Matthew Toffolo chatted with Johnny Mischief-Cancer, about his animated music video "Roll Call Home" for Jenny Wu's song, which was showcased at Sci-Fi/Fantasy Film Festival. Johnny, based in Portland, Oregon, directed and animated the entire project himself, including rotoscoping and mouth move...

“Alone, Yet Not” is a film about family, expectations, and failure. Through the story of a young woman at her breaking point, it explores these pressures and shows that, even in silence, we are never truly alone.

Directed by - Sean Kalinaki

https://www.instagram.com/seankalinaki

BEYOND THE BLACKOUT, 9min., Australia
Directed by Setareh Mehrdad
As an Iranian choreographer living away from my homeland, I created this dance film in response to the theme of “home.” For me, home is Iran: a place of memory, love, grief, and resistance.

https://www.instagram.com/setareh_mehrd...

CHATON - WE ARE INVINCIBLE, 3min., USA
Directed by Marcus CB Soori
The multi-award-winning melodic techno artist Chaton returns with his second-ever single, We Are Invincible.

https://www.instagram.com/chaton_music/

https://www.wildsound.ca/videos/audience-feedback-chaton-we-are-invincible

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TRUTH IS DEAD, 4min., Australia
Directed by Martin Ryan
Messengers from the future try to give a warning.

THAT NIGHT, 15min., USA
Directed by Sina Mahdavi
An undocumented worker in a small restaurant tries to support her family back home. When a stranger arrives and the police get involved, her life takes an unexpected turn.

Directed by Lisa Dreher
A man stops by his Hispanic neighbors’ house only to find it abandoned and quiet.

https://www.instagram.com/lisa_dreher97/

JUMPING AT SHADOWS: FORSAKEN FATHER, 40min., Australia
Directed by Locky Boaretto
Charlotte’s 18th birthday takes a dark turn when Agent Nixon arrives with shocking revelations about her past and his true reasons for hunting aliens. When a desperate attempt to change history unleashes catastrophi...

HALLOWEEN, 15min., France
Directed by Sacha Lafitte, Aurélien Cambriel
A psychiatrist starts a new job at a hospital. She leaves her daughter with a babysitter for Halloween night. But Michael Myers is lurking nearby.

NO MORE A VICTIM, 12min., New Zealand
Directed by Tanya M Wheeler
When the victim of a killer in the woods explains her final day, it turns out it was a different day to that experienced by her killer.

THE ALOHA WITHIN, 17min., USA
Directed by Elvis Maleko, Robert Massetti
Through a time of personal struggle and tragedy, a young Polynesian stage performer named Marc discovers a new meaning of hope. This hope is found through a support system he never knew he had. As he pieces together the suppo...

FREE SPIRTIS, 13min., Argentina
Directed by Ferina, Ferrán Echegaray
FREE SPIRITS is the visual component of CA7RIEL & Paco Amoroso’s 2nd studio album titled FREE SPIRTIS. The album arrived following a surreal campaign that included “GOO GOO GA GA” featuring Jack Black and “HASTA JESÚS TUVO UN MA...

AZIZAM, 5min., USA
Directed by Anish Chandak
An aspiring writer breaks out into a musical dream sequence when he discovers the muse for his next story.

https://instagram.com/reel.prods

OUT OF CHECKLIST, 26min., Czechia
Directed by Roman Němec
Twelve-year-old, hyper-rational David pays an unannounced visit to his father's Prague apartment. Following a coming out and a subsequent divorce, his father lives alone and already has weekend plans. In a pinch, he convinces the only pers...

LOVE/BUG, 13min., UK
Directed by Barnabus Walsh
A couple, affectionately naming each other Love and Bug, test the limits of their love living with each other for fifteen months.

https://www.instagram.com/BarnabusWalsh

SAFE ZONE, 8min., Egypt/Italy/USA
Directed by Ahmad Alameldeen
Hidden in a dark sewer pipe beneath a ruined besieged city, a mother and her eight-year-old daughter are starving. They survive by staying dead silent, terrified of the soldiers patrolling the streets above them.

THE BIG BREAK, 86min., USA
Directed BY Avi Setton
Charlie, a struggling voice actor living with his AI husband Alan and their roommate Doug, finds his life disrupted when Doug's social media-addicted friend Travis comes to stay with them.

https://www.instagram.com/thebigbreakfilm

HAUNTED HERITAGE, 14min., India
Directed by Surina Narula
"Haunted Heritage" reframes the haunted-house narrative as a power play between past and present, exposing how inherited privilege and unexamined racism persist across cultures and how the ghosts we fight often mirror the ones we carry.

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The Hirsch Effekt, 28min., Germany
Directed by Florian Glock
Alone in a dusty rehearsal room, Nils Wittrock writes the most personal album of The Hirsch Effekt—caught between parenthood, post-pandemic pressure and self-doubt, he searches for air, meaning, and a way back to the band.

Don't feel sorry for me!, 9min., Faroe Islands
Directed by Eir í Ólavsstovu
After ten years of marriage, Birgit is confronted with the ultimate betrayal. Her younger husband, Hanus, has left her and moved in with a new and younger woman, Maria. Hanus is the kind of man everyone falls for – charmi...

LOST WOODS, 20min., Canada
Directed by René Albert
A no-budget fan-made film paying tribute to The Legend of Zelda: Ocarina of Time.

https://www.instagram.com/exnihilocreativeyeg/profilecard/?igsh=cnp3cWhjbG9jZ3lh