Boundary
Gaurav Puri
India. 11 min. 2018

Two cricket teammates, Amar and Armaan, have secretly fallen in love in an orthodox sporting atmosphere.
Set in today’s Indian city, Boundary is a short film about the boundaries of gender that contain our lives. Amar, a young promising cricketer has fallen for his teammate, Armaan. As state tournament approaches, their love intensifies. Raised is an orthodox family to be a ‘man’, Amar’s father has raised him to live his dream of playing for the nation. Amar finds himself on the boundary line between ambition and love, between mind and heart, can these two co-exist today? Sooner he finds, that one step in any direction can become a life’s path.

Bhagavati
Aakash Nagaraj Yankannavar
India. 12 min.  2018

Based on a mithila folklore Bhamati. Bhagavati is a
story of woman waiting for her husband to finish writing his book.
Time flies and they both lose the sense of time. He in writing his
book and she waiting for him. After 12 years when he is finished
writing his book, and acknowledges her, she is thrown into a
confusing reality.

AAKASH  NAGARAJ  YANKANNAVAR

Aakash Nagaraj is a film student and a filmmaker from India. Aakash’s interests include films, literature,and spirituality. He completed his Bachelor’s in Business administration from Karnataka and is currently in the final year of his post graduate diploma in filmmaking from Satyajit Ray Film & TeIevision Institute, kolkata

Aakrosh
Princy Pal
India.  10 min.  2018

Golu with his broken shoes denies going to school, with a hope he goes to his father asking for a new shoe, his father (Prakash) promises him to get new shoes.
The story takes a turn when the news of Prakash’s brother’s death arrives. Everyone gathers at the mango orchard where the body is discovered. When the Police start inquiring about the murder, the villagers start blaming other caste groups.
Prakash notices police and escapes from the mango orchard. The murder of a single person leads to the discourse about the division of elite people and poor farmers, and their tolerance. which build up communal violence in the whole village

Into The Blue
Antoneta Alamat Kusijanović
Croatia.  22 min.  2017

After fleeing her violent father, 13-year-old Julija seeks comfort in her kindergarten friend Ana, who still lives on the island. But during a diving expedition, Ana only has eyes for her boyfriend. Feeling that she is increasingly being pushed away, Julija desperately struggles to gain recognition and attention. As her loneliness grows, her buried pain comes to the surface and confrontation becomes inevitable.

ANTONETA  ALAMAT  KUSIJANOVIC

3 Years 3 Months Retreat
Dechen Zangmo
Bhutan. 20 min.  2016

How long does it take to make your journey bright and pure? A ritual of more than three-year-long isolation “Lo-sum-Choe-sum” is a practice of Buddhist monks, nuns and devoted followers. It is a journey of transformation, where one reaches the state of higher mind and clairvoyance over the course of three years, three months and three days.

DECHEN  ZANGMO

The Third Wife
Ash Mayfair
Vietnam.  96 min.  2018

In 19th century rural Vietnam, 14-year-old May becomes the third wife of wealthy landowner Hung.  Soon she learns that she can only gain status by asserting herself as a woman who can give birth to a male child.  May’s hope to change her status turns into a real and tantalizing possibility when she gets pregnant.  Faced with forbidden love and its devastating consequences, May finally comes to an understanding of the brutal truth: the options available to her are few and far between.

In her statement about her debut feature “The Third Wife”, director Ash Mayfair states two main reasons why she made the film and which topics it deals with. On the one hand, she names her upbringing in Vietnam, most importantly the women in her life who have supported her through the years. Given her career, which has led her to a degree in English Literature and one in Theater Directing from the prestigious Royal Academy of Dramatic Arts in London, large parts of her biography have taken place outside her home country. Yet, as her statement and the nature of “The Third Wife” prove, she has returned there for her directorial debut paying homage to the women who have been most important in her life.

ASH  MAYFAIR

Ash Mayfair was born and raised in Vietnam, and received her MFA in filmmaking from NYU. Her short films — including “The Silver Man” and “No Exit” — have been screened at numerous international film festivals. “The Third Wife” is Mayfair’s first feature film, and the screenplay won the Spike Lee Production Fund in 2014.

