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2019

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Block 1 @ 1:30 PM

It’s a mess

Director: Frank Prinzi

Country: United States

RT: 29min

Synopsis: A homeless man (Vincent D’Onofrio) with a troubled past…two young sisters with a dark secret…part modern day fairytale, part ode to the solitude of New York City nights…IT’S A MESS is a study of the loneliness that comes from knowing that in this “civilized” world, innocence and evil are separated only by a fine mist that dissipates after sunset...

Grow Up

Director: Michael Easterling

Country: United States

RT: 7min

Synopsis: A nostalgic glimpse into the lives of Southern California’s suburban youth from their last moments of adolescence to the pressures of growing up....

Hayley

Director: Michael Dolha

Country: United States

RT: 11min

Synopsis: A three hours flight becomes a race against time for a flight attendant attempting to save an 8 years old girl whom she believes is a victim of sexual abuse. Her goal becomes impossible when the girl’s uncle gets in the way....

Unspoken

Director: Danae Grandison

Country: Jamaica

RT: 12min

Synopsis: Caroline and Icy are bound and burdened by duty. The two women are connected by circumstance, living untold truths and heartbreak....

The Inheritance

Director: James D.R. Hickox

Country: United States

RT: 14min

Synopsis: Harry, one of the biggest musicians of his time has hit that point in life where there is nothing left to accomplish. Has living with childhood demons and the loss of people close to him brought Harry to the end? Will Harry listen when an unknown guest from his goodbye party might help shed some light on his dark past? And how does the stranger know Harry better than he knows himself?...

Paradise Lost

Director: Bruno Brejt

Country: Poland

RT: 15min

Synopsis: In the late 1960s, moved by a sudden impulse, a man comes to recollect long-lost aspects of his life, unleashing an avalanche of memories and a wave of primal fears....

Block 2 @ 2 PM

Nightwatch

Director: Cristian Plesh

Country: Romania

RT: 11min

Synopsis: For humans, summer nights are fun. For vampires, they are an overwhelming with temptations. Love, skin, naivety, and sweat oozing from every corner of the street. All it takes is for a vampire to wake up in a bad mood and the city turns into his feeding ground. And so, our vampire’s night watch has begun… and he is in a bad mood....

Butterscotch

Director: Courtney Paige

Country: United States

RT: 16min

Synopsis: A young woman with brain damage pays a high end escort to care for her, a decision that will change the course of her life....

Unoganized Crime

Director: Nick Vallelonga

Country: United States

RT: 30min

Synopsis: Under-appreciated ‘family’ member Gino Corso is finally given an opportunity to prove himself worthy of New York’s fifth largest crime syndicate. What transpires is a dark yet humorous tale of a family seeking common ground, and their internal struggle to remain a family. Their fate will ultimately come down to their ability to count on one another. Even if the best of circumstances plays out, it may not be enough to save all of them....

Block 3 @ 3:30 PM

Secret Times

Director: Montanah Blue

Country: United States

RT: 6min

Synopsis: Top Haute couture photographer, Cathleen Naundorf, prepares for her first major solo exhibition show at Fotografiska, Stockholm....

2350 Last Call: The Neo Story

Director: Eric Richter

Country: United States

RT: 46min

Synopsis: Spanning the years 1979 to 2015, for 36 years, Neo reigned as a sanctuary for misfits, weirdos, and outcasts while serving as a breeding ground for a myriad of fashion and music trends. “2350 Last Call” is a requiem for a club that not only outlasted its competitors, but also never lost its grit. Despite the changing tides, Neo remained committed to celebrating individuality and, of course, dancing till dawn....

Yves Saint-Laurent: My Marrakech

Director: Tatiana Issa & Guto Barra

Country: Brazil

RT: 55min

Synopsis: Yves Saint Laurent had become the biggest star of French fashion in the sixties, when he opened his own haute couture house after a three year stint at Christian Dior. He and his partner Pierre Bergé were vacationing in Morocco when they both fell in love with the country’s culture and people. They immediately purchased a house in Marrakesh, where Saint Laurent said he “discovered the magic of color.” Over the years, he continued spending time in Marrakech and drawing inspiration from Moroccan culture for his collections. After his death in 2008, his ashes were spread at Jardin Marjorelle, a park that Saint Laurent restored and opened to the public as a gift to Morocco....

