| #42 Dream- Always Carry a Guest Toothbrush | 17 | Animation | In this animated odyssey, a dreamer finds himself in hell surrounded by the crazy antics of the other occupants. Will he survive long enough to find out what awaits him in heaven? Beautifully illustrated, this animated short is a visual joyride! | Alvin Sexton | CO |
| African Witchfinder | 30 | Doc-Short | TBerrie Holtzhausen is a Namibian pastor, head of a dementia charity in Swakopmund, and operator of a dementia care home in the Namib desert. After discovering a woman chained to a post in a mud hut for over 20 years, Berrie learns that she is accused of witchcraft. Diagnosing signs of advanced dementia, he negotiates her freedom. Learning that the belief in witchcraft is widespread, with those accused often being murdered, Berrie meets with families and tries to bring them closer together, explaining the concept of mental illness and spreading the word of love in an effort to stop the killing. | Toby Trueman & Mally Graveson | UK |
| America's Sweethearts | 5 | Short | An experimental film in which I replace one of the partners in a relationship with a goldfish in a bowl. A take on mass media's superficial representation of human intimacy. | Tori Taylor | FL |
| Aquarium | 6 | Art-Exp | Aquarium is a choreography of light and motion with a unique perspective on the exquisite beauty that is present in infinite abundance when one focuses attention on the motions of ocean water and its expressive optical qualities. | Stephanie Maxwell | NY |
| Avenhart - Fade Away | 4 | Music Video | Ending relationships, dealing with guilt and suffering through uncomfortable reunions... Sounds pretty adult, right? In the case of 4-year-old Penny, it's the unfortunate circumstances of making a new friend and neglecting a trusted companion. | Bo Smith | CO |
| Axios | 9 | Short | A young military cadet struggles to understand the difference between masculinity and violence. | Michael Hyon Johnson | CO |
| Barking Brave | 5 | Short | A 6-year-old girl, armed with her wild imagination, must battle the bite of her confining cynophobia. | Matthew Kirkman | CO |
| Beth's Three O'clock with Dr. Harlow | 2 | Art-Exp | Beth discloses a recent dream to her analyst. A vivid study of casual brutality and failed empathy, this surrealistic film intermixes stop motion animation with live action sequences. | Emma Penaz Eisner | OH |
| Biomass | 6 | SF | Zoey and Simon are two employees of a salvage and recycling company who become pressured to satisfy their clients' unique needs while awaiting the next delivery truck full of special product. | Larry McKee | TX |
| Brazil Carnival EvaTalksSS | 3 | Art-Exp | Thriller, Science Fiction, Musical, Fantasy... A deranged woman is trapped in the confines of a mental institution as she is tormented with the music that won't stop playing in her head. You are invited inside the insanity to see just how freaky this party really is... | Eva Talks | CA |
| Broken English | 11 | Short | Jose Lopez is a student in the Los Angeles Unified School District. The semester has started and he is placed in a generic science course and not Advanced Placement Biology, the course he requested. He tries everything he can think of to get his classes changed. Will anything ever be enough? | Oscar Alvarez | CO |
| Eggs With Legs | 2 | Anim | An egg, a leg, another egg, another leg, a man, a dream, and an egg. | Harrison Schaeffer | MI |
| Falling South | 39 | Short | Charlotte puts Rochester in the rear view as she runs away from a husband that can not offer comfort in the face of overwhelming grief. She has never been on her own and doesn't know if she'll make it as her resources are stripped away. She meets diverse women who offer connection, insight, and laughter on the road to Florida and what may be a new life. | Lorraine Portman | FL |
| Farm Life Mari Poppins | 3 | Horr | A man will do anything to free his wife's tormneted soul, even if it means killing her... | Mari Poppins | Luxem- bourg |
| Fortune Defies Death | 115 | Feature | Fortune Defies Death, a Clue-esque mystery-drama in the tradition of Agatha Christie's whodunits, brings nine heirs to a remote cabin to hear the last will and testament of George Woods on the tenth anniversary of his death. But before anyone can stake a claim to the Woods' fortune, each must survive the family attorney's investigation into the mysterious disappearance of Woods' adopted daughter. As the investigation unfolds, family members turn on each other and murder is the weapon of choice. | Jennifer Hulum | CA |
| Hometown | 4 | Music Video | Hometown is the product of a collaboration between two young artists to honor the city they love. Featuring multi-instrumentalist, singer/songwriter Johnny Maio, and shot by film maker Caleb Oosterling, Hometown features unique, beautiful scenes of Tampa, Florida, synchronized to Maio's infectious original song. | Caleb Oosterling | FL |
