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A BEAUTIFUL NOW

Director: Daniela Amavia

Country: United States

RT: 98min

Synopsis: Five friends reunite for one night to save Romy (Abigail Spencer), the woman at the center of their former circle. As the night progresses, they struggle with their past relationships, and truths are revealed as Romy, who has barricaded herself in the bathroom, tries to put the pieces of her life back together. This thrilling journey into the mind of a woman teetering on the edge of letting go ultimately asks “if your life flashed before your eyes- would you like what you see?” and reveals a gripping story of how the past shapes who we will become. ...

A Punters Prayer

Director: Savvas D. Michael

Country: UK

RT: 93min

Synopsis: On a Friday afternoon in North London, Jack decides to bet ?250 on a horse win treble which, if all three horses win, would net him and his friends a fortune. Jack’s selection of various long-shots chosen by name rather than form creates a buzz at the bookies and suddenly his potential winning betting slip becomes a point of interest for more than one party which sees the friends desperately try to hang on to this potentially winning ticket....

ACROSS THE LINE

Director: Director X

Country: Canada

RT: 86min

Synopsis: Out of the approximately 600 players in the National Hockey League(NHL), thirty are Black. MATTIE SLAUGHTER (Stephan James), a hockey phenom from the rural Black community of North Preston wants to make it thirty-one. To do it though, Mattie needs to stay away from trouble. Hard to do though, when you go to a school where racism taints every interaction, your older brother is hustling young girls and you’re crushing on a girl, JAYME SLAUGHTER (Sarah Jeffery), who’s already hooked up. However, if Mattie can navigate life’s hurdles, he’ll find his NHL dreams just across the line. ...

AFTER THE END

Director: Sam Southward

Country: United States

RT: 11min

Synopsis: For Rene Fustercluck, life was bad, the Apocalypse was awful and then Gordon arrived. ‘After the End’ explores the possibility that the only thing worse than being the last man on earth, is being the second to last man on earth. ...

ALMOST HOME

Director: BJ Golnick

Country: United States

RT: 14min

Synopsis: An American Marine returns home to his dying father bringing not only the hope to mend their broken relationship but his memories of the war....

AMERICAN BRED

Director: Justin Chambers

Country: United States

RT: 109min

Synopsis: Starring Academy Award Nominee Michael Lerner and Eva Tamargo. American Bred chronicles the gruesome demise that partakes one of the lasting organized crime syndicates; when lies, mystery and betrayal devour the trust, which held them together. ...

BABY BABY BABY

Director: Brian Klugman

Country: United States

RT: 92min

Synopsis: Baby, Baby, Baby is a modern day love story set in Los Angeles. Sunny is a painter at heart and a bartender at night. Sydney is a commercial actor who yearns to be a writer. Though mostly mismatched, Sydney and Sunny hit it off anyway. They date, fall in love, and move in together. Sydney’s emotional state of mind in the course of his relationship with Sunny is reflected in his revealing short stories. Sunny and Sydney are perfect together…until they’re not. ...

BECOMING

Director: David DeGrow Shotwell, Katie Featherston

Country: United States

RT: 15min

Synopsis: As Sarah prepares for her wedding, she finds herself fighting through memories of her father.?Sensing her discomfort, her brother tries to make things okay for her, while her Mom simply worries about the future.?Through these interactions, Sarah relives more and more moments from her youth, until she must?decide to either confront her fears about love or allow them to overtake her. ...

Breathe

Director: Paul Kowalski

Country: United States

RT: 22min

Synopsis: Dr. Filip Kardel is an ambitious Polish neurosurgeon working in America, struggling to cope with the loss of his wife, Ania. As the memories of her untimely death and his neglecting her in favor of his career continue to haunt him, will he escape the prison of his grief and guilt, or will it destroy him?...

BROKEN MAST

Director: Isaiah Smallman

Country: United States

RT: 9min

Synopsis: Broken Mast is a comedy about a team of burglars attempting to steal a valuable painting. All hell breaks loose when they’re confronted by the homeowner and Ted discovers that Amy and Brian are sneaking around behind his back. Rather than cut their losses and make a run for it, Ted decides that the living room of the home they’re trying to rob is a perfectly reasonable place to have an intense discussion about what went wrong. ...

