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12Narrative Feature
Before Oblivion
Dir: Iria Gómez Concheiro, Mexico, 103 min, 2019, Narrative Feature
Facing the threat of an eviction, the tenants of a vecindad (low-income tenement house) join in solidarity to come out of their self-absorption and fight f ... more »
Black Emperor of Broadway
Dir: Arthur Egeli, United States, 95 min, 2019, Narrative Feature
By the time Charles Gilpin encountered Eugene O'Neill, he'd had a twenty-year career in Black Theatre. Starting out in Minstrel Shows and as a Jubilee Sing ... more »
Caviar
Dir: Joseph Mensch, United States, 90 min, 2019, Narrative Feature
A young stockbroker at a Mob-controlled Wall Street firm gets betrayed and sent to prison for six years. When he gets out, he seeks revenge. ... more »
Domino Effect
Dir: Alessandro Rossetto, Italy, 107 min, 2019, Narrative Feature
By 2030, the fraction of the population aged 65 and over will exceed 30% in wealthy nations. In 2050, for the first time in human history, the elderly pop ... more »
Erotic Fire of Unattainable, The
Dir: Frank Vitale, United States, 80 min, 2019, Narrative Feature
Erotic Fire of the Unattainable is people carrying on at 60. Lovers trick each other, lie to each other, negotiate, have sex, break hearts, laugh, and come ... more »
JOURNEY OF MURDER, The
Dir: Jun WANG, China, 105 min, 2019, Narrative Feature
Sha Tao is a village girl with mental disorders. She is married to gambler Ma Saike, who plans to take Sha Tao to a boss in Shanxi Province in exchange for ... more »
MACABRE
Dir: Marcos Prado, Brazil, 100 min, 2019, Narrative Feature
Macabre is a feature film based on the true story of the "Necrophil Brothers", two young brothers who were accused of brutal murders in the 90's, in Brazil ... more »
Milkwater
Dir: Morgan Ingari, United States, 102 min, 2019, Narrative Feature
Seeking direction and purpose, Milo rashly decides to become a surrogate and egg donor for an older gay man she meets in a bar. However, as Milo becomes in ... more »
Our Own
Dir: Jeanne Leblanc, Canada, 103 min, 2019, Narrative Feature
When faced with life’s challenges, Ste-Adeline’s community has always stuck together. But this time, a scandal sends shockwaves through the quiet little to ... more »
Right Near The Beach
Dir: Gibrey Allen, United States, Jamaica, 80 min, 2019, Narrative Feature
When prominent Jamaican sprinter Jeffrey Jacobs is brutally murdered, rumors about the secret life he may have lived create public uproar, causing obstacle ... more »
Rotten ears
Dir: Piotr Dylewski, Poland, 61 min, 2019, Narrative Feature
ROTTEN EARS is a tale of a somewhat premature marital crisis caused by unfulfilled expectations and lack of communication. Yanek and Marzena will face thei ... more »
Snaeland
Dir: Lise Raven, United States, Germany, Iceland, 75 min, 2019, Narrative Feature
Set in Iceland and Berlin, this slow burn neo-noir focuses on a disgraced journalist and a story that could revive his career: is the wife of a local reall ... more »
Snatchers
Dir: John Kingman, United States, 85 min, 2019, Narrative Feature
A rough-hewn Mennonite witnesses a meteor rip apart the skies on his farm, leaving behind a smoking crater filled with glowing corn husks. A lesbian couple ... more »
Suffocation
Dir: Kenya Márquez, Mexico, 88 min, 2018, Narrative Feature
After getting out of jail, where she learned to care for the sick, Alma, an albino woman, is determined to recover something much more important than her f ... more »
Zoro's Solo
Dir: Martin Busker, Germany, 90 min, 2019, Narrative Feature
A 13-year-old refugee from Afghanistan living in an emergency shelter in Germany joins a Christian boys' choir to save his father who was left stranded in ... more »
Narrative Short
Alive
Dir: Jimmy Olsson, Sweden, 24 min, 2020, Narrative Short
Victoria is disabled and she yearns after intimacy and her assistant Ida offers to help by making a Tinder profile. Victoria gets a match but the guy she i ... more »
