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Joachim is retiring from base-jumping to become a father for the first time, but first, he will stop at nothing to pull off his very last jump.

The last Base has screened at over 100 festivals and won more than 20 awards. The #ShortFilms #StaffPicks on #Vimeo, #LastBase short in the base of #Adventure, #Drama, #Narrative, their friendship is put to the test.

Joachim is retiring from base-jumping to become a father for the first time. But first, he endeavors one last adventure. Together with best friend Oyvind, he sets out to climb Mt. Katthammeren to do his last jump. When a bad storm approaches their friendship is put to the test. Oyvind wants to turn back, but Joachim will apparently stop at nothing to pull off his very last jump.

Written & Directed by Aslak Danbolt
Screenplay: Aslak Danbolt
Story by: Aslak Danbolt
Producer: Pål Nordås
Cast: Kenneth Åkerland Berg, Edda Trandum Grjotheim, Petter Width Kristiansen, Tov Sletta, Richard Olsen

Selected festivals:

– Tribeca Film Festival 2015
– Chicago International Film Festival 2015
– Slamdance Film Festival 2015
– Leeds International Film Festival 2014
– Montreal World Film Festival 2015
– Vancouver International Film Festival 2015
– Sleepwalkers International Short Film Festival 2015 – *Jury Prize*
– Leuven International Short Film Festival 2014
– The Norwegian Short Film Festival Grimstad 2015
– Trento Film Festival 2016 – *Genziana d`Argento – Best Short Film*

When I was growing up outside Chicago, one of my favorite trips was to the Art Institute of Chicago to see the Thorne Miniature Rooms. I spent hours staring into each remarkably detailed room, imagining I had transported myself to the past and had secretly slipped into the grand entrances, libraries, living rooms, and bedrooms of people’s homes. Each visit left me with a sense of wonder and excitement.

When I came across the beautiful work of Ali Alamedy, the artist featured in this short film, I felt that same sense of awe.

Mr. Alamedy was born in Karbala, Iraq, in 1982, during the Iraq-Iran war. At the time, his father was imprisoned under Saddam Hussein for political reasons, and Mr. Alamedy wasn’t able to meet him until he was 9 years old. His mother taught him to read at a young age and reading quickly became his favorite hobby, as well as a way to escape to calmer and more secure places. Mr. Alamedy credits the novels he read as a primary reason he started building miniatures, “to recreate some of those scenes just as I had imagined them to be in my childhood.”

Eight years ago, Mr. Alamedy built his first miniature — a wooden cottage, inspired by a similar piece he saw at his uncle’s home as a child. He made the cottage from basic materials and weathered it using coffee.

At first, he had no idea what to call the kind of art he was making. In Arabic “miniature” translates to “Muna mn Amat,” a small painting on paper. He searched the Internet for the words “miniature” and “diorama” in English and was surprised to find a substantial community of miniature artists around the world. He began posting his work online and soon had thousands of friends and followers.

As he admits in the film, meticulously making each of the objects in his scenes to be exact reproductions of real objects, at a tiny scale, is tedious. Yet the act of creating is also meditative, a kind of quiet rebellion against the chaos of the world and the uncertainty in his own life.

I hope viewers will be transported into the world that Mr. Alamedy so lovingly and painstakingly creates, and find beauty and solace there.

Originally published in the #NewYorkTimesOp-Docs series.

Ali Alamedy, an Iraqi artist living in Turkey after being forced out of his country, makes incredibly detailed dioramas of places he has read about but has never been.

Director/Producer/Editor: Veena Rao
Featuring: Ali Alamedy
Executive Producer: Kathleen Lingo
Coordinating Producer: Lindsday Crouse
Supervising Editor: Andrew Blackwell
Camera: Veena Rao
Composer: Eliot Krimsky
Colorist: Begonia Colomar
Sound Mix: Pete Karam
Archival Stills: Ali Alamedy
Translation: Isra Abdulhadi

Breathe follows Patrick, a bare knuckle fighting Traveller who becomes increasingly concerned with his young son Francie’s femininity.

#WatchNewShortFilms #Breathe directed by James Doherty and Present by FILM London, a #Drama Short Film also won few awards for best film and nominated many official awards for. The Short film also picks in #StaffPick on #Vimeo. 

Director: James Doherty

Screenplay: Theo James Krekis

Producer: Peter Brennan

Cast: John Connors, Lynn Rafferty, Lee O’Donoghue

#Rani new #TamilShortFilms, Emotional tale between a father and daughter.

A Short, about father how to work to do for daughter well education and living. And Also daughter Doing well as father want, Emotional tale between a father and daughter.

