CORPSE, 4min., Iran, Thriller
Directed by Fatemeh khojasteh pour
A girl is sitting in the back seat of a car with her hands tied, the driver of the car is confused, while another car approaches ,the driver becomes more confused.

+380 | Kyiv, Ukraine, 1min., USA, Documentary
Directed by Andrew Opryshko, Troy Bronson Bronson
"+380" is the story about a nameless mercenary spy who suffers from schizoaffective disorder. He roams the streets of Kyiv at night where he can release his demons surrounded by no one, only the rhyth...

WAY HOME, 3min., Taiwan, Drama
Directed by PO-TA Chen
Taiwan is one of the few countries in the world that haven’t opened its border restrictions due to the outbreaks of Covid-19. In 2022, there was another wave of Covid hitting the country, therefore, there were lots of people flowing into the h...

THE UNSEEN, 3min., UK, Drama
Directed by Tom Major
In the UK, one person dies each day due to gambling. The Unseen is a short sub 3-minute film about living with a gambling addiction. The story is narrated by myself from a poem I wrote titled "A Wheel That Spins" - Based on my real-life experienc...

A DROP IN THE BUCKET, 5min., Columbia, Drama
Directed by Juan Zuloaga Eslait
A girl in high-school is cornered by classmates in order to have her be part of a "silly" game, one that quickly turns into a horrible tragedy.

http://zuesfilms.com/
https://www.instagram.com/zuesfilms/

SHROOM MATES, 5min., UK, Animation
Directed by Rosie Windsora
Inside a hollow tree trunk two mushroom roommates decided to spice up their evening with some recreational drugs.

THE FULL CATASTROPHE, 4min,. USA, Documentary
Directed by Yolanda Reid Chassiakos
Ethnic Cleansing in Smyrna, 1922: A Family's Odyssey

http://www.amphitritepublishing.com/

Get to know the filmmaker:

1. What motivated you to make this film?

I heard our family's heartbreaking story from my mo...

FEELING SPECIAL, 5min,. USA, Animation
Directed by Carlos Hoffman
Animated film adaptation of the children's book, Feeling Special, about a Turtle who believes that all his friends are special, but that he is just ordinary, and finally realizes that he is special too.

http://www.jenniferkurani.c...

THE STRUGGLE, 5min., USA, Comedy
Directed by Keith Armonaitis
Adulting is hard. Morning is harder.

Director Statement
The arts are one of the few ways that we can reconnect with our humanity As a writer/director, I think it is important that every movie that I make reveals something of the human...

INFINITE, 4min., USA, Experimental
Directed by Peter Tedone
A stylized visual metaphor and experimental twist on the man-against-self story. An fantastical, neo-noir inspired allegory for the cycle of self-destruction we perpetuate through choices and behaviors we are unable or unwilling to give ...

QUEER MONGOL, 16min., USA, Documentary
Directed by Brandt Miller
Queer Mongol follows four characters over the course of Mongolia's LGBTQ+ Pride Festival, who embody a diversity of gender and sexual identities. The film is a meditation on queerness in the non-west and a nuanced glimpse into a nas...

A LIFE OF HONOR, 3min., USA, Animation/Documentary
Directed by Richard O'Connor
When Joseph Patton joined the Navy in 1955, he recalls serving in silence, as the LGBTQIA+ community could not be open while in the military. Despite being the “perfect sailor,” Joseph was kicked out of the Navy for b...

THINGS WE SHOULDN'T TALK ABOUT, 11min,. USA, Documentary
Directed by Robbie Kruithoff
The mental health impact of religion on the LGBTQIA+ community is unchecked and misunderstood. Alone and largely ignored, queer individuals from conservative, religious communities commit suicide at alarming rat...

THE EMPTINESS STEVEN LEFT, 13min., Dominican Republic, Experimental
Directed by Franklin Villar
Xiomara is a young woman who dreams of becoming a beauty queen by winning a beauty pageant since she was a kid, she will have to face the mysterious emptiness that Steven left in everybody around her w...

COPI, 19min., Brazil, Drama
Directed by André Gevaerd
Renê, 35-year-old, is a Brazilian night hotel receptionist and complements his income with side jobs in order to pay for his 6-year-old son's pension. Copi, 41-year-old, is an amateur, Argentinian artist who makes her living out of Balneário C...

YANNIS, 9min., Australia, Drama
Directed by James Elazzi
Yannis, a first-generation Greek/ Lebanese Australian older teenager has been rejected by his family for being gay and now lives under a bridge, working the local beats as a sex-worker. Omar, his best friend, once in the same situation as Y...

THE SIGNAL, 12min., France, Romance
Directed by Haichuan Xu
Two teenage boy accidentally shared their first intimate experience together in a summer afternoon.

GAY-ISH, 12min., USA, Romance
Directed by Michelle Askew
A young woman reevaluates her sexuality when she attends a college reunion party with her long time boyfriend... and an unrequited female love.

Director Statement
We’ve seen the typical coming out story. We’ve even seen the untypical comin...

YOUNG KINGS, 23min., USA, Documentary
Directed by Dr. Arshley Emile, Jonathan Banks
From Ponce De Leon to Ralph David Abernathy, bike culture is pumping hard through the heart of Atlanta. Whether pulling clutches or pushing pedals, "Poppin' wheelies" through the concrete jungle is an authentic, u...

TOXIC, 7min,. USA, Drama
Directed by Wylie Rush, Max King
A relationship that should have ended years ago festers amidst an argument about anger.

Director Statement
There are no winners in a toxic relationship. The claustrophobia of the framing is intentional, illustrating that there is no way o...

MEMORY, 7min., Canada, Documentary
Directed by Keefe Jassoy
A story about the Canadian identity and the histories of one particular woman as she learns about her grandmothers past through the living memory of music and dance.

https://www.instagram.com/jassoyfilms/

Get to know the filmmaker:

W...

IN THE SHADOW, 8min., France, Drama
Directed by Fabrice Mathieu
A fantasy film noir with shadows.
A shadow is telling its life story with his "Wearer", a flesh and bone double, who one day it decides to get rid of...

Get to know the filmmaker:

1. What motivated you to make this film?

First, I...

MONOLOG 2, 10min., Austria, Documentary
Directed by Nils Roling
Christoph Schoefegger is skiing longer than he can remember, it’s his biggest love and his whole life circles around it. But what happens if somehow you loose the foundation of this passion? What happens when you don’t go skiing for ...

PULLING THE GOALIE, 23min., USA, Drama
Directed by Hiag Avsharian
"Avsharian has cleverly framed his film about male infertility from a conventionally male perspective using hockey as a metaphor to provide both context and levity. Sport provides an immediate connection to an uncomfortable and emb...