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Coming to Mother tells the story of a mother and daughter’s reunion after years apart. When Qianqian finds herself homeless after being deceived and is about to leave Nanjing, she meets her terminally ill mother at a café. Years ago, her mother fled an unhappy marriage in pursuit of freedom, and though she feels guilty for not being there during her daughter’s upbringing, she still hopes Qianqian will be as brave and independent as she once was. She leaves her house to her daughter, encouraging her to take control of her own destiny and avoid repeating the pattern of being trapped. Initially filled with resentment, Qianqian eventually understands her mother’s intentions and decides to accompany her to the sea to fulfill her final wish. The story concludes with mother and daughter reconciled—both a redemption of family bonds and a symbol of Qianqian “following” in her mother’s footsteps to become a free and strong woman. The narrative focuses on the emotional rift and reconciliation between mother and daughter, weaving together personal choices, women’s destiny, and profound yet restrained maternal love.
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Storm on the Stage is the story of an extraordinary challenge against time. With exactly three days to teach two highly demanding Turkish choreographies to American students, I faced a task that seemed almost impossible. Every rehearsal became a race against the clock—pushing through exhaustion, pressure, and doubt. This documentary captures the journey of transforming unfamiliar steps into a shared language, individual effort into unity, and a heartbeat into a performance. In just three days, the challenge was not simply to teach choreography, but to bring an entire group together and prepare them for the moment they would step onto the stage.
Stranded in a quiet Pennsylvanian city, flatbed truck driver Dan leaves his cab to explore his surroundings, only to be drawn to an old steel factory that seems frozen in time. Inside the rusting labyrinth, curiosity turns into a surreal inner journey as memories, industrial echoes, and dreamlike visions blur the boundary between reality and imagination. As Dan wanders deeper, the factory reveals itself as a symbolic kingdom where he sees himself as both wandering ruler and chained prisoner. Haunted by reflections on ambition, purpose, and the forces that shape human lives, he confronts a mysterious transformation that binds him irrevocably to the spirit of steel itself.
The virtual digital exhibition of the future is an ancient whale specimen, and the restoration of digitalization in the future. Corals in the sea have long been replaced by garbage discharged into the sea by humans, and the ecological collapse is irreparable because whales in the outside world have long been extinct. People in the future can only commemorate the creatures of the past electronically.
A short tragicomedy set in the time just before the internet came along. Every week, a girl takes a long bus ride to a remote village to meet a boy who is trying to build a motorcycle in a rickety shed near the bus stop. They have recognized each other’s dreams and each other’s loneliness; very slowly something beautiful is beginning to blossom, but when a passing motorcycle group belittles the boy, his building project turns into a destructive obsession. RatingsEdit Rating 8.0 Average Score Based on 1 Rating0 0 0 0 Alexandru Schiller on September 3, 2026 8 Edit Rating Share Rating Delete Notes Alexandru Schiller on September 2, 2026 • Shared with Submitter Hi! Good News: We have accepted your film into our film competition! To progress further could you please provide us a screener download link (ONLY if not provided so far), and a recent director’s photo, and a poster (print quality 300DPI, A4 or A3 size, CYMK) to promote your film. Thank you again for your participation, stay safe be safe. Best of luck on the international film festival circuit. CIFF Admin Delete Breaking news! You are going towards the Top 100 and going up…..going up …and going… we predict you will get into Quarter Finals in the International Films category, and possibly as well as in the ‘Top 10/Quarter Finals Best Short Films’ AND/OR ‘Best International Films/Top 10 Best Internationa Short Films’ categories, either one, by the end of the year. Keep fingers crossed & best of luck. Please share this ‘new’ link below on your social media circles and platforms, ask your friends, sponsors, cast & crew, family mmbers, anyone who watched your musical video/clip or any of your performance(s), to give you a rating 1-10 stars or make a comment to help you gain the much needed extra points. Any comments received will add the points to your score! Hence,a screener download link is important! BTW: Allow us 24-48hrs to finish to received the film/video then time to convert & re-uploading, then listing. Thanks BTW: PLEASE allow 24-48h for movie upload (receival), conversion and listing. Thanks! Send a copy to the submitter. Add Note Still Photos
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Surrounded by a wall of certificates, Yangyang has always lived under the shadow of his older brother; rap music and skateboarding are his unique passions, and he desperately longs for his family's approval—yet he remains forever caught in this stark contrast. He hopes to secure recognition by exchanging a fake certificate, but when that illusion shatters, all that remains is sheer embarrassment. In the twilight of the park, a long-awaited sense of empathy blossoms between the siblings.
