Late at night, there are animals minding their own business beside a lake. Some of them meet at the end, and then they drink tea and making sticky rice happily together ever since.

NB: This is a film built entirely on sex metaphors, view with caution.

Animator/Directed by Huei Jen, Hung

Produ...

Gruf is a graffiti character that comes to life in animation. Gruf falls in love with the street artist who created him. He desperately tries to find her in the shabby streets of Tel Aviv and discovers that inter-dimensional love is not easy.

Dreamy, haunting forms transform, then ascend into a new spiritual world.

Writer/Director: Steve Socki

Music/Sound: Gary Chang

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"Hallowstide" is a non-narrative animated film; it is intended to be viewed as a visual poem. I was inspire...

The history and influence of newspaper comic strips

Directed by Tom Tanquary

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This project was done out my love for newspaper comics strips and ...

Andri, an anxious teenage boy, hides and represses his sexuality in fear of his masculine father's reaction but, on the eve of Andri's first date, he finds a clever way to reveal his secret.

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The apocalypse is coming. A lonely and bitter nun seeks for help to let go of her past and finally be free. The lights go out. The lights are turned on. And suddenly there is a change.

Writer/Director: Knútur Haukstein Ólafsson

Cinematography: Eva Rut Hjaltadóttir

Directed by Daniel Montoya

A look into the life of a transgender rights activist, Ethan, as he fights for equality in conservative Texas.

Director Statement
Film is a tool with powerful transformation capabilities and I use it to generate change and impact by telling stories that matter, storie...

Benjamin Giroux, a 10 year old autistic boy from New York, wrote a poem called "I Am Odd" for a school project. The poem went viral and It inspired this song using Ben's lyrics. A talented young 2D animator, Rory Russell, was approached to tell Ben's story in a simple animated music video to help...

A man grieves the end of a relationship on a walk at night during a global pandemic.

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i don't know what i'm doing is an experimental film about a young man grieving the end of a relationship. The film was shot in one day in the middle of lockdown in Toronto with only a 3 per...

IMAGINARY FRIEND is a short film following a detective who reluctantly agrees to help her niece, a young girl experiencing vivid nightmares. While the 'help' begins as a lighthearted joke, strange details and events suggest something more ominous is at hand.

Written & Directed by Jason Sanchez

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Presly Jones, a beautiful yet insecure environmentalist goes on her first date in a very long time. With the help of her best friends, Presly gets two ear fulls of advice during the date and soon realizes the extra assistance may be more problematic than depending on herself alone.

Director: Emm...

In-Difference is an ethereal, poetic glimpse at the trials and tribulations of a modern romance and its artifacts.

W.H.Auden The More Loving One
Music Frederic Chopin Prelude in e-minor (Op.28 No.4)

Cast:
Nisey Woods
Adam Brudnicki

Directed by Nina Marinov
Produced by Clayton Nix
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Inferno“ by Nostos Tanztheater is a dance theater about exclusion, trauma, refugee issues and displacement.

Where is Hell?
We are talking about prisoners who live in cells without hope. Families who had to flee persecution and are stranded in a boat between borders.
We are talking about people w...

After many winter seasons and competitions at the highest level all over the world, a professional freeride skier from New Zealand named Neil Williman ends up in Innsbruck. There he meets many talented locals that show him just how great the mountains around Tirol are. Deeply impressed by the pos...

A lone construction surveyor navigates the mysterious lower level of a soon-to-be demolished building. Burdened with the task of mapping the infrastructure’s network of ancient utility lines and deteriorating foundation, he descends deeper into paranoia as his measurements begin contradicting hi...

When Kat Hurley was five years old, her father murdered her mother. And Kat saw it happen. Now, 30 years later, she remains haunted by the memory, but determined to channel the pain into something positive by becoming a mother herself. This is her struggle to be more than just another victim of a...

Sometimes the most beautiful moments lie within the process. INTROSPECTION is a short dance film independently produced, choreographed, directed and performed by Katharine Larson. Choreography for this project was inspired by exploring the failures and successes of relationships. People will come...

“It's Good Business: Moving Beyond Conservation” is a short documentary that explores the antiquated idea that capitalism must be at odds with the health of the environment in order to profit. While we all want to protect our planet, current models of environmental conservation are failing. It’s ...

I WAS is a lyrical, experimental meditation on the journey to extinguish the ego and reconcile one’s mortality

Directed and edited by Nina Marinov
Cinematography by Chris Anthony Hamilton

Excerpts from works of Anne Sexton and Sylvia Plath
and Sadhguru’s meditation

2020

During an overnight hotel stay after a depressing engagement party, a young couple decide to pursue a spontaneous erotic fantasy.

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Based on the published book, FRUIT OF THE VINE (Weisberg and Yoffe, Waldorf Publishing, 2018). In JUSTIN AND THE WERLOOBEE, we meet Justin, a sensitive, introspective boy whose physical features and personality make him a convenient target for many of his cruel peers. One night, he wakes to find ...

A bartender reflects on one unforgettable night.

Directors: James Kinney and Pierre Marais

Producer: Straighten Your Crown Productions

CAST: Skye Mattox, Caleb Marshall, Ahmad Simmons, Alex Nordin, Jess LeProtto, Ramone Owens, Nathan Keen, Christian Borle

Lighting Designer: Curtis Shields

Wa...

"Late Night Swim" is an introspective psychedelic narrative about a man drifting through his days, until his vibrant ex-girlfriend appears in a dream, only to wake him up to life.

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"Lemons" is a minute and half long short film which explores the idea of perfection, and the pursuit of perfection. Of course perfection is hard to achieve and even if we cross our t's and dot our i's sometimes it doesn't work out. "Lemon" also speaks to what failure could feel like, and what it ...