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The Story of Cuba

The Story of Cuba

2021 • 3 min • United States
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Cuba touches heart. The architecture. The people. The climate. The food. All of it is comprehensively amazing and alive. I want to create a video that tells the story of its magnificent beauty so that the world knows exactly how special and transformative a visit to Cuba can be. I wish to meet people in different cultures, tell their stories in pictures, music and portray the unique beauty that people can expect when they choose to visit. Tourism in some countries is the main income so this should help more people specially in the Covid-19 pandemic time. AWARDS:
#218
& Cut

& Cut

2023 • 13 min • Canada
👁️ 276
When a struggling actress by day and worn-out waitress by night stumbles upon the chance of a lifetime, her moral compass is sent spinning as she must make a choice between the lustre of her dreams and the potential for irrelevance. Either choice holds the deadly possibility of a future she could never have imagined. AWARDS:
#219
Lilly

Lilly

2022 • 13 min • New Zealand
👁️ 276
in 1916, ten-year-old Lilly's older brother, Michael, is leaving for Europe to fly against the Germans in the war and she cannot bear to see him go. In Lilly's imaginary world, Michael has been like a daring prince from her storybook. Michael returns in his plane and takes Lilly flying to fight a fire-breathing dragon, but even in her fantasy world, Michael cannot stay for long.
#220
Beneath

Beneath

2022 • 4 min • France
👁️ 276
Beneath is a short film co-produced by Almo Film and the City of Cannes, written and directed by Morgan le Faucheur, with the collaboration of world champion freediver Guillaume Néry. The film reveals the Cannes underwater Eco-mus... AWARDS:
#221
The Killer Bean 2: The Party

The Killer Bean 2: The Party

2000 • 7 min • United States
👁️ 275
3D Animated coffee beans get into a gun fight over a loud party next door. Bean1 cant sleep and so crashes the party and starts shooting all the Beans. Bean2 avoids being shot and sneaks away with the CD which they have been playing loudly all night. Bean1 and Bean2 confront and agree to a 25 metre standoff gunfight. Bean2 is killed and Bean1 finally arrives back at home and collapses into bed 1 minute before his alarm clock goes off.
#222
RUSTAM - A Muay Thai Story

RUSTAM - A Muay Thai Story

2023 • 11 min • Italy
👁️ 275
Rustam is simply the baptismal name of the great Italo-Ukrainian Muay Thai champion, Rustam Vyntu, a talented, passionate, and humble fighter who managed to resume the steps of his long journey to success after the difficult forced break due to the 2020 pandemic. This documentary-interview seeks to paint an intimate and passionate portrait of the man and the athlete, face to face with himself, without rhetoric, without veils, and without excuses. Captured by the cameras of Laura Pronestì and Matteo Concina in the places where he cultivates his passion and in the company of his fellow sportsmen, he reveals himself to the public with his dry and straightforward style in an emotional crescendo that reaches its narrative climax in his most significant experience, the only KO suffered at the beginning of his career. Rustam involuntarily manages to move the viewer with his delicate reserve and a sweetness that unexpectedly manifests itself only outside the ring, but he also manages to involve those who do not practice combat sports with the fire of his sports passion and the elegance of his technical gestures. AWARDS:
#223
Handjob Cabin

Handjob Cabin

2015 • 3 min • United States
👁️ 275
4 friends descend on a log cabin for a weekend of fun, but an ominous sexually frustrated presence resides within.
#224
Revenge of a Grandmother

Revenge of a Grandmother

2022 • 2 min • Switzerland
👁️ 275
A grandmother takes revenge on a priest for the sexual abuse of her grandson. Original/Alternative Title: La Vengeance d'une Grand-Mère AWARDS:
#225
Under My Skin

Under My Skin

2021 • 10 min • Italy
👁️ 275
An exploration of human identity and suffering through a visual journey into director's childhood and present. AWARDS:
#226
Death Offers Life - Last Moments of Vincent Van Gogh

Death Offers Life - Last Moments of Vincent Van Gogh

2019 • 8 min • India
👁️ 275
The story is the fictional account of the last five minutes of the acclaimed painter Vincent Van Gogh who was a failure in his lifetime. Death who has come to take him makes an offer which Van Gogh rejects and accepts the hands of death gracefully. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BdSXcumgS3s AWARDS:
#227
Touch

Touch

2016 • 15 min • Canada
👁️ 275
Poverty can't break family. AWARDS:
#228
The Strange Thing About the Johnsons

The Strange Thing About the Johnsons

2011 • 28 min • United States of America
👁️ 275
The Johnsons are an attractive, well-to-do, upper-middle class family. Sidney, husband and father, is a famous poet, known and adored for his kindness and sensitivity. Joan, wife and mother, is a dutiful housewife, an obsessive homemaker and the life of every party. Their son, Isaiah, is a charismatic young man who has just gotten married to an equally appealing young woman. In fact, there is only thing that separates the Johnsons from their charming friends and neighbors: Isaiah, the son, has been molesting Sidney, the father, since he was twelve years old. And what's more, Sidney has written a memoir that chronicles, in great detail, the ins-and-outs of this unseemly father-son relationship. Will the manuscript ever see the light of day, or will young Isaiah have a thing or two to say about it? THE STRANGE THING ABOUT THE JOHNSONS is a dark satire of the domestic melodrama, which asks "What if...?" and then, for some reason, comes up with an answer.
#229
Seductive Devotion

