Student Short Films

Join us for a collection of suspenseful, creative and fascinating student-made short films. In Can Karayalçın’s tension-packed ANKARA1979, set a few months before the 1980 coup in Ankara, a young man returns home injured after posting illegal flyers when the family hears a knock at the door; in Carolyn (Xiange) Liu’s BETRAYAL, two inquisitive children in a tightly regulated utopian society stumble upon their parents’ hidden lives; in Gery Riba’s OLD MAN’S CHILD two generations of once-feared gangsters must confront their past to rescue the only future their family has left; in Tanguy Pichon’s NOTHING BUT THE END, a young man living must choose between staying with his paranoid mother who wants to turn their trailer into a bunker of finally living out his own life; in Yuxin Yang’s animation 91 TIMES SMASH a woman drifts through ruins of memory, love, and a truth too painful to face as her trauma transforms; and Vita Stoikova’s raw documentary VITA 2.0 follows a former neonatal nurse who now serves as a Ukrainian military anesthetist at a frontline point where wounded soldiers are brought from the battlefield. 111min.

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