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Anybody USA, 13 MIN Director: David Franklin Two strangers wake up in bed together. What begins as an awkward morning-after conversation becomes something more, as two New Yorkers navigate the post-9/11 emotional landscape. |
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Bill USA , 31 MIN Director: John Salcido At the suggestion of their therapist, a couple decide to add a third person to add some spark to their relationship. | ||
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Centigrade CANADA, 15 MIN Director: Colin Cunningham A man who lives in an old, busted up camper trailer wakes up one morning to find himself (and it) rolling down a desert highway. | ||
| Coons USA, 15 MIN Director: Chris Cloyd An innocent joyride is not all it seems when Rich discovers that his brother has kidnapped a black teen and thrown him in the back of their truck to prepare for a lynching. |
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A Day's Work USA, 14:33 MIN Director: Rajeev Dassani A typical job for Enrique, a young Mexican day laborer, escalates into a violent misunderstanding with an affluent suburban family. |
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Deleted Scenes USA, 23 MIN Director: Ryan Gielen Two ex-friends reunite to record the Director's Commentary for their hit indie film, five years after its release and their subsequent falling out. |
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Easy Pickins USA, 13:05 MIN Director: Will Hartman Jimmy and Paul are two thugs who like to prey on easy marks like little old Perla. But there's more to Perla than meets the eye, as the thugs soon find out when they break into her house. |
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Eater USA, 18 MIN Director: Matt and Ross Duffer A rookie cop works the night shift at a jailhouse with a cannibal prisoner on the loose. Adapted from a short story by Peter Crowther. |
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The Election USA, 8 MIN Director: Padraig Reynolds Three days before the gubernatorial election, a candidate (Ray Wise, Twin Peaks ) and his wife (Lin Shaye, Dirty Sexy Money) find themselves in the middle of the desert with a horrible dilemma. |
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High Falls USA , 33 MIN Director: Andrew Zuckerman During a weekend at a country home, a married couple jeopardize their relationship by telling secrets to their best friend. | ||
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Hirsute CANADA, 13:45 MIN Director: A.J. Bond A young physicist is confronted by an arrogant, time-traveling, future version of himself. Shocked to discover his fondness for body-hair removal and boiled eggs, the young physicist vows to change the course of his life. |
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The Home of Split Pea Soup USA, 16 MIN Director: Amy Adrion Things get worse before they get better when Kelly's stuck for the night in a sleepy, small town, on the worst day of her life, with a tow-truck driver, the wisdom of St. Therese and a little cow chip bingo... |
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Hunter-Gatherer USA, 11:42 MIN Director: Billy Greenfield Campers in the mountains of a beautiful National Park encounter a mysterious backpacker. |
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I Heard The Mermaids Singing USA, 25 MIN Director: Kenneth Johnson, Victoria Charters A classic & lyrical love-tale with a bitter-sweet twist adapted from the play written by legendary acting coach & casting director Michael Shurtleff who passed away January 28, 2007. | ||
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Indecent USA, 21:50 MIN Director: Matt Cavanaugh George Wilkinson, a family man who works for a Christian charity organization, is having an affair with a 17 year-old boy. When he tries to fix his mistake, things go horribly wrong. | ||
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Kali Ma INDIA/USA, 15 MIN Director: Soman Chainani Writer: Soman Chainani Producer: Jennifer Handorf Cast: Kamini Khanna, Brendan Bradley, Manish Dayal When an Indian mother finds out her son is the victim of a vicious bully, she delivers her own brand of vigilante justice. |
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Last Day of Limbo USA, 15 MIN Director: Jason Ward For seven centuries, the Catholic church has held the position that babies who die before baptism go to a third afterlife location: limbo. Recently it was in the news that the Pope has changed his mind and is abolishing Limbo and allowing the unbaptized babies to go straight to heaven. | ||
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Leave You in Me USA, 19:24 MIN Director: Dutch Doscher An unexpected admission emerges while a couple is making love. Naked, emotionally and physically, they must confront a tangled web of love, sex and betrayal. The path to reconciliation leads to a dark and uncertain forgiveness. |
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L'Ecouteur (The Listener) CANADA, 14 MIN Director: Kester Dyer A mute man listens in on his neighbors' sexual activities and uncovers a shocking crime. | ||
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Longshots USA, 17:30 MIN Director: Kate Buhrmaster 14-year-old Allie has been saving up her babysitting money for a prom-dress and discovers that her mother has spent it on the thoroughbred horses that she breeds. |
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Look Sharp Australia, 9 MIN Director: Amy Gebhardt After spending a drunken night with two “sharpie” gang members, a female photographer is compelled to capture the emotional truth beneath their rough exteriors. |
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Mai Tai USA, 17 MIN Director: Damon Van Deusen Alex and Jackson meet on a flight to Hawaii and discover they are both headed to the same old friend's wedding, but for different reasons. | ||
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Maine Story USA, 24 MIN Director: Nina Chernik When her high-school sweetheart unexpectedly returns to town, Shelly is forced to confront those things she's been avoiding, including her 12 year-old son. | ||
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Mi Casa es su Casa USA, 11:20 MIN Director: Brian Maddox Sequestered at his parents' house after a purported suicide attempt, Nick seeks camaraderie with the young man stuck working on his mother's lawn. | ||
