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A BOY OF MAY, 16min., South Korea, Animation/Documentary
Directed by Seung-il Chon
Jeong Sae-nal, the young boy in Gwang-ju City, receives new sneakers as a 12th birthday gift, but he is shot by martial law forces while playing with his friends in a mountain reserv...

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THE ASTRONAUT, 5min., USA
Directed by Damián Apunte
Seven-year-old Aura loves everything space. She looks out her window, wishing she could escape the surrounding smog that’s causing her asthma. Her vivid imagination keeps her spirit alive. Every Sunday, she dresse...

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FOREVER BOUND, 7min., Italian, Fashion
Directed by Rob Bell
For Forever Bound, we wanted to explore the theme of fate’s adversarial role in a relationship, how destiny, if you believe in such a thing, plays an important role in how our lives turn out. It’s an excit...

UP TO G-CUP, 81min., Iraq/Netherlands, Documentary
Directed by Jacqueline van Vugt
In the documentary film, UP TO G-CUP, filmmaker Jacqueline van Vugt portrays intimate stories and emotional outpourings within Kurdistan's first lingerie store.

Jacqueline van Vugt has made an honest film in which...

you are not the nightmare, 4min,. USA, Comedy
Directed by Priti Trivedi
A masked killer's encounter with a young woman does not go as planned.

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1. What motivated you to make this film?

Like many people who make films, I've loved watching and creating stories for my ...

GAY CAMP, 10min,. USA, Comedy
Directed by Mark Marchillo
In a world where most of the population is gay, children who exhibit "straight" tendencies are sent to camps in order to convert them back to their natural homosexual lifestyle. Camp Sohomo will convert your child in record time.

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WE HAVE JUST BEGUN, 82min., USA, Documentary
Directed by Michael Warren Wilson
In 1919, black workers' decades-long efforts to challenge exploitation in the Arkansas Delta culminated in the nation's deadliest racial massacre and labor battle. It's legacy is deep, despite being hidden for over 100...

CRY, ME BELOVED COUNTRY, 62min., Documentary
Directed by Corrine Sandler
How South Africa went from a Cry for Freedom to CRY, MY BELOVED COUNTRY. An inconceivable story told in a feature length documentary about a South African Emigrant, Corrine who grew up in the Apartheid Regime in the 1970's. ...

SPARE CHANGE, 13min,. USA, Drama
Directed by Jesse Randall
After being thrown out by his parents, a young, homeless, trans man fights for survival on the gritty streets of Los Angeles until he can get on his feet again. After struggling to earn money panhandling, an unhoused woman living on the s...

THE ART OF SEEING, THE ART OF REMEMBERING, 23min., UK
Directed by Sascha Klamp
Working with two distinct Armenian communities, traditional border villages which hold up the potential resistance from its hostile neighbours, the film explores the set-up of a Community Archive with village Elders wh...

DIXSON, 19min,. USA, Drama Romance
Directed by Matthew David Lynn
A young man's first kill.

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MONARCH SOMBRERO, 1min., Canada, Animation
Directed by Lisa Murray
A hand made, stop-motion, paper cut-out animation about saving the monarch butterflies.

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1. What motivated you to make this film?

Wonderful nature platform...my concern for the preservation of butterf...

YOU CAN LIVE FOREVER, 96min., Canada, Romance Drama
Directed by Mark Slutsky, Sarah Watts
When lesbian teen Jaime is sent to live in a Jehovah's Witness community, she falls hard for a devout Witness girl and the two embark on an intense affair with consequences that will reshape the rest of thei...

UNITY, 5min., USA, Drama
Directed by Lexi Clark
This film follows the story of a young black girl reconnecting with her racial identity through hair.

YOU REAP WHAT YOU SOW, 1min,. Taiwan, Animation
Directed by Chia-Hung Kao
Ocean plastic pollution is not an abstract issue anymore. On the contrary, it is related to our lives and diets. Single-use plastics that are abandoned by humans often drift into the ocean, decompose themselves into microbe...

A JOB, 4min,. UK, Drama
Directed by Andre Pironi
Interviews for a job are held at an office. Only three people remain: two men and a pregnant woman.

THE DISPUTE, 34min., Hong Kong
Directed by Fredie Chan
Shortly after moving from Hong Kong to Edinburgh and settling into his student flat, filmmaker Fredie Chan discovers a clash among locals and overseas students over the massive housing shortage in Edinburgh. Developers are converting empty lo...

SALAD, ORANGES AND FLOWERS, 10min,. France, Experimental
Directed by Luying GU
Li Yu is writing a novel based on her free-range cat. However, the image of "Catwoman" began to intrude into her life frequently, and even confused with her close friend in real life, forcing her to face the emotions s...

DARCELLE: ONE LIFE, LOVE AND DYING, 14min., USA, Documentary
Directed by Christena Carol Dowsett
Darcelle, at the age of 91, is the Guinness World Record holder for the oldest working drag queen. On stage Darcelle is harolded as a prominent figure in the Portland, Oregon LGBTQ+ scene but at home ...

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 repairing the old Chevy Nova in ...

LEAP OF FAITH, 28min., Austria
Directed by Joel Eggimann
A bucket list goal so big that others might think you’re crazy. The stunning journey of Joel Eggimann attempting to do a flip across the gap of a remarkable pinnacle on the Lofoten Islands in Norway.

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RECESS 101, 4min,. USA, Animation
Directed by Christopher Sartorius
A group of 2nd graders learn everything they’ll ever need to know about getting along and making friends during school recess.

https://www.facebook.com/csartoriuswriter

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1. What motivated you to mak...

Como Rome@+Juliet@, 4min., Mexico, Animation
Directed by Hugo Crosthwaite
A stop-motion drawing animation that presents a modernized, U.S./Mexico Border adaptation of William Shakespeare's tragedy.

SECRETS OF MARGUERITES, 5min., Poland, Drama
Directed by Eliza Bahr
At night, illuminated by the moon, speaking through the wind, she came to life and died with the tide - memory.