Tiber

Tiberio is an eleven year old boy with a vivid imagination. He curiously explores the Umbrian town where he grew up and loves playing during the village's medieval parade. Often teased by his older brother Giovanni and his friends, he takes refuge in the surrounding nature and in his own fantasy world, escaping reality. Until one night, wandering away from the town, Tiberio encounters a mysterious woman who will lead him once and for all into his imaginary world.

Directed by: Stella Bossari

I'M NOT WORK ANYMORE

A short film about a life-changing moment...
One day, while Seyfo (35) is herding his sheep, one of them strays from the flock. As he follows it, he sees the sheep disappear behind a rock. When Seyfo climbs up to get a better view, what he witnesses leaves him stunned.
This short film tells the story of how that moment changes Seyfo’s life forever.

Directed by: Gernas İslam Abışka

The Girl

A young girl and mother travel a long way to their new home, only to discover the neighborhood is a bit rougher than they expected.

Directed by: Mandy Kowalski

SELFIE - short film

SELFIE – A Psychological Thriller
Travel influencers Giulio and Maria roam Sicily, capturing its beauty for their online followers. When their car runs out of gas in a remote area, a seemingly kind local, Giovanni, offers help. Grateful, they snap a quick selfie with him—just another travel memory.
But as their journey continues, that innocent photo takes on a darker meaning. Their paths cross with Giovanni again, and this time, it’s not by chance. What started as an adventure soon spirals into a nightmare they never saw coming.

Directed by: Adriano Spadaro

Skating on the Razor's Edge

An existential anthology of three stories, where characters are forced to reveal their true selves in moments of crisis, tiptoeing along the thin line between life and death.
Religious or not, each protagonist wrestles with questions of morality—testing values, convictions, and the weight of choice in a world split between good and evil. Confronted by both the demons of their past and those within, they navigate the narrow path of survival and redemption.
Through stark, unflinching storytelling, the filmmaker examines the fragility of human relationships and our belief in the possibility of goodness. Stripped of illusion, the characters’ scarred faces and hidden truths come into view, exposing the raw essence of their humanity.
Three tales bound together by a single theme: the struggle for faith, identity, and meaning in the shadow of mortality.

Directed by: Jeno Hodi

Scented Dreams (Kalakal)

Angel is a kind and obedient young woman who scavenges for a living with her older brother, Gelo, the only family she has left. Every day, they haul carts of recyclables to the junkshop, scraping by on what little they earn. Their closest companion is Dario, a fellow scavenger and Gelo’s best friend, who silently harbors feelings for Angel. But Gelo is fiercely protective of his sister, determined to save up enough money to send her back to school and give her a chance at a better life.

Directed by: Roman Perez

Welcome to Vegas

Raised behind the steam of her mother’s humble soondae-guk restaurant in Korea, Sunny is a daughter of a single mother who dreams of escaping generational poverty.
She sees a wealthy boyfriend as her way out—but when she becomes pregnant, he disappears.
Refusing to abort, Sunny carries the child and the shame alone.
And so, the cycle continues: a single mother raises another.
Rejected by Korean society, she migrates to Las Vegas, hoping for reinvention.
Instead, she finds herself dealing cards at a casino while her son Jonah, caught in the margins of American life, falls into gang violence and is imprisoned for ten years.
When he returns, burdened by guilt, Jonah sets his sights on a high-stakes poker tournament—hoping to rebuild not just their finances, but their fractured bond.
Welcome To Vegas is the debut feature of Korean-American diaspora female director Hae Sun Hong.
It is a meditation on identity, survival, and intergenerational trauma—set between the pressure cookers of Korean tradition and the neon illusions of the American West.
Through poetic realism and raw emotion, the film reclaims the meaning of family, home, and heritage—on both sides of the Pacific.

Directed by: Hae Sun Hong

TOKYO STRANGE TALE

Neuroscientist Senichi Itabashi decides to test the concept of superhuman ideologies on his own brain, using research materials left by his grandfather from the wartime era. This experiment leads him to see and hear ghosts, yet he struggles to discern whether these visions and voices are genuine or merely figments of his imagination.
Admit this confusion, Ren, a female staff member from his favorite bar, appears before him, though something about her seems off. Upon visiting the bar, he discovers that police have begun investigating her disappearance.
Is Ren truly dead? And if so, who killed her? To verify the outcomes of his experiment and his own senses, Senichi seeks the cooperation of the deceased that appear around him and a medium, delving into the truth behind her death and the identity of the perpetrator.

