Genres: narrative

  • Hide and Seek

    “Hide and Seek” is a daring exploration into wild, uncharted territory – lesbian adolescence in the 1960s. The film features Lou, a 12-year-old girl who daydreams in a tree house, tries not to watch a sex education film, and is horrified to discover that her best friend is taking an interest in earrings and boys. Interwoven with Lou’s story are the most hilarious, sometimes painful recollections of adult lesbians who try to figure out how they got from there to here. Completing the picture are clips from an astonishing array of old scientific and instructional films which blend seamlessly with…

  • Highway, The

    “The Highway” is about the paths in life which appear before us once we realize that we do have a choice in where our destiny lies. Glen Higgins, a young man who is trapped on his family’s decaying farm, must decide to leave after the shock caused by the death of his father.

  • Finding Another Entrance, Trying the Same Door

    ‘Finding another entrance, trying the same door’, is an experimental animation that considers drawing, perception, and agnosticism. Abstract images are accompanied by an artist statement-like voiceover which considers these themes. This text, which is written in a personal voice, wrestles with the feeling of uncertainty and hesitation, while recognizing the limited guarantee of leaving these states.

  • En Memoria

    In a dystopian future, a mother struggles to finish making her daughter’s quinceañera dress.

  • P is for Palestine

    Language is political in this subtle short film that shows an unnamed man in Amman, Jordan repeating decontextualized political English words all include the letter P – a letter that doesn’t exist in the Arabic language and pronouncing it is coded socially and economically.

  • Menders

    What story do the marks of time tell? “Menders” is a three-minute animation following a female art conservator restoring Velázquez’s “Rokeby Venus.” Using creative methods that reveal imperfections and embrace fragmentation, she navigates the tension between a polished ideal and an unvarnished history. As she reflects on both the artwork’s past and her own identity, she asks: Can the beauty of art be found in its scars? This film invites viewers to see restoration as a dynamic process of making, unmaking, and remaking.

  • Tether

    An unfulfilled family man is transported back to a time where he felt most alive, on the stage as a drag performer.

  • Don’t Take My Joy Away

    In the Shatila Palestinian camp in Lebanon, two friends, Omar and Omar, find moments of joy amid hardship until sudden violence forces them to confront loss and survival.

  • Psychoterra

    Two scientists from the Technomystic Ecology Lab develop technology that processes the ecological grief contained within a database of audio testimonials. In their lab, located deep inside a cave, they alchemize these feelings into a seed archive for an unknown future.

  • Blood Like Water

    Shadi embarks on a secret adventure, and accidentally drags his family into a trap where they only have two choices; either collaborate with the Israeli occupation, or be shamed and humiliated by their own people.