Short Film Competition 1
The Key
Azerbaijan, 2022, 19 minutes, Color, Azeri; Turkish captioned
Director: Elshad Elsever
Screenplay: Elshad Elsever
Cinematography: Javid Delee
Editing: Elshad Rahimov
Production: Senur Ahador, Metin Alakberli
Cast: Qurban İsmayilov, Rasim Cafer, Reyhan Cafer, Hüseyin İsgenderov
UMID, the internally displaced person (IDP) due to War, loses the set of keys belonging to his house which is currently under occupation. The keys represent the last hope to come back to his house, so UMID still hopes he will be back one day but the accident bears a strong symbolic meaning to him. He interprets it as losing the last hope.
Love
United Kingdom, 2021, 18 minutes, Color, English; Turkish captioned
Director: Jane Ashmore
Screenplay: Gemma Harvey
Cinematography: Alison Banham, Tom Webster
Editing: Laura Reyes
Music: Guy Dagul, Nicolette Street
Production: Jane Ashmore, Matthew Butler-Hart, Tori Butler-Hart, Gemma Harvey
Cast: Jules Robertson, Gemma Harvey, Dev Joshi, Doris Zajer, Leo Bill
An unrequited love story starring British TV and film actor Jules Robertson who has autism. This bittersweet movie tells the story of Oscar, a complex character with unique needs but the same hopes and desires as everyone else. Rather than a movie “about” autism, Love invites its viewers to think about the world from the perspective of a person with autism. We follow Oscar's journey as he takes the poetic words of his favorite band “The Streets” and using them as a coping mechanism when faced with disturbing social stalemates.
Fence
Denmark, 2021, 12 minutes, Color, Danish, Swedish; Turkish captioned
Director: Hilke Rönnfeldt
Screenplay: Hilke Rönnfeldt
Cinematography: Roxana Reiss
Editing: Matilda Henningsson
Music: Sigurlaug Thorarensen, Julius Pollux Rothlaender
Production: Asta Stuhr
Cast: Lisa Carlehed, Emilie Claudius Kruse
A fence is built between Denmark and Germany to separate wild boars from domestic farm pigs, to avoid the spreading of a deadly swine influenza. Ebba wakes, just an arm length away from her girlfriend Jona.
A Winner
Iran, Islamic Republic of, 2022, 19 minutes, Color, Persian; Turkish captioned
Director: Mehdi Mahaei
Screenplay: Solmaz Etemad
Cinematography: Hassan Aslani
Editing: Reza Daghagh
Music: Yoones Eskandari
Production: Navid Masjedi
Cast: Mehrnoosh Sattari, Babak Ansari, Isa Hosseini, Fateme Zahra Rahimi
The story of a female director who lives and works in her mother's greenhouse. After her film is being selected at a respected festival abroad she faces problems to leave the country.
Shadows
Estonia, 2021, 13 minutes, Color, Russian; Turkish captioned
Director: Jamilia Azizova
Screenplay: Jamilia Azizova, Alexandre Obmanov
Cinematography: Slava Lisnevsky, Dmitriy Ratushniy
Editing: Slava Lisnevsky
Music: Denis Stelmakh
Production: Jamilia Azizova
Cast: Jamilia Azizova, Alexandre Obmanov
Blessed event of expanding family life turns into a nightmare of fighting for their lives and dreams, that leads them to the edge of the sea and changes their lives forever.
The Sprayer
Iran, Islamic Republic of, 2021, 9 minutes, Color, No Dialogue; Turkish captioned
Director: Farnoosh Abedi
Screenplay: Farnoosh Abedi
Editing: Reza Eslami, Farnoosh Abedi
Music: Soroush Abedi
Production: Negative Art Studio
In the land occupied with the Sprayers army, no one has the right to grow any kind of plants either in public or private. So many of the people and soldiers do not even know how does a plant grows or look like, until one day one of the soldiers finds a seed buried deep down in the dust. His curiosity is just the beginning of something extraordinary, something big, something revolutionary.