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Block 1

The Two Missing Hours

Director: Jean-Claude Thibaut

Country: United States

RT: 6min

Synopsis: Lisa is pursued by an omnipotent evil force, her father that is turning her whole world against her while it whispers a warning from the shadows....

Who Wants Dessert?

Director: Venita Ozols-Graham

Country: United States

RT: 7min

Synopsis: After suffering a catastrophic event, Annie loses her entire family… but she can’t let them go. She creates a psychological house of cards that her court appointed therapist threatens to take down....

Safe

Director: Josema Roig

Country: United States

RT: 10min

Synopsis: In the middle of the night a startled little girl wakes up his brother. She’s heard a noise lurking outside, but danger often hides much closer....

White Mirror

Director: Matthew Cooke

Country: United States

RT: 13min

Accomplice

Director: Matthew Avery Berg

Country: United States

RT: 15min

Synopsis: A man is forced to experience the memories of the person he accidentally killed....

Body Of The Mined

Director: Eric Jungmann

Country: United States

RT: 15min

Synopsis: A quiet, young woman moves into a new building and meets a reclusive engineer at the brink of completing a bizarre, extraordinary machine....

I am the Devil

Director: Mike Harris

Country: United States

RT: 15min

Synopsis: Based on the true story of Operation Midnight Climax, a secret CIA program in which unsuspecting johns were lured by prostitutes and then subjected to nonconsensual LSD testing as well as psychological and physical torture in an effort to perfect mind control against the Soviets....

Ork

Director: Alex Popov

Country: United States

RT: 25min

Synopsis: AD 613, after a brutal war, a group of vikings attempt the long journey back to their village. What they encounter along the way is far from this world....

Nightwalkers

Director: Mark Pellington

Country: United States

RT: 32min

Synopsis: A young man searches for love and forgiveness in a sleepwalking dream....

Block 2

Communicare

Director: Anthony Vazquez

Country: United States

RT: 6min

Synopsis: When a middle aged woman is stuck in life, she’s forced to look truly look at herself to find out what she wants from life....

Please Don’t Spill The Milk

Director: Natasha Babenko, Omar Antonio Iturriaga

Country: United States

RT: 10min

Synopsis: A woman’s bizarre sexual fantasy leads to her boyfriend’s heartbreaking confession, followed by distorted modern-day empathy: an instant solution for his deepest wound....

Nice To Meet You

Director: Michael Landry

Country: United States

RT: 11min

Synopsis: When a recently separated couple meet up at their favorite bar, the reunion awakens feelings of bitterness, remorse and love....

The Necklace

Director: Jeffrey Podany

Country: United States

RT: 11min

Synopsis: The Necklace follows the story of Miriam & a jade necklace her father gave to her as a child. The film chronicles important moments in her life relating to the necklace....

April Kills The Vibe

Director: Bonnie McKee

Country: United States

RT: 14min

Synopsis: When party girl April wakes up after a rowdy New Year’s Eve with a lot more than just a hangover, she calls her partner in crime, Lola, to try to fill in the blanks. But the truth is uglier than April bargained for, and she is forced to confront her demons....

Bloom

Director: Dawson Doupé, Ryder Doupé, Todd Tapper

Country: United States

RT: 14min

Synopsis: Identical twin sisters who haven’t spoken in years reunite for a road trip after one of them tries to take her own life....

The Call

Director: Aisha Schliessler

Country: United States

RT: 14min

Synopsis: A woman discovers a secret that changes everything....

Water

Director: Brittney Rae

Country: United States

RT: 16min

Synopsis: In a dystopian Miami landscape in the late 60’s, Lucy, our lead character, is trapped in a cult-like pool club. In this world, everyone is required to choose a social group to assimilate to at the age of ten, separated by gender and arranged by skin-tone....

I am normal

Director: Olia Oparina

Country: United States

RT: 20min

Synopsis: A sane woman fakes the symptoms of a mentally unstable patient in order to be admitted into a mental institution for a secret psychiatric experiment. Inspired by the Rosenhan Experiment of 1973....

Block 3

Animal Food

Director: Jonas Ljung

Country: Sweden

RT: 6min

Synopsis: Animal Food is a dark comedy about a socially awkward man with an abnormal interest in bird food. What’s cultural acceptable to eat, and what’s not?...

Arrows

Director: Nikos Vittis

Country: Greece

RT: 8min

Synopsis: In a super market, where the paths are predetermined with arrows, a young man, when he tries to reach a young woman to give her a button she missed, finds obstacles while following the directions of the arrows....

Verdict 30001: The Cookies

Director: Henna Välkky, Samuel Häkkinen

Country: Finland

RT: 9min

Synopsis: The average adult makes around 35 000 remotely conscious decisions each day. Each decision carries certain consequences – both good and bad. Even if it’s just about a box of cookies....

