Near Nazareth Festival (NNF) - Season 7

Director AK Srikanth
India
Runtime 9:05
Completion Date: November 1, 2019

'The Descent' is a short dance film by acclaimed Bharatanatyam Danseuse Savitha Sastry. It is based on the story of a much acclaimed dancer who is now over the hill, and being replaced by newer artists. The film speaks about her depression and downward spiral, captured magnificently through Bharatanatyam.

Director Tim Cash
Canada
Runtime 5:55
Completion Date: October 29, 2019

Pierre’s prized pink flamingo has been brazenly pickpocketed! The shocking crime has led to a phone call to the FBI (Flamingo Bureau of Investigation) & the search is on. The situation grows so dire that the Pink Ninja is called to duty! 'Strut - 1980s', directed by Tim Cash, is the lead single off Pennan Brae's 5th release, 'Gravity - The Astronot'. The track is mixed by producers Kirk Kelsey & Eric Alexandrakis & mastered at Abbey Road Studios by Grammy Award-winning engineer Sean Magee. Filmed In Central Oregon with music recorded in Vancouver, BC.

Director The Church of Almighty God
Republic of Korea
Runtime 16:27
Completion Date: October 12, 2019

The stirring kingdom anthem has rung out, announcing God's arrival among man to the whole universe! The kingdom of God has come! All people cheer, all things rejoice! Everything throughout the heavens brims with merriment. What captivating scenes of jubilation are these?

Director Roberto Skora
Brazil
Runtime 4:00
Completion Date: Sep 2019

A passerby walks over a viaduct. The information that crosses the thought of the character are diverse as the directions of the city train lines are several. This daily life situation is transformed into extraordinary by the emergence of music, bringing the complexity of classical music to present time.

Director GERRY MANUS
Canada
Runtime 3:05
Completion Date: September 28, 2019

INSPIRATIONAL

Director GERRY MANUS
Canada
Runtime 4:51
Completion Date: August 31, 2017

CHRISTIAN ROCK VIDEO

Director Hagit Kastel
United States
Runtime  4:18
Completion Date: October 14, 2019

music by imran ahmed
vocal&lyrics by mick stanhope
video art by hagit kastel nacsholi
 

Director Joshua Bendah
Canada
Runtime  4:55
Completion Date: February 10, 2019

The alchemy of piano, synth, light and stonework

Director Van Chirqui
United States
Runtime  3:35
Completion Date:  September 20, 2019

Our hero is surrounded by four men who resemble his looks, each one of them representing a piece of his soul; perhaps an early memory or a moment in his life that dramatically affected him. We first see them as those who won’t let him thrive.; even when he moves away,they are still attached to him in a way. Their presence somewhat minimizes and limits him, and yet there is comforting familiarity in their relationship. As the story unfolds, it becomes clear that the four men act like one mind trying to control him and bring him down. He wants to let go, and they just want to keep him safe. Soon he will realize that this tension is too familiar to let go of just like that. He isn’t really sure what will remain of him should they leave, and the fear of the immeasurable emptiness takes over at times. He wants to come clean, and reorient himself and his life without chaining it to old patterns and past memories. The honest journey of letting go starts when - instead of trying to ignore the four men, fight them, and make them disappear - he finds a peaceful way to let them go: he looks inside and tries to understand, accept, and, perhaps, find a way to show them compassion. He knows it might be the only way out. The current version of him is enough, and as he realizes it, they do too.

Director Giacomo Spaconi
Italy
Runtime  3:01
Completion Date:  September 1, 2019

Director Ruchita
Brazil
Runtime  8:03
Completion Date:  August 25, 2019

This work looks at the ever-increasing velocity and density of activity and information that characterizes contemporary urban cultures across the globe. The author appropriates the rhythm of passersby in Marrakesh, New York and Barcelona as a metaphor for her identification with the invisible hand guiding this process of acceleration.
Each element of the triptych images is composed of people from one of the three cities and serves to illustrate the universality of this phenomenon. These are in opposition to the flow of slow motion details from each city, that reveal the author’s desire to decelerate to better appreciate the nuances of each moment of evolving situations.
Taken together, these two segments expose her dissatisfaction with her own complicity with the quickening pace of her life mirrored by her experiences in the three cities.

Director Hagit Kastel Nachsholi
Israel
Runtime  4:00
Completion Date:  June 29, 2019

Music by Fesliyan Studios
Video production by Hagit Kastel Nachsholi

Director TINE KLUTH
Germany/United Kingdom
Runtime   5:00
Completion Date: 2019 - February

A little robot and his dog are sent to space to find a new home for the human race, which have rendered planet earth uninhabitable. It will be a long journey on which they encounter many different planets and their inhabitants (or are they all planets?) and to find one that looks welcoming seems impossible....

Director Ofer Winter, Shimon Engel
Israel
Runtime 4:07
Completion Date:  April 1, 2019

The City of Jerusalem holds a gun to our head in this head-spinning race through history.

Director Levan Tsikurishvili
Sweden
Runtime  5:04
Completion Date:  May 20, 2019

The video to the track “Heaven” from Avicii. Directed by filmmaker Levan Tsikurishvili, the video is a gorgeous combination of images of Tim Bergling from their last visit to Ille Saint Marie in Madagascar in 2016 during the filming of True Stories and a second visit that Tsikurishvili made after Tim’s death to honor his legacy.

Director Jocy de Oliveira
Brazil
Runtime   01:23:00
Completion Date:  November 19, 2018

The cinematic opera Liquid Voices – The story of Mathilda Segalescu tells a fictional narrative set in a factual event creating a fantastic reality.
A singular story about the fictional character – Mathilda Segalescu , famous Jewish singer and her piano, embarking as a refugee on the tragic sea voyage of Struma from Romania to
Palestine in 1941. The only survivor of this wrecked ship was her piano found years later by an Arab fisherman in the cost of Siles, Turkey. As a black box, the piano and his ghosts carry the tale. This man falls in love with the singer’ spectrum attached to the piano and appearing every night to tell him her fascinating story and tragic diaspora.
The film brings up the eternal tragedy of the immigrants, refugees and persecuted minorities.

Director Sébastien Bonfanti,Félix Métayer-Mathieu
France
Runtime   5:46
Completion Date:  November 15, 2017

Our film is a house music experimental video.
We follow 5 ordinary superhumans, each looking for their heart's desire in a cocktail party jungle.