A Vietnam veteran with PTSD lives by himself in an isolated are and grows most of his food. He is subpoenaed to testify before a grand jury and believes he is being framed for a murder he didn’t commit.

Performed by Val Cole

Performed by Val Cole

Performed by Val Cole

Showcase of the best POLITICAL FILMS in the world today.

Audience Award Winners:

BEST Feature Film: CHAS NEDYTIACHY
BEST Documentary: CHILDREN’S PARLIAMENT
BEST Short Film: NIGHT SHIFT
BEST Music Video: UNIVERSE OF UKRAINE
BEST HISTORICAL Film: THE SOCIALISTS OF SHOE CITY
BEST Direction: NISE, A journey in the negation of love
BEST Experimental Film: A SEED OF REGRET
BEST Micro-Short: SYSTEMIC POKER

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CHAS NEDYTIACHY, 60min., Ukraine
Directed by Olga Samolevska
There are elderly Ukrainians who survived World War II when they were kids. All united by a bitter experience of unforgettable tragedies. Now Ukrainian kids are witnessing a new war. Let’s look at the war through the eyes of the children.

https://www.facebook.com/olga.samolevska

CHILDREN’S PARLIAMENT, 13min., Germany
Directed by Anna Faroqhi, Haim Peretz
In a small village in Brandenburg, a group of children aged 6 to 13 has established the Groß Schauen Youth Advisory Council, a children’s parliament. Here, they actively participate in democratic decision-making processes to represent the interests of their community. One of their key initiatives is advocating for a 30 km/h speed limit on the main road running through their village.

NIGHT SHIFT, 10min., UK
Directed by Michael Rogers
Night Shift is a gritty thriller set in the not-so-distant future, when cities fall into chaos, and a paramedic takes the law into her own hands.

https://citylightsfilms.co.uk/night-shift

UNIVERSE OF UKRAINE, 3min., Ukraine
Directed by Alexander Sparinsky
«Universe of Ukraine” is a documentary music video-essay for all people who want to know what war in Ukraine is and what are Russian killers today, in the 21st century; about all the troubles and griefs that this invasion brought…

http://sparinsky.kiev.ua/
https://www.facebook.com/100000572240927
https://mobile.twitter.com/sparinsky
https://www.instagram.com/aleksandr.sparinsky/

THE SOCIALISTS OF SHOE CITY, 35min., USA
Directed by Shana Figueroa
The story of “The Socialists of Shoe City: The Socialist Movement in Haverhill, Massachusetts” ” chronicles the transformative impact of James F. Carey and John C. Chase on Haverhill, Massachusetts, during a period of intense industrialization and social upheaval. In the late 19th and early 20th centuries, Haverhill’s booming shoe industry was a focal point of labor exploitation and inequality. Carey and Chase, driven by a vision of social justice and workers’ rights, founded the Haverhill Socialist Labor Party in 1895. Their activism led to significant labor strikes, public lectures, and campaigns for better working conditions and fair wages. Despite facing formidable opposition, their efforts culminated in Carey’s historic election to the Massachusetts State Legislature in 1898, signaling a profound shift in the political landscape and inspiring a broader socialist movement across America.

NISE, A journey in the negation of love, 41min., Spain
Directed by Maria Gisèle Royo
This documentary follows the creative process of a group of people passionate about art and culture who voluntarily confine themselves to a town in the province of Segovia, to rehearse and study texts in old Spanish. The result is teamwork that makes the work grow. The cohesion between actors, artistic and technical team, and a love for a job well done, and for culture, is breathed through the screen. Nise, is the last work they have brought to the stage, astonishing critics, and offering a text from the past that continues to make us reflect on the ambiguity of justice and the exercise of political power.

