Once the One

Ana was born in São Miguel, an island in the middle of the Atlantic Ocean ruled by religion and traditions. Growing up as the middle child of a family of three with her mother and grandmother. Early Ana realized that girls and boys were given different tasks. Through her friendship with Luis, her queer best friend who loves dresses as much as pants, Ana questions the world that is promised to her. When her friend Cloé arrives from Canada, bringing with her the glowing days of youth, Ana embarks on a journey that will take her beyond the horizon.

Just before a mysterious catastrophic event ends the human race, two very different individuals come together to discuss themselves, their lives and what the end of existence truly means to them, the planet, and everything on it.

“No Bruises” is a narrative short film that explores the cyclical nature of emotional abuse, played out in vignette-style glimpses into one man’s relationships with three different women over time.

Küçük Balıklar Üzerine Bir Masal

A young girl is trying to relate to her grandmother's death which quickly becomes more than a personal loss.

Gereja di Seberang Sana

An anxious teen hopes to scam some money from her estranged father, but their imperfect relationship reaches a breaking point when he arrives but doesn't look at all like she remembered.

A man attempts to operate a mysterious device, but with each attempt comes a new set of problems.

Paco Chavez's life is careless and charming. It's a life of illicit drugs and a forbidden love affair he carries with Lucia, his former high school sweetheart, now married to another man. One night, Paco and his younger brother Luis, enter their parent's home to steal a porcelain horse to pawn in order to score more drugs. Their father catches them and a fight ensues. The consequences of that fight will haunt both brothers forever.

An expressionless man drives along a sterile freeway. Unaware of his concrete and steel surroundings he is consumed by the surface of his world. But is he so consumed that he is unable to see what’s underneath?

Gabriel Kahane's deeply personal feature debut chronicles a lawbreaking teenager (Justin Mark) forced to work at a wig shop for cancer patients owned by the warm-hearted Susan (Catherine Curtin), where he befriends a guarded woman (Holly Heiser) who irreversibly alters the course of his life. It's a film that gives an honest peek into the often bleak (albeit exceedingly human) Upstate existence of Benji, his drug addicted, alcoholic mother, absentee father, and the others in his orbit.

Flo is sick of living with her father who is always on her back after flo did a bad unknown thing to a girl at school, so she hatches a plan to manipulate the people around her so she can live with her mother but is her mother who left her when flo was young the picture perfect person flo thinks she is.

Pepijn

A couple is stuck in an escape room, and a failing relationship, with no way out.

Protagonist is faced with an internalized feeling that emerges in a moment in memory

Two childhood friends reunite after years of being apart. They have both gone through some tough times and are looking to re-live the good times. However, things take a dark turn when they fall into the world of drugs alcohol and relationships with bad people. One friend is struggling with addiction and the other is in a toxic relationship. They must navigate through this world together and try to come out on the other side to save their sanity and their lives.

Scummo the Kid and his partner in crime Aaron Kinsella are force to leave town, again, but this time notorious bounty hunter Dean Taaffee is hot on their tail.

After the death of her mother, a young girl finds her strength and reconnects to her world.

Retalhos

A Chinese Canadian son sets out to make a film on his mother, who was once known as the first ever Chinese Opera Singer to have performed Pingju Opera in English in late 1980's China.