AMAR, 10min,. France
Directed by Justine Méry
Self-employed to be in charge of her hours, her services and her prices, Amar has been an Escort (sex worker) since she was 18. She always felt a strong will for freedom and independence, but recent laws have been preventing her from doing her job in ...

BEHIND CLOSED DOORS, 4min., South Africa
Directed by Lenore Banton
Amelia learns that her sister, Cassandra, is being abused by her husband. In that moment, Amelia recollects from her memories where things started to go wrong and how she failed to notice the signs. Amelia returns to the present a...

HOW TO CATCH AN ANGEL, 5min., USA
Directed by Stephen Olson
A spoken word work in three parts about addiction and recovery.

http://www.stephenjosepholson.com/

SLAVE TRADE, 10min. USA
Directed by Andrea Andresakis
An abusive businessman gets his comeuppance from his streaming device.

"SEX" OF DEATH, 11min,. Iran
Directed by M. Hadi Jamali, Fakhredin Jamali
A man is trying to kill himself in a hotel room, suddenly someone knocks on the door and enters...

https://www.instagram.com/m.hadijamali

Director Biography - M. Hadi Jamali, Fakhredin Jamali

I was born in 1990 in Shir...

CLOUD LINE, 4min., South Africa
Directed by Minnette Faure
After the loss of their mother, Akhona and their father attempt to find a middle ground between their different means of grieving. Lihle copes with his grief by forging his way through life as usual whilst his child Akhona takes time to l...

THREE QUARTERS, 23min., USA
Directed by Dave Harlequin
A middle-aged disabled man struggles to come to terms with his new life as an amputee as he is stalked and tormented by a strange, supernatural entity.

https://www.imdb.com/title/tt11464562/
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SUB BROTHERS, 22min., USA
Directed by Sandeep Ravindranath
Two brothers from Pakistan run a sandwich shop in Chicago. Through the daily struggles of an immigrant life, they carry in their hearts a longing for the homeland that they might never return to.

Director Statement
My narratives are alwa...

LULLABY OF UKRAINE, 3min., Ukraine
Director Alexander Sparinsky
Dedicated to the Children of Ukraine, victims of the brutal Russian invasion… Let everyone ask themselves and the leaders of their countries: what else has to happen, what arguments are needed that Ukraine is finally given the necess...

BY TWO, 4min., South Africa
Directed by Wiam Botma
A stubborn old man goes about his daily routine, struggling with every task due to his age. He hears a ring from the doorbell and finds a robot has been sent to aid him in his old age. As he goes about his daily routine the robot continually trie...

A DREAM IN THEIR SONGS, 30min., India
Directed by Deba Ranjan
The dream of these singers has always been the strength of people’s struggle of saving their own lives and resources. They themselves compose the songs, sing the same and encourage people to dream. For the last few years, they have be...

GILGAMESH, 10min., Iran
Directed by Hossein Moradizadeh
Gilgamesh is the oldest epic and literary work in the world. The oldest written part of it dates back to the second millennium BC, but its history dates back to three thousand years BC. Gilgamesh saga best describes human destiny in search o...

REMEMBRANCE, 6min., Austria
Directed by Andreas Reisenbauer
Two people who have more in common than one knows, meet on a park bench.

https://reisenbauer.com/

Director Statement
Forgetting (no matter because of Alzheimer, dementia or just denying past) can lead to a reduction of our reservoir ...

MIRROR, MIRROR, 4min., South Africa
Directed by Grayson Bellingham
Jackie is startled to find a boy in her mirror instead of her reflection. She finds him intriguing and is amused by his antics, but desperately tries to suppress him whenever she fears that her mom will see him. This reaches its c...

TRICKYYY, 3min., Canada
Directed by Jeromy Desjarias
music video in Los Angeles California

Director Statement
"I am doing this because I love the process. I love the journey its very rewarding to watch people watch my videos and smile and laugh."

DIANA, 5min., India
Directed by Avirup Biswas
Diana is an animal lover. A boy kills several dogs in the neighborhood where she lives.

Director Statement
I made this film to awake society that animals has rights to leave in our world

SUMMER RUN, 12min,. Italy
Directed by Cecilia Brianza
A man, who loves running, is fascinated by a desperate girl who lives in isolation in a house in the Umbrian countryside. The encounter will leave a mark on both their lives.

https://www.facebook.com/corsadestate

Director Statement
"Summer...

IT'S NOT DARK YET, 10min., Italy
Directed by Rossano B. Maniscalchi
IT’S NOT DARK YET is a film that deals with the theme of violence against women, presenting a story of female solidarity. The protagonists are women who, from generation to generation, speak to other women through example and sto...

A PRAYER FOR THE CHILDLESS, 9min., India
Directed by Sandeep Ravindranath
A Prayer for the Childless is the story of Bhoomi - a woman struggling against the crippling stigma of childlessness in a conservative Indian society where status of women is defined by the idea of motherhood. Juxtaposing h...

CRACK, 29min., India
Directed by Allabhya Ghosh
It is a political drama film that explores the so-called development of an elected government in a democratic system. A crack is not just on the bridge; it is all over the country. The crack is getting wider, so here it is being written; the manifes...

LA ULTIMA MOLA (Mor nabbi duggugi yolesad), Panana, 5min., Panana
Directed by Ornel Alvarado, Roberto Villafane
BURSOB is the last indigenous woman of her ethnic group. After almost all of humanity became extinct due to a strange disease, she made a trip to her region that had also disappeared. U...