Written and directed by Joe Zarrow

Early during the coronavirus quarantine, a man wants to bake some bread, but he's run out of flour.

Written and directed by Hart Ginsburg

How can we unfreeze within our disparate fragmented worlds? Can therapy help? Or something else…

Written and directed by Jeffrey Entwistle, Annaleigh Stone and Brooklyn Davis

A circus performer affected by the pandemic finds himself trying to love his craft again.

Written and directed by Ruben Carrazana

From shoeboxes to pizza boxes to engagement ring boxes, every box contains a secret. Or a surprise. A mystery. A memory. Inspired by Pablo Neruda's “Ode to Common Things,” through a series of short vignettes, What's in the Box? explores that intimate, fleeting moment when a person opens a box for the first time.

Written by Luzzo and Farbota, Directed by Luzzo

Shame and violence have tethered the queer relatives of a Chicago Southside Irish Catholic family. As the youngest of the family reckons with his own pain, he works to grab ahold of his inherited narrative in an attempt to redirect it, to stop the pattern.

Written and Directed by Christopher Michael Carney

Marathon Mindset is a unique META-Mockumentary about an incompetent young man (Chasen, played by Christopher Michael Carney) with a thirst for success and admiration he once felt from his hometown. Chasen hires a documentary crew to film him while he and his two "friends" make a "Cinematic YouTube video" of him running a marathon in a vain attempt to become a viral superstar. *important note: Christopher Michael Carney actually attempts to run a marathon in the movie while playing Chasen. LOL FUNNY.

Written and Directed by Collin Quinn Rice and Quinn Hegarty

A reflection on grief, mourning, the inevitability of endings and the present moment.

Written by Alyssa Thordarson and Directed by Clare Cooney

After surviving a violent event, a couple tries to overcome the space trauma created between them.

Written and Directed by Charles A. Honeywood

Set in 1950s Bronzeville, Louise Parker is facing eviction from her home. Desperate to keep her independence and status, she is introduced to a lucrative performing opportunity. While attempting to keep this new venture a secret, she simultaneously gains popularity, risking being exposed to and disowned by her mother. After being offered a promotion, she is left with two choices, become the headliner, or allow her family to lose everything.

Written and Directed by Mary Tilden

A group of queer best friends arrive at the lake for the perfect getaway. Their Gaycation gets interrupted when the group discovers the lake house has been double booked by a bachelor party.

Written by Hyten Davidson, Directed by Tommy Martin and Hyten Davidson

After the mysterious exit of her father, Carly is stuck with his old mission – picking up defeated thru-hikers from The Appalachian Trail. One hiker's companionship over the course of a night, however, will set Carly on a new path forever.

Written by Nane Sacramento and Danilo Stael, Directed by Camila de Moraes

Solo Mother is a short documentary film that tells the stories of women, mothers, blacks, residents of communities in the city of Salvador, Brazil, presenting their identities as single mothers, through authorial accounts of their experiences, fleeing from stereotypes that surround black single mother women. The main characters in this documentary are Keisiane Santos, 24, a beautician, and Lúcia Batista, 63, a day laborer, both single mothers who live in the outskirts of the city of Salvador, Brazil. Despite having given birth at different times, separated by about 40 years, the characters remember and report similar difficulties about the reality of being a single mother in Brazilian society. The stories of the two solo mothers are linked in this documentary, bringing with them some essential reflections on how the responsibility for raising their children falls on women and exposes the issues surrounding the lack of support and care from the family, the children's parents, of society and the State.

Created by Tonika Lewis Johnson

Englewood-born artist and activist, Tonika Lewis Johnson, expands her multimedia mapping project into a new film short. Johnson began her Folded Map™ project as a photo series, using the city's grid system to identify and capture residences at corresponding addresses on the North and South Sides in order to explore the visual legacies of segregation, socioeconomic disparities and racial discrimination. The project has since ballooned into a multi-pronged dive into these themes, involving everything from workshops and a stage play, to meet-ups for "map twins"—residents who live at corresponding addresses on different sides of the city. With clear, concise and engaging animations and visuals, watch and listen to Johnson describe her powerful project in depth as well as its inspiration and origins.

Written and Directed by Andrea Lodovichetti

The life and the soul of fishermen, where the triumph of a lifetime of sacrifices finds its right appreciation in family ties and in the true values we too often tend to ignore or forget they exist.

Written and Directed by Brooke Trantor

Evin takes on a new high school student to tutor, Ally, and they quickly develop a close, sisterly relationship. After accidentally discovering Ally’s struggle with bulimia, Evin is quickly triggered by her own past battles with eating disorders. Evin tries to confront Ally to help her, and must decide to either fight through Ally’s defensive tactics to get the help she needs, or leave her to possibly fight this disease for years to come.

Written by Kate Morgan Chadwick, Directed by Brooke Trantor

Jane is single and looking for one last night of hot sex before her life changes forever.

Written by Shima Esmaeeli, Directed by Hosein Torkjoosh

Naji is a feisty, young woman from a traditional culture with aspirations to excel in a very different way from what her family expects. She soon discovers that growing up brings with it the pressure of choosing between her duty to her family and her dreams. Will she succumb?

Written and Directed by Brandii Champagne

A story about a bird, heavily inspired by the solitude of "pandemic living." It's an art piece that makes a statement on body dysmorphia, perception and the potential lack of existence beyond death.

Written and directed by Victoria Thomas

The close relationship between two sisters is broken down irrevocably, when one insists on keeping up with the tradition of the circumcision of her young daughter.

Written by Hilary Williams and Jill Oliver, Directed by Hilary Williams

One year after a woman’s partner dies of leukemia, she decides to have their child on her own through insemination. But maybe she’s not as alone as she thinks.

Written and Directed by Jaclyn Bethany

October 1992. A group of law students head to a remote home upstate where a girl disappeared two years earlier.

Written and Directed by Ricardo Bouyett

Even Saints Bleed follows Alma as she continues to retraumatize herself in order to complete her first novel. As she cycles through different rewrites, she meets a new artist friend named Kia who she quickly latches onto and hires to design her book's cover. While the two bond and collaborate on the design of Alma's work, Kia gets a sense of the inspiration behind the writing and feels compelled to protect her. Fernando, Alma's abusive boyfriend, shows up the next day with the intent to shut down the story she's writing. He fights to maintain his control over Alma after discovering Kia is working alongside her. As tensions rise, Alma's reality shape-shifts into the fiction she's written plunging her and everyone else with her down a path that will force her to choose between healing or continuing her cycle of self-retribution.