Congratulations to all filmmakers screened during the Winter Festival!Additional congratulations to the winning filmmakers.Thank you all for sharing your work! Disclaimer: Content in the first film, The Evil Monster includes information about child abuse, incest which some viewers may find triggering.

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An impressionistic portrayal of an artist obsessively chasing his vision &amp; inspirations, as he journeys from Los Angeles’s gritty urban jungle to its delicate floral paradises.

Spend My Dayz

A young girl is afraid of a evil monster who comes for her every night.

The Evil Monster

A short animation made by children and young people in foster care - aged 11 to 15 - which explores their experience of education.

Just Like Our Lives

A mother and her boy find themselves pushed to ethical extremes when they stumble upon something sinister during a regular day of foraging.

MOTHER

After she is betrayed by the creature she worships, a ten-year-old struggles to forget her past persona and overcome her fears.

Horse Girl

A child survivor of the Holocaust receives a packet of beads in a Displaced Persons camp after the war. Her mother tears off a piece of her skirt and the child embroiders a goose. Thus begins her life-long journey with thread and needle not knowing that someday this simple act will save her life again.Based on the life and art of Holocaust survivor Trudie Strobel. A production of the Righteous Conversations Project, a collaboration of Holocaust survivors and teens, and Harvard-Westlake Summer Film.

Stitching A Life: The Story of Trudie Strobel

Showcasing one of Toronto’s best up and coming Hiphop dancing stars, “All It Gives” follows the story of Kosi Eze, a Nigerian immigrant who moved to Canada when she was 14.

All It Gives

Filmmaker Carol Nguyen interviews her family to craft a portrait of love, grief and intergenerational trauma.

No Crying At The Dinner Table

In the absence of his parents, Dennis has a hard time taking care of his beloved little sister, Ida. To help support himself and Ida, Dennis has joined a gang, whose leader lures him into committing crimes.

Responsibility

Thiago is a young man who dreams of becoming a drag queen. Guided by this desire, he begins to question and confront the existing prejudices both inside and outside his home.

I Exist

Horazio emphasizes the role of the individual in our education system and its resulting conflict with social expectations. The plot involves a girl that feels restricted by her every day school life. Despite being able to free herself from the underlying suppression, she is eventually alienated by society.

HORAZIO - The Timekeeper

Ahmed flees his war-torn homeland of Syria and is discriminated against in his new place of residence, Iraq, where he loses many of the rights he once had. The people of the new society he joins put him right back into the same misery he had felt before he arrived, making it impossible for him to move on and begin a new life.

A piece of land

Amidst the neon, glam, and buzz of the 80's, two girls share a moment separate from the changing world around them.

Danni and Alyssa

Instead of the normal joy and excitement a first-time mother-to-be feels when pregnant, Shelly suffers from overwhelming terror and dread.

Numinous

This film explores the devastating implications of Brazilian President Jair Bolsonaro's environmental policies, which has permitted mining activities and caused an increase in deforestation.

2019, the year that impunity became the rule

African Wild Dogs are considered an endangered species in South Africa. This film shares what these dogs are facing and the different ways in which the public can become involved to make a difference.

PART OF THE PACK

Generation Z shares their fears in the age of school gun violence.

Dear America

A young man who tries to close his eyes to the problems in his life encounters a person who can see things others can't.Filmmaker Weston Snider was 15 at the time of making this film.

Dichrome

After the sudden death of her parents, a young girl finds a portal to an alternate world in which they are still alive. She must choose whether to live with them or stay with her brother.

CALAMITY FALLS

A young boy runs scared through the mean city with his teddy in his arms. He meets a young man who takes him under his wing.

The Boy With The Teddy

Set against the Ethiopian abandoned children crisis, two orphan brothers are faced with the reality of never being adopted. Inspired by a true story and shot in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia with a majority local Ethiopian cast and crew. Starring Ethan Herisse, from Ava DuVernay's Emmy-winning Netflix series, WHEN THEY SEE US. Produced by NYU students and directed by 20-year old filmmaker, Josh Leong.

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