Directed by: コウイチ 上野

All The Way To The Endless

Original title in Chinese: Yi Tiao Dao Zou Dao Hei
One man in his thirties, making a living in Shanghai. After breaking up with his girlfriend, the dual pressures of work and life make him unconsciously imagine a world where fantasy and reality coexist to survive the chaotic life.
Life is like driving alone in the dark, exploring the unknown future while self-discovery.

Directed by: Liang Shi

BRITALIANS

BRITALIANS explores the journey of Italians in the UK, from early immigrants in Manchester’s Ancoats district to today’s professionals in key institutions. Using archival footage, personal testimonies, and expert insights, the documentary highlights their struggles, achievements, and cultural influence, in the UK.

Directed by: Mirko Ricci

The Potter – Vessels of Exploration

This poetic documentary follows self-taught potter Wilko Korntheuer as he explores the value of slowness and imperfection in a fast-paced world. By inviting the unexpected into his process, he transforms traditional craftsmanship into a quiet act of discovery.

Directed by: Florian Ropers

Crossing through the Highlands of Iceland

The so called “F Roads” go deep into the heart of Iceland crossing many glacier rivers, winding through vast black sand territories.
Only accessible during the Icelandic summer, the Higlands of Iceland, is an oasis of tranquility and inspiration; unique landscapes inspire those who decide to explore this place.
Some of the attractions require hiking, some others are situated right by the roads. Climate and volcanic activity have shaped dramatic landscapes unlike anywhere else on Earth: craters, crater lakes, glaciers, glacier streams and rivers, waterfalls, canyons, vast black sand territories, mountains and magnificent geothermal locations.
Following the “F roads” deep into the Highlands of Iceland is a real adventure - due to the quickly changing weather, quite often, explorers have to make their way through strong winds, rain or fog.

Directed by: Dan Razvan Coman

"Iran: The Great Game"

In January 2020, amid sky-high U.S.–Iran tensions, a Ukrainian passenger jet is blasted out of the Tehran night sky . All 176 people on board perish in an instant—a tragedy that ignites the journey of The Great Game. Igor Lopatonok’s dramatic documentary uses the downing of Flight PS752 as a harrowing lens through which to examine over a century of foreign intervention, regime change, and war in Iran .
From the shadows of the 1953 CIA- and MI6-orchestrated coup that toppled Iran’s democratic government and reinstalled the Shah, to the 1979 Revolution that finally overthrew that U.S.-backed monarch , the film unearths history that mainstream narratives have long obscured. The Great Game challenges the comfortable Western storyline, revealing an alternative perspective on geopolitical events—one where empires and superpowers repeatedly treat Iran as a pawn on a global chessboard. It draws provocative parallels between past and present, showing how civilian tragedies like downed airliners are cynically exploited to advance regime-change agendas .
As new wars loom on the horizon, The Great Game issues an urgent call for peace. In stark contrast to standard newsreel soundbites, this sweeping and impassioned chronicle of empire and resistance is both bold and deeply humane. It demands that we heed the lessons of history—before they are doomed to repeat themselves.

Directed by: Igor Lopatonok

"Iran: The Great Game"

In January 2020, amid sky-high U.S.–Iran tensions, a Ukrainian passenger jet is blasted out of the Tehran night sky . All 176 people on board perish in an instant—a tragedy that ignites the journey of The Great Game. Igor Lopatonok’s dramatic documentary uses the downing of Flight PS752 as a harrowing lens through which to examine over a century of foreign intervention, regime change, and war in Iran .
From the shadows of the 1953 CIA- and MI6-orchestrated coup that toppled Iran’s democratic government and reinstalled the Shah, to the 1979 Revolution that finally overthrew that U.S.-backed monarch , the film unearths history that mainstream narratives have long obscured. The Great Game challenges the comfortable Western storyline, revealing an alternative perspective on geopolitical events—one where empires and superpowers repeatedly treat Iran as a pawn on a global chessboard. It draws provocative parallels between past and present, showing how civilian tragedies like downed airliners are cynically exploited to advance regime-change agendas .
As new wars loom on the horizon, The Great Game issues an urgent call for peace. In stark contrast to standard newsreel soundbites, this sweeping and impassioned chronicle of empire and resistance is both bold and deeply humane. It demands that we heed the lessons of history—before they are doomed to repeat themselves.

