NEW WAVE INTERNATIONAL SCRIPT & FILM FESTIVAL
Selected
May-August 2023
ESSENCE ON TIME FRAMES
Luis Dias
Maryana is one woman who climbs into a taxi searching for her true essence and her freedom in a never endless journey. This trip will never end. She knows is supposed to be like that and the World goes on rather she want or not
Switch
Desiree Faust
A dark love letter to the critic, from the artist. ‘Switch’...the one who is both slave and master…(in BDSM), questions the limits imposed on filmmakers.
Blood Money
Dominic Flanagan
Howard Swan, a doctor with a severe drinking problem, loses his medical license, his wife, his house, and is on the verge of losing his daughter as well...
NOTRE DAME IS IN FLAMES
Eric Sollars
Resourceful Gendarme Margaux is joined by her former beau after the Notre Dame fire as they follow clues left centuries earlier by Napoleon and Victor Hugo, ultimately leading them to the lost Charlemagne's Crown.
Wind
Mike Hoolboom
Based on an interview with Google’s senior software engineer Blake Lemoine and Google AI LaMDA (Language Model for Dialogue Applications)...
Rachel's Reason
Kenisha Morgan
Rachel invites her sisters, Rebecca and Rochelle, over to her place for a night of wining and laughing over their childhood and adulthood lives. Amidst the laughter, Rebecca and Rochelle discover a truth about Rachel. A night of fun turns into Rachel’s Reason.
Mood Circus
Eddy Falconer
Figurative animated fantasy reflecting precarious inner states. We visit trauma and unease, yet also futuristic conjecture and whimsy.
Heaven Sent Me
Jim Norman
After he catches his wife cheating with his best friend, a devastated firefighter’s life is permanently changed when a guardian angel in the form of a beautiful woman saves his life and then takes over his life .
Talking Cure
Maren Krüger
A black room, a chair, a couch and two men. The constellation reminds one of a session at a psychotherapist...
GENERAL GRANT IS DOOMED!
JAMES BSAUNDERS
In the spring of 1884, U. S. Grant -- the most well-known man in America and the world -- has been bankrupted by a Ponzi scheme...
BOSS TWEED
JAMES BSAUNDERS
“RECOMMEND” Dave Trottier (Author, The Screenwriter’s Bible) SUPER: "Most of this stuff actually happened." SUPER: "A lot of it is still happening today." William M. “Boss” Tweed is a dynamic Tammany Hall politician who controls most of NYC’s expenditures...
Spiders and Flies
Casey Mensing
Erich Miller is a young man with a camera living in Downtown Los Angeles with his girlfriend, Tasha Palmer...
Haliuka /Dead Wind/
Pozsgai Zsolt
Rosana is a 42-year-old woman living in Monte Carlo. She is a successful businesswoman...
Creators
Shamil Aliyev
The film"Creators"tells about the study of the cruel impact of the communist-bolshevik ideology...
L'Amerika
Ilkka Leva
Place Unknown from the dream of an outsider European visitor.
Reality Therapy
Robert Fritz
Tracy finds what's important in her Master's thesis. Reality Therapy tells the story of the conflict between the ideal of love and the reality of love in a variation of the prodigal fable.
2020: life and death of a virus
Edo Tagliavini
A critical, ironic and political overview of the world during the 2020 pandemic time ...
The S.S. Robin
Camille DeBiase
In middle-class Brooklyn in 1971 a mixed race family was simply not the norm. The S.S. Robin takes place in Brooklyn, New York in 1971...
Never say Never
Stephen Karnaghan
NEVER SAY NEVER SYNOPSIS Alen is a successful stock broker who wants to be a professional artist. His twin sister Ellen is disabled and living in a special hostel paid for by Alen...
We The People?
Simon Zhao
A person searches for his dream club, but a series of intense conversations makes him reflect on the purpose of his behavior and the faces of this world.
The Sunrise
Mansoor Ahmed
A multi-genre experimental film depicting a tragedy, disguised as a comedy, disguised as a horror film. This is a story about age-old loneliness, unquenched thirst and waning abilities to sustain life.
It Really Is About Me
Karen Mussette
Kath Duncan -The untold struggle for civil rights
Ray Barron -Woolford FRSA
A Documentary film about the life and activism of LGBTQ Scot Kath Duncan The most important Uk Civil rights leader past 100 years but almost forgotten in time until my Highly acclaimed stage play #liberty and my biography of Kath The Last Queen Of Scotland stage play Liberty
Long Paths
António Ferreira
He lived the past returning to Macao. This reencounter surprised him with a different reality. He grew up with a Chinese family in the Catholic neighbourhood of St. Lázaro. Brought unseen images from Macao, saved for sixty years.
