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- DirectorNatalie BaileyStarsJackie van BeekJeremy Lindsay TaylorJosephine BlazierSelf-appointed Mother of the Year, Ronnie has given her daughter Audrey everything, so when Audrey selfishly falls into a coma, Ronnie has no choice but to keep their dreams alive by assuming her identity.
- DirectorShaun SeneviratneStarsAnastasia OlowinSathya SridharanThe romantic reunion of Ben Santhanaraj and Suzanne Hopper is thwarted when Suzanne's boss asks her to work during their holiday road trip.
- DirectorTracie LaymonStarsBarbie FerreiraJohn LeguizamoFrench StewartAfter searching for her estranged father online, a people-pleasing young woman unexpectedly forms a close bond with a grieving, childless man with the same name as her father on Facebook. Inspired by a true story.
- DirectorLiliana TorresStarsEnric AuquerMaria Rodríguez SotoRuth LlopisLola's unplanned pregnancy disrupts her life plans. She resists motherhood while Bruno wants to be a father, forcing her to confront her fears and societal expectations as she seeks clarity on her future.
- DirectorDerrick B. HardenCrystal MoselleStarsDerrick B. HardenIrmena ChichikovaStoyo MirkovA man journeys to a small Eastern European coastal town where he finds unexpected connections despite being the only black person in the area.
- DirectorAnu ValiaStarsKirbySarah GoldbergMaria DizziaWe Strangers is an addictive and haunting study of race, class and assimilation, centering around Ray, a charming and self-determined woman living in Gary, Indiana.
- DirectorJosephine Stewart-Te WhiuStarsErana JamesRima Te WiataManaia HallNellie, Daisy and Lou attend an institution for delinquent girls on an isolated island in 1954. The trio rail against the system, finding strength in their friendship but this is challenged when the school's matron divides them.
- DirectorMatthew ArnoldFreddie WongStarsIndiana ArnoldNevada ArnoldAshly BurchIn near future, everyone's gotten used to the 10, 000-mile alien tentacle that materialized in the sky, and a struggling beekeeper and a grieving wanderer must join together and take a dangerous roadtrip to get their teleported stuff back.
- DirectorRoshan SethiStarsKaran SoniJonathan GroffSunita ManiWhen Naveen brings his fiance Jay home to meet his family, his traditional Indian parents must contend with accepting his white partner and helping them plan the most fabulous same sex Indian wedding the Bay Area has ever seen.
- DirectorTilman SingerStarsDan StevensHunter SchaferJessica HenwickA 17-year old girl is forced to move with her family to a resort where things are not what they seem.
- DirectorSara ZandiehStarsStephanie BeatrizJessica ClementCas AnvarAn Indian-American virgin gets a job teaching high school sex ed.
- DirectorDavid Joseph CraigBrian CranoStarsNick KrollAndrew RannellsMorgan SpectorStranded in rural Italy without transportation or language skills, an American couple on the verge of adopting tries to reconnect during a disastrous vacation, as their fears and relationship problems threaten to boil over.
- DirectorCazzie DavidElisa KalaniStarsSofia Black-D'EliaRaymond Cham Jr.Ray NicholsonA subversive romantic comedy gone wrong that follows a young woman into and out of an emotionally abusive relationship.
- DirectorTommy DorfmanStarsAlexandra DaddarioCole SprouseAmy LandeckerIt follows a teen who after being kicked out of the house by their parents, embarks upon a journey of self-discovery that teaches them about love, friendship, and family.
- DirectorSam YatesStarsDaisy RidleyMatilda Anna Ingrid LutzShazad LatifA couple find their lives turned upside-down when their daughter is cast alongside a controversial major star.
- DirectorKyle Hausmann-StokesStarsSonequa Martin-GreenNatalie MoralesEd HarrisEngaged in a mysterious relationship with her dead best friend from the Army, a female Afghanistan veteran comes head to head with her Vietnam vet grandfather at the family's ancestral lake house.
- DirectorNadia ConnersStarsElizabeth ReaserWalton GogginsLois SmithA stranger crashes a party, sparking a comedy of errors, and a reordering of life.
- DirectorPamela AdlonStarsElena OuspenskaiaSandra BernhardOliver PlattLifelong friends Eden and Dawn, one single and wanting a baby, the other already a mother, navigate challenges to their bond when Eden pursues pregnancy alone after a one-night stand.
- DirectorDavid LeitchStarsRyan GoslingEmily BluntAaron Taylor-JohnsonA down-and-out stuntman must find the missing star of his ex-girlfriend's blockbuster film.
