The Lesson
Hugo Gómez
Spain. 2017. 13 min

Javier is a prestigious executive with a life full of luxury and money. He takes decisions that contribute to poverty and exploitation of families that that seem numbers for him. Everything will change when Oscar appears and give him a lesson he will never forget.

HUGO GÓMEZ

Hugo Gómez has forged his career as crew member in different audiovisual productions. After directing his first short film in 35 mm. (The Postman, 2005), began to work as production crew on different commercial shootings until he joined Spanish tv series El Comisario, between years 2006 and 2009. While, in parallel, he participated in- different TV movies like La Piel Azul (2009) or Yo soy el solitario (2008) as assistant director. Repeating on Valencian series L’alqueria Blanca, as well as different web series. In addi- tion, he used to continue writing short and feature film screenplays, as well as directing Después (2010) or El regalito (2015), his last short film until La Lección (2017).

CONTACT

Line Up Shorts :    lineupshorts@gmail.com

Moonga
Nilesh Kumar
India. 2017. 15 min

Moonga is an a short of sweet nostalgia, Jagdish a local boy of Chandoli migrated with his family for better prospects few yearas ago to city. After his fathers death he now runs a businessn which is in debts.
He considers selling his familial house to take care of his debts.
He comes back to his village for transactional purpose but ends up having a transformational experience if the form of his friendship with Govind and lost love Moonga…
Jagdish is trapped in an ethical and emotional dilemma, his choice between his nostalgia and future aspirations will decide Moongas fate.

NILESH KUMAR

Student of FTII, Nilesh Kumar has directed 3 short films for this institution. Hajime, Nirmala and the participant at Imagineindia 2018, Moonga.

CONTACT

Nilesh Kumar :   nileshkchotu@gmail.com

The Step
Mohamed Hossam El Din
Italy. 2017. 15 min

Nadine; an Italian teenager who was born in Rome to an immigrant couple. While making her audition to become a ballet dancer of one of Rome’s prestigious theaters, she faces a harsh situation; being obligated to choose between keeping a symbol of her personal identity and realizing her life’s dream.

MOHAMED HOSSAM EL DIN

CONTACT

Mohamed Hossam El Din :   m.reda@live.it

Nada
Adel Ahmed Yehia
Egypt. 2017. 25 min

One intertwined story examine the complexities of the one emotion that connects us all as humans, love. Among the characters explored, based on true story, Nada ( Mai El Gheity) a pretty deaf ballerina who loves life and has a passion for dancing but her disabilities didnt get in her way but it comes for the first time when she tries to express her feelings towards her colleague Omar (Amir), a blind guy who also has a passion for playing the piano. Will both disabilities be a barrier of communication or will they find a way to express their feelings for each other ? Their final performance will reveal it all.

ADEL AHMED YEHIA

Adel Ahmed Yehia is a young egyptian film director, he graduated from the cinema institution in egypt. Adel started his cinematic career as an assistant director in 2010 during his studies he worked in several series and movie and in 2013 he directed his first documentary as a project in the high cinema institute and in 2017 he started his first short fiction “Nada “.

CONTACT

Adel Ahmed Yehia :    adelahmedyehia@gmail.com

My Window
Bahaa El Gamal
Egypt. 2017. 16 min

In Cairo , where we cannot differentiate between the sounds of fireworks and firebombs , in crowd and in noise a close friend immigrates , everyone is lost seeking harmony But i have my own melody.

BAHAA EL GAMAL

CONTACT

Bahaa El Gamal :    bahaaelgamalcontact@gmail.com

Mother
Tarun Jain
India. 2016. 30 min

The film explores how trying circumstances often lead to great
transformation. When the loss of his father, mounting financial troubles and the thought of arranging his daughter’s marriage wear him down, the last straw for him is losing his mother. In the face of
adversity Balaram truly begins to think.

TARUN JAIN

Tarun Jain’s short film Aakhir (At Last), has been screened at over 42 international film festivals. Amma Meri is his second short film as a writer, director and producer. He has been involved in fiction, documentaries, corporates films, television shows & TVC’s over the years.

