Inspired by the silent films of the 1920s, Meet Cute tells the story of a fateful day between two people waiting for the bus.

► by: Shawn Patrick Tilling

Briefly, the film tells about human beings under God's allegiance. How important His presence is in our hearts. The film is directed in Miami, with the help of Miami Community Church.

► by: Danil Panov

A young girl lives in an old apartment with a strange roommate in the city. One morning, she needs to leave her apartment for an interview. But for some reason, she found herself unable to get out of it. Meanwhile, many people began to express inappropriate interest in her apartment, and her privacy. The head of the residential committee incessantly tries to force her to vote; a male neighbor wants to come into her apartment to return her underwear; a middle-aged lady with a chainsaw wants to saw off an ox leg in her apartment…All these bizarre actions make her deeply disturbed and struggled to calm down until a special “gift” is delivered to her. After opening her gift, she now decides to turn her apartment into a hell.

► by: Xiaoxuan Qu

Animated film adaptation of the children's book, Feeling Special, about a Turtle who believes that all his friends are special, but that he is just ordinary, and finally realizes that he is special too.

► by: Carlos Hoffman

A group of friends meets weekly for their "game club" (a la book club). The week they discuss a crass book idea. (Designed as a pilot for a web series about nothing - a la Seinfeld)

► by: Paul Inman

We live in the midst of plenty, but always seem to want more. We feel we do not have enough time, and yet we waste our precious time; Let's split the time, let's go with modern technology, but make more time for family and friends, for our town , for our country, for the world. Otherwise, when you are old and near death, what you will remember is STOLEN TIME

► by: Ingrid Gisela Smith

Glen Tavern goes on a nightmarish odyssey in search of a new coffee maker, after his breaks.

► by: Kris Salvi

World-weary Beverly Hills Detective “Mack” McDonald is weeks from retirement when he lands a murder case in a ritzy retirement resort slash hospital. People are dying and bodies are going missing. And the on-site, divinely connected Clergy, Sister Diana, seems to know why. But she’s not letting on. Yet. When an accident suddenly activates his special galactic gift, Mack begins to unravel the secrets of his past, and a sinister agenda that will compromise everyone’s future. That’s when he “runs into” Dr. Ravi Singh, the eccentric East Indian healer who orbits in his own special galaxy. And has a knack for knowing the unknown, even if English isn’t his first language. Or second. Ravi astutely detects that our Detective can revive the dead and heal the sick. He wastes no time sucking him into his own deluded notion of life and death, and coerces him into a rampage of mercy healings. Mack’s not sure his deeds are kosher, and with a little coaxing from Sister D, must weigh his waning morality against his intense desire to help those in need. Shirley MacLaine, you with me? The Dark-Ops military team at Area 51 soon realize that Mack’s newly activated skills could spell the demise of a top secret off-world project, and they’ll do anything necessary to turn him into stardust. But anthropology geek Dr. Julius Kramer will have none of that. He knows all about Mack’s Starseed heritage and has studied the legacy and the legends of his Hopi lineage. Yep, Mack is the chosen one. Together, Mack and Kramer work to thwart an audacious plot destined to destroy Earthling civilization as we know it. And if they can pull it off and escape nuclear genocide, they will have “boldly gone where no man has gone before.” And be back in time for dinner. Hang onto your lightsaber, Luke Skywalker. There’s a new Space Cowboy on the galactic prairie, and he’s about to save your ass.

► by: Emil Faithe

LOGLINE In 2067, a beaten down geneticist in search of his missing father comes face-to-face with a deity hell-bent on abolishing all trace of the human race SYNOPSIS The year is 2067. Violence, corruption and greed have reached a feverish pitch, and the human race is on the brink of collapse. Suddenly, people start dropping like flies, and no one seems to know why, except the deep state Armed Forces. And they have a plan-- It’s time to go.

► by: Emil Faithe

When Lester Landon, a dyslexic criminal working for a dodgy watch dealership, decides on "the straight and narrow" he is tasked with one last job before he is set free. Time is running out as the ghosts of his past are coming back to haunt him. We've received a lot of jury prizes! THIS FILM IS YET TO HAVE ITS WORLD PREMIERE

► by: Daniel Shehata

Bride wrongly feels abused and runs off with $2.5 million husband was transporting for gangsters.

► by: Thomas Constantinides

A dream. A nightmare. Reality. Serge is a young man living with autism and dealing with ongoing depression. He lives on a schedule to try and keep his negative thoughts in check. Everything comes crashing down when he has to face his fears in a confession for therapy.

► by: Hunter Brockmann

A man leaves an oasis and starts walking. In the middle of the desert, he finds this strange building and immediately, he addresses someone on the inside of the building. Whether there's any need, for airco, food, or maybe even some music or television, here in this inhospitable part of the world? After fruitless inquiries, the man spends the night in the desert. The morning after, he realizes that, ultimately, there's only one possible decision to make. All this is just a day dream of a guy on a beach, somewhere in Kenia. Slightly confused by his dream, he cannot but promise his girlfriend to come and swim with her on that first lovely day of the year.

► by: Henk Pringels

On the phone with a rich man whose son he has kidnapped, with whom he hasn't had contact for fifteen years, the kidnapper gives him the chance to save his son's life and rebuild their relationship.

► by: Riccardo Romano

Despite what would seem to be a flourishing career, most recently playing Kermit on Showtime's "Shameless", Hollywood character actor Jim Hoffmaster struggles both professionally and personally. "Acting Like Nothing is Wrong" explores how he navigates life without a stable upbringing. Foster care and abuse lead Jim to acting, where he could finally be seen and appreciated. ​ The film poses universal questions and illuminates mental health issues we experience on a daily basis. Do we ever completely overcome our traumas? What are our coping mechanisms? Glimmers of hope and healthy doses of comedy are vital elements in the film.

► by: Jane Rosemont

"I've Been Afraid" is about big and small fears, and the violence against women that permeates our society.

► by: Cecelia Condit

Un jeune handicapé se bat pour faire découvrir son talent d’écriture auprès d’autres rappeur qui le juge sur son physique . A travers cette œuvre c’est l’histoire vraie de Massyl Kasri.

► by: Mohamed Ouaddah

Winner - Best Animation 2023 Mad Monster Film Festival Winner - Audience Award Best Short Documentary 2023 Golden State Film Festival An antho-logical experi-mental animated documentary about Brillo, Baseball, The Slave Trade, The Bay of Pigs, Warhol, Columbus, VHS, Detroit, True Horror, Qaddafi, the Poisonous University of Michigan vs, Ohio State rivalry, and a secret CIA Operation nobody knows anything about, not even us...

