Austin Lift-Off Film Festival 2022 - Award Winning Filmmakers
Thursday 28th April
1.
A Lucid Dream
Dir. Li Yue
China
Logline: Memory eats into his dream. With the disappearance of that batch of wood which comes from the Southwest border, Li Guang, who is at the age of knowing destiny, realizes that this bizarre and motley reality is only built of the extension of memories. As for the kind of freedom he had been pursuing in that crazy age may never exist. After all, all he got in the end was only a siege of mind and body.
2.
Good and Better
Dir. Gil Alkabetz
Germany
Logline:
"It's hard to think it's gonna be good, much easier to think it's gonna be bad": A song in waltz rhythm is combined with absurd animated loops to express a feeling of concern and uncertainty about the future.
3.
SWIPE
Dir. Anthony Sneed
USA
Logline: A delinquent teenage boy learns a valuable lesson about growing up
4.
What If?
Dir. Katia Shannon
UK
Logline: At each step, Elena’s agoraphobia reinforces her sense of mortality but, as anxiety spreads around her like wildfire, she finally sees a way out.
5.
HELLO SUNSHINE
Dir. Joe Quint
USA
Logline: Roz Pichardo is more than a domestic violence and gun violence survivor, she’s a warrior. Despite of - or because of - being thrown off a bridge by an abusive ex-boyfriend, the unsolved murder of her brother, and the suicide of her identical twin sister, she’s able to channel her trauma into service by helping the often-forgotten people of North Philadelphia.
6.
BRAZIL
Dir. LUCIE BOURDEU
France
Logline: MUSIC VIDEO for LULU VAN TRAPP
"Brazil" tells the story of wandering of a mysterious heroine, in a current Paris nightmare. In prey to a strange evil, she advances
in this environment more and more hostile, until an inevitable metamorphosis occurs in it.