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Narrative Feature

BAD VEGAN AND THE TELEPORTATION MACHINE

Dir: Antón Goenechea, United States, 89 min, 2015, Narrative Feature

Lily, a struggling stand-up comic in NYC, falls for Spike, a childhood geek turned handsome physicist who seduces her, spawning a whirlwind of insanity in ... more »


BOREALIS

Dir: Sean Garrity, Canada, 95 min, 2015, Narrative Feature

JONAH, an unemployed gambler, takes his estranged pot-smoking teenaged daughter AURORA on a dangerous road trip to Churchill, Manitoba to show her the magn ... more »


CREEDMORIA

Dir: Alicia Slimmer, United States, 90 min, 2016, Narrative Feature

Candy injects the "fun" in her dysfunctional life. When your brother is found by a neighbor naked and drunk, you're stuck with a caveman of a boyfriend, yo ... more »


CROOKED & NARROW

Dir: Neal Dhand, United States, 89 min, 2015, Narrative Feature

Amy Walsh returns to Philadelphia after 10 years to visit her ex-cop, current-con father and to join a stick-up crew. After a job gone wrong, Warren Mercer ... more »


DELINQUENT

Dir: Kieran Valla, United States, 96 min, 2015, Narrative Feature

Delinquent is the story of Joey, a 17-year-old in rural Connecticut who finds the idea of following in his father's footsteps as a small-time crook romanti ... more »


EMBERS

Dir: Claire Carre, United States, 85 min, 2015, Narrative Feature

After a global neurological epidemic, those who remain search for meaning and connection in a world without memory. Five interwoven stories explore how we ... more »


FORBIDDEN CUBA

Dir: Art Jones, United States, 80 min, 2016, Narrative Feature

"Forbidden Cuba" is a dramatic comedy. It follows Gil Bigelow, an American businessman sent on a covert mission to Cuba to find an executive gone rogue and ... more »


HELMSMAN

Dir: Majid Esmaeili Parsa, Iran, 86 min, 2015, Narrative Feature

Hassan is a boy who that is trying to revive his family ship for his father's birthday. His father has left the house and did not return after the drying o ... more »


LAPACHHAPI (Hide N Seek)

Dir: Vishal Furia, India, 110 min, 2016, Narrative Feature

Lapachhapi is a haunting story of a young couple based in the heartland of India. The wife Neha (Pooja Sawant) is eight months pregnant when the couple see ... more »


LIFE OF SIGNIFICANT SOIL

Dir: Michael Irish, United States, 71 min, 2015, Narrative Feature

As Conor and Addison trudge through their failing relationship they realize suddenly that they are trapped. Working together in an attempt to escape what s ... more »


LOVE IS ALL YOU NEED?

Dir: Kim Rocco Shields, United States, 123 min, 2015, Narrative Feature

Bullying, prejudice, and human rights with a twist: Imagine our world where homosexuality is the social norm and heterophobia is common. This award winnin ... more »


REMITTANCE

Dir: Patrick Daly & Joel Fendelman, United States, 90 min, 2015, Narrative Feature

When Marie takes a job as a maid in Singapore to support her family in the Philippines, she trades one set of hardships for another. Betrayed by her husban ... more »


Narrative Short

ALBERTINE

Dir: Alexis Van Stratum, Belgium, 20 min, 2015, Narrative Short

Since the death of her husband, Albertine, 81, was isolated from the world and disconnected from all social life, apparently waiting for death impatiently. ... more »


BIG BAD WORLD

Dir: Catherine Kelleher, Australia, 13 min, 2016, Narrative Short

Precocious teenager Ellie wants to introduce her inexperienced new friend Neha to the big wide world. They defiantly skip school for an afternoon of thrill ... more »


CRONOS

Dir: Chieh Yang, Taiwan, 10 min, 2015, Narrative Short

In vacation with his girlfriend and his son, a father has to face an uncontrolled jealousy for the young boy. ... more »


DREAMLANDS

Dir: Sara Dunlop, England, 13 min, 2016, Narrative Short

17 year old Pixie is a tough-talking, wild and beautiful hedonist. In a dead end seaside town on the British coast, she and her friends have spent their su ... more »