► by: Peter Kotas

Three time-travel ships are sent from the 23d century to a distant past with an important research mission. Unaware of a huge planetary time-stream loop, the expedition goes through many unexpected adventures and produces stunning results. Even though there is no way to change anything, the remaining crews still try to fix at least something... (Project files: - episode 1 of 10, - episodes 1-10 - full script) BRIEF SYNOPSIS At the beginning of the 23rd Century, humanity is on the brink of destruction due to intense tectonic activity causing land riffs, tsunamis and volcanic eruptions. Three time-travel vessels are launched back into the past, using the recently discovered Omega-Field energy source, to allow extra time to conduct research for a solution. This mission is thrown into chaos, however, when two of the ships end up on an island later called “Oroboro Island” in the age of the dinosaurs, while the third ship lands in the Andes Mountains 12,000 years B.C. during the Stone Age. (50 % of the total project material will be filmed in the Peruvian Andes and jungles. A great portion of the cast represent Spanish-speaking world). Surprised time voyagers meet other sentient beings that Earth has produced and sustained in multiple planetary time streams. They have to question almost everything they believed in. They learn that the history of our world is very complex and that certain myths and mysteries are explained and generated by an astonishing loop in which their particular time stream is trapped. Book Trailer: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=44fSTcVWZLk Pitch notes The “Oroboro Island” sci-fi series has extensive appeal to a broad audience. It perplexes the viewers by introducing the idea of a planetary time stream that has a pretty complicated structure but still pieces together many things about our planet and its history. A long time ago, it formed a separate loop - and now we need to fix it, but how? This story will particularly appeal to sci-fi aficionados: people time-travel, making stunning discoveries, developing wondrous future technologies, and shedding the light on many ancient mysteries, especially those in Latin America. The characters, "a man and a woman on a mission" setup, the wildlife, and the adventures in the rich plots involved will have very wide appeal. The storylines sre gripping, and the stakes are really high.

► by: Oleg Bazylewicz, Karen Buckton

Helezon - Değişken ( Spiral - Shifting ) is the second installment of a four episode short film. Its thesis is " The warmth you seek in nature is within yourself". The element of the film is "fire", and the prominent colour is red. Helezon Değişken tells the story of two rebels who struggle with cold, a bear and enemy soldiers. During the film, the emotions and behaviours of the characters change in accordance with the shifting nature of fire. About Helezon (Spoiler) Helezon is a series of short films based on Empedokles's philosophy which claims that "Things in nature such as fire, water, earth, air is within one's self" The series is shaped by this concept. The man character is a patient in a mental hospital who suffers from multiple personality disorder. It is not clear whether he makes up stories and characters from the materials he sees around himself or he remembers his past lives and lives them at the same time. The answer will be left to the viewer at the end of the fourth film. Being the symbol of the film, the spiral seems to be made up from multiple layers when seen from across whereas it looks as if it was one piece from above. This is a metaphor of main character's multiple personality disorder and the fact that the human is a being that houses four elements.

► by: Cihan Abdal

A tale about depression and despair in the modern age. A young man finds himself battling inner and outer turmoil as we observe him on four days, over the course of one year.

► by: Johny Ritter

in February 1925, a storm broke suddenly at Halamid west of Iceland, two trawlers and two ufo's went under, causing the unlikely meeting of an Alien and a fisherman fighting for their lives

► by: Eva M. Ingolfsdottir

Valentina goes for a walk in the forest, and encounters an unexpected friend.

► by: Greta Irico

Uta Osanai is a high school student who lives a fulfilling life surrounded by friends in a rural town in Shizuoka. One day, when her father collapses due to illness, he confesses that "your mother is alive." Despite being confused, She heads to Tokyo alone to meet her mother. She is her first city for her. When she finally arrives at the bar where her mother works, she meets her mother and her long-cherished desire, but she is kicked out. Losing her place, Uta wanders around Shinjuku, meets a girl, and eventually discovers the secret of her mother.

► by: DAISUKE KAMIJYO

In a desert by the sea, an ancient culture endures modernity. A grandmother and her granddaughter intertwine in estrangement over memory. The myth sheds controversy; time falls in dreams of sand, old songs and rock music. First full-length feature drama to be ever produced in Cmiique Iitom (Seri language)

► by: Antonio Coello

The film talks about the hopeful journey of an African refugee from Chad, who goes to Europe passing through the African desert and the Libyan coasts, in order to reach Europe and realize his dream.

► by: Francesca Stangoni

Seven crew members of the Royal Canadian Air Force were killed in a bombing raid over Germany on Feb. 21, 1945. The cause of the crash was a mystery. Their Halifax bomber was discovered 73 years later. We examine the crew's final hours, its flight path, the conclusions on why it crashed and the search for the wreckage.

► by: Rob Leicester Wagner

A tortured house worker named Zohra. She wants to run away from home. But she can not bring herself to do it because of her feelings of pity for the little kid in the house whom she raised from childhood. One day, she gets the chance to escape; can she overcome her feelings of pity for the little kid and run away, or will she stay and continue to suffer?

► by: Kabbo Kabir

After her husband's funeral, a woman stops by the home of her best friend to ask why she didn't attend. Fond memories decay into regrets. Regrets decay into questions. Did he die of natural causes? Or was there a little help from the wife? Or maybe the friend? Either way, St. Barts is a happening place.

► by: Suzanne Birrell

Howard Swan, a doctor with a severe drinking problem, loses his medical license, his wife, his house, and is on the verge of losing his daughter as well. In a desperate act, he enlists the help of Caspar, his drug dealer brother, to make some easy money. After a deal goes wrong, Howard uses his medical expertise to save the life of Snake Eyes, a psychopathic drug kingpin. Howard and Caspar fall deeper into the world of organised crime than they ever intended, and they may not be able to make it back out.

► by: Dominic Flanagan

On May 18, 1980, Gwangju, South Korea. two photojournalists witnessed the Democratization Uprising in Gwangju on camera. A documentary two living witnesses who are now old visit Gwangju again and look back on the history of Korean Democratic Movements in the 80s.

► by: EUNJU PARK

Moving mandala what I started with a simple circle . I was interested what are the possibilites of such simple basic programme as Windows paint . First picture I named Q by case ,subconsciously or * upconsciously* ,later found in literature that Q is letter Qof in Jewish alphabet ,represent the Sun ,number 19 in Tarot ...

► by: Silvano Perozic

Experimental sound collage. Voice concert. Collective portrait of women of different ages and parts of the world who share ideas about who they are and the society that surrounds them during the year 2020.

► by: Rebeca Saavedra Gironás

Abigail spends her days by the lake, reading and thinking. One day, a mysterious man sits next to her. Where is he from? Who is he? Is he connected with her past?

► by: Claudio Cirri

Gale Williams had a happy, normal childhood in Santa Monica California. Then, in 1956, on the eve of his 18th birthday he crashed his car in a remote area of California and became a quadriplegic. In those days people with such severe injuries were only expected to live 10-15 years. To survive, mentally and physically, Gale set his mind to tackling small goals, focusing only on what he was able to do, and through a supportive family and church community, he rebuilt his life. He studied computer programming at UCLA in the 1960's, worked for an air defense company, married and adopted two children. After the disappointment of divorce and suffering discrimination by employers, Gale gradually became involved in disabled rights activism. He attended demonstrations in the 1970's to recognize the needs of the disabled community that were being neglected, and became state president of California's Association for Physically Handicapped. He remarried, had two more children, and continued to inspire and educate a new generation of young people, both disabled and able-bodied. At 82, and most likely the longest living quadriplegic, Gale's life story shows us that there are no limitations to what we can accomplish if we set our minds to it.

