TIRAGE EN SERIES
Category: Students |Directed by: Kevin Haefelin |Submitted by: Kevin Haefelin
Synopsis
'You'll see, we'll be happy just like Mom and Dad.'
Cornelia’s dream turns into an obsession. Her shrink listens, blasé, as he takes a look at the polaroid photos she presents him with. Her late parents’life is a testimony of perfect happiness. Her own life as a posthumous child desperately trying to emulate theirs. Trying but failing. It has to be said, being raped at 14, is no predisposition for bliss. But hey, she found herself a husband. Yes, that’s right, her shrink. Okay, he fell for her daughter and had his wife committed. But Cornelia is bent on forgetting everything. Happiness awaits them, and that's why she needs to take a photo. Here, right now.
Exact Runtime
00 hr : 13 min : 00 sec
| Kevin Haefelin | |
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| Citizenship: Switzerland | |
ROAD TO PESHAWAR
Category: Students |Directed by: Hammad Rizvi |Submitted by: Hammad Rizvi
Synopsis
Soviet-Afghan War 1988. An injured Afghan girl is taken to Pakistan by her father to seek medical attention. The journey is interrupted after they come across a minefield, consequently involving a homesick Soviet sniper.
Exact Runtime
00 hr : 18 min : 38 sec
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| Hammad Rizvi | |
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| Citizenship: U S A | |
LILY
Category: Students |Directed by: Susana Casares Domingo |Submitted by: Susana Casares Domingo
Synopsis
Eleven-year-old Lily is new in the neighborhood. Her body is changing and she is starting to think about romance. When her mother, Nicole, drags her to the pool of her apartment complex in a new bikini, all of Lily's worries are realized. Unfortunately, Lily has more to fear than just puberty and boys.
| Susana Casares Domingo | |
| Citizenship: Spain |
HOOKED
Category: Students |Directed by: Stuart Howe |Submitted by: Stuart Howe
Synopsis
Hooked tells the story of Jaeseung trying to find an answer to his pain and unhappiness. At the film's center there is a story about love, and how this love can turn to pain but as it unfolds all isn't as clear as it seems. After reminiscing with his wife over dinner about the wonderful surprise she received, his world suddenly begins to fall apart as he is reminded of an unforgettable tragedy. Now desperate and in denial he turns to his friend for help who offers him him a way out, to forget the sadness. However, it's not the answer that he's seeking and instead he finds himself trapped in a painful cycle.
Exact Runtime
00 hr : 10 min : 30 sec
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| Citizenship: United Kingdom |
ARBEITER VERLASSEN DIE FABRIK
Category: Students |Directed by: Anna Linke |Submitted by
Synopsis
In remembrance of the Lumiere Brothers: Karin works in a metal factory where she spends day after day, performing the same monotonous tasks. When a new worker begins his job in the factory, it seems to be the end of this drab life. He not only likes Karin but also the strange metal figurines she secretly builds before her workday starts.
| Anna Link | |
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BIAN ZI
Bian Zi (Braid) is a short dramatic narrative addressing themes of loss, endurance and parenthood. Following the accidental death of his wife and recent unemployment, Jie is unable to cope with her absence and the idea of raising his daughter, Ting, in a poor and motherless world. Having decided it is better to end their lives than continue hiding the truth from Ting and living with the pain of his wife's memory, Jie plans to show her the happiest day of her life. After several attempts to be a good father, some more successful than others, Jie must execute the decision he has made in the presence of his daughter.
