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16MMONSTER
Dir: Jacob Kindlon, United States, 12 min, 2015, Narrative Short
An explorer is collecting plants in the forest when he is attacked by a monster, and chased into an abandoned city. Lost among the towering spires with a m ... more »
20 YEARS OF MADNESS
Dir: Jeremy Royce, United States, 90 min, 2015, Documentary Feature
When the founder of a mid-90s Public Access TV show in Detroit reunites the eccentric cast after 20 years to make a new episode, he discovers that most of ... more »
ABBY SINGER/SONGWRITER
Dir: Onur Tukel, United States, 75 min, 2015, Narrative Feature
Jamie Block - a divorced stockbroker has-been who was once an indie-rock star signed to Capitol Records - meets Onur Tukel, a hapless middle-aged filmmaker ... more »
ABIGAIL DEVILLE'S HARLEM STORIES
Dir: Nick Ravich, United States, 7 min, 2014, Documentary Short
How does an artist acknowledge forgotten people? In this ART21 production, artist Abigail DeVille stalks the streets of Harlem with a trash-laden push cart ... more »
AFTER A DREAM
Dir: Tobias Schmuecking, Germany, 17 min, 2014, Narrative Short
Filmmaker Luzie has a strange dream that makes her wake up with the feeling of having found an incredible story Luzie investigates the nature of this drea ... more »
AND IT WAS GOOD
Dir: Graham Waterston, United States, 19 min, 2014, Narrative Short
A man and a woman reconnect after a long separation, realize they're still in love and, immediately, get married. Their excitement quickly fades when the e ... more »
BIG BAG
Dir: Ricardo Martin Coloma, Spain, 13 min, 2014, Animation
World and most of times society dictates where and how much time you have to be for every second of your life.We work, sleep, buy things to feed an enormou ... more »
BLOCK AND PILED
Dir: Marc Riba & Anna Solanas, Spain, 5 min, 2014, Animation
Red alert! Disaster is on the horizon! Ready for evacuation! ... more »
BLUE-EYED ME
Dir: Alexey Marfin, England, 7 min, 2014, Narrative Short
In 2001 the cost of sequencing a single genome was a billion dollars. In 2014, it was a thousand. By 2020 it has dropped to 99 cents. This is the world of ... more »
BOLES
Dir: Špela Čadež, Germany, 12 min, 2013, Animation
Filip lives in a poor neighbourhood. He dreams of writer's glory and luxurious lifestyle in a more prosperous part of town. One day Filip gets a knock on t ... more »
BORN INTO THIS
Dir: Lea Scruggs & Sean Ryon, United States, 23 min, 2014, Documentary Short
Born Into This examines the American Dream told through an immigrant father and his son's attempt to break into the world of professional boxing. Junior 'S ... more »
BORN TO BE MILD
Dir: Andy Oxley, England, 15 min, 2014, Documentary Short
The modern world is constantly speeding up. But not for the Dull Men's Club - a group of men quite content with life's more sedate pleasures. ... more »
BOYLAND
Dir: Gabe Rubin & Felix Bernstein, United States, 19 min, 2015, Experimental
Boyland tells the story of the young muse, James (played by musician James Coarse), as he is photographed by Meyer (played by poet Kevin Killian), and haun ... more »
BREAKING IN
Dir: Adepero Oduye, United States, 4 min, 2014, Narrative Short
One afternoon in Sunset Park, another black boy gets broken in. ... more »
BUGSTEP
Dir: Ilana Morgan Schwartz, United States, 4 min, 2014, Animation
In a firefly orchestra deep in the forest, a rebel bug decides to go against the musical rules. Party with bugs in this all-encompassing tale. ... more »
BUT NOT FOR ME
Dir: Ryan Carmichael, United States, 102 min, 2015, Narrative Feature
Will is a young writer, living in the big city, barely scraping by on his copywriter's salary. When he meets Hope, his beautiful and enigmatic new neighbor ... more »
Full details » | Trailer » | Best Original Score, Audience Award
CASTILLO Y EL ARMADO
Dir: Pedro Harres, Brazil, 13 min, 2014, Animation
On a windy night, Castillo faces his own brutality on the line of the fishhook. ... more »
CHAMELEON
Dir: Ryan Mullins, Canada, 78 min, 2014, Documentary Feature
A janitor mopping floors in a brothel. A hotel waiter in a tuxedo. An albino trafficker in Tanzania. A catholic priest in a Bangkok prison. They are all th ... more »
