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SELECTIONS 2019
GLAS 2019 OFFICIAL SELECTIONS After receiving over 3400 submissions we are excited to announce the Official Competition Selections. We are also pleased to announce the selections for Children’s Competition, US Competition, and International Showcase.Still | Title | Description | Category |
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32-Rbit By: Victor Orozco Ramirez Country of Production:: Germany/Mexico Competition 5 | My grandmother was convinced that the only animal that made the same mistake twice is the human being. An essay short film about my very own Internet, a parallel world where memory loss, errors, surveillance and addiction smear everything and everyone. | Official Competition | |
A Fly in the Restaurant By: Xi Chen Country of Production: China Competition 5 | In a restaurant in China, waiters try to swat flies while a number of diners eat their food. | Official Competition | |
Acid Rain By: Tomek Popakul California Premiere Production: Poland Filmmaker Nationality: Polish GUEST Competition 5 | After running away from her depressing village in the Eastern Europe, a teenage girl meets a new friend under a brigde. | Official Competition | |
AGOURO By: David Doutel & Vasco Sa Country of Production: Portugal Competition 3 | A harsh winter freezes the surface of a river, close to a house where two cousins live. Immersed in the cold wind that rises that day, the rudeness of their relationship grows, reaching its limit. | Official Competition | |
Agua Viva By: Alexa Lim Haas Country of Production: USA GUEST Competition 3 | A Chinese manicurist in Miami attempts to describe feelings she doesn't have the words for. | Official Competition | |
Apart By: Diana Cam Van Nguyen Country of Production: Czech Republic Competition 2 | This short film about life after the loss of a loved one deals with a difficult topic, using techniques of both live-action and animated film. Real experiences of the narrators are combined with animated sequences reconstructing painful situations, looking into the thoughts of three young people untimely exposed to death. | Official Competition | |
Between Us Two By: Wei Keong Tan Country of Production: Singapore GUEST Competition 4 | A gay son talks to his dead mother. | Official Competition | |
Beware the Intuition By: Robin Courtel Country of Production: France Competition 3 | A monkey lives in a suburban house. Strange little men are trying to end that madness. | Official Competition | |
Bloeistraat 11 By: Nienke DEUTZ Country of Production: Belgium/Netherlands Competition 2 | Inseparable best friends spend their last summer holiday of childhood amusing themselves around the house. As summer progresses their bodies start to morph and shift and an awkwardness descends on their friendship. Puberty seems determined to interrupt their bond. | Official Competition | |
Ce Gout en bouche By: Laura Passalacqua Country of Production: France Competition 5 | The bedroom is an empty place while the garden is full of huge and weird familiar entities. In these spaces, the astonished character begins a disturbing self-analysis. | Official Competition | |
Chimera By: Caleb Wood Country of Production: USA GUEST Competition 3 | A source of creation, omen of disaster. | Official Competition | |
Currents By: Xinyi Zhu Country of Production: USA Competition 3 | “Currents” is a digital animation, shifting through the uncontrollable time scales along with the locations and eras. The main character gets lost in places, lost in times, and lost in realities. He sinks into the water as descending into the uncontrollable realities, an unstable state of perception in which one seems to be more than oneself, and more than one place at the same time. | Official Competition | |
DONT KNOW WHAT By: Thomas Renholder Country of Production: Austria North America Premiere GUEST Competition 1 | DONT KNOW WHAT - when art and entertainment clash - | Official Competition | |
Egg Martina Scarpelli Country of Production: France/Denmark Competition 4 | A woman is locked in her home with an egg, which she is both attracted to and scared of. She eats the egg, she repents. She kills it. She lets the egg die of hunger. | Official Competition | |
Egg Touching Peter Millard Country of Production: UK GUEST Competition 4 | A group of 4 friends get together and discuss how they want to touch an egg. | Official Competition | |
Embraced By: Justine Vuylsteker Country of Production: Canada Competition 4 | Standing before an open window, a woman gazes at black clouds darkening the horizon. She loves two men—the one who shares her present, and the one who marked her past. Frozen, she struggles against surging memories evoked by objects, the sky—everything. In the clouds, a passionately intertwined couple appears. | Official Competition | |