00 hr : 14 min : 58 sec
| Chun-Yi Hsieh | |
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| Citizenship: Taiwan | |
THUDARKATHA (STORY CONTINUES)
Category: Students | Directed by: RAJAMOHANAN NAIR
|Submitted by RAJEEV MOHAN RAJAMOHANAN NAIR
A common man movie. Avoiding all gimmicks but showcasing the real life situations. The story travels through an old man's interaction with an office where bureaucracy prevails. Cut away shots of a child playing snake & ladder is shown in between to depict the heights and falls happening to the old man who is sent from one table to another. Please watch the movie scrupulously so as to enjoy it.
| RAJEEV MOHAN RAJAMOHANAN NAIR | |
| Citizenship: India | |
KHARA KARODPATI
Category: Students | Directed by: Piyush Thakur |Submitted by: Piyush Thakur
Synopsis
A call from Who wants to be a Millionaire) changes the ordinary life of a small farmer hailing from a Village in Maharashtra. Its the story of Vishnu , his family, his village and their journey towards realizing the actual meaning of Winning.
Exact Runtime
00 hr : 19 min : 05 sec
| Piyush Thakur | |
| India | |
THE HIPSTER VIEW
Category: Students | Directed by: BRADLEY LIEW | Submitted by: BRADLEY LIEW
A Comedy Mockumentary exploring the new wave cultural phenomenon that is the Hipster Culture. The Hipster Culture seems to have hit youth on a truly international level regardless of race, nationality or religion. This piece dives straight its the ever contradicting state of its existence to fully understand and shed light on its history and content. Featuring a full blooded hipster: Ronnie!
Exact Runtime
00 hr : 11 min : 40 sec
| BRADLEY LIEW | |
| Citizenship: Malaysia |
6 WOMEN
Category: Students | Directed by: Arani Sen | Submitted by: Arani Sen
Synopsis
Joel is a freelance advertising copywriter, who is working on his second novel. Helena, his fiancée and muse has just passed away. Joel is unable to get over her and believes his writing suffers when he is not in love. He ends up dating very different women in search of a new muse.
Exact Runtime
00 hr : 16 min : 34 sec
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| Citizenship: India | |
MY TELATORI
Category: Animation | Directed by: Kuan Win Chin | Submitted by: Kuan Win Chin
Synopsis
My Territory was created by the students of Malaysia. The story of My Territory takes us on a fantastic adventure into the imagination of some local young Malaysian children. Exploration and discovery of a new world quickly sours upon meeting a mortal rival and rapidly degenerates into an all out pitched battle involving advances weaponry, a huge mythical warrior beasts and a giant fighting robot. or does it?
Exact Runtime
00 hr : 13 min : 00 sec
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EL DUELO
Category: Animation | Directed by: Jesus Barrios | Submitted by: Luisana Pérez
'El duelo' tells the typical story of combat between an officer of the law and an outlaw in the Old American West ... until a character out of place changes the fate of their lives.
00 hr : 06 min : 00 sec
| Luisana Pérez | |
| Venezuela | |
| Gender: F | |
MONSTER AND DUMPLING
Category: Animation | Directed by: Jihwan Jung | Submitted by: Jihwan Jung
Synopsis
Once up on a time, there was a ugly and violent monster. Because he was ugly, everybody disliked him. One day, the monster came to the small town to get some food and found a small girl. The monster tried to eat her, but something happened to him and changed him.
Exact Runtime
00 hr : 04 min : 56 sec
| Jihwan Jung | |
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| Citizenship: South Korea | |
LIZARD
Category: Animation | Directed by: John Skibinski | Submitted by: John Skibinski
Synopsis
An over-confident frill necked lizard leaps repeatedly in the air catching insects before his frill opens like a parachute and he drifts in the wind. He whips his tail around a branch where it knots and he finds himself trying to get free without disturbing a nearby sleeping tawny frog-mouth owl.
00 hr : 02 min : 36 sec
| John Skibinski | |
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| Citizenship: Australia | |
LA VUELTA
Category: Animation| Directed by: Marius Portmann | Submitted by: Marius Portmann
Synopsis
While cleaning the floor of a laundry room, an old janitor comes across traces of dancing that awaken long forgotten feelings.
Exact Runtime
00 hr : 06 min : 40 sec
| Marius Portmann | |
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| Citizenship: Switzerland | |
DREAMING A WHOLE LIFE
Category: Animation | Directed by: FRANCISCO JAVIER ARA |Submitted by: Millan Luis Vazquez Ortiz
Synopsis
'dreaming with a normal life is what makes the story of the protagonist.
