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  • Longing for the Soul, A Quest for Rumi, a full-length documentary film, will take the viewers on a mesmerizing journey through the lands of ancient Persia, to modern days Afghanistan, Turkey and United States, to tell the story of a mystic man, Molana Jalal-El-Din Rumi, who’s message of love and peace has been passed on for centuries.

    Rumi, departed from the world in 1273, late in the day of December 17. To his followers, this date is known as Sheb-Urs or the Wedding Night. At his funeral, people of all religions gather to celebrate his passing to the realm of god. Rumi reveals mysteries of the universe, in language of poetry and mysticism unfolding in the realm of science in the 21st Century?

Director Biography – Aryana Farshad

Aryana independently produced 5 documentary films since year 2000. Her first major project “Mystic Iran: The Unseen World”, a full-length documentary was broadcast at international level and screened, awarded and praised at major spiritual events and film festivals and received “Audience Favorite Award.”

She is recipient of “ABU Award”, “Telly Award”, and ‘Davey Award” “Audience Favorite Award, London Independent Film Awards
Barcelona Planet Film Festival

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  • Austria, 1945. Together with her granddaughter Marie, Grandmother lives on a mountain farm. One day, of all things, two Russian deserters show up.
    Influenced by her prejudice of the violent enemy, Grandmother hides Marie before the unexpected arrivals reach the farm.
    Marie, on the other hand, is curious about the Russians. She sneaks up to them at night. In the process, she is discovered.
    It turns out that the soldiers are kind people who have been affected by the war in very different ways.

    • Director Biography – Simon Höbert

    Simon was born in July 1997 in the city of Salzburg, Austria. His passion for storytelling brought him to film. From 2017 to 2020, he studied Bachelor Media Technology (BSc) at the University of Applied Sciences St. Pölten, during which he also completed a semester abroad at the University of Applied Sciences in Oulu (FIN).
    Currently Simon is in the master program Multi Media Art (MA) at the FH Salzburg.

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  • This documentary focuses on Mr. Bhim Bahadur Thapa, his enduring legacy, and the mythical aspects of his life. It serves both as a biographical account and as an enduring piece of social commentary. He entered this world on 8 May 1920, dedicating his entire existence to the belief that people needed to awaken to effect positive changes in their lives. This profound conviction guided him throughout his life, leading him to paint and inscribe the word ‘Khoja/Search’ on pavements, walls, and stones across Nepal. On 2 June 2022, in Kathmandu, Mr. Thapa’s remarkable journey came to an end. He lived for an impressive 102 years and 25 days. It is estimated that he penned or inscribed ‘Khoja/Search’ more than 8 million times.

    Director Biography – Gopal Shivakoti

    Gopal Shivakoti is a documentary filmmaker from Nepal.
    He has been working in films and digital media since 2004. Primarily he is a visual editor who also does 2D animation, motion-graphics, and filming. He is a key resource person at “Young-Cuts! the filmmaking workshop” (in Kathmandu) for the past five years. His hobbies include Ethnology and documentary filming.
    He has shot and edited “In Search of the Searchman” – a short documentary about the 8 million (plus) graffiti “Khoja/Search” that has been written and inscribed all over Nepal,
    “When Shall I See My Daddy” – a short documentary about 14 years old boy whose father has gone to the USA and hasn’t returned to his home and family for ages.
    “Save Gangamaya” a documentary film about Satyagrahi Gangamaya Adhikari – who is on fast-unto-death for the attainment of justice for the 2004 murder of her innocent teenager son is his first feature-length documentary, It received an overwhelming response in the international film festival circuit. “War Crime”, “Pinky Gurung”, “We are with Dr. KC”, “Gai Jatra”, “Chain and Worship”, “Bicycle Hero” and “Bare Tree” are his recent films.

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  • Five women from the great city of CASABLANCA, a source of economic, social, and civilizational progress. There are five divorced women from different social strata, and are professionally active in various fields. These women try to rebuild their lives, in an unequal society, dominated by prejudices against divorced women, and ignorance of the rules of law governing the status of women.

    Director Biography – BENSOUDA MOHAMMED AHED

    Born in Morocco, and now resides in France. He holds a postgraduate diploma specializing in cinema, television and new media Master 2. He also has Bachelor’s degree in Cinematography from the Sorbonne University in Paris, a Diploma in directing from Cinetel Institute in Paris, and a Diploma in screenwriting from Cinecours institute in Canada. He has produced and directed more than twenty films for cinema and television. his achievements have received several awards around the world, he also received the Moroccan government’s exceptional award for his films about women

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  • OUTLINE: When a young boy goes missing in the town of Hope, his grandfather must grapple with their family history and navigate mysterious phenomena as he sets out on a quest of conscience to save his grandson from the shadows.

    SUMMARY: A perfect family getaway is suddenly upended when a policeman’s grandson disappears. Jack Rooney (Rick Edwards) has already lost a son. He’s not about to lose his grandson, too. Forced to reckon with family history, he sets out to rescue the boy from the shadows… a journey of conscience rippled by the voice of a visiting missing persons expert (Greg Sestero), whose haunting tales of the vanished illuminate the mysterious phenomena that seem to be in Jack’s way. In a town called Hope, can redemption be found?

    Director Biography – Justin MacGregor

    Justin MacGregor is a director, cinematographer, and producer, best known for his feature films BEST F(R)IENDS Volumes 1 + 2 — the cinematic reunion of cult legends Tommy Wiseau and Greg Sestero of THE ROOM fame, his first feature film THE GENERATIONS, and his commercial videography and music video work spanning the last decade. Working behind the camera is all he’s ever known. A keen student of cinema, Justin seeks out creative avenues lesser taken, always striving to promulgate new imagery and unexplored perspectives.

    Justin grew up in Canada’s beautiful Okanagan Valley. He is the co-founder of Roguescots, a commercial videography and narrative film production house, based in Vancouver, Canada, where he now resides.

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  • Singer Isabelle Cyr takes a fascinating journey in France to meet her Acadian cousins, whose ancestors were deported from Canada. During the journey, where past and present mingle with personal discoveries, she composes a song on her identity and connections with the people.

    Director Biography – Phil Comeau

    Phil Comeau, an Acadian film director and scriptwriter, lives in Montreal and Moncton, Canada. His documentary and drama films have won over 580 festival awards worldwide. – His documentary features include The Secret Order, Zachary Richard Cajun Heart, Acadian Music Wave, The Nature of Frederic Back & Secretariat’s Jockey Ron Turcotte. – Filmmaker Phil Comeau has been awarded the Order of Canada and has recently been promoted to Officer of the Order of Arts and Letters of France for his contribution to culture and cinema.

