Sanctuary of the Leatherback, 10min., Thailand
Directed by Alongkot Chukaew
The Sanctuary of the Leatherback is the continuing stories, following the first documentary, The Story of the Leatherback. This documentary will raise an important issue, relating to the recent death of mother Tai Meaung,...

KIN, 5min., Mexico
Directed by Ana Baer, Rocio Luna
Relating in times of crisis. A site-specific screendance that explores the relationship between humanity and nature, raising awareness of ecological challenges and seeking—if only partially—to remediate damaged environments. Drawing on environme...

If Only For Memories, 6min., USA
Directed by Ari Roman
A grieving young man searches his dreams for a few more sweet memories with his fiancé

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It was a combination of things. A series of failed romantic relationships led to a lot of retrospective thinking. I was weighi...

Cheap$kate, 6min., USA
Directed by Calvin Catania
While a crafty detective teaches you his unique style of catching criminals, another criminal is on the run and heading down a dark alley he shouldn't be going down. In the end, someone has to pay for their crimes

CONTROLLER, 7min., USA
Directed by Clint Younkin
In this dark and unknown universe, an age of consumption has enslaved society and almost all are bound by their obsessions. A particular man desires new levels to his relationship with his own obsession: technology.

Desert Reforestation: Rivals and the Dropped Camera, 5min., Czechia
Directed by Stanislav Skricka
The film captures real, unplanned moments in which divided communities — rivals in politics, work, and sport — come together in a desert reforestation project. In a place where conflict might be expe...

SUGAR, 20min., USA
Directed by Sutton Alexander Fry
A boy and his estranged father settle their differences in the ring

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1. What motivated you to make this film?
Getting to spend more bonding time with my Dad, friends, and girlfriend.

2. From the idea to the finished ...

ISABELLE, 4min., USA
Directed by Annie Kloppenberg
Isabelle Johnson (1901-1992): artist, rancher, teacher. In this film, three young women imagine her ghostly presence, re-inhabiting the very land she loved, their action framed by Patrick Dougherty's fantastical installation that weaves local wil...

THE PAUSE, 17min., UK
Directed by Samantha Grierson
After losing her job and her sense of identity, Charlie begins to feel as though her life has turned into a horror film she never auditioned for.

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LET'S GO, 10min., USA
Directed by Siggi Jung
Depressed divorcee who also lost her furry best friend unexpectedly finds strength and purpose in an impulsive rescue.

DEEP CLEAN, 6min., USA
Directed by Lisa Frank
A woman deep cleans her house, no mess left unclean.

APOLLO AND DAPHNE, 3min., USA
Directed by Minglu DU
Apollo and Daphne is a clay-and-paper stop-motion animation that re-examines a canonical myth by attending to what is often obscured within its familiar telling. Instead of framing Apollo’s pursuit as an emblem of divine love, the work foregroun...

Les Memes Yeux Que Toi, 11min., Canada
Directed by Derek Branscombe
Adapted from Anne Plamondon’s award-winning dance work, the film captures her return to her. late father’s apartment, opening a fragile dialogue with memory, loss, and the unseen, where movement leads toward release.

PORTRAIT OF TRACES, 9min., South Korea
Directed by Hansol Jeong
is a four-chapter XR-based dance film tracing the journey from constricted breath to embodied self-return. Through performative movement that merges dance and acting, and immersive digital environments that externalize inner states,...

ROOMS, 21min., USA
Directed by Levi Elizaga
When a curious young woman explores an abandoned mansion, she is delighted to find artifacts--and people--from the past. That feeling soon turns to confusion when an ethereal guardian takes her hand and guides her thru the secret recesses of the mansion...

VEKK, 6min., Norway
Directed by Thea Bay, Simon Matthew Valentine
A dance film about miscommunication and living in different realities.

Dance from the Angel and Faerie Operettas by Terry Ulick, 27min., USA
Directed by Terry Ulick
Ballet and modern dance numbers from the Operettas “An Angel’s Love” and “Shameless Faeries” by Terry Ulick from Wherever Music and Wherever Movies. All rights reserved and not for use without express wr...

STAR, 13min., USA
Directed by Selena Alvarez
Estrella (Spanish for “Star”) follows the journey of a young woman navigating the weight of adulthood, identity, and self-acceptance. As a child, Estrella is nurtured by her mother’s belief that she is destined for greatness — her pastel pink-colored w...

THE SILENCE OF MY SOUL, 4min., Armenia
Directed by Hasmik Chakhmakhchyan
The Silence of My Soul is an intimate piano-vocal ballad shaped by jazz and R&B sensitivity and approached with cinematic restraint. Minimalist piano textures and a nuanced vocal performance create a quiet emotional tension ...

WHAT KIND OF WORLD IS THIS?, 50min., USA
Directed by Jacob N Rudin

WISHFEATHER, 3min., Australia
Directed by Ying Lei Zhang
A dancer wishes to soar beyond her eternal cage. But the key can only be found from deep within herself.

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1. What motivated you to make this film?

My drive to create this k...

THE PORNOGRAPHER, 3min., Canada
Directed by Milla Cummings, Marie-Josee Saint-Pierre
The Pornographer traces a woman’s sexual sensations through a poetic, fragmentary sensory arc: from the awakening of desire via an abstract nature that comes alive, through geode-like vulvas that glow and swell, ...

Project Hazmatic: Dangerous Goods, 13min., USA
Directed by Willa Carroll
Hazarding a guess at our planet’s imperiled future, Project Hazmatic: Dangerous Goods, hovers between cataclysmic hymn, ecstatic elegy, and absurd ritual. Clad in bespoke hazmat suits, eco-voyagers cavort through industrial ...

VEILS, 7min., USA
Directed by Nick Polace
Humans are trapped in a symphony of movement and stimulation. What happens when they break outside of this bubble that they created?