- DirectorMichael ShowalterStarsAnne HathawayNicholas GalitzineElla RubinSolène, a 40-year-old single mom, begins an unexpected romance with 24-year-old Hayes Campbell, the lead singer of August Moon, the hottest boy band on the planet.
- DirectorDoug LimanStarsJake GyllenhaalDaniela MelchiorConor McGregorEx-UFC fighter Dalton takes a job as a bouncer at a Florida Keys roadhouse, only to discover that this paradise is not all it seems.
- DirectorBrian J. SmithStarsNick AmmaturoScott BromleyMarc ChristensenA House Is Not A Disco peers with empathy and curiosity into the present-day life experiences of those who live, work, and pursue a season of pleasure in the world's most radically queer, "homo-normative" community: Fire Island Pines.
- DirectorJulie Lunde LillesæterThree Austin women join a lawsuit with others arguing rape goes unprosecuted. Despite setbacks, they persevere to hold law enforcement accountable for inaction and catalyze change.Category: Documentary Feature Competition
- DirectorSam CranePinny GryllsStarsSam CraneMark OosterveenPinny GryllsStruggling actors Sam and Mark find solace from lockdown isolation by staging Hamlet in Grand Theft Auto Online (2013), battling griefers as they connect through William Shakespeare.Category: Documentary Feature Competition
- DirectorRobie FloresStarsPaola ChavarriaFrida CorreaJulissa de JesusA filmmaker returns home after her brother's death and makes a coming-of-age portrait exploring her adolescence with river trips and makeovers.Category: Documentary Feature Competition
- DirectorAlison TavelStarsJon AndersonFred ArmisenChristian CastagnoWhen her genius inventor father dies, a daughter finds his old synth prototype, sparking a quest to learn his secrets and forge a posthumous connection.Category: Documentary Feature Competition
- DirectorIsaac GaleRyan OlsonDavid McMurryStarsSwamp DoggMoogstarGuitar ShortyCult musician Swamp Dogg and housemates Moogstar and Guitar Shorty have turned their suburban LA home into an artistic haven. They journey through the turbulent music business, forming a special friendship transcending eras.Category: Documentary Feature Competition
- DirectorDavid LambertStarsTabata BembnistaLaurent BonnetJoel GossetAfter years together Thom and Henry are in a rut is the only hope of saving their marriage. divorce?Category: Narrative Spotlight
- DirectorFriedrich MoserStarsZahra AghajanSusan BeneschMalachy BrowneResearchers study disinformation and conspiracies, examining technology, journalism, folklore, and neuroscience to understand how manipulating information can alter minds and reality.Category: Documentary Spotlight
- DirectorJonathan Ignatius GreenStarsRonald DouglassJohn FantasiaRizzy FuentesTwo people got kidnapped. One man lost his dick. No-one got any money. This heist-gone-horribly-wrong led one Newport Beach detective on an international manhunt for the most twisted criminal he'd ever hunted.Category: Documentary Spotlight
- DirectorBen AddelmanZiya TongStarsSusan FreinkelDale JurassicMary KosuthScientists investigate the threat of microplastics in human bodies. Journalist visits labs and undergoes testing to find plastic in home, food and body.Category: Documentary Spotlight
- DirectorMuta'Ali MuhammadStarsDaymond JohnJohn FichthornTed FarnsworthExploring the company founding and the implosion of the business by outside investors who took over the company, left it bankrupt and under investigation.Category: Documentary Spotlight
- DirectorLucian ReadStarsNashat AkramMedhi Al-KharkiHassanane BalalThe Iraqi soccer team unites players from warring factions to become 2007 Asian Cup champions, briefly unifying the country amid civil war. Over a decade later, the players recount their journey through conflict to an unlikely victory.Category: Documentary Spotlight
- DirectorKate DumkeSabrine KeaneStarsMaleehaMariaA riveting documentary about the pervasive but overlooked presence of Crisis Pregnancy Centers. "Preconceived" explores the complex role of deception, finances, faith, and privacy amid a shifting legal landscape.Category: Documentary Spotlight
- DirectorJeremy WorkmanStarsMichael TownsendColin BlissAdriana Valdez-YoungIn 2003, eight Rhode Islanders created a secret apartment inside a busy mall and lived there for four years, filming everything along the way. Far more than a prank, the secret apartment became a deeply meaningful place for all involved.Category: Documentary Spotlight
