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SLOT A
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Finding Courage
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Category
Documentary / Feature / Drama
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Country
France
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Director
Kay Rubacek
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Duration
81 min
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Synopsis
A former journalist for the Chinese Communist Party (YIFEI WANG), living in exile in San Francisco, struggles to settle into life in America while working to heal her family’s wounds from their tragic past. She is seeking justice for the murder of her sister at the hands of the Chinese authorities
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Kold
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Category
Short Feature Film
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Country
Denmark
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Director
Marley Hasselbach
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Duration
18 min
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Synopsis
Louise has spent her live struggling with her hereditary heart condition, being coddled by everyone around her. But when she spots Magnus swimming naked in the Copenhagen canals mid-winter, she finally finds someone who challenges her to push her boundaries.
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On / Off
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Category
Animation Short
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Country
Argentina
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Director
Nicolas P. Villarreal
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Duration
7 min
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Synopsis
Endless distractions threaten to destroy creativity.
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SLOT B
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Still Stoked
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Category
Documentary Film / Sport
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Country
UK
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Director
Paul Surety
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Duration
56 min
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Synopsis
Still Stoked follows Sean Goff a 55 -year-old a British skateboard legend who pushes his ageing body beyond its limits to compete in one last skate competition.
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This and That
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Category
Short Feature Film / Drama
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Country
USA
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Director
Katie Garibaldi
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Duration
22 min
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Synopsis
In an effort to free herself from writer's block, an aspiring screenwriter with big dreams decides to share her truth despite doubts, all while navigating challenging life changes brought on by divorce.
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Being A Dog
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Category
Animation Short / Student / Fantasy
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Country
Sweden
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Director
Felix Swahn
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Duration
8 min
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Synopsis
After meeting Ginger Tim becomes a dog again. It’s good to be a human being but it’s good being a dog sometimes too.
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SLOT C
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Tipping Point
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Category
Documentary Film / Social Justice
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Country
USA
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Director
Jon Meyer
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Duration
88 min
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Synopsis
In the summer of 2020, amid a global pandemic and political unrest, demonstrations erupted worldwide following the murder of George Floyd. Portland became the focus of media attention for its intense, prolonged demonstrations against systemic racism and police brutality.
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Queer Fish in God's Waiting Room
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Category
Short Feature Film / Comedy
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Country
USA
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Director
Adrian Pasdar
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Duration
11 min
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Synopsis
Two Brothers. One Landlady. Zero Common Sense.
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Baby Song by Wicked Kiss
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Category
Music Video
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Country
USA
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Director
Luke Holwerda
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Duration
8 min
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Synopsis
Rock, Indie, pop
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SLOT D
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Noise
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Category
Feature Film / Drama
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Country
USA
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Director
Joseph Kevin Coles, Jack LeGoff
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Duration
101 min
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Synopsis
Musically gifted, Michael, Todd, Ned, decide to form a band but must deal with the trauma that has been haunting them throughout their young lives.
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Respectable Man
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Category
Short Feature Film
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Country
USA
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Director
Surender Singh
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Duration
11 min
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Synopsis
A chance meeting between two people from different backgrounds and with little in common, proves that you can't judge a book by its cover.
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SLOT E
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Muco: Contradiction Within Tradition
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Category
Documentary / Feature
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Country
Brazil
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Director
Oberom Silva
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Duration
110 min
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Synopsis
Two yoga-practicing brothers from Brazil, who live with the environmental impacts of the dairy industry in a place full of natural springs, travel to India to better understand the spiritual reasons for consuming dairy products.
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un barco para mi mamá
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Category
Student / Doc
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Country
USA
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Director
Susana Canales Barrón
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Duration
7 min
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Synopsis
A mother recounts her two border crossings.
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SLOT F
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Met Mes (18+)
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Category
LGBT Feature / Comedy-Drama
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Country
Netherlands
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Director
Sam de Jong
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Duration
78 min
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Synopsis
*Nudity* *Sexual Content* When a successful TV personality is robbed of her new video camera, she exaggerates the story to get the most out of her insurance.
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Oh, Little Spark!
