Category: Films in Competition

A single father pursuing a career in boxing is faced with an opponent that no amount of training can match. His goal of becoming a prize-winning fighter transitions as the realization his best prize is to show his son the importance to face battles not just in the ring but in life itself. He wants his son to have pride, courage, and most of all to never stop fighting even when your back is against the ropes.
Directed by John Benneche Jr. (USA)

“Subpoena” is the first episode of a New York City based anthology series called, “Deadass”, exploring a diverse group of New York City couples, dealing with modern romance through technology and culture. Some scenarios will include, a middle aged married couple navigating through the digital dating scene, a live-in couple struggling to find a sexual middle ground, and a successful couple’s therapist who’s on a desperate crusade for love.

Episode 1 “Subpoena”
Chris’s porn addiction prevents him from genuine intimacy with his wife. However, his life takes an embarrassing and hilarious turn after he’s subpoenaed for downloading XXX movies. Now, he must stand before a judge, and his wife, to confront the obsession in court.
Directed by Ramon Pesante (USA)

An old school detective hunts for clues in search of a missing jewel.
Directed by Samuel Go (USA)

A traveling man learns of his mother’s degrading health through a series of voicemails.
Directed by David Thompson (USA)

This short film Alyzée, Ailleurs, Autrement … looks for giving one’s word to these girls who were victims of incest, intimate violence which excludes young women out of the world of human relations, love and sex. Alyzée works in an elderly’ institution as a nursing auxiliary. She tries to repair the outrage she suffered. She hopes to find some love she was deprived of in her childhood. But the accident of her boyfriend upset her trajectory. Despite the support of a long-time friend, she finds no other way than to disappear in the mist of dawn for a Elsewhere, Otherwise …
Directed by Stéphane Deluermoz (France)

Danny (8 years old) has a lot on his plate, too small to stand up to his drunken dad and to protect his mum; though he is plotting revenge on his no-good dad. Waiting until his dad is in a drunken stupor, he binds him up and awaits his father’s fall. Whilst waiting on his trap being sprung, the love of his life Michelle appears. Together they escape into an imagined world together before being brought back to their troubled world. Danny’s patience pays off and his father falls flat. Danny is triumphant.
Written by Andrew Vidgen (UK)

Despite to seemingly have it all, a young girl desperately seeks stability from a broken home when she befriends an unsuspecting homeless man.
Directed by Jesse Scimeca (USA)

Directed by Natalia Montecinos (USA)

A contemporary allegory through a young African American man’s dreams reflect his feelings of apprehension and isolation in an all white social environment.
Directed by Malachi Moore (USA)

With the help of a friend, a progressive writer – speaks truth to power with a new book ‘Constitution: Slave Bible.’ Eager to kill the truth, dark money fascists come out for blood.
Directed by J.R.S. (USA)