2021 AFI Fest Movie Guide
Browse the selection of features, documentaries, and short films screening at AFI Fest 2021.
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- DirectorHalle BerryStarsHalle BerryAdan CantoSheila AtimA disgraced MMA fighter finds redemption in the cage and the courage to face her demons when the son she had given up as an infant unexpectedly reenters her life.Category: RED CARPET PREMIERE
- DirectorReinaldo Marcus GreenStarsWill SmithAunjanue Ellis-TaylorJon BernthalA look at how tennis superstars Venus and Serena Williams became who they are after the coaching from their father Richard.Category: RED CARPET PREMIERE
- DirectorPedro AlmodóvarStarsPenélope CruzMilena SmitIsrael ElejaldeThe story of two mothers who bond in unexpected way after giving birth the same day.Category: RED CARPET PREMIERE
- DirectorJane CampionStarsBenedict CumberbatchKirsten DunstJesse PlemonsCharismatic rancher Phil Burbank inspires fear and awe in those around him. When his brother brings home a new wife and her son, Phil torments them until he finds himself exposed to the possibility of love.Category: RED CARPET PREMIERE
- DirectorGarth JenningsChristophe LourdeletStarsMatthew McConaugheyReese WitherspoonScarlett JohanssonBuster Moon and his friends must persuade reclusive rock star Clay Calloway to join them for the opening of a new show.Category: RED CARPET PREMIERE
- DirectorBenjamin ClearyStarsMahershala AliNaomie HarrisAwkwafinaIn the near future, a terminally ill man explores a heart wrenching, emotionally complex solution to save his wife and son from grief by duplicating himself without them knowing.Category: RED CARPET PREMIERE
- DirectorLin-Manuel MirandaStarsAndrew GarfieldAlexandra ShippRobin de JesusOn the brink of turning 30, a promising theater composer navigates love, friendship and the pressure to create something great before time runs out.Category: RED CARPET PREMIERE
- DirectorNadav LapidStarsAvshalom PollakNur FibakOded AzulayAn Israeli filmmaker throws himself in the midst of two battles doomed to fail: one against the death of freedom, the other against the death of a mother.Category: WORLD CINEMA
- DirectorClio BarnardStarsAdeel AkhtarClaire RushbrookMacy ShackletonAli and Ava, both lonely for different reasons, meet and sparks fly. Over a lunar month a deep connection begins to grow, despite the legacy of Ava's past relationship, and Ali's emotional turmoil at the breakdown of his marriage.Category: WORLD CINEMA
- DirectorNabil AyouchStarsAnas BasbousiIsmail AdouabZineb BoujemaaAnas, a former rapper, is employed in a cultural centre. Encouraged by their new teacher, the students will try to free themselves from the weight of traditions to live their passion and express themselves through hip hop culture.Category: WORLD CINEMA
- DirectorOrit Fouks RotemStarsLiora LeviAseel FarhatOrit SamuelEight women, Arab and Jewish, take part in a video workshop hosted by Rona, young filmmaker. With each camera take, the group dynamic forces the women to challenge their beliefs as they get to know one other.Category: WORLD CINEMA
- DirectorJuho KuosmanenStarsSeidi HaarlaYura BorisovDinara DrukarovaAs a train weaves its way up to the arctic circle, two strangers share a journey that will change their perspective on life.Category: WORLD CINEMA
- DirectorMounia AklStarsYumna MarwanNadine LabakiSaleh BakriA couple decide to leave the toxic pollution of their home city of Beirut, hoping to build a utopian existence in a pristine home in the mountains.Category: WORLD CINEMA
- DirectorRyûsuke HamaguchiStarsHidetoshi NishijimaTôko MiuraReika KirishimaA renowned stage actor and director learns to cope with a big personal loss when he receives an offer to direct a production of Uncle Vanya in Hiroshima.Category: WORLD CINEMA