Anna and the Inexpressible Feeling of Being Lost
Dir: Philip Gibson, New Zealand, 9 min, 2018, Narrative Short
Anna hides in her room, paralyzed by her fear of the future. A short film exploring the inner turmoil that stems from alienation and anxiety. ... more »
Antelope
Dir: Diego Murillo, Venezuela, United States, 14 min, 2019, Narrative Short
In the midst of winter, a Venezuelan woman exiled in Brooklyn deals with daily work, a recurring appearance and unsettling messages from back home. ... more »
Best Seller
Dir: Nora Kirkpatrick, United States, 15 min, 2019, Narrative Short
When the reigning queen of the Home Shopping Network is killed live on-the-air during a hair drying demonstration gone wrong, her three venomous, power-hun ... more »
Blocks
Dir: Bridget Moloney, United States, 12 min, 2019, Narrative Short
An existential comedy about the mother of two young children who begins to spontaneously vomit toy blocks. ... more »
Boys & Toys
Dir: Kevin P. Alexander, United States, 13 min, 2019, Narrative Short
30-something Abby hits on a younger guy at a bar. Things get awkward when it turns out she already knows him. ... more »
Broken Bird
Dir: Rachel Harrison Gordon, United States, 10 min, 2020, Narrative Short
Birdie, a biracial girl raised by her Jewish mom, spends a rare visitation day with her father while preparing for her Bat Mitzvah. They share a meal, she ... more »
Coucou
Dir: Daiva Zalnieriunas, Canada, 12 min, 2019, Narrative Short
An aimless young woman attends her mother's dinner party. Tensions rise as she tries to defend her millennial life to her disappointed mother and her once ... more »
Deseo
Dir: Chloe Wallace, United States, 12 min, 2019, Narrative Short
Deseo follows Selene, a Spanish woman living in New York, on an evening in Williamsburg. Unsatisfied with her own life and intrigued by a woman she m ... more »
Ex Disposer
Dir: Daniel Ferrer, United States, 19 min, 2019, Narrative Short
"Ex Disposer" follows Andy, the destructively neurotic former drummer for New Jersey hardcore outfit Disposer, who discovers his old band is returning home ... more »
FITNESS! or a story about SWEAT
Dir: Kana Hatakeyama, United States, 12 min, 2020, Narrative Short
A titillating spiritual comedy about seeking your joyful, deepest nature through technology, human connection...and sweat. ... more »
Freed
Dir: Josza Anjembe, France, 20 min, 2019, Narrative Short
Issa, 20 years old, is about to get out from jail, when he meets Gaetan a young inmate who has not served his sentence yet... ... more »
Hammurabi
Dir: Patrick Kennelly, United States, 11 min, 2019, Narrative Short
A pregnant deaf woman is inspired to kidnap a man she believes is her abusive birth father. ... more »
Handheld
Dir: Pisie Hochheim, Tony Oswald, United States, 12 min, 2019, Narrative Short
An old handheld camera disrupts the chaotic bedtime routine of a single mother and her young son. ... more »
Header
Dir: Mark Kuhlmann, Germany, 12 min, 2020, Narrative Short
When Lars (13) gets further and further behind in the initially still funny duel with his brother Kai (11) and thus also threatens to lose the love of his ... more »
I'll End Up in Jail
Dir: Alexandre Dostie, Canada, 23 min, 2019, Narrative Short
A stay-at-home mom gets into a murderous car crash where nobody wants to take the blame. ... more »
IDOL
Dir: Alex Wu, Australia, 19 min, 2019, Narrative Short
A young Chinese celebrity is called into an emergency meeting after a fan of his commits suicide. ... more »
Journal
Dir: Alex Bliss, United States, 8 min, 2020, Narrative Short
Two best friends retrace their steps after a seemingly average night in hopes of locating a missing item. As their accounts diverge, an ongoing rift in the ... more »
Mr. Sam
Dir: Zeus Kontoyannis, United States, 28 min, 2019, Narrative Short
Sam is finally ready to tell his mother he's gay but is he ready to reveal that the love of his life… is a corpse? ... more »
New Year's Eve
