CONGRATULATIONS: 2020 INTERNATIONAL FILM SELECTIONS
- Take It (Spain)
- Sentimental (USA)
- Do You Want To Go Out With Me? (Spain)
- WFH (Indonesia)
- ART (USA)
- The Water Canvas (USA)
- Death Offers Life- The Last Moments Of Vincent Van Gogh (India)
- Magic Camera (USA)
- The Lost Year (UK)
- The Meeting (USA)
- Heroes’ Honeymoon (USA)
- Elephants Purr Like Cats Do (USA)
Art
Directed by: Arturo Anzures
Runtime: 4:14
Category: Micro Short
The story of a painter that gives real life to everything he paints. This short movie was shot and edited in El Paso, Texas and Santa Fe, NM.
Death Offers Life – Last Moments of Vincent Van Gogh
Directed by: Saheer Abbas
Runtime: 8:00
Category: Drama
The fictional account of the last five minutes of the acclaimed painter Vincent Van Gogh, who was a failure in his lifetime. Death, who has come to take him, makes an offer which Van Gogh rejects and accepts the hands of death gracefully.
DO YOU WANT TO GO OUT WITH ME?
Directed by: Mikel Arraiz
Runtime: 2:24
Category: Comedy
Martha feels lonely. Her heart is empty, so she looks for love in a dating app. One day, checking the app, she finds Michael, a very handsome man. She falls in love with him and sends him a message to have a date that same night. Michael checks her profile and falls in love too, so he accepts the date. They meet for dinner. How will things work out?
Elephants Purr Like Cats Do
Directed by: Kaleigh Spencer
Runtime: 12:00
Category: Drama
Peyton, seven years old, clumsily attempts to fend for herself, while her widowed father struggles to complete an urgent work assignment by midnight.
Heroes’ Honeymoon
Directed by: Rich West
Runtime: 13:00
Category: Comedy
In October 1938, Burt Kempner’s parents set off on a bus headed for Niagara Falls for their honeymoon. It was the same night that Orson Welles made his infamous War of the Worlds broadcast, throwing America into a panic. It’s hard enough to embark on a new marriage – but when the world is ending, too? HEROES’ HONEYMOON is a love story and a comic fable!
The Lost Year
Directed by: Hedydd Ioan
Runtime: 3:50
A teenage boy writes a text message to someone he hasn’t seen in a while whilst in lockdown. He reflects, mumbles and misses.
The film reflects on teenage emotions, loneliness and how this new generation express themselves.
Magic Camera
Directed by: Rodney S. Robinson
Runtime: 14:09
Category: Drama
A young girl struggles to come to terms with her Grandmother’s death. Through the use of her imagination and an old camera, she seeks to hold on to precious memories and hopes to bridge the emotional gap that exists between her and her mother.
The Meeting
Directed by: Rich West
Runtime: 3:13
Category: Micro Short
A typical company meeting in today’s world!
Sentimental
Directed by: Kieran Keohan
Runtime: 4:28
Category: Micro Short
A man reflects on his deceased wife.
Take it
Directed by: Txemi Pejenaute
Runtime: 4:00
Category: Micro Short
He has shot his camera thousands of times and yet he has never taken a picture. An element of the disruption changes all and he begins to see for the first time, to have a look in his eyes… Finally he will make his first picture: Take it!
THE WATER COLOR CANVAS
Directed by: Keith D. Bracker
Runtime: 3:42
Category: Fashion Film
A fashion ftory about colors, dreams, moods, and life.
WFH
Directed by: Azalia Muchransyah
Runtime: 3:00
Category: Micro Short
When there is a lockdown due to a pandemic, a teacher must overcome challenges in order to successfully work from home.