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LONG DISTANCE

Drama (7 mins) United States
Directed By: David Thompson
Written By: David Thompson
Produced By: David Thompson, Jennifer Shadd
Cast: David Thompson, Vesta Tuckute, Jennifer Shadd

Synopsis:A traveling man learns of his mother’s degrading health through a series of voicemails.

AMBROSIA

Drama, Sci-Fi (8 mins) United States
Directed By: Leif Jeffers
Written By: Leif Jeffers
Produced By: Amy Geist
Cast: Stefanie Estes, Max Lichtig

Synopsis: When a controversial pill that promises eternal life (with a 50% chance of sudden death) appears on the market, a young couple must decide if they’re going to risk their lives to chase after immortality or accept growing old together.

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APPyness

Comedy, Sci-Fi (11 mins) United States
Directed By: Ryan Turner
Written By: Kathleen Roosa, Danielle Roosa, Ryan Turner
Produced By: Danielle Roosa, Ryan Turner, Tanner Sawitz
Cast: Danielle Roosa, Gavin Leatherwood, Jona Xiao, Kevin Andrew Grady, Ray Stoney

Synopsis: A troubled young woman tests out a new app that lets her control when and how she feels emotions.

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TO BLEED TRUE

Drama (12 mins) United States
Directed By: Karl Richter
Written By: S. Christian Roe
Produced By: Timon Birkhofer
Cast: Kayla Sarian, Barbar Eliodorio

Synopsis: A Photographer with a supernatural ability to see the future encounters a client who’s future changes her own.

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SAMMY

Short (14 mins) Australia
Directed By: Dana-Lee Mierowsky Bennett
Written By: Dana-Lee Mierowsky Bennett
Produced By: Rachele Wiggins , Enzo Tedeschi (EP) , Dana-Lee Mierowsky Bennett (EP)
Cast: Coco Jack Gilies, Heath Jelovic, Harry Pavlidis, Tanika Douglas, Rob Flanagan

Synopsis:In a war torn Australia where survivors seek refuge underneath the ground, 10-year-old Sammy struggles to build a hot air balloon so she and her little brother Max can find their parents.

DONOR BABY

Drama (15 mins) United States
Directed By: Sean-James Murphy
Written By: Lauren Caster
Produced By: Lauren Caster, Sean-James Murphy
Cast: Lauren Caster, TJ Power, Adam Cardon

Synopsis: Sam is just another donor-conceived child who gave up hope of ever finding her donor-dad until, one day, she gets a call that could change her life forever.

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I LOOK AT YOU ALL

Comedy, Dramaa (15 mins) United States
Directed By: Hernán Bornás
Written By: Hernán Bornás
Produced By: Hernán Bornás
Cast: Ziggy Bornas, Martín Solá, Michelle Liu Coughlin , Eva Crichton

Synopsis: Bowie is a lonely ten year old boy struggling to overcome a monumental loss. Equipped with a fantastic imagination, his best friend and a complete stranger, he attempts to navigate his way through love, death and friendship, in search of real answers. Ultimately forcing him to confront the possibility that sometimes it’s just the way is and that’s just the way it is.

OFFICE SONG

Short (15 mins) United Kingdom
Directed By: Marcus Markou
Written By: Marcus Markou
Produced By:Muireann Price
Cast: Terry Mynott , Georgia Maguire , Tim Plester , Farshid Rokey , Kelda Holmes

Synopsis: It’s another office affair – one of thousands. But in Office Song, the inner world of ordinary office workers and their humdrum lives bursts into life with poetry and something greater than the sum of their tedious working day is revealed.

RUMOR

Drama (16 mins) United States
Directed By: Christian Hammons, Eric Coombs Esmail
Written By: Christian Hammons
Produced By: Christian Hammons
Cast: Sophia Hammons, Max Echarte, Ryan Byers, Tuomo Tarkka, Gavin White, Jonas Tarkka

Synopsis: In a small town on the High Plains, a girl learns that her brothers have kidnapped the bully who drove her twin to suicide. What will she do?

THE DEEP END

Drama (10 mins) United States
Directed By: Emma Grace Wright
Written By: Emma Grace Wright
Produced By:
Cast: Wright, Amy Wright, Tommy Sullivan, Ethan Shumate, Amy Todd

Synopsis: Beau wants to be just like the boys, yet most of his middle school peers won’t make room for a kid with Down syndrome. An unexpected invitation from a classmate changes everything.

