Rebecca is waiting at an airport, while her parents baby her. Rebecca has autism and is seemingly traveling for the first time by herself. She gets on the plane with her service dog, Luke. She meets Jonathan, who already starts to help her on the plane.

While he gets off, he loses Rebecca but ru...

A high school girl confronts her repression when her two best friends discover that she has never masturbated before.

CAST LIST:

Narrator: Steve Rizzo
Roman: Sean Ballantyne
Lila: Hannah Ehman
Daphne: Val Cole
Owen: Shawn Devlin

When in 1966 a nine-year-old boy from suburban Pennsylvania asks his grandad from Oklahoma if he was ever “a real cowboy,” the retired cattle auctioneer is forced to take stock of his blessings and confront his unrealized dreams.

CAST LIST:

Narrator: Kyana Teresa
Mac: Geoff Mays
Brandon: St...

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THE CALLING, 5min., USA
Directed by Jay Dallen
The Calling is a mysterious sci-fi drama short film that follows Naomi as she is drawn to a crystal orb with otherworldly powers. As she relives memories of her relationship with Ian, she must make a fateful decision t...

INDIVIDUAL, 3min., Brazil
Directed by Hugo da Costa Sentinelli
The music video 'Individual' is an unusual, hypnotic, and immersive visual experience. With an innovative visual approach, it transforms the artist's face into a true projection screen, creating intriguing patterns with light and shad...

TRANSMUTE, 15min., USA
Directed by Steve Dabal, Johan Anderson, Charles A.M.
Pairing the vision of three individual filmmakers with the compositions of Chinese-American musician and performance artist Angelica Olstad, the triptych film Transmute reflects on the uncertainty and precariousness of m...

THE ROSE, 4min., UK, Animation/Music Video
Directed by Hilary Campilan
Baroque-pop, cinematic folk tale about lost childhood, with ethereal vocals, weeping cello & distorted bass. Starring dancer / choreographer Chrissy Brooke, Directed by Hilary Campilan.

http://www.michaelabetts.co.uk/
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ICONS, 16min., UK
Directed by Sophia Amato, Gary Carr
Inspired by the iconic skyline of New York City, "ICONS" is a 16-minute music-film created to accompany the triumphant single release of Sophia Amato. Shot on 16mm, the film offers a raw glimpse into the diverse communities of ballroom, sports...

WINTRY MIX, 7min., USA
Directed by Christine Veras

https://labs.utdallas.edu/experimental/wintry-mix/

Get to know the filmmaker:

1. What motivated you to make this film? I run an experimental animation lab at the University of Texas at Dallas (UTD). At an event, I connected with the jazz mus...

Nesia, 15min., Canada
Directed by Mikel Guillen
An avant-garde film about trauma and how a little girl connects through dance with her surviving Hungarian grandmother who was a Auschwitz survivor.

http://mikelguillen.com/
https://www.facebook.com/mikelguillenfilm/
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MAN MADE, 5min., Singapore
Directed by Jaron Boey, Ryan Foong
Love can be nurturing. But it can also be destructive. When love is built on convenience and exploitation, we find ourselves being crippled by our self-serving habits. In this stalemate between our obsession with plastics and our love ...

CLEVELAND, 7min., USA
Directed by Lily Daroff
A short documentary that follows my Uncle Rob as he returns to Cleveland, Ohio. The city he grew up in and the first place he was out as a gay man during the AIDs epidemic in the 1980s.

THE FIVE STAGES, 12min., USA
Directed by Jessica Orcsik
Eva Allen is a recently single, devastated young woman. She enters a black box theatre being filled with well-dressed and put together people, laughing and drinking. A variety act performance is about to begin.

http://www.diversitypictures...

HOLD YOU DOWN, 5min., USA
Directed by Jean Charles Charavin
'Hold you down' is a poetic short film that explores the theme of grief through the expressive art of dance. Through graceful movements and powerful choreography, the dancers embody the deep emotions associated with mourning, allowing th...

SO MISUNDERSTOOD, 12min., USA
Directed by Seretse Njemanze, Jehnovah Carlisle
As the only woman and Black employee in her small San Francisco, California tech startup office, Alice Scott feels the constant pressure to hold it all together in front of her coworkers. But her life is transformed wit...

THE ALLIANCE, 60min,. USA, DOC
Directed by Amanda Jean Kowalski
During the Arctic winter an intrepid oceanographer attempts to collect rare climate data, but his greatest combatant isn’t the weather - it’s the Italian Navy.

http://thealliancefilm.org/

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1. What motiv...

BREATHE THE LIGHT, 6min., USA
Directed by Steven Wright Clarkson
Experimental and Psychedelic music video from the mind of Steven Clarkson. Blends Eastern and Western mysticism.

Get to know the filmmaker:

What motivated you to make this film?
Music to me is a reaction to the things seen and no...

MEIR LEVINE - WHEREVER I RUN, 4min., USA
Directed by Esther Shpigelman
Set in the year 1961, in a small town diner in the middle of nowhere, breakout NYC artist Meir Levine, stars as a fictional version of himself, haunted by a past love, in this music video for his new song "Wherever I Run".

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Luteofulvous Ebullition: The Qualities of Water, 10min., Ireland
Directed by Jonathan C. Creasy
Leopold Bloom returns home and puts a kettle on the range, thinking - as it comes to a boil - of all the Qualities of Water. Produced in Dublin to mark the centenary of the publication of James Joyce's...

IN HER NAME, 102min., USA, Drama/Comedy
Directed by Sarah Carter
In Her Name is a dramedy about estranged sisters forced to confront their differences while dealing with family bankruptcy and their formerly-important-artist father’s terminal illness. Immersed in the absurdity of the Los Angeles a...

LAKE OF DREAMS, 4min,. Germany
Directed by Axel Werner
„Like water, desire always finds its way“
A young man suffers from the fixed idea of his dream woman. He tears himself away from his demons and heads towards his vision with the boundless power of desire.

https://lake-of-dreams.art/
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AN AWAKENING, 5min., USA
Directed by Charles A M.
“An Awakening” engages a full spectrum of senses to explore how generational trauma manifests itself in the body, on an effective level deeper than dialogue could ever express.

Get to know writer/artist Angelica Olstad:

1. What motivated you to...

WHAT BECAME OF DAVID BURKETT?, 3min., USA
Directed by Duane Michals
Memories of an old friend are filled with questions and longing.

Get to know the filmmaker:

1. What motivated you to make this film?
My fading memory.

2. From the idea to the finished product, how long did it take for you to...