Student Film
Films in this Category
To Be With Ma One Last Supper The Middleman’s Dilemma Against the Impossible A Tropical Call Eat Up! A+ Life D.A.D (Dawn After Darkness) Der Narr (The Fool) Love Confession LOVE Mariela Sweet The Incident The Wheels on the Bus VONNIS When dance becomes peace
To Be With Ma
Family Drama
Two battered siblings desperately want to sneak out of their father’s house to visit their real mother after being distressed and unable to adjust to their new family setup with their stepmother.
One Last Supper
Supernatural Drama
A spirit-seeing daughter must race against time to save her mother’s soul from turning into a Hungry Ghost by retracing her mother’s past life.
The Middleman’s Dilemma
Social Drama
Dolly, trapped in a patriarchal cycle with Ngozi, seeks freedom but realizes escape is impossible. Even in death, she remains his possession, illustrating the inescapable grip of patriarchy on her life.
Against the Impossible
Student Film
Before being executed for a newspaper article about the corruption of a governor, Rodrigo remembers moments with his family that gave him the courage to publish it.
A Tropical Call
Best Student Film
Zhu turns on the gas, intending to die in his sealed home after being swindled. However, just before his final moment, he suddenly receives a scam call from Southeast Asia.
Eat Up!
Jury Special Award 2025
In a future of synthetic food, a prodigious flavour designer, whose new portable food printer promises to launch her career, discovers the lost art of cooking and a human connection science cannot simulate.
A+ Life
Asia’s Best Independent Film 2025
For Zhou, earning the title of “model student” is more than just a goal—it defines her entire life, a role imposed by her parents and one she gradually accepts as her only purpose. The only person who notices her hidden emotions is Li Zhen, the family’s housekeeper from the countryside. When Zhou uncovers her father’s secret, her years of obedience crumble.
D.A.D (Dawn After Darkness)
AAIFF Africa 2024
Anna, a college student, experiences terrifying nightmares involving strange sounds, a black creature, and a transformed version of her boyfriend. Despite the horrors, she faces the new day ready for her classes.
Der Narr (The Fool)
ÉCU 2017
Every night, the peaceful streets of Stuttgart are being plagued with the sudden appearance of a dark figure wearing a clown’s mask. Nobody knows what the anonymous person could be up to.
Love Confession
ÉCU 2024
The film pushes the boundaries of storytelling and explores the possibilities of minimal film production, using only a phone camera and an actor. It tells the story of a young woman who failed to confess her love when the timing was ideal, and now she must record her confession on her phone.
LOVE
Best Director — ÉCU 2023
A scheming building owner visits one of his tenants who does not pay his rent. Instead of demanding the debt, the landlord hands him a clock. He returns with an alarm clock, then a pendulum, then another and another. The tenant slowly falls into a psychosis.
Mariela
ÉCU 2018
A girl remembers the tragic story of the woman that was her nanny.
Sweet
ÉCU 2023
Struggling to grapple with her mother’s alcoholism, lonely teenager Kate searches for escape in friends who aren’t often the best influences.
The Incident
ÉCU 2018
At a bus stop near Beirut, a veiled Lebanese woman and a migrant Syrian worker get in a tumultuous moment and are arrested. They must argue their innocence in the face of the only witnesses: a bus full of women on their way to Koran school.
The Wheels on the Bus
ÉCU 2017
A bus breaks down in the North Korean countryside. The two drivers must overcome a series of setbacks to get their bus running again – to deliver their shocking cargo.
VONNIS
ÉCU 2019
When Linus has sold his cattle, his loneliness is taking over and his reality is slowly dripping into a nightmare.
When dance becomes peace
Cambodian Students Special Award 2025
Faced with grief and isolation, young Bosba, a Khmer teenager, feels invisible. Marked by the loss of her father and confronted with bullying at school, she desperately seeks harmony.