2026 Film & Music Competitions

A jaded and grief-hollowed 55-year-old divorce lawyer, grinding through his own demons and personal trauma, returns to his rural hometown to defend his ex-wife’s family in a bitter custody battle — only to redemptively confront his past.

Escaping the shadows of dictatorship in 1970s Greece, a young boy arrives in Chicago, chasing his dream of becoming a filmmaker and finding unexpected love along the way.

An attractive young English woman’s life is turned on its head when she inherits a mansion on Bondi Beach, provided she agrees to allow her deceased grandfather’s handsome butler to move in, which gets them both embroiled in the world’s most intriguing unsolved art heist.

A man with stricken anxiety is forced to move his family to a remote area of the Appalachians where they make a shocking discovery lurking in the mountains when their dog captures a baby monkey.

The most famous woman in America and its first feminist author and foreign correspondent leaves Transcendentalists and a deceptive man behind for Europe where she forms intimate relationships with its leading revolutionaries and falls in love while participating in the defense of the Roman Republic. Fleeing poverty and the Austrian authorities, at the age of forty, she sails with her husband and two-year-old son back to America.

When Gene Capman loses his wife in a violent bear attack, he turns to drugs and alcohol to cope, neglecting his relationship with his stepson Louis. But when the mayor puts out a $10,000 reward after the bear kills again, Gene and Louis reunite to try and win the money before the local mob boss can take the prize for himself.

In the early 1800s, when the Catholics in Ireland are being persecuted, an unsung heroine emerges, a feisty young lass who must forego her choice between two suitors to seek justice from a corrupt English Baron and his son for the murders of her parents and compatriots.

Silvia Pecora, an Italian motorcycle mechanic, is broke and mourning the death of her son from a drug overdose. At the urging of a friend, she takes a job at a pastry shop run by Fausto, the local criminal boss who may have supplied the drugs that killed her son. Silvia and Fausto begin an affair, but his drug dealing threatens their relationship.

A dystopian drama in which a virus decimates the male population leaving most impotent. With the pure-blood, white race in danger, life proves treacherous for a potent mixed-blood.

When a virtuoso pianist saves her son from suicide, she must reclaim their mission as gifted descendants of two legendary composers, but a buried secret threatens to dethrone their music nobility with the crest of a mass murderer.