Performed by Val Cole

Get to know the writer:

1. What is your short story about?

The story is about the truth of the mysteriousness of my mother's family, the monotone, I shall put it. Within their faces, you never knew what they were thinking or hiding. My aunt lives on Fox Hill Rd, ...

Short Story performed by Val Cole

Two men are sitting on a bench, attentively waiting for something.

Directed by Tiago Zacarias

The Town Without Laws, 3min., USA
Directed by Kiarra Angelique Moore
A rag tag trio of criminals are tasked by the devil, to hunt down an outlaw trying to outrun his debt.

https://www.instagram.com/nightielightie/

https://www.wildsound.ca/videos/audience-feedback-the-town-without-laws

Mare in ...

The Chessboard, the Battle, the Time.
A leaf falls in every move... and if you catch it, you might recognize what you've lost.
A move of doubt.. and the knight with the broken head remains in place.
In memory, time does not pass.
On the chessboard, silence is never defeated.

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The theme I started from is apathy, understood as a sense of isolation, alienation from society and self, managed in silence.

The goal is to go beyond perceived reality in everyday experience by rejecting rational inquiry and evoking what remains hidden and unknown: the unconscious, a world comp...

A drama in a Swedish family in the 80s

Directed by Ottoveggio Alexandre

Cast: Per Dennerporth, Lasse Stenberg, Kee Moller, Theres Nordstrom

A young man, who always wears a mask of a smile, stands on the brink of a life-changing decision, enveloped in solitude and sorrow. In his quest to break free from this mask, he delves into the intertwined layers of memories and thoughts, retracing the steps that have led him to this pivotal mome...

Aurora seems to inhabit a parallel universe, a stage where she reinvents everyday life through the eyes of a porcelain doll, as a witness to her internal monologues and a witness to her experiences. As the story unfolds, the factual becomes intertwined with the psychological - emerging the expres...

The childhood serves as the emotional and psychological foundation that shapes human beings throughout their entire lives. Through poetic and evocative imagery, the script connects the stages of childhood, adulthood, and old age, revealing how early-life experiences remain as symbolic scars that ...

A micro-short that explores a personified version of Melancholy and the Poet's dilemma of holding on or letting go

https://www.instagram.com/p/DLAepAsTC_r/?igsh=MWx2OG9lYm9pcGd3Yw==

Directed by Aaryama Singh

Cast: Jeeya Balwani, Dante Martinez

HOW WE ROLL, 16min,. USA
Directed by Anthony Ciancio
What started as a little idea becomes a local phenomenon. Meet the passionate folks who have reinvigorated this ancient game as a means of escape and finding common ground in their community. Meet The Elmwood Park Bocce League.

Beyond the Limits Pilot Episode - Act The Part, 22min. USA
Directed by Emmitt H Thrower
In a world where communication transcends spoken language, "Beyond the Limits" pilot episode explores the mysterious realm of disability through the authentic stories and experiences of those who navigate thei...

HEAVENS APART, 15min., Canada
Directed by Steven Kumala
After serving time in prison for a crime that shattered her family, a mother returns to reconnect with her estranged daughter for the first time in fifteen years, only to realize that her daughter is on the verge of moving overseas to start ...

Always and Forever, 22min., USA
Directed by Johnny Thames
An obsessive, controlling teenager kidnaps her boyfriend to play a bizarre, self destructive game. But things become complicated when the boy demands a stop. The film comments on how trauma if not confronted and resolved will lead to co-de...

CINDY, 21min., USA
Directed by Al Chang
"An aspiring rapper takes a vague driving gig hoping for a quiet night to himself. Instead, he meets Cindy, a bubbly and unpredictable passenger who drags him into an absurd and unexpectedly heartfelt adventure.
"CINDY" is a quirky dramedy about connection,...

WHEN & WHERE, 14min. USA
Directed by Vas Eli, JJ Condon
In a near-future world, enormous, enigmatic monoliths appear in the sky, periodically abducting large swathes of humanity in seemingly random events. No one can stop them, and society is divided: some believe these mysterious entities are di...

AUDER, 18min., USA
Directed by Felipe Marinheiro
After being kidnapped and forced into a brutal assimilation camp where the English language is used as control, two teenage girls from different countries must find a way to escape, before they are stripped of their identity.

I Hear America Singing, 78min., USA
Directed by Daron Hagen
The conventions of documentary, musical theater, and magical realism are combined and subverted to address issues of personal, national, and artistic identity through the eyes of a composer desperate to pull off one final backer’s auditi...

Cancer Kid, 16min., Canada
Directed by Vasili Manikas
A schoolyard prank gone wrong sends the naive Elliot on a desperate quest to make sense of his mortality.

https://www.instagram.com/manikasproductions

dystopia, 9min., Switzerland
Directed by bellopropello -
Soap bubbles infiltrate a robotic armaments factory.
Subversiveness versus logical reasoning.
Who will get the upper hand?

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https://www.wildsound.ca/videos/audience-feedback-dystopia

What we imagined, ...

Twilight of the Undead, 23min., USA
Directed by Leonardo Daccarett
In the sleepy mountain town of Oakhurst, California, terror rises from the grave! The Torres family and their loyal friend William are running for their lives… from an ARMY OF THE UNDEAD! Thunder cracks, zombie groans echo But the...