SHORT to the Point

SHORT TO THE POINT – 2018 ANNUAL AWARDS

BEST FILM

FUCKING DRAMA

Director: Michael Podogil

Country: Austria

Duration: 17:01

Synopsis: A young couple admits to see an off theater play in a mysterious dark basement. The play begins as ‘arty’ as expected – some people film it amused with their phones. But the mood changes, when Manfred Amour, the author of the play enters the cellar.

BEST DIRECTOR

Fear

Director: Juan Pablo Menchon

Country: Argentina

Duration: 10:00

Synopsis: Lucas is nine years old, in the immensity of the countryside, in the darkest of nights, sitting next to el Pira, his dog, he waits. Sometimes a scary story can also be a story of courage.

BEST SCREENPLAY

Two Strangers Who Meet Five Times

Director: Marcus Markou

Country: United Kingdom

Duration: 12:12

Synopsis: Two strangers meet at five key turning points over the duration of their lives. Initial conflict gives way to compassion and eventual friendship.

BEST CINEMATOGRAPHY

think of something blue

Director: jerry de mars

Country: Netherlands

Duration: 06:23

Synopsis: Think of something blue is based on a Dutch Poem by Martijn den Ouden. It portrays a man, dealing with loneliness and mourning, comforted by memories of his loved one.

BEST EDITING

Lau and Laudrup

Director: Charlotte Brodthagen

Country: Denmark

Duration: 30:00

Synopsis: Soccer-lover Lau lives a lonely existence at the refugee center, as his brother Laudrup is hospitalized. When an epidemic breaks loose in Copenhagen, Lau escapes the evacuation of the center and sets out to rescue his little brother.

BEST NARRATIVE SHORT FILM

Inspector W

Director: Matthieu Di Paolo

Country: France

Duration: 29:59

Synopsis: In the small town of Saint-Martin-des-Bois, the unthinkable happened: a woman was murdered. Inspector W, with his loyal right-hand man, Lieutenant Lanvin, will start an investigation full of whiskers, floral dresses and panna cotta…

BEST CHILDREN SHORT FILM

The Confidence

Director: Stepan Sokolov

Country: Russian Federation

Duration: 12:27

Synopsis: Vasya, a diffident young man, asks his smart friend Jenya to help him impress a cute girl Vika who is Vasya’s dream woman. Jenya offers Vasya to protect Vika from a fictional abduction with abductors being Jenya’s friends. Our friends couldn’t even imagine that alongside their fictional abduction 2 real criminals with nicknames Mathematik and Tychok want to abduct Vika in real time. Vasya’s confidence in dangerous and complicated situation will allow him not only to beat the criminals, but also win Vika’s attention.

BEST STUDENT SHORT FILM

I am Art

Director: Roman Eich, Raphael Petri

Country: Germany

Duration: 29:19

Synopsis: In this mockumentary a first-time documantary filmmaker meets the artist of all classes Ischariot Wiesengrund. Despite their obvious differences the two men develop a strange familiarity.

BEST YOUNG DIRECTOR

Le Jeune Pâtissièr

Director: Ksenia Ciuvaseva

Country: Germany

Duration: 16:51

Synopsis: Kolja is 15 years old and already up to open his own business: a cotton candy franchise. As soon as he makes first steps towards his goal, having a stand at an open-air market, he doesn’t seem to be sure about anything anymore. A story about a young entrepreneur in a big city.

BEST ANIMATION SHORT FILM

Twice Upon a Time

Director: Vojin Vasovic

Country: Serbia

Duration: 14:10

Synopsis: Twice Upon a Time, there was a king with split personality whose one half wants to become a poet and the other a fearless warrior. They share their conscience, but have opposing wishes and desperately want to get rid of each other.

BEST DOCUMENTARY SHORT FILM

The suspended life

Director: Condino Fabrizio

Country: Italy

Duration: 15:48

Synopsis: The suspended life tells the repetitve and oppressive routine of a young boy in a provincial town in southern Italy.

BEST EXPERIMENTAL SHORT FILM

Subcutaneous

Director: Carlos Segundo

Country: Brazil

Duration: 19:00

Synopsis: Anne knows, the skin is not the limit.

BEST MUSIC VIDEO

Real Love by Inga-Dingo

Director: Eyal Be

Country: Israel

Duration: 04:26

Synopsis: What happens when your ex-boyfriend is a video editor that keeps trapping you in a loop in order to stop you from meeting your new boyfriend? This is the idea behind the music video for “Real Love” by the Israeli alternative band, Inga-Dingo.

BEST MINI SHORT

Cross the Bridge

Director: Marc Eikelenboom

Country: Netherlands

Duration: 02:29

Synopsis: A lonely bridgekeepers life changes if he falls in love.

BEST MOBILE PHONE

Insanity

Director: Georgi Martev, Teodora Vassileva

Country: Bulgaria

Duration: 01:39

Synopsis: What is the impact of our stressful world on our mentality? “Insanity” is a Psychological thriller showing just that.

BEST AMATEUR SHORT FILM

The Bird Sings With Its Fingers

Director: Mila Fakhurdinova

Country: Russian Federation

Duration: 16:29

Synopsis: Life in the embrace of nature is beautiful. Stream water, coffee with a robin, nude walks through the forest. Life in the embrace of solitude is scary, especially solitude with two people. Young woman in a story on the border of dream and reality, horse and human, beautiful and scary.

SPECIAL JURY AWARD

KAPITALISTIS

Director: Pablo Munoz Gomez

Country: France

Duration: 14:45

Synopsis: Santa is capitalist. He brings toys to the rich kids and swea shirts to the poor ones. Nikos, 5 years old.

SPECIAL JURY AWARD

Pipe Dream

Director: Normann Bjorvand

Country: Sweden

Duration: 04:42

Synopsis: Richard Wagner Jr. III lives within a prison. Walls of stone and the strong arms of men have their way with the small, frail shell of this man. But beyond these confines, beyond the harsh florescent lights that suck life from dreaming minds, awaits a lucid and fringe dream that seeks out hosts for its short-lived dance of the fantastic.

SPECIAL JURY AWARD

The Ticket

Director: Haris Stathopoulos

Country: Greece

Duration: 17:00

Synopsis: We follow the course of a ticket for Public Transportation as it passes from hand to hand. Each person that holds the ticket carries his own story and a social problem as well. A social recording of the Greek crisis.

SPECIAL JURY AWARD

FAMILY FOR SALE

Director: Sebastien Petretti

Country: Belgium

Duration: 14:29

Synopsis: A small hole in a condom back in 1980, and Xav is conceived… Ironic when you know

that Oscar owns a sex shop. Oscar is the father. Typhaine, the mother, is a disinherited

bourgeois. Since the arrival of Petra, Typhaine can’t stop throwing herself against the

wall to express her discomfort. Petra is Oscar’s mistress. Xav has tried getting used to

his family, but eighteen years later, he’s had enough…

SPECIAL JURY AWARD

The Glass Pearl

Director: Tommi Seitajoki

Country: Finland

Duration: 15:00

Synopsis: A 12-year-old boy plunders garbage cans in a suburb, searching for something that might lead to a reward.

SPECIAL JURY AWARD

THE WAIT

Director: Eric DU BELLAY

Country: France

Duration: 24:20

Synopsis: Eloise, 21 years old, lives in a decrepit family-owned vineyard. On a winter’s sunday, she’s alone on duty for the winemaking cooperative. Her parents are running errands. They left a note saying her cousin, Matis, will spend the night at the domain. The wait starts.

SPECIAL JURY AWARD

Faith

Director: Tatiana Fedorovskaya

Country: Russian Federation

Duration: 15:00

Synopsis: An old widower, former WW2 radio operator, perceives flashing bulb as his late wife’s messages from Heaven. His love will never die even when the lights are gone.

SPECIAL JURY AWARD

Leader

Director: Priwieziencew Katia, Priwieziencew Igor

Country: Poland

Duration: 19:00

Synopsis: A group of men oppressed by women joins a course with the aim of regaining a healthy relationship. The coach turns out to have highly controversial methods…

Short to the Point would like to congratulate the following filmmakers and their crews for being official selections for the May 2018 edition of the festival.

SHORT TO THE POINT

Narrative selection

June 2018

Damned Peace

Director: Eoghan Hand

Country: Ireland

Duration: 09:30

Etappes

Director: Sven Peetoom

Country: Netherlands

Duration: 07:15

Suspicion

Director: Pablo Fiallos

Country: Ecuador

Duration: 12:00

Ulises

Director: Jorge Malpica

Country: Mexico

Duration: 07:50

My Last Wishes

Director: Cybèle Villemagne

Country: France

Duration: 22:00

The truth

Director: Tatiana Polosina

Country: Russian Federation

Duration: 04:19

HALF

Director: Eden Chen

Country: China

Duration: 16:47

We belong Together

Director: Gustav Bondeson

Country: Sweden

Duration: 13:00

Amber

Director: Gabriel MIRÉTÉ

Country: France

Duration: 25:18

Chemistry 101

Director: Mike Reft

Country: United States

Duration: 09:42

A Ferry Tale

Director: Mehmet Tığlı

Country: Turkey

Duration: 10:14

Far Away

Director: Nicolas Van Ruychevelt

Country: Belgium

Duration: 23:27

Everyday

Director: Philippe ORREINDY

Country: France

Duration: 14:10

Nice to meet you

Director: Thanit Vasu Yantrakovit

Country: Thailand

Duration: 30:00

SHORT TO THE POINT

Children selection

June 2018

Red & The Kingdom Of Sound

Director: Phil Gomm

Country: United Kingdom

Duration: 18:13

Sticks and Straw

Director: Gino Vincelli

Country: Canada

Duration: 03:09

Sugar

Director: Emiliana Ammirata

Country: United States

Duration: 13:23

The Give and Take

Director: Anna Hopkins

Country: Canada

Duration: 09:30

SHORT TO THE POINT

Student selection

June 2018

Anker

Director: Michail Galanopoulos

Country: Denmark

Duration: 09:18

Shapes of Mine

Director: Giorgos Kapsanakis

Country: United Kingdom

Duration: 14:22

Riptide

Director: Emily Ong

Country: Malaysia

Duration: 10:55

Release

Director: Henry Liu

Country: China

Duration: 20:30

Great! Lakes

Director: Tess Wagman

Country: United States

Duration: 20:00

Mains Away: Life’s a Drag

Director: Jude Lilley

Country: United Kingdom

Duration: 08:32

Radical Evolution

Director: Alon Hammer

Country: Israel

Duration: 14:58

Recollection

Director: Touchapoom Nirunwongwan

Country: United States

Duration: 10:20

Painted Skin

Director: Hanrui Wang

Country: China

Duration: 03:32

The Tree

Director: Catalin Stef

Country: United States

Duration: 05:25

The Birthday Party

Director: William Yuan

Country: China

Duration: 06:48

Love me not

Director: Lili Fenyvesi

Country: Hungary

Duration: 19:07

The Distance Between One and Two

Director: Leo Barton

Country: United Kingdom

Duration: 17:23

When the dragon came (monologues)