    Director Statement

    Culture is identity and it’s what makes us unique. This film is about finding your roots.

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  • A young nurse must fight for her life when her house has been invaded by an unearthly intruder.

    Director Biography – Roshni “Rush” Bhatia

    Roshni Bhatia is a writer-director who grew up in Mumbai, India. A science fiction and horror fan inspired by the films of James Cameron, Jason Blum and the writings of Richard Matheson, she came to the United States in 2018 to study film. Her short films have been screened at film festivals around the world and she recently a short horror film, Plasmid, the story of a young woman trapped in her house by an alien presence. She’s currently writing her first feature.

    Director Statement

    Roshni Bhatia is a writer-director who grew up in Mumbai, India. A science fiction and horror fan inspired by the films of James Cameron, Jason Blum and the writings of Richard Matheson, Roshni sought inspiration from their masterpieces (both visually and narratively) and created an original concept titled, ‘Plasmid’. She came to the United States in 2018 to study film. Although the goal is to have Plasmid screened at quality film festivals, she hopes the audience can take away something inspiring from her movie. Her short films have been screened at film festivals around the world and she recently a short horror film, Plasmid, the story of a young woman trapped in her house by an alien presence. She’s currently writing her first feature.

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  • A terminal cancer diagnosis leads a miserable workaholic on a self-indulgent quest to win back his pregnant-and-estranged wife and connect with his unborn son through a self-funded, semi-autobiographical movie about the meaning of life.

    All seven episodes of the first season have been completed. Provided here is the pilot episode. The rest of Season 1 can be viewed on the website with the password: kg1 https://incompletenesstheseries.com/season-01

    Director Biography – David Ash

    Prior INCOMPLETENESS, Ash wrote and directed three critically-acclaimed, award-winning feature films, all of which played at local, national, and international film festivals. His most recent feature, TWIN CITIES, won five “Best of Fest” awards out of the nine festivals where it screened, including the “Grand Jury Prize” at the Amsterdam Film Festival. The film was distributed in fall, 2018, by Summer Hill Films on Amazon Prime. A more in-depth review of Ash’s filmmaking career can be found via this 7-minute profile from the Twin Cities PBS Emmy-winning series Minnesota Originals: https://www.tptoriginals.org/meet-this-film-director-disguised-as-a-finance-director/

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  • Fadhumo and Helen are two refugees who need sanctuary in Israel and Germany. Each in her own way copes with discrimination, foreignness, and a life without roots. Simultaneously they become close friends and social activists determined to help women like them and provide a better future for coming generations.
    Between Tel Aviv and Berlin they live under differing regimes – the “open door policy” on one hand; the “infiltrators’ exile” on the other. Their fate is identical: an unstable life controlled by government policy, exposed daily to human kindness and cruelty, hoping that despite everything, their dreams may still come true.
    Director Biography – Gili Danon, Efrat Shalom Danon

    Efrat Shalom Danon
    Efrat is an award-winning filmmaker who in her debut film “The Dreamers” has provided a unique glimpse to the women filmmakers in the closed Ultra-Orthodox community in Israel . “The Dreamers” premiere was at Docaviv film festival (The official competition).
    The film was broadcasted on Israeli television, was nominated to best debut Film at the Israeli Documentary film competition and participated in over 30 international festivals (FIPA, Syracuse, Toronto Jewish Festival etc.).

    Gili Danon
    Gili is a multidisciplinary creator – poet, playwright and video artist. His feature short films (Avalanche, The Anniversary) have been screened at festivals in Israel and abroad, and were broadcasted on Israeli television.
    He has edited several documentaries, that participated in film festivals in Israel and abroad, (FIPA, Docaviv, Toronto Jewish Festival etc.) and also edited several TV series.

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  • The Beast of Our Time is a fifty-years-in-the-making, unflinching inquiry into the relationship between climate change and grizzly bears, narrated by one of America’s most passionate storytellers, Jeff Bridges. Top scientists, advocates, authors, filmmakers, and poets band together to investigate, and find the fates of both grizzly bears and humans to be more interlinked than we ever suspected. Climate change has mingled our destinies.

    Join us on a journey into the heart of the American West, and its last remnants of a once-great nation of grizzly bears. We will visit with multiple generations of ranchers who have learned to co-exist in grizzly country, and hear predictions from leading scientists. Buffeted with stunning cinematic vignettes and pleas for the wild, the film is part documentary, part love story.

    The Beast of Our Time is both a dire warning and a compelling call to action that delves into the catastrophic effects of climate change on grizzly bear habitat. The story is rivaled by the striking cinematography that brings viewers right onto the landscape, walking side by side with this imperiled population of grizzly bears.

    Director Biography – Maaike Middleton

    Maaike Middleton is a wildlife filmmaker. She was born in The Netherlands and grew up in Montana. She has traveled the globe filming wildlife from pumas in Patagonia, the elusive Amur tiger in the Russian Far East and grizzlies in her backyard. Maaike is passionate about telling stories that make a difference and address issues that impact us all. When she is not setting camera traps to capture animal behavior she is watching film and helping with the section process for the Wildlife Film Festival Rotterdam. She has worked on projects for Smithsonian, Nat Geo, Netflix, BBC, PBS and Arte.

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  • Mr. Emancipation is the story of Walter L Perry’s determination to put on a celebration that would transcend divisions of race and class. He staged an Emancipation Day festival that was where everyone wanted to be. Eleanor Roosevelt, Martin Luther King Jr, Jesse Owens all headed there because, as civil rights activist Dick Gregory said “The largest Juneteenth celebration was not in America, it was in Windsor, Canada.”

    A celebration of ending slavery sounds grim.

    What Walter Perry organized was the exact opposite of grim. Imagine a miles-long parade. The smell of soul food. Whirling carnival rides. There was live music, talent shows and even the Miss Sepia beauty pageant (the first international beauty pageant for Black women).

    From 1936 until 1967, that’s how Walter Perry celebrated freedom. Perry and his celebration got caught up in the overheated racial politics of the day, sabotage and race riots of 1967 in Detroit. His event never recovered that year and shortly after Walter Perry died…. but the spirit of Mister. Emanciaption still lives on.

    Director Biography – Preston Chase

    Preston William Chase is a seventh generation African Canadian and a descendant of William Parker. Parker escaped slavery in Maryland, and went on to play a key role in the Christiana Riots in Pennsylvania. It was his friend, the great Fredrick Douglass who convinced Parker to take refuge in Canada.

    Born to a single mother in the Black community of downtown Windsor, Ontario, Canada, Chase went on to become a high school teacher. He is also the family historian and a passionate advocate for greater awareness of a historic Black community, time has forgotten.

