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This short documentary chronicles the chaos of the Austin, Texas music festival, "Woodshock '85."

The film is a visual poem shot in the Anza-Borrego Desert. The work portrays the odyssey of a woman/goddess/mankind from birth into innocence, through growth into pride and sin, to death, and then a transcendental reunion to the One.

Three aspiring filmmakers are given the task of making a short film with specific criteria in under 2 two days. Can they set aside their story differences to bring a vision to life.. in time?

Marcus Payne (Salman Sheikh) has only one aspiration: to become Student Body president. As such, he's gone to great lengths to ensure that he's a leg up on his entire competition- outspending them on various campaign materials, and even going insofar as to hire his own campaign manager Scott (Jordan Noriega). In his mind, it seems as though his victory is all but assured - that is, until the most popular girl in school- Skylar Morgan (Sara Thiboult) enters the race. With his victory suddenly far from assured, Marcus decides to take matters into his own hands and force Skylar from the competition by any means necessary. After a few unsuccessful attempts at persuading Skylar to leave the race- he enlists the help of an intrepid journalist for the school newspaper (Bailey Cooper) to leak damning misinformation regarding Skylar's personal life. This in turn causes a chaotic spiral of controversy and conspiracy that might do more than determine the victor for the Student Body election."

Harold Hobbs doesn't much like that his lazy, sponging and unemployed brother-in-law Claude and his mother-in-law live with him and his wife, Hortense, especially as the in-laws seem to rule the roost ever since they moved in. To get his in-laws out of the house, Harold has regularly left a bottle of booze for Claude to be able to entertain prospective employers. When Harold learns that on all the other occasions the employers have not showed (he assumes there probably were no prospective employers) leaving Claude to consume the booze on his own, he decides to show Claude a lesson by spiking the bottle with castor oil. Complications ensue when Joe, Harold's friend, encourages him to skip work to attend the prize fight. What Joe doesn't tell Harold is that he tells his boss that Harold needs the day off to attend to the sudden death of his brother-in-law.

The near-sighted Mr. Magoo is on his way to take a French ballet star to a ball, but he makes a wrong turn and ends up escorting an ostrich, a zoo fugitive, in her place. A detective becomes suspicious, as well he might, when the ostrich becomes attached to some of the guest's jewels. Magoo finally takes his date home and he suspects that she would like for him to call again.

Joe dreams that the stooge's sister Birdie has died and been reincarnated as a horse. The stooges take Birdie home but must conceal her from the snoopy landlord. They succeed, but more complications ensue when Birdie gives birth to a colt. Joe wakes up to suffer some abuse from the real Birdie (Moe in drag), when he tells her he dreamed she was a horse.

When the writer of a pandemic-era Zoom play bails on the project last minute, a woman tries to guide two actors through what should be a simple staged reading. This experimental piece was recorded with a live audience, and the chat box on screen was not scripted in any way.

A husband and wife struggle with her depression and the emotional distance between them. AWARDS:

Never make a deal with the devil. A young couple do just that, and the repercussions are horrific as a paranormal ghost team investigate strange sounds and happenings. AWARDS:

A penitent wakes up at the foot of a mountain and begins to climb, consumed by a desire he cannot understand, a desire that will become an obsession. Original/Alternative Title: Ascended AWARDS:

"Two go out, but only one comes back!" That's the conclusion Elmer Fudd's dog, Rover comes to after watching "The Dog Lover's Hour" TV show. It seems that, on this particular installment, the host plans to discuss heartless masters who kill their hunting dogs on trips after they have grown old and worn out their usefulness. Elmer, not knowing what's behind Rover's suddenly hostile, edgy demeanor, suggests the two go on a hunting trip--exactly what Rover doesn't want to hear. Fearing the worst, the paranoid pooch sets up a number of traps to kill off the unsuspecting Elmer. The ill-fated attempts include swiping Elmer's gun and shooting at him from afar, but killing a bear instead; releasing a wildcat on Fudd; and planting a land mine beneath where Elmer rests. Every time, Elmer thinks his dog is saving him from said catastrophies. Later at home, an injured Rover watches TV as another installment of "The Dog Lover's Hour" is set to air, sending the bow-wow over the edge; he runs off to the studio and attacks the show's host!

Mia, a lonely 30-year-old widow who lost her husband 9 months ago. Mia lives alone in a dark and dreary London and has isolated herself from the world. Her only friend is her 60-year-old boss Nigel, who convinces her to go on a blind date with charming Sebastian. At first, Mia goes on the date with a despairing outlook on love. Still, an unexpected chemistry with Sebastian leaves her dazed, sending Mia into a catastrophic, surreal nightmare with her grieving past. AWARDS:

After a struggling actor accepts the lead role in a mysterious experimental film, parts of her life begin to disappear. AWARDS:

Tam and Gerry are having a long overdue date night, while their dinner is marinating before they cook it. AWARDS:

Pamela and Nico must face unemployment, romances, moral dilemmas and excessive laziness, in their own particular and chaotic style. AWARDS:

Yamar is a personal, surreal story of a supposedly normal working day in a mall in the suburbs. A meeting between two hostesses in their early thirties coming from an artistic background and a children’s entertainer leads to a tragicomic conflict. Yamar, literally ‘Hey ma’, is the name of a Caribbean song about what we become when we become adults. AWARDS:

A woman struggles after feeling betrayed by a man she thought she loved. AWARDS:

When a new piece of evidence arrives for an unsolved case, Detective Lenny Calzone decides to put in a late night at the crime lab.

This documentary tells the stories of three young adults with Asperger's Syndrome, a mild form of autism. Sharing their experiences to show life from their perspective, they discuss the difficulties they face and their hopes for the future.

For two star pilots on a deep space patrol mission, hostile alien races aren't the biggest threat... boredom is.

found the basis of global warning Original/Alternative Title: Sacrée vacherie

As a man is moving into his new apartment, he gets an unexpected phone call... from himself.

Like a tormented half-brother of American folklife archivist Alan Lomax, Deutsch revisits the rambling stories of Frank Butler, a subject that he documented more than a quarter century ago. The time gap has offered the filmmaker a chance to confront his younger self's ethnographic process and transcend it to form a more brutally honest portrait of both subject and artist. - Jason Cortlund CinemaTexas