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BLOCK 1 @ 2:00PM

Annexed

Director: Paul Cosby

Country: United States

RT: 9min

Synopsis: ANNEXED follows an oddball young girl (the Conqueror) during the founding days of her new empire. Shortly after invading the quiet park, two local police officers arrive to stop her. The officers, Pete and Dave, prove no match to her combat abilities and are captured. The following morning, Pete makes the realization that the Conqueror cannot be stopped. He and Dave begin training under her, forming the first national guard to her new nation....

Jimmy Boden

Director: Christopher Pickering

Country: United States

RT: 10min

Synopsis: Jimmy Boden, an imprisoned government asset has finally reaching his breaking point....

The Fairchild

Director: Danny Rogers

Country: United States

RT: 15min

Synopsis: The new membership desk assistant at an exclusive museum becomes a special exhibit when staff and visitors obsess over him and his hair instead of the art on the walls....

The Erl King

Director: Genevieve Kertesz

Country: United States

RT: 16min

Synopsis: Set in 1800s, on the edge of the American wild, Leora, a young woman from a strict, religious family runs away from her village into the arms of an ancient woodland god who inhabits the forest. His name is the Erl King and his promise to love her and give her freedom suddenly turns sinister when Leora realizes that he‚s had other plans for her all along.....

Waiting for Spring

Director: Ryan Michael Brown

Country: United States

RT: 18min

Synopsis: The unknown survivor on an abandoned Mars research station is visited by a lost love after discovering the origin of life....

Wish Upon a Disco Ball

Director: Anabel Inigo

Country: United States

RT: 19min

Synopsis: A disco musical about two Afro-Latina sisters who find out what means to grow up – and how that doesn’t mean growing apart...

Idle Speed

Director: Yoni Azulay

Country: United States

RT: 21min

Synopsis: Duncan and Ray find themselves stranded in the New Mexico desert after being ambushed by a mysterious shooter....

Block 2 @ 3:15 PM

Exit

Director: Oriana Ng

Country: France

RT: 5min

Synopsis: A dangerous elevator ride tests a couple’s bond....

Born Under Punches

Director: Gaoyang Ganjin

Country: United States

RT: 5min

Synopsis: Tyler is trapped in his father’s dream of being a boxing champion, but he’s put up with it for too long. Following the journey of his internal chaos and pursuit of freedom, Born Under Punches is about finding yourself in the prison of other people’s expectations and breaking out....

Pancakes

Director: Gabrielle Chapman

Country: United States

RT: 6min

Synopsis: A free-spirited young woman has a one-night chance encounter with a groom, leading to something much deeper than the classic bachelor trip hookup....

Codependent on Desire

Director: Merivelle Hannah

Country: United States

RT: 8min

Synopsis: A young woman discovers her boyfriend’s secret and undergoes the consequences of protecting her lover’s past....

Cold Summer

Director: Anna Evtushenko

Country: United States

RT: 10min

Synopsis: A young woman is freezing — figuratively and literally — and needs to make a life-altering choice....

Max & Taco

Director: Caitlin Ferrell

Country: United States

RT: 14min

Synopsis: Max has been sober for six months. In all that time, she hasn’t played music. On the eve of her first concert back, she loses her dog Taco. Will she relapse? Will she make it to play her concert?...

Cherry

Director: Miki Murad

Country: United States

RT: 16min

Synopsis: A woman’s plan to poison her husband goes awry when unexpected guests arrive...

Guber

Director: Juliet Lucas

Country: United States

RT: 17min

Synopsis: Guber is a story that attempts to show the small encounters with people that change lives. The story follows our main character, Carter a Guber driver, as he lives out his life mission to keep the road safe, following the death of his sister. Carter encounters all kinds of people as he drives them to their destinations. On a chance night he picks up Phoebe, a young woman who is mourning the loss of her boyfriend....

The Big Pitch

Director: Robert Enriquez

Country: United States

RT: 18min

Synopsis: A contemporary parable on the dangers of social media addiction, the story follows Marc and Peter, two young entrepreneurs on the cusp of greatness- or disaster- with a unique new app they’ve developed: Spotlight. With their partnership on a knife’s edge, they prepare for the single biggest pitch they’ll ever make, to a group of hungry venture capitalists....

Block 3 @ 4:15 PM

Feng Shui

Director: Kamran Rathod

Country: United States

RT: 7min

Synopsis: A man takes on a room mate, only his room mate doesn’t know he’s living with her…...

