Directed by Samantha Moore.
Synopsis: Visible Mending reclaims the role knitting plays in many peoples’ lives; helping them face adversity, calm anxiety, and make crucial social connections. A group of knitted objects tell stories about how they have used knitting to mend themselves, even if the repair was temporary.
Update: The short film is temporarily offline, so here’s the trailer.
Crab Day, winner of a BAFTA, is directed by Ross Stringer, written by Aleksandra Sykulak and produced by Bartosz Stanislawek.
Synopsis: As part of a fishing community’s annual ritual, a young boy must kill his first crab in order to become a man and gain his father’s approval.
High school seniors Mayu and Camille live in a world where your body inflates when you experience a stressful situation, such as a school exam. Will Mayu succeed or be defeated by stress?
A short film by Audrey Azemar, Andréa Brimboeuf, Baptiste Brotier, Clément Malbec and Mathis Milla-Diaz, students at ECV Bordeaux.
Where is Anna? That’s what her roommates want to know after she goes missing the day after a drunken evening.
A short film by Elisa Dogneton, Emma Irigaray, Martin Darrigrand and Mathilde Zanello, students at ECV Bordeaux.
Atif, a 17-year-old boy, slowly loses himself during a monsoon.
A short film by Emilie Ahouanto, Enorah Le Dallic, Barberine Marzat, Alix Rignault and Lou Riviere, students at ECV Bordeaux.
Directed by Mauricio Rodríguez Pons and Almudena Toral.
Synopsis: The Night Doctrine traces the story of Lynzy Billing, a young British journalist of Afghan-Pakistani origins who returns to Afghanistan to find out who killed her family 30 years earlier, only to stumble upon a secretive U.S.-backed program killing hundreds of civilians.
Written and directed by Leoluna Robert-Tourneur.
Synopsis: In the heart of a dark forest, while hunting, two silhouettes meet. These creatures move like predators, they attract and repel each other, seducing each other during an explosive parade. Hold Me Tight is a flamboyant and bitter romance where the violent attraction of the characters puts them in danger.
Director Héloïse Ferlay describes To the Dusty Sea as follows: “Left alone in the deepest of the summer, Malo and Zoe are trying their best to catch their mother’s elusive eye.”
Filmmaker Jack Gray describes his short film Menagerie as “a study of the daily motions and mundane tasks of contemporary city life. Featuring hundreds of looping animated characters, the film explores how the repetitive actions of our day-to-day lives quickly spiral into an endless kaleidoscope of abstraction.”
Slower Animals is an award-winning short film by John Christopher Kelley, an assistant professor at University of Tennessee.
The filmmaker describes Slower Animals as a short film that “explores the ways we are shaped; both by what we remember and what we forget.”
It’s a story about a professor who decides to follow a winter goose migration and in the process triggers memories of repressed childhood trauma.
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