MY OWN WORST ENEMY, 6min., Netherlands, Dance

Directed by Harrie Verbeek, Jelena Kostić

On your way to reaching a goal you are often battling against yourself. You take various steps, but it is the most unpredictable move that defeats your own worst enemy.

IMPERIUM, 10min., Switzerland, Music

Directed by Michael Moppert

‘Imperium’ documents the journey of a quantum probe, starting at the macro-level in some futuristic, high tech urban sprawl. Then the vessel transmitting this video breaks through the surface into a strange, imagined sub-atomic wo...

HOLD ON, 3min., USA, Dance

Directed by Pip Cowley

A powerful new short dance film, soundtracked by Gil Scott-Heron’s “Alien (Hold On To Your Dreams),” featuring Jo’Artis “Big Mijo” Ratti protesting via Krumping within feet of the LAPD at a recent Black Lives Matter protest.

THE DYING LIGHT, 7min., USA, Music

Directed by Mr. Corazon

A Protest Video to support Black Lives Matter

MOMENT’S SILENCE, 4min., USA, Dance

Directed by Will Branner & Blake Zelesnikar

A dance film to “Moment’s Silence” by Hozier

Performed by Val Cole

Written POEM:

Dante had two objectives, Pleasure and Survival, with motivation derived to sustain the first often pushing the boundaries of how to maintain the last. His fatalities reciting, "what a wolf in sheep's clothing." But the wolf's hunt isn't causation for pain ...

Directed by HK Alleys

The experimental documentary shot on the ground by citizen-journalists during the Hong Kong protests of August 2019 to January 2020, it captured the conversations and words appeared during the Hong Kong Movement in 2019, from slogans chanted by the protestors to, speech by ...

Directed by Max Westerman

Among the first to be hit by the AIDS epidemic in the 1980’s, Sean Strub’s political ambitions took a backseat as he struggled to survive. Now 60, he is running for mayor of a conservative town in Pennsylvania. How will this liberal, openly gay ex-New Yorker and founder...

Directed by Nicolas Polixene, Sylvain Loubet dit Gajol

Frustrated by the lack of opportunities for black people he had in France, Mickael has been living in the United States for the past 5 years. Proud of his success, he invited his little brother (Matthieu) to Chicago to convince him to try hi...

Reading by Val Cole

The Face of a Woman
By Chris Mills
2020

The face of a woman is where emotions stream live
Revealing the beauty that within her resides.
She rises to a challenge to make life better for just one
And works ceaselessly until the deed is done.
Her expression, as she sees the f...

Performed by Steve Rizzo

Big Lonely Doug by Ekaterina Karassev

I walked down the path and touched Big Lonely Doug.

He poked me in my chest and whispered in my ear,

"Do you know why I am left here?

Do you know why people keep approaching,

Taking off their shoes, hugging me and crying?

Do ...

Directed by Paddy Murphy

Al Moran meets the young Beatles in a Liverpool pub. Years later a letter is found by Gerard Moran, Al’s nephew, detailing the encounter. Is the story true? Or was Al Moran lying?

Played at the January 2021 Fan Fiction Festival

D-REP: FIGHT FOR LIFE, 42min., USA, Documentary

Directed by Michael Mazzanti

On July 3, 2015, a Flight for Life helicopter plummeted from the sky outside Frisco, Colorado, violently crashing into a parking lot. Dave Repsher, a Summit County Flight for Life nurse, climbed out of the crashed heli...

FLUSHING, 7min., USA, Documentary

Directed by Sihan Cui

This is the first stop for many Chinese immigrants to set foot in New York, and it is also a circle that many Chinese living in the United States cannot escape. Here, people can live freely on American soil without using English. The authe...

PLANTED IN 2020, 18min., Canada, Documentary

Directed by Santiago Bessai

Despite a workforce forced into quarantine, Canada will attempt to plant 700 million trees in 2020 – the most ever. With future forests at stake, a young woman journeys into the bush to endure a grueling and unconventional...

FEEDING LEWISHAM, 12min., UK, Documentary

Directed by Cara Bowen

This is a short film using film talent laid of during Covid, with no work I produced a short inspiring film to show and record how one community organised without state or Government support to help thousands get through the crisi...

BEHIND THE MUSIC, 9min., USA, Documentary

Directed by Charles Sapp

As an artist, this film shows the songwriting process through the expressions of youth and self-sufficing power of solitude.

“It takes courage to do what you love…to do what you believe in.” – Charles Sapp

THE BIRDER, 12min., USA, Documentary

Directed by Toby Hayman

J. Drew Lanham has lived his life vicariously through birds. As a boy in rural South Carolina they showed him a world beyond his backyard, and taught him how the places of the world are connected. Today as an ecology professor and orn...

THE PROVIDER, 9min., Canada, Documentary

Directed by Jayden Soroka

“The Provider” brings to life the experience of a man’s first hunt at the age of thirty three, eighteen years later than tradition holds, an event that would define his place in his community and open his eyes to where he belongs.

HIGH FLYING JADE, 21min., USA, Documentary

Directed by Katherine Sweetman

Walking the line between mindfulness and adrenaline rush, an American, bipolar, aerialist tries to reconcile her suicidal inclinations, her past life as an air traffic controller and the pressures of training for opening ...

FATHER, 4min., Australia, Animation

Directed by Apollonia Xylouris

An animated short about a father’s relationship with his daughter and their bond through music.

SAINT CLAIR CEMIN, PSYCHE, 61 min. , Artist Documentary

Directed by Svetlana Cemin

Saint Clair Cemin, Psyche a documentary film following the Brazilian artist over the last five years. Directed by Svetlana Cemin the film represents an intimate portrait of the artist and a deep reflection on the...

HEAR CONGO, 3min,. Congo, Documentary

Directed by Jason Flakes

The raw materials that go into most electronics today are mined from the Congo. This is how Hear Congo is helping.

THE ALPHA’S BET, 5min., USA, Poem

Directed by Dan Ramm

“No Manâ’s Land is right here in your hands,
and as you listen, that horizon expands.
Deep in the trenches between letters and lines,
rages the clash between Language and Time.”

A poem in motion, or visual love letter to…letters.