October 11, 2021

Jacksonville, Florida - The 2022 Jacksonville Film Festival will showcase three days of international independent films at the San Marco Theatre, February 4-6, 2022.

The 2022 official selection consists of 83 films from 14 countries, 20% of which are by women directors. Jax Film Festival selected these films out of 279 film submissions from 31 countries. Of the films selected, 45 are from the United States and 38 are international.

The Jacksonville Film Festival is happy to bring back the utterly macabre (horror & unique) category and introduce the faith-based category for the 2022 event. The Jax Film Fest will also be showing LGBTQ+ blocks at the event.

The Jacksonville Film Festival team is thrilled to be adding new categories to the film festival as the event continues to grow in the Jacksonville community.

Feature Narrative

• My Dead Dad - US - Director: Fabio Frey

• The Badger - Iran - Director: Kazem Mollaie

Feature Documentary

• The Fellowship of the Springs - US - Director: Oscar Corral

• GodChaserz The Documentary (Faith-Based) - US - Directors: Brinson Wright & Will Thomas

• Queendom (LGBTQ+) - France - Directors: Marco Novoa & Simon Vivier

• No Visible Trauma - Canada - Directors: Robinder Uppal & Marc Serpa Francoeur

Short Narrative

• 7 Sharp - US - Director: LaCora Stephens

• Abada - Belgium - Country of Filming: France - Director: Jean-Benoît Ugeux

• About Frances - US- Director: Jordan Axelrod

• All of Me - US - Director: Heather Fusari

• Artificial Existence - US - Director: John D. Marshall

• The Book of Knots - US - Director: Robb Rokk

• Betrayed - US - Director: Dale C Metz

• The Burial (El entierro) - Spain - Director: Nicolás Girgenti

• Entre Les Tombes - US - Directors: Romain Lafargue & Thibault Lafargue

• Extra Innings - US - Director: John Gray

• A Hard Goodbye (Un adiós complicado) - Spain - Director: Àngel Andreu

• Heirs (Herederos) - Spain - Director: Txema Ballano

• Iniquity - UK - Director: Oliver Goodrum

• Magdalenas - Spain - Director: José Miguel Santacreu Cortés

• (The Making of) Please Don’t Make me Play Piano Man - US - Director: Steve Nerangis

• Myrtle - UK - Director: Patricia McCormack

• A Night in Cόsmico (Una noche en el cósmico) - Spain - Directors: Luis De Val & Diego Herrero

• No Singing After Eight (Trecut de ora 8) - Romania - Director: Alex Pintică

• Ruthless - Ireland - Countries of Filming: Ireland & UK - Director: Matthew McGuigan

• Sam’s Decision - US - Director: Marcelo Ribeiro Carvalho

• The Sands of Time - UK - Director: James Hughes

• Smiley Death Face - US - Director: Andrew Patrick Torrez

• Son of a Dog (Ο γιος του σκύλου) - Greece - Director: Georgios Mastrakoulis

• The Sound of Water - France - Country of Filming: Japan - Director: J.B. Braud

• Together with Them (Insieme a loro) - Italy - Director: Tommaso Ferrara

LGBTQ+ Short Films

• The Grey Area - US - Directors: Keagan Anfuso & Drew L Brown

• Man up in Lockdown - UK - Director: Ruicheng Liang

• Nicholas - US - Director: Aidan Whitman Baker

• Our Pain - Iran - Director: Mahtab Pishghadam

• Rendez-vous - Iran - Director: Roshanak Ajamian

Faith-Based Short Films

• Nothing Wasted - US - Director: Patrick Clark

Iran to Jax Short Films

• The Box - Iran - Director: Amin Hosseinpour

• Cinema, The Only Shelter - Iran - Director: Masiha Abouali

• Cutstein - Iran - Director: Hamidreza Khosh-Bazan

• Dedicated to Tehran - Iran - Directors: Ali Bateni & Armin Tahmasbi

• Freeway - Iran - Director: Mohammad Akbari

• Hoda’s House - Iran - Director: Hamed Ghasemi

• One Twenty, Twelve Hundred - Iran - Director: Saeid Zarei

• The Recess (زنگ تفریح) - Iran - Director: Navid Nikkhah Azad

• Shadow of the Fox - Iran - Director: Nooshin Meraji

Utterly Macabre (Horror & Unique Short Films)

• Beans (*Not in Competition*)- US - Director: Justen Mann

• Broken Wing - US - Director: Oliver Pearce

• Catarina - France - Director: Pierre Amstutz Roch

• Drip by Drip (A Conta-Gotas) - Brazil - Director: Renata Jesion

• Human Trash - Spain - Director: Aitor Almuedo Esteban

• Oscar - Italy - Director: Riccardo Copreni

• Shadow at the Door - US - Director: Roshni "Rush" Bhatia

• Shelter - US - Director: Noah Harald

• Tech Savvy - US - Director: Scott Vasey

• What the Heck is Going On? - US - Director: Alexander Bale

Short Documentary

• About Father, About Death - Iran - Director: Farhad Hajari

• American Scar - US- Director: Daniel Lombroso

• Bug Farm - US - Director: Lydia Cornett

• Eric & the Bees - US - Directors: Erin Brethauer & Tim Hussin

• Generation 328 - Belarus - Director: Veranika Nikanava

• Golden Age Karate - US - Director: Sindha Agha

• Progress - US - Director: Christopher Boulton

• Some Million Miles - US - Directors: Jared Ragland & Adam Forrester

Student Shorts

• Creature of the Night - US - Director: Kaya Tone

• The Flexed Arm Hang - Canada - Director: Findlay Brown

• Full-Timers - US - Director: Andrew Bourne

• The Gas (Gaz) - Turkey - Director: Utku Çırak

• No Man’s Land - US - Director: Landon Hogue

• Pink is the Color of the Ocean - US - Director: Summer Schantz

• The Shoes - US - Director: Andreas Rothbart

• Your Son - US - Director: Ben Friedman

Student Documentary

• Breaking Vanilla - US - Director: Hollis Rosenkranz

• Inside my House - US - Director: William Andrews

• Once Forgotten - US - Director: Obed Lamy

• Perennial - US - Directors: Grace Shao & Shailee Sankhala

• Sophie in Furbyland - US - Director: Pacey Hansen

• This Takes Time - US - Director: Indie V DiMartino

• Underdogs - US - Director: Alex Astrella

Animation

• Forget Me Not - US - Directors: Courtney LeBlanc & Saige Guevara

• Slice of Adventure - US - Directors: Justin Ethington, Jordan Carney & John McKeon

• Shift - US - Director: Cam Swartz

• Fledgling - Canada - Director: W Chung



Jacksonville Film Festival Team

Festival Director: Niki Logoreci

Program Director: Tim Driscoll

Communications Director: Monica Whitsel

Development Director: Brian Reese

Selection Committee - Documentary Films: Christopher LeClere