Schedule

The Hague Global Cinema Festival 2020 Program

Feature

Bloodless: The Path To Democracy

In the course of history, only a few revolutions have been successful, let alone those without Bloodshed. Nikol Pashinyan, a charismatic former journalist and political prisoner, galvanized support among the youth and women, by using non-violent civil disobedience protests and social media. In a short period of 6 weeks, a corrupt oligarchy was toppled and democracy restored. Deemed short of a miracle, BLOODLESS is a riveting political thriller, capturing the story as events unfold in the spring of 2018 in Armenia.
Duration: 1h 28m
Director: Bared Maronian, Silva Basmajian
Starring: Nikol Pashinyan, Armen Sarkissian, Shombi Sharp, Arsinee Khanjian, Maria Titizian,t Mikael Zolyan
Enjoy in 3 days : 13 hrs : 17 min

Documentary

Bloodless: The Path To Democracy

In the course of history, only a few revolutions have been successful, let alone those without Bloodshed. Nikol Pashinyan, a charismatic former journalist and political prisoner, galvanized support among the youth and women, by using non-violent civil disobedience protests and social media. In a short period of 6 weeks, a corrupt oligarchy was toppled and democracy restored. Deemed short of a miracle, BLOODLESS is a riveting political thriller, capturing the story as events unfold in the spring of 2018 in Armenia.
Duration: 1h 28m
Director: Bared Maronian, Silva Basmajian
Starring: Nikol Pashinyan, Armen Sarkissian, Shombi Sharp, Arsinee Khanjian, Maria Titizian,t Mikael Zolyan
Enjoy in 3 days : 13 hrs : 17 min

Wandering…But Not Lost

Under cover of darkness and with no word of his plans, much-beloved Tibetan Buddhist Meditation Master Yongey Mingyur Rinpoche walked away from his life on the international stage to live that of a wandering yogi. Unheard of among eminent teachers today, such a practice is rife with hardships. For Mingyur Rinpoche, these challenges—begging, finding food and shelter, illness, and all the attendant risks of wandering incognito from place to place with the barest of possessions—present fertile ground for deepening insight into the true nature of the mind.

Wandering . . . But Not Lost is an intimate account of Rinpoche’s four-and-a-half-year retreat (June 2011 – November 2015) interspersed with the master’s own guidance in applying Buddhist wisdom to our daily modern lives.

The story begins in Bodhgaya, India at the monastery of this renowned meditation master and teacher, best-selling author, and abbot of three monasteries worldwide. Recounting the night of his disappearance in detail, the film follows Rinpoche through his first days and weeks, including his near-death experience and the insight he gains as a result.

In vibrant and sweeping footage, WNL then traces his path—by foot, bus, train, and rickshaw—over the plains of northern India and into the mountains, hermitages, and caves of the Himalayas. Along the way, Rinpoche shares the wisdom he gained from these experiences in candid insights.

The story turns when Tashila, long-time attendant and friend of Rinpoche, spots him in Kathmandu at the Great Stupa of Boudhanath. Tashila, filled with inspiration, implores Rinpoche to allow him to join him. Rinpoche refuses at first, but when Tashila agrees to commit to a three-year wandering retreat, Rinpoche consents. The gain is ours: Tashila provides audiences a window into Rinpoche’s compassion and kindness for others. He recounts the yogi’s interactions with strangers in which he offers meditation techniques and Buddhist philosophy to anyone who asks or shows interest.

Layered over this story is exotic footage of ancient and holy places, such as Langtang, Nubri, Dolpo, and Lapchi where Tibet’s most famous yogi and poet Jetsun Milarepa (1052-1135) lived in solitary meditation. Kushinagar, where the Buddha passed away, Varanasi, Rishikesh, Ladakh, and Amritsar are also featured, along with one of the holiest Hindu shrines on the subcontinent: Vaishno Devi, reached by an arduous 14-kilometer hike up a mountain path full of joyous Hindu pilgrims.

“The entire path is a shift in perception,” says Mingyur Rinpoche. These and other words of wisdom culled from his extraordinary wandering retreat and devoted adherence to his meditative practice will touch—and inspire—audiences everywhere.
Duration: 1h 28m
Director: Paul MacGowan
Starring: Yongey Mingyur Rinpoche, Vajradhara Tai Situ Rinpoche, Tsokni Rinpoche, Lama Tashi
Enjoy in 3 days : 6 hrs : 19 min

Feature

Closet

Don’t leave “lonely” alone.
It can be the most troublesome emotion for human beings.

