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BLOCK 1 @ 12 PM

Bacon ‘N’ Laces

Director: Stephen Michael Simon

Country: United States

RT: 19min

Synopsis: A single dad of three boys manages a diner. But, there’s more to John than meets the eye....

“The 90s Club”

Director: Robert Darwell

Country: United States

RT: 90min

Synopsis: A charming documentary that showcases the vibrant wisdom and life lessons from a dozen diverse individuals between the ages of 90- and 99-years old. Through the touching and open stories shared by the “cast” of “The 90s Club”, we can gain some perspective for our own lives as we grow older....

Block 2 @ 3:15 PM

TRUELOVE: The Film

Director: Phil Viardo

Country: United States

RT: 97min

Synopsis: Teen Callie Truelove, who has Williams syndrome, travels America meeting others with the condition. Her documentary shows their stories and unique perspectives while spreading love and awareness to help heal the world....

Block 3 @ 3:45 PM

Birdie

Director: Andrew Edison

Country: United States

RT: 13min

Synopsis: A troubled teen takes his childhood babysitter hostage after she uncovers his deadly plan....

Something In The Clouds

Director: Josh Sikkema, Johnny Ray

Country: United States

RT: 13min

Synopsis: A fourteen-year old boy witnesses his neighbor get abducted across the street. A moment of bravery to save her will test his courage on the bike ride of his life....

My Soul To Take

Director: Laura Vandervoort

Country: Canada

RT: 14min

Synopsis: “A young woman spends yet another lonely night fixated on her usual routine. An unexpected software update changes everything, summoning her into a dream world.”...

When The Rain Sets In

Director: James Hughes

Country: UK

RT: 17min

Synopsis: Kenzie and Treyden, a couple who’ve been swept up in a whirlwind six-month romance, find themselves confronting a painful question: Has their love story come to an end?...

Miss Underwater

Director: Megan Cullen

Country: Australia

RT: 18min

Synopsis: A 1950’s pageant winner must choose: the shallows of convention or the depths of the sea....

60 Seconds

Director: John ‘QUIG’ Quigley

Country: United States

RT: 18min

Night and Day

Director: Tim Fywell

Country: UK

RT: 19min

Synopsis: London, April 2020. A month into lockdown and two sisters are impelled to put all they hold dear at risk. One, a doctor, decides to speak out about the working conditions at her hospital. The other, a fledging actress, dares to leave the house for the first time in weeks....

Block 4 @ 4:45 PM

Blind Date

Director: Carly Chaikin

Country: United States

RT: 7min

Synopsis: As Jake awaits his blind date in a restaurant, anxiety takes over as he imagines all the possible outcomes of the meet up....

Slow Moving Houses

Director: Mischa Jakupcak

Country: United States

RT: 8min

Synopsis: While a man is in the midst of an existential crisis, a mysterious young girl appears and leads him into a future he can’t imagine for himself, forever altering the course of his life....

Mute

Director: Wesley Wang

Country: United States

RT: 8min

Synopsis: In a world where words cost money, a woman saves up for her first word in the hope of standing up to her abuser....

Seven Fishes

Director: Jaclyn Gramigna

Country: United States

RT: 10min

Synopsis: So wrapped up in creating the perfect holiday memory at their Feast of the Seven Fishes, an Italian American family completely miss the fact that one of their own does not intend to stick around for the dinner…or at all....

Mary Meet Grace

Director: Faryl Amadeus

Country: United States

RT: 14min

Synopsis: When a stranger appears in Grace’s life with disturbing news about her long-lost birth mother, she must fight to untangle herself from a dangerous and sinister plan....

Albacore

Director: Nick Everhart

Country: United States

RT: 14min

The Dinner Party

Director: Jenna Ushkowitz

Country: United States

RT: 14min

Synopsis: All hell breaks loose when Steve (1883 star Eric Nelsen) brings his new girlfriend Serena (Kate Easton) to meet his family for the first time....

Click

Director: Guil Parreiras

Country: United States

RT: 15min

Synopsis: A rock singer, escaping from her abusive boyfriend, forms an unlikely friendship with a struggling photographer with scars of his own....

Balloon

Director: Jeremy Merrifield

Country: United States

RT: 17min

Synopsis: When fifteen-year-old Sam becomes the target of a viral video, surviving high school seems impossible until he discovers he has superpowers. Exploring gender through the lens of the superhero myth, BALLOON questions how we raise boys when our concept of masculinity has become narrow....

Block 5 @ 5:45 PM

Lazarus

Director: Guillaume Corde

Country: France

RT: 23min

Synopsis: After a military expedition goes awry, Florian decides to leave the army. He tries to go back to his normal life with his partner Sandra and his job at the foundry. But his brother in arms Olivier finds this hard to accept, and as a new field operation is put together, urges him to reconsider....

Grounds of Hope

Director: Lionel Bernardin

Country: France

RT: 192min

Synopsis: Former boxer Alex, working as a laborer, is forced into illegal fight clubs to protect his twin sister, a refugee and his daughter from violent local gangsters. This gripping tale explores love, loyalty and resilience in a desperate time....

Block 6 @ 6:15 PM

The Trashboy

Director: Salim El Turk

Country: Lebanon

RT: 7min

Synopsis: Sayed, 8 years old boy, son of garbage man, is living in the garbage city of CAIRO, has a dream to become a dancer. Sayed makes a deal with a sorcerer that can make his dream come true. He must steal the duck of the oldest lady in town, the pink pig and a rat born on a Saturday in less than 48 hours....

