6:00PM NEWFILMMAKERS FIRST SHORT FILM PROGRAM

Pepi Ginsberg SWALLOW GRASS SNAKES (2019, 7 minutes, digital)
Liam Flynn FACE IT AGAIN (2019, 14 minutes, digital)
Joshua Nowak JEWELS (2019, 17 minutes, digital)

7:00PM NEWFILMMAKERS SECOND SHORT FILM PROGRAM

Jacinta Filiaci GIRLS (2019, 2 minutes, digital)
Giada Ghiringhelli RHYTHM OF BEING (2109, 7 minutes, digital)
Mauraya Sharma UNBINDING (2019, 13 minutes, digital)
Tom Ciaccio
LO:THE NEW ADVENTURES OF ULTIMATE MAN’S EX-GIRLFRIEND
(2019, 31 minutes, digital)

8:00PM NEWFILMMAKERS THIRD SHORT FILM PROGRAM

Christel Elsayah THE GOODWILL (2018, 9 minutes, digital)
Aaron Cohen AND THEN HE KISSED ME (2019, 14 minutes, digital)
Benoit Perrin BOOZY MICKEY (2019, 16 minutes, digital)

9:00PM NEWFILMMAKERS FEATURE FILM PRESENTATION

Arsalan Baraheni ACTORS OF GOD (2019, 76 minutes, digital)
Is god an independent filmmaker? Did he make a film with words, frames, lights and sounds? Does the director symbolize the messiah? Are we trapped in the script of god?  Actors of God is an independent film within a film genre. This arthouse Canadian film is a social, poetic and mystical film about the crucifixion of an indie filmmaker within his writing, a beaten up actor in crisis , and an actress in exile. The film is based on a few facts, fictionalized and is in between reality and illusion, turning filmmaking into a divine process, dealing with cinema and god, exile and migration, spirituality and arts.