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Dir: Rylee Jean, United States, 14 min, 2022, Narrative Short
After losing her job, a flailing millennial is forced to move back into her childhood bedroom and navigate life with her dysfunctional parents. Determined ... more »
BORDER
Dir: Anil Dogan, Turkey, 6 min, 2012, Experimental
Border is about a young man who is waiting for his same day HIV test results. During the time he spends in the doctor's office, He finds himself in a journ ... more »
BORDERLINE
Dir: Lyne Charlebois, Canada, 110 min, 2008, Narrative Feature
Borderline, a film version of the novels Borderline and La Brèche, tells the story of Kiki at various stages of her life. With her mother institutionalized ... 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 »
BORN INTO THIS
Dir: Lea Scruggs & Sean Ryon, United States, 23 min, 2014, Documentary Short
Born Into This examines the American Dream told through an immigrant father and his son's attempt to break into the world of professional boxing. Junior 'S ... more »
BORN TO BE MILD
Dir: Andy Oxley, England, 15 min, 2014, Documentary Short
The modern world is constantly speeding up. But not for the Dull Men's Club - a group of men quite content with life's more sedate pleasures. ... more »
BORN TO FLY
Dir: Catherine Gund, United States, 83 min, 2013, Documentary Feature
Born to Fly harnesses the thrill and energy of Elizabeth Streb's Brooklyn-based STREB Extreme Action Company. Inter-cutting archival footage from decades o ... more »
BORN WRONG
Dir: Kaisa El Ramly, Finland, 19 min, 2016, Narrative Short
Born Wrong depicts a moment in the lives of two adult sisters in which they have to face one another in a shared taxi ride. The interdependently addictive ... 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 »
BOSSBABES
Dir: Corey Clifford, Ryan Lagod, United States, 14 min, 2020, Narrative Short
A dark comedy about the cultish worlds of multi-level marketing schemes. Lacey Anne was promised success, friends and the life of a #bossbabe, through the ... more »
BOUNCE
Dir: Marina Shoupe, United States, 5 min, 2007, Experimental
Bounce travels in time to when we were kids, summers were long and un-complicated by time. Bounce returns to the middle present, and we hear a middle aged ... more »
BOX, THE
Dir: Dadomani Studio, Italy, 3 min, 2012, Animation
While his master falls asleep, the dog jumps on the sofa to watch TV, but it has to deal with its master's dreams... ... more »
BOX MAN, THE
Dir: Nirvan Mullick, United States, 5 min, 2002, Animation
In a cold empty city, a man encounters a cardboard box. The box has a small rectangular slit that compels him to take a closer look inside. Stop-motion ani ... more »
BOX WALK
Dir: Tony Fulgham, United States, 15 min, 2013, Narrative Short
A quiet thirteen-year-old and his stepfather track down a wounded deer. The lessons learned in those dark woods aren't fully realized until seventeen years ... more »
BOY IN THE VOID
Dir: Miroslav Macala, United States, 7 min, 2012, Narrative Short
A proud boy opens the door to a masculine world of a hardcore Brooklyn gym and quickly learns that the image he has of himself is seen much differently by ... more »
BOY SALOUM
Dir: Audrey Gallet, France, 74 min, 2013, Documentary Feature
They are thirty years old. They have fire in their bellies. They have charisma. In 2011, a few young Senegalese rappers created a social movement called Y' ... more »
BOYLAND
Dir: Gabe Rubin & Felix Bernstein, United States, 19 min, 2015, Experimental
Boyland tells the story of the young muse, James (played by musician James Coarse), as he is photographed by Meyer (played by poet Kevin Killian), and haun ... more »
Boys & Toys
Dir: Kevin P. Alexander, United States, 13 min, 2019, Narrative Short
30-something Abby hits on a younger guy at a bar. Things get awkward when it turns out she already knows him. ... more »