CASSIUS ALI

Director: Evan Bochetto

Country: United States

RT: 15min

Synopsis: Muhammad Ali?s impact extends beyond the ropes of the ring – his legacy as a civil rights and world leader was emboldened by the racial injustices of his childhood. This documentary examines Ali?s life from the impact of his early years to the humanitarian efforts of his later life. ...

CILANTRO

Director: Mehdi Avaz

Country: United States

RT: 10min

Synopsis: When Mike sits down for a dinner with an old friend the past unfolds. ...

COFFEE VIRGIN

Director: Devon Perez,Hart Perez

Country: United States

RT: 1min

Synopsis: Coffee Virgin is a psychedelic short film about a boy who tries coffee for the first time. Everyone remembers their first cup… ...

COLD WAR

Director: Richard Gray

Country: United States

RT: 8min

Synopsis: In the midst of the Cold War, a Soviet soldier makes his way across the Bering Strait to the frozen shores of Alaska. When he is found by an armed hunter, he must convince her, without being able to speak English, that he is a genuine defector. ...

COME BACK TO US

Director: Mario Ramos

Country: United States

RT: 12min

Synopsis: On a night out with his co-workers, Oscar is confronted with a bizarre request by a woman off the street and her two children. Oscar is unprepared for the impact on his life as he questions the significance of their appeal. Based on the short story “Fatherhood” by Oscar Estrada. ...

Cowboys

Director: Bernabé Rico

Country: Spain

RT: 20min

Synopsis: Martin is a finished actor, both professionally and personally. He’s divorced, has no friends and a son he hasn?t talked to for more than a year. But one fine day he?ll get a working offer his agent will not let him pass: to be companion of a 5-year-old boy to bring him luck in a costume contest at the Amusement Park....

DESERTED

Director: Niels Bourgonje

Country: United States

RT: 10min

Synopsis: A man is walking through a desert carrying a full water bottle. He is desperately fighting the temptation to drink the water. The question arises how the man got himself into this predicament. And what will happen if he does drink the water? ...

DIRTY LAUNDRY

Director: Renji Philip

Country: United States

RT: 15min

Synopsis: DIRTY LAUNDRY stars Academy Award-nominated Bruce Davison as the wheelchair-bound hitman in a seemingly a random series of events that unfold one night at a laundromat connecting four lives in way too strange to be considered chance. ...

ELLE

Director: Vincent Toujas

Country: France

RT: 20min

Synopsis: Maria and Jonathan meet after witnessing a car crash. Despite an instant attraction, Jonathan will have to come to terms with a strange companion who has invaded Maria?s life for too long: ?ELLE?. ...

ENTRANCE EXAM

Director: Boqing Tang

Country: China

RT: 7min

Synopsis: Three little mice struggle to get through the entrance exam of a Taoism martial art school....

FAREWELL MY BIRD

Director: Ameneh Moghaddam

Country: United States

Synopsis: An elderly photographer who loves his pet canary more than anything becomes jealous when a young boy makes a connection with his bird causing a “love triangle”? ...

FATHER OF LIES

Director: Levi A. Taylor

Country: United States

RT: 9min

Synopsis: ‘Yes I believe demons exist–‘ a grizzled Alaskan dad warns his son as they sit around the campfire. The man’s eyes are bloodshot and forlorn behind a mask of cigarette smoke and flame. Passing his son a sip of whiskey, he warns that demon taunting is hereditary. The boy listens to his fathers tale from his days as a pastor when he was confronted by darkness....

FLOYD THE BARBER

Director: Jonathan Augustavo

Country: United States

RT: 15min

Synopsis: A criminal travels back in time preventing his own death at the hands of a deranged killer....

FORTUNE’S SMILE

Country: UK

RT: 15min

Synopsis: Ivan, a young man dissatisfied with his life, stumbles upon a bohemian drinking club in London’s Soho. Here he meets a drunken writer who inspires him. ...

FRAMED-THE ADVENTURES OF ZION MAN

Director: Brenda Lee Lau

Country: United States

RT: 15min

Synopsis: Inspired by the true story of Walter Kahn, a 12-year-old Jewish boy in Nazi Germany who creates a Superhero Universe to survive the anti-Semitic bullies at school. But, he?ll need all his superpowers when he takes a stand against Hitler in this short film that blends live action and animation. The world is a dangerous place to live, not because of those who do evil but because of those who look on and do nothing – Albert Einstein....

