Cast: Rashid Farooqui, Farah Nadir
Cinematography: Azeem Ahmed, Asad Malik
Editing: Asif Asad
Sound: Odho Productions
Music: Adnan (Sarab)
Producers: Atiqa Odho, Atiya Nafees
Written and Directed by: Shakil Mallick

SYNOPSIS
A married couple no longer communicates with each other, which ultimately forces the husband to transform into another psychological being in private.

THE FILMMAKER
Shakil Mallick began his career at Radio Pakistan. He wrote, acted and won awards for his performance in radio plays. He also wrote, directed and acted in several successful theatre productions. He has directed several short dramas and music videos for television, and was awarded a special recognition Ciepie at the 3rd KaraFilm Festival for his film “Ragoon Main Sinane.”

Cast: Alan Breck, Joanna Alexander, Michael Selwood, David Roylance, Peter Wear, Natasha Bain, Andrea Deeley
Cinematography: Sam Garwood
Editing: Rosa Bond
Sound: Joel Cahen, Jamie Roden, Matthew Gough
Screenplay: Mike Rymer
Producer: Christine Hartland
Directed by: Mike Rymer

SYNOPSIS
Depression and alcoholism have left Brian’s daughter (Amanda) dependent on him for her son’s welfare. However, when Brian’s wife dies, he gives the young boy into social care. Amanda’s world falls apart and she doesn’t speak to Brian for 15 years. That is until she gathers the strength to finally visit him.

THE FILMMAKER
‘Sick’ is the first film from new writer/director Mike Rymer, and sees him build on his grass roots industry experience. He is a postgraduate of the Skillset Screen Academy in Wales, and recently served as an assistant director to Peter Greenaway on “Nightwatching.” He hopes “Sick” will bring him further directing opportunities.

Cast: Jon Morrison, Alison Peebles, James Crant, Una Mclean
Cinematography: Andrew Begg
Editing: Simon Arthur
Sound: Chris Campion
Music: Ian Campbell, Geoffrey, Crowther
Producer: Stuart Devon
Written and Directed by: Simon Arthur

SYNOPSIS
A wandering couple travel the road, becoming different people in each town they descend upon, playing a gleefully sadistic game of deceit.

THE FILMMAKER
Simon Arthur, a Screen Academy Scotland Writer/Director, has completed two short films recently: “Rebel Song” and “Silver Tongues.” Arthur recently shadowed Walter Murch and Francis Ford Coppola as they mixed the latter’s new film, “Yarth without Yarth.”

Cast: Zofia Szulakowska, Katia Paliwoda, Feliks Szajnert, Grazyna Krukowna
Cinematography: Adam Palenta
Editing: Agnieszka Bojanowska
Sound: Karol Iwan
Music: Letko
Producer: Wojciech Ciesielkiewicz
Written and Directed by: Krzysztof Borowka

SYNOPSIS
A young woman rides the lift in her luxurious apartment block, stopping on different floors. She meets her mysterious sister who becomes her guide through unexpected events, meeting strange characters on the way to the non-existent top floor of the building.

THE FILMMAKER
Krzysztof Borowka, born in Katowice, Poland, is a philosophy graduate from the University of Silesia. He is currently a graduate student in direction in Katowice.

Cast: Demian Iturra, Isabel Olivares, Vanesa Steele
Cinematography: Kerri-Lee Hammelswang
Editing: Adrian Rostirolla
Sound: Jacob Staley
Music: Jonathan Nix
Producer: Kristina Ceyton
Written and Directed by: Rene Hernandez

SYNOPSIS
Alberto, a young Hispanic-Australian lives with his family outside Sydney and works the night shift unloading boxes at a produce market. On an outing with his grandmother he discovers an unexpected opportunity, and a buried hope is reawakened.

THE FILMMAKER
With a background in performance and theatre, Rene Hernandez entered the film industry in 1992, and worked in various crew roles until he began directing in 1998. His comedy short films have picked up awards at national and international festivals. Hernandez has recently received funding from the Australian Film Commission for a short drama.

Cast: Sehban Azim, Lilium Leonard, Vivek Madan, Sumit Kaul, Madhav-Abhyankar, Shivani Tanksale, Shakuntala Kanade, Tirttha Mudbhatkar
Cinematography: Kaushik Mandal
Editing: Manoj Kannoth
Sound: Dara Singh and Chandrasekhar Sagade
Screenplay: Emmanuel Quindo Palo
Producer: Film and Television Institute of India
Directed by: Emmanuel Quindo Palo

SYNOPSIS
“Stations” is a story of dysfunctional relationships; of characters who are emotionally detached and unable to fit into the world around them.
The film is a character driven narrative and structured as a triptych. It is focused on the lives of three sets of disparate characters, who intersect one particular day in a city. In each story, the characters are somehow involved in infidelities or an emotional ‘triangle’. The connections between these characters may be fleeting but are very passionate.

THE FILMMAKER
Emmanuel Quindío Palo is from Manila, Philippines. He received a postgraduate diploma in film and television at the Film and Television Institute of India in Pune. The short films he directed at the institute have won prizes at various film festivals in India and internationally.

Cast: Paul Hebert
Cinematography: Herve Demers
Editing: Herve Demers
Sound: Charles Fortin, Michael Gravel
Music: Ludwig Van Beethoven
Screenplay: Herve Demers, Xavier Lechasseur
Produced and
Directed by: Herve Demers

SYNOPSIS
When his loving wife passes away, a retired 82-year-old farmer is relegated to a retirement home. Those around him seem to condemn him to an imminent death, but with the aid of his unfailing memory and with hope alive in his soul, the old man resolves to defend his desire to live to his dying breath.