FATA MORGANA

Dir: Amelie Wen, China, 20 min, 2016, Narrative Short

Inspired by true events, Fata Morgana tells the story of a Chinese couple who must examine their relationship's fractures -- and future -- after they arriv ... more »


FILM BY VERA VAUGHN, A

Dir: Sorrel Brae, United States, 10 min, 2015, Narrative Short

In this ghost story for the digital age, filmmaker Vera Vaughn works late into the night, editing her suspense/thriller about a woman jeopardized by a myst ... more »


GOOD MAN, A

Dir: Kai Gero Lenke, United States, 8 min, 2015, Narrative Short

When a man tries to save a young girl, he loses a part of himself. ... more »


INSTANT ZERO

Dir: Yannick Mourcia, France, 18 min, 2015, Narrative Short

Eve, a girl ill at ease, goes to a rather strange patient at the request of his mother, a nurse at home. She will discover a mysterious object: an ancient ... more »


JAGON

Dir: Murat Eyüp Gönültas, Germany, 20 min, 2015, Narrative Short

An old hunter finds the lost rosary of a mysterious saracen princess, which keeps an old secret power. ... more »


KILLER

Dir: Matt Kazman, United States, 20 min, 2015, Narrative Short

When Dusty masturbates for the first time, something bad happens... ... more »


LAY IT ON ME

Dir: Michelle Larkin, United States, 9 min, 2015, Narrative Short

If this mattress could talk.... It would share a series of sincere, relatable stories about the human condition. ... more »


LIGHTNINGFACE

Dir: Brian Petsos, United States, 19 min, 2016, Narrative Short

An origin story, of sorts -- LIGHTNINGFACE stars Oscar Isaac as Basil Stitt, who in the aftermath of an inexplicable incident, decides to sequester himself ... more »


MDUDU BOY

Dir: Ella Smith, England, 20 min, 2016, Narrative Short

Football is Mdudu Boy's world. But he isn't allowed to play with the big boys as he might get 'stepped on.' Asking why he's called MDUDU it's pointed out t ... more »


MEDIATOR, THE

Dir: Parker & Graham Phillips, United States, 15 min, 2015, Narrative Short

A cowboy mediator seeks to resolve a dispute between a boy and an indian. ... more »


NELLY

Dir: Chris Raiber, Austria, 16 min, 2015, Narrative Short

A car drives through the snow. Behind the wheel is Nelly. She is thirteen years old. Nelly wants to go home. Separating her from her goal are three questio ... more »


OFF TRACK BETTY

Dir: Clayton Dean Smith, United States, 19 min, 2015, Narrative Short

In a disappearing corner of New York City, a longtime resident realizes she no longer recognizes the neighborhood that she calls home. Unsure about her fut ... more »


PATRIOT

Dir: Eva Riley, United States, 14 min, 2015, Narrative Short

Against the backdrop of simmering racial tensions within her rural English community, the life of eleven year old Hannah changes forever when she meets a b ... more »


PLEIN SOLEIL

Dir: Fred Castadot, Belgium, 24 min, 2015, Narrative Short

Under the leaden sky of a summer day, Eric is driving to his workplace to present an important project. But the stress makes him forget what matters the mo ... more »


SABINE

Dir: Sylvain Robineau, France, 14 min, 2016, Narrative Short

After a difficult break-up, Franc, the owner of a video store, decides to get out of his misery by making movies of a different style. ... more »


SO GOOD TO SEE YOU

Dir: Duke Merriman, United States, 10 min, 2015, Narrative Short

In this darkly comic take on the dual realities of friendship, a dinner party goes painfully sour. ... more »


SUCK IT, BOSS

Dir: Joe Rendón, Mexico, 14 min, 2015, Narrative Short

Hernandez leads a miserable life under the pressure of his pathetic and unbareable boss, Peralta. After a chain of lay offs from the company, Hernandez's w ... more »


