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A neuro-refuge of haptic cinema. Polychora moves between analog and digital, cellular and cosmic, organic membrane and fractal geometry. Chromatic masses d ...
Entre Luz is a short documentary made with survivors of police shootings who lost their eyes during the 2021 Colombian national strike. The film follows a ...
Killian is a college senior hooked up to an IV drip of instant gratification and convenience. One night, a mysterious invite to a party called "EXPOSURE TH ...
DELANCEY CLUB follows a series of strangers as they pass through the mirror's gaze over the course of one night. By limiting the story to the bathroom, the ...
When American foot model Evie shows up for her first gig in Paris, her employers discover a problem with her feet. ...
Attempting to recover a confiscated rubber ducky, a young mother incites a violent brawl with her daughter's teacher. ...
A jazz-dancing Iranian-British wrestler opens a healing dojo inside a church in Bristol, armed with a belief that wrestling might just save the world.
At 15 years old, Hilda Onley was sexually abused at the NY State Training School for Girls, where she was incarcerated in 1958. She had faced an impenetrab ...
The last remaining South Vietnamese naval officers reunite in California for the final time. Finding solace in the shared experience of their youth, they r ...
Noel is a short documentary that follows a filmmaker's search to understand her grandfather's political legacy and lifelong fight for Puerto Rico's indepen ...
A queer stripper has to face the Jewish family that shunned her in order to fulfill her beloved Bubbie's dying wishes. ...
An oversized, cheeky rat has moved in with our protagonist. She whistles along with the radio, sits in the fridge, splashes in the tub, and is simply every ...
Inspired by the Croatian filmmakers of the 1960s and '70s, a young researcher explores the ways a city watches its people—and how, in turn, she views t ...
Which regrets fill the heart at the last moments of a woman's life? Which thoughts occupy the mind of a woman who dedicated her life to the Socialist d ...
Shiri (33), a bourgeois and conservative woman, planned her perfect maternity photo shoot, but the one who comes to photograph her is Lidor (35), a liberal ...
A lonely Woman seeks solace at a Laundromat that provides a special service. ...
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 ...
Love me Tender is a short animated comedy by Betina Bożek about the absurdities of online dating. The protagonist, emotionally attached to his vacuum clean ...
Ukrainian soldiers wounded in war come to America for a chance to rebuild their lives and limbs, before returning home to rejoin the resistance. ...
The lines between real life and reel life are muddied in the story of the Adams, an unconventional family who makes independent horror films. While they ma ...
Corazón de Cartón is an act of resistance through beauty. A way of turning reflection into a heartbeat. An invitation to see cardboard as a symbol, and to ...
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. ...
In 2003, an ambitious project was announced to bring the first professional sports team to Brooklyn since 1957, along with a sports arena and over a dozen ...
Two young brothers move into a new house with their parents. Very quickly the younger one notice that something is not right in this seemingly ordinary dai ...
When fridge politics spiral out of control, Liza isn't sure if her passive-aggressive co-worker is just a jerk or actually undead. With barricades, microag ...
A voice-presence makes a "sad film of his homeland, Venezuela", for a dying patient to ease its passing. In between montage errors and political ...
After seeing a man lying in the snow, a boy recalls a Saint Nicholas night spent with his father years before. Playing with his father takes an unexpected ...
A ghost shifts through centuries of footage in attempts to piece together a memory....Through the use of archival material and manipulated p ...
Two women, speeding down a lone desert highway, confront death, birth, and rebirth. ...
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 ...
Barry and Sal meet up, both in search of the Perfect Pop. ...
A reserved young man takes to the road to the southern U.S. to bring his older sister back home to Canada. ...
Set against the backdrop of Detroit's rich Black culture, 'Until It Feels Like Worship' follows Yomi as she navigates a journey to reconcile with grief. St ...
Inspired by real social media content, The Wrestler follows a child navigating pressures such as influencer culture, peer comparison, and societal expectat ...
