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On Time Off Time

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Julia Mukai

Director, Animator, Writer
Synopsis
In a dystopian world, Mother Time controls all time. Her daughter, Junji, is frequently off-time. When Junji gets into a heated fight with Mother Time, she is pulled into a portal, taking her to the Off-Time world, a land of timelessness. She wakes in a surreal circus town full of timeless creatures engaging in uncanny activities. Junji must navigate the balance between control and chaos.
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Shedding

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Peiqi Peng

Director
Synopsis
In a dark, isolated home, a Chinese American teenage girl lives under the strict control of her mother, who treats punishment as care and obedience as survival. As the girl’s compulsive hair-pulling turns into a secret obsession, the tension between them builds toward a violent confrontation.
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CopyPaste!

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Keira Schehl

Director
Synopsis
When a glitch overtakes the dress-up game, “Copy Paste”, its main character, Dolly, disappears. Molly, her sidekick, must survive the destabilized world as it forces her to take Dolly’s role. Pressured by her warping reality and the game’s player, Molly must decide who she is; or who she must become.
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The Dogleg

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Piotr Szubra

Film director
Synopsis
In a Polish village in the early 2000s, young motocross riders spend the summer immersed in their passion. The idyll is violently disrupted when the infamous Henryk returns to the village. His arrival sets off a chain of events that leads to an inevitable confrontation.
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Avant de rentrer...

Synopsis
Lost along the road, someone enters the forest...
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The Woman is Perfected

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Ruth Fowler

Director and Writer
Synopsis
As she waits in her plastic surgeon’s office, Cassie drifts through the private logic of her own unraveling. Young, striking, and consumed by a need to perfect herself, she moves through a world shaped by impossible beauty standards and the corrosive pull of an abusive partner.

What begins as a search for control through cosmetic intervention becomes something darker: a ritual of self-correction that mirrors the emotional dependencies she cannot escape. Trapped between the fantasy of reinvention and the reality of her life, Cassie mistakes transformation for liberation, even as both her relationship and her sense of self begin to fracture. The deeper she disappears into the pursuit of an unattainable ideal, the harder it becomes to recognize the forces consuming her.

TWIP is a psychological character study about beauty, coercion, and the seductive violence of wanting to become someone else.
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Terroir

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Casey Rogerson

Writer/Director
Synopsis
A young wine critic (Madison Hu) returns to a French vineyard one year after giving it a bad review. There, she and her friends become the target of a masked killer.
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Beautify

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Elizaveta Makarenko

3D Animator
Synopsis
In a world obsessed with appearances, a young woman struggles to reshape herself to fit society’s impossible standards of beauty. As she alters and adjusts her reflection, she loses sight of who she truly is. Beautify is a visually striking animated short that explores the pressures of perfection, the fragility of identity, and the courage it takes to embrace one’s authentic self.
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The King in Yellow

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Sam Shapson

Director, Writer, Director of Photography, Editor
Synopsis
How do you read a play that makes you go insane? In this modern adaptation of the 1895 short stories by Robert W. Chambers, three grad students come up with a plan to split the dangerous work into thirds to safely perform research on the notorious play, The King in Yellow. But events take a sinister turn when one of them reads more than just his share.
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Telaraña

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Nicola Ríos

Synopsis
In a mountain estate in Puerto Rico lives a family with hidden secrets. On a night of rebellion, Naomi, the young teenage daughter, confronts the eight-legged parasite looming in her home and must make a choice: conform to her family’s identity or forge her own path.
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SÁRÚ

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Elena Walsh O'Brien

Director
Synopsis
When a young girl moves into a secluded house on the edge of an ancient forest, she discovers a mysterious fairy ring hidden within. Drawn by curiosity, she crosses a threshold never meant to be broken - unleashing the preternatural, as the forgotten rules of the old world claw their way back.
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PRICE

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Byron Mason II

Director
Synopsis
Down-on-his-luck actor Price finally lands the role of a lifetime—playing Dennis, an unhinged murderer in a comeback film from once-renowned indie director Steinbeck. But when Steinbeck deems Price’s performance unconvincing and threatens to fire him, the director issues a chilling ultimatum: become Dennis or lose the role. Desperate to prove himself, Price locks himself away, practicing lines, mimicking Dennis’s habits, and sinking deeper into the killer’s psyche until he can't tell who is who.