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OFFICIAL SELECTIONS
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The Intruders
(An homage to Twilight Zone's "Invaders") A widow (Gigi Bannister) alone in her remote mountain cabin is invaded by Intruders from another planet. Having defeated them, she awakens to discover she is still not alone and must ask the question, "Who is the Intruder and who is the voyeur?" Reggie Bannister (Phantasm I-V) is narrator ala Rod Serling. Directed and produced by Gigi Bannister (Bloody Bloody Bible Camp). |
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Giulia's Place
Marco, a thirty-year-old writer, has moved to the suburbs in search of inspiration and his fate will meet only in an apparent accidental way the one of the mysterious ceramist Giulia, feeling duty bound to defend her from the psychological persecutions and the verbal abuse of her stalker. WATCH NOW https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IRtVl3R8Wgk |
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We'll see if we drown
Mickey, Voltaire, and K.O are twenty-five. Mickey works at the butcher's shop. Voltaire's a con man in training. K.O fancies himself a boxer. All three have decided to stop eating pasta and skip town. But that's where things get complicated: when you want something, you got to go get it. |
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Magical Mystery Cure
Two teen brothers on a road trip to find happily-ever-after. When the younger brother is diagnosed with Stage IV cancer, instead of going into chemo and radiation treatment, the boys take off in search of a magical mystery cure they find online. |
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A Few Rubber Bands More
Trouble ensues when these lonely travelers realize their unlikely connection in this quirky tale from the Wild West. |
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Fade
FADE is a seventeen-minute short narrative film follows Matthew who is struggling with Alzheimer's. One day in winter, Matthew gets lost on his way to visit his wife’s grave. Jake, Matthew's son, finds him by the riverside and accompanies him to the cemetery. At the end of this little journey, Matthew goes back to his memories and remembers his most magical moments of his childhood. Facing the inevitable end of the disease, the film explores a man’s mental state. |
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Gemini
Two sisters are thrown into making an impossible moral decision, a decision that affects the future of the entire human race. |
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15 AUGUST
"15 AUGUST"(Independence Day) is the painful journey of faceless people. 15 August is the real story of a child and his mother. This short film is based on the struggle of a school boy for his uniform. one helpless mother surrender her soul and body for fulfill the desire of her child. 15 August by all means a journey of searching an answer of answerless question. |
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Vardøger
While several murders bloodying the city, a German photographer is persecuted by an unseen presence that follows him relentlessly... |
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Loyalty
After being away from family for 20 years, the father wants to get back to his wife and grownup sons. Despite the elder Son’s warning, younger son “Shankar” decides to bring him back understanding his mother's wish. In this effort, he gets to know to the another face of the world. |
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The Player
A Chicago band wanting to live the Cali dream find manipulation and destruction lurking at every opportunity to make it. |
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Siren
A young man lost in the woods finds a beautiful and magical creature. |
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Sea View
A pregnant woman travels in a tank to the sea through a radioactive desert. |
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Falling
A girl succumbs to self destructive tendencies whilst dealing with her grief after a bereavement. |
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Something For You
Smitten with her neighbour Peter, Aida overwhelms him with love cards and all sorts of baked goods, leaving them at his door to get his attention. When her strategy backfires, new neighbour Daniel enters the picture and the situation takes a different turn… |
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The System
A LAPD Staff Sgt loyalty is put to the test when he is forced to interrogate a former ally. |
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MOURNING IN CHINA
Escaping the emotional turmoil of his best friends death, a man (Beijing Bobby) learns to find his identity and soul again, in China. |
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Trust Issues
There are three perspectives in life : yours, mine, and the truth. |
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The Pickpocket
Thomas (Patrick Aleo) has always wanted to go to school and escape homelessness. One day he meets and gets involved in a relationship with Laura (Natasha Thio), who possesses an expensive gold necklace. Tempted to steal and sell the necklace to pay for school, Thomas becomes more and more conflicted about what he desires more as his relationship with Laura progresses. |
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EUDAIMONIA
The film begins in a hospital .A doctor reveals a terrible news to the protagonist . The eye moves through the sea waves. An informed, maybe sudden decision leads the protagonist to a both atrocious and definitive action . The contours are starting to be more unstable . The horizon becomes metaphysical . We will never know if what happens in water is a departure or a return trip (to be seen as a reconsideration ) . However, euthanasia will represent the last moments of a whole human and hedonistic happiness. |
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She(s)
Lea, a 17th years old girl from Marseille, comes back from vacations with her father. She was supposed to meet her mother at home. But when she gets back with her boyfriend Nico, only absence and silence are waiting for her... |
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The Nude
A satirical look at a male nude model with a God complex who poses for a group of painters and ponders his relation to art, artists and the known universe. |
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BOOMIE
An up-and-coming, promising, female boxer undergoes a tragic set back during a boxing match leading up to a major prize fight. This devastating event sends her on a seemingly impossible journey back into the ring to face a deficit which no other fighter (man or woman) has ever over come. |
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