FREE TO LAUGH

Director: Lara Everly

Country: United States

RT: 15min

Synopsis: Free to Laugh covers a three-day comedy workshop teaching improv and stand up to women recently released from prison. These ex-convicts channeled years of pain and incarceration into writing their own stand up material, healing through laughter and propelling themselves into the present through improvisation. Free to Laugh focuses on the deep connection between tragedy and comedy, and how humor not only heals, but is a part of redemption and reinvention. Their stories are as bone-chilling as they are heart-warming, and explore how even after spending twenty years behind bars, your story is still being created every day. ...

FROG

Director: Tyler A. Wallach

Country: United States

RT: 17min

Synopsis: Frog is a short film about the loss of innocence, the brutality of growing up and the beauty of childhood. ...

GENDERNESS

Director: Anders Ramsell

Country: Sweden

RT: 7min

Synopsis: Hand painted aquarelles of a gentle exploration from a beehive man. (Who do not like bees) into a ?man-bee-man? with a buzzing heart. genderness moves around thoughts about being intergender. Intergender is a term used to describe a gender identity that is mixed between male and female – a third sex. Masculine or feminine? Beehive or human? To realize that in the end there is no need to choose either/or… ...

GOLD NEVER RUSTS

Director: Tore Frandsen

Country: United States

RT: 11min

Synopsis: An old man in a bar finds himself in the middle of a keg lifting competition in order to win back his most prized possession. ...

HICKEY

Director: Alex Grossman

Country: United States

RT: 82min

Synopsis: Full on brains and low on confidence, the only way Ryan can win the heart of the girl he loves is to save their jobs at the store he hates. ...

IN THE DAZE OF THINGS

Director: Gaìl Zaks

Country: France

RT: 12min

Synopsis: Two men who don’t know each other, an American and a Frenchman, meet up in a Parisian apartment concerning a very important topic to the both of them…...

IN VITRO

Director: TOBY STEPHENS

Country: UK

RT: 18min

Synopsis: The directorial debut of actor Toby Stephens, this uncompromising film explores how infertility can erode a marriage and one man’s reaction to cold science replacing passion… ‘…an unnerving drama that unravels with poignancy and heartache. Rupert Penry Jones is outstanding’ I’m With Geek. ...

Irrefutable Proof

Director: Ziad H Hamzeh

Country: United States

RT: 90min

Synopsis: IRREFUTABLE PROOF begins with a car crash preventing Jeanine Markham, a world-renowned astrophysicist, from delivering her controversial lecture about her findings. The accident puts Jeanine at the cross roads of conscious and subconscious, between Comatose and awake as she struggles to live. But even in her vegetative unresponsive state, her mind, slipping between the two realities, continues her quest to deliver the truth. For Jeanine’s husband and others, accepting the irrefutable proof that she presents is unthinkable – that we’re alone in the universe, that no deity hears or answers our prayers nor punishes our sins, that humanity is entirely the product of random events, and that our sufferings, indeed our lives and loves are ultimately pointless. Her journey becomes shrouded by dark and unexplainable events that create a whirlwind of tumultuous emotions and terrifying realizations....

JAMIE & JONATHAN

Director: Kyle C. Mumford

Country: United States

RT: 17min

Synopsis: When a young dad chooses a career over family and fails, he is given a second chance to be somebody; becoming the father he never was when asked to drive his estranged son to a funeral....

LOST & FOUND

Director: Joseph Itaya

Country: United States

RT: 90min

Synopsis: After getting caught stealing, Andy and his younger brother Mark are sent to their estranged uncle on a mysterious island. They soon discover that their eccentric grandfather vanished without a trace decades earlier, taking with him the secret to a vast fortune.As the adventure unfolds, the boys learn that the bonds of brotherhood are the most valuable riches of all, and that some family secrets can’t stay buried forever....

LOVE AND FAITH

Director: Sebastian Sarinana

Country: Mexico

RT: 10min

Synopsis: Sophie is running away from Fabian, her newlywed husband who she just met two days ago. Fabian, accompanied by the priest, tries to convince her that their love is not insane. A comedy about two young adults who explore what it takes to fall in love in the present, a time where true love seems to be extinct. ...

