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2020

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Block 1 @ 1:30 PM

Long Distance

Director: David Thompson

Country: United States

RT: 7min

Synopsis: A traveling man learns of his mother’s degrading health through a series of voicemails....

Ambrosia

Director: Leif Jeffers

Country: United States

RT: 8min

Synopsis: When a controversial pill that promises eternal life (with a 50% chance of sudden death) appears on the market, a young couple must decide if they’re going to risk their lives to chase after immortality or accept growing old together....

Appyness

Director: Ryan Turner

Country: United States

RT: 11min

Synopsis: A troubled young woman tests out a new app that lets her control when and how she feels emotions....

To Bleed True

Director: Karl Richter

Country: United States

RT: 12min

Synopsis: A Photographer with a supernatural ability to see the future encounters a client who’s future changes her own....

Sammy

Director: Dana-Lee Mierowsky Bennett

Country: Australia

RT: 14min

Synopsis: In a war torn Australia where survivors seek refuge underneath the ground, 10-year-old Sammy struggles to build a hot air balloon so she and her little brother Max can find their parents...

Donor Baby

Director: Sean-James Murphy

Country: United States

RT: 15min

Synopsis: Sam is just another donor-conceived child who gave up hope of ever finding her donor-dad until, one day, she gets a call that could change her life forever....

I look At You All

Director: Hernán Bornás

Country: United States

RT: 15min

Synopsis: Bowie is a lonely ten year old boy struggling to overcome a monumental loss. Equipped with a fantastic imagination, his best friend and a complete stranger, he attempts to navigate his way through love, death and friendship, in search of real answers. Ultimately forcing him to confront the possibility that sometimes it’s just the way is and that’s just the way it is....

Office Song

Director: Marcus Markou

Country: UK

RT: 15min

Synopsis: It’s another office affair – one of thousands. But in Office Song, the inner world of ordinary office workers and their humdrum lives bursts into life with poetry and something greater than the sum of their tedious working day is revealed....

Rumor

Director: Christan Hammons, Eric Coombs Esmail

Country: United States

RT: 16min

Synopsis: In a small town on the High Plains, a girl learns that her brothers have kidnapped the bully who drove her twin to suicide. What will she do?...

Block 2 @ 2 PM

The Deep End

Director: Emma Grace Wright

Country: United States

RT: 10min

Synopsis: Beau wants to be just like the boys, yet most of his middle school peers won’t make room for a kid with Down syndrome. An unexpected invitation from a classmate changes everything....

Clod

Director: Benjamin J Murray

Country: United States

RT: 12min

Synopsis: A young boy, Kip, is caught trying to start his mom’s car. In trouble, he anxiously anticipates his punishment from his father, which takes quite the unexpected turn. After a day of working on the ranch the father and son duo find themselves stranded on the side of the road with a broken-down truck. Kip pushes his dad’s patience one last time before the day is done....

Hypernova

Director: Tate Young

Country: Canada

RT: 13min

Synopsis: A businesswoman struggles to navigate her increasingly alienating world, disconnected from her work, colleagues, and husband. Lost in grief, can she find connection amidst the chaos? A spellbinding, visually surprising drama of modern inner life, told using the expansive metaphors of outer space....

Micky

Director: Aimee Hoffman

Country: United States

RT: 13min

Synopsis: In San Francisco where homelessness is rapidly growing, a young woman travels the streets in search of a home and independence but discovers that comfort is not always a place....

Little French Fish

Director: Eva Lanska

Country: UK

RT: 13min

Synopsis: Lea is an artist from an Eastern European Jewish family. Djamil is а young man from the Middle East. They accidentally meet in Paris and fall in love. Their story is filled with passion, romance, and profound tenderness, but it cannot last long as they choose family traditions over their own happiness. Being apart is unbelievable, but will they change their mind if one day they have a second chance? One day, when they accidentally spot each other in a dark cinema hall....

Hoss

Director: Ryan McGlade

Country: United States

RT: 14min

Synopsis: Hoss checks in on an empty house and finds a stranger inside....

Chambers

Director: Victor Villar-Hauser

Country: United States

RT: 14min

Synopsis: A man standing on the outside of his own life suffers the effects of PTSD, as he attempts to reconnect with his wife. Parker struggles to reconnect with his wife after returning home from a tour of duty. On the surface, he’s doing everything right; he cooks and cleans, goes to therapy, but beneath it all, it’s clear he suffers from PTSD and a mounting isolation that engulfs his world. As he holds onto a fleeting memory of what his life once was, he must ultimately meet his trauma, and make a choice between total escape and perseverance....

Block 3 @ 3:45 PM

God Is Not To Blame

Director: Julio Méndez

Country: United States

RT: 12min

Synopsis: Yulma Garcia, Kristy Espinoza, Julio Méndez...

How to Bend Concrete In 108 Easy Steps

Director: Mahesh Madhav

Country: United States

RT: 17min

Synopsis: Engineering meets art as we follow a designer in his efforts to bend industrial concrete into beautiful furniture. Underneath the documenting of the physical process of manifesting the sculpture, we also document the ethos and mental process of ideation, discovery, and presentation, capturing what all content creators struggle with on every project....

Cinematographer

Director: Dan Asma

Country: United States

RT: 60min

Synopsis: A story about the personal and professional life of one of Hollywood’s most prolific cinematographers....

Block 4 @ 4 PM

Double Exposures

Director: Sagi Kahane-Rapport

Country: Canada

RT: 7min

Synopsis: Romance flourishes in a church as a young couple questions their identity in the context of religion. A surreal, experimental questioning of sex, religion and surveillance plays out in a lyrical, avante garde mixed media short film....

