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BLOCK 1 @ 12:30 PM

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Director: Perry Billett

Country: United States

RT: 13min

Synopsis: A dark mystery that centers on love and the lengths that a father would go to protect his only daughter...

Virtual Insanity

Director: Geoff Ryan

Country: United States

RT: 14min

Synopsis: Juni’s night out with friends becomes a turbulent journey through extreme social anxiety and feeling trapped in her own mind where reality seems unreal....

Little Anna

Director: J. Batzli

Country: United States

RT: 16min

Synopsis: Fourth-grade teacher Anna Wheeler receives a new student also named Anna Wheeler, triggering eerie similarities and traumatic memories when the girl’s father fails to pick her up from school....

Haunted

Director: Jon Amiel

Country: United States

RT: 16min

Synopsis: Kate is haunted by the seemingly malevolent spirit of a teenage boy. But is he really malevolent? Is he real? And who are the other people who seem to appear and disappear at random in her artist’s studio? Kate soon finds herself drawn into a frightening labyrinth, where dreams, nightmares, memory and reality violently collide....

Block 2 @ 1 PM

Film 101

Director: Ella Jerrier

Country: United States

RT: 7min

Synopsis: Four high schoolers scramble to complete an assignment for their Film 101 class...

Plant Baby

Director: Arabella Sharkey

Country: United States

RT: 7min

Synopsis: A struggling drug addict takes care of a plant baby, hoping that by nurturing it, he can learn to take care of himself. However, his addiction beckons him to take one more hit....

Dead Presidents

Director: Ryan Lilienfield

Country: United States

RT: 11min

Synopsis: Two brothers, one robbery, no plan. After their pops gets blasted on a stick-up job, stoner brothers Mark and Chris pack the blunts and strap up to rob a local bank. Bad comes to worse as the robbery devolves into a hostage situation through a series of mistakes. With a slip of the finger, their dreams of beers, boobs, and bud in Amsterdam go up in smoke....

Ick

Director: India Opzoomer

Country: United States

RT: 11min

Synopsis: A teenage girl’s prom night fantasy collides headfirst with reality....

Our Summer

Director: Alex Lathrop–Melting

Country: United States

RT: 11min

Synopsis: Bruce needs to find out what happened when a clown shows up to the pool to crash his hungover hangout!...

Organic Meet

Director: Robert Shaffer Jr.

Country: United States

RT: 14min

Synopsis: An aimless young woman attempts to meet her soulmate using OrganicMeet, a new-age match-making service that encourages single hopefuls to meet in a grocery store, organically....

Mike

Director: Duc Anh Nguyen

Country: United States

RT: 16min

Synopsis: Set within the first day of school, Hiep Nguyen is an exuberant Vietnamese student going on an exchange program at an all-white Christian high school in South Dakota....

I’m Todor. I Mean, Bill.

Director: Madison Leonard

Country: United States

RT: 17min

Synopsis: A quirky romantic comedy about a grief stricken widower in the throes of a mid-life crisis searches for intimacy in the most unorthodox of ways when he makes an unexpected connection with a spirited young woman in his neighborhood....

To the Moon and Back

Director: Charlie Posey

Country: United States

RT: 18min

Synopsis: When, Rhea, a wide-eyed young girl, asks the moon to send her a friend, she comes face-to-face with the older version of herself, now depressed and in a dead-end job, and must learn to love who she is....

Block 3 @ 1:30 PM

Funnel Mantra

Director: Andres Gonzalez

Country: Mexico

RT: 11min

Synopsis: Through a psychoanalytic session, an artist recapitulates a stage of her life looking for a personal temporal metric to be able to judge free will and personal patterns....

Red Lake

Director: Shaun Dunne

Country: United States

RT: 14min

Synopsis: Mourning the death of their father, two half sisters discover that some legends are real and that resentment can indeed can breed a monster....

The Dark and The Safe

Director: Mirai Inoue Strand

Country: United States

RT: 14min

Synopsis: Washed-up sheriff Alder needs the help of the 12-year old cowboy Noel to find an infamous bandit known only as “The Darkness”...