COLLECTORS
Dir: Marcel Hobi, Switzerland, 5 min, 2013, Animation
Whether it's antiques, insects, autographs or adventures - collecting is a passion.Internet users collect friendships, state leaders collect arsenals of we ... more »
COMIC BOOK HEAVEN
Dir: E.j. Mcleavey-Fisher, United States, 12 min, 2014, Documentary Short
This short documentary follows 81 year old Joe Leisner, owner of Comic Book Heaven in Sunnyside, Queens, NY as he cantankerously assesses the status of his ... more »
CRAZY FOR YOU
Dir: Marcelo Kiwi Beiger, Chile, 11 min, 2015, Documentary Short
Elias is a shy and lonely guy, while Carolina is sociable, cheerful and lives without prejudices, two people living together in one body. This is a portrai ... more »
CYLBURN PARK
Dir: Julia Kim Smith, United States, 10 min, 2014, Experimental
Cylburn Park is a text movie in two acts inspired by and edited from a Baltimore neighborhood's Google Group daily feed and the media's coverage of it. The ... more »
DAGHWAH
Dir: Moe Najati, United Arab Emirates, 10 min, 2015, Documentary Short
Daghwah is a traditional fishing method that is still being used by the locals of Kalba in the United Arab Emirates. The documentary, narrated by fisherman ... more »
DAY 40
Dir: Sol Friedman, Canada, 5 min, 2014, Animation
In this animated retelling of the Noah's Ark story, various unholy activities fill the great ship, as the animals discover the darker side of their nature. ... more »
DEATH SONGS & CAR BOMBS
Dir: Brendan & Jeremy Smyth, United States, 6 min, 2013, Experimental
Guided by a ceremonial death song, an attempt to reach the unholy sea transforms into a chaotic place study of Bali's infamous tourism district- car-bombed ... more »
DEEP WEB
Dir: Alex Winter, United States, 90 min, 2015, Documentary Feature
Deep Web gives the inside story of one of the the most important and riveting digital crime sagas of the century -- the arrest of Ross William Ulbricht, th ... more »
DEVIL TOWN
Dir: Harvey Mitkas, United States, 99 min, 2015, Narrative Feature
When a young woman's sister goes missing, she sets out on a quest to find her on her own, eventually enlisting the help of a questionable private investiga ... more »
DICTATION
Dir: Christoph Müller, Mexico, 5 min, 2013, Animation
Pupils on the fifth grade have turned into zombies. Two kids, who don't take dictation, are saved from this infection and try to escape from their fellow s ... more »
DISAPPEAR
Dir: Simon Direen & Kaz Ceh, Australia, 8 min, 2014, Narrative Short
Jerry, a fifteen year old lonely outcast, makes his way across a busy city armed with a homemade bomb and a love letter, in a desperate attempt to capture ... more »
DIVISION AVENUE
Dir: Janna Kyllästinen & Anne-Katrine Hansen, Canada, 13 min, 2014, Experimental
Division Avenue is an experimental short film about one of the most prominent yet often ignored landmarks of New York, the Brooklyn-Queens Expressway. Exam ... more »
EADWEARD
Dir: Kyle Rideout, Canada, 104 min, 2015, Narrative Feature
A psychological drama centered around world-famous turn-of-the-century photographer, Eadweard Muybridge who photographed nude and deformed subjects, became ... more »
EAT ME
Dir: Xiangtian Zheng, United States, 6 min, 2014, Experimental
Eat Me is a student experimental film shot in Sichuan, China exploring the parallel world between a girl's reality and psychological state. In the real wor ... more »
ENSEMBLE EPISODE01&02
Dir: Toowa 2, Japan, 26 min, 2014, Experimental
B&W Color. Silent. Omnibus film.[Episode01] A woman was waiting for a man in the cafe. It was their anniversary. But the man forgot about it, and he was de ... more »
ERIC, WINTER TO SPRING
Dir: Danya Abt, United States, 15 min, 2015, Documentary Short
A glimpse into the life of a Brooklyn cab driver as he moves through one season of his life ... more »
FALLEN PHOENIX, THE
Dir: Gwen Barriac & Heather Larkin, United States, 5 min, 2015, Animation
The story of an established composer who struggles to write a masterpiece that pleases both himself and his sponsor. Ultimately, he realizes he has to cho ... more »
FIRST LESSON
Dir: Nick Paley & Dawn Kim, United States, 6 min, 2014, Documentary Short