Silences

Director: Ohad Ira Amram

Country: United States

RT: 9min

Synopsis: A young couple shares one last conversation in the wake of a car accident that proves to be a revelation....

Robin

Director: Shane McCabe

Country: Northern Ireland

RT: 10min

Synopsis: Two attempted-suicide survivors find solace in one another’s company through the intercession of a little bird who lives in the garden where they have been hospitalized....

A Handful of Rust

Director: Conor Chandler Simpson

Country: United States

RT: 11min

Synopsis: Inheriting the family junkyard when her father dies unexpectedly, 18 year old Simone makes eccentric punk music with her troubled savant brother and battles their short-fused mother intent on sending him away. This is a volatile coming of age story about redefining life after death, salvaging beauty from decay, and collaborative music-making as a vessel of perseverance through harsh realities....

Thick As Thieves

Director: Sam Fichtner

Country: United States

RT: 12min

Synopsis: Gary and Rose are just your average millennial couple attending their first dinner party as a couple. He’s excited; she’s nervous. They both want to make a good impression. But the moment Rose walks through the door, Gary can tell that Rose is anything but average. She’s a first rate thief. Once Rose flips into gear, nothing is safe. The pearls, the artwork, the cash? It’s all up for grabs for Rose. Gary tries desperately to keep things under control, to middling success. Once they finally make it back to his place, Rose is forced to come clean about her true identity....

It’s Me

Director: Helen Randag

Country: UK

RT: 15min

Synopsis: This is a dark tale of a game that cannot be sustained. Set over the course of an evening, a mother remembers moments from a game she played with her son throughout his childhood. Tragedy strikes when he unexpectedly returns....

New Bronx

Director: Filip Ignatowicz

Country: Poland

RT: 15min

Synopsis: Natalia is a boyish and impulsive girl in her mid-teens living in a rough part of Gdansk, Poland. Her crush on a boy from her neighbourhood becomes an obsession and she is prepared to do anything to get close to him. But when she finally reaches her goal, everything suddenly changes....

Lush Life

Director: Kyle Haggarty

Country: United States

RT: 17min

Synopsis: Five young men and women drift through a drug ravaged urban night....

Block 5 @ 6 PM

The Shitshow Hour

Director: Luiza Justus

Country: United States

RT: 11min

Synopsis: Nothing good happens after 2 am. Three drunk college students learn this the hard way after the sudden death of their friend at a party. Determined not to let this annoying inconvenience ruin their night, they sloppily hide the body and seek out Crambuddy, a phone app designed for studying that can rewind the clock by one hour. They ignore a warning not to use the app unless the body has not been moved, and travel back to 2 am to save the friend only to realize they’ve broken time and cloned themselves in the process....

Beast Of Eden

Director: Elliot Worth

Country: United States

RT: 73min

Synopsis: Thadius Miles has been driving for days on end. He’s a washed up Hollywood actor with a penchant for drinking on a mission to expose the producer who abused him as a child star. Exhausted, he pulls over in small Tennessee town where, over the course of one day, his world turns upside down....

Block 6 @ 6:15 PM

One Letter Away

Director: Luke Sahagian

Country: United States

RT: 3min

Synopsis: One letter away from a different perspective...

May We All Get To Heaven

Director: Jacob Mullen

Country: United States

RT: 7min

Synopsis: A young woman searches for her missing brother...

Bad Furniture

Director: Randall Maxwell

Country: United States

RT: 10min

Synopsis: A man insists on being furniture for his wife....

Traces

Director: Pins Sébastien

Country: Belgium

RT: 12min

Synopsis: Over the seasons, we follow a logger and his horse in the depths of the Ardennes forest, and see him live his passion through the eyes of an odd young girl....

Corkscrew

Director: Alec Huggins

Country: United States

RT: 14min

Synopsis: Rich Jenkins is a middle-aged man who finds himself at a standstill after a divorce with his longtime wife. Rich needs to shake things up. He goes to his favorite diner, orders a slice of pie, and tries to win over an escort’s heart....

Mabel

Director: Kimberley Wintle

Country: United States

RT: 14min

Synopsis: Emerging from great loss, quirky Mabel finds a life affirming connection in a kind, attentive barista, but is the time right? Mabel, 30-something writer, whose only friends are her tortoise Piña, the memory of her best friend Joan, and charming barista, Jack, at her local café.With a little encouragement, she plucks up the courage to ask Jack out, but it may not be the best time....

Throw Like A Girl

Director: Seri DeYoung

Country: United States

RT: 15min

Synopsis: Despite the odds, Tanya Benter dreams of playing Major League Baseball. Her brother Brian has helped her become one of her high school’s best players. After the game, Tanya has a discouraging conversation with her coach. She realizes that dreams of hitting the big time are foolish. Tanya decides to quit. That evening, as she secretly and desperately searches the internet for ideas about how to compete with the boys, she is visited by Jackie Mitchell, the mysterious young woman from earlier, who at age of seventeen struck out Babe Ruth and Lou Gehrig in 1931. Electrified by Jackie’s true story, Tanya peppers Brian with ideas for a new way forward....

Block 7 @ 7:45 PM

Soldier’s Heart

Director: Michael Feifer

Country: United States

RT: 139min

Synopsis: When two angels appear at civil war veteran Frank Conner’s door in the form of two young children, he’s dragged back into a life that he thought he escaped years earlier. Now with the kids in tow, Frank has no choice but to face demons and a love from his past ultimately leading to a harrowing conclusion to this epic story with moral undertones that harken back to the great westerns of the past....

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