She’s done everything right to begin her dream career of becoming an elementary school teacher, but now self-loathing college graduate Sasha is back under her parents’ roof, grappling with the transition into “adulthood” as her own doubts and the world around her make this new chapter all the more daunting.

Writer/Producer/Actress: Sarah Sawyer
Director: Brynn Mitchell
Executive Producer: Heliya Alam
Producer: David Hemphill
Co-Producer: Sarah Keyes

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Down on his luck, a failed LA musician, Cary, begrudgingly accepts a songwriting gig for a viral country-rap sensation in a last-ditch effort to chase his dreams, reuniting his old band, and making amends along the way.

Project type: Fiction Feature
Co-Writer/Co-Director/Co-Producer: Phillip Yaw Domfeh
Co-Writer/Co-Director/Co-Producer: Priya Jane Domfeh

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Young daughter and husband in tow, Gabby searches a neighborhood for her homeless and schizophrenic sister, Cat. She finds her sitting on a street corner — calm exterior and simmering, fiercely independent interior. Unsure if the situation will escalate, and unsettled by what her daughter might witness, Gabby softly strives to convince Cat to seek safety.

Writer/Director/Producer/Actress: Christina Mauro
Producer: Dawn K. Bey
Director of Photography: Mihika Das

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Three childhood best friends reunite for a camping trip on the island where they went every summer as children, throwing into stark relief how much their lives have diverged.

Project type: Fiction Short
Director: Tyler Rabinowitz
Writer/Actor: Sam Digiovanni
Producer: Jeremy Truong, Luca Piccin

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A young boy joins his girlfriend on vacation, but finds he is more drawn to her father, who is blind.

Writer/Director: Jacob LaMendola
Executive Producer: Abby Davis
Producer: David Duque Estrada, David Broad

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As the U.S. descends into chaos, a distraught man wanted by authorities shares a moment aboard a livestock train with the young Latina woman tasked with smuggling him to freedom across the Mexican border.

Writer/Director: Joe Bonito
Executive Producer: Jessica Olthof
Editor: Craig Dewey

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Lou believes she’s meant for the stars—raised on movies and daydreams—but instead, is stuck in arrested development with her overbearing mother. When the photographer next door offers her a chance at love and escape, she learns that this kind of attention comes at a price—and that the cost may be out of her budget.

Writer/Director/Producer: Salome Sowa
Executive Producer: W. Ian Ross
Director of Photography: Riede Dervay

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Two Jewish sisters must reconcile their clashing lifestyles on the day their father wakes up from a coma.

Writer/Director: Dylan Silver
Producer: Jennifer Apple
Producer: David Grove Churchill Viste
 

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A 9-year-old Korean girl seeks to rebuild a sense of community and mend her broken heart, after moving to California without her father.

Project type: Fiction Short
Writer/Director: Kimberly Han
Producer: Diana Ward
Producer: Angela Wu
Producer: DJ Jiang
Director of Photography: Bongani Mlambo
Editor: Autumn Dea

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Set against the backdrop of an LA house party, little white lies follows a young dreamer who was recently manipulated into an unwanted sexual encounter with her crush. To cope with the abuse, she seeks to define and solidify their relationship.

Project type: Fiction Short
Co-Writer/Director: Erin Brown Thomas
Co-Writer/Lead Actress: Ciarra Krohne
Producer: Olivia Haller, Elle Shaw
Producer/Cinematographer: Beth Napoli

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Sparks fly when Samia meets Charlie…but their anxieties, who are somehow able to communicate with each other, aren’t sold on this coupling just yet.

Project type: Fiction Short
Writer/Director: Jessica Sherif
Producer: Jessica Carlson

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The strength of twin brothers Peter and Paul’s relationship is tested in the wake of a secretive right of passage. Based on lived experiences, this haunting coming of age story follows young Peter precariously navigating the intricacies of a hyper-masculine environment, and enduring the devastating fallout from a life-changing event. Writer/Director: Bill Chen
Producer: Margaret Montavon
Producer: Elizabeth Raia
Composer: Allan X. Chen
Intimacy Coordinator: Dr. Èmil Haarhof

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Children of Ukraine reveals the war crime of Russia's systematic deportation of 19,546 Ukrainian children through verité testimony, poetic observation, and hand-drawn animation, preserving memory while serving as legal evidence.

Director/Producer: Giancarlo Bianchi
Director/Producer: Rodrigo Couvert
Cinematographer: Iñaki Gorraiz

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Basma, a drama therapist working in Jordan, is torn between two difficult choices: getting married to the man she loves or pursuing her dream of going back to her hometown of Gaza during the war.

Project type: Fiction Feature
Director/Producer: Asma Bseiso

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K.L. Cleeton is a professional poker player born with Spinal Muscular Atrophy, type 1, which paralyzed him from the neck down since he was an infant. In Chip and a Chair, we follow K.L. as he and his family attempt to shift society’s perspective on people with complex health issues and disabilities.

Directors: Carlo Orecchia, Ryan Leng
Producer: April Shih
Executive Producer: Owais Ahmed

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In the aftermath of their mom’s death, siblings Chloe and Max grieve in very different ways; Max strives to be the perfect son while Chloe numbs her pain with drugs, launching the first of many spirals of addiction she will face in life.

Writer/Director: Vince Dixon
Producer: Victoria Britton

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A Muslim teen tries to help a man bumming cigarettes outside a gas station, but his troubles might prove beyond her capacity.

Project type: Fiction Short
Writer/Director: Sarah Mokh
Producer: Amanda Pinto
Producer: Elaine Tunnat

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La Clef Revival is a collective of activists, filmmakers and artists who have been fighting for the past 5 years to save a landmark, community-run cinema in the heart of Paris: La Clef.

Project type: Organization
"Commons" Expert: Eric Arrivé
French Screenwriter/Director: Céline Sciamma
Member of Cinema Nova (Brussels): Laurent Tenzer
Operator of Reflet Médicis (Paris): Jean-Marc Zekri

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Born into poverty in Panama, Cirilo McSween defies the systemic racism of Jim Crow America to pursue the American Dream. As an entrepreneur and civil rights activist, he battles prejudice and inequality to become a transformative figure in the histories of Panama and Chicago, inspiring generations across the Americas.

Project type: Nonfiction Feature
Director/Producer: Justin O. Cooper

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A rogue teacher turned filmmaker sets out on a global investigation into the corporate dismantling of public education—uncovering how billionaires, far-right ideologues, and privatization zealots are sabotaging democracy by targeting institutions of learning.

Writer/Director/Producer: Joseph Erikson
Producers: Kurt Engfehr, BJ Maier

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