A group of Greek warriors try to pass through the walls of the great city of Troy but meet their match in a clueless Trojan guardsman.

For various reasons women do not report sexual assault to the authorities.

Assault is not just physical, but also mental violence. The trauma leaves the victim scarred for life. Feelings of low self-esteem, self-blame and guilt can endure for long time after the assault, even when the world aro...

Reminiscence of an endearing human - inanimate companionship, of precious years gone by, dreams of a lifetime, for an Inanimate facing its own mortality.

Director Biography - susan Mey Lee Lim, Samudra Kajal Saikia, Christina Teenz Tan

Surgeon, scientist, playwright, lyricist, and creative dire...

Through an unexpected turn of events, a young girl must learn to let go.

Director Biography - Yuyang Yan
Yuyang Yan is a graduating student of Sheridan College from the Honors Bachelor of Animation program. With a passion for learning and experimentation, she strives to use innovative technology...

At the dawn of the Viking era, a young boy yearns to protect his bedridden mother, unable to foresee an onslaught of Vikings, he is thrust into chaos when he loses everything.

Director Biography - Jonathan Gibney

Jonathan Gibney was raised in Wilton, Connecticut. In 2017, Jonathan moved to Sava...

This is a fictional story about the future of companionship between human and inanimate. It tells of a plush Inanimate , with a soul from a baby lion, who craves the new science and technologies of synthetic DNA, artificial intelligence and teleportation, to be an enabled companion, and its soul ...

An audiovisual meditation experience with the voice of psychedelic consciousness pioneer and Earth Coincidence Control Office Agent, John C. Lilly. With AI-enhanced animation by Michael Strauss and sounds by Torkom Ji. All realities exist simultaneously.

Director Biography - Michael Strauss

MIC...

A semi-animated short film portraying three artists living next door to each other, yet decades apart, at a glance: a painter in the early 1900s, a writer in the 1940s and a modern ballerina. Separated by walls and time, their connections unfold.

Director Biography - Margarethe Baillou

Margaret...

Two animated characters journey down the river in a "Huck Finn"
adventure.

A man goes to a red house to meet a woman and falls in her hair

Director Biography - Antonio Sergio Spagnol
a person who insists on making stop motion

SHOPPING CART PEOPLE, 20min., USA, Documentary
Directed by Duffy Hecht
Shopping Cart People presents an unflinching exploration of people living in today’s world as homeless and those advocating for them. Stories are told, lives are shared, as a filmmaker delves into a community’s efforts to help...

PLEASE DON'T TURN AWAY, 3min., Australia, Music Video
Directed by Elizabeth Usher
The compelling music video for "Please Don't Turn Away", a song inspired by animal photojournalist and founder of We Animals Media, Jo-Anne McArthur. Written by Elizabeth Usher, performed by MC Pony feat. Leafy Gree...

FACING MONSTERS, 90min., Australia, Surfing/Life
Directed by Bentley Dean
Facing Monsters is a candid insight into a man caught between the love he has for his family, and a childhood dream that could ultimately destroy him.

THE WOMAN IN WHITE, 19min., Canada, Documentary
Directed by Roshanak Jaberi
"What an incredibly poignant film – it’s an amazing piece of work."
—Samer Muscati, Human Rights Watch
From October 15, 1979 to January 16, 1992, El Salvador endured a civil war. More than 8000 people were forcibly disapp...

THE SUN RISES IN THE EAST, 58min., USA, History
Directed by Tayo Giwa
The Sun Rises in The East chronicles the birth, rise and legacy of The East, a pan-African cultural organization founded in 1969 by teens and young adults in Bedford-Stuyvesant, Brooklyn. Led by educator and activist Jitu Weusi...

THE SHOT, 15min., USA, Documentary
Directed by John Mogor
We followed three patients' journey from suffering, through treatment and over a year into recovery. All three credit SGB with changing their lives.
SGB is an injection into the stellate ganglion, a group of nerves in the neck that sends m...

RISING - LIL BERETE, 13min,. Canada, Documentary
Directed by Avery Harris Stedman
Short documentary dives into the personal story of Yay Berete p/k/a Lil Berete, a young rapper from Regent Park, Toronto's most notorious and violent neighborhood. After one of his songs goes viral at the tender age...

OUR DYSLEXIC CHILDREN, 44min., Documentary
Directed by Aaron Blevins
In 2010, a group of parents in a suburban school district near Columbus, Ohio discovered their children had something in common - they could not read. They were languishing in a reading intervention program and their dyslexia wa...

LIVING WHILE AMERICAN, 26min., USA, Documentary
Directed by Sosena Solomon
A freshman city councilman in Philadelphia brings the police to the table to reduce traffic stops by 30 percent, reducing needless interactions between officers and people of color.

CANDIDATO 34, 38min., Peru/Canada, Documentary
Directed by Ryan Marley
Bryan Russell is the first person in the world with Down syndrome to ever run for public office. CANDIDATO 34 is a documentary short that follows Bryan and his campaign team during the 2020 congressional election in Peru as h...

ELEMENTAL, redefining our relationship with wildfire, 80min., USA, Nature/Environment
Directed by Trip Jennings
As fire seasons grow longer, more destructive and more deadly, it is clear that our approach to reducing wildfire risk is failing. This film brings cutting edge science and indigenous k...

A PEOPLEHOOD | AMIUT YEHUDIT, 23min,. Canada, Documentary
Directed by Marnie Salsky
A PEOPLEHOOD | AMIUT YEHUDIT examines Toronto’s contemporary Jewish community and, simultaneously, the emotional impact of today’s insidious antisemitism. The video is a non-linear narrative structured around them...

80 YEARS LATER, 50min,. USA, History
Directed by Celine Parreñas Shimizu
The feature documentary 80 YEARS LATER explores the racial inheritance of Japanese American family incarceration during World War II through multigenerational conversations with survivors and their descendants.

In the 80th ...

12TH HOUR, 52min,. USA, Documentary
Directed by Susan Kucera
Much of our population currently lives with hopeful delusions about climate change. These delusions, many of which are built in by evolution, hamper our ability to meaningfully address the problem.

Our brains evolved to solve short-ter...