A short film that shows the sea-life ecosystem and how it survives the different human interventions and the damaging ecological impact that it generates. It aims to develop a critical approach for children audiences, showing the contamination problems and some of the more common industrial disasters, such as oil spills, overfishing and eutrophication, problems that are treated in a tragic-comic way through the adventures of a very special orange fish.

Title : AQUARIUM
Run time : 4:29
Country : Argentina
College/Institute Name : Universidad del Cine-(UCINE)

Lost in a mysterious dark swamp, a young girl must defeat a frightening troll to find her way home

Title : AMANDA
Run time : 8:05
Country : Canada
College/Institute Name : York University

A Love Story is a beautiful short animation taking place in a universe entirely made of wool.It’s love at first sight for our two beings... but will their relationship survive the onslaught of depression that takes over their lives?

Title : A Love Story 
Run time : 7:14
Country : UK
College/Institute Name : National Film and Television School-(NFTS)

Set against the turbulent atmosphere of the 1960s, the film is a feature length documentary exploring the Brazilian artistic movement known as Tropicália, and the struggle its artists endured to protect their right to freely express revolutionary thought against the traditional Brazilian music of that time.

Director’s Biography
Marcelo Machado began his career in 1981 when he launched the Electronic Video Look. He co-directed Marly Normal with Fernando Meirelles, an experimental video that awarded the 1st Brazil’s Video Festival. As a true blue fan of music traditions and, connoisseur of Brazilian culture, he always took these subjects as the topics of his documentaries. After working for several years in TV (including music channels), he is working as an independent director and, producer and, has been producing number of award winning documentaries, and programmes for TV.

Director : Marcelo Machado
Producer : Paula Cosenza, Denise Gomes
Cast : Gilberto Gil, Caetano Veloso
Screenplay  : Vaughn Glover , Marcelo Machado , Di Moretti
Cinematographer : Eduardo Piagge
Editor : Oswaldo Santana
Sound designer : François Wolf
Music by : Alexandre Kassin
Production Company : Bossa Nova Films
Festivals
ACIE Awards, Brazil
Cinema Brazil Grand Prize
Rotterdam International Film Festival
São Paulo Association of Art Critics Awards
Original Title  : Tropicália
English Title  : Tropicalia
Language : Portuguese
Country  : Brazil | USA | UK
Year : 2012
Runtime  : 87 min
Type (colour/ black & white) : Colour | Black and White

Director’s Filmography
Tropicália (documentary)
Ginga (documentary)
Olhar Eletrônico (documentary)
Marly Normal

Set in 1970s Copenhagen, the film focuses on a well-off professional couple who, upon inheriting a large house, decide to experiment with communal living, which was all the rage in Scandinavia at the time. Energized by the era's relaxed taboos, the couple assembles a diverse, rather motley crew of cohabitants and embarks on their adventure; but when infidelity enters the mix; both the commune and the marriage at its core begin to unravel.

Director’s Biography
Thomas Vinterberg (born 19 May 1969) is a Danish film director who, along with Lars von Trier, co-founded the Dogme 95 movement in filmmaking, which established rules for simplifying movie production. He is best known for the films The Celebration (1998), Submarino (2010), The Hunt (2012) and Far from the Madding Crowd (2015). In April 2016, the French government appointed Vinterberg a Chevalier (Knight) of the Ordre des Arts et des Lettres.

Director  : Thomas Vinterberg
Producer : Sisse Graum Jørgensen, Morten Kaufmann
Cast : Ulrich Thomsen , Trine Dyrholm
Screenplay  : Tobias Lindholm , Thomas Vinterberg
Cinematographer : Jesper Tøffner
Editor : Janus Billeskov Jansen , Anne Østerud
Sound Designer : Kristian Eidnes Andersen, Anne Jensen
Music by : Fons Merkies
Costume Designer : Ellen Lens
Production Designer : Niels Sejer
Production Company : Zentropa Entertainments, Det Danske Filminstitut
Festivals
Berlin International Film Festival
Bodil Awards
Toronto International Film Festival
European Film Awards
Original Title : Kollektivet
English Title : The Commune
Language : Danish
Country  : Denmark | Sweden | Netherlands
Year : 2017
Runtime  : 111 min
Type (colour/ black & white) : Colour

Director’s Filmography
The Commune
The Hunt
Submarino
The Celebration

Johannes lives together with his father, the middle-aged widower Ulrik in a small fishing town in the northern part of Denmark. They live a quiet routine life, each minding their separate jobs in the fishing industry. Ulrik misses the love and tenderness of a woman and arranges for the young, beautiful, Filipino Rosita to come to Denmark - just as many other men in the town have done before him. Johannes is reluctantly drawn into this as Ulrik's translator. However, over the following weeks Johannes and Rosita are getting more and more attracted to each other which forces Johannes to take responsibility for his dreams and his future.