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CLOD

Short (12 mins) United States
Directed By: Benjamin J Murray
Written By: Clayton Jones
Produced By: Incline Productions, Mark Jones, Kerri Jones, Russell Lambert, Shirley Sturdivant, Dr. Robert Rosebrock, Kari Lauritzen
Cast: Clayton Jones, Keeley Manca, Preston Alkire, Sloan Biel , Ruby Biel

Synopsis: A young boy, Kip, is caught trying to start his mom’s car. In trouble, he anxiously anticipates his punishment from his father, which takes quite the unexpected turn. After a day of working on the ranch the father and son duo find themselves stranded on the side of the road with a broken-down truck. Kip pushes his dad’s patience one last time before the day is done.

HYPERNOVA

Drama (13 mins) Canada
Directed By: Tate Young
Written By: Tate Young
Produced By: David James Fernandes
Cast: Lisinska, Dalmar Abuzeid, Matthew MacFadzean, Juno Rinaldi, Nicole Stamp

Synopsis: A businesswoman struggles to navigate her increasingly alienating world, disconnected from her work, colleagues, and husband. Lost in grief, can she find connection amidst the chaos? A spellbinding, visually surprising drama of modern inner life, told using the expansive metaphors of outer space.

MICKY

Short (13 mins) United States
Directed By: Aimee Hoffman
Written By: Aimee Hoffman
Produced By: Andrea Hoffman, Daniel Toman
Cast: Mikhala Hoffman

Synopsis: In San Francisco where homelessness is rapidly growing, a young woman travels the streets in search of a home and independence but discovers that comfort is not always a place.

LITTLE FRENCH FISH

Short (13 mins) United Kingdom
Directed By: Eva Lanska
Written By: Marina Kokush and Eva Lanska
Produced By: James Norbury
Cast: Devora Wilde, Jonas Khan

Synopsis: Lea is an artist from an Eastern European Jewish family. Djamil is а young man from the Middle East. They accidentally meet in Paris and fall in love. Their story is filled with passion, romance, and profound tenderness, but it cannot last long as they choose family traditions over their own happiness. Being apart is unbelievable, but will they change their mind if one day they have a second chance? One day, when they accidentally spot each other in a dark cinema hall.

HOSS

Comedy, Drama (14 mins) United States
Directed By: Ryan McGlade
Written By: Ryan McGlade
Produced By: Jordan Axelrod
Cast: Pat Cartwright, Fred Cisterna

Synopsis: Hoss checks in on an empty house and finds a stranger inside.

CHAMBERS

Short (14 mins) United States
Directed By: Victor Villar-Hauser
Written By: Thomas Ronca
Produced By: Thomas Ronca
Cast: Thomas Ronca, Christine Donlon, Clint Jordan

Synopsis: A man standing on the outside of his own life suffers the effects of PTSD, as he attempts to reconnect with his wife. Parker struggles to reconnect with his wife after returning home from a tour of duty. On the surface, he’s doing everything right; he cooks and cleans, goes to therapy, but beneath it all, it’s clear he suffers from PTSD and a mounting isolation that engulfs his world. As he holds onto a fleeting memory of what his life once was, he must ultimately meet his trauma, and make a choice between total escape and perseverance.

GOD IS NOT TO BLAME

Documentary (12 mins) United States
Directed By: Julio Méndez
Written By: Yulma Garcia
Produced By: Yulma Garcia, Kristy Espinoza, Julio Méndez
Cast:

Synopsis: Esther and Cristhian faced a complicated life situation in which they wondered: “God, why me?” After going through a complicated process, they discovered the real reason behind their own circumstances. In this documentary, you will find out who is really to blame.

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HOW TO BEND CONCRETE IN 108 EASY STEPS

Documentary (17 mins) United States
Directed By: Mahesh Madhav
Written By:
Produced By: Mahesh Madhav, Sean Conley
Cast: Neal Aronowitz, Chris Schoeffel

Synopsis: Engineering meets art as we follow a designer in his efforts to bend industrial concrete into beautiful furniture. Underneath the documenting of the physical process of manifesting the sculpture, we also document the ethos and mental process of ideation, discovery, and presentation, capturing what all content creators struggle with on every project.

CINEMATOGRAPHER

Documentary (60 mins) United States
Directed By: Dan Asma
Written By:
Produced By: Nicole Jones
Cast:

Synopsis: A story about the personal and professional life of one of Hollywood’s most prolific cinematographers.

DOUBLE EXPOSURES

Romantic, Comedy (7 mins) Canada
Directed By: Sagi Kahane-Rapport
Written By: Becca Willow Moss
Produced By: Becca Willow Moss, Mariana Ospina-Arteaga
Cast: Becca Willow Moss, Blake Murray, Emil Glasbourg

Synopsis: Romance flourishes in a church as a young couple questions their identity in the context of religion. A surreal, experimental questioning of sex, religion and surveillance plays out in a lyrical, avante garde mixed media short film.

