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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

Don’t try this at home is a trope we’ve all heard before, and the elders among us are the first to say that their adolescent

THE CAR SPOTTER
Some folks go birdwatching. Trainspotting is a thing. Just when one thinks they’ve seen it all, comes Martin Sandin’s highly unusual short film The Car

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Pursuing your passion versus filling your pocket – it’s a tightrope that every artist has to walk. For our purposes, Moira Shearer (Shannon Davidson) is