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Coming to Mother tells the story of a mother and daughter’s reunion after years apart. When Qianqian finds herself homeless after being deceived and is about to leave Nanjing, she meets her terminally ill mother at a café. Years ago, her mother fled an unhappy marriage in pursuit of freedom, and though she feels guilty for not being there during her daughter’s upbringing, she still hopes Qianqian will be as brave and independent as she once was. She leaves her house to her daughter, encouraging her to take control of her own destiny and avoid repeating the pattern of being trapped. Initially filled with resentment, Qianqian eventually understands her mother’s intentions and decides to accompany her to the sea to fulfill her final wish. The story concludes with mother and daughter reconciled—both a redemption of family bonds and a symbol of Qianqian “following” in her mother’s footsteps to become a free and strong woman. The narrative focuses on the emotional rift and reconciliation between mother and daughter, weaving together personal choices, women’s destiny, and profound yet restrained maternal love.
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Storm on the Stage is the story of an extraordinary challenge against time. With exactly three days to teach two highly demanding Turkish choreographies to American students, I faced a task that seemed almost impossible. Every rehearsal became a race against the clock—pushing through exhaustion, pressure, and doubt. This documentary captures the journey of transforming unfamiliar steps into a shared language, individual effort into unity, and a heartbeat into a performance. In just three days, the challenge was not simply to teach choreography, but to bring an entire group together and prepare them for the moment they would step onto the stage.
Stranded in a quiet Pennsylvanian city, flatbed truck driver Dan leaves his cab to explore his surroundings, only to be drawn to an old steel factory that seems frozen in time. Inside the rusting labyrinth, curiosity turns into a surreal inner journey as memories, industrial echoes, and dreamlike visions blur the boundary between reality and imagination. As Dan wanders deeper, the factory reveals itself as a symbolic kingdom where he sees himself as both wandering ruler and chained prisoner. Haunted by reflections on ambition, purpose, and the forces that shape human lives, he confronts a mysterious transformation that binds him irrevocably to the spirit of steel itself.
The virtual digital exhibition of the future is an ancient whale specimen, and the restoration of digitalization in the future. Corals in the sea have long been replaced by garbage discharged into the sea by humans, and the ecological collapse is irreparable because whales in the outside world have long been extinct. People in the future can only commemorate the creatures of the past electronically.
A short tragicomedy set in the time just before the internet came along. Every week, a girl takes a long bus ride to a remote village to meet a boy who is trying to build a motorcycle in a rickety shed near the bus stop. They have recognized each other’s dreams and each other’s loneliness; very slowly something beautiful is beginning to blossom, but when a passing motorcycle group belittles the boy, his building project turns into a destructive obsession. RatingsEdit Rating 8.0 Average Score Based on 1 Rating0 0 0 0 Alexandru Schiller on September 3, 2026 8 Edit Rating Share Rating Delete Notes Alexandru Schiller on September 2, 2026 • Shared with Submitter Hi! Good News: We have accepted your film into our film competition! To progress further could you please provide us a screener download link (ONLY if not provided so far), and a recent director’s photo, and a poster (print quality 300DPI, A4 or A3 size, CYMK) to promote your film. Thank you again for your participation, stay safe be safe. Best of luck on the international film festival circuit. CIFF Admin Delete Breaking news! You are going towards the Top 100 and going up…..going up …and going… we predict you will get into Quarter Finals in the International Films category, and possibly as well as in the ‘Top 10/Quarter Finals Best Short Films’ AND/OR ‘Best International Films/Top 10 Best Internationa Short Films’ categories, either one, by the end of the year. Keep fingers crossed & best of luck. Please share this ‘new’ link below on your social media circles and platforms, ask your friends, sponsors, cast & crew, family mmbers, anyone who watched your musical video/clip or any of your performance(s), to give you a rating 1-10 stars or make a comment to help you gain the much needed extra points. Any comments received will add the points to your score! Hence,a screener download link is important! BTW: Allow us 24-48hrs to finish to received the film/video then time to convert & re-uploading, then listing. Thanks BTW: PLEASE allow 24-48h for movie upload (receival), conversion and listing. Thanks! Send a copy to the submitter. Add Note Still Photos
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