Bracha
Dir: Mickey Triest, Aaron Geva, Israel, 13 min, 2020, Narrative Short
During the Covid-19 lockdown, Bracha is wandering in the middle of the night, holding a mattress over her head. Her anxious mother, Nitzi, has a hard time ... 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 »
BREACH
Dir: Lorenzo Monti, Monaco, 6 min, 2018, Experimental
After going through a breakup, experimental musician Isra struggles to compose. Her inner emotional chaos seems to be taking over her creativity. In order ... more »
BreadWinners
Dir: C.Haines , United States, 9 min, 2022, Narrative Short
A customer service representative of a major gun manufacture, Wade Nelson, picks up the phone call of a lifetime. On the other end, of the phone is Hank Ca ... more »
Break the Fire
Dir: Mei Li, China, 5 min, 2018, Animation
Break the Fire is a five-minute 2D computer animated short about a young queen who lost her father when he fought a dragon to protect his kingdom. In order ... more »
BREAKING IN
Dir: Adepero Oduye, United States, 4 min, 2014, Narrative Short
One afternoon in Sunset Park, another black boy gets broken in. ... more »
BREAKING UPWARDS
Dir: Daryl Wein, United States, 88 min, 2008, Narrative Feature
Breaking Upwards explores a young, real-life New York couple who, battling codependency, decide to intricately strategize their own break up. Based on an a ... more »
Full details » | Trailer » | Grand Chameleon Award, Best Narrative Feature
Breakthrough, The
Dir: Daniel Sinclair, United States, 14 min, 2022, Narrative Short
Jane and Teddy are on the brink of divorce – but when their marital problems come to a sticking point, they have an unexpected breakthrough. ... more »
BREAKTHROUGH
Dir: Ricardo Mehedff, Brazil, 10 min, 2001, Narrative Short
A struggling writer sits before a blank computer screen. Suddenly inspiration comes knocking of his door. ... more »
BREATHE ME
Dir: Carmen Rozestraten, United States, 9 min, 2006, Experimental
This exquisitely shot film takes us on the hypnotic voyage of a beautiful young woman through a playful and sensual collage of broken dreams. ... more »
BRETON
Dir: Christophe Switzer, France, 20 min, 2020, Narrative Short
1962, South of France. A wine grower is reluctant to let his elder son go away to school, even though he is at the top of his class. The boy confides in Br ... more »
Brexicuted
Dir: Chris Shepherd, France, United Kingdom, 6 min, 2018, Animation
This satirical animation considers why Brexit is happening. A variety of British characters, interviewed the day after the UK voted to leave the EU, speak ... more »
BRIDGE OVER THE RIVER, THE
Dir: Jadwiga Kowalska, Switzerland, 5 min, 2016, Animation
A man on a bridge, separated from the love of his life. Wanting to be with her one last time, he decides to go and seek her in the hereafter. ... more »
BRIEF PEACE, A
Dir: Ata Hayati, Iran, 52 min, 2004, Documentary Feature
Twenty years after the disappearance of the young Iranian Ali, his mother can finally bury him. He used to work for the air force and died as a martyr, she ... more »
Bristled
Dir: Scott Farrell, United States, 5 min, 2018, Animation
After countless blind dates that have gone poorly, Bernard swears that his next date will be ""the one."" But could her flaw be too much for him to overcom ... more »
BROKE
Dir: Matt Goldman, United States, 20 min, 1999, Narrative Short
Imagine Cassavetes directing a Seinfeld episode on methamphetamines while Charlie Mingus and the Pixies do the score. "Broke" weaves through an urban web o ... more »
Broken Bird
Dir: Rachel Harrison Gordon, United States, 10 min, 2020, Narrative Short
Birdie, a biracial girl raised by her Jewish mom, spends a rare visitation day with her father while preparing for her Bat Mitzvah. They share a meal, she ... more »
Broken Candle, The
