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IRANIAN & MIDDELE EAST FILMS

Reza Abiyat EXIT (Iran, 4 minutes)
Latshev Maxim FUTURE ADS (Iran, 8 minutes)
Soheil Soheil APORIA (Iran, 14 minutes)
Afsaneh Aghanezhad FOR CHILD NEVER BORN (Iran, 15 minutes)
Houcem Slouli CONDITIONAL DESIRES (Tunisa, 15 minutes)

DARK MATTER (IRAN, 82 minutes)
This is an unexpected Iranian film, not similar to what we have become accustomed to seeing in Iranian cinema over the past decades. A loose remake of Francois Truffaut’s classic film “Julie and Jim”:

ALTFEST

Sasha Skulinets JUST ONE OF THOSE DAYS (USA, 7 minutes)
Arielie Frances Bagood BABY GAY (USA, 9 minutes)
Ria Mirchandani GAY FILM (USA, 12 minutes)
Gabriel Tibi BREAKDOWN (France, 15 minutes)
Emo Conn PALINOPSIA (USA, 20 minutes)*

Jason Lee Courson SEEKING… (USA, 40 minutes)
Becoming a “chosen family” can have it’s growing pains. “Broad City” meets “New Girl” and “Will and Grace” with a sprinkling of Kimmy Schmidt, “Seeking…” is a show about three roommates (2 gay men, 1 straight man) all from different backgrounds, learning to cohabitate and navigate love and life in the big city.

SHORT FILMS

Glenda Pezuela MOOD (USA, 4 minutes)
Sebastian Salaza ALMA (Chile, 7 minutes)
Sophie Worm THE ART ASSISTANT (USA, 9 minutes)
Juia Ongchoco GRID (USA, 10 minutes)
Michael Ehms ALPHA VIRTUES (USA, 10 minutes
Jim Kaplan CLARA IS AWAKE (USA, 12 minutes)
Azgad Abraham Crisostomo A LONG LIVED OBLIQUITY (USA, 12 minutes)
Riguel Hufano Alombro TO DIE HUMAN (United Kingdom, 12 minutes)
Taylor Seupel SUICIDE EYES (USA, 14 minutes)
Axel Dahan ON THE PATHS AWAKENED (France, 14 minutes)
Andrew Schmitt CREAK (USA, 15 minutes)
Tevin Jamier Howell BLOOD MONEY (USA, 15 minutes)
Timothy Guion Smith NEXT OF KIN (USA. 15 minutes)
Anson Patrick GUERRILLAS (USA, 15 minutes)
Juan Ballesteros THE REFLECTION OF THE CRANES (Venezuela, 20 minutes
이 배우의 장례식 FUNERAL OF BAEWOO (Korea, 22 minutes)

LONG SHORT FILMS

Damien De Medeiros & Alexandra Leroux COSMOS MELANCOLIA (France, 30 minutes)
While playing in the forest, three children stumble across a character that looks like Godard’s Pierrot le Fou. The latter listens to the news on the radio announcing a series of environmental disasters. Distressed, the children connect to a tree that sends them on a mission to reboot planetary consciousness.

Michael Leclere 656 (France, 36 minutes)
A solitary writer, isolated from world and men, lives in a cabin in the middle of a lake. Plagued by obsessive-compulsive disorders, he organizes his daily life with unhealthy rigor. Clinging to the watch whose hands guide his actions, he tries to maintain the little rituals which help him to write but also to escape an increasingly invasive paranoia.

Человеческая Трагикомедия HUMAN TRAGICOMEDY (Russia, 40 minutes)
1890. Five high school students celebrate the last day of exams at a local tavern. During the celebration, they exchange their life ideals with each other, argue, it almost comes to a fight, but suddenly an offer comes to meet in 30 years and see who remains true to himself.

FEATURES

Katja Sallay 5 SEASONS – A JOURNEY (Germany, 118 minutes)
In the shimmering summer heat, Greta, a Jewish Hungarian Mother of three announces that she’s terminally ill with cancer. For her children Miki, Bina and Ali, not only their family but their whole world falls apart. They fall like colorful autumn leaves and only pull themselves together and pile themselves up to accompany Greta on her last journey. They are joined by a Hungarian doctor, Melina, who is on her own journey of emancipating herself from her tyrannical father, and also trying to start a family of her own with Miki and Ali’s father, Greta’s ex husband Josef.

Lonnie Smith & Kantia Smith IMPOSSIBLE DECISION (USA, 61 minutes)
Realizing there is no one to care for his autistic son after he’s gone, a dying father must decide whether or not to put his son’s life in the hands of a billionaire scientist specializing in artificial intelligence.

Finn Pfeffer THE SILENCE IN BETWEEN (USA, 82 minutes)
Three long time friends meet in the Himalayas, to reconcile and reflect on what they lost and gained through the thirty year span of their friendships. Together we travel with them through the moments of their lives. It’s a journey in time and across countries, learning what made their friendship so special in the past. It dives into the trials and tribulations of life, and the deep and unspoken bonds contained in memory.