——Well, okay during the day.
・・・ But at night, Loneliness robs me of sleep,
Although he silently snuggled up to us.———–

A man who has lost his virility as a result of a traffic accident.
「JIN」、A man who can’t have sex with a woman, and therefore can’t have children.
In frustration, he quietly leaves his fiancee and flees to Tokyo.
He ends up in a “Soine” ( literally, “sleeping together.”)company.
It is here where clients, men and women from their teens all the way up to their seventies, come together.
It is a place where they come in search of peace.
All are insomniacs, troubled by their lonliness.
People who cannot sleep.

A 30-year-old virgin woman,
A 36-year-old woman secretly in love with her significantly younger co-worker,
A college girl entangled in the web of host clubs at the age of 19,
A homosexual man in his 50’s whose longtime lover has passed away,
An elderly woman in her 80’s, who wants someone to remain at her side during a “passing,”

Adults, who on the outside seem to be living a happy life, unable to send out a call for help for the heart.
And she, meeting a man who is also burdened by his own feelings of isolation and desperation; the only one who can save her.

This was made based on a true story.

Through meticulous interviews,
A unique film in which most of the scenes and all of the characters are filmed in bed!

Without his sexuality, will it be impossible for him to form a relationship, to love and to be loved, to cuddle, for the rest of his life?

Are the two people in the last scene living for tomorrow?
Or is it a ghost?

—Don’t think. feel! —
Duration: 1h 34m
Director: Takehiro Shindo
Starring: Yosuke Minokawa
Enjoy in 3 days : 16 hrs : 52 min

Orthodox

Benjamin, an Orthodox Jewish boy persecuted for his faith, turns to boxing as a means of self defense. As an adult, involvement in unlicensed boxing alienates him from the community. Tangled up in a web of criminal activity, he makes an immoral decision in order to provide for his family and as a result goes to prison leading to the loss of those he loves.

Once released he is determined to right the wrongs which led to his downfall. He finds a way back into community life through his old boxing gym, where a devastating truth about his past is revealed and becomes the catalyst for a series of events that ensures he will never return to the normal life he has always craved.
Duration: 1h 34m
Director: David Leon
Starring: Stephen Graham, Michael Smiley, Christopher Fairbank, Rebecca Callard, Giacomo Mancini
Enjoy in 3 days : 16 hrs : 50 min

The Man Behind The White Guitar

A spectrum of people, voices, and textures, “The Man Behind the White Guitar” is a film about the musical life of Brazilian guitarist José Pires de Almeida Neto. His music and energy have been behind major world musicians, including Harry Belafonte and Steve Winwood, as well as Brazilian greats, Flora Purim and Airto Moreira. His diverse musical journey from Brazil to the United States and England and deep life challenges have taught him the values of loyalty, devotion, and positive vision that speak through his sounds and performing spirit. He’s touched the lives of the most unsuspecting fans worldwide.
Duration: 1h 11m
Director: Richard Michael
Starring: Jose Pires de Almeida Neto, Harry Belafonte, Steve Winwood, Airto Moreira, Flora Purim, Paul Liberatore
Enjoy in 3 days : 16 hrs : 48 min

Documentary

The Man Behind The White Guitar

A spectrum of people, voices, and textures, “The Man Behind the White Guitar” is a film about the musical life of Brazilian guitarist José Pires de Almeida Neto. His music and energy have been behind major world musicians, including Harry Belafonte and Steve Winwood, as well as Brazilian greats, Flora Purim and Airto Moreira. His diverse musical journey from Brazil to the United States and England and deep life challenges have taught him the values of loyalty, devotion, and positive vision that speak through his sounds and performing spirit. He’s touched the lives of the most unsuspecting fans worldwide.
Duration: 1h 11m
Director: Richard Michael
Starring: Jose Pires de Almeida Neto, Harry Belafonte, Steve Winwood, Airto Moreira, Flora Purim, Paul Liberatore
Enjoy in 3 days : 16 hrs : 48 min

Short

IN THE DEATHROOM

Fletcher, a reporter from The New York Times, has been captured by members of a South American dictatorship and brought into a “deathroom” for interrogation. Based on the short story by Stephen King.
Duration: 0h 18m
Director: Nicole Jones-Dion
Starring: Scott Bailey, Mario Rocha, Andrew Bering, Lenox Knight, Michael Anthony Perez, Ron Sequeira
Enjoy in 4 days : 16 hrs : 37 min

” The Last Dream “

This film follows the story of a boy who administers sleeping pills to himself. An overdose leads to a bizarrely intimate conversation with Death wherein we bring light on his reasons for ending his life and the bittersweet of what could have been if he had decided to live. This film will empower the audience to see the meaning of life and what a gift it truly is.

