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In a nightclub, reminiscent of a 1980s photo-novel, a band is playing requests. The texts play with pop clichés about life and true love. Until a dissatisfied customer can’t take it anymore and reveals the universal truth.

The world of film and television is mad about dead young women: thrillers and crime dramas present a succession of attractive, partially clad female corpses. In this dance film, Amanda Kramer takes us into a cardboard factory that logs such corpses, complete with torn stockings and photogenic fake blood.

After witnessing a murder in the gritty streets of 1950s Manhattan, newlyweds Suze and Arthur become the dangerous obsession of a greaser gang that awakens a sleeping quandary into the couple's sexual identity.

Two siblings share an unhealthy life full of games and codes; however, their peaceful life is interrupted when a doppelgänger appears out of nowhere.

After a catastrophic event, eight girls find themselves stranded in a house without electricity. As they run out of food and water, their sanity begins to crumble, and soon they regress to their baser instincts.

Hiding Henry was the very best at hide and go seek. Then, one day in the 90's, he was never found again. Thirty years later...

Living unhoused near a flea market, two kids spend their days lifting small items from the pockets of strangers-a wallet, a watch, a comb-for fun and for their survival, until the rules catch up with them.

A man minding his business is stalked by a stranger

In a rural community in Central Oregon, Sprague, a quiet and guarded young trans man, seeks to carve a life. He spends his days working on his property — immersed in a place that offers freedom and isolation. Solitude has always been a form of protection, a way of surviving in a place where visibility carries risk. When he meets Mack, an older community member who extends an unexpected hand of friendship, Sprague finds himself at a crossroad — connection or safety. Sprague’s presence unsettles Wayne, a suspicious and territorial neighbor whose watchful eye makes clear that acceptance requires strategy. As pressure mounts, Sprague must decide whether to remain guarded within the safety of isolation or risk taking up space within this community.

An elliptical, layered psychological horror that brings together multiple storylines which intersect in complex ways. Embedded within these narrative threads are topics salient to the documentary/non-fiction field: the afterlives of images of war and their fictional representation; the potential tokenization of subjects, stories, and makers by the industry; and the ethical dilemmas arising from the commercialization of the stock footage market.

INTERVENE is a surreal, hypnogogic parable about an unstable young man whose family feeds his madness by staging religious visions.

From the park bench where they first met, a young couple uses their love for each other and a magical spell to summon a galactic deity who will grant them a wish. When they recite the spell's magic words and the result isn’t what they imagined, they find a crack in their once solid relationship that threatens to undo everything. Also, there’s the matter of an intergalactic war between good and evil…

In an anachronistic dystopian landscape, a beleaguered young man attempts to navigate his way through the indie film scene in LA.