Status Guide
| Rank | FilmFreeway Status | IMDB Status Equivalent |
| 1 | Award Winner | Won |
| 2 | Special or Technical Award | Won |
| 3 | Honorable Mention | 2rd Place: may be shared |
| 4 | Finalist | Nominated: shared |
| 5 | Semi-Finalist | Semi-Finalist: shared |
| 6 | Accepted to Competition - Official Selection benefits | IMDB Listing |
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| Project Title | Country | Director | Main Category Status |
| #humbled | Not Specified | Russell Max Simon | Selected |
| 1001 Nights in Fairfield | Australia | Zanny Begg | Selected |
| 116 | United States | Julia Campanelli | Selected |
| 25 TRACKS | Australia | Fiona Cochrane | Selected |
| 2nd Generation | Canada | Insup David Kim and Kevin Barton | Selected |
| 35° | Switzerland | Martin M Bartelt, Jacques Aloïs Morard | Selected |
| 7 Days’ Graffiti | China | LIANG Hanjian, JIA Junyuan | Finalist |
| 8 1/2 | United States | Bryce Edmonds | Selected |
| 8:30 | Austria | Laura Nasmyth, Philip Leitner | Finalist |
| A Bitter Lime | Guyana | Max Orter De Bowen | Finalist |
| A California Lullaby | United States | Omar Antonio Iturriaga | Finalist |
| A Day | United States | Kyle Mangione-Smith | Selected |
| A Film On Film | United Kingdom | david | Selected |
| A Fish Story | United States | Carrie Finklea | Selected |
| a la mémoire de Lune | United States | Johnny Zito | Selected |
| A last golden flash across the sky | United States | Frank Victor Weinert | Selected |
| A Long Night's Morning | Turkey | Yavuz Gözeller | Selected |
| A Love Story | United Kingdom | Anushka Kishani Naanayakkara | Award Winner |
| A MEDITATION | United States | Joe Petricca | Selected |
| A Peculiar Thud | United States | Ross Morin | Selected |
| A Poem of Glass and Steel | United States | Ryan Clancy | Selected |
| A Sibling Mystery | United States | Rachel Wortell, Dan Erickson | Selected |
| A Special Night - Short Film | United States | Diana Kaluza | Selected |
| A Sudden Departure | United States | Theo Burtis | Selected |
| A Train 2 Us | United States | Alonzo Louis Hellerbach | Selected |
| A WORLD IN SILENCE | Italy | William Mussini | Selected |
| Abraxas | France | Lior Nadjar | Selected |
| Abstract Iterations II | United Kingdom | Sabrina Schmid | Selected |
| Addictions | United States | Emanuele Michetti | Finalist |
| Aesthetics of the Obscene | Costa Rica | Juan Manuel Arteaga Sáenz | Selected |
| AFTERIMAGE | Korea, Republic of | YIMYUN | Selected |
| Agnes Martin | TateShots | United Kingdom | Lindsey Dryden | Selected |
| Agrinoui | Cyprus | Alexis Chaviaras | Selected |
| Aguirre | Spain | Antonio Pelaez Barcelo | Finalist |
| Alchemist | United States | Calvin Khurniawan | Selected |
| All Tomorrow's Children | United States | Jon-Carlos Evans | Selected |
| All We Left Behind | United States | Julian Pham | Selected |
| Alone/Together | United States | Alessia Gatti | Selected |
| ALZHAÏMOUR | Belgium | Pierre Van de Kerckhove | Finalist |
| Alzheimer's: A Love Story | United States | Gabe Schimmel, Monica Petruzzelli | Finalist |
| AMERICAN JEDI | United States | Laurent Malaquais | Selected |
| American Pets | United States | Robert Logevall | Award Winner |
| Amour Partagé | United States | Luis Treviño | Selected |
| AN AFTERLIFE | Australia | Ryan Neil Butler | Selected |
| An Allegory of Love | United Kingdom | Kateryna Zabulonska | Selected |
| An Autobiography | Finland | Mari Mantela | Selected |
| An Undeniable Voice | United States | Price Arana, Adam Rothlein | Finalist |
| And The Fool Became Beautiful | United States | Dina Kagan | Selected |
| anexperimentalviralvlog - | Portugal | vasco diogo | Selected |
| Anfinn and the USA | United States | Elizabeth Spear | Selected |
| Anina | United Kingdom | Alcaeus Spyrou | Selected |
| Apartment 8 | United States | Jack Tracy | Selected |
| Ardacoda | Japan | Hanae Uchida | Finalist |
| ARLETTE. COURAGE IS A MUSCLE | Switzerland | Florian Hoffmann | Finalist |
| As The Jet Engine Recalls | Hong Kong | Juan Palacios | Selected |
| Asa Nisi Masa | Not Specified | Hanna Xueou Yu | Selected |
| Así Nomás | France | Anouk Lejczyk | Selected |
| Awake | United States | Matthew Colston | Selected |
| Awaken | United States | Edmund Curran | Selected |
| Baggage | United States | Andi Behring | Finalist |
| Balancé | United Kingdom | Ian Winstanley | Selected |
| Bark | United States | Anna Nilles, Marco Jake | Finalist |
| Basowiszcza | Germany | Katarzyna Zak | Selected |
