Category: Films in Competition

The Realm Of Alkebulan Is Under Siege. Mayla Salalay Has A Plan Of Combat. How Ever, Fathah Protektus Is Not Pleased.
Directed by Omnahr Sha Kari (USA)

In the Island of Corsica, Jeanne’s everyday life flows more or less quietly since Lucien, her lover, has been murdered, three years ago.
Directed by Delphine Leoni (France)

It is Lachlan’s birthday and when a friend plays plays a practical joke on him, with a fake winning lottery ticket, things go horribly wrong.
Directed by Lucas Chehab (Australia)

This song is dedicated to my father whom I haven’t seen in 25 years -by Gigi Aulard.
Directed by Lisa Kimura (Japan)

A teenage trackstar finds the one thing she can’t run away from: her mother.
Directed by Madison Graves (USA)

A young non-binary, genderqueer Venezuelan is conflicted with telling his mom the truth about his life.
Directed by Victor Alex Perez (USA)

Adoptees voice their experiences of being adopted, with Prof Shurlee Swain explaining the laws, the effect that has on adoptees, how the entrenched narrative is still being enforced via pro adoption advocates and the damage that is causing.
Directed by Heather Waters (Australia)

The FBI Behavioral Science Department sets out to interview the very charismatic Ted Bundy. How will this end? 
Directed by Brent Crable (USA)

Marooned in a trench thousands of miles from home a group of young men cling to the few things they have left as the veneer of what was supposed to be an exciting war has faded away.
Directed by Matthew Tompkins (Canada)

Gao Xing, a hearing-disabled and vocally impaired person from a small town in China, an ordinary house keeper at a Las Vegas casino hotel, always rummage through the guests’ luggages secretly while cleaning the room to search for clues about his sister who was adopted by an American family long ago.

Hotel work is only a part of Gao’s life. He shuttles in the crowds at the most prosperous city with a teddy-bear suite after work, and distributes the tracing notices to passers.

At one afternoon, when Gao was cleaning a room, he encountered a girl who was going to the music festival near the hotel. After she left, in her suitcase, Gao found a little bear toy which was the one hand-stitched by her mother when he was young. Gao was smiling and tearing, but he couldn’t hear the continuous gunshots outside the window. The massive shooting at the Las Vegas Music Festival that shocked the world later on is happening…
Directed by Yun Xie (USA)