Director: Stefan Pavlovic

Country: Romania

Duration: 21:00

Love in a Negative

Director: Bhurin Treetampinich

Country: Thailand

Duration: 16:35

Resilient

Director: Aloiz Krisak

Country: Canada

Duration: 13:57

#Perception

Director: Sophia Sarmadi

Country: Canada

Duration: 08:10

LA CERI-SE

Director: Bruna Arbex

Country: Canada

Duration: 12:44

SHORT TO THE POINT

Animation selection

June 2018

Hooked

Director: Bruce Fagen

Country: Canada

Duration: 02:46

The Alligator Hunter

Director: Kyle V. James

Country: United States

Duration: 03:51

Expend

Director: Bismark Fernandes

Country: United States

Duration: 03:50

A Animated Documentary About Jeremy Bentham

Director: Laura Yee

Country: United States

Duration: 02:26

Nowhere

Director: HyeonJeong Cho

Country: USA

Duration: 04:09

Peach Blossom Fish

Director: Bismark Fernandes

Country: Chen Hailu

Duration: 08:45

SHORT TO THE POINT

Documentary selection

June 2018

A Portrait of Costello

Director: David Kaplowitz

Country: United Kingdom

Duration: 09:40

You Are Here

Director: Nicholas Jones

Country: United Kingdom

Duration: 15:30

Nunca Mas Hermanos

Director: Eleonora Gasparotto Nascimben

Country: Mexico

Duration: 24:00

Tax Evasion: A Greek National Sport

Director: Kelly Sarri

Country: Greece

Duration: 22:24

Mentor

Director: Nagy István, Palkó Áron

Country: Hungary

Duration: 14:37

Past States

Director: Olga Blumczyńska

Country: Poland

Duration: 29:13

28 Years: The Return of Legal Street Racing

Director: Robert Monteith

Country: United Kingdom

Duration: 17:29

SHORT TO THE POINT

Experimental selection

June 2018

Handle With Care

Director: Eva Wright

Country: United Kingdom

Duration: 07:00

The Curse of the Internet Man

Director: Benjamin Lister

Country: United Kingdom

Duration: 04:30

The Nixie

Director: Julia Bui Ngoc, Mai Bui Ngoc

Country: Poland

Duration: 19:12

Oval Magnet

Director: Luis Sánchez Martínez

Country: Not specified

Duration: 18:06

You’re Dead, America

Director: Jovan Todorovic

Country: United States

Duration: 08:38

A Bias Tape

Director: Lynnette Taylor

Country: United States

Duration: 03:42

SHORT TO THE POINT

Music selection

June 2018

Tiwayo ” Wild”

Director: Filip Zaluska

Country: France

Duration: 04:13

Guiri Gringo

Director: Dominic Anglim, Javier Aquino, Andreas Guzman

Country: Spain

Duration: 04:38

WE – FOREVER

Director: Julia Uzkikh

Country: Russian Federation

Duration: 02:14

Corridor

Director: Cassandre Émanuel

Country: Canada

Duration: 04:02

SHORT TO THE POINT

Mini Shorts selection

June 2018

Jasmine

Director: Zhanfei Song

Country: United Kingdom

Duration: 02:54

Director: Michael Cochran

Country: United Kingdom

Duration: 02:10

Fe 2o3

Director: Alexandros Tsilifonis

Country: United Kingdom

Duration: 01:42

You Turn

Director: Pearlina Malik

Country: India

Duration: 02:02

SHORT TO THE POINT

Mobile Phone selection

June 2018

Mgzavrebi – Promise

Director: Ivan Sosnin

Country: Russian Federation

Duration: 04:59

Sonatina

Director: Wong Hoi

Country: Hong Kong

Duration: 08:00

Ivan Dorn | Preach

Director: Misha Koroteev

Country: Russian Federation

Duration: 04:29

The Mall

Director: Kat Mustatea

Country: United States

Duration: 04:20

SHORT TO THE POINT

Amateur selection

June 2018

The Magic Lives On

Director: Wilson Novoa

Country: Indonesia

Duration: 19:56

Road Less Traveled

Director: Aric Iverson

Country: United States

Duration: 12:30

“Quiet please… Lights, Camera, Action… We are shooting a film for deaf and hard of hearing people…”

Director: Bernard Grange

Country: France

Duration: 02:25

Here are some photos from the STTP Annual Edition – 6-12 August 2018 – Tirgu Mures, Romania

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SHORT TO THE POINT – JUNE 2018 AWARDS

BEST FILM

Amber

Director: Gabriel MIRÉTÉ

Country: France

Duration: 25:18

Synopsis: Heart broken, this little town in Lozère seems to be well bleak for Barnabé. Till the day he’ll met the mysterious Ambre who’s driving him in her universe…

BEST DIRECTOR

Far Away

Director: Nicolas Van Ruychevelt

Country: Belgium

Duration: 23:27

Synopsis: Facing the reality of their failures, victim of their incapacity, Léa and David have to take at radical decision in the hope of saving their relationship.

BEST SCREENPLAY

Everyday

Director: Philippe ORREINDY

Country: France

Duration: 14:10

Synopsis: Françoise is a company director. She is under the perverse psychological influence of her superior. But is it real or is it an hallucination caused by her anguish?

BEST CINEMATOGRAPHY

Ulises

Director: Jorge Malpica

Country: Mexico

Duration: 07:50

Synopsis: Ulises is a fisherman´s daily battle to try to appease his hunger. On the other, side mermaids in a classical view, are not cute and are often associated with death forces, as dangerous animals that dominate oceans based on their captivating voices. If they embezzle you with their call, they will devour your. Ulises is an obsessive struggle of men acting as a dominating force, trying to impose themselves to mother nature… This clash may well be seen as a sad battle to death between humankind and fantasy.

BEST EDITING

Chemistry 101

Director: Mike Reft

Country: United States

Duration: 09:42

Synopsis: When a shy student musters up the courage to ask out his chemistry classmate, his plan goes awry after his love letter lands on the wrong student’s desk.

BEST NARRATIVE SHORT FILM

My Last Wishes

Director: Cybèle Villemagne

Country: France

Duration: 22:00

Synopsis: Once upon a time, Alice Lelièvre, an unpredictable and bipolar young woman, as persistent in achieving her dreams as in killing herself.

BEST CHILDREN SHORT FILM

The Give and Take

Director: Anna Hopkins

Country: Canada

Duration: 09:30

Synopsis: When eleven year old Amy finds an old eighties video game magazine she dials the phone number displayed on the back, and in a strange cosmic glitch gets connected to Caesar Spinone, a video game call center employee in the year 1989.

BEST STUDENT SHORT FILM

Shapes of Mine

Director: Giorgos Kapsanakis

Country: United Kingdom

Duration: 14:22

Synopsis: In the near future where people can change their bodies into anything they want, a woman tries to persuade her husband to eat a fish that she has lovingly prepared for dinner.

BEST YOUNG DIRECTOR

Riptide

Director: Emily Ong

Country: Malaysia

Duration: 10:55

Synopsis: Failing to attain the quixotic relationship she was groomed into needing , an idealistic young woman trapped in an abusive relationship endeavours to reclaim her life.

BEST ANIMATION SHORT FILM

Expend

Director: Bismark Fernandes

Country: United States

Duration: 03:50

Synopsis: A stop-motion film about a man’s endless hunt for elusive energy sources in a decaying world

BEST DOCUMENTARY SHORT FILM

Synopsis: You Are Here is a portrait of Tony Rogers, a rock star who is a member of one of the most successful British bands of the last 20 years, The Charlatans. Despite the glitz and glamour of fame, Tony has found a calling in working on his family land in Ireland. As we observe Tony through a year on the farm we engage with why he chooses to live in this wet, cold and difficult world.

BEST EXPERIMENTAL SHORT FILM

The Curse of the Internet Man

Director: Benjamin Lister

Country: United Kingdom

Duration: 04:30

Synopsis: An expressionist nightmare about our obsession with social media and fame. Merch is an online superstar influencer. He’s adored by millions online. But in the dark depths of his own mind he is faltered. He is deeply depressed and losing a grip on reality. The life he has created online is false, and the life he has in the real world is lonely and full of pain. He seeks help from a psychiatrist. But it is too late. This isn’t an illness, it’s a curse. The curse of the Internet Man. The only way out is for Merch to end it all, to rid himself of the pain of real world – and to embrace the nirvana of the silicon. The Internet man is a comment on addiction to the internet and virality, and the terrifying impact it’s having on our mental health..

BEST MUSIC VIDEO

Tiwayo ” Wild”

Director: Filip Zaluska

Country: France

Duration: 04:13

Synopsis: A need for freedom, wildness, honesty, even stifled humiliation could be seen as closeness and joy of genuine friendship. But still, there is a question, whether balefulness is not cheating us in the matter of possible change.

BEST MINI SHORT

63

Director: Michael Cochran

Country: United Kingdom

Duration: 02:10

Synopsis: A video-poem about isolation. This is a story about an individual destined to look out towards the sea until the end of time. A place of both beauty and loneliness.

BEST MOBILE PHONE

Mgzavrebi – Promise

Director: Ivan Sosnin

Country: Russian Federation

Duration: 04:59

Synopsis: A couple of elders escape from a retirement home, hijack a truck and drive to the sea. They go shopping, buying things for a handful of pills, swim in the pool, make selfies on a stolen phone, float on serf on the waves. Live their lives to the fullest. Main heroes of the clip are 85 and 86 years old. The whole video was filmed on the phone.

BEST AMATEUR SHORT FILM

The Magic Lives On

Director: Wilson Novoa

Country: Indonesia

Duration: 19:56

Synopsis: Danny Dabra has been battling his asthma since he was a child. He wants to become a magician but the struggles during his childhood make him lose his guide & confidence. Constantly, he is dealing with his own demons until he finds the answers to overcome his self-doubt and continue following his dreams.

