Unrealistic pictures are the missing key to open encrypted rock paintings in Finland
Director Pekka Juhani Honkakoski
in Documentary film 1-10 min (International)
Finland
NSF9646
Daring hypothesis: Rock paintings in Finland are 3500-7000 years old. This painting is about 6900 years old. Thousands of years ago hunter-fisher-gatherers made mystery paintings on the stonewall. Unrealistic pictures are the missing key to open encrypted rock paintings in Finland.
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Portrait (60 seconds film)
Director Ignacio Rodó
in One Minute Film (International) (No animation)
Spain
NSF9619
Your portrait can capture you. You decide how to shine in it.
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Positive Thinking
Director Samuel Nilsson
in Documentary 10+ min (Nordic countries)
Sweden
NSF9567
Choose life’s unlimited potential. Per, 60, a bike repair shop owner in Stockholm, has fallen for Brazilian model Sara. No matter what this journey brings, he is confident that dedication and a positive mindset will turn his dreams into reality.
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a little extra
Director Bijoyeta Sahoriya Das
in Short film 1-10 min Fiction (International)
United States
NSF9561
A photo shoot goes very wrong.
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BATCAN
Directors Riu Lohri, David Riedener
in One Minute Film (International) (No animation)
Switzerland
NSF9558
A man‘s can – a hero‘s struggle…
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The Energies: No War
Director finn harvor
in One Minute Film (International) (No animation)
Korea, Republic of
NSF9557
A minute haiku about the resilience — appearances sometimes to the contrary — of peace.
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Baby Baby Baby
Director Mathias Kartveit Mikalsen
in One Minute Film (International) (No animation)
Norway
NSF9554
At the doctor’s office, she waits for her pregnancy test results while a mischievous radio drives her mad. Just as tension peaks, a singing intruder steals the spotlight.
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Block B — Portraits & Tables Start – End: 18:17 → 19:18
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La valse des adieux version anglaise
Director Louis Salvatore Bellanti
in Shortfilm 10+ min (International)
France
NSF9549
Cloistered at home, Camille Claudel is confronted with her aging double who arrives in his workshop, Camille Claudel sees the dramas of her existence resurface and the influence of the artist she loved the most. In the twilight of his life, after having spent thirty years in an asylum, the whirlwind of his lost hopes grips him…
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Mysterious Purple House
Submitter Joshua Yates
in One Minute Film (International) (No animation)
NSF9499
A liminal sanctuary where the mundane warps into the mystical.
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The garden of delights
Director Simone Spampinato
in Documentary film 10+ min (international)
Italy
NSF9484
In a culinary school of a Velletri Correctional Facility, some student prisoners chefs are training
with the hope of one day working in a renowned Michelin-starred restaurant,
”The Garden of Delights,” a career destination where each of them projects their own hopes and desires.
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Blue dawn
Director Emanuela Mascherini
in Shortfilm 10+ min (International)
Italy
NSF9481
For Alba every meeting is a labyrinth of fears, a descent into the abyss of something that happened to her in the past and which continues to pollute her present too. An apnea from which she cannot re-emerge on her own.
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Block C — Tension & Tango Start – End: 19:23 → 20:25
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Castling
Director Federico Yang
in Short film 10+ min (International)
Italy
NSF9473
A young man, disappointed in human relations, moves into a tower in the middle of nowhere. However the pleasant solitude gives in to dreams of intimacy, but perhaps for the last time.
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First Tango
Director Aleksander Pakulski
in Shortfilm 10+ min (International)
Poland
NSF9448
Two teenagers who secretly fall in with each other are thrown by their friends into a sexual initiation ritual in the wild Kashubia. When they are left alone, they have to confront the pressure imposed on them and their feelings.
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Kreskine
Director Viktor Vincent
in Shortfilm 10+ min (International)
France
NSF9431
A young reporter interviews Alexander Kreskine, the greatest illusionist alive, who stopped by Paris during his international tour. Kreskine starts telling his life story and how he came up with his pseudonym… But appearances hide others appearances and, little by little, the interviewer uncovers how Kreskine became a diabolic illusionist in the Sovietic Russia of the 50’s.
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Remote
Director Dana Rogoz
in Shortfilm 10+ min (International)
Romania
NSF9430
A businesswoman looking for a rural home in Romania takes her friend for an authentic country experience, but their stay in an old villager’s house takes a terrifying turn when a local man violently demands the money he has borrowed, plunging them into a nightmarish ordeal where crime and fear escalate.
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Block D — Close Encounters Start – End: 20:30 → 21:17
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SAGAH
Directors Maité Lonne, Gaël Maleux
in Shortfilm 10+ min (International)
France
NSF9428*
After filing a complaint, Sagah is summoned to the police station. But how do you tell the unspeakable when you’re suffering from complex post-traumatic stress disorder?
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All I Want Today
Director Magda Adamowicz
in Short film 1-10 min Fiction (International)
Poland
NSF9425
A 60-year-old organist going through a divorce attends a rock concert of her first love to see if the old flame still burns between them.
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