    It was a desire for everyone to know the story of his great great uncle Walter Perry that led Chase to pick up a camera and begin recording the stories about him from the elders in his community.

    Mister Emancipation: The Walter Perry story is the result of twenty years of research and five years of production.

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  • To their friends, Sarah and Sam seem like the perfect couple desperately in love. But when Sarah gets her big stage break as an aspiring actress, Sam begins to question whether he’s good enough for her, particularly as he’s stuck in a dead-end job.
    As their relationship unravels, and a mysterious woman threatens to further tear them apart, Sarah and Sam are forced to confront the anger and hurt that they have built between themselves, and once again believe in each other and their love in order to find their way “home”.
    Director Biography – Paul Andrew Kimball

    Paul Andrew Kimball has written, directed, and produced a wide variety of programming for television, including the television series Haunted, Maritime Museums, and Cinema 902. He adapted and produced the drama special Julius Caesar for Bravo in 2000, and produced the 2002 Canadian indie feature film Dying Fall.

    His feature films as a writer / director include The Cuckoo in the Clock (2013), Roundabout (2014), and Exit Thread (2016). Paul has also served as the Executive Producer on the feature films Aliens With Knives (2018), The Last Divide (2018), Creepy Crawling (2018), and Shadow In the Mirror (2019).

    In 2021 he is slated to produce the second season of the independent feature film anthology series Cinema 902, as well as the dramatic series The Last Divide.

    His most recent feature film, The Colour of Spring, was released in November 2020.

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  • When a trans sister, January Marie Lapuz, is brutally murdered in
    her own home, a community reacts and her friends and other trans women of colour come to share and voice their issues, concerns, and challenges. January was seen as a bright light in the lives of many. This is the story of January, a friend, a daughter, a person. This film will not only bring justice to January, but to all the women who have lost their lives. January had a beautiful soul, and now part of her soul rests in each and every one of us.
    Director Biography – Elina Gress, Lenee Son

    Photo: Lenee Son (left) and Elina Gress (right)

    BIOGRAPHY OF LENEE SON

    Lenée is a Khmer Krom settler who grew up in Surrey on unceded Kwantlen, Katzie, Semiahmoo, and Kwikwetlem territories. She has a Bachelors of Journalism and minor in Sociology from Kwantlen Polytechnic University. Her work as a freelance multimedia journalist has appeared in publications such as rabble.ca, Multimedia Photojournale, The Volcano, Westcoast Food, and Inside Vancouver. When she’s not working on multimedia projects, Lenee is committed to anti-poverty community organizing in Surrey and Vancouver’s Downtown Eastside.

    She/Her pronouns.

    BIOGRAPHY OF ELINA GRESS

    Elina is a freelance multimedia journalist, primarily photojournalist, in the search for a greater understanding of our world. She has a deep interest in the complexities of the human population. Telling people’s stories from their perspective and not her own. Telling stories that can change people’s hearts and minds through photography and documentary. That said, Elina has a passion for wildlife conservation and preservation; not to mention the determination to protecting our one and only home. Earth.

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  • A story of a young immigrant who knows no English, and his trials in….ordering breakfast at the local diner.

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    Pablo is a young immigrant, new to the United States, and
    speaks no English. When he first comes into a diner, not
    knowing how to order, he mimics another customer. Thus, a
    “coffee and a donut” becomes his regular order.

    Meanwhile, more appetizing meals pass in front of him, which he
    has to figure out how to order while in a busy environment that
    leaves him isolated.

    He befriends Camila, an assertive Latina-American, who takes him under her wing while he learns how to start off with the most important meal of the day.

    Director Biography – Cary Patrick Martin

    Cary Patrick Martin makes his directorial debut with Coffee and a Donut, with two more films currently in post production. Originally from Syracuse, NY, Cary has been working in the NYC theater/film scene for more than half his life, performing everything from improv to Shakespeare.

    Cary has been a student of Ela Thier at the Independent Film School, having also studied with Sande Shurin Acting Studio, and The American Globe Theater, among others. He toured extensively with National Theater of the Performing Arts, was a principle performer/combatant with the New York Renaissance Faire, and a company member of Mortal Folly Theatre. He has also produced charity cabarets to benefit The Leukemia & Lymphoma Society.

    When not creating, Cary enjoys long distance running, having completed numerous half and full marathons.

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  • Michael D’Asaro impacted thousands of lives around the world as a renowned saber fencer and coach by using fencing as a metaphor for life.

    Director Biography – Greg Lynch Jr, Doug Nichols

    Gregory Lynch Jr Bio

    Greg Lynch graduated in 1987 from San Francisco State with a B.A. in screen writing. He later complemented that with an additional certificate in writing from UCLA. With his degree in hand, Greg relocated to Los Angeles where he spent the next twenty two years building sets for the movie industry. He worked on everything from Tremors to Dreamgirls to The Amazing Spiderman.

    During that time Greg focused a lot of his artistic output on Photography. He obtained his first SLR at 16 and his passion for photography has only grown since then. He has done quite a bit of commercial work in the Martial Arts filming everything from exercise tutorials to Shaolin Monks climbing the holy paths in Dengfeng.

    Ten years ago he acquired his first video camera. He put that to use making short films and documenting marital arts tournaments. He produced hundreds of short films under the Badass Bunny Productions banner for Kung Fu Tai Chi Magazine. You can find these films populating their Youtube channel.

    Greg Lynch Jr produced, as well as many other jobs, the feature length documentary ‘The Last Captain’ about legendary Hungarian Olympic Sabre champion and coach, George Piller.

    Stro: The Michael D’Asaro Story is his feature directorial debut.

    Doug Nichols Bio

    After 25 years in Animation and Visual Effects working for studios like Pixar, Disney and Lucasfilm, filmmaker Doug Nichols embarked on an effort to preserve the history of his favorite sport – fencing. Creating the West Coast Fencing Archive, he began the exhaustive process of researching the people and personalities that exemplified this unique sport.

    Initially writing histories for web publication, the idea of translating some of these stories into film began to take shape in early 2016. To that end, Nichols produced and directed the feature Documentary The Last Captain about the life George Piller.

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    • International

    • Longing for the Soul, A Quest for Rumi, a full-length documentary film, will take the viewers on a mesmerizing journey through the lands of ancient Persia, to modern days Afghanistan, Turkey and United States, to tell the story of a mystic man, Molana Jalal-El-Din Rumi, who’s message of love and peace has been passed on for centuries.

      Rumi, departed from the world in 1273, late in the day of December 17. To his followers, this date is known as Sheb-Urs or the Wedding Night. At his funeral, people of all religions gather to celebrate his passing to the realm of god. Rumi reveals mysteries of the universe, in language of poetry and mysticism unfolding in the realm of science in the 21st Century?

