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PICTURE DAY
TOMORROW
THE AFTER
RED, WHITE AND BLUE
INVINCIBLE
THE WAKE
KNIGHT OF FORTUNE
SIMO
A GOOD DAY WILL COME
The film establishes a somber mood and opens with our lead character, Arash (Sia Alipour), in a shadowy lit alleyway bringing bags of concrete to
PICTURE DAY
Being on the cusp of your teenage years can be a scary prospect. It’s the cutoff point where the world begins to feel more tangible
TOMORROW
When Tomorrow begins, you almost want to rush to the credits to see if this is an unreleased Pixar short. The kind Disney plays in
THE AFTER
Misan Harriman and David Oyelowo’s The After is no easy watch. It tears a life down without remorse, only to reconstruct it with grace and
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),