Stai Bene

Set in Florence and performed entirely in Italian, this film follows the intimate evolution of a relationship between an American woman and an Italian man. What begins as a tender, effortless connection gradually reveals the quiet complexities of love shaped by time, place, and unspoken truths.In just a few fleeting moments, the film captures the beauty of connection, the inevitability of change, and the emotional resonance of a love that is both bittersweet and deeply human.

Directed by: Sean Daniel Cunningham

EMPATHY REHEARSALS

Tommy is the school bully, convinced that strength and fear are the only ways to earn respect.After yet another act of aggression, the principal forces him to attend a theater workshop.There, he meets classmates he once ignored and, through acting exercises, is pushed to step into their shoes.Facing those he hurt and confronting his own vulnerabilities gradually changes how he sees himself and others.Through struggle and discovery, Tommy takes his first uncertain steps toward empathy.

Directed by: Jacopo Cullin

Scam Likely

Directed by: Thomas W Spence

A Girl Called Alice

In the middle of London's mobile phone theft epidemic; a young woman with the reputation of one of the most gifted phone thieves is challenged by a notorious street gang leader to see just how good she really is, but is it a wise choice?

Directed by: Tristan Loraine

LAST SUPPER

Last Supper is a Southern noir tragedy soaked in grief, love, and the ghosts we carry. When Ernie, a quiet young man with a kind heart, crosses paths with Tommy, a grief-stricken father hunting for meaning through vengeance, their worlds collide in a storm of violence and revelation. Tommy thinks he’s tying off loose ends. Ernie just wants to say goodbye to his mother.
What starts as a hit turns into a slow, painful reckoning over dinner, in a kitchen where the sauce has simmered for six hours and loss hangs heavier than the garlic in the air. Shot on a micro-budget of 5k with heart, grit, and dark humor, Last Supper asks: how far does pain travel, and who do we become when we finally face it?
It’s about family. About forgiveness. And the last time someone made you a meal before everything fell apart.

Directed by: Sonny Corona III

A Time in Eternity

In contemporary Iran, in a world shaped by tyranny and social violence, where religion is often used as a tool of control, Maryam clings to the fading hope that her missing husband will one day return, but that hope is slowly tearing her apart. Her once-close relationship with her teenage daughter is now strained by silence, grief, and resentment. Looming over them is her brother-in-law, a man who hides his desire for control, and for Maryam, behind the mask of family tradition. Maryam’s rejection and her wish for independence are met with unspoken forces of darkness that threaten to consume and destroy her life, not unlike parasites.
Just as her world threatens to collapse, a mysterious stranger enters her life. Calm, uncanny, and impossible to ignore, he seems to know more about Maryam and her pain than any outsider should. With every encounter, he awakens something long buried inside her: a quiet power, a spiritual force that begins to shift her reality.
Driven by haunting visions and desperate for answers, Maryam sets out with her daughter on a perilous journey to retrace her husband’s last steps. But what begins as a search for truth spirals into a confrontation with an unknown force, forcing her to face secrets, illusions, and the chains that have bound her for far too long.

Directed by: Mehdi Norowzian, Mehdi Norowzian

How We Roll

In the Chicago suburbs, a community of passionate folks find connection and escape on the gravel courts of a local bocce league.

Directed by: Anthony Ciancio

Beyond Godolphin: The Hank Jones Story

Magical moments abound in this documentary on the life of legendary Disney character actor and singer, Hank Jones. From his early years on TV shows such as My Three Sons, to his classic Walt Disney films Blackbeard's Ghost and The Cat From Outer Space. It's a mid century pop culture time capsule that is sure to fascinate both young and old alike.

Directed by: Kevin MacLean

School of Working Children

The film School of Working Children follows children and young people who work and live on the streets of Iran. While most children in the Western world attend school in order to pursue education and build a future, these children and youths are forced to work on the streets to help support their families. Under harsh conditions, they are exposed to the violence of street life and must face situations that no child should ever have to endure.

Directed by: Houchang Allahyari

Callie

When a lauded young psychiatrist starts having unexpected dreams she, starts to question her faith in her own identity and ultimately her own sanity.
This is a story of self-discovery, self-realisation and finally self-acceptance.
How many of us are going through this exact thing? We are all trying understanding who we are physically, mentally or emotionally and the journey is not always easy.

Directed by: Stephen Dryer

A.M.

This is the story of a group of students all struggling to find some kind of connection in an alternate universe where a benevolent moon god watches over and often struts among them.
It is dedicated to everyone that struggles to effectively express their feelings and hope that this can be some kind of inspiration.
How many times have you wished you could magically make life and love easier simply with the wave of a wand? But let’s face it, it doesn’t take a magic spell from a mystical “Mood God” to make it happen, but it can be the start of a magical journey when it does.

Directed by: Stephen Dryer

The Colour of Sound

After an accident, a reclusive Berliner begins to experience chromesthesia - seeing sounds as colours and shifting forms. This new sensory gift transforms his solitude into unexpected creativity.

