Festival Films
International Short Film Competition
4 AM
France, November 2015. After the Paris terror attacks, the state of emergency is p
ATÉR
Sahar tirelessly explores volcanic landscapes to find a rare mineral. But what she
AU PAIR
Nadia, a "chic" Parisian, goes to the heart of Spain to teach French to the young
AUGUST SKY
As the Amazon burns for the seventeenth day, a nurse in Sao Paulo finds herself dr
BAGTHAN
Chandra, the only descendant of the ancestors who created his beautiful village, c
BLEACH
Damien, a 16-year old swimmer, clashes with his Coach at practice. In parallel, Da
BLUE NOİSE
A young apprentice craftsman is not only dazed by the noise at work. In a chaotic
BODY PARTS
ANITA is a sixteen years old girl, with a deviant behavior, a clearly expressed se
CAI-BER
Hours before her one way trip out, Nour‘s last night in cairo turns to be a trou
CENSOR OF DREAMS
Every night, The Censor and his team moderate Yoko’s dreams. Tonight nothing hap
DİE UNSİCHTBARE GRENZE
A deportation in Vienna in the middle of the night. Police officer Nancy and her c
ENDLESS HEAT
Lola is vegan, Aurelio is a hunter. Their mother just died but the body is lost at
HAIR TIE, EGG, HOMEWORK BOOKS
As a model student in her elementary school, 11-year-old Lin Yuqi is assigned to g
HAPPY LİFE
In this anxious and hectic time, Happy Life explores those unusual outlets that so
HARDLY WORKİNG
Hardly Working sheds a limelight on the very characters that normally remain in th
HOLLYWOOD
Breakthroughs don’t come easy. Especially for up-and-coming actress Anna. Reject
HOME
Years full of rancor, unhealed wounds and emotions pending resumption or reconcili
IN THE SOİL
Karoline’s life is turned upside down when her father, Kjeld, manically starts d
INVİSİBLES
Azen, a 9-year-old boy, begins to see strange beings in the jungle. He must decide
KHADİGA
Khadiga, a young mother of 18 lives alone with her baby after her husband left for
LİBERTY
In a near-future dystopia, citizens are rising against their increasingly oppressi
MAGNİFİED CİTY
A Magnifying glass human was wandering in ruined city. One day he was attracted by
MİMİNE
Bonus, a clumsy and reckless father, has custody of his young son for the day. Aba
MOTHER’S DAY
A short story about mothers struggling with extreme situations. The fox travels th
MUSE
An aging and decadent artist rekindles a dangerous relationship with his Muse righ
NORTH POLE
Misty field, crowded locker room. Margo belongs to neither. Maybe if she loses her
SAFE
On a winter night in Atlantic City, the manager of a defunct casino must reckon wi
SAME OLD
One bad night for a New York City delivery driver.
- 15 December Uşak
SCALE
Driving along the motorway, Will loses his sense of scale. As his crippling drug a
SHARK
Completing the trilogy of wickedly dark comedy shorts that began with Spider and B
SİDERAL
In Natal, on the Brazilian north coast, the country is preparing to launch its fir
SOLILOQUIUM
"SOLILOQUIUM" is a visual Portrait of one’s internal speech, flowing like a rive
SOUND OF THE NİGHT
Vibol and his brother Kea sell noodles on a motorized cart every night on the stre
TECHNO, MAMA
Nikita loves to listen techno music and dreams to go to Berlin and visit the famou
THE CALLİNG
The Animal hears a calling and decides to find its source. At the bottom of a well
THE HERO
Cyprian, 10 years old orphan, raised by his beloved grandmother, dreams to become
THE LAST DAY OF PATRİARCHY
Nina is pregnant by Jakub. Today, he introduces her to his family. They’re all g
THE LAST PROCESSİÓN
During the procession of the Virgin on the great day of the town's festivities, Je
THE OTHER END OF THE STREET
When 9-year-old Ábel is attacked by his classmate Bence at school, his father dec
THE RIGHT WORDS
Kenza, 15, and her little brother Madhi, 13, regularly humiliate one another on so
THE SAVİOR
A little girl lives with her dad in a village. After losing her mom, she tries to
THE SKY WAS BEAUTİFUL YESTERDAY
The film tells the story of a holiday memory, of a meeting of two teenagers seen i
THERE İS NO PEACE OF MİND
The film tells a story of a middle-aged man, who uses a service provided by a comp
TİBBİTS HİLL
What if the wind had spoken the language of children… What would be its voice ?
