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2021 Katra Film Series: Fall Festival – Short Program 1

Do You Need A Ride – directed by Keely Weiss

After hitching a ride with a cute guy who turns out to have sinister motives, Iris must get creative to save her own life.

THE CHINESE NEW YEARS EVE – directed by Zhao Yuan

Near the Chinese New Year, a father accidentally found out that his son who should works in a foreign enterprise in Beijing, turns out that working as a live buyer of lipstick actually. The father angrily arrived in Beijing on the New Year’s Eve and asked his son to end his live broadcast career and go back home with him. When his father saw his son who was making live broadcast through the store’s mobile phone, the father was so moved that he decided to change his decision and support his son’s choice. The next day, the father left the dumplings and left for Beijing alone.

Perro de Calle – directed by Jose Guerrero

A short that follows the trials and tribulations of an aimless drug addict in the Bronx.

Yard Kings – directed by Vasco Alexandre

A 9-year-old from an abusive household builds a new home for herself in a scrapyard nearby.

The Artist’s Way Out – directed by Jeananne Goossen, Robert Jackson

Carmen’s successful ex shows up and gives Sam a complex.

Birthday – directed by Margarita Milne

A drama that follows the events leading up to an overdose at an 18th birthday party. Cora, an Instagram ‘it’ girl who’s unhappy with her life introduces her socially anxious boyfriend Tyler to her friendship group of similarly stylish and egocentric people for the first time. The party starts off well, but descends under the influence of a cocktail of drugs. Tyler watches on as his girlfriend becomes more and more frustrated with her ‘best’ friend and the world. When she overdoses, Tyler is blamed.

The Best Orchestra in the World – directed by Henning Backhaus

Ingbert, the sock, applies for a position as double bass player at the Vienna State Orchestra. Bad idea.

 

2021 Katra Film Series: Fall Festival – Short Program 2

Good Morning, This is Lana… – directed by Sergio Vaccaro

Set in one room of one apartment in 1970’s Virginia, this story follows Lana, an eccentric and impassioned young woman, as she spirals back into a troubled reality she’s tried desperately to hide, but struggles to keep from unraveling during a morning in which she performs her job as a wake-up call operator.

Realm of Unknowns – directed by Sean Ryan

A couple who share their perplexing dreams in an uncertain future, they must decide whether to find a plant to solve their pregnancy issues despite having doubts on having a child.

Cracks – directed by Ece Cakiroglu

An intelligent neuropsychiatrist gets caught off guard by a mysterious patient. Being triggered by the memory she has been told, Emma confronts her fractured past through various therapy sessions.

Space Invader – directed by Isaac Bell

Max is a small boy with a big imagination and a loyal co-pilot of a dad. But when Dad gets a new girlfriend, Max must find a way to confront this new menace before she steals his dad forever.

Armpit! – directed by Mathieu Nolhier

In a rush to make the submission deadline for her dream school, an impulsive art student messes with the wrong telemarketer. In the span of one annoying cold call, her life as she knows it vanishes completely.

Khaki Is Not Leather – directed by Ray Smiling

“Everyone is spending way more time at home. Dating is essentially suspended. People are stressed and starved of intimacy. We turn to our phones, our laptops, and try to find someone. Anyone to make us feel good. Feel seen.

Sometimes it works, sometimes it gets weird. This search for connection is where we find our stories. “Khaki is Not Leather” hopes to bring a new perspective as it explores the ways in which we perform nearness and the ways we live it.

Log on. Explore. Connect… But don’t forget to tip.”

May the World Not Carry You – directed by Rozalia Las

Cel animation, each frame is painted by hand, using acrylic paint. Sad love story inspired by polish folk song. The betrayed girl decides to commit suicide during the wedding of his love.

 

2021 Katra Film Series: Fall Festival – Short Program 3

ANOMALY – directed by Michael Jeanpert

Adam is crazy in love with Liv but the young woman just lost her husband and refuses to commit to a new relationship.
Without explanation she sends him to the strange and mysterious Zieggler corporation where everybody seems to know what Adam hasn’t figured out yet about his own life.