LUCKY STAR

Director: Priya Amritraj

Country: United States

RT: 18min

Synopsis: Inspired by true events, Lucky Star centers on 12-year-old Camila Garcia. Desperate to help her hardworking, single mother, she buys lottery scratchers at the local corner store. Giving one of its regulars the money to make the purchase for her as she?s underage. After months of nothing, Camila actually wins $100,000. The sort of money that could change their lives?if she can find a way to claim it. Lucky Star looks at the timely and relevant issues of immigration and income inequality through the eyes of a young girl in an emotional love story between a daughter and her mother....

MAKE LIKE A DOG

Director: Marshall Allman

Country: United States

RT: 11min

Synopsis: Frustrated, angry and infertile, Stanley and Elvira will try anything to pull their relationship out of the dog house....

MAKING BABY

Director: Jonathan Bower

Country: Canada

RT: 8min

Synopsis: Kim and Dave want to have a baby, but after many failed attempts at a fertility clinic they are now strapped for cash. A new ray of hope comes in when Kim’s sister Adele offers herself as a surrogate. But where family relationships are involved, things never go as planned. ...

MINE

Director: Trilby Glover

Country: United States

RT: 7min

Synopsis: Sebastian contemplates the transcendent love he feels for his wife and soul-mate, Clara — and must learn how to cope through the different stages of life, when romantic love changes and she meets someone new....

MR. RICHARD FRANCIS

Director: Tom Hackett

Country: Canada

RT: 12min

Synopsis: Under house arrest, Mr. Richard Francis tries to beat the system only to have the system beat him....

Nathan East: For The Record

Director: Chris Gero

Country: United States

RT: 85min

Synopsis: Nathan East For The Record is a documentary film that takes viewers behind-the-scenes as one of the most influential bass players in modern music recorded his debut solo album last year. His long-awaited solo album (released in March) spent four weeks at #1 on Billboard’s Contemporary Jazz Album chart and 34 weeks in the top position on smoothjazz.com. For The Record also chronicles Nathan’s three decade plus career from when he hit the road age 16 with Barry White, his session and touring work across musical genres and membership in the legendary jazz quartet Fourplay...

NOTICED

Director: Limor Diamant

Country: United States

RT: 15min

Synopsis: When a lonesome postal worker discovers one night that a peeping tom lives across from her, a growing fascination with him sends her on a surprising journey. ...

OCEAN

Director: Cyril Zima

Country: United States

RT: 10min

Synopsis: An ambitious deputy press-secretary of the government agency spends times with his mistress in a Malibu house when a System of National Security fails....

ON FLYING WATER

Director: Dominique Monfery

Country: France

RT: 3min

Synopsis: An original metaphore of life visualized by the short life time of water droplets, surviving as long as they can, until they are exposed by their toughest natural enemy. The music and sound design is a narration, like a musical voice acting. Each character droplets is represented by a different instrument. ...

OUT OF THE VILLAGE

Director: Jonathan Stein

Country: United States

RT: 16min

Synopsis: The inspirational story of an orphaned boy and his sister who defy all odds after Ebola ravages their West African village....

POOR GEORGE

Director: JIM HARRIS

Country: United States

RT: 25min

Synopsis: George lives in two worlds. One perfect, his dream world, the other, his mundane real life, a living hell. Taking drastic measures, he enacts his plan to be in his dream world forever with his perfect girl, Dora. But that world it is not all as it seems. He soon learns there’s a fine line between dreams and nightmares. Be careful what you wish for. ...

Rainfall

Director: Efehan Elbi

Country: Canada

RT: 7min

Synopsis: Jessica experiences her first date, her first kiss, and her first heartache after one unforgettable evening in the storm....

ROSEMARY

Director: Eric David Wallace

Country: United States

RT: 5min

Synopsis: A young man struggles to make a decision between two lovers, Rosa and Mary....

