Shorts

Reveals the voices of the impacted parties of books banned from school districts, inspiring hope for the future through the profound insights of inquisitive youthful minds.

The work of Arlo Washington, an African-American barber who founded a nonprofit community bank dedicated to providing economic opportunities for their community that mainstream banks will not offer.

A personal love letter from director Sean Wang to his Nai Nai and Wài Pó, a grandma super team that dances, stretches, and farts their sorrows away.

S. Leo Chiang reflects on his relationship with Taiwan, the United States and China from the islands of Kinmen, just a few miles from mainland China.

Chronicles a variety of stories, but the main one follows Henry Sugar, who is able to see through objects and predict the future with the help of a book he stole.

In this intense short film, a grieving rideshare driver picks up a passenger who helps him confront the past.

A poor single mother must go out of state for a necessary abortion.

The loss of a loved one, the grief, the risk of yellow skin, and a coffin, that is too much for Karl to face.

Inspired by a true story, Invincible recounts the last 48 hours in the life of Marc-Antoine Bernier, a 14-year-old boy on a desperate quest for freedom.

A mother passes away, and her estranged son - obsessed with theories about the repression of male sexuality in modern society - starts longing for offspring of his own.

Fran is in his hometown to rest and visit his mother. Following the jerky rhythm of Ravel's Bolero, this journey along the paths of memory and desire will lead him and the whole village to a joyfully chaotic climax.

Alice lives at her parents' place at the age of 27 with no private life or a relationship. It takes a bicycle accident and a short coma to make her realize that it's time to move out.

Following a violent incident, Eissa, a 17-year-old African migrant in Egypt, strives to beat the clock to save his loved ones whatever it takes.

Linh is a Vietnamese single mother who's successfully forged a life for herself and her son in America. But when her father visits from Vietnam and insists on cooking the family a traditional Vietnamese meal, Linh is confronted with the past and culture she left behind and the question of where it belongs in her family's new life.

In a lower-class neighborhood in Rome, there is a barber who believes in conspiracy theories. He is the laughing stock of his family but also at work. Nobody takes him seriously until he gets arrested by the police.

A ban on physical contact in a dystopian workplace has turned interaction into otherworldly simulations. The suppression of touch transformed the boatyard into charged landscape of alienation and sensuality beyond heteronormative desires.

When an asteroid hits the Earth leading to underwater volcanic eruptions, the inhabitants of a small riverside town start to flee inland. Before she leaves, Nian decides to say goodbye to her childhood friend.

As a young Chinese filmmaker returns to his hometown in search for himself, a long due conversation with his mother dives the two of them into a quest for acceptance and love.

Every day, a father and his son jump with a parachute from their vertiginous cold house, attached to a cliff, to go to the village on the ground, far away where they sell the ice they produce daily.

A mother sings lullabies to her 12-year-old daughter in order to calm her down. But, when the lullabies end, and the daughter comes to her senses, the reality turns out to be much grimmer, and life-altering.

Paul is here. Like a step back, an untimely ghost who rings at the door. Yet again, his annoying presence is going to turn Jeanne's life upside down.

A small boy uses his healing powers to cure his fellow villagers from illness and even raise them from the dead. However, the healed turn on Hosanna (savior) when they realize that they still have to lead their difficult farmer lives.

A poetic meditation on familial loss and separation, and the love that endures against dispersion.

Indira decides to restart her life and move to London. However, on her last day, she dares to explore what she will leave behind.

It's the morning after the Last Supper and the disciples are waking up hungover and wondering where their Messiah is.