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Welcome to the Columbia Film Festival 2023!
Thank you for visiting our 5th annual Columbia Film Festival!
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The 48 Hour Film Project is an international filmmaking event. Each year thousands of filmmakers write, shoot and edit a short film in on two days. The results are nothing short of amazing.
2023
48 Hour Film Project - Best of Worldwide
Tue Jun 20th
After being put on leave, a Millennial woman struggles to pay rent... Until she befriends a pickpocket named Mari who convinces her that the only way to make it in America is by committing petty crime.
2022 | United States
American Meltdown
Tue Jun 20th
Dallas just got a new smoking tat burned on his back and he’s ready to show it off. But not before his best friend Austin drags him and his beer-swilling buddies to an open-mic poetry jam at a posh wine bar. Is the poetry any good? Does the tat really smoke? What awkward angles do friends have to navigate when telling each other the truth, straight up?
12 min | 2022 | United States
Angle of Attack
Tue Jun 20th
An assertive woman explores an eerie antiques barn and follows the rules set by the chatty owner, but when she rejects his proposition, he lets a sinister presence punish her.
12 min | 2022 | United States
Ask for Help
Tue Jun 20th
2023 | Netherlands
Azart. Come Make Art
Tue Jun 20th
A misguided father forces his unwilling son to spend a day with him learning to play the family pastime of baseball. A tradition that goes back further than he could ever imagine. With the help of an old family bat, both sides learn more about each other and what a relationship means between a father and son.
15 min | 2023 | United States
Baseball with Dad
Tue Jun 20th
The “Before the Underground” series will give us all a look into the early life of Harriet Tubman, when she was known as Araminta Ross nicknamed (Minty).
10 min | 2019 | United States
Before the Underground Vol.1-Rit
Tue Jun 20th
How to care for a cat in the city. This short documentary explores some of the people and organizations that take care of stray and community cats in Baltimore, Maryland.
34 min | 2023 | United States
Cats For Miles
Tue Jun 20th
Children who were brought up in a utopic social experiment in the only community in the world where Palestinians and Israelis chose to live together in co-existence. "Oasis of peace" is a utopic dream that shattered into realty.
67 min | 2022 | Israel
Children of Peace
Tue Jun 20th
Three days before they ship off to college, Charlotte and Will go for a hike. Each individually plans to break up with the other, not knowing how or when they will go about it...
2022 | United States
Day In The Country
Tue Jun 20th
Jen’s a pizza deliverer and an artist at heart. On her delivery route, one of her pizzas talks to her out of the blue. He’s a party food without a purpose. And it’s up to Jen to put some pep back in his ‘peronis.
9 min | 2022 | United States
Deliverance
Tue Jun 20th
A story of a lone wolf agent that tries to escape the chains of her handler and covert missions. Will she ever gain true freedom or is choice just an illusion.
3 min | 2022 | United States
Displaced
Tue Jun 20th
In 2020, there were over 100,000 Americans teaching English to millions of Chinese students online.
34 min | 2022 | United States, Malaysia, China, Philippines, Thailand
English Hustle
Tue Jun 20th
Ina is a therapist, the mother of a rebellious teenage girl, and a partner to a man who has always put his own career first. She puts everyone’s needs ahead of her own until one hot summer day, when her self-centered mother celebrates her 70th birthday, something happens that will change everything.
2022 | Germany
Everybody Wants To Be Loved
Tue Jun 20th
A homicide detective encounters the spirit of a deceased man while investigating his murder.
15 min | 2023 | United States
Evidence
Tue Jun 20th
A teenager finds himself stuck on a farm in a mysterious game with deadly implications
7 min | 2023 | United States
The Farmhouse
Tue Jun 20th
A young bird and a sea turtle share madcap misadventures in a coming-of-age "buddy" story.
8 min | 2021 | United States
Fear of Flying
Tue Jun 20th
“FilAm” tells the story of a young Filipino American named JP, a boy on the cusp of adulthood who’s struggling to figure out his place in the world, and who he really is.
2023 | United States
FilAm
Tue Jun 20th
Guided by the cries of an unseen fox, prehistoric Man and Woman struggle to survive the harshness of their environment, sickness, birth, and death.
20 min | 2022 | United States
Foxes
Tue Jun 20th
Akutagawa, the acclaimed mystery writer, is in serious trouble. His plot twists are clever, his tricks still flawless, yet the author’s recent novels ring lifeless and dull. A young stranger, Naoki, appears at the writer's remote lake-side home with a timely offer. He'll be Akutagawa’s assistant, cooking, cleaning, doing whatever necessary, just to be close to the great author and his work. Most fortuitous of all, Akutagawa finds his young fan has a surprising talent for writing and hires him to ghostwrite his next novel. Yet is everything as lucky as it seems?
