ANEMOIA
By ALEX MURAWSKI
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Faced with permanent separation from her addict mother, a determined high schooler works at a gang-run cannabis grow house in order to save money for a plush rehab facility.
GENRE: drama, CRIME THRILLER
Country: united states & AUSTRALIA
REPRESENTATION: Chris Ceccotti, Barker
MAKHEART MANOR
By NOAH RADANT
A young girl, reeling from her parents' recent divorce, befriends the spirit of a boy in an abandoned manor. With only one month before the town tears the manor down, she must uncover the mystery of the boy's death before he’s lost forever.
GENRE: COMING OF AGE, ADVENTURE, DRAMA
Country: united STATES
REPRESENTATION: NONE
THE BLUE DRUM
By Angelita Mendoza, Victor Capiz
After discovering a woman’s body hidden in a sealed blue drum, a journalist trapped by a storm in her childhood home must unravel her family’s dark past before she and her mother are buried by it.
GENRE: HORROR, MYSTERY
Country: UNITED STATES
REPRESENTATION: Daniela Gonzalez, GOOD FEAR CONTENT
A BEAUTIFUL PLACE TO DIE
By Patterson McKinney, Catherine Miller
Released from prison early due to a terminal illness, an old man finds meaning after developing an unexpected friendship with a young girl in a forgotten neighborhood in Detroit, MI.
GENRE: Drama, REDEMPTION DRAMA
Country: UNITED STATES
REPRESENTATION: none
IT MAY CONCERN
By Haynie Walker
After receiving an anonymous letter in which the author threatens to commit suicide in three days, Callum Taylor tricks his two best friends and older sister into embarking on a cross-country trip to save this stranger's life.
GENRE: COMEDY, DRAMA, COMING OF AGE
Country: united states
REPRESENTATION: NONE
TALKING PICTURES
By DAVID THOME
Scammers and killers target a film restorer who uses technology to "walk around" in a long-lost movie and unravels the mystery of a starlet whose murder decades ago is tied to a present-day fortune.
GENRE: DRAMA, SUSPENSE
Country: United states
REPRESENTATION: NONE
PATER
By OLIVER SILVER
A troubled young actor must confront the darkness of his past when he lands the lead role in a new play opposite Anthony Macallan - an icon of the British stage - a man with a troubling reputation for his dangerous commitment to the method.
GENRE: PSYCHOLOGICAL DRAMA
Country: uAE
REPRESENTATION: NONE
REFUGE
By JONATHAN GLENDENING
A desperate father is forced to murder his racist neighbour to protect his son, setting in motion the investigation of the fascist authorities. As the noose tightens, his only ally is his victim’s unwitting partner. Will he find safe passage to Europe—or will his secret be discovered and his family… cleansed?
GENRE: THRILLER
Country: UNITED KINGDOM
REPRESENTATION: Ian Taylor, Red Door Vision
ENDCLIFFE
By LUCY MEGAN WILKINS
Violet's got her heart set on her dream university, but first, she has to survive Endcliffe, an inpatient program in the English countryside. With one foot in denial and the other in a therapy group full of big personalities and unexpected allies, she must decide: is she ready to fight for her future—or let it slip away?
GENRE: dramEDY, COMING OF AGE
Country: UNITED KINGDOM
REPRESENTATION: Erica Kennedy, Entertainment 360
GRATEFUL DEAF
By BOB HILTERMANN
A musician’s all-deaf rock band (yeah, that’s right) is set to compete in the Battle of the Bands on Saturday, but when a family emergency collides with his big night, his music-hating brother forces him to choose between family and the chance to play for a hearing audience for the very first time.
GENRE: COMEDY, DRAMA
Country: united states
REPRESENTATION: Juliet Green
THE GENTLELADY FROM OHIO
By BEN PARSONS
After the death of a US Senator, his apolitical wife reluctantly accepts a temporary appointment to his seat, but finds herself compelled to run for the rest of his term in order to thwart a scheme from her political rivals.
GENRE: drama, POLITICAL
Country: united states
REPRESENTATION: NONE
the DEGENERATE
By DOMINIC GRAHAM
In Nazi Germany, a queer painter living a double life — as a celebrated classical artist and a subversive avant-garde provocateur — risks exposure, betrayal, and death when his satirical portraits of Nazi leaders, hidden within state-sponsored Degenerate Art exhibitions, attract the attention of a ruthless investigator.
GENRE: DRAMA, HISTORICAL
Country: IRELAND
REPRESENTATION: NONE
BAHAR, BORN AT NIGHT
By MICHAEL AMIR BINA
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An Iranian transwoman living in Berlin must confront her past as a gay teenager in Tehran, reliving the trauma of a forced gender reassignment surgery and the heartbreak of losing her best friend and first love.
GENRE: Drama, LGBTQ+, coming of age
Country: united STATES
REPRESENTATION: none
BACKWOODS CHIEF
By HEIDI-MARIE FERREN
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An obsessive BSU Agent returns to her hometown to care for her ailing mother and assume the role of Police Chief, where she finds her skills serve her well in unlocking the secrets behind the Good Ole Boys she works with and the memories that haven’t stopped surfacing since she arrived.