Dir: Felix Kiner, United States, 9 min, 2020, Animation
The Broken Candle tells the heartwarming tale of Nira, a broken Hanukkah candle who becomes the shamash ("lead candle" of the hanukkiah) on the last night ... more »
BROOKLYN BRIDGE, THE
Dir: Derek Garcia, United States, 3 min, 2010, Documentary Short
A Portrait of The Brooklyn Bridge from day to night. ... more »
BROOKLYN CASTLE
Dir: Katie Dellamaggiore, United States, 101 min, 2012, Documentary Feature
Intermediate School 318 is an inner-city school in Williamsburg, Brooklyn where more than 65 percent of the students are from homes with incomes below the ... more »
BROOKLYN STORIES
Dir: Jos de Putter, Netherlands, 54 min, 2002, Documentary Feature
BROOKLYN STORIES is a documentary about the poetry of loss. Fans of the old Brooklyn Dodgers baseball team remember their team, which always seemed to lose ... more »
Brother Mike Tapes, The
Dir: Rodd Perry, Mike Cohen, United States, 12 min, 2021, Animation
For 15 years, Brother Mike Cohen secretly recorded conversations with his parents as they begged him to declutter his room, lectured him about the length o ... more »
Brother Move On
Dir: Antshi von Moos, India, 8 min, 2018, Documentary Short
Geeta is one of the few female taxi drivers in India. Her service "for women by women" enables women to move freely in the city at any time. Her hope is th ... more »
BROTHERS
Dir: Bram Schouw, Netherlands, 106 min, 2017, Narrative Feature
Lukas and Alexander, brothers, are opposites, but they have a very strong bond. Lukas is quite shy and looks up to his high-spirited older brother, and fol ... more »
Brothers – A Family Film
Dir: Valentin Merz, Switzerland, France, 18 min, 2020, Documentary Short
After twenty years of separation, brothers Adi and Valentin spend a week together. Adi is 32 years old, doesn't work and lives with his parents. Valentin, ... more »
BROWNSTONES TO RED DIRT
Dir: Dave LaMattina & Chad Walker, United States, 85 min, 2009, Documentary Feature
Brownstones To Red Dirt follows four pairs of pen pals from housing projects in Bed-Stuy, Brooklyn and the slums of Freetown, Sierra Leone. These two "los ... more »
BUBBLE
Dir: Gabriel Olivares & Pedro Casablanc, Spain, 12 min, 2009, Narrative Short
Mari and Pili are friends living in the same village. Mari dreams of getting her drivers license, buying a car and getting out of the village forever. Wh ... more »
BUCKSVILLE
Dir: Chel White, United States, 104 min, 2011, Narrative Feature
Abandoned by his mother at a young age, 25-year old Presley Alan French (Thomas Stroppel) has grown up in the shadow of his father and a small town, secret ... more »
Bucolic
Dir: Karol Pałka, Poland, 70 min, 2021, Documentary Feature
Danusia and her daughter Basia live far away from the modern world, in tune with the rhythm and laws of nature, among animals and the spirits of the dead. ... more »
BUDDHA STYLE
Dir: Jung-Hyun Yoo, Korea, 10 min, 2005, Narrative Short
There is the monk of "bong-wha" temple who has much interest in hairdo thinking of the wig in the NIKE shoes box secretly as his the most important thing. ... more »
Bug Bite
Dir: Emily Ann Hoffman, United States, 7 min, 2018, Experimental
In this mixed media comedy, a young woman and a female bed bug form an unlikely bond while contending with toxic masculinity. ... more »
BUGSTEP
Dir: Ilana Morgan Schwartz, United States, 4 min, 2014, Animation
In a firefly orchestra deep in the forest, a rebel bug decides to go against the musical rules. Party with bugs in this all-encompassing tale. ... more »
Bull Rider
Dir: Alexia Oldini, Steven Gray, United States, 2 min, 2022, Experimental
This experimental documentary short merges meditations on dance from choreographer Martha Graham with music by composer Philip Glass and video featuring Pr ... more »
BUMMER SUMMER
Dir: Zach Weintraub, United States, 78 min, 2010, Narrative Feature