- DirectorJenny CarchmanIn 2019, a middle-aged couple are subjected to cyberstalking and bizarre deliveries. As the harassment intensifies, the police and FBI close in on a Silicon Valley giant and some very unlikely suspects.Category: Documentary Spotlight
- DirectorTorquil JonesStarsSimone BilesJen BrickerSharon BrickerBorn without legs, Jen Bricker is abandoned by her biological parents. Adopted in the US, she idolizes America's superstar gymnast - the mesmerizing Dominique Moceanu - only to find out that the two women share a shocking secret.Category: Documentary Spotlight
- DirectorChristy CarpenterAbby GinzbergStarsLiz CarpenterLuci Baines JohnsonBill MoyersA journalist reports on JFK assassination, helps enact Great Society reforms in White House, co-founds women's political group, leads 1977 women's conference, and champions Equal Rights Amendment.Category: Documentary Spotlight
- DirectorE.L. KatzStarsSamara WeavingVic Carmen SonneNathan Stewart-JarrettIn a world no one speaks a devout female hunts down a young woman who has escaped her imprisonment. Recaptured by its ruthless leaders, Azrael is due to be sacrificed to pacify an ancient evil deep within the surrounding wildernessCategory: Midnighter
- DirectorBenjamin FinkelStarsBen ChaplinAllan CordunerLucinda Lee Dawson GraySummer, 2002. Watching her sick father decline, 11-year-old Johanna makes a call for a good spirit to save him. But something else comes instead.Category: Midnighter
- DirectorSaïd BelktibiaStarsGolshifteh FarahaniAmine ZariouhiJérémy FerrariA woman earns a living by smuggling exotic animals and illegal goods, developing a mobile app that links users with mystical marabout healers, but one of the user's consultations takes a tragic turn facing a violent backlash.Category: Midnighter
- DirectorAnnick BlancStarsMarc BeaupréMaxime GenoisAlexandre LandryNina, a tempestuous young, woman joins a group of hunters in a remote cabin. A mysterious stranger's arrival disrupts her newfound place in their male micro-society.Category: Midnighter
- DirectorKourtney RoyStarsChloe PirrieJeff GladstoneJason DelineA woman searches for a missing monster hunter, realizing she has an inextricable bond with the creature being pursued.Category: Midnighter
- DirectorGreg JardinStarsBrittany O'GradyJames MorosiniAlycia Debnam-CareyA pre-wedding party descends into an existential nightmare when an estranged friend shows up with a mysterious suitcase.Category: Midnighter
- DirectorDamian Mc CarthyStarsGwilym LeeCarolyn BrackenTadhg MurphyUncovering the truth behind sister's death with the help of wooden mannequin.Category: Midnighter
- DirectorMichael FelkerStarsAdam David ThompsonRiley DandyChloe SkoczenIn order to escape police after a robbery, two estranged siblings lay low in a farmhouse that hides them away in a different time. There they reckon with a mysterious force that pushes their familial bonds to unnatural breaking points.Category: Midnighter
- DirectorShannon WalshStarsAlan St-GeorgeNathan McDonaldSLeeAlan built a castle in rural Illinois with his late love. Facing life alone, he revisits their fantasy through musical re-enactments transporting him to the world they shared.Category: Visions
- DirectorJack ClarkJim WeirStarsMackenzie FearnleyShabana AzeezBen HunterA bride-to-be is invited to her fiancé's bachelor party, but when uncomfortable details of their relationship are exposed, the night takes a feral turn.Category: Visions
- DirectorJoe DeBoerKyle McConaghyStarsSterling Macer Jr.John FleckTomas BoykinAn ominous help note finds its way to a 1980s post office, connecting a dead letter investigator to a kidnapped keyboard technician.Category: Visions
- DirectorContessa GaylesStarsKellie EvansDevonte HoyMyles LassiterAt 15, he took a life. Three days later, his brother's life was taken. An incarcerated musician struggles for healing and peace as he comes of age in this documentary visual album composed behind bars.Category: Visions
- DirectorDianna DilworthJulia GreenbergStarsLionMamaMaxA child tap dancer in New Jersey, Previn went on to write classic songs. In NYC as a showgirl, she wrote for Frank Sinatra and Judy Garland. Caught in a 1960s Hollywood scandal, she entered the Laurel Canyon music scene.Category: Visions
- DirectorJaimie D'CruzEd PerkinsAlex NottStarsAlexa CoxAndrea CoxNell CoxA young boy has doodled obsessively since he first held a pen. His compulsion intensifies until his home and mind are dominated by endless drawings.Category: Visions
