IDEAL FRIEND, 18min., Ukraine
Directed by SERHII ALOSHECHKIN
In the not-so-distant future, Alice finds herself stranded on a remote beach and must make a life-defining choice with the help of her neuro-implanted AI companion, prompting an exploration of the consequences of human reliance on techn...

Thomas and Martha are exhausted after a party. Spencer is denied opening a second present. Albina puts the baby to sleep upstairs, and Spencer goes up after. He comes down and says he pushed the baby out of the window, and when Thomas goes upstairs for him, finds that what Spencer said is true.
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Science has proven that [due to dopamine and serotonin levels in the male and female brain] women actually need to have [TWICE AS MUCH] sex as men.” Yet in 2021, there is still this huge double standard on male and female sexuality. Women are still being slut-shamed and ridiculed for being absolu...

SIBLING ARRIVAL, 3min., USA
Directed by Dana Plays
An intimate documentary of a home birth; the eight-year old sibling is heard but not seen as she watches and reacts to her brother being born.

https://www.instagram.com/danaplays/

https://www.wildsound.ca/videos/audience-feedback-sibling-arriv...

Looking for You, 4min., Germany
Directed by Christian Scharfenberg
Shemp, the main character of 2021’s wonderful ‘Shots of Light’ returns to the screen as an intergalactic hero, on the search for their soulmate.

https://instagram.com/morganfinlayontour

What we imagined, 3min., USA
Directed by Shubhavi Arya
In a magical park, two children meet across a divide — one fast like a cheetah, the other once feared. Through questions, sketches, and a desktop of dreams, they invite us into a story of transformation, truth, and imagination. Their message ...

Queer Study, 4min., USA
Directed by Abigail Espinal
A hopeless romantic tries to figure out if her best friend is gay in the worst ways possible.

https://www.instagram.com/abigailespinal1/

Get to know the director/actor:

1. What motivated you to make this film?

This film was my final projec...

Hide and Seek, 5min., China
Directed by Yu Sun
In a decaying factory, a domineering girl forces her timid friend into an endless game of hide-and-seek — until a hidden threat changes the game forever.

CYCLES, 3min., USA
Directed by Yashin Phillips
Woman uses exposure therapy to heal her inner child at a laundromat.

http://www.inchwormentertainment.com/

https://www.wildsound.ca/videos/audience-feedback-cycles-under-5

Nothing Sticks, 1min., Netherlands
Directed by Roze Elisa, Kuba Szutkowski

Get to know co-writer/writer/actor Roze Elisa:

1. What motivated you to make this film?

I wanted to make something funny that we can all relate to - awkward dates
and missed opportunities. I signed up for a 1-min film c...

Oh Deer, 1min., South Korea
Directed by Jeongeun Lee
The story begins with a single sphere, a form without shape or name, holding within it every possibility. As time passes, the sphere transforms into a human form, learning names and roles, and building its identity.

Performed by Val Cole

Haunted by his wife’s disappearance during a corporate yachting accident, Teller, a dubious husband, fakes his own cryopreservation to uncover the truth. When he discovers Chrono-stasis' cryo-suspension CEO is secretly running the company from a remote island—alongside Teller’s double-crossing wi...

Performed by Val Cole

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Bean Point Requiem

For Abhigyan Patel

I stand waist deep, bobbing in the undulation, half blinded by the sun.
Royal terns glide swiftly by – blurs of white against a background of lapis lazuli.

They shriek, as if possessed. Further out, a rescue boat returns, slowl...

Performed by Val Cole

Performed by Val Cole

Performed by Val Cole

Performed by Val Cole

Performed by Val Cole

Performed by Val Cole

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POEM:

My Storm in a Bottle

She rises over my house,
like the sun, or the moon.
The stars have tried to tell her,
but she won’t listen.

Just as she rises,
She calls my name like thunder
rolling slow
through every inch of my house.

Even if I am sleep,
I wake up and ...

Performed by Val Cole