Stranded in a quiet Pennsylvanian city, flatbed truck driver Dan leaves his cab to explore his surroundings, only to be drawn to an old steel factory that seems frozen in time. Inside the rusting labyrinth, curiosity turns into a surreal inner journey as memories, industrial echoes, and dreamlike visions blur the boundary between reality and imagination. As Dan wanders deeper, the factory reveals itself as a symbolic kingdom where he sees himself as both wandering ruler and chained prisoner. Haunted by reflections on ambition, purpose, and the forces that shape human lives, he confronts a mysterious transformation that binds him irrevocably to the spirit of steel itself.
A renowned painter, stripped of his family and eyesight in a tragic accident, retreats to the darkness of his ancestral basement. Struggling with only 10% vision and profound grief, he falls into a void of visual hallucinations where the line between creation and destruction blurs. In a haunting spiral of psychosis, he believes he is reclaiming his late wife, while in reality, he is giving birth to terrifying, obsidian abstractions on canvas.
The wife begins her day as usual with household chores. Amid the repetitive sweeping and the slipping on and off of her slippers, she seems to sense that something keeps falling onto the floor.
An intimate short documentary about artist Rita Winkler, whose watercolor world reveals a creative process shaped by instinct, rhythm, repetition, and color.
In the millennium, in a small county town, eighteen-year-old Chen Yang was determined to fulfill his late mother's last wish and move to a big city. By chance, he met Lin Shanshan, a "distant relative," during an accidental encounter at a bookstore. His father, Chen Weiguo, introduced her as a friend's relative who would be staying with them temporarily. As they spent more time together, a subtle affection grew between Chen Yang and Lin Shanshan. After his father once again pressured him to take over the family hardware store, Chen Yang accidentally discovered an invitation to his father and Lin Shanshan's wedding under the coffee table. He rushed to find Lin Shanshan, but only received silence in reply. On the eve of the wedding, Chen Yang asked Lin Shanshan if she would leave the county town with him—she refused. On the wedding day, Lin Shanshan finally saw clearly the ugliness of the townspeople and the true nature of marriage. That very night, she and Chen Yang rode away from the county town together on a motorcycle.
Screenwriter Yizhou wrote a story set in Western Sichuan: Photographer Yu Yan travels to Yuzixi to find the mountain god who is said to predict the future. After fainting, he is rescued by Tibetan girl Pema Chodron.
As they travel and live together, they gradually develop feelings for each other. Yu Yan discovers that her cowhide diary can foresee their ending. Yu Yan leaves in a fit of anger but returns, and the story repeats itself. Yu Yan and Pema Chodron are both projections of the two sides of Yizhou's inner self.
An angry father enters a sports complex with his son. The son has not spoken for two days and has only mentioned the name of the sports coach.
When a zombie apocalypse hits, Jessie and Mike finally confess their love, only for Jessie to be bitten while saving Mike's life. With just five hours left before she turns, she asks him the unthinkable: "If you loved me, you would kill me." But can he do what she's asked of him? Even as a zombie, she's still the love of his life. Can he be the person she desperately needs? A darkly funny horror romance about love's ultimate sacrifice.
Koushaneh is a young female blogger who was arrested for posting a critical message online. After surviving a 72-hour period of captivity, she has spent the last three months recovering from the psychological trauma, separated from her stepmother. In the quiet of her solitude, she finds comfort in the soothing piano pieces played by her brother, who practices in pursuit of a brighter future. But when her stepmother suddenly enters her private sanctuary, everything begins to change...
This film is a dystopian sci-fi short set in a future society tightly controlled by AI algorithms, where the intelligent system dissolves individual dissent in the name of "optimization" and repackages rebellion as entertainment symbols. The protagonist clings to self-will, resisting the system's psychological manipulation and attempting to pierce the illusion of false honor.PLAY MOVIE (please click here)
This short film focuses on the protagonist, Ruirui, telling the story of her life intertwined with her younger brother and mother—a family in which the father has been absent for an extended period. At the beginning of the story, while watching an animated film, Ruirui returns to her room to retrieve her headphones and happens to overhear her mother angrily reacting to her brother's cut-off nails caused by his grandmother. However, despite facing a similar situation herself, Ruirui's emotions are consistently ignored by her mother. Later, in a moment of desperation, Ruirui takes her brother's headphones, only to be met with an unjustified scolding from her mother. After the argument, her mother flips through an old photo album and suddenly realizes the long-standing neglect she has shown Ruirui. She then prepares breakfast and delivers new headphones to her, hoping to make up for the love that had been overlooked.