A SEED OF REGRET, 5min,. USA
Directed by Jon Gary
A once-assimilated African American father faces an agonizing unraveling as he grapples with the devastating loss of his beloved son to a senseless and untimely murder.

http://www.aaronkbraxton.com/

SYSTEMIC POKER, 3min., USA
Directed by Isaul Beltran
Systemic Poker is a black comedy that attempts to mirror the systemic racism that is present in our society.

https://www.facebook.com/OigaMiKidsCoolMoviesProduction
https://www.instagram.com/oigamikidscoolmovies/

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Over 600 films were submitted from around the world today. Here are the 28 award winning films for 2024.

Audience Award Winners:

Feature Film: THE CONQUEROR: HOLLYWOOD FALLOUT
Short Film: DIARY OF AN OUTSIDER
Animation Film: CALLER NUMBER NINE
Black & White Film: YOUR MAJESTY
Cinematography: PERCEPTION
Comedy Film: PREDATORY INSTINCT
Direction: BRINGING DOWN A MOUNTAIN
DOC Characters: KOSOVO’S YOUTH: WHERE DO WE GO FROM HERE?
Documnetary Feature: SEBASTIAN MORO, THE WALKER
Documentary Short: WE YOU ALL OF US — BIZ SIZ HEPIMIZ
Drama Film: HERITAGE
Environmental Film: THOSE STARS IN THE SKY
Experimental Film: QUESTION
Historical Film: UNTOLD STORY OF FATMA KAYAC?
Human Interest Film: KINGDOM OF ANIMALS
Human Rights Film: ANTHEM FOR KASHMIR
Inspirational Film: THE UK SOLIDARITY STORY
Micro-Short: DIANA
Motivational Film: PURPLE CRAB
Performances: TWO MEN ON THE ROOFTOP
Relationship Film: ROW A, NUMBER 79: HER SEAT
Society Film: MISSING SINCE 6.12.1956
Sound & Music: THE AMUR VAN GOGH
Story: A PRIVATE MESSAGE
Student Film: BACKDOOR
Thriller Film: BLOWBACK
Twist Film: INTERCONNECTION
War Film: REQUIEM

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SEBASTIAN MORO, THE WALKER, 90min., Argentina
Directed by María Laura Cali
November 2019. Night in La Paz. Sebastián Moro, a journalist from Mendoza and for two years Editor of Rural Press has gone for a walk, but that night will be the last. He will appear beaten and faded, he died at the age of 40. The mystery of what happened that night will be revealed with the voice of Sebastian in his WhatsApp audios, his shows, and mails. In a burning Bolivia, with tension and danger in its wake, Sebastian makes over and over the journey that will fatally take him to meet his destiny.
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https://antidote-sales.biz/catalogue/sebastian-moro-walker

THE UK SOLIDARITY STORY, 114min., UK
Directed by Ceri Dingle
This feature documentary reveals the inspiring stories of heroes and heroines who made the struggles of others their own. Crowd filmed by volunteers with first-hand accounts, expert testimony and interwoven with archive to reveal the context, this documentary brings to life tales which shine a light upon our common humanity.

The UK Solidarity Story-Trailer

THE CONQUEROR: HOLLYWOOD FALLOUT, 116min., UK
Directed by William L. Nunez
The story of a failed Hollywood epic and the devastating repercussions it had, not only on some of Hollywood’s most iconic stars, but the residents of a desert town in Utah where the film was shot.

https://facebook.com/theconquerorhollywoodfallout

REQUIEM, 20min., South Korea
Directed by Doo-young Choi
A weak man, obeying the call of his country, can do nothing but watch the wrongful death of the woman he loves. Or perhaps he supports the slaughter. The woman accepts her unjust fate and collapses. Overwhelmed with grief and resentment, the couple wanders through Bardo.

PURPLE CRAB, 22min., Canada
Directed by Jeromy Desjarlais
purple crab is a short documentary about a group of selfless individuals that have been through addiction homelessness and turned their lives around and get together to feed the less fortunate once a week.

INTERCONNECTION, 28min,. India
Directed by Avirup Biswas
Sayan is a bachelor boy. Seeking fir a job at Kolkata , he rented a haunted house at very low rent amount . Suddenly his girlfriend breaks relationship with Sayan . Sayan cant handle the break up. He tried to commit suicide. Then a surprise begins.

