, oral history interviews will be made with those photographed who can be reached
14:20 - My Name is Pedro
14:00 - Maestrina da Favela
16:00 - #JUSTLOVE
Duration: 82m Intimately films the coming-of-age of Brazilian percussionist, Elisete “Elem” De Jesus and her mission to liberate children from a life of drugs and violence in her favela community. Filmed in Brazil's capital of African culture, Salvador, Bahia the documentary explores the culture of Afro-Brazilians living in the rocinha favela, located in the Pelourinho historic center, which was once the largest slave market in the New World.
16:15 - Imdaad
15:30 - Year of Innocence Canada Duration: 150m Contemporary tale about the destiny many young women from the Chinese countryside still face today. In a rural village in present-day China, a young married woman (Rain) becomes the victim of scandalous gossip concerning the life she led a few years earlier in a much bigger city where western values are fast replacing traditional culture.
19:35 - ALBUMBLATT Duration: 15m Emma is a young violinist. Her parents divorced when she was a child. Her father, Ed, disappeared afterward. She misses her father very much, and the disappearance of her father remains a mystery. Her mom, Nancy, has remarried and tried to move on ever since. One day, Emma’s violin repairing master, Uncle Joe, gives her a violin and tells her to play it at home. Then, Emma plays it back home. She suddenly has a vision like she is dreaming. She sees a man in a violin workshop, and she recognizes the man as Ed, her father.
USA - Duration: 97m This film explores what public education meant to South Bronx Latino maverick educator, Pedro Santana, and what he, in turn, meant to public education. Infectious in his optimism, Santana becomes one of the most influential public school teachers and then administrators in the New York public school system.
Japan - Duration: 12m Short film Undeniable, fragile, yet strong bond between a single homeless woman and an abandoned gifted boy. Through their peculiar relationship this film looks into what "family" and "love" could mean.
India - Duration: 9m Megha is in desperate situation and looking for some help.
16:30 - A Temperance Tale United Kingdom - Duration: 13m Miss Rebecca McCarter, a Band of Hope teacher in Victorian London, hopes fervently that her Magic Lantern show is a success.
17:45 - Decade of Dominance, The Warriors Duration: 70m "This film tells the incredible story of a school, reservation, small town, multi state, multi nation, Tribal community that makes history on the football field and off.
19:00 - Mimi Meets Books Taiwan - Short film - Duration: 7m Warmly presents how Mimi meets and falls in love with books.
19:10 - Key Word Duration: 19m In a world where freedom is forbidden and no one has the right to speak, a man will try to defeat the gendarme and the vigil to restore freedom in his world. All this will not happen without wounds.
19:35 - Miracle of Life Duration: 15m - Documentary, Short, Biography After being finding out his wife is pregnant with their first born, the husband must face the most difficult decision of his life on whether to abort the child or take a chance on life?
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10th February | Room 1 Screening Room 1 10:00 - Some Sofia Bards and Other Local Birds
17:15 - HISTOIRE DE BAGNARDS
Duration: 60m - Documentary Sofia is a city of many faces; in it so many paths cross, and so many stories and fates. This movie is about the people, who bring life to the city, the bards / singer-songwriters/. It's about their footsteps and their songs, that we sing along not knowing where we've heard them, it's about the melodies that get lost in the clamor and the sound of footfall and the roar of engines. - that make the leaves tremble, almost out of habit.
Duration: 7m - France 4 of September 1889, 2 convicts escape from different prisons, they bump into each other and have no other choice then run away in the same direction, this is their story!
11:00 - Dream Catcher Duration: 5m - USA - Shortfilm
11:10 - A Sidewalk Becomes A Street Duration: 14m - Short, Drama After a fight with his single mother, a Korean American teenager struggles to understand his role in the family as he sets out on the streets of Los Angeles with his little sister.
12:45 - Mussolini's Sister Duration: 70m - Israel - Documentary She has lived a long life and her eventful biography might be shared by at least a few Arab women. Although locked in the walls of her home, she is still trying to control the world using the telephone, the television, monitoring, the binoculars and consecutive servants. Her control also extends to her 55-year old son as the senior lady from Nazareth, who reminisces about her colourful past, has not said the last word yet. In the lens of her own granddaughter, combining documentary observation with fictional performance, she presents her righteous views about everything.
13:55 - A Story of Courage USA - Duration: 6m Ariana Feiner shares her story with her rare metabolic condition, Hypoparathyroidism. She spreads her message of hope through her work with her children’s book for kids with chronic health conditions, Ariana Rose: A Story of Courage. Ariana exemplifies that it is not our obstacles that define us; it's the way we face them.