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 ...
In a restless Rio de Janeiro, two friends drift through a relationship defined by inertia. As the city pulses with chaotic energy, their emotional stagnati ...
In this docu-fiction short, a group of community theater actors create a casino through a sense-memory workshop and explore the workshop's effect on their ...
A woman relives one of the worst nights of her life. 'Mine' is a meditation on control and desire, safety and survival. ...
The denizens of a strip-mall casino in Asheboro, North Carolina endure two tumultuous years. ...
Feeling adrift in the quiet exhaustion of marriage and parenthood, a couple buys a live-in AI domestic to help keep their lives afloat — only to discover t ...
In this traumatic-comedy, brothers rehash an incident from their childhood in a sauna. ...
An Oakland therapist's life unravels as she struggles to care for her clients in an increasingly fractured world. ...
A couple's bathroom banter spirals into an unexpected emergency, forcing them to confront the fragility of their relationship. ...
Do you dream about dancing? Join ILO and BO as they dance their way through the morning, filling their world with rhythm, color and song! ...
When a father consumed by alcoholism agrees to join his son on a journey through psychedelic-assisted addiction treatment in Colorado, their road trip acro ...
When the children of a quaint Parisian village are terrorized by a sinister threat, a remarkable dog emerges as the unlikely hero, until a shocking revelat ...
Barriga Llena, Corazón Contento (Full Belly, Happy Heart) is a chorus of stories from the organizers of Fenix Community Fridge, a grassroots food pantry in ...
The lonely 17-year-old outcast AIKE (Guus Blanken) craves attention and finds it online where he conducts dangerous chemistry experiments. Hoping to pull A ...
Two sisters say goodbye to the only house they have ever lived in. This house is a refuge, but also a burden and a weight.It is memory, but also ...
Andy has to attend an interview, the last in a long series of rejections. Cheerful, awkward, and deeply human, he finds himself facing two other candidates ...
A five-year-old boy wakes to find his beloved dog has died in the early morning. As he drifts through the moment in a quiet daze, memories of their time to ...
A young man goes fishing. ...
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 ...
Clay Bird is a poignant tale of Sichu, a nine-year-old girl and her dotting potter grandfather. The young adolescent Sichu's relationship with her grandfat ...
As the world shifts from day to night, Whilma prepares for her treacherous journey to dreamland. Guided by a sleep inducing podcast, she goes through her ...
A standoff at an immigrant detention center in Newark leads to the arrest of Mayor Ras Baraka. ...
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 ...
A miscreant father takes his 4-year-old son on a camping escapade (in the middle of New York City). ...
Personal and institutional archives come together to resurrect the memory of Florida's Paradise Park, a waterpark that served as a site of Black leisure in Jim Crow America.
In the studio of a well-known director, female actors audition for the role of Scheherazade in "A Thousand and One Nights". But the women gradually realize ...
Chino spends his days on the outskirts of the Amazon river hunting the anaconda that ate his dog. When an American hires Chino as a river guide, an encount ...
A homeless teenage boy becomes best friends with a neglected little girl in New York Chinatown. When she finds out he used to be a thief, they face a new c ...
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. ...
A girl is pulled into her phone's whirlwind of doomscrolling, vanity, and viral chaos, struggling to escape its addictive grip. ...
Cliff is a young man looking for love in all the wrong places in a small desert town. When his birth mother, Marg, arrives unexpectedly they start to conne ...
Andrew and Daniela travel to Goa, India, to meet their newly adopted 4-year-old daughter, Sarvari, and bring her back to the US. However, their world begin ...
After a decade of being pigeonholed as an insurance commercial mascot, an obsessive actor must shed his ego or risk being suffocated by his aspirations for ...
La Traversée tells the story of a young man who leaves France in 1911 aboard the S.S. Pretorian, inspired by a letter he wrote while crossing the ...
Blurring the lines of truth and fiction, this sociological essay film collages moments of distant future with observations on technology led evolution and ...