Following people of all ages studying a wide variety of disciplines, First Lesson is a lyrical portrait of the beginner. ... more »
FLIPPING
Dir: Jin Kyu Ahn, United States, 8 min, 2014, Experimental
FLIPPING is an automatic animation (action animating) created by applying 'flipping', a traditional hand-drawn animation technique. The spectrum of a sound ... more »
FRAME BY FRAME
Dir: Mo Scarpelli & Alexandria Bombach, Afghanistan, 85 min, 2014, Documentary Feature
When the Taliban ruled Afghanistan, taking a photo was a crime. After the regime fell from power in 2001, a fledgling free press emerged and a photography ... more »
FROM BED THOU AROSE
Dir: Bartek Konopka, Poland, 25 min, 2014, Narrative Short
Rise up, rise up or 25 years in 10 beds. A story of a self-made man of Central European transition, a bit of a simpleton, who goes willy-nilly through a cr ... more »
FROM WATER
Dir: Aykhan Tan, Azerbaijan, 17 min, 2014, Narrative Short
Film is a modern approach to legend of Ederlezi (the prophet Elias). Getting bored of his acquaintances, Elias attempts to suicide. Suddenly he finds himse ... more »
FUNNY BUNNY
Dir: Alison Bagnall, United States, 85 min, 2015, Narrative Feature
Gene spends his days canvassing about childhood obesity. One day he canvasses Titty, an emotionally-arrested 19-year-old who has successfully sued his own ... more »
GIRLS GONE J-1
Dir: Mikhail Shraga Alina Smirnova, United States, 16 min, 2014, Narrative Short
Nina is an outsider among outsiders. As a young Russian woman living in Brighton Beach, Brooklyn, on a J-1 student visa, she is on the margins of a communi ... more »
GIVE HIM SOMETHING RED
Dir: Greg Accetta, United States, 5 min, 2015, Documentary Short
Give Him Something Red focuses on a young gay African American who decides to leave a very lucrative career in the porn industry to pursue his ultimate dre ... more »
GOD BLESS THE CHILD
Dir: Robert Machoian & Rodrigo Ojeda-Beck, United States, 92 min, 2014, Narrative Feature
Harper, the oldest sister of five, is put in a position to care for her four younger brothers. Elias the crazy, Arri the sensitive, Ezra the strong and Jon ... more »
GOLDEN AGE
Dir: Maija Blåfield, Finland, 19 min, 2015, Experimental
Film about forgetting, remembering and documentary film making itself. The director filmed documentary footage during 15 years and left it unwatched prior ... more »
GREEN CARD
Dir: Pilar Rico & David Whitmer, United States, 7 min, 2014, Documentary Short
A film about a song and its author, Mohammad Rahman, a convenience store owner from Bangladesh who lives and works in Williamsburg. Prompted by homesicknes ... more »
HELP US FIND SUNIL TRIPATHI
Dir: Neal Broffman, United States, 74 min, 2014, Documentary Feature
A fragile and depressed university student disappears from his apartment on a cold winter's night. Four weeks later his name and photo explode across socia ... more »
HERMIT, THE
Dir: Lena Friedrich, United States, 23 min, 2014, Documentary Short
"The Hermit" tells the incredible story of a man who lived in the woods of Maine with no human contact for 27 years. Christopher Knight aka "The Hermit" m ... more »
HIGHWAY OF HELL
Dir: Carolyn & Andy London, United States, 7 min, 2014, Animation
Welcome to Clam Cove, Long Island. 45 minutes from New York City. A somewhat beautiful place to raise a family, start a business or buy a hedge trimmer. A ... more »
HOME RANGE
Dir: Natalia Kaniasty, United States, 14 min, 2015, Narrative Short
Bobby, an emotionally withdrawn veteran, returns to his rural Pennsylvania hometown where he struggles to adjust to daily civilian life. As pressure mounts ... more »
HOW TO BE A BLACK PANTHER
Dir: Daisy Zhou, United States, 21 min, 2015, Narrative Short
July 4th, 1968, Han Kang navigates through the day in a small homogenous suburban town as the only Asian American teenager. Today, both the anniversary of ... more »
I AM THOR
Dir: Ryan Wise, United States, 84 min, 2014, Documentary Feature
Jon Mikl Thor was a bodybuilding, steel bending, brick smashing rock star in the 70's & 80's whose theatrical band THOR hit the scene alongside Metallica a ... more »
I THOUGHT I TOLD YOU TO SHUT UP!!
