2025 Official SELECTIONS
this year’s selection of Feature and Short films are:
| Project Title | Country of Origin | Directors / Writers |
| Miss You Mom | Canada | Steve Sugarman |
| His and Hers | Canada | Natalie Turcotte |
| Calls | United States | Brandon Keeton |
| HEATED PASSION : This 24x Winning Cinematic Experience by BRiAN BiLLiONAiRE (USA) features talent in Brazil + Indonesia | Not Specified | BRiAN BiLLiONAiRE |
| Watercolors | United States | Alycia Ripley |
| The Piping Plovers of Moonlight Bay | United States | Kim Smith |
| Who’s Your Enemy | Canada | Jared Galley |
| Ancient Lands and Lives-Above the Grand Canyon Rims | United States | Carol J. Amore |
| Come Out, Wherever You Are | United States, United States | Caitlin Presberg |
| SiS | United States | Rou Wang |
| Tentsítewahkwe | United States | Katsitsionni Fox |
| The Bad Son | Syrian Arab Republic | Ghatfan Ghanoom |
| Road Trippin’ | Canada | Madeline Rose Fiore |
| J’ACCUSE | Canada | Pascale Behrman |
| The Evolution of Low Joe | United States | |
| Saving Grace – Amanda Keeles | Canada | Jake Sauve |
| THE RECIPIENT | Canada | Michael Marentette |
| Stories | United States | |
| “Riders on the storm” second novel | Ukraine | EVGENIY BROOKS |
| Journey of Transformation | Netherlands | Jaap Perenboom |
| ZURY | Canada | Thyrone Tommy |
| The Root of it All | Canada | Kalyn Edworthy |
| The Dognapper | Canada | Virgo Velasquez |
| 115 | Canada | Dave Huynh Macon |
| The Most Beautiful Among Mothers | Palestine, State of | mahmoud abu jazi |
| Burning It All | Canada | Adam Griffith |
| Focus Coaching Commercial | Belgium | Kenneth Kerckhofs |
| MARIACHI CHRISTMAS | United States | Carolyn Gair |
| On Melting Snow | Belgium, Iceland | Mojtaba Bahadori |
| Awake | United States | Elliot K Blanchard |
| Prism | Canada | Gina Hara |
| Terra Draconis: posterity and prosperity of fossils in the modern age | United States | Braeden Clete Meyer |
| Again The Series | United States | Michelle Deniesse Lugo, Alexandra Alvarez Pilonieta |
| The Dental Plan (Vimeo Link VZ) | Canada | Wayne Diu |
| The Age of the Empath | United States | |
| YOU ARE SPECIAL | Ukraine | Ilya Noyabrev |
| Change | Canada | Barry Mann, Jennifer Baker |
| Tinseltown’s Queer: 30 Years Later | United States | Nicholas Snow |
| Genocide in the Wildflower State | Australia | Franko Rijavec |
| What Tomorrow Brings | United States, United States | Matthew Todd Engelbert |
| Bumper Hitching | Canada | George Graziani, Sam Graziani |
| Young Toussaint | United States, United States | Fernandel Almonor |
| Lay | United States, United States | Terry Huang |
| Tormented | United States, United States | Liz Lugo |
| FUNKY GROOVES (the remix) > 28x Winning Cinematic Experience by BRiAN BiLLiONAiRE features talent in Portugal, Indonesia + Asia! | Not Specified | BRiAN BiLLiONAiRE |
| THATHASTHU | India | ALISHA NELSON |
| The Silver Lining | United Kingdom | Mikey Altoft |
| Waking Conundrum, Part 2 | Canada | |
| Cric-Nick 2.0 | Canada | Nicholas Aska |
| Baron Munchausen (Karl) | Ukraine | Ilya Noyabrev |
| Chosen | Canada | Sean Leslie |
| You, Me and The Night | United States | Coco Bigles |
| THE BOX | United States | Angela Andronache |
| Sky-Sky | Ukraine | Ilya Noyabrev |
| Wild Eva, La voix d’Eva | Canada | Muriel Rasolofo |
