The Official Selections of 2025
Experience the stories that define this year’s festival — our official Feature and Short Film selections:
| Project Title | Country of Origin | Directors |
| Beyond the Bridge | Canada | HImanshu, Manas Kathuria |
| Blue – The Life and Art of George Rodrigue | United States | Sean O’Malley |
| Il tempo di un ricordo | Italy | Carlo De Benedictis |
| The Bathtub | Spain | Sergi Marti Maltas |
| It’s Still Here! 78 Years Later! The Tragic Story of the Sabena Plane Crash | Canada | Brent Hendrick |
| Oh！My God | China |
ruchen shang, I-wen Chen
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| The Care Package | Canada | Manas kathuria |
| THE PORTRAIT | United States | |
| Dedicated | United States | Gwynneth VanLaven |
| Out of the Picture | United States |
Mary Louise Schumacher
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| Color photography six | Portugal |
Jorge Manuel Martins Garcia
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| Color photography seven | Portugal | |
| The Food That Fuels | United States | Life’s Interpretaion, Ed Porter |
| Dream Catcher | Canada | Ish Ali |
| Thirst Trap | United States | Chantal Massuh-Fox |
| Nono | United States | Aerin Wu |
| The Dental Plan (Vimeo Link VZ) | Canada | Wayne Diu |
| Eating History | A Taste Of New Mexico | United States | Zac Cornfield |
| Zinnia the Devil | United States | Madeleine Lemay |
| Echoes of Eternity | Sweden | Bengt Säll |
| The Threshold | Italy | Walter Rastelli |
| When Elevators were Racist | United States |
Keyonda Smith
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| Trapped in time | Canada | Brian Fang |
| Out of Town | United States | Nicolas Dronsky |
| The Journey of Kelly’s Bake Shoppe | Canada | Makayla Lauren Hidalgo |
| Kaashful | Canada, India | Aneesh Chatterjee |
| Interpreting Erik | Canada | Donald D’Haene |
| Death in Palermo | Italy |
Caterina Pasqualino
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| OMOTENASHI | Japan | Akiko Matsumoto, Roku Jingwen Long |
| AfterSchool | United States | Lexie Mosby |
| My Shadow | United States | Astra Silver Burke |
| CALY | Mozambique | Alcy Caluamba |
| OVaXX | United States | John Schlag |
| Trios | Spain | Antonio Orbe |
| Stations of the Cross | Malta | Aleksa Ristovic |
| Seeds of Sovereignty | United States |
Stuart J Tanner
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| TIN TUNE | United States | Carolyn Gair |
| Arctic Polar Bear Mothers | United States | Carol J. Amore |
| Crisis Point | Romania | Valentin Raileanu |
| MATTER! | France | samuel FERON |
| Baste | Canada | Ben Maloney |
| Sexy Santas | ||
| LOST IN MY HEART | Switzerland | Thierry Pradervand |
| Times Six | Canada | Alyssa Rose Hunt, Camilo Segura |
| Class of Her Own | United States | Boaz Dvir |
| Mystic Masala | United States | |
| Cinecyle: Work to rule | Canada |
Kezia Djungu-Sungu, Amina Elmeghalawi
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| All that Jazz | Canada |
Polina Boyarchuk
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| A Fragile Peace: Brexit and Northern Ireland | United States | Rory Duffy |
| The Flower Seller | Mexico | Bertrand Alfonso |
| Platoon Seven | Canada | Emilio Mounsef |
| Watch out for Zombies! | Sweden | Emil Broo |
| Anime Song “You Light the Stars” | Japan | Gregory Christopher Snelgar |
| Chasing Rabbits | United States | Michael Farris Smith |
| A Magical Place | Canada | Paul Steinberg |
| Mya: the beginning | United States | Frederick Taouil |
| The Damnation | Canada | Christopher Darton, Sébastien Godin |
| The Filmmaker | Brazil | Elcio Cabral Melo |
| A Night Before Christmas | United States | Rey Gonzalez |