Scraggliness
Johanne Chagnon
Emaciated beings in a desolated landscape stand out in front of suspended remains. The poses of these silhouettes make the human figure almost animal, hardly recognizable. Can we detect in this ghostly wall the spectres of the people to which these abandoned moults belonged, these remains of a past existence?
Natzee Zombie Carnage
Nicholas Weed
An old style Spaghetti War / Horror B-Movie. About, American Dog-Face GIs in the Battle of the Bulge. The story of the fight against an offensive of Undead Nazi Atomic Super-soldiers trying to destroy Europe and bring about the Thousand Years of Darkness. The film is a period piece set during the Second World War. But also covers the Post-War fallout of the Zombie Technology.
Mi Amore (my love)
Richie Valentino
This short film is a love tragedy and as typical as they are, it also ends on a sad note. But there is always a brighter side to every story. Set with in a world focused on differences while overrun by fear and individualistic separation there are still those who believe in the power of touch, spiritual connection and equality. They; continue seeking love, trust and warmth through the strength of their heart and not just how they are told to perceive or how they are told to judge by what they simply see.
AM I NOT MY BROTHERS' KEEPER?
RossiItoff Itoff
After a tough battle with the Russian army, a Ukrainian special forces soldier is rescued by a man of Bulgarian origin, but then faces serious resistance from the local community.
Digital Asylum
RossiItoff Itoff
A journalist is invited to present to the world the first of its kind facility created to help people overcome their addiction to technology, digital applications, social media, and online chats. By interviewing the patients, he discovers the truth about this place.
The Ride
Alysha Haran
When Blake picks up a young Marine hitching his way down the highway, he has no idea giving the veteran a simple ride will have such a life-changing effect on both of them.
Talk as I can feel
Idria Niosi
A good looking drunk man. An apparently deaf boy. They meet, almost clash, in an impersonal and cold setting. The characters and their interaction seems stifled and suffocated by the grey tones of this nondescript space. Communication is stunted and escalates rapidly into a paradoxical dynamic alternating between revelation and misunderstanding.
PARALELO
SANTIAGO ECHEVERRY
Alina, my mother, was a very intelligent and successful woman who built her life out of her own innate talents as a psychic. She wrote a book in the 1970s, entitled Paralelo, that never got published because of the catholic church's censorship, and the pressure of conservative forces in Colombia, her native country. In this book, way ahead of her time, she explores the connections between the physical and spiritual realms...
SHAMANS
SANTIAGO ECHEVERRY
Shamans is the portrait of 4 artists living and working in London, UK. Angel Ito, originally from Puerto Rico, is a dancer, performer, actor and painter, that has spent many years living in the UK. Jonathan Armour is a digital artist and performer, whose specialty is virtual reality. Stefan Djokic is an experimental fashion designer finishing his MA at St Martin’s College...
Monday Night Scandals
SANTIAGO ECHEVERRY
Scandals Saloon is a Country/Western Gay bar in Wilton Manors, FL, city with the second highest LGBTQ population in the USA. Every Monday night they host a Drag Queen show called 'Stilettos' on the main dance floor, at the same time as a Cigar Smokers Social in the patio...
Friday The 13th - The Curse of Jason
Doug Ellerbusch
It's the 75th anniversary of Crystal Lake, 40th year since Pamela Voorhees went on her killing spree, and the survivors are invited back for a weekend celebration - Ginny, Chris, Tina, Megan, and Trish - now in their late 50s and all having had to do therapy after their Jason encounters. However, Mayor Harriet Manfred, godmother to Jason, has her own plans, resurrecting Pamela's son in hopes of finishing off the survivors for good so his spirit can finally rest in peace...
Hopper's house
Kostiantyn Mishchenko
Edward Hopper (1882 – 1967) was an American realist painter and printmaker. Hopper created subdued drama out of commonplace subjects 'layered with a poetic meaning', inviting narrative interpretations. He was praised for "complete verity" in the America he portrayed.
The Patagonia Triple Crown
Nomade Media
A group of kayakers find themselves in the difficult mission of running the three less explored and most dangerous rivers of the south of the world. The Pascua River, Bravo and Baker. They will overcome the difficult tests that the patagonia will put on them, in addition they will learn about of the complicated environmental situation that Chile is suffering in its fight for fresh water.
