8:00 PM | Friday March 20 | MoMI - Bartos

(UN)CERTAINTY   Dir: Grace Wang, Canada, 12 min, Short Narrative A woman enters the forest and encounters a stranger, or does she? ... more info watch trailer




UNDER THE SUPERMOON   Dir: Larica Perera, Canada, 13 min, Short Narrative When her younger brother dies by suicide, Lena returns to her childhood home to help her family ready for the funeral. Recall... more info watch trailer




HOMELAND   Dir: Farzin Farzaneh, Canada, 3 min, Animation Ruminating on the tragedy of Israel and Palestine, a Jewish writer questions the narratives of nation and home that she learn... more info




LIMITED   Dir: Mark Datuin, Canada, 14 min, Short Narrative Maria and Milo have always had a peculiar mother-son relationship that had never been questioned. That is until one day its l... more info watch trailer




NOISY, VIOLENT, STREAMS OF SILENCE   Dir: Christopher T Bianchi, United States, 10 min, Short Narrative Noisy, Violent, Streams of Silence, is a single channel video that includes a 10-minute, black and white video. The video, pr... more info




THE STAR OF THERAPY   Dir: Bryce Iwaschuk, Canada, 25 min, Short Narrative When Kendra is admitted into group therapy, she becomes overly competitive about completing her weekly goals. ... more info watch trailer

  1:15 PM | Saturday March 21 | MoMI - Bartos

I NEVER PICKED COTTON   Dir: Adams, Bacani, Edmeier, Filomeno, Gottlieb, Q Le, Morgan, Perez, Ragasa, Stocks, Stover, Tian, United States, 4 min, Short Documentary Yolanda Morgan recalls her experiences with racism and the impact it has had on her. Produced in USC's CTAN 470 Documentary A... more info




TON SEUL AMI   Dir: Eric Younger, United States, 18 min, Short Narrative A woman recovers from a sexual assault. Her assaulter appears in the form of a phantom or so she thinks. ... more info watch trailer




BIRDY   Dir: Nathalie Simone Touboul, United States, 8 min, Short Narrative A young homeless woman wanders into an opportunity that leads to a magical day. ... more info




ABOUT COLONIA   Dir: Eduardo Shlomo Velázquez, Dominican Republic, 30 min, Short Narrative Colonia is a nineteen-year-old Dominican-American nursing student who lives in a tiny apartment in Brooklyn with her eccentri... more info




THEY SCREAM IN SILENCE   Dir: Ashray Dravidian, United States, 24 min, Short Narrative Many decades after the war, Berek Kaufman, a Holocaust survivor and a renown painter faces the terrors of his past. Which tor... more info watch trailer




THE NUN'S KADDISH   Dir: Luis Ismael, Portugal, 6 min, Short Narrative A heart-warming vignette that portrays a true story of inter-religious kindness when a Nun observes a Jewish ritual. ... more info watch trailer

  3:15 PM | Saturday March 21 | MoMI - Bartos

LOLLIPOP   Dir: Amanda Moresco , United States, 7 min, Short Narrative A woman cheating on her boyfriend is caught in a web of lies, but her lover isn't playing it straight either. ... more info watch trailer




EXIT 5   Dir: Khaled Nadershah, Saudi Arabia, 61 min, Feature Narrative Sara is a 26-year-old girl living in Jeddah, Saudi Arabia with her conservative mother and father Ahmed. They keep comparing ... more info watch trailer

  5:15 PM | Saturday March 21 | MoMI - Bartos

CLEATS (Krampon)   Dir: Abdullah Sahin, Turkey, 10 min, Short Narrative Ilyas and Ahmet are two close friends. Emir, Syrian refugee completes the gang. Ilyas wants to make the tryouts for a local f... more info watch trailer




A CUT ABOVE   Dir: Kate Houle, United States, 13 min, Documentary A look at the competitive sport of lumberjacking, its history, its people, its growing diversity, and how logging has uniquel... more info watch trailer




CATFIGHT   Dir: Ariel Sinelnikoff, United States, 14 min, Short Narrative While attempting to escape the underground world of Catfighting - a sport where women are forced to fight one another to the ... more info watch trailer




TOFINO IS A PLACE   Dir: Ryan Struck, Canada, 4 min, Short Narrative The women's surf community in Tofino is a unique as British Columbia is remote. The annual all female surf contest Queen of t... more info

  5:30 PM | Sunday March 22 | MoMI - Bartos

BULLIED   Dir: Thomas Keith, United States, 78 min, Documentary The film tracks the causes and consequences of bullying, along with programs and solutions that have had an impact on mitigat... more info watch trailer

  7:45 PM | Sunday March 22 | MoMI - Bartos

IN SYNC   Dir: Eddie Shieh, United States, 5 min, Short Narrative A young couple walk a fine line while thriving in an open marriage until they catch each other breaking their own rules. ... more info




