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After the Jedi are all but wiped out, Adi Gallia desperately searches for survivors. Forced to take refuge in a strange cave, Adi finds her friends held captive by a mysterious evil. To save them, she must confront the darkness within herself.
Directed by Steven LaMorte (USA)

On the last day visiting her hometown, Stella unexpectedly meets Max, whom she hasn’t seen since she was a child. They take a walk through the awakening city and get reacquainted, but will those few hours be enough to believe in the legend of the red string of fate?
Directed by Valeria Sweet (USA)

Liam needs 1UP energy drink to beat a video game, when he goes to the store to get more the store gets robbed. He is unable to comprehend that the situation at the store mimics the exact same mission from the video game, but he can’t respawn in real life.
Directed by Edward Halstead (USA)

Stéphane Palenco need to find a job very quickly because he has no more money to pay his rent. He Decides to go to a last chance but questionable job interview.
Directed by Joncart Jonathan (France)

This is a day in the life of Kasra – a self-motivated millennial ravenously pursuing his piece of the American dream. Success is held paramount even to the detriment of personal relationships. Kasra’s dealings with his parents are cursory and strained – even when they call to tell him that his brother has gone missing. His quest for self-mastery compels him to work out compulsively, meditate frequently and hustle tirelessly as a web consultant or with one of his other cryptic side projects. Still, he’s not immune to the longing for meaningful human connection, and he taps the brakes to explore an encounter with a beautiful young woman from work who’s intrigued by his mysteriousness. As the day passes into night his brother’s apparent disappearance takes center stage and may, in fact, have something to do with one of Kasra’s side projects.
Directed by Gianluca Piovani (USA)

Do you question life? Ever wonder what wisdom you’ll near next? Story will embark random occurring events that take places with the story of people who wonders and questions about the way of life; in this story you will see people educating themselves, embracing things around them and understanding reasonable wisdom of powerful words to live a life of good riddance.
Wirtten by Shaun J. Guzman (USA)

Julia goes to her writing professor Annie’s house. The two women are friendly and discuss their commitment to the #MeToo movement but things get complicated when Annie asks Julia to make some changes in her short story while Rosita, the Mexican housekeeper, seems to know the secret that is brewing.
Directed by Lucia Senesi (USA)

We don’t talk to each other anymore. We talk over each other.
Directed by Drunken Logic (USA)

“Standing Up, Moments From a Movement”, chronicles the 2016 Native American-led resistance to the Dakota Access Pipeline from its epicenter, the Oceti Sakowin protest camp at the Standing Rock Reservation in North Dakota.

Through the images and sounds recorded by photojournalist Mark Manley, the film takes the viewer into the camps to meet the self-proclaimed “Water Protectors” devoted to protecting the water and land.

The Native Americans we encounter at Standing Rock came together from numerous tribes around the country, forming one of the largest gatherings of indigenous peoples in modern history. This gathering grew into a community united in a commitment to environmental justice and a deeply spiritual love of the Earth itself — in the process gaining an affirmation of their own empowerment as caretakers and protectors of Mother Earth. Ultimately this community sparked national and global awareness of critical environmental issues and their influence continues to be felt, and valued, today.
Directed by Mark Manley (USA)