    Director Biography – Aryana Farshad

    Aryana independently produced 5 documentary films since year 2000. Her first major project “Mystic Iran: The Unseen World”, a full-length documentary was broadcast at international level and screened, awarded and praised at major spiritual events and film festivals and received “Audience Favorite Award.”

    She is recipient of “ABU Award”, “Telly Award”, and ‘Davey Award” “Audience Favorite Award, London Independent Film Awards
    Barcelona Planet Film Festival

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  • A young boy named Tale (8), a great fan of the cinematic arts, is laying in a hospital infected with the Coronavirus. In his subconscious he’s fighting fearlessly against the bad illness,
    dreaming an unusual dream, related to his first love.

    Director Biography – Tomislav Aleksov

    Tomislav Aleksov is a graduate of film and television director and Master of cultural sciences in literature. Born in Skopje, Macedonia in 1966.
    In the period between 1985 until 1987 studies at the department of general and comparative literature at the Faculty of Philology at the University “St. Cyril and Methodius” in Skopje.
    In the 1987/88 school year, he enrolled at the Academy of Theatre, Radio, Film and Television in Ljubljana, Republic of Slovenia. He studies at the film and TV directing department in the class of professors Matijaz Klopcic and Karpo Godina. He graduated from the University of Ljubljana with the feature film “Cry of the Mute Indian” (produced in 1992/93, a co-production between Macedonian Television and Television Slovenia) and the paper “Chronology of the Macedonian Feature Film” in 1995. Between 1988 and 1998 works freelance as a director at TV Slovenia. He has produced more than 2000 TV shows of all genres for TV Slovenia.

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  • A seafarer sings the story of how he, as a young man, left Falmouth looking for a new life on the High Seas. During his voyage, he recounts how the moon began to follow him, watching his every move. After months at sea, the ship arrived at a topical island where the moon lead him to his first true love awaiting on the beach. But the moon became envious of their love, drove them apart, and forced the young man, heartbroken and alone, back to Falmouth. Every time he looks up at the night sky, the moon is always there, reminding him of a love lost so many years ago.

    Director Biography – Joël Gibbs

    A native of France with over 15 years in the creative industry and 10+ years at Magnetic Dreams, Joël Gibbs has a dual Masters in Art and Production Creation from Université de Haute Bretagne Rennes 2. Upon graduation, Gibbs was hired at Magnetic Dreams and has been producing some of the company’s best content since. Not just a director but also an expert compositor, Gibbs’ creative vision can be seen across a multitude of projects for Dell, Marvel, Samsung, Nickelodeon, Chick-fil-A, and more. While at Magnetic, Gibbs directed both the Thor and Loki and Iron Man Extremis motion comics, a total of 130 minutes for Marvel. These long form narratives remain enormously popular as streaming content on various platforms. Gibbs is known for his versatility across various artistic styles, knowledge of multiple software packages, and innate creativity.

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  • Relatives of patients sitting around the same table at different times; to solve problems in the most difficult periods of their lives; embark on an emotional journey toward each other’s inner world.

    Director Biography – Zeynep Üstünipek

    Born in Istanbul, Zeynep Üstünipek began her studies at Mimar Sinan Fine Arts University in Istanbul. Later she studied at the cinema master’s department in Lodz. She graduated from Kadir Has University Master’s Degree. She shot her first feature-length film Love in the secret garden in 2012. The film competed in the international competition section of the 35th Cairo Film Festival. Also, She won numerous awards with the short films she produced. First of all, she is a movie buff.

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  • Austria, 1945. Together with her granddaughter Marie, Grandmother lives on a mountain farm. One day, of all things, two Russian deserters show up.
    Influenced by her prejudice of the violent enemy, Grandmother hides Marie before the unexpected arrivals reach the farm.
    Marie, on the other hand, is curious about the Russians. She sneaks up to them at night. In the process, she is discovered.
    It turns out that the soldiers are kind people who have been affected by the war in very different ways.

    Director Biography – Simon Höbert

    Simon was born in July 1997 in the city of Salzburg, Austria. His passion for storytelling brought him to film. From 2017 to 2020, he studied Bachelor Media Technology (BSc) at the University of Applied Sciences St. Pölten, during which he also completed a semester abroad at the University of Applied Sciences in Oulu (FIN).
    Currently Simon is in the master program Multi Media Art (MA) at the FH Salzburg.

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  • A young adult (Brian) is visited by his brother, Jeremy, who needs a place to stay as he settles into his new city. The two polar opposite personalities begin to clash as Jeremy’s presence poses a threat to Brian’s way of life. Brian’s uptight personality and unreasonable living standards rub off on Jeremy, creating an incredible amount of tension. Bad blood, stemming from a traumatic past event reveals the shocking truth of the brothers’ current situations, as Brian struggles to differentiate between reality and his worst nightmares.

    Director Biography – Harry Waldman

    I am a passionate filmmaker who has been watching movies since as long as I can remember. Some of my favorite films include “Memento”, “The Dark Knight”, The Lord of the Rings” trilogy, “Alien”, etc. I have seen over 8,000 films and am as crazy about movies as any individual you will ever meet. I studied Business at Ithaca College and ironically figured out my passion right as I was graduating. I have worked on a number of various films and have written, directed, and edited “515”, “Enter the Room”, “In the Backseat”, “Bay For Blood” and “The Corridor Crossing”. I also have a few more projects in the pre-production stage.

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  • A twisted story of witchcraft & revenge.

    Director Biography – Jake Roth

    Born & raised in Dubuque, IA, Jake Roth has been an aspiring filmmaker since age 10, when he was given a video camera for Christmas. Ever since, he has been writing, shooting, editing, and acting – getting his hands on any project he can to improve upon the previous. He graduated from Loras College (Dubuque, IA) in May 2014 with a Bachelor’s Degree in Media Studies, and has been working for a local production company as a videographer since Fall 2014. However, that is only his “Monday-Friday” gig, as his weekends are commonly booked-solid with side projects of his own, including this film. Jake Roth has and always will eat, sleep and breathe film, and loves sharing that passion with everyone – from the people that aid him in his projects to those who sit down and enjoy them after the fact.

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  • Laura is a young mother. Her son Esteban has a fatal disease and must be operated on urgently, but she does not have enough money to pay for the procedure. Meanwhile, Daniel, the boy’s father, sinks deeper into his addiction. Both parents will enter into a conflict where they will have to face their own inner demons and their stormy past, to finally reach an outcome of no return, like a dead end, in which life and death will be at stake.