Dir: Hao Zheng, United States, 22 min, 2019, Narrative Short
It's not always easy to come home and face your family on New Year's Eve, especially for 19-year- old XIAOYU, who returns to his childhood home in rural Ga ... more »
On The Side
Dir: Alma Hemmo, Israel, 14 min, 2018, Narrative Short
Friday afternoon. Ella and Yaeli, best friends for years, return drunk and happily from the beach. On their way home, a Police-Officer stops the two on the ... more »
Peter has to go to the doctor
Dir: Courtney Ulrich, United States, 16 min, 2019, Narrative Short
19-year-old Peter has to go to the doctor to discuss an embarrassing sexual problem. What he didn't count on was his mom showing up to the doctor's appoint ... more »
Phone Stack
Dir: Cami Delavigne, United States, 7 min, 2019, Narrative Short
A group of friends dare each other NOT to look at their phones at dinner. One woman grows paranoid about the texts she thinks she's missing from her new bo ... more »
Pond
Dir: Tyler Macri, United States, 14 min, 2019, Narrative Short
Elizabeth, ten years old, lives with her reclusive mother in a dilapidated apartment where fish infest the piping, surfacing by way of a drain in the batht ... more »
Present, The
Dir: Farah Nabulsi, Palestine, 25 min, 2019, Narrative Short
On his wedding anniversary, Yusef and his daughter, Yasmine, set out in the West Bank to buy his wife a gift. Between the soldiers, segregated roads and ch ... more »
Saint Catherine of Bensonhurst
Dir: Dominica Eriksen, United States, 13 min, 2019, Narrative Short
A young girl with a vivid imagination feels it is her calling is to become a nun. Taking her new passion to extremes, she doesn't consider the effect it mi ... more »
Single
Dir: Ashley Eakin, United States, 15 min, 2020, Narrative Short
A film that confronts the complexities of being disabled and dating. Kim, who was born with on arm, gets set-up to go on a blind date. When she finally mee ... more »
STICKER
Dir: Georgi M. Unkovski, Macedonia, 19 min, 2020, Narrative Short
After an unsuccessful attempt to renew his car registration, Dejan falls in a bureaucratic trap that tests his determination to be a responsible father. ... more »
Stud Boob
Dir: Shaina Feinberg, United States, 10 min, 2019, Narrative Short
Two sisters in a bathroom debate their different approaches to the patriarchy. ... more »
Summer in the City
Dir: Mojo Lorwin, United States, 10 min, 2019, Narrative Short
A dream logic, black comic exploration of climate change and its effects on the human psyche. Convinced that civilization is on the brink of collapse, two ... more »
Sunday Dinner
Dir: Kevin Mead, United States, 15 min, 2019, Narrative Short
After the recent death of their parents, a passionate Italian-American family reunites to enjoy their customary Sunday dinner. But one of them has a major ... more »
Taxidermist, The
Dir: Natalie Johnson, United States, 8 min, 2019, Narrative Short
Claire, a woman taxidermist, grieves her recent late-term miscarriage that she had by herself in the middle of the night in her taxidermy shop. ... more »
They salivate
Dir: Ariane Boukerche, France, 20 min, 2019, Narrative Short
"They salivate" is the story of a kiss. A couple kiss each other in their deserted living room. The party begins and one guest drinks the couple' ... more »
Trying To Disappear Again
Dir: Gus Gavino, United States, 19 min, 2019, Narrative Short
Alma, a single young mother, works in a metal factory during the day and cleans apartments in the evenings. She works multiple jobs to make ends meet and p ... more »
Two Little Boys
Dir: Farbod Khoshtinat, United States, 14 min, 2020, Narrative Short
A boy's secret love for his closeted bully drives him into an unconventional road to confession and its consequences. ... more »
When I'm at home
Dir: Ivana Todorović, Serbia, 16 min, 2019, Narrative Short
A young woman returns home from abroad after several years to confront the trauma from her past.The silent witnesses of her trauma still live with the old ... more »