Via a breathtaking collection of spartan black and white imagery, Bummer Summer observes the emotional fumblings of three not-grown-ups: seventeen-year-o ... more »
Bunny Man
Dir: Athena Han, Canada, 7 min, 2018, Narrative Short
Over a meal at a Chinese restaurant, four Taiwanese friends discussion over the differences between FOB (fresh off the boat) and CBC (Canadian born Chinese ... more »
Buon Ferragosto
Dir: Claudia Miatello, Canada, 7 min, 2022, Animation
When his father has to work on Ferragosto (Italy's national holiday) instead of going to the sea, a boy has the adventure of his lifetime in the city of Fl ... more »
BURIALS
Dir: Zachary Volker, United States, 5 min, 2011, Narrative Short
A heartbroken man wanders New York City in search of his missing sister, posting fliers on streetlamps and derelict buildings. Desperate voice mails hint a ... more »
Bus Savior, The
Dir: Fanny Ben David, Israel, 16 min, 2021, Documentary Short
Amit Shahar is a bus driver that collects old buses. He grew up in Moshav Hatzeva and when his parents divorced he moved to the center of Israel with his m ... more »
BUSHMAN'S SECRET
Dir: Rehad Desai, South Africa, 65 min, 2006, Documentary Feature
When South African filmmaker Rehad Desai travels to the Kalahari to investigate global interest in ancient Bushmen knowledge, he meets Jan van der Westhuiz ... more »
Bushwick Beats
Dir: A. Sayeeda Moreno, Chloe Sarbib, Brian Shoaf, Sonejuhi Sinha, James Sweeney, Anu Valia, United States, 83 min, 2018, Narrative Feature
Six chapters, six directors, six unique short films, all under the backdrop of Bushwick, Brooklyn, each a different look into the theme of unconditional lo ... more »
BUT NOT FOR ME
Dir: Ryan Carmichael, United States, 102 min, 2015, Narrative Feature
Will is a young writer, living in the big city, barely scraping by on his copywriter's salary. When he meets Hope, his beautiful and enigmatic new neighbor ... more »
Full details » | Trailer » | Best Original Score, Audience Award
BUTTERFLIES
Dir: Isabel Peppard, Australia, 13 min, 2012, Animation
A young artist sits on the sidewalk, struggling to make a living. She makes drawings for the passersby. A businessman recognises her talents and offers her ... more »
BUTTERFLY
Dir: Glenn Marshall, Ireland, 10 min, 2002, Experimental
Butterfly is a journey from life to death and back. It is a kaleidoscope of colour, sound and movement that lies somewhere between art and entertainment, s ... more »
buttons
Dir: Hector Berrebi, United States, 16 min, 2005, Narrative Short
Billy is gone forever. Bobby knows she will not visit again, he is alone now. In a rundown boardinghouse where he spends his days gazing out windows to a w ... more »
By Water
Dir: Iyabo E, United States, 13 min, 2022, Experimental
By Water, was initiated through an unexpected voicemail message my brother left me 3 years after his disappearance. I saved this voicemail for more than th ... more »
BYE
Dir: Chris Muir, Canada, 3 min, 2012, Narrative Short
Sometimes one word tells the whole story. Bye explores the rise and fall of a relationship through the action of leaving. ... more »
Bye Bye
Dir: Amélie Bonnin, France, 25 min, 2021, Narrative Short
With his diploma in his pocket, Julien left his native Normandy to build a bigger life for himself in Paris, leaving his memories behind. And then one day, ... more »
BZZ
Dir: Benoit Feroumont, Belgium, 11 min, 2000, Experimental
An ordinary man appears to be breeding flies in his apartment. He seems to be very fond of them. But appearances are deceptive... ... 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 »
CACTUS
Dir: Jasmine Yuen-Carrucan, Australia, 89 min, 2008, Narrative Feature
To gain some much needed cash John Kelly accepts a job to kidnap and deliver professional gambler Eli Jones to his keepers in the Australian outback: No qu ... more »