Project Brief:

Veer takes a bite of a pill and finds himself transported in a state of neither being dead nor completely being alive, to top it off Death takes him through time in a bizarre yet heartbreaking adventure.

The genesis of the project.

My friend Miraya inspired me to begin this project. Coming from a conservative background, especially being born a female, I was swatted away from opportunities that would have been easily handed to my male counterpart, thankfully by best friend urged me to take on a film project regardless of all the drawbacks I encountered.
Duration: 0h 18m
Director: Taskeen Shaikh
Starring: Swapnnil Ralkar, Divya Sharma, Mitansh Lulla
Enjoy in 4 days : 15 hrs : 47 min

Feature

A Rose Between Thorns

A young girl by the name of Rose, is physically abused by her father, and her mother knows about the abuse but does nothing to prevent or dismiss it. Rose dances to escape her pain, but having difficulties escaping it. Rose’s boyfriend Antonio, has an alcoholic mother and his older brother is in jail. He has no father, no guidance and goes down a similar path as his mother. Rose and Antonio hang on to the love they have for each other in the hopes of escaping their tragic circumstances.

A ROSE BETWEEN THORNS is the first movie to ever be made on the island nations of Saint Kitts and Nevis. Using exclusive all local cast and crew, all first time film-makers.
Duration: 1h 20m
Director: Nigel Lewis
Starring: Bernel Huggins “Antonio Bush”, Roberitine Webbe “Rose”
Enjoy in 4 days : 15 hrs : 46 min

Mambo Man

MAMBO MAN is the story of a Cuban farmer and music promoter who gambles everything on a deal that appears too good to be true!
With music by the Buena Vista Stars
Based on a true story and filmed in the exotic countryside outside Havana, this remarkable and engaging film will move both your spirit and your feet with its unforgettable passion and intoxicating music. The soundtrack and live performances in the film include some of the legendary Cuban artists who appeared in the box office smash, Buena Vista Social Club.
Duration: 1h 22m
Director: Mo Fini, Edesio Alejandro
Starring: Hector Noas, Isael Yudexi de la Torre Mesa, Alejandro Palomino Infante, David Pérez Pérez, Camila Chile, Idolka De Erbit
Enjoy in 4 days : 15 hrs : 46 min

Documentary

Privacy & The Power Of Secrets

“Privacy & The Power of Secrets” is Alan Kryszak’s 4th Downeast Documentary, featuring a University of Maine at Machias film crew. The new feature documentary follows recent films featured on Maine Public Television: “When The Chevy Breaks”, “Who Made You In America?” & the Docs Without Borders award-winning “Whatever Works: Exploring Opiate Addiction”.

Deeply held, seldom known histories & current secrets range from lone lighthouse keepers in the Atlantic, to technology & privacy through the eyes of Passamaquoddy Tribal Members, Chinese citizens, Downeast store owners & a hard look at the cruelest dog experimentation lab left in the nation.

Secrets explored include a Maine family distantly related to the Governor responsible for starting & stopping the Salem Witch Trials, a lost interracial village near Machias, Maine,
& China’s facial recognition & “Citizen Social Score”, shown to not differ greatly from the Credit Bureaus that determine a US citizen’s ability to work, rent, buy, drive or possess a cell phone.

AIM (American Indian Movement) activist Maynard Stanley reveals secrets of exposing crimes against Passamaquoddy residents in Coastal Maine, through a neighborhood watch gang, & environmental activist Sandra Birnhak, shares efforts to end live dog research at Texas A & M University.

The UMM student crew includes Aquila Chase, Cassie Wilcoxson, DeMauria Tropet, Dawn Johnson, Andrew Duval, Billy Bentz, Grace Turse, Elias Reyes, Julian Bauman and Shneider Vil.
Duration: 1h 0m
Director: Alan Kryszak
Starring: Various witnesses to the dimensions of privacy in the 21st Century, including Cody & Bonnie Phipps, AIM activist Maynard Stanley, activist Sandra Birnhak
Enjoy in 4 days : 15 hrs : 44 min

Short

AMALGAMA (dir. Wills)

Alcira is a peasant woman, whose features bear her pain and sorrow. She lives alone in a peasant house. Henry, shy and demure, comes over to help with trying tasks. Their relationship is strained. Alcira becomes annoyed whenever Henry is near. Henry, for his part, is uncomfortable but tries to come nearer to her. Alcira gradually makes an effort to be kinder. She shares moments with Henry, where she excruciatingly mentions her dead son. Her talks distress Henry. For Alcira, these are moments of liberation: she releases shards of great affliction. Little by little, the tension relaxes. Henry feels increasingly comfortable. Alcira even considers Henry akin to her deceased son: the son slain by Henry in the armed conflict. Commitment and time to know him results in Alcira forgiving him.
Duration: 0h 12m
Director: Alejandra Wills
Starring: Berenice Piñeros “Alcira”, Jader Cuello de la Cruz “Henry”
Enjoy in 5 days : 15 hrs : 37 min

Juicy Girl

‘Juicy Girl’ is based on events surrounding the murders of several of the many Korean women committed by US Army personnel since the Korean War of the 1950’s.

