The following films were selected for the 2021 Short. Sweet. Film Fest. Films may be screen online on-demand, in person, or both. On-demand details are forthcoming. Our in-person event schedule is now available.
| Film | Director | Synopsis |
|---|---|---|
| 218 | Sam Pinnelas | Eight-year-old Colin and his mother are sequestered in an apartment under the supervision of two police officers. While she leaves every day, Colin is left alone without answers or guidance. |
| 16/8 | Sasha Paracels | Chained to a pipe in a dark room, a young woman must fight her way out and discover the dark secret to her imprisonment. |
| 303: Endless Night | Geena Jung | A girl who stays on the bus from one end to the other. She is nauseated by the exhausting, repeated long journey and is haunted by mysterious visions caused by her negligent guardians. White shadows are stalking her. |
| 4622 Stillwater Circle | Kati Rehbeck | Sadie spends a summer afternoon around her hometown in Wisconsin, while an old flame tries to find a new spot in her life. |
| 50 Little Birds | Hannah Lindgren | Indiana folk artist Geoff Davis reflects on his childhood, career, mental health, and how he found peace through reconnecting with his life’s purpose. |
| 7 Steps to Inspire Creative Writing | Zebulon Griffin | A politely crazed fan secretly intervenes in the life of her new favorite novelist. Her clandestine actions yield unintended consequences driving the author to the brink of madness. |
| A Normal Coversation | Gairo Cuevas | Two teenagers debate the issue of gun control on their walk home after leaving a memorial service honoring friends they lost during a school shooting. |
| Aine | Alexandria Cree, Kristen Hilkert | This is the story of Aine a magical, feisty young girl with Down syndrome. |
| Alive Day | Lindsay O'Keefe | Against incredible odds, a young swimmer tells her inspiring story. |
| Altruist | Antonio Harper, Abby Burton | A young man stumbles upon a scene that forces him to become a part of the never-ending cycle of social injustice. |
| Alvorado | Carolina Neves | Vasco’s exposed to his brother's extremist ideals, expressed through the National Socialist Black Metal genre. However, Vasco doesn't identify with the movement's nature and hides from his brother an essential aspect of his life, in order to avoid a fraternal break, while tracing the path of self-acceptance. |
| Answer Me | Patrick Masteller | A fake halloween phone starts getting strange phone calls. |
| Bag Your Face | Keith Eyrich | Taking the after-school special format and crashing it at high speed head-on with a whirligig of 90's VHS/video game/Nickelodeon trash imagery, this film is pure Nuclear Nostalgia. |
| Becoming Kelly | Valery Lessard, Lisa Baron, Bryan Fitzgerald | After a bad break-up, a vanilla young woman spirals into a Machine Gun Kelly obsession, leading her on the path to a life-changing rap career. |
| Bittersweet | Max Mir | A hopeless baker's attempt at taking his own life is interrupted by a persistent child in need of a birthday cake. |
| Block Universe | Simone Massis | After a bout of insomnia, our unknowingly mentally ill main character, Don, starts hallucinating and has trouble deciphering what is real and what isn’t. |
| Blood Geyser | John Maslowski | A women is killed by a creature of unknown origin. |
| Br'er Rabbit & Anasi | Obediya Jones-Darrell | Our friends live in a fictional tropical forest, filled with lots of colourful plants and fruits. All of the children are different animals... or are they? |
| Brass Ring | Zachary Ross | A fanatic finally meets his favorite over-the-hill wrestler at a mediocre comic book convention and attempts to make him relevant again. |
| Breakfast | Amanda Tjhin | A young maid accused of stealing a precious fish seeks the help of a famed detective to clear her name. |
| Breaklines | Matu Harvey, Trevor Cone | A young rape victim seeks revenge on her attacker. |
| Call the Shot | Dean Parker | A suicidal man forces his bartender to carry out his death wish through a life-defining conversation. |
| Cammy | William Pace | Cammy is sick, or is she? |
| Casiopea | Fernando Manso | A captivating adventure that unravels the eternal question of humankind:What happens before/after life? |
| Changing Times | Bernie Golias, Antonio Harper | An old man reminisces on his childhood, his father and their shared love for antique cars as he comes to realize he's part of a fading hobby. |
