PRESCHOOL TO PRISON, 13min., USA
Directed by Dr. Karen Baptiste
Countless children are educationally lynched in the United States with labels such as emotionally disturbed and intellectually disabled, resulting in children under the age of 8 to be shuffled from school to prison for minor infracti...

THE MAGIC VIOLET RABBIT, 13min., Japan
Directed by Kotoko Nakamura
To escape from his dull life, a man wishes to become a wizard.
He wants to be a "real" wizard, not a "fake" one.

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1. What motivated you to make this film?

This film's theme 'Magic' was given when I pa...

METHOD OF HEALING, 7min., USA
Directed by Jordan Lee Douglas Sims
After his daughter's suicide, a mourning father goes to a new therapist. However, things are not as they appear.

https://www.amanwithfriends.com/methodofhealing

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SIR BU NU'AYR ISLAND - NATURE'S HAVEN, 51min., United Arab Emirates
Directed by John Martin
The documentary is about the island of Sir Bu Nu'ayr, one of the most important marine reserves in the United Arab Emirates. The four-episode series shed light on the geographical location of the island, i...

ROSENWALD: TOWARD A MORE PERFECT UNION, 10min., USA
Directed by Charles Poe
The extraordinary story of a forgotten philanthropist, a Jewish son of immigrants from Chicago who became a champion for black education in the Jim Crow South.

ANA MENDIETA IF, 4min., USA
Directed by Jaewook Lee
"Ana Mendieta if" (2023) is a 3D animation, riveting cinematic homage to the influential Cuban-American artist, Ana Mendieta. This film masterfully traces the trajectory of her pioneering work in performance art, especially her profound connecti...

MY BROTHER CHARLIE, 12min., USA
Directed by Yogi Chavada
Life is beautiful, but it is also unpredictable. We aren’t always able to live life on our own terms; it has the terms set for us.

http://yogichavada.com/
https://www.instagram.com/Chavada_films

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I AM....BRIHANNA JAYDE, 13min., USA
Directed by Kris Bailey
The 2023 Kansas All American Goddess gives viewers and listeners a glimpse of the Drag Queen life and what it means to live life authentically as a gay man.

I GOT CANCELED....AND I DID IT TO MYSELF, 31min., USA
Directed by Marley Jaxx
In the eye-opening documentary, "I Got Canceled...and I Did It to Myself," Marley Jaxx embarks on a daring seven-day journey to delve into the controversial world of cancel culture. Through a series of boundary-pushing ...

TURN OF FATE, 4min., UK
Directed by Melissa Stanton
A young Ballerina visits a fortune teller. What has fate got in store for her?

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1. What motivated you to make this film?

I was making my first film, Ghostlight, during lockdown, and I just started having dreams abou...

IN THE BACKGROUND, 4min., USA
Directed by Daniel Gold
This film glimpses the subconscious archetypes surrounding the ideas of consciousness, duality, and reincarnation.

STOKER MACHINE, 12min., USA
Directed by Darieus Legg
Stoker Machine is a must-see animated surf documentary. Chad Campbell, an expert surfer discovers a mysterious surfboard on the big island of Hawaii. The retro board provides only a phone number and an email address as clues to its origin, lead...

MUSIKA, 5min., USA
Directed by Alberto Herrera
A delightfully harmonic tale of the origin of music

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1. What motivated you to make this film?

As a sickly child with panic attacks, I would have many episodes of fever induced dreams. As a five year old with a vivid imag...

THE KISS, 5min., Italy
Directed by Gianluca Vassallo

GENERATING CHAOS, 11min., USA
Directed by Carlos Felipe Garcia
Generative art explores the relationship between order and chaos, as well as the concept of infinite variations within constraints. By embracing the inherent unpredictability of computational processes, generative art pushes the bound...

A FEMINIST LENS, 28min., USA
Directed by Pamela French
A Feminist Lens: The Art and Activism of Photographer Joan Roth is an intimate portrait of internationally acclaimed photographer Joan Roth. The film focuses on five decades of Roth’s pioneering use of her camera to advocate for homeless wome...

THE TRUE SUMMIT, 30min., USA
Directed by Corban Robbe
This 30-minute documentary follows 14 men and mountaineer Kevin DeVries on a trek to EVEREST BASE CAMP as he prepares to climb in the region after a cardiac arrest. More than a hike in the Himalayas, THE TRUE SUMMIT calls men to the inward jou...

MEANT TO BE YOUR MIFE, 11min., China
Directed by Cheng Ji
"Perfect wife" Sarah, receives a strange package, a mannequin, which establishes a subtle connection between them.

SIN REFUGIO, 17min., Mexico
Directed by Roberto Bosoms, Andrea Cordoba
When the Mexican government decides to open an agricultural water dam in Chihuahua to pay a water debt to the United States, local farmers battle the military to protect their harvest and livelihoods.

THE WORLD OF MAMA BUTTERFLY, 4min., China
Directed by Yuqian Cao
A minor ethnic group, Miao, in Guizhou, China, holds butterfly as their totem and applies the symbol in their embroidery.

https://www.instagram.com/yu.qi.an

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LITTLE EMPTY BOXES, 99min., USA
Directed by Max Lugavere, Chris Newhard
Little Empty Boxes is a feature length documentary from filmmaker Max Lugavere, who chronicles the last several years of his mothers' life as she battles a mysterious form of Dementia. As Kathy's world begins to deteriorate a...

SURVIVAL, 6min., UK
Directed by Qian Zhou
The year 2022, which has just passed, was a tough year for the world, and it was also a challenging year for the UK. The energy crisis caused by the Russia-Ukraine war, the following economic crisis, the pound's fall, global warming... All of this affects...