A 1980s Manhattan cab driver, host to an ever-changing cast of characters, reminisces a time when he drove a director to a film set and landed an acting gi ...
The film follows Doc's journey through his time in the military, boxing, and kink, and his stuggles with identity, revealing how combining the sport of box ...
In Western Tibet, father and son yak herders await an insurance inspection. The son has planned an escape, but when a yak goes missing, complications arise ...
Are The Stars Alive is a 3 minute, 35mm visual poem about the importance of curiosity and personal growth. It follows a woman who begins to trust her own i ...
In the twilight of their lives, retired identical twin morgue technicians, Marvin and Melvin Morgan - named after a funeral home - reflect on a 20 year car ...
MEN is the story of a woman who – when confronted with her difficult father's terminal lung cancer - starts a secret, unstable affair. ...
Crystal Cross is the story of two unlikely companions on a doomed but beautiful road trip across America. Dotty, a Christian singer in trouble, believes sh ...
While working his first night shift, a New York City doorman confronts a rowdy intruder and must call upon a mysterious group for help. ...
Over the course of a conversation, a girl reveals a major and life altering secret to her best friend, leaving only one question: can their relationship su ...
"Memory Jar" is a film about the everyday struggle of balancing work and family, and the choices we make about how and where we spend our time. Life is lik ...
Dream Synth™ is an archive of our blooming relationship with Artificial Intelligence — a speculative meta-documentary exploring the importance of dreams an ...
A twelve-year-old boy from a family of demolition derby drivers tries to prove himself by competing in his first derby, but finds the validation he's seeki ...
A surrealist horror fantasy filmed on Kodak VISION3.Two audio engineers create a sonic "infinity mirror" by cross‑wiring the circuitry of archaic ...
Who Killed Rollerblading? explores the meteoric rise and sudden fall of rollerblading in the 1990s and early 2000s. Through the story of its most iconic fi ...
The story is about a child who is obsessed with French fries. ...
Facing eviction after her mother's death, a young artist searches for creative ways to defend her right to stay in her Brooklyn apartment. ...
Inspired by the announcement of his mother's wedding, filmmaker Simon Ruscinski feels compelled to make a movie for her. It takes much longer than anticipa ...
Several black students are corralled into a classroom by faculty to watch the inauguration of President Barack Obama. ...
Using a 16mm optical audioreader and an oscilloscope, thisexperimental short translates thegeometry of everyday symbolsinto their chara ...
When the Scranton family began making purses out of old books, they never imagined the small business would become a lifeline for their adult son, Christia ...
With rare footage of the New York City COVID-19 lockdown, the film evokes the feeling, experience & atmosphere of one of the most dramatic moments of the b ...
Valentina is a young woman caught between small debts and daily pressures in life in a border town. After receiving parking tickets she cannot afford, she ...
After robbing the bar where he works, Tony and his best friend Ivy steal a hallucinogenic drug that sends them on a surreal Brazilian odyssey—where crime, ...
Tommy Speed is a documentary about the journey of Tom Cush, a runner with achondroplasia dwarfism, chasing his dream of greatness—and gold—at the World Dwa ...
Ball Lightning is the true story of a refugee who fled the personal and social effects of Soviet run East Germany after the end of WWII and immigrated to t ...
A frantic frolic in Fall foliage. A stop-motion autumn adventure. A symphony in blaze orange. ...
Desperate for connection, David digs up his brother's corpse. With their trusty red wagon, they ascend a treacherous mountain in pursuit of their childhood ...
Afterlife is a meditative animated short that explores the quiet spaces within a restless mind. Overwhelmed by the fast pace of city life, a young soul ste ...
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 ...
Listen To The Force follows Ting and Yun, a young couple living together in their urban apartment. Through a series of everyday moments: preparing juice, c ...
