Paper Boat

(Drama / Greece / 35mm / 18 minutes)

What do you do when following your dream means closing the door on your past? Melanie must choose between a lifelong love in Greece and a blossoming career in America.

Director / Writer: Daphne Lambrinou

Producer: Erica Callas and Daphne Lambrinou

Contact: daphlamb@hotmail.com

Find

(Drama / Canada / 35mm/ 9 minutes)

Amanda is ten when something terrible happens. But it never feels true. Why does anything have to happen a certain way? Amanda convinces her friends Leslie, Ed, and Richard that time is an invention. That she can change the future and the past. It takes concentration and practice. Even twenty years of practice.

Director / Writer: Tara Samuel

Producer: Matthew Flugger

Contact: busterhouse@gmail.com

Happiness

(Action / Adventure / United States / 35mm / 11 minutes)

What if Happiness was for sale?

Director / Writer: Sophie Barthes

Producer: Andrij Parekh and Sophie Barthes

Contact: sophiebarthes@gmail.com

One Sung Hero

(Comedy / United States / 35mm / 11 minutes)

Sara Sparrow is no ordinary hero: a 33 year-old copy machine salesperson (by day), Sara has found her true calling as a “karaoke missionary”—every night, she travels from bar to bar, uplifting the downtrodden through the power of song.

Director / Writer: Samantha Kurtzman

Bauhaus, Broken Wings

(Drama / United States / 35mm / 22 minutes)

Berlin, March 23rd 1933, students at the Bauhaus School for Arts and Architecture attempt to save their art from the rise of the Nazi Party. Led by Jack Porter, a British sculptor, the students face a harsh decision of whether to stand up for their artistic expression or give way to the unrelenting force of Fascism. Based on true events.

Director / Writer: Philipp Eierund

Producers: Philipp Eierund and Evan Schrodek

Contact: festival@emotionp.com

Storage

(Drama / Australia / 35mm / 14 minutes)

‘Storage’ is a wry tale of family grief. Upon the death of their father, two middle-aged brothers spend a day at a storage facility with their aging and unpredictable mother. What the younger brother hopes will be an efficient day of ‘tying up loose ends’ becomes quietly revelatory in the most unexpected ways. Families are strange indeed and grieving families even stranger.

Director: Siobhan Jackson

Producer: Victorian College on the Arts School of Film and TV

Contact: siobhan.jackson@bigpond.com

At the End of the Sentence

(Drama / United Kingdom / 35mm / 10 minutes)

Abandoned by their father “General” Cluster, brothers Sue and Kylie are getting on with their lives (just) when Custer unexpectedly reappears into their lives just before Christmas. Sue’s obsessively ordered world begins to crack and disintegrate into chaos as he tries to do the right thing and produce a family Christmas.

Director: Marisa Zanotti

Producers: Angela Murray and Susan Nickalls

Writer: David Greig

Contact: mail@oxygenfilms.co.uk