Despair

A young woman confronts her aggressor and hits back where it would hurt the most.

When one butterfly falls, a wave is born from it, the wave becomes a bubble, and various lives are born and disappear.

Eun-Seo who came to US misses her father back in Korea. In her dream, her father teaches her how to pray in order to overcome fear. As her mother, Seo-Hyun, hears that Eun-Seo doesn’t get along well with her classmates, she decides to throw her American Birthday Party. Seo-Hyun makes Eun-Seo invite her friends but the invitation card that Seo-Hyun made for her is too childish so her friends make fun of her. Embarrassed, Eun-Seo rebels against her mother but she is too weak to win over her mother. In strained atmosphere, they stop at the gas station where Eun-Seo hears the bad news to her father...

Adults reflect on the experience of losing a parent at a young age.

Tom is anxious, he holds a secret in his human heart, a wing beat and a flutter and its bursting to take flight.

A man’s female friend who just came back from London spends time on the river shore.

A young man, Peter, returns home in the middle of the night after a long journey. He returns to his home, to his parents. At the same time, he is also returning to his long-term girlfriend, who, during this time, has given birth to their daughter Vita. Peter is determined that his journey has come to the end, and that he will settle down and stay at home. Yet, he quickly realizes that a decision is easier to accept than to actualize it.

Final film by Joyce Knie of the "Digital Film & VFX" 914 course at the SAE Institute Hamburg.

Final film by Niko Kopp of the "Digital Film & VFX" 914 course at the SAE Institute Hamburg.

Madhu tries to deliver a love letter to her crush, but on the way faces many obstacles which are all in her head.

A seaman finds himself out of work and stranded in a distant port. He shares a cheap room. They take turns sleeping, some in the morning, some at night. Grief! When he will go back to sea? And there! The scent of woman drifts up to seduce him! He realizes he had shared his bed with a lady of the night.

"Sugar" is an elegiac short film directed by filmmaker, Michael Patti. Michael sought to tell a story of grief, patience, the overwhelming aspects of parenthood and the understanding that we are all connected. "Sugar" a stirring, wistful visual meditation on relationships.

A video sketch at Hayama's bed, situated in Bangkok.

Michael is minding is own business, until a run in with the local gang prompts a chase he'll never forget...

An experimental short from Oskar Fischinger

Moody, edgy and unrelieved: the duplicity of desiring one’s double.

Jacob (26) is a normal guy with a very special talent- 90% facial recollection. He never forgets a face and you better hope he doesn't knows yours.

In Argentine mythology, the gaucho holds a significant cultural position. The gaucho descends from the union between the indigenous population and Iberian immigrants. Gauchos adopted the Indígenas’ approach to livestock farming and are always associated with horses and vast open plains. The drama occurs when the brother falls from a horse and can no longer be saved. Man and horse become one, for a short moment. Then he draws a knife and revenge violates the idyll: An eye for an eye, a man for a beast. Fire burns on the street, the gaucho mounts his horse and revenge runs its course. The mythical realm overflows into the realm of reality.

A young man has memories of his old school class. As his memories become sadder, his impulses become darker.

Animated short documentary following a young woman's diagnosis of bipolar: a journey of self-acceptance to challenge everyday stigma. In "Trust Me", a genre-bending short documentary, a young woman uses humour and compassion to share her moving and deeply personal story of coming to terms with her mental health condition. When she starts exhibiting atypical and extreme behaviour, her loved ones trick her into hospitalisation against her will. She is diagnosed with bipolar disorder which starts her challenging journey of self-acceptance, confronting internalised and societal stigma, and learning to trust herself and others again.