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2022 Official Film Selections: May 20-22, 2022

We were overwhelmed with the number of submissons we received this year. 290 films were submitted from 38 countries.  Our screening and programming committees worked hard to bring you some incredible content!

CAPE F**CKING FEAR (Block 1) Friday 7:00 pm

Strong Female Protagonists lead the pack in this terrific block!

She's the Protagonist

She's driving the Car She's leading the Story She's The Protagonist! Let’s talk about female*characters in this short western! Driving the car, it’s driving the Story! So… fasten your seatbelts, it’s going to be a bumpy road-trip! 

Runtime 14:01 

Country of Origin: Belgium

Writer/Director: Sarah Carlot Jaber

Prestige

Mahsa, is an Iranian woman TV presenter. She sings and post her videos on Instagram anonymously. As a result of this, Mahsa faces a challenge during one of her shows so she needs to decide between leaving the country and loosing her job…

Runtime: 14:55

Country of Origin: Islamic Republic of Iran

Writer/Director: Zahra Ahooei

Miss Alma Thomas: A Life in Color

Alma W. Thomas lived a life of firsts: the first Fine Arts graduate of Howard University (1924), the first Black woman to mount a retrospective at the Whitney Museum of American Art (1972), and the first Black woman to have her paintings exhibited in the White House (2009). Yet she did not receive national attention until she was 80.

Runtime: 20:00

Country of Origin: USA

Writer/Director: Cheri Gaulke

I, Dido

London 1780s, a time of turmoil. Dido Belle, an illegitimate young woman of mixed race, raised in privilege, speaks truth to power about the grim reality of slavery. 

Runtime: 12:49

Country of Origin: United Kingdom

Writer/Director: Penelope Shales-Slyne

Still Life

Inspired by the lives of the forgotten black female muses in 18th and 19th-century masterpieces. 

Runtime: 4:04

Country of Origin: USA

Writer/Director: Diana AlL Chire

Lilias Adie

In an effort to save her friend's life, Lilias is forced to confess to the crime of witchcraft in spectacular fashion.

Runtime: 20:00

Country of Origin: United Kingdon

Writer/Director: Elize du Toit


Relationship Battleship (Block 2) Saturday 12:30 pm

Love is sometimes a battlefield

The Call

A woman discovers a secret that changes everything. 

Runtime: 13:32

Country of Origin: USA

Write/Director: Aisha Schliessier

Counting

A young woman's struggle with Obsessive Compulsive Disorder threatens her career dreams and a budding romance.

Runtime: 14:59

Country of Origin: USA

Write/Director: Tori Ernst, Sarah Young

One Never Kills for Love

They meet in the dark of the night. Women, sisters, friends: a feminist group gathers to leave writings on the walls  of Montreal. Their challenge: raise awareness to end systemic violence endured by women and minorities. Feminicides must stop!

Runtime: 15:00

Country of Origin: Canada

Write/Director: Manon Testud

How Can I Forget

Joe and Connie's awkward blind date takes an interesting turn when they discover that they share the same magical ability.

Runtime: 8:26

Country of Origin: United Kingdom

Write/Director: Natalia Andreadis

Incanto

Lou can't get over her history with Alexis. The questions are jostling in her head. They walk through together the key moments of their relationship in order to understand what happened. Hoping to fix what didn't work.

Runtime: 21:56

Country of Origin: France

Write/Director: Baladine Ardant Conversi

CLOSED

„Closed“ is a short rom-com about a woman working at a mattress store who has a crush on her colleague, but the conflicting fearful and yearning voices in her head grow unbearable and risk making her lose the guy.

Runtime: 7:30

Country of Origin: Germany

Write/Director: Anna Avramenko

Algorithm

When nervy Al has an absurd encounter with a stranger, he begins to question his whole identity. 

Runtime: 9:10

Country of Origin: Ireland

Write/Director: Edwina Casey, Simon Ashe Browne

What The Hell's Kitchen?!?! (Block 3) Saturday 2:45 pm

This block will leave you thinking "WTF just happened???"