SILENCES

Short (9 mins) United States
Directed By: Ohad Ira Amram
Written By: Ohad Ira Amram
Produced By:
Cast:

Synopsis: A young couple shares one last conversation in the wake of a car accident that proves to be a revelation.

ROBIN

Drama (10 mins) Ireland
Directed By: Shane McCabe
Written By: Brian MacEvilly
Produced By: Jason Forde
Cast: Rex Ryan, Katie Honan

Synopsis: Two attempted-suicide survivors find solace in one another’s company through the intercession of a little bird who lives in the garden where they have been hospitalized.

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A HANDFUL OF RUST

Drama (11 mins) United States
Directed By: Conor Chandler Simpson
Written By: Conor Chandler Simpson
Produced By: Lisa Lee
Cast: Katie Chang, Camille Chen, Mystic Inscho

Synopsis: Inheriting the family junkyard when her father dies unexpectedly, 18 year old Simone makes eccentric punk music with her troubled savant brother and battles their short-fused mother intent on sending him away. This is a volatile coming of age story about redefining life after death, salvaging beauty from decay, and collaborative music-making as a vessel of perseverance through harsh realities.

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THICK AS THIEVES

Romantic Comedy (12 mins) United States
Directed By: Sam Fichtner
Written By: Sam Fichtner
Produced By: Revell Carpenter, Sam Fichtner, Luke Lenza
Cast: Revell Carpenter, Luke Lenza, Nicole Wolf, Stephen Friedrich, Erin Dinsmore

Synopsis: Gary and Rose are just your average millennial couple attending their first dinner party as a couple. He’s excited; she’s nervous. They both want to make a good impression. But the moment Rose walks through the door, Gary can tell that Rose is anything but average. She’s a first rate thief. Once Rose flips into gear, nothing is safe. The pearls, the artwork, the cash? It’s all up for grabs for Rose. Gary tries desperately to keep things under control, to middling success. Once they finally make it back to his place, Rose is forced to come clean about her true identity.

IT’S ME

Drama, Thriller (15 mins) United Kingdom
Directed By: Helen Randag
Written By: Anya Beyersdorf
Produced By: Lee Magiday, Co-Producer Russell Curtis
Cast: Maxine Peake, Barney Harris, Russell Tovey

Synopsis: This is a dark tale of a game that cannot be sustained. Set over the course of an evening, a mother remembers moments from a game she played with her son throughout his childhood. Tragedy strikes when he unexpectedly returns.

NEW BRONX

Short (15 mins) Poland
Directed By: Filip Ignatowicz
Written By: Filip Ignatowicz
Produced By: Gdynia Film School
Cast: Kaczyńska, Agnieszka Platta, Łukasz Gawroński

Synopsis: Natalia is a boyish and impulsive girl in her mid-teens living in a rough part of Gdansk, Poland. Her crush on a boy from her neighbourhood becomes an obsession and she is prepared to do anything to get close to him. But when she finally reaches her goal, everything suddenly changes.

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LUSH LIFE

Drama, Thriller (17 mins) United States
Directed By: Kyle Haggarty
Written By: Kyle Haggarty
Produced By: Kyle Haggarty, Travis Grant, Chase Ziegler, Laura Russo
Cast: Travis Grant, Chase Ziegler, Cristin McCleary, Katie Lynn Stoddard, Heather Higginbotham

Synopsis: Five young men and women drift through a drug ravaged urban night.

THE SHITSHOW HOUR

Comedy, Sci-Fi (11 mins)
Directed By: Luiza Justus
Written By: Luiza Justus
Produced By: MJ Soler, Kelsey Longo
Cast: Kiera Prinz, Sara Romanello, Liz June, Madelyn Murphy, Ivy Elwell

Synopsis: Nothing good happens after 2 am. Three drunk college students learn this the hard way after the sudden death of their friend at a party. Determined not to let this annoying inconvenience ruin their night, they sloppily hide the body and seek out Crambuddy, a phone app designed for studying that can rewind the clock by one hour. They ignore a warning not to use the app unless the body has not been moved, and travel back to 2 am to save the friend only to realize they’ve broken time and cloned themselves in the process.

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BEAST OF EDEN

Drama (73 mins) United States
Directed By: Elliot Worth
Written By: Elliot Worth
Produced By: Eleanor Epstein, Eron Epstein, Valerie Epstein
Cast: David Marmer, Cristian Caridad, Caleb Thomas, Phillip Cook, Dan Tippen, Seth Martin, Adam Kirby

Synopsis: Thadius Miles has been driving for days on end. He’s a washed up Hollywood actor with a penchant for drinking on a mission to expose the producer who abused him as a child star. Exhausted, he pulls over in small Tennessee town where, over the course of one day, his world turns upside down.

