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Block 1 @ 2 PM

Oh Boys

Director: Martina Magorin

Country: United States

RT: 3min

Synopsis: A short and sweet film about who men could be ‚ if we let them....

Seatbelts

Director: Michael Dunker

Country: United States

RT: 4min

Synopsis: When a couple heads out on their second date, conflict arises when the guy refuses to put on his seatbelt....

Keel

Director: Margaret Seid

Country: United States

RT: 10min

Synopsis: Keel is a coming-of-age drama short film set in the summer of 1977, where we follow an impressionable young woman navigating life and love in her early 20’s....

Scotoma

Director: Alexander Craven

Country: United States

RT: 12min

Synopsis: A backwards talking optometrist has a bad day....

Stalled

Director: Eric Rich

Country: United States

RT: 12min

Synopsis: A man is sitting on the toilet in a public restroom when he’s interrupted by a child crawling into his stall. He begins to panic when the kid won’t leave no matter how emphatically he asks. What follows is a descent into madness as he tries to devise a plan to escape, without being branded a sexual predator....

Cigarettes After Dark

Director: Hector Santiago

Country: United States

RT: 15min

Synopsis: A surreal romance is sparked when an eighteen-year-old boy foolishly falls in love with his “idealistic” older woman...

Weak

Director: JS Mayank

Country: United States

RT: 15min

Synopsis: Weak is a dramatic thriller about an investigation involving two women: Audra who’s suffering from depression, and her friend Jen, who’s trying to help her cope with the mental health issues. They visit a shooting range to ‚Äúlet off some steam‚Äù, when an unexpected turn of events leads to a surprising and horrifying revelation....

Coney Island Baby

Director: Jose Duran

Country: United States

RT: 18min

Synopsis: Three friends skip school and spend the day at Coney Island in an attempt to rekindle their childhood friendship....

Full Time

Director: Jon Ryan Sugimoto

Country: United States

RT: 19min

Synopsis: A skateboarder gets offered a full time job by a mysterious man to stand in a square all day. He is making more money the longer he stands there but his life is passing him by....

Block 2 @ 2 PM

Cross

Director: Micah Williams Kelly

Country: United States

RT: 6min

Synopsis: The parallel routines of a restless boxer and weary janitor cross paths with unexpected results....

Cafe Racer

Director: Harrison Houde

Country: Canada

RT: 15min

Synopsis: A Japanese-Canadian teenager wishes to stay connected to her father by pushing the limits of street racing, despite her mother begging her to quit....

Vulnerable

Director: Zerrad Noureddine

Country: Belgium

RT: 15min

Synopsis: “Anissa, a young girl age 25, is passionate about one thing: MMA. Struggling in a world of men and with her family, determined, she will have to fight, both on the ring and in life, in order to defend her freedom of choice.”...

The Shadows

Director: Jennifer E. Montgomery

Country: United States

RT: 20min

Synopsis: Spokane, WA – 1995: Two brothers lead a white supremacist gang in the Pacific Northwest. Their conflict as brothers will determine the fate of the largest domestic terror attack in U.S. history. This terrifying snapshot into the fringes, is based on real people and events....

The Sons of God

Director: Sebastian Torres Greene

Country: Mexico

RT: 22min

Synopsis: 1525. In the midst of the Hispanic conquest of America, an idealistic friar plans, along with other soldiers of the crown, an escape from a devastating expedition that only seeks riches....

Block 3 @ 3:30 PM

Burbujillo

Director: Ursula Echeverria

Country: Guatemala

RT: 3min

Synopsis: The journey of young boy as he is about to be born into a family of older sisters....

Shakespeare for all ages

Director: Hannes Rall

Country: Germany

RT: 3min

Synopsis: How can you give the target and age group “smartphone” an overview of the work of this unique literary genius without getting bogged down in long-winded lectures on verse and drama theory?...

Safely feel the real World

Director: Jody Xiong

Country: China

RT: 3min

Synopsis: “001 Island” In the visual narrative between the two brands, safety is a sexy and apparent benefit. One that allows us to approach intimacy and embrace reality....

Teleportation

Director: Susan May Lee Lim

Country: Singapore

RT: 4min

Synopsis: This is the story of a plush Inanimate toy named ALAN, who craves for its soul to be teleported, and quantum entangled with that of its human partner, so that they may be together in an inanimate-human partnership for eternity. Science and the performing arts come together in this animated short. The lyrics and storytelling in the film “..the science has been done, two objects merged in an instant, share the same existence..” , preceded the Nobel Prize 2022 (Physics) award, for breakthrough research in quantum entanglement, a phenomenon at the very core of this fictional film....

Our America

Director: Dean Winkler and Donald Butler

Country: United States

RT: 4min

Synopsis: Our America is a short-form, non-narrative meditation on American 20th century industrial promises gone awry. The film explores the dreams of World War II America through imagery based on 1943 propaganda posters called Our America which were distributed to schools throughout the U.S. From the vantage point of nearly a century later, the film examines how the innocent, celebratory intent of American ingenuity has led us on a path of unintended consequences....

