Two Jewish sisters must reconcile their clashing lifestyles on the day their father wakes up from a coma.

Writer/Director: Dylan Silver
Producer: Jennifer Apple
Producer: David Grove Churchill Viste
 

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A 9-year-old Korean girl seeks to rebuild a sense of community and mend her broken heart, after moving to California without her father.

Project type: Fiction Short
Writer/Director: Kimberly Han
Producer: Diana Ward
Producer: Angela Wu
Producer: DJ Jiang
Director of Photography: Bongani Mlambo
Editor: Autumn Dea

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Set against the backdrop of an LA house party, little white lies follows a young dreamer who was recently manipulated into an unwanted sexual encounter with her crush. To cope with the abuse, she seeks to define and solidify their relationship.

Project type: Fiction Short
Co-Writer/Director: Erin Brown Thomas
Co-Writer/Lead Actress: Ciarra Krohne
Producer: Olivia Haller, Elle Shaw
Producer/Cinematographer: Beth Napoli

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Sparks fly when Samia meets Charlie…but their anxieties, who are somehow able to communicate with each other, aren’t sold on this coupling just yet.

Project type: Fiction Short
Writer/Director: Jessica Sherif
Producer: Jessica Carlson

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The strength of twin brothers Peter and Paul’s relationship is tested in the wake of a secretive right of passage. Based on lived experiences, this haunting coming of age story follows young Peter precariously navigating the intricacies of a hyper-masculine environment, and enduring the devastating fallout from a life-changing event. Writer/Director: Bill Chen
Producer: Margaret Montavon
Producer: Elizabeth Raia
Composer: Allan X. Chen
Intimacy Coordinator: Dr. Èmil Haarhof

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Basma, a drama therapist working in Jordan, is torn between two difficult choices: getting married to the man she loves or pursuing her dream of going back to her hometown of Gaza during the war.

Project type: Fiction Feature
Director/Producer: Asma Bseiso

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K.L. Cleeton is a professional poker player born with Spinal Muscular Atrophy, type 1, which paralyzed him from the neck down since he was an infant. In Chip and a Chair, we follow K.L. as he and his family attempt to shift society’s perspective on people with complex health issues and disabilities.

Directors: Carlo Orecchia, Ryan Leng
Producer: April Shih
Executive Producer: Owais Ahmed

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During a late night drug raid in a Triad gaming arcade, a young Indian cop desperate to prove himself to his Chinese superiors uncovers a personal connection to a suspect—forcing him to choose between duty and dishonor. Based on a true story.

Writer/Director/Actor: Amarik Singh Khosa
Producer: Lung Kwok Yiu
Actor (Sunny): ZAIN

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A Muslim teen tries to help a man bumming cigarettes outside a gas station, but his troubles might prove beyond her capacity.

Project type: Fiction Short
Writer/Director: Sarah Mokh
Producer: Amanda Pinto
Producer: Elaine Tunnat

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During the final months of his father's early-onset Alzheimer's, a son uses his camera to understand how his mother, uncle, and sister deal with the disappearing man in different, contradictory ways.

Director: Pierce Ryan
Executive Producer: Carole Joyce
Producer: Bretton Miller, Liam Fineout, Ben Feldman

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La Clef Revival is a collective of activists, filmmakers and artists who have been fighting for the past 5 years to save a landmark, community-run cinema in the heart of Paris: La Clef.

Project type: Organization
"Commons" Expert: Eric Arrivé
French Screenwriter/Director: Céline Sciamma
Member of Cinema Nova (Brussels): Laurent Tenzer
Operator of Reflet Médicis (Paris): Jean-Marc Zekri

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Born into poverty in Panama, Cirilo McSween defies the systemic racism of Jim Crow America to pursue the American Dream. As an entrepreneur and civil rights activist, he battles prejudice and inequality to become a transformative figure in the histories of Panama and Chicago, inspiring generations across the Americas.

Project type: Nonfiction Feature
Director/Producer: Justin O. Cooper

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A rogue teacher turned filmmaker sets out on a global investigation into the corporate dismantling of public education—uncovering how billionaires, far-right ideologues, and privatization zealots are sabotaging democracy by targeting institutions of learning.

Writer/Director/Producer: Joseph Erikson
Producers: Kurt Engfehr, BJ Maier

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A heartbroken woman stows away to her estranged lover's lake house where she becomes entangled with a teenage girl.

Project type: Fiction Feature
Director: Lara Jean Gallagher
Producers: Davis Priestley, Aimee Lynn Barneburg

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After her father’s Alzheimer’s diagnosis, a straitlaced college transfer comes of age in the wild chaos of a legendary student commune. Her identity wavers when she volunteers as “virgin sacrifice” for her co-op’s black mass party and her “Friend of Christian Camp Past” witnesses.

Project type: Fiction Short
Creator/Writer/Lead: Zoë Smurr
Director: Jocelyn Cooper

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7-year-old Swetha, the child of Indian immigrants, is harassed at school by classmate Bobby and his henchmen for using coconut oil in her hair. Swetha's mother, Supriya, watches her daughter grow increasingly withdrawn and agrees to end the oiling to help her daughter assimilate. At the cost of her heritage, Swetha, finally free to be American, makes a friend only to learn that her and her classmates might not be as different as she thought.

Project type: Fiction Short
Writer/Director/Producer: Ayesha Agarwal
Producer: Madison Stewart
Producer: Kavin Kapoor

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Coerced: How the banks failed domestic violence survivors tells the story of the economic abuse domestic violence survivors face daily and the plight to pass NYS’s first coerced debt bill.

Project type: Nonfiction Short
Director/Producer: blair doroshwalther
Animator: Kelly Gallagher

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On the Fourth of July, a rookie pyrotechnician assembles a ragtag team to transport a truckload of highly volatile, illegal fireworks down the Texas coast without getting caught or killed.

Project type: Fiction Feature
Co-Writer/Director: Drew Saplin
Co-Writer/Producer: Samantha Bennett
Producer: Morgan Pollitt, Francis Román, Via Bia

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A woman travels to a foggy coastal house to care for her estranged mother on the edge of death, and disturbing events begin to occur in her sleep.

Project type: Fiction Short
Director/Co-Writer: Sam Stone
Production Designer/Co-Writer: Sophie Weir
Producer: Paul Lee

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Empowered educators at Comanche Academy lead a transformative journey, healing their community from the traumas of Indian Boarding School and instilling a linguistic and cultural revival in this poignant documentary.

Project type: Nonfiction Feature
Producer: Kathryn Boyd Batstone
Director of Photography: Celine Layous

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