GCW Tournament of Survival 11

After a sudden terminal cancer diagnosis, a teacher and her factory worker husband work to save their marriage from the teetering edge of divorce.

In an elegant country house, Luisa and her husband Derlis organize a dinner with old friends. The event promises to be a celebration of reunion but quickly turns into an emotional battlefield when memories of the past reveal a web of secrets and lies that would put their friendship at risk.

Trapped in a toxic relationship, Marcos discovers the effort it takes to heal and move forward.

Safe Place

A film student from Long Island, who cut his dying father’s cough out of the home movies at thirteen, spends four years filming everyone but himself — until one festival slot, a rival’s film, and the footage he’s been cutting force him to choose between the safe version and the true one.

An extravagant, exotic and moving look at Rembrandt's romantic and professional life, and the controversy he created by the identification of a murderer in the painting The Night Watch.

In this short film the director reflects on the feeling of being on the wrong path in your life, that you have no control over your own life. But coming to the conclusion, it's life, we all go through it, and without these moments of fall we don't learn to live.

In the land of Duffyville, Jim Duffy is the unquestioned battle master. While in the process of training his younger brother Slim to become his successor, his title is challenged by local scoundrel J.T. Smash.

A cynical claymation artist gets a special camera that changes the way he sees the world.

Set 6 months before the events of "The Gifted", Barbara and Vicky find themselves in Las Vegas to clean up loose ends of the past, propelling them toward their fate that is foreseen by a woman named Chica.

We follow a woman who is craving a cigarette, only to realise that her lighter is missing. This small inconvenience spirals into frustration as she searches for it.

One morning, an elderly woman grappling with Alzheimer’s awakens, gazes into the mirror, and, confronted with a stranger’s reflection, embarks on a poignant quest to rediscover the face she has carried through a lifetime, now altered overnight.

During the Tang Dynasty, Prince Jian Li Yong conspired with the corrupt minister Ma Lifu to exploit the emperor's critical illness. They placed Crown Prince Li Chun under house arrest and seized control of the court, plotting a coup. General Lin Yan of the Imperial Guards and Chen Li, the chief constable of the Nine Gates, found themselves entangled in this dangerous conspiracy. Compelled to act alone, Lin Yan embarked on a perilous mission to rescue the imprisoned crown prince. Utilizing her extraordinary martial skills, she executed a daring nighttime prison break, narrowly escaping death in the process.

Plastic Chairs follows Dylan, a recovering addict forced back into a support meeting by his sister after a near-fatal overdose. There, he meets Tom — a man further along the same path, who recognises his own past in Dylan and quietly offers understanding rather than judgment. As stories are shared and silences linger, the film observes the difficult, often invisible act of choosing to stay. Plastic Chairs is an intimate short film about relapse, accountability, and the courage it takes to show up for yourself when it feels impossible. Chloe Webb makes her directorial debut.

One room, a reporter, and a convicted criminal. What begins as an interview turns into a tense face-off that exposes a chilling truth.

Harlem Fragments is an Afro-futurist scrapbook storytelling of a Harlem Black family's beautiful destruction during the 2008 recession. A natural disaster so mesmerizing you can't look away from the tragedy. Based on true events- The film explores the haunting societal pressures of achieving the Black American dream, told in the POV of 10 year old TJ revisiting his family's home that's up for sale. By empowering this Black boy in this film with the agency to imagine, TJ, through his own journey, finds a way to process and come to terms with his family's divorce. It's important for every Black child out there enduring the same foreign emotions to know that it's okay to feel them, and affirm that there is a future trajectory forward out of the initial destruction.

On a rare day off, a mother and her son make the most of their time together, until an unexpected call turns everything upside down.

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‘Onobiren: A Woman’s Story,’ follows Roli, a young woman who arrives in Lagos from Warri under the shadow of tradition and expectation. What begins as a familiar narrative quickly transforms when she chooses a different path, one driven by purpose, survival, and self-discovery.

Two old friends have been betting on the football pool since college. They meet up one weekend where everyone seems happy, but the possibility of hitting the jackpot and becoming millionaires grows increasingly real.