Promising Young Woman

A single mother’s struggle to connect with her adopted son, a teenager who she suspects is a gay. CATEGORY Shorts Programs COUNTRY Finland RUN TIME 12 min LANGUAGE Finnish SUBTITLES Yes with English subtitles COMPANY Komeetta WEBSITE http://www.komeettafilmi.fi EMAIL [email protected] PHONE +358407772880 Credits Director Teemu Niukkanen Screenwriter Antti Toivonen Producer Daniel Kuitunen Editor Joona Louhivuori Sound Designer Pontus Borg Cinematography Aarne Tapola Production Designer […]

Cole lives in rural Appalachia and makes ends meet by redistributing excess medicine from townies to local buyers. A community low on opportunities but big on pills, this popular young health aide at a nursing home sees himself as a caretaker – one that is fond of his suppliers and keeps addicts at bay. The […]

Saudia Arab’s academy award nomination by Haifaa al Mansour is about a young hard working doctor in a small town clinic who cannot fly for a conference at Dubai without the allowance of a male guardian. As maryam appeals to her politically affiliated cousin, the film depicts the challenges faced in a still-obscure society through […]

Re-cataloguing personal archives, arranging 16,000 splices and obsessively organizing 35 mm frames to disorient patterns. The streaming age is seeing a Dante’s Inferno depicted by the freedom of movement in the modern cloud. CATEGORY Shorts Programs COUNTRY Hong Kong/U.S.A. RUN TIME 13 min COMPANY LiuFilmsLiu WEBSITE https://www.liufilmsliu.com/ EMAIL [email protected] PHONE (347) 403-3794 Credits Director Simon Liu Original Score Julia Bloop Music Gabriel […]

Director Iryna Tsilyk’s documentary follows a meta-storytelling approach about a single mother and her four children under the siege in Ukraine. As eldest Mira dreams of becoming a cinematographer, the family helps create stylised scenes as the bombs descend in the neighbouring region. In between the real war, her siblings rehearse lines watching Mira apply […]