3:00 PM - Thursday, Oct 27th 2022

Hi, Womb!

China

Dir: Wenyuxuan DU

Xiao Li, a 16-year-old massage worker, feels that she is not a complete female because of her status as a Stone Girl, so she accepts sexual harassment from male customers to gain a sense of female identity until she meets Yang, a 17-year-old delivery boy.

Just when Xiao Li thinks she is going to be a "normal" woman, Yang's attitude towards menstruation dashes Xiao Li's hopes.

3:00 PM - Thursday, Oct 27th 2022

WOMANHOOD: The Series

USA

Dir: Jessica McGaugh

Embarrassing moments only a woman could experience.

Womanhood: The Series" is an anthology showcasing characters that are raw, real, awkward, and hilarious.

3:30 PM - Thursday, Oct 27th 2022

Diamond Heat

USA

Dir: Dusty York

Barry Blandley is daytime television’s most successful producer. Ever reaching for greater heights, he assembles the world’s best soap opera stars to create Diamond Heat, the most amazing soap ever.

His dreams come crashing down when the egos, drugs, and sex collide and send the production to its inevitable doom. Diamond Heat goes behind the scenes to get a glimpse of the greatest soap opera that never was...

...but with sock puppets.

5:00 PM - Thursday, Oct 27th 2022

HOTEL NO TELL

Canada

Dir: Devon Unrau

After connecting to hotel Wi-Fi, Roger discovers more than just his room.

Thematically explores the idea of surrendering to technology - and allowing it to take control. Our dependency on social media and our rapid adoption of the ‘smart home’ concept shows no sign of changing. My film questions if we can think for ourselves or if we have fallen victim to the networks and/or ideology we connect to.

5:00 PM - Thursday, Oct 27th 2022

Underpaint

Canada

Dir: Anna Hopkins

Underpaint follows the filmmaker through an art gallery as she embarks on a journey through memories and conversations she had with her father, the late Canadian painter Tom Hopkins. She explores personal reflections on her father’s death, his world views, his art practice, and his impact on her life.

The film incorporates elements of documentary, narrative and memoir to explore the grief of the filmmaker over losing her father, in a journey through childhood memories of the art he created.

5:30 PM - Thursday, Oct 27th 2022

Cat Clay Chaos

USA

Dir: Emmett Fifield

A character's pleasant afternoon is interrupted by a cat who brings chaos in this experimental animated claymation film.

5:30 PM - Thursday, Oct 27th 2022

A Different Kind of Different

USA/UK

Dir: Jordan Baseman

This story is based on interviews with people who have chosen to wear mastectomy tattoos, and on conversations with scientists and academics.

With both candor and humor, Alicia reflects on life after breast cancer; from the hatred she feels towards her body, to her declaration that her post-chemo hair means she resembles Justin Timberlake. She recounts the jolt of medical menopause, her rejection of breast reconstruction, followed by her encounter with mastectomy tattoos, and finally the realization of her own joyful inking.

Written by artist Jordan Baseman with writer Sally O’Reilly. Dr Becky Coles-Gale, a Clinical Health Psychologist. Other contributors include tattooist Mary Jane Haake; Professor Margot Mifflin, City University of New York; Dr John Troyer, University of Bath; and Dr Gemma Angel, University of Leicester.

The film was co-produced by Matt’s Gallery, London and Nerve Centre, Derry with executive production by Jacqui Davies. The original score is by award-winning sound artist and composer, DIE HEXEN.

6:00 PM - Thursday, Oct 27th 2022

La Goon

Spain

Dir: Kurt Ravenwood

This offbeat science fiction short tells the story of a mad scientist who goes to great lengths to distract his colleagues from a mysterious lagoon on an alien planet.

Filmed as part of Werner Herzog's "Filming a Strange Planet" workshop on the island of Lanzarote under the mentorship of the famous director himself.

6:00 PM - Thursday, Oct 27th 2022

Amidst the Stars

USA

Dir: Dustin Morrow

A science-fiction short film about an astronaut whose malfunctioning spacecraft has sent him off- course beyond an anticipated orbit of Mars, casting him deeper into space than any human has ever traveled.

