Monday, November 9 at 7 pm 2020, USA, Director: Janae Kim: Producers: Janae Kim and Antonio Scarpitta; 60 min. Antonio is a middle-aged editor who decides to take a risk and pursue his interest in standup comedy. This heart-warming documentary follows Antonio as he signs up for a comedy class Read more…
Friday, November 6 at 10 am & Tuesday, November 10 at 1 pm 2019, USA, Director: Matthew Suppes, Producers: Soken Sai and Thomas Barreiros; 26 min. Nori, a quiet man with few friends, works for a company that cleans the homes of people who have died lonely deaths. When Nori Read more…
Friday, November 6 at 10 am & Tuesday, November 10 at 1 pm 2020, USA, Director: Barbara Stepansky, Producers: Sarah Ivy, Ben Scantlin, and Barbara Stepansky; 17 min. On what should be the happiest day of her life, Jane receives a visit from an unexpected guest who reveals a long-held Read more…
Friday, November 6 at 7 pm & Tuesday, November 10 at 7 pm 2019, Poland, Director: Małgorzata Imielska, Producer: Naima Film; 90 min. Seventeen-year-old tomboy Olka has two obsessions in life—making the Olympic track team and reuniting with her mother. After running away from her orphanage, Olka is sent to Read more…
AMAZING GRACE (Trailer) from Robert Craighead on Vimeo. Friday, November 6 at 10 am & Tuesday, November 10 at 1 pm 2020, USA, Director: Nina Brissey, Producers: Nina Brissey, Robert Craighead, Kevin Frost, and Geric Miller-Frost; 23 min. Meet Grace, a devoted daughter with a talent for using humor to Read more…
ANNA – Cannes Official Selection – trailer – Dir. Dekel Berenson [2019] from Dekel Berenson on Vimeo. Saturday, November 7 at 4 pm & Wednesday, November 11 at 10 am 2019, United Kingdom, Director: Dekel Berenson, Producers: Dekel Berenson, Olga Beskhmelnytsina, and Merlin Merton; 15 min. Life in war-torn, Eastern Read more…
Monday, November 9 at 7 pm 2019, USA, Director: Willa Rydall, Producer: Kayla Borkovec; 17 min. Summer is almost gone, and Anna and Sloane, both 13, gear up for a new year and a new school. Anna feels eager to leave childhood behind, but Sloane has her doubts about growing Read more…
Friday, November 6 at 4 pm & Tuesday, November 10 at 10 am 2019, Germany, Director: Andre Hoermann; Producer: Heike Kunze; 25 min. Ten-year-old Arshan wants to become a virtuoso opera singer, but his home in the picturesque mountain town of Ojai, CA is a world away from his dream Read more…
Ashmina Trailer #1 – Aspen Shortsfest – Dir. Dekel Berenson from Dekel Berenson on Vimeo. Sunday, November 8 at 1 pm & Monday, November 9 at 10 am 2018, United Kingdom, Director: Dekel Berenson, Producers: Dekel Berenson, Dominic Davey, and Merlin Merton; 15 min. Nestled between a beautiful lake and Read more…
Baba’s Next Chapter – A Documentary Trailer from Jamie C.X. Wang on Vimeo. Friday, November 6 at 1 pm & Monday, November 9 at 7 pm 2019, China, Director: Jamie C.X. Wang, Producer: Lionel M. Levine, Nicole N. Nequinto, and Jamie C.X. Wang; 10 min. An acclaimed philosophy professor has Read more…
Baby Kate Trailer from Jennifer Lafleur on Vimeo. Sunday, November 8 at 4 pm & Tuesday, November 10 at 10 am 2019, USA, Director: Jennifer Lafleur, Producers: Chelsea Bo, Sean Drummond, Jennifer Lafleur, and Ross Partridge; 12 min. Rebecca is a doting single mother who will do anything for her Read more…
Saturday, November 7 at 1 pm & Wednesday, November 11 at 10 am 2019, Denmark, Director: Mads Koudal, Producers: Christopher Jermiin Anker, Mellow, and Martin Rasmussen; 19 min. Birthe Rasmussen built her entire life around her disabled daughter, Karen. Now her ability to care for Karen is called into question. Read more…
Sunday, November 8 at 1 pm & Monday, November 9 at 10 am 2020, USA, Director: Patrick Smith; Producer: Kaori Ishida; 3 min. What do masks say about a people? The answers are as numerous as the cultures that produce them. Using the varied masks of Noh theater as a Read more…