Dream

Director: Artur Matveev

Country: United States

RT: 15min

Synopsis: In pursuit of his dreams, Igor faces the devastating loss of his loved one, a truth he struggles to accept. Supported by his pragmatic friend Mr. Raef, Igor wrestles with the temptation to take drastic action in his grief, realizing the profound consequences it could have on his path and identity. It’s a poignant exploration of love, loss, and moral dilemmas....

Annie’s Movie

Director: Nuutti Aleksis

Country: United States

RT: 16min

Synopsis: Annie from New Jersey is driving across the United States. When her credit card stops working and she runs out of gas, she stops at a desolate motel. Despite clues that Annie might be running away from something, the lonely motel owner wants to help her. That might not turn out well for him....

Block 4 @ 2:40 PM

Born From Dust: The Art of Richard Wilks

Director: Simone Staff, Nick Paskhover

Country: United States

RT: 5min

Synopsis: In this captivating and visually stunning documentary, we embark on an inspiring journey alongside Richard Wilks –a multimedia sculptor– as he undergoes a remarkable transformation. Beginning as a 2D graphic designer, he dares to venture into uncharted territory, where his artistic evolution takes the form of colossal 3D sculptures meticulously crafted from repurposed materials....

California Locos Renaissance and Rebellion

Director: Dave Tourje

Country: United States

RT: 9min

Synopsis: The members of the acclaimed art collective California Locos give their views on what makes post-modern Los Angeles tick. Chaz Bojorquez, Dave Tourje, John Van Hamersveld, Norton Wisdom and Gary Wong all share their asymmetrical insights emanating from their diverse approaches in art and culture, having been born and raised in the mega-metropolis. Music by Los Savages with Ian Espinoza, Dave Tourjé, Jim Grinta, Toby Holmes and Bryan Head....

How It Breathes

Director: Jack Gordon

Country: United States

RT: 9min

Synopsis: As the District of Columbia changed around Elijah Jamal Babled, his budding career as a musician exposed him to the people and music providing a voice and an outlet to the people of DC. Now tasked with preserving and sharing that tradition, Balbed reflects on balancing that responsibility with creating a musical identity of his own....

The Chicago Lago

Director: Valerie Zabriskie

Country: United States

RT: 10min

Synopsis: The Chicago Lago is a heartfelt story of a contemporary Mexican American/indigenous visual artist and designer born and based in Chicago, Illinois. The representation of music, Chicago, and hip-hop culture in his work reflects what saved his life and the need to give all that love back to the community....

The Collector

Director: Carrie Wachob, Jim Picariello

Country: United States

RT: 15min

Synopsis: After watching The Wizard of Oz when he was five years old, Willard Carroll started a journey down his own yellow brick road to become a pop culture fanatic and award-winning filmmaker. Owner of the world’s largest private collection of Oz memorabilia, Willard is living proof that one story can change the entire trajectory of your life....

Stevie Bullet

Director: James Enzo Forni

Country: United States

RT: 30min

Synopsis: Stevie Bullets chronicles the story of a prominent Cicero gang member turned devoted family man. Trading a life of violence and addiction for family, Stevie finds redemption instead of destruction....

Incandescence

Director: Reisha Perlmutter

Country: United States

RT: 20min

Synopsis: A NYC classically trained painter finds new meaning in realism. She connects with a woman on a journey to find self acceptance through her albinism in the Yucatan’s cenotes. Together, they find something real beyond the constructs of the outside world....

Nature Humaine: a journey into the art of Jean-Paul Bourdier

Director: Theo Francocci

Country: United States

RT: 24min

Synopsis: Poetry, the evolution of humanity, and the celebration of life meet in the art photography of Jean-Paul Bourdier....

Block 5 @ 3:20 PM

All-American Terrorist

Director: Payton Bayless

Country: United States

RT: 14min

Synopsis: After the subtle death of his little sister. Moses sets out for help, In an attempt to restore the balance of his life and protect his family. However, he lands himself in greater danger when he seeks out help from the wrong side of the barrel....