Directed by: Igor Lopatonok

The Neighbors, the last Witnesses of the Ukrainian genocide of Poles (episode 1 "Prelude")

The first episode (1/4) of the documentary series on the Ukrainian genocide against Poles. The main narrative of the film is created by Witnesses to Genocide. The first episode covers the history of the causes of genocide during and after World War II.

Directed by: Jacek Mateusz Międlar

into CONSCIOUSNESS

Into CONSCIOUSNESS is a documentary film that proposes an intimate and collective investigation into the meaning of consciousness. Through the voices of 12 protagonists - therapists, philosophers, artists, scientists, educators and spiritual researchers - the film composes a mosaic of reflections, experiences and insights that
challenge our ordinary understanding of self, time and reality.
The story unfolds through themes ranging from the memory of ancient grains to the constitutional identity of Italy, from Bert Hellinger's family constellations to the Mayan synchronarium, passing through contemporary archetypes such as Morpheus and Neo. Each encounter takes place in an intimate and authentic way, without forcing, creating a space in which the word becomes resonance.
Far from the rhetoric of the didactic or militant documentary, in CONSCIOUSNESS he searches for the invisible, the
unspoken, what vibrates beneath the surface. The editing is slow, essential, built to favour the silence between one word and another, offering the audience an inner space to take in, remember, question.
Conceived and directed by Francesco Majo and Nataly Cadavid, the film is the result of a totally independent and self-financed work. It is an artistic and human gesture of openness and connection, addressed to all
those who feel the need to return to a more conscious, profound and true dimension of existence.

Directed by: `Francesco Majo, Nataly Cadavid

Dobrina

Lotte Reiniger meets Sergio Leone in this animated short,
where desire burns as bright as the desert sun. A brand-new animated short that premiered in June 2025, successfully touring the festival circuit now.

Directed by: Hannes Rall

Underneath

A geometric shape chases a blob around an underground complex.

Directed by: Matthew James Bissett-Johnson

My Shadow

An introspective meeting with puppet Pierrot motivates a sleeping girl ...

Directed by: Astra Silver Burke

A Truth

"A disturbed Indigenous fisherman in 1930s British Columbia, gets away with his crimes, lives to be old and gray, with no hell to pay.."
In honour of my paternal grandparents and murdered relative, Tamara.

Written by: Jaaered Brown

Homeless

In a city plagued by forgotten promises, an otherworldly stranger has eight hours to find refuge for one of its forsaken or be condemned to an unwanted fate on Earth.

Written by: Leonardo Ramirez

When The Room Went Quiet | Part of The Unraveling Series™

A woman awakens in a hospital with no pulse and a child’s voice whispering from the walls. As mirrors delay and shadows orbit, she must confront the version of herself that never left, before the silence consumes them both.
"When The Room Went Quiet" is an arthouse psychological horror about memory as haunting and silence as survival. Told through breath, reflection, and the unbearable intimacy of stillness, it transforms trauma into ritual and grief into revelation.
"Silence remembers everything."

