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09:24 LOCAL, THE
Dir: Dhananjay Kapoor, India, 6 min, 2003, Narrative Short
Over 5 million people commute every day in 2000 suburban ("local") trains in Mumbai. During rush hour, more than 4,500 passengers travel in a single train ... more »
113 DEGREES
Dir: Sabrina Doyle, United States, 21 min, 2012, Narrative Short
A fable of love, sacrifice and spaceships. Francesca and Joe are astronauts who've become lovers. Bunkered up in their little spaceship, Earth is a distant ... more »
16MMONSTER
Dir: Jacob Kindlon, United States, 12 min, 2015, Narrative Short
An explorer is collecting plants in the forest when he is attacked by a monster, and chased into an abandoned city. Lost among the towering spires with a m ... more »
3 Sleeps
Dir: Christopher Holt, United Kingdom, 18 min, 2019, Narrative Short
Based on a true Story.9-Year-old Casey lives on a tough London estate with her mum and two young sisters. When Mum leaves the girls home alone ... more »
50 CENTS
Dir: Mathijs Geijskes, Netherlands, 5 min, 2005, Narrative Short
a street, a woman and a man... A young woman has to pass a homeless man in her street. She doubts if she will give the man some money; Will he buy alcohol ... more »
7 Star Dinosor Entertainment
Dir: Vaishali Naik, India, 20 min, 2021, Narrative Short
Few years back, Sudhir and Vinod- two brothers- put up a Business together, '7 Star Dinosor Entertainment'. Dressed as giant dinosaurs they would dance to ... more »
8:38
Dir: Imole Ladipo, United States, 9 min, 2025, Narrative Short
At 8:38 PM, May wakes up in a room with no memory of how she got there. Given one lifeline call, she must piece together the truth before time runs out, bu ... more »
9 METER
Dir: Anders Walter, Denmark, 17 min, 2012, Narrative Short
16-year-old Daniel is a long jumping talent who is constantly breaking his own records. Setting new records is a way for him to keep his dying mother alive ... more »
A Fairy Tale
Dir: Zoé Arène, Belgium, 21 min, 2021, Narrative Short
Apprentice filmmaker, Juan makes a documentary portrait of Coco, a thirty-something-year-old marginal.The film is quickly called into question wh ... more »
A FEELING CALLED GLORY
Dir: Coreen Mayrs, Canada, 28 min, 1999, Narrative Short
A delightfully morbid and life-affirming story about a quirky summer friendship between two oddballs who have unique and opposing outlooks on coping with l ... more »
A FISTFUL OF KEBAB
Dir: Roar Uthaug & Espen Egeland, Norway, 9 min, 1999, Narrative Short
A dusty kebab dive. Twelve heavily armed men. A stranger without a name. An extra strong kebab.... Norway's first kebab western. ... more »
A Lien
Dir: Sam & David Cutler-Kreutz, United States, 15 min, 2022, Narrative Short
On the day of their green card interview, a young couple confronts a dangerous immigration process ... more »
A South Facing Window
Dir: Lkhagvadulam Purev-Ochir, France, 20 min, 2025, Narrative Short
Azaa and Shagai, a couple in their late 20s, are livingin Ulaanbaatar, Mongolia with their 6-year-old daughter. On the verge of divorce, they search for ha ... more »
A VISIT TO NY
Dir: Brenden Flynt, United States, 6 min, 1999, Narrative Short
A German mother flies to New York City to visit her daughter and finds out she quit an important internship to become an actress on Broadway. ... more »
A WHOLE NEW DAY
Dir: William Garcia, United States, 18 min, 1999, Narrative Short
Bukowski meets Stanley Kowalski in the form of James Gandolfini's portrait of Vincent. Vincent is a blue collar "family man" of Italian decent who has a dr ... more »
ABOUT A GIRL
Dir: Brian Percival, England, 9 min, 2001, Narrative Short
This is a Film About a girl experiencing the hopes and the dreams of an average northern working-class teenage girl. ... more »
