Hollywood Screenings Film Festival - Official Selection Multi-Screening:

ALM

After the death of her best friend Maude, Ellie’s world is in pieces until she starts receiving messages from Maude’s account. Was Maude hacked? Or is her soul living on in the world wide web?

ANACRONTE

Anacronte and the Sorcerers of Evil, without any emotion and fulfilling their destiny, they put to test humanity's happiness in a struggle that, in short, has each of us as winners and losers.

#Anniversary

On his wedding day, Eric Fuller tries to clear his conscience and break things off with his secret lover Sarah, but she's not ready to let him go.

This near-future Sci-Fi drama explores love, letting go, and how the technology of today will affect the relationships of tomorrow.

Capuchin Culture

An intimate portrait of a family of capuchin monkeys living in the semi-arid forest of north-eastern Brazil. This film tells the story of mothers and babies, showing how they learn to survive in this harsh environment. Sandstone ridges and pinnacles shape the habitat which is characterised by a dry season with temperatures higher than forty degrees and almost no rain. It is not easy to find water and fresh fruit and these monkeys must rely on all their ingenuity and remarkable skills to survive here. If they want to become independent, youngsters must learn the strategies of their group: hunting, finding water, digging the ground to extract roots and eventually using stone tools to crack open the palm nuts, their favourite food. Capuchins' success is the result of their intelligence, high adaptability and their effective survival strategies. These techniques and behaviours are transmitted to the offspring and represent their own culture, traditions passed across the generations to face the challenges of the Brazilian wilderness.

Here Today

A high school girl struggles to find her own identity with a new group of friends and discovers that together, their choices have an impact beyond what they ever imagined. This universally autobiographical tale, written by 16-year-old Meredith Grace Dabney, is a reminder of vulnerability, life’s connections and most importantly that words and actions, however small, affect everyone and everything.

Hollow

A young man returns to his childhood home to confront the ghosts of his past.

EXTRA INNINGS

A reporter interviews the manager of the Boston Red Sox in an attempt to uncover secrets from his past.

Joc

Dani, a 12 year old boy living in the outskirts of
Bucharest, toils in the busy stop-light traffic selling
cold water to support his family. He attempts to pay
off all debts by betting all his money in a game
organized by children with cardboard boxes on the
streetcar tracks. He wins the bet but the money is
not enough to buy his sister out of a gang-bang
and he is now about to bet his own life on the
streetcar tracks.

Kindled

A flame sprite and a wood sprite show that friendship can win no matter the obstacles.

On & On

While preparing for her day, a young woman becomes overwhelmed with a dark thought and an anxiety attack ensues. She fails to get rid of the thought, and her attack worsens. Her brother finds her and steadies her breathing, calming her down. She then takes a shower-- the hot water running down her body, distracting her from her existential fears. She plays a game of Monopoly, having overcome the panic attack-- or has she?

Paper Trails

Following a rough breakup, Jamie's life is turned around as mysterious notes appear and interfere with attempts to reconcile her feelings.

That Stupid Armenian's Motion Picture Show or Garen

Garen, a young Armenian man has never fallen in love in his life, though he has tried it has never worked out, except one night he falls in love at first sight, wanting to go and talk to her, he then finds out she is married, finally feeling what it's like to feel rejection, he also feels guilt and decides to apologize to his Ex-girlfriends for making them feel that way as well.

The Rabbit Hole

During the end of the Vietnam War, Mason Hurley returns home after losing all of his men in combat. His family is hesitant to embrace his return, as they are concerned he has brought back the monsters with him. The more he tries to not deal with his PTSD, and lock it away, the more it comes to the surface and affects not only Mason but his entire family until it manifests into PTSD Paranormal Psychosis.

(A period piece that uses only wardrobe, furniture, and props from the 1970s/1980s era, and the main location is a Victorian home built in the 1870s. In addition the film is made by Veterans, and the extras were all from different branches of military including Vietnam, and The Gulf War.)

The Thing Before The Thing

Twelve years ago, a group of friends developed an incredible bond during their college mentorship program. They find themselves reuniting many years later to celebrate the retirement of Harris, the man that brought them together. With time having sent these friends in different directions, they pick up where they left off so long ago. They also find out that even though their mentorship program is over, their relationships with one another continue to evolve.

Trust Me

Trust Me is a story about Nicole, a young psychology professor who lives with her cardiologist husband Lawrence and young daughter Haley outside Caldwell New Jersey. Lawrence works away at a hospital every other week.  Frustrated with her husband's busy work schedule, Nicole becomes increasingly suspicious that her husband might be having a fling with a younger and less encumbered woman.  Nicole starts a campaign of surveillance to catch him in with his new lover. What she discovers in her search is far more complicated and sinister then she could have possibly imagined.

UMBILICAL

'Umbilical' is a dramatic Short Film about separation and connection. It tells the story of Arthur, a short fused ex-convict seeking answers about the origin of his twin brother Charlie's most recent successful novel “Lost Cause”. Upon discovering the comfortable new lifestyle that Charlie has shut Arthur out of...he kills Charlie out of rage and assimilates himself within the role of the new family, showing no matter how hard we try we will always end up hurting the ones we love.

Waiting

While anticipating someone to join him, a young man takes notice of the increasingly eccentric patrons in the restaurant.

What's your name

"I want to record everything to it slow down because I can't stop it, it's out of my hand. I want her to remember her name." Lucas tells the story of his mother who's suffering from Alzheimer's disease.

A Few Meters Higher

Someone’s dead. No one knows the dead guy. The police are waiting for investigator officer. There is just one witness; A boy who is considered retarded! What could he do?

19

Julie and Vincent are in love. Passionately in love. After waiting for Julie all day, Vincent finally has her for him tonight but Julie's cell phone rings again and again. Passion, sex and jealousy : what is really going on behind closed doors? .