Director’s Biography
Frederikke Aspöck has a master of fine arts degree in filmmaking from Tisch School of the Arts, NYU. She has directed several short films, one of which is her graduation film from Tisch, Happy Now, which won Premier Prix de la Cinéfondation in Cannes in 2004 and countless other awards. Since then, Frederikke has directed her feature film debut Out Of Bounds (aka Labrador), which won the main prize at the Marrakech International Film Festival and was screened at Cannes. Most recently she directed the feature film Rosita.

Director  : Frederikke Aspöck
Producer : Leila Vestgaard, Thomas Heinesen
Cast : Mikkel Boe Følsgaard, Jens Albinus, Mercedes Cabral, Julie Agnete Vang
Screenplay  : Kim Fupz Aakeson, Bergljot Bleken
Cinematographer : Adam Wallensten
Editor : Liv Lynge , Martin Schade , Mette Zeruneith
Sound Designer : Morten Groth Brandt
Music by : Rasmus Bille Bähncke , Johannes Elling Dam
Costume Designer : Sussie Bjørnvad
Production Designer : Rie Lykke
Production Company : Nordisk Film, Radiator Film
Festivals
Hamburg Film Festival
Moscow International Film Festival
Robert Festival
Palm Springs International Film Festival
Original Title  : Rosita
English Title  : Rosita
Language : Danish | English | Tagalog
Country : Denmark
Year : 2015
Runtime  : 90 min
Type (colour/ black & white) : Colour

Director’s Filmography
Rosita
Out of Bounds (aka Labrador)
Happy Now (Short)

Long Story Short is the story of Ellen and her friends, all in their late thirties/early forties, and their more or less self-inflicted complications of love and longing for romantic redemption. The story is a summary of three years of love-related highs and lows for the group of friends told through eight chapters, each of them set at a party: a New Year's Eve, a house warming, a Midsummer's Eve, a wedding, a surprise party, a naming ceremony, an anniversary, and a birthday. It is an ensemble story about a group of people who struggle with the conception of the perfect relationship and are bound to re-evaluate their take on what true love is.

Director’s Biography
May el-Toukhy has a production degree from The Danish National School of Performing Arts (2002), as well as a degree in directing from The National Film School of Denmark (2009). May has worked as assistant director and second unit director on several of the Danish Broadcasting Corporation’s drama series, including The Eagle, Sommer, And Borgen. Her critically acclaimed feature film debut, Long Story Short, premiered in May 2015 and she is currently developing her second film, Cairo.

Director : May el-Toukhy
Producer : Caroline Blanco, Christian Potalivo
Cast : Mille Lehfeldt, Peter Gantzler, Trine Dyrholm, Danica Curcic, Jens Albinus
Screenplay  : Maren Louise Käehne , May el-Toukhy
Cinematographer : Rasmus Videbæk
Editor : Rasmus Stensgaard Madsen
Sound Designer : Morten Groth Brandt
Production Designer : Søren Schwartzberg
Production Company : Miso Film
Festivals
Bodil Awards 2016
Robert Festival 2016
Original Title  : Lang historie kort
English Title  : Long Story Short
Language : Danish
Country  : Denmark
Year : 2015
Runtime  : 100 min
Type (colour/ black & white) : Colour

Director’s Filmography
Long Story Short
Cairo

When famous American archaeologist Albert Frederick Thomas Jackson dies in his beloved small town in Guatemala, a whole series of misadventures is triggered by the rather peculiar items outlined in his will, an important part of which involves a cow named Tracy. These eccentricities are matched only by the arrival of the two wives — and, seemingly, two heirs to the fortune. Add in a couple of shady lawyers and a mischievous taxi driver and you have an offbeat comedy about the differences between urban and rural Guatemala, and the even more complex comedic possibilities of the disparity between what is written and what is real.

Director’s Biography
Mendel Samayoa is a Guatemalan film producer and director. He graduated as an Architect from the University of San Carlos de Guatemala. He is known for his films La Vaca (2011), In 2014, he premiered his documentary Riding Towards a Dream, in which he documents his trip, along with Rolando Sett, from Guatemala to Milwaukee (United States) on a motorcycle. Samayoa is a prolific painter and, an artist whose work has been exhibited across the globe.