Abyss, The
Dir: Eduardo Moreno, Mexico, 12 min, 2022, Narrative Short
Sonia defended herself. For the first time, she confronted her abusive boyfriend Alan, who now lies dead as a result of an apparent accident. Without famil ... more »
Achiever
Dir: Charlie Traisman, United States, 14 min, 2025, Narrative Short
When Alexa finds she can no longer orgasm due to her new antidepressants prescription, she embarks on a desperate journey to get off by any means possible, ... more »
Act of God
Dir: Spencer Cook, Parker Smith, United States, 22 min, 2022, Narrative Short
ACT OF GOD follows a day in the life of Stuart, a disabled man whose life is a mess. His caregivers are abandoning him and for good reason: he's an asshole ... more »
ACT OF TERROR, AN
Dir: Ashley Paige Brim, United States, 16 min, 2017, Narrative Short
The true story of Virginia Christian, a 16-year-old African American girl accused of murder in the Jim Crow South. ... more »
Action
Dir: Benoît Monney, Switzerland, 6 min, 2021, Narrative Short
On a film set, there are always unforeseen events. Some days, it's all there is. And sometimes it's even worse. ... more »
Acts of Kindness
Dir: Ben Strebel, United Kingdom, 15 min, 2025, Narrative Short
A student and her tutor sit in an office, navigating the end of their illicit affair. As they circle their wounds, reality fractures, revealing a new world ... more »
ACTS OF KINDNESS
Dir: Ben Morris, England, 10 min, 2002, Narrative Short
An act of kindness, or a piece of opportunism? Joseph finds himself in a more interesting situation than he had hoped for. ... more »
AERIS
Dir: Lukas Huffman, United States, 18 min, 2016, Narrative Short
Terra Madley is living her childhood dream. She is a breakout professional snowboard star on the competition tour. When she suffers a debilitating injury s ... more »
AFTER A DREAM
Dir: Tobias Schmuecking, Germany, 17 min, 2014, Narrative Short
Filmmaker Luzie has a strange dream that makes her wake up with the feeling of having found an incredible story Luzie investigates the nature of this drea ... more »
AFTER THE SNOW
Dir: Brooke Sebold, United States, 8 min, 2010, Narrative Short
A gun rests on a pregnant belly, rising and falling with the quivering breaths of June Allman. Through the frosted windows of her car, June glares at a lon ... more »
AFTER TOMORROW
Dir: Emma Sullivan, England, 15 min, 2009, Narrative Short
Returning to the village of his estranged wife, James grows increasingly concerned when the sinister owner of the guest house refuses to let him leave. A ... more »
AGORA
Dir: Chris Newberry, United States, 8 min, 2001, Narrative Short
The Greek word "agora" refers to a space set aside for public gatherings, such as the ancient marketplace. "Agora" is used in the English language as a pre ... more »
Aicha
Dir: Sanaa El Alaoui, Morocco, 25 min, 2025, Narrative Short
A 17-year-old girl struggles with an emotionally distant mother as her life takes a tragic turn. The mother joins a mystic ceremony to face her grief and t ... more »
AIRPLANES
Dir: Jen Heck, United States, 10 min, 2006, Narrative Short
Airplanes is the story of two teenage girls who secretly hook up one day at a traveling carnival. Although their encounter is brief, like an airplane it's ... more »
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 »
Alien Culture
Dir: Iesh Thapar, United Kingdom, 16 min, 2018, Narrative Short
West London, 1979. Racial tensions are running high. Lucky thinks his brother is in trouble, but the truth is far from what he expected. ... more »
Alien of Extraordinary Ability
Dir: Raghav Puri, United States, 17 min, 2022, Narrative Short
A talented Indian actor faces imminent deportation unless he can book a broadway show to prove he is worthy of an O-1 "Extraordinary Ability" visa. ... more »
