INTERNATIONAL DRAMA

Mirror
Iran / Drama / 14 minutes
Director/Writer: Faranak Moradi
Producer: Faranak Moradi, Jason Zavaleta
Cast: Behnaz Jafari
After many years, She gets back to her late brother in law’s house and reveals secrets for his two daughter’s.
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Mono No Aware
India / Drama / 20 minutes
Director/Writer/Producer: Koushik Sarkar
Cast: Annapoorna Sarkar, Amartya Sarkar
Poorna, a 10-year-old girl in suburban Mumbai wakes up to her routine morning and a looming sense of loss. As the day progresses with a school outing, she visits an old hill and an old age home. A day spent in ‘Mono no Aware’ a Buddhist word for ‘watching the passing’, Poorna discovers the quietly tragic, bittersweet circus of life - the ephemeral nature of all things bad or beautiful and knowing that none of it can last.


Mr. Nonexistent
Turkey / Drama / 14 minutes
Director/Writer: Bora Severcan
Producer: Bora Severcan, Alhan Yüksel
Cast: Erhan Yazıcıoğlu, Volkan Severcan
Tahir is an old man who lost his wife from cancer two years ago. With the irony of fate, he recently finds out he has cancer. He begins to question his existence as he struggles to survive. Now, he can not escape from the past, can not fit to the moment and even fails in his "Wonderland". This piece is a synopsis to all of us who suffers from existential issues at one point.


Naap
India / Drama / 18 minutes
Director: Harshit Acharya
Writer: Harshit Acharya, Shardul Karandikar
Producer: Videowala Productions LLP, Aayush Patel
Cast: Vipin Sharma, Tarjanee Bhadla
Sharmaji, fondly known as Masterji is a tailor by profession and lives a content life with his daughter Sakshi in their small yet satisfactory world. An unpleasant incident at his shop threatens to ruffle their lives forever.
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Olive
France / Drama / 12 minutes
Director: Jean- Baptiste Delannoy
Writer: Maud Bettina-marie
Producer: Keyvan Khojandi
Cast: Maud Bettina Marie,
Keyvan Khojandi
The hard journey of a woman after she went through a miscarriage.


Qadr
Canada / Drama / 12 minutes
Director/Writer: Maytham Jbara
Producer: Ali Jbara, Huda Alkadhimi
Cast: Rudhab, Marwa
Qadr, a 6-year-old girl, watched through the sniper scope by an ISIS sniper, is knocking on her mother’s closed bedroom door trying to open it and calling her mother with no response under the never-ending sounds of gunfire and explosions.
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On My Mind
Denmark / Drama / 18 minutes
Director/Writer: Martin Strange-Hansen
Producer: Martin Strange-Hansen, Kim Magnusson
Cast: Rasmus Hammerich, Camilla Bendix
Henrik wants to sing a song for his wife. It has to be today, it has to be now. It's a question of life, death and karaoke.


Quality Time
Israel / Drama / 22 minutes
Director/Writer/Producer: Omer Ben-David
Cast: Shalom Korem, Noam Imber
A stoner teenager and his newly retired military career father are forced to stay together alone for the first time when the family's mother goes on vacation. The tension between them leads to an explosion - But not the kind they expected.


Remind Me
Mexico / Drama / 23 minutes
Director/Writer: Leo Zhang
Producer: Tatjana Green, Christopher Yan Chen
Cast: Ben Shaul, Griffin Wallace Henkel
A travel show host, on location in Mexico City, is reminded of his struggle to connect with his teenage son who unexpectedly arrives in Mexico City.


Sashka. A Soldier's Diary
Russia / Drama / 30 minutes
Director: Kirill Zaitsev
Writer: Ivan Klochko, Igor Konyaev
Producer: Kirill Zaitsev, Dmitry Yakunin
Cast: Ivan Klochko, Marat Efendiev
A WWII veteran finds his diary amongst a bunch of letters and photographs. As the elderly man leafs through his diary, the memories immediately send him back to the heart of the war. There a young Sashka stands in the middle of a battle with fire, blood and dirt all around him. It is during this terrifying battle that he single-handedly takes a young German boy prisoner.


Seven O'Clock
Mexico / Drama / 21 minutes
Director/Writer: Alejandro Cervantes Polanco
Producer: Sohpia Exteberria, Enrique Ramírez
Cast: Enrique Arreola, Venus Martínez
A man can’t end his own life because of the constant interruptions of his neighbor’s eccentricities.


Silento
Colombia / Drama / 11 minutes
Director/Writer: Esteban Garcia Vernaza
Producer: Susie Kim
Cast: Daniela Anacona, Mariana Alarcon
Two indigenous girls find refuge in the music of an enchanted flute during the 1950’s Colombian civil war.
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