The Fixer Upper
Director - Kathleen Quinlan, Bruce Abbott
California
11 min.

Annie enlists the help of her friend, Faith, to convert her Airstream into an Airbnb and her ranch into a wedding venue. With their first guests arriving soon, they must prepare for a wedding and convince Annie's 30-year-old son, Jimbo, who has been living in the trailer since his divorce, to move out and move on with his life.

Intergalactic Pizzaboy
Director - Jerry S Gonzalez
10 min.
Illinois

An interplanetary pizza boy deals with space pirates and space customer service

MANUEL
Director - Mario d'Anna, Stefano Mangoni
Italy
19 min.

In 1943, a Jewish family hides from the nazi roundups. Adam, a 10-year-old boy, following a strange dream, starts a mysterious countdown.

Period Drama
Director - Anushka Tina Nair, Lauryn Anthony
2 min.
Illinois

In Victorian-era England, highly precocious and imaginative eleven-year-old Georgiana Crimsworth is up late enjoying a good book. She suddenly experiences cramps and finds blood on her sheets. Not having received the talk yet, she doesn’t understand that this is her first period, and she thinks she’s dying. Her imagination runs amok as she searches for answers among sins and deadly disease, and fears the worst for what this means for herself and for her family.

What If I Fail
Director - Kiran Nagdev
India
11 min.

“What is the meaning of life? How can everyone be so happy all the time? Why do I feel this constant void inside me?”- these are the questions that haunt our protagonist throughout the film. At times even breathing seems like a struggle to her, she knows she needs help but fails to ask for it. As her mind turns into a deep dark sink hole, infested with suicidal thoughts, she decides to give in but life offers her an alternative.

Avoesis
Director Mykhailo Bogdanov
10 min.
Illinois

A thought-provoking exploration of natural silence and human existence within it.

Slay it, Son!
Director - Lucas Higgins
4 min.
Canada

A father and son travel across a perilous landscape in order to defeat a looming beast.

Ghosted
Director - Sam Milman, Peter Vass
16 min.
California

A widower is encouraged by his best friend to download some dating apps and "get back out there" after his wife dies. The only thing is his first match is with his deceased wife.

Merry Big Mess
Director - Sacha Gosselin, Ambre Bohin, Timothé ballan, Amaury Emond, Hugo Joron, Arthur Morle, Antoine Tomasi, Clémence Van Gout
7 min.
France

On christmas night, Santa claus makes his round as usual. But this night, he has to face an unusual household ; one that does not seem to be waiting for any gifts.

Stem to Stone: A Wreath's Journey
Director - Brian Burdett
7 min.
Washington D.C.

Each December, volunteers lay 250,000 wreaths at Arlington National Cemetery, one on every veteran’s grave. The sight is breathtaking and iconic. Wreaths Across America urges Americans to Remember, Honor and Teach for those who have served our country and paid the ultimate price. Wreaths are placed at more than 2,500 locations in all 50 U.S. states, at sea and abroad.

Many of these wreaths are made from trees that bear the name of a fallen service member. The Remembrance Tree Program of Wreaths Across America is another way that loved ones can help create a living legacy for the fallen.

Come along for the poignant and patriotic trip, from a tree farm in Northern Maine to our nation’s capital. Witness this remarkable journey from stem to stone, through the eyes of trucker and Gold Star father J.D. Walker.

The Funeral Photographer
Director - Ashley Thompson
17 min.
Michighan

When Julie arrives at a funeral home for a gig, she’s told by the attendant that she must photograph everyone in attendance and be done by 11:30.

Shortly after she agrees to do her best, two suspicious men enter. Julie suspects something is not quite right, and she’s determined to get to the bottom of it.

What are these two men up to? Who are they waiting for? What is the attendant hiding? Most importantly… why was she hired?

This Feels Right
Director - Jonathan Thomas Coleman
9 min.
New York

A bickering couple get lost on a dead-end road and stumble into a horrifying time loop that will change their lives forever. A comedy.

Undecided
Director - Betty Allen, Andy Woodward
Illinois
10 min.

Three women’s different perspectives on motherhood collide in a workplace bathroom while one waits to discover whether she is pregnant.

Monarch Sombrero
Director - Lisa Murray
1 min.
Canada

A hand made, stop-motion, paper cut-out animation about saving the monarch butterflies.

Daily Bread
Director - Manuel Sirgo
Chicago
8 min.

An exchange student living in Madrid sets out to buy a loaf of bread, but finds herself lost in translation, making unexpected connections on her journey.

Loves Me, Loves Me Not
Director - Bret Koehler
7 min.
California

Two middle-aged quirky singles meet for drinks after they connected on OK-cupid. His compliments and her lack of conversation leads them to “laying all the cards on the table.” They go back and forth with his wants, her needs, their compatibilities until an outrageous revelations is a deal breaker.

Alternate Mesozoic
Director - Swann Boby, Lucie Laudrin, Marion Métivier, Léna Miguet, Sixtine Sanrame, Marie Schaeffer
6 min.
France

In the Mesozoic area, Rex and his dinosaur friends are going to be disturbed in their peaceful life by a tribe of annoying humans. A meteor shower will crash on the Earth. But dinosaurs are strong and humans will beg them to protect them. Rex will accept and save the humans. Dinosaurs and humans will evolve and coexist through the ages: antiquity, the Middle Ages and contemporary times. Are dinosaurs going to cope with the annoying and invasive behavior of humans?

You From The Future
Director - Tim Bunn, Joseph Patrick
United Kingdom
12 min.

Daniel and Mary are a twenty-something couple with their lives stuck on pause… that is until two very familiar-looking visitors from the future come to hit fast-forward.

SpiderSteve
Director - Evan Chacon
Chicago
7 min.

Steve loves spiders.