| Chhotu | Suveer Bhambhani | Yogi, is a stressed, small-town man in his late 50’s. Soon, an unusual encounter with a strange child takes his life to turn. |
| Chicken of the Dead | Julien David | Bernard Lepique is the CEO of “Quasi”, a company specializing in the production of half-bio, half-antibiotics chickens. Today Bernard is launching its new kind of chicken, but everything does not go as planned... |
| Clay Mates | Gracia Lu | A lonely boy's adoring clay creation comes to life. |
| Color Study Brujas del Sol 2.0 | Steve McGuire | Experimental Music Video |
| Conference | Nick Cavalier | A comedy short inspired by Covid -19 and boredom. |
| Curbside | Rebecca Rhodes | A curbside pickup worker must make to a party after work, but she can't leave until all the orders are sold. And the last order is late. |
| Dad, David, & Danny | Suveer Bhambhani | Dad, David & Danny is the story of Tony D’souza, his son- David and their pet- Danny. The film, in chapters, revolves around the fractured relationship Tony shared with his son and how Danny, made all the difference. |
| Damned If You Do, Damned if You Don't | Nick Muhlbach | The classic case of the missing parents. |
| Dandelion | Jörg Viktor Steins-Lauss | An elderly man remembers the full life of love he has lived, with the help of a wish he made on a dandelion years before. |
| Deadline | Bernie Golias, Antonio Harper | A passionate collector receives an ultimatum for better or for worse. |
| Death List | Hayden Atzberger | When a group of boys stumble across a hit-mans stash of money, they have to decide what to do with the money and ultimately how to face the criminal head on. |
| Death Proof | Gregory Elek | A Quentin Tarantino inspired music video for the artist WIll Cherry. |
| Defying Cancer | Debra Harrip | An honest, intimate documentary, which excavates one resilient cancer survivor’s journey by bringing a dark subject matter out into the light cancer diagnoses is a reminder to live life to the fullest. |
| Dream Away | Alan Sanchez | Music Video |
| Ein Man Stande (One Man Stand) | Ryan Phoenix | Two German soldier brothers, part of the Nazi machine with two very different hearts. This short black and white film noir is not intended to be a political piece but a story about humanity. |
| Eye Exam | Aislinn Clarke | A woman regrets attending a free eye exam when she begins to suspect that her optometrist has nefarious intentions. |
| Feeling Flush | Erin Brown Thomas | Vicki idolizes her new girlfriend Samantha, but draws the line when it comes to her time on the porcelain throne. Their small bathroom gets awkward when Samatha challenges Vicki’s definition of intimacy. |
| Flashback to the Pool | Lucas Stanton, Peter Roads | Peters casual swim at the local pool turns into a traumatising flashback of being terrorised by a childhood swimming instructor. |
| Flora | Javier Kühn | A Victorian story about life, death and everything in between. |
| Fog | Kristoffer Grindheim | FOG is a music video and a composition by the composer and pianist John Vegard Schow. |
| For Love | George Tutie | His wife has been kidnapped and now he must do whatever it takes to get her back. |
| For the Love of God | Eric R. Williams | Sometimes the creative process just needs a little goose. |
| Forest City Blues | Connor Fairfield, Richard Perrins, Osgar Nugent, James Carney, Matthew Shanahan | Started as an extended introduction to the greater Cleveland Labre Project--which aims to not only to feed those who experience homelessness, but to stoke fellowship--this documentary traces the candid and sometimes surprising stories of those who do not live "inside", and moves from there to a fuller exploration of what social mechanics in the city complicate citizens' attempts to be free of poverty and homelessness. |
| Forevering | Jennifer Reeder | A young woman coping with grief fakes a pregnancy and lies to the lesbian couple she's supposed to be a surrogate for. |
| Found | Daniel Michael Tomcik | A young man finds and bonds with a stray dog only to discover that its real owner is looking for her and now he must decide whether or not he should give her up. |
| Frederick Von Scholar's How-To Series | Jim Allison | Thanks to our new collection of how-tos, now anyone can make friends. Maybe. |
| Fugestsu-Do | Kaia Rose | Fugetsu-Do is more than a little candy store; since 1903 it has been an anchor for the Japanese-American community in Little Tokyo, centered at the heart of Downtown LA. At over 115 years old, this family-run business is one of the oldest in Los Angeles and its history is emblematic of the immigrant experience in America. |
