Purple, Pink and Sand by Remko Dekker Director: Remko Dekker Country of origin: Netherlands Country of Filming: Croatia Film Language: Croatian, English, Ukrainian Category: 2020 Documentary (budget over $5k USD) A heartwarming funny film about three artists who visit an island to create paintings that they try to sell to the locals. Trailer Full movie [...]

RE-EVALUATION by Anna Kuzminykh Director: Anna Kuzminykh Country of origin: Russian Federation Country of Filming: Russian Federation Film Language: Russian Category: Female Director Low Budget Short film (budget over $5k USD) An equable, genteel and seemingly delightful family has lived quite a mediocre life. After its death the family members have been put in purgatory [...]

Red by Karina Węgiełek Director: Karina Węgiełek Country of origin: Poland Country of Filming: Poland Film Language: Polish Category: Female Director Low Budget Short film (budget over $5k USD) Cigarettes, keys, a cell phone, a wallet – an unfinished life lying in a plastic police bag on the kitchen table. A father and daughter’s eyes [...]

Bitter herb // Piołun by Maria Ornaf Director: Maria Ornaf Country of origin: Poland Country of Filming: Poland Film Language: Polish Category: Female Director Low Budget Short film (budget over $5k USD) When wanting to stop breastfeeding a child, a Mother in the old times would rub wormwood ointment into her bosom. Upon tasting the [...]

DIAGONAL by Anne Thorens Director: Anne Thorens Country of origin: Switzerland Country of Filming: Switzerland Film Language: French Category: Female Director Low Budget Short film (budget over $5k USD) A young couple is already in the heat of the action when she asks him for a condom. He doesn't have one, but that doesn't seem [...]

TIMES by Anya Siberia Director: Anya Semenova Country of origin: United States Country of Filming: United States Film Language: English Category: Female Director Low Budget Short film (budget over $5k USD) A story of how to get to the wrong place at the wrong time in exactly 100 seconds. Director Biography — Anya Semenova Anya [...]

Emma by Noa Maiman Director: Noa Maiman Country of origin: Israel Country of Filming: Israel Film Language: Hebrew Category: Documentary (budget over $5k USD)/Female Director Low Budget Short film (budget over $5k USD) Noa needs to let go of Emma, her beloved and dying dog. With a certain level of humor, 'Emma' portrays the banality [...]

Then comes the evening by Maja Novakovic Director: Maja Novaković Country of origin: Serbia Country of Filming: Bosnia and Herzegovina Film Language: Serbian Category: Documentary (budget over $5k USD)/Female Director Low Budget Short film (budget over $5k USD) The documentary depicts the bittersweet life of two grannies living isolated on the hills of Eastern Bosnia. [...]

A Donkey Called Geronimo by Arjun Talwar, Bigna Tomschin Director: Arjun Talwar, Bigna Tomschin Country of origin: Germany Country of Filming: Denmark, Germany Film Language: English, German Category: Documentary (budget over $5k USD) «Eccentric and Funny!» «Full of whimsical characters!» «Imbued with a seductive sense of melancholy.» The cult documentary follows a group of German [...]

I wish i was like you by Luca Onorati, Francesco Gargamelli Director: Luca Onorati, Francesco Gargamelli Country of origin: Italy Country of Filming: Italy Film Language: Italian Category: Documentary (budget over $5k USD) "I wish I Was Like You" is a documentary about the Nirvana concert that was held in Marino in the Province of [...]

Astana, a city of the future? by Laurier Fourniau Director: Laurier Fourniau Country of origin: Belgium Country of Filming: Kazakhstan Film Language: Russian Category: Documentary (budget over $5k USD) In northern Kazakhstan, Astana is one of the youngest capitals in the world. Built almost ex-nihilo, as some sort of high-tech urban oasis, it is surrounded [...]

Southside Heroes by Martin Kießling Director: Martin Kießling Country of origin: Germany Country of Filming: Germany Film Language: German Category: Documentary (budget over $5k USD) The southern part of Nuremberg: A world characterized by social insecurity, violence and cultural diversity. During a workshop "Creative Writing" at a lower secondary school poetry slammer Lucas Fassnacht tries [...]