Capolinea – The Last Stop

Director: Roberto Totola

Country: Italy

RT: 18min

Synopsis: She is at the bus stop always at the same time, in the same place. Every day two men travel the same road to reach her. Neither of them has the courage to take the first step. Until the day when she gives a light greeting with her hand facing them....

The Appointment

Director: Alexandre Singh

Country: United States

RT: 20min

Synopsis: Disturbed by a mysterious entry in his diary, novelist Henry Salt embarks on an obsessive quest to uncover the identity of his 12 o'clock appointment....

Stalin Unlimited

Director: Yury Vorobev

Country: Russia

RT: 25min

Synopsis: The unemployed liberal Yegor gets a job as double of the Soviet leaders. The working day goes badly, therefore he finds an extreme way out – an absurd Stalin’s “”self-promo””....

Brother Troll

Director: Gudmund Helmsdal

Country: Faroe Islands

RT: 30min

Synopsis: Once upon a time in the Faroe Islands, two lone brothers struggle to save their fragile relationship after the sudden loss of their older brother....

Three Pints and a Rabbi

Director: Richard J. Perry

Country: UK

RT: 71min

Synopsis: When three dazed and confused strangers wake up in a pub to a dead woman lying on the table with hefty chunks of flesh missing, they must figure out what happened to her in order to ensure they don’t meet the same fate....

Block 4

The Journey of Murder

Director: Jun Wang

Country: China

RT: 105min

Synopsis: Sha Tao is a village girl with mental disorders. She is married to gambler Ma Saike, who plans to take Sha Tao to a boss in Shanxi Province in exchange for money, so that he can pay off his gambling debts and get treatment for his cancerous mother. When Ma Saike finds out the Shanxi boss Feng San is going to use Sha Tao for "ghost marriage", he receives a phone call telling him that urgent money is needed for his mother who is in a critical condition. He decides to kill Sha Tao for money. At the third attempt of killing Sha Tao, Ma Saike is told that his mother has died. In his grief, he wants to send Sha Tao home, only to find the debtor Shan Ji has been looking for him. Ma Saike plots an encounter between Feng San and Shan ji. After a fight between the two parties, Ma Saike takes Sha Tao to escape, but gets killed with a dagger. Sha Tao is free....

Block 5

Lady of the Sea

Director: Emmett Sparling

Country: Canada

RT: 3min

Synopsis: There once was a lady from the sea. Simple lessons from the sea on how to live well. This is what she taught me....

Planet Earth Calling Ana

Director: Fernando Bonelli

Country: Spain

RT: 21min

Synopsis: One day, life detaches you from the world. Without a warning. Isolation. No more albums, no more tours or stages. Music remained inside her, and so did Juan, her love, her Earth....

Ordinary Creatures

Director: Thomas Marschall

Country: Austria

RT: 75min

Synopsis: “Keep your eyes on the road, your hands upon the wheel“, Martha and Alex should have taken Jim Morrison’s advice to heart. Only when real life comes crashing into their small self-involved world in the shape of a little dog and its grim owner, do things get set in motion....

Block 6

Worldlines II

Director: Karlos Alastruey

Country: Spain

RT: 10min

Synopsis: A teenager oscillates between melancholy and happiness until both states unfold in two parallel worlds. Someone has planned to murder her....

Killing Small Animals

Director: Marcus Svanberg

Country: Sweden

RT: 11min

Synopsis: This is a film about a woman who lives a seemingly rich and full life. But something seems to be missing. Perhaps a child that has died or never been born. One day something inside her snaps and she does something she never thought herself capable of. And once she’s started, she can’t seem to stop....

Knives & Peaches

Director: Adrian Daniel Botnariu

Country: Germany

RT: 13min

Synopsis: After 20 years, a blind blacksmith is visited by an old friend. When the long repressed memory of an abused little girl resurfaces, it becomes clear that only one man will leave with his life....

Mori

Director: Jonathan Breaux

Country: United States

RT: 13min

Synopsis: Two men attempt to bury one’s mistake, ultimately falling into their own destiny....

Block 7

The FBI’s Secret War

Director: David Reppond

Country: United States

RT: 14min

Synopsis: “”The FBI’s Secret War”” is the first film to reveal the massive infiltration of the VVAW (Vietnam Veterans Against the War) conducted by the FBI, exposing more details about their illegal surveillance program called, COINTELPRO....

Bloodless: The Path To Democracy

Director: Bared Maronian

Country: United States

RT: 88min

Synopsis: In the course of history, only a few revolutions have been successful, let alone those without Bloodshed. Nikol Pashinyan, a charismatic former journalist and political prisoner, galvanized support among the youth and women, by using non-violent civil disobedience protests and social media. In a short period of 6 weeks, a corrupt oligarchy was toppled and democracy restored. Deemed short of a miracle, Bloodless is a riveting political thriller, capturing the story as events unfold in the spring of 2018 in Armenia. ...

