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Tendere

Director: Alejandra Castro Castillo

Country: United States

RT: 4min

Under The Surface

Director: Kai Z Feng, James Rockford

Country: United States

RT: 6min

Synopsis: A lonesome boy visits a remote lake in order to silence the thoughts that consume him...

Bobby Bishop

Director: Jonathan Reyes

Country: United States

RT: 7min

Synopsis: A rockstar emerges through the early 90s rock-n-roll scene in Hollywood, but his source of inspiration casts a difficult shadow on his music and legacy....

Grow Old With Me

Director: J.J. McDowell

Country: United States

RT: 7min

Synopsis: A threatening medical diagnosis prompts a young couple to dramatize their golden years....

Love you more

Director: James Mixon

Country: United States

RT: 75min

Synopsis: A young man struggles with feelings of grief and responsibility after his girlfriend’s suicide....

Block 2

Carl The Exorcist

Director: Jordan McKittrick

Country: United States

RT: 10min

Synopsis: When young priest, Father Carl, gets called by a terrified family to help their possessed daughter, he enlists the help of his spiritual doula friend to perform a good, ol’ fashioned exorcism. The only problem? Neither of them knows what they’re doing....

Ghosted

Director: Tracie Laymon

Country: United States

RT: 15min

Synopsis: A woman with a lot of baggage falls in love with a man haunted by his past. Literally....

Alta Vista

Director: Joe Clarke

Country: United States

RT: 88min

Synopsis: A screenwriter struggles to cope with the loss of his father, while getting himself entangled in Hollywood’s underworld....

Block 3

Breakfast

Director: Nick Martinez

Country: United States

RT: 9min

Synopsis: Breakfast is an adaptation of John Steinbeck’s short story that was his inspiration for The Grapes of Wrath. Its message is simple and timeless: can you be a kind to others even when you have little to nothing yourself?...

Contact High

Director: Scarlett Redmond

Country: United States

RT: 10min

Synopsis: A grieving mother meets a recovering addict, and without ever speaking, he brings her back to life....

All-In

Director: Jesserey Tugas

Country: United States

RT: 13min

Synopsis: A Las Vegas bartender and a casino security guard try to help a young girl find her gambling father....

Blue

Director: Ziad Foty

Country: United States

RT: 17min

Synopsis: Stuck somewhere between his idyllic life and his haunting memories, all Blue wants is to go fishing with his son. His son Daniel is everything to him, most importantly the person who makes him forget the difficulties of his own troubled childhood of poverty....

Early Light

Director: Ted Schneider

Country: United States

RT: 17min

Synopsis: A 24-hour glimpse into an Equine Therapy Program where two Wyoming veterans turn to the healing power of horses to battle their PTSD. Allen and Sam find themselves on a path to self- destruction. Sometimes the only one who hears our cry for help is the last one we expect to be listening....

Oh, Mighty Ocean!

Director: Nathan Xia

Country: United States

RT: 17min

Synopsis: Nathan Xia & Po Wei Su...

Moonwater

Director: William Tyler Wiseman

Country: United States

RT: 18min

Synopsis: An alcoholic working to get back on his feet wants to teach his teenage niece the lost family tradition: moonshining....

Block 4

Telling Time

Director: Daniel Talbott

Country: United States

RT: 6min

Synopsis: Ten months into the pandemic, day is for sleeping and night is for wandering alone and aimless on the East Side of Los Angeles. A young man reminisces about the loss of a great love, his tidal thoughts spilling out like water. A spare, meditative study on the unending isolation of Covid19....

Essential Worker

Director: Ramy Gheit

Country: United States

RT: 8min

Synopsis: Marc is infected with Coronavirus and cannot stop working for economic reasons, which leads to the death of another person and Marc himself....

Come Midnight

Director: Shira Rosenzweig

Country: United States

RT: 13min

Synopsis: A husband and wife’s last goodbye on the brink of moral collapse. Come Midnight is a tale of love, loss, lives saved and lives taken. It defies expectations while foreshadowing a sociopolitical nightmare right around the corner....

Wesley

Director: Travis Andrade

Country: United States

RT: 14min

Synopsis: When a young boy encounters a troubled teen with a 3D printed gun the boy desires to possess one of his own. WESLEY explores the impact of a pervasive gun culture on the developing psychology of an eleven-year-old boy....

