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PURPLE, 4min,. Australia, Music Video
Directed by Kyan Li Rong Soh
Music Video depicting cold loneliness.

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COME ON BABY, 7min., Netherlands, Music Video
Directed by Ilja Dombrovskij

https://kkelectronics.eu/
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Rise Up Young Mind, by Michael D. Rourke

Verse One
Polluted skies, the future is unclear
Vote for clean air, changing hearts are so near
The planet cries, see and listen for pain
Everyone care, a great change will remain

Chorus
Love human kind, open the door
Let’s come together, Rise Up Young M...

Performed by Hannah Ehman

TOUCH, by Véronique Béquin

You’re not looking at me
your eyes – bright – scan my brow
a miner’s lamp
in my underground
Me, I never look
into anyone’s eyes
your logo-less hoodie your jeans
no scrubs for you today
you’re for blending in
your clothes are clean
Persil fres...

Performed by Hannah Ehman

FINDING THE LIGHT by TJ Star

Dimmed
For So long,
No one could see what is so special inside.
With a flick of a switch, the light came through and created a world of colour.
Shining bright and radiating like a rainbow.

Get to know the writer:

1) What is the theme of...

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Performed by Hannah Ehman

Her voice yells under water
atop a mountain no one can hear
Perpetual restless nights
There was a woman beneath the sphere.

She relies on her black leather boots,
A potted flower, every waking hour,
Stripped of her grounded roots

Black le...

magickal realism

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Performed by Hannah Ehman

Get to know the writer:

1. What is your short story about?

A young woman has a dream that compels her to go fishing for an answer.

2. What genres would you say this story is in?

Magical realism

3. How would you describe this story in...

Two serial killers in search of a nameless girl only to find she is just like them, turning their world upside down.

THE RED DOVE AND THE NAMELESS GIRL

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NOVA, 8min., USA, Family Drama
Directed by Gabe Sheets
Sam is a transgender teenager who is still reeling from his parents' recent divorce. His father, David, has responded to the divorce and his son's estrangement by isolating himself and fixating on his hobby of ...

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JUNKIN', 17min., USA
Directed by Andy Heck
Mike Heck seeks redemption after suffering most of his life with alcoholism, depression, and hoarding disorder.

https://www.andyheckfilms.com/junkin
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THE DISPUTE, 34min., Hong Kong...

DANCE OF THE DAKINIS, 28min,. USA
Directed by Lindsay Gilmour
The film focuses on the empowerment of female monastics and the innovation of gender roles in Vajrayana Buddhism. The film has two frameworks: an outer framework that focuses on rising status of Tibetan nuns in previously male dominate...

LOUD ENOUGH, 62min., USA
Directed by Hilary Klotz Steinman
In the shadow of the fifth year anniversary of the #MeToo movement, this intimate, personal film following a sexual assault survivor and her family explores and reflects the Herculean effort still required in America for a survivor of sex...

HAPPINESS IS AN ILLUSION, 13min., USA, Drama
Directed by Rebecca Demeter
A woman tries to figure out modern relationships, but realizes she might have missed the most important relationship she could ever have.

https://www.facebook.com/profile.php?id=660045165
https://www.instagram.com/rebecca....

THE SOCIAL CAFE, 12min., Romania, Documentary
Directed by Alexandru George Kardos
Lucian founded Cofeels: a Social Café. But what does it really mean?

ELISABETH, 14min., Switzerland, Drama/Thriller
Directed by Monica De Almeida
Recurring dreams, death, a resonating name the keeps coming up…
Mr Bojac, widower since several months, feels like he’s losing his mind! These images are oppressing to him. He desperately tries to understand their meanin...

WAIT TILL IT DROPS, 6min., UK, Drama
Directed by Zara Chavasse
A reckless dare to drop a rock from a London building turns into a tragic accident that shatters the lives of three schoolgirls forever.

https://www.zarameerza.com/
https://www.instagram.com/zarameerza/
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NIVEH T'AH'IN, 7min., USA
Directed by Kenny Gamblin
Sam Alexander grew up half Gwich’in, half white, in remote, Fort Yukon, AK, above the Arctic Circle. As a child he was inspired by half-native movie characters to join the US Army Special Forces. Sam went on to serve for ten years as a US Army G...

ba•la, 13min., USA
Directed by Arti Ishak
A competitive swimmer must overcome his PTSD and learn how to swim again before the upcoming team trials.

https://www.instagram.com/ba.la.shortfilm/

RED RIBBONS OF LOVE, 15min., USA
Directed by Pauley Perrette
Red Ribbons of Love, a film by Pauley Perrette, documents the 30-year history of the red AIDS ribbons on the tower of Hollywood United Methodist Church, located two blocks from the Hollywood Walk of Fame. In 1993, when salons, barbersho...

ONLY HUMAN II, 25min., Germany, Documentary
Directed by Katerina Giannakopoulou
People - Cultures - Destinies - one project. When art overcomes borders.
The participants of the "Only human" project tell touching stories about their flight, their arrival and life in Germany, their difficulties, ho...

ENCOUNTERS BY THE WATER, 20min., Brazil
Directed by Joao Manoel Machado
Indigenous communities, artisans, fishermen and people of various walks of life come together in this documentary which traces the course of a river from its source in the forrest all the way down to the sea.

https://www.in...

AUREO & MIRELE, 15min,. France
Directed by Filipe Galvon
This short doc explores self-identity and gender through the eyes of a Brazilian immigrant in Paris as he organizes the arrival of a mysterious lady called Mirele.

https://finefrenzyfilms.com/aureo-mirele/
https://www.instagram.com/finefr...

LOGGING ALGONQUIN, 28min., Canada
Directed by Conor DeVries
Logging Algonquin is a 28 minute documentary film that looks at the historical and on-going logging happening in Algonquin Provincial Park in Ontario, Canada. Through conversations with indigenous locals, scientists, foresters, and polit...

DAVID, 10min,. Canada
Directed by Matthew Forbes
Based on a true story, "David" follows the life of an openly gay HIV/AIDS activist at the peak of that nightmare pandemic, dividing his time between fighting for justice in an openly homophobic society and helping a total stranger as the virus take...

FEAR OF FLYING, 5min., USA
Directed by Mykhailo Dolgin
What it's like to live in the body of a transgender? It may break you, it may destroy you from the inside and outside. Finding the strength and courage of getting up and accepting yourself is a challenge.

https://www.instagram.com/mykhailod...