Spring Series [ June 1 -30 ]
We have greatly expanded our online series. Join us on newfilmmakersplus.com for our free monthly screenings to see the best in new independent films by new filmmakers.
IRANIAN & MIDDLE EAST FILMS
Latshev Maxim FUTURE ADS (Iran, 8 minutes)
Soheil Soheil APORIA (Iran, 14 minutes)
GDYNIA FILM SCHOOL
Wojciech Pokorski SAUDADE (Poland, 18 minutes)
In the face of a looming trauma a nine-year-old girl brings her family together by holding Christmas Eve in the middle of the summer. Saudade; a happy memory that causes pain, “the love that remains.”
Lulu Pomorova EVERTHING FOR MY FRIEND (Wszystko dla mojej przyjaciółki) (Poland, 25 minutes)
Ania and her best friend Kasia have fallen out with each other. After Kasia destroys in frustration her diploma works, Ania decides to apologize to her friend. It turns out, however, that there is more to Kasia’s behaviour than just their fight. How far can Ania go in the name of their friendship?
ALTFEST
Sasha Skulinets JUST ONE OF THOSE DAYS (USA, 7 minutes)
Gabriel Tibi BREAKDOWN (France, 15 minutes)
SHORT FILMS
Sebastian Salaza ALMA (Chile, 7 minutes)
Juia Ongchoco GRID (USA, 10 minutes)
Michael Ehms ALPHA VIRTUES (USA, 10 minutes
Riguel Hufano Alombro TO DIE HUMAN (United Kingdom, 12 minutes)
Axel Dahan ON THE PATHS AWAKENED (France, 14 minutes)
Kai ilya Brebner CACTUS, LOVE, MOUNTAINS (Peru, 15 minutes)
Andrew Schmitt CREAK (USA, 15 minutes)
Tevin Jamier Howell BLOOD MONEY (USA, 15 minutes)
Anson Petrick GUERRILLAS (USA, 15 minutes)
이 배우의 장례식 FUNERAL OF BAEWOO (Korea, 22 minutes)
LONG SHORT FILMS
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.
FEATURE
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.