Finalist Filmmakers
Below is a list of our first season's finalist filmmakers.
Adult Category
CYBERCHONDRIA BY SAFEER MANZOOR
(Lahore, Pakistan) A man, suffering from headache and cough who is not able to sleep, stands up from his bed and walk towards a mirror to check himself. After checking himself in the mirror, he walks towards his computer and start searching for the symptoms which was causing him so much headache and cough. While he was searching on the internet, he feels that he is being sucked into the cyber world and watches himself meeting to a couple of bad ends due to his illness. First he finds himself suffering from a skin abnormality, he gets panic and moves towards other possible outcome which leads him to watch himself in more painful situation. He tries to escape but fails to get away and eventually finds himself being sunk into more problems and at the end finds himself dead. He panics and tries more hard to getaway and finally succeeds and finds himself in front of his computer in his own home as he has just wakeup from a horrible dream. |
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INFERNO REFLEXIO BY CHRISTOS ARAFANIS
(Athens, Greece) A Man is sleeping on his bed. An alarm clock rings. He wake up for his daily routine. All seem like an everyday morning. Things change when the man faces his own inner demon. The demon that appears to be himself. The man has awoke his inner demons. Eventually they are himself. |
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LOCKDOWN GHOST BY ESHA TEWARI
(Ottawa, Canada) What if you get locked in your home with a ghost during this self-quarantine? Lockdown Ghost is a fun experimental film - shot entirely on phone, mostly on selfie mode with a thought that a lot of people are finding it hard to stay at home during this novel Coronavirus pandemic. But it’s the devil inside them that's compelling them to go out. |
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CO-iNSIDE BY ELLEN HATHAWAY
(Gateshead, United Kingdom) A heart-warming, compelling, relatable tale of a young couple in lockdown. As time passes living on top of each other, they cast technology aside and find each other again. Full of warmth and familiar moments, we invite you to recognise what’s important to you in your own lockdown tales. |
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BLOODY TIMES BY JEAN STEFANELLI AND MARIE-STEPHANE CATTANEO
(Paris, France) Locked in his house during the pandemic, Jean spends his time observing his pretty neighbor. Hypochondriac, he takes all precautions. But an error on his part will plunge him into paranoia, a bloodstain has appeared and the girl has disappeared. |
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MY DOCTOR'S ADVICE BY STEFANIA LICARI
(London, United Kingdom) In a new medical comedy (in lockdown), an Italian doctor in the UK battles boring patients, unanswerable questions, and a mamma who never stops mamma-ing as she adjusts during the pandemic to the new digital era. Will she cope or lose her mind? |
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