Director: Kamila Kuc

Country of Origin: Poland, UK, USA

Premiere: Tennessee

Synopsis: A haunting exploration of familial bonds, intergenerational memory, and the enduring impact of shared narratives. Filmmaker Kamila Kuc steps into the emotional stream of inherited family history as the lines between documentary, testimony, and fiction blur. (A special thank you to DELERE PRESS BOOK, If Loss Were a a Currency https://www.delerepress.com/books/iflosswereacurrency)

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Director: John Bell, Dan Bell

Country of Origin: United States

Premiere: Tennessee

Synopsis: It’s a not-so-wonderful life for George Bailey when a horde of flesh-eating ghouls come to town on Christmas Eve. Through the use of traditional rotoscoping and compositing techniques, It’s a Wonderful Life and Night of the Living Dead (both in the public domain) have been woven together to create this twisted love letter to the original films.

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Director: Gustine Füdickar, Justin Streichman

Country of Origin: United States

Premiere: Nashville

Synopsis: As dream life bleeds into waking reality, a woman haunted by her Puritan ancestor must confront the terror buried deep within her bloodline.

Through ritual and violent trial of the body, she fractures the veil between worlds and is thrown into a fight for her life.

Lady Puritan is a surreal psychological meditation on ancestral trauma and the intimate horror of what we are born carrying. Set against the shadow of American Puritanism, the film explores the tension between repression and embodied desire.

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Director: Ashley Lauren Thomas

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Director: Louise Flaherty

Country of Origin: Canada

Premiere: Tennessee

Synopsis: Two young women, out for a walk on the tundra, follow a trail of colourful stones left on the ground -- but it leads them to danger. They become trapped in the lair of the Mangittatuarjuk, the Gnawer of Rocks. The young women are terrified when they realize what the monster has been doing. The women and their village must use the teachings of their elders to defeat the monster.

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Director: Barrett Lesly Shuler

Country of Origin: United States

Premiere: Tennessee

Synopsis: In an attempt to save his relationship a man buys his girlfriend a rare exotic bird for her birthday. After the couple develops a deep emotional bond with the bird, its true colors begin to emerge.

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Director: Skye Braband

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Director: Danny Dolan

Country of Origin: United States

Premiere: Tennessee

Synopsis: After losing out on the job of a lifetime, a jaded choreographer's escape to the desert is hijacked by an unhinged and malicious rival.

Director: Andrea Dratch, Andy Carrasco

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Director: Cathlin McCullough

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Director: Steven Palassis

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Director: Mel Day

Country of Origin: Canada

Premiere: Tennessee

Synopsis: Painting Cathedral Rock, is a meditative experimental work in which painting, performance, and film converge to explore landscape, ritual, colonialism, and the fragile boundaries between spectacle, spirituality, and perception.

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Director: Jacob Forman, Joseph Hurt

Country of Origin: United States

Premiere: Tennessee

Synopsis: Palace is a series of vignettes following a Roscoe Arbuckle-esque silent film star, who acts as both performer and audience in an empty palace theater.

Director: Chelsea Hall

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Director: Meg Cook

Country of Origin: United States

Premiere: Tennessee

Synopsis: Patch draws inspiration from textiles, translating woven patterns into animated movement. Using cut paper, it explores pattern, movement, and play, echoing the tactile qualities of textile-making. The animation unfolds like a living fabric—shapes shifting, interlocking, and unraveling in continuous transformation.

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Director: Taylor Parris Benjamin & Megan Jensen

Country of Origin: United States & Czech Republic

Premiere: Tennessee

Synopsis: Freja’s prepared a perfect meal for a first date, but when the boy she’s invited over starts to act strange, things take a dark turn.

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Director: Saif Alsaegh

Country of Origin: United States & Czech Republic

Premiere: Tennessee

Synopsis: Only a few weeks after the United States invaded Iraq in 2003, former President George W. Bush gave a televised speech on the aircraft carrier USS Abraham Lincoln declaring that his country had prevailed. Primetime Mr. President analyzes the speech, dubbed as “Mission Accomplished,” through the lens of what Iraqis had endured and would endure as a result of the war and its aftermath, from horrible insurgency, civil and sectarian wars, political corruption, and the overarching sense of death and despair.

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Director: Pouyan Rostami

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Director: Joseph Taglieri

Country of Origin: United States

Premiere: World

Synopsis: What happens when social norms decay? When the machinery of power turns neighbors into enemies? YARA is a young woman who believes in equality for all. When a fascist LEADER is informed of her godlike powers, he seeks to make her a weapon of the state. He poisons her MOTHER in a bid to force the child to access her powers. When Yara attempts to resurrect her mother, she actually summons a life force using her mother’s corpse to warn her she must fight for justice.

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Director: Paola Termine

Country of Origin: France

Premiere: United States

Synopsis: Blanche refuses to let her mother sell the piano. This piano belonged to her sick sister. While her mother seems to act as if nothing happened, Blanche tries her best to keep Anna's memory alive.

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Director: Diego Müller

Country of Origin: Brasil

Premiere: United States

Synopsis: Amid isolation and the promise of an unexpected change, two lives marked by loneliness cross paths, revealing affection, healing, and belonging.

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Director: Madeline Hicks

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Director: Alexandra Hayden

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Director: Shivers & Viking

Country of Origin: United States

Premiere: Tennessee

Synopsis: The story of a masked killer who was eventually feared by all.

Director: Gianfranco Fernández-Ruiz

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Director: Ian Gibbins

Country of Origin: Australia

Premiere: Tennessee

Synopsis: The Yellow-tailed Black Cockatoo (Calyptorhyncus funereus) has a distinctive, relaxed loping flight and a loud plaintive call: ""why-eeela, weee-la"". It feeds on the seeds of diverse trees including eucalypts, banksias and hakeas. Much of this habitat has been destroyed or degraded by human activity. However, the cockatoos are often seen around the outer suburbs of Adelaide, South Australia, feeding on seeds in the cones of introduced Monterey Pines (Pinus radiata) planted along roadsides and in parks and gardens.
In this video, a yellow-tailed black cockatoo searches for food and missing companions in urban deserts, as we hear fragments of its calls...

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Director: MK Kopp

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