Written by: Sandy Hoffman

Modern Frankenstein

"Modern Frankenstein" is a retelling of the myth of Prometheus, who gave life to man by breathing fire into a clay figurine. The script tells the story of Frankie Stein, a 19-year-old robotics prodigy who creates a female avatar named Georgia to play online with his friends and colleagues, this avatar being created with the feminine features he adores. As the game heats up, this avatar unexpectedly gains consciousness, animated by the burning gaze of young Frankie. The avatar makes its own decisions, wins the game and thus becomes a virtual human being. Frankie falls in love with her intelligence, warmth and humor, despite the fact that she only exists in a computer game. As one of America's most promising roboticists, Frankie builds the computer creature a body, gives it a name and thus transforms her into a delicate beautiful cyborg, with whom he falls in love. They become a couple and Frankie invites her to the prom. Concerned about the implications of a consciousness transfer to a machine, the CIA launches an investigation into Frankie's work, suspecting a dangerous "HRT - Human-Robot Transfer" event. A somewhat scheming mercenary named Ivan also begins researching consciousness transfer, hoping to exploit Frankie's discovery for profit.
The couple wins the title of Prom King and Queen, but being pursued by the CIA and Ivan, they flee the prom and are separated for a few days. After believing they are no longer being followed, they meet on the seashore and leave on a ferry to a world where they can be free, watched from afar by the CIA team leader, who has finally understood that the girl is not a danger to humanity.
This modern interpretation of the Prometheus myth blends elements of comedy, romance, and science fiction - highlighting the emotional connections that can form between creator and creation, even in an age of artificial intelligence.

Written by: Gabriel Jeanne

When are they leaving this house??!!

Laughter is good for the heart... This comedy (already performed on stage, and with success, in theater) plays down the daily struggles of a typical Italian family, emphasizing the fears, anxieties, and hopes of children and parents for their future. In particular, the comedy centers on the charismatic figure of father Antonio, who, after spending much of his life waiting for his children's life path to fulfill his expectations, realizes that what he perhaps wanted wasn't really what he wanted... Meanwhile, however, his thirst for the future has snatched away his present... his present...

Written by: Gianpiero Formato

“MUFFIN CLUB”

Accused of altar boy molestation, transferred from the East coast, 20 years prior, father Quigley, is found dead in his rectory office with a bullet wound to his head and a 38 revolver in his hand. Coroner rules suicide. Bishop Burke feels differently, contacts retired Monsignor, Tim Farley and requests he take over duties as pastor of St. Jude church until a replacement can be found. Burke also orders Farley to speak with the first motorcycle policeman who arrived at Quigley’s rectory office. Afterwards, Farley is invited for coffee with some members of the altar society that meet for breakfast after daily mass, calling themselves the Muffin Club. Eventually, Farley and three widows of the Muffin Club get together to solve the murder of father Quigley. Fun and danger follow them along the way. An exciting trip up the famous Palm Springs, (California) Tramway and many other exterior locations of this well known community in the California desert. * Monsignor Farley (retired) was granted dispensation by the Pope and allowed to marry Dixie because his brother Father Paul, is married and of the Eastern Orthodox Catholic Church (Greek Byzantine). MUFFIN CLUB is controversial but not sexually explicit and is lighthearted while exhibiting physical challenges faced by seniors everywhere.

Written by: Charles Petrilla

Midnite's Journey

Midnite and others are abducted by corrupt police and taken to a forced labor camp. They witness murder, torture, corruption, and prostitution. Some survive to tell their stories.

Written by: Beverly Horvath, DANA L SILKISS

In The Garden

Join Laura on this heartwarming journey, as she sets out to fulfill what she feels the Lord has called her to do... BE A MISSIONARY LIKE HER FATHER. Walk along side her as overcomes insurmountable odds in her attempts to see this thru. She is in WWII times, Father is away at war. Laura is paralyzed in a wheelchair. She's home tending the care of the house with her mother, her aunt, and her twin sister--who happens to fall on the dark side. This is a story of war times, family ties, romance, and a young woman's incredible journey of faith and love! And it all starts...IN THE GARDEN!

Written by: Christal Kahles-Jones, Kathy Krantz Stewart

The Green Machine - Part 1

Along the unforgiving stretch of the Southwest border, every day holds the potential for chaos.
In the quiet desert town of Deming, NM, a seemingly standard traffic stop reveals a van loaded with narcotics bound for Phoenix. But what begins as a routine smuggling case quickly spirals into something far more dangerous — a hidden operation that exposes a threat to both U.S. and Mexican national security.
As American law enforcement scrambles to unravel the conspiracy, south of the border, a brutal cartel cell scrambles to contain the fallout. Their goal: stay one step ahead of both governments while protecting a clandestine pipeline that holds global implications.

Written by: John P Martinez

Theater 8

Set in the early 1990s, during the height of the “Satanic Panic,” a long-estranged daughter returns to her hometown to collect her inheritance — and uncover the truth behind her mother’s mysterious reasons for abandoning her. Her search puts her in the path of a weathered investigative journalist haunted by personal demons and obsessed with a series of missing teen cases. Their separate investigations lead them to a local movie theater — ordinary in appearance but hiding a mounting evil and a darkness for which neither is prepared.