    Director Biography – Luis Sandoval

    Borned in 1980, Chillán City, Chile.
    Studied Psychology at Universidad Católica de Valparaíso. Over the last 17 years, has dedicated his time to create independent film content. A brief filmic work resume:
    – Director, Screenwriter, Producer – Short Film (“Dead End”) 2022.
    – Screenwriter – Director – Music Videoclip “La Partida…” (2022)
    – Co-Director – Music Videoclip “Memento Mori” (2022)
    – Screenwriter – TV Film / Serie (In development. Drama) 2022.
    – Director, Screenwriter, Producer – Short Film (“Delirium Love” – Stage play adaptation of “Fool For Love”, by Sam Shepard) 2022.
    – General Producer, Director – Audiovisual Projects (Perrera Arte, Cultural Center) 2021/2022.

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  • This movie is the story of a happy family!

    The son of the family is antisocial and psychopathic by nature, who judges women by the smell of their cosmetics!
    He believes that the smell of a decent woman’s cosmetics is different from an indecent one!
    He even classifies bees.
    Prostitute or chaste, that is the question!
    Like an interrogator, he openly tortures his sisters mentally and emotionally.

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  • This documentary focuses on Mr. Bhim Bahadur Thapa, his enduring legacy, and the mythical aspects of his life. It serves both as a biographical account and as an enduring piece of social commentary. He entered this world on 8 May 1920, dedicating his entire existence to the belief that people needed to awaken to effect positive changes in their lives. This profound conviction guided him throughout his life, leading him to paint and inscribe the word ‘Khoja/Search’ on pavements, walls, and stones across Nepal. On 2 June 2022, in Kathmandu, Mr. Thapa’s remarkable journey came to an end. He lived for an impressive 102 years and 25 days. It is estimated that he penned or inscribed ‘Khoja/Search’ more than 8 million times.

    Director Biography – Gopal Shivakoti

    Gopal Shivakoti is a documentary filmmaker from Nepal.
    He has been working in films and digital media since 2004. Primarily he is a visual editor who also does 2D animation, motion-graphics, and filming. He is a key resource person at “Young-Cuts! the filmmaking workshop” (in Kathmandu) for the past five years. His hobbies include Ethnology and documentary filming.
    He has shot and edited “In Search of the Searchman” – a short documentary about the 8 million (plus) graffiti “Khoja/Search” that has been written and inscribed all over Nepal,
    “When Shall I See My Daddy” – a short documentary about 14 years old boy whose father has gone to the USA and hasn’t returned to his home and family for ages.
    “Save Gangamaya” a documentary film about Satyagrahi Gangamaya Adhikari – who is on fast-unto-death for the attainment of justice for the 2004 murder of her innocent teenager son is his first feature-length documentary, It received an overwhelming response in the international film festival circuit. “War Crime”, “Pinky Gurung”, “We are with Dr. KC”, “Gai Jatra”, “Chain and Worship”, “Bicycle Hero” and “Bare Tree” are his recent films.

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  • A woman who is highly punctual in her daily life encounters a series of paranormal phenomenons related to her partner, which ultimately forces her to confront the love tragedy she had long denied.

    Director Biography – Haibo Wang

    Wang Haibo is an emerging director and screenwriter currently living in Beijing, China. His latest internationally award-winning short film Someone Who is Punctual mainly focuses on mental abuse to reveal broader social issues behind. Haibo owns different educational backgrounds including a MSE degree on computer animation, a Ph.D. degree on theater and cinema studies and an advanced study program on film directing in Beijing Film Academy, he is also a visiting scholar at the School of Cinematic Arts in the University of Southern California. Wang Haibo is currently working on a feature film script and developing his own fiction novels and short stories which are supposed to be published in the near future.

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  • Five women from the great city of CASABLANCA, a source of economic, social, and civilizational progress. There are five divorced women from different social strata, and are professionally active in various fields. These women try to rebuild their lives, in an unequal society, dominated by prejudices against divorced women, and ignorance of the rules of law governing the status of women.

    Director Biography – BENSOUDA MOHAMMED AHED

    Born in Morocco, and now resides in France. He holds a postgraduate diploma specializing in cinema, television and new media Master 2. He also has Bachelor’s degree in Cinematography from the Sorbonne University in Paris, a Diploma in directing from Cinetel Institute in Paris, and a Diploma in screenwriting from Cinecours institute in Canada. He has produced and directed more than twenty films for cinema and television. his achievements have received several awards around the world, he also received the Moroccan government’s exceptional award for his films about women

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  • Short film made in argentina in the quarantine
    Through the camera we enter a crime scene
    Director Biography – Sebastian Vaina

    TV producer cameraman.
    From 2006 to the present, working in the production company Endemol Argentina.

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  • “Resurrection under the Ocean” is about the resurrection of a man who was helplessly sinking to the bottom of the ocean, after falling to the bottom of the ocean, with a symbolic narrative.

    Director Biography – Serkan Aktaş

    IDENTIFICATION

    Name and Surname : Serkan AKTAŞ
    Birth Date : 04.12.1989
    Place of Birth : Istanbul/ Turkey

    EDUCATION

    University-1 : Anadolu University Faculty of Business Administration Department of Business Administration (2008-2013)

    University-2 : Dokuz Eylül University Faculty of Science Department of Mathematics (2009-2014)

    Certificate : Istanbul Cinema Academy Film School (2015-2016)

    Master Degree : Beykent University Institute of Social Sciences, Film and TV Master of Arts (2015 – 2017)

    Doctorate Degree : Beykent University Institute of Graduate Studies, Film and TV, Doctor of Arts (2017 – 2022)

    FILMOGRAPHY
    Mirrorty (2017) (Short Film)
    Resurrection under the Ocean (2021) (Short Film)
    The Librarian (2022) (Short Film)
    The Death Ox (2022) (Short Film)
    Lucky Coin ! (2022) (Short Film)

    Director Statement

    “Resurrection Under the Ocean” depicts the resurrection of humanity in the darkest place of the ocean in a symbolic way through a helpless character. The film’s metaphorical narrative style and its use of fictional and formal elements aim to bring a different-unique approach to cinema. It offers a visual feast with the harmony of music and choreography.
    In the deepest part of the ocean, death is tried to be portrayed in the dark. Then, the pain of resurrection, which begins with the sound of a whale symbolizing vitality, is completed when the character comes to the surface of the sea.
    I can say that with the film “Resurrection Under the Ocean”, it is a film that develops the tendency of other films I have made to benefit from tradition, this time in a different form and framework.

