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BLOCK 1 @ 12 PM

Some Way Out

Director: Zoe Croft

Country: UK

RT: 1min

Synopsis: Short animation film made durning lockdown....

The Amazing Airwalker

Director: Steve McClean

Country: United States

RT: 6min

Synopsis: When a young boy is upset after being ignored by his idol, his loyal pet bird seeks revenge....

Crusoe

Director: Shane Acker

Country: United States

RT: 8min

Synopsis: Crusoe is the sole survivor of an expedition to find a habitable planet in the nearest solar system to Earth. Every day is a struggle to survive, but with the help of a frustrating yet lovable alien friend, they have a fighting chance....

Pancake Panic!

Director: David Filmore

Country: United States

RT: 8min

Synopsis: An errant pancake toss unleashes a whirlwind of unforeseen comedic consequences. Murder, mayhem, and maple syrup wreaks havoc for a group of strangers in a series of interconnected stories....

Director: Zach Tolchinsky

Country: United States

RT: 11min

Synopsis: Dumont, a botanist, in a world saturated by a toxic fog that destroys all life forms. On a night when all seems lost, a nymph crashes outside Dumont’s bunker. Gathering the wounded Nymph, Dumont risks his life to return the glowing creature to the peak of the red mountain....

The Cat

Director: Mary Apick

Country: United States

RT: 13min

Synopsis: A happy little girl is selling flowers on the street…. until her world is enveloped by a malevolent darkness. She is forced to run for her life as the darkness consumes everything – art, education, religion, society, and even the people. This is a parable about life in Iran since the Revolution....

Block 2 @ 3:15 PM

Gliding

Director: Mika Aberra

Country: United States

RT: 3min

Synopsis: “Every pilot needs a purpose. Without a purpose for what you do, it becomes meaningless and your joy suffers.” This is the story of Haraldur Unason Diego, also known as the “volcano pilot” in Iceland....

Changing the Disciple

Director: Kamelya Alexan

Country: United States

RT: 14min

Synopsis: Shango Johnson, a southside Chicago gang leader who had been influenced by gang life at an early age. After finding his love for yoga and faith, he left his violent past behind to help the youth of Englewood flourish and to find meaning to his new life....

Portraits Of A Jazz Artist: Innokenty Ivanov

Director: Michiel ten Kleij

Country: United States

RT: 18min

Synopsis: An exploration of the Jazz music life of a Ukrainian Jazz Vibraphone artist living and working in Russia...

Missile From the East

Director: Justin Stokes

Country: UK

RT: 91min

Synopsis: The story of East German motorcycle racer Ernst Degner, who, at the height of the Cold War and on the cusp of achieving his life ambition to win the world championship, fled East Germany with his family in a heart-stopping escape....

Block 3 @ 3:45 PM

A Bird Flew In

Director: Kirsty Bell

Country: United States

RT: 95min

Synopsis: When Lockdown is imposed and film production shuts down, the cast and crew are sent home – alone....

Block 4 @ 4:45 PM

Continue

Director: Nadine Crocker

Country: United States

RT: 115min

Synopsis: Story: A depressed girl attempts suicide, gets admitted to a mental institution involuntarily. She finds friends, love, and a new outlook on life, but learns some choices are irreversible. She has one life to live....

Block 5 @ 5:45 PM

The Grand Bolero

Director: Gabriele Fabbro

Country: Italy

RT: 190min

Synopsis: In this Covid-era Italian thriller, Roxanne, a cold middle-aged pipe organ restorer, battles to suppress her obsessive attraction to her new young and mute assistant....

The Pastor´s Wife (Pastorin vaimo)

Director: Arttu Kapulainen

Country: Finland

RT: 15min

Synopsis: “The Pastor’s Wife short film is a dark comedy about ethics within positions of power. Actress Roosa Heinonen is heading for her first lead role in a historical drama film called The Pastor. Arriving to the film set, she confronts an unpleasant surprise.”...

Block 6 @ 6:15 PM

“Just In Time”

Director: Christopher Martini

Country: United States

RT: 25min

Synopsis: Justin lives a comfortable life until his past issues start to emerge and leads him to set out to find his birth parents. What he discovers is not what you expect. Approaching the innermost cave, Justin is given a glimpse at the inner demons that have been surfacing, and what could destroy him later in life....

Not to Forget

Director: Valerio Zanoli

Country: United States

RT: 84min

Synopsis: After a life of little scams, a self-centered millennial is sentenced to take care of his grandmother, who is affected by Alzheimer’s. As he realizes the extent of her wealth, the protagonist gets closer to the treasure he’s been looking for....

Block 7 @ 6:45 PM

The Stranger

Director: Dan Burks

Country: United States

RT: 13min

Synopsis: When a stranger takes a family hostage in their small-town feed store, the father's only hope of saving them is to answer the stranger's solitary demand: "Tell me who I am."...

Soul and Life

Director: Francisco Infante

Country: United States

RT: 7min

Synopsis: Mischievous bandits come to grips with their future lives while on the run from the police, clashing over the meaning of love, wealth, and reveng...

Boys of Earth

Director: Isaac Calvin, Seth Calvin

Country: United States

RT: 10min

Synopsis: Hunter unknowingly walks into a wake. Hunter approaches the open casket at the front of the church and sees Gabriel’s body, which triggers Hunter, revealing a close, romantic relationship. Overcome with emotion, Hunter runs out of the church into the dusk....

Find The Light

Director: Abdullah Khan

Country: United States

RT: 12min

Synopsis: Zak Anwar, a young Pakistani boy, is continually victimised and sees no reprieve. Battered from his latest attack he decides to end the suffering and attempts to drown himself, only for the critical moment to reveal a purpose worth living for....

Shutter The Doors

Director: Sheri Sussman

Country: United States

RT: 13min

Synopsis: “Shutter the Doors” captures a moment in a man’s life as he deals with an unexpected loss. It is a proof of concept for the feature film, “Sam’s Place”....

Cricket

Director: Chris Suchorsky

Country: United States

RT: 18min

Synopsis: A man wakes from a nightmare, only to be haunted by the sounds that inhabit his dreams....

Panorama

Director: Scott Felix

Country: United States

RT: 18min

Synopsis: Sam has been in an emotional purgatory after the unexpected death of his mother. After being hit by a car, Sam is catapulted through space and time. On the other side is his Mother as she not only guides him through his life, but teaches him the meaning of it all....

Prey

Director: Joanna Koss and Drake Shannon

Country: United States

RT: 20min

Synopsis: Set in America’s heartland, PREY is a spin on little red riding hood – exposing affinity fraud through the eyes of a little girl who starts out as the prey and ends as the predator....

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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

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