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Showcase of the best FILMS in the world today. Audience Award Winners:Best Feature Film: ASTEROID RUSH: PLANETARY DEFENSEBest Short Film: 12 SHADES OF GREYBest Experimental Film: MILLENNIALS LEAVE IN PEACE Best Cinematography: REFUGE ALASKABest Sound & Music: CYCLE Watch the Audience Feedback Video for each film: ASTEROID…

Showcase of the best FILMS in the world today. Audience Award Winners:Best Feature Film: HIS NAME IS RAYBest Short Film: EAT A SWEDEBest Direction: ÎINHA Best Cinematography: CUIDANTSIQMI: Love and Care for the LandBest Sound & Music: FLYING IN THE DARK Watch the Audience Feedback Video for each film: HIS NAME IS RAY, 83min., USADirected… Continue reading HIGHLIGHTS: June 2022 Film Festival

Directed by Ann HartleyUpon the ratification of the Thirteenth Amendment in 1865, many Americans thought that slavery had been abolished once and for all. Frederick Douglass, however, argued that “slavery is not abolished until the black man has the ballot.” His fight to secure the vote transformed not only the Constitution, but what it meant… Continue reading Short Film: Image of an American: Frederick Douglass & the Right to Vote, 18min., Documentary

Directed by Fanny TexierRed Bull dancer Angyil McNeal meditates on her difficult childhood growing up in the hoods of Kansas City, and how she uses spirituality and dance as tools to understand life. Watch the Audience Feedback Video: Director Biography – Fanny Texier Fanny Texier is a Brooklyn-based documentary filmmaker born and raised in Paris, France.… Continue reading Short Film: ANGYIL, 4min., USA

Directed by Jessie KnierimFor Jason Reed, salmon are synonymous with life. He has grown up on the banks of California’s Klamath River where the Karuk Tribe have depended on these salmon since time immemorial. But in recent years, nearly all the salmon have stopped returning to the river to spawn. To save the salmon and… Continue reading Short Film: Îinha, 13min., UK

Directed by Teo BeltonThe Wari Indigenous people of the Llupa community, located below the Cordillera Blanca of the Peruvian Andes, are facing an environmental disaster that is directly affecting their physical and mental health. Watch the Audience Feedback Video: Director Biography – Teo Belton Teo Belton (1991, Zapopán, Mexico) is a French and Mexican film director… Continue reading Short Film: CUIDANTSIQMI: Love and Care for the Land, 18min., Peru

Directed by Francesco CaradonnaThis revealing documentary short delves into the world of ballet dancer-turned-legendary photojournalist Colin Jones, and one of the most significant voices of post-war Britain, as the man himself takes us on a tour through some of his work. Watch the Audience Feedback Video: Director Biography – Francesco Caradonna Frankie is a London based… Continue reading Short Film: COLIN JONES: THE END OF PHOTOGRAPHY, 12min., UK

Directed by Olivier La CombeQuentin Robinot is a professional Ping Pong player. At only 25, and following multiple traumas, he had to have a hip prosthesis placed. Then comes the time for questioning: What happens when no one bets on you anymore? Watch the Audience Feedback Video:

Directed by Annika HorneAn animated documentary featuring the stories of women in aviation, from World War II to the present. Watch the Audience Feedback Video:

Directed by Daniel HallbergWould you eat human for humanity? By 2050, the global population will be 10 billion. How can we produce food without wrecking the planet? The aim of the campaign was to highlight this question, and Sweden’s answer. In the film Eat a Swede, viewers follow Erik Karlsson, a Swedish scientist with a… Continue reading Short Film: EAT A SWEDE, 19min., Sweden