Festival Award Winners:
BEST FILM: Under Grace
BEST PERFORMANCES: Something Different
BEST CINEMATOGRAPHY: Domestic Bliss
BEST MUSIC: Delilah
BEST DIRECTION: Iced
BEST SOUND DESIGN: Poppies
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SOMETHING DIFFERENT, 10min., USA, Drama
A modern re-telling of a tale from The Decameron by Giovanni Boccaccio. Boy cheats on girl, girl finds out, girl exacts revenge with boy whose girl cheated on…oh, you get the picture, right?
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DOMESTIC BLISS, 11min., USA, Experimental
A woman with a surprise up her sleeve hopes to get a commitment-phobic man to propose.
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DELILAH, 7min., USA, Drama
A young woman mentally trapped reimagining the last moments with her lover.
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ICED, 21min., Lebanon, Drama
Leila, a 27 years old woman, overcomes her social anxiety and isolation with the help of her only friend and her mother.
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UNDER GRACE, 10min., USA, Dance
Picking up the pieces of a puzzle which was scattered through the timelines of two entangled lives, ‘Under Grace’, dances the viewer through different dimensions, inviting them to dive into an intimate portrait of a relationship long lost to memory and the wind.
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POPPIES, 20min., USA, Drama
While on a long-haul flight from Shanghai to New York, a despondent, American lawyer becomes seduced by the enchanting stories of a wise, Chinese woman sitting beside him; unleashing feelings he had tried to bury deep inside.
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