THE KILLER OF GRASSY RIDGE
• 2020
DIRECTOR: Johnny K
COUNTRY: USA
RUNTIME: '9
SYNOPSIS: Deep in the Shenandoah backcountry, a killer stalks for prey.
NOMINATIONS:
• Best Short Film
SHORT FILMS
WITHOUT YOU • 2018
DIRECTOR: Allan J. Arcal
COUNTRY: Spain
RUNTIME: '10
SYNOPSIS: In the darkest night, Maria returns to house between tears. There they wait for his husband, his daughter and a terrible secret.
NOMINATIONS:
• Best Short Film
DIRECTOR: Saif Hasnaoui
COUNTRY: Tunisia
RUNTIME: '30
SYNOPSIS: Nour and Chahine, choose to live a world of addiction to drugs and sex to escape from the brutality of their past, but changed their live to a misery.
NOMINATIONS:
• Best Short Film
HALF A FILM • 2020
DIRECTOR: Nell Córdova
COUNTRY: Spain
RUNTIME: '12
SYNOPSIS: Eva walks through the forest when she suddenly she comes face to face with her father’s warnings about the road and becomes paralyzed by fear. The only way to escape is by waking up.
NOMINATIONS:
• Best Short Film
EVA'S DREAM • 2019
DIRECTOR: David Muñoz, Adrián Cardona
COUNTRY: Spain
RUNTIME: '18
SYNOPSIS: December 25 of next year. Humanity has gone to hell and only a few survive eating each other. Santa Claus comes to bring toys, but in a world without good children, he will have to use them as deadly weapons.
NOMINATIONS:
• Best Short Film
THE LAST CHRISTMAS OF THE UNIVERSE • 2019
DIRECTOR: Ilias Jaoui
COUNTRY: France
RUNTIME: '13
SYNOPSIS: Existence in society is a reflection of consideration from our fellows. But how do we exist when we are homeless? On The Edge Of The Sight questions our esteem for the homeless. Confronting their existence with our powerlessness, to rethink the hierarchy from which indifference is born.
NOMINATIONS:
• Best Short Film
ON THE EDGE OF SIGHT • 2019
DIRECTOR: Guille Vázquez
COUNTRY: Spain
RUNTIME: '7
SYNOPSIS: A young woman seeks out someone who has entered her house when she is between sleep and vigil. Based on Henry Fuseli's painting 'The Nightmare', 'Mare' depicts a sleep paralysis as told by the incubus myth.
NOMINATIONS:
• Best Short Film
MARE • 2020
DIRECTOR: Karim Tajouaout
COUNTRY: Morocco
RUNTIME: '9
SYNOPSIS: When the place tells us a story, we must listen. The echo of time repeats, and the mistakes of previous generations warns, so listen, time sure has a story and time had memory. And this place is telling us a story of a small family has been destroyed by war.
NOMINATIONS:
• Best Short Film
GHOST OF SPACETIME • 2019
DIRECTOR: Samir Benchikh
COUNTRY: France
RUNTIME: '29
SYNOPSIS: In Ivory Coast, Rasta, who is 16, is traumatized by an armed conflict that is ravaging his country. Haunted by a tragedy that he keeps secret, he will begin a journey through the war zone held by the Rebellion, in search of a mysterious militiaman.
NOMINATIONS:
• Best Short Film
• Best Director
RASTA • 2019
DIRECTOR: Charles Dudoignon-Valade
COUNTRY: France
RUNTIME: '17
SYNOPSIS: 12-year-old Lucy can't accept her parents have divorced. Holidays are ending. Just before Lucy is to leave Paris, she puts off returning to London at her mum's, and grills her dad about whether he has found a new relationship. As darkness falls, Lucy gets a piece of news that upsets her so that she runs away from her dad’s. She wanders in the city. Takes risks. And finally faces reality.
NOMINATIONS:
• Best Short Film
SO LONG, PARIS! • 2019
DIRECTOR: Manuel Hüttner
COUNTRY: Austria
RUNTIME: '10
SYNOPSIS: In a dystopian vision of the future, a mysterious secret agent is lost on a mission. When her commanding division picks her up again, they perform a series of tests in a harsh government facility. They find something’s missing from her memories, a new objective that she is determined to keep to herself. A manipulative game of questions and answers evolves.
KRIM is a transhumanist sci-fi thriller that asks how far we are willing to go.
NOMINATIONS:
• Best Short Film
KRIM • 2019