I CAN FLY, 12min,. USA
Directed by Leslie Dektor
Formerly Homeless, Fannie Mayfield speaks for the speechless and gives us pause to feel and think in perspective.

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1. What motivated you to make this film?

Having come across Fanny Mayfield on the streets of Skid Ro...

The Ones Left Behind: The Plight of Single Mothers in Japan, 78min., Japan, Documentary
Directed by Rionne McAvoy
This documentary depicts the theme of "hidden poverty" that has occurred in-spite of Japan's rapid economic growth in such a short period of time immediately following World War II. T...

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TIGER MOM, 21min., Canada, Drama
Directed by Munara Muhetaer
A Chinese-Canadian teenager trapped under the suffocating direction of his severe and demanding mother rebels for the first time.

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LAS MURALISTAS: OUR WALLS, OUR STORIES, 25min., USA, Documentary
Directed by Javier Briones
Las Muralistas: Our Walls, Our Stories is a 25-minute documentary directed by Javier Briones and edited by Claudia Escobar, in partnership with SFMOMA. The film features wom...

CALL ME SORAYA, 100min., Switzerland, Documentary
Directed by Daniel Stadelmann
Soraya feels like a girl, but anatomically she is a boy. Until recently, she went to school as Josué. Her coming out at the age of 13 is initially positive, but after just a few weeks she is met with increasing reject...

CALL ME SORAYA, 100min., Switzerland, Documentary
Directed by Daniel Stadelmann
Soraya feels like a girl, but anatomically she is a boy. Until recently, she went to school as Josué. Her coming out at the age of 13 is initially positive, but after just a few weeks she is met with increasing reject...

TED THE SHARK, 12min,. Columbia, Animation
Directed by Hector Acosta, Nathalia Rojas
Ted is a six-year-old hammer shark with a big secret: His mind is connected to a human girl. This uniqueness often makes Ted alienated from his world (a feeling many of us are familiar with) however, little does ...

BLACK UNIFORM, 90min., USA, History
Directed by Robert Darwell
In the early 1900s, African Americans struggled to have the honor to fight in World War I, but a century later minorities are disproportionately called up to serve, defend, and die for their country.
The United States cherishes the ha...

PERSISTENCE, 12min., Canada, Drama
Directed by Krista Barzso
Persistence is a story about what happens when romantic intentions cross over into stalking. The ?lm explores what happens when trusts are broken but laws aren't, and just how much damage can be done to someone's life in that space betw...

This short film is an adaption of the performance Animale (choreography by Lisie Philip, music by Laurent Tamagno). It was produced for an event in the MAMAC (the Museum of Modern and Contemporary Art of Nice) called “la Nuit des Musées” in 2017. I perceived the show as a celebration of the vital...

GAGANACHARI, 114min., India, Sci-Fi
Directed by Arun Chandu
Gaganachari is a sci-fi mockumentary that takes place in a dystopian future where civilization is rattled by the existing strangle-hold of a hostile socio-political climate. The story focuses on the lives of three bachelors who reside in...

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MOSHPIT, 7min., Canada,
Directed by Logan Charron
In a post-apocalyptic world, humans and demons co-exist, but a supernatural force makes them question their reality.

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RENEGADES: OMINARA, 42min...

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THE BOUNDARY WATERS TRAVERSE, 12min., USA, Documentary
Directed Erik Nelson
The Running for the Boundary Waters project is designed to highlight the issue of potential sulfide-ore copper mining proposals in the watershed of, and directly adjacent to the Boundary Wa...

HOW TO THRIVE, 96min., Australia, Documentary
Directed by Duy Huynh
Is there a secret formula to happiness? Positive psychotherapist Marie McLeod takes 7 people on a transformative journey to learn the secret formula to happiness The film’s premise is; if we offer the science of happiness to peop...

An Ordinary day goes South, LA.

Writer/Director: Burak Tatar

I’d like to take on the conventional stories and tell them in unconventional ways. I’m more interested in asking, raising the questions, then giving answers.

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GENERATIONS OF PULSE, 12min., USA, Documentary
Directed by Dallin Mello, Tamera Moore
In the face of unrelenting legislative discrimination against the LGBTQ+ community in Florida, three people directly impacted by the Pulse Nightclub shooting become activists to e...

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THE CRITICS, 24min., Nigeria,
Directed by Sebastian Andrei, Povel Torudd
A documentary about a young collective of filmmakers in a remote part of Nigeria whose self-taught approach to filmmaking has captured the attention of the internet and Hollywood.

IT'S GOOD B...

FIRST TO STAND, 81min., Canada, Documentary
Directed by Irene Lilienheim Angelico, Abbey Jack Neidik
First to Stand opens in the streets of Moscow with protesters chanting to bring Putin down and brings us to the streets of Iran, where women dare to wave their hijabs on sticks in the streets of T...

COMPLEX, 13min., USA, Documentary
Directed by David Taylor
COMPLEX depicts the vast system of privately operated prisons which incarcerate migrants and refugees under contract with Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) in the United States. In 2019 the average daily population in ICE custody ...

LOVE WITHOUT PAROLE, 27min., USA, Documentary
Directed by Greg Womble
Michael falls deeply in love and matrimony follows. But married life can be tough when you’re serving a life-without-parole sentence in a notorious Alabama prison. The union soon dies, but the love doesn't. When Michael is mira...

SWIM THROUGH, 32min., USA, Documentary
Directed by Robert Whitney
The story of FORCE BLUE's Inaugural OCS (Ocean Conservation School), the Gold Star children who participated and the Special Operations Veterans who served as their instructors.

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BEYOND THE BEAT, 62min,. USA, Documentary
Directed by Fletcher Barnes, Henry Davis
After decades of civil war in Northern Uganda, three best friends start a creative arts festival to inspire hope for a better future.
In the district of Kitgum, Uganda – hope is a scarce resource. After a 20-year c...