► by: Brenda Gillis

Los Angeles California 90’s; During a night spent with his gang formed by budding teen criminals and bullies, the leader John Connor fearless overbearing and aimless bully challenges a shy and awkward boy Michael Pain to join his gang. Michael secretly steals his father Donald Pain's car by driving at night towards Desert Beach, where they have arranged to meet, but this test is not enough for John because he wants much more than this. So, he decides to challenge Michael in a swimming competition in the rough ocean, putting Michael's car up for grabs. John is a skilled swimmer while Michael drowns that same evening. The gang runs away taking away Michael Pain's expensive car given to him by his father.

► by: Simone Izzo

Andy has been learning martial arts for his whole life, and it helped him managing his anger and emotions. He will soon compete in his first public fight and we follow his preparation, with the support of his family and friends.

► by: Bertrand Remaut

Rachel invites her sisters, Rebecca and Rochelle, over to her place for a night of wining and laughing over their childhood and adulthood lives. Amidst the laughter, Rebecca and Rochelle discover a truth about Rachel. A night of fun turns into Rachel’s Reason.

► by: Dajour Ashwood

Sometimes Butterfly…. Burn The purpose of this film is to show the human side of the artist and suffering… not lights, not fame, not red carpets.

► by: Ekramy Maher Bekhit

► by: Samaneh Nouri

Roni is a beautiful and classy hot shot lawyer who seems to have it all together. However, her constant battle with a mental illness and sexual addiction causes her career and life to be altered in a way she never imagined.

► by: Dap Paxton

Homeless alcohol, nicotine and drug addicts live under the S-Bahn bridge at Kottbusser Tor in Berlin. On the way to my fitness center, I saw them sleeping and using drugs there. As a filmmaker, I wanted to take a closer look at it and learn about the reasons why they lead such a life. One of my protagonists lives in the same house as me and has himself admitted to psychiatry. His apartment has been cleared and he is now being looked after by social workers after his treatment. It is a visual attempt to find out the reasons why the protagonists got into this difficult life situation. In addition, the recordings are permeated by the attempt to show spiritual connections with reference to the law of cause and effect. At the end of the documentary, almost all of the protagonists have disappeared and the place at Kottbuser Tor has been cleared. The reasons for this are not known and would be a topic for new documentation. They have broken up and contact with them is no longer possible. Today I assume that they have been accommodated and are well looked after. There are reasons for this assumption that are not dealt with in the documentation. It was not only my goal to make a documentary but also to make sure that they get help. At the moment it looks like I've succeeded. Since my films have only been known to my friends so far, I have now made the decision to bring the last of my films to the public. All films are aids to reflection, have a therapeutic effect and increase the ability to mentalize. Working on this documentation gave me several insights, among other things. The experience of emotions is considered to be the origin from which mentalization can ultimately grow. Based on the hypothesis that infants do have emotional expressions but do not have a differentiated awareness or experience of their emotional states, early affect mirroring is ascribed a central role. The ability to mentalize enables one to think about oneself and about the assumed inner life of other people. Different perspectives are recognized, and false beliefs are incorporated into oneself and other.

► by: Gerhard Muff

Go back in time with these youngsters who meet up with a fairy godmother, and are blessed by her magic wand as they dance around the Maypole, and enjoy the secrets woods they have discovered.

► by: Barbara Becker Holstein

A tragic mythic love story

► by: André Melanson

► by: LEONARDO THIMO

A master poet loses her muse but tries to pass on her art and craft to a young talented poet.

► by: Robert Fritz

A group of college students struggle to uncover the reason they are being viciously picked off by dark beings.

► by: Lacye A Brown

One cold morning at the Apachieland saloon two men walked in and sat at the end of the bar to my right. One was a big fellow with wavy hair down to his shoulders, mustached and bearded---he looked like he’d seen better days. The other man was smaller, also bearded and mustached, and wore a bandanna on his head. I asked the big fella, ”What’s your name?” “Frank Kawaloski,” he smiled. “Are you guys with the film crew?” They nodded. I looked them over and said, “I hear the director is a Little Cesar and when he says jump, you ask how high?” The smaller man asked, “Do you want a shot of brandy in your coffee?” “Yes,” I replied, as it was freezing in the saloon. Frank asked if I was afraid, and I said, “NO! That guy better not try pushing me or…” and I raised my little fist and shook it. Frank looked at the smaller man and said, “Do you see that SAM? You better behave, or this little girl will part your hair!” “Really? I’m Sam Peckinpah.” We stared at each other for a bit then I said, “Gotta Go”, finished my coffee, jumped off the barstool, and skedaddled. When the film crew started working in town, I was an extra. Every time I turned around, I caught him looking at me. Understand, although people said I looked like Doris Day, I didn’t think so. I always had a weight problem and I didn’t like myself. I didn’t understand what was happening, as all my emotions were going crazy. Why this man? Why did I have these strong feelings for this old grizzly guy? I felt like I’d been hit by a truck, my heart hammered, and my head hurt. I wanted to run but needed the money, so worked and tried to keep my distance. The following day, Sam worked the crew from 8 AM to 3 AM. There was always tension on the set, but that night electricity was in the dry cold desert air. Sam looked at me and said, ”You walk by with that cowboy over there and be happy and gay.” “No, I’m tired, find somebody else.” Lucian Ballard looked at me pleadingly. “Ok”, I said, and picked a cowboy from our street shows, walked past the camera, turned, looked into the camera, and said, “Ha. Ha, Ha,” and kept walking. Sam softly said, “Cut… you, my dear are a rotten, rotten, Rotten actress!” “Do it again, Goddammit!” The second time I did do it perfectly. The next morning up at the barn standing near a beautiful black horse, I looked down the street and watched Sam standing in the middle of the road giving orders to the crew. You’ve heard of road rage, well, I had horse rage. Before I knew it, I was up on that black horse leaning down his neck and said, “You see that man? He called me a rotten, rotten, rotten actress. Let’s kill ‘em.” I kicked that horse and we thundered down the road hell-bent for leather. Sam saw us coming, didn’t move a muscle, and just stood there. Luckily the horse was smarter than me, sidestepped at the last instant so that my leg hit Sam’s arm, and twisted him into the direction we were going. Pulling up the horse, I looked back and saw Sam standing there looking at me with a Mona Lisa smirk on his face. The story is emotional, funny, and sad… The film ends with a mini-documentary...

► by: Nancee LaFayette

The gamblers sit at the table, the stakes are you and I. Anti-war film.

► by: Graham Pike

Cosmic influencer of utopic tutorials, Alfa Wonk is forced to fight absurd human paradoxes to deal with hypocritical authorities. Presently, he explains how to lose an award while winning a defeat.

► by: Maurice Huvelin

Mr. Box & Boogy Review Film, TV and Music along with their intuitive commentary, unique rating system and skits!

► by: Al Diaz

The First Feature Film From Award Winning FilmMaker Greg L. Hines. The film is about three musicians dealing with career, family and all that goes with the pursuit happiness.

► by: Greg L. Hines

A Short Fiction Film Starring My Cat As He Faces His Greatest Foe...

