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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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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A heartbroken woman stows away to her estranged lover's lake house where she becomes entangled with a teenage girl.

Project type: Fiction Feature
Director: Lara Jean Gallagher
Producers: Davis Priestley, Aimee Lynn Barneburg

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A son struggling with his sexuality finally comes out as his mother, struggling with Alzheimer’s, is pulled in.

Director/Writer/Producer: Casey Baker
Producer: Andrew Carlberg

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After her father’s Alzheimer’s diagnosis, a straitlaced college transfer comes of age in the wild chaos of a legendary student commune. Her identity wavers when she volunteers as “virgin sacrifice” for her co-op’s black mass party and her “Friend of Christian Camp Past” witnesses.

Project type: Fiction Short
Creator/Writer/Lead: Zoë Smurr
Director: Jocelyn Cooper

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7-year-old Swetha, the child of Indian immigrants, is harassed at school by classmate Bobby and his henchmen for using coconut oil in her hair. Swetha's mother, Supriya, watches her daughter grow increasingly withdrawn and agrees to end the oiling to help her daughter assimilate. At the cost of her heritage, Swetha, finally free to be American, makes a friend only to learn that her and her classmates might not be as different as she thought.

Project type: Fiction Short
Writer/Director/Producer: Ayesha Agarwal
Producer: Madison Stewart
Producer: Kavin Kapoor

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Coerced: How the banks failed domestic violence survivors tells the story of the economic abuse domestic violence survivors face daily and the plight to pass NYS’s first coerced debt bill.

Project type: Nonfiction Short
Director/Producer: blair doroshwalther
Animator: Kelly Gallagher

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On the Fourth of July, a rookie pyrotechnician assembles a ragtag team to transport a truckload of highly volatile, illegal fireworks down the Texas coast without getting caught or killed.

Project type: Fiction Feature
Co-Writer/Director: Drew Saplin
Co-Writer/Producer: Samantha Bennett
Producer: Morgan Pollitt, Francis Román, Via Bia

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A woman travels to a foggy coastal house to care for her estranged mother on the edge of death, and disturbing events begin to occur in her sleep.

Project type: Fiction Short
Director/Co-Writer: Sam Stone
Production Designer/Co-Writer: Sophie Weir
Producer: Paul Lee

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Empowered educators at Comanche Academy lead a transformative journey, healing their community from the traumas of Indian Boarding School and instilling a linguistic and cultural revival in this poignant documentary.

Project type: Nonfiction Feature
Producer: Kathryn Boyd Batstone
Director of Photography: Celine Layous

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The night before musician Buddy Kidd launches his comeback tour alongside his second born rockstar daughter, she slips into a diabetic coma, putting life and tour on hold, leaving the family to contend with grief, uncertainty, and the true meaning of a comeback.

Writer/Director/Producer/Actor: Kate Nowlin
Producer: Llewellyn Wells

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Companion of the Setting Sun, is a short hyperrealist documentary that explores the transformation of lake Xochimilco and survival of the Axolotl population. We are immersed into the daily lives of the chinamperos, examining the difficulties of maintaining their wetland farms while co-existing with the last remaining wild Axolotls.

Director: Isabela Zawistowska
Producer: Chamberlain Staub

Executive Producers: Amani King, Dalia Burde

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