Block 8

Alice – The Birthmark Girl

Director: Anne Wanyi Geng

Country: United States

RT: 4min

Synopsis: An imaginative girl with an ugly birthmark copes with her solitude and pain and discovers her own universe....

Stranger

Director: Chloe Caufield

Country: United States

RT: 4min

Synopsis: A young man shares his journey with autism and how it has shaped his perception and expression of self...

The Chess Match

Director: Alisher Balfanbayev

Country: United States

RT: 6min

Synopsis: When a young Nazi soldier encounters a boy during the liquidation of a Jewish ghetto, the two form a bond over a game of chess....

Concrete

Director: Ryan Mercatante

Country: United States

RT: 9min

Synopsis: After fate gets in the way of his suicide attempt, Charlie must now find a way out of the Los Angeles River base with a broken leg and an open wound....

Dandelions

Director: Taylor Leigh Aguilar

Country: United States

RT: 10min

Synopsis: A college student navigates what it means to be alive after a sexual abuse experience realizing that answers and peace are found in the least expected of places and people....

La Crise

Director: Rafaël Beauchamp

Country: Canada

RT: 10min

Synopsis: In the midst of 1970’s October Crisis that shook Quebec to its core, Carole, a housewife crumbling under the weight of an oppressive routine, is visited by a home seller who will turn her daily life upside down....

El Triste

Director: Manuel Del Valle

Country: Mexico

Sheltered

Director: Charlotte Rose Manning

Country: United States

RT: 15min

Synopsis: During her stay at a public psychiatric hospital, Wren realizes she’s trapped within a deeply flawed healthcare system...

Let Us Pray

Director: Devan Ford

Country: United States

RT: 22min

Synopsis: The death of a teenage girl has brought shock upon this small town. Kyle Douglas, the son of the local pastor, is shocked upon the news when a detective comes knocking on his door. Luckily for Kyle, the detective is there for his father’s guidance, not for what happened on that fatal night....

Life Appointment

Director: Amr Elbehidy

Country: Egypt

RT: 30min

Synopsis: A man in his seventies suffering from loneliness blames himself for the past and gets into a life changing situation...

Block 9

Sammy Adams, Just Sayin’!

Director: Brent Bishop

Country: United States

RT: 1min

Synopsis: An animated short showcasing America’s Founding Father – and favorite brewmeister – Sam Adams on a rant about equality, America, and what it truly means to be great. Starring Kyle Kinane....

52 – A Tale Of Loneliness

Director: Johnny DePalma

Country: United States

RT: 5min

Synopsis: Far beneath the beautiful sea, a unique whale sings a song that is all his own. Inspired by the incredible true story of the 52 Hz whale....

The Winter

Director: Xin Li

Country: Australia

RT: 5min

Synopsis: Walking in a snowy forest, a peasant sees a mysterious deer and goes to follow it. The deer allures him and the peasant even wants to catch it....

On/Off

Director: Nicolas P. Villarreal

Country: Argentina

RT: 7min

Synopsis: Endless distractions threaten to destroy creativity....

Star-Crossed

Director: Hasani Walker

Country: United States

RT: 8min

Synopsis: Two aliens on different planets find a way to connect with each other, but one hopes to get closer....

Kapaemahu

Director: Dean Hamer, Joe Wilson, Hinaleimoana Wong-Kalu

Country: United States

RT: 8min

Synopsis: Long ago, four extraordinary beings of dual male and female spirit brought the healing arts to Hawaii and imbued their powers in four giant boulders. The stones still stand on Waikiki Beach, but their true story has been hidden - until now...

The Ghastly Fowl

Director: Shruti Veeramachineni

Country: UK

RT: 11min

Synopsis: The Ghastly Fowl takes a look at where we are now and where we could go from here, focusing on responsibility rather than blame. The only way we are going to make it through this terrifying time as a species is if we work together in harmony with the planet rather than in opposition to it....

Girl And Robot

Director: Joe Loftus

Country: Northern Ireland

RT: 12min

Synopsis: A traumatized young girl is chased across the desert by officers of the state. On her way she meets a friendly Robot who is afraid of being left alone. As the Girl’s pursuers catch up, she and the Robot soon learn that the only way they can survive is to work together....

Lessons From My Mother

Director: Aurora Jimenez

Country: United States

RT: 12min

Synopsis: A widowed mom and her daughter’s quirky misadventures of finding newly widowed rich men....

Remember Me In Therapy

Director: Jacob Mollot

Country: United States

RT: 12min

Synopsis: After waking up one fateful morning, George discovers that Earth has been destroyed by an intergalactic alien race/corporation called “”The Gleebloys.”” With the help of a ‘therapizing’ alien named Ruben, the two must piece together what led to the planet’s destruction....

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