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2024
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Narrative Short Competition
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22 min
Niamh Sauter-Cooke
A Rotten Woman
One day, Alice, a neurotic Kindergarten teacher, discovers tiny mushrooms growing on her…
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Alexandre Isabelle
A Toi Les Oreilles
While the townsfolk are celebrating the village's anniversary parade, Étienne tries the…
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Haley Z. Boston
Beach Logs Kill
In this nightmarish queer awakening story set at a high school football game, the star…
21 min
Lilliya Scarlett Reid
Bits
"Bits" follows a young woman in small town Montana who catches the attention of a serial…
8 min
Sandy Honig
Caller Number Nine!
A telemarketer with a severe anger problem accidentally calls into a radio show. He wins…
15 min
Kailee McGee
Can
Filmmaker Kailee McGee’s world turns sideways with a late-stage breast cancer diagnosis.…
14 min
Anthony Saxe
Dissolution
Dissolution is a film chronicling my parents’ divorce after forty-eight years of…
15 min
Ward Kamel
If I Die in America
According to Muslim practice, burial ought to occur within 24 hours of death — so after…
11 min
Jim Cummings
The Last Brunch
Sometimes you don't realize how thirsty you are until it's right in front of you.
11 min
Jean Liu
Learning English
Hannah’s first week in the US isn’t going as expected. Rejected by everyone she meets,…
16 min
Alyssa Loh
Let
Mia, an isolated law student in New York, is compulsively drawn to self-harm and pain.…
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Nicole Chi
Los Mosquitos
Aby, a 15-year-old Honduran teen, navigates the complexities of her life in the US…
14 min
Benoît Le Rouzès Ménard
My Tomato Heart
Madeleine is forced to quit her position at the neighborhood grocery store. Except that…
13 min
Dimitri Simakis
The Rainbow Bridge
Tina and her elderly dog MeeMoo discover a clinic promising human-to-pet communication.…
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Isa Schieche
The Robbers
Three trans women meet in a country house to plan a robbery. The trick of the heist is…
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Kate Jean Hollowell
Say Hi After You Die
Bestfriends Gloria and Ruby are bonded through gossip and potty humor. At a lunch they…
17 min
Nez Khammal
See It Say It
Mo is a hopeful Arab actor in his struggle-filled youth, residing in London with his wife…
15 min
Renee Zhan
Shé (Snake)
Fei is the top violinist in her elite youth orchestra. When another Chinese violinist…
14 min
Emma Foley
Sound and Colour
Hannah returns home to face her dysfunctional and emotionally repressed family after her…
15 min
Sam Cutler-Kreutz, David Cutler-Kreutz
Trapped
Trapped follows the story of Joaquin, a highschool janitor at the prestigious Hallston…
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Adebukola "Buki" Bodunrin
We Are Not Alone
Wumni, a reclusive young Nigerian immigrant, becomes convinced that a mysterious object…