► by: Greg L. Hines

En este documental se sigue la investigación del libro homónimo, donde el autor y director cuenta la historia de tres grupos de música latina y su relación con la autogestión tanto de la independencia de sus proyectos como de sus disqueras. Es un acercamiento a la estructuración del arte latinoamericano y sus organizaciones

► by: Daniel Cortázar Triana

A film of the "Worst Humanitarian Crisis" in East Asia, the "Rohingya incident". From Aug 25, 2017, almost 1 million Rohingya people were forced away from their homeland Myanmar and formed the "world largest refugee camp" next to the border in Bangladesh. Tens of thousands of children and women who failed to escape were killed, abused and raped. Although such ultra-violent act --- described as Genocide: "Ethnic Cleansing" by the UN, was executed, the official records deny such facts and what actually happened was veiled in mystery. Such occurred, because of media manipulation, cover-ups, and most significantly the particular way how "Race" matters for the Myanmar people. Succeeded to film and collect scenes from the restricted homelands and refugee camps, the documentary shows what actually did happen, is happening, and worsening, inside the darkest shadows of Asia. Originally planned to be released in 2020, but in vain, due to COVID19, completed in 2022. Original sound is 7.1ch. Production company is an Humanitarian NGO/NPO. And its first film production. Production method is Open Source Journalism and actual field gathering. Written, directed and edited by a single person. Director's name is Alias for security reasons, until certain situation clears. Full ending roll not included in submitted preview version.

► by: Sash Nakamoto

A person searches for his dream club, but a series of intense conversations makes him reflect on the purpose of his behavior and the faces of this world.

► by: Sai Man (Simon) Zhao

A multi-genre experimental film depicting a tragedy, disguised as a comedy, disguised as a horror film. This is a story about age-old loneliness, unquenched thirst and waning abilities to sustain life.

► by: Mansoor Ahmed

Atlantic City, a seaside town, is filled with blood on the boardwalk. True crime, murders from Nucky Johnson to the four dead prostitutes.

► by: Dawn Brown

After a personal tragedy, a young woman passes through her hometown in an effort to reforge her identity.

► by: Stanislav Kacar

Drawing on images from a non-existent border between Santa Elena, Chihuahua, and Big Bend National Park in Texas. La Bi-vencia explores the reunion of a ghost town next to the Rio Grand that was abandoned after 9/11.

► by: Mariana Gongora, Analaura Cárdenas

A woman falls asleep, and in her dream, she turns into an addicted homeless. Her deepest fears arise from her subconsciousness. The shabby room she now finds herself in becomes a fateful encounter zone. A homeless male who has taken over the room as his sleeping quarter wants to get rid of her but is too drunk to do so. The next morning he realizes that she could be useful to him and sends her to work. Actually, she returns with a 2-liter bottle of wine she begged on the street. During her absence, the homeless man suffers abstinence symptoms. Delusions lead him to re-experience his mental breakdown. The homeless woman doesn't get any mental rest either, she in turn is tormented by a voice that wants to fight her. As in a kind of therapy, she develops a fighting style, the so-called elbow fight. She uses her elbows instead of her fists, thus reflecting the unfair fight of the others against her. She makes him laugh. A rapprochement takes place. In a kind of monologue, the homeless man opens up. He's sustained the loss of a partnership, his possessions, and subsequently himself as well. Now he loves only his freedom. Increasing alcohol consumption helps him to get to distance himself from his "weaker" self. He becomes more and more self-confident and pretends to be the experienced philosopher, for which he gets her appreciation. But when he hits his drinking limit, he's not far from binge drinking. When he accidentally blames her for her fate, she becomes extremely tired and falls asleep. The addicted woman did not find his mental breakdown sad at all, because it made her feel safe from sexual advances. Due to his being high on alcohol he stares at her butt and wants to penetrate her. He doesn't make it, he's too drunk to handle this. When he realizes what he is doing, he flees. Her defencelessness is being utilized by a roaming thug. He brutally beats her up and steals her last belongings. When the homeless man appears sober again, he sees the woman lying on the ground, bleeding. Knowing about the dark sides of people, he suffocates her to prevent her from further humiliation. He is feeling like a savior. In a melancholic state, he drags her body to a nearby river and takes her into the water. Both sink into the depths. On the way to eternity, their voices can be heard from the depths of the water. Both wonder whether it could be true that all people would meet again in eternity because that would just be a continuation of their miserable existence. They agree that eternity is not hell, because you can't go through hell twice, and eternity provides endless possibilities for them too. The sleeping woman, the originator of the dream, becomes visible again, she wakes up and feels very relieved to find out that this dream has come to an end.

► by: Gabriela Bruckner

"Zevi – Our Story" is a partially autobiographical view of Professor Bruno Zevi’s genius. It is meant to show how ideas and a rich cultural environment like that of Rome can impact the minds of young people, as they did to us.

► by: Rick Meghiddo

A young boy is saved by a hairy creature after he is attacked by three mysterious shadow monsters.

► by: Brandon Manuel Werwa

It's beautiful isn't it ? The end of the world.

► by: Baptiste Darricarrère

Hermes, the most human-like of all the Olympian gods, is now old. On this day he remembers himself as a younger transgendered man, irrepressible but needy of his father Zeus and his aunt Aphrodite. He roams the world, on a quest for love and self-validation. He misbehaves it's true, but this is not a cautionary tale, he is after all a god and can do as he pleases. Remembering Hermes is also a 4th dimensional being so he views time via eternal recurrence. You see, TIME is circular and in layers for a 4th dimensional being. Memories are also seen both clear or hazy depending on their importance. In the beginning it was young Hermes quest to find a way to fully love himself inside the inter-related domains of earth, sky, fire and water, in order to be successful and be a fully realized Messenger of the Gods. Filmed in many wondrous locations around the globe since 1998, this story commingles the divine with the mundane across the vast spectrum of the imagination utilizing the five elements water, air, earth and fire & music; to arrive at it's quintessence. Note: My partner for the last 38 years, Producer Byron Ayanoglu who plays Zeus, and Paul William Roberts who plays Hermes Sr. have recently passed away during this past summer. May Lord Byron Ayanoglu and Paul William Roberts RIP! I am so devastated about having lost my partner Lord Byron and my best friend Paul William Robert who was an Oxford Scholar.


► by: Algis Kemezys

It's lockdown - we cried, we laughed, we stressed, we cooked. A pandemic narrative is suggested in five short dance films: A Dance for A; Zooming; Nature Morte; Turbulence; and Test Kitchen. Employing at-hand technology - computers, iPhones, portable lighting, green screen - all films are shot in a single apartment. Awards: Best Quarantine Film; Best @home COVID-19 Short; Best New Media Dance Film; Best Experimental; Best Short; Best Director Cell Phone Films; Best Art Film and many more.

► by: Richard Daniels

After a personal tragedy, a young woman passes through her hometown in an effort to reforge her identity.

► by: Davide Canali

As CEO of a successful construction company Emilia is on top of things. When she interviews a female applicant for an internship role she revisits the darkest moment of her past. And finally learns that even tough cookies must regret things from time to time.