Friday, November 6 at 7 pm & Tuesday, November 10 at 7 pm 2020, Iran, Director: Mojgan Bayat, Producer: Mohamad Najibi; 84 min. A young refugee from war-torn Yemen is rescued by an Iranian sea captain and entrusted to a local family. Under the care of Azerou and her parents, Read more…
Monday, November 9 at 1 pm 2020, USA, Director: Olivia Adelman, Producer: Miles Robertson; 9 min. Nine years ago, Barbara Handel was sexually assaulted. In the aftermath, she has battled depression, shame, and substance abuse. As Barbara learns more about sexuality through psychology courses and explores her trauma through therapy Read more…
Sunday, November 8 at 7 pm & Monday, November 9 at 1 pm 2019, Iran, Director: Atefeh Rahmani, Producer: Hamidreza Zobeir; 25 min. A teenage girl helps her family pay for her sister’s wedding using money from her work as a model. Unable to reveal the source of her income Read more…
Saturday, November 7 at 1 pm & Wednesday, November 11 at 10 am 2018, Germany, Director: Andre Hoermann, Producer: Heike Kunze; 15 min. Fourteen-year-old Crowley has gone through a lot in his young life. His older brother Yancie died in a car accident and his parents are now divorced. But Read more…
Darryl Jones-In The Blood Official Trailer from Regressive Films on Vimeo. Saturday, November 7 at 10 am & Tuesday, November 10 at 4 pm 2020, USA, Director and Producer: Eric Hamburg; 90 min. Darryl Jones had some big shoes to fill when he replaced Bill Wyman as the bassist for Read more…
Don’t Feed These Animals | Official Trailer (2019) – Nebula Studios from Nebula Studios on Vimeo. Saturday, November 7 at 10 am & Tuesday, November 10 at 4 pm 2019, Portugal, Directors: Guilherme Afonso and Miguel Madaíl de Freitas; Producer: Nebula Studios; 10 min. As a mutant rabbit eyes a Read more…
Sunday, November 8 at 7 pm & Wednesday, November 11 at 4 pm 2020, Iran, Director and Producer: Barzan Rostami; 7 min. A shy, but curious faun ventures into the forest to a hail of gunfire and barely escapes with its life. In a hunter’s cabin, a little boy, hungry Read more…
Echoes of the Empire Trailer from PhotoSynthesis Productions on Vimeo. Sunday, November 8 at 4 pm & Monday, November 9 at 10 am 2020, USA, Director: Robert H. Lieberman, Producers: Robert H. Lieberman and Deborah C. Hoard; 75 min. Journey to Genghis Khan’s Mongol Empire—a realm that once encompassed all Read more…
Friday, November 6 at 10 am & Tuesday, November 10 at 1 pm 2020, USA, Director: Rebecca Walters, Producer: Brandon Rieff and Julia Lofton Walpole; 17 min. An aging dancer risks her a shot at a solo role—and her standing with her ballet company—to speak out against the behavior of Read more…
Entwined_Trailer from Minos Nikolakakis on Vimeo. Monday, November 9 at 7 pm 2019, USA, Director: Dale Griffiths Stamos , Producer: Venice Sky Productions; 14 min. A high school couple is separated by racial prejudice and a shocking act of violence in the 1960s. Decades later, they reunite at an art Read more…
Sunday, November 8 at 7 pm & Monday, November 9 at 1 pm 2019, USA, Director: Matthew R. Brady, Producers: Matthew R. Brady and Robin Ganzert; 82 min. Life as we know it could disappear within a generation unless the public mobilizes to combat environmental catastrophe. This unflinching documentary highlights Read more…
Friday, November 6 at 7 pm & Tuesday, November 10 at 7 pm 2019, Germany, Director: Alireza Ghasemi, Producers: Adrien Barrouillet, Elsa Payen, and Franzis Walther; 14 min. Hans, a struggling, mediocre actor, makes a date with destiny when he attempts suicide over his failing relationship. Dispatched by God to Read more…