1992 South Korea. Soyoung, also known as Annie, is a Juicy Girl. A term used by American soldiers stationed in South Korea for local prostitutes. Soyoung is a trafficking victim, snatched by a gang when in her teens and forced into sex slavery. Sold to a pimp who operates his girls out of a nightclub, exclusively reserved for US Army personnel, Soyoung serves their ‘needs’. Her world is confined and tightly controlled, there is no escape. Soyoung’s only rare moments of joy come when she befriends a young street seller, Hoon a 10 year old boy.

Private Michael Johnstone, a US Army Medic, is a loner and shunned by the other G.I.’s. A narcissist and a misogynist, Johnstone is a psychotic landmine waiting to explode. At the nightclub Soyoung is in his sights, seemingly easy prey he can dominate and humiliate. Choosing his time carefully Johnstone, a master manipulator, romances and finally picks up Soyoung. Except Soyoung doesn’t play by his rules, nor is willing to do as she is told to by Johnstone. Johnstone erupts in a frenzy of brutal and grotesque violence. Leaving her dead and disfigured Johnstone feels no remorse.

Johnstone is arrested for Soyoung’s murder. Under interrogation he denies killing her though all the evidence confirms this. Johnstone is sentenced to life imprisonment. Some years later this sentence comes under review for possible parole. An experienced psychologist, Jane Owens, is brought in to assess Johnstone’s mental state. Owens gains a terrifying insight to Johnstone’s mind. To Johnstone, Annie was a nobody and got what she deserved. She was inferior, an irritating nuisance – just a Juicy Girl. Owens’ firm conclusion is that Johnstone must never be given an early release. He is a danger to society and likely to commit again. But justice can be bought. Soyoung had no protectors. Johnstone has one of the most powerful on earth, The US Army, who want to bring one of their boys back home. The Army coerces Soyoung’s family into accepting compensation for her death, blood money. They have no choice but to accept.

Private Michael Johnstone is released early. A free man.

This leads to outrage from the local populace, for the crime should not have allowed early parole.
Duration: 0h 16m
Director: MJ KIM
Starring: Kaiwi Lyman
Enjoy in 5 days : 15 hrs : 34 min

White Pebble

In a remote village, every weekend 6 year old ‘Titli’ waits for her friend ‘Bishnu’ who travels with his father from a city far away, to come to the village where they have a home. Titli is honest with her bitterness towards city but lingers to understand how Bishnu feels living there, in the big illusionary world.
But this time, Titli learns that this is Bishnu’s last visit, and he is moving to the city, just like the time her father did, for good. How migration of people from villages to the big cities can take away more than just the friends for little children.

Director Biography – Dilip V. Sood
Duration: 0h 19m
Director: Dilip V. Sood
Starring: Gayatri Panwar, Akshat Chanana
Enjoy in 5 days : 15 hrs : 31 min

Rooted in Song

“Rooted in Song” is a heartfelt reflection of an Estonian expat choir’s journey from the United Kingdom to the Singing Grounds in Tallinn to celebrate the 150th anniversary of the tradition called Song Celebration.
This is a film is about the journey that took 516 days and 5 kilometers and explores the importance of singing, homeland and the meaning of the Song Celebration for Estonians living abroad and the meaning of the Estonians to Brits.
Duration: 0h 39m
Director: Ranno Kasemaa
Starring:
Enjoy in 5 days : 15 hrs : 33 min

Feature

FOXY

Director Trista Suke documents her experience struggling with alopecia universalis through an eccentric, scripted memoir. Interview segments featuring various people living with the hair loss condition are artfully tied into Suke’s story, shining light on mental health, society’s unachievable beauty standards and what it’s like to live as a bald women. All original music by Trista Suke.
Duration: 1h 0m
Director: Trista Suke, Ellis Poleyko
Starring: Trista Suke, Sam Wexler, Charlin McIsaac
Enjoy in 5 days : 15 hrs : 23 min

