CREATURA, 13min., Canada
Directed by Ford Mckeown Larose, Phethsari Pathammavong
If the world were to recreate itself in an empty space, how would new forms of life appropriate this environment? How would they evolve? Through lights and movements, Creatura explores the concept of genesis and evol...

SALT, 3min., Germany, Fashion
Directed by Dominik Hill
“Salt” tells the story of a group of people, who put away their fear of the elemental forces of nature and instead rediscover natural power, returning a bit to their own roots.

https://www.instagram.com/hello_dominik

A professional pianist was diagnosed as an early on set dementia when she was in her 50's and forgotten how to play the piano. She was depressed since then. Her husband wanted her to get back her meaning of life and they started practicing piano together. After 3 years practice and her husband su...

Boathouse Row is a personal essay documentary about the generational intersections of olympic rowing, manic depression, and fatherhood.

Directed by Ethan Knecht

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THE RESISTANCE, 14min., USA, War/Drama
Directed by Kara White
During WWII, a British female spy finds herself trying to outwit a Nazi in occupied France.

https://www.hemlockfilms.com/theresistance
https://www.instagram.com/theresistanceshortfilm/

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In the Upper World water flows unused from house taps. In the Under World sources are dry and arid. Green culture upstairs and survival culture downstairs. The two worlds and the families which live in those worlds seem to be separated and uncapable of communicating, but they are not. Pipes conne...

Benjamin Giroux, a 10 year old autistic boy from New York, wrote a poem called "I Am Odd" for a school project. The poem went viral and It inspired this song using Ben's lyrics. A talented young 2D animator, Rory Russell, was approached to tell Ben's story in a simple animated music video to help...

MIND THIEF, 109min,. USA, Documentary
Directed by Matt Steinauer
A novelist realizes that her neighbors may be under the mind control of unknown forces. Little does she realize how close and sinister its influence has become. MIND THIEF is a sci-fi thriller that takes us on a harrowing, sometimes...

VOLUNTEERS NEEDED, 36min., Nepal, Documentary
Directed by Barak Laub, Raymond Steege
Volunteers Needed is the first in-depth documentary focusing on international volunteers in children’s homes and orphanages.

https://www.volunteersneededthefilm.com/

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NAFKOT - YEARNING, 70min., Israel, Documentary
Directed by Malka Shabtay
An Israeli anthropologist traveling to meet a hidden Jewish community in north Ethiopia. Together they telling their special story of survival Abera, a young artist joins to discover what has been hidden from him

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IRON SHARPENS IRON, 28min., USA, Documentary
Directed by John Richie
“Iron Sharpens Iron” chronicles Ironton’s fight against the development of the Plaquemines Liquids Terminal (PLT) atop the community’s ancestral burial grounds, as well as the destruction wrought by Hurricane Ida.

http://www.jo...

ROTZLOCH, 96min., Switzerland, Documentary
Directed by Maja Tschumi
In a godforsaken place called Rotzloch (“Snot hole”), on the edge of a quarry, a new life begins for four young refugee men. Having a long journey behind them, they try to get back on their feet. Above all, they are searching for...

THE SCULPTURE, 78min., Australia, Documentary
Directed by Wayne Camilleri, Stephan Wellink
Philanthropist Basil Sellers and artist Terrance Plowright come together to create an impressive, multimillion dollar public sculpture symbolic of Australia’s Indigenous and migrant heritage, which Basil wi...

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...

THE CALL, 14min., USA, Thriller
Directed by Ryan Jafri
1965. A small man in a big world works hard to close a deal, doing everything he can to please his boss. But the clock is ticking, and someone is out to get him.

https://www.instagram.com/oneiro_films/

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SIREN WILL SOUND, 4min., USA, Music Video
Directed by Pete Fitz
Three women descend into the sea, instruments in hand.

LEFT ON OUR OWN, 27min., Hungary, Drama/Art
Directed by Akos Kovacs
An elderly taxi driver, who happens to be a tireless storyteller, is a man of contradictions: a hopeless romantic and a crude observer of life who has lived through individual hardship and witnessed the despair of others. He does...

WE TREES, 3min., USA, Documentary
Directed by Sam Kauffmann
Ever wonder what trees think of us, now that we've created a climate crisis? Watch this 3-minute film to find out.

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I think climate change is the most important issue we...

KEEP COOL: FORTIFYING BRITISH COLUMBIA, 30min.,
Directed by Ed Akselrud
In 2017 and 2018 British Columbia experienced devastating wildfires that reshaped the province. From the ashes, a surprisingly complex “war machine” arose to reforest the scarred land. Keep Cool: Fortifying British Columbia e...

MY WILD CATS - EUROPE, 52min., France, Documentary
Directed by Bertrand Loyer
Europe is certainly the last place where you would expect to meet wild species of felids. For a good reason: their population plumeted in the XXth century. However, thanks to unique conservation initiatives, they are ba...

A MESSAGE FROM THE FUTURE. BOSNIA GREETS UKRAINE, 17min., Austria, Documentary
Directed by Edward Serotta
30 years ago, during the longest siege in European history, Jews and Bosniak Muslims, Serbian Orthodox and Croatian Catholics, came together in the city's last synagogue so they could give to...

THE MUSE, 49min,. Russia, Drama
Directed by Max Karpylev
Once successful novelist Mark is fighting for his sanity struggling to finish his book. Mark explores his difficult relations with his father and the sense of fear as an enemy of creativity. Will Mark sacrifice himself to finish his book on...