SHORT FILM FACTORY aduce filme cu intrare liberă în peste 20 de orașe din România și în Praga, Cehia – Septembrie 2018

SHORT FILM FACTORY (by STTP) te provoacă la film, în cadrul unui eveniment lunar care aduce filme de autor, cu intrare liberă, în peste 20 de locații alternative de proiecție din România (+Praga, Cehia) – Septembrie 2018.

Când cinematografia îmbrăca hainele de nou născut, filmele erau foarte scurte, uneori durau un minut sau chiar mai puțin. După cortina de catifea a scurt metrajelor, creativitatea îmbrățișează strâns imaginația, libertatea și curajul reușind să vă ofere o călătorie diferită de fiecare dată. SHORT FILM FACTORY (by STTP) vă invită să vă cunoașteți. Pentru că viața bate filmul.

5 scurtmetraje realizate în România și Republica Moldova premiate anterior în cadrul festivalului Short to the Point, vor rula în peste 20 de spații alternative din tot atâtea orașe din țară si Praga, Cehia, în ultima săptămână a lunii septembrie. O selecție de 120 minute de film, povești spectaculoase , care continuă o tradiție de peste 9 ani de proiecții speciale, oferind publicului din România șansa unică de a urmări filme scurte multi-premiate, cu intrare liberă.

Haz de necaz și resemnare fără clipit de ochi. Realități moderne pe o peliculă ce ne pune în brațe un bilet gratuit către Epoca de aur. Personaje coafate și surprinse de tragicul pe care hazardul îl așează tacticos pe tavă, suspans ce pasează evantaiul de la un personaj la altul așa încât previzibilul să devină de neașteptat, destine constrânse să aleagă compromisuri ce-adună-n album fotografii pe care timpul le va abandona.

Orașele care vor găzdui proiecții și spațiile de proiecție sunt: Alba Iulia, Alexandria, Arad, Bacău, Baia Mare, Botoșani, București, Buzău, Câmpulung Moldovenesc, Câmpulung Muscel, Cluj-Napoca, Craiova, Deva, Drobeta-Turnu Severin, Hunedoara, Iași, Odorheiu Secuiesc, Oradea, Râmnicu Vâlcea, Piatra Neamț, Sibiu, Sighetu Marmației, Suceava, Târgoviste, Târgu Jiu, Târgu Mureș, Timișoara, Tulcea, Vama Veche, Chisinau (MD). Aici puteti gasi detalii legate de locatiile STTP: http://spunepescurt.ro/venues.

Proiecțiile de scurtmetraj sunt organizate de Short to the Point (International Short Film Festival) – o reţea internatională de distribuţie, difuzare şi promovare a filmelor de scurtmetraj. În ultimii ani SHORT FILM FACTORY (by STTP) a reușit să creeze o punte de legătură intre filmmakeri, cinefili si spectatorii ocazionali, având ca scop construirea unui nou tip de comunitate urbană.

Lansat în anul 2009 sub forma unei caravane cinematografice în 28 de orase din Romania, STTP a devenit un festival lunar la care se inscriu filme din toate colturile lumii. Festivalul Short to the Point ofera lunar 13 categorii de premii celor mai bune scurt metraje inscrise, urmand ca acestea sa fie proiectate in cadrul evenimentului national Short Film Factory by Short to the Point.

Pentru mai multe informații vă invităm să ne vizitați aici:

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Tamara,echelon

Director: Kristina Cepraga

Country: Romania

Duration: 29:00

A night in Tokoriki

Director: ROXANA STROE

Country: Romania

Duration: 18:00

Narcis and Fifi

Director: Serban Racoviteanu

Country: Romania

Duration: 28:00

Family Issues

Director: Ruxandra Maria Ghitescu

Country: Romania

Duration: 15:00

The Lake

Director: Ana Dascalu

Country: Romania

Duration: 25:53

We have just started the submissions for September 2018 Awards! Submit your short on @FilmFreeway ! Deadline is 4’th of October. Cheers!

Short to the Point would like to congratulate the following filmmakers and their crews for being official selections for the July 2018 edition of the festival.

SHORT TO THE POINT

Narrative selection

July 2018

Before oblivion

Director: Ferenc Rakoczy

Country: Switzerland

Duration: 11:00

Luigino

Director: Paolo de Lucia

Country: Italy

Duration: 12:00

Newstria

Director: Kostas Stamatopoulos

Country: Greece

Duration: 23:40

Elizabeth’s Diary

Director: Junior Rios

Country: Brazil

Duration: 06:21

Knock at the Door

Director: Michael Constable

Country: United Kingdom

Duration: 08:51

Trousers

Director: Tahsin Ozmen

Country: Turkey

Duration: 15:00

Home

Director: Dasha Koroleva

Country: Hungary

Duration: 13:40

Siklus

Director: Louis Minnaar

Country: South Africa

Duration: 24:42

Caducea

Director: Christophe Mavroudis

Country: Belgium

Duration: 25:00

A Date With Shillelagh

Director: Jeff Stewart, Brian Johnston

Country: United Kingdom

Duration: 12:32

So Far from God

Director: Ismael Capistrán

Country: Mexico

Duration: 16:31

If, alive

Director: Williy Lau

Country: Hong Kong

Duration: 19:56

Tempestad

Director: Daniel E. García

Country: United States

Duration: 15:27

The Delivery

Director: Yazan Al Ghazzawi

Country: Jordan

Duration: 22:00

In Joy

Director: Maryna Roshchyna

Country: Ukraine

Duration: 27:21

Malignant

Director: Devin Tau

Country: United States

Duration: 12:56

SHORT TO THE POINT

Children selection

July 2018

UkeLayla

Director: UkeLayla UCF Film

Country: United States

Duration: 07:57

Big Booom

Director: Marat Narimanov

Country: Russian Federation

Duration: 04:00

Apple of My Eye

Director: Davide Benvenuti

Country: Singapore

Duration: 05:50

Good Girls Don’t

Director: Ana de Lara

Country: Canada

Duration: 15:00

All Heart

Director: Flávio Moraes

Country: Brazil

Duration: 25:00

SHORT TO THE POINT

Student selection

July 2018

Last Summer

Director: Arron Lynch

Country: Ireland

Duration: 16:22

Type 8

Director: Lena Lanskih

Country: Russian Federation

Duration: 25:00

04_EMIL_CASTING.mp4

Director: Lili Zahavi

Country: Germany

Duration: 09:20

10x10ft

Director: Dhruv Tripathi

Country: United Kingdom

Duration: 17:48

Over Text

Director: Jane Winters

Country: United States

Duration: 01:34

Léa, les planches et moi (with subtitles)

Director: Cyprien Saccal

Country: France

Duration: 11:22

Scratches on the Caged Floor

Director: Ragini Bhasin

Country: United States

Duration: 18:25

Mrs. Lavinski

Director: Suraboon Art Purnaveja

Country: United States

Duration: 14:06

Baron Samedi

Director: Zhao Zhenyu, Yang Darong

Country: Hong Kong

Duration: 11:14

Captives

Director: Raúl Ferral Sánchez

Country: Mexico

Duration: 05:01

Bleakland

Director: Oly Gudgin

Country: United Kingdom

Duration: 18:06

The Look

Director: Max Retik

Country: United States

Duration: 06:00

Behind City Lights

Director: Lisa Rae Bowman

Country: United States

Duration: 03:39

Butterfly Daughter

Director: Viktoria Szemeredy

Country: Hungary

Duration: 15:00

Parna (Leaves)

Director: Anandita Palsule

Country: India

Duration: 20:47

A Confession

Director: Rosa Wang

Country: China

Duration: 07:07

Six degrees of separation

Director: Elena Blokhina

Country: France

Duration: 21:20

SHORT TO THE POINT

Animation selection

July 2018

Damned Peace

Director: Jonathan Gómez, Itai Hagage

Country: Costa Rica

Duration: 04:54

Slices of Summer

Director: Yosselyn Sánchez Arias

Country: Costa Rica

Duration: 03:50

Chanson à moi

Director: Fátima García, Daniela Metheyer, Josue Mena

Country: Costa Rica

Duration: 03:47

Resurge

Director: Ying Ling Chen

Country: Taiwan

Duration: 02:13

Daisy

Director: Yu Yu

Country: Taiwan

Duration: 09:42

Slick Stan

Director: Sam Roth

Country: United States

Duration: 01:41

Bulbul

Director: Mejd Alsharif

Country: Saudi Arabia

Duration: 02:40

SHORT TO THE POINT

Documentary selection

July 2018

Fight Like a Girl

Director: Agustin Gonzalez, Nicole Wulf Maldonado

Country: United States

Duration: 13:00

Unter der Haut liegen die Knochen // The bones under the skin

Director: Marlene Pardeller

Country: Germany

Duration: 24:58

Mama Qota

Director: Marianne Asher, Rodrigo Otero, Maja Tillman

Country: Peru

Duration: 17:18

Story of Aishan

Director: Hong jia bao

Country: China

Duration: 05:15

Virgo

Director: Vlad Sacaleanu, Lise Hendrix

Country: Romania

Duration: 30:00

Love & Loss

Director: Yiying Nikki Li

Country: United States

Duration: 21:53

The Rebirth of Deities

Director: Tey Kok Hau 郑国豪

Country: Malaysia

Duration: 10:27

The Unknown Lives

Director: Raju E Raphael

Country: India

Duration: 29:30

SHORT TO THE POINT

Experimental selection

July 2018

Nekydallo

Director: Eleni Molfeta

Country: Greece

Duration: 08:37

Snow Child

Director: Diana Cignoni

Country: United States

Duration: 11:53

Transient Passengers (Experiment Number NÜN)

Director: Natalia Hermida

Country: United States

Duration: 24:24

ENO

Director: Yemi Filmboy Morafa

Country: Nigeria

Duration: 08:11

The Sunday Night Drinkers Club

Director: Ollie Gardner

Country: United Kingdom

Duration: 20:00

Hidden/Found

Director: Stefan Fitzner

Country: Switzerland

Duration: 02:05

The Dam

Director: Frode Gjerlow

Country: United Kingdom

Duration: 05:42

Încredere

Director: Denis Manda

Country: Netherlands

Duration: 03:52

SHORT TO THE POINT

Music Video selection

July 2018

Violet Hum

Director: Tribambuka (Anastasia Beltyukova)

