Voice over by Val Cole

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The most passionate kiss
that I ever saw
–and the longest!–
happened at the wedding
when Leonard O’Neal took a wife.
The bride’s Swedish father,
stern and adamantly opposed
to the whole affair,
though provoked,
was restrained by awe
at what he saw.

The lady w...

Voice over by Val Cole

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The morbid star
That rises high above
Awakens me from internal slumber

I am a night serpent
Becoming one with the shadows
Who lurk on lonely windowpanes

My mind is an asylum
It was cursed the day
The dead walked among the fire

Ashes to ashes
Ashes to ashes
...

Voice over by Val Cole

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Out of its cooler,
a bottle sweats embarrassed
before the hot sun.

Voice over by Val Cole

TWISTED GAZE, 19min,. Mexico
Directed by David Sanchez V
Diego travels to Turkey, makes a layover in Dubai. There he suffers a series of abuses by authority, sexual and homophobic by the police and military. This leads to a ceaseless search of identity and an obscure social questioning — psycholo...

BRINGING DOWN A MOUNTAIN, 14min,. India
Directed by Subhashish Panigrahi
A rural village never wanted to be a city’s landfill or a distant blur in Reels but instead home to new imaginations.

This 2023 docu-fiction dissects the intersecting themes of access, abolition and caste through the experi...

L'amour est temps de reflets, 5min., France
Directed by Yann Richebourg
Suggesting an impossible relationship between a young girl and a young man, this short film exploits the reflexive capacity of the mirror to translate specularly, explicitly as well as implicitly, what is repeated in a love d...

in your head., 11min., USA
Directed by Sokhna Samb
The morning after a breakup, Asa, a twenty-something year-old Black man, is confronted by his negative and intrusive thoughts personified in the form of his ex.

THE PREDESTINED OAF, 1min., USA
Directed by Jimmy Francis
A woman struggles while making her breakfast

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Director Biography - Jimmy Francis

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SOMETIMES, 3min,. Canada
Directed by Jeromy Desjarlais
Music video about addiction

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Director Statement
"I am doing this because I love the process. I love the journey its very rewarding to watch people watch my videos and s...

POSI-TRACTION, 5min,. USA
Directed by Caleb Johnson, Clint Calvert
An intense emotional conflict scene between a mysterious older man and a younger man in a scene floating between reality and imagination, fear and despair. A man searches for something to justify his wrongs, but what awaits him wi...

AMAR, 10min,. France
Directed by Justine Méry
Self-employed to be in charge of her hours, her services and her prices, Amar has been an Escort (sex worker) since she was 18. She always felt a strong will for freedom and independence, but recent laws have been preventing her from doing her job in ...

BEHIND CLOSED DOORS, 4min., South Africa
Directed by Lenore Banton
Amelia learns that her sister, Cassandra, is being abused by her husband. In that moment, Amelia recollects from her memories where things started to go wrong and how she failed to notice the signs. Amelia returns to the present a...

HOW TO CATCH AN ANGEL, 5min., USA
Directed by Stephen Olson
A spoken word work in three parts about addiction and recovery.

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SLAVE TRADE, 10min. USA
Directed by Andrea Andresakis
An abusive businessman gets his comeuppance from his streaming device.

"SEX" OF DEATH, 11min,. Iran
Directed by M. Hadi Jamali, Fakhredin Jamali
A man is trying to kill himself in a hotel room, suddenly someone knocks on the door and enters...

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Director Biography - M. Hadi Jamali, Fakhredin Jamali

I was born in 1990 in Shir...

CLOUD LINE, 4min., South Africa
Directed by Minnette Faure
After the loss of their mother, Akhona and their father attempt to find a middle ground between their different means of grieving. Lihle copes with his grief by forging his way through life as usual whilst his child Akhona takes time to l...

THREE QUARTERS, 23min., USA
Directed by Dave Harlequin
A middle-aged disabled man struggles to come to terms with his new life as an amputee as he is stalked and tormented by a strange, supernatural entity.

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SUB BROTHERS, 22min., USA
Directed by Sandeep Ravindranath
Two brothers from Pakistan run a sandwich shop in Chicago. Through the daily struggles of an immigrant life, they carry in their hearts a longing for the homeland that they might never return to.

Director Statement
My narratives are alwa...

LULLABY OF UKRAINE, 3min., Ukraine
Director Alexander Sparinsky
Dedicated to the Children of Ukraine, victims of the brutal Russian invasion… Let everyone ask themselves and the leaders of their countries: what else has to happen, what arguments are needed that Ukraine is finally given the necess...

BY TWO, 4min., South Africa
Directed by Wiam Botma
A stubborn old man goes about his daily routine, struggling with every task due to his age. He hears a ring from the doorbell and finds a robot has been sent to aid him in his old age. As he goes about his daily routine the robot continually trie...

A DREAM IN THEIR SONGS, 30min., India
Directed by Deba Ranjan
The dream of these singers has always been the strength of people’s struggle of saving their own lives and resources. They themselves compose the songs, sing the same and encourage people to dream. For the last few years, they have be...

GILGAMESH, 10min., Iran
Directed by Hossein Moradizadeh
Gilgamesh is the oldest epic and literary work in the world. The oldest written part of it dates back to the second millennium BC, but its history dates back to three thousand years BC. Gilgamesh saga best describes human destiny in search o...