RWANDA & JULIET

Director: Ben Proudfoot

Country: United States

RT: 90min

Synopsis: Professor Garrod dreams of bringing about reconciliation in the country of Rwanda. Oxford educated and a retired professor of Dartmouth college, Garrod uses his greatest tool to bring about peace: Shakespeare. As part of an American theatre group dedicated to bringing drama and the arts to students in impoverished countries, Garrod travels to Rwanda to direct a production of Romeo and Juliet, casting Hutu and Tutsi high school students, children of the 1994 genocide that devastated the country. But Professor Garrod gets more than he bargained for with the colorful cast, who have their own ideas about reconciliation and Shakespeare....

SECOND CHANCE

Director: Carlos Cardona

Country: United States

RT: 87min

Synopsis: After a home invasion goes terribly wrong, Oscar tries to help the girl whose life he helped to ruin. ...

SHADOWS (SOMBRAS)

Director: Michael Rowe

Country: Mexico

RT: 13min

Synopsis: Dani, Freddy and Oscar are three teenagers who have no real ambition in life because they live in a neighborhood where smoking pot and making a quick buck are all that matter.Dani is pregnant with Freddy?s baby; however, because she doesn?t have the support of her grandfather, who is her only family, she is considering getting an abortion. In order to keep the baby, Freddy, along with Oscar, plans to pull off his most daring heist yet, but things spin out of control and one of them is put in serious danger....

SHELL SHOCK

Director: Elena Starodubtseva

Country: Germany

RT: 58min

Synopsis: ????????SHELL SHOCK(Russian/English)An incisive examination of the daily lives of people living in the combat zone in the Donbass in eastern Ukraine.A variety of sequences depicts how the cruelty and suffering of war are not just becoming customary for the separatists and the Ukrainian army soldiers but for the civilian population too. The film crew got so close to the parties involved that they were able to capture the boyish thrill of war felt by civilian men who have taken up arms under the influence of propaganda and gone off to fight their neighbours and brothers. Ukrainian women bear all the hardships of this senseless conflict with resignation and do not say a word in protest. Children and the elderly have become accustomed to a life lived in cellars and ruins. You get the impression that all these people are shell-shocked from the war and can?t come to their senses and ask themselves what they are killing others and dying themselves for.A documentary by Elena Starodubtseva...

SLAVE

Director: Amat Escalante

Country: Mexico

RT: 13min

Synopsis: As Ana, only 14 years old, tells her story, we can see how she was easily seduced by Sam, and how he and his mother manage to deceive her and introduce her to the world of prostitution....

SOIL

Director: Julian Feeld,Mathilde Huron

Country: France

RT: 47min

Synopsis: A young filmmaker sets out to document the friendship between a fifteen year old Parisian girl and a homeless alcoholic on the verge of death. What seems at first to be a documentary quickly devolves into a voyeuristic exploration of young Liza’s past and an attempt to undermine Adam, who is confined to the addiction ward of the Hopital Fernand Widal, lost in resentment. As Liza and the filmmaker travel South to the latter’s vacation home, it comes to light that they are in a relationship. The filmmaker is for the first time captured by his own camera, which shirks the documentary form to observe the couple as they vacation. Adam’s invisible presence remains oppressive as the vacation devolves into a vanishing game within the alternatingly grandiose and murky countryside. One night Liza disappears for good, taking the car with her. Grief-stricken and vindictive, the filmmaker returns to Paris to visit the comatose Adam and claim victory over the dying old man. ...

STALKER BREAKUP

Director: Thomas Michael

Country: United States

RT: 8min

Synopsis: A stalker tries to break up with the girl he’s been stalking. It’s not as easy as it sounds....

STARS IN OUR DARKNESS

Director: Daniel Ray Hamby

Country: United States

RT: 9min

Synopsis: Stars In Our Darkness is about a man who asks his girlfriend’s father for permission to take the relationship to the next level. It examines how these two very different people can be united by their love for one person....

STILL LIFE

Director: Seri DeYoung

Country: United States

RT: 13min

Synopsis: When Franci finds out she’s been invited to interview for an art college, she feels like her dreams are starting to come true. Now all she has to do is break the news to her co-dependent, substance abusing mother....

Stuffed

Director: Warwick Young

Country: Australia

RT: 22min

Synopsis: Peter loves two things in life: stuffing animals, and his mother. When the beautiful Ellen asks him to the local dance he struggles to leave the comfort of home and his mum....