Gayle FMK

Director: Chris Ullens

Country: UK

RT: 4min

Synopsis: This bright and colorful dark comedy sees miniature Gayle and blackbear failing at being good neighbors in the most extravagant ways. Think Celebrity Deathmatch meets Groundhog Day, a playful stop motion tale of human behavior gone wrong....

The Moon Followed me to Falmouth

Director: Joël Gibbs

Country: United States

RT: 4min

Synopsis: A seafarer sings the story of how he, as a young man, left Falmouth looking for a new life on the High Seas. During his voyage, he recounts how the moon began to follow him, watching his every move. After months at sea, the ship arrived at a topical island where the moon lead him to his first true love awaiting on the beach. But the moon became envious of their love, drove them apart, and forced the young man, heartbroken and alone, back to Falmouth....

Moirai, Thread of Life

Director: Ina Conradi, Mark Chavez

Country: Singapore

RT: 6min

Synopsis: In the distant future, an astronaut searching for untouched lands approaches a mysterious force in a strange cave. The viewer follows her through a journey of discovery and understanding as she gets pulled into another dimension, her ‘self’ entwined and connected with the larger fabric of the universe. The Moirai, white-robed incarnations of destiny, control the metaphorical thread of life of every mortal from birth to death. In this film, we reinterpret this metaphor to describe quantum phenomena. We each have a role in the greater whole, and our fates are woven together with countless others....

Morning Joy

Director: John Henry Hinkel

Country: United States

RT: 8min

Synopsis: A recently widowed pianist has an unexpected encounter....

Regular Rabbit

Director: Eoin Duffy

Country: Northern Ireland

RT: 8min

Synopsis: With story and visuals purposefully separated, a Regular Rabbit battles a comically absurd onslaught of disinformation. He is not the nightmare being told. He is as shown, a regular ol’ stupid rabbit doing his usual rabbit stuff! The narrator is full of s#!t!! How is this so hard to believe?! Fake news!! Where’s the evidence?! Agh!!! He is nothing more than a Regular Rabbit!...

Above Ground

Director: Kevin Sharpley

Country: United States

RT: 10min

Synopsis: A woman is met with tragedy and her relief leads her down a path of depression, isolation, and grief as she deals with the pressure by falling into the trap of self-medication. Based on a true story Above Ground deals with issues that so many struggle with daily, mental health, the cycle of abuse and the opioid crisis that has affected a multitude....

Once I Passed

Director: Martin Gerigk

Country: Germany

RT: 10min

Synopsis: “In 1925, the original handwritten copy of the poem, Once I passed‚ as was discovered, in which Whitman writes about an affair with a man in an anonymous city, which may have been his first physical experience of love. Whitman did not dare to publish the original version of his poem, because of the social prejudices of his time. To this day, only the altered version is printed in most anthologies. Once I passed‚ is dedicated, on the one hand, to the obviously autobiographical context with all its personal drama, and on the other hand to the content of the poem itself, the profoundly quiet, yet powerful story of two lovers.”...

Creature Comfort

Director: Ryan Oligmueller

Country: United States

RT: 12min

Synopsis: A creature wanders the woods looking for clues about their past life, only to find the answers in the shadows of its mind....

Ingolstadt

Director: Mike Harris

Country: United States

RT: 12min

Synopsis: A detective hunting a homicidal maniac and a writer researching a new book share a peculiar connection in a mysterious city of night....

Block 4 @ 4 PM

Promises

Director: Amanda Sthers

Country: Italy

RT: 113min

Synopsis: When Alexander and Laura meet during a party what they feel for each other is obvious, but she’s about to get married and Alexander shares a daughter with his beautiful wife....

Block 5 @ 5:30 PM

I can’t cut it out

Director: Christian Chapman and Paul Jason Hoffman

Country: United States

RT: 7min

Synopsis: After a psychotic meltdown in the operating room, a high-profile surgeon must convince a psychiatrist of his sanity to save his career....

Chowder

Director: Paul Emerson

Country: United States

RT: 10min

Synopsis: JoAnn & Bonnie’s wealth and glamour can’t save them from themselves. Their Los Angeles is filled with disaster, horror, and paranoia....

Nervous Breakdown in a floral dress

Director: Caydon LiRocchi

Country: United States

RT: 12min

Synopsis: After moving in with a single dad and his toddler, a woman questions her relationship, and who she was before it....

Apart

Director: Ziling “Joylyn” Mei

Country: United States

RT: 14min

Synopsis: After his stubborn father suffers a stroke, a sensitive son becomes his caretaker, and the tensions of their estranged relationship come to the surface....

Sheltered

Director: Daniel Jamal Judson

Country: United States

RT: 15min

Synopsis: A radicalized homeschool senior becomes obsessed with a girl at a homeless shelter. Convinced that she’s in danger of being trafficked to liberal elites for a satanic ritual, he mounts a dangerous campaign to save her with tragic results....

