An ensemble film that curiously discusses shifting power relationships between strangers.
DIRECTOR: Dominic Wittrin
Narrative/18 min/Germany/US Premiere

In a deafening noise of chainsaws, loggers are happily humming as they cut down trees to be used as decor for a fashion show. This leads us into a delirious whirlwind of chain reactions as chaotic as they are grotesque.
DIRECTOR: Suki
Animation/6 min/France

A Syrian migrant is working as a crane operator in Beirut. One morning he volunteers to take on one of the tallest and notoriously most dangerous cranes in Lebanon. Away from everyone's eyes, he is able to live out his secret passion and find freedom.
DIRECTOR: Dania Bdeir
Narrative/15 min/Lebanon

When the first plane hits the World Trade Center on the morning of September 11th 2001, a young trader jumps into the biggest trade of his life. Inspired by a true story.
DIRECTOR: Emmanuel Tenenbaum
Narrative/19 min/France

SPIDER—It’s all fun and games until someone loses an eye. BEAR—Jack has a new girlfriend, but he’s still up to old tricks. SHARK—His first girlfriend was hit by a car. His second girlfriend fell off a cliff. His wife has come prepared.
DIRECTOR: Nash Edgerton
Narrative/33 min/Australia, USA

On Christmas Eve 1916 on the Vosges frontline, an unknown object falls from the sky. Out of the smoke, a silhouette emerges that turns out to be Santa Claus, wounded by his accident.
DIRECTORS: Julien Jousse, Arthur Damiano, Vincent Hébrard, Léonard Haug, Antoine Thiaucourt, Hector Dao, Nathan Baussois
Animation/7 min/France/US Premiere

A fourteen-year-old boy, whose Mum plans on selling his deceased Dad’s Datsun, decides to take his best friend and little brother on one last joyride.
DIRECTOR: Mark Albiston
Narrative/15 min/New Zealand

Adel is a young aircraft co-pilot. Following a assault he may lose is eye.
DIRECTORS: Julian Dara, Simon Dara
Narrative/22 min/Belgium, France/US Premiere

Pinocchio, a young animated wooden child, wants to escape the creepy toy factory of his father, Gepetto. But Gepetto is a bossy, narcissistic inventor who dangerously tries to stop Pinocchio in his emancipation and locks him in his bedroom.
DIRECTORS: Valentin Clauzon, Guillaume Collin, Paul Goubet, Stella Jullian, Loïc Lemoine, Théo Miramon, Aymeric Richard, Laura Salomoni.
Animation/6min/France/US Premiere

In Natal, Northeast of Brazil, the country is preparing to launch its first manned spaceship into space.
DIRECTOR: Carlos Segundo
Narrative/15 min/Brazil

The film spotlights a 38 year tradition, the "Dress A Cow" event at Ohio's Canfield County Fair. A meditation on bovine beauty, it reminds us that putting pants on a cow is not like putting pants on a person.
DIRECTOR: Dawn Luebbe
Documentary/10 min/USA

As the Amazon burns for the seventeenth day, a nurse in Sao Paulo finds herself drawn to the Neo-Pentecostal church.
DIRECTOR: Jasmin Tenucci
Narrative/16 min/Brazil, Iceland

In post-war Kosovo, driven by the ambition of keeping their beloved sport alive, two local players wander from one obscure location to another carrying with them the only possessions left from the club: their tables.
Documentary/15 min/Kosovo

A misty field. A crowded locker room. Margo belongs to neither. Maybe if she loses her virginity, she will finally find her place.
DIRECTOR: Marija Apcevska
Narrative/15 min/The former Yugoslav republic of Macedonia

Fadia, Wais and Emram are fleeing the hell of one of the worst humanitarian crises of the 21st century: the armed conflict in Afghanistan. They've spent all their families’ savings and risked their lives to get to Europe. The journey transforms them: they will never be the same.
DIRECTOR: Natxo Leuza
Documentary/18 min/Spain/US Premiere

A girl and her little brother regularly humiliate one another on social media.
DIRECTOR: Adrian Moyse Dullin
Narrative/15 min/France

Inspired by real events, the film enters the life of a secret police agent in the military dictatorship in Chile. The relationship with her dog, her body, her fears and frustrations, reveal a macabre fracture in her mind and a country.
DIRECTOR: Hugo Covarrubias
Animation/16min/Chile

A young man’s unwillingness to let go of a trivial encounter leads him to seek retribution.
DIRECTOR: Maziyar Khatam
Narrative/3 min/Canada

An illegal Kurdish refugee borrows the car of his dreams for a joyride around London. Freedom starts to get blurry when a series of misfortunes comes his way, leading him to make a fateful decision.
DIRECTOR: Muhammed Seyyid Yildiz
Narrative/19 min/Switzerland, Turkey, UK

On Christmas night, Santa Claus makes his rounds as usual. But this night, he has to face an unusual household; one that does not seem to be waiting for any gifts.
DIRECTORS: Sacha Gosselin, Ambre Bohin, Timothé Ballan, Amaury Emond, Hugo Joron, Arthur Morle, Antoine Tomasi, Clémence Van Gout
Animation/7 min/France/US Premiere

Juan lives alone in the fields. His life is monotonous and he only works his land. There are hardly any incentives in a life practically spent in solitude, until he decides to adopt "Duna" an abandoned dog.
DIRECTOR: Antonio Galarzo Heredia
Narrative, 15 min/Spain/US Premiere

Dane, who is a suburban drug dealer and America, a blonde girl, have checked each other out at the swimming pool. He then picks her up in his tuned car for a joyride.
DIRECTOR: Scott Lazer
Narrative/13 min/USA

The film follows Lynn as she leaves her family behind and travels through the Cordilleran highlands to try her luck in the city as a country singer.
DIRECTOR: Don Josepus Raphael Eblahan
Narrative/15 min/Philippines

Jim is going insane, he has been in the hospital forever. When the doctor finally arrives with his tests, the results are unexpected. A matter of laugh or death.
DIRECTOR: Gerald B. Fillmore-Garcia
Narrative/13 min/USA/Southwest US Premiere

An unnamed figure picks up a young man in his car. As the two drive together, and settle into an austere rental house in the country, the details of their arrangement become guttingly clear.
DIRECTOR: Sam Max
Narrative/16 min/USA

In this society each human being repeats the same action over and over again, in this society each human being repeats the same action over and over again, in this society each human being repeats the same action over and over again, in this society each human being repeats the same action over and over again.
DIRECTOR: Pablo Polledri
Animation/8 min/Spain/Southwest US Premiere

Themes of identity and discrimination unfold during a train ride between two stations as an African American, an Arab-American and a white man try to rob a train.
DIRECTOR: Nino Aldi
Narrative/10 min/USA