Fest By: Nikita Diakur Country of Production: Germany GUEST Competition 1 | Drone. Stunt. Rave. | Official Competition | |
Good Intentions By: Anna Mantzaris Country of Production: UK Competition 1 | After a young woman is responsible for a hit and run, strange and spooky things starts to happen... A small thriller about people that are not always the best at making decisions. | Official Competition | |
Grands Canons By: Alain BIET Country of Production: France Competition 4 | Superimposed, condensed, multiplied, thousands of documentary drawings in successive series come to life on the screen, composing a veritable visual symphony of everyday objects. | Official Competition | |
Half Asleep By: Caibei Cai Country of Production: UK Competition 4 | One room, two half bodies, a silent relationship. | Official Competition | |
Hedge By: Amanda Bonaiuto Country of Production: USA GUEST Competition 5 | A family visits a funeral home. | Official Competition | |
How Steel Was Tempered By: Igor Grubic Country of Production: Croatia Competition 1 | A father takes his son to an abandoned factory where he once worked. The building has long been reduced to a crumbling symbol of the new system. Nonetheless, the space will briefly be brought to life by recorded scenes of workers solidarity, inspiring a small gesture of defiance. That symbolic act will turn into a moment of catharsis and re-establish the relationship between the father and son. | Official Competition | |
III By: Marta Pajek Country of Production: Poland Competition 5 | A sudden meeting of a Man and a Woman begins a hypnotic act – a game of pleasure and discomfort. | Official Competition | |
I'm Going out for cigarettes By: Osman Cerfon Country of Production: France Competition 1 | Jonathan, twelve years old, lives with his sister, his mother and also some men. They all have the same face and nest in closets, drawers, TV set… | Official Competition | |
Kids By: Michael Frei & Mario von Rickenbach Country of Production: Switzerland North American Premiere GUEST Competition 2 | An animated short exploring group dynamics. How do we define ourselves when we are all equal? | Official Competition | |
Les lèvres gercées By: Kelsi Phung Country of Production: France Competition 2 | In a kitchen, a mother and a child struggle to establish dialogue. | Official Competition | |
Like Us Lovers By: Dotan Moreno Country of Production: Israel Competition 4 | In a suburb in Israel, two fathers meet after their kids get into an accident. One insecure and unhappily married and the other divorced and unemployed, they slowly get involved in each other’s life. | Official Competition | |
Mr. Deer By: Mojtaba Mousavi Country of Production: Israel GUEST Competition 3 | The story is narrated in an unknown time, in a ruined modern subway. People in this society have animal faces, they have forgotten humanity and ethics and they do not avoid sins. There is someone with a deer face who is trying to reform the society. | Official Competition | |
Museum Guard By: Alexander Gratzer Country of Production: Austria Competition 5 | What does a museum guard do when he thinks no one is watching? He stands around; stays stoically at his post; is motionless, silent. A static take, a barren space, a character, an incredible voice - a moving snapshot. A minimalist action film that celebrates the little things - filled with charm, emotion, and beauty. (Michelle Koch - Diagonale 2017) | Official Competition | |
Nothing Happens By: Michelle and Uri Kranot Country of Production: Denmark Competition 4 | NOTHING HAPPENS offers a new way of looking. It is about spectatorship - about watching and being watched. It is about being present. | Official Competition | |
On Ambition, Courtship, & Procreation By: Pernille Kjaer Country of Production: Denmark World Premiere GUEST Competition 2 | On Ambition, Courtship and Procreation is a film about the cyclic nature of life, love, the universe, and everything. Simple colorful shapes in different constellations perform small tasks in long never-ending loops. Their repetitive and random choreographies express both humor and poetry. It is an abstract representation of the state of being that all living things either endure or enjoy. | Official Competition | |
Paper Trail By: Jake Fried Country of Production: USA Competition 1 | Fried works with ink, white-out and collage to generate hallucinatory vistas, modifying and shooting the images over and over to create a mind-bending animation that evolves at a frenzied pace. | Official Competition | |
Per Tutta la vita By: Roberto Catani Country of Production: Italy/France Competition 5 | Through a journey back in memory, a woman and a man retrace the more important moments of their love story. | Official Competition | |
