Micah Stansell
Georgia State University

“A Convolution of Imagined Histories”
Four separate narratives imagine the visual track to the story of someone else's memories.

Phoebe Tooke
San Francisco State University

“Circles of Confusion”
A meditative, experiential record of the filmmaker’s return to New Orleans in the wake of Hurricane Katrina.

Mandi Lin
California College of the Arts

“Comfort Zone”
For many, feeling comfortable and confident is linked to places that provide a sense of ease and security.

Michael Langan
Rhode Island School of Design

“Doxology”
An experimental comedy about tennis, dancing cars and God.

Hyun Jeen Lee
The School of Visual Arts, New York

“Fish”
A day in the life of two close friends – Chul Hwan and Fish.

Shih-Ting Hung
University of Southern California

“Viola: The Traveling Rooms of a Little Giant”
Seven-year-old Viola, trying to discover the world, puts solitude in her suitcase and begins her dreamy journey.

Alexander Krivicich
Cornell University

“Mr. Popcorn”
Mr. Popcorn discovers a scratch on his beloved vintage automobile.

David Houry
The Cleveland Institute of the Arts

“Paper Shepherd"
Chris is the janitor at a biogenetics company where living sheets of paper are bred to fight and die in an arena. 

Tatchapon LertwirojkulSchool of Visual Arts, New York

“Simulacra”
In the vast galaxy, there is a robot planet on which every natural living thing is extinct – or is it?

Kim Hazel
Ringling College of Art and Design

“Snow Day”
A dinosaur scrambles to save himself from the impending Ice Age.

Andrew Huang
University of Southern California

“The Gloaming”
An office worker is ensnared by his cubicle and haunted by sinister visitors during the night shift.

Evan Mayfield
Ringling College of Art and Design

“The Visionary”
It isn’t easy to make the transition from glasses to contacts.

Carlos Stevens
The Art Institute of Portland

“Toumai”
Excessive consumption creates a troubled relationship between mankind and nature. 

Nicole Mitchell
California Institute of the Arts

“Zoologic”
A fussy zookeeper maintains strict order in his zoo by arranging the animals to his liking. 

Laura Waters Hinson
American University

“As We Forgive”
Two Rwandan women come face-to-face with the men who slaughtered their families during the 1994 genocide.

Brian Davis
University of Southern California

“If a Body Meet a Body”
Workers and their day-to-day tasks provide insights in to the Los Angeles County Coroner’s office and laboratories.

Adam Salky
Columbia University

“Recruiter”
"Gunny" and his recruiters must find young Americans to enlist in the U.S. Marine Corps before the end of the month.

Emmanuel Dayan
Stanford University

“Song of a Sperm Donor”
The preferred sperm donor for the biggest sperm bank in America discovers his genetic daughter is trying to contact him.

Nicholas Berger
Stanford University

“The Legend of Rosalie”
In a little desert community more than 200 feet below sea level, a beautiful and mysterious woman has built a library out of found objects.

Yolanda Pividal
City College of New York

“Tijuana, Nada Mas”
Two homeless children experience the visible and invisible borders of Tijuana.

J.J. Adler
Columbia University

“Unattached”
The modern Orthodox Jewish community of New York is up in arms over a “singles crisis.”

Rajeev Dassani
University of Southern California

“A Day’s Work”
A simple job escalates into a violent misunderstanding when an American family hires three immigrant laborers to help them with a move.

Donald Bitters, III
Columbia College Chicago

“A Death in Progress”
When the Grim Reaper can't decide how to finish a man's life, he's forced to rewrite the ending over and over.

Mauricio Chernovetzky
San Diego State University

“Cassandra”
Euripides' tragedy "The Trojan Women" is played out on the edge of a desolate Mexican border town.

Joe Murphy
Columbia University

“Mr. A”
A teenage boy’s life is disrupted when he makes an accidental discovery.

Dmitry Povolotsky
Columbia University

“PAL/SECAM”
At the dawn of Perestroika, little Boris seduces the neighborhood with his mother's VCR.

Nick Paley
New York University

“Picture Day”
In rural Vermont, a gay school portrait photographer hires a punk girl to be his assistant.

Melanie McGraw
University of Southern California

“Pitstop”
Thoughtful, introverted, 12-year-old Maggie feels invisible sandwiched between her eight rambunctious siblings on a drive across the desert.

Nazanin Shirazi
University of Texas at Austin

“Red Wednesday”
In Iran, people gather before the Persian New Year to celebrate Chaharshanbeh Suri, or Red Wednesday.

Z. Eric Yang
Florida State University

“The State of Sunshine”
Two siblings who illegally entered Florida from China must engage in prostitution to pay off their smugglers.

James Bang
Columbia University

“Wianbu – Comfort Woman”
A naïve teenager girl is kidnapped by the Japanese military during World War II. 

Martin Duda
Academy of Performing Arts, Prague
Czech Republic

“I Am Bigger and Better”
Can a robot substitute for a theater actor?

Sergei Perez
Escola Superior de Cinema i Audiovisuals de Catalunya (ESCAC)
Spain

“New Dress (Vestido Nuevo)”
Eight-year-old Mario arrives in class dressed as a girl.

Reto Caffi
Academy of Media Arts, Cologne
Germany

“On the Line (Auf Der Strecke)”
A security guard is secretly in love with a clerk in a department store’s bookshop.

Lior Geller
Tel Aviv University
Israel

“Roads”
In the city of Lod, a 13-year-old boy searches for a new life for himself and his brother outside the Arab drug slums.

Matevz Luzar
University of Ljubljana
Slovenia

“Vucko”
A lonely retired man borrows a neighbor’s dog, hoping to meet new friends at a busy dog park.