A precarious highway carries a young woman to a series of doctors’ appointments, where it is unclear what ails her.
Director: Melanie Shatzky, Brian M. Cassidy

In the wake of an awkward nooner and dark thoughts, a single mother questions her relationship with her weird boyfriend and his asymmetrical mustache.
Director: Michael Duffey

In this hand-drawn animation, a man tries to remember his wife but only comes up with scant details as his memory begins to stray.
Director: Lilli Carre

Rabbit Stories is a portrait of a young schizophrenic man called Fenton Fuller.
Director: Sean Conway

Two brothers have a really bad time on a fishing trip until a stranger makes them a bizarre but lucrative offer.
Director: Bryan Poyser

A teenage girl, an all-ages punk club and a mix tape.
Director: Jon Frechette

While on their way to a mariachi recital, a devastating car crash forces a mother and her two sons to confront the truth about their past.
Directors: The Zellner Brothers

A young filmmaker pitches his latest masterpiece.
Director: Nash Edgerton

Infomercial blowholes superimposed on Bush and Gore, candidates as “factory-sealed” as the products they endorse.
Director: Bryan Boyce

After nearly dying from eating a hot pepper a mechanic gains supernatural powers of persuasion over people, animals, machines as well as the law of physics.
Director: Thomas Barndt

An ordinary job interview goes from bad, to worse…to mortal combat.
Director: Christopher Leone

Spend the holidays with Steve and his new girlfriend as they break up, fall in love, and then meet for the very first time.
Director: Todd Berger

Aging rock musician Bobby Bird explains the origins of his many tattoos with the aid of flashbacks.
Director: Carson Mell

A video diary about an image-conscious man trapped in his bedroom.
Director: Matt Lemche

A melancholy train ride filled with small, rich moments.
Director: Sam Green

A young college graduate is obsessed with becoming a club bouncer.
Director: Paul Cotter

A guy with his head up his ass, literally.
Director: John Doomik

Part three of the lucid, amazing “Winners” trilogy.
Director: Chris Peters

A portrait of lo-fi Vegas.
Director: Naomi Uman

A visual portrait of an abandoned insane asylum, filmed over two years in different conditions and employing different film and animation techniques.
Director: Bryan Papciak

Using homemade instruments achieving unfathomable volumes (and inspired by Biblical verse), Scotty Irving challenges his audience to rethink traditional ideas of music and spirituality.
Director: Jim Haverkamp

A visitor with a large case enters a school and meets unexpected consequences.
Director: Brad Barnes

A darkly comical confrontation between an angry New Yorker with a camcorder and the sneaky passive-aggressive neighbor who’s been stealing his newspaper.
Director: John Rose

With most other races facing annihilation, who’ll be left for the ticker-tape parade?
Director: Ross Novie

Bored guys join a cult.
Director: Lawrence Herman

Small town life in Idaho, with both love and hate.
Director: Jaffe Zinn

An avant-garde short with intense atmosphere and vision.
Director: James Fotopoulos

Blows the roof off who really runs the world.
Director: Essie Cesagarro

A blowout rant about losing puberty.
Director: Craig Macneill

A poem-doc about celebrity and loss.
Director: Cam Archer

A tense tale of strangers meeting.
Director: Nina Martinek