Country: United Kingdom

Duration: 05:15

Chakra Daemon

Director: Sabrina Reiter

Country: United States

Duration: 03:15

Star in the East

Director: Katie Garibaldi, Marc Morgan

Country: United States

Duration: 02:33

Super Flu – Ark

Director: Mark Othmer, Bita Steinjan

Country: Germany

Duration: 09:51

Digital Age

Director: Piripinghi (Sonia De Nicolo)

Country: United States

Duration: 02:52

Break Interlude

Director: Break Interlude

Country: United States

Duration: 03:00

Marathon

Director: Stefan Fitzner

Country: Switzerland

Duration: 04:10

Meet the Swinton Sisters – VOGUE

Director: Lara Tascón, Javier Cortés

Country: Spain

Duration: 04:16

October 96

Director: Adetokumboh M’Cormack

Country: United States

Duration: 05:36

SHORT TO THE POINT

Mini Shorts selection

July 2018

Blue lies

Director: Austin Taft

Country: United States

Duration: 01:52

I love you

Director: Ryan Mechling

Country: United States

Duration: 02:58

I love you

Director: Rebecca Zinner

Country: United States

Duration: 02:48

“Love Story” by PPS

Director: Nuno Rocha

Country: France

Duration: 02:49

Apprentice

Director: Sreejit S

Country: India

Duration: 01:20

Il Sub

Director: Colm Whelan

Country: Ireland

Duration: 02:36

Still Life

Director: Jennifer Dean

Country: United States

Duration: 01:42

Last Breach

Director: Christos Filippou

Country: Greece

Duration: 02:00

Beauty and Danger: Cedarlore Forge

Director: Henry Tegeler

Country: United States

Duration: 02:42

Coins

Director: Carson Wilds

Country: Australia

Duration: 01:35

SHORT TO THE POINT

Mobile Phone selection

July 2018

In a word

Director: Glenn Doyle

Country: Canada

Duration: 06:30

Death´s Day Off

Director: G Rockk

Country: United Kingdom

Duration: 03:39

Institute of Plant Motivation South Korea Branch

Director: Becs Epstein

Country: United States

Duration: 19:02

SHORT TO THE POINT

Amateur selection

July 2018

The Job

Director: David J. Skinner

Country: Spain

Duration: 05:10

Hard Rubbis

Director: Simon McCulloch, Tiana Hogben

Country: Australia

Duration: 05:41

Wait in Vain

Director: Indigo Bates

Country: United States

Duration: 03:14

ViQueens

Director: Gemma Laurelle, Christine Aldridge

Country: Australia

Duration: 04:57

The red balloon

Director: Graciela Ríos Vázquez

Country: Mexico

Duration: 09:06

SHORT TO THE POINT – JULY 2018 AWARDS

BEST FILM

SIKLUS

Director: Louis Minnaar

Country: South Africa

Duration: 24:42

Synopsis: In the near future an earth couple called Daniel and Eli find themselves in the furthest reaches of our galaxy. A life threatening crisis onboard their spaceship forces them to confront difficult decisions and to re-evaualte their past and future. When an unexpected detour takes them dangerously close to a giant black hole, time starts to unravel and they start receiving strange cryptic messages on their ship’s navigation system. Eli’s deteriorating health leaves Daniel to steer their voyage alone and in an attempt to save her life, he has to make the toughest decision of his life – dare to enter the black hole in an attempt to buy time with Eli, or free them both from the endless cycle they seem to be trapped in.

In deep deep space even straight lines are circles and the universe a merry-go-round. Siklus is a film art story of love and time and space… and everything in between.

BEST DIRECTOR

In Joy

Director: Maryna Roshchyna

Country: Ukraine

Duration: 27:21

Synopsis: Kate is a young lonely mother. She falls in love with a fellow but does not have the courage to tell him that she has a son. As their relationship develops rapidly the revelation becomes more complicated. The choice between her personal life and responsibility for her son arises.

BEST SCREENPLAY

The Delivery

Director: Yazan Al Ghazzawi

Country: Jordan

Duration: 22:00

Synopsis: In a troubled (fictional) Middle Eastern country, the President goes into hiding after receiving numerous threats from a rebel army faction. Mustafa, a delivery man on a tight schedule on the day of his engagement, inadvertently stumbles upon the President’s hiding place – an apartment in a run down corner of the city. He is immediately taken for an assassin, and repeatedly questioned and tortured by the fiercely loyal Captain Amin. Little do both of them know that Mustafa’s appearance is no coincidence at all.

BEST CINEMATOGRAPHY

Home

Director: Dasha Koroleva

Country: Hungary

Duration: 13:40

Synopsis: Young woman Maria arrives to the house of her childhood to prepare it for sale. But there are things which are not easy to get rid of: the past and the memories.

BEST EDITING

SIKLUS

Director: Louis Minnaar

Country: South Africa

Duration: 24:42

In deep deep space even straight lines are circles and the universe a merry-go-round. Siklus is a film art story of love and time and space… and everything in between.

BEST NARRATIVE SHORT FILM

CADUCEA

Director: Christophe Mavroudis

Country: Belgium

Duration: 25:00

Synopsis: “Tom hides not only a deformed face behind his flamboyant Commedia dell’arte masks, but also a dark secret that won’t be divulged until decades later. ”

CADUCEA is an independant belgian short, an atmospheric and gothic tale, shot with a budget of less than 3200 euros and post-produced with 5000 euros and the help of the Clap ! and the WIP.

BEST STUDENT SHORT FILM

Type 8

Director: Lena Lanskih

Country: Russian Federation

Duration: 25:00

Synopsis: While an orphanage is preparing for the Open day, Christina, aged 14, makes a decision to do her best to get back home…

BEST YOUNG DIRECTOR

Captives

Director: Raúl Ferral Sánchez

Country: Mexico

Duration: 05:01

Synopsis: Two young boys, captive by a monster inside a room, try to escape from it before the monster come for them.

BEST CHILDREN SHORT FILM

Big Booom

Director: Marat Narimanov

Country: Russian Federation

Duration: 04:00

Synopsis: The history of humanity and of our planet in four minutes. An eco-friendly statement developed in a single shot that has it all: humor, action and tragedy.

BEST ANIMATION SHORT FILM

Daisy

Director: Yu Yu

Country: Taiwan

Duration: 09:42

Synopsis: Daisy is a young girl who is being cared by Ben, a caring robot during wartime. After a bomb attack, Daisy vanishes. This begins Bens’ search for her.

BEST DOCUMENTARY SHORT FILM

The Rebirth of Deities

Director: Tey Kok Hau 郑国豪

Country: Malaysia

Duration: 10:27

Synopsis: The Chinese in Malaysia practice different religions, such as Buddhism, Taoism, Confucianism and the Chinese folk religions. There are various types of Chinese temples in Chinese residential areas. Most of the temples enshrine a variety of statues of god and deities.

Unlike some priests, mediums or temple administrators, who are usually popular, the statue restorers usually receive less attention from the public. Some may do not know what to do if the statue is broken. There is a rare profession to bring these broken statues into a new life after repairing and restoration whom we call statue restorer.

After a long time of worshiping, the statues of god and deities are inevitably cracked, damaged, or even broken. The job of a statue restorer is to repair, fix and restore these statues.

In Johor, there are only few statue restorers and people know little about them. This documentary aims to interview a local statue restorer, Mr. Yong Nyion Yun, in order to have a photographic record on his repair, restoration and conservation works on statues. Not only to show his superb skills, people and things around him but also to introduce this holy profession to the public, one of the great work to preserve folk arts and Chinese folk beliefs.

BEST EXPERIMENTAL SHORT FILM

Transient Passengers (Experiment Number NÜN)

Director: Natalia Hermida

Country: United States

Duration: 24:24

Synopsis: A psychological voyage through the memory of time-obsessed office clerk Marcel as he chases the woman who stole his golden pocket watch.

BEST MUSIC VIDEO

Digital Age

Director: Piripinghi (Sonia De Nicolo)

Country: United States

Duration: 02:52

Synopsis: A music video of the song Digital Age by Evangelia, illustrating the wonders and frustrations of trying to find love in a world of technology.

BEST MINI SHORT

“Love Story” by PPS

Director: Nuno Rocha

Country: France

Duration: 02:49

Synopsis: Two strangers, a man and a woman, check in to a romantic hotel. On the way to their rooms they collide and inadvertently switch their room keys. He invites her for a drink at night, but she only sees his message the next day… Will it be too late?

BEST MOBILE PHONE

IN A WORD

Director: Glenn Doyle

Country: Canada

Duration: 06:30

Synopsis: An awkward meeting on a park bench shows two strangers the potential emotion of every single word they speak.

BEST AMATEUR SHORT FILM

Wait in Vain

Director: Indigo Bates

Country: United States

Duration: 03:14

Synopsis: A woman waits for a phone call from her lover, as she becomes increasingly manic alone in the house. Based on ‘A Telephone Call’ by Dorothy Parker. Shot in Brooklyn with cast and crew from the UK, USA, France and Australia.

Short to the Point would like to congratulate the following filmmakers and their crews for being official selections for the August 2018 edition of the festival.