Kepley

Director: Michael Grant, Stephanie Katherine Grant

Country: United States

RT: 20min

Synopsis: A neo-noir thriller centered around veteran detective, Gillian Kepley. During Kepley’s investigation of a troubling missing persons case, hidden truths from her past are uncovered. The case pushes her beyond her limits and forces her to confront mistakes from her burdened life....

Sky

Director: Lance Childers

Country: United States

RT: 20min

Synopsis: A young pianist struggles to find relief from his severe Obsessive Compulsive Disorder....

You’re Family Now

Director: Ryan Mack

Country: United States

RT: 20min

Synopsis: A newlywed couple visit the husband’s inherited childhood home for the first time. After the husband tells his wife about a mysterious family curse, things take a turn for the worst....

Just Breathe

Director: Mike Bayman

Country: United States

RT: 21min

Synopsis: JUST BREATHE follows a young woman (Grace Fulton) having to overcome her demons in an effort to save herself and her sister (Lou Lou Safran) against the backdrop of a global phenomenon and those looking to take advantage of it....

Block 5

Stand Up! Looking for Love in All the Wrong Places

Director: Timo Jacobs

Country: United States

RT: 89min

Synopsis: Charlie Schwarzer’s great career in comedy just won’t take off as planned. On top of it all the love of his life, Emilie separates from him and is involved in a car accident.But does this mean ‘game over’ for Charlie? The answer is: no. His motto is “Stand Up!”...

Tough Guy

Director: Jackie Mahoney

Country: UK

RT: 10min

Synopsis: Alex, a self-proclaimed Lothario, finds his sense of identity at conflict with his desire for a deeper emotional connection....

Block 6

The Toxic Pigs Of Fukushima

Director: Otto Bell

Country: United States

RT: 35min

Synopsis: The Great East Japan Earthquake of 2011 triggered a tsunami, nuclear meltdown and mass evacuations in Fukushima Prefecture. Today, as part of a Government push to encourage resettlement, local hunters have been enlisted to dispose of radiated Wild Boars....

Nuclear Forever

Director: Carsten Rau

Country: Germany

RT: 52/94min

Synopsis: Germany is turning away from nuclear power in 2022. Yet the country’s nuclear nightmare goes on: with umpteen thousands of tonnes of radioactive waste and the hazardous dismantling of power plants which will take decades....

Block 7

Big Touch

Director: Christopher Tenzis

Country: United States

RT: 4min

Synopsis: An Afro-Surrealist story about a giant woman and a tiny man who through the power of touch, experience an unexpected transformation....

The Feet Without The Mouth

Director: Mathieu Gauvreau

Country: Canada

RT: 4min

Synopsis: A man wakes up one morning and finds out something essential is missing....

The Hat

Director: Michael Lazovsky

Country: United States

RT: 6min

Synopsis: An intern in-training is faced with the difficult order to remove his old hat. “THE HAT” is a coming of age tale about what we’re willing to sacrifice or throw away in order to grow up and belong....

The Flexed Arm Hang

Director: Findlay Brown

Country: Canada

RT: 7min

Synopsis: A young boy attempts to get a silver medal in the most dauting of middle school tasks, the flexed arm hang....

Runner’s High

Director: Thelonius Serrell-Freed, Sheldon Donenberg

Country: United States

RT: 10min

Synopsis: Grappling with the burden of loss, a drifter unintentionally becomes engulfed in the reckless lifestyle of a group of bohemians. Through a series of events, he is forced to confront his trauma as his haunted past and unconventional present collide....

Twinkle Twinkle Little Star

Director: Shiyue Xu

Country: China

RT: 12min

Synopsis: Throughout Tommy’s life, the song “Twinkle Twinkle Little Star” has undergone many changes that mirror his journey through the different stages of his life...

Must Love Pie

Director: Patrick Clement

Country: China

RT: 13min

Synopsis: A lonely man finds a love connection...

Caravan

Director: William Michael Anderson

Country: UK, United States

RT: 14min

Synopsis: The film centers on an outcast in a rural English community who draws the attention of a vengeful mother after a chance encounter with her two young boys....

After Laughter

Director: Spencer James Bogaert

Country: Belgium

RT: 17min

Synopsis: A man who feels like the things of life are coming to an end after his sister passes, gets unexpected news… He inherits his sister’s pet: her parrot, Coco. The attraction between the animal and the man is explored intuitively while trying to cope with the impossibility of their harmony....

Land of Pyrite // Land of Gold

Director: Stephen Nigro

Country: United States

RT: 18min

Synopsis: Abby Urban & Madison Stevens...

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