14:05 - Madagasikara Duration: 84m - Documentary 'Madagasikara' is the story of three resilient women fighting for the survival of their families and the education of their children against the overwhelming forces of domestic political instability, international political hypocrisy and the crushing poverty caused by both.
15:30 - Take Your Dream Duration: 100m A 2400km journey of hope down Australia's longest river. A father and his two sons take a daring adventure down the River Murray to inspire the youth of Australia and bring awareness to the high rate of suicide.
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17:25 - Nagging Duration: 5m - China Grandma is a devout buddhist, chanting Buddhist sutras is her spiritual sustenance, besides, she devotes herself to taking care of her grandson Binbin. As parents work outside the home for a long time without accompanying Binbin, he lacks the care of his parents and his character became distorted and rebellious.
17:35 - Our Home Duration: 27m Toshi-bo and Kumiko Yamamoto own a noodle restaurant famed for its delicious hand-cut noodles and signature soup. Kumiko does most of the work, Toshi-bo does very little. She works from dawn to dusk, while he’s rarely there.
18:10 - M LIKE MOBIUS Duration: 8m Lili is a waitress and obsessed with sound. she can’t stand her loneliness more than before.
18:20 - Unbecoming Duration: 20m - Canada We all try to be something, to become someone. Unbecoming chronicles the life of Logan, as he fights to "unbecome" everything he's been until now, that wasn’t really him in the first place, as we follow his story from early childhood, to a traumatic adolescence, and beyond.
18:45 - WAVE Duration: 65m - Philippines The documentary explores 6 surfing communities around the country in search of insights and solutions. WAVE is the first full-feature documentary made by Filipinos on the Philippines' massive marine plastic waste problem.
19:50 - The Separation Duration: 6m The Separation is a reflection on light, duration and transformation. Filmed in one continuous take at a constant aperture, moonlight on the sea surface is intermittently revealed and obscured by clouds, presenting a reflexive and phenomenological viewing experience.
20:00 - Ferruccio - Story of a Little Robot Duration: 7m - Short, Family, Fantasy Mr. Duccio engages with a technological challenge that might improve his life. While trying to fix his old TV in his home workshop something magical happens: the screen shows a stylised face as if new life inhabits the unit. Duccio and his robotic creation develop a gentle father-son relationship built on trust, care, love and passion for life.
10th February | Room 2 10th February | Room 3 Screening Room 2
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11:00 - Mott Heaven
11:00 - Donde vas tĂš...
Duration: 97m Drama Hal (Robert Davi), a former radio mogul who has fallen on hard times, enlists the aid of a beleaguered businessman (Paul Wilson) to battle a thuggish superintendent (Chuck Zito) and the forces of gentrification in the South Bronx.
Duration: 72m Cuba The "Punto Cubano", one of the most important folkloric manifestations of the Cuban music, is slowly dying out. A young man interested in its fate commences a musical journey which ultimately leads him to the answer how to keep the fading music alive.
12:40 - MANUS Duration: 14m Documentary Short Film
12:15 - Summer Long
Duration: 10m - Short, Drama Korea - Short film
Duration: 8m USA Summer Longing... Do you get a 2nd chance, in life? Dad's secret unfulfilled showbiz passion honored in classic boy meets/loses girl theme, with a twist.
13:05 - 7th Generation
12:25 - Spirits in the Dark
12:55 - The letter
Duration: 45m - USA The documentary covers generations of history, including the perspectives of Jim E Warne (Oglala Lakota) an advocate and educator.
14:00 - Buffalo Hunt Duration: 88m USA - Documentary A portrait of one of the most extreme places in the Western Hemisphere - the Pine Ridge Indian Reservation, South Dakota.
Duration: 70m Hungary After the death of his wife and newborn baby, Gil Spencer finds a mysterious video on his computer that leads him to an abandoned town occupied by an ominous entity.
15:30 - Agoria - Call of the Wild
17:00 - Return to Me
Duration: 6m France Throughout a cinematic video, director LoĂŻc ANDRIEU introduces a new female hero high-concept. It features Jane, an enigmatic L.A.P.D officer, forced to face her Orphic power to dive into death.
Duration: 12m USA - Shortfilm
15:40 - Rainbow's Sunset
Duration: 115m Sri Lanka
Duration: 112m Drama, Family It tells the story of an old man who comes out as gay to his children in his senior years, to take care of his ailing lover.