Frankie's Flyer
Gerhard Uys
Narrow-minded people harbour a timeless dislike of innovators, for they are the ones who challenge their inflexibility.
Secrets, Dreams, Faith and Wonder: A Visual Music Film by Stephen T. Pope and Friends
Stephen Travis Pope
"Secrets, Dreams, Faith and Wonder" is a multi-award-winning feature-length non-narrative "visual music” film; its five movements (the short-subject contains one section from each movement) use computer animation, painted film, and photographic sources (together with an original electronic-music soundtrack), and map loosely onto the sections of the catholic mass (but with an epistle lesson from Martin Luther King and a credo by Mahatma Gandhi)...
Nocturnal messages
GabrielaBruckner
A woman falls asleep, and in her dream, she turns into an addicted homeless. Her deepest fears arise from her subconsciousness. The shabby room she now finds herself in becomes a fateful encounter zone. A homeless male who has taken over the room as his sleeping quarter wants to get rid of her but is too drunk to do so. The next morning he realizes that she could be useful to him and sends her to work...
Step Right Up
Kris Salvi
Glen Tavern goes on a nightmarish odyssey in search of a new coffee maker, after his breaks.
Dreams of the Past
Dmitri Frolov
A film about peace, love and war. Dedicated to the 100th anniversary of the end of the Civil War in Russia. The film takes place at the end of the summer of 1917, when Russia and the whole world were at a crossroads between two eras. None of the people could even imagine how much his life would change in the very near future...
A Colorado Christmas
TiffanyColling
Featuring all levels of service (military etc.) A P.A. to a billionaire finds love in the end after working for a hard ass man who doesn't realize what he wants until the spirit of the season is upon him.
Known Unknowns
John McCloskey
This is a comedy about political conspiracy through the lens of show-biz ambition. Tommy Bechlar was once a ‘serious’ print reporter covering national affairs in Washington, DC. Now he is reborn as a late night TV talk show host. The show is new, marginal, finding its own voice, struggling in the ratings. We begin with Tommy doing a pre-interview in his office with Prissy Whip, a hot new pop star who isn’t afraid to challenge the status quo...
The Haunted Jizo of Shimo-Mizuno, Sayama City
光男 栗原
A story surrounding a statue built in 1600 called the Haunted Jizo. An evil ghost is eliminated by the power of the Haunted Jizo.
Anti-Trump Covid-19 Video
philip clayton-thompson
Coverage of President Trump's comments about the Covid-19 pandemic being over by end of April.
a Soulless Man Story
Emanuele La Placa
Mario is a man of fifty, despite his work and family, the man is addicted to the vice of alcohol and gambling. One day the business partner discovers during an audit that Mario who had been illegally pocketing the company's money...
Roses in the Night
Pencho Kunchev
A story of a young girl in ancient Greece between ripening and mystery of first love. Based upon "Les Chansons de Bilitis" by Pierre Louys (1875-1920).
ROUGH CUT
Matthew Margo
'Though a good deal is too strange to be believed, nothing is too strange to have happened." Thomas Hardy Logline: A former Marine Corps drill instructor is chief censor for a major U.S. broadcast network at a time the network has decided to become provocative in its programming to compete against streaming media and cable...
TRIP TO THE TAX PARADISE - RUMBO AL PARAISO FISCAL
JAMES BSAUNDERS
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TRIP TO TAX PARADISE is an experimental silent film feature film, on which a musical with neorealist and humorous touches has been mounted. Based on real events, Antonio Bellido has tried to grotesquely portray the socioeconomic crisis in Spain from 1908 to 1914, where the corruption and greed of its leaders have mortgaged future generations regardless of the consequences.
Michiko
良 賀川
Outline Michiko struggled to graduate from Akita junior college and worked in Tokyo to master English. Michiko worked in English with international organizations such as the United Nations and UNICEF, She was thinking of serving the world's children And when she was a student, she went to India for a study trip, Indian Preschoolers Support Organization (NGO) Meet with Khan, the representative...
Kerry Cowboys
Zeff Lawless
“Kerry Cowboys” is a Dark Comedy/Fantasy/Sci-Fi. Seventeen year old Tadpole and his sidekick, the accountant Waldo, arrive in Ballyglen, in South Kerry, to set up a Skatepark and a Coffee Shop. They are leaving the past behind them, looking for new lives and love. They are being followed on their journey by their “Doppelganger” Leprechauns, Lil’ Tad & Lil’ Waldo, who don’t want to miss the shenanigans that follow these two, wherever they go...
