The film focuses on the empowerment of female monastics and the innovation of gender roles in Vajrayana Buddhism. The film has two frameworks: an outer framework that focuses on rising status of Tibetan nuns in previously male dominated religious structures, and an inner framework that focuses on...

A fascinating short documentary on a traditional glassmaker deep in the southern German Black Forest, and his thoughts and feelings about what this 7000-year-old craft has taught him about life.

Directed by Holger E. Metzger

Music by Aleksandar Zavišin

Subject: Dirk Bürklin

Director Statement...

https://instagram.com/iam.lakesha

Directed by LaKesha Sowell

We scrutinise and curate how we move through the world for fear of the undesirable and unpredictable in ourselves surfacing. But when we repeatedly recognize this fear as part of ourselves do we shed the instinct to overpower it. Only then do we begin freeing fear instead of fighting it.

Directe...

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In the midst of a toxic triangle with the love of his life, and her abusive boyfriend, Shawn Anderson, a college student blinded by love, is seeing his world fall apart.

Unable to help Shawn see the toxicity of this relationship with Kayla Murrieta, his best friend L...

https://instagram.com/beautiful_untrue_tingz

Elements is a solo choreography that is the intersection of nature, fashion, Venusian imagery, and movement. Elements is an exploration of dance/movement and the elements of nature, earth, sun, water and air. The natural influences and sounds of these...

http://www.nathanstfilms.com/
https://instagram.com/nathansetiabudi

After falling witness to a violent murder, a man fears the killer returning to tie loose ends.

Student film from Loyola Marymount University

Writer/Director Nathan Setiabudi

Cinematographer: Kieran Armstrong

CAST: Preston Sa...

A man finds his grandfather's old camera with a bizarre message.

Written & Directed by Joe Petito

Cameraman - Ignacyo Matynia

http://www.reverse-lefilm.com/
https://www.instagram.com/lenoir.christophe/

With the help of her alters, an ex-spy with dissociative identity disorder hatches a plan to get revenge on the one-eyed, the man who tried to kill her.

Writer/Director Christophe Lenoir

CAST: Camille Solal, Chick Orte...

Saint seeks to present a process of evolution that is about spiritual change, technology, and identity of a human being. Through the transformation in 3 layers of clothings, which represent the past, present, and future in time, the identity of the dancer was exposed through the generating and re...

Mysterious figures dance within a shrouded, watery world of textures. Hidden images reverberate with accompanying sounds of glass harmonica.

Directed by Steve Socki

Music by Gary Chang

BIO of director:

Steve Socki is an independent animation artist and an associate professor at DePaul Univer...

When a young, power-hungry drug dealer discovers the love of his life has been unfaithful with a member of his crew, he and his right-hand man seek revenge.

Directed by Derek Bauder

CAST: Giancarlo Beltran, Derek Bauder, Jorge Rodriguez, Emily Rose Hernandez, Sheypan Draus

Tomás, desperate, knocks insistently on the door of a lonely house. Nobody opens it. When he leaves the place, he sees some bushes moving and goes into a wooded path. Along the way, from his memories, he faces several episodes of fear in his life until he reaches the exit of the path, which takes...

To write and create the short art experimental film “13 Strokes…” [Dark Traces (Collective), Publishing House Iliaxtida, Athens, September 2022] i was inspired by my short story “Thirteen Strokes”, concentrating on the heart of the narrative, the uncured trauma that keeps on taking up space in th...

Pogo and best friend Flower are always in search of something new to do. They love to help others in need and are very keen to jump in with innovative ideas to do so.

https://www.delvalentinoproductions.com/
https://www.instagram.com/richie_valentino/

Created by Richie Valentino

Cast: Nicole K...

Directed by Curtis Jensen

Produced by Jean-Paul De Roover

Musicians: Jean-Paul De Roover, Scott Edwards, Jared Schaaf, Mack Davis

"The Mayan Train" is a project to be built in the Yucatán Península, México. The construction has been fast-tracked to start in 2020 ignoring social and environmental concerns.

Shot among remnants of an old railroad line and exploring different concepts, this experimental film interprets the spa...

A mischievous 8-year-old girl unleashes a twisted Christmas nightmare, when her plans to capture Santa Claus go horribly wrong.

http://www.thelastchristmasfilm.com/
https://www.facebook.com/thelastxmasfilm
https://twitter.com/thelastxmasfilm

Director Statement
Growing up in England during the 8...

After an obsessive teenager sneaks into the trailer of their lifelong idol, a recently canceled actor, the two embark on a cross country journey of forced dreams and the impossibility of escaping the past.

CAST LIST:

Narrator: Allan Michael Brunet
Blue - SImone Brazzini
Jack: Geoff Mays
Sky...

Two refugees from a broken land have to fight their way into civilization.

http://www.quietflame.org/almost-there

Directed by Chuck Johnson

Director Statement:

As an immigrant to Japan myself, I created this film to be a visual representation of the struggle of immigrants and refugees told t...

A young man's attempt at a first contact with a love interest is hijacked in a most entertaining way.

Directed by Mariana Conde

http://ctrl-app.com/
https://www.facebook.com/ctrlshort
https://twitter.com/ctrlmovie

Director Statement
C.T.R.L is undoubtedly unconventional. Whilst it paints the p...

The sensuality of being alone.

Directed by Victoria Lacoste, Penelope Caillet

https://www.edelweissfilmproductions.com/
https://instagram.com/edelweissproductions

Director Statement
The world is full of love stories. But the most important one of them all is the one that is the least told. Int...

A boy and girl return from a night out, but this isn't your typical date night.

Directed by Tony Marquez

Starring: Cina McKenna

After the recent break up of a longterm relationship, Maeve must move through nostalgia and pain to find herself again.

Directed by Jean-Marc Abela

Performer/Artistic Director: Elie-Anne Ross