After efforts to repair his ship fail, he sends a final transmission back to NASA and his family. In this video message, he reflects on his career in interstellar travel, his feelings of isolation and loneliness, his parting messages to his wife and young daughter, and his conclusions about a life lived in pursuit of space exploration.

6:00 PM - Thursday, Oct 27th 2022

El Paso 11:55

USA

Dir: Keith Jardine

A simple man, in way over his head, transports a mysterious bag into a bus station, and it seems everyone is waiting for him.

6:00 PM - Thursday, Oct 27th 2022

Superfan

USA

Dir: Karina Lomelin Ripper & Marc Ripper

Selena is staying at Jeannie’s house for a sleepover, the awkward frontlines of a budding friendship. The middle-schoolers connect over their boy fandom, but things quickly sour when Selena refuses to share her celebrity sweepstakes entry, causing Jeannie to unleash a quiet terror.

The boundaries of female friendship, privacy and youthful fantasy are all tested in this slow-burn, serio-comedy.

7:15 PM - Thursday, Oct 27th 2022

Scarlett Staccato

USA

Dir: Ava Stapleton

A raunchy horror-pop burlesque show, but it's far beyond me to trap it inside a label.

Being a student at Pacific Northwest College of Art, Stapleton chose to work with found objects in order to exercise her skill in reanimating something that is more or less stagnant. Making these things dance around the screen would be far too easy, ...so she sought to utilize everything the medium could lend her which allowed for much creative problem-solving.

7:15 PM - Thursday, Oct 27th 2022

Tatehuari

USA

Dir: Sarah Whelden

Tatehuari performed by Blue Cranes w/ Edna Vazquez is an exploration of what it means to experience the raw heat of life together: excitement, joy and rebirth, tempered by grief, death and pain.

Using time and movement, while grounded by the voice of a central character, viewers are guided through this human spectrum and shown how their own existence is clarified by others. We are not alone in our journey and exist as beings in relation to one another.

7:15 PM - Thursday, Oct 27th 2022

1955

USA

Dir: Martin Melnick

In "1955", award-winning opera singer Onry honors the legacy of Emmett Till, an African American teenager whose murder catalyzed the civil rights movement.

This powerful short film explores the time slippage of generational trauma, drawing parallels, both real and imagined, between 1955 and 2022.

7:15 PM - Thursday, Oct 27th 2022

Sunflowers

USA

Dir: David Nyro & Brett Renville

"Sunflowers" is a music video of the song "Sunflowers," written by Tacoma, WA, singer- songwriter, David Nyro. (Rhymes with hero.)

Sunflowers are the national symbol of Ukraine, which is also The sunflower products producer to the world. It was inspired by, and is dedicated to, the brave people of Ukraine. The film intersperses evocative images of Ukraine, both before the war and during the war, with musicians performing in sacred spaces; a church (St Joseph's Parish in Seattle) and a sunflower field in Duvall, WA.

7:15 PM - Thursday, Oct 27th 2022

Where Do You Go?

USA

Dir: Luke Borsten

In this music video for Portland-based band MAITA (from the new record “I Just Want To Be Wild For You,” via Kill Rock Stars) a dream doctor gives a struggling couple virtual encounters with giant dream monsters, hoping to bring them to a place of common understanding.

Things take an unexpected turn when the dream-induction equipment begins to malfunction...

8:00 PM - Thursday, Oct 27th 2022

Feathers

USA

Dir: Megan Johns

After a tough breakup, depressed and haunted Melanie Falcon returns home to family.

When a macabre fire pit accident throws her into a mystical realm, she rediscovers what is important and how to move forward.

9:00 PM - Thursday, Oct 27th 2022

Hot Money

USA

Dir: Susan Kucera

Executive Producer Jeff Bridges, Former NATO Supreme Allied Commander, General Wesley Clark and his son Wes Clark Jr. take us on a journey through the complicated realities of our financial system and its profound exposure to climate change.

With all the humor and intelligence of a New Yorker cartoon, combined with the wisdom of international business experts and academics, Hot Money is rich with historical context. It severs the knot of economic and political forces that may lead to societal collapse.