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BLOCK 1 @ 12 PM

Hunny-Bunny

Director: Jayden Barrial

Country: United States

RT: 6min

Synopsis: Hunny-Bunny is a film about a couple with Down syndrome, Blair and Susie, entering their 16th year of true love. Through the good and the bad, ups and downs, this relationship thrives. Their love is something that we all wish we had....

Inang Maynila

Director: James J. Robinson

Country: Philippines

RT: 11min

Synopsis: Inang Maynila is an investigation into the life of my mother in 1970’s Philippines. What started as a deep dive into her life as a high school student soon became a meditation on life under a dictatorship, as her old friends recount stories of martial law, curfews, crime and the universaily of teenage rebellion....

Contact Desk

Director: Sungsoo Yune

Country: South Korea

RT: 12min

Synopsis: These days, when communication is getting less after the Covid-19 pandemic, we tried to communicate with ordinary people in Stockholm, Sweden at the our movable contact desk....

32 Years Lost

Director: Tom Wang, Chieu Luu

Country: China

RT: 15min

Synopsis: After an exhaustive 32 year search, a Chinese mother finally finds her kidnapped son....

What Day Is It?

Director: Jess Elefante Davis

Country: United States

RT: 19min

Synopsis: What Day Is It?’ offers my very human, mother’s perspective on the ever-shifting emotional and mental states of living in NYC during Phase 1 of lockdown. Our collective memory is glossing over the realities, already reworking New York’s survival story just two years later, already misremembering the details....

Shadow Kid

Director: Andreas Arnstedt

Country: Germany

RT: 50min

Synopsis: The term “shadow children” is largely unknown in our society. These are children who live with a terminally ill sibling. All the parents’ attention belongs to the sick child....

Block 2 @ 3:15 PM

Larry & Me

Director: Lisa Melmed

Country: United States

RT: 12min

Synopsis: Seventy-five years of friendship is no small-feat, especially when the friend is CNN’s Larry King. Herb Cohen, famed negotiator, reflects on his lifelong relationship with his best friend, Larry....

Roger Corman, The Pope of Pop Cinema

Director: Bertrand Tessier

Country: France

RT: 52min

Synopsis: Roger Corman directed 60 movies and produced 400. Considered the king of B Movies, he laid the foundations of pop culture and was instrumental in the launching the careers of numerous filmmakers....

John Farrow, Hollywood’s man in the Shadows

Director: Frans Vandenburg, Claude Gonzalez

Country: Australia

RT: 96min

Synopsis: John Farrow: Hollywood’s Man in the Shadows is the first documentary ever made about one of Hollywood’s most prolific yet forgotten filmmakers John Farrow (1904 – 1963)....

Block 3 @ 3:45 PM

Pueblo

Director: Preston Moss

Country: United States

RT: 11min

Synopsis: A teenage girl in Ecuador wrestles with the decision between pursuing a newfound romance or leaving her village to obtain an education....

Root Letter

Director: Sonja O’Hara

Country: United States

RT: 87min

Synopsis: When high schoolers Carlos and Sarah are paired as pen-pals, they find themselves drawn to each other, bonding over their shared sense of hopelessness. When the letters from Sarah suddenly stop, Carlos is haunted by her memory. Carlos knows he must try to find Sarah, even if it means risking his life....

Block 4 @ 4:45 PM

Marked

Director: Matthew Avery Berg

Country: United States

RT: 13min

Synopsis: A tattoo artist is confront by a client who knows the true meaning behind his body art....

Rosebud Lane

Director: John Lacy

Country: United States

RT: 105min

Synopsis: A Hollywood Director connects with his young son for the first time in small town North Carolina. They bond immediately through their mutual love of the cinema, but things get messy as the young boy’s mother’s chaotic life crashes down on them and forces dramatic decisions to be made....

Block 5 @ 5:45 PM

The Sands Between

Director: Aidan Tanner

Country: Canada

RT: 4min

Synopsis: A woman has a phone conversation with her significant other which slowly deteriorates as she comes to realize that the world around her might not be real....

The Day We Left

Director: Kaio Kathriner

Country: Canada

RT: 12min

Synopsis: The 1990’s religious conflict of the Bosnian War drives a pregnant mother and her family to flee their village and seek refuge in the land of their enemy....

In Between

Director: Keegan Duncan

Country: United States

RT: 15min

Synopsis: In Between’ focuses on a neglected phase of cancer; life after it’s gone....

We Are Gathered Here Today

Director: Paul Boyd

Country: United States

RT: 74min

Synopsis: What isn’t talked about with the COVID-19 pandemic is when someone is taken to the hospital it’s a curbside drop-off. The film is about a multi-generational mixed-race family coming together to say their last goodbye to the patriarch of the family....

Block 6 @ 6:15 PM

One Body

Director: Patrick Skeyhill

Country: United States

RT: 8min

Synopsis: A man’s past corrupts his present. And threatens his future....

A Beautiful and Violent Place

Director: Sam T. McFarland

Country: UK

RT: 10min

Synopsis: In this Neo-American western, Joel returns home to avenge the death of his first love. Searching for retribution in the decaying landscape of his childhood, he soon learns that closure cannot be found through acts of violence....

Foiled

Director: Hao-Wei Timothy Chang

Country: United States

RT: 11min

Synopsis: Foiled is a family comedy about ten-year-old Dylan and his younger brother Cody who, after accidentally ripping their best friend’s baseball card, must fix it in time or they’ll lose their best friend and never get to play baseball again....

As It Fades

Director: Brian Plain

Country: United States

RT: 14min

Synopsis: While collecting childhood belongings from her family home, Annalise is forced to confront the unattained passions that preoccupied her youth; having to decide whether to resurrect her fascinations, or sink back into a safe approach to life....

Sea Beyond the Glitz

Director: Anna Maité Kaplan

Country: United States

RT: 15min

Synopsis: On the East End of Long Island, a tenacious group of fishermen struggle to preserve a centuries-old way of life....

Jerkwater

Director: Miles Benson

Country: Canada

RT: 18min

Synopsis: Bailey gets stranded at his train station during a blizzard on Thanksgiving with six diverse individuals. After a day of heated arguments, shocking secrets are revealed and an unplayful sex toy fight ensues. As snow plows and taxis arrive, Bailey has to decide to stay in town or escape it....

Vlada Goes to London

Director: Arti Savchenko

Country: Israel

RT: 22min

Synopsis: “Vlada goes to London” is a short student film exploring the strong-willed Vlada on her night shift as a pizza delivery courier in her desperate attempt to book tickets to go to London and fulfill her dream of being a DJ. The end of the night brings more challenges than she expects....

Shedding Angels

Director: Freddy Macdonald

Country: United States

RT: 22min

Synopsis: Logan (29) stuck in the glory days of his past, but has failed to win in a longtime. With thoughts of winning the annual costume party, he purchases Candice’s (81) late husband’s war uniforms. While costumed-up, Logan bumps into Candice. Overjoyed, she beckons her husband home. For the next several days, a hapless Logan plays the role of her dead spouse....

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