SHORT TO THE POINT

Narrative selection

August 2018

Anomaly

Director: Matthew Thomas Ross

Country: United States

Duration: 10:10

By Halves

Director: Anastasia Eleftheriou, Moritz Pfeifer

Country: Greece

Duration: 16:13

Yawth

Director: Dimitris Tsakaleas, Lida Vartzioti

Country: Greece

Duration: 10:08

On the border

Director: Arturo M. Merelo

Country: Mexico

Duration: 06:40

Mani Cura

Director: Gisela Savdie, Dany Holguín

Country: Colombia

Duration: 13:26

JiLL

Director: Michael York

Country: Canada

Duration: 06:11

Family Medicine

Director: Joe Kraemer

Country: United States

Duration: 15:00

Sketches

Director: Suen Yee Ling

Country: Hong Kong

Duration: 18:30

Tea with Lemon

Director: Robert Harrison

Country: United Kingdom

Duration: 11:32

D.A.T.E

Director: Sai Deodhar Anand

Country: India

Duration: 13:10

The Casting of an innocent woman

Director: Jacob Thomas Pilgaard

Country: Denmark

Duration: 20:00

Discontent

Director: Marco Gabriel

Country: Australia

Duration: 17:20

The Day of Mourning

Director: Elliot Hoffnung, Brice Thiroine

Country: France

Duration: 25:00

Taniel

Director: Garo Berberian

Country: United Kingdom

Duration: 19:59

Poacher

Director: Tom Whitworth

Country: Kenya

Duration: 27:44

SHORT TO THE POINT

Children Shorts selection

August 2018

Billie

Director: Maki Yoshikura

Country: United Kingdom

Duration: 04:00

Let’s Play

Director: Antonio Rotunno

Country: Mexico

Duration: 09:10

Baby Shark

Director: Brett Jubinville, Troy McDonald

Country: Canada

Duration: 03:10

Perfection

Director: Riccardo Di Gerlando

Country: Italy

Duration: 02:40

Boy Racer

Director: Barry Fahy

Country: Ireland

Duration: 04:25

Emma’s World

Director: Matteo Santoro

Country: Italy

Duration: 01:30

SHORT TO THE POINT

Student selection

August 2018

Vonnis

Director: Walt Bladt

Country: Belgium

Duration: 08:35

Dare Not Fly

Director: CHUYI CHEN

Country: Taiwan

Duration: 18:45

The Story Of Luca

Director: Bjarke Underbjerg

Country: Denmark

Duration: 04:06

Heroes

Director: Vilja Keskimäki

Country: United Kingdom

Duration: 12:32

Easter

Director: Chih Chieh Wu

Country: Czech Republic

Duration: 10:23

Best in Show

Director: Melanie Campbell

Country: United Kingdom

Duration: 04:32

The Employee

Director: Kyle Sims

Country: United States

Duration: 04:40

The Modern Mom

Director: Alisa Pien

Country: Thailand

Duration: 28:10

Under the Current

Director: Supapit Chirattikanon

Country: Thailand

Duration: 24:20

I See

Director: Simon Helbling

Country: United Kingdom

Duration: 05:00

Big Toast

Director: Sacha Beeley

Country: United Kingdom

Duration: 04:21

The Radio Technician

Director: Vanya Bogdanova

Country: Bulgaria

Duration: 13:05

Lao Wai

Director: Haolu Wang

Country: United Kingdom

Duration: 14:53

SHORT TO THE POINT

Animation selection

August 2018

Bob’s bike

Director: Hubert Dłużniewski

Country: Poland

Duration: 01:30

Dol

Director: DongKyu Lee

Country: Republic of Korea

Duration: 04:06

God I need a girlfriend

Director: Stefan Janoski

Country: United States

Duration: 04:32

Marfa

Director: Greg McLeod, Myles McLeod

Country: United Kingdom

Duration: 08:33

SHORT TO THE POINT

Documentary selection

August 2018

Malgorzata Bialokoz-Smith – The Arist’s Life

Director: Maj Jukic, Magdalena Jakubowska

Country: United Kingdom

Duration: 25:46

And So, I Would Like to Fly

Director: João Couto

Country: Peru

Duration: 07:04

SHORT TO THE POINT

Experimental selection

August 2018

Ales

Director: Faiçal Ben

Country: Morocco

Duration: 15:27

Quarume – Never go back

Director: Arturo M. Merelo

Country: Italy

Duration: 14:51

Quintessence

Director: Cem Göksoy

Country: Turkey

Duration: 06:00

BOOKANIMA: Dance

Director: Shon Kim

Country: Republic of Korea

Duration: 07:31

A Season To Come

Director: Christopher A. Hoffman

Country: United States

Duration: 10:00

SUPERzero

Director: Landon Williams

Country: United States

Duration: 17:23

The Opened Field

Director: Helmie Stil

Country: United Kingdom

Duration: 04:15

SHORT TO THE POINT

Music Video selection

August 2018

Failure – Fabiola

Director: Gilles de Voghel

Country: Belgium

Duration: 03:08

Harp

Director: Staffan Gnosspelius

Country: United Kingdom

Duration: 06:11

The Heart and The Void – A House by the sea

Director: Daniele De Muro

Country: Italy

Duration: 04:42

God I need a girlfriend

Director: Stefan Janoski

Country: United States

Duration: 04:32

Upcoming after party

Director: David Lim, Pei Kwon Chen

Country: Taiwan

Duration: 03:35

SHORT TO THE POINT

Mini Shorts selection

August 2018

Framed

Director: Jonathan Burteaux

Country: France

Duration: 02:15

At the top of Tabuleiro waterfall

Director: Paulo T G Pinto

Country: Brazil

Duration: 02:40

Dear Neighbours

Director: Evani Gilds

Country: Netherlands

Duration: 01:32

Sisterhood

Director: Dario Scommegna

Country: Italy

Duration: 02:06

SHUSH

Director: Darya Dasha Khritankova

Country: United States

Duration: 02:59

Vikings Night Out

Director: Brent Bouchard

Country: Canada

Duration: 01:14

SHORT TO THE POINT

Amateur selection

August 2018

How to kill time

Director: Augusto Efraín López Estrada

Country: Guatemala

Duration: 08:17

The Wacky Wobblers

Director: Angi Tianzhu, Drew Stalker

Country: United States

Duration: 15:00

SHORT TO THE POINT – AUGUST 2018 AWARDS

BEST FILM

Tea with Lemon

Director: Robert Harrison

Country: United Kingdom

Duration: 11:32

Synopsis: A clueless poet and café regular attempts to charm a waitress by constructing an enigmatic persona and learning her mother tongue. But she is too preoccupied by her failing marriage to notice his futile efforts.

BEST DIRECTOR

The Casting of an innocent woman

Director: Jacob Thomas Pilgaard

Country: Denmark

Duration: 20:00

Synopsis: The young actress Sara is at an audition for her first potential lead role in a feature film. However the casting quickly goes sideways and Sara needs to face a dark chapter in her past.

BEST SCREENPLAY

By Halves

Director: Anastasia Eleftheriou

Writer: Moritz Pfeifer

Country: Greece

Duration: 16:13

Synopsis: A woman finishes a wooden boat in her workshop and then takes it to a beach. But she’s afraid to take the boat out on the sea. Watching the tide go away without her, she leaves the beach and abandons the boat, letting it deteriorate in a boat cemetery among other shipwrecks that she or other people have built. Back in her cabin, she starts with the construction of another boat.

BEST CINEMATOGRAPHY

Quintessence

Director: Cem Göksoy

Country: Turkey

Duration: 06:00

Synopsis: “Quintessence” is a short film about the correlation between human and the law of energy.

BEST EDITING

Poacher

Director: Tom Whitworth

Country: Kenya

Duration: 27:44

Synopsis: A desperate farmer runs into trouble after he steals blood ivory from a gang of international terrorists.

BEST NARRATIVE SHORT FILM

Vonnis

Director: Walt Bladt

Country: Belgium

Duration: 08:35

Synopsis: Life is just a phase and we’re all going through it together. Let’s make it a wonderful adventure!

BEST STUDENT SHORT FILM

The Modern Mom

Director: Alisa Pien

Country: Thailand

Duration: 28:10

Synopsis: An exclusive documentary around the life of ‘Madam Winnie’ Thailand’s most successful mother and famous writer of the parenting book ‘The Modern Mom’ along side with her beloved daughter and best friend, Leila, in the perspective no one has ever seen before.

BEST YOUNG DIRECTOR

Vonnis

Director: Walt Bladt

Country: Belgium

Duration: 08:35

Synopsis: Life is just a phase and we’re all going through it together. Let’s make it a wonderful adventure!

BEST CHILDREN SHORT FILM

Boy Racer

Director: Barry Fahy

Country: Ireland

Duration: 04:25

Synopsis: Evan Murphy sneaks away into his grandfathers shed and discovers a world of trinkets to play with including his grandfathers rally car.

BEST ANIMATION SHORT FILM

Marfa

Director: Greg McLeod, Myles McLeod

Country: United Kingdom

Duration: 08:33

Synopsis: A town on the borderlands of Texas. A place out of time. A desert where strange lights dance in the night sky. A mecca for lovers of minimalist art. A landscape of lost horses, freaks and food trucks. And then there’s the giant lemon.

BEST DOCUMENTARY SHORT FILM

Malgorzata Bialokoz-Smith – The Arist’s Life

Director: Maj Jukic, Magdalena Jakubowska

Country: United Kingdom

Duration: 25:46

Synopsis: A short story about the life of Malgorzata Bialokoz-Smith.

BEST EXPERIMENTAL SHORT FILM

Quintessence

Director: Cem Göksoy

Country: Turkey

Duration: 06:00

Synopsis: “Quintessence” is a short film about the correlation between human and the law of energy.

BEST MUSIC VIDEO

God I need a girlfriend

Director: Stefan Janoski

Country: United States

Duration: 04:32

Synopsis: From the mind of Stefan Janoski, God I need a girlfriend, a musical short story, that gives the background to the sculpture of the same name.

BEST MINI SHORT

Framed

Director: Jonathan Burteaux

Country: France

Duration: 02:15

Synopsis: Her name is Lola. She’s an actress. Today is her 153rd commercial casting. Inspired by (several) true stories.

BEST AMATEUR SHORT FILM

How to kill time

Director: Augusto Efraín López Estrada

Country: Guatemala

Duration: 08:17

Synopsis: After his marriage was over, a man has to understand that somethings are never what we expected, but that doesn’t mean we can’t move on on them. It just take more time than what he would like to.

SHORT FILM FACTORY aduce filme cu intrare liberă în peste 20 de orașe din România și în Praga, Cehia

Octombrie 2018

9 scurtmetraje vor rula în peste 20 de spații alternative din tot atâtea orașe din țară si Praga, Cehia, în ultima săptămână a lunii octombrie. O selecție de 100 minute de film, povești spectaculoase , care continuă o tradiție de peste 9 ani de proiecții speciale, oferind publicului din România șansa unică de a urmări filme scurte multi-premiate, cu intrare liberă.

Rochia galbenă se succede în fiecare cadru în care zâmbind, îi amintește de ei doi. Muzica făurește pod între maluri, iar iubirea dă sens vieții. Instinctul de supraviețuire rămâne nealterat când izolarea închide mintea între pereți fără ferestre, în contrast cu haosul lumii recente. În casacadă se succed emoțiile, dezamăgirile, atacurile de panică, exaltările semnate de dependența cu care mediul virtual vrăjește.

