SETTLING THE FACTS, 95min., USA
Directed by Roger Walters
If you've ever looked at the Israeli-Palestinian conflict, one of the words that comes up sooner or later is "settlements". In this groundbreaking documentary, we take a deeper dive into this subject and ask three questions:

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FROM THE HEARTLAND, 30min., USA
Directed by Matt Coddaire
From the Heartland is a candid depiction
of American Agriculture and the rural
towns that are reliant on its success.
But when an industry’s ability to thrive
is dependent on progress, how does the
family farm discard the practices that ha...

POETIQ JUSTIZ, 35min,. USA
Directed by Crista E. Noël
Police violence against women, especially Black women, was invisible before the Campaign for justice for Rekia Boyd lit a fire among the Activists/ Advocates and her family in Chicago. But how did her name, out of all the women who have been k...

THE MEMORY OF THE MOMENT, 60min., Romania
Directed by Ovidiu Georgescu
An 80 years old woman, former teacher, lives alone in an isolated village in Transilvania, located on a 1200m high mountain. She’s created an important space for books, music and poetry next to her assets and the animals that ...

AAI-RON, 8min,. USA
Directed by Angel Alvarez
Girl want her new boyfiend to meet her parents!

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INISIYA, 3min., Turkey
Directed by ?pek Elif Aytar
In a psychedelic universe, a jade stone from space crashes into a planet where the long-legged blue goat lives. The crash creates enormous cracks in the ground, and the goat and the stone fall into the void of darkness through the cracks. The goa...

MY MOTHER MY WORLD, 8min,. India
Directed by Dheeraj Kumar Chawre
In nature there are two types of mother; the monkey mother who does not go near it's child to save it but the child has to run towards its mother and hold mother to save its life in danger situation but in case of mother cat she wi...

CAGED, 14min., USA
Directed by Sarah J Cordner
Approximately 500,000 to 1,000,000 dogs are slaughtered in South Korea each year. "Caged" is a student documentary following the controversial subject of the South Korean dog meat trade. Through its compelling storytelling and insightful plot, the fi...

RATIONAL BEHAVIOUR, 14min., UK
Directed by Lola Frears
Stella is 39 and single. She drops in on former one-night-stand Jacob (22) to tell him that she’s on her way to abort his baby. Jacob can barely remember her name but he gallantly gives her a lift to the hospital in his dad’s van. Rational Be...

ADAGIO, 14min,. USA
Directed by Tianyang Colin Zhang
A hallucinated young woman suffers from depression and distance and develops an alternate reality.

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It was inspired by an emotional episode I experienced. And as a fi...

BLACK IS BEAUTIFUL, 33min,. USA
Directed by Marco Antonio Ortega
This short documentary film tells the story of a man who uses his talents to support and lift his community. When the "Black Lives Matter" movement grew in awareness, Marcus Baskerville head brewer of Weathered Souls Brewing Co. wan...

HOLD ME TIGHTLY, 9min., Isreal
Directed by Ilya Tilkin
Vera visits her husband Marik who suffers from advanced dementia at the assisted living facilities on their wedding anniversary – 50 years together. She grossly and audibly complains to those who are ready to listen about her ruined life with...

SAPPHIRE / ALIEN SEED, SOUTHERN CITY, 16min., USA
Directed by Emma Colton
Sapphire is a time-traveling golden goddess moving through nature, pleasure, and mysticism. She snakes between seconds, flirting with the seen and unseen, marrying metallic molecules and alchemist dreams.

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THE SPIDER WEB, 14min., South Africa
Directed by Timothy Donovan Hay
Short documentary about a well known shaper called Spider Murphy, Spider pioneered surfing through the ages and was some of the top surfers board shaper like Shaun Thompson that won the world title in 1977 on a custom shaped Spi...

MUDDY WATERS, 7min., Brazil
Directed by Gabriel Panazio, Kleber Leão
When the fish in Guanabara Bay began to disappear, local fishermen found themselves facing an uncertain future. The solution was unusual: fishing for trash. Follow the story of Zezinho, a dedicated fisherman and resident of Z10,...

BEHOLDEN, 14min., UK
Directed by Leon Lopez
Lee's only hope of escaping prison on a murder charge is his childhood sweetheart, who is now a lawyer. Will Carlie be willing to revisit the traumatic past, she worked so hard to get away from, in order to save him?

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KITE, 15min., China
Directed by Olivier Hero Dressen
A man stands at the edge of a cliff staring at the void beneath. With nothing left to live for and only one thing left to lose he has a chance to meet with a little stranger who gives him hope and a reason to live.

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SURRENDER, 12min., USA
Directed by Raphael Buisson
Two brothers find themselves entangled in a violent confrontation at a beach house in Malibu. One of the brothers loses his life, while the other, awaiting the arrival of the police, reflects on the events that led to this tragedy.

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Los Courage Camps: Creando Olas, 9min., USA
Directed by Yesenia De Casas
One wave can change it all. A small courage revolution has been rising in unexpected areas of LA. Meet some of the familias who have embarked on the journey to reconnect with the ocean through Los Courage Camps - a homegrown...

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PUMP IT, 8min., Australia
Directed by Peter Hartwig
An uptight and obsessive gym junkie, struggles to recover from a broken heart. In an attempt to solve his woes, his best mate suggests a threesome.

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SIFTER, 8min., USA, Comedy/Drama
Directed by Shalini Bathina
Samara and Nisha celebrate their first Karva Chauth as a married couple but the festival brings up suppressed emotions between the pair.

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NACRE, 4min., Italy
Directed by Erika Giulietti, Giorgia Benazzo
"Nacre" is as a visual representation inside a liminal space of the creation process of our memories, experiences, perceptions: who we are.

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