On July 4th in East New York, Tomiwa, the 13-year-old son of a Nigerian immigrant mother, ventures out in search of fireworks against her wishes. But when he crosses into a white neighborhood with two other boys, he learns the value of community the hard way.
Rocket Girl is an intimate portrait of a young girl, Eleni, as she navigates adolescence while pursuing her passion of building rockets. The film weaves together an honest depiction of the awkward and timeless coming of age story, with a peek into the competitive, male dominated and intense community of Rocketry. It's the story of a girl who marches to the beat of her own drum, against the grain of societies expectations about what she should be or do—a girl who believes that even the sky isn't the limit.
The complex power of the hijab, and how a seemingly simple piece of cloth embodies both what the wearer imbues it with and what society project onto to it, through the lens of two different young women.
A young Roma boy is lifted into the light, only to find it fades in an unexpected way.
When overachiever Alexa suddenly can't reach orgasm after starting antidepressants, she refuses to accept defeat. With the same grit she's applied to every challenge, she launches a spreadsheet-driven quest to "achieve," experimenting with positions, partners, and kinks like they're items on a to-do list. But when Alexa's plan fails and she meets self-proclaimed "watcher", Garth, she discovers that intimacy isn't something you can hack or optimize—it's something messier, stranger, and more human. "Achiever" is a sharp, heartfelt comedy about pleasure, perfectionism, and learning to let go in a world that demands constant achievement.
Don't Tell Mama opens with Chloe, a 16-year-old interracial teenager sitting with a quiet anticipation in her apartment building lobby, ripping holes in her tights. The blare of a car horn makes her glance up. She's greeted by her father, Vasco, a Montenegrin immigrant with a larger-than-life persona. He's late, disheveled, and critical of her appearance. Tension builds when he inquires about Chloe's mother, revealing that the parents are in the midst of a divorce. The pair have a heated conversation that ultimately ends in disjointed spirits. As Chloe's world blurs, the question remains of how their relationship will be moving forward.
Eric seeks support in addressing the state of his friend Jaime's mental health after catching him in a moment of self-harm.
A story about a possessive relationship between a mother and her daughter. The daughter, through unexpressed anger and rebellion against her mother, transforms into a goldfish. Her repressed childhood emotions are manifested in her harshness towards herself and others.
The Fifth Floor is an ascent. It takes us on a journey through layered imagery that includes 8mm home movies decayed by time, luminous kaleidoscopic patterns, and sacred geometry. The two visual worlds compete and collide. Moments of clarity dissolve. Ultimately it becomes a meditation on the beauty of loss, decay, and transcendence.
Structured as an elevator ride through an interior landscape, The Fifth Floor invites audiences to bring their own map. Whether it evokes stages of grief, meditation, therapy, or spiritual awakening the elevator will rise and the doors will open. Where you arrive depends on what you bring with you.
After 100 years of independence, a bold new wave of young Irish artists redefine folk music and reflect over the impact of their colonial history.
Stick to the script and Howl will keep you safe. This is the mantra of the Ergons, a cult of office workers convinced the only way to return to their home planet and its benevolent leader Howl is by cold calling Humans and scamming them out of their credit card information. Penny is the office's highest-performing, most devoted member – until an unprecedented interaction with a Human disrupts her winning streak. When her best friend Carl is disappeared by sinister office manager Boss, paranoia and secrecy spread throughout the office and Penny's faith in the mission begins to fracture. Is she willing to break the cardinal office rule and go off script, unraveling the world as she knows it?
A sun-drenched Renaissance palace. Three women exist in an airy state of suspension, a liminal, responsibility-free bubble, where summer never ends. An enigmatic system fulfills all their needs - providing food, entertainment and a daily routine focused on wellness affirmations. There's just one rule: they are forbidden to cross the surrounding wall. Soon, cracks begin to appear in this idyllic picture: using a "touch language" - as some things can't be said out loud, secretly practicing how to die, which is supposed to be their ticket to "another place". Long-suppressed anger and a desperate need to escape emerge. Will the girls, raised in perpetual immaturity, be able to overcome the fear?