- DirectorRamon ZürcherSilvan ZürcherStarsHenriette ConfuriusLiliane AmuatUrsina LardiLisa is moving out. Mara is left behind. As boxes are shifted and cupboards built, abysses begin to open up and an emotional roller coaster is set in motion. A tragicomic catastrophe film. A poetic ballad about change and transience.Category: WORLD CINEMA
- DirectorJenna Cato BassStarsChumisa CosaNosipho MtebeKamvalethu Jonas RaziyaA strange psychological thriller about Tsidi, who is forced to move in with her separated mother, a domestic worker who obsessively cares for her catatonic white "Madame" in the wealthy suburbs of Cape Town.Category: WORLD CINEMA
- DirectorSebastian MeiseStarsFranz RogowskiGeorg FriedrichAnton von LuckeIn post-war Germany, liberation by the Allies does not mean freedom for everyone. Hans is repeatedly imprisoned under Paragraph 175, which criminalizes homosexuality. Over the decades, he develops an unlikely bond with his cellmate Viktor.Category: WORLD CINEMA
- DirectorAudrey DiwanStarsAnamaria VartolomeiKacey Mottet KleinLuàna BajramiAn adaptation of Annie Ernaux's novel of the same name, looking back on her experience with abortion when it was still illegal in France in the 1960s.Category: WORLD CINEMA
- DirectorPanah PanahiStarsPantea PanahihaMohammad Hassan MadjooniRayan SarlakFollows a chaotic, tender family that is on a road trip across a rugged landscape and fussing over the sick dog and getting on each others' nerves. Only the mysterious older brother is quiet.Category: WORLD CINEMA
- DirectorAraceli LemosStarsAbigael LomaHasmine KillipEirini InglesiA young Filipina searches for the missing links between her strange bleeding condition and her faraway mother's healing powers.Category: WORLD CINEMA
- DirectorHany Abu-AssadStarsMaisa Abd ElhadiAli SulimanManal AwadA woman whose visit to a hair salon turns into a nightmare when she is blackmailed by its owner.Category: WORLD CINEMA
- DirectorRadu MunteanStarsMaria PopistasuIlona BrezoianuAlex BogdanA group of people on a humanitarian mission arrive in a remote area of Transylvania to offer the inhabitants various goods. Apart from a few quarrels and conflicts between the group members, everything seems to be going well for Maria and Dan. But soon after they stumble upon a disoriented local and try to help him, things go wrong.Category: WORLD CINEMA
- DirectorClint BentleyStarsClifton Collins Jr.Moises AriasMolly ParkerAn aging jockey aims for a final championship, when a rookie rider arrives claiming to be his son.Category: WORLD CINEMA
- DirectorMahamat-Saleh HarounStarsAchouackh Abakar SouleymaneRihane Khalil AlioYoussouf DjaoroAmina, a practicing Muslim, lives with her daughter, 15-year-old Maria. When Amina learns Maria is pregnant and wants to abort the child, they face an impossible situation in a country where abortion is legally and morally condemned.Category: WORLD CINEMA
- DirectorApichatpong WeerasethakulStarsTilda SwintonAgnes BrekkeDaniel Giménez CachoA woman from Scotland, while traveling in Colombia, begins to notice strange sounds. Soon she begins to think about their appearance.Category: WORLD CINEMA
- DirectorAnita Rocha da SilveiraStarsMari OliveiraLara TremourouxJoana MedeirosIn order to resist temptation, Mariana and her girlfriends try their best to control everything and everyone around them. However, the day will come when the urge to scream will be stronger than it ever has been.Category: WORLD CINEMA
- DirectorYimou ZhangStarsYi ZhangHaocun LiuWei FanA movie fan in a remote farmland strikes a relationship with a homeless female vagabond.Category: WORLD CINEMA
- DirectorJacques AudiardStarsLucie ZhangMakita SambaNoémie MerlantÉmilie meets Camille who is attracted to Nora, who crosses paths with Amber. Three girls and a boy - they're friends, sometimes lovers and often both.Category: WORLD CINEMA
