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.