Monday, November 9 at 1 pm 2017, USA, Director: John Sasser, Producer: John Sasser; 24 min. In collaboration with the famous author, Ray Bradbury, artist Christopher Slatoff creates a statue with some surprising dimensions. From the front, the sculpture depicts a young Bradbury being carried home from a carnival by Read more…
Trailer: Feeling Through from Doug Roland on Vimeo. Sunday, November 8 at 4 pm & Monday, November 9 at 10 am 2019, USA, Director: Doug Roland, Producers: Phil Newsom and Doug Roland; 18 min, Eighteen-year-old Tereek, a kind but guarded teen, wanders the streets of New York, desperate for a Read more…
Friday, November 6 at 1 pm & Monday, November 9 at 7 pm 2019, USA, Director: Darby Duffin and Adam Jones, Producers: Darby Duffin, Adam Jones, and Heidi Zimmerman; 85 min. This thought-provoking documentary explores how consumer choices drive the global seafood trade, exposing the high cost of cheap fish Read more…
Hung Up – Official Trailer from Mystic Entertainment on Vimeo. Saturday, November 7 at 10 am & Tuesday, November 10 at 4 pm 2020, USA, Director: Damon O’Steen; Producers: Producers: Melissa Jackson, Mark Henry Johnson, Nikhil Melnechuk, Damon O’Steen; 13 min. A female cowgirl breaks into the male-dominated sport of Read more…
If Anything Happens I Love You (TRAILER) from Michael Govier on Vimeo. Saturday, November 7 at 1 pm & Monday, November 9 at 4 pm 2020, USA, Directors: Will McCormack and Michael Govier, Producers: Gerald Chamales, Maryann Garger, Gary Gilbert, and Michael Govier; 13 min. What begins as an ordinary Read more…
In the Cold of Night OFFICIAL TRAILER from Juan F. Lara on Vimeo. Monday, November 9 at 1 pm 2019, USA, Director: Juan F. Lara, Producers: Juan F. Lara, Erik Rozet, and Joe Lam; 13 min. Vince and Shannon seem like they are made for each other. Both are ambitious Read more…
Inner Self from Mohammad Hormozi on Vimeo. Saturday, November 7 at 4 pm & Wednesday, November 11 at 10 am 2019, Iran, Director: Mohammad Hormozi, Producers: Mohammad Hormozi and Amir Zarei; 15 min. A violinist on her way to an important performance is detained by two security guards for not Read more…
Sunday, November 8 at 10 am & Wednesday, November 11 at 1 pm 2029, USA, Directors and Producers: Hinaleimoana Wong-Kalu, Dean Hamer, Joe WIlson; 8 min. Long ago, four extraordinary beings brought the healing arts of Tahiti to Hawaii. Their healing stones still stand on Waikiki Beach, but the true Read more…
Saturday, November 7 at 1 pm & Wednesday, November 11 at 10 am 2020, USA, Director: E.C. Timmer, Producer: Jialiman “Stella” Sun; 19 min. As a child, Jenny comes from school every day to an empty house. When her overworked father is home, he is too exhausted to give Jenny Read more…
Sunday, November 8 at 4 pm & Tuesday, November 10 at 10 am 2020, Indonesia, Director: Giovanni Rustanto, Producer: Rina Yanti Harahap; 45 min. A mother’s idyllic life unravels when she finds a series of disturbing text messages between her fiancé and her 18-year-old daughter. As she entertains friends and Read more…
Lockdown trailer from Jorrit Van Der Kooi on Vimeo. Monday, November 9 at 1 pm 2019, USA, Director: Jorrit Van Der Kooi, Producers: Christina Eliason and Jorrit Van Der Kooi; 9 min. Following the shooting massacre in Parkland, Florida, American schools experienced 50 incidents a day involving guns. This hard-hitting Read more…
L’oro di famiglia – Trailer from Mescalito Film on Vimeo. Sunday, November 8 at 10 am & Wednesday, November 11 at 1 pm 2020, Italy, Director: Emanuele Pisano, Producers: Emanuele Pisano, Pathos, Maurizio Ravallese; 15 min. A young petty thief and his older partner embark on a heist and score Read more…
Saturday, November 7 at 10 am & Tuesday, November 10 at 4 pm 2019, United Kingdom, Directors and Producers: Michael Hewitt and Dermot Lavery; 93 min. The Irish Troubles claimed over 3,700 lives. Inspired by a book of the same name, Lost Lives offers a unique, cinematic look at each Read more…
