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Human Helper is a sci-fi comedy short about a doctor's mission to make artificially intelligent human-like helpers not ableist.

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Human Helper

Director(s): Shaina Ghuraya

Fiona lives on the coastal islands surrounding a small city on the north-western coast of Norway, where she takes care of her intellectually disabled brother Tom. Over a few life-changing summer month...

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Hurry Slowly

Director(s): Anders Emblem

Known as the Slam Collective, seven Slamdance filmmakers from different continents come together to make "I Want to be an American," Slamdance's first documentary feature. In the spirit of the surrea...

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I Want To Be An American

Director(s): Slam Collective

In the Jam Jar is an invitation to the intimacy of 81-year-old Joan's final days, whose musings silently echo with Dan's, her 50-year-old son. This fiction short-movie is a dive into death and grief, ...

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In the Jam Jar

Director(s): Colin Nixon

Determined to become the most inspirational disabled person ever, Madeleine Stewart embarks on a journey to become a Paralympian.

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Inspire Me

Director(s): Sophie Saville

Two ex-lovers meet at a rarely-used Aspen lodge to reignite their passions, but first they must confess their past sins.

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It's Been Too Long

Director(s): Amber Schaefer

Director Tamra Davis pays homage to her friend in this definitive documentary but also delves into Basquiat as an iconoclast. His dense, bebop-influenced neoexpressionist work emerged while minimalist...

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Jean-Michel Basquiat: The Radiant Child

Director(s): Tamra Davis

Two sleazy tourists have the night of their lives at a Karaoke bar in the Azores after meeting an alluring young singer.

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Karaoke Night

Director(s): Francisco Lacerda

A 7-foot-tall fundamentalist Baptist minister, Markie Wenzel made the decision at age 46 to come out as a transgender woman and start living as female. It was a decision that ended her 20-year marriag...

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Markie in Milwaukee

Director(s): Matt Kliegman

In June of 1969, the fourth Memphis Country Blues Festival took place at the city’s famed Overton Park Band Shell. Fueled by the rediscovery of blues artists like Furry Lewis and Mississippi Fred Mc...

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Memphis '69: The 1969 Memphis Country Blues Festival

Director(s): Joe LaMattina

West Berlin, 1989. Manny Jumpcannon prowls his dingy apartment, phoning various degenerates from his past. He's hoping for some uncertain vindication but the ensuing conversations only reveal his own ...

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Midnight Confession

Director(s): Maxwell McCabe-Lokos

"It's hot in a ramshackle attic, full-blown fans stir the atmosphere generated by the ""exercises"" of a weird tenant who manipulates objects. He twists cardboard, builds object castles, admires them,...

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Mudanza Contemporánea

Director(s): Teo Guillem

Donna has recently been convicted of “Driving While Impaired” and is ordered to perform community service at the local animal shelter. When an elderly dog is scheduled to be euthanized, Donna deci...

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Murmur

Director(s): Heather Young

In a split-second between life and death, teenager Myeisha Jackson crosses over into a hip-hop musical dreamscape and witnesses her life, what it was and what might have been.

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My Name is Myeisha

Director(s): Gus Krieger

(Audience Award for Episodes) (Summer Chastant Episodic Award) A collection of 6 short episodes from Season 2 of the award-winning animated web series, Night Drives. Somewhere between waking life and...

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Night Drives - Season 2 Collection

Director(s): Jono Hunter

Two friends drive to a secluded forest and experiment with hypnotism, which triggers vivid dreams and serpentine hallucinations.

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Night Visions

Director(s): William Glass

A resourceful ambient film starring professional inline street skater Gavin Drumm gliding through the night and cameos from Sydney comedy royalty Lauren McNaught, Annie Schofield, André Shannon and K...

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Night on Floating Island

Director(s): Jen Atherton

92 year old Ruth Young, clad in newspaper shin guards and a paisley headscarf, begins to contemplate her inevitable death, but she has no intention of slowing down. Accompanied by her jolly 53 year ol...

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Old Young

Director(s): Emma Baiada

One Nation Under is an investigation into what it means to be an American, questioning idyllic notions of freedom and power by observing the structures around us and hearing from the people overshadow...