The obscure charm of Loss

Director: Justin Urban

Country: United States

RT: 16min

Synopsis: By the time Frank realizes his wife has died, a series of events are already in motion and only await the main players: Frank’s grown children, Liz and Pete. Triggered by the absurd nature of each other’s emotional response to loss, the fractured family sets out for the one thing they think they can do together — dinner....

The unreliables

Director: Adam Linkenhelt

Country: United States

RT: 18min

Synopsis: A troubled babysitter and an absent father must decide how to deal with his wife’s death, his children, and their own responsibilities. A night of irresponsible grieving could change everything....

Ember

Director: Manuel Del Valle

Country: Mexico

RT: 20min

Synopsis: A grieving family is at odds when a traumatized young woman comes into their lives claiming to be the daughter that was taken from them a decade earlier....

Block 6 @ 6 PM

The Bloom

Director: Zhang Yimou, Jody Xiong

Country: China

RT: 3min

Synopsis: For the opening ceremony of the 2022 Winter Paralympic held at the bird’s nest in Beijing on march 4th, Chinese artist Jody Xiong was invited by Chief Director Zhang Yimou to create a technologically-powered art installation called ‘The Bloom’. The project brought together 12 disabled people around an 8-meter wide, circular canvas to create a colorful smiley face by detonating paint-filled balloons using the power of their minds....

Lioness

Director: Arrad Rahgoshay

Country: United States

RT: 5min

Synopsis: A short film seeking to open the eyes of the world to the humanitarian crisis currently unfolding in Iran, and to empower Iranian women & men to continue their quest for greater freedoms....

Persona non grata

Director: Robinson Vil

Country: United States

RT: 15min

Synopsis: Haitians living abroad (Haiti’s Diaspora) have been Persona Non Grata from any and all political involvement in the motherland. This film explores the main reasons behind this exclusion in an in-depth conversation with forward-thinking, Harvard graduate, author, Haitian Congressman Jerry Tardieu. What can be done to restore the Haitian Diaspora rights, such as: Dual Citizenship, the Right To Vote....

Holy Cowboys

Director: Varun Chopra

Country: India

RT: 24min

Synopsis: A Hindu teen and his friends tread the bizarre world of a ‘cow protection’ vigilante group to end consumption of beef, exploring what it means to be a savior of the holy cow in modern day India. The film takes a hybrid approach to shed light on the growing Hindu nationalist influence on youth, and their brand of retributive justice in the name of cow. All while the stray cattle forage the garbage dumps, on the streets of the same country that considers it sacred....

Ifine

Director: Adisa Septuri, Ebony Gilbert

Country: United States

RT: 30min

Synopsis: Musu Senessie, Bondu Kaingbanja, Fatmata Binta Jalloh, Abass Conteh, Fatmata Marrah, Jeneba Marrah, Masiray Mansaray...

Beirut’ 22

Director: Patrick Hasso Kohl

Country: Lebanon

RT: 33min

Synopsis: On the 4th of August 2020, a large amount of unstable stored ammonium nitrate exploded in the port of Beirut. More than 200 people died. 6,000 were injured and 300,000 left displaced. Among them, many refugees residing in Beirut. Beirut ’22 sheds light on the lives of Syrian and Iraqi refugees affected by the explosion. At a time when Lebanon is struggling with a deepening political, economic and humanitarian crisis, the documentary traces the hopes and perspectives of a community in transition, telling their own, intimate stories of adversity, trauma, hope and despair....

Block 7 @ 7:45 PM

Know your Place

Director: Zia Mohajerjasbi

Country: United States

RT: 124min

Synopsis: Robel Haile, an Eritrean-American boy of 15, embarks on an errand to deliver a huge and heavy suitcase across town destined for a sick family member in his parents’ homeland. He enlists the help of his best friend Fahmi Tadesse, when an unexpected turn transmutes his simple task into an odyssey across the rapidly gentrifying city of Seattle; navigating directions to make his delivery on time, along with the challenges of familial responsibility, self-identification, and dislocation amid the ongoing redevelopment and economic displacement of the only community he’s ever known as home....

Block 8 @ 8 PM

Yes repeat No

Director: Michael Moshe Dahan

Country: United States

RT: 98min

Synopsis: Three actors audition to play the Palestinian-Jewish actor and activist, Juliano Mer-Khamis, a former IDF paratrooper who defiantly identified as “100% Palestinian and 100% Jewish.” During a tense rehearsal meant to determine which of them is most suited to authentically portray Juliano Mer-Khamis, the three Juliano’s find their sense of self fractured and disrupted. Assassinated on the steps of the theatre he founded in Jenin, Mer-Khamis considered himself a living embodiment of the Palestine-Israel conflict. YES REPEAT NO asks whether it is remembering our past — or instead forgetting it– that allows us to break cycles of identity and conflict....

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