Eva Louise Hall
A struggling accordionist busker gets more than she bargained for when her desire to get noticed attracts the attention of a mysterious and enticing competitor.
WINNER: Kyle Novak
After their flight is grounded, two strangers agree to an anonymous tryst as their new travel plans are arranged. When the brief encounter wanes to an end, the impermanence of their time together is mirrored by something greater.
Radheya Jegatheva
A lonely seagull looking for love struggles to accept that his newfound object of affection is a human-operated drone with a limited battery life.
Paul Robinson
Resource without recourse is the creation of extinction. Change cannot be sustained without action, intention is merely a fraction of transformation. Source is our breath, and depletion inescapable.
Lisa Kenney
MC mastermind Poppy and her beatboxing border terrier Snoop are the new kids in town – and they’re ready to make their reputation known. Straight As and bubble baths are their way of life – but when confronted by an older crew en-route to her first day at school, Poppy quickly changes her tune.
Katniss Tung Cheng & Salvador Alejandro Gutiérrez
A new mother's descent into darkness is triggered by the arrival of a mysterious wayfarer.
Farah Jabir
A middle-aged Pakistani housewife, in search of herself, hires a young, self-assured sex worker to keep her company for the night.
Natalia Bermúdez
Renata, a young and talented swimmer, has a secret relationship with her swimming coach Liliana. When the state competition approaches, the line between love and abuse becomes more blurry as Renata’s place in the competition is jeopardized by the pair’s dark game of power.
Muangthai Sarupkarn
Stigma looks back at one of the most brutal family homicides in Thailand’s history, perpetrated a decade ago in the Bangkok metropolis and described as a 'cold-blooded' and racially motivated act.
WINNER: Raheem Razak
In what seems to be a zombie-infested world, devoted son Sam must tend to his zombie mother while surviving the zombie apocalypse himself. Sam’s relationship with his mother will find itself tested, in turn revealing to him the reality of the predicament he finds himself in.
Bruno Sena
Collapse is a compelling short film that sheds light on the urgent issue of water pollution. Through a powerful visual narrative, viewers witness the devastating consequences of human negligence as a fish tank becomes a metaphor for our planet's deteriorating ecosystems. As individuals pass by, discarding plastic waste and pollution, their justifications echo common misconceptions and attitudes towards environmental responsibility. As the water turns murky and the fish vanish, the film serves as a stark reminder of the collective impact of individual actions on our environment.
Montgomery Taylor
For the first time, witness a bank robbery from an angle you’ve never seen before. In this intense drama, see what it takes for someone to pursue a life of crime and ask yourself: what would I do for my friends and family?
WINNER: Cristian Daniel
Through a corridor passage, there is something unsettling. A dark basement, a mysterious window - with no knowledge of what lies there, we keep walking. Why is our instinct to go towards the unknown? Are we puppets of our own minds?
Rana Ramy
ABOVE/ZERO is a journey through the relationship between light, space, and subject, in an attempt to configure one's existence within the light.
Muzamil Bhat
Polite Waters depicts the challenges faced by communities whose livelihood depends on bodies of water, such as Wular Lake, for fishing and extraction of lotus stem and water-chestnut, highlighting the impact of man-made pollution and climate change on these environments.