Akicita: The Battle of Standing Rock by Cody Lucich Director: Cody Lucich Country of origin: United States Country of Filming: United States Film Language: English Category: Documentary (budget over $5k USD) Synopsis: Standing Rock, 2016: the largest Native American occupation since Wounded Knee, thousands of activists, environmentalists, and militarized police descend on the Dakota Access [...]

Paper worlds by Sofya Leonidova Director: Sofya Leonidova Country of origin: Russian Federation Country of Filming: Russian Federation Film Language: Russian Category: Short Documentary (budget under $5k USD) Portrait of Kazakh-Russian painter Latif Kazbekov. We’ll meet him in the studio - the place where outer world and inner world are mixed together. Where paintings as [...]

All activities according to the plan by Ales Lapo Director: Ales Lapo Country of origin: Belarus Country of Filming: Belarus Film Language: Belarusian, Russian Category: Short Documentary (budget under $5k USD) The young man Dzianis Dashkevich is the director of the rural House of Culture in a village in Belarus. Trying to find new aspects [...]

Leaf Of Faith by Alice Yu Li Director: Alice Yu Li Country of origin: New Zealand Country of Filming: New Zealand Film Language: English Category: Animated Short (budget under $5k USD) A plant, Lilly, is brought inside an apartment which appears to be a loving home. She quickly discovers that her owner has killed every [...]

Maraña by Brisa Pamela Sanchez Director: Brisa P. Sanchez Country of origin: Mexico Country of Filming: Mexico Film Language: Category: Animated Short (budget under $5k USD) Tochtli, a broken rabbit that is found in the darkness of a huge forest, is persecuted for a being from which he has run away all his live, Tochtli [...]

Trap by Paul James Director: Paul James Country of origin: New Zealand Country of Filming: New Zealand Film Language: English Category: Animated Short (budget under $5k USD) A young girl fights for a sense of belonging. Trailer https://almatyfilmfest.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/10/trap-official-trailer.mp4 Full film Director Biography — Paul James Paul is an experienced artistic director specializing in digitally generated [...]

Escape Velocity by Tamás Rebák Director: Tamás Rebák Country of origin: Hungary Country of Filming: Hungary Film Language: Category: Animated Short (budget under $5k USD) Escape velocity: the minimum speed needed for an object to escape from the gravitational influence of a massive body, without ever falling back. An astronaut awakens in an abandoned cave [...]

IHR by Amélie Cochet, Louis Möhrle Director: Amélie Cochet, Louis Möhrle Country of origin: Switzerland Country of Filming: Switzerland Film Language: Category: Animated Short (budget under $5k USD) IHR (THEM) is the story about a building with an inner courtyard an its inhabitants. While the different character follow their everyday routines, trash slowly begins to [...]

MY TAGALONG by Jerry WANG Director: Jerry WANG Country of origin: Canada Country of Filming: Canada Film Language: English Category: Animated Short (budget under $5k USD) A story about two Gemini brothers' journey on the earth. The Older brother wants to enjoy the trip himself, but his younger brother always follows him and makes a [...]

It's not over yet by Gianluca Granocchia Director: Gianluca Granocchia Country of origin: Italy Country of Filming: Italy Film Language: Italian Category: Horror / Sci-Fi Short (budget under $5k USD) A small room at night, the television passing images of a macabre cartoon, a man massacring a child with a hammer. Dirty with blood, he [...]

Bastille - Another Place by Anna Radchenko, Jeremy Schaulin-Rioux Director: Anna Radchenko, Jeremy Schaulin-Rioux Country of origin: United Kingdom Country of Filming: Canada Language: English Category: Music Video (budget over $5k USD) Another Place is a surrealist music video directed by Anna Radchenko & Jeremy Schaulin-Rioux for English alternative rock band Bastille, featuring Canadian singer, [...]

Sharpen your focus by Georgia Tribuiani Director: Georgia Tribuiani Country of origin: United States Country of Filming: Hungary, Italy, United States Film Language: Category: Best Commercial The art of style is all about the details. Returning to his starring role in the Boss Eyewear campaign, British actor Henry Cavill steps in front of the lens [...]

Bass Astral x Igo "Bikini" by Grajper Director: Grajper Country of origin: Poland Country of Filming: Poland Language: English Category: Music Video (budget over $5k USD) The story takes place in four different time spaces. Those sequences try to remind us the topic of mask. Why are we wearing them and what are the effects [...]

