presented by The Discover Indie Film Foundation
On the outskirts of a Californian gold rush town, a blackout drunk wakes up to find himself alone with a badly beaten young girl.
Director(s): Michael Cudlitz
Writer(s): Rachael CG Cudlitz
Producer(s): Michael Cudlitz, Rachael CG Cudlitz, Ryan Binse, Jason Starne
Key Cast: Jamie McShane, Pearly Wong
Country: USA
Remorseful about giving away what the world has deemed her most precious asset, this first-time bowler wrestles with a world where virginity is personified into a tangible v-card.
Director(s): Brooklyn Braaten
Writer(s): Brooklyn Braaten
Producer(s): Quincy Harthun, Kacie Newport
Key Cast: Taylor Abbay, Dillon Clare
Country: USA
Sentient AI Anime Banana is too horny and narcissistic to realize his whole world is an illusion created by an evil streaming company
Director(s): Ari Grabb
Writer(s): Ari Grabb
Country: United States
A man and his talking handkerchief battle an evil top-hat for the fate of the universe, and also learn to love.
Director(s): Lindsey Haun, Nick Roth
Writer(s): Nick Roth
Key Cast: Jacob Demonte-Finn, Ashley Holliday Tavares, Christina Laskay, Anthony Rutowicz, Clare Grant, Azure Parsons, Lindsey Haun, Toby Bryan, Nick Roth, Seth Green
Country: United States
Joaquin, a lonely homeless kid finds a life friend in a little puppy, just to later find out the dog is lost and has an owner after Joaquin’s older brother refuses to keep the puppy with them and Joaquin must find the owner to bring the puppy back home and finally finding a true friendship.
Director(s): Aristides De Jesús Mantilla Artigas
Writer(s): Aristides De Jesús Mantilla Artigas
Producer(s): Aristides De Jesús Mantilla Artigas
Key Cast: Fernando Hernandez Polito
Country: Mexico
With a hurricane raging outside their hospital, two nurses have to stow the dead body of a young woman in the downstairs morgue before the building floods. But the corpse quickly reveals itself to be more than it seems.
Director(s): Sean Carter
Writer(s): Sean Carter
Producer(s): Lauren Fash
Key Cast: K Steele, Milly Sanders, Lavelle Roby, Catherine McCafferty
Country: USA
A young Cambodian woman, carrying a tragic secret, comes to America to work in an illicit massage parlour.
Director(s): Élodie Yung
Writer(s): Élodie Yung, Jonathan Howard
Producer(s): Jonathan Howard, Matthew Keene Smith, Jason McLagan, Marie Jamora, Élodie Yung
Key Cast: Jasmine Sims, Martha Milan, Tossapon “Didi” Banks, Krista Morin, Jonathan Howard, Jolie Thana Pho
Country: USA
During her lunch break, Lily flees the Louvre and her demanding boss, opting to read an art history book in the park until she’s approached by Clément, a dapper financier, who interrupts her and invites her to lunch, to which Lily, on a whim, agrees, ultimately altering the course of her life.
Director(s): Keeley Turner
Writer(s): Sheila Traister
Key Cast: Jen Robyn Jacobs, Tom Fugedi, Billy Vera, Diane Sellers, Kennedy Barrie, TriJoëlle Zilberman, Milan Ogier
Country: USA
An introverted video gamer is forced to repay his bookie by becoming his wife’s feeling expert.
Director(s): Jamie Anderson
Writer(s): Jamie Anderson
Producer(s): Jamie Anderson, Caroline Calvin
Key Cast: Max Korman, Spencer Garrett, Lori Alan, Chelsea London Lloyd
Country: USA
A babysitter and an absent father spiral out of control as they refuse to confront grief.
Director(s): Adam Linkenhelt
Writer(s): Jen Robyn Jacobs
Producer(s): Katie Barrie, Jen Robyn Jacobs, Adam Linkenhelt
Key Cast: Jen Robyn Jacobs, Tom Fugedi, Billy Vera, Diane Sellers, Kennedy Barrie, Tripp Barrie
Country: USA