The Wrong Movie

Director: Keren Cytter

Country: United States

RT: 96min

Synopsis: The Wrong Movie follows the relationships between one woman and a drone, a sex addict, a confused actor, and a tormented neighbor who’s grieving her dead father....

Block 6 @ 3:45 PM

Just Now Jeffrey

Director: Brett Morris, Hylton Tannenbaum

Country: South Africa

RT: 117min

Synopsis: While the world was radically changing around him, teenager Jeffrey Greenbaum hardly noticed. He just needed to get laid. Jeffrey convinces his best pal Brad Berman, to help devise a strategy to lose their virginity before they finish high school. But things don’t go as planned and Jeffrey and Brad soon become entangled in a crazy web of love, lust, videotape piracy, rugby violence, political protest, antisemitism and Afrikaans pornography. ...

Block 7 @ 4:50 PM

Jackpot

Director: Chance Thomas Garcia

Country: United States

RT: 9min

Synopsis: A father, mother and son gather in front of the television set to cast their votes and watch the Society for Population Control’s nightly lottery....

Things Worse

Director: O.G. Ellison

Country: United States

RT: 13min

Synopsis: A corrupt detective loses his grip on reality in the final weeks of his contract. When the department maintains their usual racket, he struggles within to maintain his sanity while visions of his past haunt him....

Caller 102: A Ballad of Cyberspace

Director: Turner Barrowman, Jack Goldfisher

Country: United States

RT: 17min

Synopsis: When a blackhat hacker working on a highly secretive project gets hit with a coincidentally-timed power surge, he begins to unravel a web of conspiracy that threatens to bring down his life’s work and send him spiraling into oblivion....

The Inevitable Process of Drowning

Director: Marco Bazzi

Country: United States

RT: 18min

Synopsis: In a dystopian reality, Ryan’s perception blurs between reality and dreams. After receiving a mysterious card, he complies and finds himself facing a procedure that demands the sacrifice of his best friend. Ryan questions the system, suspecting manipulation through substances in food and water that suppress dreaming and enforce compliance to a sinister agenda disguised as freedom....

Viscera

Director: David Venghaus Jr.

Country: United States

RT: 20min

Synopsis: Stuck in a cycle from infidelity, Coline and Young seek out an experimental therapist for solutions. When the Therapists’ method border on inhumane, they must find common ground to avoid permanent damage....

Demolition

Director: Megan Raney Aarons

Country: United States

RT: 21min

Synopsis: A twisted look at influencer culture, social media & AI, Demolition is a playful psychological thriller about a lonely bikini model questioning her own authenticity in the face of a wild crisis of consciousness....

Block 8 @ 5:30 PM

George & Marcus

Director: Neill Barry

Country: United States

RT: 5min

Synopsis: A father and son are forced to live under the same roof,what could go wrong....

Snip, Snip

Director: The Edelmans

Country: United States

RT: 5min

Synopsis: While hosting a party, Rose and Cameron are forced to look parenthood in the face. Their newly pregnant friends corner them and can’t stop bragging about the gift of their journey. Overwhelmed and annoyed the couple lock themselves in their bedroom to fight about babies, vasectomies, and…the future....

Black Friday

Director: Jenna Milly

Country: United States

RT: 6min

Synopsis: A female comedy set in the world of Black Friday. When one woman sets out to buy a doll for her daughter, she discovers it’s not that easy to win at the game of being a mom....

Gut Punch

Director: Jon Ryan Sugimoto

Country: United States

RT: 13min

Synopsis: When a customer Dan (Joe List) coughs a little too much, Manny (Radel Ortiz), the owner wants to boot Dan out of the bodega. Dan resists, and soon he, Manny and Rex get into an argument over probiotics, prebiotics and antibiotics, each side making passionate but ill-informed points and spinning the discussion into increasingly absurd directions....

Another Happy Day

Director: Nora Fiffer

Country: United States

RT: 90min

Synopsis: Desperate for some company, a delirious new mother tumbles into a magnetic friendship with her estranged aunt – an eccentric recluse with even more demands than her baby....

