Summit – dir. Sean James Spencer

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Original Film Title: Summit

Director’s Name: Sean James Spencer

Writer’s Name: Sean James Spencer

Producer: Sean James Spencer

Country of Origin: United States

Country of Filming: United States

Language: English

Runtime: 1 hour 5 minutes

Film Description:

Summit follows 6 veterans and their experiences climbing some of the tallest mountains in the world and building communities through extreme outdoor adventures.

Keystone: The Prodigies of an Icon – dir. Charles Rankin, Shauna Rankin

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Original Film Title: Keystone: The Prodigies of an Icon

Director’s Name: Charles Rankin, Shauna Rankin

Writer’s Name: Shauna Rankin

Producer: Charles Rankin, Shauna Rankin

Country of Origin: United States

Country of Filming: United States

Language: English

Runtime: 1 hour 13 minutes 24 seconds

Film Description:

Keystone is an intimate documentary examining the American bison as a true keystone species—one whose presence has shaped the ecology, culture, and survival of North America’s grasslands. Through science, history, and lived stewardship, the film explores how bison behavior influences soil, water, biodiversity, and landscape resilience. Rather than beginning with modern management or mythology, Keystone asks a foundational question: why this animal remains indispensable to healthy ecosystems—then and now.

Back to One – Return to Ground Zero – dir. Sylvester P. Lukasiewicz

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Original Film Title: Back to One – Return to Ground Zero

Director’s Name: Sylvester P. Lukasiewicz

Writer’s Name: Sylvester P. Lukasiewicz

Producer: Sylvester P. Lukasiewicz

Country of Origin: United States

Country of Filming: United States

Language: English

Runtime: 26 minutes

Film Description:

An intimate and reflective documentary about a former Windows On The World restaurant employee and 9/11 survivor as he returns to the rebuilt World Trade Center site for the first time in 24 years.

Vinyl Play – dir. Ustinov Luke

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Original Film Title: Vinyl Play

Director’s Name: Ustinov Luke

Writer’s Name: Ustinov Luke

Producer: Ustinov Luke, Howard Erskine, Joseph Moore

Country of Origin: United States

Country of Filming: United States

Language: English

Runtime: 1 hour 7 minutes 47 seconds

Film Description:

This documentary explores Jamaica’s vinyl-driven sound system culture through first-hand accounts from selectors, producers, and sound men. Examining dubplates, competitive clashes, and the rise of dancehall, it reveals how recorded sound functioned as a medium of social expression, economic survival, and cultural affirmation.

The 3100 – dir. Mark Fisher

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Original Film Title: The 3100

Director’s Name: Mark Fisher

Writer’s Name: Mark Fisher

Producer: Andrea Rayburn, Andre Womack, Mark Fisher, Mike Banker

Country of Origin: United States

Country of Filming: United States

Language: English

Runtime: 49 minutes 11 seconds

Film Description:

The 3100™ is a cinematic exploration of Idaho’s 3,100 miles of navigable whitewater, the most found anywhere in the Lower 48. This film showcases the state’s most rugged and revered whitewater river systems while highlighting the power of experiencing wild places at any age. Through the voices of those who know these rivers best, this film reveals the transformative power of Idaho’s whitewater rivers.

Filmfest Filmfest Filmmaker – dir. Mark Landon Smith

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Original Film Title: Filmfest Filmfest Filmmaker

Director’s Name: Mark Landon Smith

Writer’s Name: Mark Landon Smith

Producer: Mark Landon Smith

Country of Origin: United States

Country of Filming: United States

Language: English

Runtime: 6 minutes 25 seconds

Film Description:

A filmmaker produces his first film and navigates submitting to the Filmfestival Filmfestival.

The Edit – dir. Luc Schinkel

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Original Film Title: The Edit

Director’s Name: Luc Schinkel

Writer’s Name: Luc Schinkel

Producer: Luc Schinkel

Country of Origin: Netherlands

Country of Filming: Netherlands

Language: English

Runtime: 17 minutes 20 seconds

Film Description:

Anthony, an American filmmaker living in Amsterdam, sets out to create a film entirely generated by artificial intelligence. As inspiration grows, reality begins to fracture. Impossible skills emerge, historical figures appear and fragments of imagined worlds invade his everyday life. What begins as a creative experiment spirals into a surreal collapse of simulations, identities and control. Blending absurdist humor, meta cinema and speculative science fiction, The Edit explores authorship, consciousness and the unsettling possibility that reality itself may be nothing more than another rendering.

“THE HANDS OF LIFE” Ancient healing secrets – dir. Fabio Floris

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Original Film Title: “THE HANDS OF LIFE” Ancient healing secrets

Director’s Name: Fabio Floris

Writer’s Name: Fabio Floris

Producer: Fabio Floris, Dr. Smita Naram

Country of Origin: Switzerland

Country of Filming: India

Language: English

Runtime: 1 hour 18 minutes

Film Description:

Ayurveda, the science of life, this is the story about the Naram’s family with Dr. Pankaj Naram, Dr. Smita Naram and their son Dr. Krushna Naram. They received the knowledge from the old babas, sharing the potentials of the pulse reading and the practice from the ancient scriptures. They are spreading the ayurveda and siddha veda wisdom with their health service around the world.

UTILITY – dir. Yuichi Ono

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Original Film Title: UTILITY

Director’s Name: Yuichi Ono

Writer’s Name: Yuichi Ono

Producer: Yuichi Ono

Country of Origin: Japan

Country of Filming: Japan

Language: No Dialogue

Runtime: 3 minutes 5 seconds

Film Description:

In the near future, society is governed by a strict system where every individual has a score printed on their body, representing their “usefulness” to the world. The protagonist, branded with a low score, struggles daily just to secure enough food to survive. In stark contrast, high-scoring elites enjoy access to luxurious meals and effortlessly elevate their social standing even further by distributing their surplus to the impoverished. In a dystopian reality where human value is entirely quantified and controlled, the protagonist resolves to break free from the tyranny of the score, attempting to reclaim a genuine heart that seeks to help others without expecting any reward in return…

Torch of the past – dir. Mark Van Overmeire

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Original Film Title: Torch of the Past

Director’s Name: Mark Van Overmeire

Writer’s Name: Mark Van Overmeire

Producer: Mark Van Overmeire

Country of Origin: United States

Country of Filming: United States

Language: English

Runtime: 5 minutes 34 seconds

Film Description:

A woman and a man uncover fragments of their grandparents’ past through photographs and recordings, revealing hidden connections to histories of state-sanctioned violence.