A Pregnant Woman

A pregnant Alejandra is on the road and on the run from an abusive husband. She is undocumented and exhausted with nowhere to go as she drives to a remote desert, hiding a  secret inside a dusty piece of luggage. , 

Runtime: 16:49

Country of Origin: Canada

Writer/Director: Ana Carrizales, Arun Fryer

Private

Having a private life, having the right to choose what to wear, what to believe, what to eat, and so on, are parts of normal life but not in Iran

Runtime: 12:00

Country of Origin: Islamic Republic of Iran

Writer/Director: Sara Mokhavat

No Pasa Nada

This is Angela’s story, a girl who discovers at a very early age that actions don't always have consequences

Runtime: 7:37

Country of Origin: Mexico

Writer/Director: Victoria Naranjos Montoya

Honeymoon

Through an instagram livestream, an amateur influencer Alicia, announces that she’s setting off to her honeymoon. However, her ignorance of the thin red line between personal and public, has lead to an unexpected event that will challenge their marriage.

Runtime: 19:02

Country of Origin: Taiwan

Writer/Director: I-hui Lee

Consumed

Isolated by her grief after an early miscarriage, Faye preserves the embryo in a jar of oil, and does all she can to keep the embryo safe. 

Runtime: 14:59

Country of Origin: United Kingdom

Writer/Director: Karen Lamond, Simone Pereira Hind

House of Fortune

Rahil mohajer was buried alive by her husband and her father on her wedding night because they thought she wasn't a virgin.

Runtime: 15:00

Country of Origin:  Islamic Republic of Iran

Writer/Director: Adel Mashoori

Fishwife

In wild 18th century Britain a lonely woman discovers that her menstrual cycle is of interest to a stranger.

Runtime: 17:14

Country of Origin: United Kingdom

Write/Director: Beth Park


Front Street Foolery (Block 4) Saturday 5:00pm

Laugh out loud and some darker comedy

Guardian

A dysfunctional guardian angel fails miserably at protecting her human assignment 

Runtime: 13:21

Country of Origin:USA

Writer/Director:Christy Lee Hughes, Matthew McLachian

Miss Fortunate

If luck is a lady, grief is a bitch. A young woman loses her mother and finds herself. 

Runtime: 14:53

Country of Origin: United Kingdom

Writer/Director:Ella Jones, Molly O'Shea

Snowy

The Wolf family never expected their neglected pet turtle, Snowy, to live so long. After 25 years in the cold basement, Snowy gets a chance at happiness with the help of a vet, an animal psychic, a scientist and his caretaker Uncle Larry.

Runtime: 12:11

Country of Origin: USA

Writer/Director:Kaitlyn Schwalje , Alexander Lewis

3rd Time's a Charm

Gene, at the end of his rope, heads up a mountain in search of an end to his pain and finds something else entirely.

Runtime: 17:50

Country of Origin: USA

Writer/Director: Jason Faircloth, Alice L Walker

Cupids

In this playful comedy, three kids worry that their beloved school bus driver will be lonely this summer without them. They set out to find her a partner and imagine the perfect matches

Runtime: 10:00

Country of Origin: USA

Writer/Director: Zoey Martinson

Secret Santa

An unexpected invite to a Christmas Bad Jumper party leads to a life-changing moment. 

Runtime: 14:18

Country of Origin: United Kingdom

Writer/Director: Vanessa Hehir

TIPS

Madness ensues in a restaurant parking lot when a desperate server confronts her disappointed table after they write a negative review about her service (and hair) online.

Runtime: 8:10

Country of Origin: Canada

Writer/Director: Mercedes Papalia


Shut Your Venus Flytrap (Block 6) Sunday 12:00pm

All About Families

The Finding

A teenager’s efforts to reconnect with her estranged father forces them to confront a secret in their past

Runtime: 21:00

Country of Origin: New Zealand

Writer/Director: Rebecca Tansley

Alice?

A starry-eyed fat teenager actively reimagines the world around her as she experiences first love and first heartbreak

Runtime: 13:17

Country of Origin: New Zealand

Writer/Director: Grace Hood-Edwards

The Girl/ KOMBAL


Runtime: 19:55

Country of Origin: India

Writer/Director: Lekshmi Pushpa, Arathi M R

Smile Little Ladybug

Inspired by her grandfather’s escape from Nazi Germany, Ms. Ladybug is a second-generation clown who strives to make the world a better place. 

Runtime: 16:39

Country of Origin: USA

Writer/Director: Laura Asherman

Miracle Baby

When Monica finds out her congressman husband has been cheating on her, she sets the stage for an evening of horrible revenge.

