Sunflower Sings
Emma Selinski | United States | 2016 | 10 m 26 s Facebook | Twitter A physically and emotionally exhausted single mother is trapped in a work obsessed world. The growth of a giant magical sunflower will show her the path to joy. Cast Lily Brown
The Betrayal
Susan Young | United Kingdom | 2015 | 5 m 40 s A traumatised woman trusts her psychiatrist, but becomes imprisoned in his prescriptive regime of psychological manipulation. Fragments of medical records interwoven with pulsing pills form a disorienting montage depicting the enmeshed relationship between patient and doctor. At its dark heart, The Betrayal is a… Read more »
Uhm How to Say
Michele Grimaud | France | 2016 | 10 m 12 s French with English Subtitles When parents must address questions about sex with their kids, everything becomes very complex and it’s every man for himself!
Lulu And Josie
Nancy Bannon | United States | 2015 | 13 m 45 s Facebook | Twitter An exhausted young mom on the run from an abusive home life desperately seeks a quiet moment to process all that’s happening but parenting an active, watchful toddler along the way means she needs to stay on her game. Cast Erin… Read more »
Allhallowtide
Tia Salisbury | United Kingdom | 2016 | 9 m 15 s It’s an important night for Molly, but her feckless housemate Dan has totally forgotten. She’s going to do everything in her power to remind him, but that’s not easy when you’ve been dead for 180 years and can’t talk! Cast Ewan Black
Soul Fish
Canada | 2016 | 10 m 10 s Facebook Soul Fish is a lightly animated mythic story about a puffer fish who leaves the “fish-eat-fish” world on a quest for his soul.
Mwah
Sara Soheili | Islamic Republic of Iran | 2017 | 12:14 Persian with English Subtitles Facebook | Twitter Five pregnant women sit in their doctor’s waiting room, their unborn babies inside of them carry on conversations about their life inside their mommy’s belly and even about their futures outside of the womb…. but will they all… Read more »
I Am Still Here
Mischa Marcus | United States | 2016 | 01:43:21 Facebook | Twitter I AM STILL HERE is the story of 10-year old Layla, who was stolen from her family and thrown into America’s child sex industry. Stories of courage drawn from interviews with trafficking survivors are the foundation for the fictionalized account of Layla’s journey… Read more »
Kapunka
Tal Greenberg | Israel | 2015 | 12:00 English, Hebrew with English Subtitles When Israeli law pushes Shmulik’s back to the wall, he decides to take matters into his own hands. What he can’t foresee is the comical farce his life will become when everything turns topsy-turvy. Cast Shai Avivi Sun Intusap Avraham Shalom Levy… Read more »
Laymun
Catherine Prowse, Hannah Quinn | United Kingdom | 2017 | 4:42 The story of a gardener in a Middle Eastern war zone, fighting the destruction around her with life-giving plants Cast Catherine Prowse Hannah Quinn