- DirectorCéline SciammaStarsJoséphine SanzGabrielle SanzNina MeurisseNelly has just lost her grandmother and is helping her parents clean out her mother's childhood home. She explores the house and the surrounding woods. One day she meets a girl her age building a tree-house.Category: WORLD CINEMA
- DirectorNinja ThybergStarsSofia KappelZelda MorrisonEvelyn ClaireBella Cherry arrives in Los Angeles with dreams of becoming an adult film star, but she soon learns that fame won't come easy as she harnesses her ambition and cunning to rise to the top of this mesmerizing and singular world.Category: WORLD CINEMA
- DirectorTatiana HuezoStarsGuillermo VillegasMayra BatallaTeresa SánchezLife in a town at war seen through the eyes of three young girls on the path to adolescence.Category: WORLD CINEMA
- DirectorSean BakerStarsSimon RexBree ElrodSuzanna SonMikey Saber is a washed-up porn star who returns to his small Texas hometown, not that anyone really wants him back.Category: WORLD CINEMA
- DirectorMichel FrancoStarsTim RothAlbertine Kotting McMillanSamuel BottomleyNeil and Alice Bennett are the core of a wealthy family on vacation in Mexico until a distant emergency cuts their trip short. When one relative disrupts the family's tight-knit order, simmering tensions rise to the fore.Category: WORLD CINEMA
- DirectorMaureen FazendeiroMiguel GomesStarsCrista AlfaiateCarloto CottaJoão Nunes MonteiroFollows Crista, Carloto and João who are building an airy greenhouse for butterflies in the garden and share household routines, but they are not the only ones.Category: WORLD CINEMA
- DirectorKira KovalenkoStarsMilana AguzarovaAlik KaraevSoslan KhugaevAda is stuck. Living in a dead-end town in North Ossetia, she is caught in the tight grip of the men in her life. But when her older brother returns home and her father suddenly falls ill, Ada finally sees a possible path to freedom.Category: WORLD CINEMA
- DirectorKaltrina KrasniqiStarsTeuta AjdiniAlketa SylajRefet AbaziVera is a middle-aged sign language interpreter, whose life is disrupted by her husband's suicide who has to face the raw reality of going against the deep-seated gender issues of our times.Category: WORLD CINEMA
- DirectorAleksandre KoberidzeStarsAni KarseladzeGiorgi BochorishviliOliko BarbakadzeA chance encounter on a street corner has Lisa and Giorgi fall in love at first sight, but an evil spell is cast on them. Will they ever meet again?Category: WORLD CINEMA
- DirectorBretten HannamStarsPhillip Forest LewitskiAvery Winters-AnthonyFabien MelansonTwo brothers embark on a journey to find their birth mother after their abusive father had lied for years about her whereabouts; along the way, they reconnect with their indigenous heritage and make a new friend.Category: WORLD CINEMA
- DirectorJoachim TrierStarsRenate ReinsveAnders Danielsen LieHerbert NordrumThe chronicles of four years in the life of Julie, a young woman who navigates the troubled waters of her love life and struggles to find her career path, leading her to take a realistic look at who she really is.Category: WORLD CINEMA
- DirectorDouglas TirolaStarsLeonard BernsteinJohn F. KennedyFelicia MontealegreA complex look at one of the greatest figures in 20th century classical music, Leonard Bernstein, whose passion and creativity guided him well beyond the concert hall.Category: FEATURE LENGTH DOCUMENTARIES
- DirectorRex MillerSam PollardStarsJohnnie AsheBeth BarnesLoretta BurnetteExplores the tennis career of Arthur Ashe and his impact on tennis and HIV activism.Category: FEATURE LENGTH DOCUMENTARIES
- DirectorAndrea ArnoldStarsLin GallagherA close-up portrait of the daily lives of two cows.Category: FEATURE LENGTH DOCUMENTARIES
- DirectorMatthew HeinemanStarsNathalie DougeA documentary following nurses, doctors, and administrators in a New York City hospital as they respond to the victims from the COVID-19 pandemic.Category: FEATURE LENGTH DOCUMENTARIES
