<img src="https://storage.googleapis.com/eventive-static/b20196ab119ae046edae4ce71ad46799.jpg" width="199" style="display: inline; float: right; margin: 0px 0px 1em 1em;">The chaos of a flashback is transformed into a visceral performance as two bodies struggle for control in this grotesque dance for two. Director BiographyNathan is an artist and animator based in the United States whose work explores the intersections of horror, memory, and movement. Centered on character performance, Nathan uses 2D animation to explore the relationship between the viewer and the body, crafting unsettling yet deeply expressive visual narratives. His work challenges expectations of animated form, bringing intensity and depth to character-driven storytelling through motion, distortion, and tone. Nathan’s animations leave lasting impressions through their haunting, corporeal presence.

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Pas De Deux!

A young Roma boy is chosen for a television feature after word spreads of his unusual gift. As expectations rise, his quiet talent faces the harsh glare of media scrutiny. What follows is a quiet unraveling—for him, and for those around him. <a href="https://filmfreeway-production-storage-01-connector.filmfreeway.com/press_kits/headshots/003/174/439/original/f42f347bcd-headshot.jpg?1746782959" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank"><img src="https://filmfreeway-production-storage-01-connector.filmfreeway.com/press_kits/headshots/003/174/439/thumb/f42f347bcd-headshot.jpg?1746782959" width="156" style="border: medium; font-style: inherit; font-variant-caps: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: inherit; font-family: inherit; font-size-adjust: inherit; font-kerning: inherit; font-variant-alternates: inherit; font-variant-ligatures: inherit; font-variant-numeric: inherit; font-variant-east-asian: inherit; font-variant-position: inherit; font-feature-settings: inherit; font-optical-sizing: inherit; font-variation-settings: inherit; font-size: 12.95px; margin: 0px 1em 1em 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: middle; display: inline; height: auto; max-width: 100%; position: relative; float: left;"></a>Director BiographyBálint Kenyeres was born in 1976 in Budapest. After studying philosophy, film history, and film theory, he graduated as a film director at the Budapest Film and Theatre Academy in 2006. Since then, he has been a member of the European Film Academy.His film ZÁRAS (CLOSING TIME) premiered at Venice Film Festival and got selected for more than 30 other film festivals, winning a dozen awards. His second short, BEFORE DAWN, was in Competition at Cannes Film Festival in 2005, won a Jury Prize at Sundance Film Festival, and got the European Film Academy Prix UIP for the Best European Short in 2006. It was selected at 140 festivals and won 30 awards. His third short, THE HISTORY OF AVIATION, premiered at Director’s Fortnight in Cannes in 2009 and has been selected for 50 film festivals. His first feature HIER (TEGNAP), a European coproduction, premiered in Competition at Locarno Film Festival in 2018. His recent short THE SPECTACLE is in Competition at Cannes Film Festival in 2025.&nbsp;

THE SPECTACLE

A young Roma boy is lifted into the light, only to find it fades in an unexpected way.

