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CHRISTMAS IN JULY

Abby Lloyd ELVES ON THE EDGE (USA, 12 minutes)
Sammy Smedley X-MAS ANONYMOUS (USA, 18 minutes)

Sara Geidlinger PLAYTIME: THE MOVIE (Canada, 60 minutes)
A beloved childhood toy can spark joy in even the most grown-up grownups.

ANIMATION

Jeremiah Dickey SURGUNLIK (EXILE) (USA, 3 minutes)
Bruce Lazarus ROBOT PARADE (USA, 3 minutes)
Sijia Zheng CAT CHASER (USA, 5 minutes)
Peter Meng THE LOST PARK (USA, 6 minutes)

YOUNGFILMMAKERS

Riley A. Heath MI IN ORBIT: RECEIVED (USA, 1 minute)
Kailey Morand HADLEY’S HOME (USA, 13 minutes)

ALTFEST

Jason Lee Courson SEEKING… (USA, 40 minutes)
Becoming a “chosen family” can have it’s growing pains. “Broad City” meets “New Girl” and “Will and Grace” with a sprinkling of Kimmy Schmidt, “Seeking…” is a show about three roommates (2 gay men, 1 straight man) all from different backgrounds, learning to cohabitate and navigate love and life in the big city.

SHORT FILM

Glenda Pezuela MOOD (USA, 4 minutes)
Stig Weymss INSUFFERABLE (Australia, 12 minutes)
Jim Kaplan CLARA IS AWAKE (USA, 12 minutes)
Miaochin Zhang & Arumy Quijano HOME VIDEO (USA, 12 minutes)
Patricia Salier SPECIAL ARRANGEMENTS (USA, 13 minutes)
Jack Szarabajka RUNAWAYS (USA, 15 minutes)
Houcem Slouli CONDITIONAL DESIRES (Tunisia, 15 minutes)
Matthew Daniel EXHIBIT A (USA, 16 minutes)
Deniz Cengiz ESCAPISM (Turkey, 16 minutes)
Juan Ballesteros THE REFLECTION OF THE CRANES (Venezuela, 20 minutes)
Amanda Pohan ALEXA ECHOES (USA, 30 minutes)
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GDYNIA FILM SCHOOL

Wojciech Pokorski SAUDADE (Poland, 17 minutes)
In the face of a looming trauma a nine-year-old girl brings her family together by holding Christmas Eve in the middle of the summer. Saudade; a happy memory that causes pain, “the love that remains”.

Lulu Pomorova EVERYTHING FOR MY FRIEND (Poland, 25 minutes)
Ania and her best friend Kasia have fallen out with each other. After Kasia destroys in frustration her diploma works, Ania decides to apologize to her friend. It turns out, however, that there is more to Kasia’s behaviour than just their fight. How far can Ania go in the name of their friendship?

Mikołaj Janik THE MANDALA (26 minutes, Poland)
Łucja tries to restore her son’s health and wash away her guilt for the events of the past.
The harder she tries, the thinner the lines between motherhood and violence, reality and nightmare become.

Maxim Bujnicki ANASTASYA’S DIARY (21 minutes, Poland)
The story of the Belarusian artist Anastasia Rydlevska and her husband Alexey, who fled their home country from political repression, face the inconvenience of emigration, but despite everything, they keep their love and their great dream.

FEATURE

IMPOSSIBLE DECISION (USA, 61 minutes)
Realizing there is no one to care for his autistic son after he’s gone, a dying father must decide whether or not to put his son’s life in the hands of a billionaire scientist specializing in artificial intelligence.