It shouldn't be hard to reach it if he didn't have this little problem: his face hangs like a cloth.
00 hr : 04 min : 30 sec
| Millan Luis Vazquez Ortiz | |
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| Citizenship: Spain | |
LOW-TECH
Category: Animation| Directed by: Hui-ching Tseng |Submitted by: Hui-ching Tseng
Synopsis
The animation is made in a'low-Tech'fashion. It is aimed to look at modern technology from a humorous angle. Using perspective parallax and traditional stop-motion technique, to mimic the modern high-end technology. Even the music is made by simplest technique by recording toy music and vocal singing. Using Low-Tech equipments as a way to explore the possibility and variety of animation making techniques.
Exact Runtime
00 hr : 03 min : 00 sec
| Hui-ching Tseng | |
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| Citizenship: Taiwan | |
OVERCAST
Category: Animation | Directed by: Velislav Kazakov | Submitted by: Velislav Kazakov
Synopsis
A man falls off the roof of his country home. His wife pulls him onto the back of a truck and drives frantically towards the nearest clinic for help. Unbeknown to the woman, the body is lost along the way. In a chain of absurd events and cover-ups the body is repeatedly 'killed' until it eventually reaches the clinic. In this Black comedy the hectic pace of modern life contrasts the serenity of autumn landscape. Superimposed against the calmness of Nature, a sky overcast with gray clouds bodes the inescapable lot of the human condition.
Exact Runtime
00 hr : 09 min : 25 sec
| Velislav Kazakov | |
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MY FATHER IS A WASHERMAN
Category: Animation | Directed by: Srinivas Bhakta | Submitted by: Srinivas Bhakta
Synopsis
A washerman struggles with an evil scarecrow who tries to snatch kite from his son.
Exact Runtime
00 hr : 08 min : 18 sec
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PENSOU - DO THE GOOD
Category: Animation |Directed by: Milind Kuri |Submitted by: Milind Kuri
Synopsis
This is a story about three different emotions with three different characters PENSOU, RUBBY and SHARPIE, who are connected of their unique work. One day Pensou takes his mischief too far and ruins Rubby's peace of mind , now instead of neglecting and anger Rubby takes a Gandhian act to correct and realize Pensou of his responsibilities and duties. And teach him the power of being a change which Gandhiji have taught us all.
Exact Runtime
00 hr : 09 min : 34 sec
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| Citizenship: India | |
DON'T NEED A GOLF COURSE
Category: CSR |Directed by: KAZUHIKO MIZUSHINA |Submitted by: KAZUHIKO MIZUSHINA
Synopsis
This contemporary nature myth raises an environmental crisis issue caused by shortsighted capitalism. Human beings often vandalize nature for economic activity. The confrontation between economy and ecology is key to the story. It revolves around a rich but irresponsible real estate agent, and a frugal and innocent monk. From the standpoint of environmental destruction in this film, a golf course is defined as symbol of unnatural green and culturally occupied land.
The monk nurtures trust with nature through daily work. He sweeps up dead leaves on the graveyard of his temple. When faced with high-handed economic approach, he finds the truth inside the heaps of dead leaves. The icon inside the dead leaves causes a little strange phenomenon of nature, which may be an ancient deity of the hills. In this film, we see all things in a broad pantheistic way. The spirit of nature stays in the hills, plants, and even an eel made by origami and dead leaves. True Eco-activity is obeying the touch of nature, not pursuing quick profits. Simple minds and gentle harmony with nature are what is most needed today. Therefore, natural order in this world should be unchanged, despite any religious background.
