Grand Prize Award winning film offered by MUBI and Cineground

At a crowded airport, Ahlam, a 14-year old mother, is running away from Baghdad, the only place she's ever known. As she fights the shadows lurking around her, she reflects on her journey to reclaim her life.

On the eve of an important synchronized swimming competition, Mathilde is drowning in glitter and pressure. She must choose between shining for others or blossoming for herself.

Alone in a vacant school, we follow seven-year-old Adeline on an intimate and exhaustive journey of self-expression as she navigates her emotions through Krump.

Solemates is the story of a love triangle between a shoe store owner, a customer, and an old pair of shoes. When Andrew walks into William’s store to replace his own worn old pair of brogues, interest is piqued. Tension builds between the two men as Andrew tries on a new pair of shoes, and with that, questions of intention appear.

In a dystopian future, a trio of musicians discover a degraded vinyl record and attempt to reimagine one of its songs.

Short & Queer Award winning film offered by MainFilm.

The film follows a woman who lives in a world of intense conformity. In the grounds of a large manor house, her and the other identical
inhabitants eat the same, move the same, look the same. They spend their time doing strange synchronised dances around the bubble-gum pink, walled grounds. But everything changes when she gets given an orange by a strange figure. She has never seen an orange.
In the exploration of this new and exciting discovery, she gets transported into another realm. In this forested world full of lichens and copulating slugs she discovers sexuality. But how can she balance this with the world she knows?

The Lemonade Stand is a project about the relationship between Paul and his daughter Lyric in the context of their learning about plants and remedies. Through this project, Paul aims to provide a strong foundation for his daughter so that she can integrate and grow within her community. In this film, Paul and Lyric aspire to share the lessons they have learned along their journey with other children.

On a dark winter evening, in 2001, siblings from two families gather to go tobogganing. Among them, fifteen-year-old Cléo is going through a rough patch and losing her bearings. What starts off as a regular outing will, in the end, be turning her life around.

Tule is a poetic 2D animated mixed media short film championing awareness and hope. A modern day Pomo girl is empowered through poetic reflection on conversations with her Native community about the culturally vital, but now suffering Tule plant at Clear Lake.

Faced with an uncomfortable dilemma, a brother and sister engage in a battle of wits.