Cafuné tells the story of Christine, an exotic dancer in an open marriage who discovers her fear of getting older while on a getaway with a lover.

Project type: Fiction Short
Writer/Director/Producer: Joanne Nguyen
Producer: Grace Hanna
Producer: Jamila Hache

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The stories of individual Ukrainian refugees submerged in the chaos of and fleeing war are told in their own words. They, NGO staff, and private civilians, describe the challenges and successes to integrate into new cultures.

Project type: Nonfiction Feature
Writer/Producer: Daniel W Smith
Co-Director/Editor: Valentina Corrado
Co-Director/Cinematographer: Rodolfo Colombarra

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A tough goodbye on the border.

Project type: Fiction Short
Writer/Director/Producer: Jingwen Felix Qiang
Producer: Brielle Yuke Li
Executive Producer: Jennie Lew Tugend
Director of Photography: Kadri Koop
Editor: Shicong Zhu

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A brilliant young man has doubts about going off to college when he realizes how much all the needy, felonious, desperate and deranged people in his dysfunctional world depend on him.

Project type: Fiction Feature
Director/Writer/Producer: Rick Dominguez
Producer: Patti McCarthy
Co-Producer/Casting Director: Jennifer S. Holmes
Director of Photography/Associate Producer: David Hebrero
Cast - Carlos: Miguel Angel Garcia

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Down on his luck, a failed LA musician, Cary, begrudgingly accepts a songwriting gig for a viral country-rap sensation in a last-ditch effort to chase his dreams, reuniting his old band, and making amends along the way.

Project type: Fiction Feature
Co-Writer/Co-Director/Co-Producer: Phillip Yaw Domfeh
Co-Writer/Co-Director/Co-Producer: Priya Jane Domfeh

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Three childhood best friends reunite for a camping trip on the island where they went every summer as children, throwing into stark relief how much their lives have diverged.

Project type: Fiction Short
Director: Tyler Rabinowitz
Writer/Actor: Sam Digiovanni
Producer: Jeremy Truong, Luca Piccin

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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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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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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 timely docuseries examining the multitude of traumas straining the public education system, featuring compelling interviews with the teachers and students targeted in the manufactured culture wars over American classrooms in the decades long battle to privatize public education.

Project type: Nonfiction Episodic
Writer/Director/Producer: Joseph Erikson
Co-Producer/Cinematographer: Jon Beanlands

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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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