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Category
Student / Short Feature / Drama
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Country
UK
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Director
Charlie Lyon Budden
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Duration
18 min
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Synopsis
During a weekend together, a grandson's obsession with his Polish grandmother's wartime memories causes a rift in their relationship as a tragic secret is revealed
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Villain Music Video
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Category
Music Video
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Country
USA
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Director
Rebecca Maddalo
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Duration
4 min
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Synopsis
Fantasy
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SLOT G
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ELEMENTAL, reimagining our relationship with wildfire
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Category
Documentary Film / Nature
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Country
USA
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Director
Trip Jennings
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Duration
82 min
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Synopsis
As fire seasons grow longer, more destructive and more deadly, it is clear that our approach to reducing wildfire risk is failing.
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Dreamboy
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Category
Short Feature Film / Romance-Drama
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Country
USA
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Director
Michael Martin
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Duration
11 min
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Synopsis
After over a decade of unsuccessfully trying to move on from her ex-boyfriend, Molly decides to confront her ex in person and insist he get out of her dreams.
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The Moon Followed Me To Falmouth
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Category
Music Video / Animation
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Country
USA
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Director
Joël Gibbs
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Duration
4 min
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Synopsis
A seafarer sings the story of how he, as a young man, left Falmouth looking for a new life on the High Seas. During his voyage, he recounts how the moon began to follow him, watching his every move.
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SLOT H
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The Mirage
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Category
Documentary / Feature / Adventure
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Country
USA
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Director
Keith Ladzinski
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Duration
60 min
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Synopsis
50 miles a day for 50 consecutive days. Ultra runner, Timothy Olson, aims to break the fastest known time on the Pacific Crest Trail. Braving record high temperatures and impending wildfires
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Forest Giants
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Category
Short Feature Film / Comedy-Drama
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Country
USA
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Director
Augusta Mariano
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Duration
21 min
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Synopsis
In the early days of the internet a brother and sister attempt to mend their strained relationship as they venture into the woods to film a hoax video.
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Messengers
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Category
Student Short Doc / Mental Health
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Country
USA
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Director
Megan Bergeron
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Duration
20 min
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Synopsis
Messengers is about how there are a lack of mental health counselors in California Public Schools and around the country
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SLOT I
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Everything Will Be Fine In The End (18+)
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Category
Feature Film / Drama
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Country
USA
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Director
Joseph Bartone
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Duration
97 min
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Synopsis
*Nudity* *Sexual Content* Buzz, a small-time drug dealer & self-professed private investigator steals George’s dog that she stole from Tom at a dog park. Plan backfires when a robbery goes horribly wrong.
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Nomad - A Lifer's Journey Through California prisons
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Category
Short Doc Film / Prisons
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Country
USA
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Director
Crystal Alcantara Cebedo
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Duration
30 min
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Synopsis
Damon Cooke's fight for parole in a criminal justice system that will go to great lengths to keep inmates inside. He serves a life sentence at Solano State Prison for an attempted murder conviction.
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SLOT J
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Ximei
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Category
Documentary Film / Medical Injustice
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Country
China
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Director
Andrew Cohen, Gaylen Ross
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Duration
102 min
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Synopsis
In the late 1990s, the Chinese government encouraged impoverished villagers to sell their blood plasma for money. Ximei is a young peasant woman from rural China's Henan Province who contracted AIDS
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bébé
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Category
Short / Experimental Feature
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Country
USA
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Director
Stephen French
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Duration
13 min
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Synopsis
Two ladies' isolation interferes with reality.
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SLOT K
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Preparation Z
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Category
Feature Film / Comedy
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Country
USA
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Director
Derrek Brajkovich-Horn
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Duration
95 min
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Synopsis
A reluctant zombie prepper must fight off a self proclaimed survivalist to finally accept his role as team captain in order to bring his team of unknowing misfits together.
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Dhaulagiri
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Category
Documentary Film / Adventure
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Country
USA
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Director
Tommy Joyce
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Duration
40 min
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Synopsis
An Ecuadorian mountaineer balances friendship, love, and luck in his quest to climb a new route on one of the tallest and most dangerous mountains in the world.