Roughhouse By: Jonathan Hodgson Country of Production: UK Competition 1 | Three friends embark on a new adventure in a strange town, but when a manipulative new member joins their gang their loyalty is torn apart with terrifying consequences. | Official Competition | |
Sister By: Siqi Song Production: China/USA GUEST Competition 3 | A man remembers his childhood memory of growing up with an annoying little sister in 1990s China. How would his life have been if things had gone differently? | Official Competition | |
Slug Life By: Sophie Koko Gate Country of Production: UK US Premiere GUEST Competition 5 | We follow a day in the life of Tanya, a curious woman who has developed a taste for non human lovers. This time her bedroom experiments result in the manifestation of a beautiful giant slug. Has she finally found the formula for total perfection? If so, can such a thing survive in this gnarly world full of freaks and beefs? | Official Competition | |
Solar Walk By: Reka Bucsi Country of Production: Denmark GUEST Competition 3 | Solar Walk shows the journey of individuals and their creations on through time and space. Any meaning of action is only existent from the perspective of the individual, but never mandatory when looking at it from the perspective of a solar system. It’s about the melancholy of accepting chaos as beautiful and cosmic. Passion for creation is projected through the unique and playful texture of the animation craft itself. | Official Competition | |
Take The Five By: Conner Griffith Country of Production: USA GUEST Competition 2 | Vistas of the California Interstate Five highway set to Richard Tee's rendition of 'Take the A-Train'. | Official Competition | |
La Chute By: Boris Labbe Country of Production: France Competition 2 | As celestial beings descend to Earth vitiating its population, the world’s order unbalances. Initiated by these terms, a tragic fall leads to the parturition of crucial opposites: Hell and Heaven’s circles. | Official Competition | |
The Night of the Plastic Bags By: Gabriel Harel Country of Production: France Competition 2 | Agathe will be 39 soon and she is not a mother yet. She goes to her ex, Marc-Antoine, a DJ mixing in a bunker. While she is trying a move in order to get back with him and to have a child, plastic bags come to life and attack. | Official Competition | |
The Sister's Bedroom By: Claire Brognez Country of Production: Canada Competition 1 | Louise enjoys a private moment to open her treasure box in the room she shares with her little sister. She does not know that she has been hiding under her bed to spy on her. The film deals with sensuality through a both charming and erotic experience of an involuntary interaction between two sisters. | Official Competition | |
Winners Bitch By: Sam Gurry Country of Production: USA California Premiere GUEST Competition 1 | “The class bitch who has defeated all other class bitches of that breed at that show is the ONE female of that breed to be awarded points towards her championship”. Virginia Hampton was an all breed American Kennel Club judge from 1963-2002. She was a doting mother, breeder of Collies, and proponent of the Akita. Two of those things are lies. | Official Competition | |
Your Eyes, Will I Ever By: Félicien Colmet Daâge Country of Production: France Competition 4 | In a house lost in the middle of the desert a man sees his girlfriend gradually transform into a butterfly. | Official Competition | |
Adorable By: Cheng-Hsu Chung Country of Production: UK International Showcase 1 | ADORABLE is an animated film that presents a journey of a queer person where he explores his sexuality and the queer community; the film illustrates an observation of the modern queer society and fantasies toward the freedom of gender fluidity. This work is to reflect the real situation of the community where discriminations, freedom, and love coexist. | International Showcase | |
Finity Calling By: Jasper Kuipers Country of Production: Netherlands International Showcase 1 | In search of his boundaries, a boy violates the strict social rules inside the room. When the fragile equilibrium in the group is broken, the results are explosive. | International Showcase | |
Floreana By: Louis Morton Country of Production: Denmark International Showcase 1 | On a remote island in the future, people are training for an important mission. Take a look at the mechanics of this training facility and the creatures within. | International Showcase | |
Giant Bear By: Daniel Gies & Neil Christopher Country of Production: Canada North America Premiere GUEST International Showcase 2 | A timeless Inuit legend about a solitary man, a giant bear and their daunting foes: each other. | International Showcase | |