Documentary

FOXY

Director Trista Suke documents her experience struggling with alopecia universalis through an eccentric, scripted memoir. Interview segments featuring various people living with the hair loss condition are artfully tied into Suke’s story, shining light on mental health, society’s unachievable beauty standards and what it’s like to live as a bald women. All original music by Trista Suke.
Duration: 1h 0m
Director: Trista Suke, Ellis Poleyko
Starring: Trista Suke, Sam Wexler, Charlin McIsaac
Enjoy in 5 days : 15 hrs : 22 min

Rising Silence

If no one heeds your call, walk alone’ A journey of relationships between women, dealing with war, violence and daily prejudice to heal and create the future with unconditional love.
Duration: 1h 14m
Director: Leesa Gazi
Starring:
Enjoy in 5 days : 15 hrs : 21 min

Rooted in Song

“Rooted in Song” is a heartfelt reflection of an Estonian expat choir’s journey from the United Kingdom to the Singing Grounds in Tallinn to celebrate the 150th anniversary of the tradition called Song Celebration.
This is a film is about the journey that took 516 days and 5 kilometers and explores the importance of singing, homeland and the meaning of the Song Celebration for Estonians living abroad and the meaning of the Estonians to Brits.
Duration: 0h 39m
Director: Ranno Kasemaa
Starring:
Enjoy in 5 days : 15 hrs : 20 min

The End of An Era? A Story of Oil Workers

Ten exploration workers of the oil and gas industry talk to camera for the first time in their life. As lovers of the Earth, experts of its rocks, and as members of the energy industry, they claim a place to talk about their industry and its future. The story is narrated by the son of an oil geologist, who moved as an oil expat son from Brazil to Norway, showing the contrast between new generations of environmental/climate concern and the practical and ethical challenges faced by industry professionals. Following the footsteps of Statoil, the Norwegian oil company operating in Brazil, the film tackles questions like why to continue exploring for oil and gas today and the ethical dilemmas involved. In a world where climate change concerns are a priority and where alternative renewable energies seem to be advancing, this journey explores how the energy transition should take place, asking some of the people who have been part of the damage if they are ready to embrace change.
Duration: 0h 50m
Director: Paloma Yáñez Serrano, Benjamin Llorens Rocamora
Starring:
Enjoy in 5 days : 15 hrs : 19 min

Feature

All from Me

The Chinese choreographer Yang Liping thrilled audiences around the world in 1986 with her amazing “peacock dance” from ‘Spirit of the Peacock’. One of her famous works in her artistic creation career “Pingtan Image” was originated from the oriental folk believes and myths of Pingtan, located in East China’s Fujian province and the closest place on the Chinese mainland to Taiwan.

The production of “All From Me” music video was hoping to create a crossed-over genuine pop music sensation by bringing both the iconic performance of “Pingtan Image” and singer’s upcoming single together. Both of the directors unrelentingly pursuit to build a work that tells a brand new story which speaks to the audiences who have never been interested in dance theater and the artists that have never listened to pop music. Through the creation of the new script and new choreography, this music video is not only a film work adapted from a play, but an enthralling blend of pop music and the contemporary dance theater, hopes to motivates the artist in everyone.

China is an ancient country full of mysteries and a lot of elements of Chinese deities and magical beings can be found in this video.

There has been an old tradition in China of dancers wearing masks to resemble animals or mythical beasts since antiquity. The lion dance and the dragon dance are usually performed during the Chinese traditional, cultural and religious festivals. In this video the lions are the loyal companions which were bravely protecting the main character from the invasion from Hell. The appearance of a dragon is both fearsome and bold but it has a benevolent disposition, and it was an emblem to represent authority, which were sent from above to come to her rescue.

Art in China had grown in a phenomenal way, and has adapted and changed over time. The purpose of making this video is not only hope to reflect Chinese culture but also seeking for more possibilities to create a foundation for future artistic accomplishments. With the music video of a popular singer, the art of the tradition which were overlooked is bringing back to life with a new statement of Oriental aesthetics.
Duration: 0h 4m
Director: Outerspace Leo, Wang Shou Jie
Starring:
Enjoy in 6 days : 15 hrs : 10 min

Artemis & the Astronaut

Artemis and Henri have spent a lifetime together. Loved one another deeply and imperfectly. Four weeks ago Henri died and so much was left unsaid as Henri’s mind ebbed away. And then Artemis hears Henri crying in the next room. Will Artemis get a chance to be with Henri one last time?
Duration: 0h 14m
Director: Alice L. Lee
Starring: Lynn Cohen, Andrew Platner, Alice L Lee
Enjoy in 6 days : 15 hrs : 8 min

BANG. BANG.

