Category: Films in Competition

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)

Most of us don’t think much about recycling. We rinse our yogurt containers, crush our milk cartons, and break down our boxes. But once our trash hits the curb in a blue or a brown or a green bin, we forget about it.

Welcome to Minh Khai, Vietnam – where plastic from all over the world finds new life.

This film documents the experiences of Minh Khai’s residents as they wrestle with the blessings and curses of an empire built on our trash.
Directed by Yutao Chen (Vietnam)

A young prostitute Kelly has to pay off the debt and trying to get rid of her boss for freedom. For a secret reason, she is on a path to choose between self-destruction and salvation.
Directed by Jiayi Li (USA)

Rewiring ourselves to be vulnerable, while consumerism and mass media leads us to a less “human” society. Robotic tendencies frame our personal identities and execute the truth of how we language ourselves in this hostile world.
Directed by Katarina Poljak (USA)

Not all is peaceful in the beautiful scenery.
Directed by Max Iacovelli and Evan Bowen (USA)

Three friends have a lovely dinner with a fourth guest, a man named Futurenose.
Directed by Max Lacovelli (USA)

A man is sent out into the stars to find a lost treasure that will finally vanquish the sting of death.
Directed by Robby Dewey (USA)

An elderly couple’s last five minutes of being married. Honesty ensues.
Directed by Jeremy J Reagan (New Zealand)