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PAIFF LAURALS

We received so many excellent projects from filmmakers around the world for our inaugural event. Here is the first round of official selections for 2024. Projects can still be submitted and considered if you enter by the late deadline (Feb. 29, 2024).

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Winners will be announced at the live event awards ceremony on April 7th, 2024.

PAIFF LAURALS

SELECTED MUSIC VIDEOS:

​4 OF YOU (CANADA / MEXICO)

Director: LOAD

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CAR COLORS - OLD DEATH (USA)

Director: Kyle Garrett

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DON'T (UK)

Directors: Wendy Lee Taylor, Aniez, Ch'Lu (as Camilla Mathias)

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NO RETURN (MEXICO)

Director: Yail Haziel Vázquez López

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SHOT! (MEXICO)

Director: Krossover PDC

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THE GIRL WHO FADED AWAY (USA)

Director: Brent Heise

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THEY DON'T KNOW I'M COMING (COSTA RICA)

Director: Jonathan Morales Searles

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UNWIND - JAMES DOWNHAM (CANADA)

Director: Jake Sauve 

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WHATS THE DEAL? (USA)

Director: Constanza E. Godoy, Brett W. Vance

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The Escence of the Guaguanco

(BELGIUM / CUBA) 

Director: Jairo Valeria Mosqueira

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The Escence of the Guaguanco movie poster
don't movie poster
car colorS OLD DEATH movie poster
NO return movie poster
TEAM BONDING

SELECTED SCREENPLAYS:

TEAM BONDING

Writer: Mike Ede

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THE ARCHITECHT OF THE FUTURE

Writer: Micheal D Eerdmans 

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TRICKSTER

Writer: Rob York 

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PAIFF LAURALS

Join us for a special Q&A session from the directors of the festival as they present two of their own internationally award winning films in addition to Alan G, Parker's classic "Who Killed Nancy?" featuring local resident and star of the film Steve Dior.

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SPECIAL SESSION:

AS ORGANISM

Director: Moe Taylor

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KOH PHANGAN MAN

Director: Dewey Paul Moffitt 

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WHO KILLED NANCY?

Director: Alan G. Parker

Starring: Steve Dior 

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SELECTED FEATURE FILMS: 

BUMPER (INDIA) 

Director: Selvakumar M

It's the journey of a man who will do anything for money and a man who will do anything for humanity!

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LISSA'S TRIP (USA)

Director: Jeffery Lando

Lissa’s Trip takes you on a wild ride through the streets of Los Angeles with an actress who accidentally took a lot of acid before a crucial audition.

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ROSWELL DELIRIUM (USA)

Director: Richard Bakewell

During the 1980s the US is hit by a wave of nuclear attacks, and after the fallout those who remain pretend like everything is normal even though they are all experiencing radiation poisoning.

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THE ANNOYED (IRAN)

Director: Mehdi Fard Ghaderi

The film centres around three directors trying to make a film about social problems of violence and abuse against women and executions. 

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SELECTED DOCUMENTARY FEATURES:

DAUGHTERS OF MAGUEY (MEXICO / PORTUGAL) 

Director: Francisca Siza

The story of a group of women who decided to break a male monopoly. Despite their historical involvement in the production of agave distillates, archaic traditions and beliefs have kept women under another glass ceiling.

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FROM ZERO TO A HUNDRED (USA) 

Director: Matteo Banfo

An inspirational feature-length film that explores the life-changing journey of high school students engaged in the Winners Circle Project.

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LA PIPERA (MEXCIO) 

Director: Miguel Perez

With personal testimonies and archive footage, this documentary tells the story of a great woman who for almost 40 years traveled the highways of Mexico. 

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MENTAWAI - ALMAS DEL BOSQUE (INDONESIA / GERMANY / SPANISH) 

Director: Joachim Peter

The last indigenous people of the Mentawai archipelago in Indonesia are fighting for the preservation of their culture and the rainforest in Mentawai.

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SAVING WALDEN'S WORLD (CUBA / INDIA / ASIA / USA) 

Directors: James Merkel, Deborah Shaffer

When a young arms dealer discovers his work is harming families in less affluent societies, he has an ethical crisis and begins a decades-long journey to redeem himself and make the world a better place. 

 

SITTING IN THE FIRE (USA)

Directors: Alec Goldberg, Boson Wang

‘Sitting in the Fire’ examines the spillover effect of rehabilitation programs in prison, on gun violence prevention in communities.

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TAKE YOUR SPACE (MEXICO / COLUMBIA / CZECH REP / GERMANY / UK)

Director: Karolína Alvarez

The first feature-length documentary on Mexican urban art and graffiti based on the coexistence of the community of Mexican urban artists, is independent and one hundred percent free in its expression.

 

THE TRAIN & THE PENINSULA (MEXICO)

Directors: Sky Richards, Andreas Kruger Foncerrada

The Train and the Peninsula is an intimate portrait of Mexico's Yucatan Peninsula as the controversial railway megaproject known as the "Mayan Train" is being built.

