THE BERRIGANS: DEVOUT AND DANGEROUS, 80min., USA, Documentary
Directed by Susan Hagedorn

Devout and Dangerous is the story of an American family who is on the FBI’s Most Wanted List in 1970 for their opposition to the Vietnam War and continues resisting militarism for the next half century. The ...

FRESH OFF THE BOAT, 3min., USA, Music Video

Directed by Todd Lien

A young foreign student, Bowen, learns the way of life in America while pursuing his American Dream.

SINS OF THE FATHER, 15min., USA, Drama
Directed by Doug Jordan
A seemingly ordinary morning in South Central Los Angeles proves to be anything but ordinary, as Derrick, a gang unit police officer, and Freddie, a high school student, are both caught up in the violent whirlwind of militarized polic...

HISTORIANS, 4min., Canada, Dance
Directed by Akil McKenzie
A young black male shares a spoken word poem about his life growing up with racism, fear, hatred and hope. Surrounded by art, in both print and live form, with dancers embodying his words, and expressing their own experience through hipho...

TRIGGERED, 13min., USA, Experimental
Directed by Ariyan Johnson
Cell phones. Social media. Our lifelines to the outside world. Daily we’re barraged with images, words and video that trigger our emotions. But what happens when it’s one post too many and the emotional dam breaks? TRIGGERED takes us...

A young, sexually abused gay man moves to NYC desperately hoping to find love.

Gay man JAY BODEN, 23, moves to New York City and meets PAUL, 35, a widowed, newly out doctor and father of HALLEY, 7. Together they struggle to create a loving, supportive family.

CAST LIST:

Narrator: Allison Kampf...

SPIRAL, 3min., USA, Dance
Directed by Adam Dillon
A film exploring what it's like to have a panic attack.

THIS FAR APART, 6min., USA, Dance
Directed by T.M.Rives & A.M.Lucaciu
A dancer finds that her escape from the news cycle is closer than she thinks.

NOWHERESVILLE, 105min., Crime/Thriller

Directed by Kevin McVey

The lives of a middle-aged woman and her best friend are turned upside down after they stumble onto a dead body and nearly one million dollars in cold, hard cash and are forced to make choices that will change them forever.

Inspired by his wife's dying wish for him to travel, an uptight illustrator fearfully sets out to explore Europe on foot with his wife’s dog Noble by his side.

CAST LIST:

Narrator: Allison Kampf
Helen: Hannah Ehman
Arthur: Shawn Devlin
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BEING SASCHA, 36min., Switzerland, Documentary
Directed by Manuel Gübeli
Sascha's name wasn't always Sascha. But now it is. Sascha doesn't identify as a man or as a woman, but as trans non-binary. A story about what it means to live in a society that wasn't expecting you. A glimpse into a life th...

WAITING ROOM, 5min., France, Dance
Directed by Didier MULLERAS
This film is a dance exploration of Dylan Thomas poem “Love in the Asylum”, performed by 15 dancers, gathered in an enclosed space. Waiting rooms are places far from regular time and space notions, where everyone can get lost in inner...

Recently released from prison, Dani enters a room that she may never escape.

CAST LIST:

Narrator: Sean Ballantyne
Rose/Dani: Hannah Ehman
Fairy/Mom: Kyana Teresa
Ghost/Sean: Shawn Devlin
Analiese: Allison Kampf
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DESCENT: A MOVEMENT FILM, 2min., USA, Dance
Directed by Proma Khosla & Anjali Mehta
“Descent” follows the story of K, a former asylum client of creator Anjali Mehta’s who was separated from her daughter upon arriving in the United States. Like so many other adults seeking asylum, the loss of her ...

PARTICLES, 5min., USA, Music Video

Directed by Sylvia Borges

2020. Suddenly everything has changed. The world is coming apart, we are singing online or in a car park keeping safe distances from each other. But at the core we‘re still a choir, and that means that we‘re greater together. Out of t...

A large spaceship glides over Peran, a moon circling a planet in the Arcturus System. Staying for a few moments, it drills a hole into the crust, deposits a box and silently leaves. Over 12,000 years later, Mining Colony Six occupies the same general area. The colony consists of six miners, a doc...

BOY SCIENTIST, 3min., USA, Music Animation

Directed by Susan Lim, Samudra Kajal Saikia

A brilliant boy scientist meets the girl scientist of his dreams, poised and beautiful, surrounded by flasks and beakers. The best he can do is bottle her image in his flask, so he may serenade and waltz with...

Directed by Nico Amedeo

As a father battles with his Parkinson's in order to play the song his son once played so well, he's interrupted by his android servant, intrigued by the piano. Rollo, the servant, masters the tune to please his owner, but instead brings back memories best forgotten.

A disenchanted Brooklyn bagman chooses to help the feisty woman who ripped him off and defy the "family" that adopted him as an orphan.

CAST LIST:

Narrator: Allison Kampf
Monica: Hannah Ehman
Gus: Shawn Devlin
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In New America, run by AI, a group of young people escape the camp and come to realise the world they’ve known is not as it seems.

After a case gone wrong, Detective Al Yankovic hangs up his badge for good and becomes a novelty musician. Four years later, he is dragged back into the world he left behind when his half-hamster former partner, Harvey, attempts to solve a murder that has a...purple...connection to the case that ...

CANTATA FOR A MORE HOPEFUL TOMORROW, 23min., USA, Musical

Directed by Bob Berg

Following the story of an African-American couple struggling with COVID-19 and their journey from despair to hope, “Cantata for a More Hopeful Tomorrow” is a short music film that beautifully, powerfully weaves toget...

SMOKESTACK LIGHTNING, 6min., USA, Dance
Directed by Charissa Kroeger, Eric Schloesser
An escape from reality, we follow two strangers through a sizzling, quirky outburst of dance in a retro-futuristic, parallel world. Smokestack Lightning chronicles the adventure of these two heroes as they navig...

SWOON, 3min., Canada, Music Video
Directed by Sam Braithwaite, Steph Braithwaite
An animated music video for Ria Mae and Jocelyn Alice where we follow the Main character at the club with their friend group trying to decide if they should tell their Crush they like them or not. They go between a d...