When Mila confesses that she is seeing someone else, Adam’s world collapses. He then drifts through his memories and fantasies, trying to hold on to a love he had never known how to see, and which is now slipping away from him.

This comedy focuses on your not-so-average college stories about four fledgling artists who are struggling to find themselves as makers and teens away from home for the first time, in the gritty city of Philly.

We are thrown into their world from the perspective of Lucy Glick, who has left everything and everyone from her Amish analogue world behind to dive into the terrifying modern world.

When a fish-out-of-water transfer student straight out of Amish country attends her first nude figure drawing class, it’s only natural for her to start with the penis to overcome her fears. Too bad she forgets there are any other body parts before it’s time to present.

This mockumentary follows the players at a small local Renaissance Fair as they struggle to stay afloat after the sudden death of their founding member.

When Tony Wagonburger dies, leaving his beloved fair to his adult children, they must continue the legacy and keep the fair open despite a challenge to their very existence from their cross-town rivals.

A meta inspired tale that takes on what it truly means to have the story "come to life".

Drawing upon the classic signatures of the adventure, fantasy and action genres, the team behind "Hero's Journey" works to bring a true and exciting thrill ride to the audience. Without revealing too much....When the fourth wall breaks, a young filmmaker must find his inner creative confidence and take control of his story before it takes control of the world around him.

When a man's mind is being eaten away by an evil entity, he must dig deep to protect those he loves.

A man lives by himself alone in a cave for 5 months, in an attempt to connect with the collective unconscious.

After discovering a picture hidden in a book he has been reading, he begins to remember a long forgotten nightmare.

A ’76 Plymouth reflects on its journey, witnessing decades of human life, capturing moments of freedom, temptation, and redemption as it changes hands from one owner to the next. Featuring Ron Perlman.

In the late 19th century, a young Impressionist painter searches for a muse to inspire his greatest painting yet.

Taking inspiration from the lives of such painters as Renoir, Pissarro, and Monet, and 19th century period romance novels, Movement, Light, and Life aims to capture the essence of a bygone era and to celebrate the transformative power of art. A film about artists by artists, the film is a tale of love, passion, and artistic inspiration.

Max and Jade are lock-in-step as a young couple, and their respective careers as a firefighter and journalist are on the rise. All that is tested when a newborn baby girl is dropped off on the steps of the fire station, and Max considers fostering her.

How will Max and Jade be able to honor each others’ dreams while giving baby Ellie the home and care she needs?

A field biologist reminisces about his encounter with a bird species on the brink of extinction. Based on John Sincock's experiences in Kauai (1960s-80s).

"When Todd happens across a high-tech fortune-teller booth, he thinks he’s just here for an interview. But Athena, the AI within, begins to pry at the corners of his life, unspooling a past he has tried to bury.

What starts as a routine application becomes a delicate reckoning between human frailty and machine insight.” - Kent Hill (Film Threat Magazine)

Time slips by quietly, with days folding into one another without clear shape or direction. Caught within impersonal systems, movement and speech feel restricted, creating a sense of stillness while others continue forward.

This suspended state is called “tacet”—a pause filled with pressure rather than rest. Through small bodily and mental shifts, the work questions whether time is truly linear or something more cyclical.

Shaped by personal experience, the images reflect subtle transformations and internal landscapes with quiet restraint.

Edgar Allan Poe's poetry used as lyric, to music written expressly for each poem accompanied by beautiful animation. Experience Poe's work like never before!

An experimental film that seeks to create a new cinematic language. Using three screens that simultaneously tell the story of three men. Their lives reflect and contrast with each other and challenges what we call true identity.

After holding a catastrophic dinner party, a long-term couple struggles for their marriage and identity, sparked by Elle's recent transgender disclosure to her homosexual husband, Fritz.

A journey of how two wandering souls find exactly what they are looking for in the amazing new film, Good Boy.

Miriam and JoJo haven't spoken since their break-up, despite still living in the same apartment building. Now, with 27 hours to go before a black hole swallows the Sun killing all life on Earth, they finally run into each other.

JoJo feels pissed. Miriam feels guilty. It's awkward, and made even more awkward by the interruption from the neighbor's dog, Nova. When tragedy strikes, JoJo's defenses go down. She invites Miriam to join her on a last ditch survival effort to find an abandoned military base in the desert. Miriam agrees on the condition that Nova comes too.

What happens next is a complicated emotional journey between two exes and their new dog, under the looming threat of the apocalypse.

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While visiting the last known location of her long-lost brother, a prudent daughter realizes her father isn't ready to let go, as he believes his son was taken by malevolent creatures of Cherokee legend.

A man confined in a tower grapples with his slipping perception of time (and the incessant chirp of a cricket driving him ever nearer to madness).

There used to be a cat here keeping him company... But these days he's alone, trapped with his own absurd thoughts.

A seemingly all-American family has their night turned upside down by a trio of thieves in search of an easy score. The question becomes who's really the one in danger …when the thieves start dying.

Nothing is as it seems in suburban America, as the final thief learns our eyes never see the full truth right in front of them.

We follow a woman who is experiencing a supernatural change the morning after hooking up with her new roommate.

This change forces her to navigate the elation of a new crush, as it clashes with the pangs of her instincts.

The near future. Political upheaval has caused a post-social collapse in parts of America. Cities become epicenters of chaos and lawlessness. Sidra and her companion Freddie flee to the high desert only to be set upon by an opportunistic gang.

With their car disabled and one of them seriously injured, they’ll have to find the will to face brutal odds and survive in this tense thriller.

A young man’s bleak life becomes a horror circus when he meets a clown.

When Monica hears that she is about to be discharged, her emotionally troubled nonverbal roommate Riley sets a plan in motion that will guarantee her freedom and secure Monica's tortured fate.

Michu Cure delivers a captivating performance in this action thriller about a down and out liquor store clerk who finds herself in a life or death situation after she stumbles upon a crime scene on her walk home from the night shift.

This film explores the degree of influence that desperation can have on someone's choices.

In a genre-bending musical full of teenage rebels, poodle skirts, and betrayal, a young gay man tries to woo his crush with a swinging prom party - but when popular kids start turning up dead, the partygoers discover a slasher killer amongst the student body!

On Maya's 25th birthday, she joins her friends to play a game called Transport that takes them to diff erent time periods - where they must determine who will survive and move on to the next level. Before they know it, a strange woman named Marion appears and gives them riddles to solve, taunting that one must fall in order to move on.

As the friends begin to lose challenges, they enter different eras like the 50's and 70's, leaving death and dust in its wake in this artificial intelligence sci-fi horror thriller with LGBTQIA+ characters and adventure in multiple eras.

Starring Bruno Alcantara (from RuPaul's Drag Race), and Mary E. Kennedy (from Shameless). Songs by Morris Mills, Mason McNulty, Nyck Aviance and ART A Reasonable Truth.

This film paints a complex picture of a historical moment in time and the invisible labor of women of all ages and all backgrounds during times of crisis.

A public health nurse tracks covid-positive cases for the CDC during the early days of the pandemic. Just as the task becomes overwhelming, she encounters a conspiracy theorist and—in saving her—finds a purpose and a friend.

This poignant drama explores the resilience of the immigrant spirit and the courage required to fi nd one's true voice amidst the chaos of society.

A young Japanese art student navigates the precarious reality of being a first-generation immigrant in contemporary America.

When a sudden crisis strips away her academic security, she must confront the intersecting pressures of gender roles, racial dynamics, and the invisible walls of class divides that define the modern urban experience.

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