Los Angeles Lift-Off Film Festival 2022 - Award Winner Showcase
Saturday 1st October 5pm - 7pm
1.
COSMOTO
Dir. Robin Mellor
UK
Logline: Cosmoto steps inside the mind of three Zambian anti-poaching scouts, a visceral deep dive into the psyche of those who put their lives on the line to battle for the future of our environment.
2.
In Spite of You
Dir. Kevin Rodengen
Italy
Logline: Eager to know more about her lover's girlfriend, a young woman begins to spy on her competition, taking us inside her inner turmoil and a painful addiction to unrequited love.
3.
Little Berlin
Dir. Kate McMullen
France
Logline: When the Iron Curtain cuts his tiny German village in half, Peter the bull gets separated from his 36 cows. Based on a true story, narrated by Christoph Waltz.
4.
War Paint
Dirs. Justin Eade & Keelan Walker
New Zealand
Logline: A young British soldier is shot and dying before the ramparts of a Pa during the 1864 Invasion of the Waikato in New Zealand. He has given up all hope and resigns himself to death, when a young Maori woman mysteriously comes to his aid.
5.
Last Words
Dir. Joaquín González
Uruguay
Logline: A young woman receives a phone call and a mysterious man informs her she is going to die. They embark in a long conversation. The night unfolds in a desperate attempt to prolongue the call, in a need to understand and in a poetic search of last words.
6.
The Smell of Mango (El Olor Del Mango)
Dir. Andressa Back
Canada
Logline: The smell of mango provokes a journey of nostalgia in Dolores, a Colombian immigrant in Canada, lost in-between times and spaces, expecting a baby while coping with her mother’s inevitable passing.