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Celandine’s Diversion

Celandine rediscovers former talents when she is paroled to a group of symphonic witches for diversion therapy from drug addiction.

The sun dies in 4 days. Edward, a milk delivery man, stops taking the emotion-numbing medication prescribed to all citizens.

In a culture addicted to outrage, Mainstream pulls back the curtain on the seductive machinery of influence, ideology, and viral

Filmed on location in Sarasota, Florida, Jayde Dauley brings her next horror project, As He Went.A successful businesswoman, Cheyenne, confronts

SYNOPSISA young boy drives a donkey cart through a medieval German winter — roughspun coat, creaking wheels, frozen mud. Strange

Set in Arizona in the days following the 1997 Phoenix Lights sightings, the story follows Joyanna, a 16-year-old girl raised

Two friends struggle to find the right pairings in wine and love. Directed by Amy Kersten (USA)

Two friends take the shock of grief differently after coming back from a dear friend’s funeral. Directed by Morgane Reed-Roth

In a near-future world where heartbreak has become weaponized and emotional immunity is just a pill away, a teenage girl

A 2D animated music video about the cynical cycle of colonialism in Mexico, which incorporates a dozen art styles from

Violent teen Sofi enters an altered state of consciousness whereupon she relives a traumatic memory and has an emotional reunion

As death approaches, a former wartime president is forced to confront not only his own fragility and mortality, but Death

Directed by Esha Sunil Nanal and Himanshu Sanjay Pile

A lonely ventriloquist is served divorce papers at the showroom bar where he works. Things take a strange turn when