19:15 - Silicon Caesar
18:05 - Her Story
17:15 - Ayu
Duration: 15m USA - Short Film The founder and CEO of an artificial intelligence company is usurped by his co-founders the night before a new product release.
Duration: 140m Drama This film was born due to death . The Film proves itself that cancer is not just a disease of the living, it is present in our thoughts, our actions, our society. Based on a true story of recent times, this is a film of love, passion and war.
19:30 - Running Free Duration: 9m Documentary "When I'm running, I forget everything. The past...My life...You become free."
19:40 - Crime Confidential Duration: 20m Short, Action, Crime A detective's true decision-making is tested when the ones dear to him are victimised by a traitor of his own department.
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10th February | Room 4 11th February | Room 1 10th - Screening Room 4 11:00 - On the top tyrryry
12:00 - The Creatress
Duration: 60m Poland No mercy! Boys hate it. In their own words, “Na Górze” (“On the top”) is a “semi-normal” band because the public considers half of the line-up to be disabled. Some of them live at a residential home. That is no obstacle to playing the biggest rock festival in this part of Europe.
Duration: 108m Drama Young, bestselling author Eryn Bellow concludes her bookstore tour with her agent selling film rights and closing a six figure advance for her follow-up. Headwinds arise as critics get offended by the claims that Eryn is being declared a living literary legend. The storm gathers force as the assaults gravitate from bad reviews to a fake-memoir designed to obliterate her from the field. Through the noise, Eryn attempts to write her way out of the public fray, and reclaim her voice in the minds of her readers. Along the way, she hopes to prove a happy ending is not always a bad thing.
12:15 - The 5 Tree Dances Duration: 12m Canada This film is a Contemporary version of and Tribute to Silent films.
12:30 - Horatio Duration: 86m Brasil - Drama Horatio" tells the story of a dysfunctional family, in which social norms no longer exist, and where relationships are submitted to each one's impulses.
15:30 - A Mother's Love Duration: 102m A Christian family movie that examines the subject of how to raise children. "Knowledge can change your fate" and "The son becomes a dragon, the daughter becomes a phoenix" are the hopes that nearly all parents have for their children.
17:15 - Kingdom Anthem: The Kingdom Descends Upon the World Duration: 17m The stirring kingdom anthem has rung out, announcing God's arrival among man to the whole universe! The kingdom of God has come! All people cheer, all things rejoice! Everything throughout the heavens brims with merriment. What captivating scenes of jubilation are these?
19:10 - Genericamente Duration: 19m Italy Paolo, that dreams of being an actor, but with very poor results, is more used to appear in marginal roles. Paolo will tell us which are the enormous sacrifices, renunciations, senses of responsibility, injustices that torment the show business.
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14:20 - Is this Love? Duration: 4m Official Music Video
14:40 - Duality Dream Duration: 6m Switzerland Short film- Experimental In a dream scape, a masquerade is about to begin with a battle of wits and charms. The two lady rivals shares a common desire and are prepared to challenge each other over a game of chess. The question is, which of the two will take the other’s prize of the night?
18:50 - The wall between us Duration: 110m Germany 1986. At a youth meeting between East and West ANNA (17) meets PHILLIP. It is “love at first sight”. But the love is overshadowed by a bitter reality: will they be able to carry on a relationship from opposite sides of the wall?
11th February | Room 2 11th February | Room 3 Screening Room 2
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11:00 - Benigni exaggerated
11:00 - On the blue canvas
Duration: 30m UK Two young men rotting in drugs and inactivity, two worried men trying to achieve compromise with a stubborn cult figure old woman, a terrified mother and two twisted baboons conclude the cores that unwillingly, yet harmonically, constitute an everyday comedic struggle.
Duration: 58m A look at what makes young people join the services, their experience while they're in, and the way they deal with the aftermath. Interviews with soldiers from India, England and America and Israel
Duration: 76m India Godot, A gifted artist lives a life of seclusion, shutting himself from the outside world, he lives a life in his paintings trying to recreate his past. His routine is shattered, when one day he is approached mysteriously by a beautiful stranger. She commissions Godot to make a portrait of her but asks him to make it from the memory he has from their meeting. Left with no choice he accepts the assignment. In the process of painting her, Godot's imagination reaches deep into his subconscious and force him to confront a problem that he had locked away forever. What past is Godot holding back and who is this mysterious stranger is the story of ‘On the Blue Canvas’.
