54/THE BLIND TURTLE AND THE ENDLESS SEA
Isabella Margara | Greece | 13′
A woman who cannot stop running. A mysterious man who knows everything about her life. A mysterious Greek parable.
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ADJUSTING
Dejan Petrovic | Serbia | 19′
Through looking at a loveable dog’s refusal to submit to the will of her trainer, Adjusting explores authority’s role in defining reward and punishment.
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ALL NIGHT LONG
Eric Scrabar | Italy | 19′
A tormented young man requests the help of his equally disturbed friend in doing something he can’t do himself; kill his mother.
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BAD NEWS
Santiago Cardelús , Pablo Cascón | Spain | 15′
A hilariously dysfunctional family gathers due to a tragedy. But there’s somebody missing: the oldest son is celebrating his birthday at a camp in the Himalayas.
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BARBARA
Aidan Lesser | Canada | 6′
A lone, crisis-hotline operator receives a distressing call during her graveyard shift. Based on a true story.
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BE HERE NOW
James Stephen Roberts | United Kingdom | 9′
A white-collar worker with an all consuming passion for “success” spends her youth in corporate servitude in the name of delayed gratification.
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BEHIND
Yili Li | China | 15′
An aspiring writer becomes a janitor in an underground hotel and finds more than he bargained for in the mysterious room which doesn’t open.
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BLACK WOOL
Elisabet Terri | Spain | 19′
A family crisis brings two estranged sisters back together for one final wish in a familiar place.
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CUTTER
Dan Repp and Lindsay Young | USA | 16′
A teenage cutter in recovery and her overbearing mother are haunted by a ghost who seeks to keep them at odds.
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EL METODO
Néstor Ruiz Medina | Spain | 29′
An aspiring actor is mocked ruthlessly by his acting school classmates for being a mama’s boy. Until he snaps.
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FORGOTTEN
Mawrgan Shaw | Canada | 4′
Drawn using traditional and digital media, an animated short film by that offers a window into the isolation the elderly face when living alone.
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GANGNAM BEAUTY
Yan Tomaszewski | France | 23′
Oli, an English man in his 30s had spent a fortune on plastic surgeries to look like his idol; a Korean pop star.
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HEART IT RACES
Lisa Hasenhütl | Austria | 30′
When her boyfriend leaves, a reluctant and heart-broken Magda takes up motorcycle lessons to fill the void.
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HIT N’ RUN
Jeremy Benbow | USA | 12′
Two friends, Micah and Joel, search through Los Angeles for the culprit of a hit and run, the victim of which is Micah’s sister Shauna.
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IN THE BACKSEAT
James Salmon | Canada | 7′
During an intimate date night in his parent’s car, an underachieving 30-year-old attempts to win back his long-term girlfriend.
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IN THE INNER CIRCLE
Julia Reiter | Austria | 30′
Charged with training the new girl, a young woman’s competence feels challenged and her anxiety grows. She is caught in a vicious circle of her own making.
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KATASTROFER
Tone Ottilie | Denmark | 29′
A young girl with OCD must overcome her fear of germs, mold and maggots in order to kiss the girl of her dreams.
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LAST AND FIRST WOMAN
Adnan Siddique | USA | 36′
A passionate astronomy student disengages from her college curriculum upon the discovery of an illusive artifact.
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LATE NIGHT ETHICS
Melisa Sahin | Canada | 12′
When Rana tells her friends about an inappropriate comment her ethics professor made about her, they spend their night trying to make an important decision.
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LEMONGRASS GIRL
Pom Bunsermvicha | Thailand | 18′
As her fellow female co-workers shy away from the duty, Piano is left with no choice but to take on the burden of becoming the lemongrass girl.
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LILI ALONE
Zou Jing | China | 22′
Lili, a young mother, lives with her gambler husband in a remote part of Sichuan. Lonely and poor, she heads for the city in a bid to earn enough money to save her dying father.
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LIMINAL
Dan Abramovici | Canada | 12′
The cycle of Steve’s life choices are too large for him to recognize any pattern within. But as time is compressed and he flows through spirals of love and sexuality.
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LOUISE FROM 9 TO 5
Julien G. Marcotte | Canada | 12′
An HR advisor is caught between her company and their employees as tensions escalate between contempt and violence.
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LOW WATER PRESSURE
Francesco Filice | Canada | 14′
Over the course of one conversation, an unhappy couple come to terms with the fact that their relationship isn’t what they thought it was.
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MAN IN THE MORGUE
Omar Kakar | USA | 15′
A disillusioned New York City embalmer discovers a renewed sense of life upon the uncovering of a mysterious memento mori on his mortuary table.
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MEMORY MAKERS
Mark Pagliaroli | Canada | 7′
A ragtag group of cameras try to escape their owner’s apartment before they are thrown away in this hilarious and memorable short film.