| Game | Patrick Masteller | A girl takes her weekend alone to relax, but her serenity doesn't last long when something from the woods picks her as its dinner. |
| Give Me Something Good to Eat | Patrick Masteller | When a lazy teenager fails to hand out candy, one trick or treater will take their love of Halloween to the extreme. |
| Gon, The Little Fox | Takeshi Yashiro | When Gon, a playful orphaned fox, finds that young Hyoju has lost his mother, he tries to comfort him and make amends for his own earlier mischiefs by secretly bringing small gifts to the boy every day. |
| Good Harvest | Meyli Mars | A loving portrait of an older Chinese American couple enjoying a summer like any other in the suburbs of Cleveland, Ohio. |
| Gramma & Ginga: The Movie | Jennifer Steinman Sternin | The story of beloved sisters Gramma and Ginga who, at ages 104 and 99, accidentally became world-famous internet superstars. |
| Green Cobra | Sigurd Culhane | GREEN COBRA is the genre-bending story of a hit-man…excuse me, “Life Ending Technician.” Who details, to a documentary film crew, her rise in a mostly male dominated field, on the backdrop of a typical day on the job; which consists of Russian mob clients, disturbing methods of torture, and maybe one too many bad ex-boyfriends. |
| Guardian | Pablo Arreba | Nobody can protect you from yourself. |
| Hate | Humza Arshad, Mustapha Kseibati | When Humza loses a friend in a stabbing, he decides to change. |
| He Loves Me (not) | Eric R. Williams | He's a sucker for a red wine woman. |
| He's a Good Kid | Mylissa Fitzsimmons | A mother searches for her son in the aftermath of a school shooting. |
| Heal Me | Shelagh Rowan-Legg | A woman walks outside on a snowy day, trying to find the thoughts that will heal her troubled mind. |
| Heathens | Carlos Garcia, Jr. | A group of heathens chases down their sacrifice before the school bell rings. |
| His Death | Avishai Sivan | For the first time in years, secular Noah meets his Hasidic siblings in the heart of the Mea Shearim neighborhood in Jerusalem. A tense gathering to disclose the recently deceased patriarch’s will. |
| Hobby | Jessy Leigh | A Mother takes her Daughter to get a horse for an upcoming competition; a hobbyhorse competition. |
| Home Free | Eddie Shieh | A pandemic challenges a young woman on the path to legal immigration while sheltering in her new American home. |
| Hometown | Mikhail Tot | After a rough divorce Dave decides to come back to his home town and he finds it exactly how he left it. Some things just don't change. |
| Human | Erin Brown Thomas | A woman suffering in isolation gets a taste of the spotlight. |
| I Am Samantha | T Cooper | “I Am Samantha", by singer-songwriter Benjamin Scheuer, was inspired by his friend Samantha Williams. Director T Cooper and Allison Glock-Cooper gathered 27 trans actors to tell the story of the universal human journey to find identity, acceptance and love. |
| I Have to Go | Karanja Yorke, Mens-Sana Tamakloe | Aziz is put to the test when a mysterious woman lays claim to Aziz's soul. His only saviour is his brother Femi, who's love would do anything to save his brothers life. |
| I Like Dirt | Shannon Lee Dawdy, Daniel Zox | Is the afterlife becoming more earthly? |
| If | Steve Moss | Frank tries to replicate the lost intimacy of his marriage with Cindy, a synthetic pleasure unit. But she has other ideas. Tasked with fleecing clients for as much as she can, he struggles to find the connection he desperately craves. |
| In Their Nature | Vanessa M. H. Powers | Violet struggles to reconcile with her husband’s infidelity, despite her sister’s insistent meddling, over a weekend at the family cabin. |
| In These Uncertain Times | Cameron Mays | Two roommates must hide the dead body of their third roommate. |
| Incipient | Elizabeth Valentine, Citlali Sanchez | You are immersed in a strange room with a woman in all white hovering over you. As you slowly discover she's a cult leader, her terrifying agenda begins to unravel as hypnotizing supernatural forces threaten you and your fate. |
| Internalized | Davis Cameron Chu, Milana Scarlato, Ethan Ngo | A beloved office worker struggles to ignore the depressing realities of life in order to prepare for an important presentation. |
