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INVISIBLE LINES
SOME STILL SEARCH
STRANGER AT THE GATE
THE DEPORTATION OF A MODEL CITIZEN
THE LETTER MEN
BAREFOOT EMPRESS
SLOW PULSE
SAME OLD

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

THE LETTER MEN
Much of piecing together history is the examination of letters. After all, ancient heads of state and business colleagues didn’t have email or tape recorded

BAREFOOT EMPRESS
Barefoot Empress, an Oscar-qualifying short written and directed by Vikas Khanna, follows the extraordinary journey of 96-year-old Karthiyana Amma as she embarks on her lifelong

SLOW PULSE
In the opening of the Oscar-qualifying short Slow Pulse, we quietly enter the home of a father (Jimmie Fails) who’s had his life turned upside

SAME OLD
Same Old, an Oscar-qualifying short written and directed by Canadian film director and screenwriter Lloyd Lee Choi, is a dark and gritty tale of desperation