5 Years From Water (USA)
Director: Thao Nguyen
Upon retirement, Mike Danesi's dream was to build a boat to sail across the ocean. It’s been 19 years and he's still working on it.
Continuity (USA)
Director: David Lilien
After a series of odd and indescribable alterations to the world turns a presumably normal lunch date upside down, John and Jane soon learn a horrifying truth: they are stuck within a film and at the mercy of the editor.
In the Weeds (Canada)
Director: Nick Milczarczyk
A teenage girl suspects a local gardener's involvement in the unsolved disappearance of her childhood friend.
Painting Flowers Again (USA)
Director: Hudson Price
Featuring interviews from across the world of art, this documentary explores the constantly evolving relationship between activism and art.
Puppet Show (USA)
Director: Georgia Evensen
A girl encounters multiple versions of herself while being puppeteered by her subconscious.
Sea Souls (USA)
Director: Angelina Chang
In this lyrical film set in the ocean depths, a lonely little ghost is visited by a mysterious diver.
Taking a Seat for Justice: The 504 Sit-In (USA)
Director: Thomas Huang, Allen Tang, Andrew Wang, Andrew Yu & Rohin Garg
A documentary about the 504 Sit-In which launched the disability rights movement into the public eye.
The Other (USA)
Director: Nolan Hieu Trifunovic
Stuck in a seemingly endless cycle of violence and trapped in a mysterious hotel, two combatants must confront their conflict as well as their true natures in order save themselves.
Think Like A Filmmaker (USA)
Director: Eli Berliner
Eli Berliner turns the camera on his father, Alan, a personal documentary filmmaker, whose new body of work approaches sculpture through the eyes of a filmmaker.
Wendigo (Ireland)
Director: Max Hendrickson
A man investigates an old isolated house only to be ensnared in its sinister history.
A Morally Questionable Situation (Germany)
Director: Richard Walther
A dog, caught in a mysterious world of consumption, fights to escape its cannibalistic foundations.
Castleway Road (USA)
Director: Jamie Hamill
Donna Remmie and her 18-year-old daughter Amy prepare to move out of their comfortable small-town home, headed for the big city. When Amy discovers her mother’s pageant past and its tragic end, Donna must confront her past to embrace her future.
Debut (USA)
Director: Connor Hopkins
This documentary follows aspiring independent professional wrestler Braeden Bend as he journeys from his last days of training to his first match on the scene.
Distanced (Ireland)
Director: Liam Boland
A couple faces challenges trying to date during lockdown.
How to Dance with Monsters (USA)
Director: Megan Baer
As a survivor of domestic violence, a woman faces a horrifying monster to break the cycle of abuse and reclaim her life.
It’s Over (USA)
Director: Charlie Andelman
With only five minutes to go until the end of the world and only linked by walkie-talkies, Alice makes the unimaginably brutal decision to break up with her girlfriend.
Jane (USA)
Director: Ziming Xie
A filmmaker documents his Saba (Grandfather) who tells his life story in his own words while trying to find meaning in it all.
Koester [Cherish] (Netherlands)
Director: Fleur Jax
The sister of a dying brother, a singer from Cape Verde and an astronaut all experience different kinds of loss. They realize how much love they have for what's disappearing.
Not a Fairy Tale (USA)
Director: Yang Shengwei
Red wolves are endemic to the United States and are also critically endangered with an estimate of less than 20 remaining in the wild. The USFWS works with facilities across the country to ensure the species does not go extinct and now is working to save the last wild red wolves.
Planet Mars (UK)
Director: Sebastian Kuder
On the planet Mars, the last survivor of a dying alien life-form must find a mate to ensure the survival of the species.
Return (China)
Director: Hongying Chen
Falling from heaven to the sea, I was so scared and wanted to escape. I was reborn after repeated failures, which made me realize the joy of being alive.
Ridgeport Ruins (USA)
Director: Sabrina Merrill
Two tween-age girls enter an abandoned mall looking for their cat, but stumble into a vaporwave trap laid by a ghost looking to trap them in the mall forever.
Saint Joseph (USA)
Director: Humza Syed
A young man is convinced to go to a church to come to terms with his father’s recent death. Upon arriving, he is surprised by a familiar face leading to a conversation about life, death, and lousy parenting.
The Light I Remember (Mexico)
Director: Emanuel Sena Galeana
Can we see the wind? Hear the light of a sunrise? Follow on a sensory search for the memory of a family and an attempt to reconstruct a memory that never existed, a lost face and a lingering presence even after death.
The Valravn (Canada)
Director: Spencer Hetherington
With nowhere else to turn to save his dying wife, Einar seeks out a dark and mysterious creature known as a Valravn. The Valravn offers help, but it comes at a horrific cost.
A Monolithic Folly: Fracking Colorado's North Fork Valley (USA)
Director: Chad J. Reich
The citizens of "The North Fork,” concerned about the introduction of fracking for oil and gas into their region, push back through a community-led, grassroots response.
Egg (Taiwan)
Director: Li-Wei Hsu
On an island in the great Pacific Ocean formed by discarded plastic, a lonely man finds and hatches a supermarket egg.
Painting By Numbers (Australia)
Director: Radheya Jegatheva
A child's encounter with classic masterpieces triggers a challenging epiphany about the fragility of the planet and humanity.
Unshopping (USA)
Director: Rheannah Wynter
This story follows the filmmaker as she tries to shed her guilt and excess clothes by any means possible - excluding a landfill. In the process, she encounters obstacles, misdirection, propaganda, rabbit holes, and a one-sided obsession with H&M CEO Karl-Johan Persson.
Lungs, Head, and Heart (USA)
Director: Allison Chaves
A choreographed exploration of the dancers’ inner lives.
The Door (USA)
Director: Rebecca Masland Schrader
A lone figure struggles with a large wooden door in a place where there is no such thing as "being awake," where pleasure is no different than pain, and one plus one does not equal two. Recognizing the absurdity of their situation, they desperately seek a way to make peace with the unrelenting present.
Phase 5 (USA)
Director: Kelly Guerrero
Exploring the cycle of the pandemic through its different phases, this dance film demonstrates how life has returned to semi-normalcy, but many aspects still feel like an endless cycle.
Surplus (USA)
Kennesaw State University Department of Dance
Created in collaboration with 15 undergraduate students studying dance film at Kennesaw State University, this work takes place in a used office furniture warehouse and explores a society that exists in excess and surplus.
Vibrant Eyes / Tainted Souls (USA)
Director: Jessica Michal
A visually experimental dance film created after reflection and in response to the mental and emotional trauma following the events of 2020 and the subsequent collective healing.