00 hr : 08 min : 30 sec
| KAZUHIKO MIZUSHINA | |
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| Citizenship: Japan | |
HOTEL OF THE WORLD
Category: CSR | Directed by: Ayoub Luahabi |Submitted by: Ayoub Luahabi
Synopsis
It's story of different homeless...inside of Europe, the time change very speed, but for this men it's more difficult. A one day, a man, director of the one Hotel Mozart decide to help this 'homeless' …
00 hr : 15 min : 00 sec
| Ayoub Luahabi | |
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| Citizenship: Belgium | |
THE HALF-LIGHT
Category: CSR |Directed by: Prasanna Puwanarajah |Submitted by: Sophie Vickers
A man smoking alone in a gloomy room. The light and sound of a single energy-saving light bulb. He is looking at a photograph of himself with his wife, now dead, noticing the beautiful golden light in this old image; light coming from a small exposed tungsten light bulb. He phones his dealer, asking for 'something a bit different'...
He meets up with his dealer who furtively passes him some details, maintaining his distance. We then see the man in a hardware shop, where he meets a dry and worldly shopkeeper and, in a transaction akin to the buying of an illicit substance, he tries to see if the shopkeeper will sell him a light bulb: 'an old one...'
Satisfied by the intensity of the man's desire to own one of these old bulbs, the shopkeeper takes him out the back of the shop, down some old stairs and into a series of tunnels. A lonely tungsten bulb hangs in the gloom, and as the man approaches it, others light up around him to reveal a gorgeous, amber palladium of light bulbs, and then light and warmth flood back into his life. But he must pay a larger price than he expected. And, of course, he must keep this secret...
Back at home, with his new tungsten bulb emitting its nostalgic glow, he sits with the photograph, his small victory tempered only by the flood of remembrance and aloneness that this new and old light carries with it...
00 hr : 12 min : 30 sec
| Sophie Vickers | |
| Citizenship: United Kingdom |
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Category: CSR |Directed by: Carlo Obispo |Submitted by: Carlo Obispo
Synopsis
Approximately 100,000 young Filipino children are involved in prostitution rings. This phenomenon unquestionably violates human rights and, it imposes a great threat to the future of Philippine Society. Yet, such crime is extremely under-reported, and thus underestimated and ignored by the common mass.
This film intends to raise public awareness about this wide-spreading predicament and to call for more hands to be lent.
Exact Runtime
00 hr : 08 min : 00 sec
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| Citizenship: Philippines | |
LIKE TOY DOLLS
Category: CSR |Directed by: Yihwen Chen |Submitted by: Yihwen Chen
Synopsis
Like Toy Dolls opens with an unidentified woman throwing a plastic toy doll on the ground in an abandoned flat. As she hurries away, she occasionally turns back to look at the motionless, bloodied toy doll. Unable to speak for themselves, the narrator lends a voice to these dolls, describing the various places where they can be found including public toilets, rubbish bins and drains among others. Some are not so lucky as they are mauled by animals like dogs or animals. The more fortunate ones are found in public places like police stations or religious institutions. The dolls wonder where they are thrown away like toys by their owners. Perhaps their owners are ashamed of keeping them or angry with their existence in this world. The film ends with a doll consumed by a fiery end.
A title card suggests that a newborn baby in Malaysia go through the portrayed scenarios every week.
Exact Runtime
00 hr : 04 min : 29 sec
| Yihwen Chen | |
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| Citizenship: Malaysia | |
DOS TRISTES TRES
Category: CSR |Directed by: Antonio Quiroga |Submitted by: Millan Luis Vazquez Ortiz
Synopsis
Yanajido reaches adulthood. One day, while going to visit her parents,
something happens that doesn't make much sense. There seems to be, and there will be
adults who have suffered and will suffer similars situations. Can we stop it?
Exact Runtime
00 hr : 05 min : 30 sec
| Millan Luis Vazquez Ortiz | |
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| Citizenship: Spain | |
OUR BOAT IS OUR ADDRESS
Category: CSR |Submitted by: Purna Shiropa
Synopsis
People work in different kinds of professions for survival. One of the most interesting professions is the gypsy life. Some particular groups of gypsies live in boats. In Bangladesh, education is not free. The gypsies in this country are so poor that many of them can’t even send their children to school. However, a woman who lives there teaches some of the children of the gypsies. Even without proper education, the children are very creative. They can make ceramics with clay.
