
SPLASH BACK
Yufei Xiao - 22, Rachel Wu - 24, Yang Liu - 24 | USA
On a humid summer day, a young masseuse recognizes her client as a childhood friend during a foot massage service and enters a flashback of their withheld memory.

L'ÎLE SANS MORTS
Jules Vésigot-Wahl - 24 | France
Annick lives with the memory of her husband Loïc, lost at sea 40 years earlier. One day, the corpse of a young sailor washes ashore.

LOST MEDIA
Rebeca Spiegel - 24 | Canada
In an alternate reality where Laika the Soviet space dog survives her mission, Amandine rushes to rescue her.

A LIFE WELL-LIVED
Athena Cheris - 21 | USA
Ronald Chase, a 90 year old filmmaker and teacher, hangs the obituaries of his dead friends and mentors on his wall. This ritual reveals his insights on life, death, and art.

SO LONG
Joe LaFrance - 21, Brenden Mascherino - 22 | USA
Within the fading echoes of their once-intimate bond, a long-time married couple parts ways with the familiar comforts of their home and the memories held as the move into the final chapter of life.

MOTHER TONGUE
Shriya Surana - 15 | USA
A visual letter to the filmmaker’s Nani, or maternal grandmother, that serves as a space for her to explore the too-familiar, diasporic feeling of losing a language.

OUR UNFORGETTABLE FELLOW
Victor Stoll - 23 | Brazil
After many years estranged away, the last heir of a Lebanese immigrant family returns to her childhood estate.

WHEN I SEE ROSES I THINK OF YOU
Jordie Simpson - 21 | USA
An abstract reflection on grief, growth, and how we choose to remember our loved ones.

LIVE FROM THE CLOUDS
Mackie Mallison - 23, Athan Le - 19 | USA
Viewers are immersed in the intimate memories and imaginations of four women in the director's Japanese American family, where everyday anxieties of shopping, paying the bills, and flying are ruptured by dreams of financial freedom and homecoming.