| Beast | United States | Tim Carpenter | Selected |
| Bechdel Blues | United States | Christine Carone | Selected |
| Before Christmas | China | He Chuyao | Selected |
| Behind the Line | United States | Julia St. Pierre | Selected |
| Better | Canada | Scotti Gibson | Selected |
| Better Off Alone | United States | Benjamin Calder | Selected |
| Beulah | Italy | Denise Alessandra Ambroggio, Gordon James Asti | Selected |
| Bitch | Sweden | Csaba Bene Perlenberg | Selected |
| Blackcat | Australia | Dery Sultana | Finalist |
| Blank, the Bird | United States | Yihui "Cece" Jiao | Selected |
| Blooming Night | China | Bell Zhong | Selected |
| Blue Dream | United States | Liz Holland | Selected |
| BOOM | United States | Lee Madsen, Jer Sklar (co-director) | Selected |
| Bosatsu - Year of the Dragon | United States | Sid Ahl | Selected |
| BPM | United States | Julia Rose Camus | Selected |
| BRAD LEE | United States | HAO WANG | Selected |
| Brave Naked | United Kingdom | Aldo Gagliardi | Selected |
| Bride of Frankie | United States | Devi Snively | Award Winner |
| BRINA | India | Pawan Kumar Sharma | Selected |
| BULGARIANUM | Bulgaria | Nikolay Bogomilov (Timoteo) | Selected |
| Bump in the Road | United States | Becca Pearce | Selected |
| BX3M | United States | Judith Escalona | Finalist |
| C-5-11 | United States | Edward Ramsay-Morin | Finalist |
| Cairo Jazzman | Germany | Atef Ben Bouzid | Finalist |
| Capriole | United States | Josh Jacobs | Selected |
| Carma | France | Olivier P Philippe | Selected |
| Casa D'oro (House of Gold) | United States | Alex Faoro | Finalist |
| Cassum | United States | Enzo Flores | Selected |
| Catching Up: A Dark Comedy | United States | Deborah | Selected |
| CHANGE | Singapore | Isaac Kerlow | Selected |
| Chocolate and Cigarettes | United States | David Tappan | Finalist |
| Choke | Turkey | Burkay Doğan | Selected |
| CHUCKWALLA | Greece | Korinna Krauss | Selected |
| Church Forest | United States | Greg Vander Veer, Peter Eliot Buntaine | Selected |
| Circus City, USA | United States | Adam Michael Wright | Selected |
| City Girl | United States | Avery Regen | Selected |
| Clever Girl, Episode 9 | United States | Joe Zappa | Award Winner |
| COAT CHECK LADY | Russian Federation | Ekaterina Golubeva-Poldi | Selected |
| Colors of Love | United States | Marc Kornblatt | Selected |
| CONCRETE CANCER | Germany | Karsten Kranzusch | Selected |
| Connect | United States | Ethan Kogan, Jessica Silvetti | Selected |
| CONSURGO | United States | Luigi Comandatore | Selected |
| Cooking with Connie | United States | Stavit Allweis | Selected |
| Core | United Kingdom | MENG ZHOU | Selected |
| Criticsized | United States | Carl T. Evans | Selected |
| Curanderismo | United Kingdom | Sam W. McFadden | Selected |
| Das Wassup | United Kingdom | Johannes Schaff | Selected |
| DAY AGAIN | United Kingdom | Joana Gil-Rico | Finalist |
| Deep in the Woods | United States | Soyeon Kim | Selected |
| Delivery | Argentina | Matías Tondato | Selected |
| Dénouement | United Kingdom | Hayley Dickinson | Selected |
| DER NARR | Germany | Korinna Herzig | Selected |
| Desert-ar | United Kingdom | Andrea Milla Perez | Finalist |
| Deuteronomy 24:16 | Canada | Leen Issa | Selected |
| Dharavi Hustle | India | Sachin Sundareshan | Selected |
| DISAPPEARED | France | Mona CZ | Selected |
| Dissension | United States | Paige Irene | Selected |
| Dissolving Mind | Italy | Tomaso Aramini | Selected |
| Distant Apologies | United States | D. Schmüdde | Selected |
| DJS | United Kingdom | ERIC BUISSON | Selected |
| Doubter of Spring | Sweden | Tia Kouvo | Selected |
| Dress in Black | Australia | Daniel Daly | Selected |
| Drift (v2) | United States | James Sharpe | Selected |
| Dudes | United States | Owen Alabado | Selected |
| E 1200 | United States | Kalee Forsythe | Selected |
| Each Day | United States | John Greer | Selected |
| East West | Brazil | Rodrigo Grota | Finalist |
| Eggs and Soldiers | United States | Imelda O'Reilly | Finalist |
| EGOMORPHOSIS | Latvia | Elina Maligina | Selected |
| Electric Piya - Love story of a bulb | India | Mayank Pawar | Selected |
| Elegy | United States | CJ Gardella | Selected |
| Elijah | France | Fanny Béguély | Finalist |
| Eliminated | United States | Michael Thomas Cain | Selected |
| Eliza | United States | Zi Gao | Finalist |
| Elizabeth | United Kingdom | Katharine Meynell | Finalist |
| Emerald Ice | United States | Jesseca Ynez Simmons | Selected |