SWEETS

Director: Rick Rodgers

Country: United States

RT: 88min

Synopsis: Alex (Catherine Kellner), lonely and single, lives in the Harlem section of New York City. Desperate for a relationship and child (not in any order), she decides on both with mixed reactions from everyone. When old habits creep back, her calls for help finally get answered by Sweets (Sarita Choudhury) who arrives with bad influences in tow. ...

THE BRAINWASHING OF MY DAD

Director: Jen Senko

Country: United States

RT: 90min

Synopsis: A filmmaker explores the radical change of her once Democratic father to an angry right-wing fanatic after his immersion in talk radio and Fox News. She discovers this to be a powerful phenomenon that has divided families across the nation....

THE BUTTERFLY, THE HARP AND THE TIMEPIECE

Director: Rodney Vance

Country: United States

RT: 10min

Synopsis: “The Butterfly, The Harp, and The Timepiece” is a short film starring Oscar winner Melissa Leo, Golden Globe winner Alex Ebert, and scored by Grammy winner Alex Geringas. The story revolves around a vagabond, an office worker, and a former executive who grasp for hope in their waning dreams through sentimental treasures at a magical pawn shop, but unlikely circumstances bind their paths together in a culmination of fulfillment and disappointment....

The C word

Director: Meghan O’Hara

Country: United States

RT: 89min

Synopsis: A personal, important, surprising, and funny documentary about the industries of death that give us cancer, and the unheralded science of prevention....

THE COBBLER AND THE DIAMOND

Director: Jacob Hoyson

Country: United States

RT: 20min

Synopsis: A down-on-his-luck private eye is torn between his client’s search for her missing diamond, and his own search for peach cobbler....

THE DOG LOVER

Director: Alex Ranarivelo

Country: United States

RT: 93min

Synopsis: THE DOG LOVER, a suspenseful and provocative drama based on true events. Sarah takes on an undercover assignment for her employer, UAPA, a major animal rights organization that conducts animal rescues and lobbies for better animal welfare laws. Sarah goes undercover as a college intern to infiltrate a suspected ?puppy mill?. Sarah finds things aren?t what they seem at the suspected puppy mill. Sarah finds herself torn between doing her job and doing what?s right, and awakens to the moral contradictions of the work she?s been doing. ...

THE DROP: WHY YOUNG PEOPLE DON’T VOTE.

Director: Kyle McCachen

Country: Canada

RT: 50min

Synopsis: Young actor Dylan Playfair seeks the answer to the question why so many young people don’t vote and are turned off by the political system in western democracies while in other parts of the world young people are dying for the right to vote. His journey takes him from Vancouver to Ferguson Missouri via Ottawa, the Burning Man in Nevada, Mayor Rob Ford’s Toronto, and North Carolina. The film played on Canadian television prior to Canada’s recent election and its new charismatic Prime Minister Justin Trudeau, who is in the film, benefited from an increased turn out by young people. ...

THE FEELING OF FALLING

Director: Jordan Sommerlad

Country: United States

RT: 20min

Synopsis: Plagued with the fear that he accidentally ran over his former teacher’s dog, 23 year-old Addy returns home for Christmas but decides to escape his family for a night and ends up in a strange but familiar situation. ...

THE GATE

Director: Kellie Madison

Country: United States

RT: 15min

Synopsis: Cassie Weston uses her angelic powers to fight her arch nemesis and save her sister’s soul. ...

THE HOLY CAVE

Director: Aleix Massot

Country: United States

RT: 15min

Synopsis: Carlos is just another regular teenager in high school with just one friend: Juan, the classical nerdy guy. He’s in love with Sofia; the girl of his dreams. But, when all of a sudden, Angel, the hottest guy in school is starting to date her, he’ll work out something, along with Juan, that would change his entire life forever…THE HOLY CAVE ...

The Lennon Report

Director: Jeremy Profe

Country: United States

RT: 85min

Synopsis: The incredible true story of the moments after John Lennon was shot as seen through the eyes of those who lived it. Alan Weiss, an ambitious young news producer, finds himself in a position to break the biggest story of the year following a violent motorcycle accident. The emergency department at Roosevelt Hospital discovers a John Doe shooting victim is the worlds biggest rock star and struggles to keep the news quiet while working to save his life....