The Curse of Leap Castle
Zeff Lawless
Leap Castle is one of the most haunted castles in Ireland. A film crew set up to try to capture any ghostly essence that may still be haunting the place. Thirteen years since their parents went missing, the O’Carroll twins return to Leap Castle, hoping to find something. With the Elemental finally being released from the forest, the Elemental and the host of ghosts from Leap Castle are there to greet them.
Movie Michiko,Making and Interview
良 賀川
The main story of the movie "Michiko", which won nearly 100 awards at film festivals around the world, and the main movie and documentary footage that collects the making videos and comments of the actors. Visualize how the director, Kagawa, created Michiko. In particular, the acting guidance of the director of Michiko's rampaging scene brought a real performance to the movie by the acting guidance of Kagawa who is an experiencer. The whole story is covered
The Lost Village
Pozsgai Zsolt
IThe Lost Village is a devastating expose of how Greenwich Village, the epicenter of the counterculture in the 1960s and ‘70s, is being turned into a wasteland of chain stores, banks and multi-million dollar condos. This award-winning documentary follows filmmaker Roger Paradiso on a journey through today’s Village as he tries to figure out how this ‘gentrification on steroids’ got started. Talking to journalists, activists, shop-owners, professors and more, he uncovers how the landlords, politicians and NYU turned the Village into a place that is losing its heart and soul.
WOMAN
lillian carter
"WOMAN" reveals the three archetypes that all women utilize throughout their lives. The Mother is Unconditional Love, The Hunter is search for the Truth and The Witch is Wisdom and Intuition. They are innate strengths we draw from to understand others decisions, resolutions and perspectives as well as our own.
The Wall
Léonore Calles
Three young friends mysteriously find themselves in a white room guarded by a strange character. There is no furniture, no window, only a pile of shoe boxes and two flashlights. Their reunion is quickly interrupted by the sound of blows coming from a wall behind which no one is supposed to be. Manipulated by their host, the three guests find themselves sequestered in this room which, as the blows resound, shrinks little by little...
MAKING MY DAY
Teatro Multilingue
Sometimes in life we all need a little push. Just ask shy Tim. One afternoon he returns from work to find an anonymous note under his door: Thank you for making my day! As Tim sets out to discover who wrote the note and why, he enters into the world of Sal and Beatrice, where words can be lost in translation, and where a white lie here and a deception there are worth it when people really care about each other. Making My Day explores relationships through different generations, reduced mobility and the way cities and their architecture influence how we communicate. In English, italiano and a little français.
Twilight Zone: The Worst Accident in Film History
Bob Jones
Three people were killed during the Steven Spielberg production of Twilight Zone: The Movie, making it the worst accident in film history.
Nomad District
Alexandra Rice
From Flanders to Wallonia "the nomad district" crosses Belgium in an annual tour that has been going on for centuries. Its inhabitants, the showmen, are nevertheless well established in the modernity. In the banality of their daily lives and the cycle of life. The film wonders about the unconscious tradition that goes through them. What are the impalpable residues? Would it be that of our traditions, of us ... In the community to which we unconsciously belong. This immersive film portrays a community that is insidiously endangered by the regulation of cities and the disrepute of popular culture.
Newsreel '44
Mike Buckendorf
A faux wartime newsreel, capturing news highlights from D-Day to the Battle of the Bulge with period music and narration.
Game Over
Kate Ryan
The hypnotic world of video sports that keeps players inside.
Sprezzatura, or Artlessness of the Soul
Alla Dvortsova
The dream of creating a perfect dress has become an obsession with the sophisticated fashion designer. But how can he create a masterpiece to order? The exhausted couturier sinks into sleep and is suddenly surrounded by fantasies which come to life and split the world into light and shadow. Exciting images now move in an exquisite manner, now go still in mysterious images. Digital-art works fill the space with emotion. The poetic form of the narrative helps emphasise the depth and diversity of the hero's world.
Becoming Arctic
Robert Platt
A lone, phantom camofleur loiters and drifts in a formidable Arctic landscape. In slow, brooding gestures that swing from comedy to tragedy, comprehension remains conspicuously undetermined. The optical trickster debuts as seemingly displaced, gradually merges into the background. In this mesmerizing disruption of reality we embark on a psychological and morphological journey of renegotiating the self in relation to the environment.