Runtime: 18:52

Country of Origin: USA

Writer/Director: Steven Fechter, Michelle Bossy


If I'm Wrong, I Don't Want To Be Wrightsville Beach (Block 5) Sunday 2:00pm

Friends and frenemies

My Best Friend Caroline

A troubled pre-teen is interviewed about her relationship to a classmate at school.

Runtime: 4:19

Country of Origin: USA

Writer/Director: Sarah Corean

Cashback

On her last night of work, a pregnant theater manager discovers a bag of cash under a seat and must decide what to do with it.

Runtime: 7:50

Country of Origin: USA

Writer/Director: Zoe Eisenberg

Sostenme (Hold Me)

Sofia returns home to Puebla after years of absence and finds herself reconciling a lost friendship.

Runtime: 11:30

Country of Origin: USA

Writer/Director: Nicole Barley, Julianna Leopold

Front Porches

An overworked housewife finds solace in her retired neighbor whose onset of dementia reveals neglect in both of their lives.

Runtime: 18:48

Country of Origin: USA

Writer/Director: Katie Prentiss

To The Roof

Two best friends’ friendship is tested when one keeps a large secret from the other.

Runtime: 13:00

Country of Origin: USA

Writer/Director: Mallory Siegenthaler, Cameron Wolfslayer

Woman to Woman

 1967 Los Angeles. Two women decide to meet face to face and discover that they have a lot more in common than a man.

Runtime: 11:31

Country of Origin: USA

Writer/Director: Rebecca Knox, Maxine Muster, Alexandria Collins

Fuckboy

When a horny Jimmy John’s delivery lady and her two overachieving high school best friends get disinvited from a fuckboy's party, they’re forced to face the truth of their decaying friendship and how to skate it back together. 

Runtime: 11:52

Country of Origin: USA

Writer/Director: Emma Weinswig,  Noa Beckham-Chasnoff


My Back is Aching and My Dawson's Creek (Block 7) Sunday 4:00pm

Dance, Animation & Music

Bearly Awake

What does a Teddy Bear do when she can't sleep?

Runtime: 2:20

Country of Origin:USA

Writer/Director: Sydney Geiger

Once There was III

3 women bound to a shared soul oscillating between the throes of brutality and piety. A visceral display of true sisterhood- they suffer together, thrive together and bleed together.

Runtime: 6:33

Country of Origin: USA

Writer/Director: Nina McNeely

Earthbound

An alien conspiracy theorist’s wildest dream comes true when she’s accidentally abducted by intelligent life that may not be intelligent after all.

Runtime: 4:54

Country of Origin: USA

Writer/Director: Camilla Wolf

To Live and Die in the Shadows: Meditations on Ferns, Survival, and Horizon

180 million years ago, through a chance horizontal gene transfer, ferns acquired a much needed light sensor (neochrome) that allowed them to modify and survive in low light environments. We should all be so lucky.

Runtime: 5:29

Country of Origin: USA

Writer/Director: Shannon Silva

Dreamland

Al'ora, a mysterious creature, embarked on a turbulent, emotional, lonely journey across the Ocean of Hope. 

Runtime: 5:04

Country of Origin: USA

Writer/Director: Irenka Style

The Promise

The Promise is an urban fairy tale that plays out on the mean streets of a mean city. Here, a young thief tries to snatch an old woman’s bag but she cannot have it without giving something in return: The Promise.

Runtime: 6:44

Country of Origin: United Kingdom

Writer/Director: Chi Thai

How to Lose Everything: A Field Guide

Through the loss of her leg, her children, her marriage, and her voice, Christa Couture presses into the pages of this field guide stories and notes on how to lose everything.

Runtime: 4:54

Country of Origin: Canada

Writer/Director: Christa Couture, Bekky O'Neil

Lines

Six poems written by six young prisoners animated to tell their stories, thoughts, fears and hopes.  Read by Letitia Wright, Michael Kenneth Williams, Jodie Turner-Smith, Adepero Oduye and Riz Ahmed

Runtime: 9:42

Country of Origin: United Kingdom

Writer/Director: Claire Fleming

Strings

Bringing together Barrowland Ballet’s dance artists and young people with complex needs, Strings explores the rich possibilities for connection and creative expression through dance.

Runtime: 11:47

Country of Origin: United Kingdom

Writer/Director: Natasha Gilmore

Devil's In The Details

A witch gets less than she bargains for when she tries to summon Satan on her ex-boyfriend. An occult comedy.

Runtime: 4:14

Country of Origin: USA

Writer/Director: Anna Owenson

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