Congratulations to three London Film School students, who will be screening at the Palm Springs International Short Fest 2016 later this month. MAST QALANDAR (Divij Roopchand), SEA BREEZE (Chun-Yi Li), and THE TRANSLATOR ( Emre Kayis) will all be shown at the Oscar and BAFTA-qualifying festival.
Divij Roopchand's MAST QALANDAR, tells the story of Montek, a Sikh Boy, who is about to turn thirteen. Whist tying his turban in the morning his mother asks him what he wants for his birthday. He doesn’t respond. If he tells her what he wants, she won’t let him have it.
In addititon to Divij's Writer-Director role, a number of other LFS students worked on the film, including Nikolai James Hamel (Producer), Joao Paulo Garcia Silva (Cinematographer), and Fevronia Tsolina (Assistant Director).
MAST QALANDAR was awarded Best Student Film at the Manchester International Film Festival 2016 and the award for Best Short Film at Flicks International Student Short Film Festival.
SEA BREEZE, tells the story of Shu-Juan, a middle-aged Taiwanese woman who runs a cheap clothes shop, leading a routine life by regularly visiting a park around her shop after work, having night snacks, and observing dodgy activities among young foreign workers looking for romantic fun. One late evening, in that park, an incident brings Shu-Juan and a young Filipino guy together. Although they can barely communicate with each other, she takes care of him out of instinct.
Chun-Yi Li's graduation film "Sea Breeze" has won both the Best Student Film award, and the Best Crowdfunded Film Award at this year's Aspen Shortsfest.
THE TRANSLATOR is an intimate portrait of a Syrian refugee boy; Yusuf, a shy, sensitive Syrian refugee who lives in exile in a remote Turkish border town is chosen for his newfound power but he has to experience how to use it, at the cost of his innocence.
Emre Kayis’s THE TRANSLATOR has won the 'Best Short Fiction Film Award’ at the 6th Okan University Short Film Competition, has been awarded "Best Sound" at Cluj Shorts 2016 in Romania, and has been nominated for the European Short Film Award at this year's European Film Awards. The film was screened at and put up for the nomination by the Sarajevo Film Festival earlier this year.
Screening Times:
MAST QALANDAR
Program: Birth, youth, adulthood, the end, it’s all here in this memorable selection of films about the journey of life from all around the world.
| June 22, 2016 | 10:30 AM |
SEA BREEZE
Program: Unforgettable stories of people far away from where they come from, but still finding something called home.
| June 23, 2016 | 2:30 PM |
THE TRANSLATOR
Program: Misinterpretations, deliberate distortions and shocking revelations—these films pull back the curtain on the things we keep hidden from ourselves and from each other. To say anything more would be giving away the secret…
| June 25, 2016 | 11:00 AM |