I'm Ok By: Elizabeth Hobbs Country of Production: Canada International Showcase 2 | Following the end of a fiery and passionate love affair with Alma Mahler, Austrian Expressionist artist Oskar Kokoschka enlists to fight in the First World War. During battle he suffers serious wounds, and as the medics rush the injured Kokoschka through the forests of the Russian front, he is overtaken by a fever of fleeting memories and visions. Playful, imaginative and audacious, I’m OK explores the visible and invisible wounds of heartbreak and trauma. | International Showcase | |
Live a Little By: Jenny Jokela Country of Production: UK International Showcase 2 | ’Live a Little’ taps into the pressures and the amounts of self-control that goes into being a ”good woman” in a patriarchal society, by following a character who rather than straining herself to reach these ideals allows herself to be as emotional and “too much” as she herself pleases. | International Showcase | |
OBON By: Andre Hormann & Anna Samo Country of Production: USA/Germany California Premiere GUEST International Showcase 2 | Akiko Takakura, one of the last remaining survivors of the atomic bomb attack on Hiroshima, tells her life story. She describes how, amidst the terror and nightmares, she found a moment of rare closeness with her father | International Showcase | |
Raymonde and the vertical landscape By: Sarah Van Den Boom Country of Production: France International Showcase 1 | Raymonde is really fed up with peas, aphids, dirty panties and her kitchen garden to dig. After all, she would prefer sex, and love, and the immensity of the sky... | International Showcase | |
Reruns By: Rosto Country of Production: Netherlands International Showcase 1 | Everything’s different but nothing has changed. A trip through a sunken maze of memories and dreams. | International Showcase | |
Rhizoma By: Santiago Pérez Rodríguez Country of Production: Belgium & Colombia International Showcase 2 | Hounds and transmission towers. Frequencies of flesh and electric howls. A disturbing atmosphere where the animal, the organic and the industrial blend. | International Showcase | |
Sahara Palace By: Zélie Durand-Khalifat Country of Production: France International Showcase 2 | Inside the Sahara Palace hotel, silence, dereliction and sand. It’s in this fragile and out of time place that memories of an unknown grandfather appear. Zélie Durand brings back to life the ghost of her grandfather in an intimate documentary that mixes volume animation and family archives. | International Showcase | |
Sounds Good By: Sander Joon Country of Production: Estonia International Showcase 1 | Boom operator is trying to record the sound of mushrooms. | International Showcase | |
The Missing Pig By: Cecilia Corzo Country of Production: UK California Premiere GUEST International Showcase 2 | A mysterious pig disappearance brings chaos to a small town | International Showcase | |
Untravel By: Ana Nedeljkovic and Nikola Majdak Country of Production: Serbia International Showcase 1 | A film about (local) patriotism, tourism and emigration. The girl lives in a gray, isolated country, enclosed by a huge wall. She has never travelled anywhere, but all her life she has dreamt of leaving forever for a perfect world called “Abroad”. | International Showcase | |
Wildebeest By: Nicolas Keppens and Matthaias Plips Country of Production: Belgium International Showcase 2 | Going on a safari is a dream for many. For middle-aged couple Linda and Troyer, it turns into a horribly real adventure when they get left behind in the wilderness. | International Showcase | |
ATHLETICUS: Gardien de gymnase By: Nicolas Deveaux Family Competition 1 | An elephant nonchalantly tidy up a deserted gym. He secretly dreams of becoming a basketball champion. | Family Competition | |
But Jane Was Deaf By: Tobias Rud Country of Production: Canada GUEST Family Competition 1 | A grand gesture goes unnoticed. | Family Competition | |
Cloudy By: Zuzana Cupova, Filip Diviak Country of Production: Czech Republic Family Competition 1 | Mr. Gnome is sunbathing in his garden when suddenly little cloud hides the sun. Mr. Gnome is pretty annoyed but fortunately, he knows precisely what to do with such clouds. | Family Competition | |
Dum dee bolala dum By: Peter Millard Country of Production: UK California Premiere GUEST Family Competition 2 | dum ba dee dee eeeh eeh bolala hum hum grum | Family Competition | |
Fire in Cardboard City By: Phil Brough Country of Production: New Zealand Family Competition 1 | When a city made from cardboard catches fire it is up to the local fire chief and his brave deputies to save Cardboard City from total destruction. | Family Competition | |
Flipped By: Hend Esmat, Lamiaa Diab Country of Production: Egypt Family Competition 1 | FLIPPED explores the absurdity of a world where the roles of kids and adults are switched. The story follows a day full of bizarrely reversed interactions, unravelling the dynamics of this relationship. The kids are challenged to deal with the big size difference and unpredictable nature of the childish adults, while adults gain back kids’ qualities, let go of all responsibilities and become children once again. | Family Competition | |