| Snowdog: ‘Spinal Tap’ But Real | Canada | Myles Vosylius |
| Finding Peace with Pedro Capó | United States | FRANCIS JUAREZ |
| Aditya – Some choices define us forever. | India, United Kingdom | Arpith Kandlakaunta |
| BUZZ | United States | Nina Ruggero |
| From the Ground Up | United States | |
| We Lend a Hand: The Forgotten Story of Ontario Farmerettes | Canada | Colin T Field |
| StreetVet | United Kingdom |
Stephanie Keelan
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| I.L.Y | Canada | Danielle Arouh |
| Gaucho | Canada | Maarten Colenbrander |
| Who We Were | Canada | Jesly Okuefuna |
| Longevity Beta Tester | The Dawn of AI Caregivers | United States | Brian Craig Hinderberger |
| The Sisters of Briar Glen | United States | Lauren Clark |
| Mirrors In Triumph | Canada | Era Era Films |
| Sacred Heritage | Haiti | Bergodson Prévot |
| Shadow Boxing | Canada | Arwen Saleah Mercado |
| Ida Rolf – Mother of Fascia | Switzerland | Aleš Urbanczik |
| IRISO | Japan | Mitsuo Kurihara |
| Once Upon a Crime | Canada | Doug MacDougall |
| Ardent Suitor | Canada | Noman Shaikh |
| “Faith and the Christmas Star | United States | Anne Trenning |
| LIVE FOR TODAY > 40x Award Winning Cinematic Experience starring BRiAN BiLLiONAiRE (STROKE SURVIVOR JUNE 26 2024) | United States | BRiAN BiLLiONAiRE |
| Let it Dance | Australia | Carolyn Corkindale |
| Dago | Italy | Villain |
| Qaqsoss naka Wahantuhsis (Fox & the Tiny Demon) | Canada | Tara Audibert |
| BREAK THE SILENCE | United States | Dax Phelan |
| Forgiving Retribution | United States | Curt Samlaska |
| Hollow | AI Trailer | United States | Marc Ruiz |
| MOVING ARTS | Setting Hearts Ablaze | United States | Zac Cornfield |
| Big Speed Dreams | United States | AJ Whyte |
| Killer Interview | ||
| The Last POTUS | ||
| One Job | Australia | Dinesh Arnold |
| PYTHAGORAS OF SAMOS | Brazil | Andersen VIANA |
| Super Villan Coffee | United States | Leonard Frank Smith |
| My Fishy Friends * Redux 2025 | Canada | Algis Kemezys |
| Nereid | Canada | Lori Zozzolotto |
| TAPPED OUT | United States | |
| DRIVE | United States | Robert Monegan |
| Charlie | Canada | Nicole Field |
| Zero O’Clock | Canada | Noah Landry |
| Destination 11 | Denmark | Jens Brygmann |
| Dance Party Time | Heather Seltzer | |
| Scraggliness | Canada | Johanne Chagnon |
| Death of a Spy | Canada | Rebekah Johnson |
| A Lady’s Love | United States | Sonia Machado-Hines |
| I Thought I Heard Something… | United States | Lisa Wartur |
| Corals Last Stand | Australia | Jane Hammond |
| I Want Her For Myself | United States | Tim Ross |
| Le Portrait | France | |
| I HAD THE HEART | Argentina | Oliver Kolker, Hernan Javier Findling |
| Ejan’la | Nigeria | Tissy Nnachi, Amba Idongesit |
| Living With Grandma | United States | Finise Avery |
| IRISO | Japan | Mitsuo Kurihara |
| Inspiration in the Midst of Horror | United States | Michael Bergmann |
| The Cupcake Chronicles Vol. 2: The Cupcake Shop Ghost | United States | Kevin Byrnes |
| ÉGYPTE IV: Double Agenda The Series | United States | Tanner Beard |
| The Dare | United States | John Magee |
| Negropolis – Black Cemetary | United States | Dennis Allums |
| Mary Chris Max | United States | Tatiana Sokolova |
| Closet Cases | United States | |
| Tricorder.Zero™ Online Ad | United States | Marcus C.B. Soori |
| A Letter to Mom | Myanmar | Hting Ra |
| Bedouins of the Wind | United Arab Emirates | Danish Farhan |
| Flow | United States | polo jose |
| Reflections | Canada | Abdullah Ghori |
| The Rivals | Sweden | Fraser James MacLeod |
| Hunger | ||
| Malombra | Italy | Ilaria Meo |
| The Connecting Betrayal | ||
| THE NIGHT VISITOR | Canada | NAEEM AHMED |
