Stories about what you do when it’s your move.<a href="https://vimeo.com/423277056" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank" class="ql-size-large" style="background-color: transparent;">Watch our interview with Arthur Vincie, director of Cosmic Playtester!</a>

Eugene, a Russian emigré living with his daughter's family in the US, drills his grandson Sacha in chess. Sacha begins at age four, and continues under Eugene's tutelage for over a decade. He develops into an outstanding player. Eugene is stern and unforgiving, which together with his disapproval of Sacha's sexuality leads to tensions between them that Sacha struggles to come to terms with.

Zugzwang

Two board game playtesters get together after the death of their best friend, to figure out what it all means. Oh, and one of them is an alien.

Cosmic Playtester

Two estranged sisters try to reconnect at a cult meeting that preaches radical honesty.

The Game

Lyndsay can’t find her way without her smartphone. Maybe some strangers on the streets of NYC can help?

I'm Not Lost

When veteran celebrity portrait photographer David Buchanan receives a call from his agent that his subject for that day’s shoot is cancelling at the last minute, she then tells him that she’s found a last minute replacement with a large social media following. David reluctantly agrees to the shoot in hopes it will help with his fading relevance as a photographer. But when the day’s replacement singer/songwriter Sara Chevelle arrives, both David and Sara are caught off guard with an unresolved, painful past that they will be asked to confront during the shoot.

12 Frames

A 40 year old returns from a great date and tries to leave the perfect voicemail.

Ernest Messages

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'The Game Of Life' Shorts Block - Filmmaker Talkback

'The Game Of Life' Shorts Block & Filmmaker Talkback

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