| Emily Mason: A Painting Experience | United States | Rafael Salazar | Finalist |
| Empty Space | United States | James Choi | Selected |
| Engagement | United States | Elizabeth Davis | Finalist |
| ENTRE DEUX EAUX | France | Patrice CORDONNIER | Finalist |
| Erasing Eden | United States | Beth Dewey | Finalist |
| Eros Diary | United States | Morrison Gong | Selected |
| Errands | Not Specified | Charles de Agustin, Ruby Ryan | Selected |
| Eudaimonia | United States | Tom Green | Finalist |
| Eva | Australia | Laurence Rosier Staines | Selected |
| Even In Your Dreams | Australia | Rohan D'Souza | Selected |
| Fade | United Kingdom | Chris Lake | Selected |
| Fair Trade Meets Peace Coffee | Not Specified | Jeewon Shin | Selected |
| Fall | United States | Bradley Rappa | Selected |
| Fashion of the Wolf | United States | Kevin Del Principe | Selected |
| Father | Canada | Lella Satie | Selected |
| Fauk My Life: Pilot | United States | Stephanie Neroes | Selected |
| Feng-ling | United States | Dani Parker | Selected |
| FEVER | United States | Celine Held, Logan George | Selected |
| Fitzgerald | United States | Josh Kirkland | Selected |
| Flicker+Pulse | United Kingdom | Brian McClave, Tom Wichelow | Selected |
| Flower | United States | Che Walker | Finalist |
| Flyblacks | Israel | Eitan Ben Moshe | Selected |
| Foolish Smarts and How to Lose Them | United States | Lauren Meyering | Selected |
| Footwurk: The Legacy | United States | Akeem Pennicooke | Selected |
| Forgive Me Father | Canada | Mark Datuin | Selected |
| From Ashes to Immortality | United States | Eric Hyde | Selected |
| G.I. Hospital | United States | Jonny Lewis | Finalist |
| Genesis | United Kingdom | Beatrix Haxby | Selected |
| Get Yourself Together, Mikey | Israel | Danna Frank | Finalist |
| Giselle Short Film | United States | Severine Reisp | Selected |
| God's Country | United States | Alex Kuciw | Selected |
| Godspeed - The Pace of Being Known | United States | Danny Lund | Selected |
| Golden Bream | Russian Federation | Konopkin Yuriy | Selected |
| Grace & Grit | United States | Selected | |
| Gucci | United States | Morgan Bass, Taylor White | Selected |
| GUN | Not Specified | Haven Nutt | Selected |
| Haggard Hawk - Sand | United States | Joe Presser | Selected |
| Haka and Guitars | New Zealand | William Watson | Selected |
| Half-life in Fukushima | Switzerland | Mark Olexa, Francesca Scalisi | Finalist |
| Hans' Colours | Germany | Pedro Dannemann | Selected |
| Hard Sell | United States | Luke Slendebroek | Selected |
| hashtagwill | Sweden | Per Sundström | Selected |
| Head | Israel | Stav Levi | Award Winner |
| HEAR THE SILENCE | Germany | Ed Ehrenberg | Finalist |
| Heidi | Cuba | Fatema Abdoolcarim | Selected |
| HENRY | Austria | Philipp Fussenegger | Finalist |
| HIWA | Greece | Jacqueline Lentzou | Finalist |
| Hope | Switzerland | Michael Scherrer | Selected |
| HOPPLA!!! | United States | Eddy Falconer | Selected |
| Human Resources | United States | Ryan McGlade | Selected |
| Hush | United States | Michael Lewis Foster | Finalist |
| Hyperloop Dreams | United States | Kenji Harman | Selected |
| I Am Be | United States | Cheri Gaulke | Finalist |
| I Am Her | United States | Sasha Pezenik | Selected |
| I Have Been Watching You All Along | Qatar | Rawda Al-Thani | Selected |
| I Love New York | Not Specified | Christian Vogeler | Finalist |
| Ícaro | Brazil | Carla Shah | Selected |
| If Fear | Germany | Nils Keller | Finalist |
| Impenetrable | Brazil | Flavio Ermirio de Moraes | Selected |
| In a Heartbeat | United States | Beth David, Esteban Bravo | Finalist |
| In a Warm, Dark Place | United States | Sydney Waltz | Selected |
| In Loving Memory... | India | Chandradeep Das | Selected |
| In the Night, Facing Sun | United States | Xuezi Zhang | Selected |
| In the Rough | France | Cappello Vincent | Selected |
| In This Place Where We Lie | United States | Art Parnitudom, Justus Wrede | Selected |
| IN UTERO - Short Film | Canada | Jonathan Krimer | Selected |
| In-Between | United States | Lane Brunson | Selected |
| IN-HABIT | Germany | Denislav Kanev & Zachary Chant | Selected |
| Inner Court | Brazil | Ricardo Mehedff | Finalist |
| Inside the distance | Belgium | Elias Grootaers | Selected |
| Interference | Australia | Ian Dixon | Finalist |
| Intergalactic Tales of the Delusional Mind | United States | Forrest Lorenzen, John Puckett | Selected |
