THE LAND OF MEMORIES, 3min., Italy
Directed by Rocco Losasso
memories, happy or sad are always memories.
a past time that can no longer return

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HEAVEN, 6min,. Finland
Directed by Masha Shalagina
A young woman struggles with feeling trapped inside her body, and the authoritarian and dystopian society she lives in. She clings on to hope as she desperately tries to escape.

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JACK, 5min., USA
Directed by Julian Curi
An art connoisseur finds himself on the run after he steals a priceless item from a ruthless man in this fun twist on a classic tale.

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Narrated by Val Cole

POEM:

My love, I was just praying when the Holy Spirit put you in my mind; did I ever tell you that you are stupid fine!?

I was envisioning us playing in the snow, please my love; don’t forget to bring that special glow!

We would now have snowball fights, but I promise no...

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POEM:

Once there was a woman in the night forest
who could hear above the register of most.
She would listen to mice sing in chorus
or coyotes comfort their young
over the flash and rumble of coming weather.

There was the night when I stayed in the garden
late into the ho...

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Cold unconscious metal
Reflective concentration
Carefully cloned contortions
Cast in curves of concave
Full length spying steelfaces
Hung in private parlours
Viewing fornication
Convex copulation
Such vivid observation
For one so unalive.

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POEM:

Silk tangerine sheets dance melodically
as reflections of the sultry moon, gleams
through the lofts balcony, under-shadowed
by the soft lip presses of two sexually stressed humans
pressed against their saturated melaninated skin
pressing old buttons during the practi...

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1. What is your short story about?

I recently watched the William Holden film Network for the first time and I started googling the actor’s life. Although I’m a fan, I did not know about his tragic death from a fall while intoxicated in November, ...

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POEM:

I hate that I am gaining so much weight,
It’s feeling like I’m losing my grip on fate,
As here and there, I await and debate,
How to turn back learned time.
I need to not burn my rhymes,
Except in my readers minds.
I feel blind and signed,
My fine health away,
Today a...

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POEM:

I hate when cannibalism is used as a metaphor for love.
I think love is a form of devotion which does not include devouring. Maybe
hunger and
sometimes bruises or
sunburns
but never devouring.

I wrote in a poem once that I am a liar at the best of times.

I hate when...

9/10: Love Before the Fall, 58min., USA
Directed by Daron Hagen
The myths of Orpheus and Charon are interwoven with the entirely sung magical-realist story of four friends dining in an Italian bistro who are fated to perish the next morning in the attack on the Twin Towers. At meal’s end, through...

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THE FINAL CURTAIN CALL, 16min,. USA
Directed by Jessica Orcsik, Robbie Ryde
As Ella embarks on a musical journey, she meets 4 other teenagers, each with a new song. Taking place in a mysterious theater, the musical numbers reveal heart wrenching stories of child tr...

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DAYLIGHT, 12min., USA
Directed by Yaa Asantewaa Faraji
A ballet dancer struggles to cope with the realities of her new life after one night goes terribly wrong.

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BRAINLAND, 13min., UK
Directed by Chiara D'Anna
In 1935 Egas Moniz, renowned Portuguese neurologist, visit psychiatrist Sobral Cid in order to persuade him allow his patients to be act as subjects for Moniz's experiemntal treatment - frontal leucotomy. After some r...

ECHOES OF DREAMS, 84min., USA
Directed by Vanessa Mariveles
Reyna, a struggling DJ in Silicon Valley, has to pivot her career in order to survive. Having the worst year ever, she is forced to join the "gig economy" so she can pay rent while living with her pushy mother. While dating women for the...

THE PUNISHER: NIGHTMARE, 96min., USA
Directed by Brandon Forgione, Rahi Raval
After two years of trying to find solace, former vigilante Frank Castle, known as the Punisher, is forced back into action when his past is violently unearthed. Abandoning his quest for peace, he confronts a relentless ...

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THE PROPOSAL. 6min., USA
Directed by Dan Liu
Special agent Jay plans the perfect proposal to his longtime partner Alex upon completion of their mission but when she loses her temper over her new shoes, all hope is lost for a “happy ever after” ending.

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THE SHEPHERD, 14min., USA
Directed by Arie Forma
Struggling with the news of his son’s interfaith engagement, a religious father seeks solace in his estranged brother.

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STAUNCH MODERATES EXPERIENCE, 39min.,
Directed by Gregory T Simmons
Welcome to the Staunch Moderates Experience, a story which takes us through the history & achievements of the Staunch Moderates movement through music. This film presents a unique experience with it's multi-genre compilation of ...

AFROLISTIC: BLACK HEALING FROM ZIMBABWE TO THE BAY, 22min., USA
Directed by Nekia Wright, Shylet Ndarambwa
Black American healer shares about her practice and explores traditional healing, music, and dance in Zimbabwe.

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CAMINO, 18min., USA
Written by Bella Coyne
Maxine is a young screenwriter struggling to write an authentic story. In navigating her relationship with her best friend, a Mexican man named Leon of ambiguous legal status, she finds that the best stories are often the most truthful – and with that tr...

AFROLISTIC: BLACK HEALING FROM ZIMBABWE TO THE BAY, reactions FEMALE Festival

VIVALDI SPRING I, 3min., Canada
Directed by Sarah Dolan
Inspired by Vivaldi's timeless music of waking after a long winter's slumber, the dancers of the youth company, YYC Dance Project, joyously spring into beautiful movement, surrounded by the gorgeous rocky mountain terrain, on the land of the...