12:40 - ... And the Rest is History
12:20 - Rocket Boy
11:35 - Why We Love War
Duration: 90m Comedy, Crime, Drama Two shady guys in dark suits. A mysterious girl out of nowhere. A gloomy figure in a parking garage. All of them looking for the same thing: A black folder from New York. And all of them seem to think that it is Tim who can lead them to it and help them understand its contents.
14:10 - Bhoy Intsik Duration: 107m Philippines TWO SMALL-TIME FELONS’ paths crossed, starting a petty mutual disdain for a competitor in their illegal business.
Duration: 6m UK As we reach the 50th anniversary of the first people travelling to the moon, ‘Rocket Boy’ is the account of a man who witnessed, first hand, the launch of that rocket. As he recalls the awe inspiring event, the story is told through the eyes of a young boy, who’s power of imagination makes the impossible become real.
12:50 - The Traveller Duration: 9m An American neighborhood becomes suspicious of a Muslim man who moves in and starts behaving strangely.
13:05 - Ocean Quest XPRIZE Competition Documentary Duration: 50m Follow the incredible journey of the underdog team of Junior High and High School students advancing to the semi finals of the international Shell Ocean Discovery XPRIZE competition to map the ocean sea floor and finally winning the $1 Million XPRIZE NOAA competition.
15:30 - Scent Of My Daughter Duration: 105m Beatrice's life change dramatically during the terrorist attack in Nice July 2016 where she loses her parents, her husband and three year old daughter, who came to admire the fireworks on the famous Promenade des Anglais.
18:00 - THE CONDOR & THE EAGLE Duration: 80m Germany The Condor & The Eagle documentary offers a glimpse into a developing spiritual renaissance as the film four protagonists learn from each other’s long legacy of resistance to colonialism and its extractive economy.
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11th February | Room 4 12th February | Room 1 11th - Screening Room 4 11:00 - One Little Finger Duration: 106m Raina, an American neurologist, uproots her life to research music therapy in India, and finds herself teaching children and adults with disabilities. By bringing them together through music and inspiring them to challenge themselves through their abilities, their lives are transformed. Den and Angel, though they are disabled, want to contribute towards the betterment of society by overcoming their physical challenges.
12:50 - Eight Duration: 10m - USA Eight visceral minutes inside the head of a woman who has every reason to give up hope. We follow Sara, from the young age of Eight. Her life as a child is traumatic and unstable. Eight years later, she is older and in high school. Her life isn't any easier... where yet again, another trauma is imposed on her. Eight years later... Sara is a woman that is fighting to figure out where her place is in life after failed relationships and still dealing with the previous traumas she's dealt with. Her hope is gone... what does the next eight years hold for her? Should she just give up?
13:05 - Mad About The Boy Duration: 9m - UK British born Pakistani singer and songwriter duo, Sidique and Kamaal are in love. They secretly elope and have a gay marriage in Leicester. When Kamaal marries Rukhsana in Pakistan to maintain his heterosexual facade, Sidique is angry and lost. His marriage to Kamaal is completely disregarded in a country where homosexuality is illegal. When Kamaal's career propels him to stardom, Sidique and Rukhsana find solace in each other. The more Sidique tries to distance himself from Kamaal, the more Kamaal yearns for Sidique's touch and songs, and the closer the innocent Rukhsana is getting to Sidique. Will Rukhsana and Sidique break free from Kamaal, a boy they are both madly in love with.
13:20 - Wait For Me Duration: 32m - Singapore A young moderate deafness girl's journey to find love to fill the void in her life.
15:30 - A Dark Foe Duration: 115m - USA The movie layers itself in the guilt-ridden mind of a former FBI agent, who, stranded in the painful memory of the abduction of his sister, suffers from nyctophobia: an irrational fear of the dark, and will have to face-off with the cunning serial killer who took her away.
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12th - Screening Room 1 12:40 - Crossroad Duration: 78m
14:00 - Tennis Dad Duration: 90m Drama
15:30 - The Way Forward Duration: 88m Drama A Russian psychologist invites seven strangers to his dining room and challenges them to forgive their fathers.
17:25 - Wee King of Nowhere Duration: 22m Short, Drama, Fantasy Taken under the wing of a vagrant poet, a runaway boy comes to terms with his abusive past and finds the road back to trust and love.
18:00 - Our Scripted Life Duration: 88m A daytime television actor hatches a plan to produce a film starring him and his co-star, hoping it will make her fall in love with him.
12th February | Room 2 & 3 12th February | Room 4 Screening Room 2 10:00 - Extraordinary Youth Duration: 120m
12:05 - Djibril Duration: 23m - Short, Drama Young movie lovers find an easy and extraordinary way to make film...