This short documentary centers around the neighborhood in Mexico City that some call “Little LA”, where former Dreamers frequently work and gather after being deported from the U.S. Many are young adults who have spent most of their lives in the United States. Some of them don’t speak Spanish and end up living in a country they can barely remember, often working in the English language call centers that the neighborhood grew up around. In Little LA, they set to work reconstructing the home to which they can’t return. <img src="https://storage.googleapis.com/eventive-static/005e0e67e1156e45609887b26aae3934.jpg" width="300" style="display: inline; float: right; margin: 0px 0px 1em 1em;">Director BiographiesCarlos Montaner is a Puerto Rican–born director and cinematographer whose work is deeply shaped by documentary storytelling and a Latinx, diasporic perspective. Raised in Madrid in a family of Cuban exiles, Carlos has long been drawn to stories that explore identity, history, and human resilience. His passion for documentaries includes extensive shooting for the History and Discovery channels, as well as directing THE GRANDCHILDREN OF THE CUBAN REVOLUTION, an official selection of the Cincinnati Film Festival and the International Human Rights Documentary Film Festival in Brussels. Carlos earned a BFA at the School of Visual Arts. He went on to receive an MFA in cinematography from AFI and was further mentored by Michael Ballhaus. His narrative work includes WAKING KARMA (XYZ Films), which he co-directed with Liz Fania Werner, and numerous award-winning shorts and features. Liz Fania Werner is a writer and director whose work integrates genre with socially conscious themes and character-driven storytelling. Most recently, she wrote and co-directed her first feature film, WAKING KARMA, a psychological thriller starring Michael Madsen, distributed by XYZ Films and now streaming on Tubi. Liz, originally from the Bronx, NY, got her MFA in Writing for Screen and Television from USC where she earned an Annenberg Fellowship. She went on to write on television drama RPM MIAMI for Mun2 network; to develop the feature adaptation of the novel BABYLON SISTERS by Oprah Book Club author Pearl Cleage and to pen a biopic about WNBA player Abby Bishop for Sentient Entertainment. “Into the Uncanny Valley,” the award-winning short film that she co-directed with Carlos Montaner, was featured in 11 festivals, including L.A.’s Screamfest and HBO’s New York Latino Film Festival. Liz lives in Los Angeles, though she considers herself a life-long New Yorker. Director StatementA few years ago, I was driving to the Valley, when I heard an NPR story about a neighborhood in Mexico City called “Little LA” where former Dreamers were living and working after being deported from the U.S. under the first Trump administration. These were young adults who had spent most of their lives in the United States. Some of them didn’t even speak Spanish. But when ICE deportations hit their then record high in 2018, a lot of them ended up living in a country they could barely remember. They set to work reconstructing the home they weren’t allowed to go back to – working in the English language call centers that the neighborhood grew up around, selling burritos, hamburgers and hot dogs and giving each other fade haircuts and tattoo sleeves like the ones they would have gotten in Los Angeles.Carlos is an immigrant himself and has two families of immigrants: his Cuban side, who are political exiles, and then a Mexican side who are very much involved in issues of immigration. One is his ex-brother in law, news anchor Jorge Ramos and the other is his niece Paola Ramos, also a journalist. Both are fierce advocates for justice for immigrants and both have helped him to connect to the struggles of Mexicans in this country for decades. When I told him what I had heard, we knew right away that this was a story that had to be told. As ICE raids in Los Angeles intensified, so did our determination. Finally, we traveled to Mexico City in May of 2025 on a grant from Loyola Marymount’s School of Film and Television. Once there, we interviewed ten people in five days to learn about the issues on the ground there. “Little L.A.” is the result of those conversations. <a href="https://www.dropbox.com/scl/fi/h4aroqx2vrclibw75q0q1/Little-L.A_PK.-Liz-Werner.pdf?rlkey=3a1ndenmi9z2kukjppbfreuej&amp;st=lh3kx9fy&amp;dl=0" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">Link to official press kit.</a>

LITTLE L.A

The municipal sweeper sneezes at an unwanted party and his saliva splashes on the mayor, this creates a big challenge in his mind and he decides to apologize to the mayor.Tens of millions of mosquitoes die every day! The death of mosquitoes does not matter to anyone!! <img src="https://storage.googleapis.com/eventive-static/47e7821dd7c2df8b2f76f3825b4519d8.jpg" width="200" style="display: inline; float: left; margin: 0px 1em 1em 0px;">Director BiographyMy name is Amin Khankal - IMDb, I have previously worked as an assistant and program director on the film The Salesman (2016) and A Hero (2021) directed by Oscar-winning director Asghar Farhadi. And I am an independent filmmaker. Participated in Cannes’ film festival in 2022. Attending screenplay masterclass and directing masterclass conductedby Asghar Farhadi inTehran, Iran. Director StatementAlways respecting others is considered one of the most important good moral qualities of every person, on the other hand, if this respect causes trouble and harm to the person, it makes life conditions in the society much more difficult. As a result, a person will have disturbing thoughts in his mind that if he cannot get rid of those thoughts, he will not be able to enjoy his life. This is an investigation and behaviorism about people obsessed with respecting others, made independently and with a critical look at the relationship between worker and boss. This topic can be global and can happen anywhere in the world and in different societies. This film is an adaptation of a short story by Anton Chukhov.