Saturday, November 7 at 10 am & Tuesday, November 10 at 4 pm 2019, France, Director: Illogic, Producer: Bloom Pictures; 2 min. Deep in a forest, woodland creatures gather for a command performance of Norma, Bellini’s opera about a tragic love triangle set during the Roman occupation of Gaul. With Read more…
Monday, November 9 at 4 pm 2019, UDA, Director and Producer: Grace Strelich; 34 min. Frank Malina was a man of contradictions, a dedicated activist who developed long range missiles used to guide military weapons. When the FBI investigated his communist activities, Malina fled the US and his career as Read more…
Friday, November 6 at 1 pm & Monday, November 9 at 7 pm 2019, Iran, Director and Producer: Javad Khorsha; 15 min. A young soldier has second thoughts about executing a prisoner after seeing the man with his family. His commander is one week from retirement and refuses to allow Read more…
Saturday, November 7 at 1 pm & Monday, November 9 at 4 pm 2019, Canada, Director and Producer: Paul Saltzman; 79 min. In this homage to The Beatles, filmmaker Paul Saltzman retraces his life-changing time with the world’s most famous rock band at the Maharishi Mahesh Yogi’s ashram on the Read more…
MyBloodIsRed Trailer July 2020 © Needs Must Film Ltd 2020 from Needs Must Film on Vimeo. Sunday, November 8 at 10 am & Wednesday, November 11 at 1 pm 2019, United Kingdom, Director: Various, Producers: Brenden Hubbard, Brian Mitchell, Jeremy Sams, and Marcelo Vogelaar; 87 min. Wera, a young indigenous Read more…
Monday, November 9 at 7 pm 2020, USA, Director: Matthew Shimmel, Patricia Murphy; 7 min. Richard Shimmel, 65, spends his retirement posting carefully composed pictures of his beloved bicycle to Instagram. Directed by Shimmel’s son, this documentary offers a unique look at the unlikely nexus of three seemingly unrelated phenomena—aging, Read more…
Monday, November 9 at 1 pm 2020, USA, Director and Producer: Jan Lashly; 13 min. Two commitment-phobic twenty-somethings wake up the morning after a one-night stand feeling more than a little worse for the wear. Both attracted and repelled by their undeniable chemistry, the reluctant lovers grab coffee from a Read more…
Monday, November 9 at 1 pm 2020, USA, Director: Jack Beverly, Producers: Jack Beverly and Henry Mooney 20 min. One dam. Three cities. Over 900 oil fields. This insightful documentary explores the intersection of climate change, geography and socioeconomics in the cities of Ojai, Oxnard and Ventura through interviews with Read more…
Saturday, November 7 at 7 pm & Wednesday, November 11 at 7 pm 2019, Turkey, Directors and Producers: Maryna er Gorbach and Mehmet Bahadir Er; 100 min. A Coast Guard commander’s plans for a peaceful retirement are upended when two Syrian refugees land on his doorstep. As local authorities investigate, Read more…
Friday, November 6 at 4 pm & Wednesday, November 11 at 4 pm 2020, Venezuela, Director: Anabel Rodriguez, Producer: Sepp Brudermann; 99 min. Built on the edge of Venezuela’s largest oil field, Congo Mirador was once a magical, thriving fishing community. Now the village literally sinks into Lake Maracaibo due Read more…
[fvplayer id=”4″] Saturday, November 7 at 7 pm & Wednesday, November 11 at 7 pm 2019, USA, Director: Inon Shampanier, Producers: Anne Clements and Ash Christian; 110 min. After the death of her father, all Melanie wants is a normal senior year, but her mother’s growing paranoia forces Melanie to Read more…
Saturday, November 7 at 4 pm & Wednesday, November 11 at 10 am 2020, USA, Director: James Redford, Producer: Karen Pritzker; 62 min. This inspiring documentary explores the importance of play and downtime for all of us – children, adults, seniors and even animals. Featuring a tapestry of interwoven characters, Read more…