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BLOCK 1 @ 12 PM

Bring Them Home

Director: Rika Boomgaarden, Tamara Jatchvadze

Country: United States

RT: 30min

Synopsis: Hip-hop artists Rob Young and Drei Ros highlihght the story of Hector Barajas; a renowned deported veteran who founded The Deported Veterans Support House. Rob and Drei connect with military and trauma experts and travel to “The Bunker”, a meeting place for exiled veterans in Tijuana Mexico....

Easy Money: Fraud, Fortune and Failures

Director: Dave Manoucheri, Victor Nieto

Country: United States

RT: 54min

Synopsis: “More than $20 billion sent to fraudulent accounts across the country by California’s unemployment department. From massive spending on Rodeo Drive to prisoners taking benefits, this documentary details the missteps and mistakes by a state agency that lost billions in tax dollars.”...

Block 2 @ 3:15 PM

Remnants of Memory

Director: Michael Arlen Davis

Country: United States

RT: 25min

Synopsis: Fine Art Photographer Charles Johnstone explores the canals and passageways of Venice Italy in search of a new project. A meditation on artistry and craft, "Remnants of Memory" celebrates beauty in the overlooked objects we pass every day....

Grandes Horizontales

Director: Leslie Zemeckis

Country: United States

RT: 46min

Synopsis: Grandes Horizontales – the A-list of courtesans, the pop stars of their day. They were marked by an extravagant lifestyle, often ruinous to their patron or patrons as it took a handful of lovers to pay their expenses. It was said “their ability to wind men around their fingers while picking up a chateau or two on the side was legendary.”...

Block 3 @ 3:45 PM

Gboy

Director: Geoff Browne

Country: United States

RT: 5min

Synopsis: When two teen activists are caught on the grounds of an oil refinery, a boisterous teen must convince a trigger-happy guard to set them free....

Transience

Director: Jake Stark

Country: United States

RT: 14min

Synopsis: Two brothers from south of the border make their way into Texas, but as they cross onto a ranchers land, their world is turned upside down....

Oliver & the Pool

Director: Arcadi Palerm-Artis

Country: Mexico

RT: 101min

Synopsis: When something unexpected happens in 13-year-old Oliver's family, all he wants to do is walk away. He takes up residence in a poolside lounge chair and decides there's no reason to move. Ever....

Block 4 @ 4:45 PM

Breakfast in Bed

Director: Noah Robins

Country: United States

RT: 8min

Synopsis: This film is about a hotshot and a hot pot....

It’s Always Something

Director: Derrick Scocchera

Country: United States

RT: 11min

Synopsis: A social satire narrated by Stephen Fry (Gosford Park, The Sandman). Through a series of vignettes, the often inexplicable behaviors of contemporary humans are observed and commented upon by a droll narrator. No matter how outlandish or senseless the action, one thing is certain: “It’s Always Something.”...

The Tip

Director: Katerina Tana

Country: United States

RT: 16min

Synopsis: “In 1968 Los Angeles, a restauranteur can’t make payroll. He wishfully interprets an illegible dinner order ticket as a hot racing tip. He dashes to the track racing against the clock only to discover once the race has started. It tells the earliest days of a now legendary LA restaurant which had humble origins and never lost touch with its humanity.”...

Road to the Lemon Grove

Director: Dale Hildebrand

Country: United States

RT: 89min

Synopsis: An old-school Sicilian father tries to negotiate his way into heaven… but the only way in is to get his reluctant son to travel back to Sicily, reunite his feuding family, and help all find love in places they never imagined....

Block 5 @ 5:45 PM

Almost Winter

Director: Austin Kolodney

Country: United States

RT: 12min

Synopsis: A physics professor on the cusp of retirement and his fresh-out-of-college assistant must navigate their changing relationship as the assistant realizes he is becoming his boss’s caretaker....