Alive
Dir: Jimmy Olsson, Sweden, 24 min, 2020, Narrative Short
Victoria is disabled and she yearns after intimacy and her assistant Ida offers to help by making a Tinder profile. Victoria gets a match but the guy she i ... more »
All's Well
Dir: Paulina Casey, United States, 18 min, 2023, Narrative Short
In the grip of a mental breakdown, Kyra moves through New York City in one failed attempt to connect after another. A final, fruitless encounter on Coney I ... more »
Alphabet Pam & Alphabet Zelda
Dir: Eva Saks, United States, 6 min, 2004, Narrative Short
ALPHABET PAM is about Pam, who has a passion for the Letter P. ALPHABET ZELDA is about Zelda and Zachary's hunt for the Letter Z. ... more »
ALTER EGO
Dir: Cédric Prevost, France, 20 min, 2008, Narrative Short
In a park of Paris, Esther and Nadir come across each other, having apparently very little in common. Apparently... ... more »
AMAL
Dir: Ali Benkirane, France, 17 min, 2004, Narrative Short
Amal is a 12 year old girl who lives in the Morocco countryside. Everyday, she wakes up and walks with her brother to the school located a few miles away f ... more »
AMATEURS, THE
Dir: Kai Gero Lenke, United States, 15 min, 2013, Narrative Short
Edward and Kevin are two big-mouthed teenagers who know sexuality mostly from watching internet porn. One day they decide to hire an actress to finally bec ... more »
Ambush | Kameen
Dir: Yassmina Karajah, Canada, 20 min, 2025, Narrative Short
A pop-up techno club disrupts Amman as two strangers confront desire, distance, and an inevitable encounter. ... more »
American Marriage
Dir: Giorgio Fontana, United States, 14 min, 2018, Narrative Short
Leonardo, an Italian immigrant who lives in New York, marries a Latina woman, Nikki, to obtain the American greencard. Through the comedy of it all Nikki a ... more »
American-istan
Dir: Ali Godil, United States, 7 min, 2021, Narrative Short
A rich girl from Pakistan must adjust to lower class American life after getting an arranged marriage.After leaving her family, Iman sacrifices e ... more »
AMNESIA
Dir: Margaret Harris, United States, 14 min, 2000, Narrative Short
A troubled young woman holds vigil, trying to remember a nightmare she'd rather forget. ... more »
AMPHIBIOUS
Dir: Ghazal Partou, Canada, 13 min, 2023, Narrative Short
When Raha, a 27-year-old Iranian-Canadian immigrant, finally decides to meet a man she has only seen in a photo after ten years of isolation, Iran undergoe ... more »
An Act of Love
Dir: Lucy Knox, Australia, New Zealand, 11 min, 2018, Narrative Short
The intimate connection between identical twins May and June is tested when one attempts to step beyond their shared identity. ... more »
An Invitation
Dir: Yeung Tung, Hao Zhao, China, 13 min, 2021, Narrative Short
An 8-year-old boy reluctantly visits his divorced father in Hong Kong, who wants him to become a Hong Kong citizen. They both keep secretive intentions and ... more »
Anatomy of a F*ckBoy
Dir: Fatimah Asghar, United States, 20 min, 2025, Narrative Short
Anatomy of a f*ckboy follows a young director, as she makes a documentary delving into ELI, a misunderstood charming queer person who has recently had a sm ... more »
AND IT WAS GOOD
Dir: Graham Waterston, United States, 19 min, 2014, Narrative Short
A man and a woman reconnect after a long separation, realize they're still in love and, immediately, get married. Their excitement quickly fades when the e ... more »
And Life for All
Dir: Mohsen Asdaghpour, Iran, 20 min, 2025, Narrative Short
In a world where suicide requires a government permit, Nader, a man seeking to end his life, enters a bureaucratic organization to renew his right to die. ... more »
AND WINTER SLOW
Dir: Brian Lannin, United States, 16 min, 2011, Narrative Short