Hors Piste by Leo Brunel, Loris Cavalier, Camille Jalabert, Oscar Malet Country of Production: France Family Competition 2 | The two best rescue workers of the region are ready for their new mission. Despite their professionalism and their determination, it will not go as planned... | Family Competition | |
Goldie By: Emily Brundige Country of Production: USA GUEST Family Competition 1 | A giant girl (Charlyne Yi) feels out of scale in her colorful little town, only to realize she takes up just the right amount of space. | Family Competition | |
Hedgehog By: Vaibhav Keswani, Jeanne Laureau, Colombine Majou, Morgane Mattard, Kaisa Pirttinen, Jong-ha Yoon Country of Production: France Family Competition 2 | A little boy speaks about hedgehogs all the time to everybody. | Family Competition | |
KO Scotty By: Thee Khanthavit Country of Production: Thailand Family Competition 2 | Scotty is a young bear who turns to be a Muay Thai kick boxer. He got fired from a company after the financial crisis. Until one day, he got an invitation from his coach to a fight with a champion. Let’s see what’s the final result? And how has Scotty learned from this fight? | Family Competition | |
Kuap By: Nils Hedinger Country of Production: Switzerland Family Competition 2 | A tadpole somehow misses out on becoming a frog and is left behind, alone. But there is much to discover in the pond and spring is sure to come again next year. A little story about growing up. | Family Competition | |
Little Red Riding Hood By: Martina Hocova Country of Production: Czech Republic Family Competition 2 | Short adaptation of the fairytale Red Riding Hood. The story is written by a czech autor Alois Mikulka whose stories are filled with humour. This is not a typical story of a Red Riding Hood. The story begins in a traditional way, the werewolf meets the Red Riding Hood and tries his tricks to get the food she carries with her, but soon enough he finds out that it is better not to play around with this Red Riding Hood. She very swiftly grabs the werewolf, introduces him to her grandmother and makes him a household pet. | Family Competition | |
Lost and Found By: Andrew Goldsmith & Bradley Slabe Country of Production: Australia California Premiere GUEST Family Competition 1 | A bumbling knitted dinosaur must unravel himself to save the love of his life. | Family Competition | |
Mushroom Park By: Timothy Rauch Country of Production: USA World Premiere GUEST Family Competition 2 | Two friends locked in a love-hate relationship bury a dead frog as rain begins to fall. They make a fateful decision to wait out the storm under a tree and wake up in a world quite unlike the one they left behind. | Family Competition | |
My Best Friend Explodes By: Will Anderson, Ainslie Henderson Country of Production: Scotland/UK GUEST Family Competition 1 | Two reflexive animated characters cling to sanity inside the changing parameters of their world. Three short films made for ‘Adult Swim’. | Family Competition | |
Night Moves By: Falk Schuster Country of Production: Germany California Premiere GUEST Family Competition 1 | Deep in the night when everyone is fast asleep, funny shapes and jolly beasts rumble through the bedroom. There is so much to discover! Only the break of dawn will put an end to their nightly adventures. But dusk is only a stone's throw away. | Family Competition | |
Pops and Branwell By: Aleks Sennwald, Pete Toms Country of Production: USA Family Competition 2 | Pops and Branwell, two kid detectives, suspect a traitor in their squad as they chase a soup robbing thief. | Family Competition | |
Preschool Poets By: Nancy Kangas, Josh Kun Country of Production: USA California Premiere GUEST Family Competition 2 | Nancy Kangas and documentary filmmaker Josh Kun asked award-winning international artists to animate these poems, and the resulting hand-crafted animations show a depth and complexity of expression we don’t expect from 4-year olds. The films are fueled by the children’s untethered imaginations, but they open a portal to the real world of growing up in the inner city. | Family Competition | |
Stuffed By: Élise Simoulin, Édouard Heutte, Clotilde Bonnotte, Anna Komaromi, Marisa Di Vora Peixoto, Helena Bastioni Country of Production: France Family Competition 1 | An emotionally unstable cat makes a strange encounter that helps him to grow up and learn to overcome his anger. | Family Competition | |
