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These shorts ponder personal predicaments and the pursuit of happiness.

Dynamic editing rhythms infuse these found footage, animation, and live-action experimental movies. The filmmakers portray the human figure and the physical environment with a riveting array of avant-garde techniques. These range from mirror image...

Decisions and repercussions confront the characters in these short films.

Our New York, New York program returns with strong characters set in the city that can make you or break you.Sometimes it takes an antihero to clean up the streets in Something in the Air. A young man finds a safe space between the present and the...

Political or personal, these short documentaries address some life-challenging situations.

Questions about who you are and what you want abound in these short films. The breakup happens but the break does not in some boys don’t leave. When Ardal challenges Miss Purdy’s boyfriend to a dual for her affection, 2nd grade will never be the s...

Spanning creative journeys across four continents.

Past, present and future coexist in this program of short docs from here and abroad.

Our New York shorts program takes a decidedly masculine turn in these testosterone-infused tales.

Life's surprising twists and turns change the direction of these short films.

This trio of short documentaries delves into art, music, and physical beauty.

Characters are confronted by decisions and indecision in this narrative program. In A Border Story, a Mexican immigrant and a young American boy try to survive the remote desert. A young woman attempts to regain both her mother’s trust and her da...

This eclectic shorts program showcases winners of the Stoli Emerging Filmmaker Award and the 3rd Babelgum Online Film Festival, created to celebrate and reward the very best in international independent short filmmaking. Chaired by film-world lumi...

The 2011 winner is Donor Unknown. Growing up, the only thing JoEllen Marsh knew about her biological father was that he was Donor 150. She had basic questions about where she came from and who shared her nose. Using the Internet and social netwo...

Julian Schnabel, renowned artist and director of Basquiat, Before Night Falls, The Diving Bell and The Butterfly, and Lou Reed's Berlin (TFF '07) will discuss his previous work and show a clip from his new film, Miral, due out this fall. In conver...

Weaving together the seemingly opposing stories of the Miss India beauty pageant and a fundamentalist Hindu camp for girls, director Nisha Pahuja illuminates the situation of women across contemporary India, drawing surprising parallels in the way...

Bombay Beach: The rusting relic of a failed 1960s development boom, the Salton Sea is a barren California landscape and symbol of the failure of the American Dream. Using a stylized amalgam of nonfiction and choreographed dance set to the music of...

She Monkeys: When 15-year-old Emma lands a competitive spot on the equestrian acrobatics team, she is taken under the wing of a pretty, slightly older teammate, Cassandra. The two begin an intense relationship where the rules of the game blur as p...

At 14, Komona has lived through horrors that eclipse any adult's worst nightmares. In this mesmerizing, otherworldly drama, shot entirely in the Congo, she confides to the baby growing inside of her the harrowing story of her life since rebel warl...