Dir: Charlie Tyrell, Canada, 12 min, 2015, Documentary Short
In the late seventies David Boswell created Reid Fleming, the World's Toughest Milkman, a comic book anti-hero and counter culture icon. By the following d ... more »
IN THE FUTURE LOVE WILL ALSO
Dir: Clayton Allis & Alfie Lee, United States, 19 min, 2014, Experimental
If our memories can be seized and our identities erased, would we lose ourselves? In the sometime future, in an unnamed city that is under constant survei ... more »
Full details » | Trailer » | Best Experimental, Audience Award
INFERNO
Dir: Vinko Möderndorfer, Slovenia, 113 min, 2014, Narrative Feature
The film focuses on a young unemployed working class family and their everyday struggle for survival. The family is like any ordinary European family, tryi ... more »
INVISIBLE
Dir: Zofia Pregowska, Poland, 22 min, 2014, Documentary Short
90-year-old Krystyna, lives in the tiny apartment surrounded by books and writing pads. That's remarkable in itself since Krystyna is almost blind, but tha ... more »
JOE IS DEAD
Dir: Lucía García-Lubén, Spain, 8 min, 2014, Narrative Short
Calvin is going to wake up to find out that his cat, Joe, just died. While everybody seem to know what he should do with the body, Calvin, apparently indif ... more »
LAST ARTIST, THE
Dir: Allysha Webber, Australia, 7 min, 2014, Animation
The last man on Earth, William; an artist, must come to terms with his existence and artistic practice away from the eyes of society. William must forge hi ... more »
LAST REEL
Dir: Steven Bognar, United States, 8 min, 2014, Documentary Short
The final days of projecting movies on 35mm celluloid film have arrived at one weathered art house cinema. But the Little Art Theatre is going out with a b ... more »
LISTEN
Dir: Monteith Mccollum, United States, 10 min, 2013, Experimental
'Listen', a short film made as part of a collaboration of works curated by Slamdance Film Festival, examines shortwave radio as a technology that can be u ... more »
LOVE IN THE TIME OF MARCH MADNESS
Dir: Melissa Johnson & Robertino Zambrano, Australia, 9 min, 2014, Animation
Melissa Johnson hit 6'4'' tall in 8th grade. Although this made her an instant basketball star, LOVE IN THE TIME OF MARCH MADNESS explores her hilarious a ... more »
LUNGI DANCE
Dir: Subrata Kar, India, 20 min, 2014, Narrative Short
The action of the film revolves round four unemployed youths of humble background sharing a rented establishment. Though each of them possesses different c ... more »
MANSON FAMILY VACATION
Dir: J. Davis, United States, 85 min, 2015, Narrative Feature
Nick Morgan (Jay Duplass) has it all: a loving family, a beautiful home and a successful law practice in Los Angeles. His estranged brother Conrad (Linas P ... more »
MARIO
Dir: Tess Martin, United States, 3 min, 2014, Animation
In Italian playgrounds a song is chanted that dates back to World War I. This paint on glass animation tells this dark tale of a soldier who returns home f ... more »
MEANWHILE
Dir: Stephen Mcnally, Ireland, 5 min, 2014, Animation
A five minute animated short film, blending CG 3D and 2D drawn animation techniques, Meanwhile follows four characters traversing a city, each lost in thei ... more »
MILKY BROTHER
Dir: Vahram Mkhitaryan, Armenia, 30 min, 2014, Narrative Short
A story of a little boy named Seto who lives in a small village in Armenia. Soon, a new member of his family is to be born. Seto is hoping for a brother, y ... more »
MORT
Dir: Vito Ferber, United States, 5 min, 2015, Animation
An old man realizes that he is a ghost at his own viewing, and refuses to move on with the Grim Reaper until he can make his wife smile. ... more »
MR. GOLD
Dir: Brian Carlson, United States, 4 min, 2014, Documentary Short
Mr. Gold is the redemptive story of Jose Melendez, a 21-time felon who spent 11 years incarcerated and appeared on the Maury show twice for paternity tests ... more »