Soft Rain

Director: Sacha Goedegebure

Country: Singapore

RT: 7min

Synopsis: A man suffering from depression is caught in a sudden downpour of pink, fluffy balls. At a crowded bus stop, a cheerful looking woman offers him a spot under her umbrella, and together they enjoy the soft rain....

The Last Supper

Director: Michael Risley

Country: United States

RT: 10min

Synopsis: An Albanian boy accidentally releases a turkey and must get it back in time for New Year's Eve dinner....

Stonefish

Director: Megan Smart

Country: Australia

RT: 16min

Synopsis: A thrilling comedy about an anxious young poet who accidentally sparks a war with his criminal neighbour. In an escalating game of cat and mouse, we almost witness the forming of a beautiful friendship between two broken men, before it is inevitably undone, by a dirty, hidden truth....

On My Mind

Director: Martin Strange-Hansen

Country: Denmark

RT: 18min

Synopsis: Henrik wants to sing a song for his wife. It has to be today, it has to be now. It’s a question of life, death and karaoke....

Over the Sky

Director: Pauline Pelsy-Johann

Country: France

RT: 20min

Synopsis: “Alice, a nine-year-old girl who lives in the countryside, faces to the departure of her father from home. In reaction, she also decides to take her independence by going to travel the world, far from Earth, aboard a glider.”...

Sugar People

Director: Suzana Dinevski

Country: North Macedonia

RT: 25min

Synopsis: Can one accidental meeting at a street light cause several worlds to collide? And what if the once in a lifetime encounter at the street light was just a possibility for creating a story, which might have never even happened?...

Block 7 @ 6:45 PM

Disrupt

Director: Jennifer Te Atamira Ward-Lealand

Country: New Zealand

RT: 13min

Synopsis: When a burglary goes wrong, a drug addict must choose between his family and his next fix....

Gael – Your driver is on the way

Director: Roney Giah

Country: Brazil

RT: 14min

Synopsis: When an app driver decides to enter a church to confess, the sins from his past reveal a deadly secret....

Kold

Director: Marley Hasselbach

Country: Denmark

RT: 18min

Synopsis: A young woman tired of being coddled because of her hereditary heart condition enters an intense physical relationship with a young man obsessed with ice swimming. From Denmark to the Faroe Islands, we follow their relationship as they push each other’s boundaries and struggle to trust one another....

27 Children

Director: Daniel Wyland

Country: Romania

RT: 18min

Synopsis: Based on actual facts, a 40-year-old kindergarten teacher visits her doctor to discuss lab results and discovers the repercussions of being raised in Eastern European communist block foster care systems. For Ana, motherhood has escaped her, but sheʼll find a way to move on through her other children; her students....

The Father’s Job

Director: Frank Christian Wagner

Country: Germany

RT: 19min

Synopsis: A Father's Job tells the story of a Jewish woman's fate in the middle of the last century in Germany. Step by step connections become apparent and result in an overall view that doesn't just comes up with an unexpected counterpart but also turns temporal orientation upside down....

TolisLive or (Toronto)

Director: Alexandros Rellos

Country: Greece

RT: 23min

Synopsis: An elderly former singer decides to return to his career but he comes against his past, the choices that shaped him as a character and Toronto....

Cold Blood

Director: Morgan Grunefeld

Country: Netherlands

RT: 24min

Synopsis: When we all locked up in our homes. A young woman thinks she has found a safe haven during Corona time at her boyfriend’s, but this quickly turns into a place full of sinister events....

Block 8 @ 6:45 PM

Long Night’s Search for the Day

Director: Leyi Dai

Country: United States

RT: 5min

Synopsis: A young Chinese woman navigates her place in the world after a hospital refuses to give her further treatment which would damage her hymen....

Jump

Director: Tommy Kelly

Country: United States

RT: 5min

Synopsis: A mysterious, rugged teenager helps another teen conquer his crippling fear of heights...

Bea, Seriously

Director: Hanna Gray Organschi

Country: United States

RT: 10min

Synopsis: Bea shows up at her mother’s house to decide what to do about an unexpected pregnancy....

Grief

Director: Justin Stirewalt, Nicole Shadi Tchounga

Country: United States

RT: 10min

Synopsis: For Adam, every day looks like the last. His wife, Gwen, tries her best to console and support him, but struggles with Adam’s refusal to acknowledge he needs help. Adam’s sister, Eliza, decides to take a more proactive role in getting Adam to admit the help he desperately needs....

Congratulations

Director: Emma Hall-Martin

Country: United States

RT: 10min

Synopsis: On the day of her mother’s wedding, fifteen-year-old Delia tries to find clarity around a strange incident from the night before with her soon-to-be stepfather....

Monday Mourning

Director: Dustin Kahia

Country: United States

RT: 12min

Synopsis: A man confronts his deep-seated emotions and forsaken self on the day of a new heartbreaking reality....

Facing Homeland

Director: Zane Swift

Country: United States

RT: 15min

Synopsis: When a young activist running for US Congress gets a surprise visit from her Israeli cousin, she asks him to hide his identity from her supporters....

A Life Within

Director: Claire Imler

Country: United States

RT: 16min

Synopsis: After starting a new job as a home care nurse, a young woman determined to do her best forms a unique bond with her patient....

An Island Drifts

Director: Vivian Ip

Country: Singapore

RT: 19min

Synopsis: Logline: Set in Singapore, a young teacher presses for the truth from a maladjusted student, as the act leads to devastating results and they suffer the ignominy of losing everything that matters to them....

Sinking ships

Director: Andreas Kessler

Country: Germany

RT: 21min

Synopsis: Logline: Sara endured many years in a relationship full of control and violence. As she and her family go on vacation, an opportunity to break away suddenly presents itself....

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