The lifespan of the gypsies is short. They easily die at the age of fifty. It is because of the polluted water they use everyday from the River
Exact Runtime
00 hr : 10 min : 16 sec
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GAME GANGSTER
Category: CSR |Directed by: Kaz Cai| Submitted by: Kaz Cai
Synopsis
In the real world, Jay is an abused teenager while Ethan is wheelchair bound after a motorbike accident. The two strangers meet over a virtual gaming platform. Each escapists; striving to find peace amidst their current turmoil. Their angst is portrayed by a physical fight between their game characters: Wildboy vs Game Gangster. In the end, reality plays out a total flipside of virtual reality. Who becomes the Game? And who is the Gangster?
Exact Runtime
00 hr : 09 min : 23 sec
| Kaz Cai | |
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| Citizenship: Singapore | |
IT'S IN YOUR HANDS
Category: CSR |Directed by: |Submitted by: Sowmya Somnath
Synopsis
Hand washing with soap is the most effective and inexpensive way to prevent diarrhoeal and ARI respiratory infections, which take the lives of millions of children in developing countries every year. Together, diarrhoea and ARI are responsible for the majority of all child deaths. They also contribute to malnutrition, decreased school attendance, weakened immune systems and cause much financial and mental hardship. Yet, despite its lifesaving potential, hand washing with soap is seldom practiced and difficult to promote. This video highlights a simple device that saves water, costs almost nothing to build and makes hand washing fun as a possible solution.
00 hr : 02 min : 35 sec
| Sowmya Somnath | |
| India | |
YEARS ABROAD
Category: CSR | Submitted by: Maria Pia Fanigliulo
Synopsis
Odd nightmare of a mature woman in her family home.
Exact Runtime
00 hr : 04 min : 15 sec
| Maria Pia Fanigliulo | |
Gender: F | |
Category: Short |Directed by: Borkur Sigthorsson |Submitted by: Borkur Sigthorsson
The barren, concrete landscape of contemporary Reykjavik contributes the setting for the thriller, which tells the story of Stefan, whose life is slipping into turmoil. When he senses an intruder in his home, panic quickly turns to grim determination and he decides to arm himself for the inevitable confrontation.
Exact Runtime
00 hr : 18 min : 00 sec
| Borkur Sigthorsson | |
| Citizenship: Iceland |
MATADOR ON THE ROAD
Category: Short | Directed by: Alexis Morante |Submitted by: Millan Luis Vazquez Ortiz
In the way to Las Vegas, a Cadillac runs over something in the middle of the desert, breaking the car. In the car is a Spanish Matador, who has to arrive to Las Vegas to play in a Bullfight
00 hr : 16 min : 00 sec
Spain
Gender: M
Category: Short | Submitted by: Paolo Licata
Synopsis
In a small gothic town, somewhere in Victorian England, the writer of horror fiction Edgar is struggling to pen the 'perfect novel', but lacks inspiration. When the smarmy custodian of the local lunatic asylum pays Edgar a visit one night, a pact is made to resume a dark and devilish practice, with tragic and deadly consequences.
Exact Runtime
00 hr : 20 min : 00 sec
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THE LIMITS
Category: Short | Directed by: iqbal rais |Submitted by: iqbal rais
Synopsis
This short film about a fighter that his life was a battle, and not easily give up when faced with a battle to actually limit that determines
Exact Runtime
00 hr : 06 min : 43 sec
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| iqbal rais | |
| Citizenship: Indonesia |
WORDS
Category: Short |Directed by: Anup Bhandari |submitted by: Anup Bhandari
Synopsis
Words, directed by Anup S Bhandari, is a story about Juliet (Miriam Liora Ganz) and Owen (Russell Harvard), a deaf man, who meet at the iconic Bethesda Fountain in the snow covered Central Park. Their conversation begins awkwardly but over the next few days, she comes up with interesting ways to communicate with him. The friendship slowly appears to blossom into romance but the difference between silence and words may be more than it seems.
