Produced by Chin Man Lai
Directed by Che Ching Hin

A sensitive teenage boy realizes that he has hopelessly fallen in love with the mother of his classmate. The infatuation has become so intense that he has to control it by self-mutilation. Meanwhile, he also learns that the woman’s young daughter, i.e. his classmate, secretly admires him. What will the outcome of this painful triangular relationship be?

Produced by Jeff Orlowski
Directed by Jeff Orlowski and Tessa Banks

In 2000, the US Government opened up GPS technology to the general public. That day, a man in Oregon hid something in the woods and posted the GPS coordinates on the Internet. Just a couple of days later, somebody found the cache and that was the start of Geocaching. With nearly a quarter of a million caches hidden around the world, Geocaching is a hobby that can keep you busy. A Geocacher visits www.geocaching.com to download GPS coordinates and hints to find a cache. Armed with a GPS device, Geocachers go out in search for these little treasures. This film explores this new hobby through the eyes of three geocachers.

Produced by Esmir Filho, Sarah Oliveira and Carolina Alcoragi
Directed by Esmir Filho

In the midst of feet that come and go, colors and violin strings, the cobbler of a small village looks for the perfect pair in a fable of love and shoes.

Directed by Stephen Dypiangco

At Rocking The Boat, an after school program in the Bronx, high school students learn how to build a boat using their hands. This cinema verite documentary follows a group of students through the boatbuilding process from the very moment they learn to use the tools all the way to the boat’s completion several months later. Along the way, the students not only create something beautiful, but they also gain practical skills, form new friendships, and have fun.

Directed by Jian Lee

'Light bulb' is about people who are attached to light bulbs in different ways. The ways that they are attached, show their perspectives of life. Each person shows how she or he can be unenlightened about life, how painful life can be and do not know a way to escape from it, how a person clings to life.
Finally, one woman who was inside a light bulb breaks and escapes from the light bulb. Then she realizes the world is full of ignorance and pain. She decides to turn the switch off and everyone dies.
At the end, when people get electric shock, I want the audience to get the feeling of release, freedom and enlightenment. People turn into flower petals peacefully.

Directed by Gregório Graziosi and Thereza Menezes

A day in the life of two elderly people.

Produced by Tina Fuchs
Directed by Joel Davenport

It is the late 1950's: The cold war is in full swing, school desegregation is in its infancy, and the nuclear bomb looms over every American's head. During a citywide defense drill, three sixth-grade boys become increasingly worried as the drill lasts longer than previous ones. Tommy doesn't accept Leroy's (a little black boy) presence, and Bertram is desperate to find out what's going on outside. An air raid siren unexpectedly blares, and from the intercom, the principal orders everyone to move into the hall.

Directed by Steven Lalonde

The retelling of a Haida myth, Nanasimgit and his Wife, offering the viewer’s a new visual interpretation. It is a narrative tale of one man’s love and dedication for his lost wife, a man who searches the seabed and stops at nothing to find her.

Directed by Sam Day and Travis Hatfield

It's been two years but Danny still can't get her out of his head. His mind filled with the memories of their life together, Danny resolves to win Kat, the love of his life, back.it soon proves easier said than done; Kat has a new boyfriend, a new life, and her own memories of a relationship that was less than perfect. Through a journey determination, denial, and discovery, Danny searches for a way to put everything right. What he finds, however, is nothing like what he expected...

Produced by Philip and Taylor Freshley
Directed by Taylor Freshley

Earthman is born suddenly and awkwardly into a vast world of seemingly endless potential; a phantasmagoria best described as hyper-plastic, amorphous, and chaotic. This world, though extraneous to Earthman, seems to be the sensory product of his own limited nervous system. At the same time, it is alive with entities and conditions that seem to function quite apart and in spite of Earthman. Whatever the environment, the planet-headed protagonist struggles to make sense of anything at all, as he is bombarded by the fascinating and terrible manifestations of nature, the sophisticated voracity of capitalist economy, the whimsical and fatalistic riddles of time, and the horrible reality of his own existence as but another pawn in the ancient molecular quest to perpetuate deoxyribonucleic acid (DNA). As he plunges toward inevitable death, or lies comfortably in breezy green fields, his questions only lead to more questions, and peace seems but a laughable pipedream.

Directed by Noa Erenberg

Born in 1941 in Los Angeles to a well to do family, my father became an ardent socialist in the 60's, immigrating to Israel to Kibbutz Beit HaSheta. 40 years later, I observe how my father quietly deals with the privatization of the Kibbutz: retreating, disconnecting emotionally, and returning to the values from his youth in America.

Directed by Will Kim

“As he (Nathaniel) looked more keenly through the glass, it seemed to him as if moist moonbeams were rising in Olympia's eyes. “ – from ‘The Sandman’ by E.T.A. Hoffmann 1817 The Filmmaker, Will Kim uses watercolor to explore his desire, struggles, and self identity confusion based on the German Romantic Novel, “The Sandman” by E.T.A. Hoffmann. ‘Beautiful Eyes’ is originally scored and sound edited by Kirin Kapin. Kim’s visual poetry will guide the audience to his twisted and personal interpretations of the novel. The main character, ‘Nathaniel’ starts his own journey of desire, memories of his childhood, and the nightmare of the Sandman taking his eyes away, which means death to Nathaniel when he looks at a wooden doll that is sitting on a chair across from a window in his place.

Directed by Erin Hudson

From the intimate vantage point of a senior community swimming pool, water and time suspend both body and memory. This film travels underwater and above water to create a gentle meditation on growing old, feeling young, and living life. Shot on 16mm film in a bright and colorful swimming pool, Afloat vividly captures elderly participants in a water exercise class. With surreal images of underwater movement and
delightful swimming pool scenes, the stories told by these swimmers become weightless and ageless memories. Afloat reminds us that childhood and elder-hood are not all that different and that the buoyant and playful feelings we have in the water remain with us our entire life.
Ultimately, this film returns beauty, grace and dignity to the reality of growing old.

Directed by Todd Davis

In The Tradition of My Family is a gothic family saga. This seemingly normal, middle-class family has a unique tradition. When a son reaches his thirteenth birthday, his father wounds him with a gun, honoring both the long-standing family tradition and the boy, who is now a “new man.” The more dangerous the shooting and the more ghastly the scar, the more the recipient is honored by the family. That is, if he actually survives his wound.
The film follows a young boy named Billy as he prepares for and experiences his new man ritual. In The Tradition of My Family examines what happens when these concepts of tradition and honor are questioned and the effect on the father’s relationship with his son.