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Title: Sensus Mori
Runtime: 8 min
Country: USA
Director: Sydney Rincón
Placement: Award of Merit
Competition: September, 2025
Synopsis: When an elusive society agrees to be interviewed, a journalist must contend with their ideologies or risk falling prey herself.
In a tumultuous Fall of 1969, Lydia, a spry young journalist searches for a story and a name for herself. This obsession brings her to the Sonder Society, a private collective on the edge of town with a strange way of presenting themselves. When invited to a private dinner, Lydia learns more of the Society’s strange manners and of her own sense of self.