MUDDY WATERS, 7min., Brazil
Directed by Gabriel Panazio, Kleber Leão
When the fish in Guanabara Bay began to disappear, local fishermen found themselves facing an uncertain future. The solution was unusual: fishing for trash. Follow the story of Zezinho, a dedicated fisherman and resident of Z10,...

FROM THE HEARTLAND, 30min., USA
Directed by Matt Coddaire
From the Heartland is a candid depiction
of American Agriculture and the rural
towns that are reliant on its success.
But when an industry’s ability to thrive
is dependent on progress, how does the
family farm discard the practices that ha...

BLACK IS BEAUTIFUL, 33min,. USA
Directed by Marco Antonio Ortega
This short documentary film tells the story of a man who uses his talents to support and lift his community. When the "Black Lives Matter" movement grew in awareness, Marcus Baskerville head brewer of Weathered Souls Brewing Co. wan...

THE MEMORY OF THE MOMENT, 60min., Romania
Directed by Ovidiu Georgescu
An 80 years old woman, former teacher, lives alone in an isolated village in Transilvania, located on a 1200m high mountain. She’s created an important space for books, music and poetry next to her assets and the animals that ...

FIRST(ISH) DATE, 11min., USA
Directed by Shira Baron
After weeks of online dating, Molly finally meets Jess in person, but even as sparks fly, she finds herself face to face with her oppressive insecurities.

https://www.thisisashleyflowers.com/projects
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ADAGIO, 14min,. USA
Directed by Tianyang Colin Zhang
A hallucinated young woman suffers from depression and distance and develops an alternate reality.

Get to know the filmmaker:

1. What motivated you to make this film?

It was inspired by an emotional episode I experienced. And as a fi...

HOLD ME TIGHTLY, 9min., Isreal
Directed by Ilya Tilkin
Vera visits her husband Marik who suffers from advanced dementia at the assisted living facilities on their wedding anniversary – 50 years together. She grossly and audibly complains to those who are ready to listen about her ruined life with...

RATIONAL BEHAVIOUR, 14min., UK
Directed by Lola Frears
Stella is 39 and single. She drops in on former one-night-stand Jacob (22) to tell him that she’s on her way to abort his baby. Jacob can barely remember her name but he gallantly gives her a lift to the hospital in his dad’s van. Rational Be...

BEHOLDEN, 14min., UK
Directed by Leon Lopez
Lee's only hope of escaping prison on a murder charge is his childhood sweetheart, who is now a lawyer. Will Carlie be willing to revisit the traumatic past, she worked so hard to get away from, in order to save him?

https://www.imdb.com/title/tt21036...

AAI-RON, 8min,. USA
Directed by Angel Alvarez
Girl want her new boyfiend to meet her parents!

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SURRENDER, 12min., USA
Directed by Raphael Buisson
Two brothers find themselves entangled in a violent confrontation at a beach house in Malibu. One of the brothers loses his life, while the other, awaiting the arrival of the police, reflects on the events that led to this tragedy.

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KITE, 15min., China
Directed by Olivier Hero Dressen
A man stands at the edge of a cliff staring at the void beneath. With nothing left to live for and only one thing left to lose he has a chance to meet with a little stranger who gives him hope and a reason to live.

https://www.studiosupremefi...

SAPPHIRE / ALIEN SEED, SOUTHERN CITY, 16min., USA
Directed by Emma Colton
Sapphire is a time-traveling golden goddess moving through nature, pleasure, and mysticism. She snakes between seconds, flirting with the seen and unseen, marrying metallic molecules and alchemist dreams.

http://www.metho...

INISIYA, 3min., Turkey
Directed by ?pek Elif Aytar
In a psychedelic universe, a jade stone from space crashes into a planet where the long-legged blue goat lives. The crash creates enormous cracks in the ground, and the goat and the stone fall into the void of darkness through the cracks. The goa...

MY MOTHER MY WORLD, 8min,. India
Directed by Dheeraj Kumar Chawre
In nature there are two types of mother; the monkey mother who does not go near it's child to save it but the child has to run towards its mother and hold mother to save its life in danger situation but in case of mother cat she wi...

ROSEMARY, 10min., UK
Directed by Jessica Tooth

Get to know the filmmaker:

What motivated you to make this film?

I strive to create films that empower, inspire, inform and educate. I've long had a fascination with the treatment of women suffering mental illness throughout the 20th century, an...

INTER, 7min, Austria
Directd by Claudia Ungersbäck
Sequences, splitters, fragments. In settings of body and pictureroom in space of representation and poetry is volume scanned and reproduced, expressed and restored. A Collage in hommage to Antonin Artaud.

http://www.claudiaungersbaeck.com/

Ge...

DANCE FOR AN IDEAL CITY, 27min., Italy
Directed by Daniele Costa
The docufilm Dance for An Ideal City is a project which tells the different ways of experiencing dance in public places and through different languages, developed in Athens, Brussels, Rome and Reggio Emilia.A video-story, signed b...

POETIQ JUSTIZ, 35min,. USA
Directed by Crista E. Noël
Police violence against women, especially Black women, was invisible before the Campaign for justice for Rekia Boyd lit a fire among the Activists/ Advocates and her family in Chicago. But how did her name, out of all the women who have been k...

BITTER SILENCE, 20min., Panama
Directed by FREDDY D ' ELIA
FEDERICO, a ten years old boy is a member of a dysfunctional middle -class family, the product of a adulterous and abusive father, ANTONIO, 40 years old, and a permissive and devoted wife before mother, ANASTASIA, 43 years old. Federico l...

PARADISO, 12min., USA
Directed by Jonna Volz
Paradiso is a glimpse of a day in the life of an unhoused couple looking for shelter for the evening. As they find paradise in a vacant apartment they start dreaming big with possibility, until they are caught.

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SITTING ON CHROME, 14min., USA
Directed by Shannon Morzov
Discover the inspirations and influences that drive artists Mario Ayala, rafa esparza, and Guadalupe Rosales in this short documentary film accompanying their collaborative exhibition, Sitting on Chrome, on view at SFMOMA August 5, 2023–Ja...

ONE MAN SHORT, 11min., Argentina
Directed by IGNACIO LOIZEAU
Obsessed by winning the tournament, a wealthy young boy embarks on a journey in search of his soccer team's star player, uncovering the harsh reality that exists beyond his privileged bubble.

BEYOND, a R.Evolucion Latina, 23min,. USA
Directed by Claudia Mulet
"Beyond" is a Documentary inspired by the Beyond Workshop Series, an adult training program created for young latinx performers in New York City. The documentary follows five young performers looking to develop their skills in or...