SHORTS PROGRAM: LIVE ACTION 2 Short Film Competition

SHORTS PROGRAM: LIVE ACTION 2

THE OLD YOUNG CROW
2022 USA 12 MIN
DIRECTOR Liam LoPinto
An Iranian boy befriends an old Japanese woman at a graveyard in Tokyo.

THURSDAY (CZWARTEK)
2022 Poland 15 MIN
DIRECTOR Bren Cukier
Maria is an actress with secret plans for Thursday, but her day takes an unexpected turn.

SÈT LAM
2022 France | Reunion Island 23 MIN
DIRECTOR Vincent Fontano
In the midst of a trance ritual, a young girl is paralyzed by fear, scared her loved ones may be hurt or disappear. It is then that her grandmother tells her the strange tale of Edwardo, the first one of his kin to have seen and fought death. The child is captivated, feeling there is a reason her grandmother is recounting this tale.

HAFEKASI
2023 Australia 16 MIN
DIRECTOR Annelise Hickey
Mona is a 10-year-old Tongan-Australian girl who begins to realize she’s different from her single, white mum and family. Both mother and daughter navigate identity and belonging in Melbourne suburbia during the ‘90s.

PRIMETIME MOTHER
2023 Philippines 14 MIN
DIRECTOR Sonny Calvento
The willpower of a mother is tested as she endures the tedious and degrading audition process of a popular Philippine game show.

MADDEN
2023 Sweden 12 MIN
DIRECTOR Malin Ingrid Johansson
MADDEN tells a story about relating to your herd, duty versus longing, high-heeled shoes stepping in dung and heavy animal bodies thundering across a Scandinavian landscape – a forest of tall tree trunks between our protagonist and the outside world.

Details

Running Time (minutes): 95

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