TIMMY BROTHERS -- WATER MAKERS, THE

Dir: Paul Riccio, United States, 5 min, 2015, Narrative Short

THE TIMMY BROTHERS: WATER MAKERS is a quick, funny look at Bill and Terry Timmy, Brooklyn-based makers of artisanal drinking water. Carried overland by the ... more »


TWO SISTERS

Dir: Keola Racela, United States, 16 min, 2015, Narrative Short

Two North Korean sisters' breath stopping journey of defection. ... more »


VANILLA

Dir: Juan Beiro, Spain, 10 min, 2015, Narrative Short

Life is talking about silly stuff with the people you love. ... more »


Documentary Feature

CHINA'S 3DREAMS

Dir: Nick Torrens, Australia, 85 min, 2014, Documentary Feature

From a thousand year old village in southwest China, a young woman searches for a meaningful existence. This leads her deep into China's hidden history - a ... more »


CITY OF TREES

Dir: Brandon Kramer, United States, 76 min, 2015, Documentary Feature

Since 1990, nonprofit Washington Parks & People has tried to reduce poverty and violence in Washington, D.C. neighborhoods by improving parks. At the heigh ... more »


DEPROGRAMMED

Dir: Mia Donovan, Canada, 86 min, 2015, Documentary Feature

Deprogrammed is a feature-documentary about the rise of Ted 'Black Lightning' Patrick's deprogramming technique and anti-cult crusade. Deprogramming, as a ... more »


FARMER/VETERAN

Dir: Alix Blair & Jeremy Lange, United States, 82 min, 2016, Documentary Feature

After three combat tours in Iraq, Alex Sutton attempts a fresh start hatching chickens and raising goats on 43 acres in rural North Carolina. Alex embraces ... more »


HOW SWEET THE SOUND -- THE BLIND BOYS OF ALABAMA

Dir: Leslie McCleave, United States, 89 min, 2015, Documentary Feature

Filmed over the course of ten years, How Sweet the Sound is the first film to tell the story of this legendary gospel quartet. The Blind Boys of Alabama m ... more »


IF PROJECT, THE

Dir: Kathlyn Horan, United States, 90 min, 2015, Documentary Feature

A compassionate Seattle police officer creates a unique writing program along with a group of inmates at a maximum-security women's prison, challenging the ... more »


REBOUND, THE

Dir: Shaina Allen, United States, 65 min, 2015, Documentary Feature

Miami is a city known for its sports and diversity. For the Miami Heat Wheels it is a city of opportunity, second chances, and a call to win - against all ... more »


SUSTAINABLE

Dir: Matt Wechsler, United States, 95 min, 2016, Documentary Feature

America is facing a food crisis driven by profitability and a lack of consumer education. While the window to transforming our heartland continues to shrin ... more »


SWEET DILLARD

Dir: Jim Virga, United States, 55 min, 2015, Documentary Feature

One of the most successful high school jazz bands in the country is in Broward County, South Florida, just steps away from highway I-95. Sweet Dillard chr ... more »


Documentary Short

ALIVE & KICKING: THE SOCCER GRANNIES OF SOUTH AFRICA

Dir: Lara-Ann de Wet, United States, 20 min, 2015, Documentary Short

Filmed in the heart of Limpopo, South Africa the village grannies "Vhakegula Vhakegula" lace up their soccer boots and start kicking their way through cent ... more »


AWANA

Dir: William Silva Reddington & Guille Isa, United States, 11 min, 2015, Documentary Short

Awana follows the journey of a handmade scarf made by a weaver in a rural village in Peru. ... more »


BAMAKO CHICKEN

Dir: Habib Yazdi, Mali, 4 min, 2015, Documentary Short

Aba Diko prepares chicken dinner in Bamako, Mali. ... more »


BRAVE BUNCH. THE UPRISING THROUGH CHILDREN'S EYES, A

Dir: Tomasz Stankiewicz, Poland, 30 min, 2015, Documentary Short

A Brave Bunch. The Uprising through children's eyes. When the Warsaw Uprising started in 1944, thousands of children lived in the city. Brave Bunch is abou ... more »


FREE TO LAUGH

Dir: Lara Everly, United States, 15 min, 2015, Documentary Short

Free to Laugh is a short doc about the power of comedy after prison. ... more »