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Daha
Onur Saylak
Turkey.  115 min.  2017

A film about a 14-year-old boy helping out his father at work in a rural outpost on the sea would probably feature gorgeous landscapes but wouldn’t necessarily make for an interesting story. But Gaza, the protagonist of the hard-hitting Turkish drama More (Daha), isn’t just any teen, and his father, involved in smuggling people from the war-torn Middle East into nearby Greece, doesn’t just have any old job. Turkish actor Onur Saylak  makes an auspicious debut as a director here, turning Hakan Gunday’s ink-black novel of despair into a film that’s a hard sit but that suggests an awful lot — awful being the operative word — about the world we live in today.

Ahad  is a heavy-set man with an equally heavy brow who exploits opportunities wherever he sees them and who expects unquestioned loyalty from the handful of people he works with, including his most loyal aid, Gaza, his teenage boy. The adolescent, with vivid and alert eyes and a can-do attitude that is probably more rooted in his relative innocence than in his character, is curious about the world and a good student. He’s been secretly testing for a good school in faraway Istanbul, though Dad isn’t very interested in his academic results.

ONUR  SAYLAK

Arif Onur Saylak was born in Ankara but raised in Kusadasi (Aydin), Turkey.  One day, he saw the poster of the university theatre club and stepped into amatuer acting life.

His desire for acting led him quit the university and win the entry exams of the theatre department of Bilkent University. During his study, he took part in several theatre plays, i.e. Nazim Hikmet’s “Her Seye Ragmen”, and graduated from the university in 2006.

Daha is his first feature film.

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Orange Days
Arash  Lahooti
Iran. 102 min.  2018

Swiftly, Alban is walking through a lush green plantation, inspecting her workers as they bring in the harvest. The assertive forty-something woman has been involved in the male-dominated orange business for years. She employs a group of seasonal female workers to harvest orange trees in northern Iran. This year she has received the largest order in the region – a fact that is not readily accepted by her male competitors. As soon as the harvesting begins, so does the sabotage on Alban’s work and she is forced to deal with the numerous consequences: harvesting is running slow, money is running out and her worker’s motivation is dwindling. To top it all off, her husband Majid packs his bags and leaves her. Director Arash Lahooti stages the battle of a courageous woman in beautiful, richly coloured images and shows a side of Iran that is rarely portrayed in western media.

ARASH  LAHOOTI

Born in Tehran in 1982, Arash Lahooti is a filmmaking and editing graduate. He is a director, producer, and editor of documentary films and a member of the Iranian Union of the Documentary Filmmakers. His first feature documentary is Trucker and the Fox which has been screened in over 45 festivals and received 9 awards.

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Appendix
Hosein Namazi
Iran. 84 min.  2017

Due to severe abdominal pain, Zari and her husband, Reza, go to the hospital. However, Zaris insurance ID has expired and they are forced to borrow her friend Leila Attarod’s ID. Eventually, she undergoes appendectomy using Leila’s ID and the staff at the hospital suspect about this matter. Due to this, they are forced to switch roles to convenience hospital staff that the ID belongs to Zari. However, many unfortunate events take place in the process…

HOSEIN  NAMAZI

Born in 1981, Hossein Namazi is a scriptwriter and director. He has studied Cinema and has written and directed a number of short films. APPENDIX is his debut feature film.

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Kedara (Armchair)
Indraadip Dasgupta
India. 110 min.  2018

Kedara tells the story of a middle-aged man with the innocence of a child for whom life is about mischief, building a world of fantasies, and finding joy in certain discoveries about one’s own.

Dasgupta has chosen an exceptional subject and tells his story with surreal execution. Ventriloquist Narasingha (Kaushik Ganguly) lives alone in a weary house full of old mementoes, masks and antiques. That he is a ventriloquist is revealed in most unexpected fashion. Narasingha does not only mimic sounds or voices; voices have their own entities for him and they live with him — they are his family.

The loafers of the locality make fun of Narasingha’s profession and his apparently abnormal nature. His maid doesn’t lose an opportunity to taunt him. One of his neighbours pays him visits only to remind him that he is a failure.

Narasingha bears everything in silence. He sometimes blames his joblessness. There is a locked room in his house that no one else is allowed to open. The locked room almost proves to be the protector of his lifeline — the core of all his fantasies.

INDRAADIP  DASGUPTA

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