| Interruptions | Meredith Jackson | A couple tries to have an intimate date online, but keeps getting interrupted. |
| Iron Head | Cameron Thuman | After his family is destroyed as a child, a broken middle school counselor seeks to reunite with his long lost sister, only to immerse himself in the horror that surrounds her in the dark underground of 1990s Los Angeles. |
| It's Not You, It's Me | Hannah Lindvall | As the pandemic evolves into a national crisis, college-student Lily struggles to navigate the complexities of a budding romance as her world comes to a screeching halt. |
| Jack's Big Idea | Rachel Bartel | A rag-tag college theater club struggles to work together to put on an inspiring, heart-wrenching, historical musical with a blood-sucking twist. |
| Joe + Coffee | Kristin Walton | This is a short documentary about Joe, the owner of Wooden Shoe Coffee, and how he got started with the business. |
| Just a Ride | Ben Mathie | A bicyclist is cast into an imaginative journey of the soul. What is the meaning behind the cyclical nature of existence, or perhaps, the duality of life and death? Finding the answers are as easy as riding a bike. |
| Kaze | Avery Stockhoff | Shizuko, a young woman in a small Japanese town, spends her morning shift at a laundromat daydreaming about the windchimes outside the window. |
| Kibbler | Adlih Torres | One sorrowful girl must get kibbles for her dog, but the potential consequences weigh heavy in her mind. |
| Kids Again | Mark Andrew Hamer | Animated short about two young characters finding each other and getting nostalgic about their past. |
| Lazy Money | Amani Zardoe | With their parental income cut off and only one spliff left, Full-Time Stoners/Part- Time aspiring actors Khadija, Alex, and Corrie need to make some cash - fast! |
| Le Carceri Uncanny | Marc Haas | The interior of this place is underground, forgotten, and a small window high up becomes unreachable, staring down on the repressed human subject on whom space appears to close in. A machine rhythmically turns, powering the space while disempowering the man. The darkness in which the human resides is full of sorrow and sordidness, as he mindlessly works to keep the machine running. The days are repetitive and a descent into insanity ensues. The light becomes a hope for escape, but is life beyond what is known truly better off? |
| Legends of the Brush | Sutu (Stuart Campbell) | Step into a wild collection of colorful fables created in virtual reality from the mind of Eisner-nominated digital artist Sutu. From a disgraced fashion designer's deal with an unlikely partner to a young girl's quest to find the creator of the universe, each fable features stunningly unique art styles and game mechanics. |
| Life Hack | René Müller, Yannik Leibacher | You get what you pay for. |
| Life is a Two-Way Dream | Gjert Rognli | The film "Eallin lea guovtte suorat niehku — Life is a two-way dream" shows the way in a world undergoing rapid change, with polarisation and globalisation going in many directions. |
| Little Doctor | Fanny Brondel, Kelvin Schejbal, Olivia Spadaro, Julie Gournier, Andrei Toroplean, Anyu Rouaux | A squirrel and a crow are fighting for the forest’s plants: the former keeps them alive, the latter kills the ones who should have died. |
| Living in Crime Alley | Rob Ayling | A single father struggles to bring up his child, a huge fan of the dark knight, in downtown Gotham, known to citizens as Crime Alley. |
| Lost Spring | Liana Cohen | As Covid-19 ravages New York City, a quarantined former Opera singer reflects on her life and career. |
| Love and Murder | Tyler N. Thomas | A gay couple invite a co-worker over for dinner, but the eccentric co-worker has nefarious intentions. |
| Lycan Noir | Lon & Shannon Nease | In a town facing werewolf attacks, a woman makes her last stand in a house in the woods. |
| Malakout | Farnoosh Abedi | Music was his passion...Love was his masterpiece… |
| Man in the Box | Brian Lachowski | The story of an aspiring mime who struggles to entertain people in a world where everybody hates mimes. |
| Managing | Sebastian Rico | A Mexican Restaurant Manager at the brink of bankruptcy struggles to cope as his young employees mess around during work hours in the desolated establishment. A story about finding joy in the little things and managing yourself. |
| May 7th, 2020 | Sohee Kim | A sister writes a letter to her older brother after a phone call. She confesses how she felt when their seemingly diverged lives intersect again through psychological pain. |