GOOD BUSINESS

Dir: Robert Schermbrucker, South Africa, 25 min, 2015, Documentary Short

A man's fight to build an ethical company in an immoral country. The true story of Raymond Ackerman's commitment to grow Pick n Pay retail chain birthed d ... more »


IN CRYSTAL SKIN

Dir: Michaela O'Brien, Colombia, 18 min, 2015, Documentary Short

In Bogotá, Colombia, a charismatic eleven year old named Maria Alejandra struggles to maintain a normal childhood despite the limitations imposed by a rare ... more »


J'OUVERT

Dir: Philip Bell, United States, 15 min, 2015, Documentary Short

New York's J'ouvert overwhelms the senses during the pre-sunrise hours as it marks the start of Carnival festivities. Steel bands are ushered down Brooklyn ... more »


LAFMS: HOW LOW CAN YOU GO?

Dir: Holly Thompson & Mark McNeill, United States, 16 min, 2016, Documentary Short

These irreverent, LA-based experimental musicians have been fearlessly exploring sound since the early 1970's. The collective is bonded by friendship and a ... more »


LAST SHIP

Dir: Daniele Ragusa, Italy, 10 min, 2015, Documentary Short

In the same places where "La Terra Trema" by Luchino Visconti (1948) was filmed, the Rodolico family has been building ships for four generations. If yeste ... more »


MORIOM

Dir: Mark Olexa & Francesca Scalisi, Switzerland, 12 min, 2015, Documentary Short

Summer 2014. Rural Bangladesh. "I came from Heaven. I came to destroy all bad things in the world. I'm a police officer. I'm a flower angel. I got a job at ... more »


MUHAMMAD ALI - ME WHEE

Dir: Arny Stone, United States, 25 min, 1975, Documentary Short

Screening for the first time in 40 years! Shot in 1975 in and around his training camp in Deer Lake PA. and in Las Vegas "Me Whee" captures an incredible ... more »


OUSTAZ

Dir: Bentley Brown, Chad, 22 min, 2016, Documentary Short

In 1999, I move with my family from Texas to Chad, where I am introduced to the town Arabic headmaster to begin learning Arabic. At the same time that this ... more »


PATROLLING SANDY HOOK

Dir: Caroline Clark & Kelly Quinn, United States, 20 min, 2016, Documentary Short

The mass murder of twenty children and six adults inside an elementary school is still hard for many to believe...and some choose not to. Three years after ... more »


THRIVE

Dir: Paul Szynol, United States, 13 min, 2015, Documentary Short

A short documentary about the prodigious talent and irrepressible spirit of a musically precocious 12 year old blind boy who plays the piano. ... more »


WILLIAMSBURG HOUSES, THE

Dir: Tessa Rex& Irene Bartolomé, United States, 14 min, 2015, Documentary Short

This film gazes into the architecture and lives of the occupants of one of the most ambitious public housing projects ever built in the US. Exploring the r ... more »


WOLFFLAND

Dir: Laura Checkoway, United States, 14 min, 2016, Documentary Short

Story of NYC artist, Mia Wolff, who is forced out of her TriBeCa loft, the process and surprising resolution. With animation and paintings by the artist. ... more »


WRESTLING ZA'ATARI

Dir: Daniel B. Levitt, United States, 12 min, 2016, Documentary Short

This documentary tells the story of Mohammad Al-Krad, Syria's national wrestling champion now living in Jordan's Za'atari refugee camp. ... more »


Animation

AMÉLIA & DUARTE

Dir: Alice Guimarães & Mónica Santos, Portugal, 8 min, 2015, Animation

In this story we are guided through the relationship of Amélia and Duarte, two people that felt out of love and are trying to cope with the feelings that c ... more »


BORROWED TIME

Dir: Lou Hamou-Lhadj & Andrew Coats, United States, 7 min, 2015, Animation

A weathered Sheriff returns to the remains of an accident he has spent a lifetime trying to forget. With each step forward, the memories come flooding back ... more »


CABINET DECISION, THE

Dir: Mayan Engelman, Israel, 4 min, 2014, Animation

Israel and Palestine, two entities competing over their one beating heart. Will they both survive? ... more »