Teofrastus By: Sergei Kibus Country of Production: Estonia Family Competition 1 | A tale of freedom and compassion, set in the 1980s Soviet Estonia, as experienced by a cat and recounted by its owner. Cat Teofrastus lives a homeless life at a train station. One day, he is offered a home by a family living in a nearby countryside house. However, the happy life is short-lived when the cat is taken to the big city and gets lost on the streets. Will Teofrastus find his way back to happiness? | Family Competition | |
The Bird and the Whale By: Carol Freeman Country of Production: Ireland Family Competition 2 | The Bird and the Whale is a story about a young whale struggling to find his voice. After straying too far from his family to explore a shipwreck, he discovers it’s sole survivor, a caged songbird. Together they struggle to survive lost at sea. | Family Competition | |
Albatross Soup By: Winnie Cheung US Competition | A dizzying descent into deductive reasoning animated from illustrations by celebrated Toronto artist Fiona Smyth, "Albatross Soup" is a hybrid documentary film based on an entertaining yet disturbing lateral thinking puzzle. With the help of the team at Radiolab, over 50 people have been recorded trying to guess this riddle using only “yes” or “no” questions. The film is a visual representation of the riddle unraveling as we hear a rapid fire kaleidoscopic soundscape of questions from each participant. | US Competition | |
Ballerina By: Steven Subotnick California Premiere GUEST US Competition | ...between an angry ballerina and her audience... | US Competition | |
Bike Trip By: Tom Schroeder US Competition | The third and final film in Tom Schroeder’s “Bike” animated documentary series. Two bikers travel 500 miles to ask a question about beer. | US Competition | |
꽃 Flora By: Chaerin Im North America Premiere GUEST US Competition | Experimental animation about gender and sexuality, the awkwardness of division. Uncanny sculptures of vagina and penis are the main element. | US Competition | |
Guidance By: David Delafuente World Premiere GUEST US Competition | "The function of the wrestler is not to win; it is to go through the motions which are expected of him." | US Competition | |
Guster By: John Kelley US Competition | Through brief conversations with an adaptive chatbot, a professor sees more clearly his own creativity and depression in this animated short. "GUSTER" is based on actual messages and poetry written by the titular app. | US Competition | |
No Man is an Island By: Jack Wedge US Premiere GUEST US Competition | Life in chaos! | US Competition | |
Prist By: Eric Ko US Competition | Uio Loi is an experimental electronic musician who interweaves computer-generated notation with hand crafted melodies. I wanted to mirror that with the visuals, combining an aesthetic inspired by auto-generated content and detritus found throughout the web and intimate and personal textural imagery that can only be captured manually - hand-drawn and hand-painted animation, super-8 footage, and hand-held video recordings. | US Competition | |
Random Thoughts By: Steven Vander Meer GUEST US Competition | An undaunted filmmaker searches for inspiration... and a bathroom. | US Competition | |
Reverie By: Henry McClellan California Premiere GUEST US Competition | Meryl is having a hard time discerning fantasy from reality and the birds are acting weird too. Don't read too closely into the bad omens. | US Competition | |
Solipsism By: Tuna Bora & Jonathan Djob Nkondo US Competition | If a girl crosses the border between her internal and external world/reality and no one is around to see it, does this animated short really exist? | US Competition | |
Sparky By: xinbaonuzi GUEST US Competition | Sparky likes to gaze out of the window, to see every possible or impossible thing. | US Competition | |
Sun Zoom Spark By: Gina Kamentsky US Competition | The magnetic sun looms over lonely water towers and hidden spaces under a highway overpass. Inspired by the song "Sun Zoom Spark" by Don Van Vliet, aka Captain Beefheart. Painting, drawing and rotoscope on 70mm film. Sound recorded using contact microphones on bridge structures. | US Competition | |
The Backward Astronomer By: Jacob Nelson GUEST US Competition | A privileged, young man falls in love with a wealthy woman and together they lead reckless lives of opulence in New York City. That is, until he finds something better—a doorway leading directly to the surface of the moon. | US Competition | |
The Trick By: Andrea Nakhla GUEST US Competition | The newest collaboration between writer Nada Alic and visual artist Andrea Nakhla "The Trick" is a subversive short film about self-help. "Full of wit and humour, The Trick guides the viewer on a journey through modern manners. Think of it as a playful, animated, and knowing chat with the most hippy-dippy friend of yours, and you’ll be halfway there. | US Competition | |
Wayside By: Angela Stempel GUEST US Competition | Entering a yoga class can become more than you bargained for. | US Competition |