Category: Films in Competition

Directed by Yao Xie and Tommy Tang (USA)

Directed by Alexa Campbell (USA)

We dive directly into the life of Ella, a young girl who falls victim to sexual abuse at the hands of a family member. Born into a working household, Ella’s parents were so involved in their careers they developed a daily routine and in the process neglected Ella. With no support system at home and fearing retaliation, Ella was forced to live her life in silence and accept her circumstance as reality. Is it too late for her to be save.
Directed by Arielle Domantay (USA)

A Jewish and conservative father must learn to live with his daughter’s adopted Muslim child from Syria.
Directed by Alexia Garcia del Rio (USA)

A middleclass working professional struggles to buy food amid Venezuela’s humanitarian crisis. When buying flour for his mother’s birthday cake, he gets caught in the violent looting of a food truck and a conflict arises.
Directed by Joanna Nelson (Venezuela)

Rose is a short story about a husband & father, Sebastien, who is looking for revenge over the killing of his wife, Jane, and the kidnapping of his little daughter, Rose. 
The Story takes place in today’s world, in a town run by a group of fearless maniac providing fear and chaos to the city’s armless citizen.
Directed by Nicolas Bosc (USA)

Engineering meets art as we follow a designer in his efforts to bend concrete into beautiful furniture. Neal Aronowitz is an award winning artist, and we get to see the first casting of the Whorl Console.
Directed by Mahesh Madhav (USA)

When the hard-core girlfriend of the three little pigs attempts to break up with each of them in a romantic restaurant, the wolfish waiter goes out of his way to make the tale unfold the way it was meant to.
Written by Rachel S. Thomas-Medwid (USA)

by Guy Renardeau (Netherlands)

Lola Greeno is a specialist in the ancient Tasmanian Aboriginal art of “Kanalaritja” (shell necklace), it i now her time to return to the islands and pass down the traditions to her granddaughters.
Directed by Takani Clark (Australia)