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bumper movie poster
lissa's trip movie poster
Roswell Delirium movie poster
the annoyed movie poster
Mentawai movie poster
saving walden's world movie poster
sitting in the fire movie poster
take your space movie poster
 maya train and the peninsula movie poster
DAUGHTERS OF MAGUEY movie poster
from zero TO A HUNDRED movie poster
la pipera movie poster
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SELECTED DOCUMENTARY SHORTS:

ARMED WITH A BRUSH (CHILE / NETHERLANDS)

Director: Nèma van Raalte

A documentary portraying the works and lives of Chilean street art movement Brigada Ramona Parra (BRP).

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BICYCLE HERO (NEPAL)

Directors: Gopal Shivakoti, Govinda Siwakoti

Pushkar Shah (Nepali) set off for a world bicycle tour with the message of peace, he cycled around 150 different countries and collected their national flags. 

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DEB'S STUDIO (UK / FRENCH ISLANDS)

Director: Miguel OCTAVE

Debs Studio tells the story of Henri Debs and how he developed the music industry in the French islands of Guadeloupe and Martinique.

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I'M A GIRL, I'M A BOY (IRAN)

Director: Maziyar Koopidar 

Making the headlines after a glorious sporting achievement is always a coveted dream for any athlete. However, for Zohreh Koudaei, it was followed by a painful sequence of events. The female Iranian international, who has had to plow her way through difficulties all her life, found herself facing an unprecedented challenge.

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MONEY MAKER: SAYGIN YALCIN EN (Germany / Europe)

Directors: Johannes Thuermer, Martina Schuster

He wanted to become a millionaire so he could help his seriously ill sister. Today, Saygin Yalcin owns various companies around the world. The entrepreneur, who was born in Bremen in Germany and has Turkish roots, runs his companies from Dubai and invests in numerous start-ups. 

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THE POWER OF ONE (USA / COLUMBIA)

*trailer submission only*

Directors: Alex Valdez

A team of documentary filmmakers travel to an unknown ecological sanctuary deep in the jungles of Colombia, where a conservationist planted 10,000 trees in a deforested field to rebuild an ecosystem for endangered animals.

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VORTEX (Australia)

Director: Chris Tangey

Driven by relentless heat, these desert wanderers hurl whatever gets in their way high into the sky. Dirt, sand, ash ... and even fire! Music composer Quinten Coblentz "Zaphenath-Paneah" through Artlist.

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armed with a brush movie poster
bicycle hero movie poster
debs studio movie poster
money maker movie poster
vortex movie poster
power of one movie poster
IM A GIRL IM A BOY
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SELECTED SHORT FILMS:

5/3/0 (SERBIA)

Director: Danilo Stanimirović

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A LATINO HOLLYWOOD NIGHTMARE (MEXICO)

Director: Jeff Valdez

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BETWEEN THE WORDS (LUXEMBOURG)

Director: Farid Ismail

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CASH ON DELIVERY (SRI LANKA)

Director: Udara Buddika Wijesinghe

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DATING AUDREY (USA)

Director: Dan Hertzog

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DEATH ANNIVERSARY (IRAN)

Director: Armin Keshvari

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DOMINO SPRINGS (USA)

Director: Dan Hertzog

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EXPENSES (USA)

Director: Gary Fieldman

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FATIH THE CONQUEROR (FRANCE / TURKISH)

Director: Onur Yagiz 

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FRED THE SUPER COMPUTER (USA)

Director: Sam Kimbrell 

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INSIGHT (USA)

Director: Abey Lin 

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PLANET OF RUST (CYPRUS)

Director: George Merabishvili

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SORAYA (IRAN)

Director: Maryam Rahimi

 

SPOOKY CREW (USA)

Director: Erin Broussard

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THE TRANSIENCE (IRAN)

Directors: ipek shahbazi, ario motevaghe

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THE VOLCANO AND THE BABY (SWITZERLAND / FRANCE)

Director: Danielle Jaeggi 

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UNDER COVER (NEW ZEALAND)

Director: Guillaume Arnoulet 

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VANCE AND THE AFTERLIFE (USA)

Director: Sam Kimbrell 

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YOU THINK ALTHOUGH YOU ARE NOT (IRAN)

Director: Salaheddin Noori

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EXPERIMENTAL FILMS:

ANCIENT LORE (GERMANY)

Director: Patrick Müller

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BERLIN (USA)

Director:Ashley Bogley 

*student film*

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GULAG EROS OF THE RUSSIAN MIND: SEX IN THE SOVIET UNION (UKRAINE)

Director: Chad Garcia

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HERCULES RECYCLED 2.0 (USA / ITALY)

Director: Don Moriarty, Greg Alt

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R.d. Cane's 52 Thursdays (CANADA)

Director: R.d. Cane

 

Who Is God? (MEXICO)

Oscar Adan Lopez Parres 

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530 movie poster
Cash on delivery
dating audrey movie poster
death anniversary movie poster
domino springs movie poster
fatih movie poster
fred the super computer movie poster
planet of rust movie poster
the transcience movie poster
insight movie poster
soraya movie poster
volcano movie poster
vance poster movie poster
you think you are not movie poster
gulag movie poster
hercules movie poster
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volcano baby poster
BETWEEN THE WORDS movie poster
spooky crew movie poster
a latino hollywood NIGHTMARE movie poster
ancient lore
RDCANE 52 THURSDAYS
expenses movie poster
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