Directed by: John Graham

An Investigation into an Italian Memory

AN INVESTIGATION INTO AN ITALIAN MEMORY explores memory as both a material and spatial presence - one shaped and inscribed by natural elements and ancient environments.
Created during Matthew Buzzell’s residency with the ACI Artists, Writers, and Scholars Program in Corciano, Italy, this experimental and impressionistic short film renders landscapes and architecture as silent archivists of lived experience. Echoing the approaches of the fine artists in residence, Buzzell treats the moving image as a canvas, painting with light, focus, and color temperature to evoke the texture and fragility of memory. In doing so, the film positions itself in quiet opposition to the rapid pacing and quick-cut aesthetics that characterize much of contemporary screen culture, inviting a more contemplative mode of cinematic engagement.
Presented as a triptych, the film unfolds in an audacious 7.05:1 aspect ratio, expanding the cinematic frame into a panoramic field of observation and reflection.

Directed by: Matthew Buzzell

Arnold and Me

Arnold and Me follows Charles, a middle-aged man whose life begins to resemble a one-man tribute to Arnold Schwarzenegger. This bizarre obsession gradually spirals out of control, threatening his marriage and his sanity.

Written by: George Nelson

I Am Larrika The True Story of Larry DeWayne Hoy Sr.

this is a real-life story of a boy that was born male but always knew he was a girl trapped in a boy body. please read my movie

Written by: Larrika DuPree Hoy

SACRED SUN

‘Out of horror, belief.’
A horrific animal experiment carried out by the military at a solar energy plant in the southern deserts of North America sets off a series of strange, ominous events.
A mysterious ‘other’ sun appears in rearview mirrors of plant employees’ cars as they drive away.

A new star appears in the night sky, next to the Evening Star, and inexplicable data are recorded on energy plant monitors, alongside baffling seizures in machinery.
A Native American chief (and Catholic priest), César, sees visions of a malevolence that will walk the Earth, and is unable to prevent the ‘accidental’ death of his daughter, Solecita.
In the forest, Iris (wife of energy plant manager, Ramón) meets a ghostly Red Indian lover who appears to her through ethereal light.
At the family’s extensive, light filled, forest home, an enigmatic guest, Isaac (whose actions are watched closely by a haunted clock), attempts to seduce Ramón’s and Iris’ daughter, María, in whose innocence the clock and the Red Indian ghost also seem interested.
Those involved in the animal experiment are visited upon in horrific, sun-themed ways as vivid events unfold, both at the family home and at the solar energy plant.
The clock stops time, the mirrors in the house define their own world and the forest fills with silky light.
A spectacular act of self-sacrifice (or veiled Christian miracle) will result in the salvation of one, and precipitate the physical arrival, fleetingly, of a restored and unvanquished Native god.
Sacred Sun is a symbolic narrative on the subject of America and the rift that sits at the base of her psyche, impasse between Christian belief and Native vision-dream.

Written by: Michael Louis Gould

Quintana

A bitter, wheelchair‑bound veteran, Dennis Quintana, and a
recovering addict, Cleo Nicolosi, form an unlikely alliance against a broken system, forcing a tragic sacrifice that allows one life to end in redemption so another can finally begin anew.

Written by: William LiPera

7 D.B.S.

After a lifetime of tragic bad luck, an isolated barista orchestrates the perfect suicide plan, only for his chronic misfortune to hilariously backfire and systematically force him into a happy ending.

Written by: Eugene Hattingh

THE KESSLER REPORT

When a cascade of space debris turns Earth’s orbit into a death trap, a climate scientist, his estranged son, a NASA astronomer, and an Inuit family struggle to survive the collapse of modern civilization — and rediscover humanity’s place beneath the stars.

Written by: Julie Lilly Belote, Paul Beckwith

Something About Ann

A traumatized Black Vietnam veteran falls for a mysterious Vietnamese immigrant, only to discover she once fought against him, forcing them into a dangerous reckoning where love becomes both the weapon and the cure.

Written by: J. Everett Prewitt

CLOUD ZERO

When a catastrophic super-monsoon threatens the Southwest, NASA climate scientist Valerie Thomas walks out of her job and races home to warn her Indigenous community in northern New Mexico.
After the storm passes, a far deadlier threat emerges - an unprecedented heat dome capable of creating temperatures the human body cannot survive.
With infrastructure failing and time running out, the community undertakes a desperate journey across the desert toward ancestral caves once used by their people for refuge.
As devastating loss reshapes their world, they discover that survival in a changing climate may depend not on choosing between modern science and traditional knowledge - but on trusting both.

