The Muse

THE MUSE is premised upon the relationship between a reclusive photographer and her unknowing muse.

In this both dark and uplifting comedic short film, Death (Eric Roberts) pays an unsuspecting Flora (Mimi Kennedy) a visit telling her it's her time. However Flora doesn't want to go. There's still so much she needs to do. And in surprising and satisfying turn of events, Flora wins the day.

Death Pays Flora a Visit

International Premiere. When a judgmental workaholic is gaslit for her excruciating pain due to an ovarian cyst rupture, she's forced to confront her own false beliefs about women's pain.

Rupture

Adam and Lina are brother and sister, but they fight like cat and dog. One day, Lina purposely escapes her older brother's supervision. He goes looking for her in the city and finds her with a strange man named Seydou, who offers to grant each of them a wish.

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The Genie

Prism is a visually striking short experimental fiction film, following Miranda as she bursts from her beige cocoon and embraces her queer identity for the first time.

Prism

Migration season is when Annette Prince and the other Chicago Collision Bird Monitors are the busiest, as Mother Nature literally slams into the urban environment. Annette assembles volunteers as they arrive downtown before sunrise, looking for birds that have flown into skyscrapers, before heading to their day jobs. The birds that survive are sent away for a stay at the Willowbrook Wildlife Rehabilitation Center. Broken Flight introduces us to the volunteers, scientists and veterinarians who rescue, study and catalog these amazing avian species.

Broken Flight

Pacific Northwest Premiere. A heartfelt short narrative film that follows a family as they navigate the emotional and physical toll of a father's 9/11-related illness, all captured through the intimate lens of a home video camera.

When Everything Was Blue

United States of America

Short Film Showcase I

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