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YELLOW
THE STUPID BOY
ALMOST HOME
AN IRISH GOODBYE
INVISIBLE LINES
SOME STILL SEARCH
STRANGER AT THE GATE
THE DEPORTATION OF A MODEL CITIZEN

ISLA SOLEDAD
From Isla Soledad’s captivating opening shot to its moving conclusion, it becomes clear that filmmaker Omar Deneb Juárez and Academy Award Winner Chris Overton’s production

YELLOW
There’s an achingly beautiful touch of precision and beauty that comes with personal films. Regardless of culture, politics, or religion, they are bound to resonate

THE STUPID BOY
In a world divided by hate, perhaps love is the answer. Leave it to filmmaker Phil Dunn to turn that somewhat simplistic statement into a

ALMOST HOME
Science fiction exists to make us imagine – and spaceships, robots, aliens and parallel universes are never far from view. On the other hand, the

AN IRISH GOODBYE
Gentle, funny and touching, Tom Berkeley and Ross White’s short dramedy, An Irish Goodbye, just about achieves all of its modest ambitions. It seamlessly sustains

INVISIBLE LINES
Invisible Lines, an Oscar-qualifying short written, directed and produced by Yuval Shrem, delves into the highly sensitive topic of workplace harassment. With sexual misconduct rightfully

SOME STILL SEARCH
Nesaru Tchaas’s short film Some Still Search plunges the viewer into the midst of the ongoing immigration crisis. It adopts a deeply intimate approach, portraying

STRANGER AT THE GATE
Stranger At The Gate, an Oscar-Qualifying short documentary, written and directed by Joshua Seftel, is an exploratory view into the mind of Richard “Mac” McKinney,

THE DEPORTATION OF A MODEL CITIZEN
In The Deportation of a Model Citizen, a young girl in Denmark faces deportation back to Syria. Torture and/or execution awaiting, the stakes are never