Set on a remote frozen lake in the Adirondack Mountains, "And Winter Slow" is the story of a young woman trying to escape the burden of caring for her aili ... more »
Animal Food
Dir: Jonas Ljung, Sweden, 6 min, 2020, Narrative Short
Animal Food is a dark comedy short about a socially awkward man with an abnormal interest in bird food. What's cultural acceptable to eat, and what's not? ... more »
ANIMALS
Dir: Joakim Thörn, Sweden, 14 min, 2022, Narrative Short
ANIMALS is short film by director Joakim Thörn about a teenage deer who, after her mother has been shot dead, struggles to find her place in life. Together ... more »
Anna and the Inexpressible Feeling of Being Lost
Dir: Philip Gibson, New Zealand, 9 min, 2018, Narrative Short
Anna hides in her room, paralyzed by her fear of the future. A short film exploring the inner turmoil that stems from alienation and anxiety. ... more »
Antelope
Dir: Diego Murillo, Venezuela, United States, 14 min, 2019, Narrative Short
In the midst of winter, a Venezuelan woman exiled in Brooklyn deals with daily work, a recurring appearance and unsettling messages from back home. ... more »
Apollo
Dir: Giles Perkins, United States, 14 min, 2024, Narrative Short
15-year-old Angus considers the sacrifice he needs to make for the approval of his older brother’s friends. ... more »
APP, THE
Dir: Julián Merino, Spain, 16 min, 2016, Narrative Short
'THE APP' is an application that gives to its customers the steps to achieve happiness. One day, Benito a fat and not very bright man, wakes up in his luxu ... more »
April
Dir: Cayla Berejikian, United States, 11 min, 2025, Narrative Short
April follows a woman managing an abortion at home while on the phone with her best friend, who is in the late stages of pregnancy. ... more »
ARE WE NOT CATS
Dir: Xander Robin, United States, 12 min, 2012, Narrative Short
A welder discovers his eccentric girlfriend eating his hair subconsciously as they take a truck drive to an abandoned resort. ... more »
ARENA
Dir: Martin Rath, Poland, 23 min, 2013, Narrative Short
Arena is a film about learning to believe in yourself. A hitchhiker is taken in by a remote Polish mountain community. Tested by the hardened locals and t ... more »
ARTIST, THE
Dir: Erik Eger, Sweden, 16 min, 2001, Narrative Short
Frank Rivers dreams of becoming an artist. He believes that if he works hard enough, trying every art-form on the planet, he will have success. But life as ... more »
ASCENT, THE
Dir: Sorrel Brae, United States, 9 min, 2016, Narrative Short
A young woman returns to a centuries-old redwood grove -- the site of a long-ago environmental protest -- to face her past, 250 feet in the air. ... more »
ASH LAND
Dir: Shariffa Ali, United States, 23 min, 2020, Narrative Short
In Ash Land, we offer a portrait of a Black woman who has turned her back on herself, afflicted by a quiet, insidious malaise. Her once-beloved refuge is ... more »
ASIAN GIRLS
Dir: Hyun Lee, Australia, 6 min, 2017, Narrative Short
CHAN is a Chinese factory worker who lives alone. Every night, she suffers from horrific nightmares involving the woman in the apartment next door, a Japan ... more »
ASSESSMENT
Dir: Mark Gutteridge, England, 12 min, 2010, Narrative Short
Rachel's developing adolescent shape is of concern to her tutors at a top London ballet school. Michael, a boy at a local urban school, is struggling with ... more »
Asylum
Dir: Busra Coduroglu, United States, 15 min, 2021, Narrative Short
For Asli, being granted asylum in the US comes at a cost. When Zeynep takes it upon herself to translate, she must decide whether to honor Asli’s safety or ... more »
ATLANTIC CITY
Dir: Miguel Alvarez, United States, 15 min, 2018, Narrative Short
Pony and Junior are two south Texas drifters - brothers in spirit, if not blood. The two come at odds when Junior refuses to help Pony find his estranged m ... more »
