Screening Date: Saturday, July 18, 2026 at 1pm at NetPark Conference Center Auditorium,
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The Sigmund Freud Film Festival & Challenge on Film Freeway
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The Competitive Films
(Films that included the elements and are eligible for major awards)
CONSENT- Denton James Cordell
(based in Orlando, FL )
Consent follows Janine Morales, a young woman who begins to realize something in her life no longer adds up. As memory gaps and emotional disorientation deepen, she discovers she once paid for an experimental procedure to erase a painful memory. With no recollection of what she chose to forget, Janine is forced to confront the man who performed the procedure and the consequences of a decision she can’t remember making. Caught between healing and control, she must decide what agency means when the truth has been taken from her.
ALONE TOGETHER – Werner Jaunch
(based in Trinity, FL )
SMOKING HOT – Werner Jauch
(based in Trinity, FL)
DECKERINNERUNG – Raymond Ritzau
(Based in Washington, DC)
A Story of family trauma .
Non-Competitive Films
All of these films qualify for consideration for the Favorite Audience Film Award.
INSOMNIA – Vladimir Vinogradov
(based in St. Petersburg, Russia)
After a suicide attempt, a girl finds herself in a dark forest, as if from her worst nightmares. A mysterious Demon reigns here, and fears take physical form. This world becomes a trap: to find a way out, she must face her own demons head-on. If she fails, she will remain here forever. Her time is running out.
BRO DOWN LOW – Sean P Hall
(based in USA)
Lyle wants to kill his brother for ruining a potential romance.
A COUNTRY IN A STATE OF NUMBNESS – Nafir Rahsepar
(based in Iran)
A girl jolts awake to the sound of chants of “Death to Israel” and ideological slogans. Over the course of a single day, she gradually realizes that this chant, rather than creating an external enemy, has destroyed her own life. But as night falls, a light of hope shines into her life—a hope that is not a permanent salvation, but one that gradually splits a city from within, tearing it apart piece by piece.
FOLLOWING – kiarash shiravand
(based in Iran)
A boy notices that a motorcyclist with an unknown face is following him. He wants to know the identity of this motorcyclist, who, in fact, realizes that this motorcyclist is completely mental and is an image of himself who had a motorcycle accident a few months ago, and his little brother died, and he did not accept that memory.
DEATH MATCH – Johnmark Thomas
(based in USA)
Two people are held hostage by a mysterious man against their will, forcing them to play a dangerous game of chess while secrets are unraveled.
LIARS OF BLACK MOUNTAIN – Parker Croft
(based in West Hollywood, California)
When a couple runs over a stranger’s dog, they compete for the moral high ground at any cost.
HELL – Parker Croft
(based in West Hollywood, CA)
A place where dreams are real, wishes come true, and everything is always awful for everyone. The first installment of the Hard Times anthology, Hell, follows the patriarch of a dying farm on the outskirts of Ash Harbor as he is methodically ground down by the machinery of despair. What begins as endurance curdles into something far more existential, a portrait of collapse told through dust, labor, and silence.
IN PLAIN SIGHT – Alexander Maxwell
(Based in Windmere, FL)
Two intertwined stories of cause and effect. A story highlighting the deep-rooted issues of silence, complicity, negligence, and unchecked cruelty that lead to a vicious cycle of violence doomed to repeat itself.
THE PLANET THAT DOES NOT EXIST – Nadav Embon
(Based in Israel)
Prof. Star l’Etoile, 23 years old, has discovered a planet, which earned her a statue, three medals, and the position as head of astronomy worldwide. Her hobbies include practicing mathematics and not going outside. Now she is on the eve of the discovery of another planet.
SECOND CHANCE (DRUGA SZANKSA) – Piotr Szymon Suszka
(Based in Poland)
How much would you risk to get your life back? “Second Chance” combines thriller, action cinema, metaphysical elements, and themes related to artificial intelligence in a story about loss, redemption, and the struggle to reclaim one’s life.
The 2026 Sigmund Freud Film Festival & Challenge Judges
Patryk Godlewski is a Polish-born filmmaker based in Florida whose passion for storytelling has driven him to create films since his teenage years.
Award-winning visual storyteller, photographer, artist, and creative dedicated to documenting the everyday and celebrating powerful human stories.
Tampa-Based Actor
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Prizes – Grand Prize Award to the Best Film, Awards also for Best Actor and Actress Performance, Best Editing, Best Use of Story Elements, Best Story, Best Adaptation of Freud Theory for the competitive films only. All films are eligible for the Favorite Festival Film Award, which will be announced at the screening.
The Sigmund Freud Festival &Challenge is a tribute to the theories of Sigmund Freud and is produced by The Evolutionary Film Festival, a production of The Evolutionary Project (https://theevolutionaryproject.wordpress.com/)
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The 8th Annual Sigmund Freud Film Festival & Challenge 