Dir: Mostafa Ghorbanpour
13:00
United States

When a workaholic father unexpectedly transforms into a bat, he gains a rare perspective on his children's lives and the family bonds he's neglected.

Dir: Pamela Oliver Munoz
3:35
United States

When an un-athletic dreamer's hopes of being on the track team are dashed, her negative thoughts about herself weigh her down until she is submerged in the waters of her subconscious where she can let go of them, and be her best self. A story with heart about being human.

Dir: Medina Dennie, Ocean Demuth, Zaiyah Dennie, Sol Demuth, Xstine Cook, Heather Cook
6:33
Canada

Lilly, a 12-foot-tall orange monster, takes her friend Fluffle to visit patients in a hospital hoping to spread some positive energy. What could go wrong?

Dir: Hannah Mutz
1:45
United States

A mythic creature grows out of the ground and suffers from misplaced trust. She must find it within herself to heal from betrayal to evolve into her most powerful being.

Dir: Alexey Evstigneev
12:10
France

In 1934, Professor Vangengheim is condemned to the Gulag on the Solovki. As he pretends to be on a grand voyage of exploration, he crafts imaginative tales in letters to his daughter Eleonora, shielding her from the truth of his sentencing as a "traitor to the motherland”.

Dir: Maureen Zent
5:05
United States

Cast off from shore. Into the dim, the dark. Away, away. Adrift in an oarless boat. And deep, deeper below the mirror surface-ever searching for a channel back to the elusive elsewhere. Toil and Spin uses the visual language of minimalism to describe sleep and sleeplessness.

Dir: Chris Kalis
9:54
United States

Based on the acid-inspired book trilogy by Robert Shea and Robert Anton Wilson, a young reporter is recruited by a mad genius and his anarchist followers aboard a giant yellow submarine headed to the lost city of Atlantis. The crew plans to thwart an Illuminati conspiracy that runs absurdly deep.

Dir: Kiron Hussain, Jodi Rave Spotted Bear
6:10
United States

The men in the Arikara Bear Medicine Society were a powerful group known for their supernatural powers. Even as the Arikara tribe’s population dramatically declined due to the intrusion of settlers, fur traders, and diseases such as smallpox, by the turn of the 19th century, the Arikara, or Sahnish, still maintained centuries of knowledge of the land, water, plants, birds, and animals. They had a strong connection with the spirit world.

Dir: Kate Raney
11:18
United States

A short experimental animation exploring the tension between the wonder of motherhood and the anxiety of illness. Through collage and fragmentation, this film reflects upon the habitats that sustain life and harbor disease.

Dir: Elli Vuorinen
8:31
Finland

The opening of an annual flower show sets the stage for this elusive, hand-drawn animation that explores the underlying fabric of our society. While little girls are dressed up for the occasion, the older women are dealing with a completely different set of expectations. Seemingly stuck between sensual plays and discomforting gazes, will any of these girls ever find an escape from this yearly ritual?