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INVINCIBLE
THE WAKE
KNIGHT OF FORTUNE
SIMO
THE BALLAD OF TITA AND THE MACHINES
TROUBLE
NINETY-FIVE SENSES
MY NIGHTS GLOW YELLOW

RED, WHITE AND BLUE
In a country that prides itself on freedom, how can we stand by as women are forced to cross entire states for medical care? When

INVINCIBLE
Written and directed by Vincent René-Lortie, Invincible is a thirty-minute short film based around Marc-Antoine Bernier (Leokim Beaumier-Lepine), a childhood friend of René-Lortie’s. The events

THE WAKE
A shadow races into a thicket, swearing as it pedals frenetically. The winter daylight is fading into night and bare tree arms layer one another,

KNIGHT OF FORTUNE
Writer and director Lasse Lyskjær Noer finds the absurdity in grief, the humor in loss, and the beauty in moving on in his award-winning short

SIMO
Petty sibling rivalry escalates to threaten an entire family’s future in Simo, written and directed by Aziz Zoromba. In the aftermath, Simo (Basal El Rayes),

THE BALLAD OF TITA AND THE MACHINES
Computers are stupid. They keep sending mail to our deceased grandmothers, say our credit cards aren’t valid and send us around the bend because their

TROUBLE
There’s trouble brewing, but it’s not in River City this time. A far cry from the events of the much-loved musical The Music Man, Jacob

NINETY-FIVE SENSES
How do you savor what life gives you in the moments before you lose it all? Directed by Jerusha and Jared Hess (Napoleon Dynamite), Ninety–Five

MY NIGHTS GLOW YELLOW
Our own inability to form relationships is becoming a bigger problem than any of us would care to admit. Fresh off a global pandemic and