The grumpy factory employee Hans Himmelreich has to travel behind the Iron Curtain into a profoundly communist Czechoslovakia of the sixties to have his deceased grandmother buried. Despite prejudice he unexpectedly finds happiness in this Sudeten German province.
Othello has no reason to feel insecure - he is distinguished, successful in occupation and politics and married to a beautiful and interesting woman. But the many voices of Iago begin their treacherous game - and in the narrow confines that are his entire universe, Othello cannot even grasp the i...
A haunting, abstract and experimental narrative of a woman in the streets of Gaza surrounded by the devastation after the bombs have stopped. She has been helping others, but revelations show it is she who now needs help.
A woman slogs through an identity mired with gendered stereotypes and consumer capitalism to attempt to discover her true self. What is “natural” or “original” becomes inaccessible, forgotten, and nonexistent.
LOU-ANN, a shy 6 year old, meets the smart and witty CHAYA, 8, at a park in Paris. They quickly bond over their shared love of afro-electro dance and explore Paris in a dreamy adventure. However as their young friendship blossoms, it is put to the test as they face the harsh and unseen reality su...
Society’s capitalist and consumerist views of women amount to little more than their views of horses. Their value is found not in their humanity, but in their appearance and their labor, and how each may be exploited. I
One girl's journey to becoming diverse...enough.
Felix has her second date with Diane. It's a bit awkward. There's no reassurance. Maybe pasta will help.
To become an adult, 10-year-old Leo needs to pass an unusual ritual, which makes him confront not only his own doubts, but also the discriminative outside world.
Heavily pregnant on an isolated farm, a young woman embraces and endures the strange magic that burdens her reality. This is a fairy tale about bringing life into a world where creatures have more in common than the shapes which separate them and lovers share the same space but not always the sam...
When Julian Stefoni was 11, his sister was kidnapped and murdered on the south side of Chicago, and he turned to music as a way to fill the void, and heal his soul. Now, many years later, he spends his nights fronting a Prince tribute act, giving fans the chance to express their collective grief ...
When a young woman's much older boyfriend refuses to introduce her to his daughter, she decides to take matters into her own hands.
In The Vice, a short film inspired by true events, gives us a glimpse into the world of a high-powered Wall Street woman who resorts to an unorthodox way of enhancing her work performance, while trying to keep up with the harsh demands of the corporate world.
In the dawn of the Cold War, a young Soviet telegraphist makes a desperate attempt to save her American lover from being stranded in the Russian side of the Bering Strait after receiving a border closure message.
Selma travels back to the island where she grew up - a place she never really felt at home. Being there, Selma gets confronted with herself through old friends and past memories. The gaze she feels on her back, is it theirs, or her own?
In Teta, Alexandra Hidalgo tells the story of her journey nursing her youngest son, Santiago, for twenty-two months. Teta uses Hidalgo’s narration and the footage shot by her husband to portray the ups and downs of nursing a baby as a working mother of two. As the film shows Santiago go from his ...
A young couple is having fun in a Summer music festival, suddenly in the middle of the night the girl disappears.