In a repressed, old and dusty western town, a hero rides in to bring justice.
Duration: 0h 4m
Director: Steven Pierce,
Starring: Chey Kennedy, Timothy Goodwin, Ryan Guess, Isiah Stratton, Billy Walker
Enjoy in 6 days : 15 hrs : 7 min

Beauty for Ashes

A film showcasing the power of forgiveness in the most challenging of circumstances.
Duration: 0h 7m
Director: Jamie Humphris
Starring: Joshua Osborne, Ella Sohn, Phil Sohn
Enjoy in 6 days : 15 hrs : 6 min

Boxed

A fictionalized short film based on the true story of the terrifying daring escape of Henry “Box” Brown, an enslaved man who used creativity to escape from slavery in 1849 by mailing himself to freedom.
Duration: 0h 6m
Director: Wanjiru Njendu
Starring: Adetokumboh M’Cormack, Peres Owino, Gregor Manns, William Joseph Hill, Emerson Gregori, Mikey Kettinger
Enjoy in 6 days : 15 hrs : 5 min

COLLAPSE

In a world devastated by disease and chaos, the human being survives beset by fear, guilt and mistrust towards others.
Duration: 0h 5m
Director: Alberto Martín-Aragón
Starring: Julia Doménech
Enjoy in 6 days : 15 hrs : 2 min

CRISS CROSS

Criss Cross is a film about love and borders.
Which is stronger?
An unfortunate chain of events motivates a couple in love to try and defy the obstacles between them. Can they be overcome?
Or might digging underneath be a better solution? And just when you think it’s getting easier, bureaucracy and the past get in the way!
Duration: 0h 7m
Director: Caroline Hamann, Fritz Penzlin
Starring:
Enjoy in 6 days : 15 hrs : 0 min

Death Offers Life – last moments of Vincent Van Gogh

The story is the fictional account of the last five minutes of the acclaimed painter Vincent Van Gogh who was a failure in his lifetime. Death who has come to take him makes an offer which Van Gogh rejects and accepts the hands of death gracefully.
Duration: 0h 8m
Director: Saheer Abbas
Starring: Rashin Khan, Anuroop Thekkumkadan
Enjoy in 6 days : 14 hrs : 59 min

EXTRA INNINGS

A reporter interviews the manager of the Boston Red Sox in an attempt to uncover secrets from his past.
Duration: 0h 8m
Director: John Gray
Starring: Peter Riegert, TJ Thyne
Enjoy in 6 days : 14 hrs : 50 min

Good Man – Honour your Father and Mother

A Priest willface the hard choice whether to save his soul or reliability. What on earth will he do?
Duration: 0h 9m
Director: Daniele Zinelli
Starring: Cristian Carbognani, Francesca Conti, M.Gabriella Zeni, Barbara Zinelli, Marco Frigerio, Daniele Zinelli
Enjoy in 6 days : 14 hrs : 45 min

Happy Birthday

Soner is a disabled person has used a wheelcair. He goes to a restaurant for a surprise birth party with his parent. A tragicomic surprise will await Soner and his family at the end of the night.
Duration: 0h 4m
Director: Ertan Doğan
Starring: Alper Arık, Melike Demirağ, Ayhan Kavas, Barış Demirtürk, Hüseyin Yıldırım
Enjoy in 6 days : 14 hrs : 44 min

Hollow Pond

After being abandoned by his brothers, a young Maasai boy
must outwit a mysterious force to be reunited with his family.
Duration: 0h 14m
Director: Rolfin Nyhus
Starring:
Enjoy in 6 days : 14 hrs : 42 min

Holy Drill

The music “Holy Drill” was commissioned by the dance company to be presented at an opening ceremony of a tunnel in Rotterdam. One month before the performance, it turned out that the investors did not like the idea of the dance performance because it contradicted their religious beliefs. The performance never took place. The situation around it determined the title of the composition.
The core material of the musical texture is the drill’s sound. After some time, I came up with an idea to connect the mechanical sound of a drill and a mill to make a sort of a futuristic film, where the image and musical texture are intertwined.
A mill is the main symbol of the Netherlands. The perpetual rotation of a mill symbolizes immortality. Rising and falling wings of a windmill, according to medieval interpretations, refers to the descent of God to a man and the rise of a man to God, it symbolizes fall and rebirth, cyclical change of times, and world epochs.
The film was shot with Samsung Galaxy S7 at Kinderdijk (UNESCO World Heritage site since 1997) village in the municipality of Molenlanden, in the province of South Holland, Netherlands.
Duration: 0h 12m
Director: Maxim Shalygin
Starring:
Enjoy in 6 days : 14 hrs : 41 min

Kaminda

A visual poem of a 3-year-old boy’s journey of self-discovery.
Kaminda revisits David’s childhood adventures narrated by a young voice in spoken words written by Juan-Carlos Goilo.
From the dry northern plains to the atmospheric damp caves, Kaminda takes you through the rustic landscapes of Curaçao with stunningly captured scenes. Hear the primitive sounds of Curaçao’s “Muzik di Zumbi” accompanied by scenes shot under water, on land and in the air.

