U-Special International Campus Film Festival - 2019 at Zakir Hussain Delhi College!

Screening today at Delhi School of Journalism, Delhi University!

Campus Cinema!

Poster for Film Screening at Delhi School of Journalism!

OFFICIAL SELECTIONS - 2019 ANNOUNCED!

Student films from 17 countries selected for 3rd U-Special International Campus Film Festival.

Official Selections - 2019

 

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Winners - 2018

International Films - 06

Best Animation

Blows With The Wind | Hazhir As’adi | 00:06:30 | Animation | Iranian Youth Cinema Society | Iran

Synopsis: After occurring some events for the scarecrow, scarecrow becomes human.

Best Documentary (Joint Winners)

Snowflakes | Elif Nur Kayalar | 00:36:26 | Documentary | Istanbul Sehir University | Turkish | Turkey

Synopsis: “Snowflakes” is a documentary about people with albinism living in Turkey. Albinism is a rare genetic condition that causes a reduction in the amount of melanin pigment generated in the skin, hair, and eyes.

City of Walls | Eneos Çarka | 00:22:11 | Documentary | University of Arts of Albania | Albanian | Albania

Synopsis: This documentary gives an insight on the street art & graffiti culture in Tirana, Albania. During the shooting process, City Hall interferes in the art scene with their own project and creates a conflict with a political street art collective.

Best Short Film

Luck Ma | Li Xiang | 00:22:28 | Short Film | Chinese | China

Synopsis: The film is a story of an ordinary Hui family in the northwest of China. It is based on the real story and belongs to the realistic black humor theme. The film reproduces the life of the modern Hui and neighborhood relationships with the local hans.

Special Jury Award (Joint Winners)

All About Emily | Valentina Casadei | 00:08:00 | Short Film | EICAR, The International Film and Television School of Paris | French | Italy

Synopsis: A modest housekeeper keeps being bullied by a hysterical bourgeois for no apparent reason. Forced to endure these abuses in order to avoid being sent back to Cuba, she makes a discovery that will change everything.

Forest of Echoes | Luz Olivares Capelle | 00:30:00 | Short Film | University of Music and Performing Arts German | Austria

Synopsis: On summer holiday, deep in the woods, three kids, cousins, are playing around a lake when they find a drowned young woman drifting in the water. Games, lies and rituals unfolding into a circular time in which death loses its ultimacy. What is real and what is a mirage? Who is dreaming and who is being dreamed?

Indian Films - 05

Best Documentary (Joint Winners)

Kathputli | Pranay Aggarwal | 00:14:15 | Documentary | Hindi

Synopsis: Two parallel stories of a king and a slum colony in Delhi, India and their fight for their land culture and heritage.

Point & Shoot | Harsimran Kaur Anand | 00:25:00 | Documentary | Srishti Institute of Art, Design and Technology | Hindi, English, Yimchunguru

Synopsis: The film attempts to understand the relationship of a traditional hunting community, the Yimchungrü tribe of Nagaland; with the animals and birds found in the forests around their village, Fakim. It shows the significance of hunting in a tribal society and the dilemma it faces in a rapidly changing cultural and ecological landscape.

Best One Minute Film/PSA

Nazariya | Alok D. Rajput | 00:01:13 | One Minute Film/PSA | National Institute of Design

Synopsis: This film deals with general perception of people towards trans-genders and how trans- genders are trying to break that perception nowadays. The film is an encounter of a man with a transgender travelling in a bus.

Best Short Film (Joint Winners)

Do Ghante Ki Baat | Ashwarya Agarwal | 00:17:00 | Short Film | National Institute of Design | Hindi

Synopsis: The story revolves around a 17 year old schoolgirl, Deepali. The film explores the nature of her fleeting aspirations and jealousies, and hints at the significance that tiny instances hold in shaping her larger acceptance of truth.

Matter | Sandeep Kumar | 00:25:25 | Short Film | National Institute of Design | Hindi

Synopsis: A series of incidences happens with a bunch of close-knit teenage friends who are preparing for an upcoming “matter” which ends up in an unexpected compromise.