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Midway USA, 9:30 MIN Director: Darius Monroe Inside this barbershop, you're guaranteed a haircut. But your wait may be longer than expected. | ||
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Morning Fall USA, 9 MIN Director: Edward McGinty A mysterious man wakes up on the side of the road, injured and confused - but where will he end up when he can't find his way home? | ||
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Multiple Choice USA, 19:54 Director: Robert Cosnahan While studying for the S.A.T. Adam, a high school bookworm, gets distracted by his rebellious sister and her beautiful best friend. | ||
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Negotiations USA, 19:18 MIN Director: Ethan Cushing During what seems to be a routine hostage situation, Tom Bennett, LA's top negotiator, comes face to face with his estranged son in the middle of an intense standoff. |
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No. 6 USA, 18 MIN Director: Robin Larsen A mysterious man finds redemption for his dangerous past in a young Ukrainian sex slave. | ||
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No Place Like Home USA , 13.28 MIN Director: Mick Betancourt The story of a young man who ran away to find himself and didn't like what he saw when he got there. Defeated, he returns home to try and reconcile with his parents. The home he returns to is not the same one he left. | ||
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Passing Through MEXICO / USA, 23:45 MIN Director: Gregory Durbin A naïve woman is repeatedly sexually harassed by a group of lascivious men on her way to work until she transforms herself into a femme fatale. Inspired by Ruth Orkin's Photograph 'American Girl in Italy.' | ||
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Personal Spectator BELGIUM, 14:30 MIN Director: Emmanuel Jespers A woman is accosted by a man in a restaurant offering her a brand new therapy to cure her seemingly bland existence: looking at her for 5 minutes until she starts feeling that she exists. Based on a scene from a full-length play by Carole Fréchette. | ||
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Pitstop USA, 14:11 MIN Director: Melanie McGraw When a young girl is accidentally left behind at a desert gas station while on a road trip with her family, she must finally muster the courage to find her own voice. | ||
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The Postman AUSTRALIA, 9:15 MIN Director: Adam Bostock A lonely, old postman who never receives any letters learns how to connect again through an unlikely friendship. | ||
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Psycho Hillbilly Cabin Massacre! USA , 17 MIN Director: Robert Cosnahan A secret initiation ritual in the woods leads to a showdown between shotgun-wielding hillbillies and a Hummer-driving gang of Ivy League students in this parody of “Grindhouse” horror movie clichés. |
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Pumpkin Hell USA, 21:40 MIN Director: Max Finneran Abandoned by his father at a highway-side pumpkin patch, a young boy spends a peculiar and life changing night with the misfit proprietor of the patch. | ||
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Repressions USA, 24:50 MIN Director: Adam Kargman A troubled young woman (Sharon Case, The Young and the Restless ) seeks help from therapy, only to discover that she may be repressing memories of a dark secret in her past. |
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Le Retour (The Homecoming) USA, 19:49 MIN Director: Rachel Earnest After studying abroad in France, Katherine returns home to Southern California and experiences reverse culture shock. | ||
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Rex Buster USA, 14:25 MIN Director: Amaro Shake In the hierarchy of high school Rex Buster is King, but on the first day of his senior year, his empire starts to fall. | ||
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Director: Matthew Linnell An immigration agent (Chris Messina, Six Feet Under ) at Newark International Airport confronts an Iranian mother and her son. Based on the one act play by Israel Horovitz. | ||
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Shadowbox USA, 23:30 Director: William Dickerson A war hero forces himself to relive the war by watching the film of his own torture. | ||
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Silver Tongues UNITED KINGDOM, 24:50 MIN Director: Simon Arthur A wandering couple travel play a gleefully sadistic game of deceit when they arrive at the care home of senile dementia sufferers, convincing them that they're family members. | ||
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Sky USA, 13 MIN Director: Marc Daniel A street-wise Latina comes home to find an intruder in her house. The confrontation that ensues proves that people are not always what they seem. | ||
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Spent USA, 15 MIN Director: Boris Schaarschmidt Cheryl, a shop-a-holic Real Estate agent in Los Angeles is caught living in the house that she has been assigned to sell. | ||
| Trail End USA, 25:30 MIN Director: Shannan Keenan Fulfilling a personal mission for his late wife, an ailing man and his old horse attempt their last trail ride together across Kansas. | ||
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Tres (Three) USA, 26 MIN Director: Anna Christopher, Paula Chrisstensen, Robert Weiermair Three unique short stories share the same heart, an intense but fleeting moment of emotional connection between two people. Based on the poetry of acclaimed Argentinean filmmaker, Carlos Hugo Christensen. | ||
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True Colours UNITED KINGDOM, 10:38 MIN Director: Barney Elliott A social drama about a loving father with a propensity for violence and his struggle to earn his family's trust. | ||
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Underpass USA, 15 MIN Director: Rain Breaw A family of Cambodian Khmer Rouge survivors finds hope when they reach out to a young illegal immigrant. | ||
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Use as Directed USA , 28 MIN Director: Katherine Griffin In the course of one magical, rule-breaking day an ordinary hairdresser discovers that sometimes you need to break the rules in order to let your heart dream. | ||
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The Vaudevillian USA, 16 MIN Director: Bryan Nest A ventriloquist's relationship with his dummy is strained after they lose their job with a vaudeville theatre. |