EYE FOR AN EYE

Dir: Steve Bache, Mahyar Goudarzi & Louise Peter, Germany, 4 min, 2016, Animation

Frederick Baer spent over a decade on death row in Indiana State Prison. He is still waiting for his death penalty to be executed. Hand-drawn animated Do ... more »


FLIRT

Dir: Rahel Gerber, Switzerland, 6 min, 2015, Animation

Fabrics make wishes tangible. Dreams woven from airy fabrics make wishes tangible. Walter is a loner. Hanging up his laundry the resident sees how easily ... more »


FROM THE EASTERN LANDS

Dir: Sarah Tabibzadeh, Iran, 5 min, 2015, Animation

The story of a familiar love between a young couple in the eastern lands who live neighborhood of gravity. Main point of their meeting, separation and Join ... more »


IN A GOOD WAY

Dir: Yi Ju Tsai, United States, 4 min, 2015, Animation

"In a Good Way" is an 2D animation short about the fear of social value. The poetic story addresses how society tries to shape and distort people, to evok ... more »


IN DEEP WATERS

Dir: Sarah Van den Boom, Canada, 12 min, 2015, Animation

From the moment they are conceived, twin babies forge a close bond in their mother's womb. But when one twin dies during the pregnancy, the surviving twin ... more »


JUNCTION

Dir: Nathan Jurevicius, Lithuania, 7 min, 2016, Animation

For generations the Face Changers have made the clay tokens that alter the winds and faces of their kin. This month the youngest is tasked to take the ten ... more »


KILL IT 4 THE KIDS

Dir: Chris Ullens, England, 3 min, 2015, Animation

A cute and colourful handmade town sees the arrival and consequences of capitalism hit the town in bold and comic stop-motion animated footage synced on "K ... more »


LAST DOOR SOUTH

Dir: Sacha Feiner, Belgium, 15 min, 2015, Animation

The world is made of floors linked together by stairs. The floors are made up of rooms linked together by corridors. And when you put together all the floo ... more »


LILOU

Dir: Rawan Rahim, Lebanon, 8 min, 2015, Animation

Lilou is extremely sensitive and curious, but also crippled by an unbearable shyness. She receives the power to see into the past of people, and that will ... more »


MECHANICAL WALTZ

Dir: Julien Dykmans, Belgium, 6 min, 2015, Animation

On this dark and rainy morning, the puppet people trudge off to work. From day to day the routine never changes, their gazes never meet. Are they aware tha ... more »


MY HOME

Dir: Phuong Mai Nguyen, France, 11 min, 2015, Animation

Hugo's mother is back home. The day after, when Hugo wakes up, he finds black feathers all over his house. ... more »


NINA

Dir: Emmanuel Elliah & Maria Körkel, Belgium, 8 min, 2015, Animation

Six-year-old Nina plays at the beach at the seaside, together with her older brother. Soon after, he abandons his sister to play with another boy. Being le ... more »


OLILO

Dir: Ao Li, United States, 6 min, 2015, Animation

Olilo is a 2D animation that tells the story of an introverted girl held captive by her own semi-transparent personal space. Created through a combination ... more »


PEACEFUL REFLECTIONS OF THE APOCALYPSE

Dir: Tom Hunt, United States, 3 min, 2015, Animation

A man recalls his brief foray around town immediately following the Rapture. ... more »


RABBIT BLOOD

Dir: Yagmur Altan, Turkey, 5 min, 2016, Animation

Just an ordinary day at an old mysterious Turkish country house where its residents have an extraordinary way of brewing tea. ... more »


RED EGG

Dir: Hoi Chiu, Hong Kong, 4 min, 2016, Animation

RED EGG is sand animation consist of 1582 individual sand painting. The story is about ones life from start to the end, with the desire of chasing dream am ... more »


REVOLTOSO

Dir: Arturo & Roy Ambriz Rendón, Mexico, 30 min, 2016, Animation

Revoltoso is a stop-motion short film that tells the story of a little one-eyed boar who lives in Don Gonzalo's hacienda during the Mexican Revolution in 1 ... more »