Something
Barbara Stepansky
A million moments in time of a relationship at a crossroads is juxtaposed with the question about the future of physics and the existence of a multiverse.
The Deadly Deposit
Gini Graham Scott
Deadly Deposit is a suspense/thriller about a real estate agent closing a big deal who puts a $2 million payment in the wrong bank account of a struggling entrepreneur, who spends the money to finance a unique invention for pets. Jake desperately seeks to get back the money before the deal collapses and the mob kills his family and him. Then, chaos ensues. As the story begins...
The Other Part of the Picture
Peter Hardy
Two students living in apartments next door to one another discover old letters hidden in each of their rooms. As a group of people gather around them to try and uncover the mystery of the letters, the play explores friendship and the ways we get to know other people.
Orion 1925
Eva Ingolf
in February 1925, a storm broke suddenly at Halamid west of Iceland, two trawlers and two ufo's went under, causing the unlikely meeting of an Alien and a fisherman fighting for their lives
The World It Seems
James Caley
A woman finds a truth about herself she is afraid to admit. The next morning a man realises that same truth.
Back to work
Marlisa Doubell
A young workforce struggles to adapt to life back at the office, post lockdowns.
All short films about the work & the exhibitions of "BrückenKunst" from 2014 to 2019, a group of unrecognized artists in Berlin.
Gilbert Brüning
These short films show how difficult it is to achieve recognition in our world as an unknown and unrecognized artist. Bridges stand for the connection between two different poles. The name Brückenkunst is intended to express this intention to establish connection. The connection between two different banks. Between art and life. Between East and West. Asia and Europe. Top and bottom...
FOREST ISLAND
Ryosuke Handa
IIn the midst of World War II, a young soldier escapes from an enemy plane that has crashed in the Boso Peninsula. A woman who lives in an isolated cottage in the forest rescued the injured man. When the unconscious man wakes up, he sees a hand-made cello in the room. "My dead son made it," she says. He asks if he can play the cello. She brings the cell to him and he begins playing sarabande from Bach's Suite No. 3 with his wounded hands. The ghost of her dead son wanders in the forest and around his mother's cottage with a kettle to draw water, but only birds can see the ghost, not the mother. One day the mother hears the sound of a kettle.
WORKOUT AROUND THE WORLD - STARRING CHEF DEVAN & TONY JAZZ
Ms. ELENA
People around the World exercise in various ways
The Protectors of Nature (English Subtitles) XP Transfer
Fabrizio MASINI
Cycles follow one to another and sometimes leave traces of past times.
Sacred Vow
Ramona Taylor
Tess reflects on her relationships and a major life decision after she discovers that her husband has been cheating.
Bruehm's Closet
Ramona Taylor
The Secret Codex
Kevin Pike
Upon the Pope's announcement of a celebration for the 2033rd anniversary of Christ's crucifixion, a branch of Amsterdam Templars pushes to be restated to their original role as the guardians of the church with blackmail by using an ancient secret codex. They must promote the apparent heir, the young son, with more interest in getting high and his hot girlfriend's competitive drone racing.
Garbage People: Trash Conspiracies + Trash Carnival
Brit Tobin
Double Feature, 2-for-1 episode! Trash Conspiracies Ever wonder what Garbage People eat? Or where the dead Trash go when they die? Patches and Peel know... but maybe it's just a Trash conspiracy. Trash Carnival Patches and Peel experience a day full of fun and follies at the annual Trash Carnival, that is, until they take a ride on 'Epidemic Alley' they won't soon forget...
Review
Jonathan Zarantonello
In a video message, a social media acolyte invites other women to have sex with her boyfriend, but only if they film their review after. A game of power dynamics intertwines the lives of several amused participants, then the videos leak and those lives are forever changed, destroyed, or ended.
Little pile of things I & II
My name is Alexa Young
This documentary made in two parts, begins with Jeanette, an old lady explaining her life with her things. While, in the second part, her objects and archives tell us different things about her.A 90 years-old lady explains the origin of her perception of possessions and the personal reasons which drive her to amass things. Things that have taken over her living space. Confronting the problem of emptiness and fullness, the story follows Jeanette with her hoarding disorder...
The Gale
Timothy Wenzel
Filmed under almost impossible conditions on Lake Michigan: temperature below freezing, winds >50 kts using a Canon DSLR with an unstabilized 400 mm lens. To accomplish this I placed the tripod and camera within an inch of the wall of a concrete building and found the optimum spot for viewing without any wind shake...