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    “Okyanusun Altında Diriliş” filmi çaresiz bir karakter üzerinden okyanusun en karanlık yerinde insanlığın dirilişini sembolik bir tarzda anlatıyor. Filmin metaforik anlatım tarzıyla kurmacayı ve biçimsel unsurları kullanış biçimi sinemaya farklı-benzersiz bir yaklaşım getirmeyi amaçlıyor. Müzik ve koreografinin uyumuyla görsel bir şölen sunuyor.
    Okyanusun en derin yerinde, karanlıkta ölüm resmedilmeye çalışılır. Ardından canlılığı sembolize eden balina sesiyle başlayan diriliş sancısı karakterin denizin yüzeyine çıkmasıyla tamamlanır.
    “Okyanusun Altında Diriliş” filmiyle, yaptığım diğer filmlerin gelenekten yararlanma eğilimini, bu kez farklı bir biçimde ve çerçevede geliştiren bir film olduğunu söyleyebilirim.

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  • A premonition inducing drug could cost a group of med students everything they hold dearly, including their memories.

    Director Biography – Saki Kawamura

    Saki Kawamura is a NYC-based multimedia artist from Japan.
    Her passion for theatre led her to move to NYC in 2019 after receiving her BA in Sociology in Japan. She graduated from the Actors Studio Drama School at Pace University and received her MFA in Directing as Outstanding Directing Student.

    The wide range of her work seen in theater, film, and visual art included: ICEBERG (Ren Gyo Soh Artist Lab), IKIGAI: a purpose of living (Hollywood Fringe 2021, Encore Award), Grown-up (Unfix NYC 2022), The Man Who Turned Into A Stick, Spite, Margaret’s Bed, Librarian (ASDS Repetory Season 2022), One-Sided (Australia Quarantine Film Festival 2020, Best Performance Award), and The Giving Tree (Unfix NYC 2021).

    Saki also has served as Assistant/Associate Director to Casey Hushion on productions of Mystic Pizza (Ogunquit Playhouse), A Jolly Holiday: Celebrating Disney’s Broadway Hits (Paper Mill Playhouse), Clue (Paper Mill Playhouse), JOY: A NEW MUSICAL (George Street Playhouse) and Murder on the Orient Express.

    Her diversification in theatre, film and visual art makes her a viable artist in the industry. Her original work IKIGAI:a purpose of living was a hybrid theatre piece which used Butoh (a Japanese avant-card dance form), visual art, film and text. The production was highly acclaimed because of its emotional journey that was given to the audience and resulted in her receiving the Hollywood Fringe Festival Encore award.

    From 2022, Saki has been named the new Associate Artistic Director of Ren Gyo Soh, an award-winning butoh theatre company.

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  • A woman sells her daughter’s bracelets for her sake
    (Children are the most vulnerable group in society.who are exposed to direct influxes of disasters, pressures and problems of life caused by the elderly)
    (ژنێک بازنەکانی کچەکەی دەفرۆشێت بە خاتر کچەکەی -منداڵان لاوازترین کەسانێکن کە راستەوخۆ لە ژێر تەوژمی گەورەساڵاندان )kurdish
    زنی النگوهای دخترش را به خاطر او می فروشد. کودکان آسیب پذیرترین گروه از اقشار جامعه هستند که در معرض مستقیم فشار بزرگترها قراردارند

    Director Biography – mohammad ferajzade

    I was born in 1975. Making 10 short films. Attend several international festivals. I selected the 11th International 100th International Iranian Film Festival. I have a diploma of honor from this festival.

    2017 – fest100 (Winner of Award candidate for Best Film Festival – statue of the Festival, diploma and cash award for Best documentary of the experience to 30 million rials)

    Iranian short documentary ‘Dance of Love’ has succeeded to win two main awards of the 5th NAFCo Winter Film Festival in the United States.
    Directed and produced by Mohammad Farajzadeh, the documentary received the Best Documentary and Best Film awards at the 2021 NAFCo.

    Director Statement
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  • A young nurse must fight for her life when her house has been invaded by an unearthly intruder.

    Director Biography – Roshni “Rush” Bhatia

    Roshni Bhatia is a writer-director who grew up in Mumbai, India. A science fiction and horror fan inspired by the films of James Cameron, Jason Blum and the writings of Richard Matheson, she came to the United States in 2018 to study film. Her short films have been screened at film festivals around the world and she recently a short horror film, Plasmid, the story of a young woman trapped in her house by an alien presence. She’s currently writing her first feature.

    Director Statement

    Roshni Bhatia is a writer-director who grew up in Mumbai, India. A science fiction and horror fan inspired by the films of James Cameron, Jason Blum and the writings of Richard Matheson, Roshni sought inspiration from their masterpieces (both visually and narratively) and created an original concept titled, ‘Plasmid’. She came to the United States in 2018 to study film. Although the goal is to have Plasmid screened at quality film festivals, she hopes the audience can take away something inspiring from her movie. Her short films have been screened at film festivals around the world and she recently a short horror film, Plasmid, the story of a young woman trapped in her house by an alien presence. She’s currently writing her first feature.

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    • Canadian

    • For over 100 years, many of the Indigenous children of Canada were forcefully taken from their families and sent hundred or thousands of kilometers away to Residential Schools whose purpose was to take away their language and culture and replace it with that of the European colonizers, often using abuse and neglect to achieve this goal.
      The Red Deer Indian Industrial School which operated from 1889 to 1919 and was per population one of the most deadly Indigenous Residential Schools in Canada’s history. This film focuses on honouring the memory of the students who survived as well as those that died at the school whose bodies where never returned to their families. It also focuses on how this has affected generations of First Nations, Inuit and Metis through intergenerational trauma, but also how to move towards a brighter future of cultural revitalization and reconciliation through the eyes of the Indigenous filmmakers on their journey of discovery.

    Director Biography – Penny Gullion

    Penny J Gullion is a Nehiyâw-Iskwew raised in Wabasca (Bigstone Cree Nation) in Treaty 8 Territory, Alberta. A dancer since adolescence, she always held a passion for the arts. She moved to Edmonton to attend high school at Victoria School of the Arts and her passion for storytelling flourished. Penny is currently pursuing a Bachelor of Fine Arts in Film Production at the University of British Colombia.

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  • A corresponding-style film to the friendships that I have lost over the years as an immigrant from Hong Kong.

    Director Biography – Anthony Lee

    Hong Konger, filmmaker. Lives and works in Vancouver.

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  • OUTLINE: When a young boy goes missing in the town of Hope, his grandfather must grapple with their family history and navigate mysterious phenomena as he sets out on a quest of conscience to save his grandson from the shadows.

