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11:11
I MIEI OCCHI (MY EYES)
IVALU
BURROS
NORTH STAR
NAKAM
APPRAISAL

LAIKA & NEMO
Laika & Nemo, an Oscar-qualifying short film written and directed by Jan Gadermann, is a heartwarming animation tale of an Astronaut and a Deep Sea

SADI BIMWALA
Sadi Bimwala began his acting journey at the age of sixteen at the Lola Louis Performing Arts Center in the Bronx. Once he graduated from

11:11
11:11 begins with a young man (L.A. Williams) on the phone with his mother. Screaming into the phone in frustration, she is quite the handful,

I MIEI OCCHI (MY EYES)
I Miei Occhi (My Eyes) takes viewers on a cryptic ride through an urban Italian setting. A woman (Kseniya Rappoport) sitting in the driver’s seat

IVALU
Anders Walter’s beautiful Oscar-qualifying short drama Ivalu deals with the most tragic of subjects in a sublime fashion. Although its scope is relatively narrow, it

BURROS
The capital of the Tohono O’odham Nation happens to be 20 miles from the Mexican border. Thousands of migrants travel through the searing-hot Sonoran Desert

NORTH STAR
North Star, an Oscar-qualifying short film written and directed by P.J. Palmer, is a stunningly touching look inside the story of two partners and their

NAKAM
In Hebrew, Nakam means revenge, and from 1939-1945, the Jewish people had ample justification for resorting to the mindset. But even in the face of

APPRAISAL
Appraisal, written and directed by Anna Koukouli Born, depicts the struggle all women face when returning to work from maternity leave. The pressure they feel