ALASKA

THRILLER | USA

Small town Gemma moves to Los Angeles with big dreams. She takes a job at a mysterious clinic which promises to make clients' dreams come true, and slips into a nightmarish reality in which she must face the scariest thing of all: herself.

DIRECTOR:
Racheal Cain Stephens

producer:
Maria Allred

BIRTH/REBIRTH

HORROR | USA

An all-female adaptation of the Frankenstein myth. A grieving mother and a pathologist obsessed with reanimating the dead embark on a dark path of no return as they realize the lengths they will go to protect what they hold most dear.

DIRECTOR:
Laura Moss

PRODUCER:
Mali Elfman

CHICKENSHIT

DRAMA | USA

With the help of a scrappy group of boys, 11-year-old Phoenix sets out on a dangerous mission to save her Detroit neighborhood from arsonists and prove herself to her father.

DIRECTOR:
Jessica dela Merced

PRODUCER:
Mickey Valles-Schiff

DANCING FOR HEAVEN

DOCUMENTARY | USA, UK

DIRECTOR:
Billie Porter

PRODUCER:
Candice Dragonas

FOUR LETTERS OF LOVE

DRAMA | UK, IRELAND

Nicholas Coughlan and Isabel Gore are fated to be together. That is as sure as the sky is blue and the sea is ever changing. The question is whether or not they will ever find out.

DIRECTOR:
Polly Steele

PRODUCER:
Chris Curling

GILLYFISH

DRAMA | USA

During a road trip to confront her new girlfriend’s estranged family, Gillian reconciles her first relationship with a woman. But when she’s abandoned at the hotel, blocks from the family’s home, she chooses to knock on the door anyway, and take on her girlfriend’s identity.

DIRECTOR:
Sarah Sellman

PRODUCER:
Jon Shestack

JENNIFER, 42

ANIMATED DOCUMENTARY | USA

An animated True Crime documentary, JENNIFER, 42 is an innovative why and howdunnit, a painstaking re-investigation into the shocking course of events that led to Jennifer’s eventual murder - a ‘murder in slow motion’ that lasted fifteen years.

DIRECTOR:
Elle Kamihira

PRODUCER:
Katie Hyde

KODOKUSHI

DRAMA | Philippines, Japan, Malaysia

A middle-aged Japanese salaryman risks everything and moves to the Philippines to escape the fate of kodokushi—the lonely death.

DIRECTOR:
Janus Victoria

PRODUCER:
Lorna Tee

LET’S DO THIS

COMEDY | CANADA, USA

A Queer ensemble buddy comedy where four best friends with student loan debt looming over their heads attempt the heist of a breakfast television show giveaway despite their complete lack of know how or skill.

DIRECTOR:
Lora Campbell

PRODUCERS:
Fonna Seidu
Lauren Grant

LILLY

DRAMA | USA

A political drama based on the life of Lilly Ledbetter, the Fair Pay Activist who fought all the way to the Supreme Court and then Congress to make laws better for women and workers.

DIRECTOR:
Rachel Feldman

PRODUCER:
J Todd Harris

MAMA BEARS

DOCUMENTARY | USA

A documentary look at how the lives of conservative, Christian mothers are utterly transformed when they decide to accept their LGBTQ children - no matter what it costs them.

DIRECTOR:
Daresha Kyi

PRODUCER:
LAURA TATHAM

MOUTH

DRAMA, PSYCHOSEXUAL THRILLER | USA

When Covid cuts her academic year short and foreign-exchange student Raina is forced to move in with the family that she babysits for, she soon realizes that the mysterious patriarch may be more of a threat than the pandemic.

DIRECTOR:
Kimi Lee

PRODUCER:
Isabel Marden
KIM BAILEY

Murder fans

horror | Uk

Seven true crime fans throw a Divorce Party for their friend in the home of a recent serial killer. But it is far too soon to be there, for their heartbroken friend and for the evil still lurking in the home.

DIRECTOR:
Nat Luurtsema

PRODUCER:
April Kelley

MY DRIVER AND I

drama | UK, Saudi Arabia, France

In 80s and 90s Jeddah, a privileged Saudi girl and her Nubian driver form an unlikely friendship which is tested when she starts to take the wheel.

DIRECTOR:
Ahd Kamel

PRODUCERS:
Georgina Paget
thembisa cochrane

RHYTHM IN BLUES

drama | USA

East New York’s house of cards is shaken by powerful African rhythms when three foster siblings—a Jack and two Kings—scarred by senseless loss of life without health insurance, age out of the system and must heal their wounds without coverage.

DIRECTOR:
Tamika Guishard

PRODUCER:
Birgit Gernböck

SKIN OF YOUTH

drama | USA, VIETNAM

1988 Vietnam, San and Nam find their love tested when they court the criminal underworld in order to find enough money for San’s sex-change operation.

DIRECTOR:
Ash Mayfair

PRODUCER:
Ngoc Tran

THE OTHER WIDOW

drama | ISRAEL

Ella, 32, a theatre dresser and mistress, experiences the sudden death of her lover. She attends his Shiva while keeping her identity under wraps and dives into a world once forbidden to her. Through intimate encounters with his brother, parents, and wife, she eventually demands her legitimate right to mourn.

DIRECTOR:
Ma'ayan Rypp

PRODUCER:
Amir Harel

THE WILD ONES

dOCUMENTARY | SCOTLAND

Seven stories of trauma, loss and healing which explore the transformative power of wild swimming.

DIRECTOR:
Eva Weber

PRODUCER:
Jessica Levick

YOU AND ME BOTH

dRAMA | USA

After the death of their adoptive mother, two sisters, one a struggling heroin addict fresh from rehab, take a road trip through America’s Heartland to meet their Korean birth mother. Along the way, they must navigate feelings of grief, regret, doubt, and fear in order to find their way back to one another.

DIRECTOR:
Jennifer Suhr

PRODUCER:
Carolyn Mao