Block 9 @ 1:30 PM

96% Cooked

Director: Mike Langer

Country: United States

RT: 6min

Synopsis: At the tail end of a funeral service, a woman begins to suspect there’s something wrong with her father’s urn…...

Pretty as a Picture

Director: Ryan Nielsen

Country: United States

RT: 7min

Synopsis: A young model becomes the focus of a mysterious photographer, who will do anything for the perfect image....

The Diet

Director: Linnea Joelsson

Country: United States

RT: 8min

Synopsis: In a strict world, how far would you to change your life if it meant changing your diet....

I’m Glad That You’re Sorry

Director: Jourdan Henderson

Country: United States

RT: 9min

Synopsis: When Gina brings her boyfriend, Brian, to her dysfunctional family’s Thanksgiving dinner, tensions rise, secrets spill, and an unexpected confrontation leaves Brian shell-shocked and desperate for an escape....

L’Agence & Choose Love present “Pool Party”

Director: Brandon Bernath

Country: United States

RT: 9min

Synopsis: Beverly Holloway, an aged Brentwood heiress and Danny Dynamite, her young Japanese rockabilly boyfriend, break up… again. But this time, it’s serious. Beverly decides to throw a pool party and invite all of her friends. Will Beverly and Danny get back together, or is it finally over?...

Wake

Director: Sean Carter

Country: United States

RT: 12min

Synopsis: With a hurricane raging outside their hospital, two nurses have one last job before evacuating: stow the “dead-on- arrival” corpse of a young girl in the downstairs morgue before the building floods. But the corpse quickly reveals itself to be more than it seems....

Larry in the Sky with Diamonds

Director: David Sonnenborn

Country: United States

RT: 24min

Synopsis: Matt, a suddenly divorced and unemployed gay man, overdoses on psychedelics and reconnects with his Uncle Larry who died of AIDS in the ‘90s. Be he a ghost, a guardian angel, or a drug-induced hallucination, Larry is the one person, alive or dead, who can get Matt’s life back on track....

Drawn

Director: Ty Clancey

Country: United States

RT: 25min

Synopsis: A widower and his young daughter fend off a predatory land speculator by any means necessary in this psychological thriller set on a dying ranch in the Southwest. With shifting points of view and a twisting power structure, the story delves deep into our perception of control, unraveling a family mystery that spawns eerie tension, abducts our expectations of good and evil, and draws us in to a shocking reveal....

Block 10 @ 6:50 PM

Camera

Director: Jay Silverman

Country: United States

RT: 112min

Synopsis: Camera is the heartwarming story of loss, hope, and healing that follows Oscar, a 9-year-old boy who cannot speak but has a gift to see great beauty where others only see despair. When a broken film camera brings him together with Eric, an eccentric repairman, an unlikely friendship develops. Under Eric’s mentorship, Oscar finds his voice through photography and in doing so heals a wounded community....

Block 11 @ 7:45 PM

The Invisibles

Director: Andrew Currie

Country: United States

RT: 107min

Synopsis: In the midst of a crumbling marriage and a stalled career, Charlie feels increasingly invisible—until he literally starts to disappear. The Invisibles takes us on a visually arresting journey to a parallel dimension where the disappeared co-exist, unnoticed by the real world. As Charlie tries to return to his wife, he’s forced to confront the real reason he disappeared in the first place....

Block 12 TUESDAY @ 8 PM

Love and Taxe$

Director: Ken Feinberg, Craig D. Tollis

Country: United States

RT: 102min

Synopsis: In this unique 70s romance crafted by Lloyd J. Schwartz, renowned “Brady Bunch” writer and producer, an unconventional story unfolds between a CPA and a waitress. Their connection, an annual meeting under the guise of preparing her taxes. Yet, with each passing year, these sessions evolve into much more than number crunching....

Block 12 TUESDAY @ 9 PM

Silent Thunder

Director: Isaac Medeiros

Country: United States

RT: 107min

Synopsis: With the help of two bank robbers, a U.S Marshal sets out to rescue five prostitutes who have been abducted by a gang of desert dwelling, otherworldly, monsters....

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