Suthit and Nonae a Lahu couple have struggled for their living in order to get a better opportunity in their lives. But the more they tried hard the more they were circle in the circuit of a powerful relationship.

Director Declaration:

I hope our film will help tell the story and reflect on the atrocious acts of power against marginalized people and lead to future discussions and solutions.

Kabul, Afghanistan. Pari, an in-house tailor, must find the means to purchase her prescription glasses in order to save her job.

Jury Declaration:

Most people might knew beforehand the main theme of Bad Omen, it's quite simple and easy to grab. Nonetheless, it's always hard for the protagonist, no matter how things keep changing and challenging. This 18-minute film embodies an Afghan woman's whole struggling life with heartfelt complex details added because she's a widow. The film doesn't need more than limited spoken words and a few encounters within a day, it's strong enough to convince us how suffocating her life is.

Immersed in the natural landscape of the Colombian plains, Meli tries to find a way to pull her mother out of her emotional crisis.

Jury Declaration:

Generation gaps unfolded through all three women - grandma, mom and a girl. Grandmother lives her final days in a country home with parrots and chickens, she perceives her own daughter's coping -after became a single mom just recently- as problematic and desperate, and all undercurrent tensions between them were transmitted to the little girl's conscience. Sol del Llano powerfully leads them, and us, to the surprising and stunning solution of it all.

The story happen in the future of Hong Kong which the amendment of Fugitive Offenders Ordinance passed in Hong Kong, Hong Kong citizen can be extradite to mainland China according to China law without any trial in Hong Kong. A high school student Cheung Ching, her father is a journalist who work in Hong Kong and China, he was extradited to mainland China, a social worker Sin Yu who work in Ching's school try to help Cheng but facing many obstructions from school and social organization. But the obstruction mainly from practised self-censorship. Are we have to stop to help others?

Jury Declaration:

'It could happen to you', no matter who you are on the level of the food chain. If you live in an authoritarian hierarchical hegemony, you are used and exploited as victim in all kind of circumstances, even if you are certain that you are above the radar. Chi Him Yuen points out societies, which puts their member inevitably under surveillance, detected and treated as baits. There is nobody to rely or trust on wholeheartedly. Chi Him Yuen demonstrates the severe living condition in betrayed sociopolitical sceneries, marked by a dog-eat-dog political scheme.