i don't know what i'm doing, 4min., Canada, Experimental
Directed by Riley Davis

A man grieves the end of a relationship on a walk at night during a global pandemic.

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Two years after a deadly virus wipes out the adult population of the Earth, the remaining youth fight each other and the airborne assassin as they struggle to survive in a lawless world. Can secretive loner Ravyn and a hodgepodge group of teens overcome mistrust of each other to uncover the bigge...

THE NIGHT MANIFESTO, 8min., France, Experimental
Directed by Arthur Lacomblez

When life becomes unbearable - we the freaks, the queers and the misfits find solace in the ecstasy of the night. The night manifesto is a four part experimental short film, a voice narrates the shared experiences that...

HELLO JULIE, 5min., France, Drama
Directed by Vincent Paquot
Vincent hasn't heard from his best friend, Julie. His attempt to record a video message proves to be more difficult than expected as the truth about her absence begins to overwhelm him, leaving him unable to make the decision that could...

WHEN I MET MIA, 2min., USA, Drama
Directed by Merivelle Hannah
A young gymnast on the crest of becoming bulimic.

With the dark dysfunctional-family tone of Hitchcock's "Psycho" and the intensity of Freddie's“Elm Street” adventures,
BOARDGAMES is a character-driven thriller.
A SMALL CITY DESCENDS INTO CHAOS AS A SERIAL KILLER SLASHES HIS WAY THROUGH THE DARKNESS OF NIGHT.

CAST LIST:

Narrator: Julie Shepp...

A sheriff investigating the disappearance of two teenagers from a fire watch tower, discovers a mutilated body, an incinerated car with human remains and reports of a UFO hurtling towards the San Francisco peaks.

CAST LIST:

Narrator: Val Cole
Richard Lee: Steve Rizzo
John Tharp: Allan Michae...

Tim and Becky Smith, a salt-of-the-earth, blue-collar couple, become foster parents in their opioid ravaged, rust-belt town, battling dysfunction, poverty, and addiction in order to save foster children, who, but for the grace of God, could have been their own. "Our family's chaos could be some c...

MEDUSA, 86min., France, Drama
Directed by Sophie Levy

Romane and Clemence are between 25 and 30 years old, they are sisters and live together. Romane has to look after Clemence, who is disabled since they had a car accident, when teenagers. Romane was not hurt, but Clemence had a cerebral vascul...

THE MORTAL PLASTIK, 21min., USA, Experimental/Documentary
Directed by Jess Irish

A personal dive into the world's most impersonal substance: plastics. Amid the lockdown, a bereaved mother unfolds a surprising journey within and across oceans to understand the contemporary landscape of single-use...

Mark, a nerdy introvert, falls into the dark and twisted world of a mysterious mukbanger named Ash after she accidentally hits him with her car.

CAST LIST:

Narrator: Steve RIzzo
Ash: Julie Sheppard
Mark: Allan Michael Brunet
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NEVER LAND, 3min., USA, Animation
Directed by Jee Suk Kim
What if Peter actually killed captain Hook?

OUT OF THE FOLDS OF WOMEN, 5min., USA, Experimental
Directed by Anabella Lenzu

With direction and choreography by Anabella Lenzu and videography and music by Todd Carroll, "Out of the Folds of Women" tells a personal vision of femininity, and what it means to be a woman, mother, and immigrant to...

BIRDS OF A FEATHER, 3min., Australia
Directed by Richie Valentino

Set in a rainy city this film focuses on the scavengers on the street and how the effects of sharing and being greedy can alter one's perspective in life.

The first lesbian western TV series about a sharpshooting gender outlaw who poses as a man so she and her shrewd southern belle lover can escape a vindictive brother and a brutal husband returning from the Civil War and create a new life as a married couple out in the west.

CAST LIST:

Narrator...

This is a tragic story about life and loss on an Alzheimer’s unit. It centers on Tim Valzik who works as a QMA caregiver on the Alzheimer’s unit. Tim is unsure of his own purpose in life. He is not at peace with his identity. His job is to protect one who ends up getting terribly hurt.

CAST LI...

VEREDAS - Anuncia��o.22, 4min., Brazil, Fashion
Directed by Lhosis

Commemorates the launch of VEREDAS (instagram @_veredas), a sustainability and design consultancy platform bridging the gap between artisan communities in Brazil and the international high-end designer market. Working with a cutt...

When a covert genetics project goes horribly wrong and two pathological serial killers are let loose on the streets of Dublin and Munich, a tough CIA Agent seems to be the only one capable of stopping their carnage. The only problem is he cannot do this without implicating himself in a massive co...

TALKIN' BOUT, 3min., USA
Directed by Henry Was
Talkin' Bout is a digital stop motion, mixed-media music video made entirely in Photoshop by Henry Was. Created for the experimental Jazz-Punk-Rock unit Thumpasaurus in which he drums and produces the music. It's an absurdist journey through the Thum...

Former detective August Cavett and his new wife Elizabeth return from their honeymoon to learn that Elizabeth's father has died. Now the family matriarch is threatening to cut ties with the rest of the family and keep the inheritance. When she ends up dead, the Cavetts are reluctantly drawn into ...

VEXOH - A MEMORY CAPSULE, 1min., France, Experimental
Directed by Cyrill Durigon

Sometimes dreams feel like memories.
Do you remember when was the last time you felt carefree?
Do you remember before the world pandemic?

A young boy escapes his group home and travels to Paris in search of his biological parents

CAST LIST:

Narrator: Julie Sheppard
Alex: Steve Rizzo
Stubbs: Allan Michael Brunet
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After an engagement announcement, the best man of the groom-to-be tries to express his love for him, but he cannot bring himself to do it. In an attempt to forget about it, he and the other groomsman drink themselves into oblivion, and the rest of the night goes awry.

CAST LIST:

Narrator: Val ...