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Based on a 911 call that made national news in 2013, this week’s Staff Pick Premiere is “Dekalb Elementary,” a gripping Oscar-nominated short.

Staff Pick Premiere: "Dekalb Elementary" by Reed Van Dyck

In this week's Staff Pick Premiere, "West by God," Scott Lazer details an intimate power struggle, aka a first date.

Staff Pick Premiere: "West by God" by Scott Lazer

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Staff Pick Award at Palm Springs ShortFest 2022: “Meantime” by Michael T Workman

Three refugees run the race of their lives from Calais to Dover through the Euro Tunnel in Arash Ashtiani's "The Tunnel."

Staff Pick Premiere: "The Tunnel" by Arash Ashtiani

Adrien Merigeau's Oscar-nominated short "Genius Loci" takes viewers on a bonafide fever dream.

Staff Pick Premiere: "Genius Loci" by Adrien Merigeau

Joe Cappa's "Ghost dogs" is a Staff Pick Premiere! These ghosts are part dog, part human, but fully dead. You've never seen anything like this.

Staff Pick Premiere: “Ghost Dogs” by Joe Cappa

In this week’s Staff Pick Premiere, forgotten folk singer Lena Black discovers her fifty-year-old song “Charlotte” has been remade into a hit pop song.

Staff Pick Premiere: "Charlotte" by Zach Dorn

"The Kites" is a poignant story from the POV of a kid, situated on the war-torn border between Iran and Iraq.

Staff Pick Premiere: "The Kites" by Seyed Payam Hosseini

A father and daughter travel along a chaotic path, where their inability to find each other will unveil a complicated relationship.

Staff Pick Premiere: "The Journey" by Ève Saint-Louis

Anthropomorphic wolf gigolos, BDSM, and sleazy films are on hilarious display in Chintis Lundgren's "Toomas Beneath the Valley of the Wild Wolves."

Staff Pick Premiere: "Toomas Beneath the Valley of the Wild Wolves" by Chintis Lundgren

This hybrid-doc brings to life a never-before-heard interview recounting the harrowing torture and brainwashing at a secretive leadership seminar in 1970.

Staff Pick Premiere: "You've Never Been Completely Honest" by Joey Izzo

If you love something, resist eating it: “O Black Hole!” is an epically original lesson in accepting the ephemeral.

Staff Pick Premiere: "O Black Hole!" by Renee Zhan

Even in the year of 2022, “2002” stands out as an instant Staff Pick comedy classic.

Staff Pick Premiere: "2002 (YEAR OF THE HORSE)" by Matias & Mathias

This week’s Staff Pick Premiere is an absurdist tale of a woman's grief manifesting as an obsession with elephants. Then she goes on safari... literally.

Staff Pick Premiere: “Wildebeest” by Nicolas Keppens and Matthias Phlips