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American Indie Spotlight

By Design

Film By Design Directed by Amanda Kramer A woman swaps bodies with a chair, and everyone likes her better as a chair.
Animation, Human Ties, Leon & Mary Strauss Documentary Spotlight, Race in America: The Black Experience

Enongo

Film Enongo Directed by Kevin Schreck "Enongo" is aFeature-length, animation- hybrid and the inspiring story of rapper/producer/Ph.D. candidate, Enongo Lumumba-Kasongo, a.k.a., Sammus. With her…
Race in America: The Immigrant Experience, Shorts Competition

Giving Mom the Talk

Film Giving Mom the Talk Directed by Vidhya Iyer In this literal COMING-of-age film, an Indian woman gives her mom "the talk"
International Spotlight, Studio Spotlight

Hamnet

Film Hamnet Directed by Chloé Zhao Presented by The St. Louis Shakespeare Festival, SLIFF34 brings you the powerful story of love and loss that...
American Indie Spotlight, New Filmmakers Forum

If You Should Leave Before Me

Film If You Should Leave Before Me Directed by B. Robert Anderson, J. Markus Anderson A devastating loss drives a rift between Mark and Joshua after many years of marital bliss. To avoid…
American Indie Spotlight, Race in America: The Black Experience, Shorts

Keenalan

Film Keenalan Directed by Cami Thomas In the heart of a critical art showcase, painter Kaya is tormented by memories of a past lover,...
American Indie Spotlight, New Filmmakers Forum, Show-Me Cinema, Women in Film

Magic Hour

Film Magic Hour Directed by Jacqueline Christy Harriet, a once-promising filmmaker, is stuck in the suburbs of New Jersey. Alienated from her cheating husband and…
American Indie Spotlight, Show-Me Cinema

Ride or Die

Film Ride or Die Directed by Josalynn Smith When Paula, a restless Midwesterner yearning for a fresh start in California, unexpectedly reunites with Sloane—her enigmatic high...
Shorts Competition, Show-Me Cinema

THE DEMON CORE

Film THE DEMON CORE Directed by J. Zachary Thurman A dramatization of the final days of Louis Alexander Slotin, the physicist who sacrificed his own life in…
Animation, International Spotlight, Shorts Competition

The Magician

Film The Magician Directed by Bogdan Muresanu Sulina, 1910. It is the inauguration of the first electric power station in this Romanian port city. In…