    SUMMARY: A perfect family getaway is suddenly upended when a policeman’s grandson disappears. Jack Rooney (Rick Edwards) has already lost a son. He’s not about to lose his grandson, too. Forced to reckon with family history, he sets out to rescue the boy from the shadows… a journey of conscience rippled by the voice of a visiting missing persons expert (Greg Sestero), whose haunting tales of the vanished illuminate the mysterious phenomena that seem to be in Jack’s way. In a town called Hope, can redemption be found?

    Director Biography – Justin MacGregor

    Justin MacGregor is a director, cinematographer, and producer, best known for his feature films BEST F(R)IENDS Volumes 1 + 2 — the cinematic reunion of cult legends Tommy Wiseau and Greg Sestero of THE ROOM fame, his first feature film THE GENERATIONS, and his commercial videography and music video work spanning the last decade. Working behind the camera is all he’s ever known. A keen student of cinema, Justin seeks out creative avenues lesser taken, always striving to promulgate new imagery and unexplored perspectives.

    Justin grew up in Canada’s beautiful Okanagan Valley. He is the co-founder of Roguescots, a commercial videography and narrative film production house, based in Vancouver, Canada, where he now resides.

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  • Singer Isabelle Cyr takes a fascinating journey in France to meet her Acadian cousins, whose ancestors were deported from Canada. During the journey, where past and present mingle with personal discoveries, she composes a song on her identity and connections with the people.

    Director Biography – Phil Comeau

    Phil Comeau, an Acadian film director and scriptwriter, lives in Montreal and Moncton, Canada. His documentary and drama films have won over 580 festival awards worldwide. – His documentary features include The Secret Order, Zachary Richard Cajun Heart, Acadian Music Wave, The Nature of Frederic Back & Secretariat’s Jockey Ron Turcotte. – Filmmaker Phil Comeau has been awarded the Order of Canada and has recently been promoted to Officer of the Order of Arts and Letters of France for his contribution to culture and cinema.

    Director Statement

    Culture is identity and it’s what makes us unique. This film is about finding your roots.

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  • Set in a world running parallel to our own pandemic-gripped reality, ISOLATION dips into the life of John (Alexander Johnson), a young man sequestered in his high-rise apartment, waiting in tandem with a paused outside world swept up in illness. Even locked doors in the sky can be knocked upon, however, and when his past comes knocking, his isolation is rocked.

    Director Biography – Justin MacGregor

    Justin MacGregor is a director, cinematographer, and producer, best known for his feature films BEST F(R)IENDS Volumes 1 + 2 — the cinematic reunion of cult legends Tommy Wiseau and Greg Sestero of THE ROOM fame, his first feature film THE GENERATIONS, and his commercial videography and music video work spanning the last decade. Working behind the camera is all he’s ever known. A keen student of cinema, Justin seeks out creative avenues lesser taken, always striving to promulgate new imagery and unexplored perspectives.

    Justin grew up in Canada’s beautiful Okanagan Valley. He is the co-founder of Roguescots, a commercial videography and narrative film production house, based in Vancouver, Canada.

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  • There once was a lady from the sea, born from the corals and the currents, the tides and the waves. These are the lessons that she taught me.

    Director Biography – Emmett Sparling

    Emmett Sparling has been creating films for the past few years on his travels. He is constantly inspired by nature and the power of the ocean.

    Director Statement

    This is the first short film I’ve made in quite a while and I’m super excited to share it. Chelsea and I spent 17 days in French Polynesia filming this video. The first half of the trip felt like an uphill battle. Everything we tried shooting didn’t feel “right” and we were feeling pretty uninspired, even in one of the most beautiful places on earth.
    In a wave of creativity and energized focus, Chelsea and I came up with the concept for ‘Lady of the Sea’ and excitedly wrote the beginnings of the narrative down in my journal.
    The moment Chelsea got in the water wearing the dress, we knew this would be a pretty unique project.

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  • A man looking to buy a snake gets far more than he bargained for as he is drawn into a mysterious woman’s home of exotic reptiles. “Thena loves her precious reptiles, and closely questions any who come to buy one. The worthy may gain a reptile, but those who are not may lose their lives!”
    “You don’t bait a spider in her web, or a lion in her den. Dare you meet Thena in the Reptile House?”
    “No fake snakes!”
    Director Biography – Tristan Risk

    Onscreen sorceress, Tristan Risk, known for her offbeat acting roles in genre film and outlandish stage performances, is a sophomore filmmaker. Having already penned and directed one short film, Parlour Tricks, she returns behind the camera to show her teeth and tricks, to showcase her love for neo-giallo colours, femme fatales, and her reptile collection. Tristan Risk is known for preferring the company of reptiles to people.

    Tristan Risk is an actor, writer/director, and a provocative burlesque/circus performer. She is perhaps best known for acting in unique genre feature films such as: Aliens Stole my Body (2020), Rabid (2019), Amazon Hot Box (2018), Odissea della Morte (2018), Harvest Lake (2017), Ayla (2017), Frankenstein Created Bikers (2016), The Editor (2014), and American Mary (2012). She has performed around the world with Caravan of Curiosities and her TCS Reptiles. She has recently moved into writing and directing with her short films Parlour Tricks and most recently Reptile House (2020), which features many of the TCS Reptiles and world class prosthetic practical effects..

    https://m.imdb.com/name/nm2021381

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  • Mr. Emancipation is the story of Walter L Perry’s determination to put on a celebration that would transcend divisions of race and class. He staged an Emancipation Day festival that was where everyone wanted to be. Eleanor Roosevelt, Martin Luther King Jr, Jesse Owens all headed there because, as civil rights activist Dick Gregory said “The largest Juneteenth celebration was not in America, it was in Windsor, Canada.”

    A celebration of ending slavery sounds grim.

    What Walter Perry organized was the exact opposite of grim. Imagine a miles-long parade. The smell of soul food. Whirling carnival rides. There was live music, talent shows and even the Miss Sepia beauty pageant (the first international beauty pageant for Black women).

    From 1936 until 1967, that’s how Walter Perry celebrated freedom. Perry and his celebration got caught up in the overheated racial politics of the day, sabotage and race riots of 1967 in Detroit. His event never recovered that year and shortly after Walter Perry died…. but the spirit of Mister. Emanciaption still lives on.

    Director Biography – Preston Chase

    Preston William Chase is a seventh generation African Canadian and a descendant of William Parker. Parker escaped slavery in Maryland, and went on to play a key role in the Christiana Riots in Pennsylvania. It was his friend, the great Fredrick Douglass who convinced Parker to take refuge in Canada.

    Born to a single mother in the Black community of downtown Windsor, Ontario, Canada, Chase went on to become a high school teacher. He is also the family historian and a passionate advocate for greater awareness of a historic Black community, time has forgotten.

