A fictional documentary crew takes a peek behind the screams at a fading haunted attraction, where three eccentric employees compete to become the next owner… but with dysfunctional staff, acts of sabotage, and a mysterious clown terrorizing the haunt, can they even survive the season?

Writer/Director/Producer: Danica Jensen
Producer: Camila Grimaldi

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At her secluded hotel, Juliette’s orderly life unravels when a mysterious guest mirrors her every habit, revealing a tender love born of silence and coincidence.

Executive Producer: Antoine de Cazotte
Producer: Alana Duqum
Colorist: Billy Hobson

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Set at the bohemian commune where famed erotic artist Tom of Finland lived and worked, House of Leather follows two queer artists from Asia and a Trans artist from Michigan, visiting for summer residencies. As these young heroes explore their creative identities in the context of gay history, the multi-generational community rallies to protect their safe place, advancing Tom’s legacy of freedom in a modern era.

Project type: Nonfiction Feature
Director: Jamison Rockmore
Producer: Nicolas Blanco, Don Hardy, Justin Levy

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Ditto, a lonely alien living on a distant planet, stumbles upon a phone left behind by an astronaut. As he explores this mysterious device, he falls deeper in love with the idea of who he thinks this astronaut is, until he starts to lose his grip on reality.

Project type: Fiction Short
Writer: Jen Kim
Director/Co-Writer: Omer Ben Shachar
Producer: Jason Eisner
Producer: Bara Kim
Cinematographer: Kai Krause

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How I Learned to Die follows teenaged Iris' somewhat messy journey of self-discovery. When Iris learns she must undergo a high-risk surgery with a 60% chance of dying, she plunges into a whirlwind of “firsts.” Her often-humorous path takes viewers on a reflective ride through love, mortality, relationships, and the passage from adolescence to womanhood—with surprising twists along the way.

Director/Writer: Manya Glassman
Producer: Amy Kaufman
Producer: Riva Marker
Producer: Jocelyn Blockinger

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Trailblazing Chinese immigrant dancer Xin Ying prepares to take her final bow after over a decade at the Martha Graham Dance Company. With her next chapter unwritten, she’s determined to shape the legacy of American modern dance—not just as a performer, but as a leading force in its future.

Director: Jingqiu Guan
Producer: Selena Leoni

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Marooned by time and place with his refugee mother, a solitary boy refuses to believe they are alone.

Project type: Fiction Short
Writer/Producer: Mark Tenn
Director/Producer: Alvaro Donado
Cinematographer: Daniel Andrade
Production Designer: Alicia Herrera
Casting Director: Amy Devra Gossels

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A girl with an intellectual disability, who dreams of making her local rec basketball team, trains with a former basketball star who’s fallen on tough times after a family tragedy. Together, they form an unlikely friendship and have the chance to prove everybody else wrong.

Project type: Fiction Feature
Writer/Director: Christopher Baxter
Producer: Angel Williams

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When rent gets raised, Mike and his post-grad buddies make the most of their last year living together, before losing their dreams in the digital age. As reality closes in, the comfort of their aimless routines starts to unravel, forcing Mike to decide whether to finally move forward or keep coasting in the city that never quite felt like home.

Writer/Director: Ben Oliphint
Producer / Actor: Matthew Wassong
Co-Writer / Actor: Co-Writer/Actor

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Andrea Noel, a young American journalist, falls into a social media spiderweb after being assaulted on the street and receiving threats for reporting, which leads her to uncover a network of bots hiding the most intimate secrets of Mexican politics.

Director: Maria Prieto
Producer: Rafael Ley
Producer: Andrea Toca

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Like marionettes on a toy stage, the ghosts of Masao’s past haunt the countryside in this tale of a Hawai‘i family facing the imminent death of their eldest.

Project type: Fiction Feature
Director: Christopher Yogi
Producers: Sarah Kim

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A modern day poet muses on how the AIDS crisis prepared him for Covid, and opened the gates of grief for healing. His own poetry found in an old notebook unearthed during Covid, brings the AIDS crisis to life, with all its sadness and fierce friendships. Political activism and art meet in this window into the past.

Project type: Nonfiction Short
Director/Producer: Annie O'Neil
Cinematographer: Samantha Isom
Editor: Will Allen

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Desperate to sell her childhood home, Nikita, a queer South Asian woman, discovers what’s making the place “unsellable”: the ghost of her deeply religious, recently deceased mother, who will do whatever it takes to get to Heaven.

Project type: Fiction Short
Writer/Lead Actor/Producer: Rita Sengupta
Writer: Jyostna Hariharan
Director/Producer: J. Mehr Kaur
Producer: Alisha Bhowmik
Executive Producer: D'Lo
Cinematographer: Neeraj Jain

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Tired of being single, a gay man in his last week of college decides to try experimenting with women. It can’t be that hard...right?

Writer/Director: Michael Iannaconi
Producer: Matthew Wassong
Producer: Aech Hanratty

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Three worshipers are selected to endlessly pray to a mysterious plain Column inside an empty closed hall, but after years of no result, one of them stops and questions their bizarre experience. As he starts to wonder if their never-ending practice will ever pay off, their dynamics escalate and reach the point of no return. Each worshipper needs to decide whether they should leave or keep praying in hopes of finally being rewarded.

Project type: Fiction Short
Writer/Director: Konstantin Pivovar
Producer/Co-Director: Lilia Le Dieu
Director of Photography: Luísa Dalé Silva
Supervising Sound Editor: Andrey Dergachev
Composer: Juan Luqui

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Grieving parents struggle with the loss of their daughter. An elegy on grief.

Project type: Animation
Writer/Director : Will McCormack
Writer/Director: Michael Govier
Producer: Maryann Garger

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Exploring how a single technological advancement transforms purpose and possibilities, IF/THEN follows egg freezing pioneer Dr Debra Gook as she approaches retirement and leaves behind a little known, but hugely impactful legacy in reproductive medicine - meanwhile two women using Dr Gook's technology grapple with expectations of motherhood and womanhood in contemporary society.

Director: Chloe Taylor
Producer: Diana Ward
Cinematographer: Simon J. Walsh

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In 1978, while hunting for oil beneath the Yucatán gulf waters, a young geologist’s magnetometer finds something impossible —a buried scar over a hundred miles wide. What he uncovers didn’t just end the age of dinosaurs and open the door for humanity. It could happen again —and almost no one will believe him.

Producer: James Guyer
Director: Matt Shapira
Writer: Kevin Bernhardt

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When a feral boy is found after years of captivity, a forensic artist is sent to sketch a composite of his captor but she finds the only face worth drawing is his.

Writer/Director: Ethan Soo
Producer: Sofia Ribeiro
Producer: Po Wei Su
Director of Photography: Ava Benjamin Shorr
Production Designer: Vivian Gray

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A matriarch, a prostitute, and a teacher, yearning to heal their own internal wounds, embark on a perilous journey through the snowy west, to try to save a young girl from parenthood.

Writer/Director : Kylie Mungenast
Producer: Destiny Greer
Producer: Liz Davis

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