Buckets
Director: Drew van Steenbergen
Country of Origin: United States
Premiere: Tennessee
Synopsis: After a late night dating app match, Drew’s excitement curdles into obsession as he spends 48 hours unraveling in a haze of paranoia, overanalysis, and self-sabotage. A darkly comic look at modern romance in the age of instant connection and delayed replies.
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Cellulose Documents: Forget Me Not
Director: Katina Bitsicas, Scott McMahon
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The Chosen
Director: Brady Richards
Country of Origin: United States
Premiere: Tennessee
Synopsis: Reed is troubled by a vision forcing him to do bad things, but nobody believes him. Maybe this new therapist will understand?
Fresh Values
Director: Drew Durepos, Isaac Brooks
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The Garden Sees Fire
Director: Kiera Faber
Country of Origin: United States
Premiere: Tennessee
Synopsis: "A mystical tale of cloaked identities, systemic traumas, and insatiable consumption: The ecology burns, reclaiming its environs.This visionary, artist driven analogue stop-frame animation synchronously incorporates buried and hand painted 16mm film frame-by-frame with drawing and armatured puppet animations; creating a surreal disorienting world-within-a-world."