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MOTORCYCLIST’S HAPPINESS WON’T FIT INTO HIS SUIT
Gabriel Herrera | Mexico | 10′
There he sits proudly on his beautiful motorbike which he would never loan to anyone. He is certain that he alone can explore the jungle.
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MY CONDITION
Coke Arijo | Spain | 10′
Late at night, a woman at a bus stop is approached by a professor. He isn’t who he says he is, but neither is she.
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NAFS SAID
Huma Hussain | USA | 13′
An Indian-Muslim wife’s mundane life is abruptly interrupted by an opportunity to explore her desires.
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NAYA
Sebastian Mulder | Netherlands | 24′
A documentary following Naya, a wolf that walked from East Germany to Belgium tagged with a GPS collar.
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NIGHT VISIT
Mya Kaplan | Israel | 25′
After a chance sexual encounter with a guy from her village, Ruthie discovers he might not be who she thought he was.
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NOBODY’S BOY
Joe Perry | USA | 16′
After they pickpocket a charismatic street performer, Rafa, a homeless orphan, comes to believe this man could be his missing father.
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NOIR-SOLEILL
Marie Larrivé | France | 20′
After an earthquake in Naples bay, the body of a man is found. While Dino and his daughter, Victoria, travel to Italy for a DNA test, the past catches up with them.
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ONE THOUSAND AND ONE ATTEMPTS TO BE AN OCEAN
Wang Yuyan | France | 11′
A tense, visual journey, One Thousand and One Attempts to Be an Ocean reflects on the experience of not being able to see the world with depth perception.
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SHARK
Nash Edgerton | Australia | 14′
His first girlfriend was hit by a car. His second girlfriend fell off a cliff. His wife has come prepared.
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SHE KEEPS ME
Erica Orofino | Canada | 16′
The strained relationship between two sisters reaches a dangerous climax in this exploration of family ties, mental illness, and self sacrifice.
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SURVIVERS
Carlos Gómez-Trigo | Spain | 6′
Natural selection says that only those who adapt will survive. What if humans have become stupid?
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SWÄN SØNG
Daniel Christophersen | Norway | 9′
When Amanda and Eva accidentally run over a swan on a business trip to Wales, the threat of being trialled for treason exposes the true trust, loyalty and friendship of two best friends.
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THAT SUMMER WE STAYED AT HOME
Noelia R. Deza | Spain | 20′
In a country house in the middle of nowhere, the life of a couple repeats itself in an eternal cycle of daily routines and abuse.
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THE FAKE PLANT
Luisa Maria Gonzalez | Canada | 10′
Annie gets trapped in the balcony of her apartment, without a phone or any other means to get help.
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THE LETTER ROOM
Elvira Lind | USA | 33′
Richard, a lonely and well-meaning prison officer, is put in charge of reading and censoring the letters received by inmates.
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THE MIDDLE
Hanna Jovin, Adrian Morphy | Canada | 10′
An experimental short film about Maggie, a young woman who moved to Toronto to become somebody.
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THE RIGHT WORDS
Adrian Moyse Dullin | France | 15′
Kenza 15 years old and her little brother Mahdi 13 years old regularly humiliate one another on social media in cruel ways.
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THE WASHING MACHINE
Dominik Hartl | Austria | 24′
After selling his leaky washing machine to a man on Craigslist, Simon suspects that the man may wish to seek vengeance in this hilarious short film.
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THE WAY OF MOURNING
Matthew Segal | Canada | 17′
While grieving the loss of his sibling, Eliyah wanders through his family home searching for the source of a mysterious yet familiar sound.
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THUS BEGAN ANTOINE’S DOWN-GOING
Paul Rigoux | France | 22′
A lonely Antoine summons the courage to finally approach his muse, Albertine, whom he watches from a distance every day.
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TUNDRA
José Luis Aparicio | Cuba | 30′
A lonely electrical inspector, dreams of the Red Woman, whose image persists and becomes an obsession. Something tells him she is near.
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VISITORS
Kenichi Ugana | Japan | 16′
When concerned friends visit their bandmate, they’re invited in for some tea… with just a splash of the undead.
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WE WON’T FORGET
Lucas Elliot Eberl, Edgar Morais | USA/Portugal | 14′
A woman’s frustrations boil to the surface while hostinag a party for her friends, culminating in a public freakout that turns into collective hysteria.
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WILD WILL
Alan King | Australia | 12′
When the neighbourhood dog catcher, William Page, is found wandering the streets disoriented, he is taken to the local police station for assistance. However, the situation soon disintegrates into hell on earth.
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WORKING FROM HOME
Toryn Westcott | UK | 13′
Adjusting to working from home in the early days of the pandemic, three embittered strangers become stuck in the three-way phone-call from Hell.
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YO, DIABLO
Balthazar Klarwein | Spain | 20′
Joey, works as a waiter for a hedonistic community of summer holiday makers in a small Mediterranean paradise.
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