Woman without a child
Dir: Eva Saiz, Spain, 15 min, 2019, Narrative Short
Tere welcomes a young boy in his house looking for a room to rent. Among them, an affinity will be created that little by little will come to resemble the ... more »
Documentary Feature
Current Sea
Dir: Christopher Smith, Malaysia, Cambodia, 91 min, 2020, Documentary Feature
A feature-length, environmental thriller that follows investigative journalist, Matt Blomberg, and ocean activist, Paul Ferber, in their dangerous efforts ... more »
Higher Love
Dir: Hasan Oswald, United States, 80 min, 2019, Documentary Feature
~WINNER: SLAMDANCE GRAND JURY AWARD~Daryl Gant is a Camden native, father of eight, and printing press operator. He was raised by a singl ... more »
Into The Storm [En La Tormenta]
Dir: Adam Brown, United Kingdom, Peru, 84 min, 2020, Documentary Feature
A troubled teenager from a crime-ridden barrio of Lima, Peru, struggles against the odds to realise his dream of becoming a professional surfer and lift hi ... more »
Full details » | Trailer » | Grand Chameleon Award, Best Documentary, Audience Award
Kingdom of Archers
Dir: Robert Hixon, United States, Bhutan, 78 min, 2019, Documentary Feature
When the Kingdom of Bhutan joined the United Nations in 1971, archery was designated as its national sport. Indeed, archery in Bhutan is a rich part of the ... more »
OPEKA
Dir: Cam Cowan, United States, Argentina, Madagascar, 89 min, 2019, Documentary Feature
Logline: An iron-willed Argentine priest inspires hope for an entire nation by teaching people living in Madagascar's largest landfill to build a highly f ... more »
Right Girls, The
Dir: Timothy Wolfer, United States, Mexico, 86 min, 2019, Documentary Feature
Three young transgender women from El Salvador and Honduras - Valentina, Johanna and Chantal - travel through Southern Mexico within the high-profile "Migr ... more »
Sisters: Dreams & Variations
Dir: Catherine Legault, Canada, 85 min, 2019, Documentary Feature
Tyr and Jasa grew up in an artistic household where art was a way of life. Quirky and insightful sisters, Tyr is a musician and singer while Jasa is an in ... more »
TWINKLE DAMMIT!
Dir: Chuang Xu, United States, 70 min, 2020, Documentary Feature
In 1971, Margaret Leng Tan was the first woman to earn a Doctorate degree from the Juilliard School. Since then, her five-decade career has made the musici ... more »
UNCIVILIZED
Dir: Michael Lees, Dominica, 71 min, 2019, Documentary Feature
Disenchanted by the modern world, Michael Lees heads into the forest of Dominica with some basic survival gear, religious texts and a camera. "Why did man ... more »
Win Lose or Draw Straws
Dir: Casey Phillips, United States, 80 min, 2019, Documentary Feature
Did you know the next President of the United States could be decided by drawing names from a hat? Win, Lose or Draw Straws is a feature length documentary ... more »
Documentary Short
Ai Baba: (Love Dad)
Dir: Connie Huang, China, United States, 6 min, 2019, Documentary Short
An intimate recording between a mother and her 7 year old daughter about divorce, as the daughter struggles with what she knows is right versus how she rea ... more »
Alejandro & Miguel
Dir: Joie Estrella Horwitz, Mexico, 9 min, 2020, Documentary Short
Multigenerational borders manifest both emotionally and vocationally in the relationship between Miguel Bencomo and his fourteen-year-old son Alejandro. In ... more »
Bananas Girl
Dir: Shayna Connelly, United States, 7 min, 2020, Documentary Short
Seven-year-old Bananas Girl asserts her independence, perfects the art of the non-sequitur and navigates the boundaries between herself and her mom. The fi ... more »
Brother Move On
Dir: Antshi von Moos, India, 8 min, 2018, Documentary Short
Geeta is one of the few female taxi drivers in India. Her service "for women by women" enables women to move freely in the city at any time. Her hope is th ... more »
Eat When You're Hungry