► by: Joachim H. Böttcher

Ronald Raynolds is an art dealer, but it's just a cover up job - he's actually a professional hitman. His new contract has a particular ask: he has to kill himself. The client is Walter Brandi, a rich Italian and powerful real estate magnate with whom Ronald has no connection. Why does that man want him dead? Maybe it's his own wife, Helen, or the digital art he trades, or it's a personal matter he needs to discover. He must take the job - he needs to find out why someone wants to kill him.

► by: Gabriele Tacchi

Queen Bone gets frustrated when she thinks everyone has forgotten her birthday!

► by: Hong Shiang En

The pandemic has left single mom Jackie feeling isolated, lonely, and like her life is slipping from her. She finds solace in the routine of running, and on her daily runs she passes the same man again and again. An invitation from him sets her into a panic, but her daughter encourages her to take a risk. Lies are told, but somehow Jackie may just find the connection we are all longing for.

► by: Vasile Flutur and John McEneny

With heavenly signs marking the birth of Abram, danger and mysterious happenings follow him all the days of his life.

► by: James L Thornton

A young woman finds herself being stalked and terrorized in this Horror/Suspense short film set on Halloween night.

► by: Randy Sage

After a personal tragedy, a young woman passes through her hometown in an effort to reforge her identity.

► by: Stanislav Kacar

When Mr. Walker comes into debt with the wrong kind of people, a lifelong friend steps in to repay them.

► by: Matthew J. Roch

Serbia alone had lost a third of its entire population in the Great War, almost half its men. This film talks about those that never returned home from the two biggest Austria-Hungarian prisoner camps on the territory of today's Czech Republic - Jindřichovice and Broumov. A film that I owed to my nation. SEVEN THOUSAND SOULS is a documentary - a feature film about the suffering of Serbian and Russian soldiers and interned civilians in Austro-Hungarian camps on the territory of today's Czech Republic, Jindrihovice and Broumov. The camps had about 500 facilities where there were about 60,000 prisoners of war. Extremely difficult working conditions, no food, no shoes and clothes, winter and infectious diseases, all this affected the fact that 7,100 Serbs did not survive the camps. There is a mausoleum in Jindrihovice where the remains are victims of these camps - 7100 Serbs and 189 Russians. It is the second largest Serbian tomb in the world. The film also contains memories of soldiers who survived the camps, writen by a Dutch journalist Henri Aber in 1919. The descendants of soldiers from Serbia also speak in the film. The topic of Serbian prisoners and internees from the First World War is a neglected topic and even today, during the first centenary of the end of the First World War, they are completely forgotten and this injustice has not been corrected. From the time of the war, it seems that they could not fit into that, say, warrior, liberation narrative, where, above all, a soldier with a rifle in his hand was valued. If you look at any Serbian military monument, it is usually a soldier holding a rifle that is raised high. We have only a couple of sculptures of Serb civilians who died ... there are no monuments or they are very rare that generally concern the role of civilians, let alone civilians who were in slavery. But, as defined by the military legislation, a prisoner is someone who, by force of circumstances, ended up in captivity and he continues to perform his military duty. We can say the same for the civilian internees, that they were citizens of the Kingdom of Serbia who remained to be citizens even though they were faced with these completely unexpected and terrible opportunities. It is very unfortunate that, practically, for a whole century, they remain outside the collective memory of the Serbian people, even though it is a very dramatic suffering. I just think that these people were unfairly marginalized and almost thrown out of our general perception of the First World War. The film stars Lordan Zafranović, Jelena Ćirić, priest Srdjan Jablanović, etc. and the narrator is Jim High (english version), Jan Kacer (czech version), Tihomir Stanic (serbian version), Mihal Fedorov (russian version). Duration 59 minutes. Director: Sanjin Mirić (born in Visoko, BiH, permanent residence in the Czech Republic) Production: RODOLJUB z.s. Czech-Serbian Friendship Association Prague

► by: Sanjin Miric

Queen Bone gets frustrated when she thinks everyone has forgotten her birthday!

► by: Eleanor Cooper

"tears tears tears" is an experimental stop-motion animation made only of water and light… an homage for human heart and all the emotions that make it beat, subtle or dramatic, stubborn or volatile... The process of creating the film lasted for 6 months and for its author it was a long meditative amd therapeutic process. Words written with frozen letters were melting under the eye of the camera for about 30 minutes, while on the screen they appear for a few or a dozen seconds, sometimes disappear in the blink of an eye or stay longer, repeat and repeat themselves.

► by: Ewa Maria Wolska

Filmed at beautiful Arcosanti, AZ, Aftermath is a contemporary cinema dance depicting the aftermath of sexual assault. Watch as the main character encounters rage, disgust, shame, and finally solidarity with other survivors.

► by: Levi Elizaga

A Study of the Unknown and the individual Reaction to it.

► by: Jan Niederprüm

"Do you know what it's like not to hear anything, to be deaf? It's with me everywhere I go, at work, at school, with my friends." A film for listening to those who hear little or nothing. A film to better communicate with these endearing people!

► by: Anne Lakhdar, Hassan

Episodic film that includes three stories concerning various types of invasion

► by: Francesco Maffei

U.S. Marshal Marisol Albuquerque finds herself in New Mexico with no memory of events in the last 24 hours, only that something bad happened to cause her trauma.

► by: Doug Ellerbusch

“The Missing Link” An action-adventure/drama by Mark Mc Quown Synopsis On the Eastern side of the country of Chad, in Northern Africa, Dr. Ingles and his archeological team have uncovered the complete skull and some pelvis bones belonging to a hominoid of some six million years of age. This event happens on the day the entire company was about to leave the dig site. Simultaneously, in Chicago, the largest publishing firm in the United States is making an announcement about their new book, “The Science of Creationism”. This announcement declares this textbook to be predicted as the best seller of any book since modern printing has begun, including the Bible and “Harry Potter”. Amile Ambrose, President, and CEO of Ambrose Publishing are made aware that a new find in Chad is just being broadcast worldwide. In order to protect his publishing empire, Amile sends his own Head of Security, Texas Tom Mc Gregor, to make sure the fossils are never returned to any country for examination. Texas Tom is assigned to be the leader of a group organized by one of the Intelligence Agencies in our government. Included on his crew is Jason Allan, a High School Biology teacher who was at one time a US Marine attached to the Marine’s Intelligence Division where he worked in super-secret operations. The archeological team packs up its find and begins a long treck towards a city with an airport. In the first few hundred miles, the caravan of trucks and jeeps is stopped at an illegal checkpoint in Chad and forced to turn around and flee with the entire caravan of diggers. The team eventually breaks up to only Dr. Ingles, Jonathan, and Amanda. They alone are left to save the fossils in their single Land Rover. The trio of scientists is chased across the desert by insurgents, Texas Tom’s team and pirates and thieves all trying to steal these ancient bones. The small team ends up in Khartoum where they meet up with what is left of Tom Mc Gregor’ s team where they are all forced to high-jack an American UPS plane. The plane is forced to land at an abandoned airstrip in Chad and in the end, both teams are rescued by US Forces from a secret, near-by base. This, of course, is not the end but only the beginning of the battle between the ‘evolutionists’ and the ‘creationists’, a battle we are now seeing today in the courts of our own country. This battle will ultimately change the way our future generations understand where we came from as a species and what are all the possibilities.

