THEIR HAPPINESS • 2019
DIRECTOR: Carol Rodrigues
COUNTRY: Brazil
RUNTIME: '14
SYNOPSIS: Ivy and Tamirys run away from the police after the Women's March. During their escape, they end up getting in an abandoned building, where the desire they felt for each other since they first met in the protest only keeps growing. The tension of an imminent violence, announced by the increasing noise in the room next door, foretells the explosion.
NOMINATIONS:
• Best Short Film
SHORT FILMS
BUFFALO & TROUT • 2019
DIRECTOR: Presley Paras
COUNTRY: USA
RUNTIME: '13
SYNOPSIS: Two female drugs addicts heist a white supremacist safe house but are faced with a decision; take the cash or save a young girl's life.
NOMINATIONS:
• Best Short Film
DIRECTOR: Caleb Triana
COUNTRY: Mexico
RUNTIME: '12
SYNOPSIS: Andrea a young woman who falls in love very easily and who fails in love, does not realize that her best friend Angel is in love with her.
NOMINATIONS:
• Best Short Film
ILLUSIONED • 2018
DIRECTOR: Alex Ygoa
COUNTRY: Spain
RUNTIME: '12
SYNOPSIS: Eric is a very particular guy with a lot of particular obsessions. Juana is a very particular girl with a carpe diem philosophy. Eric falls in love with her, but before asking her out on a date he must struggle with his three crazy exes.
NOMINATIONS:
• Best Short Film
A DATE'S DECONSTRUCTION
• 2019
DIRECTOR: Patrick Büchting
COUNTRY: Germany
RUNTIME: '27
SYNOPSIS: Johanna mourns for her deceased friend. The only thing that remains of him are memories and a tattered half of a treasure map. Together with her friends Micha and Oliver, she follows the map to the Mediterranean Sea to solve the riddle. On the way across a deserted island, each of the friends has to learn to let go and deal with the topic of death.
NOMINATIONS:
• Best Short Film
TESORO • 2018
DIRECTOR: Pedro Pacheco Arlandi
COUNTRY: Spain
RUNTIME: '9
SYNOPSIS: Julian, an 11-year-old boy is playing in the woods with some friends. Children disappear and Julian is lost in the foliage. A strange presence begins to chase him. Julian tries by all means to escape the monster that threatens him. In his escape, he finds some ruins where he hides and can not be found. But being finds it and catches it. Julian wakes up in a religion class in the 80s. The classmates leave the classroom and are left alone with the teacher.
NOMINATIONS:
• Best Short Film
THE FOREST OF SILENCE• 2019
DIRECTOR: Mehmet Kanadlı, Halil İbrahim Kaplan
COUNTRY: Turkey
RUNTIME: '16
SYNOPSIS: In a dystopian future that people are subject to government permission to have children, an alternative system named as “Exchange” is built to balance the population and source consumption.
NOMINATIONS:
• Best Short Film
THE EXCHANGE • 2018
DIRECTOR: Benjamín Villaverde
COUNTRY: Spain
RUNTIME: '18
SYNOPSIS: A plastic surgeon finds no inspiration for his beauty operations, until he meets a woman.
NOMINATIONS:
• Best Short Film
THE SURGEON • 2018
DIRECTOR: Israel González
COUNTRY: Spain
RUNTIME: '19
SYNOPSIS: Kaimwa is a humble congolese miner and Etxabe is a senior executive of a transnational mobile phone corporation. Both men will unconsciously share a 4 days trip that will take them from the war for the control of coltan mines in North Kivu to the Basque Parliament, although each one’s intentions are quite different.
NOMINATIONS:
• Best Short Film
TOURNÉES • 2018
DIRECTOR: Ivan Costarrosa
COUNTRY: Spain
RUNTIME: '10
SYNOPSIS: A couple lives in abuse situation, communication is non-existent and his solitary attempts to fix it, only make the situation worse.
NOMINATIONS:
• Best Short Film
TURN AND TURN • 2019
DIRECTOR: Sergio Rozas
COUNTRY: Spain
RUNTIME: '10
SYNOPSIS: A lonely girl walks around a future Tokyo chased by weird huge monsters. Even though she fights them, the monsters just keep growing in size and number so the girl has to make a decision.
NOMINATIONS:
• Best Short Film
• Best Director
I DON'T WANT TO BE ALONE
• 2019