2022 | Japan
From The Bottom of the Lake
Tue Jun 20th
After inventing a device allowing her to see into the future, Victoria Rhodes grows increasingly paranoid about what she sees.
9 min | 2022 | United States
Full Circle
Tue Jun 20th
A distraught pastor (Paul Diem) deals with the loss of a teenage boy (Gabe Viets), whose spirit wanders through limbo with his ghostly companion (Jill Redding).
19 min | 2023 | United States
The Ghost of Westriver
Tue Jun 20th
20 min | 2023 | United States
The Gym Is Now Closed
Tue Jun 20th
Follow the journey of discovery and healing of a brave K9 who develops PTSD while serving and the story of his healing.
83 min | 2022 | United States
Healing Dakota
Tue Jun 20th
This documentary portrays the tough life of firefighters and how their shiftwork job makes them prone to emotional stress, metabolic diseases, and cancer. It guides the viewers through the concept of circadian rhythms and intermittent fasting to make firefighters resilient to stress and disease.
2022 | United States
Healthy Hero
Tue Jun 20th
2022 | China
The Island Ahead
Tue Jun 20th
An adopted young man finds out his mother has been hiding a deep secret. He must learn to trust her and accept his new world.
10 min | 2023 | United States
James
Tue Jun 20th
When a misunderstood young wife in the late 19th century is restricted by her well intentioned physician husband to a summer of bed rest, her imagination takes her down a spiral of what we think is her descent into madness, but is it?
18 min | 2023 | Canada
Jane
Tue Jun 20th
After tension with her mom sends her searching for an escape with some bad influences, Jessie embarks on an internal journey where she can no longer hide from herself.
19 min | 2022 | United States
Jessie
Tue Jun 20th
Mattie and her three besties--Eddie, Jess, and Rae--head into the woods for a weekend to plan Mattie's upcoming wedding and bachelorette party.
88 min | 2022 | United States
KillHer
Tue Jun 20th
Rose is a legendary actress trying to revive her career. Loren is a promising filmmaker. Over the course of their many encounters, a deep friendship evolves as their love of art, understanding of grief, and faith in life’s potential guide them through personal and creative transformations.
83 min | 2021 | United States
Loren & Rose
Tue Jun 20th
One frozen night every year in Minneapolis, MN, a group of volunteers called the Luminarians create an immersive outdoor experience to bring the community together.
19 min | 2023 | United States
The Luminarians: Making the Luminary Loppet
Tue Jun 20th
A loving dog, Carrie, sets out to join her owner's collection of family portraits.
5 min | 2023 | Czech Republic
The Missing Piece
Tue Jun 20th
Children’s futures are being judged by test scores, which are not reflective of their intelligence or potential, and do not consider the aggravating factors or educational challenges that prohibit them from scoring well and result in them being discarded and disregarded.
80 min | 2022 | United States
More Than A Test Score
Tue Jun 20th
A grade-schooler with crippling anxiety, 8 year old Luke reluctantly spends time with his free spirited Aunt Sally. In the midst of arcades, ketchup stains and axe throwing, he learns the powerful lessons of taking risks, making mistakes and dealing with adversity. Like Sally says, “It’s what you do after the bird shits on you that counts.”
10 min | 2023 | United States
My Dear Aunt Sally
Tue Jun 20th
Two raccoons take different paths to the physics of things.
2022 | United States
A Natural Force
Tue Jun 20th
2023 | Turkey
Not Game
Tue Jun 20th
Grim Reaper attempts to capture a lost soul.
5 min | 2022 | United States
Reaper
Tue Jun 20th
Ariyan Johnson shares her personal journey about the struggles and triumphs of her two conflicting loves, Hip Hop and the Church.
37 min | 2022 | United States
Spiritual Cyphers: Hip Hop and the Church
Tue Jun 20th
RILEY (16), often elated by the subtlest moments and feelings in life, begins dating his presumed first love, Orbit (16) in the sapid summer of 2017, but soon enters emotional turmoil in the wake of receiving skewed signals from Orbit presumably prompted by her post-breakup mourning.
2022 | United States
Summer Eclipse
Tue Jun 20th
The Sun Rises in The East chronicles the birth, rise and legacy of The East, a pan-African cultural organization founded in 1969 by teens and young adults in Bedford-Stuyvesant, Brooklyn.
2021 | United States
The Sun Rises in The East
Tue Jun 20th
This short, animated documentary by Johns Hopkins medical student Oscar Li follows two people and their hearing health journeys. Practicing otolaryngologist Frank Lin, MD, PhD, director of the Johns Hopkins Cochlear Center for Hearing and Public Health, weighs in on the importance of hearing to our health and how to understand your Hearing Number.
8 min | 2022 | United States
What Did You Say?
Tue Jun 20th
19 min | 2022 | United States
The World Is Lit by Lightning
Tue Jun 20th