FESTIVAL AWARDS:
Best Fantasy: FULGIDUSEN
Best Sci-Fi: DOMINION EVOLUCION
Best Performances: NEITHER HERE NOR THERE
Best Cinemtography: CALLISTO’S END
Watch the Audience Feedback Videos for each film:
DOMINION EVOLUCION, 8min., Argentina
Argentina, 2050. Infected scientist Victor Bertaum, isolated in his laboratory, tries to find a cure for the Sedga virus that devastated two thirds of the world population, while remaining in a cryogenesis state to survive.
NEITHER HERE NOR THERE, 12min., USA
After getting beat up by the local racist bullies, Nacho only feels hate in his heart. However, when he finds a mysterious creature hiding within a magical bus, he learns that hate is caused by fear, and on the other side of fear is forgiveness.
FULGIDUSEN, 23min., Germany
Being a quiet child, Felix is a bit of a loner. When the other boys play soccer during the school break, he climbs up a big tree and watches the world go by. During class, he draws little paper figures. In his fantasy, he sends them out on heroic adventures. This regularly gets him in trouble with his teacher. His mother often scolds him as well.
CALLISTO’S END, 18min., USA
An investigator travels to an outpost on Jupiter’s moon Callisto where a mysterious murder has taken place.
FIGHT FOR THE FUTURE, 5min. China
This film, made by teachers and students from Beijing Film Academy, is the first film using visual cinematography on LED wall for teaching and practicing in China. The car chase scenes and action scenes were specially designed based on the features of visual cinematography on LED screen using visual production technology. Such scenes were the extreme test of the coordination of refresh rate and high speed motion, as well as the total reflection that occurs when screen light hit sphere surface.
SHAMAN’S CALL, 5min., USA
A depressed poet drunk and alone in the desert receives a life-altering message from a strange yet familiar face.
THE STATION CARETAKER, 14min., Russia
Ell is a lone station caretaker on a volcanic planet those who are forced from day to day to perform work incomprehensible to him until his contract expires. Once, due to the caretaker’s negligence, the building with the neighboring explodes with power units, severely damaging the working compartment. The only living friend for whom Ell is engaged this work – is a fish named “Blabber”.