► by: Mark Mc Quown

Ensnaring almost four million Americans, probation has evolved from a second chance to avoid prison to a sanction actually feeding mass incarceration. Supported by neighborhood allies, some people of color set out in a whole new way to change all this—equipped only with cameras.

► by: Jonathan Fisher

A little girl is excited to discover more about her adoption story.

► by: Alyce Vest

Classic Hollywood meets classic Vienna in a romantic tale of reconciliation and forgiveness. While attending a Vienna tribute to her career, an aging movie star encounters her presumed-dead ex-husband ex-costar, who is determined to reunite with her on-screen and off.

► by: Marc Baron, Richard Wolf

a suggestive trompe l'oeil delight

► by: Eddy Falconer

► by: Karen Mussette

In 1936, Danny, an 11-year-old African-American boy is orphaned when his Granny dies. He heads north from Georgia and one moonlit night comes upon a silver train. Discovered as a stowaway, he is soon “adopted” by Duke Ellington and his band, and his adventure begins.

► by: Ken Kimmelman, Mick Carlon

Surrounded by incomprehension, mystery and anger, I seek to enter into a relationship with my autistic brother; from the failure of speech to the humility of listening to reach the greatness of silence — where the borders of reality disappear, where the immensity of his inner being opens to the cosmos. Through wolves, a medium, and a cavern, his inner world is revealed; he invites us, like a relay, to another vision of the world.

► by: Chloé Belloc

Cycles follow one to another and sometimes leave traces of past times.

► by: Fabrizio MASINI

Triggered by her son's illness, a determined mother journeys through fantasy, dreams, and reality as she tries to save his young life.

► by: Steven Keith Bogart

What happens in a cinema when you reverse space and time? Originally shot in 10K resolution and 360° at the legendary Babylon Berlin. Winner of 34 international awards!

► by: Martin Reinhart, Virgil Widrich

An archival film from Syria before the war dedicated to Waad Al Kateab, director of FOR SAMA.

► by: Manuela Morgaine

Arthur is a simple, ordinary young adult looking for his place in the society and goals in the hungarian reality, but unfortunately over time he recognizes that nothing promising is in front of him. He is lonely, struggling with misconceptions and in his final desperation turns to a modern hungarian social service which help to find a solution to his only most depressing and painful problem.

► by: Galkó Kata

“I love him who works and invents to build a house for the Overhuman and prepare for it earth and animal and plant." "Thus Spoke Zarathustra" Friedrich Nietzsche The film creeps into issues of the Anthropocene while moving deeper into the psychological landscape of Lucy Palustris, the artist’s alter-ego. A solitary woman in the wetlands of southern Ontario, Lucy is a manifestation of our human psyche and our animal selves. Her role is ambiguous: Is she an agency of care, a psychologically (de)-stabilizing force or an intrusive presence? Illogical associations convey the strangeness and intensity of a dream. Disjuncture and incongruity colour the protagonist’s actions and costume within her surroundings, revealing the beauty and brutality of a degraded landscape and our transient existence within it. The film attempts to uncover something about who we are and how we have come to a tipping point of crisis. Fecundity, violence and death interweave. A call for restitution plays out like a Sisyphean gesture where tenacity and futility reign. A subplot speaks to notions of gender, race and class. Costume performance plays to the stereotype of the middle-class white woman, while simultaneously subverting it. Trying to make sense of Hollywood film stereotypes embodied by her mother’s generation, the character both subverts and holds to ‘norms’ of a seemingly bygone era, lingering in her consciousness and, more generally, remaining pervasive today. Writer/Director/Performance - Patricia Coates

► by: Patricia Coates

Two men are sitting in a small room to talk about an accident. The younger one thinks it is the same old interrogation about the tragedy but after a while he starts to have a feeling it is something more personal. The other man acts like somebody who knows more than he is asking about. He is confident and knows all the answers.

► by: Viktor Szabados

At home, Vida cares for her ailing father whose dementia gives way to long buried emontional conflicts Vida has spent her lifetime running from. When young Zaria is Vida’s office at school the next day, Vida immediately recognizes in the young girl the same telltale signs from her own childhood, but is it too late now for either of them — has the damage already been done?

► by: Barbara Zemljič

It was a long time ago. A terrible headache. Such a one he could never forget. But let him tell us how it happened...

► by: Frédéric Roussel

Season 3 of Expedition Entity starts off with our most intense investigation to date, the second floor of Brodhead Manor! Joined by our new team member Jenni Gill, and guest investigator Jenny Davis, we encounter a very overbearing spirit on the second floor that distinctly doesn't like women in his room.

► by: Larry Eissler III

Genetic code forces people to reproduce. Infants have no choice: they become a part of this world without any will of their own, and as completely helpless beings they are subjected to training in the civilizational norms… Is anything else possible at all?

► by: Ema Kugler

A young soccer player who aspires to turn his career professional must come to terms with an unfortunate reality.

► by: Daniel Calderone

Inspired by the James Bond 007 movie, based on a real crime to older people spy movie mixed with comedy. The chief of police of district 10 in order to hire his friend's son fired Olivia, the older police officer (60+) with the excuse that she is old. Olivia during her last day on the job receives information that the elderly woman Ellie is seriously injured. Suddenly, she receives the assignment from A. (a mysterious person) to act and find the masked attacker Ethan. In addition, her appearance during the film is changing. From a careless old woman she becomes an attractive woman who wears expensive clothes and luxury hotels. And let's not forget about love. With the help of her friends Jasmine, Connor and Charlotte and her granddaughter Riley, as well as her police officer friend Daisy, are able to find out what the next plans of the attacker Ethan, wanted by Interpol, are. She receives an offer from Interpol to work as an undercover agent under the name ̈GRANDMA 007 ̈.

► by: OLGA IF, Kristin Fieseler

The film, produced by the mother, is about the life of her 33 yrs old daughter Emma who has Down's Syndrome. Despite all social, physical and psychological adversities she is a symbol of success as a prolific artist and emanates positive energy with calm, humour and affection. She is a genuine star !
► by: Mirka Anderson

Tim is longing for love. He’s a lonely human being who struggles with exclusion every day. Every time Tim feels different than others he transforms into a french bulldog. Ginger makes Tim feel human. Ginger is an old friend of Tim`s whom he was in love with, unrequited love. Tim collides with Ginger in the street, they talk and become friends again. After meeting Ginger Tim becomes a dog again. This time he chooses to enjoy being a dog and sees all the possibilities of a dog`s life. It’s good to be a human being but it’s good being a dog sometimes too.

► by: Felix Swahn

Full Moon tells a story about a little girl and her big sister celebrating Halloween. The little girl wonders about the man who she believes lives on the moon, who she also believes might need her help. Her big sister helps the little girl carry out her well-intentioned deed. Logline: Love and imagination come together to make for a most memorable Halloween. Feedback from a Little Free Library recipient of the published story, Full Moon: "Just in time for Halloween, we were gifted a copy of ”Full Moon” from Facepaint Nonprofit! This adorable tale is Junior Steward approved so swing by today for a beautiful story about a little girl, the man in the moon, and how one act of love and kindness can inspire others."