Dir: Malcolm Rizzuto, Spencer Garrison, United States, 20 min, 2019, Documentary Short
A mostly true portrait of Malcolm, a modern American young-person raised on TV & McDonalds, and his grandma, Lola, a strong and loud lady who immigrated to ... more »
Everybody's Ok
Dir: Drew English, United States, 15 min, 2019, Documentary Short
City Island in The Bronx, an oceanfront hamlet few have heard of, has given rise to an unassuming hero. Dan Treiber is figuring out life one day at a time, ... more »
I Want Everything
Dir: Paul Szynol, United States, 13 min, 2020, Documentary Short
After a lifetime of writing about famous rock stars, Larry "Ratso" Sloman releases his own album and records a tribute to Nick Cave's son. ... more »
Leeper
Dir: Lorenzo de Guia, United States, 2 min, 2019, Documentary Short
Blake Leeper is an eight-time Paralympic medalist representing the United States. Throughout his life, Blake has not let anything stop him from achieving h ... more »
Lessons From Jeju
Dir: Nicole Gormley, Korea, United States, 13 min, 2019, Documentary Short
An Adventure into Motherhood is a first-hand exploration of the haenyeo, a unique group of free-diving women known for shattering traditions by becoming Ko ... more »
Lewiston
Dir: David Shayne, Jacob Roberts, United States, 15 min, 2019, Documentary Short
A series of lyrical vignettes explores the cultural encounter between two radically different communities—one Somali, one white—that coexist in a precariou ... more »
Lionheart
Dir: Cam Tribe, Ghana, 16 min, 2020, Documentary Short
Trapped by misfortune and poverty in Ghana, two young men, Felix and Emmanuel, devote themselves to boxing as their way out. When the two are scheduled to ... more »
Lions in the Corner
Dir: Paul Hairston, United States, 9 min, 2019, Documentary Short
In Virginia, Scarface started a fight club in his backyard to combat gun and knife violence in the area. Soon it turned into something much more. ... more »
Los Otros
Dir: Monica Pendergrass, Eric Baldetti, Mexico, 13 min, 2019, Documentary Short
Hundreds of thousands of undocumented Americans are deported from the United States to "their country of origin" every year. What happens to these "non-cit ... more »
Marker, The
Dir: Will Francome, Katie Green, United States, 12 min, 2020, Documentary Short
Over 3000 migrants have died trying to cross the Sonoran Desert. The only marker for where their anonymous bodies were found: a red dot on a digital map. A ... more »
Recovery County
Dir: Cody Ball, United States, 19 min, 2019, Documentary Short
In the outskirts of rural Massachusetts, one small community provides a glimpse of hope in the ongoing American Opioid Epidemic. This film follows one doct ... more »
Rhythm's Gonna Get Ya
Dir: Lindsey Phillips, Shirin Ghaffary, United States, 9 min, 2019, Documentary Short
Rhythm’s Gonna Get Ya is an underground city symphony and kaleidoscopic portrait of NYC that follows the obstacles of four groups of subway commuters. Ride ... more »
Rocky
Dir: Annika Ivarsson, Sweden, United States, 8 min, 2019, Documentary Short
Rocky is 15 years old and has stopped going to school. His social life is on the internet and he sits up every night to play computer games. One day he get ... more »
Rooftop Refuge
Dir: Andrew Leibman, United States, 5 min, 2019, Documentary Short
A short documentary about Brooklyn local, Dave Malone, and how his passion for flying pigeons shaped his life. ... more »
Stan
Dir: JP Olsen, Kristen Nutile, United States, 9 min, 2019, Documentary Short
STAN is an experimental documentary based around the life of former heroin addict, Stan, who was among several thousand New York City teens in the 1940s wh ... more »
Sundays at the Triple Nickel
Dir: Jessica Colquhoun, United States, 11 min, 2019, Documentary Short
On Edgecombe Avenue in Sugar Hill, Harlem, Marjorie Eliot is making sure her apartment building’s iconic jazz legacy lives on. Marjorie and her son have be ... more »
Take Me to Prom