| Jamaica Man | 65 | Doc | A subjective documentary profile of British expat Nigel Pemberton. A biographical picaresque, inspired narratively by Spalding Gray and visual by Slim Aarons, the film is a highly stylized and unconventional portrait of a raconteur nearing the end of his life. | Michael Weatherly | CA |
| Letter on the Blind | 74 | Doc | 'Letter on the Blind' by Diderot was one of the earliest works to address blindness, not simply as a missing sense but rather as a different way of perceiving the world. Published in 1749, in the days of the Encyclopedia, it immediately caused a public scandal. As a result, Diderot was imprisoned in the Bastille. Today, in the Wikipedia era, the blind have new tools and new ways of reading also exist. BigFish, a Natural Language Processing tool and a research subject in the Data Science field, makes it possible to visualize any text, in space. Re-reading the 'Letter on the Blind' digitally, using BigFish, highlights certain words as well as links between words that are meaningful for those who can't see, revealing what is not visible within the text. Following in Diderot's wake, we went to meet blind people so they could explain their world and put into words something that cannot be expressed otherwise | Stephane Levy | France |
| No Time Within | 8 | Art-Exp | Nekto, a successful, but lost-in-life business professional, awakens to the realisation that his world is fast-paced and soul-crushing. He travels into an imaginary house of his mind where there is no time, and the past is alive. By going through the house, he releases his past burden, and a new Nekto emerges into the same reality, but with a new perspective. | Liubov Korpusova | Australia |
| Ol' Max Evans: The First Thousand Years | 80 | Doc | A documentary portrait of New Mexican writer Max Evans author best known for The Rounders and The Hi Lo Country (both made into feature films). The film is the story of Max's improbable life from teenage cowboy, to soldier in WWII (Max landed on Omaha Beach on D-Day), to struggling small ranch owner, to mining speculator, to painter working in the artists' colony of Taos, and finally to his real calling a writer who chronicles the ever-changing, complex life of ranchers and cowboys in contemporary New Mexico. Max was a renowned bar brawler, drinker and raconteur for most of his life. | Lorene Mills, David Leach and Paul Barnes | NM |
| One Small Step | 8 | Anim | Luna, a young Chinese American girl, dreams of becoming an astronaut. Supported by her humble father, Luna endeavors to make her dreams come true. | Bobby Pontillas | China/ USA |
| Osiris | 30 | Short/ SF | An isolated community survives our manmade nuclear crisis by the use of their wind powered shield. When the wind farm goes down, the fate of their community (perhaps all that is left of mankind) rests on Natasha's shoulders. | Kathryn Ferentchak | CO |
| Outside Looking In | 4 | Music Video | The story of two people who are attracted to each other. However, they are too insecure and intimidated to express their. Instead, each is waiting for the other person to acknowledge them and initiate the relationship. They think and dream about the other person but it is only still a fantasy. It is as though they are outside themselves and removed from the situation, looking at it longingly and wanting a relationship to start but are powerless to do so. | Bristol Studios | MA |
| Overpass | 5 | Short | Every day, a woman walks past a homeless teen under an overpass on her way to work. One day, she decides she's going to talk some sense into the girl. A conversation demonstrating the futility of good intentions when paired with faulty preconceptions. | Peter Lively | CO |
| Palace of the Infinite | 8 | Art-Exp | ...a rich tapestry of Orchid beings... Haunting the Palace of the Mind,,, the breathing rain whispers. | Kathy Rose | PA |
| Paradise | 120 | Feature |
After surviving a plane crash, two kids are rescued and raised by a savage tribe on a remote island. Fifteen years later, they escape the island and return to the civilized world, their imagined paradise, and discover it isn't... | Autumn Wang | CA |
| Pickup Man | 34 | Doc-Short | Jessica Mosher, a fifth generation rancher on the Plains of Colorado, seeks to carry on a family tradition of ranching and rodeo in spite of a fourteen year drought. | Bill Johnson | CO |
| Portal Fuel | 6 | Short / SF | A man searching in the wilderness crosses paths with another version of himself. | Ethan Landry | PA |
| Requiem Lost | 57 | Feature | Staff Sargent Carl Hammond has recently returned from deployment in the Middle East. He is a good guy, but the stresses of combat have taken their toll. His wife sees it, his buddy, Staff Sargent Kevin Benson sees it. As his condition becomes acute, Carl spirals out of control, and disapppears. Will his demons consume him and become another statistic of suicide or will he be able to face the fact that he needs help? | Stephan(ie) Mitchell | CO |
