51 in '21
selected films
51
Selected films
7
Awards
3
special mentions

Directed by Eleonora Gambula
Country of Origin Italy
Runtime 8:44
In the vicinity of a big industrial center in Sardinia, three children find a wounded swallow.
Facing a small adventure like that of saving an animal in danger, brings up a series of anxieties and questions to which Anna, the most mature of the group, will be able to answer with the help of the wise Aunt.

RECYCLED VERSES
Animation film
Directed by Randy Kelly
Country of Origin Canada
Runtime 3:28
Recycled Verses is a cinepoem (video for a spoken word poem) about the cyclical nature of life and art and self-expression.

AN OCCURRENCE AT ARVERNE
Live action film
Directed by Robert Broadhurst
Country of Origin USA
Runtime 7:25
A man arrives at an unknown home with an unknown agenda.

WHITE NIGHT
Animation film
Directed by Robert Broadhurst
Country of Origin Algeria
Runtime 7:12
The events of the movie take place at the top of the high Aures Mountains and precisely in one of the tall Atlantic cedar trees. in those mountains and in the cold winter, when snow covers all the place, with light winds, the snow masses that accumulate on the tree fall, to roll on the mountain until it reaches the bottom, In front of a warm house ,it is divided into three balls forming a snowman, some beautiful events happen with a snowman and a girl in that house, for that nature do its last .

MATTY BOY
Live action film
Directed by Shahid Kamal
Country of Origin UK
Runtime 13:57
What would you do with a second chance at life? The true story of Matt Caruana, a 14-year-old student suffering from depression who took the ultimate step and found himself with a new perspective & purpose in life.
A man with a suggestible mind marries a second wife mistakenly out of a desperate situation and now faces the consequences, taking him on a twisting and turning rollercoaster of a ride beyond anything he could have ever imagined.

THE LAST TOUCH
Live action film
Directed by Melissa Mars
Country of Origin USA
Runtime 4:24
A young couple struggles to keep their love alive in a world where technology has replaced intimacy, and human touch is deadly.

CHEYENNE
Documentary
Directed by Rich Underwood
Country of Origin USA
Runtime 9:14
Facing kidney failure at the age of 20, Cheyenne’s options for a donor are dwindling until an unexpected turn of events presents love and a lifesaving gift. A set of skilled caregivers operate on Cheyenne and her living donor to give her a second chance at a life that had only begun to blossom.

SATURED BLACK
Animation film
Directed by Simone Baseggio
Country of Origin Italy
Runtime 7:30
Ophelia, a 10-year-old girl, wonders about the death during the funeral of a neighbor. The answers will come from his affectionate puppet that, through a brief journey into the imaginary of the little girl, will explain her that the death must be considered as a companion and a friend of every person, like a puppet for a child, and that the awareness that everything that ends is actually the beginning of something else, makes the death more acceptable.

OBERVOGELGESANG
Animation film
Directed by Ferdinand Ehrhardt
Country of Origin Germany
Runtime 6:22
A teenager is confronted with a fresh rightwing extremist graffiti in the train and thus also with a grimace of her homeland.

JELLY
Animation film
Directed by Giovanna Senatore
Country of Origin Italy
Runtime 1:50
Love can be dangerous, like pollution.

IRO /HE.RO:/
Live action film
Directed by Alexis Koukias-Pantelis
Country of Origin Greece
Runtime 14:45
Iro, an 8 year old girl, is ready to take off on a short road trip with her mom and a superhero towards Lake Stymphalia. A car malfunction and a bus drivers strike will make their plans difficult but with the help of the superhero they will hitchhike their way towards their destination.

ACCEPTED
Live action film
Directed by Stefano Di Pietro
Country of Origin Netherlands
Runtime 12:00
Sarah, Lead Developer at Gaia Inc., is about to launch her latest and most promising project: Theia, a device that is bound to revolutionize the way people interact with each other. The success of the long-anticipated Theia device is without question, however, its impact on Sarah and the rest of society is a whole other matter.

THE BOY AND THE MOUNTAIN
Animation film
Directed by Santiago Aguilera, Gabriel Monreal
Country of Origin Chile
Runtime 11:23
Hernán is a child who likes to daydreaming, but in his studies he is not doing well at all. His father constantly urges him to improve, advising him that he must reach very high to succeed in life. Hernán dispenses with his dream, gradually forgetting it to devote himself to his studies. Over time, and already become a successful entrepreneur, Hernán achieves the dream that his father instilled in him, reach high, until one day he will realize that he has not really achieved something he always longed for. Then he will make the crucial decision to fulfill his dream, but fate will play tricks on him. Hernán will have to face a new challenge that will change the meaning of his life.