Los Angeles, 3036 A.D. Humans are on the verge of extinction and the world is now run by... Trash. Tuna Tartare is a bombastic can of tuna fish who runs Throats karaoke bar with her BFF Susan, a fake Louis Vuitton purse with crippling anxiety. Upon hearing of the death of the last surviving human, Tuna is reminded of an old brush with fame that ended in embarrassment, sending her on an internal journey to battle her own insecurities and build herself back up again to do what she does best: karaoke.
Congested traffic and endless construction in the city of Ulaanbaatar are the backdrop of a young couple's tense exchanges as they navigate their strained relationship while apartment hunting in Lkhagvadulam Purev-Ochir's distinctly poignant and sophisticated drama.
The absurd walks in through the front door, and the house itself becomes the protagonist. In her debut film, multidisciplinary artist Matea Radic draws on hand-drawn animation, family photographs, and a distinctly personal sense of irony to return to war-scarred Sarajevo, the city she left behind as a child. What does attachment really mean?
The "Story of The Cricket Queen" interprets digital media tropes, trends, and aesthetics using analog film techniques. Through a hybrid of performance, hand drawn animation, Super 8 and archival footage, the film attempts to recreate a collage of internet cultures and capture the specific uncanny, hypnotic, and isolating feeling of consuming media in the digital age.
The autobiography of Koki, an immortal parrot. Artist Quenton Miller portrays the life of this unique animal, a loyal comrade of Marshal Tito, leader of Yugoslavia for 35 years. A rich photographic archive relives the caged memories of this cockatoo, who had the honour of meeting Hollywood stars, and bloodthirsty dictators. A funny portrait, non-aligned with the documentary orthodoxy, that deals with the false constructions of history.
Evan, a young man from NY is on his way to Mexico for the first time, running away from a recent heartbreak. On his flight he meets Paloma, who is returning to her native Mexico after living abroad for many years. What seems at first like a random encounter, grows into a meaningful connection that transforms both of their journeys.
A woman's life unravels after she becomes addicted to throwing herself down flights of stairs.
A Palestinian doctor's nightly commute from Jericho to Ramallah goes awry when her tire blows on a desolate road. Surrounded by coyotes, a stranger arrives to assist—but soon reveals a darker motive, testing trust and survival.
A new generation of parents, teens, and reformers are fighting back against Big Tech's agenda to define the future of human connection. From Kristin, a mother pursuing legislative reform after losing her son, to Trisha, a young programmer building technology to stop cyberbullying, the film reveals how deeply the attention economy is reshaping us. Blending intimate human stories with insights from leading experts in tech reform and digital wellbeing, "Your Attention Please" asks some of the most urgent questions of our time: Can we reclaim our autonomy? Can technology be redesigned to serve humanity? And what does a healthier relationship with the digital world look like for us and our kids?
A photographic exploration of Queens' unconventional architecture reveals the borough's beauty through the eyes of an architect while uncovering the deeper history behind its strange and spectacular designs.
An Indigenous Maya Chuj couple make a treacherous thousand-mile journey across Guatemala and into Mexico to demand the emancipation of their niece, who was wrongfully imprisoned during her intended migration to the United States.
A young boy forms an unexpected bond with a Mormon missionary who visits his small-town home in New Zealand.
In an underground garage, a voice message becomes the testament of a love left in limbo, while fleeting images allude to the moment that led to it.
Twelve-year-old Lil Ant struggles to connect with his father when he begins to see surreal, almost spectral visions of boys drifting around his neighborhood. Their presence reveals a link between father and son, laying bare the threads that bind family, legacy, and place.
Sounds of bustling nightlife, crowded markets, and techno parties fill the air as the lives of two unlikely strangers intersect in Yassmina Karajah's lyrical and dreamy love letter to the pulsing, vibrant, and deeply charming city of Amman.