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SIMO
THE BALLAD OF TITA AND THE MACHINES
TROUBLE
NINETY-FIVE SENSES
MY NIGHTS GLOW YELLOW
PERSPECTIVES
THE OLD YOUNG CROW
THE ONE NOTE MAN

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

PERSPECTIVES
Just how elusive is the truth in the digital age? How much of what we are allowed to see is the full story? These are

THE OLD YOUNG CROW
In Liam LoPinto’s The Old Young Crow, poetry transforms into the visual language of film in a beautiful and well-crafted meditation on youth, identity, and

THE ONE NOTE MAN
The One Note Man, a short film directed by George Siougas, is much more than a one note story. Telling the tale of an orchestra