A childhood “love at first sight” ripens into a profound spiritual bond. But fate separates the two children forever after a bitter family conflict. They never meet again.They never marry.Yet their souls remain inseparable. Through the passing decades, they survive only through dreams, dreams that become their secret universe,their shelter,their fulfilled love. Nothing truly happens in reality.Everything unfolds within dreams,the inner world of two aging lovers who continue loving each other across a lifetime of absence. In those dreams, their love transforms them into compassionate social workers, serving humanity together.A spiritual love so pure that it dissolves personal longing into universal compassion. The blood bag, pigeon, peacock, cat, dog, and creative arts are recurring symbols of the invisible thread that keeps their souls alive,sustaining them through an entire lifetime without a single reunion after childhood. Rooted in the essence of Advaita Vedanta, the film explores the non-dual nature of existence ,where dreams and reality merge, distances disappear, and the boundaries between “you” and “me” dissolve into eternal oneness. Unfulfilled desires do not destroy them.Dreams fulfill what life could not. In the final scene, inspired by an ancient Indian funeral ritual, cooked rice is offered to a crow after death.If the crow refuses the offering, it is believed that the soul remains bound by earthly desires.If the crow accepts it, the soul is finally free. In this story, the crow arrives.Because love, though never lived in reality, was completely fulfilled in dreams. Some souls do not need a lifetime together to become eternal.” Their bodies remained apart. Their dreams never did.” A love never lived… yet completely fulfilled. This film looks like a romantic love story but it is not - It is an anti-war film underlining the divine unity of the whole Humanity together --Nations may be separate physically but if their citizen are spiritually united as one , there can never be any war in the world.Only love and peace will prevail forever.
A Documentary Musical About the Warren Court and the Constitutional Revolution
Hamilton meets Ken Burns in this groundbreaking documentary musical that brings the landmark cases of the Warren Court to life through original music, historical storytelling, and innovative AI technology—including AI-generated voices, music, and lip-synching that allow real historical figures to “sing” their stories.
A film about a man who stops to understand what's truly important in life. Sometimes the path to light begins with acknowledging one's own emptiness.
In the closure of the city’s last video rental stores, this short documentary finds its starting point to reflect on urban gentrification and the changing habits of consumption. Through disappearing spaces and the people who once inhabited them, the film connects the loss of these places with the transformation of the audiovisual medium and the arrival of artificial intelligence, used as a metaphor for an unstoppable technological change that redefines the way we live, consume, and relate to culture, leaving open the question of what is lost along the way.
A short tragicomedy set in the time just before the internet came along. Every week, a girl takes a long bus ride to a remote village to meet a boy who is trying to build a motorcycle in a rickety shed near the bus stop. They have recognized each other’s dreams and each other’s loneliness; very slowly something beautiful is beginning to blossom, but when a passing motorcycle group belittles the boy, his building project turns into a destructive obsession. RatingsEdit Rating 8.0 Average Score Based on 1 Rating0 0 0 0 Alexandru Schiller on September 3, 2026 8 Edit Rating Share Rating Delete Notes Alexandru Schiller on September 2, 2026 • Shared with Submitter Hi! Good News: We have accepted your film into our film competition! To progress further could you please provide us a screener download link (ONLY if not provided so far), and a recent director's photo, and a poster (print quality 300DPI, A4 or A3 size, CYMK) to promote your film. Thank you again for your participation, stay safe be safe. Best of luck on the international film festival circuit. CIFF Admin Delete Breaking news! You are going towards the Top 100 and going up.....going up ...and going... we predict you will get into Quarter Finals in the International Films category, and possibly as well as in the 'Top 10/Quarter Finals Best Short Films' AND/OR 'Best International Films/Top 10 Best Internationa Short Films' categories, either one, by the end of the year. Keep fingers crossed & best of luck. Please share this 'new' link below on your social media circles and platforms, ask your friends, sponsors, cast & crew, family mmbers, anyone who watched your musical video/clip or any of your performance(s), to give you a rating 1-10 stars or make a comment to help you gain the much needed extra points. Any comments received will add the points to your score! Hence,a screener download link is important! BTW: Allow us 24-48hrs to finish to received the film/video then time to convert & re-uploading, then listing. Thanks BTW: PLEASE allow 24-48h for movie upload (receival), conversion and listing. Thanks! Send a copy to the submitter. Add Note Still Photos
A lonely young boy builds a mysterious machine inside his father's workshop. It leads him to a soul world, where he seeks the soul he has lost.
Wedding day, after the restaurant, the husband and wife go to the apartment to spend time together, but how they spend it remains a mystery.