House Phone

Director: Loreto Di Cesare

Country: United States

RT: 9min

Synopsis: A one-take duel between two characters of opposite ethics and ideals. The mystery unfolds to a climactic showdown when the two must face-off and confront the antithetical differences that brought them together....

Paradise Awaits

Director: Henna Valkky, Samuel Hakkinen

Country: Finland

RT: 10min

Synopsis: The suitcase is packed and patiently awaits a holiday in paradise. A woman trying to leave experiences an unraveling spurt through her house to make sure she can be at peace on her trip....

Adelina

Director: Jack McMillan

Country: United States

RT: 10min

Synopsis: “Adelina is a medical dummy who harbors a deep love for a medical student named Tony. Although she can’t speak, her life feels perfect when he’s around. Adelina serves as a cautionary tale about falling for someone. The euphoric splendor of happiness is a feeling that’s hard to live without. Often times we’ll do anything to have it, even if it means warping our sense of reality to create ideas that aren’t actually there.”...

Are you awake?

Director: Gabriel Caste

Country: United States

RT: 11min

Synopsis: In this psychological thriller, a woman working as a door-to-door wake-up caller encounters a client refusing to leave his bed, who recounts his terrible nightmares....

Boyhoarder

Director: Gabrielle Carrubba

Country: United States

RT: 14min

Synopsis: At a small BOYHOARDER show, super-fan AMMONIA watches, entranced by ALEX, her lyrics, and her gory show of murdering her boy band members. Ammonia is taken away by a boy wishing to court her – but he doesn’t realize this enthusiastic fan is out for blood, literally. As her killings continue, the band catapults further into the public eye, and Alex further into descent from this loss of control. Ammonia thinks she’s been killing to HELP Alex be rid of these pests, but little does she know, Alex isn’t as grateful as she expects. When a sociopathic misandrist comes under threat, she has to retaliate...

Get to the Wire

Director: Paul Burns

Country: Australia

RT: 15min

Synopsis: In a dystopian future, an Australian-Iraqi woman held captive in a chaotic and brutal British immigration detention centre takes up severe measures to survive and reconnect with her estranged family....

You can’t be here

Director: Zachary Pope

Country: United States

RT: 16min

Synopsis: After humanity’s destruction, one man wanders the wasteland in search of a safe place to settle down, until one day he is confronted by a group of people who don’t belong....

Subhuman

Director: Arjen Schotel

Country: Netherlands

RT: 22min

Synopsis: When a global pandemic breaks out, humanity is put to the test. Millions of people die and those who remain are divided into two camps: the top of society and the bottom, the ‘subhumans’. In the midst of this chaos, there are people who put their own interests first, but those of someone else. Lucius belongs to the top, but puts his life at risk for the fate of the other....

Block 4 @ 4:30 PM

Entering Pornland: Darren

Director: Benjamin Nolot

Country: United States

RT: 12min

Synopsis: Darren was a military vet looking for a fresh start when he landed a last-minute acting gig in a porn film. After rising to the top in his new career, his fast-paced life came to a crashing halt when he contracted HIV. Labeled a pariah by the porn industry, Darren speaks about the unsafe working conditions in porn as he struggles to put his life back together....

Destination Angels

Director: Daniel Lir, Jim Sampas

Country: United States

RT: 18min

Synopsis: Relive the troubled rise and fall of Beat Generation icon Jack Kerouac on a turbulent ride through California, narrated by Norman Reedus and starring tragically poignant folk hero FENCES. The Boston-born intellectual underdog, a crooning blend of Will Hunting & Kerouac himself, FENCES sets off from Venice Beach through Big Sur, San Francisco, Napa Valley and beyond, following footprints and riddles left in never-before-seen Kerouac poems, writing and recording songs in roadside motels and railyards along the way. Love, loss, humor, connection, trial and error, and inescapable change all combust in the bottled lightning that is Destination Angels....

John Leguizam Live At Rikers

Director: Elena Francesca Engel

Country: United States

RT: 26min

Synopsis: Actor John Leguizamo performs his one-man Broadway show, Ghetto Klown, for an audience of over 400 inmates at Rikers Island Correctional facility. Following his performance, Leguizamo holds group discussions with justice involved young men awaiting trail or sentencing. By sharing his personal journey of adversity and self awareness, he encourages them to reflect openly about their own lives. This film brings attention to the serious challenges and human side of incarceration....

To Live And Die In The Midwest

Director: Taylor Mahoney

Country: United States

RT: 53min

Synopsis: To Live and Die in the Midwest is a documentary feature length film about the struggles of creating an indie movie in a small Colorado town. It is reflection on Art’s effect on suicide, a time capsule of the hysteria of the pandemic and a time capsule of filming DEAD ZONE....