- DirectorJeff DupreStarsDan AuerbachPatrick J. CarneyDan Auerbach and Patrick Carney formed The Black Keys in Akron, Ohio. After a decade of relentless touring and navigating highs and lows, they found mainstream success with Brothers and El Camino.Category: 24 Beats Per Second
- DirectorCarolina MarkowiczStarsMaeve JinkingsThomas AquinoIsac GraçaSuellen, a toll booth attendant, uses her job to help a gang of thieves steal watches so that she can afford to send her son to a gay conversion workshop.Category: Festival Favorite
- DirectorGreg KwedarStarsColman DomingoSean Dino JohnsonClarence MaclinDivine G, imprisoned at Sing Sing for a crime he didn't commit, finds purpose by acting in a theatre group alongside other incarcerated men in this story of resilience, humanity, and the transformative power of art.Category: Festival Favorite
- DirectorDavid ZellnerNathan ZellnerStarsJesse EisenbergRiley KeoughChristophe Zajac-DenekA year in the life of a unique family. It captures the daily life of the Sasquatch with a level of detail and rigor that is simply unforgettable.Category: Festival Favorite
- DirectorFawzia MirzaStarsAmrit KaurHamza HaqNimra BuchaAgainst the backdrop of a shared obsession with Bollywood fantasy, Mariam, a Pakistani Muslim woman, and her Canadian-born daughter Azra come of age in two different eras.Category: Festival Favorite
- DirectorJon BellStarsShari SebbensMeyne WyattTessa RoseA young Aboriginal couple brings home their second baby. What should be a joyous time takes a sinister turn, as the baby's mother starts seeing a malevolent spirit she is convinced is trying to take her baby.Category: Festival Favorite
- DirectorBill Ross IVTurner RossStarsTony AburtoMicah BunchNichole DukesFollows 5 teenagers from small-town Oregon who, with high school in the rearview, decide to embark on one last adventure: to make it to a place they've never been -the Pacific coast, 500 miles away. Their plan, in full: "F**k it."Category: Festival Favorite
- DirectorHelena StefansdottirStarsIlmur María ArnarsdóttirElin PetersdottirStefania BerndsenVisiting estranged grandparents, eighteen-year-old Lilja auditions in town. Feeling at home in their mansion, she becomes entangled with the family's dark past and learns life-threatening secrets.Category: Global
- DirectorPatricia FranquesaTrapped in a digital blackmail labyrinth after her computer is stolen, director Pati documents the real-time persecution as a way of survival.Category: Global
- DirectorNatalia SantaStarsEstefania PiñeresPatricia TamayoEmmanuel RestrepoMariana wants to go far away, far from Bogota, far from her family, but above all away from herself. Malta is a place where to start. Before she gets there she will have to delve in other territories.Category: Global
- DirectorEwa WikielStarsKatharina BellenaPavel DelongWiktoria GorodeckaWhen a young bacteriologist witnesses a car accident, she becomes entangled in the life of the deceased, which triggers the suppressed loss of her unborn child.Category: Global
- DirectorYoel MoralesStarsManuel RaposoMaría TavárezYasser MichelénRomantic Bionico struggles to find a job and home to provide for fiancée La Flaca after rehab. He tries to quit drugs with help from his partner Calvita.Category: Global
- DirectorAlexis SpraicStarsPamela AdlonStephen BrayJulie BrownSongwriter / artist Allee Willis began filming her life as a kid in 1950s Detroit and never stopped. She pursued creative expression at all costs while struggling to fit established gender and sexual norms - until she found a path to love.Category: 24 Beats Per Second
- DirectorDev PatelStarsDev PatelSharlto CopleyPitobashAn anonymous young man unleashes a campaign of vengeance against the corrupt leaders who murdered his mother and continue to systematically victimize the poor and powerless.
- DirectorMichael MohanStarsSydney SweeneyÁlvaro MorteSimona TabascoCecilia, a woman of devout faith, is warmly welcomed to the picture-perfect Italian countryside where she is offered a new role at an illustrious convent. But it becomes clear to Cecilia that her new home harbors dark and horrifying secrets.
- DirectorKyle MooneyStarsJaeden MartellRachel ZeglerJulian DennisonTwo high school nobodies make the decision to crash the last major celebration before the new millennium on New Year's Eve 1999. The night becomes even crazier than they could have ever dreamed when the clock strikes midnight.
