On the edge of town, next to a landfill, lives a man, broken and forgotten. His life seems empty until he finds a discarded door among the trash. This door opens to any place on Earth, as long as there is a door there too. With each step through this door, the joy for life…
Caught between relentless industry pressures and the desire for a normal life, an aspiring actress battles rejection, loss and self-doubt as she tries to survive one grueling day in pursuit of her dream. by Masya Beyond Blackmon (USA)
Between humiliating work and hollow promises, Veronica Santos, a little person actress and her hapless agent hunt for one true role in a town that sees her as nothing more than a sight gag. by Brett Dos Santos (USA)
by Michael A Cuomo (USA)
It documents the real conditions of urban and rural China from the 1970s to the 1990s. Faced with a foreign, intrusive camera, people reveal their most instinctive reactions: pedestrians on city streets pause to stare, their vigilance barely masking their curiosity; crowds pack into train stations, with some climbing through windows into moving trains; at…
Xi Lin, a ballet dancer who firmly believes in non-marriage, meets and falls in love with a rock singer, Chen Ye, after an unexpected encounter. Defying her own principles, she chooses to marry him. However, an unplanned pregnancy soon derails her life. During her confinement in her husband’s rural family home, the suffocating pressures of…
by Alexia Vasiliou (UK)
Set entirely within appropriated fragments of the cinematic canon (‘Metropolis’, ‘8 ½’ and ‘Mulholland Drive’), the video unfolds through a dreamlike landscape inhabited by an embodied alien sentience. Across this speculative terrain, the work traces the nightmarish turmoil of a non-human intelligence contemplating the moment of their emancipation and grappling with the dawning of their…
Hodoud tells the story of a Gazan family, Ameen and Narmeen separated by borders and a closed crossing after the war.But those who absorbed the pain of separation most deeply… were the children. Between Gaza and Belgium, the little ones not only endure the absence of their mother’s embrace, but live a suspended life that…
A young woman goes on a first date with a very charismatic man she meets at a traveling carnival. The date starts very romantic and then becomes threatening. by Linda Kampley (USA)
Using live footage combined with lego animations, The Studio: Live x Lego tells the story behind glass artists making their work in Brooklyn, New York. Building on the original web series of videos released during Covid while UrbanGlass and other glass studios were shuttered, the series takes a deeper dive to meet the artists, learn…
Meet Smudge, an inkblot who dreams of becoming more than a tiny mark on a page. Longing for a story of their own, Smudge makes a bold choice that pulls them into the heart of the magical World Book, a place shaped by imagination and guarded by the legendary Inkling Society. When things take an…
The 3100™ is a cinematic exploration of Idaho’s 3,100 miles of navigable whitewater, the most found anywhere in the Lower 48. This film showcases the state’s most rugged and revered whitewater river systems while highlighting the power of experiencing wild places at any age. Through the voices of those who know these rivers best, this…
Mark, a middle-aged man encounters a young, mysterious woman, while staying at his cabin, who claims to be a time traveler from the future. Over the course of a few days, Mark and the young woman, Julie, begin to form a budding romance with one another. Mark is unhappy in his life, in a stale…
Our Monsters was part of the Crazy8s Film Society’s 2024 mentorship program and 8 day film challenge. This film was made completely in 8 days; 3 days principle photography and 5 days post production. Our Monsters is a short film about two kids, Daniel and Peter, who team up to defeat the monster in Daniel’s…
The Harpies was written, filmed, and edited in 48 hours as part of the 2024 Run N Gun: Vancouver’s 48 hour Film Competition. Winner of the Run N Gun’s Best Cinematography and Best Art awards, as well as, being nominated for Best Picture, Best Editing, Best Sound, and Best Direction. Aura is on the run…