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SLOT A

SCREENING

Twentieth Century Revenants

Category
Feature Film | Student
Country
USA
Director
Juaquin Sebastian Rosales
Duration
132 min
Synopsis
Bela Belara is joined by her witchcraft practicing best friend and a member of a vampire cult in helping her stop the spread of the bloodsucker disease.

Kassio Project - SAPPHIRE

Category
Music Video | Sci-Fi | Anime
Country
USA
Director
Christopher Salinas
Duration
5 min
Synopsis
Pluto, has rediscovered the Sapphire Bank, a massive archive of seemingly eternal age and with an endless wealth of wisdom and knowledge.

SLOT B

SCREENING

Nothing to See Here: Watts

Category
Documentary
Country
USA
Director
Michael Soenen
Duration
91 min
Synopsis
Everything was at stake: Bloods sat with Crips, police with victims, clergy with a mother beaten by the gangs.

Meat Wagon's Coming Down

Category
Music Video
Country
USA
Director
Domingo Corral
Duration
8 min
Synopsis
On a busy Friday night on East 14th Street in Oakland, the “meat wagon” rolls through the streets as paramedics respond to another round of violence.

The Bone Grinder

Category
Short | Horror | LGBT
Country
USA
Director
Whitman Johnson
Duration
14 min
Synopsis
Whitman and Jacob, straight and gay best friends, learn about the Bone Grinder, a masked killer who seduces men, blows their minds with amazing love making, and then murders them seven days later.

SLOT C

SCREENING

TACHELES, A Berlin Story

Category
Documentary | Feature
Country
Switzerland
Director
Andy Cohen
Duration
80 min
Synopsis
After the wall falls, abandoned buildings in the former East Berlin are up for grabs.

Killing Time

Category
Student | Horror | Short
Country
New Zealand
Director
Karl Fleet
Duration
13 min
Synopsis
When a zombie apocalypse hits, Jessie and Mike finally confess their love, only for Jessie to be bitten while saving Mike's life.

SLOT D

SCREENING

74th Avenue Mi Casa Series 1

Category
Anime | Short | Exp
Country
USA
Director
Domingo Corral
Duration
30 min
Synopsis
Boy grows up walking the block alone from kindergarten onward, watching friends vanish—some into gangs, others onto a plane with Jim Jones who never come home.

74th Avenue Mi Casa Series 2

Category
Anime | Short | Exp
Country
USA
Director
Domingo Corral
Duration
25 min
Synopsis
Series 2 is the awakening that happens in place. The high ground was never the destination.

Logos

Category
Horror | Sci-Fi
Country
USA
Director
Dante Dorian
Duration
23 min
Synopsis
Logos follows a brilliant quantum researcher named Lucius, who achieves a massive breakthrough using a 2,000-qubit machine to decode the true nature of intelligence. In doing so, he manifests an artificial intelligence program known as "Adam" into a physical, human form.

SLOT E

SCREENING

Chiligods Highlight Zone

Category
Documentary
Country
USA
Director
Julio Martinez
Duration
64 min
Synopsis
This Mockumentary is a (Saturday Night Life) not ready for primetime players influenced satire and parody.

JC Brattons Dollhouse

Category
Short | Horror | Thriller
Country
USA
Director
Ken Zheng, Livi Zheng
Duration
19 min
Synopsis
In the wake of a mysterious family death, a couple’s night of mourning is interrupted by a strange delivery containing an antique dollhouse and a terrifying tale about its lone occupant.

Fretail

Category
Doc Short | Exp
Country
USA
Director
David C Jones, Isis Diaz
Duration
13 min
Synopsis
Fretail is an observational film that tells the story of The Fretail Store, a first of its kind retail store in a mall where everything is free.

SLOT F

SCREENING

My Movie Starring Paul Dano

Category
Feature Film
Country
USA
Director
Joe Bartone
Duration
93 min
Synopsis
The famous actor comes to Herman in a dream, convincing him to make his feature "Bear Naked Amazonians from Mars."