| Intersections | Canada | Gabriel Masewich | Selected |
| Interview with a Piano | United Kingdom | Selected | |
| Into Sunlight | United States | Ron Honsa | Selected |
| Into the unknown | Germany | Inigo Westmeier | Finalist |
| Intrinsic Moral Evil | Netherlands | Harm Weistra | Selected |
| INVISIBLE ALICE | United States | Anna Fishbeyn | Selected |
| Is Sumiyati going to hell? | Saudi Arabia | Meshal Aljaser | Finalist |
| Isabella Morra | France | Isabel Pagliai | Selected |
| It Is What It Is | United States | Cyrus Tabar | Finalist |
| It was nice to meet you | Korea, Republic of | Kaicey CHAE | Finalist |
| Jarring | United States | Kristjan Thor | Finalist |
| Jazz Talk Radio | United States | Robbie Rittman | Selected |
| Johnny on the Moon | Canada | Eva Everett Irving | Selected |
| Juna and Rupa | United States | Leo Levy, Donnie Cervantes | Selected |
| Kadambari | India | Bhasmang Joshi | Finalist |
| Kampos | Venezuela | Diego Murillo | Selected |
| KCLOC | United States | Ninaad Kulkarni | Selected |
| Ketetapan (Decision) | Singapore | Dag Kaszlikowski | Selected |
| Khidkee | India | Rohan Parshuram Kanawade | Finalist |
| Kid Gloves | United Kingdom | Julia Hart | Finalist |
| Killing The Fiddler | United States | Barak D Barkan | Selected |
| Kim and I | United States | Robert Logevall | Selected |
| Kiss Me | Australia | Lara Gissing | Selected |
| L'échappée | Algeria | Jonathan A MAson, Hamid Saïdji | Finalist |
| LA/COMPLEX - the Art of Jim Barrett | United States | Tom Koester & Frances Bohn | Selected |
| Labyrinth | Israel | Noga Dekel | Selected |
| Language is Dead | United States | Jermaine Manigault | Selected |
| Lattie | United States | Kevin Chenault | Selected |
| Laura, or Scenes from a Common World | United States | Charles M Pepiton | Selected |
| Laying Low | United States | Hank H. Kim , Sylvia Caminer | Finalist |
| Le Umane Paure (Human Fears) | Italy | Nicolangelo Gelormini | Selected |
| Leavings | Canada | Beverley Hawksley and Sandy McLennan | Finalist |
| Les Cloÿs | United States | Julia Hechler | Selected |
| LEV | Germany | Alina Yklymova | Finalist |
| Light plays | Canada | Anne-Marie Bouchard | Selected |
| Like A Rolling Stone | United States | Daniel Hawley | Selected |
| Like Home | Israel | keren bergman | Selected |
| Lilly Hits the Road | Canada | The Bum Family | Finalist |
| Lilly's Secret | United States | Emanuele Michetti | Finalist |
| Limbus | United States | Lee Peterkin | Selected |
| Lines | Greece | VASSILIS MAZOMENOS | Finalist |
| Lines of Sight | United States | steve oldfield | Selected |
| Little Tsunamis | United Kingdom | Toby Clarkson | Selected |
| Love is Now is Always | United States | Anja Høvik Strømsted | Finalist |
| Loyal to the Game | United States | John Michael Nolan | Selected |
| LUBAT FATHER AND SON | France | LAURE DUTHILLEUL | Selected |
| Lucia, Before and After | United States | Anu Valia | Selected |
| Make America Great? | United States | Candice Vernon | Finalist |
| Man on the Hill | United Kingdom | Daisy Dickinson | Selected |
| Manfred | United Kingdom | Richard Melkonian | Selected |
| Mangoes | United States | Dylan Hamilton-Smith | Selected |
| Marta Minujín in Buenos Aires | TateShots | United Kingdom | Maria Kennedy | Award Winner |
| Maternal Histories | Switzerland | Anouk Dominguez-Degen | Finalist |
| matter | United Kingdom | Tessa Power | Finalist |
| Mausoleum | Estonia | Lauri Randla | Selected |
| Meditation on Darkness | Norway | Jørgen Johansen | Selected |
| Melancholia Imaginativa | United States | Timothy Nicholas | Selected |
| Melanie | Netherlands | Susanne Helmer | Selected |
| Memento Mori | Greece | Andreas Samaras | Selected |
| Memoria | India | Shubham Sharma | Selected |
| Memorial Drive | United States | Austin Alward | Finalist |
| Memories of Lost and Hidden Lands | United Kingdom | Kris Polinski | Selected |
| Men Should Be | United States | Pearson Kunz | Selected |
| Mid Morning | United States | Ross Gehm | Selected |
| Midnight at Luci's | United States | Dean Tatulli, Kyle James Marr | Selected |
| MIRA Protocol | United States | Antonio Chavez Trejo | Finalist |
| Mirage | Canada | Harley Chamandy | Selected |
| Misora, Misery | United States | David Doko | Finalist |
| Misters (without blame) | Mexico | Annalisa D. Quagliata | Selected |
| Modern Craft | United States | Jessica P. Jackson | Selected |
| Modern Guilt | United States | Carlos Cerutti | Selected |
| Mokum Aleph | Netherlands | Berenike Rozgonyi | Finalist |