► by: John Vo, Ken Yoffe, Ellen Weisberg

A mysterious plane crash occurs and it's similar to an accident 7 years ago, through which a young journalist lost her brother. Using her past investigations, she strives to search for truthful answers beyond superficial explanations. Simultaneously, 3 teenagers wake up in an abandoned and obsolete world, which an acquaintance calls 'Zenith'. A radio connection occurs between the journalist and the teenagers, and they unravel the mysteries of the world in order to find their way out. For the journalist, this becomes her one chance to find out what really happened.

► by: Kelsey Junghye Kim

IIn the midst of World War II, a young soldier escapes from an enemy plane that has crashed in the Boso Peninsula. A woman who lives in an isolated cottage in the forest rescued the injured man. When the unconscious man wakes up, he sees a hand-made cello in the room. "My dead son made it," she says. He asks if he can play the cello. She brings the cell to him and he begins playing sarabande from Bach's Suite No. 3 with his wounded hands. The ghost of her dead son wanders in the forest and around his mother's cottage with a kettle to draw water, but only birds can see the ghost, not the mother. One day the mother hears the sound of a kettle.

► by: Joseph Messer

► by: Brice Zephir, Damien Carré

A Man searching for the secret of immortality falls in love with a Genie. The Genie takes him to her Land, where every day counts as one year on Earth. But the heart of the Man is restless, so he decides to leave and returns to his own world. Suddenly the Man grows very old and dies. The Genie chooses to follow him although she knows that she will die too. The Man and the Genie become the Sun and the Moon. Love is stronger than death.

► by: Alessandro Orlandi

An aspiring musician’s heroic struggle with loss of vision uncovers a hidden truth as her life spirals around her.

► by: Amy Susan Guggenheim

"Apache Girl" is a tribute to the valiant, indigenous Apache women enduring acts of barbarity and whose heritage and lives were stolen. During the Apache War beginning from1861 and lasting until about 1924--the Americans battled the Apache warriors stretching from Southern Arizona to New Mexico. Amid the atrocities of both military and civilian Americans against the native Indians, two brave Apache women rise above their People-- Lozen and Dahteste. Dahteste accepts a daunting task from the Spiritual God -- to reach the high mountain and claim what belongs to their People. She is about twenty years younger than Lozen with a strong command of the English language. This skill enables her to serve as the interpreter in negotiations between the Apache tribes and the U.S. Government. Lozen, defies the role of a traditional female Apache. Instead of tending to her family with domesticated duties, she trains with the male Apaches to fight. Due to her deep brotherly love for Victorio and loyalty to her People, she joins him in many battles to defend the Apaches. The title "Shield to her People" becomes synonym to her name. After months of treacherous journey in the mountains of Chiricahua-- encountering inclement weather, venomous snakes and enemies -- Dahteste reaches the high mountain where she learns about the plight of her People. Lozen describes to her horrific massacre of Apaches at the battle of Tres Castillos including death of Victorio (Lozen's brother), their food rations and blankets stolen, and their People dying from the diseases of the white eyes (American). Subsequently, Lozen prays to Ussen in finding the enemy and her hands begin to shake and turns color signifying the enemy is close by. The Apaches feel their souls weaken as they get shipped out to a reservation in Florida, far away from their Native land. Can one say, “Perfidious acts of U.S. Government is to blame?”

► by: Richard A. Pines

On the night of May 10, 1944, Pietro, a literature professor and communist partisan, escapes from the Germans and fascists who are raking the Marsiliana scrub by taking refuge in a frantic run inside a ruin: it is what remains of the ancient Stachilagi fortress , immersed and hidden for centuries in the dark green of the Tuscan Maremma. There the protagonist finds a parchment, written in Latin and dating back to eight hundred years earlier. In it a friar recounts his unhappy fate of having been unjustly accused of heresy and for this reason walled up alive in the basement of a medieval abbey. The religious, friar Sabino, asks anyone who finds his writing to discover the truth about his miserable end. Peter will have to decipher his mysterious words: “Die plenae lunae, miser monachus monasterii Selvae, sub antiquo olivae arbore lacrimans, stabat in spelunca in conspectum Domini ante Cathedralis Sovanae Crucem”. And so, in a land that has just been freed from the Nazi-fascist delirium, while the wounded hearts of men try to heal with courage, the protagonist will walk backwards into the abyss of time. An ancient book that speaks of a Benedictine abbey and the eight friars who lived there; a painting hidden and forgotten under the dust of the centuries; and then others unforeseen events: all this will forcefully creep into Pietro's simple daily life, between the classrooms and the house where he now lives alone with his mother Norina. From the library of the town of Manciano to the darkness of the crypt of the church of Santa Fiora, from the austere cathedral of Sovana to the mighty tuff wall of Pitigliano: in the frame of the seasons that mark the days with their colours, each stage will add a tile to a mosaic paradoxically increasingly obscure. We will have to wait for the last piece so that the disturbing truth of Friar Sabino is finally revealed to the world, together with his tragic fate.

► by: Paola Fabiani

Watkins Glen State Park is a 778-acre park with a 400-foot-deep narrow gorge featuring 19 waterfalls over a span of less than two miles. It is considered a "flagship" park by the State of New York.

► by: Kostiantyn Mishchenko

IIn the midst of World War II, a young soldier escapes from an enemy plane that has crashed in the Boso Peninsula. A woman who lives in an isolated cottage in the forest rescued the injured man. When the unconscious man wakes up, he sees a hand-made cello in the room. "My dead son made it," she says. He asks if he can play the cello. She brings the cell to him and he begins playing sarabande from Bach's Suite No. 3 with his wounded hands. The ghost of her dead son wanders in the forest and around his mother's cottage with a kettle to draw water, but only birds can see the ghost, not the mother. One day the mother hears the sound of a kettle.

► by: Ryosuke Handa

Island is a silent piece that depicts the life in an Island. Using island as a place and a metaphor for life, I interpret my own life in a dance piece. Inspired by all the islands I have lived in my life- London, Manhattan, and Jeju Island, I use dance as means of communication and hope. Under the pandemic I felt the urge to create a piece that relates to the repeated daily life cycle but at the same time, Island as a cross concept of reality and fantasy/paradise. Set between the islands in three different countries, I compose the story of my journey to rediscover who I really am. In this deep and affecting journey of self-discovery, touching on issues of loneliness, isolation, and the perseverance of the human spirit. Island can be referred as a place of life and a journey, in which I have paradoxical feelings between relief and discomfort from being trapped between fantasy and reality in life. The dancer in this video looks for something constantly as if she will never find that tangible hope empowered by nature. Aesthetics of colour in the film relates to attitude towards an island. Colour of the costume- black and white dresses, emphasizing emotional instability that follows emotional engagement of the characters. Postures and movement with the sword depicts the character’s phycological state caused by the repressed and unconscious inner conflict ,in a living in an island. Through this film, I add my own voice to the dance and to all the people who are afraid to forget who they are, and where they come from while reflecting on what they may have lost along the way. This is a poem about the context of the film Island Dance along the wave I hear the shimmering of silver melody I am constantly looking for something I saw the waves in my dreams. They become mountains. Reality becomes shattered stones Sinking into the deep sea Storm surges I fainted A swarm of jellyfish wakes me up by placing tentacles all over the body and shaking Two swords in my hand are tools of healing repairing the crashing waves But my days of solitude are endless solitude making me a desperate orphan I can't breathe Fly up to the surface swing a dream Production context In my film, the same character is in two different screens where they depict her phycological journey in two different spaces and state of minds. It encapsulates symbolic means of life in land and island, patterns of everyday life, translating it into a movement and posture. At the time, It was during the pandemic lockdown where everyone was feeling helpless about the disease. I placed the framework of this film in one’s life but I hope the viewers will connect their own state of mind, bringing out repressed and unconscious inner conflicts caused by life events.