Written by: Julie Lilly-Belote, Michael Schultz, Duane Humeyestewa

The Liquidators

The death of the CEO of an insurance firm sets off a series of events related to the provenance of Etruscan artifacts in The Cincinnati Art Museum.
Two brothers, office liquidators, buy the insurance firm's furniture when they move to new offices. One of the brothers decides to keep the late CEO's furniture and finds documents hidden in a secret panel of the desk. They are in Italian, so they get them translated.
The museum's curator is both relieved and concerned by the CEO's death because he has been paying the CEO extortion money for 15 years to keep hidden the provenance of the Etruscan works. Is he finally free? Does the partner of the insurance firm know about this? Where are the documents?
In Rome, the Italian Ministry of Art & Antiquities has conducted a worldwide search for stolen art and artifacts for some years. With many cases close to resolution, the minister and her assistant travel to the US to meet with curators who must now produce provenances or return the artworks to Italy. One museum is in Cincinnati, Rome's Sister City.
Not everyone is whom they seem. These relationships become intertwined and dangerous as the brothers begin to realize the significance of their discovery. Break-ins, murder, and personal threats force them to act.
The conflicting goals of the parties involved expose more hidden agendas, develop into dangerous circumstances, and culminate in an explosive confrontation between them. The outcome cannot satisfy everyone.

Written by: Jim Amatulli

Zergan

In a parallel medieval Parma, Francesca passes down to her son Giovanni an insatiable thirst for control, fortified through witchcraft and demonic entities. Giovanni repeats the cycle: he seduces, destroys, lives in cruel opulence. But toward the end of his life, seeing his sins mirrored in his grandson, he is overcome by belated remorse and attempts to redeem himself by protecting the innocent. At death, his soul weighs neither toward light nor darkness—but toward balance. Zergan appears, the primordial entity older than God, guardian of cosmic balance: he does not punish, does not forgive, but summons only souls with perfect equality of good and evil. Recognizing Giovanni's equilibrium, Zergan brings him to the Wheel of Souls, where he becomes a neutral judge, his memories intact but freed from emotion. Final image: a child draws a wheel in the sand, watched over by a red-eyed vulture—the cosmic cycle continues, in eternal balance.

Written by: Camelia Dinu

KEEP THE CHANGE

Written by: Loris Gusmeroli

Dark Fae

​During an international wellness event in the Emerald Isle, the line between happenstance and horror collides. Mayhem ensues when attendees decide to become adventure seekers, going afoul of local traditions and violating sacred boundaries. Justice must be served. Violators are enthralled by the Dark Fae to face their offenses. This is no mere haunting; it is a livestreamed execution. Through psychological manipulation via preternatural gaming controllers and technological sorcery, the Fae pilot their "mundane" captives to slaughter one another for the entertainment of the ethereal realm. Who takes up the challenge, who will survive and triumph in the Wretch'ed Games? Dark Fae explores the cost of human arrogance in a world where nature doesn't just bite back … it spectates.

Written by: Donna Keegan, Marian Sing

Aberth

A tale of sacrifice and honor, a squire goes to any length to protect his Kingdom from evil, while his former master goes to any length to protect him.

Directed by: Jesse Scales

FLAME

​When Flame stages a deeply personal performance piece, her work becomes an urgent attempt to reach someone before it's too late.

Directed by: Katrina Channells

A New Day

When a "Text-to-Reality" AI update grants him god-like power from his bedroom, a teenager's playful experiments spiral into something he can’t undo.

Directed by: Dariush Rezaei

Medusa & Hermes : The Reincarnation Musical 2026

​This saga began five millennia ago, when Hermes, the divine herald, and Zeus stood in opposition to the Gorgon Medusa. Across the intervening ages, these three souls have undergone countless reincarnations, their fates inextricably linked through a series of complex and enduring relationships. This film serves as an intriguing chronicle of their ultimate destiny in the distant future off world through eternal recurrence. This movie is a LGBTQ film and contains 19 original songs written and arranged by Algis Kemezys.

Directed by: Algis Kemezys

Africa

Experience the powerful voice of Amariah Lodiong in Africa, an inspiring gospel anthem that celebrates the beauty, strength, and unity of the African people. With a captivating blend of soulful melodies, heartfelt lyrics, and vibrant visuals, this official music video takes you on a journey through faith, culture, and heritage
Filmed with breathtaking African scenery and infused with authentic cultural elements, Africa is more than just a song - it’s a call to unity, hope, and pride in our roots. Amariah’s moving performance will stir your spirit and remind you of the richness of Africa.

Directed by: Bisaso Ashraph

La Passeggiata (The Walk)

​In the midst of an Italian spring, four figures descend from the mountains. The wind, forest, and flowing water infuse their procession towards the village, where they arrive at a historic site to dance.

Directed by: Scotty Hardwig

Twice Upon a Time - Season 1

Set in a dystopian, post-apocalyptic future,TWICE UPON A TIME is a sci-fi/fantasy webseries about a group of residents who find themselves in a mental asylum with no memory of how they got there. We soon come to realize that they are test subjects in an unsettling experiment. They eventually escape and must engage the services of a world-renowned time traveller to embark on a journey of self-discovery to find the truth before time runs out and a diabolical plot comes to fruition.

Directed by: Doug MacDougall

High Moon

A group of good, bad and ugly bounty-hunters find themselves up against a clan of shapeshifters in the desert of West Texas in 1959.

Directed by: Sean Bridges