Dir: Andrew Moir, Canada, 21 min, 2019, Documentary Short
Featuring intimate, charming interviews with queer Canadians ranging in age from 88 to 17, Take Me To Prom invites audiences to revisit an adolescent miles ... more »
Terrell Homes
Dir: Isaac Green Diebboll, Rita Fortenberry, United States, 15 min, 2019, Documentary Short
A story of strong mothers fighting for their home. Urban warriors -- Rita, Dorothy, Valerie, Linda and Rosemary -- African American tenants in public housi ... more »
They
Dir: Louisa Rechenbach, United Kingdom, 12 min, 2020, Documentary Short
THEY is an intimate portrait of Hobbit and Jake, who have decided to raise their one-year-old child Anoush gender open. The family lives on a houseboat in ... more »
Animation
Bird, The
Dir: Take Yasui, United States, 5 min, 2019, Animation
Retro-chic rainy city in the midnight, one mysterious guy who has mission was chased by someone bad guys persistently. Like a bird, he run and jumps from e ... more »
Coin, The
Dir: Siqi Song, China, United States, 7 min, 2019, Animation
In Chinese New Year, finding the coin hidden inside of the dumplings means having a blessed year ahead. A young woman loses a jar on her journey to a new c ... more »
GRAB MY HAND: A Letter To My Dad
Dir: Camrus Johnson, Pedro Piccinini, United States, 6 min, 2019, Animation
In this retelling of his dad's relationship with his best friend, GRAB MY HAND is Camrus Johnson's gift to his grieving father and a message to all to cher ... more »
King of the House
Dir: Zige Zhang, United States, China, 10 min, 2019, Animation
A delusional man lives alone in a small dark house, believing that he is the king of the world and his supremacy is secure. However, his sovereignty is sha ... more »
Lursaguak. Scenes from life
Dir: Izibene Oñederra, Spain, 12 min, 2019, Animation
As Hélène Cixous said, we live in a time when millions of voles of an unknown species are undermining the conceptual basis of an age-old culture. ... more »
Luz
Dir: JOHN BANANA, France, 8 min, 2019, Animation
Problems can cloud your vision, but the key to Cloudia's happiness may be right under her nose. ... more »
Malakout
Dir: Farnoosh Abedi, Iran, Oman, 10 min, 2019, Animation
Music was his passion...Love was his masterpiece... ... more »
Masque of Blackness, The
Dir: Epoh Beech, United Kingdom, 13 min, 2018, Animation
Epoh Beech's The Masque of Blackness is a hand drawn animation re-imagining Ben Jonson's 1605 play The Masque of Blackness and Joseph Conrad's 1899 novella ... more »
Metamorphosis
Dir: Juan Fran, France, Spain, 10 min, 2019, Animation
In his thirties and still living with his mother, a man decides to break free from his inner demons. ... more »
Metro
Dir: Natalia Krawczuk, Poland, 10 min, 2019, Animation
"Metro" is a short story about the life of a train operator named Arseniy. He loves his job, but there is just one thing that keeps bothering him: passeng ... more »
Metro6
Dir: Geoff Hecht, United States, 8 min, 2020, Animation
Today is an important day for Zak, but everything is going horribly wrong. (When his car won't start), he has no choice but to use public transportation. D ... more »
Miles
Dir: Griffin Bajor, United States, 6 min, 2019, Animation
A driverless car, haunted by a prior fatal accident, suddenly takes its new owners on a terrifying journey. ... more »
PEAK, The
Dir: Satoshi Takahashi, Japan, 6 min, 2019, Animation
In the middle of the night... Sarah wakes up as she wants to go to the bathroom. As she leaves her room, she finds herself alone in the dark hallway, and i ... more »
Per Aspera Ad Astra
Dir: Franck Dion, France, 12 min, 2019, Animation
The daily life of a little hen housekeeper, torn between her work, her children and her old mother. ... more »
Pitch Black Panacea
Dir: Tom Hardiman, United Kingdom, 8 min, 2019, Animation
Amy & Carl both have lazy eyes. In an effort to find a DIY cure they both sign up for an unusual treatment. ... more »
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