Attached
Dir: Kendra Monet, Demetrius Sadler, United States, 15 min, 2025, Narrative Short
ATTACHED is a psychological thriller about a struggling actress named Draya whose past continues to haunt her, while her present causes her to reconcile wi ... more »
AUSTRALIAN SUMMER
Dir: Luke Eve, Australia, 7 min, 2005, Narrative Short
Two men, one alleyway and a whole world to explore. ... more »
AUTOBIOGRAPHY, AN
Dir: Mari Mantela, Finland, 36 min, 2016, Narrative Short
Anja is a woman who knows everything about cars but nothing of herself. ... more »
AUTOPILOT
Dir: J.B. Herndon, United States, 13 min, 2009, Narrative Short
Everything is on autopilot. A bicycle propels forward with no rider and adolescent boys make internet videos. At home, Mark's family drifts in isolation, e ... more »
AVATAR
Dir: Lluís Quílez, Spain, 15 min, 2005, Narrative Short
AVATAR: [1] Accidental event that usually implies a sudden change in the course of something. Change of fortune. [2] Trials somebody goes through. [3] Inc ... more »
AVATAR
Dir: Nicolai Amter, England, 9 min, 2003, Narrative Short
LONDON, 2024. Terror strikes at Heathrow Flight Control Tower. An unknown fault with the landing software has stranded nine planes over London. A race agai ... more »
BABS
Dir: Celine Held, Logan George, United States, 12 min, 2018, Narrative Short
An estranged son discovers an alarming purchase made by his late father. ... more »
BABYLAND
Dir: Marc Fratello, United States, 27 min, 2011, Narrative Short
A woman seeks love and beyond in a small, working class town. ... more »
Back Home
Dir: Nasser Bessalah, France, Algeria, 25 min, 2023, Narrative Short
In a small village of the Béjouï mountains, in North Algeria, Nouria meets Abdel, a French young man who lives and works in Algeria for months. After Abdel ... more »
Balston
Dir: Liisa Kaufman, Carson Marie Earnest, United States, 10 min, 2024, Narrative Short
Rocked out of her insular existence by the bite marks and bristles of a used toothbrush, Balston must make a choice between her safe, superficial existence ... more »
BAREHANDED
Dir: Guillaume Foresti & Stéphane Demoustier, France, 13 min, 2010, Narrative Short
On the bus, Dina is once again overwhelmed by the uncontrollable will power of her hands. They start to fondle the hand of a perfect stranger, Luc. He tak ... more »
Barter
Dir: Ziba Karamali, Emad Arad, Iran, 20 min, 2021, Narrative Short
Parsa -a 13 years old boy- trying to hide a secret from his father... ... more »
BARYE
Dir: Fred Gasimov, France, 11 min, 2006, Narrative Short
Manu, a homeless man living on the streets on Christmas eve, finds some pieces of porcelain in a trash can. He carefully reassembles the fragments to find ... more »
Beau
Dir: Constance Tsang, United States, 17 min, 2020, Narrative Short
Beau, an emerging artist is about to unveil her latest installation. Her lover Paloma, is a devoted supporter and her closet confidante. Her final breakthr ... more »
BEAUTY, THE
Dir: Adam Mcdaid, United States, 6 min, 2013, Narrative Short
Hooves dance on a concrete floor dirtied with straw and mud. Looking down a row of cows harnessed in collars, a burly farmer walks steadily down the line. ... more »
BEFORE THE FALL
Dir: Kamelya Alexan, United States, 11 min, 2016, Narrative Short
In the midst of the American Civil War, a young boy named Thomas, determined to cure his dying mother, wanders into the woods motivated by a mythical story ... more »
BELLY BELLY
Dir: Gabriel Carnick, United States, 12 min, 2024, Narrative Short
As two body-obsessed queer femmes begin to relax the brutal control they exert over their urges, romantic appetites are derailed by deeper cravings. < ... more »
Bembé