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GENRE: drama, PROCEDURAL
Country: United states
REPRESENTATION: Amanda Burnett, UTA & Matt Ochacher, Nacelle
THE FOUR OF US
By Michael Jay Stern
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A fearless young woman’s world is turned upside down when her new husband is drafted to be a military base psychiatrist and she and her young kids are forced to move from their liberal Midwest enclave to the deep South in 1969, where they blow-up “traditional” norms and struggle against their new life in a town that does not want them. Inspired by actual events.
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GENRE: DRAMEDY, FAMILY, COMING OF AGE, WOMEN'S RIGHTS
Country: UNITED STATES
REPRESENTATION: NONE
ACROSS STATE LINES
By NICHOLAS STATHOPOULOS
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​After a retired serial killer in his 80s turns himself into the authorities, an unqualified and unprepared Agent is suddenly thrust into the unprecedented. He must accompany the killer across the country as they unearth the bodies that are buried in each of the 50 states. But things get complicated as a seemingly new serial killer emerges from the shadows.
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GENRE: THRILLER, DRAMA
Country: united STATES
REPRESENTATION: none
DISINTEGRATION
By JOANNA EBUWA
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When the Wainwright family lose their swimming champion son Michael in a tragic accident, their surviving daughter Mellie decides to ‘become’ Mike, to almost replace her dead brother. Can they help each other deal with so much heartbreak?
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GENRE: DRAMA, FAMILY
Country: united KINGDOM
REPRESENTATION: Alison Finch, JFL Agency
PETROSINO
By JAMES DALESSANDRO
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Shoeshine boy JOSEPH PETROSINO, 23, is drafted into the NYPD to battle crime in Italian neighborhoods that threaten the city. He transforms police work, creates the first “Untouchables” and NYPD Bomb Squad, and nearly stops 200 gangs from becoming the world’s worst criminal empire. His lifelong ally is Theodore Roosevelt. His enemy is Vito Cascioferro – the true architect of organized crime.
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GENRE: CRIME, DRAMA
Country: united STATES
REPRESENTATION: David Saunders, Independent Artist Group
THE POLSKI AFFAIR
By KENNETH GILDIN
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After losing her family in the Warsaw ghetto, Rosa Feurmann is sent by the Resistance to the Hotel Polski to uncover the Germans’ covert plan there. Her intimate relationship with the Nazi commandant of the Hotel results in her survival, but her guilt haunts her and affects her family for decades, especially after her son discovers what actually happened at the Hotel Polski.
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GENRE: Drama, historical
Country: united states
REPRESENTATION: NONE
LONDONI
By GURU RAMANATHAN
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In 1980, Indian doctor Abhimohan Sushant immigrates to East London to carve out a new life for himself, but gets entangled in a gang war between the South Asian gang Londoni Yard and the neo-nazi group Brass Lions.
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GENRE: DRAMA, HISTORICAL, CRIME
Country: united states
REPRESENTATION: NONE
ROADSIDE
By Alexandre Péron
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When a mysterious thud jolts a weary single mother during an evening drive, she finds herself at the center of a town’s hunt for a hit-and-run killer, forcing her to outrun suspicion and protect her son at all costs.
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GENRE: DRAMA, THRILLER
Country: FRANCE
REPRESENTATION: NONE
THE SCREAM OF THE BUTTERFLY
By ​​Anjini Taneja Azhar, Ariya Akhavan
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In the midst of a brutal revolution, an Iranian woman taken to an otherworldly prison with only her dismembered eye as a method of sight transforms into a symbol of hope and resistance against a totalitarian regime in a harrowing journey of defiance.
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GENRE: POLITICAL THRILLER, DRAMA, SURREALISM
Country: united states
REPRESENTATION: NONE
BULLSEYE
By RILEY SCOTT
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Fed up with her inability to orgasm, twenty-something Fran seeks out local porn star Bernardo Bolsa star hoping he'll finally get her rocks off. The only problem is... he's gay. However, Bernardo's will to help leads Fran to finally discover pleasure in the most unexpected of places.
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GENRE: COMEDY, SEX
Country: united states
REPRESENTATION: ZERO GRAVITY
A STRAY IN THE FLOCK
By BENJAMIN KEIR, CONSTANTINOS MANDIS
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As her ageing father struggles to run the family farm, Jane begrudgingly takes charge – but the sudden arrival of a mysterious stray sheep threatens their fragile bond and her future on the land.
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GENRE: THRILLER, DRAMA
Country: UNITED KINGDOM
REPRESENTATION: none
TOO DONE
By MARIA SANCHEZ
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After yet another hard day, when a prissy woman steals a cleaning lady’s seat on the tram, Cleaning Lady’s anger spurs her to exact her vengeance on Miss Prissy and unravel the baggage in her own sorry life.
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