WEST COAST PREMIERE / NOMINATED FOR THE BEST MUSIC VIDEO AWARD

This free-flowing stream of consciousness animation is set to J. S, Bach The Well Tempered Clavier. The fully hand drawn images weave in and out between abstract and nightmarish visions. Then the dream ends......but does it?

Director, Animation & Producer: Elizabeth Lewis / Pianist: Andras Schiff  / Composer: J.S. Bach

The story of ECHO is about understanding and perception of wildlife,  and environmental abuse and its consequences on the human race.

Director, Writer & Producer: Barzan Rostami

WORLD PREMIERE

At the height of a marriage dispute .in the absence of this wife , a father encounters the first experience of this daughter's period.

Director: Saeid Nejati / Writers: Saeid Nejati & Fatemeh Ashari / Producers: Saeid Nejati & Mahdieh Gholam Hosseini / Cast: Majid Potki, Mehri Sadat Ale Agha, Faren Hassani Niya

WORLD PREMIERE

A story between Yoon Jong-gu, Mister “Jekyll and Hyde,” who is searching for his buried youth and Jihoon, a job seeker who is slowly captivated by Mr. Yoon’s annoying but strangely charming character.

Director: Eunjoo Na / Writer: Young-A Yoo / Producer: Soyoon Kim / Cast: Wook Jung, Seungmin Lee

Moniri and Kheradmand family are in the park for a picnic. But after finishing their meal, it is revealed that they are here for something else.

Director & Writer: Ario Motevaghe / Producer: Ario Motevaghe / Cast: Mostafa Latifikhah, Sahar Taherkhani, Fardin Ghaderi, Malihe Esfandiari, Bardia Shariati

WEST COAST PREMIERE

A US Border Patrol agent Chris who accidentally shoots and kills the son of a Mexican immigrant.

Director: Rodrigo Zan / Writer: Horacio Ramírez / Producers:  Nupur Mehra, Vatsa Barot / Cast: Victor P. Alvarez, Kriss Dozal, Tony Garcia Mikaela Moody, Donovan Farwell, Brian Cogley, Vanessa Arcia

Christelle works with Pascal. They appreciate each other, are courteous to each other and are inclined to help each other. Christelle becomes strange, absent and bothered. Christelle wants a child with him. 

Director: Bruno Henry / Writer: Maryline Mahieu / Producers: Florence Elomo Akoa, Gaultier Barra / Cast: Anne-Sophie Trébel, Bruno Henry, Joaquim Tivoukou, Giazy

Saving his family from an incoming ballistic missile, may be the only chance to save himself.

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