Gouchan
Kids will learn.
Directed by Avida Amiri (Iran)
Los Angeles International Short Film Festival
Kids will learn.
Directed by Avida Amiri (Iran)
Inspired by true events, this is a story of a young boy who leaves his village life behind and comes to a big city to find some work to support his mother and a proper life.
Caught up in the fight for survival and dealing with the aggressive world outside, his sacrifices, struggles and the journey to finding a meaningful life is a very interventional story of how human psychology and relations play a vital role in shaping up our lives.
Directed by Mohammed Faizal (India)
Arriving home early from a business trip, Danny Clarke unearths two disturbing truths.
Directed by Anthony DiBartolo (USA)
A post-yoga brunch gets real for Darius and Megan when they encounter street harassment in this short dramedy. She wants justice, he just wants a vegan scramble. Together, they must confront the complexities of their relationship and discover what it means to be compassionate.
Directed by Gaston D’Agrivieri (USA)
A young and determined knight tracks a dragon through the woods whilst having harrowing visions of his past.
Directed by Michael Rooney (USA)
Two closeted actors on their way to their first high profile awards ceremony fight both expectation and each other, as intimacy and insecurity collide in the back seat of a car.
Directed by Damian Overton (Australia)
It’s midnight on Easter weekend. A young man driving on an empty highway in the middle of nowhere starts to see many bunnies alongside the road. They all watch him pass by. A few km’s further down this road he is suddenly forced to stop when thousands of bunnies have barricaded the road.
Written by Sergio Hira (Suriname)
A sexual predator picks up a girl at a party and brings her home to have some fun. He tries to drug her after she has refused to go all the way. But suddenly the power goes out and he gets the tables turned on him.
Written by Sergio Hira (Suriname)
Claire is a woman who has broken free from a very abusive husband after the death of her only child in Afghanistan. She meets Claude, who is a serial killer and looks to him to help her begin to live out her fantasies.
Directed by Benjamin L Ward (USA)
An average employee burdened by depression and loneliness, caused by the job demands of his boss and the eternal routine in which his life is imprisoned.
Desperate, he allows himself to dream with an iota of freedom.
Trapped to break with oppression and, with it, his existential emptiness.
Directed by Roberto I. Ercolalo (Argentina)
Based a real event happened in China. The film tells the story about a child who has been sexually abused by her kindergarten teacher, suffers from the trauma for her entire life and finally commits suicide.
Directed by Liyanbing He (USA)
This story takes place in one room, all in real time. We meet Anita, a young and beautiful 17-year-old girl, And Hayden, a middle-aged man with piercing eyes, and is Nita’s adoptive father. Through the story, we discover that this father-daughter relationship is more unnatural than it may seem. Hayden has forced Anita to take prescription pills, coerced her into anorexia, and taken wrongful ownership of her body since he adopted her. Her world flashes red when he finally pushes her too far.
Directed by Mariah Jones (USA)
An obsessive young man hunts the outskirts of China plotting his revenge on the killer of his girlfriend and unborn child.
Directed by Pedro Correa (USA)
“Waft” is a passage of Ashvath’s life where he struggles to find where his Aradhya has disappeared. His life has taken a turn ever since the tragedy happened.
Directed by Vishnu Udayan (India)