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Wales International Film Festival 2021

In an apartment nestled in a city center, theater actress Natalie's morning begins like any other - lying in bed with her puppy, Molly. Realizing she's running late, she rushes off to rehearsal leaving her pup waiting patiently behind. The next morning, Natalie receives a call from work that changes everything - not just her career, bu also her sense of identity & life purpose.

400 Days Later

“I’m scared and feel wrapped in the dark. I’m vulnerable.”

Exploring the more narrative soul of fashion film while staying true to the genre’s strong focus on aesthetics, Alex tells us of a woman reliving and working through a trauma. Inspired by EMDR therapy, the film looks at abandonment during childhood as something that is likely to accompany us into adulthood. Through an experimental, movement-led approach, Alex takes us on a journey into the human psyche.

From the music composition and fashion design to the photography and choice of location, everything about Alex is thought up to recreate a dreamlike scenario. Shot in a historical villa in the Lombard region of Italy, the film employs dance as a release tool to work through one’s traumas. Lead character and dancer Silvia Bonavigo thus challenges her fears by interacting with the space around her through a series of choreographed movements. A collaboration with Italian label Kappe by Federica Bonifaci, the iconic capes of the mono product brand were selected to emphasise and complement the wearer’s gestures.

Breaking away from pre-established video genres, Alex finds itself at a crossroad between fashion film, short film and dance video. The film is a personal project and the director’s first narrative work. Alex has been selected by more than 25 international festivals, with 10 nominations and 5 wins including Best Actress at A Shaded View on Fashion Film, Best International Fashion Film at Buenos Aires Fashion Film Festival and Best Performance at Canadian Fashion Film Festival.

Alex

Wang Yuchuan has not uttered a word for one month. No one knows why until one day he sent a message to Yiyang with only one simple word "sea". As his friend, Yiyang accompanied Chuan to the beach, trying to figure out the reason by rounds communications and tests. Unfortunately, Chuan still remained silence. Furtherly, Yiyang decided to put Chuan out to sea. But with the boat moves in, Chuan suddenly jumped off the boat, and Yiyang followed him into the sea...

Alice

Paris. Summoned by the city police chief, Duval, controversial writer Anna Rosenberg doesn’t suspect this is the last day of her life.
Misuse of authority, abuse of power, psychological and physical violence are the disturbing elements, of an intimate thriller based on true events.

Anna Rosenberg

A couple in their 50’s sit on a bench on a rural hilltop, it is clear they have been together a long time and in love. However, it quickly becomes clear that the husband has been away and missed parts of their son growing up. We soon find out the reason for this.

Anniversary

Hernán is a child who likes to daydreaming, but in his studies he is not doing well at all. His father constantly urges him to improve, advising him that he must reach very high to succeed in life. Hernán dispenses with his dream, gradually forgetting it to devote himself to his studies. Over time, and already become a successful entrepreneur, Hernán achieves the dream that his father instilled in him, reach high, until one day he will realize that he has not really achieved something he always longed for. Then he will make the crucial decision to fulfill his dream, but fate will play tricks on him. Hernán will have to face a new challenge that will change the meaning of his life.

The Boy and The Mountain

After receiving a devastating cancer diagnosis, a motivated young woman raises thousands for worthy causes through a new addiction to charity challenges. But when the police arrest her for fraud, we discover that she’s not as altruistic as she’d have everyone believe.

CC Junkie

At a border café, a female Iranian cook and an illegal female Afghan immigrant, who works there, are so dependent on each other. In order to save the sick Afghan girl from the human traffickers, the Iranian woman is left with no choice but to send the Afghan to women’s prison by any means, where she can get health insurance and have a surgery for free, but…

The Chick

To their friends, Sarah and Sam seem like the perfect couple desperately in love. But when Sarah gets her big stage break as an aspiring actress, Sam begins to question whether he’s good enough for her, particularly as he’s stuck in a dead-end job.
As their relationship unravels, and a mysterious woman threatens to further tear them apart, Sarah and Sam are forced to confront the anger and hurt that they have built between themselves, and once again believe in each other and their love in order to find their way “home”.

The Colour of Spring

Taken from a true story and based on Ron Blicq's award winning stage play, "Closure", this Jessy Ardern adaptation tells a tale of family's journey from England to Canada in an attempt to connect with an unsuspecting family member, who is unaware he fathered a child during his service in the second world war.

Connecting Flights

Court Number 5 is a short film exploring the tremendous pressure put on twin girls whose parents have separated and are fighting over their custody. With animosity and tensions running high, with a potential re-homing to Italy with the father, the decision is not made easier by the parents who keep provoking each other forgetting that these young girls have lives

Court Number 5

As lockdown starts to ease, two women looking for a moments solitude in the same secluded spot find comfort in companionship, realising they have more in common than they thought.

Cysuro

Dandilicious is a Stylized Neo-Western about a day in the life of a Teddy Boy in 1959. Our hero (or anti-hero), Marty, is living the life of a public menace within his own town. Getting into fights and causing disruption on the streets, Marty is the 'King of the Teds' - or is he?