| Migraine | John Maslowski | An experimental film intended to simulate what it is like to have a migraine headache. |
| Minor | Matteo Bontempi, Giacomo Mantovani, Andrea Panni, Pietro Repisti | Frontale is a small village in the upper Valtellina, whose inhabitants have handed down for generations the miner profession, the "minör", as they say. The witness of some of the last Italian miners are used to build the narration of a forgotten- but not completely disappeared- trade, where the experience, together with the practical and professional knowledge, still unite today’s workers and yesterday’s in a collective sense of belonging. |
| Mirage | Peter-John Campbell | Music Video for "Mirage" by Indré |
| Monster | Raj Sekhar | ‘Monster’ is about a lady who is being haunted by a monster in her dreams and how it affects her reality. |
| Murderous | Laurence J. Nozik | A character who picks up an apparently special guitar and drives to a motel, where he nervously waits for another courier to pick up the guitar. |
| My Avatar Sings Karaoke | Jeffrey Kraynak, Enrique Novello | Comedy and chaos ensue as two people on a second date decide to finally start being honest with each other. |
| My Body is My Home | Marissa Roesch | A short film that shows what we will do to feel comfortable in our first and longest home; our body. |
| Numerous Duo | Nick Fiorella | A young Catholic school girl encounters foul spirits. |
| On and On | Shannon Walsh | While preparing for her day, a young woman becomes overwhelmed with a dark thought and an anxiety attack ensues. |
| One Minute to Explosion | Avery Lenz | A couple has an argument at a coffee shop while unbeknownst to them there is a bomb under the table. |
| Orthogonal | Ollie Rankin | Orthogonal is a story of two young women from very different, but equally challenging backgrounds. |
| Out for Fame | Graham Emerson Beck | Is graffiti art or vandalism? Are writers artists or vandals? Out For Fame takes an artistic approach to the subject of Cleveland graffiti and those who keep it alive. |
| Panic in Valley City | Antonio Harper, Abby Burton | Awakened to muffled voices and piercing light, a panic stricken couple crawl into the New Year. |
| Parker: A Spider-Verse Fan Film | Johnny Wu | Our story starts with an aged Peter Parker, who no longer desires to help anyone after the death of MJ. Parker moves away and living the rest of his life in solitude. |
| Piece by Piece: Ari's Story of Recovery | Michael Skinner, Jon Michael Shink | "Piece by Piece" is an animated short story about one mother's journey to recovery and empowerment. |
| Place du Souvenir | Gwendolyn Bueche | A college art student struggles to find his voice in his artwork |
| Polter | Álvaro Vicario | José faces a paranormal event that breaks into his home. As he fights for his life against the supernatural powers, Jose will have to discover the secret behind the phenomena if he wishes to regain control of his home. |
| Polychrome (Starts with a Kiss) | Sammy Patterson | Escapism Entanglements |
| Possession | Emily Wilson | Three girls perform a seance, which ultimately goes wrong. |
| Real Love | Christine Zivic | A man, on a date with a mannequin, must come to terms with reality. |
| Red Watch | David Kennedy | In this snappy spoken-word short film saturated in primary colours, a woman recites an unrequited goodbye to her ex-boyfriend’s red watch. |
| Remembering Willie Earle | Thomas Espy, Stevie Jefferis, Cassie Harding, Frank Carroll | 70 years ago, Willie Earle was taken from a jail in Pickens, South Carolina and murdered by a mob for a crime that he may not have committed. Now, his childhood friend AQ remembers, in a community that wants to forget. |
| Roberto | Carmen Córdoba González | 15 years have passed and Roberto is still in love with his neighbor, but she prefers to hide ashamed of her body. With his art and an old clothesline as the only ways of communication, Roberto has a plan to push his beloved to face her monsters at once. |
| Sam & Emma | Vanessa Leigh | When their love wanes after a miscarriage, two heartbroken women try to piece together their relationship, highlighting the hardship and dysfunction that can arise from trauma and grief. |
| Saying Goodbye | Brian Lachowski | A young woman soon becomes haunted by the mysterious entity that killed her best friend. |