Tell It All – directed by Alejandra Bursik-Cervantes

Moody teen Jessie is forced to attend voice lessons with the annoyingly cheerful Marianne. During one of their lessons, Marianne divulges a dark secret that Jessie is ill-equipped to handle. This unconventional singing class leaves Jessie with a new outlook on life.

Clarence of Tomorrow – directed by Shawn Spear

An office worker’s break turns into a struggle for survival after he becomes lost in the depths of a dark city.

Technologia & The Ancient Mechanism – directed by Alexandros A Barpayianis

How – directed by Vasilios Papaioannu

Music video for Leo Crandall’s How included in the album Unknowable and Stunning Thing.

Instructions Not Included – directed by Cooper Shepherd

Building a bed is hard, building a bed with your significant other is harder.

Black Boys Can’t Cry – directed by Victor Gabriel

Javion is a dutiful and loving black father. He is the protector and provider of the family, including his wife, daughter, and grandmother. However, he is haunted by a secret that he continues to bury in silence. Not knowing how to deal with the trauma, he attempts to hide the behemoth inside him that is trying to break out. But not until tonight when he is finally overwhelmed, and he attacks his family while he ultimately comes face-to-face with his painful past. Only the prayerful hands of his grandmother can help channel his buried emotion from taking control.

ufo:pm – directed by Xiao Han

On a humid afternoon, Lin Mingming, an eight-year-old girl, gets caught between her parents’ quarrel.

The career pursuit and ordinary life heavily burden this family with the imbalance and struggle between parent-child relationship and personal value. The exhausted, impatient, and disappointed parents seem strange to their daughter. Holding the toy spaceship tightly in her hand, Mingming hopes that the spaceship would take her away from the intimidating conflict under the family roof.

 

FEATURE FILM PRESENTATION: “THE SCATTERING OF MAN”

DENE YI’INJETL – THE SCATTERING OF MAN – directed by Luke Gleeson

Between 1960 and 1961 the Province of British Columbia, then led by the Premier W.A.C. Bennett, underwent a series of nationalizations in order to create Provincial “Crown corporations”. This initiative included the creation of what is now known as BC Hydro.

In 1968, BC Hydro completed construction on the W.A.C Bennett Dam and began flooding the Rocky Mountain Trench in northern British Columbia, Canada. The resulting flood greatly impacted the Tsay Keh Dene people who have inhabited this area since time immemorial.

DƏNE YI’INJETL is told from the perspective of the Tsay Keh Dene Nation and its membership about the events that took place before and after the flood. Viewed by many critics as a Provincial vanity project, development of the dam was pushed forward and completed ahead of schedule, with little thought given to the resulting impacts that the natural environment and Tsay Keh Dene people would soon face.

 

FEATURE FILM PRESENTATION: “Viatical Settlement”

Viatical Settlement – directed by Chun-Hao Chan

Insurer Ah-bin lived to his forties and never thought that he could be a saint. Just by stamping on policies and he can change people’s lives. Everything starts from the loan shark, Mr. Hsi who saw the potential business from Ah-bin. As long as Mr. Hsi pays the premium, Ah-bin takes care of the insurance claims, and the insured “exchange some of their owns,” everyone are beneficial. What’s better than a deal like this?

FEATURE FILM PRESENTATION: “Woman of the Photographs“

Woman of the Photographs – directed by Takeshi Kushida

A misogynistic photographer begins a twisted romance with a woman suffering from body dysmorphia.

FEATURE FILM PRESENTATION: “Game in Game“

Game in Game – directed by Xia Wen

During the Republic of China, “Ghost Chen” was involved in a huge gold case, and Zhao Qianli, the mastermind behind the scenes, killed him and fled. Ten years later, Zhao Qianli once again appeared on the beach, Qianmen descendant Feng Jiu (played by Qi Shenghan) jointly patrolled Fang Wu (Zhang Xilin), Ming Chen (played by Gao Mingchen), three professional seniors: Xiong Tai (played by Du Yiheng) , Li Chudong (played by Fang Chutong), Wang Tianpei (played by Moses). And Qin Dongge (played by Wang Chuang) and reporter Cui (played by Lu Zhuo) together to avenge Master Feng Jiu. In order to elicit Zhao Qianli, everyone set up the game at different levels, but the truth became clear after the clouds were cleared. A used chess piece could never see the whole picture.