THE PAINTER

Director: Ryan Zaragoza

Country: United States

RT: 7min

Synopsis: An eccentric artist struggles to meet an impending deadline because his upstairs neighbor won’t stop distracting him. ...

THE SPIRIT CHASER

Director: Federico Alotto

Country: United States

Synopsis: Dylan bought a videocamera to record the last week in Italy with his new girlfriend Elena. ?During a poker game his friend Mike looses a lot of money and a spirit chaser. Tony, the winner, will replay money and Mike’s spirit chaser in a bet: stay 24 hours in the wood where 30 years before a terrible murder happened, and record everything with Dylan’s camera. Nobody knows it will be the beginning of a nightmare… ...

THE TRAIN

Director: Asher Grodman

Country: United States

RT: 10min

Synopsis: A preoccupied young man reluctantly agrees to take some time from his busy day to meet his girlfriend?s grandfather (Eli Wallach) and learns how life can change in a moment....

THIS IS GOODBYE

Director: Marjorie Cohen

Country: United States

RT: 8min

Synopsis: “This Is Goodbye” is a a musical short about one young woman’s emotional journey through love, heartbreak and redemption. All told through her bathroom mirror....

TIPPING POINT

Director: David Karacic

Country: United States

RT: 14min

Synopsis: A coming of age story for Logan, who is challenged by his older brother Matt, who has a gambling addiction. Logan struggles to not help feed the habit because he doesn’t want to let his brother down. Eventually he has to make a choice that is right for himself. ...

TOUGGOURT

Director: Guillaume Main

Country: United States

RT: 20min

Synopsis: N/A...

TRAFICANT: THE CONGRESSMAN OF CRIMETOWN

Director: Eric Murphy

Country: United States

RT: 89min

Synopsis: Before Trump, Before Sanders, Before Frank Underwood — Congressman Jim Traficant was the original bombastic populist but with mobbed up street cred. As sheriff, Traficant beat organized crime, defeated the Justice Department in a RICO case…he even vanquished President Clinton. Once in DC, Traficant became infamous for his polyester thrift store suits, shock top wig, vulgar humor and profanity laced rhetoric against the FBI, IRS, and every president since Reagan. The self proclaimed “son-of-truck driver” lampoons the hypocrisy of modern politics while standing tall for his blue collar steelworkers of Youngstown, Ohio.Featuring rich archival footage and extensive interviews with Youngstown’s favorite TV legend Modern Family’s Ed O?Neill (also producer), Congressman Tim Ryan, and Hall of Fame boxer Ray ?Boom Boom? Mancini, Murphy?s documentary is an illuminating and captivating portrait of of the most unraveled politician in American history. ...

TRANSIENT

Director: Alexander Stockton

Country: United States

RT: 110min

Synopsis: Franky DeLuna is brought over to the US from Mexico as a young child and grows up as an American in all but name, with big dreams of being a product designer. However, when an unfortunate incident results in his deportation, Franky must choose whether to stay in Mexico with his long-lost father, but under the iron fist of the cartel, or to make the dangerous journey back to the US. ...

Trigger

Director: Christopher Folkens

Country: United States

RT: 10min

Synopsis: KEVIN is a shy young man who, after being rejected by his family, battles the warring thoughts in his head while coming dangerously close to ending his own life. But when an unsuspecting friend shows up at his doorstep, he must face his past in order to change his life forever....

TROLL

Director: Cody Marion

Country: United States

RT: 16min

Synopsis: A college student researching an internet troll for course credit releases the troll’s true identity to the public....

TWENTYSOMETHING

Director: Avital Siegel

Country: United States

RT: 30min

Synopsis: Sam?s 22nd birthday isn?t going as planned. After her boss, a George Washington impersonator, fires her from the historical reenactment center, Sam struggles with friends, family and relationship obligations in order to fulfill her only wish; to see a comet that comes only once every 150 years. ...

WALLY’S WILL

Director: Matteo J. Mosterts

Country: United States

RT: 12min

Synopsis: “Wally’s Will” is a dark comedy set in a fictional world where our protagonist is an older and very eccentric aristocratic woman. Together with her loyal servant, Doofus, she will have to fight to uphold her crumbling old-money empire against friends, enemies and some unexpected conspiracies....

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