Director: Aidan Tanner
PG-13 Morocco / Namibia
2022 BEST ACTRESS IN A SHORT FILM - Jessica Chastain
2022 BEST DRAMA SHORT
A woman has a phone conversation with her significant other which slowly deteriorates as she comes to realize that the world around her might not be real.
IFS Premiere
Sept 7th Venues To Be Announced
Director: Jon Brandon Cruz
G USA
An intimate behind-the-scenes look at Dwayne "The Rock" Johnson's bull tattoo, as well as his relationship with his tattoo artist, his family, his views on life, death and legacy.
IFS Premiere
Sept 7th Venues To Be Announced
Director: Bianca Poletti
PG-13 USA
At the tail end of a great date, Jack and Rachel bond over a shared interest in deconstructing traditional relationship structures. When Jack reveals the reality of his "radical" open relationship, things take a turn for the absurd in this short film about the co-option of the language of liberation for means of manipulation and control.
Directed by Bianca Poletti and written by Allison Goldfarb, this hilarious and brutal dark romantic comedy explores the disconnect between ideals and reality in trying to find an individually authentic relationship. Radical Honesty premiered at the 2022 SXSW Film Festival and has since gone on to garner acclaim.
IFS Premiere
Sept 7th Venues To Be Announced
Director: Wyatt Barclay & Robbie Luther
R USA
To soothe his insecurity, an egotistical innovator decides to make his own reality TV show about how he and his business savvy wife lead a talented misfit crew to build the craziest, most technologically elaborate haunted house in the galaxy: The 17th Door.
As irreverent as he is intelligent, Robbie's pursuit to build and operate The 17th Door is rife with scathing humor, caustic rants, interpersonal conflict, and marital strain. On the surface, it looks like an arrogant boss and husband who bends everyone to his will. But at the heart is an authentic, sincere, loving relationship between a husband and wife who with their adopted family of oddballs, endeavor to blow people’s minds with the self-proclaimed greatest haunted house ever.
LA Premiere
Sept 7th Venues To Be Announced
Director: Augusta Mariano
R USA
After the recent death of his father, Oliver focuses his energy into his next monster hoax. Finding comfort in isolation and distance from people.
Oliver struggles by himself to pull off his greatest hoax yet. His sister, Aubrey, on the other hand feels that keeping a family connection is top priority. Realizing he can't do this alone, Oliver is forced to ask Aubrey for help.. With conflicting ideologies on what family means to both of them, their time out in the woods pushes these siblings to their breaking points.
IFS Premiere
Sept 7th Venues To Be Announced
Director: Christopher Jacob Saint
PG-13 USA
A summer between two best friends, Christopher Saint and Conor Jerard, blossoms into a beautiful love story. Christopher Saint is an award-winning pop star with a mission to tell his own version of love. "Colorado" represents his most honest and authentic expression of love to date. The message of the song and its music video is to go all in and love fearlessly.
LA Premiere
Sept 7th Venues To Be Announced
Director: Mason Gooding
PG-13 USA
At its core, “Alone, Together With you” examines two people’s ability to trust each other to lengths that far exceed our normal day to day feelings for each other; and reminds us all that we, you and I, ...are in this together.
IFS Premiere
Sept 7th Venues To Be Announced
Director: Hunter James Cox
G USA
This whimsical fun loving story centers on a young man and his abnormal human-like dog. One day the inseparable duo are split apart by a sneaky black cat sending the man on a journey to retrieve his best friend. Will they reunite or be lost fur-ever?
World Premiere
Sept 7th Venues To Be Announced
Director: Alice Lee
PG-13 USA
Alice Moon, a Korean American actress, and the only child of first-generation immigrants, struggles to retain confidence and motivation while taping an audition for a drama about a North Korean defector.
Jaded by her struggles, she smokes copious amounts of weed and doom-scrolls on Instagram, while seeking comfort through her close relationship with her parents. Aided by the grounding force of her parent's love, Alice must ultimately determine how to affirm her self-worth, and whether or not trying is enough.
IFS Premiere
Sept 7th Venues To Be Announced