Frangipani: The Short Film

A working class musician struggles to fund his own dreams. We follow his story where he navigates feelings of grief, loss and small glimmers of hope.

A grief-stricken young woman, plagued by sleep paralysis and the mysterious beings that haunt her visions, finds that she has more demons to face than just those lurking in her bedroom.

After stagnating with his music, Peder goes to a party to take a break. A girl at the party pays him attention, and he gets something to write about.

Law enforcement officers Adam Mitchell, Nathan Hayes, and their partners stand up to the worst the streets have to offer with confidence and focus. Yet at the end of the day, they face a challenge that none of them are truly prepared to tackle: fatherhood. They know that God desires to turn the hearts of fathers to their children, but their children are beginning to drift further and further away from them. When tragedy hits home, these men are left wrestling with their hopes, their fears, their faith, and their fathering. Can a newfound urgency help these dads draw closer to God... and to their children?

The day of her 19 years old, Erin discovers that she can travel exactly one year through time using her polaroid photos. Knowing this, she tries to warn her dead twin brother, Sam, about his looming fate...

AMNESIA

After receiving a phone call, a man feels his inner world come to a standstill. Recalling the event decades later, he relives how everything changed in that moment and reflects on how quickly his life has passed and how his reality was constructed by all the things he repeated to himself like a mantra.

A mysterious accident has separated Jaap from his beloved Rose, but they continue to talk to each other in their minds and dreams. As Jaap struggles to come to terms with what happened, his best friend JP suggests they travel to France to visit Rose and unravel the mystery. During their journey JP unveils a secret which forces Jaap to face the truth about Rose.

Sent spiraling after the unexpected discovery of his girlfriend's suicide, Liam sifts through the memories of their relationship that he now must reinterpret.

Set in France during the mid-1970s, Vanessa, a former dancer, and her husband Roland, an American writer, travel the country together. They seem to be growing apart, but when they linger in one quiet, seaside town they begin to draw close to some of its more vibrant inhabitants, such as a local bar/café-keeper and a hotel owner.

On the day of his wife's funeral, a widower can't catch a break.

"The Boy Of The Fish" follows Noon, a young boy living in a Syrian refugee camp, who finds solace and a sense of freedom in a whale-shaped doll he names "Bahr." Set against the challenging realities of camp life, Noon’s journey is both a story of resilience and a testament to the boundless imagination of childhood. Through vivid symbolism and a unique soundscape, the film explores themes of loss, hope, and the longing for freedom amidst confinement. Shot entirely on an iPhone due to restrictions in the conflict zone, the film combines raw authenticity with poetic depth to capture the emotional landscape of a young soul navigating adversity.

A young widow still grieving over the death of her husband finds herself being comforted by a local housepainter.

A 10-year-old boy spends a summer in the country with a childless couple and a precocious girl.

Damian, grieving his girlfriend's death, travels through Mexico seeking solace. Along the way, he connects with strangers and witnesses their coping rituals, finding a path through his own memories and regrets.

Suffering debilitating grief from the passing of his best friend who introduced him to the world of dance, Derrick must confront a monster that seeks to separate him from everything he loves.

A woman struggling to cope with the death of her fiancé begins to suspect she might not be as alone as she thought.

KYRIE and SHAKA come from two different worlds. Kyrie insists that no one picks him up directly from his home in East Cleveland and Shaka, who is far more well off, is more than willing to flaunt what he has and throw out money on the newest games and sneakers. Still, they are best friends trying to get through life together. Kyrie struggles to come out to his best friend before leaving for college. Shaka doesn't know how to tell Kyrie that he is moving to a different state. It's a story about humanity, politics, fear, and its consequences, all told from the perspective of two teens in East Cleveland, Ohio.

As she swipes from adolescence to adulthood, chronically online @usernoname is finally confronted by notifications of all the situations she ignored, along with the thoughts she should have sent to people she no longer has contact with.

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