PERCEPTION, 28min., India
Directed by Avirup Biswas
A little poor kid theft a money bag from a local man.The man had mortgaged his house and kept the loan money in the wallet. The poor boy started living a luxurious life and the man became helpless after a incident the poor kid returns the wallet to the man when he was ready to commit suicide. The kid saves his life and the man helps the kid for study.

UNTOLD STORY OF FATMA KAYAC?, 40min., Turkey
Directed by Orphan Tekeoglu
Year 1985. Everybody talks about 16-year old Ali Kayac? who died by falling into the fire, while staying with his aunt on the mountain pasture of 2000 metres. Ali’s step mother, their neighbour Aunt Emine say that the kid falling victim to this accident was because of Fatma Kayac?’s neglect.After this painful incident, when Fatma Kayac? hears about the accusations from her relatives and neighbors, she resents them tremendously and leaves her village not to see anyone from the relatives again.

https://www.instagram.com/fatmakayaci2021/

THE AMUR VAN GOGH, 40min., Russia
Directed by Anna Samoilova
A documentary film about the life of the small Nanai village of Sikachi- Alyan in the Khabarovsk Territory through the eyes of local artist Ilya Likhanov, an Evenk by nationality. Since the early 2000s, his solo exhibitions have been regularly opened in major museums of the Far East, and art experts rightfully call Ilya Dmitrievich “the Amur Van Gogh”. The former rural teacher of drawing and sketching, a representative of an indigenous small- numbered people, is a worthy example of selfless love for his small motherland.

https://vk.com/dvkinost
https://www.facebook.com/Dalkinostudio

KOSOVO’S YOUTH: WHERE DO WE GO FROM HERE?, 42min., Kosovo
Directed by Maram Elnagheeb
A dive into the conditions and spaces Kosovar youth occupy across three different cities: Pristina the capital, Mitrovica, and Istog.

https://maramelnagheeb.com/
https://instagram.com/maram.elna

THOSE STARS IN THE SKY, 43min., India
Directed by Deba Ranjan
When people die, they become stars is a common belief. This film promulgates such belief in view of those killed by the State forces like in police firing, fake encounter, in custody, and by the private armies of the corporations. The killing of common people and the rise of corporations have been a reality since economic reforms in India. In this background, this film is essayed between 2013 and 2018 when the State is engaged with a battle among its people for land acquisition of various corporations in India.

http://debaranjan2018.blogspot.com/2018/https://www.facebook.com/deba.ranjan.7

WE YOU ALL OF US — BIZ SIZ HEPIMIZ, 9min., Turkey
Directed by Melihat özdo?an a?gül
Women living in Seferihisar came together and established the H?d?rl?k Agricultural Development Cooperative. By using the market, technology and production area, it has made the contribution of women to the country’s economy visible. It is empowering in gender equality with the trainings and studies carried out.

https://www.facebook.com/melihat.ozdoganaggul
https://www.instagram.com/melihat_ozdogan_aggul/

ANTHEM FOR KASHMIR, 9min., India
Directd by Sandeep Ravindranath
Censored by the right-wing government of India, Anthem for Kashmir is a short narrative on the Indian occupation of Kashmir highlighting issues of forced-disappearances, half-widows, encounter-killings and pellet-gun victims. Accompanied by a Tamil protest rock track with lyrics referring to these human rights abuses.

YOUR MAJESTY, 10min., India
Directed by Avirup Biswas
Story of three friends who are discussing about Satyajit Rays Films.

https://www.facebook.com/avirup.biswas.90
https://twitter.com/iavirupbiswas
https://www.instagram.com/avirup1991/

TWO MEN ON THE ROOFTOP, 12min., USA
Directed by Hyun-shin Mo
On the rooftop, a man, who wants to keep watching a film shooting, encounters an actor, who wants to get more filmed.

