Instupendo - Six Forty Seven
Ayana Mitchell - 24, Carl Brown - 24
California
In what I like to call “Ethereal horror”, we peer into a voyeuristic window of a young girl watching television, unawares-- spooked by a visitor in the night (a poltergeist!) a sentient body of light and altogether darkness, murmuring sweet nothings and emanating light and static.
His Eyes Behind Mine
Qin Ziwei - 22
Massachusetts
Based on a personal stalker story. An emotional journey through love, sex, obsession, and violence.
Your Security
amigo
Mitchell Griffith - 24
California
When I was 8, I told my mom I was meant to live among birds. I lied.
22
Kara Grace Miller - 21, Chris Felix - 24, Devon Wilson - 23, Cody Terreson - 23
New York
22 recounts an assault at a high school party, and how it has followed the protagonist through the coming years.
Someday My Daughter Will Make Art About When I Was Young
Tessa Hill - 18
Canada
Through scanned photographs and drawings, the filmmaker immerses herself in the process of understanding her mother and, in turn, herself through the eyes of her future daughter.
SELF.
How to make a Sandwich
Varun Sreedharan - 14
California
This is a comprehensive guide by the Deutsche Demokratische Republik on how to assemble a sandwich.
Just Girly Things
Indica DeRose - 16
California
A 1950s perspective of how a young lady is supposed to act takes a dark turn.
Night-Riders
Jules Chin Greene - 22
California
Driven out of their homeland, an endling, or the last remaining member of a species, reflects on displacement, colonialism, and extinction.
Umbilical Cord to Heaven
Don Josephus Raphael Eblahan - 23, Hannah Schierbeek - 22, Keaton McQuarrie - 22, John Eblahan - 18
Phillippines
In modern day Philippines, a metaphysical merging of past and present permeates through the landscape as ancient deities are reawakened, causing people to experience the spiritual connection between body and nature.
Wonderland
Ella Fields - 15, Soleil LaMontagne - 16, Alina Foley - 15
California
A girl battles with peer pressure and finding her happy place inside a dreamlike world.
The Dance
Promenade
Sam Tubbs - 18, Jeanette Velasquez - 17
Washington
A collection of loosely related sequences representing a wandering train of thought.
Leaves
Pedro Tamames - 21, Isabel Padilla - 22, Britney Ngaw - 18, Rhea D'Souza - 24
Spain
A girl spends her time eavesdropping on a young couple whose relationship is falling apart.