| Scout Master's First Day | Patrick Donahoe | An aspiring scoutmaster must keep his first scout out of trouble to secure the funds he needs to start his own troop. |
| Seek | Anthony Stengel, Jaime Cruz | A man in a forest, tortured by flashes of war and the joy of a child, must overcome his own demons and find a clearing before it's too late. |
| Sensor | Brian L Tan | Haunted by his experiences from the war, a Vietnam Veteran has had enough. Placing motion sensors around his property, he's decided to face his demons once and for all. |
| Shutdown | Cindy Lartigue, Victoria Durand, Amandine Bouetard, Chloé Gomez | At the very heart of a funfair stuck in time, a man goes in search of his loved one. This painful journey, between joy caught under the stone and the deafening silence of solitude, will make him face the truth. |
| Smoking | Foster Vernon | Cigarettes, Saxophones, Guitars and Goth Girls. |
| Something Scary | Joe Abriatis | A storybook-for-adults exploration of the fear of the unknown. |
| Special Delivery | John McPhail | A young delivery driver struggles with one simple direction: DO NOT OPEN THE BOX. |
| Spurs and Dolls | Kinsley Funari, Josh Miller | Our story begins in your typical Wild West stand-off. But as our our hero Deputy challenges The Brimstone Kid, it starts to become obvious this shoot off will be anything but typical. |
| Strange Noises | Pauline Nowakowski | Two teenage brothers house and dog sit their grandmothers home while she is in the hospital. Deme, the younger brother finds his grandmothers house unsettling, especially when he begins to hear stange noises. |
| Summer, 16 | Vahan Bedelian | While playing Pokémon Go and driving, a reckless gamer runs over a mysterious creature. But when he gets out to inspect the damage, he is pulled away by the sight of an in-game lure that has been set down a dark alley. |
| Superbois | Jon Mancinetti | An indie filmmaker discovers his full potential by making a superhero movie with his brother, a young man with autism. |
| Tea Time | Tara Price | While having a tea party, a little girl loses her temper and things get bloody. |
| Test Flight | Emma Momoko Frew | A bunny witch attempts to get her vegetable themed broomstick to fly. |
| The Boat Launch | Rob Motoc, Tim Hale | Blaze has gotten lazy when it comes to his relationship. His girlfriend is fed up. He receives a magical necklace that transforms him into the guy that his girlfriend wants. Will this new guy be enough to fix their relationship? |
| The Brick House in the Wind | Sangsun Choi | A short documentary about a family's life with three children as immigrants. |
| The Cookie | Derek Champnella | A husband and wife battle for the last snack. |
| The Echoing of Fire & Life | Judit Samper Albero | The Moors and Christians Festival of Biar recalls the conflict between the Almohads, a Moorish people, and the troops of King James I of Aragon The Conqueror which took place in the year 1245. |
| The Gift | Pauls Dombrovskis | A young boy witnesses his Mother's sorrow as his Father leaves, and utilises his magical talent to bring joy to her life. Realising he is a constant reminder of their past life, he uses his gift one last time. |
| The Gift | Jacintha Charles | A girl with uncommonly large ears is bullied at school, but finds solace in her friendship with a crow in the woods. She feeds the bird everyday and in exchange it presents her with gifts, until a violent encounter at school causes their ritual to take an unsettling turn. |
| The Girl Who Cried Ghost | Emily Wilson | Two sisters are home alone, or so they think. When the younger of the two goes into the basement to retrieve a soda, she sees a “ghost”. |
| The Last Slice | Ankur Singh, Cai Thomas | Episode one of a three part series. Susan Stoker is the owner of Godfather's Pizza that's forced to close after 52 years when their landlord increases their rent. |
| The Little Tea Shop | Matteo Servente, Molly J. Wexler | While the evolution of downtown Memphis has ebbed and flowed over the past hundred years, The Little Tea Shop restaurant, founded by two women in 1918, has been a constant. The welcoming feeling fostered at The Little Tea Shop encourages relationships that in turn create connections and opportunities. |
| The Maroon Bomber | Joshua M. Thomas | Four siblings delve into the love they share for the family’s old, beat up truck. This love gets tested. |
