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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Andrea Noel, a young American journalist, falls into a social media spiderweb after being assaulted on the street and receiving threats for reporting, which leads her to uncover a network of bots hiding the most intimate secrets of Mexican politics.

Director: Maria Prieto
Producer: Rafael Ley
Producer: Andrea Toca

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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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Three worshipers are selected to endlessly pray to a mysterious plain Column inside an empty closed hall, but after years of no result, one of them stops and questions their bizarre experience. As he starts to wonder if their never-ending practice will ever pay off, their dynamics escalate and reach the point of no return. Each worshipper needs to decide whether they should leave or keep praying in hopes of finally being rewarded.

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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Exploring how a single technological advancement transforms purpose and possibilities, IF/THEN follows egg freezing pioneer Dr Debra Gook as she approaches retirement and leaves behind a little known, but hugely impactful legacy in reproductive medicine - meanwhile two women using Dr Gook's technology grapple with expectations of motherhood and womanhood in contemporary society.

Director: Chloe Taylor
Producer: Diana Ward
Cinematographer: Simon J. Walsh

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In 1978, while hunting for oil beneath the Yucatán gulf waters, a young geologist’s magnetometer finds something impossible —a buried scar over a hundred miles wide. What he uncovers didn’t just end the age of dinosaurs and open the door for humanity. It could happen again —and almost no one will believe him.

Producer: James Guyer
Director: Matt Shapira
Writer: Kevin Bernhardt

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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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Yearning for romance, a single Black woman takes her dating life into her own hands in a very unconventional way leading to consequences she never saw coming.

Writer/Director/ Executive Producer: Nikita T. Hamilton
Executive Producer: Jodine Gordon

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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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Life for Fede, a high school student living in nun-run housing in Italy is reliably routine until a new visitor arrives, inspiring her to go out of her way to make a connection.

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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