Deși fiecare dintre noi este un întreg, mirajul că o jumătate ne-ar putea completa se menține de generații. Călătoria ne aparține. O facem mai plăcută când invităm pe cineva să ne însoțească. Când nu ne mai zărim în oglindă, împreună, prima stație își alege protagonistul.

Evadările le alegem instinctiv, dar de cele mai multe ori sunt aduse la marginea prăpastiei de suferințe ce n-au mai cutezat a continua. Descoperim cu uimire că regretele pot deveni sursă de energie și aripi noi.

Cum reușim să echilibrăm balanța? Ne apropiem de adevărul pe care natura ni-l pune-n lumină și de cei care iubesc ce facem. Dăruim iubire, entuziasm, energie, și astfel numele tabloului de la răsărit este: armonie.

Și totuși cedăm. Când renunțarea pare a fi singura scăpare din camera devenită mult prea aglomerată.

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Amber

BEST FILM AWARD @ STTP JUNE 2018 AWARDS

Director: Gabriel MIRÉTÉ

Country: France

Duration: 25:18

Synopsis: Heart broken, this little town in Lozère seems to be well bleak for Barnabé. Till the day he’ll met the mysterious Ambre who’s driving him in her universe…

Ulises

BEST CINEMATOGRAPHY AWARD @ STTP JUNE 2018 AWARDS

Director: Jorge Malpica

Country: Mexico

Duration: 07:50

The Curse of the Internet Man

BEST EXPERIMENTAL SHORT FILM AWARD @ STTP JUNE 2018 AWARDS

Director: Benjamin Lister

Country: United Kingdom

Duration: 04:30

Far Away

BEST DIRECTOR AWARD @ STTP JUNE 2018 AWARDS

Director: Nicolas Van Ruychevelt

Country: Belgium

Duration: 23:27

Synopsis: Facing the reality of their failures, victim of their incapacity, Léa and David have to take at radical decision in the hope of saving their relationship.

Expend

BEST ANIMATION SHORT FILM AWARD @ STTP JUNE 2018 AWARDS

Director: Bismark Fernandes

Country: United States

Duration: 03:50

Synopsis: A stop-motion film about a man’s endless hunt for elusive energy sources in a decaying world.

Tiwayo “Wild”

BEST MUSIC VIDEO AWARD @ STTP JUNE 2018 AWARDS

Director: Filip Zaluska

Country: France

Duration: 04:13

You Are Here

BEST DOCUMENTARY SHORT FILM AWARD @ STTP JUNE 2018 AWARDS

Director: Nicholas Jones

Country: United Kingdom

Duration: 15:30

Everyday

BEST SCREENPLAY AWARD @ STTP JUNE 2018 AWARDS

Director: Philippe ORREINDY

Country: France

Duration: 14:10

Synopsis: Françoise is a company director. She is under the perverse psychological influence of her superior. But is it real or is it an hallucination caused by her anguish?

Chemistry 101

BEST EDITING AWARD @ STTP JUNE 2018 AWARDS

Director: Mike Reft

Country: United States

Duration: 09:42

Synopsis: When a shy student musters up the courage to ask out his chemistry classmate, his plan goes awry after his love letter lands on the wrong student’s desk.

SHORT TO THE POINT

Narrative selection

September 2018

Hope

Director: Cem Arslan

Country: Germany

Duration: 14:59

A Forest

Director: Adriano Curci

Country: Argentina

Duration: 11:00

Blackbetty

Director: Marco North

Country: Russian Federation

Duration: 28:00

The Damsels

Director: Delphine Corrard

Country: France

Duration: 19:36

The Shroud

Director: Marie Vandelannoote

Country: France

Duration: 29:55

Que Falta

Director: Indigo bates

Country: Mexico

Duration: 06:29

Death of the Father

Director: Vasileios Douskos

Country: Greece

Duration: 18:00

Gifts from Babylon

Director: Bas Ackermann

Country: Netherlands

Duration: 23:47

Taxi De Niro

Director: Ionut Lucian Rusu

Country: Romania

Duration: 14:09

Rapacious

Director: Eamonn Keane

Country: Ireland

Duration: 12:53

Emma

Director: Sophie Gueydon

Country: United Kingdom

Duration: 12:45

Adult’s Agony

Director: Johanna Johan

Country: Malaysia

Duration: 14:00

The Desecrated

Director: John Gray

Country: United States

Duration: 07:48

Ellie

Director: Miltiades Christides

Country: Greece

Duration: 08:44

Exposure

Director: Emmanuel Delfin

Country: United States

Duration: 07:00

My Mother’s Lovers

Director: Samuel C. Montes de Oca León

Country: Mexico

Duration: 22:00

To Catch Smoke

Director: Sun Shuai

Country: China

Duration: 19:59

My best friend

Director: Catalin Bugean

Country: Romania

Duration: 22:00

Enslaved

Director: Tina Markovich

Country: Bulgaria

Duration: 15:00

Message

Director: Si Zhu

Country: China

Duration: 19:50

A story about time and distance in a city

Director: Tomás Verdejo Urzúa

Country: Czech Republic

Duration: 12:18

The Sweet Death

Director: Luca Di Molfetta

Country: Italy

Duration: 13:25

The Sweet Death

Director: Luca Di Molfetta

Country: Italy

Duration: 13:25

Harmless

Director: Vishesh Mankal

Country: India

Duration: 19:21

SHORT TO THE POINT

Children selection

September 2018

Castle on Berwyn

Director: Jessica Batson

Country: United States

Duration: 02:26

The First Day of April

Director: Shauly Melamed

Country: Israel

Duration: 16:06

Lullaby Theories: Cereal Fluid

Director: Clara Lehmann, Jonathan Lacocque

Country: United States

Duration: 02:32

Lullaby Theories: Cereal Fluid

Director: Clara Lehmann, Jonathan Lacocque

Country: United States

Duration: 02:32

Birds of a feather

Director: Sarah Law

Country: United States

Duration: 01:17

A New Way Home

Director: Hannah Jackson

Country: United States

Duration: 04:30

SHORT TO THE POINT

Student selection

September 2018

Cool Daddy

Director: Steven Yao

Country: United States

Duration: 07:59

Out of Service

Director: Carwyn Leung

Country: United Kingdom

Duration: 03:17

Handycam for Balázs

Director: Kolos Bolla

Country: Hungary

Duration: 14:32

Micro Love

Director: Annaliese Eisenstadt

Country: United States

Duration: 18:59

Mister Swolo

Director: Eric Liddle

Country: United Kingdom

Duration: 11:07

Teaching Yourself How to Die Fast

Director: Grace McCarthy

Country: United States

Duration: 15:10

White Paper

Director: Panya Zhu

Country: Thailand

Duration: 10:10

Musalsal

Director: Uddipta Dutta

Country: India

Duration: 19:57

Live and Leave

Director: Neo Zhang

Country: China

Duration: 16:20

The Three Names of Jane

Director: Sydney Posliff

Country: Canada

Duration: 07:01

Gender Equality: Starting the Conversation

Director: Jamie Song

Country: Republic of Korea

Duration: 20:09

Mind Game

Director: Chiahui Liao

Country: United Kingdom

Duration: 02:46

Inquieto

Director: Yuting Jiang

Country: United Arab Emirates

Duration: 07:59

One Way Ticket

Director: Mark James Birch

Country: United Kingdom

Duration: 09:40

The Melancholy of an English Contemporary Artist in Paris after Being Bitten by a Bat in Transylvania

Director: Wei Shen

Country: France

Duration: 11:00

Laura

Director: Sarah Achar

Country: Mexico

Duration: 16:43

SHORT TO THE POINT

Animation selection

September 2018

Dear Son

Director: Aagje Van Damme

Country: Belgium

Duration: 06:31

Mercurio

Director: Michele Bernardi

Country: Italy

Duration: 10:00

A Chinese legal case

Director: Yanan Jia

Country: China

Duration: 24:10

-6.831 miles

Director: Shuna Luo

Country: United Kingdom

Duration: 04:23

People of the Book :: أهل الكتاب

Director: Ofer Winter

Country: Israel

Duration: 15:16

The Elevator

Director: Hannah Keiffert

Country: United States

Duration: 08:57

Idol-L

Director: Jaehyeong Kim

Country: United States

Duration: 02:47

Prey

Director: Sun, Jing

Country: United States

Duration: 05:59

SHORT TO THE POINT

Documentary selection

September 2018

Running

Director: Lorena De Miranda Marques

Country: United States

Duration: 24:00

First Medicine

Director: The long Man, Joseph Erb

Country: United States

Duration: 14:26

An Eaglet’s Flight

Director: Cherin Spencer-Bower

Country: United States

Duration: 04:39

Don’t Expel the Blacks

Director: Princess A. Hairston

Country: United States

Duration: 05:00

Syria’s Tent Cities

Director: Mira Hamour

Country: United States

Duration: 30:00

Nothing has to be Official

Director: Irma Oldenburg

Country: Netherlands

Duration: 28:00

The Time Machine

Director: Gabriel Radu , Bogdan Marinescu

Country: Romania

Duration: 09:17

Like Gold, Like Grey

Director: Zi Wei

Country: China

Duration: 20:17

SHORT TO THE POINT

Experimental selection

September 2018

Vous

Director: Pari Antoniou

Country: Greece

Duration: 08:13

Cavalcade

Director: Gaetan Saint-Remy

Country: Belgium

Duration: 26:00

Minds On Mute

Director: Lander Haverals, Annick Timmermans

Country: Belgium

Duration: 09:00

Embers

Director: Marnix Sixma

Country: Netherlands

Duration: 15:18

Kuo’s Eyes

Director: O.B. De Alessi

Country: Italy

Duration: 28:49

Furroe (POC)