Block 5 @ 6:30 PM

Kook Street

Director: Jeremy Kemp

Country: United States

RT: 15min

Synopsis: Throughout Los Angeles are wooden telephone poles. For some, these poles are used as a place for free advertisement: For some ‘Missing Dog’ for others, like metal sculptor David Buckingham, they are a canvas. Forging metal letters out of old, colored scrap metal – David goes around the city in the middle of the night and spells out ‘Kook’ in metal letters onto the side of these poles. What, or who, is a Kook?”...

Case for Kindness

Director: Steven Sawalich

Country: United States

RT: 98min

Synopsis: Case for Kindness is a transformative journey across the United States, exploring the profound impact of kindness on our physical, mental, and emotional well-being. Through engaging dialogues with notables like Ben Affleck, Lady Gaga, Garth Brooks, and Trisha Yearwood, alongside insights from scientists and scholars, the film unravels the essence of kindness, its origins, and its vital role in our lives. Featuring powerful stories of ordinary people making a difference, "Case for Kindness" showcases how kindness fosters personal growth, strengthens relationships, and bridges societal divides, leaving audiences inspired and united in the belief that kindness is the way forward....

Block 6 @ 6:50 PM

Bare Metal

Director: Brandon Gries, Johnathan Shoemaker, Ryan Freng

Country: United States

RT: 11min

Synopsis: In “Bare Metal,” experts in the built environment discuss the exponential growth and consequence of digital infrastructure on our world and lives. It explores the urgent imperative to make it sustainable, describing the current role digital infrastructure plays in reducing the environmental impact of the digital age through collective actions in renewable and carbon-free energy and its growing strategic attention on embodied carbon. How much faster could we accelerate decarbonization if digital infrastructure worked boldly and directly with the deep end of their supply chain to revolutionize industrial processes and accelerate capital flow and the adoption of emerging industrial technologies?...

Tracks: Stumbling Stones Amsterdam

Director: Maclovia Martel

Country: United States

RT: 11min

Synopsis: Tracks: Stumbling Stones Amsterdam, explores the laying of “Stolpersteine” memorial stones honoring Holocaust victims, installed in front of the homes along the central canals in Amsterdam. A central theme of this film is the power and importance of remembrance. In the Jewish tradition, as long as a person is remembered they continue to live....

Who Are The Marcuses?

Director: Matthew Mishory

Country: Israel

RT: 86min

Synopsis: Who are the Marcuses uncovers a mysterious Long Island couple whose half a billion-dollar gift inspires Middle East peace and climate action through water technology. Co-starring Warren Buffett, who said, “A wonderful film recounting the remarkable tale of Israel, water, and philanthropy. I am proud to have played a small part.”...

Block 7 @ 8:30 PM

Hang Up

Director: Tsarina Merrin

Country: United States

RT: 9min

Synopsis: “A mid-20s woman drives around LA, texting loose friends and dialing booty calls to no avail. The evening descends into a self destructive joy ride whose catalyst becomes all too clear in a final phone call with her parents. In the haze of booze and isolation, Hang Up explores language in its many forms. Through text, dialogue and subtext it guides the story, showing what happens when a woman‚ as language fails her as words and their meanings misalign.”...

Bastards

Director: Tyler Chan

Country: United States

RT: 14min

Synopsis: Bradley receives a new job from Mr. Green to investigate if his wife is cheating on him. Things seem to be going well, but Bradley is unaware of the danger that is approaching. Larry and Jerry are suffering from paying back the money borrowed from Mr. Green. They are unaware that the way they choose to make money will affect the life of other people. Will these four people get away with the troubles caused by their ignorance and recklessness?...

La California

Director: Cinzia Bomoll

Country: Italy

RT: 100min

Synopsis: Sometimes, to become the woman you want to be, you need to have the perspective of your perfect opposite....

Block 8 @ 9 PM

Soul Street

Director: Patrick Reynolds and Hamilton Von Watts

Country: United States

RT: 11min

Synopsis: Two filmmakers hit the streets of the United States in search of street performers and meet artists who demonstrate a deep commitment to their own art as they express themselves in environments that are raw and uncompromising, but also pure and beautiful....

King of Kings: Chasing Edward Jones

Director: Harriet Marin Jones

Country: France

RT: 198min

Synopsis: The untold story of the other boss of Chicago, the King of Policy Kings, a man who held too much power and wealth during segregation....

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