Showcase of the best FILMS in the world today.
Audience Award Winners:
Best Short Film: OLIVE
Best Sound & Music: colors of life
Best Animation: DEATH AND MAGIC CASTLES
Watch the Audience Feedback Video for each film:
OLIVE, 5min., UK, Comedy
Directed by Flora Charlotte Lopategui
Olive is a loud and bombastic proof of concept short for a series. It follows the story of olive, an aspiring singer, whose ego is bigger than her career. As a result, she takes out her wrath on a series of unsuspecting dates.
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DEATH AND MAGIC CASTLES, USA, Animation
Directed by Kari Barber
On a beautiful, sunny day five year old Zizou fell to the ground and died when his heart suddenly stopped. In that moment of losing my son I was thrown into the cold reality of America’s complicated relationship with death. Through animation, “Death and Magic Castles” explores traditions of mourning and loss in different cultures and follows my quest to bring death and life closer together.
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colors of life, 4min., Germany, Experimental
Directed by Valerian Takashi Seethaler
This film is about the all-encompassing joy of life and saving soil.
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THE TRYOUT, 5min., USA, Animation
Directed by Michael Jonathan Gellis
The story of a young man who tries out for a big league baseball team, whether you like it or not.
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AWKWARD SEXUAL ENCOUNTERS, 3min., USA, Comedy
Directed by Brian Broeckelman
Two young(ish) roommates navigating their way through dating in the big city, telling one nightmarish date story at a time.
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BIRD’S EYE VIEW, 2min., USA, Fashion
Directed by Sven Dreesbach
A freediver introduces the audience to what it means to submerge your body and soul into the Ocean. During the course of her dive using “just one breath” she takes us onto a journey way back to a time when our lives once had just begun and our lungs still inhaled water.
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MAMBO, 4min., Spain, Fashion
Directed by Luis Castro, Yosu Menacho
Artistic and experimental music video.
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SURRENDER, 5min., Mexico, Fashion
Directed by Hector Torres Espinoza
Omnipresent Zeus finds a disturbance in his creation, his daughters are misbehaving, punishment is required.
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L’IVRESSE, 3min., France, Fashion
Directed by Favio Vinson
A collection of party people stuck in a basement, feeling the energy coming down… only to explode once again later.
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ABSENT, 3min., USA, Experimental
Directed by Brian Reilly
A Med School student is haunted by the numerous emails his professor sent him about his absence in class and is at risk of failing the program.
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