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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1. What motivated you to make this film?

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”.

https://www.imdb.com/title/tt28597286/...

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.

https://www.imdb.com/title/tt30834524/?ref_=nm_knf_i_1

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.

https://www.instagram.com/shelter_adancefilm/

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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.

https://www.imdb.com/title/tt29170118/
https://www.facebook.com/100rancunes/

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

http://lazychief.com/
https://instagram.com/lazychief

THE TIN WOODS, 11min., USA
Directed by Nick Boxwell
While exploring an abandoned cabin, the Tin Woodman finds...his original head? Based on the original Oz books by L. Frank Baum, this short stop-motion film explores the origins of the Tin Woodman and how he came to be made of tin.

http://www.t...

CATS AND HUSBANDS, 7min., USA
Directed by Grace Samson, Barry Samson
We enter the story where two close friends, Fern and Marcie get together at a local coffee shop to celebrate a birthday. Fern has been going through two years of cycles of In Vitro, desperately trying to get pregnant but with no...

HIRA, 10min., Italy
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 individuals ...

DERECK FROM HINGE, 7min., USA
Directed by Jeff Rones
Fresh off a breakup, a young millennial tries her luck on a popular dating app with a gen z.

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1. What motivated you to make this film?
As a single twenty-seven-year-old in 2024, I am no stranger to dating apps. Unfo...

PAINT IT, BLACK, 30min., USA
Directed by David Shen Miller
During a fishing trip, estranged brothers Vlad and Gogo are in the midst of a heated debate when a dead body suddenly falls out of the sky. The police investigate and, after a brief interrogation, the brothers resume fishing and fighting....

THE FISHERMAN, 9min., Italy
Directed by Manuel Martino
An existential dialogue between a murderer on the run and a fisherman.

FLOWING - MY DREAM OF MORE FREEDOM, 4min., Austria
Directed by Christine Sonvilla, Marc Graf
In “Flowing – My dream of more freedom” the river itself speaks to us about its dream of flowing wilder and freer again, thereby providing a home (again) to a diversity of species.

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SPACEBOY (A FILM IN SEVEN SONGS), 27min., Canada
Directed by Naomi Silver-Vézina
Naomi Silver-Vézina weaves the Montreal artist's L'INDICE seventh album through a short film. At the top of a church tower, a man wakes up weakened and disoriented. He must find the strength to cross this strange pla...

BUMP IN THE NIGHT, 7min., USA
Directed by Skyler Pinkerton
Charlie and Lily are cousins, roomates, and best friends trying to embrace the spooky season with a horror movie marathon. Are they just high? Or is their paranoia legit?

https://www.instagram.com/thecharlieandlilyshow

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ANOTHER BRICK IN THE WALL, 20min., Australia
Directed by Dayne Sagor
In the rough and tumble of 1980s Melbourne, the Passenger must navigate a conflict with seasoned underworld figure Heath Cox. What starts out as a simple objective alongside his mentor, the Driver, quickly spirals into a bizarre...

LET THERE BE LIGHT, 15min., Taiwan
Directed by Yu Hua Chan
Taiwan was founded on agriculture in the early days. However, in the face of rapid urbanization, there was no time to build infrastructure such as sewage pipelines, and a large amount of sewage was discharged indiscriminately, causing sev...

HEY ALEXA, 10min., USA
Written by Xochi Blymyer
Alexa is helpful, she's funny, she's kind, she's a friend, who is she? A day in her life...with us.

http://gottagrinpictures.com/
https://www.twitter.com/xochib
https://www.instagram.com/Xochib

RUG BURN, 7min., Canada
Directed by Devin Gillis
A dramedy short film about Rosemary, a young woman working at a rug store, who begins to question true love when a paranoid and suspicious couple walk into her store in need of a rug - and fast.

http://www.rugburnmovie.com/
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HOW ARE YOU?, 57min., Ukraine
Directed by Sia Titova
The war begins in the same way for inhabitants of any country. In 2022, Ukraine faced military aggression on its territory, putting its residents in various degrees of danger. This film was shot in Kyiv, Dnipro, and Kharkiv regions. It portrays...