HIGHLIGHTS: November 2024 DRAMA New York Festival

Showcase of the best FILMS in the world today.

Audience Award:
Best Short Film: AN ADVERT FOR ONE NIGHT
Best Direction: AFTERMATH
Best Story: HANDS

See info for each film:

AN ADVERT FOR ONE NIGHT, 15min,. UK
Directed by Graham Birch
Lisa responds to a newspaper advert to meet Sarah in a hotel room for a night. They meet and have a wonderful night that sadly uncovers that one was badly abused and the other is currently suffering serious mental and physical bullying from a partner. Will this allow them to bond? What will they do?

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AFTERMATH, 10min., USA
Directed by Nevin Bolla
In a post-apocalyptic world, two survivors are caught in a tense struggle within a decaying building. As they confront their harsh reality, a siren signals the end of a critical survival round, forcing them to grapple with their fears and fleeting hopes.

http://www.nevinbolla.com/https://www.instagram.com/nevinbolla/

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HANDS, 7min., Portugal
Directed by Filipe Piteira
Hands are the connection and the path between the body and soul. The mode of search and self-knowledge, which is intuitive and sensorial, with them, discovering and transcending themselves. It is the receptive and restless mind that transforms hands into instruments of grace.

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TREASURE, 100min., Czech Republic
Directed by Rudolf Havlík
A Michelin-starred chef travels to Bali to confront her estranged father, but instead becomes part of a dangerous treasure hunt, during which she must face new threats as well as unresolved family issues from the past.

https://logline.cz/cs/filmy/13-filmy/110-poklad
https://www.facebook.com/filmpoklad
https://www.instagram.com/filmpoklad/

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YOU ARE SPECIAL, 18min., Ukraine
Directed by Ilya Noyabrev
A little boy, fascinated by the legend that the white keys on the old Steinway piano, which “lives” in his parents’ house, are made of elephant tusks, dreams every night of meeting the gray giants one day and never being separated from them…This desire grows from day to day along with the lullaby that his mother sings to him, because there are words in it: “You are special!”

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BLUEBERRIES, 24min., USA
Directed by Eric A. Eisenstein
Terrance needs to convince his fiancé, family and friends he does not have a drinking problem. But can he convince himself?

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THE RISE, 20min,. Switzerland
Directed by Laura Scaglia, Christophe Arnould
As she celebrates the success of her debut album, singer-songwriter Laura Scaglia discovers that behind her back, her boyfriend has leaked a video of their intimate moments.

https://laurascaglia.com/the-rise

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By femalefilmfestival

The irony of this festival is that its goal is to not be around in 5 years time. To eventually not be relevant because there is zero need to have a festival geared for female talent and female stories because the stories presented in Hollywood and around the world are a balanced showcase of the human experience from both sexes. Our goal is to achieve a lot of success and then fold into oblivion simply because there is no need for this festival. This festival was created by the FEEDBACK Film & Writing Festival as a simple reaction to a strong need to showcase female talent from around the world in a more profound way. When putting together the weekly festival, the administration noticed a lack of a female presence in the stories being shown at the festival. A classic example and analogy to the frustration is how the festival noticed that even the smaller roles in a screenplay were written for a man to play. There was zero reason for this in many stories. How a police officer, or a political campaign manager, for example with 3-4 lines in a screenplay was a "HE" character. Why? And these are the screenplays written by the winners! The talented one who have obtained agents and have began/beginning their careers as a writer.

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