Uncle Silas
Western States Premiere • Fiction Short
Genre: Drama, Women, Children
2017 • USA • 16 min. • 2.35:1 • 2K
In English
DIR Sayra Player, Rebecca Brillhart, SCR Sayra Player, PRO Rebecca Brillhart, Rich Pecci, ExePro Sayra Player, Co-Pro, , DP/CIN Robbie Stauder, ProDes , Edit Jamie Hogan, Costume , Mus Doug Maxwell, Art , SndMix , SndEd , Cast Kevin Kane, Sayra Player, Rebecca Brillhart, Khalil Muhammad, Nick Basta
Maureen, exhausted from child birth, must summon a mother’s strength to fight for redemption or choose to let go from a dangerous, self-destructive force: her family. A brother and sister stripped to their most bare and piercing, the two confront choices as only siblings can.
Winter Solstice (Wintersonnenwende)
Premiere • Fiction Shorts • Fiction
Genre: Drama, Youth, Coming of Age
2017 • Germany • 13 min. • 16:9 • RED RAW 2K
In German with English subtitles
DIR Simon Schneckenburger, SCR Simon Schneckenburger, PRO Fabian Linder, ExePro , Co-Pro, , DP/CIN , ProDes , Edit , Costume , Mus , Art , SndMix , SndEd , Cast Mia Lüscher, Sebastian Zemann
WINTER SOLSTICE tells the story of a liberation. A sister and brother meet up at a place significant to their childhood. The brother has turned his back on his father’s farm whereas the younger sister still lives there. Over the course of the conversation, the image of a strong young woman in the midst of a broken family is formed. She ends up at a conclusion which could, at the same time, also be a beginning.