| MONKEY MAN | United States | Yixia Li | Selected |
| MOUSE | United States | Selected | |
| Muñecas | United States | Osvaldo Ozuna | Selected |
| MUSCLE | United States | Heidi Miami Marshall | Selected |
| Music in the Lung | United States | Xindan Zhang | Finalist |
| MY BROTHER IS A VISITANT | Austria | Nicolae David | Finalist |
| My Love Never Came | United States | Moe Myat May Zarchi | Selected |
| My Loyal Audience | United States | Megan Seely | Selected |
| My Poetry | Brazil | Leide Consuelo Quereza Moreira Jacob | Finalist |
| Mythosis | Spain | Álvaro Díaz-Palacios | Selected |
| NARRATION | Germany | Thomas Taube | Selected |
| NATURE AND ITS MANIFESTATIONS | Japan | takamasa iwasaki | Finalist |
| Nature Body Light | United States | Monica Thomas | Selected |
| NEAR THE COFFEE | United States | FLYNN DONOVAN | Selected |
| NELLY | Austria | Chris Raiber | Selected |
| NewB the Web Series! "HBhOe" | United States | Jared Windler, Alex Oechsel | Selected |
| Nicola L’s Red Coat | United Kingdom | Susan Doyon | Selected |
| Night Live | United States | Dazhi Huang | Finalist |
| No Really, It's Fine. | United States | Rebecca Dobyns | Selected |
| No Song to Sing | United Kingdom | Lukasz Gasiorowski | Selected |
| NO TRAFFIC NO MORE | Canada | JULIE ROY | Selected |
| Nobodies | United States | Austin Mitchell | Selected |
| Nodal | United States | Linda Dahlem | Selected |
| Nothing Like The Sun | United States | Nguyen Nguyen | Finalist |
| Noticed | United States | LIMOR DIAMANT | Selected |
| Notos | Greece | Vaury Vincent | Selected |
| November 9th | United States | Rollyn Stafford | Selected |
| Now Appearing in Bucharest | United States | Robert Lawrence | Selected |
| Now You Lost | Not Specified | Christopher Cascarano | Finalist |
| Nowhere Mind | United States | Ben Nissen | Selected |
| NUNE | United States | Ji Strangeway | Selected |
| Objectify Me | Germany | Annique Delphine | Selected |
| OCD | United States | Alexander Beregovoy, Melissa Espinoza | Finalist |
| Ode to the Unsung Heroes | Korea, Republic of | Keun Young Ko | Selected |
| OF A FEW DAYS | United States | Timothy Fryett | Selected |
| Of Shadows | China | Yi Cui | Finalist |
| Offsprung | United States | Rain Zheng | Selected |
| Oil is the Devil's excrement | United Kingdom | David Jacques | Selected |
| On Earth | United States | Ryan Schnackenberg | Selected |
| One Body, One Voice | Canada | Stephanie Gottlob, Yuji Oka | Finalist |
| One Eightieth of Zhang Tianyi | United States | Shuhan Fan | Finalist/Nomenee |
| Out of Frame | United States | Joe State | Selected |
| Outside, A Door Closes | United States | Nabil Aouad | Selected |
| Pa'am hai'ta yalda | Israel | Natalie Kaplan | Finalist |
| Panopticon | United States | Aaron Keene | Finalist |
| Paper Palaces | United States | Heath Harris | Selected |
| Paradise Gowns | Lithuania | Albina Griniute | Selected |
| PARRHESIA. The Obligation to Speak the truth | Estonia | MART RAUKAS | Selected |
| Parsley Girl | United States | Scarlett / Sijia Li | Finalist |
| Parting | United States | Sitora Takanaev | Selected |
| Passing Rain | Singapore | Dag Kaszlikowski | Selected |
| PASSION GAP | South Africa | Matt Portman, Jason Donald | Selected |
| Peace During War | United States | Jennifer Machiorlatti | Selected |
| Pearl | United States | Assia Qianhang SHAO | Finalist |
| PENELOPE | Spain | Eva Vila Purtí | Finalist |
| Perspective | United States | Patrick Green | Selected |
| Phil's Camino | United States | Annie O'Neil | Finalist |
| Plasma Vista | United Kingdom | Sarah Cockings, Harriet Fleuriot | Award Winner |
| Playing Alice | United States | Hobal A. Grajeda | Selected |
| Please Come Again | United States | Alisa Yang | Selected |
| Please Forgive My Pain | United States | Sheldon Schiffer | Selected |
| POISON | United States | Erica Eng | Finalist |
| Pounce | United States | Conor Chandler Simpson | Selected |
| Pride and Prejudice | United States | Sue Kay Lee | Finalist |
| prime perfect | Not Specified | Tom Bessoir | Selected |
| Prologue / Epilogue | Russian Federation | Malukhin Anatoly | Selected |
| Psychotropical | United States | Liz Tabish | Finalist/Nomenee |
| quick fix | United States | Brian Leider | Selected |
| Rachel | United Kingdom | Selected | |
| Ratcatcher | United States | GIL CHOI | Award Winner |
| RE: A PIER | United Kingdom | Archie Lauchlan | Selected |
| Rebecka, portrait of a mother. | Sweden | Federico Cafaro | Finalist |