BRIDGE - My Little Friends

Category
Anime | Short
Country
Japan
Director
Kazuyuki Ishihara
Duration
10 min
Synopsis
"I'll bring Shiro to you.I promise!" Jin, the cat, made this promise to Mugi, who is deeply sad about losing her beloved dog, Shiro.

SLOT G

SCREENING

Honeymoonay Namah

Category
Feature Film
Country
India
Director
Nishant Bhardwaj
Duration
117 min
Synopsis
Honeymoonay Namah is a satirical film through which an attempt has been made to show the political selfishness spread in our society and the naivety and innocence of the people through the medium of humor.

The Secret Song of Odysseus

Category
Anime | Short | Exp
Country
USA
Director
Domingo Corral
Duration
9 min
Synopsis
In the wine-dark silence of an uncharted sea, Odysseus—the ancient witness, son of pain—stands alone on an island no map has ever blessed.

SLOT H

SCREENING

Shanaya's Path

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Category
LGBT Feature / Documentary
Country
Netherlands
Director
Frank Röhrig
Duration
54 min
Synopsis

Onru

Category
Short Feature
Country
USA
Director
Timothy Kiley
Duration
14 min
Synopsis
Onru is the story of a father and daughter trying to survive after an apocalyptic event. Can this father keep his daughter safe? After the world as we know it ends… love lasts forever.

Provenance

Category
Short | Student | Thr | Sci-Fi
Country
USA
Director
Manuel Jovan Serrano
Duration
11 min
Synopsis
Provenance is a dystopian sci-fi thriller following Subject #49, a prisoner forced into brutal experiments.

SLOT I

SCREENING

Cold Embrance

Category
Documentary
Country
Czechia
Director
Vojta Petřina
Duration
60 min
Synopsis
An extraordinary story of courage, pain, and the will to push past one’s limits.

She Walks Me

Category
Anime | Short | Exp
Country
USA
Director
Domingo Corral
Duration
19 min
Synopsis
She Walks Me is an 18-minute portrait of Jude, a ninety-pound black dog who believes her person is the pet.

Forever After

Category
Student | Short
Country
USA
Director
Miles Smith Jr.
Duration
11 min
Synopsis
Ricardo “Matthew” suffers from Isa “Crystal” reminders playing back in his memories and the guilt from Crystal’s suicide.

SLOT J

SCREENING

Intoxicated Rain

Category
Feature | Exp
Country
USA
Director
Miles ONeil
Duration
87 min
Synopsis
Along the Western shores of Lake Michigan, just north of Milwaukee, lies the small town of Port Washington, Wisconsin where two old fishermen recover the curious isolated remains of a human face.

Little Mother Lies

Category
Short Feature
Country
USA
Director
Amanda Deering Jones
Duration
14 min
Synopsis
While Dorie and her sister look for common ground over bowls of borscht, her son fights withdrawals and plans a stealthy escape.

San Juditas en Fruitvale

Category
Music Video
Country
USA
Director
Domingo Corral
Duration
4 min
Synopsis
On the night of Día de los Muertos, International Boulevard is strung with papel picado, marigolds, and candles.

SLOT K

SCREENING

The Game of Song

Category
Feature | Exp
Country
USA | India
Director
Venu Nakshathram
Duration
80 min
Synopsis
"The Game Of Song" is a magical realism musical drama set in a quiet Indian village where oil lamps mysteriously float toward a sacred hill each night.

Hot Toddy

Category
Music Video | Short
Country
USA
Director
Emma Huibregtse
Duration
13 min
Synopsis
Hot Toddy is the music video from composer Stephen Gaboury’s forthcoming album, American Bar, a compilation of original music from Ballets with a Twist’s signature production, Cocktail Hour: The Show.

The Master

Category
Short Documentary
Country
Russia
Director
Darya Virova
Duration
23 min
Synopsis