Premortem

Seeking fulfillment, a young drifter forgoes isolation to embark on a year-long murder spree.

A sensationalist television show unravels the sordid story of Luciano Fernández and analyzes the possible motives that led him to murder a child. (Inspired by a real event that occurred in the forest of Verrières, Paris, on May 27th, 1964.)

A lost soul stumbles drunken through the city. In a park, Death finds him and shows him many things.

A broke Brit tries to pick-up girls, earn some money and navigate Los Angeles.

Set in an abstraction of 1970s London, Amaranthine tells a tale of punks, betrayal and revenge.

Over a devastating night, a couple grapples with memories from the Gulf War.

While his marriage is falling apart, a cocky journalist is worried about environmental pollution.

U.S. Ambassador Henry Morgenthau risks his job and his reputation by leaking memos to the New York Times and becoming the first whistleblower of the Armenian Genocide. (Based on "Ambassador Morgenthau's Story" by Henry Morgenthau)

Slobodan meets his father Nenad for the first time in twenty-five years to discuss signing over the deed of the house, which Nenad wants to leave him. Their relationship has been strained ever since Nenad left Croatia during the war in the nineties.

A Chinese "study mama" considers her daughter Nana as her everything, sometimes her fantasy world. But after having a fight this morning, she finds Nana's missing.

Yuan needs to sell her grandma's house to pay her bills but suddenly finds something in her grandma's kitchen.

An idle, Arab American stoner discovers a portal to the war memories of his mother's past while doing the laundry chore.

A self-portrait short film on 16mm from a trans male perspective.

A desperate father tries his best to wake up his wife who's in a coma.

Daydream Therapy is set to Nina Simone’s haunting rendition of “Pirate Jenny” and concludes with Archie Shepp’s “Things Have Got to Change.” Filmed in Burton Chace Park in Marina del Rey by activist-turned-filmmaker Bernard Nicolas as his first project at UCLA, this short film poetically envisions the fantasy life of a hotel worker whose daydreams provide an escape from workplace indignities. —Allyson Nadia Field

A young man recruits a film student to help him prove the existence of an urban legend.

A make-or-break audition for Todd Wieczorek, an LA-based actor, forces him to confront his troubled past.

A young man living with his parents in Wisconsin comes face to face with a terrifying monster while searching for the elusive cryptic known as the Hodag.

Sky and Kim were childhood friends until an unexpected death pushed put their relationship in turmoil. As their friends try to get them to reconcile their differences, an event causes them to fight for their lives, together.

A social worker recounts the case of Ella Jackson, a girl who sees a man standing behind her in the mirror