Sundance Ignite

A mother-daughter relationship is put at stake when both morals and family values are challenged by the human pride.

A girl finds herself caught between this world and the next. Starring Justine Mallier-Giraud and Florent Chako | Written and Directed by Sachin Dharwadker | Produced by Joshua Bogatin | Director of Photography: Peter Pascucci | Editor: Joan Marie Educate | Assistant Director: Gerardo Coello Escalante | Assistant Camera: Jacqueline Hall | Sound Mixer: Will Politan | Filmed on location in Paris, France. All music copyright (c) Boban i Marko Markovic Orkestar, obtained and used with permission from the artist.

"You mock us for rushing; but my love at least we run into things, not away from them." What happens when you walk away from someone who could have changed your life? Within a humorous yet delicate take on male indecision, soft tones and articulate glances quietly assert the indomitable strength of feminine vulnerability.

A personal documentary about a mother and her daughter who challenge the narrative of fear through art.

A woman leaves a voicemail late at night.

A comedy about a girl who just spent four years preparing for her future, and now doesn't know what to do next.

Many people wonder what's next for their loved ones when they can no longer recall who they are. When taking care of those who are slowly losing a lifetime of memories, we desperately search for something to hold on to - that brief moment of recognition full of love, appreciation, and gratitude. This film is for those who refuse to abandon their loved ones in difficult times, even if it means sharing some of the hardship.

Vasilis Kekatos

Greece
Vasilis Kekatos was born in 1991 in Greece. He completed his BA in Film Studies at Brunel University of London. He has directed several short documentaries and music videos. His first short film, Retrograde was selected by Drama ISFF and Athens Premiere Nights IFF. He is also the artistic director of SeaNema Open Air Film Festival, a film festival hosted in specially formed areas by the sea. He is currently working on his second short, The Silence of the Dying Fish, which is already funded by ERT National TV Channel. He lives and works in Athens.

Two men are talking inside a car. One of them is dead.

Eva performs a stand-up gig and her intention is far from pleasing the audience.Comedians is a short film and BFA graduation project by Johanna Nyberg at Beckmans College of Design, Stockholm, Sweden, 2016. Based on female representation in film, I have explored the subject of humour from a gender perspective. Men still dominate the comedy scene and set the standard for whatwe consider to be funny. Inspired by interviews with female comedians in Sweden I wanted to present their experiences in the field of comedy. Is humour as free and unconditional for women as it is for men?

Resilience is a word that resonates in a country with over 50 years of civil war.

A lonely girl stranded on a rooftop desperately tries to return her life to a state of equilibrium after she is separated from her family.

"It’s rare that a song provides listeners with a history lesson. It’s even rarer still that a song would use a history lesson to shed light on some of its country’s most pressing issues, and provide a commentary and call to action. But that’s exactly what singer, writer, and spoken word artist Amy León does in her powerful song “Burning in Birmingham." - Atwood Magazine. In a harrowing reflection on the 1963 Baptist Church Bombing by the Ku Klux Klan, León and four other women channel the four girls killed, and the one who survived, in song and poetry that confronts the atrocious tragedies of the past and lambastes the injustices of today. It's a command to support, to act, and to change.

Gary and Jenny share the same cramped "office space" as all beat cops: the front seat of a patrol car. Their evolving relationship is an emotional rollercoaster ride that stands in often-comedic contrast to the procession of thugs and criminals filling the back seat.

A man wakes in a bunker unable to remember how he got there, with nothing but a shelf of books and a computer with a single function. Partly inspired by the director's own childhood, PART II is a meditation on being stuck in a single place without knowing if or when circumstances will change. It's a brief chapter in a greater story which asks the question: What's next?

When the older brother suddenly recovers from his injury, he faces the choice of living in permanent limbo or reviving his brother by handing himself over to Grim Reaper.