INDIE SHORT FEST

We meet the protagonist, a white-collar family man, when he comes to in a crashed car. While in shock he doesn’t seem to notice the destruction the accident caused and leaves the vehicle with his family still inside. A couple of young hikers discovers the car and follows the man to a campground.
Directed by Milena Korolczuk (USA)

Veteran Christian Bob (40’s) has just taken “Babe in Christ” Matthew (20’s) under his wing. Christianity already seems like a huge commitment to Matthew, and when Bob is reluctant to have just one post-sermon beer with him, Matthew quickly finds it to be a total buzzkill. With some goading Bob comes around and the pair decide to pay a visit to Bob’s old watering hole. But by the end of his first beer Bob begins to do things the Lord would never approve of.
Written by Caleb Parazette (USA)

Pastor John accepts an invitation to a Native American Pow Wow, from Aiyana, one of his young congregants. What follows is a visionary experience that shakes his rigid belief system to it’s core.
Written by Caleb Parazette (USA)

An outcast, Alien Guy Tim, wants to prove that he has been abducted by aliens, but faces many obstacles along the way.
Directed by Scott Simerly Jr. (USA)

Reese, a timid high school graduate, gathers the courage to confess his feelings for his best friend’s intimidating sister Mandy, but, Miles, his best friend, gets in the way.
Directed by Rathin Rao (USA)

Today is Rosh Hashanah. A Rabbi and his student visit a hospital to blow the Shofar, a ram’s-horn used in religious ceremonies, for bed-ridden Jewish patients.
Directed by Michael Yosef (USA)

Blood, torment and human suffering are the rule, rather than the exception. ‘Evil’ dives deep into the psyche of history’s most gruesome killers, brought together to play a dangerous game. Be mindful though, there are rules to this demonic game which some will follow, and others will blatantly ignore, as every calculated decision keeps life hanging in the balance. The mark of any great game are its twists and turns, and ‘Evil’ has plenty. Alliances form and deception rips them apart as each entity is challenged, time and again to win the day. And the rules say, in the end, there can only be One…
Produced by Cinekat Filmworks (USA)

A mourning mother facing the aftermath of losing her son in a school shooting meets a young graffiti artist in her late teens who is dealing with a loss of her own.
Directed by Arsal Asal (USA)

Set in the Old West, a young woman and her companion are on the run from her father, a ruthless bounty hunter.
Directed by Jared Firstbrook (USA)

Documentary film about the chief bell ringer of the cathedral church of the Vladimir icon of the Mother of God in Saint-Petersburg. He is gilding restorer by profession but he is bell ringer in spirit. So, he found his second profession on the bell tower. This film also about his students, bells, ringing and gospel’s truths in the ordinary life.
Directed by Elena Chach (Russia)