The film uses American Sign Language and makes references to the works of popular deaf icons - Beethoven’s musical masterpiece “Moonlight Sonata” and Chuck Baird’s painting “Music for the eyes”. The characters names are a reference to Beethoven and his real life love Giulietta Guicciardi, to whom Beethoven dedicated the Moonlight Sonata.
00 hr : 14 min : 24 sec
| Anup Bhandari | |
U S A | |
| Gender: M | |
A FÁBRICA
Category: Short |Directed by: Aly Muritiba |Submitted by: Antônio Junior
Synopsis
Visiting day. Lindalva prepares food to take it to her son who is in jail. Metruti, Lindalva's son, shaves and wears the best clothes to welcome his mother. Today is a very special day and he really needs to make a phone call. His mother is taking a risk, she's willing to smuggle a cell phone for him into the penitentiary.
Exact Runtime
00 hr : 15 min : 00 sec
| Antônio Junior | |
| Brazil | |
| Citizenship: Brazil | |
CROSSING SALWEEN
Category: Short | Directed by: Brian O'Malley |Submitted by: Gary Moore
Along the Thai border in the Karen state of Eastern Burma, where for decades the Karen have been persecuted by the Military Junta, a young Karen girl named Ko Reh finds herself orphaned after the massacre of her village by the army.
Befriending a mysterious hunter named Dante, who made a promise to her fathers soul that he would take her to safety, Ko Reh and Dante make the perilous journey across her troubled homeland in search of freedom.
Guided by the spirits of her ancestors, the life, struggles and losses of Ko Reh and her family are reflected in the people she meets on her journey, the extent of those losses and the means by which they occurred becoming finally apparent as she reaches her journeys end.
Ko Reh must now make the crossing of the river that divides the horrors of Burma from the safety of Thailand. But will her late father’s enduring love and the guidance of ancestral spirits be enough to shepherd her across the Salween river where so many have fallen?
Exact Runtime
00 hr : 20 min : 16 sec
| Gary Moore | |
Citizenship: Ireland | |
BENEATH THE SURFACE
Category: Short |Directed by: saliva Mathieu |Submitted by: saliva mathieu
Synopsis
Mila, a young twelve year-old girl with French and Native American ancestry (her father is from the Lakota Sioux tribe), returns to live with her parents in South Dakota. She discovers there a Lakota people struggling with poverty and alcoholism, in a state known for its racial tensions with Native Americans. She meets her grandfather, Sam Blackrain, who is a holy clown and a “thunder dreamer”. Blackrain is a fugitive from Leavenworth, the toughest prison in the country... Mila and Sam are soon forced to flee into the Badlands, in the footsteps of their ancestors who, a century earlier, took refuge at Wounded Knee. What do the ancient spirits want? Why did Sam Blackrain feel the need to escape from prison and pass on his message? Can Mila really change the path of the future...?
Exact Runtime
00 hr : 09 min : 40 sec
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| Citizenship: France |
SUNNY BOY
Category: Short | Directed by: Jane Gull |Submitted by: Jane Gull
Synopsis
Danny and his overprotective father live in a world of darkness due to his rare skin condition. He longs to be a regular teenager playing football out in the sun. When Danny receives some news about his medical condition he decides to stand up to his dad and take control of his own life.
Exact Runtime
00 hr : 11 min : 14 sec
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| Citizenship: United Kingdom | |
Category: Short |Submitted by: Yoki Chin
Synopsis
The Fisherman's Son is a short film that tells a tale concerning a father and son in China. The father who is a fisherman has not been able to have a proper relationship with his son due to his boy being ashamed of being the son of a fisherman. This strain in their relationship is highlighted within this short as well as the struggles and the sacrifices the father goes through to reach out to his son. The father eventually sends his son overseas to Malaysia to further his studies.
00 hr : 11 min : 26 sec
| Yoki Chin | |
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