BEYOND HER LENS • 2019
DIRECTOR: Teresa Hirsch
COUNTRY: Czech Republic
RUNTIME: '19
SYNOPSIS: "Beyond Her Lens" is inspired by the life and work of female conflict-zone photographer Jana Andert. It follows Alex's (portrayed by prominent Czech actress Lucie Vondrackova) return to Prague as she attempts to piece together a sense of normalcy after shooting footage in Mosul, Iraq.
NOMINATIONS:
• Best Short Film
SHORT FILMS
A MOMENT OF LOVE • 2018
DIRECTOR: Julian Rachev
COUNTRY: Bulgaria
RUNTIME: '30
SYNOPSIS: The true love between Magda and Kalin is not enough to keep them together.
NOMINATIONS:
• Best Short Film
DIRECTOR: Allan J. Arcal
COUNTRY: España
RUNTIME: '10
SYNOPSIS: In the darkest night, Maria returns to house between tears. There they wait for his husband, his daughter and a terrible secret.
NOMINATIONS:
• Best Short Film
WITHOUT YOU • 2018
DIRECTOR: Pablo S. Pastor
COUNTRY: Spain
RUNTIME: '15
SYNOPSIS: A young woman is about to spend a quiet night at home with the only company of a movie. After a friend’s call, everything seems to go wrong. The feeling of anguish and confusion grows every minute at the inexplicable events that are chained in the house and a question runs through her mind, is she really alone?
NOMINATIONS:
• Best Short Film
BYE BYE BABY• 2017
DIRECTOR: Luis Galán
COUNTRY: Spain
RUNTIME: '15
SYNOPSIS: What has bothered us today? What could worry us if we were a child without even shoes in the streets of Saint Louis? AnorMal is a sample of a trip to poverty, contained in lights and sounds, with a reality that has little to do with ours.
NOMINATIONS:
• Best Short Film
ANORMAL• 2017
DIRECTOR: Paul Haans & Jeroen Wielheesen
COUNTRY: The Netherlands
RUNTIME: '15
SYNOPSIS: 1743, Limburg, the Netherlands. People are starving and supressed by the ruling power. Poor working people unite in small groups to revolt against their rulers and call themselves Buckriders. When captain of the Buckriders Mathias Ponts is being arrested, his son Thias is forced to make decisions which will determine his future.
NOMINATIONS:
• Best Short Film
• Best Director
STRAIGHT TO THE GALLOWS•2019
DIRECTOR: Julie Goldstein
COUNTRY: USA
RUNTIME: '22
SYNOPSIS: Once there was a time when images were made from head to hand. Devices came into being which allowed the chemical capture of light. Persistence of vision, motion. Electrical capture of light. Distribution and broadcast, reception with the set. Computers - the pixel - a fraction of light - more like pointillism, a comic. The speed, multiplicity of transmission - active viewership. The generation of synthetic images to replicate the real, not necessarily in terms of realism of representation, but in terms of realism in interaction. Interaction, an extension of active viewing. Randomness increases. Screen being replaced by an immersive experience. Projection of a holographic image. Virtual becomes a replacement space.
NOMINATIONS:
• Best Short Film
VIRTUAL MEMORY • 2019
DIRECTOR: Marc Vivancos
COUNTRY: Spain
RUNTIME: '11
SYNOPSIS: Oscar lives in the mountains with his family. His only friend is a few months old foal. When the foal disappears one day, finding it will become his only goal.
NOMINATIONS:
• Best Short Film
• Best Actor:
Ivan Luengo
BREAD ISN'T FOR HORSES • 2018
DIRECTOR: Jakub Drobczynski
COUNTRY: Poland
RUNTIME: '22
SYNOPSIS: An uncle arrives to take back home his young nephew. He's going to come home for Christmas. On the way, something strange begins to happen to him. But is it really his familiar home? Is it possession or just a mental disorder?
NOMINATIONS:
• Best Short Film
MADNESS • 2019
DIRECTOR: Oscar Gagliardi
COUNTRY: Spain
RUNTIME: '9
SYNOPSIS: Maybe Lazaro wasn't so happy with his old friend Jesus whe he take him like an example to bring someone back to life after death.
Learn all the details about Lazaro and all he has to say about it. Meet the profesional apostols team and how they help with Jesus labor. Not everything is how they told us.
NOMINATIONS:
• Best Short Film
LÁZARO • 2019
DIRECTOR: Cíntia Taylor
COUNTRY: The Netherlands
RUNTIME: '10
SYNOPSIS: Marie attempts to avoid committing the same mistakes as her mother in her relationship with her daughter.
NOMINATIONS:
• Best Short Film
WHEN WAVES BREAK • 2019