SYLVIO • 2020
DIRECTOR: Léonard Khan
COUNTRY: France
RUNTIME: '14
SYNOPSIS: Sylvio is alone. Sylvio is stuck. Life no longer advances for him. Yet, the world keeps going. Sylvio is then forced to advance.
NOMINATIONS:
• Best Short Film
SHORT FILMS
WOMAN • 2019
DIRECTOR: Roberto Jorge Ramos
COUNTRY: Spain
RUNTIME: '16
SYNOPSIS: Titi Escudero is a kickboxing amateur Spanish champion and she want to win again this year.
NOMINATIONS:
• Best Short Film
DIRECTOR: Sarah Tahraoui
COUNTRY: France
RUNTIME: '20
SYNOPSIS: Between trauma and healing, there is on one side the time and on the other side the revenge. Supported by Lena, Rita and her psy, will Scarlett goes to the end of her vendetta? Will she choose a soft therapy or shock therapy?
NOMINATIONS:
• Best Short Film
SCARLETT • 2020
DIRECTOR: David Pujol
COUNTRY: Spain
RUNTIME: '20
SYNOPSIS: Marc and Javier are both in love with Lucía. By pure chance and unaware of one another's intentions, they have both decided to declare their feelings to her on the same day at the same time.
NOMINATIONS:
• Best Short Film
• Best Director
SAME DAY, SAME TIME • 2020
DIRECTOR: Mustapha Farmati
COUNTRY: Morocco
RUNTIME: '26
SYNOPSIS: A journey to death,or is it a new birth?Brahim endeavors to snatch his little family,his mother and his little brother out of extreme poverty,but he ends up a dead body thrown out by the sea.
NOMINATIONS:
• Best Short Film
THE LAST WAVE • 2020
DIRECTOR: Alex Guéry
COUNTRY: France
RUNTIME: '17
SYNOPSIS: Dani, a 25 year old young woman is in search of identity. She goes to the mansion of Mr Blina, an old man who knows the story of Alice, her great-grandmother, and the secret around that particular night in 1944.
NOMINATIONS:
• Best Short Film
STAR CHILD • 2020
DIRECTOR: Lim Young Jin
COUNTRY: South Korea
RUNTIME: '30
SYNOPSIS: Gwangdeok who lives alone in a redevelopment village. Will he be able to become a hero and protect the peace of his family and village?
NOMINATIONS:
• Best Short Film
I AM A HERO • 2020
DIRECTOR: Olga Slobodchikova
COUNTRY: USA
RUNTIME: '26
SYNOPSIS: Yaroslav, Pavel and Roman have lived their entire lives under Russian President Vladimir Putin’s rule.
They are too young to vote, but want their voices to be heard ahead of the election in 2018.
They joined the protest movement along with thousands of teenagers, responding to a video published by politician Alexey Navalny, the leader of the opposition to Putin.
The energy of the new protesters shocked observers in Russia and abroad, but facing arrests, threats from their teachers and concern of their parents, the teens find they have to make a choice – if the stakes are too high to continue their activism.
NOMINATIONS:
• Best Short Film
AGE OF NO FEAR • 2018
DIRECTOR: Yannick Karcher
COUNTRY: France
RUNTIME: '16
SYNOPSIS: Freshly retired, a man doesn't know how to occupy his days. For fear of being killed by boredom, he gets involved in the crazy project of building a boat in the cellar of his suburban house.
NOMINATIONS:
• Best Short Film
• Best Director
CHARON • 2020
DIRECTOR: Ethel Jagolkowski Kfir
COUNTRY: Spain
RUNTIME: '28
SYNOPSIS: Justo is a 70-year-old widowed father who has to take care of his autistic, 40-year-old daughter Consuelo.
Justo and Consuelo live in a rural area of Spain and are the only inhabitants left in the village, abandoned for many years.
The forest and vegetation are the only things that surround them. Despite the harsh living conditions, Justo tries to take care of the house, the animals and his daughter, but his efforts are being weakened by the pains of age and the extreme tantrums of Consuelo, who can not understand what is going on.
This situation pushes Justo up to his maximum limit.
NOMINATIONS:
• Best Short Film
CONSOLATION • 2019
DIRECTOR: Vasco Alexandre
COUNTRY: United Kingdom
RUNTIME: '16
SYNOPSIS: The film follows the story of Ellie, a young girl from a violent home. The 9-year-old seems to escape from her harsh reality by spending her days in the woods of a nearby scrapyard with her friend, Pete. There, the pair have built a new home for themselves. One night, after witnessing the horrifying abuse of her moth
NOMINATIONS:
• Best Short Film
YARD KINGS • 2020