ONE LETTER AWAY

Drama (3 mins) Not Specified
Directed By: Luke Sahagian
Written By: Luke Sahagian
Produced By: Eleanor Epstein, Eron Epstein, Valerie Epstein
Cast: Luke Sahagian, Julian Lewis

Synopsis: One letter away from a different perspective

MAY WE ALL GET TO HEAVEN

Comedy (7 mins) United States
Directed By: Jacob Mullen
Written By: Jacob Mullen
Produced By: Jacob Mullen, Dan Nguyen
Cast: Liana Montemayor , Marcuse Henderson, Lisa Mullen

Synopsis: A young woman searches for her missing brother

BAD FURNITURE

Comedy (10 mins) United States
Directed By: Randall Maxwell
Written By: Randall Maxwell
Produced By: Christina Lee
Cast: Keene McRae, Rhian Rees, James Earl

Synopsis: A man insists on being furniture for his wife.

TRACES

Drama (12 mins) Belgium
Directed By: Pins Sébastien
Written By: Pins Sébastien
Produced By: Pins Sébastien
Cast: Alexandre von Sivers, Salomé, Hinnekens Amandine, Messens Sarah, von Sivers Alexandre

Synopsis: Over the seasons, we follow a logger and his horse in the depths of the Ardennes forest, and see him live his passion through the eyes of an odd young girl.

CORKSCREW

Short (14 mins) United States
Directed By: Alec Huggins
Written By: Alec Huggins, Tim Clark
Produced By: Tim Clark, Nicole De Meneses
Cast: Kai Liu, Tim Huls

Synopsis: Rich Jenkins is a middle-aged man who finds himself at a standstill after a divorce with his longtime wife. Rich needs to shake things up. He goes to his favorite diner, orders a slice of pie, and tries to win over an escort’s heart.

MABEL

Drama (14 mins) United States
Directed By: Kimberley Wintle
Written By: Kimberley Wintle
Produced By: Kimberley Wintle
Cast: Kimberley Wintle, Alexander Dreymon, Christopher Ashman, Cat Limket, Alex Benjamin, Kelly Musslewhite, Julyz Commodore, Rhoda Pell, Daniel Lench, Lauren Swann

Synopsis: Emerging from great loss, quirky Mabel finds a life affirming connection in a kind, attentive barista, but is the time right? Mabel, 30-something writer, whose only friends are her tortoise Piña, the memory of her best friend Joan, and charming barista, Jack, at her local café.With a little encouragement, she plucks up the courage to ask Jack out, but it may not be the best time.

THROW LIKE A GIRL

Drama (15 mins) United States
Directed By: Seri DeYoung
Written By: Gregory Shelby
Produced By: Gregory Shelby, Nicole Jones-Dion, Flannery Maney, Suzi Owen Scott
Cast: Sierra Pond, Lauren Elyse Buckley, Gianni Paolo, Thea Gill, Gregory Shelby, Josh Archer, Sala Baker, Hans Marrero

Synopsis: Despite the odds, Tanya Benter dreams of playing Major League Baseball. Her brother Brian has helped her become one of her high school’s best players. After the game, Tanya has a discouraging conversation with her coach. She realizes that dreams of hitting the big time are foolish. Tanya decides to quit. That evening, as she secretly and desperately searches the internet for ideas about how to compete with the boys, she is visited by Jackie Mitchell, the mysterious young woman from earlier, who at age of seventeen struck out Babe Ruth and Lou Gehrig in 1931. Electrified by Jackie’s true story, Tanya peppers Brian with ideas for a new way forward.

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SOLDIER’S HEART

Drama (139 mins) United States
Directed By: Michael Feifer
Written By: Michael Feifer
Produced By: Michael Feifer, Peter Sherayko
Cast: Rob Mayes, Neal Bledsoe, AnnaLynne McCord, Jake Busey, Val Kilmer, James Russo, Jay Pickett, Michael Bowen, Michael Welch, Gabrielle Stone, Luke Judy, Savannah Judy, Tonantzin Carmelo, Rick Mora

Synopsis: When two angels appear at civil war veteran Frank Conner’s door in the form of two young children, he’s dragged back into a life that he thought he escaped years earlier. Now with the kids in tow, Frank has no choice but to face demons and a love from his past ultimately leading to a harrowing conclusion to this epic story with moral undertones that harken back to the great westerns of the past.