WE TREES, 3min., USA, Documentary
Directed by Sam Kauffmann
Ever wonder what trees think of us, now that we've created a climate crisis? Watch this 3-minute film to find out.

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I think climate change is the most important issue we...

GREENFINGERS, 16min., UK, Documentary
Directed by Max Hayes
Following fateful scientific reports, protestors pose the argument for a better future against the vested interest of industry. Small to large, individual to collective, where do I fit into this?

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THE PEACE OF OIL, 5min., Italy, Animation
Directed by Francesco Catarinolo
“Because oil brings peace among the elements. It takes on the weight of the ratio of the components. It removes the waste from difficult situations until they are easy. This is why it becomes black, so that others continue...

TROUBLE IS MY BUSINESS, 89min., USA, Crime/Detective
Directed by Tom Konkle
Private Investigator Roland Drake falls for two sisters from the Montemar family. One woman is dead and the other wants to kill him.

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When I decided to...

SIREN WILL SOUND, 4min., USA, Music Video
Directed by Pete Fitz
Three women descend into the sea, instruments in hand.

THE BINDING BELL, 10min., USA, Crime/Thriller
Directed by Jeremiah Holt
A folklore professor is visited in the night by a student who has recently gone missing.

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I wanted to challenge myself to make something with just two acto...

LEFT ON OUR OWN, 27min., Hungary, Drama/Art
Directed by Akos Kovacs
An elderly taxi driver, who happens to be a tireless storyteller, is a man of contradictions: a hopeless romantic and a crude observer of life who has lived through individual hardship and witnessed the despair of others. He does...

THE CALL, 14min., USA, Thriller
Directed by Ryan Jafri
1965. A small man in a big world works hard to close a deal, doing everything he can to please his boss. But the clock is ticking, and someone is out to get him.

https://www.instagram.com/oneiro_films/

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THE ESSENCE OF THE RIDGES, 3min., Experimental
Directed by Austin Kim
This film shows what we should be fighting to keep, rather than change. It shows the beauty of winter and issues of climate change through skiing.

https://www.austinsyn.kim/

LOST MOTHER, 5min., China, Drama
Directed by Zelong Liu
Lost Mother tells a story about "love," "lost," and "healing." I always want to make a maternal love theme film. The inspiration comes from a joke I used to play with my mom when I was a kid that I was dead, and what she saw was her illusion...

BACK TO APIROL, 6min., USA, Fantasy
Directed by Luoxi Liu
A lonely woman digs her head into her lover's jean jacket and has an intensive experience in her imagination.

https://www.instagram.com/april_llx/

POLISH/ENGLISH PHRASEBOOK, 1min., USA, Comedy
Directd by Eric Maierson
My father finds the only page he needs in the phrasebook.

https://www.ericmaierson.com/
https://www.instagram.com/captaingboy/
https://twitter.com/gboy

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NO COUNTRY FOR DUMB MAN, 4min., USA, Comedy
Directed by Minhan Liang
An assassin got exposed after meeting a sexy girl.

https://instagram.com/minhan4real

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1. What motivated you to make this film?

I always love the films of Quentin Tarantino. He makes me feel...

TEGG SANDWICH, 9min., Canada, Comedy
Directed by Tanin Risdon
A short comedy about an over-confident HR Rep who is tasked with putting an end to the largest problem in the office: A bizarre, outcast employee and their foul smelling lunches.

https://www.instagram.com/taninjr/

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THE KARENS, 8min. USA, Comedy
Directed by Katie Goodman
Welcome to the support group for people named Karen. Believe it or not, there are some people out there who are named Karen. That’s their actual name. People who must walk through their days knowing the very name their parents gave them is n...

COMMITTING TO BURGLARY, 25min., USA, Comedy
Directed by JJ Duffy
Two friends attept to rob a house for the first time and it doesn't go as planned.

https://actorjj.com/
https://www.instagram.com/actorjjduffy/
https://www.facebook.com/JJDuffy.100
https://www.twitter.com/ActorJJDuffy

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ROTZLOCH, 96min., Switzerland, Documentary
Directed by Maja Tschumi
In a godforsaken place called Rotzloch (“Snot hole”), on the edge of a quarry, a new life begins for four young refugee men. Having a long journey behind them, they try to get back on their feet. Above all, they are searching for...

NAFKOT - YEARNING, 70min., Israel, Documentary
Directed by Malka Shabtay
An Israeli anthropologist traveling to meet a hidden Jewish community in north Ethiopia. Together they telling their special story of survival Abera, a young artist joins to discover what has been hidden from him

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THE SCULPTURE, 78min., Australia, Documentary
Directed by Wayne Camilleri, Stephan Wellink
Philanthropist Basil Sellers and artist Terrance Plowright come together to create an impressive, multimillion dollar public sculpture symbolic of Australia’s Indigenous and migrant heritage, which Basil wi...

IRON SHARPENS IRON, 28min., USA, Documentary
Directed by John Richie
“Iron Sharpens Iron” chronicles Ironton’s fight against the development of the Plaquemines Liquids Terminal (PLT) atop the community’s ancestral burial grounds, as well as the destruction wrought by Hurricane Ida.

http://www.jo...

A MESSAGE FROM THE FUTURE. BOSNIA GREETS UKRAINE, 17min., Austria, Documentary
Directed by Edward Serotta
30 years ago, during the longest siege in European history, Jews and Bosniak Muslims, Serbian Orthodox and Croatian Catholics, came together in the city's last synagogue so they could give to...

OUR CROWN & GLORY, 29min., USA, Documentary
Directed by Ashley Brajaé
A group of friends explores their hair journey and what it means to embrace black hair joy!

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1. What motivated you to make this film?

What motivated me to do this film is the fact that hair is such...

VOLUNTEERS NEEDED, 36min., Nepal, Documentary
Directed by Barak Laub, Raymond Steege
Volunteers Needed is the first in-depth documentary focusing on international volunteers in children’s homes and orphanages.

https://www.volunteersneededthefilm.com/

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BRITANNIA COURTS, 4min,. Canada, Documentary
Directed by Thais Despont
Founded in 2017, local skateboarders transformed the Britannia Tennis Courts into a skatepark, now known as the Britannia Courts Skatepark. It is a constantly evolving space rooted in DIY urbanism that is built by and for the ...