Category: Films in Competition

The world’s foremost pseudo-intellectual, Prof. Anita Wrest from Boynken U., lectures on the much maligned douchebag. This is an interactive, multimedia lecture featuring audience participation.
Directed by E. Philip Brown (USA)

After his lover dies, a writer teaches a class to mysterious locals in a small town. 
Directed by Rebecca Reyes (USA)

Based on true events, Line of Fire is a thrilling short drama about the consequences of privilege and power after an online disagreement about video games, turns into a violent confrontation.
Directed by Mike Johnston (Canada)

A married couple takes in a drifter and discovers she’s supernatural. Meanwhile, the couple is flooded with memories of a past trauma. Triggered by the supernatural girl, their relationship progresses to a boiling point.
Directed by Nathan Hochstetler (USA)

After loosing his wife, a grief stricken man must work through his loss in order to move on with his life.
Directed by Christian Stark (USA)

When a man finds out his wife is sick he freezes time in order to try and find a cure.
Directed by Christian Stark (USA)

Left to their own devices in a flooding house during the wake of a life-threatening hurricane, a caregiver and an elderly patient with differing spiritual beliefs struggle to find hope in each other.
Directed by Troy Charbonnet (USA)

Zenaida is the living story of almost a century in the history of Cuba. She was born in Camagüey in 1930, of black race and from the lowest socio-economic class that existed at that time. This is the story of a generation, the history of before and during a revolution, with its benefits and contradictions, the story untold by historians, where there are no winners or losers. The story told by the invisible ones. With humor and immense popular wisdom, she portrays us, the Cubans, tells us about racism, emigration and what there would be to be politically correct according to her.
Directed by Enrique Rottenberg (Cuba)

“Landscape” is an experimental film that mixes amusement park and zoo footage with audio from an actual 911 call.
Directed by Kenneth Hess (USA)

A little boy aged 10, was born in a family of a French father and a Taiwanese mother. He is passionate for trumpet. His mother died when he was little, he then grows up in a French universe. One day, his best friend asks him about his Chinese name, this triggers him for his identity research.
Directed by Ching-lo Hsu (France)