- DirectorTommy OliverStarsJuice WRLDCole BennettLil' BibbyAn intimate look into the life, and extensive career of the late hip hop star, Jarad Anthony Higgins known professionally as Juice Wrld.Category: FEATURE LENGTH DOCUMENTARIES
- DirectorJulie CohenBetsy WestStarsJosé AndrésPaul BogaardsAntonietta BrownellJulia tells the story of the legendary cookbook author and television superstar who changed the way Americans think about food, television, and even about women.Category: FEATURE LENGTH DOCUMENTARIES
- DirectorPayal KapadiaStarsBhumisuta DasL writes letters to her estranged lover. Through these letters, we get a glimpse into the drastic changes taking place around her. Merging reality with fiction, dreams, memories, fantasies and anxieties, an amorphous narrative unfolds.Category: FEATURE LENGTH DOCUMENTARIES
- DirectorRobert GreeneStarsJoe EldredMike ForemanEd GavaganA group of survivors of sexual abuse by Catholic priests battle for justice.Category: FEATURE LENGTH DOCUMENTARIES
- DirectorPeter MiddletonJames SpinneyStarsPearl MackieJeff RawlePaul RyanA look at the life and work of Charlie Chaplin in his own words featuring an in-depth interview he gave to Life magazine in 1966.Category: FEATURE LENGTH DOCUMENTARIES
- DirectorMegan MylanA meditation on the elemental bonds of family told through portraits of four Syrian families in the aftermath of war.Category: FEATURE LENGTH DOCUMENTARIES
- DirectorChristopher WoodsA team searches for pilots whose planes went missing during the Battle of Peleliu in World War II.Category: FEATURE LENGTH DOCUMENTARIES
- DirectorEmily KunstlerSarah KunstlerStarsChief Egunwale AmusanJosephine Bolling McCallGwen CarrInterweaving lecture, personal anecdotes, interviews, and shocking revelations, lawyer Jeffery Robinson draws a stark timeline of anti-Black racism in the United States, from slavery to the modern myth of a post-racial America.Category: FEATURE LENGTH DOCUMENTARIES
- DirectorDawn PorterHow the art world responded to the death of Breonna Taylor by using art not only as a form of protest but as a space to heal.Category: MEET THE PRESS (DOCUMENTARY SHORTS)
- DirectorMor LoushyDaniel SivanStarsAlfred BombergArno MayerRudolph PinsAt the height of WWII, a group of young Jewish refugees are sent to a secret POW camp near Washington, D.C. The recent refugees soon discover that the prisoners are no other than Hitler's top scientists.Category: MEET THE PRESS (DOCUMENTARY SHORTS)
- DirectorRyan WhiteStarsJudy Goffman CutlerJennifer A. GreenhillNeil Patrick HarrisFollows the illustrator J.C. Leyendecker, whose legacy laid the foundation for today's out-and-proud LGBTQ advertisements.Category: MEET THE PRESS (DOCUMENTARY SHORTS)
- DirectorSeth Freed WesslerStarsSeth Freed WesslerA group of immigrants detained inside an infamous American detention center as the pandemic spreads, organize in protest to demand protections and their release. Separated from their families and fearing for their lives they take bold action. But officials who run the detention center are intent on keeping these men and women silent and locked up. Filmed using the cameras attached to tablets installed inside the detention center cell-blocks, The Facility is a real-time chronicle of a life in an immigration detention facility, and of a struggle for freedom and accountability.Category: MEET THE PRESS (DOCUMENTARY SHORTS)
- DirectorSindha AghaStarsJeff WallValerie WallTeen karate pro Jeff Wall teaches senior citizens self-defense at a local nursing home, giving them the tools to feel in control, connected and cared for.Category: MEET THE PRESS (DOCUMENTARY SHORTS)