TO VANCOUVER
Two siblings, one spell, wounded landscapes and an inevitable departure. "To Vanco
TRUMPETS IN THE SKY
Boushra, one of the Syrian potato-picking girls in Lebanon, returns from a long da
TUNDRA
Walfrido Larduet, a lonely electrical inspector, dreams of the Red Woman, whose im
TUTU
"She gave to understand that she wants to be asleep for the rest of her life" - Ha
VHS
End of summer 1991. USSR. Yura works at a factory and dreams of escaping to Americ
VOL DE NUİT
Kemal, a 20-year-old Belgian-Turkish boy, discovers that his father has been sendi
ZANAAR
In the hopes of finding an explanation for the sudden quietness of the volcano, Al
ZARZAL
1990. William and his son Jacobo go out to the nearest pool. Colombian villages an
ZOY’S RETURN
GALYA (40) an drink, pugnacious pimp in an Omsk village bordering Kazakhstan.She i
National Short Film Competition
A RUTHLESS DESİRE FOR SİMPLİCİTY
Tarık 25 yaşında, annesi ve abisi ile yaşayan, Sinema Televizyon bölümü mezunu bir gençtir. Deneysel kısa filmler çekiyor. Tarık, çektiği deneysel bir filmle kasaba f
THE ADDRESS
A big surprise awaits the teacher who is appointed to his hometown, which he knows like the back of his hand; the village he was assigned is not in the maps or any records.
ANİMA
Anima explores the influence different cultures and beliefs have upon the relationships between humans and animals. Set against the backdrop of personal memories and dreams, Anima
MY FATHER'S AİRBED
My Father’s Airbed is an autobiographic father-son film, shot between the period Orkun Göntem learned his father, who he hadn’t seen in 5 years, was cancer until his death, w
THE DAY MY FATHER DİED
Sema and Hale are sisters who got lost their father and they are coming together at the funeral while those two were in bad place. After the funeral they take the road to their ho
GARDENS PETRIFIED
After his father's death, Yusuf back to his village, which he has not been to for years, and learns that a geothermal company wants to buy his father's agricultural lands and dril
DONT AFRAİD BY ME
Deniz(35), a middle class white collar working woman, has been suffering from physical and psyhological violence by her husband. One day, she decides to leave everything behind, i
NOT TODAY
Handling two homes, three kids and her mother with Alzheimer’s; Meryem, a single mother nanny, gets hooked on middle class’ discourse of self-help. Going over her priorities i
HELL İS EMPTY, ALL THE DEVİLS ARE HERE
An aspiring actress Gülşah, prepares herself for the auditions of an acting school. A famous actor Levent who works in the theatre she's a volunteer in, also a jury member for h
INTERNATİONAL DEPARTURES
The film speaks of Deniz, who is spending last days bidding farewell to Istanbul, friends, closest relatives and girlfriend, all the while hiding own identity behind the camera. D
THERE IS NOTHING CALLED HOME
The story of a person who is stuck with the concept of home and attaches a lot of meaning to small things, choosing herself as a weapon at a Russian roulette table and the battle
STORMERS
Stormers tells a story about the changes that occur in two people’s lives upon the arrival of a third person to their home. We see how games played by this couple in their home
FRACTAL: MONEY MAN
The dystopia of reality through employees who enter the workplace with coffins, an elevator as a cemetery in the plazas, mechanized white-collar people, people who get money out o
IN SEARCH OF DAD ONE NIGHT
Two brothers who want to get a share from the sale of their father’s home spend the night looking for him. But the siblings must first face the trust issues between them before
THE NİGHT GENERATİON
It’s Saturday night in Istanbul and the storm suppresses the sound of music around the city. Ozge and Tarik who have had too much to drink decides to end the night and they jump
EVERYTHİNG IS FİNE
This documentary is centered around the lifestyles, struggles, and dreams of a 12-year-old girl living in a highland town and her fellow villagers.
- 14 December
SUICIDE WATCHMAN
The Ministry of Internal Affairs issues a nationwide circular in order to prevent the excessive increase in suicide cases in recent months. According to the circular; neighborhood
İSTANBUL İSTANBUL
Constantine and his wife, who are in their 70s, could not leave Istanbul, a city the Greeks were compelled to leave at different times for many various reasons. With the death of
THE DOGBERRY BRANCH
Kerem (23) who’s life goes inside of a room, starts to observe the young and beautiful lady on the next door with an admiration he couldn’t describe. Esin (40) is very differe
KOROSİ
Katsi is an old man living among the green mountains of Valley of Coruh. On a gloomy day, he wakes up and decides to brew herbal tea on his stove. He realises that there is no woo
THE SHEEP
One of the sheep's of Bekir (40), who makes a living by selling sacrificial sheep in the his makeshift hut stuck among the plazas in İstanbul, goes disappear. He has only two day
TOWER
The sun rises on Sunday morning in Berlin. On her way home, Derin finds herself thinking about what she left behind. She remembers why and how she moved abroad.