- DirectorBenjamin BrewerStarsNicolas CageJaeden MartellMaxwell JenkinsA father and his twin teenage sons fight to survive in a remote farmhouse at the end of the end of the world.
- DirectorShannon TriplettStarsBeau BridgesFrances FisherKristine FrosethA woman crashes her car and walks down the road for help - only to find no matter which way she walks she ends up back at her crashed car again.
- DirectorNed BensonStarsLucy BoyntonJustin H. MinDavid CorenswetA love story centering on the connection between music and memory and how they transport us, sometimes literally.
- DirectorMarco CalvaniStarsMarco PigossiJames BlandMarisa TomeiHeartbroken and adrift, undocumented Brazilian immigrant Lourenço searches for purpose in the queer mecca of Provincetown. As the summer season comes to a fade, he sparks an intense and unexpected romance with Maurice. Together, the two reconcile the pasts they've left behind and their uncertain futures.
- DirectorBernardo BrittoStarsMary-Louise ParkerAyo EdebiriCarlos JacottA woman from Miami, Florida decides to solve time travel in order to go back and be the person she always intended to.
- DirectorTara PirniaStarsAlicia WittJeff FaheyCristián de la FuenteA man's world gets turned upside down and he finds himself stranded at a homeless shelter, where he meets a young widow. He begins to fall in love and to understand how helping others is the true path to finding happiness.Category: Narrative Spotlight
- DirectorRudy MancusoStarsRudy MancusoCamila MendesFrancesca RealeA coming-of-age love story that follows an aspiring creator with synesthesia, who must come to terms with an uncertain future, while navigating the pressures of love, family, and his Brazilian culture in Newark, New Jersey.Category: Narrative Spotlight
- DirectorAlice LoweStarsJacob AndersonNick FrostAneurin BarnardThe hapless heroine Agnes reincarnated every time she makes the same mistake: falling in love with the wrong man.Category: Narrative Spotlight
- DirectorIram Parveen BilalStarsSohail SameerTooba SiddiquiFaryal MehmoodA school teacher becomes a viral sensation overnight when she accidentally unleashes her unabashed opinions on social media. This newfound fame comes with its own challenges as she has to navigate archaic mindsets and secret identities.Category: Narrative Spotlight
- DirectorNicole RiegelStarsThomas DohertyKiKi LayneMelanie Nicholls-KingIt follows a singer-songwriter in a downward spiral as she takes a last effort gig at a motorcycle rally in South Dakota where she meets Casey, a guitarist who walked away from his dream long ago.Category: 24 Beats Per Second
- DirectorFreddy MacdonaldStarsEve ConnollyCalum WorthyJohn LynchA seamstress gets tangled in her own thread after stealing a briefcase from a drug deal gone bad. In an escalating game of cat and mouse, her different choices lead to drastically different outcomes along the way.Category: Visions
- DirectorJoy WilkinsonStarsEmma McDonaldBilly PostlethwaiteAmit ShahDaniel has kept the keys to the places he's lived in. Lena wants to use them - on the ultimate tour of London, a weekend of getting to know each other intimately in other people's homes. This risky fantasy soon becomes a deadly threat.Category: Visions
- DirectorOlmo SchnabelStarsDario Yazbek BernalJack IrvGerry BednobFollows the affair between the impulsive Alejandro and the college-age pet store employee Jack, exploring the underbelly of New York and a romance that sends them down a rabbit hole of vice.Category: Festival Favorite
- DirectorLucy LawlessStarsMargaret MothSwashbuckling CNN combat camerawoman, Margaret Moth, risks it all to put the viewer inside the conflict. When a fateful injury gets in the way of her appetite for danger and adrenaline, Moth must find the strength to carry on.Category: Festival Favorite
- StarsKaren PittmanBarret O'BrienSheri FosterFollows lifelong best friends struggling to find purpose six months after tragedy strikes; stars actual childhood friends Mark Duplass and Barret O'Brien who slowly developed the 6-part first season.Category: TV Premiere
- StarsJeffrey BaldwinGeorge CoulamDarla SmithWhen the ailing king of America's largest renaissance festival declares his retirement, an epic power struggle ensues between an actor, a former elephant trainer, and a kettle-corn kingpin to claim his throne.Category: TV Premiere
- CreatorJerrod CarmichaelEli B. DespresAri KatcherStarsJerrod CarmichaelJamar Malachi NeighborsTyler the CreatorFollow the life of Jerrod Carmichael, through his encounters with friends, family, and strangers, all in his search for love, sex, and connection.Category: TV Premiere