- DirectorJonathan MillerZachary RussoJustice and mercy, while revealing the heavy toll our current system takes on incarcerated people and their familiesCategory: MEET THE PRESS (DOCUMENTARY SHORTS)
- DirectorPedro KosJon ShenkMore than 500,000 people are homeless in the US. A few of these real-life stories give the audience a rare, in-depth look at the scale, scope, and diversity of the problem while questioning uninformed attitudes and outmoded policies.Category: MEET THE PRESS (DOCUMENTARY SHORTS)
- DirectorChristine TurnerStarsDarian DauchanBiko Eisen-MartinJimmie JeterDuring 1880-1968 over 4,000 African Americans were lynched at the hands of white mobs. These lynchings were commemorated through souvenir postcards that would ultimately be subverted by Black activists to expose racist violence in the U.S.Category: MEET THE PRESS (DOCUMENTARY SHORTS)
- DirectorEmily L. HarroldIn the wake of the 2015 Charleston Massacre, a battle erupts in Orangeburg, South Carolina between the Sons of Confederate Veterans and an ice cream shop owner forced to fly the Confederate flag in his parking lot. The film explores the broader role of Confederate symbolism in the 21st century and the lingering racial oppression which symbols such as this help maintain.Category: MEET THE PRESS (DOCUMENTARY SHORTS)
- DirectorRona SegalWhy do Israeli soldiers hate enforcing lockdowns, but just love the smell of a Molotov cocktail? How old was the youngest kid they ever arrested, and what happened to him next? These, and other questions, are honestly answered by six Israeli ex-soldiers who served in Hebron during the last couple of years. Including rare cell-phone footage, captured by local witnesses, Mission: Hebron offers an unflinching guide to the most troubled city in the occupied West Bank.Category: MEET THE PRESS (DOCUMENTARY SHORTS)
- DirectorLydia CornettAt the early voting line in Ohio's most populous county, civic duty is a public performance.Category: MEET THE PRESS (DOCUMENTARY SHORTS)
- DirectorAnonymousAs protests unfold in Hong Kong, watch a city in upheaval through the eyes of those who must traverse the streets day and night to make a living.Category: MEET THE PRESS (DOCUMENTARY SHORTS)
- DirectorEmma Francis-SnyderStarsAlexandra AcostaAlain Becerra CalderonJuan GonzalezIn 1970, a group of young Puerto Rican activists took over a decrepit hospital in New York City, launching a battle for their lives, their community, and health care for all.Category: MEET THE PRESS (DOCUMENTARY SHORTS)
- DirectorMelissa Gira GrantIngrid RaphaelMothers, sisters and grandmothers of those killed by Columbus police, seeking justice in a community bound together by grief and a system that refuses to call these killings murder.Category: MEET THE PRESS (DOCUMENTARY SHORTS)
- DirectorLyana PatrickStarsLyana PatrickIn The Train Station, a beautifully animated documentary short, filmmaker Lyana Patrick narrates her family's powerful story of love and survival at Lejac Indian Residential School. Illustrated by Chloe Mustooch, music by Dan Brittain, original song by Barbara Patrick.Category: MEET THE PRESS (DOCUMENTARY SHORTS)
- DirectorSuzannah MirghaniStarsMihad MurtadaRabeha Mohammed MahmoudMohammed Magdi HassanAn arranged marriage in a cotton-farming village in Sudan. Does 15-year-old Nafisa have a choice?Category: SHORT FILM COMPETITION
- DirectorYoriko MizushiriWhen living things, artificial things, geometry shapes, and lines encounter, a new direction is born.Category: SHORT FILM COMPETITION
- DirectorSam A. DavisRayka ZehtabchiStarsSafa TarifiRima HaddadMardy MaA dead car battery leaves Safa stranded alone in a strip mall parking lot.Category: SHORT FILM COMPETITION
- DirectorJuliana KasumuStarsAnastasia EbelShantell LeeCourtney LewisAnastasia Ebel, owner of the BABYBANGZ hair salon in Mid-City, New Orleans, reflects on her continuing desire to cultivate spaces of intentional reflection for both herself and her local New Orleans community.Category: SHORT FILM COMPETITION
