Three Nights and a Goat (Tres Noches y una Cabra)
An unexpected arrival sets off a war between two neighboring families.
Director: Nicolas Becerra
Writer: Ben Gottlieb
Talent Night at Auschwitz: Bunk Five
After he survives a shocking trauma, a 14-year-old boy retreats to his flamboyant imagination, a dark and glittering dreamworld. His fortress becomes a prison as memories refuse to stay buried in the sand.
Writer/Director: Max Rifkind-Barron
Producer: Alex Peace
Del Rio
A young mother separated from her daughter during a border patrol raid on the US/Mexico border struggles to make her way back to her daughter.
Director: Raj Trivedi
Writer: Raj Trivedi
The Bee
McKenzie is preparing for an important spelling bee. Just days before the bee, she grows increasingly insecure about her eyebrows. When her mother won't allow her to get them threaded, McKenzie takes matters into her own hands.
Director: Keenon Nikita
Writer/Producer: Alexandria Ashley
Knights in Newark
Armed with her vivid imagination, a young girl completes a secret project on the roof of her apartment building to protect her family from a dreaded curse brought upon by the Knights in Newark.
Director: Nic Yulo
Writer/Producer: Christopher Abeel
One Sunny Day
On Ross’ 14th birthday, he wishes for his lifelong dream of watching the sunrise on a beach. But this is a lofty aspiration for Ross, who suffers from xeroderma pigmentosum—a rare genetic disorder that makes his skin intolerable to ultraviolet light.
Writer/Director: Minjae Chang
Writer/Producer: Elliot Zarrabi
Everything's Fine: A Panic Attack in D Major
A musical comedy about a woman at the onset of her quarter-life crisis and her existential journey through the various stages of anxiety in song and dance.
Writer/Director: Zack Morrison
Producer: Taylor Ortega
Cast: Carly Blane, Derek Klena, Tait Rupert, Chelsea Watts, Alyson Reim, Elise Vannerson, Lauren Luciano
Tail End of the Year (年尾巴)
On Chinese New Year Eve, ten-year-old Yang Lan is anxiously waiting for her singer mother to come home. While her big family is celebrating loudly with Mahjong, fireworks, dinner, and laughs, she struggles to reconcile her urge to feel, at least for a brief moment, loved.
Writer/Director: Chieh Yang
Producer: Yu Yen Cheng
Green
An undocumented Turkish pedicab driver unwittingly draws police attention, endangering his brother, his community, and himself.
Writer/Director: Suzanne Andrews Correa
Writer/Producer: Mustafa Kaymak
Happy Mask
A man suffering from depression is given a mysterious happy mask that allows him to keep up a cheerful appearance. However, is the smile genuine?
Director: Yi Liu
Writer: Yi Liu, Sarah Abdulla
Producer: Luca Marcovici
Horizon
To realize her dream of discovering uncharted space, a determined female astronaut must choose to leave her humanity behind.
Writer/Director: Nic Yulo
Producer: Mahak Jiwani
Saturno
After her brother is killed in a drug bust operation, a guilt-stricken Luna begins to see his spirit and struggles to make meaning of his appearances to help him find peace.
Director: Bianca Catbagan
Writer: Chantel Clark
Curandera
Maruja, an Andean woman with mystical powers, works at a household where a little girl never seems to stop acting out her rage. Being able to see the images that haunt the little girl's mind, Maruja decides to try to heal her with the help of a special brew.
Director: Mauricio Rivera Hoffmann
Writer: Mauricio Rivera Hoffmann
Cast: Magaly Solier, Danaya Sladkov, Katerina D’Onofrio
