HIGHLIGHTS: September 2022 Film Festival

Showcase of the best FILMS in the world today.

Audience Award Winners:
Best Short Film: GOING
Best Sound Design: TOPS OF MEMORY II – ILLUSION
Best Animation: MY WOMEN SEE GHOSTS

Watch the Audience Feedback Video for each film:

DELIGHT, 2min,. Iran

Directed by Arsan Safa, Babak Raesis, Estatira Aghajari
A mother bird leaves her nest to find food for her babies and in doing so she encounters difficulties and…

WATCH HERE – The audience feedback video of the film!


TATT, 3min., Russia

Directed by Ekaterina Ulyanova
The story of a mysterious monster-thief who stole the forester’s pants.

WATCH HERE – The audience feedback video of the film!


WHO THE FUCK ARE YOU, 10min., Taiwan

Directed by Kai Soong Ng
A young, indefatigable office worker deals with an overwhelming workload. After work, he faints and falls beside a pile of trash on the street and accidentally meets a lazy, alcoholic street child who is living in the pile of trash.

WATCH HERE – The audience feedback video of the film!


BRAIN FLUSH, 3min., Italy

Directed by Elena Giulietti, Francesco Catena, Rebecca Maslowsky
Pippo is a man who’s obsessed with social media and the “perfect lives” of others. Connection is lost and paranoia takes over him. He is forced to face his biggest insecurities, and realizes that in order to be free he has to get rid of his phone: only then he could be calm and confident again.

WATCH HERE – The audience feedback video of the film!


SWAM, 2min., USA

Directed by Cathy Teng
Swammer swimming thoughts.

WATCH HERE – The audience feedback video of the film!


WHY DID THE GIRAFFE’S FLOWER FADES?, 9min., Iran

Directed by Kaveh Kanani
Giraffe loves flowers. She keeps her flower in a jar to save it from wind and rain, but it withered; she is very sad and doesn’t know why it happened.

WATCH HERE – The audience feedback video of the film!


RED WISDOM, 7min., Iran

Directed by Hossein Moradizadeh
The bird flies in the sky, lands near a spring and is trapped. Ten men pull the nets and spin. In this rotation, the bird becomes a human. Man finds himself trapped in chains. Chains that end in the sky. On the way, he encounters an old man with a long red beard and hair, and his whole body is full of light. The old man shows the way.

WATCH HERE – The audience feedback video of the film!


MITLA | Underworld, 2min., Singapore

Directed by Mark Chavez
This 2-minute piece is an art film made to tweak the mind about the possibilities of discovery that are in the motifs and ideas surrounding the ancient yet unexplored archeological remains in the caverns of Mitla in Oaxaca, Mexico. The short film is created utilizing Artificially Generative, AI Toolsets, and composited with Derivative Touchdesigner.

WATCH HERE – The audience feedback video of the film!


GOING, 8min., USA

Directed by Carson G. Smith
Reluctant to look at the past, a young man recalls an old memory that should not be forgotten.

WATCH HERE – The audience feedback video of the film!


TOPS OF MEMORY II – ILLUSION 3min., Japan

Directed by Jialiang LIU
Hand-drawn animation using actual painting materials has a unique charm because of its a special texture or material feeling and unique sense of dynamism. Now with the help of VR video technical which broke the square frame of traditional film, it can let you experience the specially wonderful hand-drawn word through 360-degree view, give you the feeling that your body is just being in that fantastic space.

WATCH HERE – The audience feedback video of the film!


MY WOMEN SEE GHOSTS, 14min., USA

Directed by Delaney McCallum
A young woman investigates her relationship to her female family’s disposition for the supernatural.

WATCH HERE – The audience feedback video of the film!


THE LAMB, 6min., Australia

Directed by Richie Valentino
This classic tale of a lamb and wolf takes a turn slightly obscure from its average known story. Set in a desert landscape, Lambs travel to and from their destinations stopping for water along the way. It’s been many years and generations since the Lambs’ began this journey, but this is the first Lamb attempting the path suffering a slight handicap. In this tale, there is a message to be heard and sometimes that message needs to be pushed just a little harder to be understood.

WATCH HERE – The audience feedback video of the film!


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