Having participated in 42 International film festivals for his first short film, Amma Meri is Tarun Jain’s second film as a producer. Tarun Jain has been involved in many projects recently as a producer.

CONTACT

Tarun Jain :      tarun1_99@yahoo.com

Barsaati
Priya Naresh
India. 2017. 13 min

On a cold night, two men encounter their sleepless thoughts. Familiar fears kindle new words on their faces. The film witnesses them talking, between the noise living in buildings, and the silence of the sky.

PRIYA NARESH

Priya Naresh is a Media graduate, who is currently pursuing her Master’s in Sociology from Delhi School of Economics. Before her Masters, she worked with Rough Cut Productions which is Documentary Production house in Delhi. There, she worked on short films for organisations like Mazdoor Kisan Shakti Sanghatan, UNDP and UNICEF. She also worked extensively on a documentary on the death penalty in India which won the Asian Cinema Fund in 2015 and is now supported by the Swiss Embassy. Currently, the documentary is in its post-production stage. Barsaati is her first fiction project.

Director’s Statement

Our existence, I believe, is altered depending on the space we inhabit. Space changes our relationship with the universe and how we understand and place ourselves in it. In cities, where this relationship is strained the most, one cannot help but wonder if modernity has taken over everything that we have ever considered essential for our very being. If it has, then is there a way to reconcile with the present and still find beauty in the darkest of times?

The film raises such questions as on a cold winter night, two men sit on a park bench. Their existence lies in the silences between the said and the unsaid, like the existence of the Barsaati lies between the protection of a home and the mysterious vastness of the sky which does not provide any hiding places.

CONTACT 

Priya Naresh :  priya.nareshchandra@gmail.com

He began in the 80s with the theater companies Caritel and CDG. Although he has never stopped working in Galicia, where he is especially popular for his role as Paspallás in the comedy Pratos combined, at the beginning of the 90s he began to appear in different national series. In 1996 he leaps to fame by becoming one of the reporters of the hit show Caiga que caiga, presented by El Gran Wyoming.

He has participated in different feature films, theater plays and even in the reality show La isla de los famosos.

In 2006 he collaborated in the evening magazine of Cuatro, Channel nº4, presented by Boris Izaguirre and Ana García Siñeriz and presenter of the “Gincana Tivi Show” program on Aragón Televisión.

He studied law and entered the School of Dramatic Arts in Madrid. In 1986 he participated in the film Time of Silence, where he became known, and as a result of that he obtained the role of Cosme in the series Turno de oficio, in which he achieved certain notoriety.

Thanks to his success, he was called to an important number of films, including Divinas palabras (1987), for which he won the Goya Award for the best male performance of the cast. In this title they followed Bajar al moro, A solas contigo or La noche más larga. In television he starred in 1991 today’s Girls, with which he got a Silver Frames.

Two years later, in 1993, he enjoyed his greatest professional success to head the cast of Madregilda (Francisco Regueiro), where he played a Francisco Franco self-conscious and weak. For this work, Juan Echanove won the Silver Concha for the best actor in the San Sebastian Film Festival, the Goya Award for the best male protagonist, the Sant Jordi Award for the best actor as well as the Ondas Award and a candidacy for the Fotogramas de Silver that lost against Javier Bardem. His intervention that same year in My brother of the soul (Mariano Barroso) was settled with another nomination to the Goya Awards.

Two years later, together with José Luis García Sánchez and Juan Luis Galiardo, he started a film series about deep Spain composed of the following titles: Sighs of Spain (1995), There is always a way to the right (1997) and Goodbye with the heart (2000). Between the filming of each film, Echanove participated in films such as La flor de mi secreto (Pedro Almodóvar, 1995), His eyes closed and the world continues to walk (Jaime Chávarri, 1997) or Los años barbaros (Fernando Colomo, 1998). In the first of them he played a journalist capable of reviving a writer whose marriage had failed. In the second, a Falangist eager to imprison some escaped prisoners, played by Ernesto Alterio and Jordi Mollá.