    It was a desire for everyone to know the story of his great great uncle Walter Perry that led Chase to pick up a camera and begin recording the stories about him from the elders in his community.

    Mister Emancipation: The Walter Perry story is the result of twenty years of research and five years of production.

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  • Zahra is a middle-aged woman who visits a temporary marriage agency and signs up to have a young working girl. She picks her up to take her home but the girl (Negar) who has never had a female client before, becomes suspicious of Zahra’s intent and sexual orientation.

    Director Biography – Alireza Kazemipour

    After graduating from university with a Bachelor in Physics, he decided to follow his passion for writing by attending a screenwriting course (school). Thereafter, he started his career as a screenwriter in 1999.
    In last 20 years, he has collaborated in more than 22 TV-series (more than 600 episodes), 3 features, and 14 teleplays as a creator, writer, head-writer or co-writer in different genres e.g. drama, comedy, horror, and thriller and has obtained some important national awards for his scripts.
    In 2010, Alireza Kazemipour got his master’s degree in Cinema directing from faculty of art at the University of Tehran, where, he started teaching “Screenwriting for TV and Cinema” after graduation. He has held several screenplay writing workshops and has also participated in different festivals as a jury.
    He also directed a documentary film “Cinema Maragheh” in 2020 that is in the post-production process.

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  • Noora with her family of 4 traveled to Canada on her husband business trip for a year.
    In a challenging situation she decided to risk her marriage to staty in Canada and tolerated many problems.
    Virtual Citizenship ceremony was held on a promissed day for Noora and her daughters in Corona pandemic.
    Director Biography – FARHAD EIVAZI, NOORA NOORIASL

    Noora Nooriasl ;
    Born in 1969 and raised in Kermanshah, a mountainous city in western Iran.
    Moved to Canada in 2012 to build a good life with opportunities for her twin daughters, but her marriage broke up in her quest for a better life in Canada.

    Noora, who was a fashion designer and seamstress in Iran, has brought her skills to Canada during the last 8 years.
    She has different experiences in the field of art, including calligraphy, painting, and most extensively, poetry.
    Adding to her diverse, creative and artistic background, “E- promised Day” is her first short movie.

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  • An assassin in a small gang discovers there is a rat amongst his fellow members, and tries to find answers as to who it is, and who he is as a person.

    Director – James Seed

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  • Prominent advocate for missing and murdered women along the Highway of Tears and across Canada, Gladys Radek shares insights from her life’s journey and her fight for rights in Canada.

    Director Biography – Jaylene Matthews

    My name is Jaylene Matthews and I live in Northwest BC. I am a video journalist who is passionate about storytelling. My goal in media is to tell stories that encourage empathy and understanding, as well as showcase diverse beauty in all forms of life.

    Director Statement

    I first met Gladys Radek when I was working as a reporter in Terrace, BC, just before the National Inquiry into Missing & Murdered Indigenous Women & Girls. Gladys’ strength, wisdom, and determination absolutely compelled me, as did the gravity and tragedy of Missing & Murdered Women along the Highway of Tears and in all of Canada, which Gladys has worked tirelessly to bring to light. I hope that this film will help others to better understand those affected by this tragedy, and help to inspire the drive to make change.

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    • Recent

    • This film is a 67′ free-style music film, a video collage, a tour de force of improvisations by musicians from mainly the UK and Germany in an audio-visual dialogue with Ebba Jahn.
      The result is a shrill, flashy, colorful, touching video collage full of different approaches to sound and image and the world.

      Background:
      I asked all improvising musicians I had worked with in the recent years to send me up to 3 single minutes of music with or without video / images for the creation of this music video collage – it was an inspiring delight to receive and work with them.

      The UK musicians are also members of the OXFORD IMPROVISERS and MOPOMOSO.
      Please see the attached Credit List for all musicans and other artists involved.

    Director Biography – Ebba Jahn

    Ebba Jahn graduated from the Film and TV Academy Berlin (DFFB) and has worked as a 16 mm filmmaker and cinematographer Jazzfilm RISING TONES CROSS being her longest and most known music film.
    She moved to New York City from 1991 until 2010, where she a.o. studied towards a BA in Fine Arts.
    Back in Germany she participated in group exhibitions, made DVD productions, video installations, and was curator and organizer of the traveling art exhibition PAPER PAIRS with abstract artworks by 20 intl. artists including her own from 2017-2019.

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  • Longing for the Soul, A Quest for Rumi, a full-length documentary film, will take the viewers on a mesmerizing journey through the lands of ancient Persia, to modern days Afghanistan, Turkey and United States, to tell the story of a mystic man, Molana Jalal-El-Din Rumi, who’s message of love and peace has been passed on for centuries.

    Rumi, departed from the world in 1273, late in the day of December 17. To his followers, this date is known as Sheb-Urs or the Wedding Night. At his funeral, people of all religions gather to celebrate his passing to the realm of god. Rumi reveals mysteries of the universe, in language of poetry and mysticism unfolding in the realm of science in the 21st Century?

    Director Biography – Aryana Farshad

    Aryana independently produced 5 documentary films since year 2000. Her first major project “Mystic Iran: The Unseen World”, a full-length documentary was broadcast at international level and screened, awarded and praised at major spiritual events and film festivals and received “Audience Favorite Award.”

    She is recipient of “ABU Award”, “Telly Award”, and ‘Davey Award” “Audience Favorite Award, London Independent Film Awards
    Barcelona Planet Film Festival

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  • A young boy named Tale (8), a great fan of the cinematic arts, is laying in a hospital infected with the Coronavirus. In his subconscious he’s fighting fearlessly against the bad illness,
    dreaming an unusual dream, related to his first love.

    Director Biography – Tomislav Aleksov

    Tomislav Aleksov is a graduate of film and television director and Master of cultural sciences in literature. Born in Skopje, Macedonia in 1966.
    In the period between 1985 until 1987 studies at the department of general and comparative literature at the Faculty of Philology at the University “St. Cyril and Methodius” in Skopje.
    In the 1987/88 school year, he enrolled at the Academy of Theatre, Radio, Film and Television in Ljubljana, Republic of Slovenia. He studies at the film and TV directing department in the class of professors Matijaz Klopcic and Karpo Godina. He graduated from the University of Ljubljana with the feature film “Cry of the Mute Indian” (produced in 1992/93, a co-production between Macedonian Television and Television Slovenia) and the paper “Chronology of the Macedonian Feature Film” in 1995. Between 1988 and 1998 works freelance as a director at TV Slovenia. He has produced more than 2000 TV shows of all genres for TV Slovenia.

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