Block 4 @ 4 PM

Florian’s Last Climb

Director: Harold Chapman

Country: United States

RT: 25min

Synopsis: In 1909 the Austrian mountaineer Florian Frederick Graf von Liechtenstein left his estate near Innsbruck and traveled to Corsica for a climbing expedition. He was never seen again. Ninety years later his grandson Otto employs two filmmakers to help him uncover the mystery of the disappearance, but the facts get in the way of the truth....

The Ghost of Peter Sellers

Director: Peter Medak

Country: United States

RT: 93min

Synopsis: In 1973 Peter Sellers, one of the biggest comedy actors, embarked on a comedy for Columbia Pictures. Losing his confidence, he attempted to sabotage the film by firing the producers then turning on his friend the director, Peter Medak. At its core lies the story of an unraveling production and the tale of a young director firmly on a path to greatness. Medak had made three back-to-back successes; most notably “The Ruling Class” in 1972 with Peter O’ Toole, nominated for the Palm D’Or. This film forever changed his life. After 43 years the wounds have barely healed for Medak and this is his opportunity to tell the story and finally release the weight associated with the film’s failure. The Ghost of Peter Sellers is a comic-tragic feature documentary about what it takes to be a film director and survive your biggest disaster....

Block 5 @ 5:30 PM

Realm

Director: Katie Larsen; Johnny Healy

Country: United States

RT: 5min

Synopsis: A bride becomes distressed when an ex-boyfriend crashes her wedding....

92 Mars

Director: Ricardo Bernardini

Country: United States

RT: 7min

Synopsis: Come explore the incredibly inspiring and heartwarming story of Arora, the first woman to become a mother on Mars. What would you tell your newborn child; how would it feel to hold in your arms a baby like no other: the first martian? “92MARS” is more than the journey of one individual — it is about the greatest adventure in the history of the human soul....

Dead Languages

Director: Nickolas P Duarte

Country: United States

RT: 9min

Synopsis: DEAD LANGUAGES is an eerie and unsettling drama that, through a layered and loaded conversation between two friends, examines notions of revenge, failure and the inevitability of time and death....

Flow

Director: Vladislav Khesin

Country: United States

RT: 9min

Synopsis: Living in a world obsessed on purity and cleanliness, Lana encounters a public act of tremendous cruelty that she unwillingly becomes a part of....

Nowhere Brand

Director: Gabriel Bienczycki

Country: United States

RT: 11min

Synopsis: A cosmic glitch, or was it meant to be? The power of music draws Anna and Jake closer together in the most unexpected way....

Regulation

Director: Ryan Patch

Country: United States

RT: 11min

Synopsis: In the near future, a young social worker (Sunita Mani, “Glow”) travels to a small community to administer behavior-modifying “patches” that guarantee happiness for the wearers. She must decide what to do when a precocious girl (Audrey Bennett, “Frozen on Broadway”) refuses to accept the patch....

Space Flower

Director: Pam Covington

Country: United States

RT: 13min

Synopsis: The forbidden love between the heir to an interstellar potato chip empire and her robotic beau illustrates the age-old adage that parents just don’t understand....

Sparks!

Director: Robert Benjamin

Country: United States

RT: 18min

Synopsis: A happy, code-typing worker android falls in love with his human female supervisor. Just one problem: every time he sees her, his heart literally explodes....

Block 6 @ 6 PM

Groomed

Director: Angelo Reyes

Country: United States

RT: 18min

Synopsis: Frustrated with an overbearing mother, teenage Maria runs to the arms of an older man who promises her love that soon turns to control. A chance encounter changes everything....

Breathe

Director: Darren Fitch

Country: United States

RT: 5min

Synopsis: Michael, a young professional in search for the secret to success encounters Derek, an icon in the business world. Impressed by Michael’s approach, Derek decides to reveal the truth behind his success. But when Michael discovers Derek’s secret after a near-death experience, he realizes his life will never be the same....

