Directed by Elliot Blanchard

USA | 4 min

An eerie message in a dream sends a young woman on an impossible search. Awake is a meditation on relationships, loss, and letting go.

Directed by Jared Watson

USA | 8 min

It’s the near future after total environmental collapse. The oceans are dead; pollution clouds the sky. In the wreckage of former industry a fisherman struggles to sustain himself and his daughter. His net catches only plastic refuse and animal carcasses.

One bleak morning, after another failed fishing expedition, the fisherman makes a surprise discovery: a mermaid, washed ashore. She’s tangled in a net, terrified, and struggling to breathe.

Desperate and lonely, he brings her back to the decrepit building he calls a home, makes her dinner, and introduces her to his daughter.

They then all gather around the table, to eat. The fisherman, the daughter, and the mermaid… to an extent.

Directed by Riya Agarwal

India | 15 min

An ordinary man explores the significance of Hindu mythology in his life. We view his world through a prism of mythological tales, and see how enchanting and disturbing it can be. He finds love, violence, power, and weakness in various facets of the modern world, and eventually decides to create his own "tandava" - a dance of destruction - and set his world ablaze.

Directed by Molly Loftus

USA | 11 min

A monster born of the ashes of a witch's sister embarks on a sinister quest when she is rejected by her creator.

Directed by Lainnie Felán

USA | 5 min

In a sleepy town, an ancient owl known as La Lechuza swoops down on Fern's humble abode, then transforms into Primitiva, an immortal, witchy owl woman. Enter Chello, an overeager Lechuza-in-training, crashing the hunt. Chaos ensues as Fern turns the owl-witches against each other with a dash of wit and a pinch of salt. As tempers flare and feathers fly, Chello finds her voice against the critical Primitiva. But when Primitiva refuses to retire from her South Texas post, Chello questions her future as a fearsome Lechuza in Rio Grande Valley.