Category: Films in Competition

Meet Skye Monroe. Reality Show Star. Social Media Queen. And blissfully unaware of how self-centered she is. The red carpets Skye casually steps on with her Jimmy Choo’s, could be said to represent the spilled blood of those she walked on to get where she is today. In Skye’s mind a party just is not a party without the Monroe touch. And as long as she is game, the party never ends.

Skye drinks what she wants. Snorts what she wants and takes who she wants. With every deplorable act Skye does, she believes it makes her more powerful. Someone like Skye doesn’t really have friends, but followers – tagging along for every moment of her life thanks to her endless streams of posts covering everything from her morning workout to her exciting night on the town.

But for women like Skye, who ultimately are addicted to themselves, there does come a judgement day. And we’re not talking the amount of likes on her latest Instagram post. Tonight, Skye will be put on trial for her deeds. Her courtroom is a little dive bar tucked away in the corner of any urban decay, appropriately called, ‘The After Party.’ Her jury will be four sophisticated women shooting a game of billiards.
Directed by Colin Francis Costello (USA)

Just your typical, mediocre, beige, room temperature sex. John and Eric put the “lust” back in “lackluster.”
Directed by Mitch Yapko (USA)

A lonely poet has made a living writing poetry suicide notes in the world of the black market for people before they are about to commit suicide. No one knows she does this for a living, not even her boyfriend. It starts to wear on her and her relationship with her boyfriend starts to suffer as she withdraws from their relationship as he needs her most. Her boyfriend starts to question his own life and the twist at the end is he finds her business and contacts her about a suicide poetry letter.
Directed by Nick Mayer (USA)

Mateo, an 83-year-old man lives in a town and has refused to speak. Immersed in his silence and isolated from the world he navigates between reality and fantasy, mixing stories stored in the memory of the heart with the person with whom he has shared his life.
Directed by Javier Montes d’Arce (Mexico)

Eugenea, a young Métis girl living in foster care, visits a laid-back lawyer in an attempt to find help in the search for her family who were stolen during the Sixties Scoop — stirring up dark skeletons from the past in the process.
Directed by Jesika Kula (Canada)

In Laura’s dreams, a wound demands to be healed, deeper than anything that time and space define and reason explains.
Directed by Roger Villarroya (Spain)

My true story of two significant moments & timelines of my life unexpectedly reached at a crossroad.
Directed by Kevin Williams (USA)

A love letter to cultural identity and a glimpse at generations of a family beyond the diaspora.
Directed by Kayleb Lee (USA)

In a quiet, non-populated hotel, a mysterious Asian woman is noticed by staff Louis. As Louis starts to do his own investigation secretly, he realizes that woman could be a Hong Kong movie star who has been dead for years. When the truth is about to come out, things start getting out of control.
Directed by Zilong Wang (USA)

A documentary movie about the last exhibition of Japanese historical contemporary art gallery, Ai gallery (Tokyo, Japan). After the exhibition, the gallery was dismantled.
Directed by Chihiro Ito (Japan)