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Block 1 @ 1:30 PM

The Guide

Director: Felipe V. Ferrufino

Country: United States

RT: 5min

Synopsis: From a mysterious void, a guardian angel-like figure guides a man through his first love, in a journey through space, time, and beyond....

On Ice

Director: Katie Anne Moy

Country: United States

RT: 8 min

Synopsis: Blake, a young boy from a low-income household, attempts to take financial matters into his own hands in order to be able to afford new skates and play hockey with his friends....

When Darkness Comes

Director: Nick Azzaro

Country: United States

RT: 9min

Synopsis: A girl has to deal with a mysterious entity born from her loneliness....

The Unknown Outlaw

Director: Cole Brewer

Country: United States

RT: 13min

Synopsis: Abraham Sweet, a trailer trash man raised on TV is obsessed with becoming famous decides to rob a bank and become an outlaw....

The Moth And The Light

Director: Michaela McLeod

Country: United States

RT: 15min

Synopsis: A recent college dropout struggles with the uncertainty of life and is surprised by the re-emergence of an old friend when she decides to throw a housewarming party....

A Familiar Stranger

Director: Yining Xu

Country: United States

RT: 16min

Synopsis: While on holiday with her dad, Wen, an 18-year-old Chinese girl, struggles with her feelings about her estranged mother. By chance she shares a tender and meaningful encounter with a French woman, which helps her reconcile with old emotions and discovers new feelings....

An Altar Of Sorts

Director: Brandon Shenk

Country: United States

RT: 15min

Synopsis: Jay, a sophomore struggling to cope with high school letdowns, desperately strives for some semblance of control....

Paracusis

Director: Yixia Li

Country: United States

RT: 17min

Synopsis: Will, a workaholic, struggles to free himself from a mysterious but familiar voice, in order to get his life-changing promotion....

Block 2 @ 2 PM

When Love Blossoms

Director: Tian Ye

Country: China

RT: 86min

Synopsis: In metropolis Beijing, a delivery boy is inspired by a play to pursue his secret crush on a real estate sales girl who lives under the same roof as him in the urban village....

Block 3 @ 3:30 PM

Insane Love

Director: Eitan Pitigliani

Country: Italy

RT: 20min

Synopsis: Alex is a young Italian fashion model obsessed with himself and his public image, behind which he hides from the outside world. His life seems to have reached a dead end, until one day when, walking down the streets of Rome, he bumps into Sophia, a young Argentinian woman that destiny has brought to the Eternal City. Alex falls desperately in love with, right from the very first moment he meets her eyes. Finally, he has a reason to live. But, when they break up, his world crumbles down, and he finds himself alone, at a crossroads between the light and the darkness, face to face with a bittersweet truth...

We Are All Oscar

Director: Tito Oses

Country: Costa Rica

RT: 87min

Synopsis: In his first feature, “We Are All Oscar”, Tito Oses raises his voice as an author and film actor from Costa Rica, expanding the innumerable latent versions of the same person and his transformations....

Block 4 @ 4 PM

Hail Mary

Director: James Davis

Country: United States

RT: 8min

Synopsis: A Catholic School young boy develops an unhealthy obsession for his headmistress nun....

Leeches

Director: DRAGAN MARINKOVIC

Country: Serbia

RT: 89min

Synopsis: Famous writer, Petar Miric, a member of the State Security Service, faces the impossible decision of returning to a normal life in a story that unfolds in the unstable Balkan area in Serbia, in a small Jewish area at the end of the twentieth century....

Block 5 @ 5:30 PM

I Am Not Broken

Director: Felix Pineiro

Country: United States

RT: 10min

Synopsis: A young man struggling with his own sexuality goes on a time-bending journey of psychological self-discovery....

Galangal

Director: Maria Loyter

Country: Russia

RT: 15min

Synopsis: A psychiatrist who specializes in attempted suicides faces the consequences of the human tragedies he encounters....

Bertie

Director: Garry Crystal

Country: UK

RT: 16min

Synopsis: Neurotic parents Tom and Lisa have moved to what they believe is their dream home, only to have their idyllic lives shattered by Ann, a widow, and Bertie, her pet pug, who not only wreaks havoc on their lives and beyond....

8

Director: Gabriele Fabbro

Country: Italy

RT: 18min

Synopsis: A selfish, sexist, and hustling billiard player, struggles to seduce a quiet woman pool master inside an isolated saloon in New Mexico....

