MITTI (Discovering Ikigai), 30min., Canada
Directed by Sangita Iyer
Mitti (Discovering Ikigai) is a story of young woman of colour in Canada who chose organic farming as her career choice. Through her story the film highlights the Japanese concept of Ikigai to inspire others, especially youth, to...

NO SLASHER HERE, 9min., USA
Directed by Robert Tiemstra
A woman comes home from work, only to receive an unsettling phone call. Does the danger only exist over the phone, or is there a masked killer inside her home?

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MR. CLAW, 5min,. USA
Directed by Matthew DeLisi
Cute and fuzzy on the outside, but despite his fluffy interior, he is nothing short of evil. he is smart and deceiving, preying on young men and women who don’t feel comfortable in their own

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12 PARTS PER MILLION, 38min., USA
Directed by Chet Thomas, Ted Barnhill
Doping in athletics is nothing new. Cases regularly make headlines calling attention to issues of fair play and how to keep sport clean.
In 1972, the International Olympic Committee attempted to level the playing field for co...

CHIMERA, 18min., USA
Directed by Kryzz Gautier
“Haunted by the past, a brilliant tech-addicted developer faces an impossible dilemma: recreate her ex-girlfriend in virtual reality or hold onto the crumbling relationship with her current one.”

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TREELINE, 12min., UK
Directed by Freddie Bonfanti
11-year-old Neil ventures into local woods to find his missing brother Vincent, only to discover a truth that challenges the community's accusations against their father.

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HIRA, 10min., Italy, Drama
Directed by Emanuele Colognese
Hira loves sunflower seeds, red color, and the silence that envelops the world when she extinguishes it; for she possesses this power. Meanwhile, Matteo adores Haribo candies, Rubik's cubes, and Russian literature. One day, these two indiv...

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JUST ALRIGHT, 14min., Australia
Directed by Gregory Kelly
Dan is desperate for a fresh start, but when his former housemate, Scott, moves into his new unit uninvited and befriends a dead salmon he dubs ‘Craig’, solitude seems like an impossible dream. While Scott a...

THE PARABLE OF THE TENANTS, 6min., UK
Directed by Andrew Pengilley
The future. People have consumed most of the world's natural resources. Wildlife no longer thrives without human intervention.

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TILLIE, 5min., USA
Directed by Noelle P. Wilson, D Andrew Hartfield
An 8 year old girl adopted from China leads her father to a deeper understanding of what she faces in a new culture and what she longs for from her home country.

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ROASTED, 2min., France
Directed by Goulwen COURTAUX
An adventurous chicken discovers the horrible truth about humans and poultry and decides to take its revenge.
(All images are AI generated)

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WHAT A DAY, 5min., Thailand
Directed by Allen Cheng
Our world is busy, lonely, and exhausting. It is so common for us to go through a rough day, come home and lay on our bed with tears and sweats, then simply complain to ourselves, “ugh, what a day”.

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IN OUR HANDS, 5min,. Czech Republic
Directed by Kristián Mensa
"The body is an endless source of inspiration, reflecting stories, metaphors, and connections with the external landscape. As humans, we possess the power to create, reproduce, and thrive, yet we also bear the capacity to witness the ...

EnaMOREd, 11min., Finland
Directed by Petri Puroaho
”EnaMOREd” (2023) explores the relationship between reality and dreams. Film shows what is it like to live in parallel world at the same time while coping with the real life events. What we carry in our minds eye can be different than what socie...

BAPTISM, 8min, USA
Directed by Alex Alexander
The relief, the rest that comes from truth.

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1. What motivated you to make this film?

The inspiration and the motivation were very separate things.

The desire to be seen and known is intrinsic to the human experience, t...

A MOMENT OF MOMENTS, 3min., Ukraine
Directed by Igor Hnes
Every family has numerous special, personal, and interesting moments that happen every day in which we can see love, and this is one of those.

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Budget: I shot my first ...

INDIANA JONES AND THE TREASURE OF THE AZTECS, 29min., USA
Directed by Kevin M. Croxton
Indiana Jones and the Treasure of the Aztecs is an Indiana Jones fan film created by the Oliver Springs Music Club (Formally the Parkview Music Club). Set in 1958, Indiana Jones takes up an unfinished quest fro...

SHOOTING YOUR OWN SHADOW, 4min., USA
Directed by Joseph J Parisi, Michael Amman
A jaded and delusional assassin rethinks some life choices with her manager, while believing she’s the main character in a 90s style tv show called, “Shooting Your Own Shadow”.

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THE OBSERVATORY OF TREE GROWTH, 5min., Switzerland
Directed by Patrick Fonti, Raul Pfammatter, Daniel Nievergelt
The Observatory of Tree Growth is a short video describing the research conducted along a 1400 m long elevation gradient in the Swiss Lötschental to investigate tree growth. For 15 yea...

DEEPFAKE, 6min., USA
Directed by Nate Zegue
A scammer uses deepfake technology to disguise her voice.

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MR. BULLOCH: CHICAGO'S DONUT KING, 5min., USA
Directed by Claude Edward Fethiere
This short film celebrates Mr. Buritt Bulloch the successful owner of Old Fashioned Donuts Incorporated, a business which has thrived in the financially blighted Chicago south side neighborhood of Roseland for over 5...

SHELTER, 6min., Australia
Directed by Martin Ponferrada
During the height of the COVID-19 lock-downs, performance artists from around the world were asked to express the emotion of isolation through dance.

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2 FLAWLESS, 9min., France
Directed by Levy Claude
THREE YEARS AFTER A INONCLUSIVE FIRST DATE, TWO YOUNG PEOPLE MEET AGAIN. THE REUNION WILL HARDLY BE RESTFUL, AS THEY WILL HAVE TO PLAY A GAME OF TRUTH-TELLING.

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MITO, 7min., USA
Directed by Steve West
Two companions venture through space, negotiating peril and cosmic ennui in search of a new home.

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