1)LAUGH LAUGH DIE

Japan

1hour 39 minutes

Director Takuya Matsumoto

Born in 1976 in Tokyo, Japan. After working as comedy duo for 10 years, Takuya started to make films in his own way. His short films and feature films have been nominated and won many awards both inside and outside of the country.

Plot:

A strange disease called "laughing death", in which people suddenly die while laughing, is spreading all over the world. The world is afraid of infection and forbids laughter. There were people who chose to live freely in a world where they took drugs that killed their emotions and lost their minds.

2)Gizmo

Mexico

1hour 17 minutes

Director Everardo Felipe Garcia

Everardo Felipe, Lolo, born 1982. Studied Latin American literature in UNAM and visual arts in "La Esmeralda" Mexico CIty. He lives in a city in central Mexico, Guanajuato. Everardo has been working in movies since 2006 and runs "Cinemanimal" a cine club along Amat Escalante and Eduardo Padilla. He's done drawing, painting and sculpture exhibitions. His short films have been selected for Morelia Film Festival, Austin Fantastic Fest and and the Argos streaming service.

Plot:

GIZMO is an absurdist black comedy disguised as a police procedural in which the police methodically wastes time and resources, looks the other way and never gets anything done. The disappearance of a young woman inside a Natural Park and the bizarre death of a police chief tie together and begin to circle around a paranoid plot and a possibly supernatural mystery, all the while the film's anti-hero does his best to save his own skin and sanity and avoid any kind of social responsibility or metaphysical entrapment. Is Gizmo a pantheistic horror story or just another day in the mad world of Mexican sur-reality? Who really knows...

3) Vellakuthira [White Horse]

India

2 hours

Director Saranraj Senthilkumar

He has worked as an assistant director to many directors in the Tamil film industry. Vellakuthirai is his first film.

Plot:

A man is walking on a hill with his wife and son. His life is a whole of secrets, just as nature hides its secrets in a thick forest. Logline: He who lives selfishly as long as he lives gives up his life for the common good.

4) Блиндаж / Dugout

Russian Federation

1hour 44 min utes

Director Mark Gorobetz

Mark was born on May 30, 1975 in Kyiv. The director recalled that in his childhood the TV broadcast only three channels, and he grew up on the Soviet hits “The meeting place cannot be changed” and “The investigation is carried out by experts,” and therefore he dreamed of becoming an investigator. With age, these children's plans underwent changes, and as a result, Gorobets went to study to become a director.

In 2005, Mark graduated from the directing department of the Institute of Cinema and Television of the Kyiv National University of Culture and Arts, where his master was Georgy Shklyarevsky, who specialized in documentary film.

Plot:

Two friends, a German and a Russian, travel through time, ending up in 1941. Friends are forced to make decisions and cope with difficulties they could not imagine. Will their friendship survive the obstacles and which side will Paul and Sergei take?

5)End of Trip – Sahara

Spain

2hour 9 minutes

Director Antonio Rodríguez Cabal

2023: Producer, director and screenwriter of "Fin de Viaje Sahara", a new film based on discarded material from the 25,000 meters of film negative made in 1983. Unusual. The film that took 40 years to be released.

Training

Master in "Film Writing" from the Autonomous University of Madrid 1990.

Graduated in Geography from the Complutense University of Madrid in 1980.

He has studied Image and Sound at the Faculty of Information Sciences up to 4th year.

History of Art from the Complutense University of Madrid in 1982.

Member of the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences.

SGA member.

Member of EGEDA. Audiovisual Producers Management Entity.

Member of the ALMA Writers Union.

Founding member of ACCIÓN, association of film directors.

Plot:

Recovering the original discarded negative not used in the 1985 film Sahara, and restoring both image and sound, has given rise to this new film. Step back in time to the vibrant 1970s, where two young Spanish adventurers, Javier and Rafa, venture into the Sahara Desert, driven by a hunger for thrilling escapades and the yearning for an unforgettable journey.

Amidst the vast expanse of sand, they discover the allure of friendship, the allure of risk... and the alluring Florence, a captivating French muse whose presence awakens a whirlwind of emotions. Together, they brave the perils of the notorious "Desert Pirates," immerse themselves in the ethereal wonders of the Tuareg culture, and endure the relentless grip of the shifting sands.