Francesco Cocco
15 min | 2019 | Spain | East Coast Premiere
Alicia puts make-up on her face after yet another special night. The intimacy of her world is broken by the doorbell ringing. On the other side of the door there's Ida, her mother, with some flowers as a birthday gift and her face strained by the gravity of what she's about to confess.
Mostafa Rostampour and Atefeh Rezayan
10 min | 2019 | Iran | US Premiere
The story of Tahereh, a victim of a premature marriage has just heard of the wedding arrangements being made for her younger sister. Tahereh is obsessed to protect her from the fate she is living.
Luc Godonou Dossou
15 min | 2019 | Switzerland | US Premiere
Inside the cockfighting pits in Thailand, in Philippines and the ones in Guadeloupe, Aod, Edgar and Dolores are preparing their roosters for an upcoming fight in front of a public of bettors and aficionados. For the Thais, the Filipinos and the Guadeloupeans, this ritualized sport runs through their veins meanwhile it is a tradition that seems meant to disappear.
Ronja Hemm
38 min | 2019 | Germany/Nepal
Nepal is facing a generational change. Two daughters of a Tamang family are preparing to study abroad. Their hopes for a better life are high, but the price is immeasurable. They must leave behind what is most treasured, their family. A beautiful intimate window into the lives of women still living traditionally and the younger women who are encouraged by their mothers to reach for more.
Jianna Maarten
25 min | 2019 | US | East Coast Premiere
A beautifully captured story of a young boy in a Mexican border town who hustles any way he can to help his family but learns some very cruel realities when the girl he likes gets 'disappeared'. Based on true stories from La Frontera.
Paul Marques Duarte
25 min | 2018 | France | East Coast Premiere
When Adèle, an english teacher, spontaneously lets a young 15 years old migrant, illegally board a ferry for England with her class, she is far from grasping the importance of her gesture and its consequences on this overnight trip.
Morad Mostafa
23 min | 2020 | Egypt | US Premiere
Halima, a Sudanese henna painter goes to Basma's, a young Egyptian bride to prepare her for her wedding. Under the eyes of her daughter Ward, the encounter between the two women grows from complicity to suddenly unveiled tensions.
Mahmood Pouyandeh
14 min | 2019 | Iran | US Premiere
A young mother is invited to a birthday party in the affluent area of northern Tehran with the traditional and religious trends that live alone with her 10 years old son. In the middle of a birthday party, the mother noticed behaviors from her son who had not met before, and the mother had to leave the party.
María Guerra
13 min | 2018 | Spain
A comedy in the Spanish tradition…after the sudden death of Alvaro, Julia "his widow", watches over him in their home when she is surprised by an unpleasant visitor, Susana, Alvaro’s first wife who has come with the legitimate intention of saying goodbye to him.