Screening Room 4 11:00 - There is No Excuse For Sin Duration: 65m
12:35 - Nemo Propheta Duration: 8m Marco, a young director, decides to leave Italy to find work abroad.
13:30 - Zheng's Summer Holiday
12:45 - We Meet on the Roof
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14:00 - Escapes
13:10 - Mysterious Light in Life
Duration: 84m - Adventure , Comedy , Drama After China's father death, China gets involved in a trip which will help her to find the human being's essence. A travel in which she will discover that running away is not the way.in present-day China, a young married woman (Rain) becomes the victim of scandalous gossip concerning the life she led a few years earlier in a much bigger city where western values are fast replacing traditional culture.
Duration: 42m Chris a prototype of many youngsters today is full of fun. His life in search of happiness and peace of mind gears around joining in late night parties with booze and drugs, gambling, joy riding, etc.
15:40 - Ragpicker Girls Duration: 18m UK - Short film
15:30 - Adventure Harbor Duration: 85m When two tween boys Nate and Tyler are pushed together by their parents developing relationship, they struggle to find anything in common as they are forced into a blended family.
16:15 - Maternity For Sale
17:25 - Underdog
16:30 - The Stars My Destination
Duration: 20m When two tween boys Nate and Tyler are pushed together by their parents developing relationship, they struggle to find anything in common as they are forced into a blended family.
Screening Room 3 10:00 - Fragrance Duration: 100m
11:45 - Fish Water Affection Duration: 96m
Duration: 15m Short, Drama, Italy Monica, university student, decides to sell positive pregnancy tests online to pay for her studies
Duration: 135m Action, Drama, Romance, Sci-Fi, War. A retired Russian soldier Eiji Onodera (Keishi Suenaga) was going to his hometown in Japan. But on his way, he was caught and given a new mission by his ex-colleague Vadim Dadikov (Gohnosuke Tokuda). Onodera and his father would never be free unless he completes the secret mission. He and the Sergeant Zinaida Zasyekina (Satoko Enmei) go to Hokkaido to monitor an ex-officer of Self Defence Force of Japan, Toshio Honda (Taiyo Sawa). Honda has killed 27 people including his colleagues, and is hiding in a mountain with a mysterious beauty, Risa (Riho Yoshioka)...
13:20 - Spirit of Redemption Duration: 61m
14:25 - F Dream Duration: 5m
14:35 - Escort Vehicle Duration: 85m
16:00 - When I Grow Up Duration: 12m
16:20 - Kim
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11:00 - Dress Rehearsal
Duration: 67m France A tale about the new worldwide trend that embraces the concept of Slow-Life: taking a step back from today’s chaotic, hectic life to embrace an everyday simpler life, enjoying every step of it with all our senses…Globe-trotting through the years, discovering the world, family and friendship through music, WITH is a poetic and musical film counting a search of peace, togetherness, simple joy and present…10 years of travel footage and un-released original soundtrack...
Duration: 21m Short, Drama A struggling method actor takes his research too far.
12:15 - Jesus Rides A Harley Duration: 30m Short, Comedy A lonely widow convinces herself that a biker is Jesus and her east L.A neighborhood soon does too.
12:50- Amorphosis Duration: 22m One girl's shortcut. One guy's repressed anger. One cat's black hunger. Blood moon. The Beast Is Rising.
13:40 - Dream Manipulator Duration: 93m Japan Detective Mamiya Mugen can see through your heart and show you dreams as he likes. One late summer, Mugen meets Nayuko Mishima, a girl who was found in a wooden box for some reason. he finds out she’s been caught up into believing she’s a doll.
15:20 - The Promise Under the Cherry Tree Duration: 20m Japan
16:40 - Being Dead Duration: 100m Joseph and Celice were once in love. As two scientists, they shared a magical passion that brought them together over thirty years ago when Joseph discovered a rare population on the isolated shores of Baritone Bay.
18:25 - Eerie Fairy Tales Duration: 90m Estonia An anthology of bizarre, fantastic and spooky tales from the past, present and future, dealing with curses, witches, perfect crime and unsolved mysteries.
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11:25 - Lover Comrade Duration: 95m Lover Comrade Drama - Suspense
13:30 - The Whilshire Grand: Tech Talk Duration: 15m Documentary The tallest building on the west coast was recently completed in one of the most seismically active zones in the world, The Wilshire Grand Center: Tech Talk.
