WHO THE FUCK ARE YOU, 10min., Taiwan
Directed by Kai Soong Ng
A young, indefatigable office worker deals with an overwhelming workload. After work, he faints and falls beside a pile of trash on the street and accidentally meets a lazy, alcoholic street child who is living in the pile of trash.

D...

BRAIN FLUSH, 3min., Italy
Directed by Elena Giulietti, Francesco Catena, Rebecca Maslowsky
Pippo is a man who's obsessed with social media and the “perfect lives” of others. Connection is lost and paranoia takes over him. He is forced to face his biggest insecurities, and realizes that in order t...

SWAM, 2min., USA
Directed by Cathy Teng
Swammer swimming thoughts.

WHY DID THE GIRAFFE'S FLOWER FADES?, 9min., Iran
Directed by Kaveh Kanani
Giraffe loves flowers. She keeps her flower in a jar to save it from wind and rain, but it withered; she is very sad and doesn’t know why it happened.
https://www.instagram.com/kavehkana/

RED WISDOM, 7min., Iran
Directed by Hossein Moradizadeh
The bird flies in the sky, lands near a spring and is trapped. Ten men pull the nets and spin. In this rotation, the bird becomes a human. Man finds himself trapped in chains. Chains that end in the sky. On the way, he encounters an old man...

TATT, 3min., Russia
Directed by Ekaterina Ulyanova
The story of a mysterious monster-thief who stole the forester's pants.

DELIGHT, 2min,. Iran
Directed by Arsan Safa, Babak Raesis, Estatira Aghajari
A mother bird leaves her nest to find food for her babies and in doing so she encounters difficulties and...

Director Statement
The idea behind the screenplay of “The Relish” came to me several years before writing the ...

AND AWAY, 16min., USA, Sci-Fi
Directed by Noah Campagna
A young mother must protect her child as she finds the world around her is vanishing.

Get to know the filmmaker: 1. What motivated you to make this film?

The original short story for Manen Lyset found me in October 2020. As I was reading i...

A TRUE NATURE, 15min., USA, Fantasy
Directed by Nickolas Powers-Gomez
Plague survivors, Liam, Bird, and Hamill navigate morality and survival instinct as they struggle to make their way through a treacherous new world in order to reach the nearest safe haven known as, "the station."

http://www.r...

A LAKE OF ASHES, 18min., Canada, Fantasy
Directed by W. James Alexander
In a not too distant future wracked by ecological devastation, a young boy grows up on an isolated lake. Though not yet destroyed by fire, the land he lives on and the lake at its center are slowly dying. As the boy wanders,...

FEAR INCARNATE, 7min., UK, Fantasy
Directed by Dylan Coburn
A boy faces his ultimate fear to protect his family.

https://www.fearincarnate.co.uk/
https://www.facebook.com/fearincarnatefilm

Director Statement
Fear - we all need it, but must not live at the mercy of it. If fear were to incarnate...

LEMNISCATE, 20min., USA, Sci-Fi/Family
Directed by Chuck Meré
When a scientist has his biggest technological breakthrough at the same time of his young daughter's scheduled visitation, he must choose between being a good father, or traveling to a parallel dimension.

Director Statement
I decided ...

FREEMAN HOSPITALITY, 20min., USA, Sci-Fi/Action
Directed by Michael Cooke
A black family-run security firm escorts a foreign journalist into the war-torn badlands of South Georgia to interview a local tyrant.

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

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WOOD: EPISODE 1, 5min., UK, Animation/Sci-Fi
Directed by Michael Anthony McDonough
Wood is an animated adventure series that tells the story of a dystopian future in which humanity has been re-purposed.

https://thewooduniverse.com/projects/wood
https://www.twitter.com/thewooduniverse

Director S...

TIME GLITCH, 6min., Austria, Sci-Fi
Directed by Stefan Kljajic
An agent is sent on a routine check when he is met with an unexpected anomaly of space & time.

Get to know the filmmaker:

1. What motivated you to make this film?
I was listening to the soundtracks of Tenet and Sicario around the t...

NEIN FRIENDS, 14min., USA, Drama
Directed by Lily Micheline Kaplan
A college junior’s patience, courage, and perception are challenged at a surprise birthday dinner, attended by an assortment of nine odd guests, but nein friends.

Get to know the filmmaker:

1. What motivated you to make this f...

WHITE FEMALE, 10min., USA, Drama
Directed by Sarah Falkiner
“Two childhood friends realize their lifelong connection was much more fragile than either imagined.”

“White Female”

1. What motivated you to make this film?

Sarah (director, co-writer, co-producer, Shell-Bell voice)
My good friend, ...

YELLOW STAR, 18min., Ukraine, Drama/History
Directed by Skobun Skobun
1941. A small Ukrainian town occupied by German troops, where the Nazis organized the Ghetto. Nearby lives the family of janitor Peter, who works in the Ghetto and has unlimited access there. Peter's son, Mykolka, constantly ta...

50 ML, 8min., USA, Drama
Directed by Vanessa Powers
A young man struggles with his sobriety while he and his wife host a holiday dinner with her dysfunctional family.

https://www.oxfordcommafilms.com/
https://www.facebook.com/OxfordCommaFilms/
https://twitter.com/oxfordcommaflms
https://www.ins...

FROZEN LOVE, 10min., Canada, Drama
Directed by Sebastien Begin
A father is tormented by guilt, when he accidentally loses his only daughter to a car accident. He will reluctantly accept help from her daughter's mother. But during their time together, the two will rediscover the love that once uni...

THE WESTERWALD SECRET, 19min., Germany, Drama
Directed by Karl Bruchhäuser
A father and son tale. The fifty year old, cranky Hajo lives with his grown-up, beloved son Hasso deep in the forrest of Westerwald, where he is ever since struggling to shield them from the temptations and distractions o...

BEING X IN AMERICA, 11min., USA, Drama
Directed by Malik J. Ali, Chozy Aiyub
Ahmad (Arab American) tries to help Chris (African American) in solving a complex equation of being in America.

http://chozyaiyub.com/
https://instagram.com/beingxinamerica

Director Statement
"I'm for justice, no matte...

1 OUT OF 8, 5min., USA, Documentary
Directed by Jacqueline Kennedy
'1 Out of 8' explores the challenges Sias faces while working in Construction. The short highlights a woman in construction, working extremely hard to break barriers and stereotypes in NYC and in the construction business. Over 20...

MASK, 15min., USA, Drama
Directed by Peter Jang
When a combat veteran tries to escape his PTSD by working out at a boxing gym, a confrontation with a mysterious man amplifies his worst fears.

Get to know the director:

1. What motivated you to make this film?

Depression and suicide, in and out...