The Woman in the Room

Bicentennial Man

Richard Martin buys a gift, a new NDR-114 robot. The product is named Andrew by the youngest of the family's children. "Bicentennial Man" follows the life and times of Andrew, a robot purchased as a household appliance programmed to perform menial tasks. As Andrew begins to experience emotions and creative thought, the Martin family soon discovers they don't have an ordinary robot.

Aftermath

A young woman confronts her aggressor and hits back where it would hurt the most.

Nuclear Family

Eun-Seo who came to US misses her father back in Korea. In her dream, her father teaches her how to pray in order to overcome fear. As her mother, Seo-Hyun, hears that Eun-Seo doesn’t get along well with her classmates, she decides to throw her American Birthday Party. Seo-Hyun makes Eun-Seo invite her friends but the invitation card that Seo-Hyun made for her is too childish so her friends make fun of her. Embarrassed, Eun-Seo rebels against her mother but she is too weak to win over her mother. In strained atmosphere, they stop at the gas station where Eun-Seo hears the bad news to her father...

Apart

Adults reflect on the experience of losing a parent at a young age.

Biljana Returned from London

A man’s female friend who just came back from London spends time on the river shore.

The Wind Inside Me

A young man, Peter, returns home in the middle of the night after a long journey. He returns to his home, to his parents. At the same time, he is also returning to his long-term girlfriend, who, during this time, has given birth to their daughter Vita. Peter is determined that his journey has come to the end, and that he will settle down and stay at home. Yet, he quickly realizes that a decision is easier to accept than to actualize it.

Skipper Straad

A seaman finds himself out of work and stranded in a distant port. He shares a cheap room. They take turns sleeping, some in the morning, some at night. Grief! When he will go back to sea? And there! The scent of woman drifts up to seduce him! He realizes he had shared his bed with a lady of the night.

Sugar

"Sugar" is an elegiac short film directed by filmmaker, Michael Patti. Michael sought to tell a story of grief, patience, the overwhelming aspects of parenthood and the understanding that we are all connected. "Sugar" a stirring, wistful visual meditation on relationships.

The Super Recogniser

Jacob (26) is a normal guy with a very special talent- 90% facial recollection. He never forgets a face and you better hope he doesn't knows yours.

Trust Me

Animated short documentary following a young woman's diagnosis of bipolar: a journey of self-acceptance to challenge everyday stigma. In "Trust Me", a genre-bending short documentary, a young woman uses humour and compassion to share her moving and deeply personal story of coming to terms with her mental health condition. When she starts exhibiting atypical and extreme behaviour, her loved ones trick her into hospitalisation against her will. She is diagnosed with bipolar disorder which starts her challenging journey of self-acceptance, confronting internalised and societal stigma, and learning to trust herself and others again.

In the Bedroom

Summertime on the coast of Maine, "In the Bedroom" centers on the inner dynamics of a family in transition. Matt Fowler is a doctor practicing in his native Maine and is married to New York born Ruth Fowler, a music teacher. His son is involved in a love affair with a local single mother. As the beauty of Maine's brief and fleeting summer comes to an end, these characters find themselves in the midst of unimaginable tragedy.

Drown Your Dawn

Drown Your Dawn was a 2020 short film by director Jang Jeong-won. It was screened in South Korea at Sungkyunkwan University's Pride Screen, an event showcasing student films.

Medailónek

Marta Vendyšová grew up in a wealthy family and married a well-known and successful architect. Soon after the start of World War I, she received news that her husband had been killed at the front. Among the things his friend from the front gave her was a medallion with a child's face, which she had never seen on her husband. She decides to track down the donor.

Sou Eu Quem Queima na Noite

O Quintal dos Guerrilheiros

Swain

Swain is inspired by Nathaniel Hawthorne’s Fanshawe, features a dreamlike narrative of a young man’s ritualized rejection of heterosexuality, as a mysterious woman in white gossamer pursues him through a ruined landscape.

Birdboy

A terrible industrial accident changes little Dinki's life forever. Now Dinki's fate may ride on the wings of her eccentric friend Birdboy, a misfit who hides in the forest lost in his fantasies.

선 혹은 원

선 혹은 원 is a 2018 Korean short film staring Kwon Hyuk.

The Gold Bug

Shortly after the Civil War, while exploring the long deserted and reputedly haunted Sullivan's Island off Charleston S.C., a boy encounters two obsessed eccentrics living there. These men chase him away and warn him never to return or to tell anyone about them. Soon, however, they locate him and summon him back, because he has unknowingly given them a clue vital to their quest and they need his help to unravel the rest of the mystery. If he can do so, they will find buried pirate treasure and all become rich. But in joining the search, he falls under the same obsession and curse -- an ominous fate suggested by the unearthly electronic music which contributes to the film's atmosphere.