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One Nation Under

Director(s): Justin McHugh

Onikuma is Japanese yokai, a demon bear known for chasing horses. Through a combination of live action and animation, this hybrid short film follows the journey of two women as they wander through the...

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Onikuma

Director(s): Alessia Cecchet

A child must create a world where chaos and dread turn to order and awe.

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Oracle

Director(s): Aaron Poole

A collection of vignettes involving people in everyday moments who are tethered by umbilical cords to otherworldly beings.

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Others

Director(s): Grace Rex

A boy playing in his backyard begins to exhibit signs of a disturbing physical ability. His parents invite the neighbors over to enact a peculiar rite-of-passage ceremony that will assimilate the boy ...

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Our Boy

Director(s): Kyle Sims

In an advanced society that worships a musical chord, a maintenance worker who tunes sonic shrines is thwarted by teen vandals.

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Out of Tune

Director(s): Aaron With

Emanuelle is training on her stationary bike but she can't get her mind off the image of Laura. The more she pedals, the more her memories turn to desire.

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Paupière Mauve | IRIS

Director(s): Gabrielle Demers

An overweight teen is bullied by a clique of cool girls poolside while holidaying in her village. The long walk home will change the rest of her life.

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Piggy

Director(s): Carlota Pereda

A postmodern swiss-tyrolean ensemble ventures into remote mountaineous regions, embracing the sonorous variety of local vernaculars. A poetic road movie with stunning shots and an emphatic approach to...

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Piz Regolith

Director(s): Yannick Mosimann

A stop-motion animated Sportrait of Jack Johnson, the first Black heavyweight champion of the world, depicting three pivotal days of his life.

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Prizefighter

Director(s): Lyndon J Barrois

Episode 7: Monsters reside in all of us for a reason. Liz and Beaux are a sister and brother, trapped in a closet as punishment by an alcoholic mother, but escape means they must face a far more nefar...

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Propolis, Part 7

Director(s): Patricia Beckmann Wells

When punk rock exploded in D.C. in the late 1970s, it was a mighty convergence of powerful music, inter-generational friendships, and clear minds. Punk the Capital captures that transformative period,...

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Punk The Capital

Director(s): James June Schneider,Paul Bishow

Ready for Love covers a decade of a woman's life, as told only through her own video submissions to be a contestant on The Bachelor.

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Ready For Love

Director(s): Lauren McCune, Dylan Pasture

Initially inspired by the Tang dynasty poem Song of the Wanderer and Red Threads as lines of fate in Chinese culture, the artist utilizes a combination of Live-action Cinema, Sims 4 Machinima, Browser...

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Red Threads (我很爱你)

Director(s): Yuchi Ma

An experimental take on artist Paul Kaiser’s struggle with PTSD after serving overseas and being detained in Iraq. His current mission is to reconnect with his estranged daughters. The film serves a...

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Remission

Director(s): John Charter

Grand Jury Prize for Animation Short Digging deep into the similarities and differences between the utopian world described in the ancient Chinese fable, Peach Blossom Spring, and the modern landscap...

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Return to the Peach Blossom Wonderland

Director(s): Haomin Peng,Yue Huang,Yuchao Luo

Using love letters tucked in bootleg DVD menus, a gay Iranian recounts his first relationship and its end.

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Rumi and His Roses

Director(s): Navid Sinaki

A documentary portrait of a man, with ascetic origins, who has been radically transformed by city life.

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Sadhu in Bombay

Director(s): Kabir Mehta

Santa Ana elucidates the mysterious link between evil and the infamous Santa Ana Winds. The ""Red Wind"" originates inland and blows through the coastal Southern California. Legend has it that these e...

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Santa Ana

Director(s): César Pesquera

A young mother's shadow takes on a life of its own, terrorizing her and her daughter over the course of one night.

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Shadow

Director(s): Kamell Allaway

A man is sitting on the toilet in a public restroom when he’s interrupted by a child crawling into his stall. He begins to panic when the kid won't leave no matter how emphatically he asks. What fol...

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Stalled

Director(s): Eric Rich

A cinematic experience of the New York subways, featuring the commuters, panhandlers, and performers passing through.

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Subway Stops

Director(s): Joe Zakko