Valentín Lazaña

Daughter/Father Father and daughter bond over art and their indigenous family roots in this lovely and loving story, crafted with a range of inventive animation and photographic techniques.

Volcanic UFO Mysteries Volcanic UFO Mysteries (2021) Darcy Weir UFO sightings have been a regular world wide phenomenon for decades. Researchers of UFOs have noticed a connection with UFO sightings around Volcanic hot spots across Latin America. Join Stephen Bassett and Jaime Maussan as they discuss a history of sightings. Jaime has been a news journalist in Mexico for over 25 years and Stephen Bassett has been fighting for political disclosure UFOs

All’s Quiet in Sparkle ... The short film is simple in execution, but the message is disturbing and thought-provoking. The film is filled with low-ground shots of cockroaches crawling around a house, interlaced with voiceovers of ads and commercials for various things. We start off seeing cockroaches as an enemy, a disgusting creature to exterminate. The voiceovers of some science fiction narrative allow the audience to draw such parallels. But then violence against them occurs. We hear news broadcasts of innocent casualties of war. It becomes clear how this becomes a protest. The audience is left wondering, viewing the graveyard of cockroach carcasses, if the fear of the unknown brings out the injustice in ourselves.- Omri Curnutte

Being Present Almost a year after the global pandemic hit Greece, iMEdD and SmallPlanet, present Yorgos Avgeropoulos’ new documentary entitled “Parontes” (Present). The film, unfolds against the backdrop of the public healthcare system and follows the prominent figures at the forefront of the COVID-19 response, as well as the unsung heroes of the pandemic. Political decisions and backroom maneuvers come under the microscope and are juxtaposed with the struggles of those who bear the brunt of the new crisis on a daily basis. Through the Greek experience, Avgeropoulos manages to capture a universal reality and poses critical questions about the post-Covid era the world is entering.

You Don’t Die Here Jon Else’s open-ended documentary showing Death Valley, Calif., as a cruel and sublime backdrop against which a small group of aging residents reminisce about a past that seems like a distant, half-remembered dream.

Chithambaram Railwaygate A Tale of love filled with, friendship turned enemity, politics.

Time Offed A strange and haunting vision of the catharsis involved in the work and leisure expenditure of an apparently non-distinct punch clock commoner, a human with its face masked in bandages. The cold urban landscape is pocked with such sinister everyday events that even the contents of the commoner's briefcase can only reinforce the veils within. Chock full of very special effects.

Frequency A lonely traffic warden falls in love with a mysterious delivery boy and found out they are sharing the unusualness of synesthesia. The mysterious delivery boy believes that all the five senses are intimately connected in one pattern, if he could find a person who shares the same pattern with him, he could fall into the other side of the reality. The traffic warden has to choose if she is going to take a leap of faith or staying comfortably in this lonely boring reality.

Book Hunters When chaos reigns, while barbaric and fanatical rulers, both ecclesiastical and secular, systematically burn entire libraries, book hunters, secret heroes of history, travel the world saving and copying texts, threatened by the madness of censors, with the noble purpose of preventing the ultimate loss of human knowledge.

The Underdog Tells about the friendship of 2 policemen of different beliefs and about the life of the police with all their inner conflicts, because a policeman is not just a job but a service.