- 14 D
DOUBT
Sait, a man committed to his faith, has turned his back on the material world. This peaceful existence is shattered by a news story he sees on television and a municipal worker wh
LARVA
An 8-year-old girl uses her fairy tale-like inner world to seek for a solution to the injustice she is faced with.
- 14 December Uşak Üniversitesi Sinema Salonu 18.0
MEGALOPOLİS
As cities merge rampantly, nature enters the house of the sleeping man in silent, delicate and magnificent steps.
- 14 December Uşak Belediyesi Atatürk Kültür
MARY
Couples wanting children need a government permit after fulfilling pre-determined conditions. Cemal and Meryem are a married couple who live on a farm and Meryem is eight months p
OUR ARK
We are backing up the planet, creating 3D models of animals, rainforests, cities and people. We are archiving as if ecological collapse could be staved off through some digital No
ÖZÜR
Ufuk, middle-aged, middle class, leads an ordinary life in the middle of everything. Again, on one of the days when everything will go as planned and ordinary, Ufuk suddenly exper
REWŞEN
B, who has been stuck in a loop loses his perception of time. He believes that, if he travels to Rewşen, he would get out of this cycle. While looking for the minibus in the gara
STİLETTO
Hasan is a taxi driver working the night shift. On the early-morning drive home, he sees a woman passing in high heels. Fascinated by her appearance, he does something that leads
THE GİRL WHO PLAYS WİTH MUD
As I spend the 21-day lockdown period in my village where I'd never seen before, I am tracking the traces of my sister, who died as a baby, with my camera.
- 14 D
DİSTANT MİRROR
"Distant Mirror" is a magical realist, inner drama about a soldier who, when negotiating a minefield steps on a landmine and in his inner turmoil, he imagines he encounters a mirr
MOURNİNG REHEARSALS
Mourning rehearsals of a man whose mother is about to die...
- 14 December Uşak Belediyesi Atatürk Kültür Merkezi 16-17
- 14 December U
National Student Film Competition
IN THE SHADOW OF A JUNIPER
The documentary In the Shadow of the Juniper tells the highland and village life of Fatma Koçubaba and her siblings, who made a living as a shepherd after losing her parent
THE WORLD IN MY HEAD
In this age where cultures are rapidly disappearing with modern life and traditional ethnic clothing is gradually being forgotten, you will see why our women cannot give up
FOURTH WALL
A young worker in the art department of a TV series set loses his life while painting the decor. Two days after his death, Enver the director notices the uncompleted wall pa
ESKİSİNDEN DAHA KİRLİ
- 13 December Uşak Üniversitesi Sinema Salonu 14.00-15.00
- 16 December Uşak Üniversitesi Uşak Üniversitesi Mustafa Kemal Paşa Amfisi 15.0
RETURNING HOME
During the times one’s mind is wounded by forgetting, this is a movie about remembering through forgetting.
- 14 December Uşak Belediyesi Atatürk Kültür Me
GODARD ETKİSİ
- 14 December Uşak Belediyesi Atatürk Kültür Merkezi 13.00-14.00
- 14 December Uşak Arkeoloji Müzesi 13.00-14.00
- 16 December
GULAB GUL
Gulab Gul is a boy living in a remote mountain village in Afghanistan. Gulab does not have two arms from birth. Gulab, who lost his father 5 years ago, is taken care of by h
THE WALLS I CAN’T GET OUT OF IT
Murat who carried the can for someone else and was served for four years, is released from prison under pandemic conditions. When he come back to his neighborhood excited to
CODE BREAK 13
Ilgaz is an employee tasked with destroying bots that have broken down in the Metaverse. Again on a normal day, Ilgaz goes to Metaverse and hunts boats. Bots are like normal
PİMİNO
In a world full of round objects, one day, one of the workers in the field collecting round vegetables finds an unusual object.
- 13 December Uşak Ünivers
SANDES
Do places have memories? If they have, is an aged place face act of forgetting just like people?
Sandes was one of the most important hotels of the period, located in
CİST
"Sanduka" examines the process of a morgue and ghusl house, and shows its daily routine. Although death is a big taboo for most people, it turns into a routine rather than a
SUPPLANT
To cope with her loneliness, an old lady fills up her house with plants, but they start causing problems and make her face the past.