| Reservation for Two | 12 | Short | A fastidious young woman gets stood up on Valentine's Day at the priciest restaurant in town. In order to keep her reservation, she invites the only single person around, the homeless man from out on the street. | Harrison Trigg | AR |
| Reverie of the Puppets | 5 | Art-Exp | Reverie of the Puppets takes the viewer to a surreal landscape of great beauty; a land of trees that subtly shifts into more hallucinogenic terrain... At the end, the dreamers dream, and the sleepers sleep. | Kathy Rose | PA |
| SEKUND | 6 | Short / SF | In the near future, a group of extraordinary kids survive on their own in a rundown industrial America with hopes to one day find an escape. | Ashley Matkowsky | CO |
| Shadows In The Snow | 14 | Horr | After double-crossing and murdering their criminal partner Joey, Ernie and Stokes attempt to flee the snow-filled mountains in their stolen Cadillac. | Daryl Della | CA |
| The Age Of Imitation | 92 | Feature | The Age of Imitation follows the affair between a young writing student, Elizabeth, and Stefan, a moody musician. In Elizabeth's search for romantic inspiration, she becomes entangled in Stefan's relationship with the charismatic hippie healer, Casey, and their psychedelic drug-fueled melodrama. | Mark Day | Australia |
| The Eve | 20 | Horr | Simon is an eight-year-old boy who appears to have everything one would want from life. He's a handsome child, he's rich, yet unhappy. He senses that there is something wrong with his life and he imagines leaving the materialistic world behind and living with Santa Claus in his fairyland toy factory. At the same time, his parents argue over telling him the truth they believe will harm him. The expectations for the stroke of midnight on Christmas Eve are transformed by a truly different reality. Something terrible is waiting to happen. | Luca Machnich | Italy |
| The Extraordinary Story of Oliver Wyght | 11 | Anim | After wishing upon a star, Oliver Wyght discovers the true cost of having an extraordinary life. | Ricardo Hernandez | CO |
| The Game | 14 | Short | Ava Blackwell is a young woman whose face is mysteriously hidden behind a porcelain mask. During her first session with psychiatrist Doctor Hohlman, Ava reveals terrible secrets about herself, and what appears to be a confession quickly becomes something altogether different. | Michael Cohn | TX |
| The Magic Music Movie | 99 | Doc | TV writer/producer Lee Aronsohn ("Big Bang Theory," "Two and a Half Men") tracks down the scattered members of one of Boulder, Colorado's most influential and elusive bands with the hope that, 40 years after they broke up without ever releasing an album, he can get them to play ONE LAST SHOW. | Lee Aronsohn | CA |
| The Only Order | 15 | Short/ SF/ Fantasy | Two soldiers are stationed as border patrol in Arkemora. When a delivery of exoria and rations goes missing, however, what originally appeared to be a mundane job turns out to be a descent into a moral quandary. | Van Wampler | CO |
| Vestige | 6 | SF | A newlywed couple is interrupted in their hotel suite by a man sent from a fractured future claiming the child they will conceive in that moment causes the destruction of the world. The revelation reveals cracks within their relationship, and happy matrimony seems like an unlikely future. | Andrew Richardson | GA |
| Waste Dreams | 29 | Doc-Short | All over Colombia community recycling projects are under way. One of them promotes filling old plastic bottles with trash, such as candy wrappers, and use these tightly stuffed bottles as bricks to build community housing. In the bigger cities, such as Medellin or Bogota, it has become quite a trend to fill these bottles and deliver them to community organizations, which then pass them on to the communities in the country to use them for their building projects. Waste Dreams investigates this trend and follows those trash-filled bottles to their final destinations in the countryside to look at the pros and cons of using them to build schools and community centers. | Michael Brims | Columbia |
| You and Me | 25 | Short | Two college-time friends embark on a long drive on a Sunday morning, leaving their bustling city lives behind. As they wander through the hilly roads, they reveal their old longings and hidden pasts to each other. Eventually, their rose-tinted nostalgia is broken and they come face to face with their imperfect lives. | Mrigank Dubey | India |
| ZED'S DREAM | 13 | Art-Exp | Everyone said he disapperead. His room, his belongings, his documents, everything remained as if he would come back. A few days later, I felt he was still there but no one could see him. I saw him several times : in India in 1937, in Bucharest in 1979, in a garden in Paris in 2010, on a bridge in Nashville in 2016, and for the last time, in the subway in New York in 2017. I don't know if he recognized me but I'm sure he KNOWS. | Julian Olariu | France |