ROSSO PAPAVERO

Dir: Martin Smatana, Slovakia, 5 min, 2015, Animation

Once upon a starry night, a small boy with a head full of fantasies witnesses dreamlike circus performances. Dazed by endless chain of glittering attractio ... more »


SEXY LAUNDRY

Dir: Izabela Plucinska, Canada, 13 min, 2015, Animation

How can the flames of desire be rekindled after 25 years of married life? Izabela Plucinska's erotic comedy, made entirely through the use of modelling cla ... more »


STATIC RUN

Dir: Sean Ye, United States, 4 min, 2015, Animation

"Static Run" is a 2D animated short about a paranoid man trying to get away from some unseen threat. When the dread becomes unmanageable, he surprisingly f ... more »


TRIAL & ERROR

Dir: Antje Heyn, Germany, 5 min, 2016, Animation

A film about a lost shirt button, perfectionist aunts, busy cats, startled parrots -- and a long-lost friend. ... more »


ZODIAC RUN

Dir: Gabriel Silva, United States, 2 min, 2015, Animation

In a time and place very far away and different from our own, twelve animals gather for a race. These twelve animals are all vying for the first place, but ... more »


Experimental

#MEAT

Dir: Marc van den Broek, Germany, 7 min, 2016, Experimental

#MEAT distills a hundred years of human inventiveness and arrives at a wordless digital dystopia that's as inescapable as man's thirst for knowledge and po ... more »


AMBROSIA

Dir: Qin Yuke, China, 25 min, 2016, Experimental

A restless ghost, a suicidal clown, a philosopher who transformed into a golden diamond, a training maniac in the body of a dwarf, a masochistic woman, a d ... more »


BLUE BIRD

Dir: Rodrigo Zanforlin, United States, 6 min, 2014, Experimental

Blue Bird is a conceptual fashion short film about a girl who kill her innocence 'blue bird' in order to get what she really wants, power. ... more »


COSMIC KID, JUST LANDED

Dir: Jason Evans, United States, 3 min, 2016, Experimental

Shot on the Canal Street in Chinatown, New York, this film shows a traveller engage with his new surroundings through his unique physical presence. A perfo ... more »


ERASURE

Dir: Ana Teresa Fernández, Mexico, 6 min, 2015, Experimental

On the 26th of September of 2014, 43 poor young men, students from a rural teacher's college were kidnapped in Iguala, Mexico, because their activities mig ... more »


FREEDOM-TO GO!

Dir: Ingrid Nachstern, Ireland, 9 min, 2015, Experimental

Freedom-to go! is a commentary on present day USA, in verse form. It comments on child beauty pageants, war, sex and celebrity culture ... more »


FROST

Dir: Jo Roy, Canada, 4 min, 2015, Experimental

Set in the Mojave Desert, a group of contemporary dancers illustrate the human journey. ... more »


INTERFACE

Dir: Mel Hsieh, Taiwan, 3 min, 2015, Experimental

This animated film rests on the idea that digital media is like a transparent, thin layer of skin that shields our notion of self, and also the ability to ... more »


MONODRAMA ODYSSEY

Dir: Patricia Gloum, United States, 1 min, 2016, Experimental

This video is a representation of the convergence of multi-dimensional layers of past and present, reflected in the constant of humanity. It's an homage to ... more »


NEW GUARDS

Dir: Charlotte Sclapari, United States, 3 min, 2015, Experimental

In a modern setting, a young black woman contends with our collective dark and painful history, forcing us to face the stark realities of our past. ... more »


OCEAN PICTURE

Dir: Daniel Ryan, United States, 4 min, 2015, Experimental

Enveloped in the cinematic soundscape of musical duo, Big Noble (award-winning sound designer Joseph Fraioli and Interpol guitarist Daniel Kessler), "Ocean ... more »


PANTY SYMPHONIC, THE

Dir: Zach Strum, United States, 13 min, 2015, Experimental

When Arnold dies before finishing his will, a rat race ensues for his most prized possession--a pair of panties. Comic and irreverent, this nearly wordless ... more »


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