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BLOCK 1 at 2:45 PM

Adina E-Changing

Director: Yoni Goodman

Country: Israel

RT: 4min

Synopsis: A young girl runs away from home, feeling the need to escape the pain in her world. Not knowing where her path will take her, she heads out on a journey of self-discovery....

Bristled

Director: Scott Farrell

Country: United States

RT: 5min

Synopsis: After countless blind dates, Bernard swears that his next date will be the one. But could her flaw be too much for him to overcome? Bristled is a hand drawn comedic short film that deals with the way we perceive others as well as ourselves....

God, I Need a Girlfriend

Director: Stefan Janoski

Country: United States

RT: 5min

Synopsis: A darkly humorous musical stop motion film giving the background to Stefan Janoski’s sculpture of the same name....

Golden Age

Director: Anthony Di Ninno

Country: Canada

RT: 5min

Synopsis: A superhero returns home from a long day at work to have a conversation with his one true love. His own image....

Substance

Director: Jamaal Bradley

Country: United States

RT: 6min

Synopsis: Based on true events, two brothers battle over the future of the family, but it will be a young girl who will change her father’s SUBSTANCE and the fate of generations....

Fearless

Director: Thiago Micalopulos

Country: United States

RT: 5min

Synopsis: Somewhere in the Peloponnese, thousands of years ago, a vigilante driven by haunting memories faces a relentless foe. Still struggling with her fears, a violent tale of redemption unfolds. Some things are not meant to be kept buried....

Night Light

Director: Yamiset Trujillo, Jane Suarez

Country: United States

RT: 8min

Synopsis: A wide-eyed, newborn sea turtle named Fin finds itself on the illuminated beaches of Miami. It is a perilous time to be a hatchling, with hazards of artificial light and debris present at every turn. With the help of Abueluna, his caring, celestial guide, Fin will make the daring trek from his cluttered nest to the open seas....

Obon

Director: André Hörmann, Samo (Anna Bergmann)

Country: Germany

RT: 15min

Synopsis: Akiko Takakura survived the atomic bombing of Hiroshima but in the midst of total destruction she finds a moment of happiness....

BLOCK 2 at 3:45 PM

Sargasso

Director: Adam Sigal

Country: United States

RT: 90min

Synopsis: A young private investigator, cutting his teeth on the streets of Los Angeles, tows the line between danger and heartbreak as he tries to help the woman he is investigating to commit fraud in order to get the money he needs to help his sick mother....

BLOCK 3 at 4:15 PM

Golden Girl

Director: Chiara Fleischhacker

Country: Germany

RT: 13min

Synopsis: 14-year-old Céline sits in front of her father’s camera for a perfect photo. She is beautifully done up, but how long can she hide her emotional world? Is this really her or is it a mask her father makes her wear at every shoot?...

The Milk Bottle

Director: Saul Lotzof

Country: UK

RT: 13min

Synopsis: A young boy’s life is changed forever on a seemingly innocent pheasant hunt....

Bini

Director: Erblin Nushi

Country: United States

RT: 20min

Synopsis: At the outbreak of the Kosovo War, six year old Bini is only thinking about his most prized possession, a piece of candy. When suddenly he and his family are packed into a crowded truck and faced with life threatening obstacles, Bini learns that candy may not be the only thing of value he loses that day....

Cattle

Director: Kerinne Jenkins

Country: Australia

RT: 20min

Synopsis: On a rural cattle farm, two sisters worry about their mother’s cancer, but an unexplained death in the herd gives the girls cause to go out alone looking for answers....

Guion

Director: Sagi Kahane-Rapport

Country: Canada

RT: 21min

Synopsis: A short narrative biopic that tells the story of Guion Bluford who grapples with the reality of becoming the first African American man in space....

BLOCK 4 at 4:45 PM

Hard Rubbish

Director: Stephen Packer

Country: Australia

RT: 11min

Synopsis: While vandalizing a private girls’ high school late at night, image conscious 15 year old Simon & his friends are caught off guard by a gang of the very people they are trying to emulate....

Will “The Machine”

Director: Kent Lamm

Country: United States

RT: 14min

Synopsis: Will “The Machine” Vaughn’s obsessive discipline has made him the top high school football recruit in the country at the cost of everything else in his life. Set in the former capital of the Confederacy, we follow Will on a typical day of training in the Richmond, Virginia winter. Soon a new kid in town challenges Will by effortlessly beating him in a race. As their rivalry heats up, Will must choose between making a friend, or crushing his competition....