Dandilicious

From morning to evening, A DAY presents one day in the life of
a lonesome East Asian immigrant in London around Christmas Eve.

A DAY

Love is messy. Set in a Cambodian laundromat in the gritty Tenderloin district in San Francisco, this is a story about the irreversible mistakes we make and the dilemma of forgiveness we seek. Inspired by a true story.

Dirty Laundry

A lonely floor-mopper, Joseph, works late nights in a hardware store. After crossing paths with a troubled girl named Evie, the two are forced to find their place in the world as they learn to confront their fears.

D.I.Y.

In a remote area in Afghanistan, stories of the lives of a young shepherdess, a birdcatcher boy and a mourning teacher are intertwined after their school is burnt down. The young shepherdess takes the risk of saving a woman US soldier after a helicopter crash; the birdcatcher boy takes shelter in a tank with the birds, the pin-ups and the illegal music that he loves; and the mourning teacher seeks vengeance on the one who has widowed her…

THE DOGS DIDN’T SLEEP LAST NIGHT

After leaking of a video of her class in a women only swimming pool, Parvaneh is brutally murdered by her husband, Hashem, who seeks a way to redeem his reputation and dignity as the godfather in the neighborhood. Hashem’s brother, Hojat, embarks a journey into the labyrinths of underground in Tehran to find out who is responsible for this dirty game. Once wrongfully accused for smuggling drugs, he returns to the world of crime to trace his brother’s rivals…

Drown

19-year-old Emre, who dreams of coming 1st, 2nd or 3rd place in the Turkish Championship, is looking for support to facilitate the difficult life he has, because he has to work as a waiter. Emre wants to find a sponsor and leave his job to focus on boxing, but the conditions do not favor Emre. Emre has to work as a waiter and prepare for the Turkish championship at the same time.

EMRE The Story of Young Boxer

A fiery young schoolgirl would do anything to protect her best friend from a merciless bully - and stumbles upon a dark, mysterious ring with magical powers that just might make her problems disappear...

The Love 愛 Project // Stories of love told without words

Eraser // The Love Project

A disgruntled outsider turns to faking social media posts to gain popularity, with unexpected and chilling consequences.

face2face

Professional jockeys face physical obstacles daily, but the invisible obstacles which lie ahead are often the hardest to negotiate.

Tom has faced many rivals in his ten-year career as a Jump Jockey. Some have been faster, stronger, younger, wiser; but now he faces a different rival. A silent and anonymous opponent who he is struggling to understand.

Falls happen in the sport of horse racing, but this fall will hurt more than most.

The Fall

The 8 years old Afghan girl, Golchehreh, is being forced to marry her friend Jafar because of a traditional and cultural matchmaking tradition which is commonly practiced in Afghan tribes as well as parts of Iran.

Forced

Involved in different legal and illegal petty works, Mohammad is working and living in a room in the biggest football stadium in Tehran with his wife and his little son. During a riot in Tehran, he disappears when two women are looking forward to seeing him impatiently: his wife, Maryam, who is desperately seeking him all through the city, and a convicted woman, Shahla, who needs him as the only witness who can save her from death with a confession in the appeal court…

THE FOURTH ROUND

An eager thief hits the jackpot as he takes on the city, until he steals from an unassuming young woman who might jeopardize his biggest heist yet.

The Love 愛 Project // Stories of love told without words

Hit List // The Love Project

A guy named Salvo has to walk through the deserted streets of his town in the middle of the night to find out what is stopping him from leaving his hometown

I wait for the dawn

A young man brought to the brink, after his ex-partner refuses to let him see his daughter. The film highlights drink and drug abuse, as he tries to forget his troubles and struggles to talk to those around him.

Let's Talk About George

LOCKDOWN LOVE displays a rich socio-cultural diverseness by a geographically spread group of participants during the height of the pandemic in the Covid-19 global lockdown. Friends and family have joined filmmakers Paul London and Tracey Moberly to represent their LOCKDOWN LOVE viewed through the lenses of their smartphones. From rollerblading through the empty sanitized streets of Krasnoyarsk, in Eastern Siberia; the observation of boredom on a masseuse's face in Bali, Indonesia; nature vocalizing itself through a typical thunderstorm in Jinja, Uganda; empty trains, planes and automobiles ... to the love of parents, carers and children - old and young from across the globe. Red weaves a theme throughout the imagery as members from 40 countries depict their account of LOCKDOWN LOVE … guided by a faceless red-winged angel.

Lockdown Love

Early December, New York City, and everyone is on the hunt for love. Why? Because they haven’t found it and because they haven’t found it, they make it into a myth and chase the myth instead. That is not love in this romantic drama of fantasy, fate, and yearning.

Love is not Love

An actor from yesteryear is looking for somebody to walk his beloved dog Mitzy. But when one clearly unsuitable candidate applies for the post, the dog chooses him and unlocks his inner animal.