The unpredictability of nature and a 3-year-old boy presented some challenges when shooting certain scenes. But there where also these moments where all I had to do was press record and watch something amazing unfold in front of me.
This resulted in a film that resembled the purity of the story.

In 2017 I created my first film on an iPhone 6. Since then I’ve been experimenting with mobile film. When shooting on mobile the rules are completely different. This drives me to think outside the box and think of creative ways to capture that epic scene.
Duration: 0h 3m
Director: David van Delden
Starring: Zane de Wind, Lucca Elisabeth
Enjoy in 6 days : 14 hrs : 39 min

Locked Up

This is a song / music video about stumbling around in these frightening and crazy times. It’s about feeling Locked Up … in a Strange World.
Duration: 0h 3m
Director: Paul Cozens, Peter Renzullo
Starring: Paul Cozens, Kevin Cozens, Riley Cozens, Ellis Cozens, Finn Elliott, Martin Vogt, Millie Vogt
Enjoy in 6 days : 14 hrs : 28 min

One Third Of A Second

Ilyas, an expatriate writer who lived most of his adult life in Australia, returns to Turkey in the hope of finding inspiration for his new book.
Instead, he ends up having to deal with the breakdown of a relationship and a deepening writer’s block, in a land he feels estranged.
Duration: 0h 15m
Director: Burak Oguz Saguner
Starring: Gürsan Piri Onurlu, Engin Oguz, Nazlı Özdemir, Selver Kınık Onurlu
Enjoy in 6 days : 14 hrs : 28 min

Reflections

In a world where Society attaches Labels to who, and, what we are, Paul Discovers his true self through his reflection. A journey to realizing his own identity away from the prejudices of the world around him.
Duration: 0h 18m
Director: Paul Edward Foulkes
Starring: Paul Edward Foulkes, Momoko Chinen, Junko Yogi, Triinu Hoolma
Enjoy in 6 days : 14 hrs : 27 min

Road 721

Road 721 is an allegory about global warming. Set in a number of California forests it tells the tale of Sam, a photo journalist from Los Angeles whose dream has been to write an essay about the state of forestry in the Redwoods as well as other wooded areas in the Western United States.

What he encounters on his journey is mysterious, puzzling and ultimately terrifying.

Road 721 is an environmental ghost story. A cautionary tale about our careless attitude toward the natural world and what occurs as a result of it.
Duration: 0h 25m
Director: Lucinda Luvaas
Starring: Sammy Corrado IV, Alexandra Lovelace, William Luvaas, Katrina Casmer, Duff Brenner, Ricki Rycraft
Enjoy in 6 days : 14 hrs : 26 min

Sandy Illusions

SANDY ILLUSIONS
A documentary by Robert Hughan and Arthur Scheijde.

To see and to be seen is what drives people these days. To see and to-not-be-seen is what drives survival below the surface. The sands of the seabed provide protection. Camouflage is the key to a world of illusions under water. What is actually over there? What do you really see? This engaging play of perception is the theme of this new short under water film. In Sandy Illusions the Spanish Costa Brava reveals the illusions of the desert of the sea.
Several exploratory dives with a camera at the Costa Brava coast have led to establishing the team that made this film: co-director/producer, cameraman, editor Robert Hughan, co-director/producer, writer, editor Arthur Scheijde, technical support Marcel van der Hulst, color grading Stanley Quarré, sound mix and special sound effects Olivier Nijs, music Tenacious Orchestra and Stoney Waters , with a voice-over by Robert Rosier.
Duration: 0h 9m
Director: Robert Hughan
Starring: Robert Hughan, Stanley Quarre, Olivier Nijs, Robert Rosier
Enjoy in 6 days : 14 hrs : 24 min

Swipe

A girl finds out that she has a match on a dating app with a stranger, despite swiping him to the left moments ago. She starts to fear that the man is dangerously close to her.
Duration: 0h 5m
Director: Niels Bourgonje
Starring: Ebony Obsidian, Jefferson White
Enjoy in 6 days : 14 hrs : 23 min

The Blue Marble – Pilot Long

At the Universal Soul Assignment office a soul, Charlie has been stuck on the Blue Marble line for eternity. A victim of red tape, he struggles to unravel the incomprehensible rules and regulations which have prevented him from fulfilling his destiny since the Big Bang.
Duration: 0h 19m
Director: Ralph Toporoff
Starring: John Pirkis, Greg Cohan, Nelson Avidon, Sarah Street, Caroline Kinsolving, Stuart Williams
Enjoy in 6 days : 14 hrs : 21 min