MY NAME IS FRANCO AND I LIKE DARK CHOCOLATE
Dir: Silvia De Gennaro, Italy, 7 min, 2014, Experimental
1933: the social networks have made the Internet the place of the collective unconscious.Confused identities are lost in a shapeless global identity. The ... more »
N64Q: BORN FREE
Dir: Sasha Gransjean, Japan, 11 min, 2014, Documentary Short
After spending almost half a century in Los Angeles, originally in search of revolution, ultimately the owner of a pet fish store, Kyoto is forced by finan ... more »
NEEDLE TOWN
Dir: Henrik Hylland Uhlving & Kaspar Synnevaag, Norway, 2 min, 2015, Documentary Short
Heroin addict Cato is steeling books to fund his drug habit. He has fallen in love with Goth Girl, who works at the local book shop. But the mall cop Crab ... more »
NOWHERE
Dir: I-Cheng Lee, United States, 2 min, 2014, Animation
Nowhere is a motion graphic project that expresses I-Cheng's personal journey of pursuing happiness. To be happy or not happy, people have the choices of t ... more »
PAD WITH ME
Dir: Chia-ching Chu, Taiwan, 5 min, 2014, Animation
A mother is busy doing housework: cooking, doing laundry and cleaning etc. in a banal family. When the mother is busy with chores, her child comes to her w ... more »
PARADISO
Dir: Omar Al Abdul Razzak, Spain, 73 min, 2014, Documentary Feature
The "Duque de Alba" is the last adult movie theatre remaining in Madrid. Rafael, the projectionist, works hard every day in order to make the place tidier. ... more »
PAWO
Dir: Antje Heyn, Germany, 8 min, 2015, Animation
PAWO (Tibetan for "being brave") is the magical adventure of a little toy figure, who finds herself in a curious world. Thanks to some strange companions, ... more »
PERFECT SODA, THE
Dir: Oriel Danielson, Sweden, 19 min, 2013, Documentary Short
The Perfect Soda is a short documentary that follows film maker Oriel Danielson on a wild, chaotic journey of choices. On his quest for the perfect soft dr ... more »
PET THERAPY
Dir: Catherine Orchard, United States, 7 min, 2014, Narrative Short
An earnest young woman struggles to find her creative voice in New York City and turns to her faithful dog -- and a cast of opinionated animals -- to find ... more »
PLACEBO
Dir: Abhay Kumar, India, 96 min, 2014, Documentary Feature
A film maker goes undercover in one of the toughest med schools in the world to investigate the rising incidents of violence amongst some of the best minds ... more »
POCKET FULL OF DETRITUS
Dir: Michael Barnett, United States, 6 min, 2015, Experimental
Half music video, half micro-documentary, this short explores the topic of gentrification in Brooklyn over the years while mirroring key themes in the song ... more »
PREGGO
Dir: Kristin Slaysman, United States, 7 min, 2015, Narrative Short
Thirty, single and knocked up in NYC, Sam learns to accept the help of her well-intentioned friends. ... more »
PRESENT, THE
Dir: Jacob Frey, Germany, 5 min, 2014, Animation
Jake spends most of his time playing videogames indoors until his mum decides to give him a present. ... more »
QUESTION LINGERS, A
Dir: Kenneth Feinstein, Singapore, 6 min, 2014, Experimental
Simple in structure and complex in form, A Lingering Question is a film that obliquely presents the viewer with a world of perception that is in conflict w ... more »
RAT SLAYER OF HILLSIDE NJ, THE
Dir: Andrew Keogh Ruotolo, United States, 18 min, 2015, Documentary Short
Frank Balun, a grandfather, World War II veteran, and avid gardener, trapped and killed a rat that had been eating his prized tomatoes. When word got back ... more »
RED SPIDER LILY
Dir: John Clang & Wai Thong Chow, Singapore, 10 min, 2014, Narrative Short
This short film speaks about the extreme emotional longing of one's loss. Akin to the legend of the Red Spider Lily, in which two loved ones are cursed to ... more »
REFRIGERATOR, THE
Dir: Robert Gregson, United States, 11 min, 2014, Narrative Short