| Reboot | United States | Graham Pritz-Bennett | Selected |
| Reckless | Indonesia | Adrian Tang | Finalist |
| Recovery Room | Canada | Adriana luhovy | Selected |
| Referral | United States | Jovan Thomas | Selected |
| Requiem for Greed | United States | Selected | |
| RESEMBLANCE | Germany | MARIA ROGEL | Selected |
| Return to Zanskar | United Kingdom | Daniel Bull, Bryan Liptzin | Selected |
| Returning | Spain | Edu Fermín | Finalist |
| Revision | United States | Connor Hennessy | Selected |
| Rhythm of Being | Switzerland | Giada Ghiringhelli | Finalist |
| Ripples | United States | William Beasley | Selected |
| Robert Shaw - Man of Many Voices | United States | Pamela Roberts, Peter Miller | Selected |
| Rope Trick | United States | Kirk Ryde | Selected |
| RUN / FLUCHT | Germany | frank blau | Finalist |
| Safa | United States | Isaac Smith | Finalist |
| Sanctuary | United States | Ethan Bien | Selected |
| SAVE | Spain | Iván Sáinz-Pardo | Selected |
| Scarecrow | Thailand | Liam Morgan, Top Tarasin | Selected |
| Scarlet Visions | Germany | Christian Jilka | Selected |
| Scent of Geranium | United States | Naghmeh Farzaneh | Finalist/Nomenee |
| sch:pũrrr | Germany | Christian Striboll | Finalist |
| Schirkoa | India | Ishan Shukla | Selected |
| Schizophrenia | Japan | Yuri Muraoka | Selected |
| Seattle Death Trains | United States | Gene Bernofsky | Selected |
| Seven Days In New York | United States | Fredgy Noël | Selected |
| Shakes | Australia | Jason Fitzgerald | Selected |
| Share the Same Madness | United States | Tim Richardson | Finalist |
| Shed the Shame | United States | Junie Moon Schreiber | Selected |
| Shen | United States | Jace Alexander Casey | Selected |
| SHEPHERDS IN THE CAVE | Canada | Anthony Grieco | Finalist |
| Sherry | United States | Eliane Lima | Finalist |
| short term memory loss | Germany | Andreas Arnstedt | Selected |
| Shy Guys | United States | Fredric Lehne | Selected |
| SICILY JASS - the world's first man in jazz | Italy | Michele Cinque | Selected |
| Skin of the night | France | ubeda alexandre | Selected |
| Sleep Walk | United States | Mel Mah | Selected |
| Sleeping with the Devil | United States | Alisa Yang | Finalist |
| Slipaway | United States | Julia Butler, Daniel Mentz | Selected |
| Solace | Poland | Katarzyna Płazińska | Selected |
| Solitude | United States | Andrew Balog | Finalist |
| SOMETHING HAPPENED | United States | Nikhil Melnechuk | Selected |
| Somewhere to Go: punk Victoria | Canada | Paulina Ortlieb | Selected |
| Soul | United States | James King | Finalist |
| Soul Song | United Kingdom | Lucy Catherine | Selected |
| SOULCASH | Latvia | Elīna Maligina | Selected |
| Sparkleville | United States | Fritz Robinson | Selected |
| speak | United States | John Appleton | Finalist |
| Spectres are haunting Europe | France | Maria Kourkouta, Niki Giannari | Award Winner |
| Stand Up | United Kingdom | Giacomo Mantovani | Selected |
| Stanley A Man Of Variety | United Kingdom | Stephen Cookson | Award Winner |
| STARLIT | United States | Miss AO, None, None | Selected |
| Station Mythah | United States | Sahba Keihani | Selected |
| Stella Maris | Canada | Kalainithan Kalaichelvan | Selected |
| Steppe man | Azerbaijan | Shamil Aliyev | Selected |
| Steps (Premiere Episode) | United States | Fernando Sanchez, Pascual Sisto | Finalist/Nomenee |
| Sternenkind | United Kingdom | Daniel Michalos | Finalist/Nomenee |
| Strange Beauty | Australia | Mathilde Nocquet | Finalist/Nomenee |
| Streetwrite | United States | Blanche Baker | Finalist/Nomenee |
| Subterranean Love (Ileana & Paul) | United States | Robert Haufrecht | Selected |
| Suicide Note | United Kingdom | Marina Waltz | Selected |
| SUNDAY | United States | Tiara Epps | Selected |
| SUNYA ( THE TALISMAN ) | Indonesia | Hari Suhariyadi | Finalist |
| SUPERNATURAL | Spain | Juan Figueroa | Finalist |
| Surfing on grace | Canada | David B. Ricard | Selected |
| Swan Song | United States | Igor Myakotin | Selected |
| Swiping | United States | Patrick Bobilin | Selected |
| SYNESTHESIA | Mexico | RODRIGO ORTEGA ORTUÑO | Selected |
| Tagarela - The Movie | Brazil | Fran Mattoso, Filipe Itagiba | Finalist |
| TANGO ON THE BALCONY | United States | Minos Papas | Selected |
| Ten More | United States | Brad Riddell | Selected |
| Tetched | United States | Sanjin Malesevic | Selected |
| Tethered | Canada | Nicholas Staples | Selected |