Dir: Zayre Ferrer, United States, 12 min, 2025, Narrative Short
A bandless Merengue bandleader hustles her way through the flourishing Latin Music scene of 1980s New York, learning that if you wanna make it, you ca ... more »
Benny & James
Dir: Logan Vaughn, United States, 15 min, 2023, Narrative Short
A man, unsettled by his imminent life-changing decision, suspects his terrifying dream and his husband's daunting parallel encounter might be a signal from ... more »
BEROCCA
Dir: Martin Taylor, England, 13 min, 2004, Narrative Short
Kole, a disabled salesman, takes his autistic son from a care-home, and embarks on a road-trip across the north, to reunite his family; to take his estrang ... more »
Berry Pickers
Dir: Agnes Skonare, Sweden, 15 min, 2021, Narrative Short
Two Thai brothers, NAT (19) and TEM (23), take a large loan to come to Northern Sweden as migrant workers in the berry picking industry, hoping to secure a ... more »
Best Seller
Dir: Nora Kirkpatrick, United States, 15 min, 2019, Narrative Short
When the reigning queen of the Home Shopping Network is killed live on-the-air during a hair drying demonstration gone wrong, her three venomous, power-hun ... more »
BETTER WORLD, A
Dir: Sacha Feiner, Belgium, 24 min, 2012, Narrative Short
Henry, dedicated citizen of a pitiless dictatorship, has always worked intensely at the Denunciation Ministry. But suddenly, the regime collapses; the cold ... more »
Beyond is the day
Dir: Damian Kocur, Poland, 25 min, 2020, Narrative Short
Somewhere in Europe, somewhere in Poland lives Pawel - a simple man working on a small river ferry close to his village. He spends most of his day taking t ... more »
Bicycle Thief, The
Dir: Zach Strum, United States, 2 min, 2023, Narrative Short
A heartbroken cyclist rides across the US on a bike he stole from his ex. ... 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 »
BIG THING, THE
Dir: Carl Laudan, Canada, 9 min, 2004, Narrative Short
1850: First mass-production of vulcanized rubber condoms. 1851: Elias Howe receives patent for an "Automatic, Continuous Clothing Closure" (zipper) 1889: T ... more »
BILL'S SEAT
Dir: Karl Shefelman, United States, 15 min, 2001, Narrative Short
Bill's Seat is a psychological thriller about a young man who stops in a small town with a flat tire only to be trapped in the local bar and accused of ... more »
BILLY TWIST
Dir: Eva Aridjis, United States, 9 min, 1999, Narrative Short
Billy takes action by mounting a military campaign prior to his piano recital. His objective: retrieving his walkie talkie from the enemy (Billy's mom). Hi ... more »
BIOPHILIA
Dir: Marina Michelson, United States, 11 min, 2017, Narrative Short
When an animal dies under her watch, an isolated new farmer is pushed to prove her worth. ... more »
Bird's Nest
Dir: Nadia Louis-Desmarchais, Canada, 9 min, 2022, Narrative Short
Lena, a 7-year-old black girl receives a drawing mocking her hair. With the help of her big sister, they will spend the evening trying to make her beautifu ... more »
Birds of Paradise
Dir: Marissa Velez, United States, 6 min, 2025, Narrative Short
Carmella Cimmino has had enough. For thirty years, she’s been battling the wild turkeys that have taken over her Staten Island neighborhood—and her front l ... more »
BIT ON THE SIDE, A
Dir: Steve Sullivan, England, 12 min, 2006, Narrative Short
A Bit On The Side is a wry story that tries to find some sense in one man's obsession with drills. Tony is fixated with drills of all shapes and sizes. As ... more »
BITTER SWEET
Dir: Yurat Safarov, Russia, 6 min, 2007, Narrative Short
Conceived and shot in the cinema verite style the film tells the wedding celebration story. Sunny day, nice place where all newly married couples come to ... more »
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