Howie and Mark, two broke friends, find a refrigerator on the street. Inside they discover the way to another dimension. Greed, drunkenness and hilarity en ... more »
REGULARS, THE
Dir: Zoe Graham, United States, 12 min, 2014, Documentary Short
Old-timers sitting at the counter for their daily evening meal, locals stopping in for a chat and groups of teenagers giggling in the booths- behind the bu ... more »
RHYTHM OF THE CITY
Dir: Julie Gratz, United States, 2 min, 2015, Animation
An invitation into the heart of New York City through the atmospheric art of BUA. With the music of DJ Qbert and Dana Leong, escape into moments in the str ... more »
RICE AND MATCHSTICKS
Dir: Javier Beltramino, Argentina, 9 min, 2015, Animation
Grief dwells within an old man in overwhelming solitude. His wife s death and the pragmatic indifference of his son and daughter behold the elderly figure ... more »
ROCK IS NOT AN ATTITUDE
Dir: Xiaoxiao Tang, United States, 5 min, 2014, Animation
Rock is Not an Attitude is a stop-motion / mixed media animation. Four puppeted characters form a happy rock band. Through an interview, there are some fla ... more »
SAMUEL-613
Dir: Billy Lumby, England, 15 min, 2015, Narrative Short
The story of Shmilu, a Hasidic Jew in crisis, torn between his community and the romantic possibilities of trendy East London. This comedy/drama is the fir ... more »
SHIT EATERS
Dir: Agata Wojcierowska, Poland, 17 min, 2014, Narrative Short
A maturing teenage girl goes on vacation with her parents. Together, all three are lonely, full of hidden emotions and suppressed grievances towards one an ... more »
SINGLE BODY, A
Dir: Sotiris Dounoukos, France, 19 min, 2014, Narrative Short
Best friends and skilled abattoir workers David and Wani are saving to open their own butchery, but before they can realise their dream the arrival of a ne ... more »
SOMETHING ABOUT WHICH NOTHING CAN BE SAID
Dir: Theodore Kennedy, United States, 14 min, 2015, Experimental
§293. If I say of myself that it is only from my own case that I know what the word "pain" means - must I not say the same of other people too? And how can ... more »
SUPER UNIT
Dir: Teresa Czepiec, Poland, 20 min, 2014, Documentary Short
Superjednostka (Polish for Superunit) is a huge block of flats designed as a housing machine. Up to three thousand people can live on 15 floors of the buil ... more »
SWEATY BETTY
Dir: Joseph Frank & Zachary Reed, United States, 93 min, 2015, Narrative Feature
In a cramped row house on the border of Washington D.C., two stories of big dreams take place. Floyd and his family have raised a 1,000 pound pig in their ... more »
Full details » | Trailer » | Grand Chameleon Award, Best Narrative Feature
T.P.
Dir: Bob Blevins & Bradly Werley, United States, 10 min, 2015, Animation
A naive roll of toilet paper awakens in a disgusting gas station bathroom, and is horrified to discover what fate has in store for his kind. Inspired by hi ... more »
TEETH
Dir: Tom Brown & Daniel Gray, England, 6 min, 2015, Animation
Things of worth are often neglected in favour of that which is more immediately gratifying. Unfortunately, things that are neglected are often lost foreve ... more »
TERMS OF INTIMACY
Dir: Melissa Langer, United States, 8 min, 2014, Documentary Short
A glimpse into the emerging industry of professional cuddling and the lives of the clients that use this service. ... more »
TIM AND HIS BOOKS
Dir: Animesh Nigam, India, 3 min, 2014, Animation
Tim is a boy who never takes care of his books and throws them around all over the place. Tired of being treated this way the books come up with a plan to ... more »
TO GET IN
Dir: Anna Sarukhanova, Georgia, 30 min, 2014, Narrative Short
They've grown up, and ready to enter into a new world. Here are the snippets of thoughts of teens woven into the common stream. Scraps of days spent togeth ... more »
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