Showcase of the best FILMS in the world today.
Audience Award Winners:
Best Feature Film: THAT’S FUNNY
Best Short Film: BLACK BOX
Best Student Film: PICKUP LIE
Best Cinematography: NIGHT VOICES
Best Sound & Music: QUEEN OF HEARTS
Best Direction: AVE GRADIVA
Watch the Audience Feedback Video for each film:
BLACK BOX, 8min., China, Drama
Directed by Olivier Hero Dressen
“The Black Box” is a romantic drama film that tells the story of Thibaut, a Frenchman, and Sai, a Chinese girl, who fall in love during the peak of the Covid-19 crisis. Despite the harsh quarantine restrictions, they decide to meet and spend time together, with Thibaut having to endure 28 days of quarantine to do so. The film explores their relationship, which is narrated through dream, reality, and Sai’s fantasies. At one point, Sai describes herself as a black box, the memory of their relationship and the moments that never happened. The film also touches on their shared fascination with planes and airports, with Thibaut collecting photos of X-rays with his suitcase and Sai being fascinated by plane black boxes. The film ultimately explores the fragility and indestructibility of relationships, memory, and love.
https://www.studiosupremefilms.com/the-black-box
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WATCH HERE – The audience feedback video of the film!
PICKUP LIE, 10min,. USA, Drama/Romance
Directed by Robert Sturdevant
After her crush chooses a sorority girl over her, Kris uses time-traveling drugs to rewrite her romantic fate and claim his heart.
https://robstur.squarespace.com/pickupliefilm
https://www.instagram.com/actionbrickproductions/
WATCH HERE – The audience feedback video of the film!
AVE GRADIVA, 18min., Israel, Drama
Directed by Yuri Riklis
When a lonely man, a fashion photographer, meets the sweetheart of his youth, from whom he separated under the pressure of his Oedipal mother, he is attacked by fragments of past memories and does everything he can to realize the love of his life, doubt in the dream – doubt in reality, doubt in the present – doubt in the past, under the influence of a literary and surrealistic character Gradiva.
WATCH HERE – The audience feedback video of the film!
QUEEN OF HEARTS, 11min,. USA, Musical
Directed by Linda Hildonen, Colby Michaud
Jack is a lifelong collector who is trying to finish his deck of found playing cards. When he finds the four of spades, he realizes that he only needs one final card and is convinced that he’s been given a sign: surely, when he finds the queen of hearts, he’ll finally find love. But while he’s looking all over for his queen, is he overlooking the people around him? This funny and poignant short musical film finds love in unexpected places, because when you play them right, love is always in the cards.
https://www.linco.media/queen-of-hearts
WATCH HERE – The audience feedback video of the film!
NIGHT VOICES, 24min., USA, Drama
Directed by Bradley Hawkins
A jaded talk radio host in a cycle of hopeless and demoralizing monotony makes a life-altering decision while on-air.
https://www.dadleyproductions.com/nightvoicesmovie
https://www.facebook.com/NightVoicesMovie
https://instagram.com/dadley_productions
WATCH HERE – The audience feedback video of the film!
THAT’S FUNNY, 80min. USA, Dramedy
Directed by Alex Grossman
On the verge of a mid-life crisis, Alex seizes his final shot at stand-up comedy fame. But without any jokes, he returns to his hometown in Michigan for inspiration, where a reunion with his childhood best friend and ex-girlfriend sets off a hilarious chain of blunders and leaves him as the only one not laughing.
https://www.thatsfunnymovie.com/
WATCH HERE – The audience feedback video of the film!
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