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STRANGER AT THE GATE
THE DEPORTATION OF A MODEL CITIZEN
THE LETTER MEN
LUYING WANG
MATIAS FIGUEROA
BAREFOOT EMPRESS
SLOW PULSE
THE OUT

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

LUYING WANG
Director Luying Wang started as a writer with her literature background. It has always been a great pleasure for her to look for different types

MATIAS FIGUEROA
Dimensions of Self is written, produced and stars Matias Figueroa. While living through a deep personal moment, Figueroa created this parabolic metaphorical view around the

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

THE OUT
It is palpably evident that writer-director Harry Brandrick’s short drama The Out (BAFTA Qualifying) represents a deeply personal project for the filmmaker. Dealing with drug