THE FILMMAKER
Herve Demers, born in 1982 in Quebec City, Canada, took a multidisciplinary approach to the course of his academic career. He began by studying pictorial and media related arts in college and then acquired a customised university degree that allowed him to explore the various facets of modern aesthetics, including visual arts, literature, film, visual communication, acoustic arts, history of photography, music and art history. In 2005, he undertook the production and direction of an ambitious first film, a short work entitled “Sur La Terre Comme Au Ciel.”

Cast: Mariusz Kwidzynski, Daniel Haufa, Jacek Aktywny
Cinematography: Pawel Dyllus
Editing: Sandra Tomalka
Sound: Sandra Tomalka
Screenplay, Produced and Directed by: Sandra Tomalka

SYNOPSIS
A gang of three children decide to get rid of another boy. The film is based on a short story by Charles Bukowski.

THE FILMMAKER
Sandra Tomalka was born in Poland in 1977. She has studied culture and theatre. “Syn Szatana” is her first film.

Cast: Manish Chauhari, Dilnaz Irani, Gaurav Sharma
Cinematography: Pradeep Kumar
Editing: Khushboo
Sound: Ravi Dev
Screenplay: Amit Raj, Khushboo
Producer: Film and TV Institute of India
Directed by: Amit Raj

SYNOPSIS
A forty-year-old man is unhappy and confused with the present state of affairs in the world around him. The constant chaos of city life, conflict and confusion drives him to a point of no return.

THE FILMMAKER
Twenty-nine year old Amit Raj hails from Lucknow. “The Fantastic Life of Mr. Tripathi” is his final year diploma film project.

Directed by: Nick Hampshire

SYNOPSIS
“The Harvester” is a 3D computer animated film inspired by a wide range of films, animations and computer games. It is rendered in a 2D painterly style similar to shadow theatre and silhouette animation. The story revolves around a cartoony humanoid creature, the harvester, who enters into a magical forest to collect fruit. However, the harvester is chased by the spirits of the trees when he tries to collect the fruit. He ignores their warning and is eventually punished by the forest itself.

THE FILMMAKER
Nick Hampshire is completing his B.A. in computer visualization and animation at Bournemouth University.

Voice Talent: Jamil Nasir
Cinematography: Huda Nasir, Jamil Nasir
Editing and Sound: Huda Nasir
Screenplay: Jamil Nasir
Producer: Huda Nasir
Directed by: Jamil Nasir and Huda Nasir

SYNOPSIS
Chain smoker Billy Johnson is not allowed to smoke in his office, but he can’t resist, and attempts to smoke during working hours. This short animation revolves around the fight between his conscious and subconscious to smoke secretly.

THE FILMMAKERS
Huda Nasir developed an interest in animation during her bachelors when she made an online website as a term project. She began taking it seriously, and took some short courses in web designing and Flash. To pursue in-depth knowledge and polish her skills she did her masters in multimedia arts. “The Irresistible” is her first attempt in making a short film in 3-D.

Jamil Nasir’s interest in animation began with drawing in school, leading him towards calligraphy and finally to NCA as a student of multimedia arts. Currently he is in his final year of a masters degree program.

Directed by: Thomas Warrender

SYNOPSIS
“The Lamp” is an animated film inspired by the idea and emotional direction of “The Truman Show.” The film tells the story of a light-keeper. The main character of the film is unaware of what it is that he is a part of. He has perhaps forgotten or he never knew the purpose of his work. In the final shot of the film it is revealed the light keeper is responsible for the maintenance of “light-art” on the surface of the moon.

THE FILMMAKER
Thomas Warrender is completing his B.A. in computer visualization and animation at Bournemouth University.

Directed by: Ayce Kartal

SYNOPSIS
An old couple cause a huge misunderstanding that affects the whole globe.

THE FILMMAKER
Ayee Kartal was born in Turkey in 1977 and graduated from the Anadolu University fine arts faculty animation department in 2000. Kartal has worked as a creative and art director in many countries and has won several awards in national and International competitions.

Animation: Micheal Weiss, Ryan Fairley
Cinematography: Dean Holmes
Editing: Paul Hunter
Muisc: Philip Stanger
Producer: Hand Made Heroes Ltd., Ray Harryhausen, Fred Fuchs
Directed by: Mark Lougee

SYNOPSIS
A tale of judgment, condemnation, despair, hope, and eventual redemption. The hero, a victim of the Spanish Inquisition, is brought before a tribunal, condemned, and sentenced to the dungeons to await his death.

THE FILMMAKER
Mark Lougee has worked as an animator, and is currently working on potential adaptations of other Edgar Allen Poe stories, including “Fall of the House of Usher.”

Cast: A. Hameed, Altaf, Imran, Masood
Cinematography: Abdul Hameed
Editing: Abdul Hameed
Sound: Meezan
Screenplay: Abdul Hameed
Produced and Directed by: Abdul Hameed

SYNOPSIS
When a person is hungry, he only needs food, but when he has eaten food, he thinks about his other wishes.

THE FILMMAKER
Abdul Hameed is currently studying Multimedia Arts from NCA at post-graduate level. He has seven years advertising experience as an art director.