About the film Vamps is a bold and visually poetic short film written and directed by acclaimed Spanish filmmaker Lluís Miñarro. Blending surrealism, fantasy, and theatrical performance, the film follows two legendary divas whose extravagant personalities transform reality into an enchanting dreamscape. As love, nature, and imagined war machines collide, they reaffirm their glamour, individuality,...
Director’s Note Human Farm explores the contradictions, social behaviors, and underlying absurdities of contemporary society through the lens of speculative fiction. Inspired by experiences within corporate culture and modern working life, the film examines the ways individuals adapt to systems that often appear irrational, yet are accepted as normal. At its core, the film reflects...
Director’s Statement This film explores the psychological and symbolic aftermath of domestic violence through the story of Parisa — a woman accused of killing her abusive husband under circumstances that defy logic. At its core, the film is not a crime story, but a meditation on repression, rage, and the thin line between madness and...
DirectorMaya Marzuki PetersWriterKai SunProducersMakayla LeiluaAlan HeCastMargaret LeeAnthony TrainaKey Claire BaeKey Director of PhotographyEthan WenEditorDonovan KiddComposerAllan X. ChenSound Designer & MixerJade DickeyProduction DesignerDanis ZhangCasting DirectorPeter Xiao About the director Maya is an Irish-Indonesian director based in NYC. With a background in production design, she seeks to explore the complexities of personal identity through stories that intertwine...
Director’s Note In today’s world, human relationships have reached a level of strangeness, complexity, and unpredictability never before seen in history. Normal Situation takes a surreal and grotesque lens to this reality, blending humor with discomfort to explore the absurdity of our connections. Through the symbolic journey of a groom in search of his other...
Arzhang Niavarani is a multidisciplinary specialist and PhD candidate in Entrepreneurship who has developed a unique approach through his distinctive worldview and artistic creativity. A drummer and setar player who has been practicing music since childhood, he embarked on his filmmaking journey in 2020. Since then, he has been writing, directing, and producing short films...
The Left hand is a surreal and unsettling exploration of loneliness, desire, and the illusion of control. Blending dark humor with body horror and poetic symbolism, the narrative unfolds around a man who tries to impose love and obedience onto something that resists both. Through minimal dialogue and expressive physicality, the film investigates the blurred...
The darkness that precedes the storm – A Brazilian Dystopia for troubled times Hot, humid, muggy weather, almost no wind, no movement. In the late afternoon, heavy rain invariably falls and drenches the inhabitants of the coastal town. Suddenly, a sound is heard in the distance,...
As an avant-garde and experimental Short Film, Zaqqum represents the life and thoughts of the bourgeoisie and working class of Iranian society. The people who work so hard and do anything to achieve a better life, but their beliefs are different from what they are. This inconsistency is the hell they live in and feed on. The short movie...
Once, a friend who still couldn’t get rid of his depression after his cancer treatment told me when I asked him why he was so upset: Cancer took with it everything that it brought. Except for the thought of death. I have been cured, but I am going to die. The first spark of the idea of...