I WROTE THIS FOR YOU   Dir: Jason Zavaleta, United States, 94 min, Feature Narrative The edges of reality are blurred when a young man struggles to overcome a broken relationship. ... more info watch trailer

  6:00 PM | Friday March 27 | MoMI - Bartos

STAN   Dir: JP Olsen, Kristen Nutile, United States, 8 min, Short Documentary STAN is an experimental documentary based around the life of former heroin addict, Stan, who was among several thousand New Y... more info




DIA 1   Dir: Rafael Escolar, Argentina, 78 min, Feature Narrative Dario Lizardi's life spins as randomly as in Ailén's rollers, his slot machine. Everything he lost along his 35 years of addi... more info watch trailer

  8:00 PM | Friday March 27 | MoMI - Bartos

THE FACTORY   Dir: Max Chicco, Italy, 90 min, Feature Narrative The Factory is a cultural experiment about filmmaking to 3° Cat and 4° Cat classes of Istituto Fermi Galilei (Turin). The p... more info

  1:15 PM | Saturday March 28 | MoMI - Bartos

BREAK DOWN   Dir: Emmett Goodman, United States, 3 min, Animation Two different characters, a manic wrestler and a calm elderly lady, find themselves in a dire situation.... more info watch trailer




PASTALIGHT   Dir: Christopher Martini, United States, 17 min, Short Narrative An eccentric Italian father and his son set out to start their own pasta sauce company. But can they cut it in the merciless ... more info




THE PEAK   Dir: Satoshi Takahashi , Japan, 5 min, Animation In the middle of the night... Sarah wakes up as she wants to go to the bathroom. As she leaves her room, she finds herself al... more info




LOST TREASURE OF THE VALLEY   Dir: Robert Husted, United States, 25 min, Short Narrative A young photographer and an adventurer discover that all of the abandoned shopping carts in LA's San Fernando Valley lead to ... more info watch trailer




LATTESHIP   Dir: Hsing-Fang Tsai, Daishi Takishima, United States, 4 min, Short Narrative Latteship is a 3D animated short created by Flora Hsing-Fang Tsai and Daishi Takishima. The animation story follows Sigri and... more info watch trailer




AGE OF BRYCE   Dir: David Feagan, Brian Elliott, United States, 10 min, Short Narrative Smothered by an adoring, over-protective mom, 12-year-old Bryce Yancy Paul (Bip) is pushed to the brink of pubescent revoluti... more info

  3:00 PM | Saturday March 28 | MoMI - Bartos

WHERE ARE WE NOW? THE ITALIAN AMERICAN TODAY   Dir: Richard Vetere, United States, 24 min, Short Documentary Have Italian Americans become so absorbed by the American Culture that they are more American than Italian American? Young, ... more info




ACAIACA   Dir: Axel Sande, Brazil, 7 min, Short Narrative Acaiaca is based on a legend about a sacred cedar that was chopped down by the Portuguese, which caused the destruction of th... more info watch trailer




RETURN TO CALAIS   Dir: Noah Benezra, Joseph Tuzzolino, Edith Goldenhar, United States, 15 min, Short Documentary A personal story, global story, and call to action. In 1940, Paulette was a teenage refugee fleeing the Nazi invasion of Belg... more info




WAVES   Dir: Jane Hae Kim, United States, 14 min, Short Narrative Jamie a hesitant Korean American woman visits home for the holidays. She hopes to catch up and make some sort of connection w... more info

  5:00 PM | Saturday March 28 | MoMI - Bartos

TESLA NATION   Dir: Zeljko Mirkovic, Serbia, 82 min, Documentary We are all one. People are interconnected by invisible forces. Creative documentary about the history of immigration of Serb... more info watch trailer

  7:00 PM | Saturday March 28 | MoMI - Bartos

PEPPER   Dir: Jayil Pak, United States, 15 min, Short Narrative When the Korean Goddess of Birth visits a maternity ward to grant a couple their son, an unforeseen ghost alters her plan. ... more info watch trailer




LITTLE BOY   Dir: Erika Santosuosso, Adam Griffith, United States, 6 min, Short Narrative Reese meets with his sister Shelley reluctant to reveal his greatest secret. Shelley reassures him that fear is not a sign a ... more info watch trailer




KOKOKIDS OF PARIS   Dir: Alexia Colette, France, 14 min, Short Narrative LOU-ANN, a shy 6 year old, meets the smart and witty CHAYA, 8, at a park in Paris. They quickly bond over their shared love o... more info

  3:00 PM | Sunday March 29 | MoMI - Bartos

AND...SEEN   Dir: Liz Ortiz, United States, 75 min, Documentary What if a casting director who has spoken up for over 20 years about disability inclusion in casting but was mostly dismissed... more info