- DirectorLouise MonlaüStarsDonovan TaveraFor a forensic cleaner in Mexico City, healing is at the core of his service.Category: SHORT FILM COMPETITION
- DirectorZahida PiraniStarsEli ZavalaIdalia LimónJose FebusNelly slogs through another unsuccessful day of street vending in Queens, New York. Determined to improve her circumstances, she makes a risky business decision that ends in misfortune.Category: SHORT FILM COMPETITION
- DirectorCosmo SalovaaraStarsAlex CachoJavier RoncerosSteph Fernandez SanchezA warehouse worker at a fast fashion company forms an attachment to a piece of damaged inventory.Category: SHORT FILM COMPETITION
- DirectorUrska DjukicEmilie PigeardStarsDoroteja NadrahJure HenigmanMara VilarGranny's Sexual Life is a short animated film, based on the anonymous testimonials gathered by Milena Miklavcic in the book 'Fire, Ass and Snakes are not toys'.Category: SHORT FILM COMPETITION
- DirectorKarolina KajdanowiczRoadside greenery is a no-man's land, created to be driven past, not to be in it. Geometrical, artificial, and overgrown by weeds, does it belong to man or nature? Your own body is the same. You drag it through life instead of being in it.Category: SHORT FILM COMPETITION
- DirectorSean WangStarsWay ChenFahad ManzurSean WangA portrait of growing up told through filmmaker Sean Wang's middle school yearbook. Go Hornets.Category: SHORT FILM COMPETITION
- DirectorBar CohenStarsCarmit Mesilati KaplanLioz LeviHagar Meshulam WeizmanEstranged from her family, Aya shows up uninvited to her sister's wedding Shabbat night. Her presence threatenes to reveal family secrets and lies.Category: SHORT FILM COMPETITION
- DirectorEliane Esther BotsStarsAlma Imamovic-IvanovBesmir FidahicNenad Popovic PopsA short experimental film about the piercing experiences of three interpreters of the Yugoslavia Tribunal in The Hague and their position as a channel between speakers and listeners, witnesses and defendants, judges and attendees.Category: SHORT FILM COMPETITION
- DirectorDiana Cam Van NguyenStarsLinh DuongMája Hong NhungLe Hoai TrungA short film about ties and gaps between a child and a parent. The author rediscovers letters her dad used to write her from prison. That love seems to be gone now. She decides to write back in hope to find the connection again. She puts in writing what could not be said: blaming him for family's break-up but also trying to understand.Category: SHORT FILM COMPETITION
- DirectorStephanie CamachoStarsRaymond Rassi MaldonadoJean ChocanoJess RubioDon Isidoro, better known as "Mano santa" or healer in his hometown, shelters his grandson for a few days after he ran away from his home.Category: SHORT FILM COMPETITION
- DirectorSasha LeeStarsSasha LeeJune ChongDawon KimAs Seolgi is lying on a grass field with friends, a shooting star falls, and dark, intrusive thoughts hit her. Her melancholy blooms into bright and colorful flower people.Category: SHORT FILM COMPETITION
- DirectorElizabeth LoA professional "mistress dispeller" works with a married couple struggling with infidelity in contemporary China.Category: SHORT FILM COMPETITION
- DirectorJawed BoudaoudSimon CadilhGrégoire de BernouisStarsNadege FeyritEdouard MichelonFred NagornyA ghost loses their memory after being struck by lightning. They meet Arthur, who tries to help them.Category: SHORT FILM COMPETITION
- DirectorGabriel HerreraStarsDavid IllescasÁngel MoralesLisandro RoblesThere he sits proudly on his motorbike, encompassed in majestic red and the dazzling admiration of the others.Category: SHORT FILM COMPETITION
- DirectorJennie WilliamsEvery January 6th, families in the Inuit community of Nain, Canada, celebrate Nalujuk Night, when eerie figures in tattered fur clothing arrive to reward the good and punish the bad.Category: SHORT FILM COMPETITION