Dear Chickens

Director: Mauro Mueller

Country: Mexico

RT: 15min

Synopsis: When a stubborn old man and a fretful teenaged girl are forced to share a hospital room, an unexpected friendship forms....

Carousel

Director: Joseph Morgan

Country: United States

RT: 28min

Synopsis: A man escapes death and returns to the small town he grew up in. Forced to face the consequences of what he left behind, he attempts to make things right before fate catches up with him....

Tony

Director: Hugo Diego Garcia

Country: France

RT: 35min

Synopsis: It is the 1980’s, France, where Tony, a young third-generation Spaniard immigrant, who is a rebel with a heart of gold, fights for a life he desires despite an abusive and violent father controlling his every move. He bonds with a group of reckless immigrant outcasts from the street that he sees a family. Is the path he is embarking on going to lead him to a dark and uncertain future?...

BLOCK 5 at 5:45 PM

Hidden Blueprints: The Story Of Mickey

Director: Jeremy Lee MacKenzie

Country: United States

RT: 16min

Synopsis: A hybrid short documentary detailing the history and creation of a collection of wood-scrollwork that was designed and hidden in prison and the story of Mikey, a champion fighting mantis who won all of its fights, only to become an enduring myth after being martyred in a corporate prison riot....

Guest Artist

Director: Timothy Busfield

Country: United States

RT: 75min

Synopsis: A young man comes face to face with his hero (Jeff Daniels) and explores the tangled relationship between dreams of youth and the wisdom of age....

BLOCK 6 at 6:15 PM

Lost In Carranza

Director: Marin Troude

Country: France

RT: 23min

Synopsis: Pablo Carranza falls back into hard drugs despite his sobriety and battle against years of addiction. Alone in his apartment, filled with regret and guilt, he decides to confess by leaving a final voice message for his first love....

The Fabulous Chi Ali

Director: Tom Colabraro

Country: United States

RT: 68min

Synopsis: In the greatest era of hip hop, a ten-year-old prodigal son named Chi-Ali is chosen to become the greatest artist that hip hop has ever seen. As fame, money, and pressure takes over, he finds himself turning to the streets with a decision that will forever change his life, and alter the history of hip hop....

BLOCK 7 at 6:45 PM

Scrap

Director: Leena Pendharkar

Country: United States

RT: 15min

Synopsis: After getting fired, Beth, a young single mom finds herself living in her car and struggles to hide her homelessness from her estranged brother Ben....

Caretakers

Director: Elias Talbot & George Loomis

Country: United States

RT: 89min

Synopsis: A young medical student finds himself entrenched in a web of intrigue when he’s sent to care for the former US Ambassador to Syria. Christopher Cousins, Vivica A. Fox and Missi Pyle co-star in Loomis’ suspenseful thriller....

BLOCK 8 at 8:00 PM

The Other

Director: Shilpi Roy

Country: United States

RT: 9min

Synopsis: A woman’s struggle with her multiracial identity gets seriously twisted in this dramedy short film....

Princess Of The Row

Director: Van Maximilian Carlson

Country: United States

RT: 85min

Synopsis: The inspiring tale of a runaway foster child who will stop at nothing to live with the only family she knows: her father… a homeless, mentally ill veteran who lives on the streets of LA’s skid row....

BLOCK 9 at 8:30 PM

Campfire Alpha

Director: Alex Breaux

Country: United States

RT: 15min

Synopsis: Survival of the fittest....

Limbo

Director: Mark H. Young

Country: United States

RT: 90min

Synopsis: A murderer finds himself on trial in Hell, caught between a bitter prosecutor and an inexperienced defense attorney....

BLOCK 10 at 9:00 PM

Waiting Game

Director: Jon Bloch

Country: United States

RT: 24min

Synopsis: Kenny puts his life on hold to return home and take care of his ailing father, Mel. After Mel accidentally has a near death experience one night, Kenny realizes his time to connect with his father is limited. Kenny endures the constant berating and criticisms, as Mel tries to drive his son out of the house in order to die with dignity and end his suffering. Can Kenny let his father go or will he continue sacrificing his future as his father’s health continues to decline?...

Auggie

Director: Matt Kane

Country: United States

RT: 81min

Synopsis: Forced into an early retirement, Felix (Richard Kind) falls in love with an augmented reality companion, to the detriment of his relationship with his wife and daughter....

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