Youth, future, and new films! Gbeck Future Film Festival is a competition of original films created by filmmakers from around the world, designed to discover and support young filmmakers. The 2022 edition of the Festival is the eighth annual, and the first to be presented in the Niagara region. Niagara Artists Centre hosted the opening night on May 6. The winners were announced and shown on the opening night. First Ontario Performing Arts Centre hosted the annual screening on May 7th-8th, 2022.
The Screening:
Date： May 7th-8th, 2022
Cinema： The Film House
Location： First Ontario Performing Arts Centre
Address：250 St. Paul St, St. Catharines, ON, Canada L2R 3M2
The films that will be screened were submitted from Canada, China, Belarus, Bosnia and Herzegovina, India, Iran, Israel, Poland, Russia, South Africa, South Korea, Spain, Syria, Ukraine, and other countries; in total 27 short films. The films are categorized as drama, documentary, animation, and they range in length from 3 to 30 minutes; all films have English-language subtitles. Each screening will last about 100 minutes in total and are themed with different topics.
【Scene 1】The world of the multivariate
Total Runtime: 98min
5 short films, come from different countries, show the variety and diversity of the real world.
| NO. | Title | Director | Country | Category | Runtime |
| 01 | Perm | Shekh Al Mamun | South Korea | drama | 30 |
| 02 | Return | Ma-Siqi | China | documentary | 17 |
| 03 | Comb Sister | Atefeh Khademolreza | Canada | animation | 7 |
| 04 | Paul 10 | Sunil Revankar | India | drama | 19 |
| 05 | A Cinema is Cinema | Huang-Zheng | China | documentary | 25 |
【Scene 2】The fate of the symphony
Total Runtime: 104min
9 short films, conversation with our fate.
| NO. | Title | Director | Country | Category | Runtime |
| 01 | The Hole | Piotr Kaźmierczak | Poland | animation | 3 |
| 02 | A Conversation with E | Esabella Strickland | Canada | drama | 5 |
| 03 | Heartbreaker | Oleksandra Brovchenko | Ukraine | drama | 5 |
| 04 | An Ordinary Day | Anas Zawahri | Syria | drama | 18 |
| 05 | Something Big Before 14 | Chen-Yaer | China | drama | 24 |
| 06 | Naji | Hosein Torkjoosh | Iran | drama | 18 |
| 07 | A Dead Sea | Nahd Bashir | Israel | drama | 15 |
| 08 | Nanny | Dani Zarandieta | Spain | drama | 6 |
| 09 | The Statue | Mohsen Salehi Fard | Iran | animation | 10 |
【Scene 3】Life is impermanent
Total Runtime: 96min
6 short films, shows the complicated human nature and diversity of life.
| NO. | Title | Director | Country | Category | Runtime |
| 01 | The Painter in Paris | James Whitelaw | South Africa | animation | 8 |
| 02 | Tell Me Something Nice | Mirela Salihović | Bosnia and Herzegovina | drama | 18 |
| 03 | Photo for Memory | Igor Vasilyev | Belarus | drama | 24 |
| 04 | Revelation | Yang-Zhiyuan | China | drama | 18 |
| 05 | The Rope | Mobin Miri | Iran | drama | 11 |
| 06 | Preferentes | Nacho Recio | Spain | drama | 17 |
【Scene 4】Family and kinship
Total Runtime: 90min
7 short films, about love, about family, about the dream.
| NO. | Title | Director | Country | Category | Runtime |
| 01 | Red Pomegranate | Lang-Junran, Cong-Jia, Fu-Kangyi | China | animation | 6 |
| 02 | Father’s Funeral | Kong-Lizhen | China | drama | 28 |
| 03 | Knock-Knock | Svetlana Belorussova | Russia | drama | 6 |
| 04 | Microscope | Wang-Pingbo | China | drama | 18 |
| 05 | Rub | Qin-Xinxin | China | animation | 4 |
| 06 | Last Story of My Grandma | Xie-Zhiting | China | drama | 21 |
| 07 | Wait | Wang-Congxiao, Tan-Xinxuemei | China | animation | 7 |