Bad Dreams

Director: Stuart Fryer

Country: UK

RT: 8min

Synopsis: A man remembers a boyhood dream of a cellar and a scream. Seasons have passed. The man opens the cell door and looks at what screams below. He decides that his guest needs a shave....

Celos

Director: Hari Sinn

Country: Mexico

RT: 11min

Synopsis: When Mike comes back from a business trip, he makes a surprise dinner for his reunion with his girlfriend, Sandy, in a new penthouse he has just bought. Everything seems perfect. What Sandy doesn’t know is that Mike’s intentions are not what they seem....

The Dishwasher

Director: Jordan Jacinto

Country: United States

RT: 14min

Synopsis: Inspired by true events, a young family receives a sinister message from the local cartel in Puerto Peñasco, Mexico....

Le Silence Divin

Director: Hunter Carrigan

Country: United States

RT: 15min

Synopsis: Stanley, an abuser of psychedelic drugs and a psychology student, coaches his girlfriend, Christina, through her first time taking acid as she battles with anxiety. The film explores the dynamics of how individuals deal with their past emotional traumas and pain....

The Broken Soul

Director: Gary Karapetyan; George Pilafdzhyan

Country: United States

RT: 15min

Synopsis: Seventeen-year-old Emma Rowens, a tortured soul bullied in high school, thinks suicide is the only option to end her misery. Her high school crush Nick Adams is the only person who has kept her alive up to this point. Will love win or has she reached a point of no return?...

Block 7 @ 7:30 PM

In God I Trust

Director: Maja Zdanowski

Country: Canada

RT: 97min

Synopsis: Redemption, violence, and faith define a young black man, a reckless white nationalist, and a pair of traveling vacationers during a random encounter in Northern Idaho. First time director Maja Zdanowski takes the viewer deep into the unpredictable and intense realities of race and religion in America....

Block 8 @ 8 PM

My Sister

Director: André Miranda

Country: United States

RT: 4min

Synopsis: A Smile over the dark theme of Child Cancer. A child’s imagination is stronger than any illness. Are the special glasses a younger sibling giving her sister real?...

Sorry About Your Wife

Director: Luke Davies

Country: United States

RT: 6min

Synopsis: Felix is not someone who seeks confrontation, but when he learns of his wife’s infidelity at a swanky Hollywood pool party, he decides it’s time to shake things up....

Rubes

Director: Nathan Alan Bunker

Country: United States

RT: 7min

Synopsis: Two disgruntled teachers use a Rube Goldberg machine to exact revenge on the people who have wronged them....

Lost Weekend

Director: Peter Marshall Smith

Country: United States

RT: 10min

Synopsis: A rock star awakens in a strange woman’s bedroom in the Hollywood Hills. To complicate matters, the woman is married, her dog is missing and her butler has dreams of stardom. As events unravel, hi-jinks ensue....

Soul Transit

Director: Jawed El Berni

Country: Thailand

RT: 14min

Synopsis: Soul Transit is an absurd talk show in which a host interviews the dead in their transition between Death and the After-Life....

Salami On White

Director: JJ Shpall

Country: United States

RT: 19min

Synopsis: Larry, a bored and lonely retiree, spends his days sitting in his alley to deter crime, but mainly he is just passing time. One night Larry spots a teenage girl, Chase, smoking in the alley. Chase confronts Larry. Flustered, he lies and tells her that he recently witnessed a stabbing. Though initially skeptical, Chase becomes Larry’s accomplice and they work together to track down the “suspect”....

La Petite Mort

Director: Jack Begert

Country: United States

RT: 22min

Synopsis: A depressed screenwriter struggling with his identity, leaves his fiancé after meeting the woman of his dreams. Two young opioid addicts cruise around LA, pondering questions of life, death, morality, and responsibility....

Lost And Found

Director: Zilong Wang

Country: United States

RT: 23min

Synopsis: In a quiet, unpopulated hotel, a mysterious Asian woman is noticed by staff member, Louis, who begins to secretly investigate her. He discovers that she could be a Hong Kong movie star who has been dead for years. When the truth is about to come out, things start getting out of control....

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