Jacob, once famous but now retired seventy-year-old actor, is looking for a dog-walker for his adorable little black schnauzer, Mitzy, that he obsessively loves more than anything else in the world. Out of all the candidates Mitzy picks Daniel, seemingly the least suitable for the job, a young loser immersed in virtual games. Jacob teaches him ‘the ancient art’ of dog walking; the lessons are a funny, absurd mixture of memory, history, and fantasy…. Manhattan Odyssey is an unusual ‘love story’ between two men, a woman and a dog, if it is love story at all.
https://www.imdb.com/title/tt12922900/?ref_=ttfc_fc_tt

Manhattan Odyssey

A young and brilliant academic phenom who not only passes the bar exam at age 14 but finds himself defending his homeless father on a murder charge when few believe he is innocent. He faces a shrewd law firm, an old school segregationist judge, and an arrogant prosecutor who is preparing to celebrate his 50th consecutive case win.

The McHenry Trial – Don’t Judge a Kid by Their Hoodie

Would you believe if a stranger told you the future? Especially if it is a less than presentable stranger and the future is incomprehensibly distant.

“Methanol Ablaze” takes us on a journey through the dark woods to glance at something which might be far beyond our world - both timewise and metaphysically.

Methanol Ablaze

"requiem" honors the passing of a single word from the heart of the poet, to the poet's lips, then to the audience and its fleeting life suspended in air. A tragic death or does that word find new life and meaning in memory?
This Experimental FilmPoem conjures a cortège for a spoken word.

...requiem for a spoken word

Things go south when a young man joins a trip to a vacation house with old friends and discovers that things are not the way they used to be between them in this plot twisting thriller.

Sail On, My Love

A Time Portal in the Sands Brings a Young Couple Together

The Sands of Time

Wang Xiaoming, an innocent secondary school boy, devotes all his attention to his study. By chance, he gets a porn disc at school. When he returns home to sneak a preview of the disc, it was taken away by his father by accident. He tries hard to get the disc back, but when he is about to get it back, he finds more discs hidden deep in his father’s drawer.

Sexual Enlightenment

A failed product copywriter with an alcohol dependency crosses paths with a mysterious stranger on a personal mission and together they embark on an unforgettable adventure across neon-lit Shanghai. During their journey they learn about each other, themselves and discover how to see the city and life with new eyes. A deeply personal story about love, life, loss and the importance of human connection in today’s fast-paced world, Shanghai Story follows two characters who are seemingly different to each other but connect over a personal trauma and find a way to move forward in a far-away land.

Shanghai Story

Zak, a lonely troubled boy is on the slippery slope towards a life of crime, until Tony, a former con himself, helps turn Zac’s life around with nothing more than a few simple words of wisdom.

She's Okay

The Slaughterhouse

The Slaughterhouse

A Danish warrior, living in Saxon England, tries to convince her fellow villagers to flee their homes, due to the threat of an imminent Viking raid. However, the Anglo-Saxon community turns on itself, leaving it divided and defenceless when the Vikings arrive.

SOLVI

When the Parish Council Leader of a smalltime village threatens to flatten its historic forest, Mr Thornton - a nostalgic old outcast - devises an elaborate bird hoax in an attempt to rally the villagers together against the impending deforestation.

The Springsbury Bird Hoax

At a young age, Artie Moore is witness to the traumatic loss of his best friend, while pushing a tin-can telephone to its limits.
10 years later, we find Artie and his father ending a long day at the Mill. William heads home, but Artie stays behind to spend the evening with his wireless equipment. Here, he is witness to the chatter of nearby ships, and an unexpected SOS.

Through The Waves

A girl struggles to move on with her life, while a voice from her past fears his time is running out.

Time

Robin is a recluse who prefers nature and solitude to the comforts and companionship of civilization. Her lifestyle reflects her resourcefulness: stolen food, a shelter crafted from salvaged materials, decorated with found treasures. One winter day, a logging operation launches nearby, and the forest that was her salvation is threatened by the encroachment of civilization. To avoid discovery, Robin must flee home with only the bare essentials, trading her painstakingly earned contentment for the uncertainty of displacement.

Uprooted centers on one individual who has chosen to opt out of society. Through focus upon the small details of her life, we find a character whose challenges reflect larger societal issues. Robin’s journey speaks to the near impossibility of escaping societal expectation, and the unseen casualties of careless modern civilization.

Uprooted

Struggling to deal with the loss of his mother, an isolated man revisits her home to sell her old possessions. When the buyer arrives, the two end up discussing death and losing loved ones.

Vacuum

A young nurse lies his way into the home of a vulnerable patient.

Violet

Two boys were playing in the wild woods. They saw a strange woman in a red coat. They followed her only to discover that things are more complicated than they thought. When the woman followed them back, an evil idea emerges in their heart.

The Wood

A man has a sinister plan to abuse his wife’s affection in order to get rid of her marriage alimony and dowry.

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