Different Worlds Summer Heat, 52min., USA
Directed by Patricia Lynn Hicks, Cheri Amor, Ryanne Tracey
From 1985 to 1990, American faced a duel crisis: The rising AIDS epidemic, and a wave of hidden violence. Detroit already strained by poverty and stigma was amongst the hardest hit.

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Getting Off The Wheel, 49min., Singapore
Directed by Ming Kwang Hun, Jeremy Ho, Gary Thong
Ten Days. Ten Lives. One Take. In search of Freedom.

Getting Off The Wheel is an intimate, vérité-driven documentary following 10 individuals from Singapore at a 10-day Innerwork Retreat set in the spiritu...

BLUE SUNBEAM, 39min., Hungary
Directed by Karoly Palfai
THALIA, a 6-year-old autistic girl, lives her happy days somewhat isolated from her peers. Her world changes when she receives an invitation that finally pulls her out of her familiar, safe comfort zone. This is how she meets Attila Halász, ...

Don't feel sorry for me!, 9min., Faroe Islands
Directed by Eir í Ólavsstovu
After ten years of marriage, Birgit is confronted with the ultimate betrayal. Her younger husband, Hanus, has left her and moved in with a new and younger woman, Maria. Hanus is the kind of man everyone falls for – charmi...

IT'S NICE TO FINALLY MEET YOU, 14min., USA
Directed by Kate Compton
IT’S NICE TO FINALLY MEET YOU follows Hannah, a woman who is feeling anxious about meeting the parents. She feels like a failure in every aspect of her life, but she desperately wants to be accepted by this new family. It takes...

THE BIG BREAK, 86min., USA
Directed BY Avi Setton
Charlie, a struggling voice actor living with his AI husband Alan and their roommate Doug, finds his life disrupted when Doug's social media-addicted friend Travis comes to stay with them.

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THAT NIGHT, 15min., USA
Directed by Sina Mahdavi
An undocumented worker in a small restaurant tries to support her family back home. When a stranger arrives and the police get involved, her life takes an unexpected turn.

HAUNTED HERITAGE, 14min., India
Directed by Surina Narula
"Haunted Heritage" reframes the haunted-house narrative as a power play between past and present, exposing how inherited privilege and unexamined racism persist across cultures and how the ghosts we fight often mirror the ones we carry.

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Directed by Lisa Dreher
A man stops by his Hispanic neighbors’ house only to find it abandoned and quiet.

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HALLOWEEN, 15min., France
Directed by Sacha Lafitte, Aurélien Cambriel
A psychiatrist starts a new job at a hospital. She leaves her daughter with a babysitter for Halloween night. But Michael Myers is lurking nearby.

LOVE/BUG, 13min., UK
Directed by Barnabus Walsh
A couple, affectionately naming each other Love and Bug, test the limits of their love living with each other for fifteen months.

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NO MORE A VICTIM, 12min., New Zealand
Directed by Tanya M Wheeler
When the victim of a killer in the woods explains her final day, it turns out it was a different day to that experienced by her killer.

OUT OF CHECKLIST, 26min., Czechia
Directed by Roman Němec
Twelve-year-old, hyper-rational David pays an unannounced visit to his father's Prague apartment. Following a coming out and a subsequent divorce, his father lives alone and already has weekend plans. In a pinch, he convinces the only pers...

JUMPING AT SHADOWS: FORSAKEN FATHER, 40min., Australia
Directed by Locky Boaretto
Charlotte’s 18th birthday takes a dark turn when Agent Nixon arrives with shocking revelations about her past and his true reasons for hunting aliens. When a desperate attempt to change history unleashes catastrophi...

FIVE HOTELS, 17min., USA
Directed by Harry Roseman
Five Hotels is a first person view of traversing from my hotel rooms down to the street. It simultaneously encapsulates dislocation and location. The sound track evokes the unseen. The vertical orientation of the video reaffirms looking ahead alo...

LOST WOODS, 20min., Canada
Directed by René Albert
A no-budget fan-made film paying tribute to The Legend of Zelda: Ocarina of Time.

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SAFE ZONE, 8min., Egypt/Italy/USA
Directed by Ahmad Alameldeen
Hidden in a dark sewer pipe beneath a ruined besieged city, a mother and her eight-year-old daughter are starving. They survive by staying dead silent, terrified of the soldiers patrolling the streets above them.

AZIZAM, 5min., USA
Directed by Anish Chandak
An aspiring writer breaks out into a musical dream sequence when he discovers the muse for his next story.

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BODY OF WORK, 24min., USA
Directed by Cassidy Rast, Odin Wadleigh
Introducing artist Eric Anfinson, who was critically injured at 16 and went on to achieve success as an artist, creating a body of work of over 700 paintings. Told through 8mm, cinematic recreations, intimate interviews, and archiv...

FREE SPIRTIS, 13min., Argentina
Directed by Ferina, Ferrán Echegaray
FREE SPIRITS is the visual component of CA7RIEL & Paco Amoroso’s 2nd studio album titled FREE SPIRTIS. The album arrived following a surreal campaign that included “GOO GOO GA GA” featuring Jack Black and “HASTA JESÚS TUVO UN MA...

SURROUNDED BY LIGHT, 13min., USA
Directed by Steven Clarkson
An experimental, improvised guitar journey complemented by an extensive array of vivid and imaginary AI generated images. The video is an immersive meditative experience.

The Hirsch Effekt, 28min., Germany
Directed by Florian Glock
Alone in a dusty rehearsal room, Nils Wittrock writes the most personal album of The Hirsch Effekt—caught between parenthood, post-pandemic pressure and self-doubt, he searches for air, meaning, and a way back to the band.

THE ALOHA WITHIN, 17min., USA
Directed by Elvis Maleko, Robert Massetti
Through a time of personal struggle and tragedy, a young Polynesian stage performer named Marc discovers a new meaning of hope. This hope is found through a support system he never knew he had. As he pieces together the suppo...

TRUTH IS DEAD, 4min., Australia
Directed by Martin Ryan
Messengers from the future try to give a warning.