Showcase of the best FILMS in the world today.
Audience Award Winners:
Best Short Film: MATURITY
Best Direction: STRAIGHT FROM THE EDGE: THE WAIF WORM
Best Cinematography: A 3-YEAR JOURNEY
Best Sound & Music: RESURRECTION UNDER THE OCEAN
Best Animation: PONDERING POTATOES
Best Student Film: TRAVERSEES
Watch the Audience Feedback Video for each film:
THE STRANGER, 4min., Austria, Thriller
Directed by Kober Martin
Visit from a stranger.
WATCH HERE – The audience feedback video of the film!

AFTER THE REIGN: CONFUSION, 1min., USA, Experimental
Directed by Jennifer Scully-Thurston
This is a one minute dance film interpretation of a woman experiencing the confusing and schizophrenic nature of loss.
WATCH HERE – The audience feedback video of the film!

TORK, 3min., USA, Animation
Directed by Hyun Kim
A chubby office worker comes home to relax and play with his toy car.
WATCH HERE – The audience feedback video of the film!

FOUND YOU, 5min., USA, Animation
Directed by Marijane Eloise Vargas
During a game of Midnight Hide and Seek at summer camp, an anxious Lucy struggles to hide her werewolf identity from her fellow campers! And it’s a full moon! Will Lucy be successful in concealing herself?
WATCH HERE – The audience feedback video of the film!

STRAIGHT FROM THE EDGE: THE WAIF WORM, 5min., USA, Mockumentary
Directed by Larry Fleece
Elite fashion models deliberately ingesting “Waif Worms” to remain thin.
WATCH HERE – The audience feedback video of the film!

REPLAY, 1min., Turkey, Fantasy
Directed by Mila Safiye
One girl decided to replay her destiny. She had unexpected consequences.
WATCH HERE – The audience feedback video of the film!

SHHH 1min., Turkey, Thriller
Directed by Mila Safiye
The woman walking with a baby stroller is bearing an untold story.
WATCH HERE – The audience feedback video of the film!

PONDERING POTATOES, 1min., UK, Animation
Directed by Kessiah Leah Arthur
A rare insight into the lives of potatoes and finally answering that question of what they’re really thinking.
WATCH HERE – The audience feedback video of the film!

ONE ON ONE, 5min., USA, Drama
Directed by Jack Wolf Perry
A fierce acting coach uses intense techniques to get a performance out of his shy new student.
WATCH HERE – The audience feedback video of the film!

MATURITY, 5min,. Iran, Drama
Directed by Nazanin Ghanbarimohammadi
Boys and girls are treated differently when it comes to traditional Iranian culture. When a boy is circumcised, they have a traditional ceremony followed by a celebration to honor his Transformation. While at the same party while eating dinner a little girl has her period for the first time, but she gets punished & shamed upon for having her first menstrual cycle.
WATCH HERE – The audience feedback video of the film!

TRAVERSEES, 4min., Canada, Experimental
Directed by Chantal Caron
Traversées is an ode to the sacred feminine: five wild women choosing community over individuality to ensure their survival. A winter immersion intertwined with shallow breaths, storms, tenderness and the ebb and flow of a river trying to free itself from ice. The short film portrays a rite of passage shrouded in movements traversing the stages of arrival, putting down roots, transformation and rebirth. Step by step, these five fierce warriors tread a path that leads to the encounter with oneself.
WATCH HERE – The audience feedback video of the film!

RESURRECTION UNDER THE OCEAN, 3min., Turkey, Experimental
Directed by Serkan Akta
“Resurrection under the Ocean” is about the resurrection of a man who was helplessly sinking to the bottom of the ocean, after falling to the bottom of the ocean, with a symbolic narrative.
WATCH HERE – The audience feedback video of the film!

A 3-YEAR JOURNEY, 3min., Hong Kong, Documentary
Directed by Gavin Wong
Welcome to Story of My Life. Throughout the past 3 years I’ve been across the globe, creating visual images in hopes to spark the inner adventure spirit of people like you. My fellow viewers – or more like a family to me, I should say. Started with a GoPro in hand never in my craziest dreams that one day Travel Film would turn into my source of income – that someone out there would actually appreciate my style of work.
WATCH HERE – The audience feedback video of the film!