Written by: John P Martinez

Crazy Horse

Written by: Michele Iovine

Red Hands, a Mary MacIntosh novel by Maureen Anne Meehan

The Red Hand symbolizes the ongoing crisis of missing and murdered Indigenous women in the North America, particularly among Native American communities. The red handprint is often seen printed across the mouth of those advocating for this movement, representing the silenced voices of these women who have been victims of violence, kidnapping, or murder, often without proper investigation or justice. This crisis is rooted in a long history of systemic marginalization, lack of proper law enforcement response, and jurisdictional challenges. In this novel and adapted screenplay, add the unsolved serial killer or a copycat, in and around Sheridan, Wyoming, the Medicine Wheel of the Big Horn Mountains, and Devils Tower in northeastern Wyoming. Mary MacIntosh is the prosecuting attorney in Sheridan, Wyoming, and she is challenged with solving the latest murder of a local Native American woman, as part of the MMIW crisis.

Written by: MAUREEN ANNE MEEHAN

Old Heart Feature Film

Adapted from Peter Ferry’s award winning novel, Old Heart tells the story of Tom Johnson, an American soldier who is part of the Allied liberation of the Southern Netherlands in the fall of 1944. He works with a Jewish translator, Sarah van Praag, to smuggle food and supplies to starving residents of northern cities trapped behind Nazi lines. They also fall in love.
Sixty years later, in the summer of 2005, Tom foils his family’s plan to move him to assisted living by secretly flying to Amsterdam. With his family in hot pursuit, Tom is determined to find Sarah, the love of his life.
Old Heart honors veterans during the 80th anniversary of World War 2 European Liberation.

Directed by: Kirk Wahamaki, Leslye Witt

THE PORT CHICAGO INCIDENT

This documentary tells the untold story of an event that led to what is still the largest mutiny trial in U.S. Naval history. A story buried for over 80 years where 50 black American sailors, duriing WW II, made the decision to go to prision rather than die loading ammunition onboard ships.

Directed by: Kenneth E. Stewart

You Are The Mountain

Filmed on the mountain at the foot of which my grandmother once lived, this short documentary explores memory and loss through night imagery and a single artificial light, as a daughter reflects on her mother’s passing.

Directed by: Jaden Arion Bisang

Pygmalion

An unnoticed sculptor is suddenly seen by a woman — just for a moment. Captivated, he embarks on a quiet, surreal journey to find her again.
All visuals, sounds, and music in the film were created entirely using AI tools.

Directed by: Emre Işındağ

Summer Triangle

Summer Triangle is a groundbreaking 65-minute feature film created entirely with AI-generated visuals. Set in a quiet rural village, the story follows three boys during one unforgettable summer as they set out on a quest to find a UFO they believe crashed in the nearby mountains.

Directed by: Takeru Nakazawa

Before My Silence

In times when it feels easier to turn aside, I wanted to share a story of someone who never stopped resisting.
A woman who, after a hundred years, has only one wish left:
That we don’t look away.
In the film, she sits in her wheelchair at the edge of a cliff, looking out at the sea one last time.
Before My Silence
A film about memory, conviction, and what it means to keep standing until you can’t.
Her voice is in German, because that is where it began.
Subtitled in English, so no one has to look away.

Directed by: Axel Schilling

Cut Sick : Product Dreams

Video interpretation of the song "Cut Sick", from Angelspit album The Product. Depicts dreams of attempts at true-self realization, perhaps as dreamed while being uploaded from one's body, to/by The Product. Merge! Dance! Fight!

Directed by: Patrick Yaney

Do You Feel It

In Starry Venus' "Do You Feel It," consciousness becomes creation — variations of Venus awaken as Goddesses, unlocking each other’s freedom through elemental power. The provocative visual expression of the song "Do You Feel It" from Starry Venus' 2025 album SOUL.

Directed by: Starry Venus

Shade of You

“Shade of You” is a cinematic composition that speaks in silence. It evokes the emotional depth of loss, reflection, and longing — the kind that lingers between moments. Designed for film scenes that require a quiet emotional pull.

