Audience Favorites

Favorite films as voted on by our audience and filmmakers.

Jay

Jay, a 13-year-old Taiwanese boy, is fascinated by his toned and athletic older brother. In order to get close to him, Jay feigns an interest in basketball so that his brother will practice with him. Steadily, Jay’s fascination develops into an attraction—one with which Jay is forced to reconcile after his brother brings home a... Read More

Running Time: 14

Lazy Susan

You might be one of the millions of people whose life was made a little bit easier by Susan and you don’t even know it.

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Running Time: 7

Lena

A 9-year-old girl plays translator during a parent-teacher conference between her Russian dad and her American teacher.

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Running Time: 10

The Lost Astronaut

In 1963, Ed Dwight Jr. was poised to be NASA’s first African-American astronaut. Until suddenly he wasn’t.

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Running Time: 13

The Missfits

An all-girls robotics team competes to smash stereotypes and prove themselves in a male-dominated field, while also trying to get through high school.

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Running Time: 21

Mizaru

In a suburb of Mumbai, India, a young couple tries to steal some private time in a very public place when they're paid a visit by the moral police.

SPECIAL MENTION (for direction): Great Palm Springs CVB Best of the Festival Award
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Running Time: 17

My Hero

As last-minute plans for a babysitter fall apart, eight-year-old Brandon is left alone to oversee his younger brother Mason.

WINNER: Best U.S. Short
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Running Time: 13

The Present

On his wedding anniversary, Yusef and his daughter, Yasmine, set out in the West Bank to buy his wife a gift. Between the soldiers, segregated roads and checkpoints, how easy would it be to go shopping?

WINNER: GoE Bridging the Borders Award
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Running Time: 24

See You Soon

A gay man travels across the country to spend the weekend with someone he's been talking to for months on a dating app, hoping to find the kind of romance that he grew up thinking he'd never get to experience.

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Running Time: 16

Space Clouds

How do you keep someone's memory alive after they die? A mother and son try to figure it out together, taking a circuitous journey through archival photos, collage, and uneaten avocado.

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Running Time: 9

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