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Chop Chop!

How can ancient traditions be compatible with contemporary social standards and everyone’s freedom of expression? Or, rather, is there such a thing as free will in the context of rigid norms that seek to predetermine one

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Connection

How far can guilt and feelings of abandonment push you towards self-destruction? But what happens when everything turns out to be a macabre farce, an exercise in psychological manipulation so refined that it is almost im

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Point Washington Outlaws

' Point Washington Outlaws ' is a feature-length auteur documentary written, directed, edited and filmed by Kirby Clements, following the stories of four distinctive gentlemen who have genuine accounts of how Point Washi

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War of the Crowns: Fashion Vs Beauty

‘This documentary isn’t about the perfect smile or the winning walk. It’s about real people with real lives – mothers, daughters, survivors, dreamers – each bringing their full selves to an arena that’s too often misunde

Screenplay winners

June-July 2025

Screenplay competition (JUNE-JULY EDITION) June-July Edition Winner The Collector by Ivy Weller Winners (3) The Collector by Ivy Weller ( First Place ) Bingo Man by Chris Beadnell ( Second Place ) By Fits and Starts by M

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Best of July 2025

See the July List July-August Feature Film Winners Postponed for the Next Edition FILM OF THE MONTH NOMINEES Winner: Chop Chop! 2nd Film of the Month: Connection 3rd Film of the Month: Dolldays TRAILER OF THE MONTH NOMIN

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Connection

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Ruins

Perhaps we no longer believe in the ancient gods who said that children inherit the consequences of their ancestors’ sins. And yet, the sad legacy of parents’ violence is a very real fact beyond any beliefs or supers

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Never Hike Alone

Between “misery” and drama with feminist overtones, ' Never Hike Alone ' is a short film that offers all the ingredients for an intense cinematic experience. Beth Gallagher and Alison Kertz deliver a finely crafted s

Winners

Best of June 2025

See the June List May-June Feature Film Winners FILM OF THE MONTH NOMINEES Winner: Ruins 2nd Film of the Month: Never Hike Alone 3rd Film of the Month: Hainschatten TRAILER OF THE MONTH NOMINEES Winner: Red Bird STUDENT

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Best of May-June Feature 2025

See the May films See the June films Short film nominees & winners BEST FEATURE FILM NOMINEES Winner : The Silver Screen Dreams Cafe 2nd Place: Anopheles 3rd Place: I AM

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The Silver Screen Dreams Café

You can’t sell dreams. Dreams evaporate and disappear in the morning. And then you get people coming back, asking for a refund. ' The Silver Screen Dreams Café ' is a feature-length film written and directed by Mike Peac

Screenplay winners

April-May 2025

Screenplay competition (APRIL-MAY EDITION) April-May Edition Winner Seven Years Bad Luck by Michael Holliday Winners (3) Seven Years Bad Luck by Michael Holliday ( First Place ) Grandma's House by Khalid Saleem ( Second

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Freckles

Despite societal progress and the accelerating shift toward atheism, people’s fascination with rituals rooted in paganism continues to survive. Nevena Nikolova is not, however, a director who flirts with occultism or m

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The Awakening

In a world dominated by “pragmatic” ambitions, an axe is more important than a Mozart symphony, a philosopher once said. But we know that a person’s destiny is more than a continuous pursuit of ambitions imposed by

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LOOM

In a world overly preoccupied with archiving even the smallest gestures, technology has already become a substitute for memory itself. Could this be the premise of a dystopia we are hurtling towards? But what Jesse Cook

Winners

Best of June 2025

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Dive

Is there free will? Here we are in front of two characters trying to assume their own freedom to change the trajectory of their destiny. But what are the limits of this freedom when others refuse it? Far from being a sho

Winners

Best of May 2025

See the May List May-June Feature Film Winners FILM OF THE MONTH NOMINEES Winner: Freckles 2nd Film of the Month: The Awakening 3rd Film of the Month: Wild Camping TRAILER OF THE MONTH NOMINEES Winner: The Soothsayer STU

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Buster! The Show

Perhaps never has eclecticism in cinema been more necessary than in these times, when versatile artists must break codes and genre barriers to reinvent themselves. There are many such initiatives, but they remain too iso