Every year in Lawrence, Kansas, Brandon Eisman, aka “Deja Brooks”, teams up with other area drag queens to turn local women into divas for a night as part of “Transformations”, a pageant-style charity gala. But this year, Deja is only accepting local men who are not only “man enough” to go full drag for charity, […]
NYC PREMIERE Nine-year-old Maribel explains to us how it feels to be stricken with the world’s oldest infliction: love.
WORLD PREMIERE Vinod, Gurpreet and Akash, born and raised within a hundred miles of each other in Punjab (India), arrived in the United States of America a decade apart with no intentions of driving a cab. But in 2018, their lives converged at a taxi school in Jackson Heights. With the school serving as a […]
NYC PREMIERE After losing his mother and four siblings in a bombing that left him permanently injured, Syrian teenager Ibraheem and his father make a new life in Winnipeg despite the heartbreak of leaving their homeland behind. Narrated through his wartime diary, the film follows Ibraheem through his first week of high school in Winnipeg. […]
Five acclaimed African American quilters from Gee’s Bend, Alabama, talk about love, religion and the fight for civil rights as they continue the tradition of quilting that originally brought them together.
Where do artists come from? An answer explored through paper, percussion, and one provocative artist.
Life, animated. Santa Is a Psychedelic Mushroom (USA, 6 min., Matthew Salton) embraces the shamanistic side of Christmas. Music & Clowns (UK, 7 min., Alex Widdowson) are Jamie’s greatest passions. Hiroshima survivor Akiko Takakura receives the spirits of her parents and is haunted by memories during Obon (Germany, 15 min., Andre Hoermann, Anna Samo). A […]
The hopes and dreams of the youngest generation. A nine-year-old explains the feeling of being stricken with the world’s oldest infliction—True Love in Pueblo Texti (Cuba/Spain/USA, 5 min., Horatio Baltz). New Orleans high school student Chasity investigates the safety of her neighborhood, Station 15 (USA, 15 min., Kira Akerman, Sophie Tintori), hard hit by Hurricane […]
Contemplating life and death and finding grace. 36-year-old suburban soccer mom and breast cancer survivor, Grace (USA, 16 min., Rachel Pikelny), reclaims her body. Maryam, an ex-offender, helps newly-released women begin their lives anew in her thrift shop, Sister Hearts (USA, 16 min., Mohammad Gorjestani). Crannog (Scotland, 15 min., Isa Rao) follows Alexis, a woman […]
History is made, for better or worse. The Happiness Machine (USA, 24 min., Rebecca B. Blumhagen) profiles philosopher, inventor and farmer, Carl, who grew up a sharecropper on 22 acres in rural Iowa which he now hopes to pass on to his children as a gift of place. Using entirely archival footage, In the Absence […]