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...

NYCTOPHOBIA, 87min., USA
Directed by Seayoon Jeong
As Liz struggles with nyctophobia (fear of the dark), a form of anxiety disorder that causes sleeping issues, she desperately tries to fall asleep by entering her “inner world” where she can access her happy childhood memories. However, she ulti...

ROLL UP FOR EQUITY, 31min., USA
Directed by JM Balbuena
“Roll Up for Equity” is a short documentary that exposes San Diego's struggle for social equity within its regulated cannabis industry, highlighting passionate local advocates pushing for accountability and change in America's Finest City.
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LOST DREAMS, 10min., USA
Directed by Andrew Wakeman Proctor
Lost Dreams is about dreams. Scientists have not fully figured out dreams. The ancients believed you could predict the future through your dreams, Native Americans created dream-capturing devices. Some people keep dream diaries. Freud be...

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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MORNING INTERLUDE, 7min., France
Directed by Sirius
At daybreak on a country road, a young couple returns from a restless night visibly exhausted. Angry with each other the couple will in a magnetic danse try to reconcile.

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 resistance Cid agrees. The first ...

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 trafficking sung in new and creati...

DAISY, 11min., Australia
Directed by Alyssa Scott
"Daisy," inspired by the real-life tale of our writer's great-grandparents in 1930s Australia, unfolds the courageous journey of a young woman who defies societal expectations and risks losing everything as she embarks on a forbidden love affair, ...

SLOWLY, 4min,. France
Directed by Christophe Dachy
Paris, Place de la République, July 2022. Alone, facing the trampling crowd, the march of time, the freezing rain, she dances.

Get to know the filmmaker:

1. What motivated you to make this film?

As human beings, we are time slaves: it is an e...

PUNK SINATRA, 11min,. USA
Directed Sebastian Macchia
'Punk Sinatra' is not only a whimsical mockumentary but also a groundbreaking first in cinema—it's the first AI-created mockumentary. The film unfurls the fictitious tale of Punk Sinatra, an imagined long-lost cousin of Frank Sinatra, humorousl...

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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WOLF CULTURE, 6min,. Canada
Directed by Darik Maurice, Will Attwood
A man discovers he has the ability to turn people into an exact replica of himself using a very strange method.

Get to know filmmaker Will Attwood:

1. What motivated you to make this film?

I wanted to watch something that I wo...

The story and forgiveness of José and Maria, 15min., Brazil
Directed by Victor Amaro
After 50 years, José and Maria definitively break off their marriage and agree to give statements to their grandson, for the first time, about the reasons that led them to make such a decision. A story about love...

COUPLES THERAPY, 101min., Spain
Directed by Gaizka Urresti
The singer-songwriters Marwan and Rozalén embark on a journey to try to answer the universal question: 'What is love?' On this path, five real Aragonese couples undergo therapy for six months to rediscover themselves following the steps o...

THIS CROWDED ROOM, 13min., USA
Directed by Rafael Burgos Nieves
A couple who lived for every free moment to dance together have a chance after death to review from a two generational look-back, their many years dancing on earth…to spin back and experience what went wrong and what went right…to fi...

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.

https://www.arieforma.com/the-shepherd
https://www.instagram.com/rosecolored.pictures/

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1. What mo...

GET ME TO 21 - THE JENNA LOWE STORY, 88min., South Africa
Directed by Adele Joy Lucas
The extraordinary story of a young South African girl, her battle to get to 21 and the lasting impact she has had on the world around her. A riveting and inspiring story of advocacy, rare disease, organ donation...

AUTUMN'S EMBRACE, 6min., USA
Directed by Jessica Gomula-Kruzic
Autumn’s Embrace is a dance for camera work which emphasizes the dancer's connection with the natural world. The dance retells the story of the Greek goddess Persephone, goddess of vegetation, anticipating her annual return to the und...

HALF PAST FOUR, 10min,. South Korea
Directed by Seung-il Chon
A rural village in South Korea in the 1960s when wall clocks were rare. A 6-year-old girl with a red skirt goes to the village store to ask the time. However, the child does not return home immediately and is fascinated by the animals ...

DISSONANCE, 8min,. Canada
Directed by Christian Sweeney
Caught stealing from her family's safe, Marsha is confronted about her drug addiction.

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1. What motivated you to make this film?

I ha...

FIRST GRADE HEADACHE, 13min., Canada
Directed by Jajube Mandiela
A burnt out first-grade teacher finds herself in a night from hell when a group of vindictive parents break into her home.

Get to know writer/producer/star Jacqueline Godbout & director Jajube Mandiela

What motivated you to make...

SALT IN THEIR VEINS, 16min,. Australia
Directed by Rita Hencke
East Indonesia. Communities of sea people live a life that ties them closely to the marine environment. They are known as Bajo, descendants of former sea nomads who were once roaming the ocean to fish and trade.

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A ROBOT ROM COM, 7min,. USA
Directed by Jonathan Hludzinski
A romantic comedy about a pair of robots who learn that love isn’t easy even if you can download it directly into your CPU.