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AI FILMS

Alexandre Charro GIVE BACK INTERNET (Brazil, 5 minutes)
Christopher Patrick Vallone (USA, 5 minutes)
James Jones PAGAN MASS (USA, 6 minutes)
Francesca Fini GHOST OF THE FOREST (Italy, 6 minutes)
Matthew Gillespie MAX & ORION (Canada, 8 minutes)
Lachesis Laval THE REGRET OF THE WAVES (China, 11 minutes)
Yi Parker BLESSING TO CALIFORNIA BAR (China, 13 minutes)

DOCUMENTARY SHORT FILMS

Mykola But 1% OF WAY (Ukraine, 27 minutes)
Benjamin Joseph Zieger AMBITION IS A DRUG (Canada, 37 minutes)

DOCUMENTARY FEATURE FILMS

Stuart Cinsberg IT’S A TO Z: THE ART OF ARLEEN SCHLOSS (USA, 64 minutes)
IT’S A to Z: The ART OF ARLEEN SCHLOSS is a feature-length documentary about Arleen Schloss, an underground artist, director, and curator who became an influential figure in the downtown New York art scene from the 1970s through the 1990s.

Sofia Babluani THE CHILDREN OF POPODIA (France, 67 minutes)
In Georgia, at King Tamar’s bording school , Christian and Muslim teenagers keep instructors on their toes, playing hooky and falling in love. The idea of this peacfull island, has its beginnings in a tumultuous love story between two people of different faiths.

Nini Myhrvoid & Espen Folmo LOOK UP {Norway, 171 minutes)
Embark on a captivating journey where academic science meets cultural wisdom. “LOOK UP—The Science of Cultural Evolution” is a groundbreaking animated film that breathes life into a comprehensive scientific manuscript. This two-hour and fifty-minute feature is a new genre, blending the intricacies of psychotherapy research with the timeless sagacity of ancient and modern wisdom.

SHORT FILMS

Joseph Cash FOR A MEMORY (USA, 3 minutes)
Bea Cline LIFETIME WARRANTY (USA, 5 minutes)
Barbara I Holstein HALLOWEEN WALTZ (USA, 8 minutes)
Gabriel Harb FLEUR (Canada. 9 minutes)
Stephanie Cherng KINGDOM OF DEMONS (USA, 10 minutes)
Norikazu Oda LOVE LEFT IN RETRO (Japan, 11 minutes)
Haiba Khan I HATE BIRTHDAYS (USA, 16 minutes)
Al;anna Murray & Mika Lungulov-Klotz I WOULD NEVER FCK YOU (USA, 16 minutes)
Kienan Lyons BLONDIE BOY (USA, 21 minutes)
Rick Rocha THE METHOD (USA, 24 minutes)
Oleg Stepanov A MOTH ON A BOMB (Germany, 35 minutes)
Kofi King HIS LAND IS YOURS (USA, 45 minutes)

FEATURE FILMS

Ian Berry MARRY, FCK, KILL (USA, 82 minutes)
Ivan’s life is a disaster. He spends his days lost in his own head, bouncing between porn, target practice, and a hopeless crush on a co-worker he both craves and resents. Inside, his mind runs nonstop, full of self-doubt, bitter humor, and jabs at himself and the world around him.

Dejan Vlaisavljevic Nikt LOS ALAMOS (USA, 92 minutes)
A fugitive Air Force general kidnaps a famous movie actress.

Rod Anthony Robilliard A DEVIL IN THE CLASSROOM (USA, 96 minutes)
The film is an allegory for the current rise in Christian Nationalism in the US. The story takes place in a contemporary, rural New England high school wherein a group of cult like, so-called Christians come to believe a liberal teacher is working with Satan, and they intend t do something about it.

Yuki Kataoka HYDRANGEA DREAMS (Japan, 96 minutes)
“Hydrangea Dreams” follows Sari’s dual life, torn between conformity and liberation. By day, she excels to meet parental expectations but yearns for escape. A chance encounter sparks her hidden desire for transformation, leading her to embrace her alter ego under the night’s cloak.

Mark Oliver THE GOLDEN GHOSTS FILM (USA, 96 minutes)
In 2026, fugitive journalist Emilio Borges tells the story of Cometa 1600, a group of scientists dedicated to studying the consequences of environmental degradation on our mental health and who were forcibly disappeared due to their environmental activism.