- 13 December Uşak Ün
THE OLD MAN AND THE SEA
The central character is an old fisherman named Santiago, who has not caught a fish for 84 days.Santiago takes his skiff far out into the deep waters of the Gulf Stream, whe
Italian Short Film Competition
ACCAMORA
Fig harvesting on the rugged Calabrian hills is a yearly life ritual for Antonio. That place is full of memories - it
ARGENTO VIVO
To deal with the pain of witnessing his wife's illness, Alfredo, a 70 year old man, has built a device that allows hi
BATACLAN
A French girl, daughter of second-generation immigrants, walks into a police station to report her brother Jamil's in
COLPA DEL MARE
-Colpa del mare- originates from a local news event: one morning in July 2017, in Pescara, dozens and dozens of drug
DIORAMA
In an isolated house lives a family of five: Father, Mother, Eldest Daughter, Younger Daughter and Newborn. Everyday
ECHOES
Francesca, a shy and introverted girl, suddenly becomes the opposite of herself. Her best friend Mirta witnesses an i
FENICE – MOMONI SS21
Directed by Giulia Achenza, Fenice - Momoni SS21 is an ode to the cyclical, regenerative nature of life. Employing da
GUINEA PIG
In a world where the government has abolished all types of contact between human beings - from eye contact to sexual
HOLY CARE
Gaia works in her family funeral home and takes care of the bodies while the soul is leaving. But one day, something
IN RIVA AL MARE
Mattia has long been in love with Marina, a girl from his high school who one day confesses to him that she wants to
IN THE EYE OF THE BEHOLDER
Maurizio is a young university student living in Zürich, with a passion for diseases. Unlike many others, he can see
INDELEBILE
Claudia is a young girl abused by her violent and alcoholic father. The sense of rebellion and the need for freedom c
MY BORDER, MY FOREST
Ivan is a sixty-year-old worker born in former Yugoslavia. He lives with his wife in a small village in Friuli called
NINNAO
Early 1900's. In a noble house, the mistress has just given birth, but the baby was a stillborn child. In the same ho
PER NON SPARIRE LENTAMENTE
Times are a bit harsh for Fabio, a young Roman musician and the people around him. Everything seems suspended as ever
QUASI ORA (THE USUAL THING)
Rome. An Italian middle-class family, during lunch, talks about the problems that afflict our nation. And Lili, an en
REVENGE ROOM
Federica is isolated in her bedroom. She doesn’t want to get out. Several vulgar and provocative messages have been
UNICA
The Fibonacci’s essay divides the world into beautiful and not beautiful through an objective evaluation system. Li
WHEN WE WERE JUST WATER
Three sisters, in a rural reality in a suspended time, bury their childhood memories to embark on a symbolic-metaphys
YELLOW SCARF
The cold night envelops the suburban streets of an Italian city 3 days before the lockdown. A man commits a crime and
Uşak Short Film Competition
12 POZ
The story of Nevzat, who has been a photographer since nearly 50 years, extends from the analog age to the
CANIMIN YARISI
- 13 December Uşak Üniversitesi Sinema Salonu 16.00-17.00
- 14 December Uşak Ark
KOLU AÇIK HACIM SULTAN
- 13 December Uşak Üniversitesi Sinema Salonu 16.00-17.00
- 14 December Uşak Ark
PSYCHOSIS
Suddenly seeing that some things weren’t going right at the bathroom, Kenan had to face the issue. Notic
“Searching for home” by Zhannat Alshanova
END OF SEASON
At the end of summer, Rosa (50) arrives at her husband's resort - a small hotel in the vast dry steppe, to
HISTORY OF CIVILIZATION
Indira decides to restart her life and move to London. However, on her last day, she dares to explore what
PAOLA MAKES A WİSH
On her regular day at work, Paola starts to feel that she is missing out something exciting.
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“Dancing amidst the flames” by Leonardo Martinelli
AROUND COPABACANA
Presidential elections. Fake news. Pleasures and pains in the city's neighborhoods. Brazil, 21st century.
NEON PHANTOM
João is a delivery man who dreams of having a motorcycle. He was told that everything would be like a musical film.<
THE PLEASURE OF KİLLİNG BUGS
In the near future, the climate crisis reaches an irreversible point. A nun and a priest meet to talk about the disap
“The alchemy of single shot filmmaking” by Lendita Zeqiraj
“Power of acceptance” by Azadeh Masihzadeh
“Social impact” by Doug Rolland
Make Way for The Jury
3 HOURS TO LOVE
Four intersecting stories about women who reflect on their circumstances inside the Special Prison Facility of Santa
Here Be Dragons
France, 2016. One year after the terrorist attacks. Myriam, divorced mother of Turkish origin, finds out that her son
The Clocks
‘The Clocks’; is an essay film adapted from Ecem Arslanay's essay titled ‘Büyük Saat, Küçük Saat, İleri S
SO WE LİVE
A one-take filming of a family sitting in their living room while bombs are falling outside.
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SONSUZ ZAMAN İÇİNDE
The little girl who is waiting for good news from her pregnant mother who is taken to city for birth and new born bab
WE HAVE ONE HEART
When Adam discovers letters his parents exchanged years ago, he takes the opportunity for him to find out more about