After a wrongful execution sends rock star, John Santo to the morgue, he rises from the dead, thinking he has a second chance to clear his name, but when he’s thrust into a life-and-death struggle to rescue his kidnapped daughter, Angela from renegade pastor, Sonny Romeo — Satan stands in John’s way, demanding his soul as recompense.

CAST LIST:

Narrator: Elizabeth Rose Morriss
John: Geoff Mays
Vicente: Shawn Devlin
Newscaster: Hannah Ehman

After using a cutting-edge “memory machine” to relive the best moments of his past, Oliver Parks wakes in a timeline where he never met his wife and his daughter no longer exists — and to undo it, he must outsmart a rival genius, manipulate time itself, and convince the machine’s washed-up inventor — who no longer remembers building it — to help him undo the devastating consequences of a device that was actually a time machine.

CAST LIST:

Narrator: Hannah Ehman
Erica: Elizabeth Rose Morriss
Oliver: Geoff Mays

A female Veteran obsessed with her weight finds a magic scale that makes her lose weight fast but at a high cost.

CAST LIST:

Narrator: Sean Ballantyne
Dr. Manger: Geoff Mays
Brend: Elizabeth Rose Morriss

Six years after the Zombie Apocalypse, a suicidal widow must protect an orphaned child as the world descends into literal Hell on Earth.

CAST LIST:

Narrator: Geoff Mays
Sophie: Elizabeth Rose Morriss
Fiona: Hannah Ehman

Remy’s eco-anxiety heightens when she experiences persistent nagging from two figures.

CAST:

Narrator: Geoff Mays

Remy: Val Cole

Remy’s Roommate/Classmate: Hannah Ehman

The Woman: Elizabeth Rose Morriss

The Man: Shawn Devlin

Set in Churchill, Manitoba—The Polar Bear Capital of the World—Polar Break is a survival thriller where climate change isn’t exposition, but existential pressure. As the ice-free season pushes past record limits, starving bears flood the town. What begins as a containment mission spirals into a siege, forcing unlikely allies to face ecological truth, institutional failure, and their own breaking points. The Polar Break screenplay was recently selected for participattion in the 2025 Enviromental Film And Screenplay Awards.

CAST LIST:

Narrator: Hannah Ehman
Cnn Anchor: Elizabeth Rose Morriss
Jimmy: Geoff Mays

A rising political star retreats to a secluded Virginia inn to draft a campaign platform that will secure him a spot on a presidential ticket—but as nightmarish visions blur with reality, he’s forced to confront the ghosts of those he sacrificed to climb the political ladder. Caligo Inn is a psychological thriller with gothic horror overtones, laced with political intrigue and moral reckoning, in which ambition, guilt, and supernatural justice collide under the genteel veneer of Southern hospitality.

CAST LIST:

Narrator: Elizabeth Rose Morriss
JJ: Geoff Mays
Hebsug: Sean Ballantyne

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Astronaut’s Uniform, 30min., Russia
Directed by Dmitri Frolov
Mockumentary experimental film, which shows one day in the life of a young man.

https://www.instagram.com/astronauts_uniform/

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Mx., 5min., UK
Directed by WWenen Lusa
“Mx.” is a title used as a gender-neutral alternative to Mr. or Ms., reflecting inclusivity in gender identity. This film delves into the tension between gender identity and societal expectations, highlighting the quest for selfhood amidst oppression. Through the lens of diverse, non-binary lesbians, it showcases their struggles with physical acceptance, cultural pressures, and homophobia. The narrative emphasizes the symbolic power of costumes and dance as tools for inner awakening and liberation, illustrating the beauty and strength found in diverse identities. By following the journeys of these individuals, “Mx.” challenges societal norms and questions how the fashion industry can lead the way in accepting varied gender expressions, ultimately portraying the ongoing fight for identity acceptance and understanding.

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BLAKE AND CATHIE, 8min., Argentina
Directed by Ileana Gómez
SHORT FICTION FILM ABOUT WILLIAM BLAKE, ENGLIH WRITER AND PAINTER.

Hypnagogia, 4min., UK
Directed by Ysabelle Taylor
Hypnagogia is the transitional state of consciousness between wakefulness and sleep. A sensation of semi-consciousness or trance where images float sometimes randomly, sometimes sequentially through our minds.

https://www.instagram.com/ysabelle_taylor_dance/

Seeking Tranquility, 4min., UK
Directed by Ysabelle Taylor
An improvised dance film in collaboration with dancer Aleth Berenice and composer Alberte Erantis. Filmed at Acosta Dance Centre, located in a historic building of the Woolwich Royal Arsenal in London.

https://www.instagram.com/ysabelle_taylor_dance/

Ripples, 1min., UK
Directed by Ysabelle Taylor

Last Love, 18min., Russia
Directed by Dmitri Frolov
The musical and poetic composition “O my prophetic soul” on the verses of Fedor Ivanovich Tyutchev for the Reader, Pianist and String Orchestra of the composer Sergei Aleksandrovich Oskolkov served as a sound basis for the philosophical parable about the Love of the human and divine, about the cycle of life, about the decline of civilization, That the latter will be the first. The film is shot as a dream, and the use of the aesthetic series of experimental cinema only emphasizes this state. The universal sound gives him the poetry of Fedor Tyutchev (1803-1873), deeply played by Leonid Mozgovoy behind the scenes. The young actors Natalya Surkova and Vladimir Zolotar, who existed in the frame, had a difficult task to show the first people not burdened with the intellectual work of subsequent generations. It was necessary to abandon today’s problems and try to imagine themselves as original people, and then immediately move to the very end of time. The plot begins with them and ends with humanity. This author wanted to show continuity: the first love and the supposed last is an indivisible whole of one eternal Love.

http://dmitrfrolov.narod.ru/Last_Love/en.html

Tomasz Kwiecien – Professional skating instructor, 6min., USA
Directed by Dominika Machel
Tomasz Kwiecień is on a mission — to get as many people involved in blading as possible, not just kids but adults too. His passion for skating knows no limits — he even set a Guinness World Record by completing a full marathon… skating backwards! Blading in schools?

https://www.instagram.com/dominika_machel/

Nakielsky, 1min., Poland
Directed by Dominika Machel
This isn’t a story – it’s a collision of senses. Movement, sound, image – equal, sharp as glass, precise as a blade. Nothing leads, nothing follows. They coexist in tension, in a rhythm that doesn’t obey rules but rises from the clash of motion, sound, and visuals. Each sense holds its ground – sight never overshadows hearing, sound never silences the body. But everything penetrates everything else – without that, there’s no meaning. The layers merge, not in harmony, but in friction – and that friction sparks reaction.

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Maria Niklińska Marlen – make it, 3min., Poland
Directed by Dominika Machel