| Crack | Canada | Claire Johnstone |
| Chasing Stars | New Zealand | Keith Paterson, Ava Crowe, Franziska Wood, Gloria Chan, Kacee Conway |
| Age of Consent | Canada | Katherine Gauthier, Ben Sanders |
| UnMatched | Canada | Matt Dionne |
| Getting Older | Canada | Raveena Duggal |
| Blue – The Life and Art of George Rodrigue | United States, United States | Sean O’Malley |
| Liana | United States | Tianyi Zhai |
| ATTACK! of the Viper and Cobra | Canada | Reno Anastasio |
| Nilo Aakash (The Blue Sky) | Nepal | Nirmal Poudel |
| ROTTEN BLOOD | Nepal | Durga Bahadur Karki (SAYAD) |
| The Art of Eternal Love | United States | |
| BEYOND THE BRIDGE | Canada | HImanshu, Manas Kathuria |
| Prisms of Self | Canada | Christian Michael Wiebe |
| Closed Gates | India | Naresh Kumar Rajendran |
| Those .p.ersnickity .P.runsNF’AS | Not Specified | |
| 四十九 – SEEK | Japan | Shane Kosugi |
| Namaka | United States, United States | Frank Merle |
| ‘I am no Queen’ | Canada | Shadab Khan |
| Integration Ep 1: The Update | United States | Matthew Harris |
| Spirits | Japan | Tomosuke Sugisaki |
| Hyphen | Canada | Gabriela Warrior Renaud |
| Chœurs Atlantiques | Tales from the Atlantic Beyond (WITH ENGLISH & FRENCH SUBTITLES) | France, Guadeloupe, Martinique, Senegal, United States | Safoi Babana-Hampton |
| A Model’s Purpose Unveiled | Canada | Raquel Monique, Vinicius Burger |
| BO:OM | Canada | Kamil Galin |
| While Some Must Sleep | Canada | Craig Urquhart |
| Acting Out | Australia, United States, United States | Mellony Ledo |
| Vito-Man | Canada | Jack Fabrizio |
| CAREGIVERS | Canada | Siddharth Tanwar |
| The Butcher | Canada | Jackson Stewart |
| In Her Corner | Canada | Mark Halliday |
| Justin’s Addiction Story: No Family is Immune | Canada | Jacob Surette |
| Interpreting Erik | Canada | Donald D’Haene |
| BO:OM | Canada | Kamil Galin |
| Water Lilies | Korea, Republic of | Chanho LEE |
| Death of a Spy | Canada | Rebekah Johnson |
| Private Limo (Episode 5) – Fat Rocco | United States | Mark Nelson, Gary Weeks |
| Treat Day | Canada | Lisa Kockeritz |
| OMOTENASHI | Japan | Akiko Matsumoto, Roku Jingwen Long |
| Kanenon:we – Original Seeds | United States | Katsitsionni D Fox |
| IRISO | Japan | Mitsuo Kurihara |
| JACKPOT! | Canada | Rebecca Lamure |
| The Golden Ribbon | Canada | Andre Mayers |
| Stations of the Cross | Malta | Aleksa Ristovic |
| DreamScapes | Austria | Christian Machacek |
| The Connecting Betrayal | Not Specified | |
| The Sands of Time | Canada | Dasha Palagut |
| Life After | Canada | Olivia Keoughan |
| Sexy Santas | Not Specified | |
| Offer Me Official MV | United States | Marco Leung |
| Sai | Canada | |
| ICE CREAM | Nepal | Sangita Shrestha |
| OUR MAGIC by ZABRECKY | United States | David Byron Kelley |
| We Lend a Hand: The Forgotten Story of Ontario Farmerettes | Canada | Colin T Field |
| Once Upon a Crime | Canada | Doug MacDougall |
| Freak | United States, United States | Nicholas Knezevich, Aashish Joshi |
| TEL VISA | Nepal | SHANKAR GHIMIRE |
| Roma WWF Superstar to Teacher: A Mini Documentary | United States, United States |
Patrick Civitelli, Ethan Chaplinski
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| Ice Breath | Romania | Leonard Alecu |
| HOME FREE | Canada | Avi Ronn Federgreen |