To Be Forgotten

A recovering addict trying to erase the online records of his past transgressions gets a call from a mysterious company that claims it can help him be forgotten–not only by the Internet, but by all the people that ever knew him and by the natural world itself.
Duration: 0h 24m
Director: Masa Gibson
Starring: Ryan Kay
Enjoy in 6 days : 14 hrs : 9 min

Touch – Tamil Musical Short film

Its a short film about how a touch define the relationship between men and women

One liner : Touch which define who you are…
Duration: 0h 10m
Director: Karthick.K
Starring: Praveen Raj, Nelson Anthony, Vignesh Baskaran
Enjoy in 6 days : 14 hrs : 8 min

WADAYAZE

Two men meet by accident at the beach and have a vision of past and future life.
Duration: 0h 6m
Director: Grohmann, Dieter Michael
Starring: Marrakchi Talal, Just Alexander
Enjoy in 6 days : 14 hrs : 7 min

We have to rethink everything

Italian winemaker Daniele Delaini notices water, sky and air becoming cleaner within only a few days during corona shutdown. In the movie he tells his german friend Martin on his oberservations and draws clear conclusions.
Duration: 0h 1m
Director: Edgar Wilkening
Starring:
Enjoy in 6 days : 14 hrs : 6 min

Documentary

Sandy Illusions

A documentary by Robert Hughan and Arthur Scheijde.

To see and to be seen is what drives people these days. To see and to-not-be-seen is what drives survival below the surface. The sands of the seabed provide protection. Camouflage is the key to a world of illusions under water. What is actually over there? What do you really see? This engaging play of perception is the theme of this new short under water film. In Sandy Illusions the Spanish Costa Brava reveals the illusions of the desert of the sea.
Several exploratory dives with a camera at the Costa Brava coast have led to establishing the team that made this film: co-director/producer, cameraman, editor Robert Hughan, co-director/producer, writer, editor Arthur Scheijde, technical support Marcel van der Hulst, color grading Stanley Quarré, sound mix and special sound effects Olivier Nijs, music Tenacious Orchestra and Stoney Waters , with a voice-over by Robert Rosier.
Duration: 0h 9m
Director: Robert Hughan
Starring: Robert Hughan, Stanley Quarre, Olivier Nijs, Robert Rosier
Enjoy in 6 days : 14 hrs : 3 min

The Song

American singer-songwriter David Olney (b. 1947) tours the Netherlands each couple of years, but this time he struggles with physical issues that comes as a price for his love for touring.

David died suddenly on stage early in 2020 while performing. The 2018 tour was his last in the Netherlands.
Duration: 0h 22m
Director: Daan van den Berg
Starring: David Olney
Enjoy in 6 days : 14 hrs : 2 min

Short

Ryoko’s Qubit Summer

–Long ver.–
Quantum butterflies with Qubit wings, The same technology was used to create KANUMA, an experimental world of Artificial Intelligence inside a quantum computer.
Then one day, AIs began using words unknown to man. Scientists saw this as a threat and decided to “delete” KANUMA.
Can love exist between an AI and a human? A new outlook on the evolution of the human world.

–Short A ver.–
A human and an AI fall in love in the final days of the apocalypse. Japanese YURI sci-fi fantasy that sheds light to evolution.

–Short B ver.–
A girl-to-girl, human-to-AI sci-fi love fantasy in the final days of the Apocalypse.
Duration: 0h 17m
Director: Yuichi Kondo
Starring: Ami Yamada, Hinako, Hinano Miyase
Enjoy in 7 days : 13 hrs : 36 min

Feature

MEKONG 2030

MEKONG 2030 is a film anthology, comprising five stories that envision the future of the Mekong River from different cultural perspectives. Set in the year 2030, it aims to both entertain and inspire audiences to actively protect this critical life source.
Duration: 1h 33m
Director: Anocha Suwichakornpong, Pham Ngoc Lan, Kulikar Sotho, Anysay Keola, Sai Naw Kham
Starring: Ma Rynet, Toun Sophy, Rous Monty, Khamtao Changhavong, Khamlee Philavong, Khamhou Phanludeth, Mi Gei, Caleb, Hay Lar May, Nonthachan Prakobsup, Ha Hoang, Minh Chau, Ha Phong, Wean Le, Naomi Huynh
Enjoy in 7 days : 13 hrs : 34 min

Enjoy Day 7 (Award ceremony) in 8 days : 13 hrs : 13 min

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