YOU'RE THE BOSS

An unexpected incident reunites two estranged brothers, urging them to revisit their past and rethink their future, in a single day spent together. <a href="https://filmfreeway-production-storage-01-connector.filmfreeway.com/press_kits/headshots/002/998/528/original/f3aa6dffdf-headshot.jpg?1769999426" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank"><img src="https://filmfreeway-production-storage-01-connector.filmfreeway.com/press_kits/headshots/002/998/528/thumb/f3aa6dffdf-headshot.jpg?1769999426" width="170" style="border: medium; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; line-height: inherit; font-family: inherit; font-optical-sizing: inherit; font-size-adjust: inherit; font-kerning: inherit; font-feature-settings: inherit; font-variation-settings: inherit; font-language-override: inherit; font-size: 12.95px; margin: 0px 0px 1em 1em; padding: 0px; vertical-align: middle; display: inline; height: auto; max-width: 100%; position: relative; float: right;"></a>Director Biography -&nbsp;Lazar JovanovićLazar Jovanović was born on January 12, 2007 in Smederevo, Serbia. He is an emerging filmmaker and actor whose films, shaped by passion and constraints, boldly tackle social issues through the lives of young people.His films have been screened and awarded at various national and international film festivals.Praised by an Oscar-nominated director Stefan Arsenijević, and recognized by a TV Network "KCNi SMEDEREVO" as Serbia's best young director, Lazar is on track to become a significant voice in filmmaking on an international scale.

Dancing in the Stars

<img src="https://filmfreeway-production-storage-01-connector.filmfreeway.com/press_kits/headshots/003/289/828/original/cf67e20305-headshot.jpg?1751026006" width="165" style="display: inline; float: left; margin: 0px 1em 1em 0px;">In the volatile moments after a car crash, before the authorities arrive, a hot-headed yet desperate tow truck driver fiercely protects his tow. But the situation quickly spirals out of his control. Director BiographyDian Weys is a South African filmmaker. He studied BCom Law at the University of the Free State, holds an MA in Film Studies cum laude from the University of Cape Town, and is currently a PhD candidate at the University of Groningen. He has directed four short films. His latest short film, VULTURES, premiered at the Cannes Film Festival in 2025.

VULTURES

Win the City is a documentary produced by Laureus USA that follows the story of how everyday Chicagoans have come together to leverage the power of sport for good and create a better Chicago where young people have the opportunity to play and connect, and connect, and communities can unite and thrive. <img src="https://storage.googleapis.com/eventive-static/6f389bd716b0f2136b60e8696c6079b3.jpg" width="199" style="display: inline; float: right; margin: 0px 0px 1em 1em;">Director BiographyJustin Jarrett is an Emmy-Award winning writer + director based in Philadelphia. He has written and directed over 200 television shows, commercials, shorts, and feature-length documentaries across five different continents while acting as the Principal Director of Philadelphia based production company, JTWO, as well as serving as Principal Creative Director at television development studio, Mesmeric Media, which he co-founded. Justin’s unique style of directing has allowed him to seamlessly weave between the worlds of commercial + documentary filmmaking for over 20 years. Often merging his love of sports and action with human interest pieces, Justin’s work has been featured on Amazon Prime, the Discovery Channel, ESPN, NBC, PBS, CBS, the Science Channel, and the American Heroes Channel. Director StatementWhen we set out to tell this story, I thought I was making a ﬁlm about sports. What I discovered was something far more profound – a blueprint for transformation that challenges everything we think we know about community building and youth development. Chicago has always worn its sports identity like a badge of honor, from Jordan's Bulls dynasty to loyal Cubs fans, but for too long, we treated sport as entertainment rather than empowerment, as spectacle rather than solution. Win the City is the story of a radical shift in perspective – one that recognizes sport not just as games played on ﬁelds and courts, but as one of the most powerful tools we have to address the systemic challenges facing our young people. Through Sport for Good Chicago, I witnessed ﬁrsthand how coaches become mentors, how teammates become family, and how the lessons learned in competition – resilience, teamwork, discipline, hope – become the foundation for breaking cycles of violence and isolation.&nbsp;Sport becomes the vehicle, but the destination is always the same: a future ﬁlled with possibility, purpose, and pride. In a city too often deﬁned by its problems, Win the City reveals Chicago's greatest strength – its people's unwavering determination to lift each other up. This coalition represents something beautiful: the recognition that we rise together or not at all.My hope is that audiences will leave this ﬁlm understanding that transformation is possible in any community willing to reimagine what sport can be. The greatest sports city in the world isn't measured by championships alone – it's measured by how many young lives are changed, how many communities are strengthened, and how many people discover they have the power to win not just for themselves, but for everyone around them. This is our team. This is our movement. This is how we win the city. <a href="https://www.dropbox.com/scl/fi/hbin9c10pdul81ws0t6z2/WinTheCity_PressKit.pdf?rlkey=xzs4r296sk0xombqi6j4qjkrw&amp;st=nnmcpj4h&amp;dl=0" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">Link to official press kit.</a>

Win the City

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