A dystopian fetish agency stages ritualized domination sessions where religious iconography, demonology, and latex bodies merge into a choreography of controlled erotic power.
ALEX SÜD follows Mme Selina, a former elite task-force operative who disappeared from the world she once served after becoming a state witness in Germany. Years later, she lives quietly in Alexandra with her young daughter, determined to build a normal life far from the violence and secrets of her past. But when shadows from her old life resurface and threaten the only family she has left, Selina is forced back into survival mode. The story unfolds in a single continuous take, immersing the audience in her desperate race through the township as she confronts the ghosts she thought she had escaped. Blending raw emotion with relentless tension, ALEX SÜD is a powerful story about resilience, identity, and a mother’s determination to protect what matters most.
Haunted by a collapsing relationship, a young man journeys through a dreamlike subconscious landscape where a Snow Woman consumes his memories, forcing him to choose between erasing the pain of love or returning to reality and confronting the emotions he has tried to escape.
In the world of film theory, the director is the supreme creator. However, for Bob, the protagonist of this one-minute meta-metaphysical nightmare, that hierarchy collapses with a single keystroke. While trying to enjoy a well-deserved moment of peace with a piece of cake, Bob realizes his reality doesn’t belong to him, but to an invisible Editor. Time for Bob ceases to be linear—he becomes a victim of a brutal "Undo" process. Through a series of violent jump cuts, absurd wardrobe changes, and forced rewinds, Bob experiences a digital version of purgatory. The film explores the thin line between the silver screen and reality, turning a technical glitch into existential horror. In the end, Bob doesn't seek salvation from a director; instead, he attempts to "cut" the very light source of the machine that created him, proving that in the digital age, the only true God is the one with their finger on CTRL+Z.
Soñamos lo que anhelamos, lo que tememos, lo que sentimos, lo que queremos.
Xiao Wei, a socially anxious man, uses an app to create an AI double that shares his appearance but has a confident personality, and lets it socialize on his behalf. At first, the double’s success plunges Xiao Wei into virtual gratification. However, the double gradually spirals out of control: it not only develops genuine feelings for Xiao Yu, but also begins to question the very value of Xiao Wei’s existence, and eventually claims to be the more perfect "Xiao Wei". When Xiao Wei tries to expose the double in the real world, he finds that in Xiao Yu’s eyes, he himself has become the stranger.
This film blends reality and fiction to offer a unique perspective on the possible whereabouts of Federico García Lorca's remains and what would happen if they were unexpectedly discovered ninety years after his assassination. Part of the story draws inspiration from real events that shaped its protagonists, while the other part springs from the author's imagination, who incorporates creative elements to enrich the narrative and explore emotions and possibilities beyond the documented facts. The result is a work that mixes truth and fantasy in a captivating balance. But the question remains: could it not be true? Judge for yourselves.
In a near-apocalyptic future, a son discovers the unsettling truth about his father’s creation and embarks on a reckless mission against his mother to reconnect with him in his catatonic state.
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Hello! I am Thomas (Tom, Tommy, doesn't matter as long it's a form of Tom) Spence, nice to meet you! I started my filmmaking career taking a screenwriting & video production class in high school, making simple class project videos like PSA's and music video's. I was always confused on what I wanted to do with my life, as most classes in school felt like busywork and didn't take much interest, but that first video production class changed everything. For the first time, I partook in class discussions constantly, and didn't groan when the teacher announced a project is being assigned.
Jokes aside, that is when I found out what I wanted to do with my life. In college, I enrolled at the New York Film Academy in Manhattan, with a BFA in Filmmaking. There I learned more than just writing and taking a camera and shooting, I learned the ins and outs of every position one can be when a film is being made. During my time at NYFA, I wrote, directed, and, produced two short films for my capstone, "Best Seller", and "Scam Likely", which are being submitted to festivals.
I also have been a background actor for Amazon Prime shows like "The Marvelous Mrs. Maisel" and "Shelter", you can see me if you pause the show exactly at a specific frame!
PLAY MOVIE (please click here)A mysterious new game is found at a thrift shop that transports a group of friends on Maya's birthday to different time periods, challenging them as each one must face a dark fate for the others to move on to the next level.