SANGSANGBA
Animation film
Directed by Jay Eunjin Lee
Country of Origin Korea
Runtime 3:40
A girl realizes her feelings for her best friend.

After the sudden death of Violetta’s mother, her father is looking for a way to renew their relationship. But he will face the powerful character of Violetta, and his own mistakes of the past.

PIT STOP
Live action film
Directed by Cody Lee Brown
Country of Origin USA
Runtime 5:26
A simple gas station pit stop turns into a heated battle of principles in this comedy short film from writer/producer Mim Epstein, writer producer Ian Simpson and director Cody Lee Brown. Starring Molly Ryman and Walter Weaver.

LOVE, POST LOCKDOWN
Live action film
Directed by Ben Mourra, Lucas Boetsch
Country of Origin UK
Runtime 16:10
Isolating alone, anxious James finds himself clinging on to his social distance rituals, even though restrictions have been lifted. But after locking eyes with the sparky Samira, James must decide whether to finally step outside of his bubble or remain within it forever.

THE TRAGEDY OF DOMNA VISVIZI
Live action film, Documentary
Directed by Katerina Giannakopoulou , Mixalis Iliaskos
Country of Origin Greece
Runtime 04:08
“The Tragedy of Domna Visvizi,” is a multidisciplinary work of art combining the poetry of lyrics, music, dance, acting, cinematography and sound design to tell the story of the forsaken and forgotten Greek patriot and heroine Domna Visvizi from the time of her husband’s death in 1822, to her own in 1850. Its purpose is to use the richness and magic that multidisciplinary art is uniquely capable of to breathe life back into Domna Visvizi in a more modern era – today. Through the portal of the camera lens, in the Tragedy of Domna Visvizi, Domna stands before us now, when her status as a woman, mother, wife and warrior are even more reason to pay respect and homage to her incredible generosity, valour and sacrifice rather than disqualify her from the pantheon of great Greek heroes and patriots where she has more than earned her rightful place.
“I cry, but I find no mercy. My screams pierce even the heavens. I fought for freedom and the homeland. I lost my love, my partner, my children… and there is this bitterness. My homeland is not independent yet.”
Domna Visvizi – 1826

THE CURIOSITY OF EDWARD PRATT
Documentary
Directed by Thomas Sandler
Country of Origin Belgium
Runtime 12:46
A glimpse into the life of adventurer, Edward Pratt and the first circumnavigation of the globe on a unicycle.

VOICE OF THE GLACIERS
Documentary
Directed by Sindre Kolbjørnsgard
Country of Origin Norway
Runtime 19:48
In the summer of 2019, four young adventurers, embark on a dangerous scientific expedition into the Arctic, with the intent of documenting the true story of the effects of the changing climate. Through Eric’s scientific degree in glaciology, and Kris’ crucial knowledge of navigating the local terrain, working as an Arctic guide, the team approach the endeavor with open minds, seeking evidence, to determine fact from hysteria, about the rate of glacial melting.
The journey proves to be an eye-opening revelation, sparking a sense of imperative, that they must do something before it’s too late. Voice of the glaciers is the story of a small expedition’s mission to present a new way for people to see the real impact of climate change, by gathering undeniable before and after photo evidence, which demonstrates how the glaciers are disappearing at an alarmingly rapid rate.
The group’s journey starts in the world’s northernmost town, Longyearbyen. Equipped with photos more than 100 years old, they set out to find and re-photograph the locations, traversing the brutally unforgiving and harsh Arctic terrain, where they are forced to come face to face with climate change.

REBEL
Live action film
Directed by Pier-Philippe Chevigny
Country of Origin Canada
Runtime 15:00
Alex, a six-year-old boy from Quebec, is much too young to understand why thousands of refugees have been entering Canada illegally. Yet when his father takes him along to a vigilante patrol in the woods to hunt out trespassing migrants, something inside him tells him to rebel.

IN MEMORIAM
Live action film
Directed by Dimitrios Karas
Country of Origin Greece
Runtime 09:26
Ariadne, a member of an anti-government covert resistance group, is captured and interrogated by an intelligence agent. As Ariadne refuses to reveal information about her group, the agent threatens to erase her memories about her identity and personal life.

PROJECT-19
Live action film
Directed by Randy Slavin
Country of Origin USA
Runtime 03:30
PROJECT-19 is a sci-fi short film about a 6 year old engineering genius who puts her skills to work to solve her biggest issue with COVID-19. The film was shot using all five family members a multi-generational quarantine in New York.

CANTOALAGUA
Documentary
Directed by Juan Andrés Moreno
Country of Origin Colombia
Runtime 10:32
Documentary made by Rodolfo Bustos talks about the purpose and action of the Cantoalagua collective with water. Through Art, meditation and action, physical and material results are obtained on an internal and external level.