The Short films, Behind Every Great Daughter!!! There is a Truly Amazing Father Also Too!!

Written and Directed by IRFAN

Music by Jeffrey Jonathan

Editing by Richard, Poovai Suresh, Deepak, Saindhavi, Karthick

MUMBAI!! A city that’s home to 20 million dreams. One of the most prominent cities in the nation, Mumbai carries the essence of a city that lives – A City Of Dreams! Just like every dream, this one requires Knights in Khakee to protect it too.

#WatchNewShortFilm “KARTA TU DHARTA TU” A Tribute to #MumbaiPolice, why carries the essence of a city that lives? The city that’s home to 20 million dreams.

Production – Wild Buffaloes Entertainment
Written, directed & produced by – Divyansh Pandit
Cinematographer – Sarfraz Ali Hasan Khan
Editor/Chief Asst. Director – Shubhankar Jadhav
Creative Producer – Upanshu Singh
Sound Design – Shankar Singh
VFX – Harsh Mishra
Background Score – Semal Nikhil
Song – Semal Nikhil
Singer – Sukhwinder Singh
Lyrics – Abhishek Singh
Cinematographer (Song) – Salman Salar
Assistant Directors – Snehal Garg, Bhushan Shetty & Gaurav Bhan
Assistant Editor – Shivangi Bhatt
Associate DOP – Arvind Chandra
Assistant DOP – Sartaj Khan
Focus Puller – Khwaja Ahmad & Firoz Shah Shaikh
Poetry – Upanshu Singh
Production Manager – Mehmood Majid Khan (Nawaz Khan)
DI – Uday Javkar
Sound Mixing – Kailash Singh
Dubbing Engineer – Saroj Sharma
Pre-mix & mix – Kanishkaa Sound Post

CAST:
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Old Man – Aanjjan Srivastav
Sr. Inspector – Abhay Bhargava
Sub. Inspector – Dinesh Kunder
Constable – Rakesh Shukla
Driver – Satyam Gilotra

A horrifying lucid dream changes the perspective of a grandmother towards the practice of female circumcision in her family. The Social Awareness #ShortFilms presented by #PocketFilms, Short Films #HISSA (A Part) #WatchNewReleases Short on YouTube Channel PocketFilms.

Director: Tamjeed Elahi Khan

Music and Sound: Siddhesh Patole

Editor: Siddhesh Patole

Cinematographer: Ratnesh Kumar

Actors: Baby Sanavi Paranjape, Vrushali Marathe, Trupti Saraf, Asif Ghodeswar, Aisha Shilledar

Carbon is a Hindi science fiction short film on global warming, written and directed by Maitrey Bajpai and Ramiz Ilham Khan. The movie stars Jackky Bhagnani, Nawazuddin Siddiqui and Prachi Desai in the lead roles. The movie is set in 2067, in an earth where Carbon is the gas in abundance and Oxygen is supplied by industries. Bhagnani plays a man with an artificial heart and Siddiqui plays the role of a man from Mars. The film will release on the YouTube channel of Large Short Films.

“Most waited, an Indian Short Films #Carbon, is a release on YouTube #LargeShortFilms Yesterday. This short films also get more viewing in only one day up to 3.5 million plus. It Short Films Starring by Nawazuddin Siddiqui, Jackky Bhagnani, Prachi Desai and Yashpal Sharma. The Mini Film is about of future Hindi science fiction short film on global warming”

The makers might want to have us believe that Carbon is a dystopian sci-fi short about our polluted planet bereft of an atmosphere and full of desi oxygen smugglers. And that a hustler called Random (Bhagnani) meets a girl called Pari (Desai) in a dire situation, presenting us with a rejected Wall-E scenario that has nothing to do the PSA-style voice-over.

Actor and producer Jackky Bhagnani has shared the first poster of his upcoming short film Carbon. The actor took to Instagram to share the first look and wrote, “A peak into the future! Presenting the official poster of #Carbon.” The film also stars Nawazuddin Siddiqui. Jackky revealed the first look on the 13th July at IIFA 2017 in New York.

“As an actor and producer, the only way I know how to communicate with audiences is through the film. Carbon deals with serious environmental issues like Global Warming & Climate Change and their impact on our world. As a citizen of this planet, I think it’s time we stop talking and start doing. Carbon is my attempt at creating awareness and I’m thankful to IIFA for giving me this platform,” Jackky told reporters at IIFA.

Directed by Maitrey Bajpai, Ramiz Ilham Khan

Produced by Jackky Bhagnani, Deepshikha Deshmukh, Gautam Gupta

Starring by Nawazuddin Siddiqui, Jackky Bhagnani, Prachi Desai and Yashpal Sharma.