KANHAJI, 12min., India, Drama
Directed by Maggic Manch
A teenage girl,Mohna visits her maternal grandmother's house after a long absence and bumps into an old friend. She is happy to see her old friend Sunita, but she also regrets the cruel casteist games she used to play when they were kids beca...

CICLOS, 10min., UK, Drama
Directed by Ashleigh Jadee
Ciclos is a film based on reliving out patterns from your childhood into adulthood unconsciously. How does this affect us if we don’t become aware of the cycles?

http://www.ashleighjadee.com/
https://instagram.com/ashleighjadeeee

AUREO & MIRELE, 15min,. France
Directed by Filipe Galvon
This short doc explores self-identity and gender through the eyes of a Brazilian immigrant in Paris as he organizes the arrival of a mysterious lady called Mirele.

https://finefrenzyfilms.com/aureo-mirele/
https://www.instagram.com/finefr...

COLLECTIONS, 10min., Canada
Directed by Felipe Urrea
Adelaide, is overwhelmed by the chaos in her own home and turns to her friend Theo for help, but as they dig deeper into the clutter, they uncover secrets and emotional baggage that Adelaide has been struggling to deal with.

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RED RIBBONS OF LOVE, 15min., USA
Directed by Pauley Perrette
Red Ribbons of Love, a film by Pauley Perrette, documents the 30-year history of the red AIDS ribbons on the tower of Hollywood United Methodist Church, located two blocks from the Hollywood Walk of Fame. In 1993, when salons, barbersho...

ba•la, 13min., USA
Directed by Arti Ishak
A competitive swimmer must overcome his PTSD and learn how to swim again before the upcoming team trials.

https://www.instagram.com/ba.la.shortfilm/

DAVID, 10min,. Canada
Directed by Matthew Forbes
Based on a true story, "David" follows the life of an openly gay HIV/AIDS activist at the peak of that nightmare pandemic, dividing his time between fighting for justice in an openly homophobic society and helping a total stranger as the virus take...

FEAR OF FLYING, 5min., USA
Directed by Mykhailo Dolgin
What it's like to live in the body of a transgender? It may break you, it may destroy you from the inside and outside. Finding the strength and courage of getting up and accepting yourself is a challenge.

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LA PETITE MORT, 20min., USA
Directed by Philip Alexander Mills
A twenty-five year old named Allen, dissatisfied in his current relationship, begins an affair with a talking Greek statue.

LOGGING ALGONQUIN, 28min., Canada
Directed by Conor DeVries
Logging Algonquin is a 28 minute documentary film that looks at the historical and on-going logging happening in Algonquin Provincial Park in Ontario, Canada. Through conversations with indigenous locals, scientists, foresters, and polit...

NIVEH T'AH'IN, 7min., USA
Directed by Kenny Gamblin
Sam Alexander grew up half Gwich’in, half white, in remote, Fort Yukon, AK, above the Arctic Circle. As a child he was inspired by half-native movie characters to join the US Army Special Forces. Sam went on to serve for ten years as a US Army G...

ENCOUNTERS BY THE WATER, 20min., Brazil
Directed by Joao Manoel Machado
Indigenous communities, artisans, fishermen and people of various walks of life come together in this documentary which traces the course of a river from its source in the forrest all the way down to the sea.

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ALL SACRED THINGS, 24min,. Canada
Directed by Derek Sands
A group of indigenous college students go on a journey to reconnect to their culture, which leads them to experience the once almost extinct Ojibway Spirit Horses.

ADAPTATION, 102min., Canada
Directed by Jake Thomas
Adaptation follows a group of wheelchair bound athletes as they converge in British Columbia, Canada for the BC Summer Race Series. The World’s first downhill mountain bike race series to include an adaptive mountain bike (aMTB) category. Howeve...

A REFLECTION OF LIFE, 90min., USA
Directed by Jesse Locke
“A Reflection of Life” explores water issues in the Pacific Northwest, while noting the broader issues facing the entire West, with an emphasis on amplifying Indigenous voices. Filmmaker Jesse Locke interviewed members of The Confederated ...

BEIRUT PORT BLAST STORIES, 30min., Lebanon
Directed by Chérine Yazbeck
This is the story of four people who lost a family member in the Beirut port explosion on August 4, 2020.
A fifth person who worked nearly half a century explains the rise and fall of a port that was in the heydays the flagshi...

ROSENWALD: TOWARD A MORE PERFECT UNION, 10min., USA
Directed by Charles Poe
The extraordinary story of a forgotten philanthropist, a Jewish son of immigrants from Chicago who became a champion for black education in the Jim Crow South.

GENERATING CHAOS, 11min., USA
Directed by Carlos Felipe Garcia
Generative art explores the relationship between order and chaos, as well as the concept of infinite variations within constraints. By embracing the inherent unpredictability of computational processes, generative art pushes the bound...

STOKER MACHINE, 12min., USA
Directed by Darieus Legg
Stoker Machine is a must-see animated surf documentary. Chad Campbell, an expert surfer discovers a mysterious surfboard on the big island of Hawaii. The retro board provides only a phone number and an email address as clues to its origin, lead...

I AM....BRIHANNA JAYDE, 13min., USA
Directed by Kris Bailey
The 2023 Kansas All American Goddess gives viewers and listeners a glimpse of the Drag Queen life and what it means to live life authentically as a gay man.

SURVIVAL, 6min., UK
Directed by Qian Zhou
The year 2022, which has just passed, was a tough year for the world, and it was also a challenging year for the UK. The energy crisis caused by the Russia-Ukraine war, the following economic crisis, the pound's fall, global warming... All of this affects...

MY BROTHER CHARLIE, 12min., USA
Directed by Yogi Chavada
Life is beautiful, but it is also unpredictable. We aren’t always able to live life on our own terms; it has the terms set for us.

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https://www.instagram.com/Chavada_films

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DANCE OF THE DAKINIS, 28min,. USA
Directed by Lindsay Gilmour
The film focuses on the empowerment of female monastics and the innovation of gender roles in Vajrayana Buddhism. The film has two frameworks: an outer framework that focuses on rising status of Tibetan nuns in previously male dominat...

LOUD ENOUGH, 62min., USA
Directed by Hilary Klotz Steinman
In the shadow of the fifth year anniversary of the #MeToo movement, this intimate, personal film following a sexual assault survivor and her family explores and reflects the Herculean effort still required in America for a survivor of se...