| Timecode | Spain | Juanjo Giménez Peña | Finalist/Nomenee |
| The arrangement of the millimeter | Italy | Andrea Sestu, Matteo Brizzi | Selected |
| The Art of Unrequited Love | United States | Shaniyah K Bernabela, Michael Aaron McGuire | Selected |
| The Art Thief | United States | Selected | |
| The Bad Guy | United States | Jack Tracy | Selected |
| The Beauty of Peace | United States | Yiwen LIU | Selected |
| The Big Day | United States | Stephen Wardell | Selected |
| The Bouquet | France | Julien Segard, Romain Carciofo | Selected |
| The Cap & Bells | Estonia | Carlos E. Lesmes | Selected |
| The Car Thief | Taiwan | Zhi-Wei Pan | Finalist/Nomenee |
| The Cards | Uruguay | David Blankleider | Selected |
| THE CHICAGO BOYZ | United States | Tiara Epps | Selected |
| The Children of the Noon | Austria | Diego Fiori, Olga Pohankova | Finalist/Nomenee |
| THE CHILDREN SEND THEIR REGARDS | Austria | Patricia Josefine Marchart | Selected |
| The Chronicles of Melanie | Latvia | Viestur Kairish | Finalist |
| The Cost Of Living | United Kingdom | Ahmad Dabiri | Selected |
| The Crossing | Turkey | Charles Emir Richards | Selected |
| The Cult Next Door | United States | Jake Youngman | Finalist |
| The Departure | Israel | Dan Robert Lahiani | Selected |
| The Emissaries | Czech Republic | Emir Ziyalar | Finalist |
| The Eve of Saint Anthony | Portugal | João Gomes | Selected |
| The Eviction | United States | Andy Galloway | Selected |
| The good boy | United States | A. L. Lee | Finalist |
| The Hobbyist | United States | George Vatistas | Selected |
| THE HOSTAGE | Germany | Kerstin Höckel | Finalist/Nomenee |
| THE HOTEL | France | Mona CZ | Selected |
| The Incident | Lebanon | Meedo Taha | Finalist/Nomenee |
| The Inquiry | United Kingdom | Julien Cornwall | Selected |
| The Intimate Realities of Water | United States | Adrian Parr, Sean Hughes | Selected |
| The Ivywood Bandits | United States | Gordon Bond | Selected |
| The Joyous Farmer | Sri Lanka | Hiran Balasuriya | Selected |
| The Landscape Within | Philippines | Andrea Capranico | Finalist |
| The Last Honey Hunter | United States | Ben Knight | Finalist |
| THE LAST MURAL | India | Saibal Mitra | Selected |
| The List | United States | Amin Jay Rupani | Selected |
| The little one | France | Lorenzo Bianchi | Finalist |
| The Loner´s Game | Argentina | Silvana Barrero | Selected |
| The Lurking Man - FEATURE | United States | N/A | Finalist/Nomenee |
| The Masks of the Fools | Germany | Susanne Weisbach | Selected |
| The Mechanism Of Suspended Time | United Kingdom | Stefana Brancastle | Selected |
| The Modern Orpheus | United States | Sean Purcell | Finalist |
| The Narcissists | United States | Quincy Rose | Finalist |
| The Night of All Things | Spain | Pilar PALOMERO | Selected |
| The Nine-Headed Hydra | United States | Michael Nason | Selected |
| The Obs: A Singapore Story | Singapore | Yeo Siew Hua | Finalist |
| The Orphan's Gifts | Israel | Dan Robert Lahiani | Selected |
| The Other Place | United States | Selected | |
| The Photograph | Canada | Amin Toyouri | Finalist |
| The Plastic Cardboard Sonata | Italy | Enrico Falcone, Piero Persello | Selected |
| The Power of the Weak | Germany | Tobias Kriele | Selected |
| The Puppet Master | Russian Federation | Ekaterina Golubeva-Poldi | Selected |
| The Real Brian Wilson | United States | Elizabeth Withstandley | Selected |
| The Real Drakoolavs | United States | Nathaniel Krause | Selected |
| the red laces | Italy | Simone Valentini | Selected |
| The Rhythm of Time | United States | D. Schmüdde | Selected |
| The River | Taiwan | Ya-Ting Hsu, Geoffrey Hughes | Selected |
| The Root Cellar | United States | Kyle Kleinecke | Selected |
| The Simon s way | Armenia | Edgar Baghdasaryan | Finalist |
| The Smell | Bangladesh | S M Kamrul Ahsan | Selected |
| The Sound of ILL Days | Puerto Rico | Rojo Robles | Finalist |
| The Soviet | Canada | Jarrod R.F. Hachey | Finalist |
| The Stone & The Stars | United States | Talya Mar | Selected |
| The Stuff of Dreams | United States | Selected | |
| The Superhost | Germany | Britta Thie | Selected |
| The Technique | United Kingdom | Sam Tibi | Selected |
| The Temptress | India | Vishnu Gupta | Selected |
| THE THIRD DAD | United Kingdom | Theresa Moerman Ib | Selected |
| The Visit | United States | Romina Schwedler | Finalist |
| The Watchtower | United States | Steve Silver | Finalist |
| The Weekend | United States | Dennis Cahlo | Finalist |
