Chatroom(2020)

Story(pl)

Perhaps it is time to let go of the illusion of certainty about where the screen ends and the outside world begins. A lonely restaurant patron, surrounded by people typing away on their laptops. Passengers in the metro, fixated on their smartphones. A pianist playing a virtual instrument. Through a series of eminently relatable everyday scenes, animator Jola Bańkowska comments on how our lives are shaped by digital technology.

A Day in the Life(en)

A woman gets progressively stressed out from her daily routine.

WhateverTree(en)

A dead tree goes viral, attracting wildlife, a nature lover, and a crowd of online followers. Animated entirely outside, “WhateverTree” examines our connection to nature in the age of social media, screens, and selfies.

/IMAGINE(fr)

To explore themes of solitude and our artificial online existences, filmmaker Anna Apter created this short film with the sole assistance of AI tools and her dog.

World-Grand Show-Off!(en)

A social media influencer named Orlong Spice is desperate for clout.

My Little Pony: Equestria Girls - Rollercoaster of Friendship(en)

Rarity's friendship with Applejack is tested when Vignette Valencia hires her as her new designer for a theme park parade.

First(en)

A teen girl’s experiences online and IRL blur together in this quietly inventive short by Micaela Durand and Daniel Chew. Through an ingenious use of subtitles, Durand and Chew seamlessly toggle between the banalities of young life and the fizzy, yearning commentary running beneath those same experiences when shared online.

piano!(en)

PENELOPE(en)

The life of bright orange-haired Penelope Pierce is heavily romanticized by her social media presence, but are things behind the screen really as great as people think?

Oleander(en)

A seventeen year old sex-positive YouTuber starts a social media war against her Christian abstinence program.

Full dekning(no)

Seven long-time friends meet for dinner. They decide to share their text messages, emails and phone calls. Secrets are unveiled. Harmony trembles.

Foxglove Candy(en)

A triad of vicious vixens scam (and occasionally murder) hapless, lonely men from the internet but run into a nightmarish labyrinth of deception and horror when one attempts to use her wiles on a far more cunning adversary.

Plugged in(en)

Plugged In explores how social media and smart phone usage has an effect on our younger generations, those who are now born into a world technologically ready and know nothing else - and how hard it is to remove this element from their lives in these modern times. It looks into the design of social media being a purposeful tool used to keep people hooked in, taken away from face to face reactions and how the attitudes towards people through these mediums have become darker.

Pocket(en)

Spend a year through the ups and downs of the life of an American teenager, told entirely from the perspective of his iPhone.

Indigenous(en)

A group of five American friends on the cusp of adulthood travel to Panama to relax and reconnect. They befriend a local woman in their hotel bar—and despite some ominous whispers—she goes against the specific instructions of her brother and brings the Americans on a daytrip into the pristine falls at the nearby jungle. What begins as an innocent outing to a picturesque waterfall quickly turns terrifying after she suddenly goes missing. As night closes in, the friends realize too late the truth behind the rumors—the legendary, blood-sucking Chupacabra is now stalking them.

The Tinder Swindler(en)

Posing as a wealthy, jet-setting diamond mogul, an Israeli conman wooed women online then conned them out of millions of dollars. Now some victims plan for payback.

Emo Valley(en)

A foster care survivor, living in the streets of Phoenix, Arizona; Is being stalked by an individual from social media.

@gesùofficial(it)

Katja Dreams of Waking Up(en)

Katja (27) lives in Berlin and dreams every night of her own death, and her waking hours are a constant stream of work, digital distraction and a paranoia about the future - her inner life moving at a speed that seems unsustainable. While on vacation in northern Norway, she has an extreme encounter with raw nature and gets a new perspective on herself - she returns to Berlin with the intentions of changing her life. But the demon inside her is hard to shake off.

Silence & Darkness(en)

Blind and deaf sisters, Anna and Beth, live happily in a secluded small town with Father.