ARTEM SILENDI • 2018
DIRECTOR: Frank Ychou
COUNTRY: France
RUNTIME: '7
SYNOPSIS: Sisters are sinners like others.
NOMINATIONS:
• Best Short Film
SHORT FILMS
DOG GONE • 2019
DIRECTOR: Tommy Wooldridge
COUNTRY: USA
RUNTIME: '7
SYNOPSIS: When a bumbling cartoonist loses his dog, he gets creative in the frantic search to find his furry best friend.
NOMINATIONS:
• Best Short Film
DIRECTOR: Sara Casasnovas
COUNTRY: Spain
RUNTIME: '9
SYNOPSIS: The hunger, the mis, the escape. An endless journey to their own nature
NOMINATIONS:
• Best Short Film
ESCARABANA • 2017
DIRECTOR: Agnieszka Chmura
COUNTRY: Poland
RUNTIME: '15
SYNOPSIS: Humming, sluggish summer of 1989, the final year of communism in Eastern Europe. A family of three reaches the Czechoslovakian-Polish border and joins a long queue. Bees are buzzing around them as they are enclosed in a small space together. The atmosphere thickens. With the little girl on the back seat we wade into the incomprehensible world of the adults. Her encounter with the heartless border guard revokes the uneven conflict of system vs humanity. Is she capable of breaking into the border guard's cold heart?
NOMINATIONS:
• Best Short Film
BORDER CROSSING • 2019
DIRECTOR: Elena Pauné, Eva Pauné & Marina Pauné
COUNTRY: Spain
RUNTIME: '20
SYNOPSIS: A family spending their holiday at Costa Brava. The older brother’s belief system will be disrupted when an act of kindness results in a little tragedy. This will immerse him into a routine where refusing to make decisions could lead to greater tragedies.
NOMINATIONS:
• Best Short Film
BAD FAITH • 2018
DIRECTOR: Sergio Morcillo
COUNTRY: Spain
RUNTIME: '15
SYNOPSIS: Marta is a teenager whose parents died two years ago. One night, while alone at home, she will discover the truth about the pain that is tormenting her.
NOMINATIONS:
• Best Short Film
DROPS • 2018
DIRECTOR: Andreas Pappas
COUNTRY: Greece
RUNTIME: '21
SYNOPSIS: Nikos isn't feeling good. Katerina hopes that things will change. Nikos wants Katerina to change.Nikos is focused on the wrong things; or rather in the void between them. A black and white movie about the feeling of grey.
NOMINATIONS:
• Best Short Film
THE VOID BETWEEN THINGS
• 2019
DIRECTOR: João Monteiro
COUNTRY: Portugal
RUNTIME: '14
SYNOPSIS: In a Portuguese suburb, José celebrates his 18th birthday. A silver necklace falls in his hands, offered by his older brother. In the aftermath of this present, the film assumes a nostalgic reflexion about the identity of a lost family.
NOMINATIONS:
• Best Short Film
JOSÉ • 2019
DIRECTOR: Eduardo Casanova
COUNTRY: Spain
RUNTIME: '8
SYNOPSIS: A marriage that represents the American dream is immersed in a personal crisis. Jackie is tired of pretending, but the responsibility is a lot and being consistent is complicated. In the middle of the cold war of the Kennedy marriage, an unexpected third party appears. A third that will change the story, or how they told us.
NOMINATIONS:
• Best Short Film
I'M SORRY MY LOVE • 2018
DIRECTOR: Jerónimo Marroquin
COUNTRY: Argentina
RUNTIME: '23
SYNOPSIS: Year 1882, full humid pampa to the south of the province of Santa fe, Argentina. A day before the laying of the foundation stone of a future colony and the inauguration of its chapel, Javier Mendizazal, justice of the peace and landowner of the place, receives the unexpected visit of an aboriginal, Carrier of an amulet that reveals a truth about the identity of the young man: the two share the same blood on the mother side. This frightens the young man so much that it instantly kills the aboriginal. This action unleashes a curse that will go against all that contributes to the dream of the young man, and against his work: the foundation of the Colony.
NOMINATIONS:
• Best Short Film
VENADO TUERTO • 2018
DIRECTOR: Xavi Medina
COUNTRY: Puerto Rico
RUNTIME: '6
SYNOPSIS: Two people in love share their last few moments together before having to say goodbye forever.
NOMINATIONS:
• Best Short Film
REMOVAL • 2019
