Awarded films International Short Film Competition
5 films
An Orange from Jaffa
dir. Mohammed Almughanni
fab2023
A few kilometres from Jerusalem, the Hizma checkpoint. There has been tension here for decades. Mohammed, a young Palestinian with a temporary Polish identity card, tries to get through the Israeli checkpoint. A succession of drivers refuse to give him a lift. Farouk, a taxi driver agrees.
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Awards:Special Award
Dark Cloud Memories (GiUkEun MukGuReum)
dir. Seung-hee Jung
anim2024
In this futuristic vision of the world, memories are recorded in a virtual cloud. One day, the animation character loses all her images from the past, but she still believes she will be able to recover her memories. However, such messages as ‘Disk full. Buy a subscription. Battery low’ do not help the situation.
Read moreAwards:Silver Dragon
Diamond Beauty
dir. Anna Korom
fab2023
Maria is addicted to plastic surgeries. Successive augmentations do not satisfy her and she wants new ones. Her nose, lips or facial fillers are never perfect. Now, she is looking forward to the opportunity of a date with her former love. But where to find money if she is drowning in debt?
Read moreAwards:Silver Dragon
Don Benjamín
dir. Ivan Zahínos
dok2024
An unpretentious and poetic journey through a magical, endangered region of the Amazon rainforest in Bolivia. People living in the jungle are trying to restore the original state of the areas stripped bare of any trees.
Read moreAwards:Silver Dragon
Kawauso
dir. Akihito Izuhara
anim2023
A young girl and a river otter in an empty town do not develop into a story of great friendship between a human being and an animal. The protagonists are trying to establish some contact but they are total strangers. The starting point for this contemplative animation is the extinction of the river otter in Japan.
Read moreAwards:Golden Dragon