INGAZI - Pytam by Sebastian Juszczyk Director: Sebastian Juszczyk Country of origin: Poland Country of Filming: Poland Language: Polish Category: Music Video (budget under $5k USD) Music inspired by the spirit of African poetry of `40 and `50. submit your film to almaty indie film fest SUBMIT

CHILLI CREW - Pytam by Sebastian Juszczyk Director: Sebastian Juszczyk Country of origin: Poland Country of Filming: Poland Language: Polish Category: Music Video (budget under $5k USD) submit your film to almaty indie film fest SUBMIT

DUDKI by Gulzhan Sitakhmetova Director: Gulzhan Sitakhmetova Aitkalievna Country of origin: Russia Country of Filming: Russia Language: Russian Category: Music Video (budget under $5k USD) Mad flight without time and space, where the reality, dreams, fears, and memories are intertwined with each other. Look beyond mindlessly! Director Biography — Gulzhan Sitakhmetova Aitkalievna My name is Gulzhan [...]

Children - Forever & Ewig by Tanja Egen Director: Tanja Egen Country of origin: Germany Country of Filming: Germany Language: German Category: Music Video (budget under $5k USD) Two girls on the run from the police. They hide in the countryside, killing time and celebrate their friendship. Director Biography — Tanja Egen Tanja Egen was [...]

Don't Do It by Jaime Fidalgo Director: Jaime Fidalgo Country of origin: Spain Country of Filming: Spain Language: English Category: Music Video (budget under $5k USD) Shot in the medieval city of Toledo, Spain, and inspired by Charles Bukowski's "So, you want to be a writer?" poem, this video is about making peace with your [...]

Turi Agostino - Feel Another by Hannes Greve Director: Hannes Greve Country of origin: Germany Country of Filming: Germany Category: Music Video (budget under $5k USD) A story driven micro budget music video inspired by screwball comedy works by one Billy Wilder and others. Based on a true incident in which a young dancer unknowingly [...]

Time to Leave by Karin Andersen Director: Karin Andersen Country of origin: Italy Country of Filming: Italy Film Language: Category: Music Video (budget under $5k USD) Two androgynous underground artists are assembling strange devices in their workspace. Stepping out in the deserted suburban surroundings at night they perform a surprising experiment. Director Biography — Karin [...]

Tristano plays Gulda by Elena Molina Director: Elena Molina Country of origin: Spain Country of Filming: Spain Film Language: Category: Music Video (budget under $5k USD) The internationally recognized as the terrible enfant of piano Francesco Tristano has not only recorded a new interpretation of "Prelude and Fuge". Together with his illustrator friend Daniel Jimenez [...]

Z ZEGNA by Giacomo Boeri Director: Giacomo Boeri Country of origin: Italy Country of Filming: Italy Film Language: Category: Best Commercial In Z Zegna we see tennis champion Alexander Zverev take on a tennis-playing machine on the courts. When the machine comes to life – shaking with exertion, releasing smoke like sweat and making metallic [...]

Welcome to Milan by Giacomo Boeri, Matteo Grimaldi Director: Giacomo Boeri, Matteo Grimaldi Country of origin: Italy Country of Filming: Italy Film Language: Category: Best Commercial For Milan Fashion Week AW19/20, the National Chamber of Italian Fashion presents “ Welcome to Milan”, a fashion film directed by The Blink Fish. The film shows how beauty [...]

Papirgam.com by Maksym Madonov Director: Maksym Madonov Country of origin: Ukraine Country of Filming: Ukraine Film Language: English Category: Best Commercial Papirgam is a strong durable wallet made with Tyvek material using origami technique. Video advertising is focusing on showcasing and testing what Papirgam can withstand. Director Biography — Maksym Madonov Berlin-based Ukrainian freelance designer and [...]

Hotel MFW by The Blink Fish Director: The Blink Fish Country of origin: Italy Country of Filming: Italy Film Language: Category: Best Commercial The Camera Nazionale della Moda Italiana (National Chamber of Italian Fashion) presents Hotel MFW, the latest fashion film directed and produced by the Milan-based Creativity Factory The Blink Fish. Shot to celebrate [...]

