2019 Officially Selected Films

Voodoo Medics

Voodoo Medics

Voodoo Medics //  51min // Documentary // 2018 // Australia

Director: Kristin Shorten

Voodoo Medics is an eight-part documentary about trauma, resilience and post-traumatic growth in the medics who served with our special forces in Afghanistan.

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The Odd Angry Shot

The Odd Angry Shot

Odd Angry Shot // 92min // Comedy // 1979 // Australia

Writer/Director: Tom Jeffrey

In between drinking cans of Fosters beer, Australian soldiers tread on a few landmines, and generally experience the war in Vietnam.

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Escape and Evasion

Escape and Evasion

Escape and Evasion // 93min // Drama // 2019 // Australia UAE

Writer/Director: Storm Ashwood
Cast: Rena Owen, Hugh Sheridan, Firass Dirani

After his men are killed in Burma. A lone soldier returns home in search of solace.

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Christmas in Baghdad

Christmas in Baghdad

Christmas in Baghdad // 80min // Documentary // 2020 // USA

Director: Sonya Dunn
Writers: Tymur Yashchenko, Robert Kwilman

A media journalist is allowed unprecedented access to the 2018 USO Holiday Tour with high profile celebrities.

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The Swallows of Kabul

The Swallows of Kabul

The Swallows of Kabul // 91min // Animation // 2019 // France

Directors: Zabou Breitman, Eléa Gobbé-Mévellec
Writers: Zabou Breitman, Zabou Breitman, Yasmina Khadra, Patricia Mortagne, Sébastien Tavel

Summer 1998, Kabul in ruins is occupied by the Taliban. In love despite the daily violence and misery, Mohsen and Zunaira want to believe in the future.

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#3 Normandy Lane

#3 Normandy Lane

#3 Normandy Lane // 21:10min // Drama // 2019 // USA

Director: Brenda Strong
Writer: John Farmanesh-Bocca

Army wife and young mother, Sarah Winston’s life is inextricably altered when a series of visitors arrive on her doorstep.

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Beyond Her Lens

Beyond Her Lens

Beyond Her Lens // 19:01min // Drama // 2019 // Czech Republic

Director/Writer/Producer: Tereza Hirsch

Inspired by the life and work of female conflict-zone photographer Jana Andert.

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Carcerem

Carcerem

Carcerem // 6:40min // Drama // 2017 // Australia

Director/Writer/Producer: Jason Trembath

A young officer wants to leave the desolate planet of Carcerem after completing his required tour of duty, but he is manipulated into staying by his obsessed Commanding Officer, who believes a war is coming.

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Carpe Diem

Carpe Diem

Carpe Diem // 20min // Drama // 2019 // Russian Federation

Director: Irina Kholkina

Instead of preparing for entering university a young man Tomash mocks at people calling random phone numbers. Meanwhile the Nazis occupy Czechoslovakia.

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Darkest Corner

Darkest Corner

Darkest Corner // 12min // Drama // 2019 // Australia

Writers/Directors: Dave Beamish, Zac Loy

When two unlikely young saboteurs are trapped by a hostile extremist militia, the pair must risk their lives in hope of escaping their post-apocalyptic nightmare.

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Entrenched

Entrenched

Entrenched // 14min // Drama // 2018 // Australia

Writers/Directors: Joseph Chebatte, Julian Maroun

When four Australian soldiers capture a young Afghani boy spying on their position, tensions rise among them as they decide whether he’s helping the Taliban or simply playing.

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Escape by Sea

Escape by Sea

Escape By Sea // 14min // Drama // 2019 // Australia, Finland

Director: Eero Heinonen
Writer: Melissa Lee Speyer

Based on true events of Ensio Tiira. Two Scandinavian soldiers flee French Foreign Legion by jumping ship in Strait of Malacca.

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Milk

Milk

Milk // 16:36min // Drama // 2019 // New Zealand

Director/Writer: Pennie Hunt

January 1945: on a lonely farm in coastal New Zealand, a young widow confronts two crewmen from a German submarine who have come ashore on a secret mission – to get fresh milk.

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Minor Accident of War

Minor Accident of War

Minor Accident of War // 10min // Animation // 2019 // USAs

Director: Diane Weis, Piotr Kabat
Writer: Edward Field

A true story written and narrated by the man who lived it — Edward Field, 95 years old and a WWll veteran.

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Nooreh

Nooreh

Nooreh // 22:22min // Drama // 2018 // India

Writer/Director: Ashish Pandey

Nestled in Kashmir valley lies a small village on the India-Pakistan border always caught in the crossfire between the two warring nations.

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Old Warrior

Old Warrior

Old Warrior // 22:22min // Drama // 2019 // Russian Federation

Director: Sergey Bataev
Writer: Alina Galiaskarova

Spring 1945. Yegor Kuz’mich, a shell-shocked old man who has been through more than one war, tries to join the army.

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The German King

The German King

The German King // 20min // Drama // 2019 // USA

Writer/Director: Adetokumboh M’Cormack

Set in 1914 at the start of World War I, the unbelievable true story of Rudolf Manga, a German-raised African prince who becomes king after his father’s death.

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The Sea Swells

The Sea Swells

The Sea Swells // 16:15min // Drama // 2018 // Iran

Writer/Director: Amir Gholami

A fisherman lives a seemingly simple life in a shack in the middle of the ocean. The line between nightmare and reality blurs when the man is bombarded with the sights and sounds of battle.

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War Machine

War Machine

War Machine // 6:31min // Animation // 2019 // Bulgaria

Director: Iva Dimanova

Observing a world with no good and evil, in which war and its consumption of life has become a well-oiled machine.

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Their War

Their War

Their War // 16:15min // Drama // 2019 // UK

Writer/Director: Max Mason

Two soldiers on opposite sides of World War One must do all they can to survive and get back to the families they left behind.

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Surviving With Grief

Surviving With Grief

Surviving with Grief // 14:02min // Documentary //2018 //  USA

Director: Brooke Mailhiot
Writer: Kristen Lusk

Corporal Alfred Brenner IV’s story about his canine, Grief.

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Mosul 980

Mosul 980

Mosul 980 // 10min // Drama // 2019 // Iraq

Director: Ali Mohammed Saeed
Writers: Mustafa Sattar Jabbar, Ali Mohammed Saeed

A 17 years old kidnapped Yazidi girl disguised in ISIS uniform tries to escape form ISIS. She finds no way to break free, but a military vehicle set on explosives.

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Sursis (Borrowed Time)

Sursis (Borrowed Time)

Sursis // 14:58min // Drama // 2016 // France

Writer/Director: Raphaël Treiner

Winter 1916. A french lieutenant finds himself the sole survivor of his company after a deadly assault. In search of allied refuge, he is haunted by the ghosts of war.

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