A$$ Level | Alison Becker
A comedic nod to 90s hip-hop music videos, celebrating the VIP lifestyle of a woman in a wheelchair. TRT 3:14
Beginner's Luck | Casey Feigh
A team of strangers makes it all the way to the championship where they face the perennial champs, in this tale of a small town bowling league changing people's lives. TRT 15:49
F.Y.D. | Chad McCord
Good-natured Daniel Reese makes his way from small town America to the bright lights of Hollywood. It's time to stop clowning around. TRT 14:57
I CAN'T RELATE | Stephen Vanderpool
A posse of three sorority girls get ready for a party. One catty comment leads to a passive aggressive rivalry between two of the girls (Lexi and Jess), and a petty secret is revealed. Jess and Lexi comedically compete for the position of 'alpha female' through manipulation and slight emotional jabs.
I'm So Depressed | Kai Smythe
Hairy Soul Man Depicts a day in the life of depression through hand-painted carboards sets and comedy soul music. TRT 5:15
Open House | Michael Muncatchy
A violently British (and utterly useless) real estate agent, lands a starring role in a student documentary. We learn more about this weird English bird than how to sell a house. TRT 18:56
Perfect Specimen | Alex Weinress, Simon Lee
"Edward James is the proud founder, CEO and sole employee of Perfect Specimen, a digital platform via which he sells his sperm to want-to-be mothers looking to birth 'exceptional quality offspring'. Since its creation in the dot com boom of the early noughties, Perfect Specimen has afforded Edward a comfortable living, with no obligations beyond three weekly ejaculations, but as he approaches his mid forties, he faces some tough challenges:
He sees huge growth opportunities for Perfect Specimen - the 'UBER of the sperm donation industry' as he describes it, but his sperm will soon be past its prime, and unless he can find a way of reducing the business's reliance on him (and his seed), the company he's worked so hard to build will no longer be sustainable.
And, whilst he's succeeded in building a reasonably successful business, his work has come between him and any kind of meaningful relationship with a female partner.
Thus alone, and increasingly lonely, in turmoil and with an uncertain path ahead, Edward is facing a uniquely potent midlife crisis" TRT 13:00
Tale Of The Song | Chaoqun Wang
A play-of-play of a Wuxia themed fiction on how a theif obtained and lost a secret weapon along with his stealings. TRT 10: 10
The Lost Scot | Julien Cornwall
After a clay shoot goes wrong, a miserable cynic, an alcoholic and an accountant find themselves lost in the Scottish Moorlands with the body of a gamekeeper. TRT 14:30
The Painting | Sergey Kalvarskiy, Stanislav Romanovsky
"Young artist Ivan Preobrazhensky paints a government commission, a biblical-themed piece for Preserving the Values exhibition. However, everyone who sees the painting feels right away that something is off. One of these people is a legislator, State Duma Deputy Tatiana Nagibina. The resulting uproar brings Ivan fame, but also makes his life very difficult: the relentless machine of government persecution personified by Nagibina gets on his case.
Depicting Kafkaesque absurdity of Russian criminal justice, blind faith and reality more incredible than artistic invention, The Painting is based on one of the most high-profile contemporary cases in Russia." TRT 17:19