13:50 - Sun Shine Moon Duration: 96m The Chinese Sun (Ding Ding) and the Korean Moon (Jinseung Moon) meet at a language course in Heidelberg. As Moon remains without a room Sun helps him. They accept the proposal of a sinister pub owner, who offers them a place to stay. In return they have to deliver mysterious boxes. Their courier service leads them through the narrow alleys of the romantic city center, as well as through a dreamlike, summery landscape. The magic of this place increasingly captivates the two protagonists and finally blurs the line between reality and fantasy.
15:30 - Light wraps me Duration: 72m Men are gregarious animal. They have a different passion to live and absorb life. Also, the film represent journey and characters of 3 women. In search of love, life and existence. Its how woman feel the freedom and independence of hers. Story of love, lust and madness.
17:00 - Boys vs. Girls Duration: 80m Boys in July. Girls in August. And never the two shall meet. But in 1990, when summer camps around the country were being shut down in record numbers, Camp Kindlewood made the bold yet economically necessary move to turn “co-ed”. Needless to say, the change did not go over well amongst the counsellors, and quickly erupted into a full on battle of the sexes. The camp was soon in ruins with morale at an all-time low. Can the boys and girls join forces in time to clean up the camp and save it from closing?
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10:00 - Fish For the Hostage
11:00 - April Fools
Duration: 90m - Comedy, Crime, Drama The sensitive Piet only wants to help his brother Herm with a small break-in, but as Herm takes a hostage, Piet finds himself involved in a kidnapping that Herm mercilessly dominates. Piet has to play along the perfidious plan, if he does not want to endanger the hostage's life.
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11:30 - An Expat's Tale Duration: 98m - Comedy, Drama This movie tells the story of Roshi, the small boy who during communism, while playing, his kite got stuck on a tree inside the foreign Embassy and he could never recover it.
13:10 - Chatroom Duration: 20m
14:00 - The Other Side of the Lake Duration: 90m - Drama - UK Two centuries ago, in dangerous times, a prudent young smuggler is deeply in love with a wild yet mindful woman who lives alone in her dead father's house. He battles against ill health and she struggles with all the uncertainties. They swear they will never be parted. The present day and a 15 year old boy arrives with his parents at the house, now a renovated holiday let, for a much needed break but for the boy his love of history and rampant imagination leads him into a bewildering and painful journey to re-unite the lovers from the past. The 18th and 21st centuries intermittently collide in this intriguing ghostly story of enduring love and adolescent angst and where one idiosyncratic man only knows what is actually real.
15:30 - Taxing Love Duration: 101m A heart-warming, romantic comedy is TVN’s original idea and production. It is a story about love which can reach us anywhere, even ‌ in the tax office.
12:45 - Zero Duration: 62m
14:00 - Oxford Through the Lens Duration: 2m Documentary, Short Venice is for gondolas, New York for taxis, Oxford for bicycles - and pedestrians. Oxford is one of the great universities of the world. It has been in existence for the better part of 800 years. So many images, so many perspectives, captured here, in lucid photographic language.
15:30 - I, Father Duration: 91m Drama A young man confronts his uncle when he discovers an affair with his mother.
17:10 - She is Mine Duration: 14m Jess is a newly Film school grad as an actor tries to make a living in Los Angeles. While she is doing her film jobs she is also working at a bar. However, she is a very clumsy person that causes her to get fired all the time from all of her jobs.
17:35 - Love in Kilnerry Duration: 110m Comedy - USA The elderly resident of a small remote town panic after the EPA announces that government mandated changes to their chemical plant could create a bi-product that would dramatically increase their sexual libido. The sheriff struggles to maintain order and decency as mayhem ensues.
17:30 - The Tale of a Corporate Slave Duration: 100m - Drama - USA A people pleaser, with doormat tendencies, struggles to be healthier after learning she has diabetes. Her television and the donuts at work try to deter her, but a spiritually enlightened homeless woman helps her find her way.
19:15 - Take Me In Your Arms Duration: 5m Tale about the spaces between our togetherness. It narrates a relationship gone sour through its most beautiful and fantasy-like memories, at times bordering between the real and the surreal, and immersing the viewer in an enchanting world of romance and heightened emotions. Ice feels warmer than your heart. Fire feels colder than your touches. The film opens with these two lines, and from there it takes us on a journey of ethereal melancholy and reminiscence of days long gone but never forgotten.
