A small crime creates ripple effects in a neighborhood that brings devastating consequences, pushing race relations further in reactionary fallout.

Project type: Fiction Short
Writer/Director/Producer: Chloe Owens
Producers: Tamara Rhoads, Markus Linecker

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How do we set aside grief when our loved ones need us most? Up for an Oscar, aging actress Margaret Green dons her fur coat while her husband, Harold, dons his bravest face.

Director: Sarah Showich
Writer: Farah Hosseini
Producers: Charlie McCollum, Scott Brian

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Suzanne, a seemingly perfect wife, has a secret: she’s obsessed with grade A meat, and the local butcher who knows how to handle it. When her dream of a chance encounter comes true, Suzanne is met with a surprise that upends her sense of self.

Project type: Fiction Short
Writer/Director: Emily Frances Kaplan
Producer: Tory Lenosky, Breanne Thomas

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Defying the odds in 1960s America, a young gas station attendant and a college graduate turn a chance meeting into a lifetime of possibilities.

Project type: Fiction Short
Writer/Producer/Actor: Britnie Banks
Producer: Caity Ware

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A self-involved teen and her overworked, single mom come to a head with their differences as their mobile home is repossessed … with them inside of it.

Project type: Fiction Short
Director/Producer/Writer: Sharon Arteaga
Producer: Chelsea Hernandez
Producer: Sommer Garcia Saqr
Production Designer: Ashley Landavazo

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In a desertified landscape, on the brink of environmental catastrophe, a genderless being drifts into a society in crisis, whose troubles are all too easily pinned on the arrival of this “unknown”.

Project type: Fiction Short
Director: Anastasia Eleftheriou
Producer: Nathaniel Draper
Writer: Moritz Pfeifer

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Project type: Fiction Short
Writer/Director: Francesca de Fusco
Producer Allegra Isenberg, Molly Gillis
Cinematographer: Sofia Camargo Hoyos
Editor: Karishma Dev Dube, Christian Marsiglia

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A gay spaghetti western about a group of vainglorious #instagays whose trip to Fire Island takes a dark turn when they accidentally murder their token friend of color.

Project type: Fiction Short
Writer/Director: Dhruv Sud
Producer: Clarissa Blau
Producer: A.C. Smallwood
Executive Producer: Max Emerson
Cinematographer: Vaughn Greve
Editor: Hazel McKibbin

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Intermediacy weaves the extraordinary life of Jewish, gay sexologist and activist Dr. Magnus Hirschfeld (1868-1935) with eight vibrant stories of LGBTQIA+ Berliners today. This dynamic interplay reveals the timeless nature of queer joy and struggle while contemplating the potential of tomorrow's liberation.

Director/Producer: Alex Yakacki

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Marcus Belgrave made his reputation as a trumpet player with Ray Charles, Motown’s Funk Brothers, and Charlie Mingus. Yet when he had the opportunity to leave Detroit for larger opportunities, he stayed behind to become a teacher and community leader, sacrificing the limelight to ensure that the future of his art form was safe in the hands of the next generation.

Project type: Nonfiction Feature
Director: Timashion Jones
Producer: Bradley Torreano
Director of Photography: Jeremy Brockman

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Invisible Children of LA is a documentary exploring the daily lives of three homeless children. It shows how they cope and survive in a variety of settings from shelters, run-down motels and vehicles to the parks and alleys of Los Angeles. Woven throughout their stories will be interviews with frontline homeless advocates, politicians from the Los Angeles city council and members of the California Senate.

Project type: Nonfiction Short
Director/Producer: Maryana Palmer
Narrator: Mimi Kennedy
Editor: Tina Imahara

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When a storm knocks out the power to her iron lung, a polio survivor and her engineer sister find themselves in a race against time to find a new way for her to breathe.

Project type: Fiction Short
Writer: Vee Saieh
Director: Andrew Reid
Producer: Marie Alyse Rodriguez, Carmen Quiros

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In rural Spain, a tumultuous romance blossoms between a visiting American and a local soccer rival.

Project type: Fiction Short
Writer/Director: Tusk
Production Company: Tusk Creative & Japonica Films
Producer: Cookie Walukas
Producer: Gerard Rodríguez
Producer: Laura Fernández-Hormigo
Producer: Frank Lucas

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In this sweeping 40-year romance set in Beirut, two star-crossed lovers, one an eternal optimist and the other an impulsive pragmatist, must decide if they want to build a family and chart a track to happiness, despite the tragic fates ravaging contemporary Lebanon.

Project type: Fiction Feature
Writer/Director: Cyril Aris
Producer: Jen Blake, Georges Schoucair, Georg Neubert, April Shih

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Follow Ugandan elders "jajas" as they share how climate change has turned their world upside down. Floods, droughts, storms - the once reliable seasonal patterns have turned to chaos. It is unlike anything the jajas have seen in their long lives, and it is undermining their ability to live off the land as they have for decades.

Project type: Nonfiction Short
Director: Summer Spell
Cinematographer: Alvin K Masagazi
Producer/Operations Manager: Rennie McVicker
Producer/Fundraising Manager: Chloe Vann

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Project type: Fiction Short
Writer/Director: Cristhian Barron
Executive Producer Denys Sanjinés Rodriguez
Producer Mariana Sandoval

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At the rural rodeos in Michoacán, México, a hypermasculine tradition is rife with hidden queer encounters. Guided by director Efraín, Jaripeo follows two rancheros as they navigate desire, machismo, and mass migration from one rodeo season to the next.
Director: Efraín Mojica
Director: Rebecca Zweig
Producer: Sarah Strunin
Producer: Victoria Gutiérrez Fernández