Directed by Babak Amini, Iran, 16 Minutes, Narrative Maryam, a 26-year old girl and a nurse is taking care of an elderly woman in Teheran. She is also having an affair with the old woman’s son, who has a wife and children of his own. Their secret is about the blown when Maryam discovers she is 3-months pregnant and her lover asks her to have an abortion.
Directed by Sarah Goodman, Canada 5:18 Minutes, Narrative Hidden Driveway is about the relationship of two brothers baffled by the mysterious world of their parents. Two brothers sitting at a park bench receive a phone call from their mother asking them to come for a family meeting. The long way home reveals deep anxieties about their family and their relationship to each other.
Directed by Brent Green, USA, 20:30, Narrative Asuka and Michi are childhood friends growing up in Tokyo. When they each experience heartbreaking losses, they are forced to decide how much of themselves they are willing to give and reveal, in order to find true love
Directed by Joey Liew, USA 3:04, Music Video Leiahdorus enters a surreal world, where they are transformed into faceless beings marching blindly forward.
Directed by Kazuhito Nakae, JAPAN 20:00 Narrative Shot in a cinema verite style, the film follows a woman, who left her strict and Buddhist parents when she was 20-years old and now returns home to attend her grandmother’s introduce her little son to his grandparents to her. Shot with non-actors, the film is a fascinating incite into Japanese culture.
Directed by Ondi Timoner and Robert James, USA 16:20, Documentary Thousands of corroded copper urns, containing the cremated remains of unclaimed psychiatric patients, were discovered in the Oregon State Hospital. The hospital was where the 1975 “One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest” was shot and the reality was every bit as disturbing as the fictitious ward. The local press and a State Senator in an unprecedented collaboration, vowed to change the deplorable conditions of the hospital. What they didn’t expect to find was a storeroom full of human ashes.
Directed by Frederic Casella, UK 18:30, Narrative A young couple’s marriage hilariously hits the rocks during a weekend wedding in the country.
Directed by Jimmy Olsson, Sweden, 14:35 min, Narrative A bus ride turns weird when it triggers a repressed memory.
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