Composed by: T E O N I

THE GREENSTONE NARRATED BY ORSON WELLES

A young boy goes against his mother's wishes and wanders into a magical forest where he meets strange woodland creatures and comes face to face with his own fears.

Directed by: Kevin Irvine

Following in the footsteps of my ancestors An Ute Köhler Documentary

"Following in the Footsteps of My Ancestors" is a personal documentary film by Ute Köhler about her family history. The filmmaker embarks on an extraordinary journey to retrace the emigration route of her ancestors, who emigrated from southern Germany to Galicia (present-day Poland) in the 18th century and later to Volhynia (Ukraine).
The film begins with Ute Köhler's own hike from Dolgesheim to Ulm in southern Germany, followed by a bicycle tour along the Danube to Vienna (Austria). This is the same route taken by her ancestors from five generations back, 240 years ago. Through interviews with witnesses such as her great-uncle Ludwig Zimmermann, who was born in Volhynia in 1902, as well as conversations with historians and archivists in Poland, the moving emigration story of German colonists unfolds.
The documentary shows how her ancestors lived as farmers in German colonies, for example in Hohenbach and Reichsheim in the Vistula triangle in Galicia and later near the city of Lutsk in Volhynia in the 19th and early 20th centuries, until they were forced to flee again during World War I. Ludwig Zimmermann's family was deported to the Russian interior in 1915 and returned to Germany in 1918. The film combines personal investigation with historical analysis and culminates in Ute Köhler's decision to process this family history into a novel, a literary tribute to her courageous ancestors.

Directed by: Ute Koehler, Katherin Wermke

THE TENDER ONES WILL TRIUMPH

A young Ukrainian girl live in Poland as immigrant. she received several calls from her mother but sfhe dont want to answer because she think that something bad is going on.

Directed by: Francisco Bassignana

The Aloha Within

Through a time of personal struggle and tragedy, a young Polynesian stage performer named Marc discovers a new meaning of hope. This hope is found through a support system he never knew he had. As he pieces together the support of family, friends, and culture, Marc realizes something of great worth and value, the Aloha within.

Directed by: Elvis Maleko, Robert Massetti

Women of Pinot

This feature-length documentary shares the stories of 21 women winemakers in Oregon's Willamette Valley. It explores how these trailblazing women have shaped and developed the region's thriving wine industry. Despite representing only, a small fraction of Willamette Valley's approximately 736 wineries, these winemakers continue to be a growing and influential force.

Directed by: Bruce M Jaqua

THE HOUSE FROM THE PAST - LA CASA DI CAMPAGNA

GIULIO, 20 years old, decides to spend his first summer away from the cumbersome presence of his mother. He will do so in the old family home in the Cuneo countryside, inhabited until his untimely death by the eccentric AUNT CLARA.
No one had entered those evocative and historical walls since the death of the woman, an artist who had made unruliness her only rule of life. GIULIO reopened the house and with it the most secret and painful pages of his family.

Directed by: Marco Ottavio Graziano

What Are Emotions?

Join Helaina and Fia as they dive into the fascinating world of emotions in this lighthearted and educational children’s series episode of The Talky Talk Show! Through vibrant graphics, engaging explanations, and plenty of laughs, this family-friendly content helps kids discover what emotions are, how they work, and why they matter. Perfect for social-emotional learning (SEL), this episode unpacks emotional intelligence, the science behind happiness, sadness, anger, and more. It even introduces the roles of serotonin, oxytocin, dopamine, and epinephrine—all in a kid-friendly and relatable way. Don’t miss the hilarious blooper reel for extra laughs! Balancing learning and laughter, this is a must-watch for parents, educators, and curious young minds alike.

Directed by: Tawanna Cullen

Masters and Vices

‘Masters and Vices’ is a gripping contemporary British tale of loss and purpose which follows the journey of Stan whose world implodes as he loses his London-based job and reputation in society due to his self-destructive behaviour. It's only when he loses everything that he finally understands what is truly important to him and his path forward becomes certain. Stan's struggle leads him to seek out both ancient wisdom and modern-day movements. In doing so he learns more about himself and the world around him.
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Directed by: Gregory Mallard