CHRYSALIS • 2018
DIRECTOR: Luz Escobar
COUNTRY: Argentina
RUNTIME: '9
SYNOPSIS: Portrait of a young girl in the phase before becoming a women.
NOMINATIONS:
• Best Short Film
SHORT FILMS
MARIA • 2019
DIRECTOR: Paco Ruiz
COUNTRY: Spain
RUNTIME: '17
SYNOPSIS: Maria lives for her son Bruno, interned in a mental health center. However, the day Bruno is discharged and comes back home, Maria's stability falters, bringing out a set of feelings she thought she had buried.
NOMINATIONS:
• Best Short Film
• Best Actress:
Luisa Gavasa
DIRECTOR: Cam Tribe
COUNTRY: USA
RUNTIME: '16
SYNOPSIS: Trapped by misfortune and poverty in Ghana, two young men, Felix and Emmanuel, devote themselves to boxing as their way out. When the two are scheduled to fight one another in a regional tournament, a gateway to the professional stage, Felix and Emmanuel face-off in a fight for escape.
NOMINATIONS:
• Best Short Film
LIONHEART • 2019
DIRECTOR: Carlos Matias
COUNTRY: China
RUNTIME: '6
SYNOPSIS: "Reminiscence" is an allegory which tells how our senses are able to drive us through the recondites spaces in our memory.Spaces that we may not want to visit any more.
NOMINATIONS:
• Best Short Film
REMINISCENCE • 2019
DIRECTOR: Sophie Shui
COUNTRY: China
RUNTIME: '25
SYNOPSIS: In order to take care of his old mother (played by Liou, Yiin-Shang), who has lost her intelligence and is disabled, Xia Changming (played by Yi-Wen CHEN) remains unemployed at home.
NOMINATIONS:
• Best Short Film
A TRIP WITH MOM • 2019
DIRECTOR: Rodolphe Bouquet
COUNTRY: France
RUNTIME: '14
SYNOPSIS: Julia is having an unexpected date tonight
NOMINATIONS:
• Best Short Film
TINDER SURPRISE • 2019
DIRECTOR: Claudia Ruiz
COUNTRY: Argentina
RUNTIME: '12
SYNOPSIS: Damián (10) and his little brother Matias (7) start attending a new school located next to a jail. The day before the new beginning is the birthday of Damien receives a clock and the invitation to a meeting that will wait anxiously: the hour 11:40.
NOMINATIONS:
• Best Short Film
11:40 • 2019
DIRECTOR: Remi Mazet
COUNTRY: France
RUNTIME: '27
SYNOPSIS: Aurélie, a tormented and sulky teenager, reluctantly goes to spend holidays with her father, who recently settled on the island of Mayotte. Revolted by the world of adults and its contradictions, this Mahoran experience is transformed into an initiatory journey from which it will emerge grown.
NOMINATIONS:
• Best Short Film
RUMBU • 2018
DIRECTOR: Ga-Kyung Lee
COUNTRY: South Korea
RUNTIME: '16
SYNOPSIS: Eun-joo, who wants to learn ballet, thinks that the reason why she is poor is because she cremated her grandfather. Eun-joo takes her brothers to the family mountain to steal her grandfather's ashes.
NOMINATIONS:
• Best Short Film
THE HOUSE OF RISING SUN
• 2019
DIRECTOR: Jinkyung Kwak
COUNTRY: South Korea
RUNTIME: '16
SYNOPSIS: A North Korean woman has fled her country in the hope of finding her brother who had made his own escape earlier on several years ago. Her new life in South Korea is strange in every way, but she tries to settle herself into her new surroundings amidst hopes and fears. When one day, at last, she gets hold of her brother’s address, she immediately takes to the road to find him.
NOMINATIONS:
• Best Short Film
SEOLHWA • 2019
DIRECTOR: Ioseb "Soso" Bliadze
COUNTRY: Germany
RUNTIME: '22
SYNOPSIS: The film is about two German tourists’ adventure in a Georgian village.
NOMINATIONS:
• Best Short Film
TRADITION • 2019