| Steel Gang: The Ties That Bind | Canada | Jacob Markham |
| FISHED | United States | Shaneye Ferrell |
| Iconic | Canada | April Daneau |
| The Flower Seller | Mexico | Bertrand Alfonso |
| Kick Rocks | Not Specified | |
| RETREAT (short film) | United States | Mari SanGiovanni |
| King Castling | Canada | Dale Loon, Catalina Cardenas |
| Hrudayam | India | Srinivas Kasturi |
| WHITE WOLVES – GHOSTS OF THE ARCTIC | Germany | Oliver Goetzl |
| Saanvi | Canada | Deepa Mahanti |
| Snowdog: ‘Spinal Tap’ But Real | Canada | Myles Vosylius |
| Behind The Joy | United States, United States | Jamal Smart |
| ONE FOR THE OLD GUARD | Canada | Peter Andrew Sacco, Peter Dychtiar |
| NIAGARA’S MOST HAUNTED: LEGENDS & MYTHS | Canada | Peter Andrew Sacco |
| Finding Peace with Pedro Capó | United States | FRANCIS JUAREZ |
| Iraq’s Invisible Beauty | Belgium | Sahim Omar Kalifa, Jurgen Buedts |
| Sree Dancing Through The Season – All Seasons | Canada | Mallika Sothinathan |
| Dancing Queens | United States | |
| American Warrior | United States, United States | Gustavo Martin Benites |
| Liam and May | Canada | Keith Murphy |
| Fantasy Boy | Not Specified | |
| Footprints – Greg Jacobs | United States | Patrick McNicholas |
| From Shame to Shine | Canada | Braden Dragomir |
| The Sisters of Briar Glen | United States | Lauren Clark |
| A Messy Blend | United States, United States | David Morris Erba |
| If I Could Ride Again | United States, United States | Nick Pinelli |
| Mother of Fascia – One Woman’s Tireless Quest Through 20th Century Turmoil | Switzerland | Aleš Urbanczik |
| Moldova Feeds | Canada | Conner Tidd, Chris Di Grazia |
| The Rules of Lacrosse (documentary) | United States | Joanne Storkan |
| Case | Nepal | Jivan Dahal |
| The Last Wish | Ukraine | Ilya Noyabrev |
| Smoldering-Smoldering | Ukraine | Ilya Noyabrev |
| Until the last minute | Ukraine | Ilya Noyabrev |
| Super Villan Coffee | United States, United States | Leonard Frank Smith |
| Owner | Russian Federation | Eugene Feoktistov |
| Season of Rain | Belarus | Sergei Talybov |
| Gang Agley | Not Specified | |
| Shadows of The Past | United States, United States | Malik Thompson |
| Nirbhaya – A tribute to the fearless soul | India | Sidhin |
| The Bell | Canada | Jack Andrew Hourahine |
| The Last President | United States, United States | Bin He |
| VICTIMS OF GREED – When Cruelty Becomes Normality | Germany | Florian Seltmann |
| Ardent Suitor | Canada | Noman Shaikh |
| Farewell By The Waterfront | Canada | Babatunde Agunloye, Yemie Sonuga, Nicholas Aska, Dimphy Vanvilsteren |
| Drive On: Heal Military Trauma & Thrive as a Vet | United States | Scott DeLuzio |
| Cheat | Canada | Soham Deepak Sant, Ryan Ang |
| Stalkers | Canada | Paul Thompson |
| CareTaker | Canada | Nicolas Tang |
| Netting the Waters | Canada | Daryl Scott Granger |
| Forgiving Retribution | United States, United States | Curt Samlaska |
| Ghosted MD | United States, United States | Jarett Bellucci |
| Destination 11 | Denmark | Jens Brygmann |
| Rope of Hope | Nepal | Pukar Bhandari |
| SALT CURED LIFE | United States, United States | Cassidy Rast, Odin Wadleigh |
| Hi5 | Canada | Baskaran Thurairajah |
| Durgapur Junction | India | ARINDAM BHATTACHARYA |
| brainstorming | Saudi Arabia | Mohammad Ali AL-Thobaiti |
We congratulate all selections.