Find Your Soul by Germain lalot Director: Germain lalot Country of origin: France Country of Filming: China Film Language: English Category: Best Commercial An inner journey told by the famous Chinese artist Zhang Huan who never stops searching for inspiration. Director Biography — Germain lalot French director Germain Lalot creates visual experiences where images, light [...]

Behind the Curtain by Giacomo Boeri, Matteo Grimaldi Director: Giacomo Boeri, Matteo Grimaldi Country of origin: Italy Country of Filming: Italy Film Language: Category: Best Commercial The Camera Nazionale della Moda Italiana (National Chamber of Italian Fashion) presents Behind the Curtain, the latest fashion film directed and produced by the Milan-based Creativity Factory The Blink [...]

FINAL MOMENTS by Dax Phelan Director: Dax Phelan Country of origin: United States Country of Filming: United States Film Language: English Category: Best Commercial "Final Moments" is a 30-second Public Service Announcement about the importance of wearing masks in the ongoing fight against COVID-19. Director Biography — Dax Phelan After earning an MFA in Screenwriting [...]

Redleaf - Confusion by Artur Czerwiński Director: Artur Czerwiński Country of origin: Poland Country of Filming: Poland Film Language: Category: Best Commercial submit your film to almaty indie film fest SUBMIT

Location Scouts by Christiaan Van Vuuren, Connor Van Vuuren Director: Christiaan Van Vuuren, Connor Van Vuuren Country of origin: Australia Country of Filming: Australia Film Language: English Category: Best Web Program / Web Series Two unlikely misfits, "Millennial" Morgan and "Baby Boomer" Steve are forced to work together as location scouts on the upcoming Australian [...]

WIENERLAND by Jan Woletz, Stefan Polasek Director: Jan Woletz, Stefan Polasek Country of origin: Austria Country of Filming: Austria Film Language: English Category: Best Web Program / Web Series THE SERIES “Wienerland” (working title) is a fantasy/western genre-mix exploring the boundaries of society, ethics, and perceived reality. The respective storylines, brought to life by a [...]

Manpower Express - To Vietnam Along the Silk Road by Waldemar Schleicher Director: Waldemar Schleicher Country of origin: Germany Country of Filming: Austria, Bulgaria, China, Czech Republic, Germany, Hungary, Iran, Islamic Republic of, Kyrgyzstan, Romania, Serbia Film Language: German Category: Best Web Program / Web Series, Best Trailer A series about a bicycle tour from [...]

Any Creative Form by Daniel Fazio Director: Daniel Fazio Country of origin: United Kingdom Country of Filming: United Kingdom Film Language: English Category: Best Trailer Any Creative Form is an original, six episodes, documentary series, each featuring a young international artist. A journey through the world of six rising talents and their new forms of [...]

Absence of Light by Beatrice Aliné Director: Beatrice Aliné Country of origin: Germany Country of Filming: Germany, Hungary Film Language: Category: No-Budget Short Film (budget under $3k USD) You can measure the light but you can’t measure the dark. In duality we see one as the opposite of the other. Yet darkness is the absence [...]

Ground by Nic Gyalson Director: Nic Gyalson Country of origin: Switzerland Country of Filming: Switzerland Film Language: English Category: No-Budget Short Film (budget under $3k USD) Finding one's way back home can be difficult sometimes... Director Biography — Nic Gyalson Nic Gyalson moved his frst steps into music as a little kid with his maternal [...]

Hello by Zhi Zeng Director: Zhi Zeng Country of origin: China Country of Filming: China Film Language: Chinise Category: Short low budget Film (budget over $5k USD) A cleaner works alone in the underground garage everyday. The things that keep him company are the heavy rain and the leaking room. Being unable to establish human communication, he [...]

Horrorscope by Pol Diggler Director: Pol Diggler Country of origin: Spain Country of Filming: Spain Film Language: English Category: No-Budget Short Film (budget under $3k USD) An ordinary schoolgirl's life unravels after an evil creature takes over her body. Only her mother, with the help of a strange doctor, will be able to save her. [...]