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14th February | Room 1 14th February | Room 2 Screening Room 1 10:00 - Making it Against All Odds Duration: 23m In this animated documentary, Tracey Mills who was abandoned by his mother and abused by his father as a child, shares his story of success and reveals how he made it against all odds. Starting under the wings of Christian Audiger on his rise with Von Dutch and Ed Hardy, Tracey then became the creative consultant to Kanye West's Yeezy collections which then led him to launch his own brand Visitor on Earth.
11:30 - Effigy - Poison & the City Duration: 85m 1828 in the German port city of Bremen: Two very different women collide in an age that has no place for either of them. One strives for a career in law, at a time when women aren't even admitted to universities. The other has lived life outside the law and may now have to pay the tab. One of them needs to get her head together – while the other would do anything not to lose hers.
13:00 - The Tell-Tale Heart -a musicabre Duration: 38m - USA A musical adaptation of the Edgar Allan Poe's gothic horror story. A man is so disturbed by an old man's "vulture eye" he resolves to murder and dismember him. But the murderer is driven to madness and confession by the incessant beating of victim's heart under the floor boards.
14:20 - Inside I'm Racing Duration: 20m - Short, Action A young autistic boy fascinated with Motorsport unexpectedly finds a chance to put his passion to the test.
14:40 - A Story Duration: 20m - Short, Drama A Story is a tribute to the classic film-noir that not only encompasses its distinct elements, but also touched on topics like feminism, immigration, and etc.
15:00 - Benigni Exaggerated Duration: 28m - UK Two young men rotting in drugs and inactivity, two worried men trying to achieve compromise with a stubborn cult figure old woman, a terrified mother and two twisted baboons conclude the cores that unwillingly, yet harmonically, constitute an everyday comedic struggle.
15:30 - Their Lucky Stars Duration: 110m Story of love that was born under unexpected circumstances.
17:30 - Refutation Duration: 9m - China A successful programmer, struggling with her homicidal thought for her business partner/lover. Will she be able to make the right decision, and refute the idea of simple revenge?
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Screening Room 1 17:45 - Breast Ironing Duration: 44m Journalist Anna Kalczyńska visited Cameroon, where a gloomy tradition of burning young girls’ breasts is still cultivated.
18:30 - Kinosaki Days USA - Duration: 47m Artist Tomori Nagamoto migrated from his native Japan to Canada, where he started as a street artist and eventually became a big presence on the Canadian art scene.
Screening Room 2 10:00 - Blue Pig Duration: 20m - Short, Drama, Fantasy After a group of scientists' technological innovation, a new born pig's highest aspiration and sole value in life becomes being consumed and enjoyed by humans. In this story, a family takes a genetically altered pig home and prepares to slaughter it.
10:40 - Dying in the Dream Duration: 19m
11:00 - Mama Bear Duration: 15m - Short, Action When an accident leaves her dying son with 24 hours to get a new liver, a seemingly average soccer mom must reveal her hidden past and hunt down the only matching donor - her ex husband - the world's worst criminal.
11:20 - I Wrote This For You Duration: 95m - USA The edges of reality are blurred when a young man struggles to overcome a broken relationship.
13:05 - Milestone Duration: 14m - Short, Drama Aviv is an aggressive boy from a normal family. During another family trip - in one moment of sibling violence Aviv first understands the consequences of his violence. The film was shot in the actual places the real events took place.
13:20 - A Dancer's Journey Through the Holy Land Duration: 27m - Documentary Innovative camerawork and editing give us a bird's eye view of the creation of an original dance piece based on the choreographer's experiences in Israel.
14:00 - Dichotomy Brewing: A Keith R Booker Storyof Life Duration: 20m - When a young man witnesses race riots during the longest lasting Martial Law in USA history, he turns to the NAACP to create lasting change in Delaware. His fight against racism led him to serve as President of the NAACP for 10 years and Civil Rights Leader for over 30 years.
14th February | Room 2 14th February | Room 3 Screening Room 2 14:20 - The last big save Duration: 75m - Drama A professional hockey player who is only happy when he is miserable signs a long-term contract that covers his entire career only to ruin it in his first year due to substance abuse and alcoholism. He rides his good luck in the final month of the final year of his contract when he gets a last chance at redemption in the seventh game of the finals.
15:40 - S is for Summer, K was for Fall Duration: 80m Susumu has moved up to Tokyo from Osaka. He went to an interview at music production company over the summer.
17:15 - Aaedon Duration: 70m It is the story of the spiritual life of the mother and daughter. The mother teaches the deep meaning of the true life. It's not the material things which is important in life, it is the emotional well being of life, which keeps life going through the journey of life.