| The White House Documentary | Germany | Fabia Mendoza | Finalist |
| The White Orchid Hotel | United Kingdom | Zhannat Alshanova | Selected |
| THE WORLD IS MINE | Israel | Ann Oren | Finalist |
| The World We Share Apart | Not Specified | Sangyi Zhao | Selected |
| The Year I Did Acid | Canada | Chandra Siddan | Selected |
| The Zahir | United States | Olga Holtz | Selected |
| Third Staple | United States | Matthew Kaundart | Selected |
| THIRST FOR LIFE | Germany | Michael Siebert | Finalist |
| Thus Passes The Glory | Canada | Jarrod R.F. Hachey | Selected |
| Time Living As & Time Living On: An Island | United States | Tom Faison | Finalist |
| TO FEEL HUMAN | United States | Junpei Suzuki | Selected |
| Tonshi | Not Specified | Deana LeBlanc | Selected |
| Tony | Canada | Andrew Lima | Finalist |
| Tourist | Bulgaria | Temenuga Trifonova | Selected |
| Trail of the Bagual | Argentina | Silvana Barrero | Selected |
| Trailhead - short film | United States | Ihmic Micah El | Selected |
| TRANSAGENDA | United States | Anna Andersen , Molly Stark-Ragsdale | Selected |
| Trigger Finger of God | United States | Frederick B Ireland | Selected |
| Trilogie De Tragedie | United States | Blake Fitzpatrick, Brad Paulson, Aaron Burk | Selected |
| Troll: A Southern Tale | United States | Marinah Janello | Finalist |
| Truth Underground | United States | Gerret Warner | Finalist |
| Tuesday | United Kingdom | Talitha Stevenson | Finalist |
| Tulipomania: Don't Be So Sure | United States | Cheryl Gelover, Tom Murray | Selected |
| Tulipomania: Shooting Off the Set | United States | Cheryl Gelover, Tom Murray | Selected |
| Twentynine | Italy | Iacopo Zanon | Finalist |
| Twins | United States | Irina V Borisova | Selected |
| TWO | Japan | James Latimer | Selected |
| TWO BOROUGHS | United States | Nick DeSimone | Selected |
| two dollars | France | Emmanuel Tenenbaum | Selected |
| Two For the Show | United States | Michael McCallum | Finalist |
| Two Opposed | Belgium | Laura Van Haecke | Finalist |
| UFE (UNFILMEVENEMENT) | France | César Vayssié | Selected |
| Una historia con Cristo y Jesus / A Tale with Christ and Jesus | Cuba | Oldren Romero | Selected |
| Undefeated | United States | Elizabeth Bell | Selected |
| UNDERPRESSURE | Austria | Lilli Schwabe | Finalist |
| Variations on Breathing | United States | JeanCarlo Ramirez | Selected |
| Veni,Vidi,Fugi - I came,I saw,I fled | Romania | Robert Eugen Popa1 | Finalist |
| VENTILATOR | Canada | mathieu v | Selected |
| Vici | United States | Johnny Kirk | Finalist |
| VILLUSION | United States | Colleen Keough | Selected |
| Virginity and Beyond | United States | YUHAO CHANG | Selected |
| Vita | United Kingdom | Vaskar S. Kayastha | Finalist |
| Voices From Kaw Thoo Lei | United States | Martha Gorzycki | Finalist |
| Vows | United States | Evan Patrick | Selected |
| Vows | United States | Mark McKinsey | Selected |
| Waiting for Spring; Persephone and the Pomegranate | Canada | Nicole Dextras | Selected |
| Wash | United States | Zhichun Huang | Selected |
| WASTE | United States | Justine Raczkiewicz | Finalist |
| Water | United Kingdom | Anthony Wilks | Selected |
| WATER | United States | Mark Knight | Selected |
| WE | United Kingdom | David Tomlin | Selected |
| Webern Pendulum Series | Canada | Hali Rey | Selected |
| Welcome to Normal | United States | Kellan Hayley Marvin | Finalist |
| WHAT CAME AFTER | United States | Tonya Pinkins | Selected |
| What Comes From a Swamp | United States | Tyler Macri | Selected |
| What Remains | United States | Denna Sritharan | Selected |
| Where Are You From | China | Xizi "Cecilia" Hua | Selected |
| Where There is Life | New Zealand | Gwen Isaac | Finalist |
| White on White | United States | Alison Nguyen | Selected |
| White rain | France | Jean dominique Ferrucci | Finalist |
| Who I Am | United Kingdom | Monika Wilczynska | Selected |
| Whoever Was Using This Bed | Australia | Andrew Kotatko | Award Winner |
| Why Not Now? | Canada | Paul Dzioba | Selected |
| Wilderness | United Kingdom | Justin John Doherty | Finalist |
| Woman with an Editing Bench | Australia | Karen Pearlman | Finalist |
| WOMB | Switzerland | Gilles Jobin | Finalist |
| wonderdumb | United States | Jay Meyers, Chris Kerr | Selected |
| World Wide Women | Romania | Andra Roman | Selected |
| Yes, So | United States | Jaryd Jensen | Finalist |
| You Don't Say! | United States | Robert Alaniz | Selected |
| ZIMZUM | Germany | Stefan Zeiler | Selected |