► by: Elly Cho

Wither with her is an experimental short film, revolving around a couple, Ivan and Kayla, who are heroin addicts who have overdosed and died. The film follows them through their final days, blurring the lines between documentary and classic narrative, to create something uniquely surreal.

► by: Jason W Hammond

A new grad in English gets a job teaching a writing workshop in socialist China. She has already read a 1960 book about the mission written by a priest, but she doesn't tell anyone.

► by: Susan E Pattishall

Brazil is known around the world for being a musical country. Most people think that Bossa Nova is the essence of their music, but Brazil is continental, with multiple cultures, and the diversity of its rhythms and beats remains unknown. The movie Brazilian Beats proposes to take you on a journey through several Brazilian capitals, immersing yourself in different rhythms and cultures, both traditional and contemporary, and making you feel the true Brazilian soul.

► by: Tiago Arakilian

A woman falls down into a timeless place where her subconscious tries to process the trauma that crushes her. While a part of herself is stucked in a ghostly mansion and her double wanders in an ancestral place, the woman will reach a painful awareness.

► by: Samantha Casella

This is a movie about the Donbas war, first-person stories. You will hear the stories of so-called "ordinary people". These people suffered from irrational from a military point of view strikes on civilian targets. They are victims of someone's desire to wage war on their territory at all costs. There are no author's comments in this movie and no censoring of the thoughts of the local people. This film was made especially for spectators in Europe, who do not know what is happening in Eastern Ukraine. The purpose of the film is to arouse interest in the ongoing six-year armed conflict and to make people to start to think about the responsibility of each of us for peace in Europe. Update from March 2022: The above was written in September 2019. Now the war is being waged throughout Ukraine and the fate of the people of Donbass is shared by many people in the country. But while the "democratic world" was aggressively indifferent to the lives of the people of Donbass, a wave of empathy has now broken out. Not bad, on the contrary, but there remains a bad taste of double standards. This large-scale war had to be stopped in its infancy, but apparently the interest in its expansion was too strong. We, the people who fought for peace during those eight years, have failed because our voices have been muffled. But we did what we could.

► by: Lubomir Dankov

Alex Txikon’s winter ascension on Manaslu, Nepal, is the seed of a story that will bring sustainable light to two very different places: Newton, Sierra Leone, and a special school in Diamer, Pakistan. Alpinism, solidarity and renewable energy are key to this story.

► by: Rosa García Loire

A bookstore that makes money in an unusual way A person notices this unusual business and asks the bookseller for a ransom in exchange for not revealing it. The bookseller and his wife decide to get rid of him. It should also be noted that the opening sequence of the film is a long take without a cut

► by: Salaheddin Noori

A little girl tries to live her daily life with quarantine as her companion. Her innocence shields her family from covid 19

► by: Nikolaos Kakonas, Calliopi Villy Kotoula

Truth meets fantasy But what happens in imagination is true.

► by: Vahid Mobasheri, Asma Darvishkhoob

The documentary“Approaching the book of changes” is a popular humanities documentary which analyzes the cultural phenomenon of the book of changes from all aspects and angles, and traces the inheritance and development of the book of changes with many historical celebrities, as well as with Confucianism, neo-confucianism and Sinology, from the angle of history, culture, philosophy, science and so on, this paper expounds the whole process of the origin, development, change and extension of the book of changes according to logic.

► by: Su Ting

Decades after the fall of the Berlin Wall Singer Marco Hoffmann has reached the height of his popularity. Suddenly, the ex-frontman of the East German rock combo DIE KOSMONAUTEN is accused of being by his former band colleague Volker Hinze, that "IM singer" who betrayed him to the Stasi at that time. Hinze demands a meeting, otherwise he threatens his evidence to the press and destroying Hoffmann's life like him destroyed his life. Although Hoffmann assures his innocence, he still relies on the conspiratorial Meet with Hinze. Between the former "blood brothers" a bill arises on life and Death.

► by: Nicolai Tegeler

After a home invasion, a depressed father must save his family, or they'll be premiered in the prime time news.

► by: Shivaan Makker

Disillusioned Knight Antonius returns home from the Crusades to find his country in the grips of the Black Death, he challenges Death to a chess match for his life. Tormented by the belief that God does not exist, Antonius sets off on a journey, meeting up with traveling player Mia and becoming determined to evade Death long enough to commit one redemptive act while he still lives. But Death is always around the corner, biding his time. Knight Antonius cannot escape his fate, and the two begin their game.

► by: Jacek Krawczyk

An optimistic Goth librarian accidentally releases the angry, pessimistic Ghost of Edgar Allan Poe who demands she help him avenge his unjust murder by a jealous rival.

► by: Matthew Toffolo

The indigenous and the white man united by the same fight. A poetic fresco on the state of the planet that depicts the First Nations man fleeing the ecological and humanitarian disaster since the conquest of the Americas. Anything for the Ones We Love is a musical film with INDIGENOUS pianist Salvador Chavajay as the messenger.

► by: Louise Marie Beauchamp

The Fresno Chaffee Zoo brought Christmas early for Central Valley Residents! Illuminature is a walking light event for everyone who enjoys being a night owl in a safe environment. This event lasts until January 22nd! Make sure to check it out!

► by: Stephanie Fernández

FAREWELL The memory of the land.A documentary film by STAVROS PSILLAKIS, 88min, 2022 "Thousands of fighters around the world had given all they had for a cause that, as they believed, as they said, was greater than themselves; but in the end it turned out that they themselves were the greatness of that cause." Chris Marker 87-year-old persecuted and declared guerrilla Giannis Lionakis, in a farewell trip to the place that defined his life, tells us about a 14-years (1948-1962) incredible survival effort, which begins with the end of the Civil War in Crete. The backbone of the film is unpublished footage that was shot in 2007 as part of the documentary "THERE WAS NO OTHER WAY".

► by: STAVROS PSILLAKIS

A female former singer and songwriter came back to her rural hometown to meet her family and a niece and find a new life there.

► by: Mitsuo Kurihara

Integrity has a slippery slope...

► by: Donald Watson

Bearing an uncanny resemblance to the mistress of a London-based Chinese Triad boss, an illegal immigrant is trained by MI5 to infiltrate the gang and bring them down.


► by: Suzanne Lutas