Director: Jesse Haaja

Country: Finland

Duration: 03:15

Rootless Flowers

Director: Zihuan Li

Country: Japan

Duration: 15:50

Director: Jordan James Bridge

Country: United Kingdom

Duration: 06:15

The Hand That Feeds

Director: Terryll Loffler

Country: Canada

Duration: 05:00

The Sea

Director: Christopher Serra

Country: United States

Duration: 13:48

Geometry

Director: Simo Liu

Country: United States

Duration: 01:32

Venus in Aquarius. Chapter II: Ana

Director: David Silva

Country: Colombia

Duration: 07:27

SHORT TO THE POINT

Music Video selection

September 2018

Failure – Fabiola

Director: Gilles de Voghel

Country: Belgium

Duration: 03:08

Bloodred Hourglass – Six Feet Savior

Director: Jesse Haaja

Country: Finland

Duration: 03:53

Auris – Domestic Violence

Director: Nicolas Saldivar, Felipe Carcamo

Country: Chile

Duration: 05:31

Things Were Better Before

Director: Lu Pulici

Country: Italy

Duration: 06:00

Miko Foy – Wasted Time

Director: Grey Smoley

Country: United States

Duration: 02:35

Again

Director: Eliya Akbaş

Country: Spain

Duration: 04:22

SHORT TO THE POINT

Mini Shorts selection

September 2018

Plushophilia

Director: Mauricio Marces

Country: United States

Duration: 01:38

Adult Supervision

Director: Daniel Castro, Rinee Shah

Country: United States

Duration: 01:37

The Riveters

Director: Kate Felix

Country: Canada

Duration: 02:40

Lemon & Elderflower

Director: Ilenia Cotardo

Country: United Kingdom

Duration: 02:41

SHORT TO THE POINT

Mobile Phone Shorts selection

September 2018

Kamikaze

Director: Natalia Rojas Gamarra

Country: Peru

Duration: 19:48

Nevermore

Director: Nikita Kaf

Country: Russian Federation

Duration: 06:07

Home alone, baby blue

Director: John e. Kilberg

Country: United States

Duration: 11:35

SHORT TO THE POINT

Amateur Shorts selection

September 2018

The Game of the Clock

Director: Michele Olivieri

Country: United Kingdom

Duration: 07:40

Ten minutes tops

Director: Antoine de Bujadoux

Country: France

Duration: 06:16

Broccoli

Director: Ivan Sainz-Pardo

Country: Germany

Duration: 03:30

SHORT TO THE POINT – SEPTEMBER 2018 AWARDS

BEST FILM

THE DESECRATED

Director: John Gray

Country: United States

Duration: 07:48

Synopsis: A young morgue attendant encounters an unwelcome visitor.

BEST DIRECTOR

EMMA

Director: Sophie Gueydon

Country: United Kingdom

Duration: 12:45

Synopsis: Emma (9) and her Mum recently moved to a new flat in London. Mum suffers from depression. Emma takes care of both herself and her mother, struggling between being a child and looking after her Mum’s needs.

BEST SCREENPLAY

The Damsels

Director: Delphine Corrard

Country: France

Duration: 19:36

Synopsis: Laurenne is an old lady in a retirement home. Discreet and obedient, she is quietly getting depressed. That is until she meets Sylvie, a forty-year-old woman freshly hired in the establishment. As they become friends, Laurenne finally discovers what boldness is.

BEST CINEMATOGRAPHY

The Damsels

Director: Delphine Corrard

Country: France

Duration: 19:36

BEST EDITING

THE DESECRATED

Director: John Gray

Editor: Scott Boyd, ACE

Country: United States

Duration: 07:48

Synopsis: A young morgue attendant encounters an unwelcome visitor.

BEST NARRATIVE SHORT FILM

Ellie

Director: Miltiades Christides

Country: Greece

Duration: 08:44

Synopsis: Alarmed by area crime, Ellie panics when a hooded man enters her apartment.

BEST STUDENT SHORT FILM

Live And Leave

Director: Neo Zhang

Country: China

Duration: 16:20

Synopsis: A child who is abducted and sold, he can not speak anymore because his stepmother, and when she grows up, she goes back to her mother’s side. Desperate, he finally told his story at the police station.

BEST YOUNG DIRECTOR

Mister Swolo

Director: Eric Liddle

Country: United Kingdom

Duration: 11:07

Synopsis: Facing a problematic creative block, Harrison embarks on a journey to Glen Coe with his best friend in order to reignite his artistic imagination, blissfully unaware of the chaos that stands before him.

BEST CHILDREN SHORT FILM

The First Day of April

Director: Shauly Melamed

Country: Israel

Duration: 16:06

Synopsis: Guli wakes up in the middle of the night and finds her father, Uri, preparing a prank for April Fools’ Day (April 1st), which begins that next morning. When she awakens in the morning she is surprised to hear that her father died during his morning jog at the kibbutz where they live. While her family is busy with the funeral preparations, Guli finds clues that maybe her father is playing a practical joke on everyone.

BEST ANIMATION SHORT FILM

-6.831 miles

Director: Shuna Luo

Country: United Kingdom

Duration: 04:23

Synopsis: -6.831 miles tells a story of a depressed man addicted to tiny space, and finally make himself disappeared. It’s a film about the universal feeling of insecurity as an individual that everyone had.

BEST DOCUMENTARY SHORT FILM

The Time Machine

Director: Gabriel Radu , Bogdan Marinescu

Country: Romania

Duration: 09:17

Synopsis: In 1981, in comunist Romania, a simple worker invented the time machine…his whole life changes after that.

BEST EXPERIMENTAL SHORT FILM

Vous

Director: Pari Antoniou

Country: Greece

Duration: 08:13

Synopsis: The story is about the hopes and dreams of a girl who is about to pass away, slowly dying just like her country around her ,the beautiful moments are the ones that stay with her until the end.

BEST MUSIC VIDEO

Things Were Better Before

Director: Lu Pulici

Country: Italy

Duration: 06:00

Synopsis: Lost in the deep and polluted ocean, the captain of a submarine is trying to find a place for saving his friends and his little fish. Music video of the song Things Were Better Before by the English band Tankus The Henge.

BEST MINI SHORT

Adult Supervision

Director: Daniel Castro, Rinee Shah

Country: United States

Duration: 01:37

Synopsis: A love letter to the competent adults that help us navigate the tricky waters of life.

BEST MOBILE PHONE SHORT

Kamikaze

Director: Natalia Rojas Gamarra

Country: Peru

Duration: 19:48

Synopsis: Julia, a 27 year old woman, has been dumped. This has left her in a pretty vulnerable situation that led her into making bad decisions that have ended up turning her into a love kamikaze.

BEST AMATEUR SHORT FILM

Ten minutes tops

Director: Antoine de Bujadoux

Country: France

Duration: 06:16

Synopsis: A man and a woman sit at a table together. They have ten minutes to talk and lots of things to say.

SHORT FILM FACTORY aduce filme cu intrare liberă în peste 20 de orașe din România și în Praga, Cehia

Noiembrie 2018

Când cinematografia îmbrăca hainele de nou născut, filmele erau foarte scurte, uneori durau un minut sau chiar mai puțin. După cortina de catifea a scurt metrajelor, creativitatea îmbrățișează strâns imaginația, libertatea și curajul, reușind să vă ofere o călătorie diferită de fiecare dată. SHORT FILM FACTORY (by STTP) vă invită să vă cunoașteți. Pentru că viața bate filmul.

10 scurtmetraje vor rula în peste 20 de spații alternative din tot atâtea orașe din țară și Praga, Cehia, în ultima săptămână a lunii noiembrie 2018. O selecție de 120 de minute de film, povești spectaculoase , care continuă o tradiție de peste 9 ani de proiecții speciale, oferind publicului din România șansa unică de a urmări filme scurte multi-premiate, cu intrare liberă.

Cum alegem culorile atunci când cei mici ne întreabă cu priviri iscoditoare despre tot ce-i înconjoară? Adăugăm și nuanțele de gri? Respirația încă-și savurează oxigenul. Când măștile se-adună laolaltă, pare că toate-ar fi reale. Deși pe scenă urcă pe rând, reușesc să ascundă realitatea care nu cunoaște reflexia oglinzii. Să-ți înstrăinezi masca pe care refuzi să o porți pare a fi soluția unei vieți cu cer senin. Scările nu rămân întotdeauna la locul lor atunci când pașii grăbiți vânează căutări. În bătaia vântului, margaretele desenează cu petale amintiri din tablouri cu vară, râs de copil și tușeuri din lumină.

Când ai uitat ultima dată de tine? Nu-ți amintești, dar știi că ți-ai fi dorit ca acolo, pe podul de pe care apa nu părea adâncă, să fi mers la braț cu tine, cel captiv, dobândind astfel, libertatea. Rătăcind, te întâlnești cu fericirea, dar agenda ei prea încărcată, îți lasă prea puține opțiuni. Călătoria păstrează, de cele mai multe ori, doar ce este mai important pentru tine. Uneori, iluzia eternității fascinează și provoacă dependență. „De-aș putea întoarce timpul înapoi” …ne spunem uneori. De câte ori ți-ai dori să retrăiești aceeași emoție?

Logodna se sărbătorește cu fast, când protagoniștii ajung la timp. Ocazional, ironia se-mpiedică-n ițele iubirii și dă peste cap povestea. Hazardul stă comod pe fotoliu, în timp ce adrenalina adună pixeli de suspans.

Lansat în anul 2009 sub forma unei caravane cinematografice în 28 de orașe din România, STTP a devenit un festival lunar la care se înscriu filme din toate colțurile lumii. Festivalul Short to the Point oferă lunar 13 categorii de premii celor mai bune scurt metraje înscrise, urmând ca acestea să fie proiectate în cadrul evenimentului național Short Film Factory by Short to the Point.

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This is the list of the films screened at Short Film Factory (by SHORT to the Point) in November 2018.

Big Booom

BEST CHILDREN SHORT FILM AWARD @ STTP JULY 2018 AWARDS

Director: Marat Narimanov

Country: Russian Federation

Duration: 04:00

Synopsis: The history of humanity and of our planet in four minutes. An eco-friendly statement developed in a single shot that has it all: humor, action and tragedy.

CADUCEA

BEST NARRATIVE SHORT FILM AWARD @ STTP JULY 2018 AWARDS

Director: Christophe Mavroudis

Country: Belgium

Duration: 25:00

Synopsis: “Tom hides not only a deformed face behind his flamboyant Commedia dell’arte masks, but also a dark secret that won’t be divulged until decades later. ”

Daisy

BEST ANIMATION SHORT FILM AWARD @ STTP JULY 2018 AWARDS

Director: Yu Yu

Country: Taiwan

Duration: 09:42

Synopsis: Daisy is a young girl who is being cared by Ben, a caring robot during wartime. After a bomb attack, Daisy vanishes. This begins Bens’ search for her.

Home

BEST CINEMATOGRAPHY AWARD @ STTP JULY 2018 AWARDS

Director: Dasha Koroleva

Country: Hungary

Duration: 13:40

Synopsis: Young woman Maria arrives to the house of her childhood to prepare it for sale. But there are things which are not easy to get rid of: the past and the memories.

