The 8th edition LIVE SCREENINGS INTERNATIONAL FILM FESTIVAL

Rear Windows reveals the back sides of tall apartment buildings, offering glimpses into the lives of various neighbors. Their routines are disrupted when a thief leaps from one apartment to another and locks eyes with a woman who screams. Startled, he drops his bag of stolen money and grows anxious. Without hesitation, the woman hits him over the head with a frying pan. But instead of reacting, the others simply appear at their windows, whisper “Shhh!” in unison, and quietly shut their curtains. With irony and humor, the animation highlights the detachment and indifference among people in modern urban life.

“UNBOXING” is a visual metaphor for how consumer addiction has become a new norm passed from hand to hand like a product, a virus, a reflection of our times. The film explores compulsive shopping as a symptom of contemporary life, exposing a dependency that's often hard to recognize and perhaps even harder to break. Are we unboxing products or peeling back something deeper?

A painter undergoing a botched eye surgery is given the chance to save his precious eyesight, but it will cost him his soul