CAFFE CAPRI
Dir: Casimir Nozkowski, United States, 6 min, 2012, Documentary Short
Caffe Capri is a movie about an Italian coffee shop in Williamsburg, Brooklyn, run by a brother and sister-in-law for almost 40 years. A truly one-of-a-kin ... more »
CAGE, THE
Dir: Bram Fj Van Alphen, Netherlands, 3 min, 2011, Documentary Short
A visual, poetic portrayal of the basketball court "the Cage" at West 4Th street in NYC. Bystanders stop for a brief minute in their daily rushed life and ... more »
CAGE, THE
Dir: Jae Hoon Lee, United States, 3 min, 2008, Animation
The invasion of creature who steal what people have inside! If you encounter that creature, what will you do? Do you have any valuable? If so, Is it more t ... more »
CALAIS: THE LAST BORDER
Dir: Marc Isaacs, England, 59 min, 2003, Documentary Feature
For the English, the French port town of Calais is the gateway to Europe or a place to buy cheap alcohol. For hundreds of migrants it is the final barrier ... more »
CALL BAKER
Dir: Dan Salzmann, France, 6 min, 2003, Experimental
A gripping and graphic story of love, schizophrenia, urban panache and absinthe addiction. Looking at her impassive face, strange sensation envelopes his b ... more »
CALL IT DEMOCRACY
Dir: Matt Kohn, United States, 87 min, 2005, Documentary Feature
Call It Democracy is a fresh perspective on voting rights, election reform and the unresolved electronic voting controversies threatening to undermine conf ... more »
CAMBODIAN SPRING, A
Dir: Chris Kelly, England, 121 min, 2017, Documentary Feature
How much would you sacrifice to fight for what you believe in? A Cambodian Spring is a intimate and unique portrait of three people caught up in the chaoti ... more »
Camel Boy, The
Dir: Chabname Zariâb, France, Afghanistan, Tunisia, 15 min, 2018, Narrative Short
Somewhere in the desert, a little boy is plunged by force into an intimidating and completely foreign new world: the world of camel racing. Will the distan ... more »
CAN HITLER HAPPEN HERE?
Dir: Saskia Rifkin, United States, 74 min, 2017, Narrative Feature
In a cinematic landscape in which there are few leading roles for women over 50, let alone 60, Saskia Rifkin's directorial debut "Can Hitler Happen Here?" ... more »
CANDY QUEEN
Dir: Beat Brogle, Switzerland, 4 min, 2002, Experimental
Musicvideo for the song Candy Queen by Knut & Silvy ... more »
CANNONBALL WOMAN, THE
Dir: Albertine Zullo, David Toutevoix, Switzerland, 14 min, 2017, Animation
Madeleine the Human Cannonball and her husband are carnies. Their lives, like their show, seem to be perfectly under control. But in reality, Madeleine is ... more »
Capital
Dir: Freddy Syborn, United Kingdom, 15 min, 2018, Narrative Short
When a misjudged referendum on capital punishment comes back 50.9% in favour of hanging, a group of inept junior civil servants meet on the first day of th ... more »
CARBON
Dir: Craig Webster, United States, 10 min, 2011, Experimental
Carbon follows a young woman through a series of chance encounters, as if following a single atom on its journey. Unformed motion and light connect to her ... more »
Carmen & Moony
Dir: Kate Adams, Max Azulay, United States, 15 min, 2022, Narrative Short
A romantic comedy about a semi-recovered kleptomaniac who goes home for the holidays and invites an unlikely guest to her family dinner. ... more »
CARNY
Dir: Alison Murray, Canada, 75 min, 2007, Documentary Feature
CARNY is an intimate, gritty and poetic adventure following the lives of 'carnys' - traveling fairground workers whose experiences are outside the normalc ... more »
Full details » | Trailer » | Diane Seligman Award (Best Documentary)
CAROUSEL RITE, THE
Dir: Zoltan Gayer & Peter Molnar, Hungary, 12 min, 2005, Experimental
Famous magnuses from faraway lands arrive at a small town. They have come to execute the mysterious Carousel rite. ... more »
