Ying Liang
Taiwan
2017 / 0:25:00

A trip to Taiwan has molded a Chinese mother after she met with her exiled daughter from Hong Kong. This short film is directed by Ying Liang, who was the director of the Best Live Action Short Film awarded by the Golden Horse Awards in 2016. According to his personal experience in living in exile, he tells a moving story of a mother and her daughter, and the secrets hidden behind the mother, subtly depicting the political dilemma of Taiwan, Hong Kong and China.

Toofan Nahanghodrati
Iran
2017 / 0:20:00

A man is called to the court by a woman who claims pregnancy after being with him. For proving this claim the DNA test is taken and the result clears other happenings of man's life.

Nick Jordan
United Kingdom
2017 / 0:20:00

Though Broadcasting is a film about psychosis and surveillance. A composite of fact and fiction, the film draws upon real-life accounts of a schizophrenic disorder: the belief that ones thoughts are being transmitted and heard by others. Set against the proliferation of mobile phone masts in the urban and rural landscape, the film reveals a fragmented inner world of paranoid delusions and acute anxiety, off-set by revelations of mass surveillance and data gathering by government security agencies. Filming locations include a psychiatric video recording studio, an abandoned broadcast television station, and a military base used for mass communications monitoring and interception. Part clinical observation, part psychological horror, the film is driven by a tense and dark electronic score by Lord Mongo, and interweaves the flickering detritus of analogue tape, monitors and studio cameras with layers of sampled archive voices; forming a picture of a psychotic state of mind, entangled in an interconnected world.

Arthur Omarov
Russia
2017 / 0:15:00

Life on Earth was almost destroyed by the global planetary catastrophe. Two men wander through the scorched desert that was once a flourishing planet. One of them is in the handcuffs, the other's hands are clenching the gun. Their mission is to find the old military bot of the Collapse times, which is crucially important for the survival of the last Bastion of humanity.

Thora Hilmarsdóttir
Irland, Sweden
2017 / 0:20:00

Katrín wakes up in the hospital after a serious car accident to find that she has received a life-saving blood transfusion. However, the religious cult she belongs to forbids such things. As Katrín struggles to reconcile this conflict with her church and family, she begins to become obsessed with the stranger whose blood is now flowing through her veins.