Learning to Love Your Demon in 8 Stages – directed by Scarlett Love Stitt
A clown fashion film about recovery. The self encounters the inner demon for the first time, and takes the audience on a journey from terror to acceptance in a silent film about the perils of self discovery.
Stealing The Show – directed by Olivia Parauda
When a failed child star swallows her pride and joins an improv troupe in her hometown, she attempts to mend her career by stealing her high school rival’s pilot script.
Olive – directed by Tom Koch
While caring for his grandmother, Sam begins to question the nature of their relationship.
A Bird Came Down – directed by Heather von Rohr
Novice Brooklyn birdwatcher Sylvie is pregnant and single and falling for a nomadic nature writer, Gus, who will soon be following the migrating birds north. When they go back to his place after a day of birding, it becomes clear the feeling is mutual — but do they have a future together?
Grace and the Red Glow – directed by Lizzy Plimpton
During her final night of pregnancy, an 18-year-old girl named Grace, alone in the sweltering city and haunted by dreams of the future, finds comfort in the surprising kindness of two strangers — Shai, the salty owner of her local bodega, and Red, a tough city kid. While Grace’s nightmare ultimately proves prophetic, the little community she’s discovered allows her to face it with strength and courage.
Sinai – directed by Yuri Baranovsky
After centuries of trauma, a Jewish man decides he no longer wants to be Jewish anymore. But when neither a Rabbi nor a white supremacist accept his “resignation,” he seeks help from more magical sources…
A Guest in My Country – directed by John Gray
An immigrant Ubër driver takes an upscale couple across town, and the drama that unfolds among them reveals truths they all would have preferred stayed hidden.
The Singers – directed by Sam Davis
Oscar winner for Best Live-Action Short film of the 98th Academy Awards, a genre-bending film adaptation of a 19th-century short story written by Ivan Turgenev, in which a lowly pub full of downtrodden men connect unexpectedly through an impromptu sing-off.
With a cast comprised of first-time actors from the unlikeliest corners of TikTok and YouTube, the film is a celebration of diamonds in the rough and a testament to the power of vulnerability through art.