A TIME TO STOP AND LISTEN
Documentary
Directed by Daniel Breton
Country of Origin Colombia
Runtime 19:41
In times of pandemic, the VozTerra Collective invites people and artists from different parts of the world to listen, record and create sound pieces with the sounds that pass through their windows. An invitation to stop, listen and reflect.

BEFORE THE ROOSTER CROWS
Live action film
Directed by Gabriel Athanasiou
Country of Origin Greece
Runtime 17:40
In a small Greek village a frustrated woman in her 40s, Anna, can not handle her husbands’ cheating anymore and decides to take revenge.

HOW TO GET $100 MILLION
Live action film
Directed by Ilya Polyakov
Country of Origin USA
Runtime 09:23
A disenchanted young woman ascribes to the get-rich-quick advice of self-help guru – only to learn the cost of getting exactly what you want.

A HOME FOR CURIOSITIES
Shorts for kids
Directed by Ben Tobin
Country of Origin USA
Runtime 15:00
A young boy discovers a house full of forgotten imaginary friends. Along with his friend Alice, Wallace helps bring these curiosities back to the real world to meet new human companions.

HOW STARS ARE BORN
Live actions-shorts for kids
Directed by Javier Rodríguez Acosta
Country of Origin Colombia
Runtime 07:04
Martin (9) knows well that in life “nothing dies, it just transforms”. He learned that from his grandfather. The depth of his innocent maturity, his subtle gaze loaded with hope and mettle, is also the inheritance of that same man, the most wonderful and wise being he has ever known.

WOODEN SWORD
Live action-Shorts for kids
Directed by Behzad alavi , Sousan salamat
Country of Origin Iran
Runtime 07:00
Two little boys meet each other in a green space, and make friends. On the other hand, their fathers have a big problem.

RAMÓN
Shorts for kids
Directed by Natalia Bernal
Country of Origin Mexico
Runtime 07:10
Ramón, an 8-year old Mexican kid, week after week practices kickboxing with care and passion. After much training, Ramón is finally participating in his first national championship. At the end of the fight and for the first time in his life, Ramón will learn the meaning of winning and losing.

ETERNAL CREATION
Documentary
Directed by Pantelis Koulouridis
Country of Origin Greece
Runtime 19:28
Life and work of Aghiographer George Karpontinis

VOUTA
Live action film
Directed by Dimitris Zahos
Country of Origin Greece
Runtime 18:04
Vouta is a pigeon breed that flies all the way up to the clouds, then dives at 230 km/h and slows down just before reaching the ground. Christos is a teenager who lives in a disadvantaged neighbourhood of Athens. He has to find a way to avoid conflict with his father who just got home from prison, just like the pigeons he loves avoid collision.

PSYCHOPHONIC
Animation-Shorts for kids
Directed by Aline Romero
Country of Origin Spain
Runtime 5:42
During a full moon night, a cat is trapped inside a spooky house where a gramophone is playing, the cat will discover a secret while trying to escape and run for his life.

HERITAGE OF MANKIND
Documentary
Directed by Davide Ludovisi
Country of Origin Italy
Runtime 8:21
Raheem Ullah is a young Pakistani biophysicist. His scientific career brought him to Italy. Here, however, he discovered the difficult situation of those who left their country not by choice, but out of necessity.
A story of science, immigration and families to be reunited.

MATT’S STORY
Documentary
Directed by Paul Mailath
Country of Origin Australia
Runtime 6:34
What would you do with a second chance at life? The true story of Matt Caruana, a 14-year-old student suffering from depression who took the ultimate step and found himself with a new perspective & purpose in life.

KENYA’S SYMPHONY
Shorts for kids-animation
Directed by Carlos Douglas Jr
Country of Origin USA
Runtime 4:50
Kenya, a bold five-year old girl, is reluctantly dragged to a symphony by her mother. Through the power of the orchestra, the young girl’s passion for music blossoms before her own eyes.

DEEP-FRIED FINGERS
Animation
Directed by Daniel Greenway
Country of Origin UK
Runtime 5:02
Deep-Fried Fingers reverses the meat-eating relationship between humans and animals.

GOING DEEPER . LOVE LETTER TO NAZARE
Documentary
Directed by Luke Huxham
Country of Origin Japan
Runtime 15:37
“Going Deeper – Love letter to Nazare” is a passion project filmed in Nazare, Portugal, directed by Luke Huxham. This isn’t an action sports film, it’s not even a surf film; it’s a human story set amongst the most powerful waves known to man. And a tribute to Praia do Norte. One of the most beautiful and dangerous beaches in the world, where feats once thought impossible, have been achieved by the brave.