The Lucky Man

Director: Laoisa Sexton

Country: Northern Ireland

RT: 15min

Synopsis: In a rural Irish pub, a simple-minded barman’s fleeting encounter with a difficult customer highlights his need for intimacy....

We’re All In This Together

Director: Katie Boland

Country: Canada

RT: 86min

Synopsis: When matriarch Kate Parker miraculously survives plummeting over a waterfall in a barrel — a feat captured on a video that goes viral, suddenly, the dysfunctional Parker’s have to do something they never thought possible: act like a real family....

Block 6 @ 6:15 PM

Mazel Brouk

Director: Hanael

Country: France

RT: 25min

Synopsis: A group of women with different ethnic and cultural backgrounds are gathering in the South of France for a bachelorette party. The bachelorette party ends up higlighting everything that unites them in today’s France, starting with the way men seek to restrain the freedom of these women, including in their emotional and sexual lives....

Balloon Animal

Director: Em Johnson

Country: United States

RT: 88min

Synopsis: A young circus performer, stuck under the harsh rules of her father and community expectations, finds herself captivated by small-town America, forcing her to question everything....

Block 7 @ 6:45 PM

‘Til We Meet Again

Director: Jacqueline Elyse Rosenthal

Country: United States

RT: 6min

Synopsis: A recent widow, has the opportunity to reconnect with her husband, but at a cost....

SymBionic

Director: Jack Tenbusch

Country: United States

RT: 6min

Synopsis: After clipping her wing on a robotic facility antenna, a little songbird forms an unlikely bond with the robot she inadvertently activates....

From Pressure

Director: Seth Kelman

Country: United States

RT: 7min

Synopsis: After pulling off a small-time jewel heist, a desperate couple struggles to lay low as their seedy landlord pursues their outstanding debts....

Outside the Consulting Room

Director: Fangming Liu

Country: United States

RT: 7min

Synopsis: Li Qi’s father was a doctor who died fighting the Covid-19. After the epidemic, Li Qi takes her sick mother to the hospital where her father had worked and accidentally gets a box of her father’s relics. She has a conversation with the person sitting next to her outside the consulting room....

Lachesis

Director: Gregory Alexander Foltynowicz

Country: United States

RT: 9min

Synopsis: The struggle between the choices one makes – both independent and imposed – forces a man to come to grips with his own life and path....

Soundproof

Director: Gabriela Lima

Country: United States

RT: 10min

Synopsis: Soundproof explores the effects of miscommunication in a relationship and the mistrust that arises from that. When placed in a situation of extreme pressure, can a couple surpass these obstacles or will they succumb to assumptions and suspicion? When one can’t speak, true feelings and raw emotion take over, with dangerous consequences....

Good Neighbors

Director: Lennon Sullivan

Country: United States

RT: 13min

Synopsis: In a horror twist on a classic fairy-tale, struggling art student Frankie is amazed when one morning she awakes to see that someone – or something – has completed her paintings for her....

The Science of Wishes

Director: Michelle Bado

Country: Lebanon

RT: 13min

Synopsis: “A young girl faces an existential crisis as she presents her middle school science project on the topic of her older sister’s wish making powers. Hypothesis: Magic is real.”...

The Call of Water

Director: Kaya Tone

Country: United States

RT: 19min

Synopsis: High on mushrooms, Nadia and her friends inadvertently open a portal, plunging them into the astral-plane. There, she must face an ancient keeper of the land and of the water. To return to her body, Nadia must come to terms with her responsibility to her homeland and the water that it protects....

Magdalena

Director: Michael Lazovsky

Country: United States

RT: 26min

Synopsis: Czechoslovakia, 1971. A Slovakian woman cannot shake the demons of her horrific past as they come back to haunt her and threaten to destroy the life she's tirelessly trying to build....

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BLOCK 1 @ 12 PM

Block 2 @ 3:15 PM

Block 3 @ 3:45 PM

Block 4 @ 4:45 PM

Block 5 @ 5:45 PM

Block 6 @ 6:15 PM

Block 7 @ 6:45 PM

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