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Using textiles and technology as complimentary materials to understand our sense of self through our interactions with tactile surfaces. Employing deliberate construction techniques of sloppiness and glitchiness allows for an exploration of non-linear experiences of time, body and relationships, and how concepts of ‘failure’ in terms of gender and textile proficiency create a space to perform and reject binary hierarchies of skill, value and power.

A short film by Abdullah Habib, shot in New York City.

An attempt to understand climate change through the production of human food; a few drawings to describe our world. This animation is the result of a workshop held with 15 children from the Limette School in Brussels during the festival Filming for the Climate.

After being arrested, young Lobna spends the night in an interrogation room.

They are told never to tell anyone about themselves in order to appear normal and not be rejected by society. There is an inner tension and fear growing inside the characters. They are intersex people, but there is not much information about LGBT+ in Russian. One day everything changes, and they decide to tell the world about themselves, that intersex people exist, and there are millions of them.

A fast paced buddy comedy/fantasy about two nerds, their special mateship and their love for Star Wars.

Does humanity exist in our world?

The young Chinese animator also known as “Ray” Lei crafts a hallucinatory short that follows a doe-eyed protagonist on a quest through an imagined world.

A filmmaker takes revenge on a festival that has rejected her year after year. But her revenge will not be bitter, cruel or violent. Instead she will use emotional manipulation to prove a point.

Tropical Recife. A Dutch architect is there to study colonial past - or is she looking for erotic freedom? An actress who wants more professional opportunities than Recife can offer. A musician, who revels in melancholy self-flagellation and hatred for the city he can't do without. A tragic love triangle of romantic young people.

A ghost is drawn to the deathbed of her unrequited love in order to say what went unsaid in life.

A young octopus learns the solemn story of mankind's extinction and how their greatest achievements were buried on the ocean floor. An animated companion film to Southland Tales.

In this densely layered work, Ramos explores his cultural and personal heritage through a collage of recorded and appropriated footage. Juxtaposing African and American landscapes, personal and media imagery, he traces a spiritual and physical journey that moves from from Harlem to Goree Island, Cape Verde and Tanzania. In a forceful portrait of cultural disenfranchisement that refers to the African diaspora and the bitter harvest sown by slavery, he challenges the veracity of mass cultural images of African-Americans.

Official Selection Palm Springs International ShortsFest, Slamdance: Anarchy Shorts, Raindance Film Festival A magical-realist detective story sprawling across the frozen Brooklyn expanse. An underemployed, young drunk crawls out of bed to find his missing friend while a mysterious disease called “the blank” ravages the city and a giant conqueror worm crawls along the sky.

This is What a Feminist Sounds Like is the story of 80 year old social activist Pat Noonan and it is a guided tour of the burgeoning of woman's rights and gender equality in North America during the twentieth century, set in the small automotive town of Windsor, Ontario.

Reflexive piece satirizing the formulaic structure of melodrama where the filmmaker and actors explain the cinematic techniques as they are happening (actually instead of them happening).

Devran, a 23-year old transman, has left his home in western Azerbaijan to seek hormonal therapy for gender adaptation surgery. But in Azerbaijan, few doctors or health clinics are willing to treat transgender people. While there are more options in the capital Baku than in his hometown of Shamkir, Devran still faces prejudice and discrimination when trying to obtain even basic medical treatment.

Against a background, and in pointed black and white, the act of kissing is foregrounded. An extended set of women -- a range of ages, races, sizes and types -- embrace and smile and smooch to an evocative, romantic soundtrack.

A history of New York City from Prehistoric times through the Space Age, composed entirely from documentary street footage.