18:30 - Dream Arabesque Duration: 5m USA
18:40 - Chestnuts Duration: 13m Coming of age comedy-drama about two young band members who begin to drift apart. Chloe is lead singer and her best friend, Chestnut, is the drummer. Chestnut's parents are wary of Chloe and protective of their only child as Chestnut was born with a large chestnut shell for a head. Chestnut's parents know this makes their child slightly stick out from the rest. It doesn't faze Chloe in the slightest until an unfortunate slip after a gig has a profound impact on their friendship.
Screening Room 3 10:00 - Night Immersions Duration: 62m Brazil
12:0 - Rockumentary: Evolution of Indian Rock Duration: 90m - India This documentary feature film chases the roots of western music in India starting from the 1930s and its transition through the decades till 2018 (present times) when rock music has flourished in the country! One feature documentary film presenting to all Rockumentary- Evolution of Indian Rock.
14:00 - Anna Nicole Duration: 88m Inspired by a true story about a young girl's tragic life. She was a simple girl caught in a not so friendly world and lost hostile legal system.
15:40 - Theatre Lovers Duration: 10m - Short, Drama Two theater lovers have an awkward exchange in a Berlin cafe.
17:00 - Kanemasa Duration: 120m Japan
19:10 - Emerald Run Duration: 90m - Adventure A Desperate man gets involved in a risky plan to smuggle emeralds across the Mexican border in order to save his daughter's life. When the deal goes awry and he is left for dead, his survival becomes a search for meaning and enlightenment in a brutally harsh desert landscape.
19:00 - Sad Ballad of the Clash Duration: 20m A man and a young girl argue bitterly. This dispute will stir up a tortuous past that apparently separates them, but in fact keeps them together.
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14th February | Room 4 10:00 - Terrolun and Lunlun Duration: 50m Drama - Japan
11:00 - Perfect Present Duration: 74m - Black comedy Netherlands A "behind closed doors" relationship comedy about an awkward reunion dinner between three flawed brothers who all have a hidden agenda. The evening descends into chaos when the woman they all love announces her pregnancy without revealing the father’s identity.
12:20 - Sunflower Duration: 10m When a beautiful memory turns into a haunting nightmare, a solitary old man must face his past and finally finish what he started a lifetime ago.
12:35 - The Peasant of the Danube Duration: 40m Revolt. Adaptation of the Peasant of the Danube by Jean de La Fontaine. The peasant oppressed by the antique Rome fights for his rights.
13:15 - Ghost Town Duration: 15m A Featured Short Film By Christopher Halligan.
13:30 - Doppelganger Duration: 30m
14:00 - A Mountain & Road Duration: 25m
14:45 - Danny & May Duration: 25m Short, Drama When Danny is given an uncertain diagnosis, May is forced to consider life without him.
15:15 - Hollow Pond Duration: 15m Experimental short film from director Rolfin Nyhus and writer Adam Anson. It follows a young Masai boy who gets separated from his family and must find his way back to them whilst running from a mysterious and terrifying force.
15:30 - Tokyo Offerings Flower Duration: 83m Japan
17:25 - A Dream Before Dying Duration: 90m Drama Alan and his family deal with the horrors of war and the events in their lives that lead Alan to become one of the most fearless and respected bomb disposal technicians for the forces allied against ISIS in Northern Iraq.
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19:00 - Pins Duration: 10m Short, Comedy, Horror A single mother's search for Mr Right is hindered by her sweet, evil daughter
19:10 - Golden Years of Moscow Duration: 3m Documentary, Biography, Sport The greatness of the summertime capital. All colors of Russian capital in one video from above.
19:15 - Making A deal with the devil Duration: 75m Drama - USA A fascinating and dramatic tale of a behind the scenes plot developed by the FBI as they work secretly with the mob to eradicate corruption and crime in USA.
Festival Events Saturday February 8th 19:30 - Meet and Greet at the Hotel Bar from 8:30pm A chance to meet filmmakers.
Tuesday February 11th
Networking at the Hotel Bar from 8:30pm
A friendly environment where filmmakers can discuss future projects and share opinions on previous screenings.
Wednesday February 12th
Distribution Workshop from 8:00pm
A Q&A style discussion with Ray Davies about distribution paths and requirements.
Thursday February 13th
Professional Panel Q&A from 8:00pm Screening Room 1 Followed by Networking at the Hotel Bar
Saturday February 15th Red Carpet Awards Evening Welcome Drinks begin at 5:00pm Ceremony begins at 6:00pm Dress code is smart (no jeans or trainers)
*Please note, times may vary. Refer to daily schedules for confirmation.