BackShort Films Perspectives in Competition
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Bai
Director : CHEN Ao
Countries : China, United Kingdom
Duration : 00:07:20
Synopsis : A big-headed baby, one of the numerous victims of the white melamine-tainted milk powder incidents caused by the Sanlu (Three Deer) Group Co. Ltd in China, sinks into the abyss of horror and despair.
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Baigal Nuur – Lake Baikal
Director : TELENGUT Alisi
Countries : Germany, Canada
Duration : 00:08:55
Synopsis : The formation and history of Lake Baikal in Siberia are reimagined, featuring the voice of a Buryat woman who can still recall some words in her endangered Buryat-Mongolian language.
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Depersonalization
Director : YORDANOV Spartak
Countries : Bulgaria
Duration : 00:07:07
Synopsis : An interpretation about personality loss. The tree grows and buries its crown back in the earth, the world returns to primal matter, the consumer is consumed.
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Fashion Victims 2.0
Director : LORENZO HERNÁNDEZ Maria
Countries : Spain
Duration : 00:02:07
Synopsis : An inconvenient truth – the Western fashion industry is based on forced child labor in the Third World. Will you still consent to it?
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Hadis
Director : AGHAMALIYEVA Nazrin
Countries : Azerbaijan, United States, Czech Republic
Duration : 00:09:34
Synopsis : In a world ruled by crows and discrimination, a young girl decides to fight for justice.
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Island
Director : FAUST Michael
Countries : Israel
Duration : 00:07:40
Synopsis : This recounts the history of a small, secluded island over the course of several millennia, to reveal a telling lesson about human nature.
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K8
Director : ANAYA BORJA Miguel
Countries : Mexico
Duration : 00:05:30
Synopsis : The impact of drug trafficking on society has many facets: some of them are shown in this short film using animated charcoal drawings on wood.
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Kaadina Jeevantike
Director : RAO Nandini, RAO Nirupa, SANGHVI Kalp
Countries : India
Duration : 00:06:52
Synopsis : A little girl stumbles into a sacred grove near her village in South India. She disturbs the spirit of the forest, who takes her on an adventure to illuminate the origins of this ancient swampland.
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Lost at Sea
Director : BARTOS AMORY Andrés Alejandro, STOJEVIC Lucija
Countries : Spain
Duration : 00:04:38
Synopsis : A Rohingya man is stranded in the Andaman Sea on a fishing boat loaded with men, women and children fleeing for their lives. He is haunted by the song his mother sang him. Why did he have to escape?
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Money and Happiness
Director : NEDELJKOVIĆ Ana, MAJDAK JR. Nikola
Countries : Serbia, Slovenia, Slovakia
Duration : 00:09:48
Synopsis : The hamsters live and work in Hamsterland, which is a perfect state with a perfect economy. The GDP grows steadily, there is no unemployment and 100% of the population declare themselves to be happy.
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Nurit
Director : TAL Sohini
Countries : Israel
Duration : 00:11:25
Synopsis : Nurit walks us through her journey into motherhood, which begins with a silent birth, continues to fertility treatments, and ends up with fixing the Eilat cemetery, where she finds closure.
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O cacto
Director : KUMP Ricardo
Countries : Brazil
Duration : 00:10:24
Synopsis : A man finds himself paralyzed in a remote and hostile environment after an accident. His situation takes on new directions as he accepts his new reality.
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Saleeg
Director : BAWYAN Afnan
Countries : Saudi Arabia
Duration : 00:09:39
Synopsis : A grandmother living amongst strangers must confront her stubbornly independent nature when she accidentally causes a pot of boiling rice to overflow, which turns into a flood threatening her house.
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Shanghai Zhi Chun
Director : XUN Sun
Countries : China
Duration : 00:11:00
Synopsis : Initially, on 1st April 2022, the Shanghai government asked people to stay at home in quarantine for five days, but it reneged on its promise and the city closed for two months. Sun Xun was also quarantined in a hotel. Everyone was unprepared.
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Sjeti se kako sam jahala bijelog konja
Director : BOSNJAK VOLDA Ivana, JOHNSON VOLDA Thomas
Countries : Croatia
Duration : 00:10:00
Synopsis : Time continuously elapses, and apathy can trap consciousness into a loop. Escaping this stagnation one can discover the true beauty of existence.
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The Crowd
Director : KIRCA Pelin
Countries : Turkey
Duration : 00:07:06
Synopsis : The crowd is untruth.
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To You
Director : LAZHARI Wafa
Countries : Tunisia
Duration : 00:18:00
Synopsis : Old, dark memories are drawn onto stardust. Either I condemn you, or I free you from your agony.
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Trasiego
Director : WOOLRICH Amanda
Countries : Mexico, Canada
Duration : 00:07:15
Synopsis : A conversation between a grandmother and her granddaughter through their notebooks and landscape sketches discussing four themes: death, migration, memory and expression.
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Where Is the Key?
Director : SPROGE Indra
Countries : Latvia
Duration : 00:07:15
Synopsis : Seeking a way out of depression, Lara tries using other people’s experiences, but she only finds the key when she finds a real connection to herself.