Seductive Devotion

2023 • 7 min • Thailand
👁️ 274
In a society where narratives of male perpetrators and harm inflicted upon women prevail, "Seductive Devotion" emerges as a powerful experimental short film presenting an inspiring alternative. Through captivating imagery and a stirring poetic voiceover, the film portrays a positive model of how a man can profoundly and healingly show up for a woman. It challenges societal norms and redefines love, intimacy, and relationships, highlighting the transformative energy between souls. "Seductive Devotion" celebrates vulnerability, courage, empathy, strength, receptivity, and grace, igniting a yearning for the level of committed desire depicted on screen. In a time marked by mistrust and division, this visually arresting and emotionally resonant film offers a refreshing perspective on the healing power of love and understanding, fostering positive change in our perception and engagement in intimate relationships. AWARDS:
#230
99 Problems

99 Problems

2021 • 16 min • United States
👁️ 274
A waitress is given the opportunity to change the immediate future. Her life depends on it. AWARDS:
#231
Sunday lunch

Sunday lunch

2022 • 15 min • Italy
👁️ 274
Sunday lunch in a family gathered for a special occasion: meeting Lucia's new boyfriend. Lucia is the youngest of the family. Waiting for them Ettore, the affectionate but hypocritical father; Serena, her elder sister, strong and precise, and her husband Mario, frank and sincere. Lucia's boyfriend, Aadil, will stir Ettore's spirits when he discovers that he has a Muslim at the table. But the surprises don't end there ... Original/Other title: Il Pranzo della Domenica AWARDS:
#232
Eraser

Eraser

2022 • Duration unknown • Italy
👁️ 274
A boy wants to get hold of a strange box that has the power to erase entire memories or events from his past from an individual's memory. To get it, however, he will have to come into contact with a person, the deliverer of the bo... AWARDS:
#233
Start Gate

Start Gate

2019 • 2 min • Australia
👁️ 274
An abstract examination of a young woman's involvement in elite sport. AWARDS:
#234
7PM

7PM

2020 • 5 min • United States
👁️ 274
'7pm' illuminates the outpouring of gratitude and unity by New Yorkers for the essential workers of the pandemic every evening at 7pm as part of the #ClapBecauseWeCare initiative. AWARDS:
#235
Play dead

Play dead

2020 • 30 min • Japan
👁️ 274
When the main character woke up from sleep, it was in a cramped and dark casket. Excited by the world peeking through the small holes in her coffin, she decided to enjoy her life after death for a while. But after witnessing an incredible confession and plot, she decided to punish them. AWARDS:
#236
Crowtown: Rolling Sixes

Crowtown: Rolling Sixes

2020 • 14 min
👁️ 274
Everyone knows the rules. When you die, you get a key. And, after you walk through Purgatory, up to the Pearly Gates and place it into the lock, you'll go up to Heaven - or fall, burning into Hell. But over time a third choice has appeared - to stay in Purgatory - and across millennia the city of Crowtown was born. In a city like no other, filled with both the best and worst of humanity, Detective Gravel works the city beat - but when a stranger arrives, Cain, son of Abel, the creator of murder and the only man here who hasn't died, it can only mean trouble - trouble that Gravel needs to learn about in an interrogation. But what happens when the interrogator becomes the interrogated?
#237
Where do we go from here

Where do we go from here

1970 • 20 min • Italy
👁️ 274
The lifeless body of a woman lies on the floor of a room. A man stands, observing it. Beyond the locked door someone tries to get in: it's a 10 year old child. The three are a family, or what's left of it. What to do with the kid? AWARDS:
#238
Dandelion

Dandelion

2022 • 15 min • Denmark
👁️ 273
Dandelion - kids; in the state of Suburbia, the urban neighborhood, like we know it, the block. Dandelion- kids grow like wildflowers. You find them come through the most solid form of concrete. Resilient and strong. A dandelion is devoted to growth, rising from the concrete to prove its point. With only poison able to kill, the matter of survival is at risk. But when the harsh wind comes, their seeds are set free. And the growth continues in the next door concrete yard. Original/Alternative Title: MÆLKEBØTTEBØRN AWARDS:
#239
Cheat Code

Cheat Code

2022 • 9 min • United Kingdom
👁️ 273
Will wakes up after a drunken night out, to a text from his girlfriend Mia coming up to his flat. When he realizes that there's another girl, Hannah, in bed with him, he decides to ask his flatmate Eddy to pretend she had been wit...
#240
PalimpsEst

PalimpsEst

2022 • 9 min • Austria
👁️ 273
A decade in newspaper headlines - Austrian artist Lisa Est has cut out, torn, and collected these headlines. She has crocheted, glued, wrapped, and randomly mixed them together, creating a multi-layered work between object and collage art as well as experimental literature. "PalimpsEst" scratches, illuminates, and recombines these layers of transformation into 9 experimental image-and-sound poems: . The Writing Cloud . Encounters in the Dark Fog . My Yesterday as a Reflection . Departure Inwards . Echoes in the Red Panorama . Endless Gaze, Through You . Arrival in Possibility . When I See You - Ocean . The Writing Cloud. AWARDS: