2023 FILMS C-F Go here for Passes
Call Me Anytime, I'm Not Leaving
Two days after the Russian invasion of Ukraine, Lesya Verba, a Brooklyn-based artist and performer, gets through to her older sister in Odessa, Ukraine via FaceTime. Through the frame of this first FaceTime conversation since the day everything changed
Sanjna Selva
10 min. | USA | Documentary Short
PSCC April 1, 12:00 pm
Caspar (Loving the Unlovable)
Ram Dass, an American Spiritual teacher and author best known for his book "Be Here Now," shares his method for cultivating compassion, even for those we disagree with.
Cpt. Nemo
3 min. | USA | Animation
PSCC March 31, 2 pm
Chasing The Championship
Chrissy Rouse was not your typical bike racer. Part time maths teacher and successful podcast host, he faced a huge challenge in 2020 to come back from injury and compete for the Pirelli National Superstock 1000 title.
Dave Baum
54 min. | UK | Documentary Feture
PSCC April 3, 4:30 pm
Clancy Sigal
An eloquent radical who shook up things in every milieu he encountered, nothing Clancy Sigal ever wrote was predictable, except for the compassion, dark humor and demand for social justice always at the core.
Warren Leming, JK Jacobsen
88 min. | USA | Documentary Feature
PSCC April 2, 7:30 pm
Call Me Mommy
Uncover the various origins and effects of ‘Mommy Issues’ in Sinead’s personal and professional world by showing an intimate portrait of a modern day sex worker.
Tara Isidora O'Callaghan
15 min. | IRELAND | Documentary Short
PSCC March 31, 9:00 pm
Catisfaction
This is a story about a man and a cat. No sorry… A man, a cat and a dream. Wait… probably a man, a cat, a dream and a vespa! It’s about relationships and how they can shape our life forever. Maybe it’s just a story about a man and a cat. But a good one.
Andre Marques Almeida
7 min. | PORTUGAL | Animation
PSCC April 3, 4 pm
Chihuly: Roll The Dice
Follow American artist Dale Chihuly as he tests his own resolve and challenges his team to push the glass medium to its physical limits in the pursuit of a new creative concept.
Peter West
27 min.| USA | Documentary Short
PSCC March 30, 2:30
Carpenter
An old Kurdish man (Hussein Mahmood) who is a carpenter tries to make artificial legs for people who have lost their legs.
Xelîl Sehragerd
14 min. | IRAN | Documentary Short
PSCC April 3, 11:00 am
Change
With one of the greatest changes, it brought on the most unexpected surprise.
Scot Klumb
5 min. | USA | Documentary Short
PSCC April 2, 12:00 pm
City Of Sand
A group of anthropology enthusiasts builds sandcastles on Venice Beach in pursuit of meaning, healing, and community.
Dmitriy Usov
8 min. | CYPRUS | Documentary Short
PSCC March 31, 2:00 pm
Creature Comfort
A creature wanders the woods looking for clues about their past life, only to find the answers in the shadows of its mind.
11 min. | USA | Animation
PSCC April 3, 12:00 pm
Ryan Oligmueller
Dicks That I Like
Visual artist Daniela Torres creates colorful ceramic dick sculptures inspired by the men who have been dicks to her. In this intimate artist portrait, Daniela shares her struggles, anger and catharsis as she creates a sculpture modelled after a series of unsolicited dick pics.
13 min. | GERMANY | Documentary Short
PSCC March 31, 9 pm
Johanna Gustin
Dreaming Of A Better Place
Nestled deep within British Columbia, the Gostlin family finds solace in the spirit of the mountains and culture of powder skiing, after an unexpected tragedy changes the family’s dream forever.
8 min. | CANADA | Documentary Short
PSCC March 30, 11:30 am
Cameron Thuman
Dancing At The Royal Palaces
Last year the Danish Royal Family opened their private residence, Amalienborg Palace, to host a brand new choreographed ballet. The ballet is performed in the four Great Halls of the four different palaces that constitute Amalienborg Palace.
29 min. | DENMARK | Documentary Short
PSCC April 1, 2:30 pm
Tobias Praetorius, Fred Salmon
Dorothy Arzner: Queer, Feminist
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53 min. | FRANCE | Documentary Feature
PSCC April 1, 4:30 pm
Clara & Julia Kuperberg
Dust To Light
Watch and listen as four Zen practitioners reflect on the transformative process of cleaning when it is approached as a meditation rather than burdensome chore.
12 min. | USA | Documentary Short
PSCC April 3, 4 pm
Erica Houle
Danny
Danny had a normal life, but one day everything changed.
10 min. | USA | Documentary Short
PSCC April 3, 12:00 pm
Nicholas Manting Brewer
Dream Of Glass
Manuele, a blind person, goes on a journey to discover the island of Ventotene, where through a multi-sensory workshop he will get in touch with the children at the school, while also in a constant mutual and enriching exchange with the people and the wild.
