STUDENTS SHORT FILMS
Back Home | Tornar a Casa
Spain | 14’ | 2022
Director: Ariadna Pastor
Cast: Olivia Armengol, Clara Armengol, Ariadna Pastor
Producer: Salvaje Cine
Synopsis:
Nit, her mother and younger sister move into their great-grandparents’ old family house. During the hot days of july 1998 she will have to face her parents’ breakup and the absence of her father in a new family of three.
Biography:
Ariadna Pastor is a director, scriptwriter and actress from Barcelona. She studied film direction at LCDC, has a masters degree in Audiovisual Scriptwriting from UNIR and a graduate degree in Dramatic Art from the Institut del Teatre. Currently, she works mainly as a director and director assistant in a variety of audiovisual productions: fiction, advertising and some campaigns for PlaygroundTV.
Bajamar | Low Tide
Colombia | 18’51” | 2022
Director: Juana Castro
Cast: Candela Moreno, Carola Beneficio, Carles Goñi, Mia Falcó, Enzo Rodríguez
Producer: Juana Castro
Synopsis:
Luisa falls in love for the first time with her neighbor Anna while she spends her summer vacation at the beach with her family. At the same time, Luisa will find out something about her parent's relationship that will make her question her ideals of love and inevitably grow up.
Biography:
Graduated from the Escuela Nacional de Cine. She completed a master's degree in directing and staging at the Escola de Cinema de Barcelona. Director and producer of short films such as El dibujo de un pez, which has been widely recognized at festivals, and her latest production Bajamar.
Honey Trap | Honey Trap
United Kingdom | 15’ | 2022
Director: Eleanor Kenny
Cast: Dannie Dart, Elouise Warboys, Emerald Gunn-Cahill
Producer: Izzy Noone
Synopsis
A short comedy about three friends who recount the series of events of their revenge plot against a cheating boyfriend, and how they soon found themselves in a particularly sticky situation.
Biography
Eleanor Kenny is a recent Film and Television graduate from the University of Bristol and made her directorial debut with the short comedy 'Honey Trap'. Whilst working as a freelance photographer and videographer back home in Yorkshire, she is hoping to pull together another short film in 2023.
THE END OF THE END OF THE WORLD | DAS ENDE VOM ENDE DER WELT
Austria | 24’ | 2022
Director: Meike Wüstenberg
Cast: Law Wallner, Lia Wilfing, Resi Reiner, Lisa Kärcher, Samy Loris
Producer: Flora Mair
Synopsis
High-school students Mia and Esther are obsessed with Eric Harris and Dylan Klebold. They share the shooter´s hatred against their own social environment and are determined to commit a school shooting themselves. The two outlaws have planned out every detail in their fantasies and train shooting in an abandoned quarry.
Mia is struggling to hide her doubts, but will she stand tall before her friend?
Biography
Born in Berlin in 1994, she graduated with a bachelor’s degree in European Media Studies from the University of Potsdam.She began making her own films as a writer and director and went on to study film directing at Vienna Film Academy in Michael Haneke´s class, starting in 2018. As part of her studies and beyond she has worked on numerous international fiction projects as an Assistant Director.
Time Flows in Strange Ways on Sundays| Yi yi
Singapore | 17’ | 2021
Director: Giselle Lin
Cast: Wendy Toh, Peter Yu, Iris Li
Producer: Clyde Kam
Synopsis
A mother, trapped in the comfort of memory and mourning, confronts her grief when she is invited to the wedding of her late son’s childhood sweetheart.
Biography
Giselle Lin is a writer-director from Singapore.
Giselle Lin is a writer-director from Singapore.
Giselle strives to tell stories about women, for women: stories that depict women’s passions, disappointments, and routines. She is inspired by the emotional quality present in all things, living or not, and greatly appreciates the analogue process. She tries to capture everyday life with her film cameras and has since expanded from still photography to shooting home movies on Super 8.
YOUNG PEOPLE, OLD PEOPLE & NOTHING IN BETWEEN | วายป็อบ
United States of America, Thailand | 20’ | 2022
Director: Parida Tantiwasadakran
Cast: Suwinya Kungsadan, Deedee Piamwiriyakun
Producer: Pichsinee Wongthipphun
Synopsis
It's a grand world for Juice, when her best friend, Grandma Lovely, is around. But their days of happiness begin getting interrupted by Grandma's bizarre behavior. Grandma randomly walks out of the house, mistakens Juice for her sister and talks about going to the slaughter house at the farm. To help her, Juice makes flash cards and a map for Grandma so that she doesn’t wander off again and forget where she lives. One day, Grandma doesn't pick Juice up from school. Juice returns home and realizes Grandma is gone. Panicking, Juice roams the city looking for her.
Biography
Parida Tanti is a writer/director who works between Los Angeles and Bangkok. Before becoming a filmmaker, Parida worked as a game writer in Bangkok, as a post-production assistant at Participant Media, and as an intern at "Elementary." She holds an MFA in Directing from UCLA and a BA in Poetry from Columbia University.