In Joy

BEST DIRECTOR AWARD @ STTP JULY 2018 AWARDS

Director: Maryna Roshchyna

Country: Ukraine

Duration: 27:21

“Love Story” by PPS

BEST MINI SHORT AWARD @ STTP JULY 2018 AWARDS

Director: Nuno Rocha

Country: France

Duration: 02:49

Digital Age

BEST MUSIC VIDEO AWARD @ STTP JULY 2018 AWARDS

Director: Piripinghi (Sonia De Nicolo)

Country: United States

Duration: 02:52

Synopsis: A music video of the song Digital Age by Evangelia, illustrating the wonders and frustrations of trying to find love in a world of technology.

SIKLUS

BEST FILM AND BEST EDITING AWARD @ STTP JULY 2018 AWARDS

Director: Louis Minnaar

Country: South Africa

Duration: 24:42

In deep deep space even straight lines are circles and the universe a merry-go-round. Siklus is a film art story of love and time and space… and everything in between.

The Delivery

BEST SCREENPLAY AWARD @ STTP JULY 2018 AWARDS

Director: Yazan Al Ghazzawi

Country: Jordan

Duration: 22:00

Wait in Vain

BEST AMATEUR SHORT FILM AWARD @ STTP JULY 2018 AWARDS

Director: Indigo Bates

Country: United States

Duration: 03:14

SHORT TO THE POINT

Narrative selection

October 2018

The Ballad of a Haunted Man

Director: Emma Pitt

Country: United Kingdom

Duration: 16:32

Maria

Director: Giovanni Rustanto

Country: Czech Republic

Duration: 10:20

Deliver

Director: Ricardo Farias

Country: Mexico

Duration: 08:00

The Master of Cuchillo

Director: Rodrigo Sebastian Gonzalez

Country: Mexico

Duration: 11:26

Carro

Director: Gustavo Rosa

Country: United States

Duration: 12:00

Moon On Fire

Director: Pierfrancesco Bigazzi

Country: Italy

Duration: 12:26

Father n Son

Director: Gionata Medeot

Country: Italy

Duration: 14:00

Rearrangement

Director: Emilios Avraam

Country: Cyprus

Duration: 08:55

What’s In The Box?

Director: Ryan Kelly

Country: United States

Duration: 05:48

Within

Director: Christopher Key

Country: United Kingdom

Duration: 07:15

Alone

Director: Antoine Laurens

Country: France

Duration: 15:25

Running For Life

Director: Minghua Shi, Minghui Shi

Country: France

Duration: 29:53

Ius Maris

Director: Vincenzo D’arpe

Country: Italy

Duration: 15:00

A Welcome to Arms

Director: Elena Nodel

Country: Russian Federation

Duration: 05:55

Saved by Grace

Director: Brandan Haskell

Country: United States

Duration: 11:51

Anonymous Psychos

Director: Anaëlle Morf

Country: Switzerland

Duration: 05:31

Pinki

Director: Spike Hyunsuk Kim

Country: Republic of Korea

Duration: 10:40

Shadows

Director: Kiriakos Kotsinis

Country: Greece

Duration: 26:30

Chhi Chhi (Dirty)

Director: Surabhi Saral Sachdev

Country: India

Duration: 11:00

Farewell to the Ark

Director: Yi-Feng Chang

Country: Taiwan

Duration: 25:58

The Accomplice

Director: Ryan Gatt

Country: Malta

Duration: 14:37

The Veiled Persona

Director: Elham Atyabi

Country: Islamic Republic of Iran

Duration: 15:00

Visiting God

Director: Laura Tamošiūnaitė Šakalienė

Country: Lithuania

Duration: 24:48

Pickpocket

Director: Madeleine Clair

Country: France

Duration: 12:04

Polka: Purveyor of Dots

Director: Daniel Castro

Country: United States

Duration: 04:30

Life, in a day!

Director: Aniket Rumde

Country: India

Duration: 10:45

Utopia

Director: Aimiende Negbenebor Sela

Country: United States

Duration: 15:00

SHORT TO THE POINT

Children selection

October 2018

The Ball

Director: Fernando G. Pliego

Country: Spain

Duration: 08:22

Team Teenettes

Director: Brian Morelan, Bianca Poroliseanu

Country: Canada

Duration: 25:00

My Son NN

Director: Hsun-Chun Chuang

Country: Taiwan

Duration: 03:00

SHORT TO THE POINT

Student selection

October 2018

We Are Lost

Director: Yu Yu (Candice)

Country: Australia

Duration: 18:16

Building A Swimming Pool

Director: Simon Broström

Country: Sweden

Duration: 12:00

Youth

Director: Yasemin Demirci

Country: United Kingdom

Duration: 08:00

This One’s for You Alice

Director: Patrick Hanser

Country: Brazil

Duration: 11:03

Family Footage

Director: Freyja Pakarinen

Country: United Kingdom

Duration: 13:47

The Hum

Director: Leonardo Lenzini

Country: Italy

Duration: 12:49

It’s a Match!

Director: Schnabel Annabella

Country: Hungary

Duration: 13:42

A Bitter War

Director: Christine Bendorf

Country: United States

Duration: 07:10

2006 in Flame Red

Director: Zachary Lane

Country: United States

Duration: 14:57

Aneta

Director: Yuting Jiang

Country: United Arab Emirates

Duration: 08:43

Lost At Sea

Director: Anna Gamarnik

Country: United States

Duration: 15:47

W200

Director: Tim Hudson

Country: United States

Duration: 06:01

Milestone

Director: Aviv Kaufman

Country: Israel

Duration: 13:04

The Dream Hotel

Director: Vesa Vlad

Country: United Kingdom

Duration: 07:26

DINK

Director: Tom Bridges

Country: Australia

Duration: 05:01

Motherland

Director: Panya Zhu

Country: Thailand

Duration: 21:01

Help, My Soul Cries!

Director: Ciara Boniface, Vanessa Cortés

Country: United States

Duration: 05:33

SHORT TO THE POINT

Animation selection

October 2018

Synchronicity

Director: Michelle Brand

Country: United Kingdom

Duration: 03:47

Such is Life…

Director: Ning Cheng

Country: United States

Duration: 02:27

Lost Steps

Director: Per Nilsson

Country: Sweden

Duration: 10:55

On My Mind

Director: Shirley Zhou

Country: United States

Duration: 06:19

Red Panda

Director: Keyon Guo

Country: Singapore

Duration: 04:49

Chronosync

Director: Sofia Laszlovszky

Country: Hungary

Duration: 07:34

Insomnia

Director: Gabriel Güeiros

Country: Canada

Duration: 02:33

SHORT TO THE POINT

Documentary selection

October 2018

The Art of Night

Director: Muhammad Asif Islam

Country: United States

Duration: 04:06

On The Roof

Director: Marie Dupont

Country: United States

Duration: 25:00

Mother tongue

Director: Md Nadim Iqbal

Country: Canada

Duration: 11:53

The Beast Underneath

Director: Anaëlle Morf, Alexandre Rufin

Country: Switzerland

Duration: 13:25

My Immigrant Story

Director: Yuriko Gamo Romer

Country: United States

Duration: 02:54

Insecure

Director: Yehia Sakr

Country: Egypt

Duration: 14:36

Tamwe Paradise

Director: André Koster

Country: Netherlands

Duration: 04:14

SHORT TO THE POINT

Experimental selection

October 2018

Lucky Fish

Director: Philippe Bensadon

Country: Israel

Duration: 07:36

Information Superhighway

Director: Mathew Nelson

Country: United States

Duration: 11:25

Post tenebras

Director: Apostolos Karoulas

Country: Greece

Duration: 20:00

Don’t Worry, Be Happy

Director: Jennifer Revit

Country: Denmark, Norway, Sweden

Duration: 16:54

Void Souls

Director: Jade Annalise Gaskin

Country: United Kingdom

Duration: 09:13

SHORT TO THE POINT

Music selection

October 2018

Die Berge Brand

Director: Louis Minnaar

Country: South Africa

Duration: 04:04

Plan

Director: Aidan Johnston

Country: Canada

Duration: 04:00

Carnage – Dive To Hell

Director: Tomasz Szypryt, Piotr Bardo

Country: Poland

Duration: 05:33

The Reaper

Director: Bartosz Lukasiuk

Country: Poland

Duration: 03:30

Too

Director: Anastasia Lebedeva

Country: United States

Duration: 04:57

Underneath My Feet

Director: Nic Gyalson

Country: Switzerland

Duration: 05:11

SHORT TO THE POINT

Mini selection

October 2018

BELDONA Poetic Intellectual

Director: Daniel Kunz

Country: Switzerland

Duration: 01:38

The Tattooist

Director: Michael Wong

Country: China

Duration: 01:20

If It Ain’t Baroque

Director: Gregg Jaffe

Country: United States

Duration: 01:00

The Story of Our Workflow

Director: Alex Safavinia

Country: Malaysia

Duration: 01:25

Guilty Pleasure

Director: Yannik Leibacher, René Müller

Country: Switzerland

Duration: 01:20

The Deprived

Director: Rashmi Mayur

Country: India

Duration: 01:41

Reckoning

Director: Giorgos Alexakis

Country: United Kingdom

Duration: 02:15

Bros

Director: William Dio

Country: Canada

Duration: 02:00

Machine

Director: Ekaterina Volovich

Country: Russian Federation

Duration: 01:29

The Only Thing I Love More Than You Is Ranch Dressing

Director: Sydney Clara Brafman

Country: United States

Duration: 01:00

Sleepless

Director: Christian Ludwig

Country: Germany

Duration: 01:51

Kitchen Sink Classic

Director: Lauren Shein

Country: United States

Duration: 03:00

Space

Director: Jason Gonzalez

Country: United States

Duration: 01:00

Say Please

Director: Blake Bauer

Country: United States

Duration: 03:29

SHORT TO THE POINT

Mobile selection

October 2018

The Altruistics

Director: Cathy Beasley

Country: United States

Duration: 16:48

Sacrosanct

Director: Roselle Doyle

Country: Canada

Duration: 09:10

Dark Dawn in Tokyo

Director: Leonidas

Country: Singapore

Duration: 14:05

SHORT TO THE POINT

Amateur selection

October 2018

Roses Are Red

Director: Becky Kyuwon Moon

Country: Republic of Korea

Duration: 06:16

L-P-D-M

Director: Nawal Kaffouf

Country: France

Duration: 07:02