Short Films Official Selection 2018

These are the first selected shorts for the Short Films Official Selection of the Molins Film Festival 2018.

COLD FISH    

Country: New Zeland

Running time: 11 min.

Director: David Hay

Writer: Emma Schranzn

Cinematography: Timothy Flower

Music: Tane Upjohn-Beatson

Sound: Amy Barber

Cast: Jeffrey Thomas, Oscar Cameron, Rosella Hart

Production design: Bryce Holtshousen

Producer: Amie Richardson

An old man wants to commit suicide but a young boy stops him. Not because he wants to save him but because he wants him to do the deed.

BAGHEAD    

Country: UK

Running time: 15 min.

Director: Alberto Corredor

Cinematography: John Wate

Music: Hollie Buhagiar

Visual Effects: Frank Rueter

Make up: Alexandra Knights

Costumes: Lottie Geliot

Cast: Oliver Walker, Natalie Oliver, Julian Seager, Pat Boothman, Tama Phethean

Production: Long Shot Media

Kevin is haunted by grief and has questions that only the recently deceased can answer. His search takes him to the most unremarkable of locations, a grotty storage room at the back of a rundown pub.

DEJA VU   

Country: Canada (Quebec)

Running time: 9 min.

Director: Olivier Labonté Lemoyne

Cinematography: Ménad Kesraoui

Music: Copeland Adrian

Sound: David Beaulieu

Cast: Ariane Castellanos, Nico Racicot, Pierre-François Bouffard

Producer: Carolyne Goyette

Production Co.: Les Films 4C

A young woman meets with her best friend in a local diner to tell him about the fantasy she recently accomplished. But when a mysterious man enters, she is struck by a feeling of deja vu. Everything around her starts to resemble a nightmare she has had.

PIGGY (Cerdita)    

Country: Spain

Running time: 14 min.

Director: Carlota Pereda

Cinematography: Rita Noriega

Editor: David Pelegrín

Sound: Nacho Arenas 

Production: Luis Angel Ramírez, Mario Madueño

Cast: Laura Galán, Elisabet Casanovas, Sara Barroso, Mireia Vilapuig, Alejandro Chaparro, Jorge Elorza

Sara is a teenager with overweight problems who is bullied by the rest of girls who are spending their holiday at the village. Not even Claudia, her lifetime friend, is able to help her when they bully her and take her clothes from the swimming pool in front of a stranger. The long way home will determine the rest of her life.

THE GIRL IN THE SNOW    

Country: Switzerland

Running time: 7 min.

Director: Dennis Ledergerber

Cinematography: André Guadagno

FX: David Fritsche

Make up: Madleina Von Reding

Music: Michael Vesconi

Production: Dennis Ledergerber, Manuel Schneider

Cast: Jörg Reichlin, Sina Schwery

A day in the life of an artist.

SPOILER  

Country: Rusia

Running time: 5 min.

Director: Evgeny Kolyadintsev

Cinematography: Vladimir Kazakov

FX: Digital Movie

Production design: Alena Bezrukikh

Production: Evgeny Kolyadintsev, Vladislav Severtsev

Cast: Anna Vasileva, Valentina Viter, Yaroslav Gabrov

A girl finds a strange sketchbook at her doorstep. Who has left it there and what for? And most importantly, what's hidden inside?

INSIDIA    

Country: Spain

Running time: 18 min.

Director: Paco Ruiz 

Screenwriter: Paco Ruiz, Oriol Perez

Cinematography: Toni Vidal

FX: Bernat Fontanals

Maquillaje: Mario Campoy, Irene Rio

Music: Daniel Díaz

Production: Escac Films, Carlos Solano

Cast: Albert Baró, Pau Poch, Toni Climent

The Pyrenees, 1883. Silo and his brother Bruno are escaping from a crowd of villagers when they begin a trip through the mountains.

POST MORTEM MARY       

Country: Australia

Running time: 10 min.

Director: Joshua Long

Cinematography: Ben Nott

FX: Chad Atkinson, Benjamin Zaugg

Maquillaje: Natalie Stanfield

Music: Tim Schultz

Production: Daniel Schultz

Cast: Stella Charrington, Melanie Zanetti, Kathryn Marquet

Mary and her mother run a post-mortem photography business in 1840's Australia.

LABORATORY CONDITIONS    

Country: USA

Running time: 16 min.

Director: Jocelyn Stamat 

Screenwriter: Terry Rossio

Cinematography: Ben Kutchins

FX: Efram Potelle

Maquillaje: Kimberly Bragalone, Jerry Constantine. Mike Michaels

Music: Andrew Kawczynski

Production: Joe Russell

Cast: Marisa Tomei, Minnie Driver, Paulo Costanzo

A physician investigating a missing body disrupts an unlawful experiment.