It Is What It Is
(or The Standards of Outrage)
Cupid's Island "fan-fav" couple has broken up, and the world will never be the same. After being evicted from a love-themed reality show, Kevin Best returns to the real world and learns that his tv break-up has caused a simmering public outrage.
Directed by Beth Riesgraf
AI vs Deep State
Julius Andan served the deep state as a professional liar for 25 years. After realizing that the world has fallen into such a bad state that the invisible power can no longer maintain it, he decides to expose everything to the public. The first superintelligence, Sarah, is created in the CIA's AI research center. Andan and Sarah will be partners in the fight.
Directed by Katalin Weith
Enamour
A loose adaptation of Edgar Allen Poe’s The Raven, with a vampire plot turning
Directed by Doulla Panaretou
The show ends twice
Written by SHOTA KAMITANI
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After Nao's mother left when she was young, her father remained her only family even after remarrying. But everything changes when her father unexpectedly passes away. Struggling to connect with her new stepfamily and unable to accept this harsh reality, Nao receives mysterious postcards from her father, a photographer. These postcards depict places brimming with memories of father and daughter. As Nao visit these places, she confronts her feelings about her father's remarriage, her new family, and comes to terms with his death
Written by Shota Kamitani
Cora
A woman compulsively accumulates black plastic baggs in her bedroom closet. What's in the bags?
Cora is a Mystery with a tint of Musical film. It is a postmodern metaphor for the legend of the Phoenix: it's about the life of a socialite who faces the consequences of her decisions with unorthodox methods.
Cora must free herself from each of her demons, not knowing what the last and worst of all will be like. Infidelity, forbidden love, harassment, repression, appearances, plastic bags, future and past choices are part of the maelstrom that the protagonist must overcome to recover.
Directed by Mauricio De la Maza-Benignos
Seasons
Directed by Maria Irvin
Smiley Face
Kyle, a lost teenager, faces reality when he breaks into his dad's home, and finds himself conflicting his own consequential actions.
Written by Lucas Reinke
The Saidist
Featuring authentic human conversations with AI: a stimulating, easy-to-stomach allegorical work that hypothesizes about how mankind — as proud and dominant as they are — may come to lose some, then some, and then some of their power to artificial intelligence. A world’s teenagers (aka our future) visit a hotel staffed by humanoid robots, dazed by the exciting possibilities the place has to offer. Their insatiable appetites challenge the robots’ man-made limits time and again, playing a dangerous game with machines whom they had — bit by bit — given the power to kill.
Directed and produced by Kaiyue (Ethan) Guan
Drug Force Yakuza Eiga Short Film
When Saitama Prefecture in Japan suffers a rash of flamethrower attacks from organized crime, the leaders call the Drug Force.
Directed by Lawrence Hussey
Cortland Parkway
When neighbors move into the new Cortland Parkway development, they quickly find themselves entangled in secrets, seduction, and scandal in suburbia
Written by Joseph Anthony Francis
Majesty
The shocking murder of King Zachary Chamberlain sends his entire family and kingdom into turmoil as the hunt for his killer begins.
As Zachary’s eldest son Prince Tobias prepares to be crowned as the new king, suspicions arise between him and his three younger brothers. In the meantime, the once-ruling Henderson family seizes on the chaos in the kingdom in an effort to overthrow the Chamberlains and retake control.
As tensions rise and the search for the king’s murderer continues, some relationships crumble, forbidden love flourishes, a prisoner escapes, and a common farmer rocks the royal family to its core.
It all leads up to an exciting series of cliff-hangers that plunge every member of the royal Chamberlain family into peril.
Power reigns. Absolutely.
Written by Joseph Anthony Francis
Family Cellars
When the Wallace family winery tragically burns to the ground, family members turn on each other, plans for revenge unfold, and a mysterious stranger exploits the chaos to his own advantage.
Written by Joseph Anthony Francis
Closet Cases
In the early '90s when people listen to music on CDs and dial up to enter AOL chatrooms, two closeted gay law students face their families, their futures, and their feelings for each other.
Written by Joseph Anthony Francis
The Genesis Project
Written by Joseph Anthony Francis
CROWN POINT
A scandalous event in their hidden past transformed the once-friendly Dalton and Alvarez dynasties into bitter rivals. Against the backdrop of the Crown Point skyline, members of these two empires scheme to gain the upper hand, leaving a path of broken dreams, broken promises, and broken hearts behind them.
Written by Joseph Anthony Francis
Windy City
Unleashed secrets, sinister schemes, and forbidden desires fuel the fiery feud between the Mancini and Caruso families who are hell-bent on destroying one another in the Windy City.
Written by Joseph Anthony Francis
BEYOND THE DARKNESS
An old man takes a difficult path through a long, almost holy night. He has a mission, to save his son that was wounded in a foreign war. The man continues his journey through the mountain paths that lead nowhere. Desperate, the man confesses to his son that he would not have taken this dangerous and hopeless journey for him, because he has always been a revolted man, a disobedient boy, a boy who has betrayed his ideals and his family and gone to war to kill the people of his tribe. He went to war as a traitor. However, with his last breath he will lead him to the village and he will save his life. After a long journey, in the early dawn, father and son appear in the hills of the village where the unextinguished lantern still shines. In distance, the dogs bark. But Ben heard nothing. He passed away unnoticed, not giving his father a last chance, to bring him alive to the village in hope to save his life.
Directed by Lorena Sopi
#WAY_Aurelio
We live in a digital world. But we're fairly analog creatures.
Directed by Alan Rexroth
Appointment with The Plague Doctor, Lester Haywood
Directed by L. S. Strange
Millions of cats
Mother and daughter share a lovely afternoon reading their favourite book, but they are in a strange place. Time moves in an unusual way and reveals the reason behind their presence in this extraordinary place.
Directed by Petya Andreeva
The Cutting Room
Screenplay, Short Script
| United Kingdom
A censor is given an impossible task - making a family-friendly cut of Psycho - and faces an ultimate question: what comes of censorship, and what will come of him?
Written by Toby Smith
The Other Half
Student, Short
| United Kingdom
Ash conforms to wearing a moustache like everybody else, but he has to admit its fakeness to save Nadia from the town's adversity
Directed by Alina Stefania Ilin
An Astrophysicists' Picnic
Short Script
| United Kingdom
Cooper, a lover of all things space, spends his evening gazing at the stars peacefully... that is until he spots an unusual speck hurdling towards him in the sky.
Written by Teodora Pancheva
Playing God's Game
Short Script
| United Kingdom
Just when God thought life was getting boring, one human being throws him a curve ball, that's not according to his plan.
Written by Teodora Pancheva
THE CURSE EFFECT
Directed by
Gregg Jaden
Three boys
Directed by Gianfranco Boattini
Section 2
Short
| United Kingdom
Section 2 is the name of the mental health act explored in this film.
Set against the grim reality of an overstretched National Health Service in the UK. We follow a tender and intimate story of childhood, friendship and the pain of mental illness. On day 28 of Cam's detainment his girlfriend Kay, childhood friend Pete, and key worker Rachael, navigate the hours before Cam’s outcome is decided.
Directed by Robyn Rainsford
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