NUOVO CINEMA PARA-VIRUS
Live action films
Directed by DANIELE PIGNATELLI
Country of Origin Italy
Runtime 5:32
During the lockdown, the Cinema sends a video-letter to humankind: the theatres are closed, sets are locked and the Cinema can no longer create new dreams.

OUTSIDE THE BOX
Live action films
Directed by Ross Mackenzie
Country of Origin UK
Runtime 9:22
An office worker has an unforgettable day after discovering an intriguing box in the store cupboard.

SANDIER
Live action films
Directed by Michael Chereau
Country of Origin France
Runtime 14:42
Night has just fallen. It’s time to go to sleep, except for Sandier whose hard work has only just begun. On his bike, a big canvas bag full of sand in the back, he crosses the city to put the children to sleep. In front of a house, ready to enter, he discovers that he has awkwardly left his bag on his bike. He turns around and discovers with amazement that his bike has disappeared.

IVET AND MICHUCO
Animation-short for kids
Directed by Juan Ignacio Meneu Oset
Country of Origin Spain
Runtime 4:49
Ivet is a 6-year-old girl, so she thing is already very old, or so she thinks at least. Ivet is dreamy and has an extraordinary imagination. She is always inventing new worlds and characters. She has a cat – well, it’s stuffed puppet – and she calls her Michuco. Since she has no siblings, at home she always plays alone and fantasizes uncontrollably, causing complicated situations on more than one occasion.

THE PARROT LADY
Animation
Directed by Michalis Kalopaidis
Country of Origin Cyprus
Runtime 6:45
‘The parrot lady’ is inspired by a true story. The film works as an artistic interpretation of a woman’s life who chose to live on the streets with her parrots, afraid of dying alone in her home.

THE WHITE SHEETS
Documentary
Directed by Pandeli Ceco
Country of Origin Albania
Runtime 5:00
Based on the novel of Maks Velo, Albanian painter, architect and writer. Maks Velo sentenced to 10 years imprisonment in 1978 for “agitation and propaganda” against the communist regime in Albania, in labor camp of Spac. 248 of his paintings were then destroyed, and his art collections were either stolen or burned.
The artist return to visit the camp after the fall of communist regime and wrote his reflections about his feelings on the novel “The sheets were missing”.

BEWARE OF THE MONSTER
Live action films
Directed by Abdulrahman hamad
Country of Origin Egypt
Runtime 10:30
Hassan, a retired man who lives with his wife, Suheir, alone after all their children got married, which causes them to fight a lot. One day, Hassan broke a plate that means a lot to his wife by accident, he tries to find a place to hide it, hoping she’ll never find out.

TOOTH
Live action films-Short for kids
Directed by Julien Scherliss
Country of Origin USA
Runtime 11:25
When Calvin is told by his older brother that all the magic in the world lives in his last baby tooth, he comes up with a plan to make sure he never loses it. Can he prevent the inevitable, or will the magic disappear forever?

TIDY TOWN
Short for kids
Directed by Dana Alink
Country of Origin Netherlands
Runtime 6:48
A raccoon cub is determined to get rid of the plastic trash overwhelming her island. She explains her plan to fix the problem once and for all to the woolly and whiskered villagers of Tidy Town. A big city wolf responsible for the production of said plastic comes to help, but not in a way our little cub would like.

A.D. 2019
Live action
Directed by Jan Groblinski
Country of Origin Poland
Runtime 24:20
If God were to speak to a man today, he would probably do it through a smartphone.
Joseph is a mature man in his fifties. He and his young, beautiful wife named Maria struggle with a problem of infertility. One day, when Maria comes back from a short vacation, the situation changes completely. Joeph has to face the issues of loyalty and trust. He starts getting signs from Go… from Google.
A.D. 2019 is a biblical story we all know – retold. From a very contemporary perspective.

SNOW SHELTER
Animation
Directed by Robertas Nevecka
Country of Origin Lithuania
Runtime 16:09
Frigid winter in a war-devastated, present-day city. Several years have passed since the destruction, and the city is slowly rebuilding. A thirty-year-old guy is living as a squatter in an apartment with a group of strangers. He struggles to survive and also to find a little more comfort in this rough setting. One night he nearly burns the flat down, hoping for a warmer sleep. His roommates start hating him, so the guy has to find another shelter.

BEEF STEW
Live action
Directed by Nikos Kallipolitis
Country of Origin Greece
Runtime 10:39
Nontas (35), a failed actor, has given up his career and is working part-time in an escape room. Tony (50), the slimy owner of a restaurant in the countryside, lives far from his shadowed past; a past that has heavily affected Nonta’s life. The story of two men as a 3-course meal. Appetizer: a gluttonous bear. Main course: a greedy rabbit. Dessert: Beef stew: sweet as revenge…