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SLOT L
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The Doldrums
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Category
Feature Film / Coming-of-Age
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Country
USA
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Director
Leonardo Nussenzveig
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Duration
92 min
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Synopsis
The Doldrums is a not-coming-of-age movie that centers around three characters - Alec, Matt, and Cole.
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Graniterock's Green Journey
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Category
Short Doc Film / Environment
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Country
USA
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Director
Robert Craig Ellenwood
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Duration
27 min
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Synopsis
122-year-old mining and construction company is energy intensive. A major shift happening in making the construction industry a sustainable, environmentally friendly industry.
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SLOT M
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Living Years
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Category
Short Doc Film
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Country
USA
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Director
Brenda Gillis
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Duration
38 min
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Synopsis
Gale Williams had a happy, normal childhood in Santa Monica California. Then, in 1956, on the eve of his 18th birthday he crashed his car in a remote area of California and became a quadriplegic.
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Losers of Eden
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Category
Feature Film / Drama / Action / Comedy
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Country
USA
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Director
Kevin Briot
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Duration
92 min
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Synopsis
3 story lines, each a different genre: drama, action, comedy. As a young teenager plots her escape from a run-down motel, three killers-for-hire hunt for their rightful reward after an assignment.
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SLOT N
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Faggots (18+)
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Category
LGBT / Experimental Feature
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Country
Switzerland
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Director
Dominik Wojciech Krawiecki, Patrycja Planik
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Duration
72 min
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Synopsis
*Nudity* *Sexual Content* The mysterious virus 'Exit 884' has decimated the human population and, for reasons unknown to science, has spared the lives of homosexual men only.
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SLOT O
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For Vegas
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Category
Documentary Film
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Country
USA
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Director
Robin Greenspun
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Duration
43 min
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Synopsis
Accused of referencing "transient lust & fleeting pleasure" in his novel, USING LIFE, Egyption writer Ahmed Naji was sentenced to 2 years in prison. Years later, he became a Fellow at the University of Nevada, Las Vegas - An exiled writer in a new country, a new city and a new reality.
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Beyond Homeless: Finding Hope
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Category
Documentary Film
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Country
USA
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Director
Sean Sciavolin
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Duration
38 min
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Synopsis
An exploration of what’s driving the homelessness crisis in California, with a focus on San Francisco, and an in-depth study of an alternative approach that has reversed what had been a growing crisis in San Antonio, Texas.
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SLOT P
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The Family Planner
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Category
Short Feature Film
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Country
USA
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Director
Dan Pavlik
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Duration
33 min
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Synopsis
When a young couple finds an old family scrapbook, the wife is spooked but the husband is intrigued when they see it contains information about their marriage that extends INTO THE FUTURE.
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Epic Bill
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Category
Documentary Film / Extreme Adventure
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Country
Argentina
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Director
Quinnolyn Benson-Yates
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Duration
93 min
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Synopsis
A self-made millionaire turned destitute divorcee, Bill Bradley turned to the world of extreme endurance racing. After breaking a world record, running rim to rim on the Grand Canyon 7 times, now almost 60, he returns for his 9th attempt at Arrowhead 135, one of the toughest cold-weather endurance races in the world.
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SLOT Q
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Wedding 93
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Category
Feature Film / Horror
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Country
Cambodia
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Director
Paul Zagaris
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Duration
70 min
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Synopsis
In 1993 a bizarre incident took place during a Cambodian wedding. Bol, falls in love with Rah, whose reaction to the arranged marriage unfolds in a series of frightening incidents that leave everyone believing she must be possessed.
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House of the Unholy
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Category
Short Feature / Horror / Sci-Fi
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Country
Thailand
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Director
Daniel Merlot
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Duration
15 min
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Synopsis
A blood thirsty Princess hunts down the last of the Indigo Elders tribe. She seeks a magical elixir in his heart that will grant her the powers to reign over the Kingdom for an Eternity.
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SLOT R
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AWARDS
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Category
Awards
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Country
USA
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Director
Ronald Deazy Fuller
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Duration
45 min
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Synopsis
GGIFF 2022 Awards with performances
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