2022 Selected Films

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The Ugly Truth

Foreign Feature

(Germany)

Runtime 01:36:27

Directed By: Krishna Ashu Bhati

Mona, her husband Theo and daughter Hanna live in an idyllic villa on the outskirts of Berlin. When the attractive 18 years old daughter of a friend comes to visit, the profound problems and fragility of the small family reveal, as a tragic downward spiral takes its inevitable course.

Huneebee

Student Short

(Wesleyan University)

(New Haven, CT)

Runtime 11:50

Directed By: Madeline Nagler

Huneebee is a short documentary about a young woman who uses beekeeping as a form of therapy. For those who have experienced trauma, it can feel like there is a lack of control- realizing that one has control over a seemingly dangerous environment, like a bee yard, is psychologically healing.

Big Iron

Student Short

(DePaul University & Lipscomb University)

(Manor, Texas)

Runtime 15:58

Directed By: Arik Hess

An Arizona Ranger travels to the tiny town of Agua Fria to locate the deadly outlaw Texas Red. This western short film is inspired by the classic Marty Robbins song, “Big Iron.”

Filmed entirely in Austin, Texas by Iowa, Illinois, Texas, and Tennessee filmmakers.

Gone

Youth Short

(Pflugerville, Texas)

Runtime 4:48

Directed By: Kyle Ward (Age 17)

In Pflugerville, Texas, a community is faced with the challenge of unprecedented devolvement. As housing developers and commercial companies start to inch closer and closer to the farmland, the farmers are forced to wonder how long it will be until their way of life will disappear. Most of the farmers are left with land that has been used for farming over multiple generations. To them, the thought that a housing community would be built on the land they have farmed makes them despondent. Once the land is built on, there is no getting it back. It is gone forever.

Shelter

Youth Short

(Visalia, California)

Runtime 8:43

Directed By: Percy Peck (Age 17)

A short documentary about the homelessness issue in Tulare County and how a warming center in the community is helping out.

Hunter

Youth Short

(Metuchen, NJ)

Runtime 9:59

Directed By: Michelle J Tang (Age 17)

A lonely nine year old boy wants to save his mom from his abusive father, but he feels powerless in the middle of all the fighting until...

A conversation with E

Youth Short

(Vancouver, BC)

Runtime 5:03

Directed By: esabella anna karena strickland, Taylor Mitchell, Mary Skylar Larkin (Age 16)

When a girl playfully responds to a mysterious post-it note, she finds herself unable to escape the conversation she began...

The Hole

Youth Short

(Poland)

Runtime 2:30

Directed By: Piotr Kaźmierczak (Age 16)

A short story about struggling with lack, emptiness, loneliness.

Ranch Water

Narrative Feature

(Smithville, Texas)

Runtime 01:20:00

Directed By: Sophie Miller

The Sterling sisters and their once close-knit group of friends reunite for a weekend at the family ranch in small town Texas before it's sold. Long simmering conflicts come to a head as they confront the uncertainty of their lives without the connection of home to bind each other.

A Roll In The Hay

Foreign Short 

(France)

Runtime 18:15

Directed By: Geoffrey Fighiera

Laurent takes mistress his country vacation home for the weekend leaving his wife, Isabelle, bedridden and in the midst of a nervous breakdown. But Isabelle surprises them in the house, armed with a revolver and determined to make them face the price of betrayal…

Ms. Rossi 2 : Ms. Rossi Takes The Cake

Narrative Short 

(Los Angeles, CA / Italy)

Runtime 17:58

Directed By: Pat Battistini

While on her travels as a Loan Officer for the bank, Ms. Rossi encounters some obstacles along the way while just trying to do her job.

The Sound

Narrative Short 

(Austin, TX)

Runtime 6:51

Directed By: Jason-Christopher Mayer

Two years after a woman experiences sudden hearing loss, strange things begin to happen.