Castalia
Dir: Abigail Hendrix, United States, 9 min, 2022, Experimental
Castalia explores the mythology of the murdered woman through landscape of both nature and the body. Compiled with my own 16mm footage and found footage of ... more »
CASTILLO Y EL ARMADO
Dir: Pedro Harres, Brazil, 13 min, 2014, Animation
On a windy night, Castillo faces his own brutality on the line of the fishhook. ... more »
CASTING IN JAGUEY GRANDE
Dir: Thomas Winston, Cuba, 15 min, 2017, Documentary Short
Just a few clicks north of Bay of Pigs' pristine mangrove flats - some of the best bonefish habitat in the world - lies Jaguey Grand, Cuba. A surprising sc ... more »
CASUALTIES
Dir: Holly Voges, United States, 11 min, 2018, Narrative Short
CASUALTIES is the story of James, a Vietnam veteran suffering from PTSD. Haunted by the trauma of the past, he struggles to know what is real in the presen ... more »
CASUALTIES OF LOVE
Dir: Faiyaz Jafri, United States, 1 min, 2010, Animation
Casualties of Love is a depiction of the unintentional cruelty to human replicas by children. It is inspired by the intense and uncontrolled love that chil ... more »
Cat Got Her Tongue, The
Dir: Gaele Sobott, Australia, 4 min, 2022, Animation
What happens when women become more isolated as they grow older? How do they feel when they see the environment around them ravaged, and their means of res ... more »
CAT KILLER
Dir: Wes Jones, United States, 11 min, 2016, Narrative Short
A dark comedy about a dying cat and a desperate man. When conventional veterinary practice won't help, two old friends venture into the woods on a mission ... more »
CAT SCRATCH FEVER
Dir: Lisa Duva, United States, 73 min, 2011, Narrative Feature
CAT SCRATCH FEVER is a madcap caper following two young women's adventures in alternate realities. Lisa and Ashley, roommates and best friends forever, di ... more »
Caterpillarplasty
Dir: David Barlow-Krelina, Canada, 5 min, 2018, Animation
Caterpillarplasty is an otherworldly take on beauty ideologies blown out of proportion. In an advanced technological society where the caterpillar has spec ... more »
CAVE, THE
Dir: Niclas Gillis, United States, 3 min, 2012, Narrative Short
Writer / director Niclas Gillis relates his experience as an alien in America in this conceptual short film inspired by Plato's Cave. ... more »
CAVEDIGGER
Dir: Jeffrey Karoff, United States, 40 min, 2013, Documentary Short
Ra Paulette digs cathedral-like, 'eighth wonder of the world' art caves into the sandstone cliffs of Northern New Mexico. Each creation takes years to comp ... more »
Caviar
Dir: Joseph Mensch, United States, 90 min, 2019, Narrative Feature
A young stockbroker at a Mob-controlled Wall Street firm gets betrayed and sent to prison for six years. When he gets out, he seeks revenge. ... more »
CENSUS TAKER, THE
Dir: Phil Dale, England, 9 min, 2005, Narrative Short
A lone female census taker working in the valleys of Wales has one last questionnaire to complete, but when her car breaks down at a remote cottage, the da ... more »
CENTER OF THE UNIVERSE
Dir: Jarrah Gurrie, United States, 14 min, 2008, Narrative Short
Haunted by memories of a broken relationship, Oscar decides to join a cuddle group. Here he meets Aida, a woman determined to solve his problems. ... more »
CERTAIN KIND OF DEATH, A
Dir: Blue Hadaegh & Grover Babcock, United States, 70 min, 2003, Documentary Feature
Unblinking and unsettling, "A Certain Kind of Death" lays bare a mysterious process that goes on all around us: What happens to people who die with no next ... more »
CHAIN
Dir: Dan Chyutin, Israel, 29 min, 2006, Narrative Short
Rami was never troubled by much till that day in the park when his daughter was bitten by a dog. Since then, he is consumed with guilt. Was I at fault? Did ... more »
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