Proud to showcase 16 amazing films to for the inaugural FREE Action/Fantasy/Thriller Film Festival. Over 400 films were submitted. This is an exclusive lineup of the best short films in the world today.
Audience Awards:
Best Cinematography: THE NEIGHBOR
Best Paranormal Film: STUDDED NIGHTMARE
Best Drama Film: DUAS
Best Psychological Thriller: INVISIBLE
Short Form Short Thriller Film: GRAVE DECISION
Long Form Short Thriller FIlm: THE LAST SKETCH
Best Mystery Film: A SILENT SCREAM
Best Twist Film: WELCOME TO CANDY’S
Best Story: THE TREES ARE BLUE
Best Sci-Fi Film: ZORZAL
Short Form Short Fantasy Film: THE HUNTER AND THE MAIDEN
Long Form Short Fantasy Film: EGO SUM!
Best Performances: SALVAR
Best Direction: ANXIOGENE
Short Form Short Action Film: FIELD OF FIRE
Long Form Short Action Film: HIT-GIRL: A KICK-ASS CHRISTMAS STORY
Here is the full lineup of films:
Friday March 29th – THRILLER SHORTS
THE LAST SKETCH, 24min,. Germany
Directed by Edgar Huebert
The film portrays Teo’s inner struggle, which is symbolized by his drawings. After the death of his child, he can no longer draw, because the last picture is a line that symbolizes the end. The other drawings make him reminisce about how he met his wife Mia and how they raised their child, Alex. In the present, however, he is alone, his child is dead and the marriage has failed. Their grief was too different, which is why they no longer understood each other. At the worst low point on the anniversary of the death, Teo receives metaphorical clues through a series of uncovered images that lead him on a path of self-discovery. The climax of the movie shows the unexpected encounter between Teo and Mia in the park, a symbolic place of their shared past. Teo realizes that Mia has always grieved in her own way and came to the park on their anniversary to swing where they used to celebrate Alex’s birthdays together.
https://huebert-design.com/#/shortFilms/sketch
THE NEIGHBOR, 14min., Brazil
Directed by Waner Biazus
“South of Brazil, Day of the Dead A man is brutally ‘awakened’ from a drinking binge. He spent all day inside the house living a ‘Déjà Vu’, hallucinating alone, desperate and insolvent planed a sequestration. A nosy neighbor arrives. Strange things begin to happen, until he realizes that his destiny has already been written.”
http://planetpropaganda.com.br/the-neighbor/
https://www.facebook.com/wanerbiazusdirector/
https://instagram.com/wanerbiazus
GRAVE DECISION, 7min., UK
Directed by Aaron Shabansky
A husband and wife arrive at a wood to bury a body.
STUDDED NIGHTMARE, 9min,. Canada
Directed by Jean-Claude Leblanc
When J.-F. is inexplicably drawn to the chair in which a man committed suicide, style isn’t the only thing the leather antique brings to his home. Suddenly overcome by fantasies both nightmarish and erotic, he gets rid of the chair immediately, only to have it claimed by his friend Aly, who soon finds herself spellbound by shocking visions of her own violent death. As the horror escalates, it’s up to J.-F. to save his friend before she is driven to a very gruesome fate.
https://facebook.com/cauchemarcapitonne
DUAS, 20min., Brazil
Directed by Ana Cavazzana
“Duas” tells the love story of Maria and Julia who meet at the factory where they work. They fall in love and get married. But they see their lives changed in a fraction of a second. A lesbian drama, poetically told, with representation both artistically and technically. Based on true facts.
https://www.instagram.com/shortfilmduas
INVISIBLE, 11min,. Brazil
Directed by Ana Cavazzana
Is every woman born with the maternal instinct? Invisible is a psychological thriller between which shows the dark side of motherhood that is often imposed by society. A homeless man and a woman, where only he sees her, will be?
https://instagram.com/invisiveisshortfilm
Saturday March 30th – FANTASY Shorts
THE HUNTER AND THE MAIDEN, 6min,. USA
Directed by Kipp Howard
Based of the study of Bruno Bettleheim’s: The Uses of Enchantment, a young huntsman finds himself lost in the woods when suddenly he hears a strange and enchanting melody and wanders off in search of its source.
https://www.facebook.com/kipph
A SILENT SCREAM, 14min,. Germany
Directed by Christian Skibinski
A man wakes up in a white room unable to move. He has also lost his memories. Where is he? When is he? Little by little he pieces the mystery together in order to escape the room…
https://www.instagram.com/trueskibinski/
WELCOME TO CANDY’S, 14min,. France
Directed by Sabine Crossen
Like in a fairy tale, it only took one glance for Etienne to fall head over heels in love with Candy. When she invites him home for a drink, he discovers that this pretty influencer with a vivid imagination, did not invite him just by chance. But is Etienne ready to play Candy’s strange little game ?
https://www.facebook.com/bienvenuechezcandy
https://www.instagram.com/bienvenuechezcandy/
THE TREES ARE BLUE, 37min., France
Directed by Mélanie Grancourt
“You’ll feel better soon ” said the doctor. Meanwhile, it’s the little Aislinn’s entire family which tries to recover from the unspeakable drama.
https://www.facebook.com/lesarbressontbleus/?fref=ts
EGO SUM!, 25min., Brazil
Directed by Waner Biazus
It’s night, rain. Father and amateur filmmaker, in the church, are shooting a documentary. The filmmaker captures in the camera, paintings at the ceiling of the cathedral. They shift personal impressions about their meanings. They evoke God, angels, demons, and men. Someone arrives at the door of the church. Unintentionally, both are involved in a millennial conflict.
https://www.facebook.com/egosum.ofilme
https://instagram.com/wanerbiazus
ZORZAL, 4min,. Argentina
Directed by Ileana Andrea Gomez Gavinoser
A SPACE TRAVELLING
https://www.facebook.com/grupouniversodearte/
https://twitter.com/@ileanagavin
Sunday March 31st – ACTION SHORTS
HIT-GIRL: A KICK-ASS CHRISTMAS STORY, 25min., USA
Directed by Kevin Barile
Mindy McCready is home alone on Christmas Eve when a gang of criminals invade her house looking for a stolen package. Mindy deals with them directly as her alter-ego, HIT-GIRL.
https://www.instagram.com/barilliant_action/
SALVAR, 29min,. South Korea
Directed by Sangwook Ahn
Su-hyeong, who visited the shrine after asking around to find his missing mother, meets Grandmother Shin, a shaman, there. She says he was possessed by an evil, so he needs a salpuri(exorcism). In the process, it turns out that he is being chased by debtors due to his mother’s surgery expenses. For finding his mother, he decides to exorcise. However, finding out that the salpuri was an organ extraction surgery performed in the name of saving the spirit in the body, he struggles to get out of it.
FIELD OF FIRE, 5min,. USA
Directed by Rudy Gutierrez Jr
https://youtu.be/Mm8PIsTbapk
ANXIOGENE, 17min., France
Directed by Gaspard Mathevet, Emilien Fabrizio
A romantic meal that ends in disaster.
A frenzied chase with four furious Mariachis.
A corporate meeting escalates into a saloon fight.
Here is the magnificent and hectic life of Mr. Périchon or rather his dreams and his anxieties?!
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