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SUNDAY JULY 20, 12:30 PM 
PROGRAM 22

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Into The White
USA | AI | 5 minutes
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Director/Writer: Gabriele Ciampi

Producer: Gabriele Ciampi AI Productions, Carlos Palazio

Cast: Valery Vinakurov

As a child, Valery’s life was forever changed when a devastating three-day storm claimed his mother and left his Siberian village in ruins. Decades later, he has transformed that loss into purpose, becoming a climate scientist who studies the very forces that shaped his past.

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Manmyeong and Seohyun
Korea | AI | 15 minutes
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Director: Aria Jun

Writer: In-hwa Lee, Soo-hyun Park, Seung-yeop Lee

Producer: Gyeongbuk Development Institute

Set in a world where duty outweighs desire, Manmyeong and Seohyun unfolds as a poetic tragedy — a tale of two souls choosing love, even when it means losing everything else.

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Ant Walkers
USA | AI | 6 minutes
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Director/Writer: Steffan Busser

Producer: Steffan Busser

A young woman living an ordinary day in Hiroshima, Japan—unaware that the world is about to change forever.

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熬(Torment)
USA | AI | 7 minutes
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Director/Writer: Sijia Zheng

Producer: Sijia Zheng

Cast: Sijia Zheng

At Hanchuan High School, Guan Yue, the school's swimming champion, mysteriously drowns during a crucial competition. While sorting through her belongings, her childhood friend accidentally uncovers the shocking truth behind her death.

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Dominant.
USA | Music Video | 3 minutes
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Director: Nik Kleverov

Dominant is a story about family, anchored by my dad's life as a non-conformist artist in Soviet Russia.

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Trust
Japan | AI | 9 minutes
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Director: Tomofumi Inoue, Kazuma Shimizu, Chizuru Kakimoto

Writer: Tomofumi Inoue

Producer: Hana Shiota

​In a near future dominated by the metaverse, AI agents investigate cybercrime. Violet, an AI detective, is assigned to question Mia, a defiant youth. But upon hearing Violet’s name, Mia reveals a shocking truth. In this sealed interrogation room, what revelation awaits? A neo-noir suspense short with a bold visual style.

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Mombomb
USA | AI | 5 minutes
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Director/Writer: Patricia Beckmann Wells

Pez’s life is a fairy tale, but it was written by the Brothers Grimm … and when the killer troll from under the bridge comes to harvest young girls, this girl scout must use her cookies to kill.

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Roadkill
USA | AI | 12 minutes
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Director/Writer: Daniel Max Bonventre, Ian McLees

Producer: Daniel Max Bonventre, Ian McLees

When a meek, lowly possum confesses to a shocking crime, a grizzled K9 detective is charged with sniffing out the truth… which isn’t always what it seems.

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The Eggregores' Theory
USA | AI | 15 minutes
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Director/Writer: Andrea Gatopoulos

Producer: Ariens Damsi, Luigi Mascolo, Marco Crispano

Cast: David Rumsey

He does not remember much from that time. Things have faded, like the color of a painting after too much light. The only thing that bothers him is this music. It keeps popping up...

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