| The Mirror | Leila Murton Poole | Mathilde, a mute French orphan, helps to protect Madame B, the most superstitious lady in the world, from all bad luck. Both have developed their own coping mechanisms to deal with extreme loss. When Mathilde breaks Madame B’s most prized possession, a magical mirror, she goes on a journey to fix it. |
| The Payback | Carl Schlacht | The only way out is to get in deeper. |
| The Prize | Johnny Wu | When two friends find out their love interest is the same lady, they find a way to get her back... More than a belt on the line. |
| The Retribution | Evelyn Smits | A strange humming sound may bring on the rapture via the children of the world. |
| The Shartist | Paul Francis Zegarac | Francois attempts to bring Diarrheart to America. |
| The Stand In | James Dayton | A fake date between two friends takes a turn when real emotions start to emerge. |
| The Tell Tale Heart | McClain Lindquist | Edgar Allan Poe's "The Tell Tale Heart" is considered the first Psychological Thrillers ever penned. His classic tale has been re-visioned in this gruesome, mind-bending, descent into madness. |
| NEUL未知ND (The Unknown) | Eddie Shieh | A conflicted American-Born-Chinese waitress meets a mysterious man and is drawn into an unimaginable circumstance. |
| The Voice in the Night | Gabe Schmidt | A mysterious voice sends one man on a perilous journey. |
| The Way To Snow | Fong Win | Run Lin is taking charge of the orange garden left by his mother. |
| The Wolf | M.r. Fitzgerald | A damaged vigilante returns to her old cult to rescue other prisoners and end the nightmares of her traumatic upbringing, but upon reuniting with a long lost childhood friend she must confront the aftermath of their cult leader's abuse once and for all. |
| There He is Now | Jörg Viktor Steins-Lauss | A creature lurks in her mind. Maybe that's a good thing. |
| TrainFish | Christian Ewald | Majorie loves the ocean, but has never actually seen it. In regular therapy sessions she tries to overcome her fear of trains. When she buys a goldfish that seems to share her longing for the ocean, she slowly starts to face her past. |
| Transmissions | Robert Tejada | A young woman believes she is a targeted individual. |
| Trick or Bleat | Evan Gloyd, Jimmy McDonald | Gabby is a young wannabe mechanic, who has just moved into a new neighborhood in the suburbs of Maryland. On Halloween Night, she encounters a slew of trick-or-treaters, one of which tells her of a local legend called the Goatman. Soon enough, a violent masked intruder, who bears an eerie resemblance to the mythical Goatman, breaks into her home. It’s up to Gabby to fend off this psychotic aggressor and survive the night, using only her wit and determination. |
| Trouble for Miles | Jamin Scotti | A young girl recounts her traumatic death, while navigating a purgatory fashioned for the Digital Age. |
| Virtually in Love | Dean Parker | With the help of his operating system, a socially anxious man tries to make a romantic connection during the most disconnected time in history. |
| We Agree on the Sun | Jonah Belsky, Amelia Tierney | Poetry and movement combine to investigate the intersection of dance, somatic awareness, and houselessness. |
| We Hear Running | Karine Dashney | How two family members cope in isolation when the world has gone awry. |
| Wedding Officiant | Hõbe Ilus, Mihkel Oksmann | Love is patient. Love is kind. But if you’re in a hurry, call Lennys! He’s been riding the subway for 20 years marrying couples of all creeds and none. A day can include five or more ceremonies, some in superhero costume and some even behind bars. In this feel-good documentary, we explore an unseen side of New York, following Lennys as he travels to and from weddings, serving a diversity of clients and sharing his wit and wisdom. |
| When Letters Met Barbara Enright | Lewis Eyers-Stott | Short biopic of Australian sign, showcard and ticket writer Barbara Enright. This is the fourth short film in the 'When Better Letters Met' series. |
| Wind Chimes | Pauline Nowakowski | Simone prepares for her best friends 50th Birthday - it's more than just birthday. |
| Woodsman: Blood Battle | Dr. Scott E. Brosius | Woodsman and Mountain Man prepare new Glenn to box Satan and defeat him... BLOOD BATTLE. |
| WYD | Jocelyn Lane | A girl finds herself home alone and dreaming about her newfound freedom. |
| Your Heart is Mine | Jake Whiston | Haunted by visions of his mother, a young man grapples with his mental health as he confronts his father for the truth of her death. |