ANNA by Dekel Berenson Director: Dekel Berenson Country of origin: United Kingdom Country of Filming: Ukraine Film Language: Ukrainian Category: Short low budget Film (budget over $5k USD) Cannes Official Selection 19′ — Living in war-torn Eastern Ukraine, Anna is an aging single mother who is desperate for a change. Lured by a radio advertisement, [...]

The coffin by Kadim Tarasov Director: Kadim Tarasov Country of origin: Ukraine Country of Filming: Ukraine Film Language: Ukrainian Category: Short low budget Film (budget over $5k USD) Ukrainian existential western. Having lost his family, the old Ivan is going mad, he colors his face with paints and puts on a goetic headwear made of [...]

Rumori by SÄMEN Director: SÄMEN Country of origin: Italy Country of Filming: Italy Film Language: Italian Category: Short low budget Film (budget over $5k USD) Visually exploring the emotional complexity of a breakup, Rumori has at its core how the lack of understanding and communication between two people can destroy a relationship. Introspective, subtle and beautifully [...]

Death of the official by Artem Gilemyanov Director: Artem Gilemyanov Country of origin: Russia Country of Filming: Russia Film Language: Russian Category: Short low budget Film (budget over $5k USD) The superstitious official finds out from a fortune teller, who he knows, that he gets to live only until sunset. But he has a chance [...]

La MISS by Genty Martin Director: Genty Martin Country of origin: France Country of Filming: France Film Language: French Category: Short low budget Film (budget over $5k USD) Trailer Director Biography - Genty Martin Je me forme à l’EICAR Paris. J’apprend le métier de réalisateur et de scénariste. Puis je réalise des émission plateaux pour [...]

In My Mind by Daniel Carrai Director: Daniel Carrai Country of origin: United States Country of Filming: United States Film Language: English Category: Short low budget Film (budget over $5k USD) Emma experiences her relationship in retrospect from a moment of betrayal, questioning how she perceives her position in the world. Trailer Full movie Director [...]

Toprak by Sevgi Hirschhäuser Director: Sevgi Hirschhäuser Country of origin: Turkey Country of Filming: Turkey Film Language: Turkish Category: Low-Budget Feature (budget under $20k USD) TOPRAK is the dramatic story of a simple family in rural Turkey dealing with poverty, family traditions, and religious heritage. Since the death of his parents, the teenage Burak has [...]

The end of the heroes by Claude Saussereau Director: Claude Saussereau Country of origin: France Country of Filming: France Film Language: French Category: Low-budget Feature (budget under $100k USD) A child, in her search for her father, discovers, by chance, that her new neighbour wears an electronic bracelet on his ankle. Believing that she has [...]

Dream team by Philipp Abryutin and Maxim Zykov Director: Philipp Abryutin and Maxim Zykov Country of origin: Russia Country of Filming: Russia Film Language: Russian Category: Feature Film (budget over $100k USD) An amazing story of TV commentator Stepan Vershinin, who was fired from central sports tv station. Searching new job, he gets to the [...]

NEW BRONX by Filip Ignatowicz Director: Filip Ignatowicz Country of origin: Poland Country of Filming: Poland Film Language: Polish Category: Micro-budget Short Film (budget under $5k USD Natalia is a boyish and impulsive girl in her mid-teens living in a rough part of Gdansk, Poland. Her crush on a boy from her neighbourhood becomes an [...]

Sandbox by Daniel Anda Director: Daniel Anda Country of origin: Norway Country of Filming: Norway Film Language: English Category: Micro-budget Short Film (budget under $5k USD) Jenny turns 13 and her father has arranged a big birthday party. An uninvited and dangerous psychopath interrupts the celebration and sets off a brutal fight with high stakes. [...]

The procedure by Mariella Santibáñez Koref Director: Mariella Santibáñez Koref Country of origin: Argentina Country of Filming: Argentina Film Language: Spanish Category: Micro-budget Short Film (budget under $5k USD Anita is a single mother who emigrated from Venezuela to Argentina. In order to support herself and her son, she works as an illegal immigrant in [...]

The last shift by Kristina Luninskaia Director: Kristina Luninskaia Country of origin: Russia Country of Filming: Russia Film Language: Russian Category: Micro-budget Short Film (budget under $5k USD Maria is a young actress, who lives on the money of her producer Boris. Kirill is her assistant, who dreams of becoming a great film director. Haphazard [...]