Collection of Radio Drama Stories – Near Future 20XX is a series of short experimental radio dramas set in a fragmented near-future world. Each piece explores them silence, memory, and human perception through minimal dialogue and restrained sound design. Rather than following a single linear narrative, this collection presents
When John, a brilliant but volatile lawyer on the brink of personal ruin, accepts a massive retainer to defend a wealthy businessman accused of murdering his own son, it seems like a straightforward path to redemption. The suspect claims innocence, pointing toward an accidental shooting amidst a toxic family dispute. But as John dives deeper into the investigation, drowning in files, contradictions, and unsettling evidence, enters a psychological labyrinth. Confronted by a grieving, unyielding mother and an enigmatic family history, the line between hunter and hunted begins to blur. Driven by obsession, John must uncover the truth behind a tragic family dynamic before the darkness consumes the case and his last chance at saving his own family.
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WATCH TRAILERStanding on Business: The Golden Key Story is an inspiring documentary that follows the journey of entrepreneurs who refused to let circumstance define their future. Set in Memphis, Tennessee, the film chronicles the impact of Golden Key Entrepreneur Training Academy, an innovative nonprofit dedicated to transforming lives through entrepreneurship, education, and economic empowerment. Through powerful testimonials, spoken word performances, original music, and intimate behind the scenes moments, viewers witness ordinary people becoming extraordinary business owners while breaking cycles of poverty and creating generational wealth. More than a documentary about business, Standing on Business is a story about resilience, purpose, community, and the courage to bet on yourself when no one else will. The film challenges audiences to rethink what entrepreneurship looks like and demonstrates that with opportunity, mentorship, and determination, entire communities can be transformed.
An afflicted soul wanders a wilderness that seems alive with torment—its silence broken only by the whispers of something dark, something ancient. Struggling to distinguish delusion from truth, he’s pulled deeper into a shadowed realm where fear, doubt, and despair close in like fog. As his mind unravels and the world around him bends, fragments of something different—something radiant—begin to break through. A presence. A promise. A choice. The New Creation is a haunting descent into the human soul’s darkest night, and a stirring exploration of the mysterious force that can bring light to even the most forsaken path.
At the end of the 19th century, the Italian Juan Bautista Busca arrived in Zumarraga (Basque Country), along with other Italians, Swiss, and Austrians, to work on the Madrid-Paris railway tunnels. They not only brought their work experience in the construction of Alpine tunnels, but also small diatonic accordions with which they entertained their free time in the barracks where they were housed. Busca was one of them, but he didn't leave after the construction work was completed. He married and settled in Zumarraga, where he started a family, whose descendants still live in the municipality. He planted the seed for a foreign instrument, the accordion, to blend with the ancestral sound of the area's traditional tambourines, giving rise to what we know today as Trikitixa, one of the most representative hallmarks of Basque musical culture. A unique story that represents the enrichment that the arrival of people with different social, cultural, and linguistic backgrounds brings to any culture. The Trikitixa is a recognized Basque musical hallmark both within and outside of Euskal Herria, and curiously, that small accordion came from abroad, and not so long ago. The documentary features more than 20 testimonies, in Basque and Spanish, from important figures in Basque culture, including Bernardo Atxaga, Toti Martínez de Lezea, Kepa Junkera, Fermin Muguruza, Garikoitz Mendizabal, and, of course, members of the still-active Trikitixa de Zumarraga. The documentary features abundant and interesting, rarely seen archival footage, the result of intensive research.
NO-W-AR is a short visual work that explores the universal human consequences of war through symbolic imagery. Free from references to specific conflicts, nations, or eras, the film offers an emotional and timeless reflection on loss, destruction, and silence
Days before her Adlib Ibiza fashion debut, Diana's world is rocked when her hands begin to tremble, rendering her unable to embroider her masterpiece. As she navigates the challenges this brings to her marriage and her own sense of self, Diana embarks on a journey of resilience and self-discovery, determined to redefine her aspirations in the face of unexpected adversity.
Set inside a brutalist museum after hours, three teenagers attempt a high-risk heist. Rendered in stark black-and-white noir, the film reframes theft not as crime, but as confrontation — a collision between institutional value and personal meaning. What makes something valuable? Scarcity? Protection? Naming? Or the simple act of deciding it matters? As walls protect what is deemed “priceless,” the film explores how value is constructed, who controls it, and how ownership reshapes belonging. In the dark, value becomes unstable. And sometimes what seems small holds everything that was missing.
The intention of LUCID was to explore the proliferation of digital media that has cultivated an era where the lines between reality and fiction are increasingly blurred. Though we turn to social media to connect, it ultimately estranges us from ourselves and others and to reality itself. The purpose of LUCID is to allegorically represent this disconnect through the medium of lucid dreaming in order to expose the disintegration of the authentic self within a hypermediated world. My film would be suited to audiences who have a suspicion that the contours of existence extend beyond the dimensions of an iPhone screen, who are painfully aware that we are, in the words of Postman, “amusing ourselves to death.”