BRINGING DOWN A MOUNTAIN, 14min., India
Directed by Subhashish Panigrahi
A rural village never wanted to be a city’s landfill or a distant blur in Reels but instead home to new imaginations.

Bringing Down A Mountain

DIARY OF AN OUTSIDER, 14min., India
Directed by Sandeep Ravindranath
Contemplating issues of alienation and crisis of identity faced by immigrants in a milieu that is foreign to them, Diary of an Outsider is the story of an Indian immigrant student in the U.S., set against the backdrop of contemporary political narratives in those two countries.

A PRIVATE MESSAGE, 15min., Iran
Directed by Amen Baran sahraei
RANA is a young girl While chatting with her boyfriend, mistakenly sends a nude photo of herself to her father

http://amenixpictures.blogfa.com/https://www.instagram.com/Amen_sahraei

KINGDOM OF ANIMALS, 16min., Germany
Directed by Thadeusz Tischbein
Grand tour of Germany’s national monuments. Thadeusz Tischbein has been on a journey to Germany’s largest national monuments, some of the heaviest chunks in the nation’s digestive tract, so to speak. And there he came across all sorts of animals, which do not accidentally come into conversation with mythical creatures and animals from legends and myths. After all, the Brothers Grimm were also involved in the fairy tale of the ancient nation called Germany.

http://www.tischbein.org/https://www.instagram.com/thadeusz_tischbein

MISSING SINCE 6.12.1956, India
Directed by Anand Pande
As the largest democracy, India takes pride in its freedom fighters, social reformists and policymakers. Today, this pride is demonstrated in the form of “hero worship” by erecting statues; displaying photos and mass celebrating the birth and death anniversaries… ignoring the key messages and thoughts propagated by the leaders. This short film begins with two teachers at a government school in a small village finding out that they must be ready overnight for a surprise inspection by the senior government official in the morning.

QUESTION, 3min., Iran
Directed by Hossein Moradizadeh
The artist is arrested.
The statue asks for a question.
But the dictators do not want any questions and they do not answer except violence.

http://www.moradizadeh.com/

CALLER NUMBER NINE, 4min., USA
Directed by Mike Salva
Animated comedy about the next US president being selected in a non-traditional manner: a radio call-in contest.

http://projectmeatball.com/

DIANA, 5min., India
Directed by Avirup Biswas
Diana is an animal lover. A boy kills several dogs in the neighborhood where she lives.

BACKDOOR, 6min., Indonesia
Directed by Alila Nikmah Putri
Priska’s mom (48) is leaving the house when Priska (20) invites her boyfriend Ron (22) to come and keep her company. In Priska’s bedroom, the couple is enjoying watching a movie and eating spicy seblak, which makes them sweat and moan. Priska’s mom, who is on her way home, is surprised by the neighbor’s astonishment when she sees Ron entering the house. When she arrives and hears the moaning sound from behind the bedroom door, Priska’s mom anger rises and a misunderstanding and distrust of her daughter arises.”

BLOWBACK, 6min., Australia
Directed by Tim Brothers
When a refugee father (and former child soldier) meets his former WarLord boss in his Uber – he has to make the life-changing choice between revenge and redemption.

HERITAGE, 6min., Indonesia
Directed by Axel Hutama
During pandemic COVID-19 era, Amei, a Chinese-Indonesian Women who lives in Jember, East Java baking a cake. She received a video call from her mom who request to continue their Chinese language heritage. At first Amei rejects. However, surely but sure Amei could speak Chinese a little which makes her mom happy.

PREDATORY INSTINCT, 7min., Austria
Directed by John Whitehead
Franz Lenz is a teacher, stock trader and financial juggler.
He doesn’t know what his students dream to do with him.
But they learned that from him

https://www.reisenbauer-film.com/raubtiere/

ROW A, NUMBER 79: HER SEAT, 8min., South Korea
Directed by Hyung-suk Lee
Father and daughter visit a theater where there’s no one.

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