- DirectorSorayos PrapapanStarsNattapong PipattanasubWachara KanhaPatiparn AmornthipparatIt is based on human life during the Covid-19 pandemic under the Emergency Degree and follows many characters from different scenarios who share the same awkward situation.Category: SHORT FILM COMPETITION
- DirectorJohnson ChengStarsShirley ChenCrystal J. HuangMardy MaThree generations of Chinese women say goodbye to their family ballroom-dance studio.Category: SHORT FILM COMPETITION
- DirectorMitch KalisaStarsJonathan AjayiHeather AlexanderCharlie O'ConnorCoaxed into playing a racial typecast in a fellow student's play, Jonathan is faced to either challenge prejudice, or play it safe.Category: SHORT FILM COMPETITION
- DirectorSimone BozzelliStarsMarzia BarbarossaAndrea MontiniFrancesco PalmieriA mother wants to play with her son who won't speak to her. A boy wants to find out what his friend is giving to a girl who is more slender than him. A cat has disappeared. But these are only games.Category: SHORT FILM COMPETITION
- DirectorKevin Jerome EversonClaudrena HaroldStarsVictoria HodgeGrace O. GyamfiEzinne OgbonnaAn aspiring writer finalizes stories for the latest issue of "Pride", a student run newspaper at the University of Virginia. Over a hectic two-day period in the early 1990's, she puts the finishing touches on the upcoming issue.Category: SHORT FILM COMPETITION
- DirectorDaniel JaffeMichelle UranowitzStarsMichelle UranowitzSorab WadiaKadeem Ali HarrisA young woman faces a moral dilemma when she witnesses a sexual encounter in a dressing room at the clothing store where she works.Category: SHORT FILM COMPETITION
- DirectorSeemab GulStarsAyesha Shoaib AhmedQasim AliParizae FatimaZara, a schoolgirl in Karachi, shares a sensual dance video with her virtual boyfriend, who then blackmails her.Category: SHORT FILM COMPETITION
- DirectorNash EdgertonStarsNash EdgertonRose ByrneKrew BoylanHis first girlfriend was hit by a car. His second girlfriend fell off a cliff. His wife has come prepared.Category: SHORT FILM COMPETITION
- DirectorRenee ZhanStarsPaul PantingJoanna RuizTwo ex-lovers bump into each other at a train station.Category: SHORT FILM COMPETITION
- DirectorSiyou TanStarsRachel LoongTaylor Yin Meng OngXener GillIn Singapore, where even vapes are illegal, three rebellious schoolgirls are caught smoking by the principal. Their revenge prank takes a sinister turn.Category: SHORT FILM COMPETITION
- DirectorAlexandra MatheouStarsMary MinaAurora MarionNatalija JanichkinaTina lives in Limassol which is now slowly becoming the oligarch paradise of the Mediterranean. Being both a player and a victim in this city transformation, Tina feels overwhelmed - until an extraordinary encounter changes her life.Category: SHORT FILM COMPETITION
- DirectorMalika Zouhali-WorrallEach week, people visit the Brooklyn Public Library to video call incarcerated loved ones. A story of two mothers and their sons, and the librarians who keep the families connected.Category: SHORT FILM COMPETITION
- DirectorGüzin KarStarsSibylle BergA featureless street on an industrial estate in Bonn - desolate, unfinished and inconspicuous. The street bears the name of a child. It is meant to commemorate the racially motivated terrorist attack that this child did not survive.Category: SHORT FILM COMPETITION
- DirectorFederico Torrado TobónStarsOctavio SolorioTanya Carmona DanielsJaime DuránA lonely old man pays a visit to Yoruga, one of the last animals on Earth.Category: SHORT FILM COMPETITION
- DirectorMeltse Van CoillieStarsLucie WynsJeroom SmeyersLone GenarWith the lake forbidden territory after the disappearance of a young boy, five-year-old Lucie tries to come to grips with the upheaval affecting the campsite.Category: SHORT FILM COMPETITION