Discorder

Director: Nicholas Davidoff

Country: United States

RT: 20min

Synopsis: Adam, a brilliant but eccentric high school senior has trouble fitting in with the regular crowd. When he’s diagnosed with a minor mental disorder and put on a treatment of psychiatric drugs, his condition mysteriously and rapidly grows worse. Can Adam find answers before his sanity slips completely away?...

Block 6 @ 6 PM

Pink Moon

Director: Dan Asma

Country: United States

RT: 5min

Synopsis: A family fun day turns into a nightmare after the sun goes down....

Local H – Innocents

Director: Felix Pineiro

Country: United States

RT: 6min

Synopsis: Ray, a motorcycle mechanic, ends his day just like any other, but when he arrives at his old watering hole, he realizes things aren’t quite the same and he may never be the same again....

Organics

Director: Dillon Dowdell

Country: United States

RT: 8min

Synopsis: Archie, an innocent barista is convinced by his new co-worker, Jay, to stay after hours for a late night drink with her, her boyfriend, and her single & attractive best friend. Archie is initially reluctant, but a little peer pressure and sexual tension pushes him into joining the evening’s festivities. Archie will soon discover that the three complete strangers have dark sinister plans for their night out on the east side of LA....

Please Remain Calm

Director: Isaac Calvin and Seth Calvin

Country: United States

RT: 10min

Synopsis: An adaptation of A.M. Homes’s darkly humored short story, Please Remain Calm, provides an intimate look at a man’s persistent suicidal fantasies....

Evie

Director: Mike Peebler

Country: United States

RT: 12min

Synopsis: Facing either the wrath of her parents or a forced marriage to a man more than twice her age, fifteen year old Evie makes an impossible choice....

Dark Deco

Director: Matt Deblinger

Country: United States

RT: 12min

Synopsis: Ben Faust is addicted to Deco, a mysterious VR device that allows users to connect with loved ones from their past. Ben’s addiction causes him to become estranged from his girlfriend Candice whose family is mourning a loss of their own. A visit with Candace’s family, revels that he is not the only one consumed by this new technology....

Asparagus

Director: Wilf Cho , Daniel Teo

Country: China

RT: 16min

Synopsis: Before his 18th birthday, Peter, a mildly autist student, has a chance counter with Faye during a therapy session. Faye, whose mania has intensified since her dad walked out on her, invites Peter out to a restaurant to overcome his fear of asparagus! Will love allow Peter to step out of his comfort zone?...

The Visit

Director: Christian Werner

Country: Germany

RT: 15min

Synopsis: Sixty year-old Klaus works voluntary as a Santa Claus in a shopping mall. After an exhausting day, he considers giving up his job. What will he do when he gets a call from the children’s intensive care unit?...

Block 7 @ 7:30 PM

Ask For Jane

Director: Rachel Carey

Country: United States

RT: 108min

Synopsis: Based on real events, “Ask for Jane” tells the story of a group of young college women who developed an underground abortion network that helped over 11,000 women get illegal abortions in Chicago between 1969 and 1973....

Block 8 @ 8 PM

Where the Rainbow ends

Director: Wiliam Bonifati

Country: United States

RT: 70min

Synopsis: No other name is shrouded in more mystery than Stanley Kubrick. Many fans have dedicated countless blogs, movies, books, and videos trying to explain his various movies. However, all of these films share one important aspect, that no individual can with certainty explain any of his films in their entirety. What if the answers to the hidden depths of these films lies in an elaborate puzzle for the viewers to solve? How could Kubrick possibly contrive making his films into one large puzzle but more importantly how could the audience try to make sense of this theoretical puzzle? What if the answer to both of these questions lies in the fact that every Kubrick movie is a reoccurring dream....

Sacheen, Breaking the silence

Director: Peter Spirer

Country: United States

RT: 26min

Synopsis: Sacheen Littlefeather remains proud that she is the first person, the first woman of color, to utilize the Academy Awards to make a political statement. Littlefeather, a 71-year-old White Mountain Apache and Yaqui elder, shared a statement from Marlon Brando that was televised round the world at the first Oscars’ global broadcast in 1973. As we revisit one of the most memorable and controversial moments in the history of the Academy Awards, Sacheen’s voice will finally be joined together with today’s brave women, who are determined to make their voices heard....

Block 9 @ 9:30 PM

The Deported

Country: United States

RT: 91min

Synopsis: Four families on the brink of being torn apart by deportation must decide whether to self-deport, seek sanctuary or file a legal appeal in a last-ditched attempt to stay in the country. When it comes to deportation – these families have no borders....

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