Balance
Balance // 2min // Animated Short // 2022 // Iran
Director: Barzan
It’s a story about the soldiers who are sacrificing their lives and resist in order to the people of the city and future generations live in peace…
The Ace and the Scout
The Ace and the Scout // 90min // Drama // 2022 // Canada
Director: Aaron Huggett
Inspired by the heroics of Ace pilot Billy Bishop and his 72 dogfight victories, two young men from small town Ontario join the late war effort, landing on the front lines of Northern France in August 1918.
Not My Enemy
Not My Enemy // 78min // Documentary // 2022 // USA
Director: Kehinde Ishangi
Looking backward to move forward, Kehinde Ishangi, an African American choreographer, searches to uncover the truth about her absent father’s choices and reveals the real enemy of the Vietnam War.
The Healing
The Healing // 54min // Documentary // 2022 // Australia
Writer/Director: Nick Barkla
An inspiring documentary about transformation and getting a second chance in life. It explores a life-saving equine welfare program that brings traumatised ex-racehorses and traumatised military veterans together to help heal each other.
Freedom Swimmer
Freedom Swimmer // 15min // Animated Short // 2022 // UK
Writer/Director: Olivia Martin/McGuire
In order to understand the present, we need to shed light on the past. Freedom Swimmer documents one of the most extraordinary mass escapes of the 20th century and offers context for a city in uprise, today.
War Trap
War Trap // 117min // Drama // 2021 // France
Writer/Director: David Aboucaya
During the Second World War, following an ambush carried out in a fort by German troops, Eugène, an Allied soldier, finds himself trapped underground. Now fighting for his survival, his destiny will play out alongside that of another survivor.
The Veteran Dramedy
The Veteran Dramedy // 30min // Comedy Drama // 2022 // Germany/Ukraine
Director: Rainer Ludwigs
After fighting in the Donbas, Bogdan, a young Ukrainian, visits his mother in Germany. Here, he finds unexpected opportunities: university, a new job, an old new love. He would love to stay. But he struggles with German bureaucracy and his trauma of war.
The Haka
The Haka // 15min // Short Drama // 2022 // New Zealand
Director: Isaac Lee
A Christmas truce between WW1 soldiers needs a compromise after disagreement arises on how best to pass the time.
Masters of Conflict
Masters of Conflict // 4min // Animated Short // 2022 // Norway
Director: Hans Melbye
On the brink of the First World War, Gordon Bentley arranges a meeting with Lord Kitchener and Winston Churchill, convincing them that Britain should declare war on Germany. Together they unite in hopes of putting an end to this conflict soon.
The Sprayer
The Sprayer // 9min // Animated Short // 2022 // Iran
Director: Farnoosh Abedi
In the land occupied with the sprayers army, no one has the right to grow any kind of plants either in public or private. So many of the people and soldiers do not even know how dose a plant grows or look like.