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When rent gets raised, Mike and his post-grad buddies make the most of their last year living together, before losing their dreams in the digital age. As reality closes in, the comfort of their aimless routines starts to unravel, forcing Mike to decide whether to finally move forward or keep coasting in the city that never quite felt like home.
Writer/Director: Ben Oliphint
Producer / Actor: Matthew Wassong
Co-Writer / Actor: Co-Writer/Actor
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Like marionettes on a toy stage, the ghosts of Masao’s past haunt the countryside in this tale of a Hawai‘i family facing the imminent death of their eldest.
Project type: Fiction Feature
Director: Christopher Yogi
Producers: Sarah Kim
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A modern day poet muses on how the AIDS crisis prepared him for Covid, and opened the gates of grief for healing. His own poetry found in an old notebook unearthed during Covid, brings the AIDS crisis to life, with all its sadness and fierce friendships. Political activism and art meet in this window into the past.
Project type: Nonfiction Short
Director/Producer: Annie O'Neil
Cinematographer: Samantha Isom
Editor: Will Allen
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Desperate to sell her childhood home, Nikita, a queer South Asian woman, discovers what’s making the place “unsellable”: the ghost of her deeply religious, recently deceased mother, who will do whatever it takes to get to Heaven.
Project type: Fiction Short
Writer/Lead Actor/Producer: Rita Sengupta
Writer: Jyostna Hariharan
Director/Producer: J. Mehr Kaur
Producer: Alisha Bhowmik
Executive Producer: D'Lo
Cinematographer: Neeraj Jain
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Tired of being single, a gay man in his last week of college decides to try experimenting with women. It can’t be that hard...right?
Writer/Director: Michael Iannaconi
Producer: Matthew Wassong
Producer: Aech Hanratty
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Project type: Fiction Short
Writer/Director: Konstantin Pivovar
Producer/Co-Director: Lilia Le Dieu
Director of Photography: Luísa Dalé Silva
Supervising Sound Editor: Andrey Dergachev
Composer: Juan Luqui
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Grieving parents struggle with the loss of their daughter. An elegy on grief.
Project type: Animation
Writer/Director : Will McCormack
Writer/Director: Michael Govier
Producer: Maryann Garger
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A matriarch, a prostitute, and a teacher, yearning to heal their own internal wounds, embark on a perilous journey through the snowy west, to try to save a young girl from parenthood.
Writer/Director : Kylie Mungenast
Producer: Destiny Greer
Producer: Liz Davis
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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, Maya Oster
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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 public health researcher’s data contradicts the government’s lies, forcing her to choose between exposing the truth around a deadly outbreak or walking away to protect her family.
Project type: Fiction Short
Writer/Director/Producer: Terra Wellington
Consulting Producer: Nina Martinek
Composers: Alexa L. Borden and Connor Cook
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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, Alex Bendo, Lexi Preiser, Yumeng Han
Cinematographer: Sofia Camargo Hoyos
Editor: Karishma Dev Dube, Christian Marsiglia
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Infinite Lives tells the story of 83-year-old gamer Kent Neveu as he reflects on his relationship with video games since 1976 and how it has affected his life ever since. Kent embarks on a new quest to get under the hood of his favorite games by traveling to Bethesda Game Studios with his son Brett. Infinite Lives explores the intersections of technology, aging, games, and reality as we see how games can bring people together.
Director: Curtis Matzke
Producers: Brett Neveu, Britta Erickson
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During a tense encounter in a bar bathroom, Bash gets trapped in a time loop with his ex-best friend—and his only hope of escape is to confront what tore them apart.
Writer/Director: Aron kantor
Producer: Jordan Nöel Hawkes, Michael J. Wolf
Director of Photography: Jesse M. Feldman
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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