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Samuel is an ancient wandering entity that is in search of 10’000 souls to bring back to his master as an agreement for his freedom.
Directed by Derek Stroman and Nick Fenwick (USA)

Abhinav Sharma a young story writer in New Delhi lives alone with his lavish life. His carrier is at his peak as a brainstormed Crime stories. His stories became fame for the magazine company AUTHOR. Meanwhile there is a serious and brutal crime rising up in the streets of New Delhi. A well-mannered and Perfectionist Killer roaming around and Killing people with a similar pattern. But Abhinav doesn’t care about anything. There are some other writers also who want to be at Abhinav’s place but it’s not there time, which results jealous and anger. Abhinav has everything in his life but his everything becomes the problem for him. He gets insulted in an event by a person who blames him to be that Serial killer and that is really shocking for Abhinav. Somehow Abhinav manages to come over with the trauma and makes the connection between himself and that killer and that gives him a shock Abhinav finds that someone is killing people in the way he used to write in his stories. So he planned to catch the killer he’s totally filled with fear and that’s it, in the same night Abhinav is killed in his house, and according to forensic doctors and CBI Officers Abhinav was the serial killer but the mystery still remains when the Next Murder held in the City.
Directed by Himanshu Kesharwani (India)

After the sudden death of her parents, a young girl finds a portal to an alternate world in which they are still alive and must choose whether to live with them or stay with her brother.
Directed by Hadley Hillel (USA)

In the snow-covered ruins of 24th century Toronto, AEGIS, a humanoid war machine, leads a team of five robot-bound digital-humans into the real world (aka the “E-X-T”) to retake an enemy-occupied server installation vital to the survival of their digital homeworld.

During an attempt to ambush a large pack of enemy controlled war-drones, AEGIS recalls an interrogation with the enemy’s founder, an extremist named KYM MINAMOTO…AEGIS’s mother.

As AEGIS fights for her life in the real world, she recalls the emotional fight for her identity in the INT (the digital world), as she and her mother argue over the true nature of humanity and inclusion of digital-persons within it.
Directed by Adrian Bobb (Canada)

A boxer falls into a dark abyss after accidentally killing his opponent in the ring. 
Directed by Jorge Carvajal (Mexico)

A foreboding encounter with an enigmatic Southern landowner by an independent film director and his lead actress while scouting a location for their film.
Directed by Michael Wade Johnson (USA)

“Overcome” is the story of a former NFL player who must regain his job after dealing with family trauma.
Directed by Anthony Janssen (USA)

When their car breaks down, a couple is forced to address the growing distance between them.
Directed by Dylan Calder Stein (USA)

Late at night in the Oval Office of the White House, Obama falls asleep and begins to relive his undergraduate days in LA as a writer of poetry. To Obama’s horror, Charles Bukowski appears and claims to be his literary father. Bukowski also takes an interest in Michelle (the last of the three characters) and tricks Obama into thinking he is about to become sick on the presidential seal carpet. Obama wakes, the actual Michelle sends him off to bed, and that is the end of it. Or maybe not.
Written by James Fitzmaurice (UK)

Jane is a film that explores how warped perceptions of love manifest out of a traumatic childhood. The story centers on the unhealthy relationship between the two main characters Jane and Valerie and how their sense of self and dysfunctional love develops as they become close.
Directed by Wai Lam Cheung (USA)