I 1 - International Competition

Turning the camera on her family and surroundings in Beirut during the recent Israeli bombings of the city, Isabelle Mecattaf captures the jarring coexistence of regular life with the relentless shock and grief of living on the periphery of war.

There are only women in this family. They wait for men, but they never come. Mother and daughter, two generations, one night. A story of trauma, transgenerational anxiety, and missing spices.

A dog was abandoned in its own home at the time when my grandfather began to experience his widowhood and I was returning from London, a place where I felt lonelier than ever.

In the harsh winter of Inner Mongolia, two young men, Aoqi and Chaligan, spend their days trapped in a dim, cramped room. The desolation and hardships of their frozen existence become unbearable, driving them to hatch a plan to scrape together…

A short film adaptation of a 19th-century short story written by Ivan Turgenev, in which a lowly pub full of downtrodden patrons connect unexpectedly through an impromptu sing-off. With a cast comprised of viral video singing talents and other one-of-a-kind personalities…