21 min. | ITALY | Documentary Short
PSCC March 31, 2:00 pm
Andrea Bancone
Ebullient
The only thing Ross Edmonds wanted to do was ride bulls, even after he broke his neck twice. Trying to cope with life the way his mother taught him, through drinking and drugs, he nearly killed himself. After his son was taken away from him he knew he had to find another way of living.
19 min. | USA | Documentary Short
PSCC April 3, 12 pm
Autie Carlisle
Ellis
Ellis Marsalis Jr. and the Marsalis Music Family are often called the First Family of Jazz. Ellis tells it in his own words and he guides us through the events of his life in his own way: With his music.
93 min. | USA | Documentary Feature
PSCC March 31, 4 pm
Sascha Just
Estuary
A sparse, meditational animation with some of the values and attributes of a visual haiku.
3 min. | USA | Animation
PSCC April 1, 6:30 pm
Warren Bass
Fight Or Flight
Drawn to flying as a means to flee her early life, Denise pursues a career in professional aviation and discovers she must first assemble the tools required to face her past and heal.
14 min. | USA | Documentary Short
PSCC April 1, 1:30 pm
Lindsey Hagen
En Sus Manos
Three generations of women prepare to perform at the Cuban circus in Havana, Cuba, each for different acts, on different occasions, but all under the same enchanting red and white striped tent, an otherworldly space which pulses with reflections on age, femininity, and dreams.
16 min. | USA | Documentary Short
PSCC March 30, 11:30 am
Elle Rinaldi
Fail First
A humorous, unflinching look at how health insurance companies utilize unethical policies to put profits over the health and wellbeing of patients.
18 min. | USA | Documentary Short
PSCC April 3, 11:00 am
Desiree Jade Schippers
Finding Our Wild
On a long overdue camping trip, Prabha and his son Sid find themselves working through feelings about immigration, fatherhood, and aging.
16 min.| USA | Documentary Short
PSCC April 1, 1:30 pm
Sid Gopinath, Aditya Joshi
End Of The Road
Zeljko and Viki sacrifice all they have to ensure a gentle end of life for discarded horses on their small plot of land.
19 min. | SERBIA | Documentary Short
PSCC April 2, 2:00 pm
Ivana Todorovic
Feeling Of Betrayal
Texas Department of Family Protective and Services to investigate families providing their transgender children with gender-affirming care, her family had to make a difficult decision: leave home or live under the threat of separation.
9 min. | USA | Documentary Short
PSCC April 2, 4 pm
OliviaYarvis, Texas Tribune
Finding Us
Georgetown University was going to go bankrupt in 1838 unless its Jesuit priests came up with a lot of money. So they decided to sell hundreds of enslaved people who worked on their plantations. Six generations later, their descendants are reconnecting, thanks to new DNA databases.
14 min. | USA | Documentary Short
PSCC April 3, 2:00 pm
Kathryn Carlson
Flightpath
26 min. | USA | Documentary Short
PSCC March 30, 6:30 pm
David Grabias
When Sarah loses her boyfriend in a plane crash, she dives into a project studying bird mortality for a wind turbine company in the California desert. Working at night all alone for over a year, she comes to terms with her grief through her relationship with her tracking dogs as they catalog remains.
For The Bees
16 mins. | USA | Documentary Short
PSCC April 2, 2:00 pm
Chloë Fitzmaurice
Khaled came from war-torn Yemen to Oakland, CA to pursue beekeeping and a better life. But with an increasing amount of uncertainties, life’s not always as sweet as honey.
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Foot Print Shop
4 min. | USA | Animation
PSCC April 2, 12:00 pm
Gina Kamentsky
"Pisces have big feet and big hands!" The filmmaker and her mom talk about feet, her mom does most of the talking.
Fortune Seekers
25 mins. | NORWAY | Documentary Short
PSCC April 1, 1:30 pm
Runar Sørheim
A look at Norwegians living in Torrevieja in Spain, and their thoughts on travelling to a foregin country in search of happiness and asking the question "Why is it okay for some people to seek happiness, but not for others?".
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Footprints In The Forest
18 min. | MALAYSIA | Animation
PSCC April 4, 4:00 pm
Juhaidah Joemin, Sandra Khoo
A recently orphaned rhino tries to find a new home in the wilds of the Borneo rainforest.
From Light And Dust
26 min. | TAIWAN | Documentary Short
PSCC April 1, 4:00 pm
Hao-Jan Chang
What is light? When you wake up every morning, open your curtains, and see that the day’s light has come again, it’s no big deal. For nature, however, it’s an important clue in controlling biological and physiological changes in life forms.
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