Director  : Mendel Samayoa
Producer : Maximiliano Czertok, Mendel Samayoa, Cecilia Santamarina
Cast : Claudia Bollat, Marco Mancilla, Valerie Mansilla, Monica Palmieri, Jairon Salguero, Jorge Sanz
Screenplay  : Mendel Samayoa
Editor : Gabriel Adderley
Music by : Costume Designer
Original Title  : La Vaca
English Title  : Holy Cow
Language : Spanish
Country  : Guatemala
Year : 2011
Runtime  : 97 min
Type (colour/ black & white) : Colour

Director’s Filmography
Holy Cow
Riding Towards a Dream (Documentary)

Two clans on either side of a river have a visceral hatred for each other. The conflict turns ugly; everyone is on edge and going out means risking your life. The film depicts the land disputes of two families whose hatred and resentment of each other is passed down from generation to generation. Homage to women who, despite losing loved ones, do everything they can to preserve the family unit, this stunning film is the story of two women, in a remote Muslim community, who confront an escalating blood feud and reach deep into themselves in hopes to undo the feud stretching back generations. It highlights one of the many forgotten conflicts throughout the world.

Director’s Biography
Sheron R. Dayoc is a Mindanaon filmmaker and a visual artist. His 2008 documentary, A Weaver’s Tale won him a Certificate of Creative Excellence from the U.S. International Film and Video Festival 2010. Halaw (Ways of the Sea) is his first feature film which won Best Film, Best Director, Best Actor, and Best Editing at Cinemalaya Film Festival and won the Special Mention, NETPAC at the Berlin Film Festival, It has competed at more than thirty festivals all over the world.

Director : Sheron Dayoc
Producer : Sheron Dayoc
Coproducers : Karim Aitouna, Thomas Micoulet
Cast : Laila Ulao, Taha Daranda, Mariam Zimadar Caranay-Raper
Screenplay : Sheron Dayoc
Cinematographer : Rommel Sales
Editor : Carlo Francisco Manatad
Music :  Kit Mendoza
Sound Designer : Albert Michael Idioma , Immanuel Verona
Production Designer : Harley Alcasid
Production Company :  Southern Lantern Studios, Haut les Mains Productions
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Festivals:
QCinema Film Festival
Young Critics Circle (Philippines)
40th Gaward Urian Award
Festival du Nouveau Cinema de Montreal
IFFI Goa
Original Title : Women of the Weeping River
English Title : Women of the Weeping River
Country : PHILIPPINES, FRANCE
Language : Filipino
Year : 2017
Runtime : 95 Min
Colour : Colour

Director’s Filmography
Bukod kang pinagpala
Ways of the Sea (Halaw)
Holdup

A group of German construction workers start a tough job at a remote site in the Bulgarian countryside. The foreign land awakens the men's sense of adventure, but they are also confronted with their own prejudice and mistrust due to the language barrier and cultural differences. The stage is quickly set for a showdown when men begin to compete for recognition and favour from the local villagers.

Director’s Biography
Born in Brenen on 4th January 1968, Valeska Grisebach is a German writer-director-editor. She is known for her movies Longing and, Western and has also worked as a script advisor on various other movies including multiple award winning film of last year – Toni Erdmann.

Director : Valeska Grisebach
Producer : Maren Ade, Jonas Dornbach, Valeska Grisebach, Janine Jackowski, Michel Merkt
Cast : Meinhard Neumann, Reinhardt Wetrek, Waldemar Zang, Detlef Schaich, Syuleyman Alillov Letifov , Veneta Frangova, Vyara Borisova
Screenplay : Valeska Grisebach
Cinematographer : Bernhard Keller
Editor : Bettina Boehler
Sound Designer : Fabian Schmidt
Costume Designer : Veronika Albert
Production Designer : Beatrice Schultz
Production Company : Komplizen Film
World Sales : Films Boutique
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Festivals:
Cannes Film Festival
Art Film Festival
T-Mobile New Horizons International Film Festival, Poland 2017
Golden Apricot Yerevan International Film Festival
Original Title : Western
English Title : Western
Country : Germany/Bulgaria/Austria
Language : German/Bulgarian/English
Year : 2017
Runtime : 119 min
Colour : Colour

Director’s Filmography
Be My Star (2001)
Longing (2006)
Western (2017)